skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat proof of concept.

I hope Google gets us something official sooner rather than later. It's a little disheartening that I own a Chromebook Pixel and yet I can't use Google's own hardware to design or test Android apps without installing Eclipse on a sideloaded Linux chroot via Crouton.
This is not very uncommon actually. Teenagers all around the country feel the same way about their smartphones. I can't remember when this experiment was done but when smartphones were taken away the kids literally had withdrawal symptoms.

As for the dependence on a single company that's more of an issue with technical training and awareness. You might be able to set up your own VPS with all sorts of open source alternatives to what facebook offers but not many others can.
I just said that, especially in an immigrant-heavy industry like driving, it's odd that the subject isn't even broached.

I'm actually pro-immigration, but I do think wages and working conditions for native-born Americans would be better if large swaths of the economy weren't dominated by imported labor. It just seems like we're trying to have our cake and eat it to with respect to open borders and labor.

I do suspect that longer-term trends point to less demand for "unskilled" labor, but I believe that people have an unquenchable appetite for new things (artisanal carbon-neutral Bolivian gherkins) that can't be easily invented, sold, and managed by computers, even if certain tasks are performed entirely or partially be robots.
How has the game and her indie studio fared today?
In my opinion,

Nero was dubbed tyrant because the media at the time - that is, senators who could write and publish disliked him. The dislike is understandable for his execution of Seneca; one of them. Tacitus hated him to guts and later Christian history dubbed him as the worst tyrant. The infamous Damnatio Memoriae(the worst possible punishment to a public figure at the time; erasing all evidence of the person's accomplishments) was held against him as well.

But if you think about it, He never really messed up as a role of Princeps. In short, Augustus' princeps were given two responsibilities: national security(as an Emperotor) and food supply(As a 'Caesar Augustus' and 'Princeps'). Food supply was pretty much guaranteed in his tenure, apart for one turbulent season.

For national security, many give Corbulo the credit to resolve the conflict with Patria(i.e., letting Patrian prince take throne of Armellian, but have Roman authority give ceremony). While it was a drastic change in Roman politics, Nero was the one to give the final say. He was unstable, but he wasn't stupid.

All northern defence lines were peaceful(i.e., didn't have a major breach) and conquest for Caledonia(Britain) was ongoing. When Judea revolt came about, he sent possibly the best card against that(Vespianus, who later wins the civil war after Nero's demise).

His demise was a complex one; he lost respect from populus due to his murder of Octavia and his mother(authority), and support from senators(justification to power), and finally, from the armies(military power) all at the same time.

Compared to mediaval then later post-Renaissance divine rights, Roman emperors' powers were far more justified, and consequently, liable to be checked.
Norway the Slow Way
Interview with Brianna Wu (2012)
It is the difference between passion and education. Someone who passionate about technology is really interested in all the bits and crevices, someone who is simply learned about technology classifies knowledge into 'useful' and 'not useful' parts. A common example is 'car people' who go through and re-design the fuel injectors for their car. It isn't "required" but they really like everything about all the pieces. So they persevere to understand it all.
Yet another datapoint on Silicon Valley's collective amnesia about the role that government spending had in getting our industry off the ground.

On a different note, I loved this part: And Ellison has worked tirelessly to build that all-seeing database, suggesting that he had even given away for free much of the tech necessary for such infrastructure. He'd only charge the government for additional services and maintenance of the systems, of course. Any DB company could perfectly well give away its software to sell the services and maintenance (under a mini-monopoly due to vendor lock-in). I suspect the reason why they don't is just to distract the customer from where the money is really made.
Shitty iOS 8 Widgets
PicoLisp: The Scalpel of Programming
Someone needs to write bootloaders, OS drivers, compilers, interpreters, image processing algorithms, audio processing filters, ...
The part the author is missing completely is where, as a programmer, you find the problems you need to solve, and you analyze how your answers/solutions interact. A program is an interwoven web of answers, often reformulated, not a list of verbatim answers.

What you do is not the dozens of quick things you can look up on the 'net. What you do is assembling a larger thing, and that is where your skill comes in.

To go back to the librarian analogy: You're not looking up a bunch of answers, you write a book (or at least the outline of one) for a new topic. Part of that, unless you can afford a research staff, is looking up a bunch of answers, yes. But it's not what you do for a living by a long shot.
Interestingly I switched from Linux to FreeBSD around 2002, primarily because I was frustrated with Linux sysadmin.
Perhaps I was more of a newbie but the inconsistencies in Linux system organization and the confusing, low quality, half-obsolete docs, and unbounded time required for troubleshooting were some of the reasons. When I switched to FreeBSD and started using ports, my sysadmin time dropped significantly. But I was only using a single system.
Is Apple bringing high luxury down to the people?
> literally had withdrawal symptoms

Meaning what? That's a broad-enough statement to be meaningless. If withdrawal symptoms include grumpiness, listlessness, and boredom, I get withdrawal symptoms every time I sit in traffic.
I wonder how much is this causation vs selection.

If someone is willing to pass an extreme rite of passage (like trial by fire) to be accepted, isn't (s)he already primed to form a stronger social bond, compared to someone who would only be willing to pass through a simple, non-straining ritual (like hand-shaking)? I suspect that most of the "hand-shaking" crowd would simply shun an extreme ritual, instead of being transformed by it.
A slew of other military reading lists agree with you; it was on the Army Chief of Staff 2011 list, both the 2008 and 2009 USMC lists, and the Army "Maneuver Center of Excellent" 2011 list.
That quote was from another person.

“We don’t realize how ingrained Facebook is in our everyday lives,” a drag queen named Heklina told KNTV in San Jose, Calif. “I was shut out of Facebook for 24 hours and felt like I had a limb chopped off.”
Dessert bananas aren't a super important food, but the first monoculture collapse arguably already happened:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
These games reward violent behaviour against all kinds of people, all of the GTA games I played involved killing many more men than women and probably more whites than blacks.
>Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

no.
'"Open source" doesn't necessarily mean slapping a GPL or BSD on it and blowing it out the door.'

Your broader point - that it is possible to provide source and still keep the software proprietary - is a good one, but as most people (including the OSI) use the term "open source" does necessarily mean "not proprietary":

http://opensource.org/osd
I didn't look that up before posting, but yea, it certainly makes it even more difficult to understand.

Edit: Aha, I see from a sibling post that the wikipedia page is for a different person.
For the most part, yes.

Repository: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
How is telling someone how to make their game any different than telling a woman how to dress?
Introducing the KNFB Reader iOS – for people who are blind or visually impaired
Can anyone explain how this differs from using an Android emulator? (http://developer.android.com/tools/help/emulator.html)

Is it a matter of features, speed, or convenience? Obviously, all of those can be overcome, be it as a fork of the official emulator or as a third-party emulator. For instance, this new Chrome extension must be the same thing under the hood: a Dalvik runtime, possibly an ARM->Intel recompiler for any NDK applications, etc.

I figured the only reason this wasn't done to mass effect already was because it wasn't in demand. But if it's so desirable, surely creating an actual emulator would be superior to hacking up web browser extensions and ostensibly playing cat-and-mouse with Google over this?
The more people who have a copy of a key, the more chances for a copy to be lost or stolen by a bad guy.
It's different in that now attackers can take down even cached sites. Before it was only dynamic content that was vulnerable. It's the difference between having your home page up and serving cached content, or your entire HTTPS site being down.

To give you an idea how this affects people in the real world, some websites will make thousands and even millions of dollars an hour in advertising revenue and paid services. They depend on CDNs to handle the traffic of that many users and make it seem like everything's moving smoothly even in the event of a temporary outage. If that site goes dark completely, they lose tons of revenue, and people get fired.

In another case, let's say a large financial institution, they might need to provide authoritative and highly sensitive information around the clock to organizations that basically control the flow of money around the world. Downtime isn't really an option. Without Keyless, this information stays up, cached. With Keyless, an outage can make this information disappear, with potentially far-reaching global financial repercussions.

To reiterate: if you don't use Keyless, your (HTTPS) static content stays up under an outage. If you do use Keyless, your (HTTPS) static content goes dark under an outage. (For https clients that don't have an existing valid session ticket on the CloudFlare server)

You can always use plain HTTP and avoid the outage, of course. But for large financial institutions that's probably not an option.

Also, please note that i'm really not trying to be inflammatory. I'm just pointing out that this is a new, additional point of failure and it can have real consequences for the content people provide over HTTPS.
Thankfully the article uses Intel syntax.

I had to port a code generation module from Intel syntax to AT&T. What a pain!

Gas is so limited compared with what PC macro assemblers are capable of.
Does this server/library allow the same kind of hooks and configuration that a traditional web server allows?

Or is that the point? If you don't need all the configuration and features of an off-the-shelf web server, you can more easily custom-build an H20 HTTP server for your specific needs that is blazing fast?
Why are you trying to think like other programmers?
Why aren't you trying to find programmers that think like you?
My Facebook account was suspended out of the blue, "due to recent changes in my profile" where there weren't any. I don't use Facebook that much but I mostly felt liberated. "I thought, hey, they did it for me. I didn't have to get frustrated and shut my account myself. That's it then."

I did miss the chance to keep in touch with certain groups of people but OTOH Facebook already does a lot to make their platform unusable for simply following your friends and groups, such as not necessarily showing what your friends and groups actually post.

They did re-enable my account later. Still have no idea why it was suspended in the first place, even if me and Facebook exchanged a handful of emails about it.
Yes, that is the stuff that I have been told has been released by TI. I will try to get a proper licence added to it.

The microcode sources are missing and one of the files for NFS is truncated.
I'm pleasantly surprised the comments here aren't overly caustic.

And I really liked this article. As an entrepreneur who has structured my life around my family (i.e. work from home, flexible hours), I can empathize with Brianna and Amanda's points of views. The entrepreneur in me is obsessed with development and deadlines and shipping. The father in me is obsessed with spending time with my daughter. There are times when both are at odds, and while I like to say I always make the right decision, I don't. It's a tough struggle. And it's a struggle I am very conscious of, because I have competitors who don't have or want to deal with similar constraints.

But honestly, I often think these constraints make me a better entrepreneur than I used to be, because I am forced to be strict about my priorities and time. If something is a waste of time, I don't give it a second glance and move on to something else (HN notwithstanding, ahem).
If you're a developer you'll want a real Linux environment anyways so I would just go the crouton route. I've been really happy with my C720 and crouton running Ubuntu.
Unfortunately that's not exactly true. Even at a measly 1% (about the U.S. rate). It only takes 72 years to double a population. But the bigger problem is 2nd and 3rd world nations. The planet cannot support their reaching the economic levels of 1st world nations in order to achieve this natural population leveling.
I'm glad I've deleted my Facebook account. I really don't miss it one tiny little bit.

It's like looking back at a relationship with a really clingy partner and thinking to yourself 'wtf was I doing with her? Why did it take me so long to realise that she was just using me?"

Yep folks. Facebook is that girl or guy you need to dump to realise how screwed up they are.
Speaking purely to the experiences of building a new software product, I've seen this exact story play out countless times. Everyone (except maybe the engineers themselves) seems to think that designing a software product is part of the "planning phase", and thus should happen before any time is "wasted" on development:

> "That product planning led to an immense series of wireframes and comps (visual designs of what the product would look like and how it would function) that numbered into the hundreds of screens..."

The biggest contributor to this I've seen is the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of small ways that a design (done in a vacuum, without simultaneous prototyping) will differ from established development patterns, frameworks, and other pre-packaged solutions that engineers use daily to avoid reinventing every wheel. And engineers respond with timelines that expect to be able to leverage those frameworks. Thus the dissonance begins.

One example: a design calls for a form to be broken across 4 pages. There may be great aesthetic rationale or even user testing to support this, but that means that in all likelyhood any framework (e.g. Rails/Flask/Play/etc, not to mention native apps) will have to have additional modification to support sessions, changes to validation, changes to the auth domain, persistence changes, etc. And it's not necessary for an MVP. And many times these differences are much more subtle and deeply entrenched, and would require rethinking much of the wireframes/designs to align with development patterns. /rant

I'm not sure what the answer is here, except maybe that this is one more point in favor of having a "technical founder" or in general a technical person with decision-making authority, to avoid going down a road without proofing out your ideas or timelines.
During ILC 2014 in Montréal, someone presented the emotional lisp joke. It was a lisp where ( was replaced with (-: and ) was replaced with :-). At a second iteration of the joke, these were replaced with emoji.

I wonder if emojilisp was inspired by this joke.
Though the website needs a lot of work, the product works great: installed the iphone and windows app and it work's like a charm. Only testing it with dummy accounts; keen to hear more about the "magic" behind the code and the security.
> if our fiction has distorted worldviews, then we should know about it.

You keep using that word, "fiction". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Android L will have device encryption on by default
It's been a few years since I dared run the official emulator, and I used to have an underpowered computer for development, but last time it took about 10 minutes to boot Android and another 2-3 minutes to open an app.

I presume it's been improved since then and runs nicer on better hardware, but my first impulse is that speed is a huge concern in Android emulation. Convenience only matters if speed is solved, but then it becomes huge.
That's a fair way of describing it. A couple of years back I had a facebook account, a nice iPhone 4 and an Android tablet and did most of my social organisation and communication through them. Everywhere I went I had one device or another attached to my face or hands permanently. I got anxious if the internet was patchy and went particularly batshit when my ADSL line was down for 2 days resorting to cracking the neighbour's speedtouch router password and using that.

Totally fucked up situation so I fixed it one afternoon.

Today, I have a fastmail box that gets about 2-5 emails a day that I read once a week, a single static web page and a £20 Nokia that I don't actually even know where it is as the battery is flat. Work happens elsewhere via RDP and no corporate phone any more.

Life is good.

The transition from one to the other was initiated by a sudden realisation that I wasn't actually doing anything any more other than piping crap into someone else's product and that I wasn't productive or useful and that my family were suffering. I was like a hamster running in a wheel.

Getting rid of this was hard and could be considered like a drug addict going cold turkey as you say, so spot on. I felt ill for a couple of weeks. Then it wore off suddenly.

Now I just have to lever my wife off it...
If the http server is compromised you're screwed either way.

If the SSL key is on the http server when it get compromised, you've just lost your SSL key. Very bad!

If it's not, the http server could DDOS the key server. Less bad! Just change the key server address and point a new http server at it.
Out of Band Management with a Pi
Do a google search and find the study. I'm neither a psychologist nor a neuro-chemist.
And not just friends, many people depend on Facebook for their work. I know from an ex that the Opera world operates entirely within FB, and I can imagine the same is true for drag queens getting gigs. My realtor also swears by FB.

It's not like people chose to become so dependent on a social network, often you one must to work within the context that's given.
And here's how to do the same in plain JS with ES6, available now in node (--harmony) and (I believe?) Chrome Canary.

function *() {
try {
let body = yield request("https://x.io/");
return yield request("https://x.io/?q=" + body.hash);
} catch (e) {
// do what you like with the error
}
}
"have been to week-long conferences where every single paper was either a crazy theory or a negative experimental result"

That sounds incredibly fun. The crazier and zanier the better. Were there awards for 'Most likely to actually be random words', those are my favorites.

Also, I just started in neuroscience from an EE/Physics background. You would be AMAZED at what gets published. The rigor of physics is just.... incomprehensible in bio. Granted, yes, the experiments are 'squishy' and hard to quantify. You run a gel, and you get signal or not, counting it hard enough as is, let alone trying to measure anything. Still, the papers we read.... It's like they tried to do math, but gave up halfway through. I've seen papers where they start out with 2 decimal accuracy and errorbars in Figure 1, drop the errors completely in figure 2, and then just go to counting by 10s in Figure 4. Somehow, they derive significant results that journals will publish with only 20 cells or something. Mind you, nowhere do they quote the temperature, the pressure, what their saline solution actually is, how many failure experiments they ran, etc. The physicist in me is just ... pain. And oh god, the egos. Papers will have just one author on them, the PI, and when you look at the webpage, 20 faces show up for the postdocs alone in that lab. I have no idea where they get these fools, but they seem to be in large supply.

Feynman had a lecture (please help, I can't find the link) about what it takes to get a rat to not smell food behind a door. Turns out, it's a lot of work. I've been in smell labs that just plain ignore the research, even when they know it's there. "It's too much work and funding, besides, the data should suss out the real mechanisms." The McGill study earlier this year on pain in male rats being modulated by the sex of the experimenter? Yep, just plain ignored as well.

I'll share some links here on the issues in bio, it's a lot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._A._Ioannidis

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...
Neat tool - although I wonder whether it would be better implemented as extensions to snapper.
The two most widely practiced religions in the world, Catholicism and Islam (~3 billion people) are both opposed to birth control. In most nations these institutions hold sway. So it is not a "swipe" nor a "non-sequitur".
There seems to be well organised groups out to promote the Israeli viewpoint on any social media site which discusses it.

Take Reddit for example, every time the topic comes up it gets absolutely inundated with "people" trying to browbeat any non-pro point of view into submission (through a combination of downvoting and just outright argument from multiple puppets).

While there are definitely real people who feel that strongly about the topic and have similar views, all you have to do is start looking at the account histories of others to feel like there is a lot of sockpuppeting going on.

I'd love for the site admins on social media sites to look into this to see if there is any "unusual activity" going on, particularly Reddit.
Touch on iPad Safari double clicks.
"We imagine they siphoned off any remaining cash to investors, so they can declare bankruptcy and not pay the court-ordered legal fees."
Is that a crime? If it isn't, it seems like it should be. The creditor already has a legal claim to the funds at that point. That's at least economically equivalent to stealing their money.