skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checking for encrypted packets wouldn't tell you anything about the binaries' trustworthiness. A back door might just encrypt the data with a second key, or more specifically, encrypt the key that encrypts the data with another key. A reliable way of testing binaries doesn't seem very feasible to me. It's like antivirus vendors trying to find new viruses: the malware authors can always obfuscate their code just a little more, do it just a little bit differently, and now it does the same thing while escaping detection.

Authors of open source software who want to distribute trustable binaries should include instructions for how to reproduce the binary exactly from the source. A third party verifier could reproduce the binary, then publish a digital signature affirming that they reproduced it, allowing anyone who doesn't want to compile it to check with a trusted third party.

But all of that is a moot point if the source code isn't being very carefully checked.
NEVER!! hack hack hack hack hack

Actually, I'm just wrapping up a ~4 month vacation after a grueling year of creating a product, launching it, and failing. I was so cynical about programming by the time it failed and felt like I lost the spark. It was just a boring means to an end and everyday I had new ends to meet.

I finally feel good about programming again and I think I'm actually better than ever. You really see the forest from the trees after being away from it for awhile. I recommend a long break to anyone who is currently feeling like programming has lost its magic. It hasn't -- it's still a wonderful means to express your creativity.
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It's legal, not technical restrictions.
Well, I looked up a small handful of books I have been interested in reading next, and while all are available on Kindle, none are on the Unlimited program.

Looks like I'll be giving this one a pass.
I'm well aware of that. And, I don't think it's discrimination to only sign complex licensing deals in only one territory.

I'm just not sure why people in the UK would go for this when the Library already does a fine job of "all you can read".
OT: I hate sources like this (no offense to you poster) that only allow you to read the news if you login...

Why would you want to scare away all these readers if you're dependent on these readers?
There's also an interesting article about the project: http://appliedworks.co.uk/lab/the-alps/
French is a really, really, really formal language! It's perfect to use in literature because it's kind of "pretentious". But on a daily basis, you'd find that the rules are simply not worth it.
SVG are vector graphics that can be rendered in all modern browsers:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-img

You do miss out on the recoloring and any other font styling options though.
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Codenames are computer assigned these days. There has been a history of operations being compromised because people were being overly descriptive with the codenames.

If you look at that list, the structure is quite obvious - so a program matching two words within broadcategories gives you pronounceable and memorable names, without the risk of a human giving it something too related to the content.
It could certainly be worse - there are no declensions.
Dozen!

I remember when Slackware fit on a single 3.5" floppy. There was a second disk, but you only needed that if you wanted to install X, and why would you want X when you had virtual terminals you could just switch between?
I have been trying to use React in an application I am building. One recurring issue I have with React is child to parent component communication. The recommended way seems to be to have the child component emit events which are then caught and handled by the parent component.

Unfortunately, this approach does not work very well in the cases where I have multiple instances of the same component, in which case all the parents will be recieving and handling the event emitted by a single child. I would love to hear any possible solutions for this that do not involve either registering unique event names for each instance of the component or passing in a unique id as part of the event payload, which is then verified by the handler function.
Or one of the regional parties on this convenient list of those who voted "no":
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/51-mps-drip-...

SNP, Plaid, DUP, Alliance, SDLP.
I like the fact that can be publicly advertised as a unique selling point.
This is not secure at all. I expected some kind of XMPP-OTR stuff...
I wonder if upvotes and downvotes on news aggregation sites could be considered to be online polls.
I am neither native French not English speaker who learned both (although I forgot a lot of French ever since).

English is much easier in the beginning, but it is very hard to really master it. Prepositions are main culprit, it is basically random system. French is harder in the beginning (conjugations/ le vs la), but gets easier and more systematic afterwards.
Self promotion?

http://blog.trackduck.com/author/kornelija/
http://www.eddy.lt/
Are there any plans to add this kind of tech to cameras? I know they already use optical image stabilization but wonder if the benefit would be additive.
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The point of the article is that "streaming" books will be different than streaming music and video.
Cached on zone-h in case Mr Timberlake gets his site back in the meantime... http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/22698655
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To all the "this is just a 10 dollar library card", I ask you this: if library books are the way to go, why do people buy endless amounts of books from amazon. Amazon became successful by selling books. Audible is another successful company that offers a feature that according to you, can be achieved at a library. Clearly libraries are missing something or else we'd be using them more. Maybe it's one click instant access. Maybe it's the larger selection, or that lack of having to wait. Regardless, it's not the same.
It's often the case that the books I want to read are not at my local library; either because they don't have them or they are already checked out. This is especially true of e-books. Wilbur[1] doesn't have the greatest selection.

[1] http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/826F0311-F3BF-4487-A2D0-CA70...
If this worked, then the republicans should've done better in the elections then they did. Guess what? They didn't.
I love the idea, but the selection is not good enough (for me) yet. I keep an Amazon wishlist as a "reading queue" and none of the 60 books (technical, business, pop-psych) in it were available on Kindle Unlimited.

I usually buy 2-3 Kindle books a month at around $9/per, so I would definitely use this service if the selection improves. I kind of wonder if Amazon could get away with charging $9/month for any book they have and just cash-in on folks that "spend" less than that a month.
Just finished a nice trip in the Rockies, including many day hikes. On some trails, the isolation and quiet was astounding - sometimes an open space can be the most silent and wonderful thing. (Not to mention the vistas, which were awesome)

Sometimes, a change of scenery can be very fulfilling.
CleverScript, conversational AI format
How come this shit got on the landing page?
Getting started with dotfiles
If I accept your premise as true, then please explain:

1. Kansas City, KS

2. Chattanooga, TN

3. Provo, UT

4. Austin, TX

These places all have fiber to the house, and supposedly gigabit speeds. Two of them were built out with zero help from Google, so Google can't be making huge losses on the internet to prop up other parts of their business.
> The interesting thing about this to me is that it implies we will also reach 'peak energy' which is to say that once everyone in the planet is at the agreed upon 'median' lifestyle/perks we will have a fixed number for the amount of energy we need from that point forward.

I doubt that. Reminds me of a concept of Malthusianisms [0].

Some quotes:

Why are even some affluent parts of the world running out of fresh water? Because if they weren’t, they’d keep watering their lawns until they were.

Why does it cost so much to buy something to wear to a wedding? Because if it didn’t, the fashion industry would invent more extravagant ‘requirements’ until it reached the limit of what people could afford.

Again and again, I’ve undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn’t have been a Nash equilibrium.

[0] - http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418
The goal is not to make it so commercial banks cannot buy certain securities. The goal is to make it so they don't feel like they have to just to keep up with the Joneses. If they decide independently that they want to run their banks by investing in higher risk securities I'm fine with that, because in the history of banking that's just not what's happened (until, of course, the major parts of Glass Steagall were repealed). Commercial banks tend to have very different customer bases than investment banks, and they have investors* that they can keep happy without investing in higher risk securities.

*Edit: /s/customers/investors

> Investors want the risk level that's appropriate for the business.

How do you determine the appropriate risk level for a business half of whom's goal is to provide explosive growth and half to provide long term, stable, lending?

> They may disagree on what that level is, but that disagreement will stem from different strategic outlooks and not from personal preferences.

I agree entirely. Don't you agree the strategic outlook of an investment bank is entirely different than that of a commercial bank?
I actually enjoy HN's more intelligent commentary, technical expertise, and fact checking on huge mainstream news stories.
Let's see if I can cover this entire comment thread in one comment.

Taking a break is good for most people. It can help prevent burnout.

People vary greatly in their ability to take vacation due to income, work and family requirements.

People vary even more in what they consider to be a good vacation. Some people like a lot of activity. Some people like lying around. Some people honestly don't like taking time off work. All of these are OK as long you do what works for you.

People in the United States get, on average, significantly less vacation time than their European counterparts.

Some companies have unlimited vacation policies, but unless the culture is unusually positive, these policies are generally harmful in that they require all vacation to be justified in some way.

In other words, there is no way to make a meaningful universal statement about vacation.
Interesting, didn't know this usage is so old. I (non-native) thought that it's some hipster programmer talk.
`Pending FCC approval.`
BIRDSONG and BIRDSTRIKE as twitter-related tech doesn't sound so computer assigned to me. Maybe they have an AI project not on the list :)
There are about 2,000 audiobooks available through Kindle Unlimited. Compared with 150,000+ available through Audible.

So yes, if the books you want to listen to are on KU, it's a better deal.

*Full press release embedded here: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-unlimited-reading-2014...
It could be a whole lot simpler than this. (And a whole less secure.) In high school I had a server running that scanned email for a keyword and my cellphone number; I didn't have a smartphone. So I texted a keyword and some code to my email. Then my server would read the email, see it contained the keyword, then interpret the rest of the code I sent and execute it. This would be insanely easy (and not too secure) to implement on Android for instance.
I wonder if you get to keep the notes you make from books in this? Of the last 5 books I've read, only 2 were in this, so I'm not sure I'll sign up.
As a registered telecom provider with the state, you need to file at least one interconnection agreement (the telecom equivalent of a peering agreement) with the regulatory body showing that you are connected with the incumbent (Verizon) or someone who's going to transit calls for you to the incumbent.

The state won't let you take on calls as a local access provider if they're going to end up going nowhere.

You also have a regulated obligation to provide working 911 service so you need to interconnect with the incumbent's 911 tandem switches. So, off the bat, you have multiple connections with or to Verizon.

Now, if there are some really popular people in your building who attract a certain amount of calls, YES, you can demand that the other telecom carriers extend facilities to your switch (which is located in your basement).

Those carriers will decide if they want to build facilities to you, or work with another carrier (remember the one interconnection agreement you had to sign?), to pay them to deliver calls to you on the agreement that they have enough facilities with you.

You are compensated, per minute for any call that terminates on your skyscraper network through a process called reciprocal compensation, whose rates are laid out in the interconnection agreement you signed.

Is old-timey Verizon's attitude starting to make sense?
Actually you can style SVG with CSS

#yourSVG {
fill: red;
stroke: blue;
}
As an author with two books enrolled in KDP select, I didn't know they'd be included in Kindle Unlimited. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on sales.
Can someone explain to me, whats the difference between Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime[1]?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000739811&ref=...
The whole point of being open sourced is that you can compile them yourselves after your verification and use the product of your own compilation with the server-side of spideroak.

More realistically, your distribution maintainers will verify and compile the package, and you trust your distribution maintainers more than spideroak so you delegate source verification to them.
Is this the same as the Lending Library you'll get with Prime, where you can get 1 book for free per month if you're Prime customer? If so, the offer in Germany is absolutely terrible. I found only 2 books in that library, because they count endless self-published garbage-titles to their library of "600,000+" titles.

From the comments here, I assume that the model is similar in the US and 9.99$ is only so cheap, because there's mostly junk in the library.
Trying a new hiring strategy here. I'm trying to appeal to talented developers who also have ambitions to start their own product business. What do you think?
That article is written by someone who doesn't understand what the "nominee" company is for and has filled it in with conspiracy.

http://prosperityuk.com/2011/10/investigating-the-bank-of-en...

(There is plenty of weird conspiracy stuff going on in the UK government, such as the role of the Metropolitan police in the press hacking scandal, the non-investigation of Hillsborough, security matters in Northern Ireland, the the post office selloff, and anything related to Savile: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2014/07/02/tories-and-thugs... . There's no need to invent unsubstantiated ones)
Drone lighting
Dr. Carlos do Amaral Freire has supposedly learnt 115 languages. I find that difficult to comprehend.

http://thelinguistblogger.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-wisdo...
In the browser support section, shouldn't "IE up to 8" be "IE down to 8"?
They claim to record the whole screen? Does this work with the new chrome API, which would mean my users need to adjust chrome flags?

What about other browsers (IE anyone?)
You would be surprised how many devs / techies don't take enough time off.

I used to work for a company where most of us had between 24 and 28 free days / year and it was pretty normal to see people having 40 or more days left, counting the current and the previous year...
I had two weeks of vacation after finishing my masters, and am now back to work until September, when I start my PhD. I'm grateful for those two weeks... but I wish I could have afforded to take more time off.
There is 15 cm imagery in some areas there. It depends on whether some locality that usgs coordinates with wanted to pay for it or not.

I was poking around Boston the other day, 15 cm was available there.
So how come the UK does so badly in the Song for Europe contest then?
Glimpse v2 is using React/Flux for pretty much everything client related and all parts are open source and on github.

For those who don't know, Glimpse is an OSS diagnostics platform and we are in the process of building out v2 (including NodeJS and .NET backends) - http://getglimpse.com.

Current work on the front end can be tracked here - https://github.com/glimpse/glimpse.client/tree/version-2. Very much a work in progress but all good so far.

The system is quite large. In the end it will contain several major "sub applications" that users can switch between and each "application" has large number of components, major interactions, etc.

We are currently using the following stack:

- Views - ReactJS,
- Server Comms - Superagent + Primus (SocketIO),
- Build - Gulp,
- Packaging components - Webpack,
- Module System - CommonJS,
- Message Bus/Dispatcher - Postal.js,
- Testing - Jasmine, Jest, Chance, Karma, etc
Veu for iPhone is a worldwide travel guide for trips, week-ends and holidays
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Agreed. I don't read many books, but I asked my wife about the last 3 ebooks she'd read. One of the three was already a free book due to Amazon prime and was also included in Kindle Unlimited. The other two weren't available as part of Kindle Unlimited.

So comparing Kindle Unlimited to Netflix's online streaming is actually a pretty accurate correlation. It's currently comprised of second-tier (or lower) books that aren't likely to yield the same profits as new and currently popular titles, so they're used as filler for this service.
Amusing :)
It's not even laws, it's just contracts. Which, if parties were motivated, could be rewritten.
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It is like a paid pass to amazon's selected digital library.
It scared the crap out of me when Dropbox asked if it wanted to save my screenshot. Since when did it have access to things like that? I had a phone interview with Dropbox a few weeks ago and they mentioned a ton of new products that seemed vaguely offputting as well. After the screenshot prompt, I immediately uninstalled Dropbox, but after a few days I realized it had a bunch of useful backups so I ended up reinstalling it.
I moved to Europe, mostly because I wanted more vacation time and the opportunity presented itself. Don't regret it for a minute.

Three and a half years ago I had 5 days of PTO per year. Admittedly it was a crappy job, but even so.

Now I have 22 days' PTO, plus 12 annual holidays. I make more money and pay less in rent, too.
Full press release ended with me finding a link that shows the narrated books they include. Edited above.
Finding a match in a tree structure is asymptotically O(log n), finding a match in a list is O(n). This router is also written in C.

There is a benchmark in the README comparing R3 to the Rails router and also to a replacement Rails router that I wrote for non-performance related reasons.

It should be noted that usually only a tiny proportion of the time taken to respond to a request is spent in route recognition. YMMV.
Do you know how you and the publisher are compensated in this situation? I'm assuming there is some sort of royalty stream coming back to you? (I'm not asking for details, just generalities).
Perfectly smooth playback on my 6 year old C2D/4GB RAM (Win8.1 x64)
The 'else' after the 'if' is unnecessary, but so what? We're not running out of letters. IMO including an "else" makes it clearer.
He explicitly states that 18000 jobs will be cut in that email. My question still stands, how do you tell a company the size of microsoft that 18000 jobs are going to be cut, while still maintaining a shred of integrity? If you know so much better, please share with us.
I'm leaving for SF today...for vacation, in case that's not clear lol
Specifically which?
So if Netflix clients would start pushing random bits upstream to balance their downstream, everybody would be happy. Even better if they push a bit more, then Verizon should start paying Level 3, no?
there is also a binding library for Go

https://github.com/freehaha/go-r3
It is a simple websockets chat using Firebase...

https://github.com/firebase/firechat
I haven't been to a Library in probably 20 years, so this is a legitimate question, not being snarky. Can you somehow check out e-books at libraries these days? Some people actually prefer that experience.
If automation can take away Joe Factory Workers' job it could take away his managers job as well.

And even more important it could take away his governments job. I mean.. how much worse could it do?
I think you're placing too much emphasis on genetics. Genetics play a major role in determining the traits of an individual, but the way the individual was raised and the culture they grew up in also play a major role. The exact balance between the two is different depending on the trait, but an argument to the tune of "treat the likelihood of reproducing solely as a genetic trait" isn't going to have enough predictive power to say that people who don't want to have children are going to die off.

The same argument (falsely) applies to homosexuality. Since homosexual people don't pass on their genes, surely they must be bred out of the population? Well, estimates put the rate of homosexuality between 1% and 10%, so that didn't really turn out the way the purely-genetic argument would predict. It's just more complex than pure genetics.
I'd say English is simpler than French because it doesn't have as many arbitrary exceptions. To begin, English doesn't give genders to every idea. English has much fewer irregular verbs. Conjugation in French is a party of special cases. Participes passés?

I'm no authority on the subject, but here's what I gathered: during la Renaissance, some aristocrats made a game of overly complexifying the language such that the plebe couldn't understand what they were saying. Or just grabbing ideas that look good (participe passé) from other languages (Italian), then sticking to them (while Italian apparently got rid of this silly construction). Also, the basis for French evolution is how authors use the language. The Académie Française looks at what famous authors have written and then use that to define what's proper French, what's not. While this is not stuff I've researched (only what I've heard from French profs justifying our usage of insane constructs); those are what I believe make for French a worst language to learn than English.

My wife studied both French and English as second language and found English to be much easier to learn than French. My personal opinion is biased since I'm a native French speaker, but still nowaday I find French to be much more cumbersome than English.
Would you mind sharing which country are you working and what are the visa restrictions, if any?
But bro I'm killing it working 23 hours a day 365 days a year. My VC tells me this is the only way to be successful. Right? Right? Guys?
When information, a license, or a service is sold, the buyer now has information, a license (or general right to do something), or has benefited from some service.

Google sells clicks on ads. Once a click is bought, the buyers now has eyeballs on their websites. Not the information about the person doing the clicking. So, the information about the person doing the clicking is not sold.

The drone analogy is inapt.
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How does this product compare to http://bugherd.com/ and https://usersnap.com/ ?