skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Glitch paper was discussed previously on HN and is very interesting:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/managedtime.pdf

It's great research. Near term applicability would be more useful to me as an IDE plugin that works with existing reactive frameworks. For instance, it turns out that the latest Java UI framework (JavaFX) has a reactive/lazy functional bindings framework in it. Every property of every UI widget can be connected to other properties or derived expressions of those properties. Of course Java itself has no support for this so it's all framework level stuff. An IDE plugin / embeddable DSL that understood these constructs and allowed for real-time debugging like in the videos would be useful indeed: whilst I love binding UI widgets to the backend data model with that framework, debugging it can be a total timesink.
Eh. This article emphasizes the wrong things. Larry Page isn't some super villain building robot armies to take over the world. Any significant harm he/Google might do to the world will likely be via the unintended consequences of actions motivated primarily by profit. We already see this -- the slow erosion of privacy expectations, etc.

As for all of the internet of things/robotics acquisitions and R&D... well, I'm not in the board room during these discussions, but I highly doubt that building robotic armies is on anyone's mind. More likely, Page et al. see this as a next major growth area and would like to stay ahead of the curve. Esp. the Boston Dynamics acquisition is probably less about military applications than general experience with complicated robots.
Last I checked, GOOG is a public company that answers to a board of directors and shareholders. Not a private company with a megalomaniac potentate heading it up.
Hmm. I don't find this terribly convincing.

Running is well documented in its role in improving bone density: http://healthfully.org/highinterestmedical/id33.html

Unlike weight-lifting there are actual studies showing running promoting neurogenesis (the increase of brain cells) and improving performance: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Finally, muscle mass is far from enough to be an effective metabolic regulator. While I have yet to meet anyone who runs 100 miles a week and is overweight, it's not uncommon to find that someone who benches 500lbs still carries a gut. I myself have gained a great deal of both fat and muscle since my school years when I was a runner.

I think weight-lifting does some great things depending on one's aesthetic goals, and it's probably the most time efficient way to increase bone density. It's hardly the optimal exercise for general health, though. There are many aspects of health, ranging from neurogenesis to heart health to immune system function to maintaining telomere length that cardio most helps.
Popcorntime is leaving GitHub
Sounds like you're looking for the Debug.Trace module
In the long run, not only are they (the russians) going to use it in place of any foreign CPUs but lots of states which currently have no options would prefer to buy processors and software from the russians rather than the americans (Brazil, Iran, Syria, Cuba and many other "not aligned" countries). Russians/Soviets have a long history of having parallel development of technology (including special purpose microprocesors) and no one really considered that as a "waste of resources".
Its not 'ok' anywhere. It may be covered by small print EULA obfuscation. But its an underhanded, selfish, dirty thing for them to do. Regardless of whether they can be prosecuted for it. Lets be clear about the difference between legal and ethical.
With truly evil billionaires out there - the
Koch brothers come to mind - and family run organizations that take horrible advantage of employees - like Walmart and the Waltons - why is it so many people want to make a case against Google and its founders?

Yes, it makes sense to keep a check on powers. But I'm way more worried about all of our three-letter agencies and the private billionaire donations behind the power structure in Washington than the company that may in fact give me self-driving cars, give Internet access to remote parts of the world, and so on.

This article feels like it's doing nothing but trying to build an evil genius narrative where none exists. When you summon images of Lex Luther in the first sentence, you've lost me.
>You'll get N different definitions of AOP if you ask N people for them.

This is true for many computer industry concepts:

"object-oriented",
"functional programming",
"garbage collection",
"big data",
"programmer",
"hacker",
"technical debt",
etc.

Regardless of all the fuzziness around terminology, we still try to advance knowledge forward, improve the tooling, possibly improve language syntax, codify and/or formalize best practices.
That's quite a bit of headpatting.

Because you know, B.O. - a young man has risen from humble begginings to rule over one of the most powerful countries in the world. K.J.U. - a pudgy asian young man that enjoyed pointing at things and cake now holds the keys to the awesome power of NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

And let's not mention that wiley rascal, V.P., an unassuming ex secret agent in a semi frozen country, that has risen to the rank of president, controlling as many 2 MILLION TROOPS.

Anyway, did you guys know amazon has tinfoil now. Also drones. And they now what we buy. And an army of people at their command, driving around every corner of the earth for no reason! Sure, they say that they "deliver" stuff, but you know what else is delivered? MILITARY PAYLOADS! Damn that handsome J.B.!
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It is not easy, or,perhaps even possible, to take reactive programming model A and combine it with reactive programming model B. E.g., the editor in this demo is written in C#/WPF via Glitch, WPF supports data binding to recompile expressions, but since this is what glitch is doing also (at a much more general level), we can't use it with data binding.

You could have glitch for an existing language, but it would look more like ReactJS for JavaScript.
But look at that list of customers - hardly rich nations. Total sales? Millions. Profit - around zero.
Larry and Sergey control 55% of the voting rights:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/04/02/google-sto...

if the rest of the shareholders don't agree with them they can... do absolutely nothing about it
Yes Steam I think tracks what websites you've been to, but they only do this when they are already suspecting you of cheating, and they only send a hash of the url to see if matches known cheat sites. That's just one of the things I remember.

In a perfect world EA would just use steam and give up on Origin. I'm sure they can pay Valve enough to get top billing on steam and it would be less than they spend on their own anti-cheat and origin engineering. They'd also have to cut steam in on sales, but it might still be worth it. It would definitely be worth it to the user as the Origin software is horrible.
Liquidationism in the 21st Century
Did you sense any irony when you read "Run to Walmart to buy our tinfoil hats." ?

I'd posit that the OP has a focus of concern. If they read your comment, you've likely just sent them over the edge into cape-wearing-radioactive-spider-please-bite-me territory.
horrible, absolutely horrible
Although I'm sympathetic to your general view, driving under the influence is in fact a victimless crime. If the crime were "causing damage or injury as a result of driving under the influence", then it would have a victim, but getting drunk then driving somewhere and not hurting anyone is still a crime, but has no victim.

You could say you're increasing the risk for everyone else, but the same can be said for use of PCP or meth or some drug that correlates with higher rates of violent crimes, and those are acknowledged to be victimless crimes.
That's still a bad thing, in my opinion. If I am suspected of cheating then they get access to my browsing history?. How is that acceptable?
Well, EA reached newest low.
It seems there is hardly anything in the web world not trying to spy on you.
This is really awesome, thanks for building it. I was just working on a toy clojurescript project yesterday and while clojuredocs is very useful it's sad it hasn't been updated in forever. I've found examples to be incredibly helpful in composing functional-style code. For instance, compare assoc: http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju... and http://grimoire.arrdem.com/1.6.0/clojure.core/assoc/.

The architecture choice OP made is clever - a completely static page linking to github for the CMS part. Would you consider writing a server-backed version at some point in the future? Clojuredocs was originally written in rails and is being re-written in clojure, but that's going slowly. I would absolutely love to see a well-written clojure backend for this type of site as a reference. I've been really enjoying using clojure for standalone things, but I can't yet imagine how I'd build a web server with all the production features something like rails gives you ootb (asset compilation, csrf, sessions, db connections, orm, testing w. transaction-based fixtures, etc).

Now if I could just integrate this with dash (http://kapeli.com/dash)!
And that would be the holy grail indeed, if you can pull it off! Best of luck.
I don't agree that Western individualism is incompatible with addressing systemic problems on a systemic level. Joining the two ideas is more or less the "Nordic model" that we use here (Denmark): Western culture, mixed public/private economy, a high degree of state planning, and a universalist social welfare system. To some extent the German model is similar. There is individualism as well, but not to address systemic problems. No one expects individual action on its own to build the rail system, address economic inequality, safeguard the environment, ensure sensible urban planning, or maintain a national defense. Individual activity is part of all of those, but individual activity within the framework of rationally designed policies.

Western society is certainly individualist in some senses, especially culturally, and on a micro-level economically as well. I'm not arguing for a fully collectivist society, just to solve systemic problems using systemic approaches. Which we are perfectly capable of doing even in Western culture, using tools like a democratic government.
Six minutes sounds about right to me, if the food is not complex. Try using a stopwatch next time you're in a restaurant. The service industry is pulling some pretty amazing stuff, all the time.
I personally hope you chose IP as a layer-3 protocol.

You might want to decide between TCP and UDP for layer-4, though, but as gingerlime pointed out it is stupidly easy to successfully spoof UDP comms, there's not even need to have a MITM situation. Same goes for ICMP.
But would you pay double to get it? Or would you buy the buggier one that comes out first, and hey now you've spent your game budget so the 'good one' will have to wait.

Its commerce, and 'just in time' and 'just good enough' is all that sells.
You are implying something that I didn´t mean.

This is not about weight lifting vs running. Anand is already running and I suggested him to add some weight training to gain some lean mass, as his BF level (19%) is a little high, possibly due to the lack of muscle mass.

For the record, I run - or bike - at least twice per week.
Its not and sooner or later EU will investigate it and those companies will be in huge troubles.
This has been a pretty old issue [2011] with EA, which they have tried to deny many times.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-discussion-1000004/ea-...
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Come on, lets be neutral to this (politically). We should look at this as a new era. So what, If the Russian design today is more expensive or slower than Intel or anyone else.

Tomorrow, we might all be using Russian-made processors. History requires only a moment to shift the balance created over our short lifespan.

Besides, a little bit of competition between US and Russia has sometimes helped the humanity as a whole. Take the "Space Race" for example. A bit of egotistical competition meant that Apollo 11 landed on moon, many years early than if there was no such competition.
50 years ago they were spraying crops with DTD and other terrible pesticides. If you don't remember, soldiers in the Spanish American war suffered more casualties from the terrible food they were given than from combat[1]. The industrial revolution started more than 90 years ago and industrialized agriculture is not a new phenomenon.

I was thinking about this post this morning and wondering if the ultra-longevity origanic food types would cut off their testiciles if it was shown that you could squeeze out a few extra years of life if you did it early enough. This micro-managing of food eaten is obsessive, although I think half the people writing comments are actually conspiracy crazed about Monsanto and other big companies who must be out to get them (which is not to say that big companies are not screwing over people or small farms, they probably are).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_beef_scandal
This doesn't seem to be a new ISA, but a continuation of Elbrus E2K. RWT covered Elbrus E2K back in 2000.

http://www.realworldtech.com/elbrus/
Its a sliding scale. What's the chance of this 'victimless crime' turning into a real one? And that ranges from property damage to manslaughter to killing whole families.

There's a risk/reward analysis at work here, an driving under the influence has had a very, very bad track record.
Well.... As far as spying goes it doesn't sound that horrible. Since they are only checking hashes of your history against a list of common cheating site hashes they really gain minimal information. If their were clear opt-ins and transparency I would definitely be okay with this sort of anti-cheating measure.
WebAppList – Software and Applications Directory
Is it true that 1% of people (by any large geographic measure) have used Bitcoin in the last month?
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ugh! I am actually glad not to see stupid buggy EA games on steam :)
What does I18N safe mean?
Author's here. A bit of a background on the project if I may.

I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it online, just because and with no hope that something this simple would be in demand. Then went on doing other things like having kids and what not. Fast forward to 2012 and there's a couple of thousand people on the mailing list and a trickle of emails asking when an update would come out. So I sat down and did a proper rewrite. I thought it would take 2-3 months, but it took almost a year. And a half. The breadcrumbs of the process are over on the /wip page [1]. You might've seen it as it was on HN some time ago.

The app is notable for three things - (1) it has a single, simple purpose (2) it is light and very fast and (3) it has an excellent UI.

Also of some interest - I ran a 12-month long beta. Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs. If there's a single takeaway from the project so far - a beta this long is incredible. It helps shaping the feature set like nothing else and it flushes the most obscure bugs that no formal QA could ever find.

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By the way of introduction - I come from the system programming background. I spent several years writing firmware for network appliances, I wrote a P2P VPN system from scratch and I generally prefer C to Java if you know what I mean. I also get a major kick from doing visual design for my projects and got 2000 followers on Dribbble to prove it :)

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In any case, there you have it - my take on simple backup software. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

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[1] http://bvckup2.com/wip
The issue goes deeper than DRM. Online games like Rust, CS:GO and so forth attract cheaters.

Often the intent of a cheater is to ruin the game for everyone else, with patches that give them super-powers (aimbots and wall hacks are pretty common) and the ability to unfairly dominate the other players. Sometimes there are cheaters in official tournaments (a high-profile player in Germany was recently found to be cheating).

Scanning a whole system for "DRM cracking tools" seems very, very bad to me. If this is what EA is doing then they had better have a really good explanation.

Scanning a the running environment of an online game, under the umbrella of a EULA, seems fine. I'll note that if you object to this, you're free to play on non-protected game servers.

Some games are designed to be inherently cheat resistant. One strategy is for the server to never give the game client enough information to be useful for cheating, so even if you've written a totally cheaty client it doesn't do you much good. (Reductio ad absurdum, your client is just a smart video feed with some controller input).

Cheaters suck, but they're a fact of life and if your online game doesn't prevent them then you'll be overrun by the scum and honest players will stop playing.
I googled 'puzzle chicken fox grain' which is the well-known example but I got only websites but no books. Sigh. One day we'll have a search engine that you can tell what you want instead of whispering keywords into the dark.
I really liked this article! The side-by-sides were very well done. Thanks!
So, how it behaves with non-ASCII data?
Snooping my files? Ugh, jackasses. But using ROT13 to hide your activities? That's downright offensive. Who the hell uses a Caesar cipher in the 21st century?
Think Hard Before Jumping From Corporate To Startup
It would necessarily require the destructor not to be run, which could be unsafe.
> Yes Steam I think tracks what websites you've been to, but they only do this when they are already suspecting you of cheating, and they only send a hash of the url to see if matches known cheat sites. That's just one of the things I remember.

And this is perfectly okay, but looking through a list of start menu entries isn't? In fact I'd consider shipping off lists of URLs and domains I've been to worse than looking through installed programs.

> In a perfect world EA would just use steam and give up on Origin.

I disagree, competition is a good thing. By this same argument we should all ditch every other operating system because most users run Windows, so using others isn't necessary. Sure Origin has had its' share of bumps, but so did Steam in its early days, now look at it - Steam is adored by gamers and anything else is immediately shunned.

> would be less than they spend on their own anti-cheat

I'm not sure about this, but from my understanding Steam doesn't really offer much anti-cheat, mostly just DRM. Valve games all have VAC, but I'm not sure how widely used VAC is for non-Valve games.

> It would definitely be worth it to the user as the Origin software is horrible.

I partly disagree with this. The Origin interface really isn't that bad, I actually find it a lot faster/more responsive than Steam's. Steam's interface is also far from great - although they do have great cross-platform consistency, it is at the expense of being inconsistent with the users operating system.
Article forgot to mention Lex's many biometrics acquisitions (e.g. Neven Vision) prior to sending his fleet of cameras down every road in the civilized world, dabbling in mass genetics (23andme), "accidental" mass capture of open wifi traffic, spyware he convinced 63% of all web sites to deploy (Analytics), or the sensor-packed mobile devices he has root on in a few million peoples' pockets.

It would only require something like 0.25 9/11's to turn Lex into the worlds largest and most terrifying defence contractor. Of course this sounds ridiculous, but it's probably just a few short pieces of emergency legislation from reality
It worked for quite I while I would guess, months or maybe years they got away with it.
Is there any proof of this actually being packaged up and sent to EA? It seems to me that this is probably like Blizzard's Warden process, which actively scans for hacks while the client is open. I'll save my outrage until there is proof that they are phoning home with these file scans.
Kind of crappy sensationalist article. This is common behavior for game clients which do this sort of thing to detect cheating and bots. E.g. World of Warcraft trying to detect automated gold farming, etc.. I can think of at least four programs that do this sort of thing and it would only be news if it didn't, honestly.
You're right, but then if your point was to start a discussion, maybe the best way to do it was not to start looking down at our project and assume that we are total ignorants who worked five years on something without any idea of what we were doing or what others did before.

Your first comments were really offensive, but I recognize that the tone of my post also reflected the 95% of negativity in the comments I've heard since we started it, the vast majority of them without even looking at what we're trying to do (we've even had comments like "stop using your favorite text editor / version control system / operating system and use mine instead"!).

What was your point in trying to destroy an embryo project? Didn't you expect such a reaction from their parents?
I totally agree with you. I live in a small town and always use cash to save my local merchants the costs of credit card transactions.

The privacy issues of using credit cards is of slightly less concern to me, but is still a valid issue.
Geocachers read ROT13 like plain-text ;)
>With truly evil billionaires out there - the Koch brothers come to mind

what the fuck do you think gives you the right to claim someone is evil? I literally cannot imagine how much of a goddamn bubble you must live in to think you have any right to call someone evil because their political opinions differ from yours.
I’d like something more selective than that. Pages that don’t make them the same, do nothing; pages that make them the same, apply some algorithm to select a new colour which is likely to be appropriate in the context. Something like that.
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> Yes Steam I think tracks what websites you've been to

This was addressed here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and...

Agreed about EA and Origin.
But in an environment manipulating symbols where one of them 'x' has the property that multiplying by zero gives ten, I don't think the above sequence could happen, or at least the symbolic evaluator would arrange things so that the first time it sees '0 * x' it replaces that with 10. So to evaluate the truth of the expression '(a+b) * x = 10' with 'a' and 'b' equal to zero, we just need to ensure the 'a+b' is evaluated to zero before the multiplication, using the axiom 'n+0=n' and we are back to '0 * x' on the LHS, which is ten.

I think it should be possible with appropriate precedence of the evaluation rules?
The old site, yes: https://github.com/spektom/bquot.com

The functionality is pretty much the same, there's only difference in styling and Website name.
China has already shown interest in using domestic processors simply because they are domestic. Russia is probably the same. I don't think Qualcomm could be considered competition unless they suddenly turned Russian.