skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I go to government issued random number site.

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm

Tables of random numbers have probably been used for multiple purposes at least since the Industrial Revolution. The first published table appears to be by the English statistician L.H.C. Tippett. In the digital age, algorithmic random number generators have largely replaced these tables. The NIST Randomness Beacon expands the use of randomness to multiple scenarios in which the latter methods cannot be used. The extra functionalities stem mainly from three features. First, the Beacon-generated numbers cannot be predicted before they are published. Second, the public, time-bound, and authenticated nature of the Beacon allows a user application to prove to anybody that it used truly random numbers not known before a certain point in time. Third, this proof can be presented offline and at any point in the future. For example, the proof could be mailed to a trusted third party, encrypted and signed by an application, only to be opened if needed and authorized.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/secure_generate.html
It has a fine explanation of the pattern: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html
but what isthe reasoning in using this architecture? Or in pattern speak, what are the forces that this pattern is considering? I can't find a clear explanation about which problems is it trying to solve.
CloudFlare is not blocked in China. A handful of IPs could be potentially, but if you're seeing something indicating that I'd recommend contacting our support team.

The GFC (Great Firewall of China) also changes daily (or sometimes hourly) so it's entirely possible whatever may have been an issue at one point in time has already been addressed.
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I mean, given Sonos streams your media, that one should probably be pretty obvious why it wants to access your media...
I immediately dropped everything to read this blog post. I have been waiting for 3 years!
I am fascinated with the data and science behind human behaviour, and their blog posts were (now are) always really interesting.
Using the US courts 4-factor analysis where in particular do you think this use - of a low-pixel screencap transformed as an avatar - fails?

Do you happen to know the jurisdiction applicably here, as it's behind Cloudfront the location of the servers are hidden. Clearly there's the .re domain. It might be considered that Cloudfront's proxying causes a US jurisdiction claim of infringement to be pertinent no matter where the files are hosted, but that moves rather to my point that it's not a simple analysis and so the vilification of the alleged infringer seems unwarranted at this time.

>No court has ever held that it's fair use to reproduce copyright images because you think they look cool //

Low-pixel copies of images have been allowed for various purposes. Are you saying this particular issue has been addressed by the courts, I'm not aware of it, could you post the details? Thanks.
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I didn't mean that he was let go because of his opinion - he stepped down because he couldn't lead in controversy, and the donation was the sole reason there was a controversy AFAIK. If politics was so relevant for the previous candidate, it would be this time too. I had forgotten that he was already interim CEO, though, so it's a good point that anything interesting would probably have already been covered.
> significant amount of money

Is that what we're calling $1000 today? That's not even rent money in the bad areas of the Bay Area.

> then whine that it's unfair

Citation please.

I really can't believe HN right now, trying to deny the fact that prop 8 passed. Unbelievable. Let's all rewrite history, getting rid of an inconvenient fact. Oh, and screw political freedom too.

Your sense of offensiveness is offending.
I've long held this belief, although I have not phrased it with such enjoyable humor.

When I heard people say things similar to " 'they' say that in 20 years, computers will be smarter than people - do you think that's true?" I reply with "they're already 'smarter', and artificial intelligence already exists".

I follow up with the assertion that when AI is, if it's not already, a fully developed reality it won't take the form we're expecting, much in the same way that "artificial flight" did not take the form of humans flying like birds.
I've used emms for years to transcribe interviews and debates. It's wonderful. Instead of switching to some other app to pause or rewind, I can type up what I'm listening to and navigate the audio all within emacs.
I'm curious, why do you find that claim dubious? That is the conclusion of numerous top security experts, not just some pundits with an agenda.

It seems like you're scoffing at the idea that only a national government could produce software that is "that good," or maybe even that they could at all, but mere code quality is not the whole basis for the claim. It's also the (initially) extremely precise target, the intelligence needed to affect the physical results they were after (disruption of uranium enrichment centrifuges), and the unprecedented effort to cover all tracks of the worm.

Ralph Langner, whose team did a lot of the primary technical investigation into the worm, has said "the leading force behind Stuxnet is the cyber superpower – there is only one; and that's the United States."

Here's his hour-long technical breakdown (with code): http://www.digitalbond.com/blog/2012/01/31/langners-stuxnet-...

His TED talk on Stuxnet: http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21...

A less technical article, which Schneier reposted as "the definitive analysis of Stuxnet [short version]": http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_se...

There are also numerous bits of circumstantial evidence detailed on Wikipedia. A former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was put under investigation by the DoJ last year for allegedly leaking info on Stuxnet and "Operation Olympic Games." At this point it's all but certain, I think one would need a pretty good reason to be doubtful.
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> Or iPhone and Android but no web app

Pocket Casts is awesome but there have been times when I really wanted a web version. Lately though I use Chromecast from the app when I'd normally want the PC to play the track.
We'll look into it. It's slightly trickier than it could be because that database field is completely free-form, so looking up an image from it or translating it is harder than it needs to be. Thanks for the input though, I've passed it along :)
>provided I pay my renewal fees

That's my point. There's a maximum lifespan; the life of the company. Since Bolt browser no longer exists, I doubt they would renew the trademark.
There are lots of reasons. The fact that you don't have a use for this does not mean that other people don't too.

I buy text books, not as often as I did because of things like Lynda but I do from time to time. The first thing I do is to cut the book with an automatic saw and give the pages to my amazing Fujitsu automatic scanner.

Then I store the book on a box far away in a storage room.

This way I have a 100% DRM free book I can read whenever I want and weights 0 grams, and I can travel to other countries with it. Most of the time(when buying multiple books) the tree killer version is cheaper than the DRM ebook one, and it does not have your name in all the pages like some bastards do.

Some books never will have a DRM free ebook ever.
But it's not. The town is named after the company, not the other way around.

The company, in turn, is named after the Toyoda family that founded it. The spelling was changed for aesthetics and connotation.

So yeah, made-up word.
The #1 way to spot a mushy web3.0 social startup is to see if they named their product a generic, overloaded dictionary word. This is a really irritating recent trend. Every time I see one of these I can almost hear the 'profile picture in a circle' of the CEO pitching the name to me:

'its a really utilitarian, no-nonsense product for People Who Just Get It Done, like me & my team, so naming it out of the common English vocabulary was really the most natural expression of this'

Naming your products tired names like 'Bolt' is not bold, it's just uncreative. It helps no one: it's pretentious, it makes your product harder to find (regardless of 'how dissimilar it is to previous products'), and it makes your brand less memorable. Why would anyone want to do this to their company or their customers?

Maybe people who perpetrate this sort of situation will continue to have tensions like this one and the trend will gracefully(?) self-destruct. Hopefully the people who are capable of building valuable products will choose names which don't cost them!
Both that standards organization I'm within/from is based in the EU, but is strongly catching on within the US. Several companies have adopted within just a year.

I'm based in the US, but there will be an EU market.
I completely agree with this. The best thing I ever did was tear apart the popular JS frameworks of the day two-three years ago and now I can pick up any of these JS frameworks in a day or two for the most part.

Hire programmers, not members of the Church of #{latest_framework}.
Not as extreme a case, but does anyone remember HealthKit?
You would expect this from the two most innovative companies in the industry. Both companies are leveraging their revenue to grow rapidly. A concern for profits at this point is premature. Trulia was profitable years ago at a vastly smaller revenue number.
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Bear in mind that in Russia, many "offers" like this are not ment to be real competitions for accomplishing something (to crack Tor, to build a bridge, etc), but simply a way to appropriate state's money.
I had an outstanding OSX update, installed that and rebooted. One of the two fixed it for me. Note: I DID NOT have to install the the root certificates, and if anyone else gets an SSL warning from DigiCert's root cert download site, I strongly recommend against downloading anything from there.
The nugget buried at the end is very interesting - Boole (of Boolean Logic) was related to Voynich who found what is perhaps one of the most cryptic documents of all time.
I don't think that you need to crack anything.

$100,000 is for a research paper.

Translation of the auction lot title: "Research the possibility of getting technical information about Tor users (their hardware)".

Here's the talk that claims the possibility to deanonymize Tor users for less than $3,000 http://web.archive.org/web/20140705114447/http://blackhat.co...

There are published papers on the topic e.g., http://www.syverson.org/tor-vulnerabilities-iccs.pdf

Lesson one is that Tor guards against traffic analysis not traffic confirmation. If there is reason to suspect that a client is talking to a destination over Tor, it is trivial to confirm this by watching them both. </quote>
I personally love how many designs you guys have up on Pinshape. Finally can get to dust off my Makerbot and get to printing!
There's also this: https://www.realscout.com

Although I'm not entirely sure how they operate.
OKC experimented with the matching process -- the express purpose of their site. Facebook experimented with mood manipulation -- something they have no permission to do -- regardless of the fine print. Facebook is a very bad landlord, but people don't want to move.
Whatever. I just hope Mozilla will not run out of money as Gnome Foundation did. Firefox is harder to replace than Gnome.
> Do you agree that if he'd never made the donation he'd still be there?

From the very limited information I have, my impression is that he was a poor choice with weak support from the board from the outset and most likely a deficit in either ability or willingess to manage community relations rather than technical issues that would quite likely not have lasted long or been particularly effective as CEO at Mozilla at the time (and with the board in place at that time) he was appointed even if that particular source of controversy hadn't erupted.

Would he still be there now? Maybe. Hard to say.
I think the author's point is that it doesn't matter if he convinced you that the app itself was worthwhile; paid app development is not a tenable model for a solo developer. App prices are too low, competition is too high, and getting the word out to customers is difficult and expensive.

Let's say he was simply much better at convincing people and had twice as many people purchase the app as he did. He still would only have made $50,000 from a year of working 60 hour days; and the majority of that revenue came in the days after release while it was still "new" and receiving lots of free press attention (and is not likely to repeat itself in the absence of a marketing campaign).

Keep in mind he now has to support the people who purchased his app while delivering improvements to a new version. Since you likely converted a large chunk of the people who would be interested in your app during your launch free publicity phase, there's a smaller pool of potential customers out there. You can either spend money on building features for users who will never pay you again, or you can spend money on marketing.

Moral of the story here is that the success of a product usually has very little to do with the merits of the product itself and much more to do with marketing. Marketing isn't something you can DIY; it costs money and if you're selling a niche $5 app, you're probably not going to see much return from a marketing campaign either. Without significant marketing or winning the viral popularity lottery, you're probably not even going to make minimum wage off the time you put into your app. The author is just opening his books so other people know what they're getting into.
Lets be honest here, if we are having to stay so large to get any real range from batteries then the tech truly isn't ready yet.

One reason I haven't been all that impressed with the S is because even as large as it is its only 250 or so miles per charge. Some of the elements in its design are really good, but battery storage isn't prime time when it takes the majority of the car to get so little range.

Call me when the tech will take a Focus/Leaf sized EV near 300 miles for around 30k, then I will listen. Right now the only good bet is a range extender, fortunately the two big ones; i3 and Leaf, are affordable by a great many more drivers.
Wikipedia says the difference between the spelling in Toyoda's name and Toyota is deliberate - that there were aesthetic and connotative reasons for spelling the company different from the family name. Although obviously, I'm not sure how the exact Japanese writing would work for that.

> But Risaburō Toyoda, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred "Toyota" (トヨタ) because it took eight brush strokes (a lucky number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off the diacritic at the end) and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota

Obviously, though, I don't speak Japanese. Would both the family name and the company name be Latinized as Toyoda?
Same goes for Android http://thehackernews.com/2014/07/instagram-mobile-app-issue-...
The political background of a CEO matters because the realm of a corporation is not just how much money it can make for its shareholders, but the manner in which it conducts its business as well. This is why people can be upset about companies using child labour, or sending jobs overseas, and so forth.

If a company promotes a bigot as a CEO, then people will question whether the company is being ethical in its business practices, or will be in the future. People will also think that it isn't fair for someone who is a bigot to be successful while trying to deny other people basic rights, and will be upset by that.
We actually changed this recently in Stripe Checkout. Touch detection worked great for 99% of cases, but serving a touch-only experience to devices like yours was pretty clearly unacceptable.

We're now treating the touch-only versions as optimized for specific platforms. For example, we have a mobile version that is optimized for, and only displays on, Android and iOS. Going forward, we may explore a pointer event polyfill to improve support for less common touch devices.
This will most likely be damaging to the newspapers in the long run. The result will be a reduced proliferation of links to the newspapers, which will cause a lower visibility.
I recently found that a very popular web-service serves its api console over HTTP, rendering all API keys vulnerable to MITM. I sent over a mail to their security issues mail address. Still waiting for a response.

Step 1 of securing an API: Use SSL.
I get an exception when I try to view the page:

ErrorException

Trying to get property of non-object (View: /home/forge/rankopolis.com/app/views/pages/dashboard.blade.php)
"Closed the ticket" as what, though? "Duplicate, working on fixing" or "won't fix"? Because those are pretty different...
Nah; if something is projected to land in a bunch of, say, farmland, then trying to intercept it could make it land someplace worse.

A necessary prerequisite to a missile defense system is a way of telling where rockets are going. Even if they don't have the first, they probably have the second.
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That's intriguing. Can you comment on power usage compared to what a similar x86_64 would get you? Also does it support ECC RAM?
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How about the cost of the food? Tuna is expensive, condensed milk is cheap. That matters relative to the cost of the can because it's more important to make the condensed milk can cheap to store a cheap ingredient, than to worry about the minor cost of aluminium compared to expensive ingredients like tuna.
... ooh, yes. I'd been searching about for such a thing but coudln't find it.

Don't have the money for such a luxury right now, but definitely on the to-do list.
> If politics was so relevant for the previous candidate, it would be this time too.

This conclusion is only justifiable with the assumption that the salience of politics to the community with which the incumbent in the office in question must deal is fixed. This is a fairly counterintuitive claim that requires some justification; salience of issues -- particularly those aside from the ones that define a particular community -- is generally quite fluid.
I think what ruytlm meant was why is NPR One not delivered as just an internet radio stream that any Shoutcast client can connect to. There's a good reason of course: Shoutcast's protocol doesn't allow for an kind of user input, which prevents NPR One from implementing any kind of voting system so that it can curate its selection. Such functionality would be useful for traditional internet radio stations. Many stations take feedback about the current song on their main site, take requests, etc. and it would be great if the Shoutcast protocol allowed stations to display some kind of form to provide interactivity.
My guess is those most likely to have to pay the tax will simply withdraw services from Spain.
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This is nice and everything, but the one thing that I don't like so far is that getting to the list of labels isn't just a sidebar away anymore but instead a whole tab change.
I do see that you can filter by label through the filter textbox, but that isn't quiet the same for someone like me who uses the colors more than the name of the label.

Overall, looks nice though. Curious to hear what power uses think of it.
I can cut silluetes of letters and the like with my 3D printer. I just had to add a diode laser to it.
First, don't sweat a single downvote. That happens.

Second, while I can't speak for the downvoter (being the parent of your comment, I couldn't downvote you if I wanted to), your comment is jumbled, has poor grammar and is frankly borderline incomprehensible. Also, your reference to the BT share save program like an item of common knowledge is confusing - I had to Google to find out what it's about.
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What he said isn't wrong though.

The ex-Mozilla CEO had personal opinions that the Internet masses didn't like and used mob mentality to get him to step down. They actually wanted him fired.

Not everyone is going to agree with you and getting someone fired because they don't agree with you isn't progressive, tolerant, or civil. It's just plain wrong.

What if it had been the reverse? Christians got together and got a ceo to step down because they donated to a pro-gay marriage proposal. Those same people would be outraged.

This is why I know that it has nothing to do with being progressive or free..and everything to do with having power over other people. It's sick.
Or drive a vehicle that can get through two feet of snow when you work in a field where taking a day off isn't an option.
Why not just buy a digital version and remove the DRM? It's easy enough and almost always cheaper.
Thank you for stereotype of me. That's quite progressive of you. And there is no right or wrong side of history, as we are not through with it yet.

Let it be known that in my original post, I did not single out one person, nor attack any one position. It was originally supposed to be a one-off remark/question. I knew exactly how it would ruffle feathers, but it's an honest question, as it was the central catalyst why Brendan decided to go. If that catalyst was so important to Mozilla, than the opposite of fighting against gay marriage, fighting for it, should be an opinion of the new CEO, if tolerance, community, acceptance, and freedom are so important to the organization. We should know about it.
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Electric vehicles aren't rockets; much of the energy expended to accelerate can be recovered through braking.

The energy required to maintain a given speed is almost independent of weight. Most energy loss at speed is from wind resistance. Rolling resistance will be affected some by weight, but it's not the dominant factor at speed.
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The article fails to mention the main reason food is shaped "inefficiently": serving size.

Besides being cooked in the can (as egypturnash points out), a can of tuna contains two sandwiches of tuna. A jar of tomato sauce contains two servings of tomato sauce. A can of soup contains two servings of soup.

Yes, you have to be able to hold it in your hand, and stack it on a shelf. But you can't make a smaller can because that would be "less soup". No one wants to buy smaller cans of soup, and the manufacturers certainly don't want to sell less soup per purchase either.

Economics trumps material efficiency.
Which means that the less opinions you express the more likely is for you to be accepted by the community as CEO of a company. How ironic, freedom of speech tampered by those alleging being depraved of basic rights.
Crossover SUVs are minivans, they just have more aggressive body styling and (often) better handling.