skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so the target area was blocked. So what? This was not a precision ammo, it was an a-bomb! Even those early designs could just be detonated in the general area and still destroy the target and everything else.

Why did the bombers have to switch targets then?
“Happy Birthday” is not in copyright
Well it's not like the Russians or the Prussians suddenly decided they wanted to start Poland again - it must have been Polish people who wanted that, so I think it's quite clear it was Polish people "surviving" long enough to see their country come back. I think new nation would apply if the people starting it had nothing to do with the original citizens? Like if someone wanted to create a country of Sparta now - it's not Spartans surviving, it's just a new country with an old name.
For bitcoinj we developed a similar plugin for Maven:

https://github.com/gary-rowe/BitcoinjEnforcerRules
They already do? There's a switch in the preferences.
Solving large problems with APIs – London meetup
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I took a quick look at your implementation of ECDSA and I think it has a bug at line 311 [1]. It looks like I could bypass the check if r or s is negative.

One thing that I don't understand is why big integer libraries developed exclusively for crypto need negative numbers. The library [2] that I contribute to doesn't need them, and it works just fine. Actually I could argue that having only non-negative numbers make it simpler and faster.

[1] https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/ecdsa/blob/master/lib/ecdsa....
[2] https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/browse/javascrip...
I'm reminded of some of my favourite C 1-liners for synthesis:

main(t){
for(t=0;;t++)
putchar(t*(((t>>12)|(t>>8))&(63&(t>>4))));
//putchar(t>>7|t%45)&(t>>8|t%35)&(t>>11|t%20); // try this too!
}

.. there's a whole world of 1-liners for synthesis out there, and some of them, frankly, are astounding. Sound is such a beautiful way to understand math ..
Ì'm waiting for the retina iMac/display, because working without external mouse and keyboard never worked for me (and 15" is probably too small for the desktop)
Solving large problems with APIs – London API group
80's Computer Hacking In Movies – Supercut
PVS-Studio: Checking Bitcoin
> Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive.

>Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks.

External drives are pretty unreliable. It's more probable the external drive will die before the laptops internal one.
Yes it is. And it is called mathematical reasoning. You don't need to have some childish intuition to grasp the tunnel effect. It is enough to understand the concept of an exponential function of complex arguments.

Complicated problems need abstract reasoning not handwavy explanations. "Imagine two rivers which merge at some point and two boats floating down these rivers. Which one will be first? Think about it and solve your race condition problem." Pure nonsense. We have powerful ways to think about programs with programming languages. For physics this language is mathematics. If you want to understand something study the language.

And bits like "Babies also intuitively grasp that objects exist even when you’re not looking at them, a concept called “object permanence” that goes against the classic Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics [...]" are just sad. An observation in the physical sense and the observation of a newborn are not the same concept. Babies have a memory. Computers have memory. Therefore babies are computers.
"cold data" from OP was probably a key factor.

They're responding to a different philosophy.

Take music: The main case is generally "I want to listen to music that I like" or "I want to listen to (specific) music from (artist)" of some sort. I have 150GB of music, but neither of those cases require most of it as most of it is only accessed very rarely. The music file storage can stay somewhere else, for occasional reference if I want to pull something esoteric from the collection. "Cloud" or an external drive are great for this.

Wash, rinse, repeat for photos, movies, old software, etc.

And when it "breaks", i.e. that single-point-of-failure HDD fails, as they do often catastrophically without warning, the files aren't lost. It's like keeping your will, the deed to your house, baby photos, etc. in the briefcase/backpack you carry around all day. Fine way to protect them until something happens to that briefcase.

It's liberating dropping 3 pounds from your shoulder, as well.
blackout blinds or curtains and blue-light filtering glasses
Yeah, it would be more like a stand, with a huge Nike logo, and the small sign :) ( "this is not an official Nike stand").

What the developer did is hardly unique, my GF was looking for a Prezi app yesterday, and she almost installed an unofficial app, which looked really official (like the original author's, it says "This is unofficial app."):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andromo.de...
I asked about this, and it's against the concept of the Air. The reason being that it becomes unportable. Was there a 15" air, I'd have gone for it, but there wasn't, so I went with a 15" MBP.

I like it, but it does get hot, and is quite heavy compared to the airs. I'm happy with it but I think they're missing a trick!
We are all social. Now what?
The Web Manifest specification
It's interesting that the trends Marco says are inevitable:

1. Use platform conventions over custom widgets

2. Favour responsive layouts over layouts tailored for each screen

have long been the norm on Android. And since Holo - (1) has been far from a handicap. Apps that stuck to Holo (and now 'Material design') conventions were usually the most attractive.

With regard to (2) - the way this has forced Apple's hand in hardware choices has been fascinating. Having to double resolution via retina rather than grow incrementally and the long delayed and slightly painful transition to a new aspect ratio for the iPhone 5.
I'm pretty surprised that this article is news. Sonatype has been open about SSL for Maven Central since there has been Nexus or maybe even longer. I remember Jason van Zyl talking about this seven or more years ago.
Related:

Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/10/maldives-...

And a longer story on Kiribati

Drowning Kiribati

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/169064-drowning...
I just got a Mac Book Air for similar price two days ago. Should I refund it and get these? Will apple refund it? When will these start shipping?
If you bought it less than a month ago there's a pretty good chance that Apple will replace it free of charge (I even got a small refund in one case, when they dropped the price of MacBook Airs at the same time as a hardware refresh).
Misleading post title. Claimed, in a lawsuit.

I hope they win, but this is definitely not decided.
And a good example is probably Google ranking...
It was a simple choice for me, much better screen and high specs generally without a huge compromise on cost or weight.

I went from an 11in Macbook Air to the 13 MBP retina and I've not regretted it once. I carry my laptop around all day and I've not noticed the extra weight.
So if the lawsuit succeeds, does that mean restaurants can serenade us with the actual "Happy Birthday To You" song? That might revolutionize birthday dinners.
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Your Sparta analogy has a real-world example in Macedonia:

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

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

"Citing historical and territorial concerns resulting from the ambiguity between the Republic of Macedonia, the adjacent Greek region of Macedonia and the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon which falls mostly within Greek Macedonia, Greece opposes the use of the name "Macedonia" by the Republic of Macedonia without a geographical qualifier, supporting a compound name such as "Northern Macedonia" for use by all and for all purposes"

"..millions of ethnic Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians, unrelated to the Slavic people who are associated with the Republic of Macedonia, Greece further objects to the use of the term "Macedonian" for the neighboring country's largest ethnic group and its language. The Republic of Macedonia is accused of appropriating symbols and figures that are historically considered part of Greek culture such as the Vergina Sun and Alexander the Great"
So the story here is, nothing has happened in a year. See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878417
>External drives are pretty unreliable. It's more probable the external drive will die before the laptops internal one.

Citation needed.

There's no reason for the external drive to "die before the laptops internal one".

Not only that: you can actually buy the very same drives that are in your laptop for external use if you like.
Android crypto blunder exposes users to highly privileged malware
(off-topic, but I find it fascinating)

The UK system sounds back-asswards, but it strikes me as a surprisingly sane set of checks.

Man vs Machine has always been a royal navy doctrine. The US teaches nuclear engineers how to drive a boat. The UK teaches sailors how to run a nuke. Similarly, if the boat has to maintain independent firing capability (the whole point of the deterrent being in submarines is to avoid command&control decapitation), then any access control is a formality. If control ultimately falls to the crew, then don't pretend it doesn't - focus on the men.

Radio 4 sounds anachronistic, but it's a UK-based, govt-controlled transmitter, independent from military systems, which broadcasts every second of the day during routine operation - and because it's still cranked out on longwave (198?khz), can be heard across our waters & much of the north atlantic (the stomping grounds of our deterrent).

While civilian maritime broadcasts would sound like a more sensible failsafe, most of them are either broadcast or controlled from Northwood, so they're not independent of military systems, and are routinely silent between scheduled broadcasts.

What I do find interesting is the actual point of checking for civilian broadcasts - given the loss or failure of command&control communications, the result isn't a railroad to Armageddon - they're expected to implement some common sense. Compare this to the scenes in Crimson Tide, where Gene Hackman prefers blind obedience to the Protocol ..

And "hand-written" is a red-herring. The actual detail here is that only the PM ever knows what went in that letter once it's sealed. They don't have to be hand-written, and probably aren't anymore - but traditionally this was a side effect of not dictating to a secretary/typist.
By this logic, doctors that smoke, drink or/and are overweight should be fired - they don't properly maintain their own health, so should be disallowed to care about others. Would that be a good idea?
I'm curious on how you are trying to cook your eggs, now. :) I fully acknowledge that there are some ways I don't have the patience to do. The double boiler method, for instance. I also just don't care for cream in my eggs. Plain scrambled works fine for my tastes.

Regardless, I am not trying to deter folks from Scala. I don't necessarily hate Java, though. I have been less of a fan of static typing in recent years than I was before, though. My stance is more on tooling than it is on typing. (Granted, I realize that the typer is just a tool, as well. Seems common in the statically typed world, for all tools to converge into one, though.)

Honestly, I could rewrite your sentence on cooking eggs correctly to "using the typesystem correctly" and it would be about the same for me.
>This doesn't deserve your "DUH!". It reflects the fact that making these apps is easy. If it were so difficult or time-consuming that hobbyists starved trying to get an app done, everyone in the app store would be living on their app income.

It just reflects the fact that there are too many of them.

How hard something is is not a predictor of there being any market for it. Deep scholarly knowledge in dead languages literatures is hard too, but hardly a career. Same with Brainfuck the other guy mentioned.

Or, to give an even more specific example: there are apps in the app store that are very difficult to make, and took extreme expertise, and still they make far less money that some fart apps or dize-a-dozen platformer games (some doesn't even break even).
German minister: best for Snowden to return to US
The Passport is a big, blocky phablet and BlackBerry's strangest phone ever
موعد بدء الدراسة 2015 مواعيد فتح المدارس والجامعات للعام الدراسى الجديد
It is, http://one.npr.org
I'm genuinely puzzled by the central importance of debt in the lives of Americans (reflected for example in the importance of the infamous credit score which is something my country also has, but which barely anyone cares about).

Imagine you'd like to buy something you don't have enough cash to pay up front. Assuming you're not in immediate necessity, you're faced with the choice of saving up the money and delaying the purchase or borrowing the money and buying now. If you delay the purchase you can invest or lend the money and earn capital gains or charge interest. If you buy now you have to pay the interest to someone else. This means the ultimate amount you spend is lower if you delay the purchase (your savings are augmented with capital gains or charged interest and you avoid paying the interest to someone else). The upshot seems to me that unless you're buying something out of immediate necessity you are better off delaying the purchase.

Is the central role of debt due to the fact that most shopping done in the US is done out of immediate necessity (which may suggest wide-spread poverty) or is it simply wide-spread impatience or somethings entirely different or more complex?
a canvas helps to structure ideas and directions.
the canvas is just a snapshot of a product, and there are a number of different canvasses out there. for example, the pain/gains/job canvas, which I tried to apply to freelance projects: http://thinkingonthinking.com/customers-jobs/ - what could be wrong with this?
I'm not sure how much longer it'll be around, but this latest refresh still left one non-SSD/non-retina MBP, the 13" model that comes with a 512 GB hdd and upgradeable to 1 TB. Price after upgrade is $1149 (vs. $2299 for a retina model with 1 TB): http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/. Not an option if you like the 15" screen though.
This is incredibly cynical.

It is better to do something than nothing and allow the status quo to continue.

Plus the administration of such a scheme would not be that hard given that every employee's pay goes through some sort of accounts software these days.
You thought it was worth the price, so what's the problem?
How much would that be if it's a concrete platform with polystyrene on the inside for buoyancy?
I have a small (256Gb) SSD drive in my Surface Pro 2. I have a 1Tb drive I occasionally carry around with me that has "everything". It's a mirror of my 1TB drive in my desktop at home.

Whilst I love the 10" form factor and the light weight of the Surface there are times where I need something obscure and rarely accessed, and don't have my drive with me. This is frustrating beyond description.

Also not sure about the data loss argument, as I back up regularly.
Maps moving in time: a standard of excellence for data displays
How does it handle failures? I.e in the first example it creates a server and then creates a dns record. What if the dns record creation fails? Does it roll back everything (i.e destroy the server)? I'd probably want a system that automatically retried x times before rolling back for some situations. In other situations I'd probably want it to not roll back or only roll back some of the tasks. How flexible is it?
Thanks for the feedback, @davidkatz - I definitely see your point on this one, and it's something we're often testing (as you might expect from a couple product managers!) and working out different ways to articulate our value prop.

Lately, we've been trying out different messages for different audiences - ProdPad is just as valuable to a development team (roadmap visibility, clearer specs) as it is to the customer support team (visibility of impact/progress following customer requests and feedback), but in completely different ways. Obviously product managers are our core user base, but by all means, not the only ones.

Yesterday, we used "Build product roadmaps, manage ideas, and make users happy" on Product Hunt, which seems to have gone over well. Might test a few variations of this and see if it sticks!

Thanks again for the feedback, really helpful.
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> Take music: The main case is generally "I want to listen to music that I like"

Sure, but that's not the same every day. I don't want to shuffle my music collection around constantly; I'd rather just have it, so if on a trip I'm reminded of $bandname and want to listen to an album, I don't have to futz with downloading it on hotel wifi. To me the cognitive overhead of manually operating some kind of caching scheme, where I purge rarely used files to the archive and then have to page-fault them back in again, is not worth it.
Are you kidding? A waiter can't sing you happy birthday?
Yep, they can either load from removable flash (microSD) or from onboard eMMC flash storage, selectable by switch on boot.
Post-1999 life is amazing, isn't it?
I think a lot of professionals who like the anti-glare have it on their second screens, so it's not a deal breaker as much as it once was. Last time I got a new Mac, I didn't feel like waiting for the special anti-glare screen version to be shipped to my house. I now just make do with the glossy while traveling, and still have a nice matte screen to plug into.
The overall system performance improvement of an SSD is worth it alone for an upgrade (or replacing it in your current laptop if you can). It turned my old plastic MacBook into a new laptop for me. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. You will love using your laptop even more, and you can get a small form factor external to complement it.
I have an early 2011 15" mbp.
I always only had a 500gb hd in it.
Recently, its performances have starting becoming inadequate, so I switched its 4gb of ram for 16gb & its hard drive for a 480gb ssd.
It is a night and day difference that should be enough to make me keep it one more year at least. The only really weak part now is the graphic card that may be too weak to support an high size high resolution screen.
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Restaurants still do that? Someone needs to bring a lawsuit.
>Why doesn't Apple ship MacBooks with optional anti-glare display anymore? Is a third party anti-glare matte screen protector useful?

Because it was not of very high demand, plus it's awful for color accuracy and deep blacks, not to mention that it destroys a lot of the niceties of having a retina screen -- it's literary adding a diffusion material over your screen, that besides reducing glare also makes it more blurry.

Plus, the solution to glare is quite easy: turn the display away from a light source. It being a portable computer, that's quite easy.
Only in the US of A. Copyright, like the patent system and the roads and bridges, is broken.
> Does this mean that everyone who warbles "Happy Birthday to You" to family members at birthday parties is engaging in copyright infringement if they fail to obtain permission from or pay royalties to the song's publisher? No. Royalties are due, of course, for commercial uses of the song, such as playing or singing it for profit, using it in movies, television programs, and stage shows, or incorporating it into musical products such as watches and greeting cards; as well, royalties are due for public performance, defined by copyright law as performances which occur "at a place open to the public, or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." So, crooning "Happy Birthday to You" to family members and friends at home is fine, but performing a copyrighted work in a public setting such as a restaurant or a sports arena technically requires a license from ASCAP or the Harry Fox Agency (although such infringements are rarely prosecuted).

[formatting is mine]

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
tldr: Yes.

They can sing it now now, but copyright holders have 100 year to indefinite monopoly and can to charge any price for licenses. The system has been corrupted.
Mostly for GPU needs. Also, my 15" Pro must stay cooler because the fan almost never comes on (except doing something GPU intensive). The AIRs around me always seem to have a fan humming, though the noise isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. (I'm on a non-Retina, but that's not a big deal to me)
When your main business is storing files (and you also just raised yet another shitload of cash), not offering better safeguards against file loss is inadmissible. I left Dropbox for Google Drive when they announced the Condolezza Rice move, and I haven't looked back since.
Thanks for the pointer, this would be useful for sneakernet with cheap+large flash drives.
I like that idea @tegeek. We don't have it in place, but I can see how it'd be useful. We're also exploring having some key data in place as part of the onboarding (like Trello does), or somehow using mechanics of the product itself to show off how the product works (like Slack does), or even reworking the homepage so that you can start playing with the product right away (like Moqups does). There's a lot of interesting ways to get people engaged in the product right away, so thanks for the feedback on how you'd do it.

We're working on a new version of ProdPad, so I might look to include a demo version at the same time. We'll definitely keep you posted on progress if you'd like to see where that goes :)
You can use this example to send this example code on github to run multiple advertisers. (May be a bit of overkill to just send 2 kinds of beacons but does provide accurate timing control over the beacons).
http://nordicsemiconductor.github.io/nRF51-multi-role-conn-o....

However it is really a waste of energy to send 2 types of beacon packets when one should suffice. However it is technically possible.
Nope, public performance of copyrighted material. Thats why chains have their own birthday songs. A small restaurant might sing happy birthday anyway.
> Specifically with investors, how are you going to legislate against how someone feels about investing their own money? If they don't want to invest in a woman company, it's their right.

Who said anything about legislation?

There's this bizarre equivalency that gets pulled out in these discussions where people seem to believe that anything legal must be moral and vice versa, and thus if I say something is morally wrong I must want it banned.

People say and do a lot of shitty things that are (and should be) protected as free speech. That doesn't mean we should either ignore them or try to get them illegalized. The solution is to drag their shitty behavior into the light and let people see that it's a problem. As you've doubtless been informed many times, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the social consequences of speech.
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Would have been so hard to just ask "Hey, why do you do the shell/pipe install?" and then engage in MEANINGFUL conversation about the pro/cons? Guess not.
>Guess I was right when I decided to ditch Apple.

You came to the conclusion that you "were right when you decided to ditch Apple" because they just put out newer, better models that the one you just bought?

Sure makes sense...
This is from 5 years ago.
I understand the appeal of a more or less throwaway computer, but I have to add the Retina screen is outstanding, the OS is good enough and the machines are incredibly well built.

My wife was in a car crash about two years ago and, while the car was totalled, her MBP survived with exactly one scratch.