skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's hiding somewhere in Concrete Mathematics (knuth/graham/patashnik), and I'm sure there are more elegant proofs, but it's not too hard to work out this proof yourself. Here is a hint:

Suppose you were at a point in the mediant algorithm where the two terms were a/b and c/d. Taking the left segment transforms this to [a/b, (a+c)/(b+d)] and taking the right segment transforms this to [(a+c)/(b+d), c/d].

Represent this as a matrix of the form [[a,b],[c,d]]. In this form, what does "take the left segment" look like in terms of a matrix operation? what does "take the right segment" look like? Can you find any useful properties (for example, how do you repeat)

A convenient root matrix is [[0,1],[1,0]]
What a kangaroo court case.

> The company made the argument that the "podcasting" patent actually covered "episodic content" transmitted over the Internet, including video content. The patent refers to a "compilation file," which Personal Audio lawyers say correlates to the HTML webpage that CBS hosts its content at.
It looks like there were snapshot builds in august and july.
(although how they differ from nightlies, I don't know)
I thought I was on a snapshot from April, but it turns out I'm on a nightly.
Everything in the list + Darwin + Cygwin.
Rosetta code list is impressive also.
Physical access to anything pretty much means game over, at least for consumer electronics. Thats one of the prices we pay for convenience and useful features. I wonder if it can be changed?
Ha, interesting. This will fit in perfectly with my plans to describe the printing of floating point numbers in detail.
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Orion Pharmaceuticals in Finland gets only 13% of it's revenue from N. America.
I've done lots of international travel. You get regional everything - regional car companies, hotel chains, restaurants, grocery stores, drug stores, etc. They contain regional products. I turn on the radio and hear regional music. I watch TV and see movies I've never heard of, stars faces I've never seen, and television shows I never knew existed. They have their only mobile carriers and apps and their own versions of things like yelp. A few things are international, but 95% isn't.

The idea that every single sector from industry to the food supply to entertainment to automotive to clothing and home appliances are all regional, and the drug companies are all actually, located in the US? Is that what you are claiming?

I'll come back and edit this ... but asking for a list is just silly. edited: Axon-Pharma, Steifel, Xenetic, Pharmsynthez, Laboratorios Vargas, Rusnano, CPhi (ok I have other things to do) ... Oh yeah, also, explain Cuba.

Anyway, have you traveled internationally?
Ford and Automatic
This might make me get one!:

"In addition, Automatic will provide greater convenience to Ford and Lincoln drivers by enabling access to the popular If This Then That, or IFTTT service, which automates actions using the Internet. This will allow them to use the push-to-talk button to trigger an IFTTT recipe from among hundreds in the web service library. IFTTT recipes range from automatically sending a message to a loved one to remotely operating home appliances from your car — enabling you to connect your car to family, friends and home. You can even create your own IFTTT recipes, so get creative!"
https://api.slimdns.com/update?hostname=www.google.com&secre...

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He didn't make a statement that Apple or the NSA can't read your messages. He said that Apple can't read your messages. However since you are so concerned about half truths, if you're going to criticise someone's statements, it would be nice if you'd address what they actually are saying.

It's entirely possible that the NSA has hacked Apple, or that an Apple employee has been subverted by the NSA and inserted a back door into the encryption system. Tim Cook wouldn't know about that and can't give assurances of that kind, and isn't trying to. All he can do is state what Apple as a company intends and can do acting according to it's policies.

So yes it's entirely possible Apple or the NSA has back door keys to iMessage. Tim Cook is now publicly on record saying that Apple don't. That's not a 'half truth at best'. It's either true or it's a lie. I'm not telling you to believe him or not, but historically these things have a way of coming to light eventually, one way or another.
Doesn't AT&T have any privacy safeguards?

(I just started working at Google, and getting at any user data, eg for debugging of a complicated problem, is the single biggest pile of paperwork they make you do. Even anonymized logs.)
Yet another reason not to jailbreak.
I regularly boot to Windows 8.1 and use Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. It's great at native resolution, but also looks fine at 125% or 150% scaling.
There never was a Linux "version" , it is built entirely in Java.
Chromebooks are relatively hard to get control off. Physical access makes it possible, of course, but you still need to do more than just install an app.
Amazon's Route 53 now supports registration and has an API.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/reg...
From time to time I use "rustc --pretty normal <file.rs>". Not a real formatting tool, and it has a tendency to produce some funny results at times, but it's better than nothing.
Even if you don't have a problem with the guy, you should have a problem with AT&T giving a random employee access to such data.
It's just.. this statement barely has any meaning to it then. Carefully crafted sentences, yes, but what difference does it make to the outcome, to the end user?

We most certainly know that iMessage (like any other service) is not secure and now we are also left pondering if he is telling the truth or not about something that doesn't even matter in the end :)

Maybe I'm being too critical or maybe I'm missing something.
I just want to note that acetaminophen (paracetamol) is not an NSAID. As a haemophilia patient who can't take NSAIDs but can take acetaminophen, this is an important distinction for me.
Those servers were going against EULA whole time. And this was not one hidden sentence among twenty pages of legalese in click through license. It business license that lined up pretty clearly how you can and how you can not earn money on Minecraft. Literally nothing changed that day, neither EULA nor the way it is enforced.

Mojang cared somewhat about pricing patterns. It is the same thing as lego consistently refusing adult themes. They have an idea on what the brand should be (e.g. kid friendly or not play to win) and this went against.

Mojang clarifies: EULA is meant as written, nothing changes. Not even enforcement, they were not starting campaign to kill those servers. And everybody looses mind.
The Android WebView uses since quite some time the same rendering and javascript engines as Chrome. Thus I would expect third party browsers to be no more vulnerable with regard to this bug than Chrome.

Edit: since 4.4 [https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview]
We execute untrusted HTML all the time. (And javascript.)

You might argue that HTML is not a general purpose language, and that is exactly true. That's what makes it easier to sandbox.
Of course, there's nothing stopping Apple from selling both the product and the user...
Microsoft is doing alright by the Haskell community. So not all hope is lost for the Minecrafters.
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I currently use a Dell XPS 13, which I choose over a MBA and I am very pleased with the hardware which since it is the "top" model beats the MBA on basicly every point. Especialy the screen resolution.
His "Games Redefine Entertainment" video is a good watch (short, 11 mins): http://vimeo.com/97757759
We have a couple of clients using Citrix. It's on the way out though as to be honest it's inflexible, knackers client performance and is of dubious value these days.
In one line of reasoning, money is a proxy for happiness (I'd rather change this to value... but this doesn't matter because this example is so distilled). So, companies exist to make people happy. This works by providing a good or service that makes a customer happy in exchange for money, which the company can then use to give to employees and shareholders so they can be happy too. Since the company creates a profit, happiness generation can be sustained for multiple parties well into the future.
Wonder if this trial is partially why the Adam Carolla trial settlement had a quiet period until Sep. 30?
I didn't downvote you, but I imagine it has less to do with what you said and more with how you said it. NSLs as a "boogeyman" is a poor substitute for lacking evidence. So far, we know that these things are sent to US companies which are in the business of collecting and bartering data. While Apple has a corner of that market, it isn't its entirety.

So here they have snippets of our information Ex: email, credit card, home address for app purchases. However, it's just as possible to use the phone normally without downloading a single app. That leaves the SIM provider holding the bag for your information ready to be collected by the authorities. Effectively, Apple washes its hands of your data on phone calls, but there is no reason to presume lies regarding backdoors on iMessage.

Also, I'm not an "Apple fan boy". I'm just unconvinced of widespread eavesdropping at Apple and that they're willing to risk destroying such a massive advantage over Google's Hangouts platform.
It's even worse that that. As of about a year ago, iMessage didn't do any certificate pinning: http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html

Unless that's been fixed (I haven't come across any evidence one way or the other), you're not just worrying about Apple and the NSA: Your iMessages are vulnerable to anyone who can forge a certificate and MITM your connection to Apple's servers. I'd say that's a reasonably high bar except for one thing: I believe it covers the vast majority of corporate iPhones used on company-internal networks.
About 5 years ago, I could see that this kind of thing was inevitable. I've avoided Facebook in protest ever since, and I now try to avoid Google as well. I admire most people who work in those places, but sufficiently advanced corporations are indistinguishable from totalitarianism. Emigrate!

Seriously, anyone enforcing a "Real Names Policy" in the 21st century should be pelted with copies of Reality Isn't What it Used to Be, which is small and harmless, and History of Western Philosophy, which is neither.
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WP7 was a different OS (CE vs NT kernel). The NT kernel wasn't portable to a couple of the SoC's they used on those devices. I suspect that's why it went and jumped.

You're right though about carriers. I always buy non-carrier locked devices here in the UK for that precise reason. Nokia sell "country variant" devices which are usually updated first.
In the age of computers, there will be fewer fun surprises like that.

What surprises me is the euler-mascheroni constant, which shows up all over number theory and also in probability (coupon collector's problem, entropy of weibull and levy) is so difficult to work with that not only has no-one proven it transcendental, it hasn't even been proven irrational.
'talking' isn't really a problem that Open Source has. Funding on the other hand...
That works apart from in Europe. We do a lot of non contract pay as you go stuff where the handset may last 4-5 years. I have a couple of Nokias that are still good after 8 years and Microsoft have a 11-12 year lifecycle for desktop OS for example.

2 years is just a cost cutting exercise and inexcusable.
1. What about the UI elements of Android and iOS? We still have to buy something like Kendo UI to work with Phonegap on Android/iOS.

I believe it will be better strategy for Meteor team to work and integrate their server with native Android/iOS app instead of Phonegap.

2. Also it is difficult to understand how Latency compensation will work. Does local in-memory copy of database work with Sqlite or does meteor install mini-mango on Android/iOS?

3. The author in the blog has written that they have improved the login by redirect based oAuth login in WebView. Webviews are surly not optimized for mobile devices and gives horrible user experience. If webviews would have worked there was no need for facebook to rebuild the HTML app.

Meteor team is far from providing a unified platform which can be used for Web and Android and iOS. It is good only for web.
> some divine mission

you're exaggerating. that's not what I'm saying. maybe he just doesn't really like video games after all, he just like writing lines of code without any interest in the result ?

Why does he keep having small projects though ? I don't understand what's the purpose of keeping it small. Why not hire people and tell them what sort of algorithms he wants ?

Some programmers have a fetish for the code itself, not for the result. Just being proud of "I did it myself". How about making a game that can be enjoyed, that's the only thing I think that really matters I think.
I was Loopt's CTO and would use Microsoft's stack again, especially now.

Not everything was perfect, but C#, F# and SQL Server are great, updates rarely broke anything, and security updates came regularly and promptly.
My 2 year old Lumia 820 just got Windows Phone 8.1 and is as good as new in every way even though it has been dropped hundreds of times. It's getting the next 8.1 update next month as well.

That's what I expect.
>Disappointing to see yet another language-specific package management system (Cargo), though.

As a packager in a Linux distro, I'm disappointed every time somebody tries to cram in PL-specific packages inside distro packages.
Do the drivers need updating? There is a kernel ABI and API that should isolate that from the rest of the OS so the OS should continue to evolve.
Assuming your device is jailbreakable, the problem is that your phone is vulnerable to jailbreaking, whether you've decided to jailbreak it or not. In the relevant scenario (the one described in the article, with "a few minutes alone with the smartphone of the person being stalked" and the passcode), if the victim hasn't already chosen to jailbreak the phone, the stalker can easily jailbreak it and install the spyware.
You better call him and let him know you posted this comment.
What's your definition of successful?

Here's mine. NeXT and its technology were acquired by Apple for $429m and 1.5 million Apple shares. This technology was was used in the creation of OSX. The acquisition brought Job's back to Apple and into the CEO chair where he lead the company on the path to becoming the most cash rich in the world.

#winning
The half-truth is here:

If the government laid a subpoena to get iMessages, we can’t provide it. It’s encrypted and we don’t have a key.

It's encrypted and they don't have the key, but since the user does not have any control over the public keys being added, they could add a trusted public key and get it anyway. So they can actually provide messages if they really wanted to.

I don't believe they really want to. But the thing we should've learnt from last year's revelations is (1) that companies can be forced to do so anyway via secret courts; and (2) the NSA is willing to make a 'technical solution' otherwise.

So, Tim Cook is not being completely honest here. Apart from what hardware can do, the only way to trust such an application is if you had the source code, the source code of the operating system and the source code to firmware blobs, and some way to prove that everything was compiled from public source code without modifications. Since that is not going to happen, iMessage should be considered as secure as unencrypted e-mail when it comes to governments. Of course, it does provide more protection than e-mail against less equipped actors.
They are publicly traded, so they publish their financials. Something would show up there. Even if they cook their books, something would show up in somebody else's books.

If you are paranoid, you may think of the options "Sell the product and give away the user" and "Everyone is in on this". I think those are far-fetched.
>He said that Apple can't read your messages.

which is also a half-truth. They can't read messages encrypted with another phones public key, but they can certainly read messages encrypted with their public key which they might or might not send to your phone in addition to the actual recipient's public key.

Neither me nor he is saying that Apple does in-fact read your messages (they probably don't), but saying that they can't read your messages is not correct. They certainly can by sending your phone an additional public key.
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"Let's not worry about it, it's probably all ok, you can't say anything unless you have 100% cast-iron proof"?

That's an excellent recipe for sleepwalking into this mess.
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The tech heroes of our age are becoming some kind of politicians, this is very sad.
LazoJS is quite nice. It is definitely more polished than RendrJS from AirBnB (equivalent framework for building SPAs that have fast first page load and are SEO-friendly).
For as much as you may criticize Apple for many things, you can't really say they are not sincere when they say something like this.
A company has to make profits, and profits come from a well executed business plan. Apple's business plan is to sell hardware and create software and platforms that drive hardware sales. Collecting data for reasons that are not related to the functioning of a service makes no sense for the bottom line.
Google makes profit selling ads crafted on people's data and a new controlled user accessing the Internet is entering its realm. That is good for the bottom line.
It may be an oversimplification, but I guess that you can say a lot and get back to this.

Anything that has to do with NSA mass surveillance, though, shouldn't be transposed on this discourse. Not Tim Cook, nor Larry Page, nor any other CEO, individually and in their function, can possibly know everything about their company.
Fifth columns, NSA rats, unconstitutional secret requests of information... They are American citizens, running American organizations they have to comply to the rules or they may compromise billions of shareholders dollars. But are they lying to us right now? I think they are not, because it will hurt their bottom lines more than ever. Is Google in a weaker position than Apple because of the very nature of its business model based on data collection? Absolutely yes.

The problem is ingrained with the system though and the only solution is to extirpate the cancer called NSA. I doubt it will happen anytime soon, though. We all love our gadgets and services too much, and we don't really have time to wrap our brain around such big problems for nerds.
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The two almost always go hand in hand, unless you're talking about bribing a traffic cop - which we're not.

Patronising dickhead.
there's a colon missing in your URL and its not clickable.
Texas is in the Fifth Circuit, and it's actually the Eastern District of Texas that uninformed patent lawyers target, not the Fifth Circuit overall.

See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/US_....
Most criminal cases plea out because sentences have increased dramatically over the last few decades. You can plea down to a small sentence or take your chances with 15-20 years in prison, if you're convicted. Prosecutors know this and pump up a case with as many charges as possible so you won't be tempted to take it to trial.

You can argue that juries aren't savvy enough to judge a complicated IP case and I'd agree with you but that's what the appeals court is there for. If the jury got it wrong, you can appeal to judges who, presumably, have a better understanding.
"In most cases" isn't enough any more these days. People are targeted alone by metadata - and killed too.
It is not impossible so long as there is a linked device that has access to the data. Was there a precise accounting of the state of the researcher's icloud account before the reset, and everything done during the reset?
But that reduces the value of the product. I also don't think it is in Apple's DNA to do that.

My concern is more that, given how bad they generally are at providing robust cloud applications [1], that their security is equally bad.

[1] iTunes Match would always refuse to play some songs from my collection. Even when a stopped using an iPhone last december, iMessages would often come in in non-chronological order and sometimes not at all, etc.
This happens fairly often. Maybe the developer is in the hospital or dead, but more likely they lost interest in the project, or felt like they were not making enough money on it.

Developers chronically underestimate and overcommit, and then when they realize they've done that they either ask for more time and money, or move on. For their part clients frequently under-specify and then expect the programmer to accommodate feature/scope creep, because every little change is no big deal by itself.

At least half of my clients came to me after their developer stopped responding, or demanded more money. See http://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-program...

If you have a written contract that specifies deliverables and schedule you can sue for breach of contract. In my experience these suits rarely go anywhere unless there's a lot of money involved. If the amount is small enough for small claims court it may not be worth it, and if it's too much for small claims court you will probably have to retain an attorney, pay filing costs, etc. You will need documentation; if you don't have enough the mediator or judge will give equal weight to both sides.

I always advise clients to make sure they have access to their source code and data at all times. I recommend setting up hosting and source code control on accounts you control and give the developer access, but not administrative access. Likewise always register domain names and buy software licenses yourself so you own them. I also advise clients that they need to protect themselves and talk to their developer at the first sign of communications problems -- don't wait for the developer to stop answering emails and phone calls.

If you can find another developer who will work with you and finish the code, great, but good luck finding one. Skilled developers are hard to find, period, and many developers don't want to take on a partly-working pile of code someone else walked away from. You may get a few developers who will tell you what you have paid for is crap and you have to start over. That may be true, but it's also a common knee-jerk reaction when one programmer looks at another programmer's code.
This looks great! I used Julia in my Master's thesis and it was very fast and easy to use. One thing however was annoying: The lack of shared memory parallel computing. Unfortunately, in Julia, each parallel process has its own memory such that you have to keep multiple instances of your data and/or move data around all the time. This can be a deal breaker if working with very large data sets and actually is preventing me from using Julia even more. But I'm sure, it's on the right track.
It had just two: libgreen backed tasks with "green threads", libnative backed them with OS threads.
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But isn't that a case of selling shovels vs mining yourself?

No one made money on solar itself because everyone made the rational decision to invest in it at the same time. That produced an oversupply, which meant less profits, but a very successful outcome in terms of supply.

That doesn't mean there aren't opportunities - just that they are hard to predict during disruption (what's new, right?)
Applications and software? Songs? Television? Movies? Health?

Seems to be a bit disingenuous to suggest that they aren't making any money from your habits and data.