skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the Google Watches are going to be more widely adopted than Glass. Maybe we'll get to head mounted computers in the future, but right now it definitely feels like the watch is the next step in social acceptability.

Source: I own a Glass and barely wear it.
Evil still lacks q: and q/ for command and search history editing. Really pains me that they haven't implemented this yet. There's also nothing that 100% replaces the CtrlP plugin for Vim on Emacs.
App Stores for Enterprise Users, Too
To me it feels like data-oriented jQuery.
To me, one difference is the presence of a third-party for-profit entity (Aereo, in this case).
Frame Skipping has been around for decades, Apple Metal didn't invent it.
Well, the black person also got 0 points for "smart"...
dotnetConf is live
Pie in the sky: Russian chain delivers pizza by drone
Crash Course in iOS 8 Widgets
Actually, he marks black as a "pro" which is an almost hilariously mathematical form of racism.
Am I not in on the joke? Here's a magic 8 ball prediction: wearable stuff will bomb.

All they can do is tell me if I walked or not. I KNOW IF I WALKED OR NOT. If I wanted to walk more I'd get another dog, not a watch.

I also like DIRECTLY AFTER they show the pedometer they order a pizza. I just can't imagine a world where these are good ideas. I'd love to have been in on those meetings to throw staplers at the people who suggested these things.
While true, some other bits of advice here (like pulling your try/catch into a separate function) are very V8-specific and may well produce _worse_ code in other implementations.

http://jsfiddle.net/G83mW/14/ has a testcase for the try/catch thing that is interesting to compare in different browsers...
You're naive if you think they can't link the accounts.
Math pedant to the rescue! Actually, rates combine in a multiplicative way -- losing 3% and then 4% does not lose 7%, (though it's close). What if the economy lost 1% each day for a year? It would not lose 365%.

If we assume the annualized rate, the economy would be 97.1% of its current size in a year. The fourth root is 99.267%, so the economy shrank about 0.733% this quarter. If it does so for four consecutive quarters, it will decrease by 2.9%.

I know that's what you said in the first place, but when extrapolating further into the future, it makes a difference.
Is there a screen in the audience telling the audience to applaud ?
The Dirichlet distribution I chose is merely the uniform distribution over the unit simplex. I.e., it means that all possible h-vectors get equal weight.

It's an attempt to choose as uninformative a prior on h as possible.
D3 is not tied to SVG at all. I only use it with HTML DOM and CSS 3D properties.
The try/catch bit is definitely incidental to the current state of V8. Other JITs (e.g. SpiderMonkey) will happily handle try/catch.
in unix, you memorize by doing, not by studying
Can anybody who understands this stuff better than I do comment on the winter weather factor?

To me, the "winter sucked" excuse sounds like complete BS, a transparent lie along the lines of, "Well, I just didn't want to order the tide to stop right now." This is a massive change (down a total of 7% or so from two quarters prior) and surely the weather, while unusual, wasn't that strong.

But maybe it really is a big factor. I'm far from an expert. Can anyone comment on whether the weather (heh) reasoning is sane?
That's not the only way in which Urdu is "dying" - due to colonization, basically all modern words are in English.
Isn't material design basically re-invented skeuomorphism?

From Google's Material Design guide:

"...visual cues that are grounded in our experience of reality. The use of familiar tactile attributes speaks to primal parts of our brains and helps us quickly understand affordances."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
I refreshed and it healed. I'm going to assume something got overloaded.
You don't own media content. You own a license for media content. Your use of the media is dictated by its license.

In general you don't need a license to consume a copyrighted work that you received legally. There was no "click to agree" on the last book I read. You only need a licrense to exceed what copyright allows.

Some software companies have argued that the hierarchical storage of a computer violates copyright, and thus all software requires a license to run. But this case was not about software.

Note: not a lawyer, just a highly interested observer.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943964.
Does anyone know if they will make videos of the workshops/smaller talks available? I'm interested in a lot of these talks.
Because Aereo was selling a service of setting up and running that equipment for you.

I have mixed feelings on the whole case but your example isn't directly comparable.

Really though the whole idea of local broadcasts of national shows no longer makes sense. The networks should just live stream their shows online for everyone. This isn't in the interests of the local affiliates and probably is not legally feasible right now due to various contracts with them.

But because of technological changes we don't need local affiliates in their current form anymore. Of course there are local news shows and they are still valuable and networks should show locally targeted commercials but the old broadcast using local affiliates model doesn't make sense with modern broadband capabilities.
Actually I didn't think about annualized rates compounding like that, although it makes sense now that you mention it :)
Just remember: Your name is on this and you're intentionally pouring gasoline onto an issue that didn't need it.
The new keyboard is beautiful.
Sadly, I have significant doubts that this will happen. Perhaps I'm just jaded because I've been running into this brick wall for so long now. Hopefully your optimism is justified.

Take the Yamaha-RMAX helicopter used for agriculture as an example of data. There's 2,500 of them actively flying in Japan (point of comparison, US Air Force has less than 500 UAVs). The RMAX has more than 2,000,000 flight hours with an impeccable safety record. Yamaha offered troves of data and requested permission to use the RMAX for crop-spraying over vineyards in California. FAA said, "No."

That's the problem. The FAA simply says, "No". They don't say "You haven't met requirement X", there are no requirements that can be met by anyone.

If 2 million flight hours is not enough data, what is?
Can broadcasters now sue Aereo for damages?
It's difficult to come up with rational reasons why. I like bundling up in a warm jacket in cold weather; and hearing and seeing the rain fall. I don't like it too cold (below freezing) and I don't like downpours (a light drizzle is ideal). Maybe I should have said I like moderately cold and moderately rainy weather.
Happy to intro you to someone at Twitter. My email's in my profile.
Google reveals “Android One” phones with no bloatware, automatic updates
I understand the Court has some role in determining intention, but the nature of the technology in the background is crucial in determining whether it violates the law. I'm confused about the implications of the ruling.

Would this ruling find me liable if I created "dumb pipe" rented antennas streamed online, like Aereo, if I didn't make it an express goal of the service to watch television? Or say, a filesharing service which has plausible deniability (like client-side encryption) and no expressed intentions for its use to violate the Copyright Act, but that can incidentally be used by consumers to do so? Could the court simply call those kinds of services/software "technological obfuscation" and consider it forbidden? (I believe the court has strayed toward this argument in Grokster and other cases unfortunately.)

If so, I can't make a fair, fundamental distinction between that and any other cloud-like service. Devoting a section to "distinctions" to make lower-court precedent messier cheats a proper interpretation of the facts and will create ambiguity.

I really hope I'm misunderstanding this!
I love this analogy. But, to continue it a little further, the article and discussion are about "preventing meat from rotting during transportation," and you seem to be saying, "screw it, the customer should know not to buy the meat if it's gone bad." Going even further: most countries have consumer protection laws that prevent things like selling rotting meat.
Google previews next version of Android, codenamed “L release”
Android Wear SDK
The part I'm confused about is the distinction between what the Empire State Building management is doing in this setup and selling someone access.
The site actually had at least one infected php file at the moment it was blocked by Network Solutions and John admits that. It would be interesting to know how long the file was in that state. It certainly appears that John doesn't do some regular patching of the software that drives his site.

The reason they blocked the site was to make him upgrade the whole infrastructure and clean all the possibly infected files and they state that in their e-mail:

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/netsol-violation.htm

"It appears you are running vulnerable PHP that has allowed your account to be controlled by an attacker. You will need to remove all PHP files from your hosting account and update your content to a more secure system. Failure to do so will result in your account remaining suspended.

Example hacked content found on your account (NOTE: This is just an example and all hacked files will need removal; we cannot provide a full listing of your hacked content):

/data/13/1/84/46/1247698/user/1330594/htdocs/xxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx.php

This can be caused by code vulnerabilities in an existing content-management system (CMS) or other script that has been compromised. The most common cause is an outdated, hacked CMS such as Joomla, Drupal, or WordPress. To rectify this issue, you will need to secure your CMS. If your site is a CMS, you will need to update the code/script(s) via FTP."

What he notifies them then is just

"The offending file has been removed.

/data/13/1/84/46/1247698/user/1330594/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxx.2.php"

Thanks for careful monitoring."

It was obviously not enough of maintenance needed for his server. The minimum expected would be to confirm that other PHP files were checked and were found to be clean. Maybe some of the files installed but not used should be removed. Of course he has the right to never update the software for his site, but then the hosting provider also has the right to block the site, limiting the chances for further infections.

Interestingly, it seems that John believes that Network Solutions should maintain the software side of his site. In 2010:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/breaches-galore-as-c...

"Cryptome founder John Young said in an e-mail that he believes the attackers were able to infect his website with a poisoned PHP file by exploiting a weakness in security or server software provided by Network Solutions, which hosts the Cryptome website."

If he really uses web.com, they have a pitch like this:

http://web.com/hosting/unix.aspx

"Simple Blog Set Up With Web.com: Log into your Web.com Account to manage your Web Hosting / Visit the Open Source Library within the hosting control panel / Install a WordPress® blog on your website with a single click"

Is it possible that after that one click, the software is never updated by Network Solutions? How are such sites supposed to be managed then?
Well, when I did VLSI, I built adders from individual gates... but I only took one course in VLSI, so maybe I'm wrong.
Tuned in late; did he make any mention of the battery life for the MotoX? One of my favourite things about my Pebble is the battery life.
I was surprised by that too, when I first subscribed to the erlang-questions ML. Recently he started a thread, "How would you implement a blob store?," and I thought it was so cool that the "BDFL" (so to speak) of the language was kicking off cool practical CS discussions like that. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, it's just not something I see a lot of other BDFLs doing.
OK, thanks. Will give those a try later on!
Not encouraging: http://imgur.com/riycCA1
I'm very happy with my Pebble.

It can't tell me whether I've walked or not, and I can't order a pizza with it, but I get all my notifications on it, which alone is very handy (pun not necessarily intended) for me.
They always do. You can usually download them soon after the conference, but lately Apple and Google have been moving toward letting you download them within a day during their big conferences.
In both cases the idea is to obfuscate the complexity - remove it from the user's view to make it effortless. UX is not easy. What you are looking at is the "how," not the "what."
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NoSQL = NoDataModeling
Unfortunately the ACA doesn't do much to address increasing healthcare costs. There are a few initiatives (comparative medicine funding is one that comes to mind) that are good starts, but the ACA is likely to lead to overall higher GDP expenditures on healthcare in the US, not lower, as more and more uninsured have access to care.
c3js is also pretty good
Yep. The "Google is getting better at design..." doesn't seem to be true. They've really doubled down on this cards UI which is unfortunate.
The persona in the article is a parody of a man who judges women, and not an actual judgment of women.
Prepaid CCs can often be linked to addresses you don't own.
Kinda. Skeuomorphism includes learned cues from everyday life (button positions on a calculator), while material design technically doesn't (only stuff relating to the physical nature of reality - shadows for depth, motion for reaction, etc).
The value in requiring a warrant isn't about how hard they are to get. While they do server as a certain minimum standard (you have to at least make it sound ok), the big benefit is that they serve as a kind of governor (speed limiter) on the powers we give to police.

It's a lot harder to start a widespread, hard-to-undo abuse of power when you have to ask permission each time you exercise that power. A single abuse of power can be (hypothetically) remedied in court after the fact. Unfortunately, the situation changes when the problem grows to "general warrant" size. At that scale, you tend to need armies, not courts.
Your "base case" is correct, no argument there and so is your secondary example. The error comes in by looking at specifics instead of the whole. The probability of success using a strategy is the sum of (the probability of success in a case multiplied by the probability of that case) for every case. Now, since the set of integers is infinite, the sum probability of having the first number you see be less than one googleplex if the number is chosen completely at random is 0 (not just "really small" like 1/2^googleplex, so small that it is zero in the sense that lim(x->inf)1googleplex/x IS zero). Therefore the chance that you will get numbers which will lead you to have a probability over 50% is 0.
Google I/O 2014 Interrupted by Eviction Protester
Can I set up my own antenna in New York and stream its recordings back to myself in Minneapolis? How long is my antenna allowed to be before it magically switches to becoming illegal? This is an incredibly stupid decision that raises many more questions than it answers.
Discussing Lean, Agile Concepts with Co-founder of Blossom.io Thomas Schranz
Looks good but runs extremely slow on my phone (LG G2)
Wow, that is a very crowded page to the point of being hard to read.

Here is the link to the actual software, http://resurva.com/
Like many people, I hold certain aesthetic preferences. You can call me racist while continuing to prefer blondes to brunettes if it makes you feel good about yourself.
The healthcare example is a very good illustration of why the GDP calculation is susceptible to the broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window.

The root of the problem is that GDP doesn't measure changes in capital stock. For example, after Fukushima, Japan's GDP ticked up slightly because of the expenditures from disaster recovery. Obviously it's absurd to conclude that Fukushima was good for the economy--the loss of capital more than outweighed the money spent fixing things. The same principle has many different implications. For example, if we reduced air pollution, expenditures on treating lung cancer would go down, hurting GDP. Countries that are heavily based on oil or mineral exports have artificially inflated GDP, because the measure excludes the decline in the value of reserves.
if i see:

a b c

1 2 3

g a b

what is that? sudoku? complete the phrase?
too little syntax.. it doesnt say what it does..

besides f(x) is is math for centuries ;)
For those wondering what the program does:

TL;DR - The program writes a Brainfuck program that writes the text you inputted. Pretty neat

First copy the text of the letter (excluding the x86 interpreter in hex on the right, or in the case of the gist, at the bottom) and run it through an online Brainfuck interpreter. Supply ASCII text input such as "A" and run the program. It will output another Brainfuck program. If you then run the outputted program through the Brainfuck interpreter you will get the same ASCII text.

So if you run the code extracted from the letter:

+++++++++[<+++++>-],[[-<--.++<+>>(]<+.-<[->.<]>>,]

If input an 'A' the output is:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.-----------------------------------------------------------------

which if run returns an 'A'

Online interpreter - http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/page/brainfuck-interpreter-java...
Did they already mention how Timely on the web has been canceled and we are left with the old calendar codebase? You know, that Quantum Paper UI they keep talking about.

I see Sundar Pichai still has an attitude problem. Seriously Sundar: you come off as a condescending jerk at TGIF which is embarrasing enough, no need to do it in public.
First Indian investment? I thought InterviewStreet was also an Indian company.
I am pretty sure the GP was being sarcastic with that list of alternatives (if it just mentioned one of those things, the GP might have just made a mistake, but by naming three controversial things and nothing else, it was likely said sarcastically.
The potential for this sort of confusion is one of the main things that Scalia's dissent strongly criticizes:

"The Court manages to reach the opposite conclusion only
by disregarding widely accepted rules for service-provider
liability and adopting in their place an improvised
standard (“looks-like-cable-TV”) that will sow confusion
for years to come."
Vim has seen active development for over 20 years and is available almost anywhere due to this. Reimplementations are announced every now and then but usually fizzle out after a few years. We'll see how long neovim stays around.

(And the MacVim native Mac UI is pretty nice imho.)
Great catch!

The scenario seems to be you walk halfway somewhere, fill up on junk food, then order a Uber cab home...
I am aware that warfare implies deadly violence by definition. But civilized warfare should bound and focus that violence towards the accomplishment of rational objectives while preserving a minimum of human rights.

I was under the impression that, under Geneva Conventions, non-combatant, medical units should not be the subject of disproportionate enemy "attention", in spite of the obvious greater military value of nullifying a multiplication factor for the enemy (each doctor can treat and potentially send back to the front a great number of combatant units that would otherwise result in casualties).

I am not talking about an operation assuming any risks in order to spare enemy doctors, but if the whole point of the operation is to take down the doctors in the first place, I'd call that shady. It is equivalent to gunning down unarmed civilian peasants in order to deny food to the enemy's forces. I do not think that was allowed in Geneva Conventions either, though I am well aware that US people has an incredible and almost infinite capacity to look the other side when their forces engage in that kind of issues.
As the parent said, they don't rent. They break low security boxes / poorly secured boxes and use their cpu cycles for $0 + opportunity cost of the hack.
Careful what you wish for: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/10/5704452/screenshots-sugges...
Is anyone else kind of creeped out by the presentation style? I can't really put my finger on why but everything comes across very wooden and out of touch with normal people.
Effectively, this achieves the complete opposite of what CAPTCHA does. It's a test that only computers can solve.

A much more exciting development in the field of bot/spam detection is verifying the integrity of the user's browser by comparing the exposed functionality (HTML5 and JS) and quirks to the ones expected for its user-agent header. I believe this is the method that Dan Kaminsky's "White Ops" startup uses.
Probably because Debian still has 3.8 (even in unstable) and they don't maintain/update the package themselves. If you want the latest packages, you might need to look elsewhere. Fedora for example already has 4.4 in rawhide and they might push it to stable in a few days.
What visual cue that is grounded in our experience of reality does an app with a metallic texture background give you?

I'm half joking, of course there's elements of skeuomorphism that work this way, like designing a note taking app that looks like a lined pocket notebook. But the recent trend is to approach this very minimalistically, only taking the "primal parts" and leaving out the leather textures.
Aereo (RIP) streamed live television over HTML5.
Well, the effects of the winter can be:

- Damage due to harsh weather causing a net drag on businesses, causing them to be more conservative with spending.

- All of the store, school, etc closures due to inclement weather.

- Even without store closures, many people are less likely to leave their homes (i.e. spend money) when the weather is bad, even if the weather isn't 'snow day' bad.

I feel that it's probably unlikely to be entirely due to the weather, but I don't think that we can discount the effects a harsh winter can have.
Regardless of your opinion re this morning's Aereo ruling, the fact that those at the pinnacle of our legal system don't understand basic, modern technologies -- email, text message, smartphones -- is astonishing...and begs more than a few questions.
Seems to me the idea of declaring a shrinking economy in terms of $ doesnt make sense. What if the average price of things is dropping (eg Healthcare)?

To me it seems the goal should just be how much stuff did we make? If that number went up, then good (except corn).
I'm intrigued as to how one can possibly justify calling that a "write".
Article Series: Automation in the Cloud and Management at Scale
This InfoQ article series will focus on automation tools and ideas for maintaining dynamic pools of compute resources.
Linus Torvalds has written quite eloquently in defense of using exclusively C in the kernel, pointing out some brilliant insights. Of course, the kernel is his at the end of the day, so he doesn't really have to be persuasive and there's a lot of colorful language mixed in to those forum posts, too, which turns a lot of people off and prevents them from hearing the brilliance. But you could hardly pick a harder and more mission-critical project than the kernel, and the result speaks for itself.

Most projects are not the kernel, and for most normal-size projects, you'll probably get better results by picking a language you are experienced with and familiar with, rather than one that's in some sense universally optimal, but you have little experience in. But to sum up the advantage of C: C is for when you don't want any surprises. It's a very un-surprising language.
the rules of the game are public knowledge

For machine gambling, the odds are dynamic, and the casino is allowed to non-transparently manipulate them.