skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same vein as this paper, I've found a lot of food for thought in this set of slides from Rick Harper's course on Robust Programming at Stratus Computer: http://ftp.stratus.com/vos/doc/papers/papers.html
The new title is not more informative; "Pseudo IPv4" is a new term that is meaningless before reading the article. The original title was more informative, especially in context with the URL domain.
> adding extra fields that do nothing except increase conversion.

Well, that's not certain. Any of the other changes could be responsible for the increase, and not this particular change.
life before the internet was a thing
Wouldn't this produce the lowest-denominator "news" - ie the noise you see ppl sharing on Facebook, Reddit et al?
What I would do is have dispatch_once NOP out the call instruction that called it as one of its first operations. Inside, an atomic exchange + compare on the predicate to stop any other threads that slipped past the call, and that's all there is to it. CPUs are optimised for executing NOPs since they're so commonly used for alignment, so the only thing this costs is fetch bandwidth. Here's a quick x86 implementation PoC off the top of my head:

; assumptions:
; * this function is called via a 2-byte call instruction
; * cdecl register allocation
; * [esp] : return addr
; * [esp+4] : predicate ptr
; * [esp+8] : ptr to func() to be called once
dispatch_once:
pop edx ; edx = block
pop ecx ; ecx = pred ptr
mov eax, 1
xchg eax, [ecx]
test eax, eax ; was a different thread here before us?
jnz dispatch_done
mov eax, [esp] ; return address
mov [eax-2], word 0x9090 ; overwrite the call
jmp edx ; execute the block +return
dispatch_done:
ret

As the saying goes, "The fastest way to do something is to not do it at all." In this case, the compare + function call can be completely eliminated after the first time.
"a software platform which helps small businesses buy online ads" is worth 25 million dollars? What a messed up world we live in.
Even assuming it's correct, I don't think that's a good enough guarantee. Prepared statements are as close as it gets to 'demonstrably correct', really smart escaping might be 'probably correct', but I will pick demonstrably over probably any day, especially in a web environment.
Well done.. I'm curious about whether this would be possible in Android. I'm not talking about OpenGL and using the ndk but creating Android activities. Would it be much much more difficult?
Intel specifies CPUID to be serialising, this is unlikely to change in the future.
How about you use your real name and explain why you dislike my opinion?

It's a fact people would love to write apps for the iPhone in other languages. But that's not possible because Apple is a tyrannical company. Do you endorse this tyranny and do you believe it's sustainable? I don't believe it's sustainable and I believe history agrees with me, based on my 30 years of following programming languages.

Who is the child now?
I'm excited for these type of wearables as input devices for head-mounted HUDs/AR. Google Glass currently uses voice recognition and a capacitive strip, which is fine, as Glass is only for briefly looking up information. As AR develops, it will need more complex input methods, and I see these as some vague possibilities:

* Hand/wrist/arm mounted input (Nod, Myo, watches, chorded keyboards, etc...)

* Eye-tracking (technology exists, but needs to be miniaturized and developed further to fit within a glasses frame)

* Head movement (tiling your head, winking, etc.)

* Computer Vision (ie. AR develops enough to use your hand in front of you to intuitively interact)
I know the feeling. Once last year my four year old refused to go to sleep, yelling about monsters in his room. Somewhat exasperated, I went into his room and turned on the light to find the biggest scorpion I'd ever seen crawling up his wall. I had a hell of a time arguing with him when he got convinced about monsters lurking for six months afterwards.

Wasn't sad to move out of that apartment.
Editorships are paid and one of the coveted final unlockables of the academic career. This is the main reason although arXiv has existed for years journals aren't going anywhere. The real question is how powerful scientists may be convinced to give editorships up.
There's LGPL PySide (http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide) which should be suitable for commercial projects under LGPL, but PySide is Qt4 only. There is also PyQt (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/license) with Qt5 support, but its free license is GPL-only, so if you're not doing open source, it's not going to work, unless you buy their commercial license.

BTW, Zeal's original author here - thanks for mentioning Zeal and good luck with your project!

As some personal advice, I wouldn't try Kivy for such content-oriented desktop app. I've tried briefly using it once for doing a very simple application, but it seemed much harder to implement usual desktop-like widgets. Overall it looks like it's good for graphics-rich and custom-rendered applications.

You'll also need some HTML rendering engine for docsets. While there are Kivy projects like https://github.com/kivy-garden/garden.cefpython or https://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium aiming to provide exactly that, they don't seem very mature.

However, I don't claim to be Kivy expert at all, and maybe you'll have good experience with it.
"I'm already speculating, so I may be cruel: maybe the spider wants to paralyze the mouse, but keep him alive for a few days so the flesh stays fresh as they eat it."

Another layman here, but I believe spider venom is designed to pre-digest food to some extent, rather than to keep it fresh.
There was a HN thread a few weeks ago where a bunch of people shared stories about data loss on EverNote. If it's sensitive information, I'd stay away from that, but otherwise good points.
At nearly 50 years of age, I have never before been aware of any defintion for "cakewalk" other than "easy task" and have never heard the word used in any context for which that definition didn't make sense.

I don't see any value in trying to infer racial slurs where clearly none was intended. Focus on the real ones.
Well I suppose the Android equivalent would be writing raw Dalvik bytecode. Certainly possible, but probably not a lot of fun. It wouldn't be nearly as informative about the underlying architecture in any case.
That's what I'm hunting for as well; have been for the past few days. Something like BlueTwiddler ( http://hewner.com/programming/ ) is pretty much perfect for me, but it was never commercialized. I'm thinking about picking up http://theperegrine.com/ , adding Bluetooth support, and turning it into essentially a chording keyboard for wearable computers. I need something that will let me type on Glass, the Epson Moverio, and my phone with ease. I'm hoping in the next year that I'll be able to ditch non-wearable computers, from an interface perspective (I'll still have them for heavy lifting, of course).
I think "Hippy" is just a play on Facebook's "HipHop" VM. Not sure where the latter originated from, though.
For some reason, your comment made me imagine a hacker forum filled with black widow spiders talking about stuff, and one of them posts, "Thankfully the human is one of the dumbest animals I've ever encountered. Amazingly easy to kill if you can be calm about it."
I wasn't really stating that assumption, and I agree, many will convert, but I was simply referring to what they are 'betting with'. Yes that's the most they can lose (ignoring that people pissed off at this move may leave even if they didn't use fb/g+), but its still how much you put in the pot. At least for me.
"Just have a box for me to enter my shipping address..."

Even your full shipping address shouldn't be required in the U.S., just your 5-digit zip code. Actually, it might be fairly easy to guess what city a customer is in based on their IP address and fill in a default location automatically. If it's close enough, the customer wouldn't have to do anything.

This, by the way, is why I like Amazon Prime so much: I don't have to deal with any extra steps (physical or mental) to determine the shipping price - the purchase is frictionless. But that would work even if the shipping wasn't free, as long as the price that was listed included shipping.
All barriers are an improvement because good defense is defense in depth. But in an age of secret courts and secret interpretation of laws, the ones that really matter are the ones that put data out of reach of everyone except the holders of the private keys.
Don't sweat it too much. The first thing that happens whenever anyone publishes any Go code on the internet is a random commenter pops up and criticises it for being "unidiomatic".

I'm beginning to think that "idiomatic" is actually a portmanteau of "automatic" and "idiotic" because it's such a knee-jerk reaction in the community now.

If it's flaws in your variable naming and indentation, let it slide. If it's flaws in the logic or functionality, deal with it.
Apart from being bitter and using better languages personally, what can one do?

I suppose it's better off for the world if shitty languages are at least fast. Because I probably use something every day that depends on their performance :\.
Surely the popularity of his answer has something to do with Apple's unwillingness to open their platform to other languages? For example http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/20/full-commodore-64-emulator...
I was bitten by a brown house spider (Steatoda grossa) years ago and found the dead spider in my bed sheet.

It left me feeling sick, unable to eat and struggling to drink for days due to the pain from my throat right through to my abdomen. Apparently the redback anti-venom works for it.

Kill them on sight now along with the very rare redback or white-tail and lots of huntsman. We also get a few black house spiders which I generally leave unless they are moving about.

As mentioned in another comment nothing beats an irukandji for pain. It also has an interesting story of self-experimentation to pin down the jellyfish as the cause of Irukandji Syndrome:

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/jack-barnes-and-the-irukandji-e...
464XLAT: Breaking Free of IPv4: http://youtu.be/Xl-hIyZSAmA
You're clearly ignorant of the history, and should stop commenting on it until you actually learn some.

In particular: Objective-C was created in 1983 and its first big success was when NeXT decided to adopt it as its main language for the NeXTstep operating system in 1988. And guess who was CEO of NeXT? That's right, none other than "your idol Steve".

So unless you're saying that nobody had heard of Objective-C until 1988, which is a pretty reasonable timeframe for a language invented in 1983, you're way off base.
The symptoms as described in Wikipedia seem far less severe. He may have had either an abnormal sensitivity or received an unusually large dose of the venom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectism
So type on the table?

Seriously, wouldn't that be the same amount of feedback as a touchscreen keyboard? Flat, and you get the wrong letter when you miss?
Crypto source derived from Secret.ly Android app
NeXT was a reverse acquisition. The company known today as "Apple Inc." is essentially the result of NeXT being paid $400 million to acquire Apple.
T-mobile us changes Android default to ipv6-only
T-Mobile has changed the default setting to ipv6 only. This week at NANOG, T-Mobile explained how and why.
http://youtu.be/Xl-hIyZSAmA

PDF - https://t.co/DAZnZICJOf
not bad at all !
however its not able to convert a jquery mobile web app I am working on.
CIA joins Twitter, Facebook
This is used in JITs, too - is there a reason why the author wouldn't cover it? Other than being "cheating" so to speak? I suppose environments (like game consoles) where you cannot write to executable pages?
Thanks, that makes sense. I already assumed that HHVM just happened because it's a cool name. But then seeing the second use of the word made me think there might be something behind it
iOS doesn't have x86 processors either, does it?
It's tempting to say that these measures are pointless since, ultimately, the USG has the capability to access any data it wants. (After all they can send armed men to get anything that you have access to.)

But actually, even imperfect, these measures by Google in particular are very useful and important, and are laudable. These measures stop the surreptitious acquisition of data, and so at least force data-acquisition activity into the open, and make it slightly more expensive to get.

Good! The US spy agencies are too reliant on technology! The bad guys can only really be found before they strike through face-to-face social interactions, which is inherently slow and doesn't scale. Good! Justice is a human problem and deserves to be executed at human scale. If it isn't then we risk a whole raft of moral hazards, which we are already seeing.
Even ignoring W^X problems, how do you ensure that the reads and writes of the data are properly ordered with respect to the reads and writes of the code?
Probably because you can't do much by exploiting this security hole besides annoying people, so there's little incentive to do so. If you can get me to click on an item and buy it, the item will be shipped to my physical address, not yours. Even if was a product you were selling, I could return it for a refund and your account would be charged back. It doesn't seem like a very profitable scheme.
Well, warranties are enforced by the State.

I don't think company reputation works very well, but your experience may vary.
Neat idea but this looks like it will suffer the same annoyances as the leap. It works great when you make very specific controlled movements, but that ends up taking away from what touch-less is supposed to promise in my mind. I just want to flip my hands about casually but the leap would rarely catch it properly. Instead I was usually just left frustrated and tired of holding my arm up in the air.

The part of the video where they traced a word out on the keyboard just looked painful trying to keep your hand up in the air and steady.

Haven't used my leap after the first month of getting it. I fear the nod will be the same.

Do like the button/slider feature however. That seems like a good addition. But that gets me thinking is a wii controller much different?
The bill hasn't passed yet. It was approved by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee but still needs to be voted on by the legislature. According to http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/06/tesla-resume-sales-new-je... :

"The bill will need to pass a few more of New Jersey's legislative processes to become law, but things are looking up for Tesla."

Poor reporting job by TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/tesla-wins-back-the-right-t...). They made it seem like the bill was voted into law.
What is the one book you'd recommend on young humans' learning?<br>

The sort that gives data and backs its claims up by evidence (empirical, controlled etc.) if possible.
Crowdfunding solar panel roads is crazy ambitious. But maybe that’s ok
@mikeash I don't need the history, I lived through that era. Did you even read the whole Wikipedia entry?

"The NeXT Computer was not a great commercial success" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
Your member would probably get just as tired as your arm holding it up to type out a url :p
>N.S.A. had brilliantly exploited

Eh? Tapping a wire is one of the easiest ways to listen in to communications. It's not like Google or MS or anyone was unaware of this threat vector, they just decided they didn't want to spend the time and money to deploy crypto on all their networks (I don't blame them, making it all work is a pain, and troubleshooting becomes more difficult, too).

And on top of that, AT&T was revealed to be splitting fibre for intelligence agencies in 2006. So in 2013 for Google or anyone to be caught unaware or call this "brilliant" is really overstating things.

What next, revelations on how Google is shocked that someone setup acoustic eavesdropping and keylogging? How this was "brilliant"?

NYT shouldn't give the NSA credit for being more than thugs on this particular thing. They've got a huge budget and apparently a fairly free legal reign. Of course they can go listen to other people.
I want to know what you actually posted on Facebook now!
It's not just the USG that can do this. Anyone that can dig up some fibre and install equipment would have been able to tap these lines, as I understand.

As far as the government relying on technology, I doubt that is a battle that can be won. Laws were written with inefficiency as an obvious countermeasure for abuse. Now that inefficiency is disappearing, the laws need to be revisited and countermeasures directly written in. This will be difficult.

Google's roadblock is laudable and good, but perhaps a bit overdue. They were knowingly transmitting user data in plaintext outside of their physical control.
Snake venom of the rattlesnake variety certainly is; the fangs are the first line of the digestive system. Black mamba venom is a neurotoxin. It's remarkable how diverse venom is.
Dunno if they milk spiders, but extra points for capturing it live so it can donate venom. I'm probably confused and this only works with snakes.
For me it has nothing to do with .NET's qualities.

Rather, it has to do with trust issues arising from the fact that I lived through the 90s and I remember what it was like when MS was dominant.

Unfortunately Apple is stepping into the same hubristic trap. I will probably have trouble trusting them for decades as a result.
Cool and I would like to try it. But doubt I would sit down at a coffee shop and put my bionic hands on in front of everyone.

I would have to be better than typing on a keyboard.

Video was weak. Right when they show the product it cuts out.

Would be good if you were able to touch your finger to the surface and it becomes a trackpad as well.
It is a bit of surprise to hear that. Of course delivering good reports is highly important but ability to sell it to a huge company at decent price plus explain why they need it, that is as hard as delivery, imo. Like with WAFs and anit virus, not the best software wins, best marketing does.
Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/tesla-wins-back-the-right-t..., which points to http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/06/tesla-resume-sales-new-je..., which points to this.
This isn't cynicism. It is the new reality we live in. We now have to look at every piece of technology we buy and do a risk analysis to see how it could leak our data. It isn't just the NSA. It is also hackers who are after our data. Having a breach, especially by the latter, is a painful mistake that can ruin your credit and turn your life upside down for decades to come.

Why risk it, open one more door to a security violation, so you can type in the air. No thanks.
Unpopular opinion ahead:

I find myself unbothered by these NSA "revelations", and I feel most are just pretending to be. It's all far from unexpected, and other governments have cynically latched onto these leaks to further their interests.

I don't care about for the heightened focus on privacy tech and policy, it's boring.

The NSA did bring it on itself though by allowing this stuff to leak out, which is the only difference between it and other nations' intelligence bodies.
Why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place, that doesn't seem in line with capitalism at all?
This seems like a 'one off' deal. Tesla can come in, zero emissions exception, but conventional competition against the franchised dealer model is still prohibited. This is solely because of embarrassment, but it doesn't right the real wrong.
Why not use Vagrant for that?
Just skylarking:

- Spiders have huge litters.
- It may be that the evolutionary path is more driven by the enzyme chemistry than the efficacy of the venom. Mighta come up with a nasty version and then change more or less stopped, purely by accident. Evoluton arrives at solutions, not optima.
- Given the general proximity these spiders tend to have with humans, their prevalence could be completely accidental. See also grackles, other creatures that are symbiotes to us.

Now I wonder what the metabolic load from producing venom in venomous creatures works out to.
Question for those who understand this, why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place? It seem to a layman to violate several other rights.
I wonder if the devastating effect on us may be a sort of coincidence. It's chemical code running on a different (but similar) biological chip-set than evolved for, and just happens to unleash hell on our human hardware.
I will reply with only one data point: Google.
In other words: Another great product down the drain. It's a real pity.
Valuations are "stretched" for a number of stocks. These things are cyclical and always work themselves out.

IMO nothing compares with Facebook buying $30 m/yr revenue company WhatsApp for $19 billion. That will probably be the high water mark for this boom/bust cycle. Much like AOL buying Time Warner for $164 billion marked the peak of the 2000 dotcom era.
I'm not sure how the JNI works on Android, but theoretically, yes. I am not a huge android fan however, so I probably won't be the one to attempt it.
That was a great link.

(from the comments which have no shortage of bug bite stories...)
"The guy should have let one bug sting him on the back of each hand, then see which hand grabbed the other in pain. That way he could compare them semi-directly, sort of like the rock hardness scratch tests. That’d involve a lot of extra stings, but it’s for a good cause..."
> "Google, for example, is laying its own fiber optic cable under the world’s oceans"

Google becoming an ISP for customers is well known, but where did they get the massive capital required to setup transoceanic fiber? (And why don't they just rent dedicated fibers on existing lines)
Government is the biggest middleman in existence.
Uber should give people 10% discounts if their blood-alcohol level is above the legal limit.
In other words, the secret to having a viable sealed terrarium is in the compost. Get the right compost, with the right population of bacteria, and the whole thing will run forever.
Planet Money has a great podcast explaining the reasons why car dealers exist.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
The disengenuousness of it is what upsets me. I could find great national pride in this if it was used on terrorists as they claim. Fact is they aren't stopping domestic terrorists like the sandy hook shooter or the batman gunman or the boston marathon bombers. And "real terrorists" aren't Americans or generally even in America. If they tracked everybody and then dismissed the law abiding citizens and released their data as they added them to a white list or something, I could get with that. This approach to fighting terrorism is just fishing in the wrong pond though.
You can make it easier to use better languages. For example, I've really enjoyed using yesod (Haskell) recently, but it doesn't have great documentation, especially for deploying. So that's something I'd like to work on.

(Made a small PR to it today)
Sounds very similar to NoFlo UI still. We have pretty much all those client-side features as components already :-)

One thing that might be interesting to you is the protocol we use to talk between UI and runtimes, and runtime-to-runtime:

http://noflojs.org/documentation/protocol/
If I remember correctly, a lot of deals Tesla has struck with other states are "one off" deals just for Tesla.
So, because the old African-American entertainment of a cakewalk never gained the same eminence earned (deservedly) by jazz or tap, then it is to be considered racist and on par with a slur? The discussion over this matter seems itself to be an entertainment and a craven one.