skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything more useful to say than trolling comments? The commenter above claimed that cross platform graphics APIs aren't the way to go because they failed. I see no proof that it's not a possibility. They didn't even fail - they were quite useful in many cases but with their current downsides they didn't live up to real potential. So that can be improved by making better cross platform APIs instead of claiming that one has to run to hardware specific APIs right away and there are no other options.
"... fortunately, experiments with customers trump opinions at Google. Following the advice of then CEO Eric Schmidt to “get 100 happy users inside Google,” Bucheit prototyped solutions that eventually proved demand and won the day. ..."

source of the 'a handful of users who really love you' idea pg sprinkles in his essays?
The white paper (http://senseable.mit.edu/urbanvillages/img/manuscript.pdf) gives the assumptions to explain why call data is representative:
"Mobile phone communication data are not necessarily a direct representation of the underlying social network. For instance, two individuals may maintain a strong tie through face-to-face interactions or other means of communication, without relying on regular phone calls [23]. Nevertheless, despite such a po- tential bias, a recent comparison with a questionnaire-based survey has shown that mobile phone communication data are, in general, a reliable proxy for the strength of individual- based social interactions [25]. Moreover, even if two subscribers maintain a close relationship and usually communicate via other means, it seems reasonable to assume that both individ- uals have called each other at least once during the relatively long observation period of 15 months, thus reducing the chance of missing such relationships in our network [21, 26, 27]"
Sort of. They seriously wrote an article about Bob Moog, the synth pioneer, and his company, which has produced a lot of different synths, without mentioning Daft Punk.

Or Abba, or the Beatles, or Coldplay, or Deadmau5, or Brian Eno, or any of the literally hundreds of other artists here:

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

Daft Punk are important to the history of Moog the way that Daring Fireball is important to the history of Apple. Notable users, worthy in their own right, certainly not entitled to an automatic mention.
The article is referring to the contents of the phone's storage, not iMessage. Apparently before iOS 8, Apple could decrypt the contents of a phone's storage, and would do so when presented a warrant.
Protect Your Node App's Noggin with Helmet
In case you miss the tiny link, here's the source: https://github.com/qiao/PathFinding.js
The Athens Affair – The most audacious cell-network break-in (2007)
Everything the original poster said is true. If you want a really terrifying fact: they're on their series C.

Series A: $12MM
Series B: $16MM
Series C: $54MM

$82MM and they still haven't fixed the fundamental issues that have existed from day 1. Stability and support should always come first.
All of this debate happened around the Clipper Chip in the 1990s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Sane people realized then that mediated security is no security at all.
>>doctor walked in to ask "How are you feeling?" and then charged $20,000 for doing so.

It would have happened, why would you doubt it?

It would have been like he was called in just in case any issue came up. The doctor walks in and asks the most obvious question to the patient "How are you feeling?".

The operation ends without needing any inputs from him. But regardless he would have billed the patient for his time.

The attitude is, he wouldn't have given any inputs but he did give them their time, which would otherwise be used else where to make the same money so you have to pay even if the actual value added by him was zero.
Under the hood of the new Azure Portal
> there's a perfectly good explanation for why 99% of warrants would be approved.

Your argument is that the approval rate could be 99% legitimately. Even if true it doesn't actually provide any evidence that judges are not acting as a rubber stamp, it only attempts to discount some evidence in favor of it. Moreover, the fact that the approval rate is 99% is still evidence that judges are not being very critical in approving warrants. The high rate makes it statistically more likely that judges are approving warrants uncritically than would be the case if the rate was lower.
If you come up with a different understanding from the mainstream it will take an hour of your time to explain it to the average person, if and only if they are extremely open minded, and then they will forget it.

The mainstream media gets to talk to hundreds of millions for a couple of hours every week. At least it's a bit better now that there's the internet.
The arguments in this article are hinged on one crucial premise: Apple stills owns your device even after selling it to you.

Hu? That idea isn't even mentioned in the article, and it seems entirely irrelevant.

The analogy to this premise is that the producers of a safe that they sell to you must be able to provide the government a key to the safe. This clearly does not make sense..

It may not make sense to you, but key escrow is a thing both for encryption keys[1] and for physical keys[2].

I agree there are pretty serious problems in both cases

[1] This is basically what happens in iOS 6 and below: Apple has a key they use to unlock the device. Another example is the aborted Clipper chip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/07/physical_key_...
Planck satellite intermediate results, BICEP2 result under question [pdf]
99% seems too high. On the other hand, outright acquittals are very low in Germany, as well (as they should be).

Outright convictions for everything the prosecution charged are also not too common, but that the prosecutor deems something illegal and grave enough to charge, the court concurs by opening proceedings, and then in the trial everything falls completely apart basically only happens when the trial brings a complete surprise with it.

And most of those times the "complete surprise" is just a key witness refusing to testify or not remembering anymore (as it happens too often in domestic abuse cases).
Yes - I found this a couple months ago when I needed to do a pathfinding feature for a client, and I thought the same thing. It turns out browsers can do A* fast enough for live pathfinding on a fairly complex graph during mouse drag, which I wasn't sure about when I started.

In any case, playing with this visualization helped me poke holes in some of the simplified approaches I had in mind.
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The Bull Passes Through
The Apple Watch promises haptic feedback to use in, for example, turn-by-turn navigation. I doubt that anything that crude could come close to achieving what the "hearing glove" inventors are/were after, but I'd be interested to see whether, upon putting such capabilities on the wrists of so many people, and opening up access to them for countless app developers, whether we might be able to come up with some extremely interesting cybernetic user experiences, both for hearing or sight-disabled people and for those will their full senses who could benefit from the various kinds of augmented reality that's on offer.

I recall reading about a guy who wore a device that gave him an indication of his North south east west orientation through a vibration, and how he used that to gain a instinctive sense of his place, perhaps similar to how pigeons experience the world. I think that's only scratching the surface of cybernetic potential that we could be unlocking by making even simple haptic feedback devices like the Apple watch widely available.
Terminal based dictionary
I too was surprised by the author's question. It's as if he hasn't been following the news lately about the apparent impotence of the 4th amendment these days. Yet his wiki page says he "has been regarded as a leading scholar on Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in electronic communications and surveillance." In light of that, he comes across as extremely naive. (or worse?)
BICEP2's vision wasn't that strong, Planck says their window was too dusty
With family and friends our cooperation can be grounded in our concrete experience of them. For what it's worth, I can recommend my brother-in-law, but I feel no urge to recommend/cooperate with his sister if I've never met her or heard anything about her.

Nationalism is more like, "hey, I live in Tampa Bay so the Buccaneers are the best!" It's groundless presumption that someone or something is better or more deserving because you are close to it. It's a pernicious cognitive bias.
So basically, the author wants every "secure" software system to have a backdoor. iOS versions prior to 8 all had a backdoor and he's lamenting that Apple has closed this backdoor. Not only that, if this applies to the iPhone, it must apply to any and all encryption software. While it's widely known that the government already has backdoors into a lot of popular software, codifying this in law or expecting that all software be built with backdoors is preposterous.

Furthermore, his feeble explanation of why this isn't a 5th Amendment issue doesn't stand up. The courts have so far come down on both sides of the issue, and while he cites one court case, there are others and other decisions that disagree (http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/federal-appeals-court-fifth...). It's obvious that the author believes so strongly in the right of the government to have a backdoor that he ignores significant case law that does not back his viewpoint (I'm sure he's aware of it or he's a piss-poor law professor).

Because the author doesn't see this for what it is, a backdoor, he can't even begin to understand other, unforeseen consequences (such as criminals getting ahold of the decryption process) and even brushes off this issue early in the article.
This is interesting. It seems like a large bureaucracy like cisco recognized it's own flaws and used this method to get around the institutionalized toxicity to crazy ideas.

You get to leave all the friction of creating new ideas in a large org behind. The price seems incredibly steep vs just creating a company that is friendly to new ideas (of course creating such a company is no easy task).
What happened is that I signed up via Google and, of course, I couldn't create another account with the same email. Then, I logged in back with Google and changed the email. I got no message that my new email is pending verification and shortly I got an email at the new email. So, I clicked on the link in that email and verified it. As I didn't have a password, I logged back in with Google, which created a brand new account (nikolaynkolev9). I logged out and tried to reset the password of the one I verified right before and was told that this email does not exist in your system. Very weird design, honestly! Given I already created another account to get the desired username, I ended up creating 3 accounts.
It's a catch 22. They'll be criticized, but they need to deploy much stronger security measures to show customers that they're not playing along and 'data-pimping'. Unfortunately for them it's probably too late. When open-source alternatives like ubuntu mobile and firefox os are ready for prime time, they stand to take a good market share, imho.
>I hate being treated like I'm a criminal!!

That's exactly how I felt when I called in for a refill of my pain medication after just having met with multiple doctors in the ER just a few weeks prior.

Do they really think I intentionally got kidney stones (which they saw themselves on xray) just to get an extra refill of pain meds a few weeks later?

No, the lady on the phone probably got intense amount of pleasure by telling me off verbally and hanging up. At least that's one of the only reasons I can think she didn't even bother to listen to me.

I was upset and confused, but too proud to call back and have myself humiliated again. So I just grinned and bore it and screamed like a baby when the stones actually passed a few days later.

A funny side note to this story... I can laugh at it all now seeing as it's ten years in the past. In my long walk to the hospital (I was a poor student at the time, unable to even afford the bus) me and my girlfriend passed a band of elderly ladies who took one look at me and within seconds said "Oh no, look at him. You must have stones, don't you laddy?".

I wasn't sure what was wrong with me at the time and I just replied something like "haha, I hope that's it!" and continued on to the hospital.

6 hours and an xray later... the doctors confirmed the very same thing.
Xamarin is hardly a monopoly in any market. What am I missing?
What's your robot butler thing? That sounds interesting.
My wife had a stroke at the age of 30, seven years ago. It happened in the hospital during an embolization procedure. She was unconscious for 5 days. This event has obviously changed her life, but I wasn't prepared for the ways it would change mine. Thank you for sharing this.
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Agree with vinceguidry. Is 99% above the "judge is no longer being critical" statistical threshold? How was that determined and where is it published?
Cisco is famous for this; if you work in a field where Cisco is a potential acquirer, your company has probably had several meetings with Cisco BD.

There's a downside. A skilled PM or engineer in Cisco who gets a product MRD has a choice to make. They can keep their heads down and implement internally, or they can jump ship and start a company knowing that Cisco wants it in the future. To make matters worse: it's not exactly unlikely that Cisco will buy a company to get that product even if you do a good job implementing it internally.

It's not just MPLS that Cisco "spins in". I know people without the MPLS cachet that have done the same thing at Cisco several times.
Vector Animation with Python
I think it is perfectly reasonable what Apple is doing. They are basically saying: Dear government. If you want us to make a backdoor in our software and setup a service to which you can send phones to have them unlocked, then please make a law that explictly forces us to do so.
If a team consistently 'delivers' time and time again with a specific structure and arrangement it makes sense that the same team would be reconsidered -- time and time again.
Who are they? In most US jurisdictions, the age at which one can be licensed to drive on public roads is below the age of majority.
In a world of multi-nationals most "team" assignments are an illusion.

I met a guy in a bar who was upset that a BP gas station opened up in his community. He wished it was something like Shell. I said "Oh, you mean the Dutch company, Royal Dutch Shell?"

That drove the point home to him, but the deeper point is that the shareholders and employees are of a company like that are global. Even if they weren't, the people that the shareholders and employees of that company give money to (the people they buy toilet paper, cars, and food from) can be and are of any nationality also.

Take a $20 bill and see how many hands touch it in a year. Take that same 20 dollars as a ledger entry and see how many countries have possession over a fraction of it in that same year. It's staggering.

"Buy American" is a complete illusion.
Not the author, just the submitter, more info can be found @ https://github.com/qiao/PathFinding.js

BTW, I actually found this when I was looking at his other repo for visualizing midi files @ http://qiao.github.io/euphony/#36 code @ https://github.com/qiao/euphony
>The treatment is: Take B12 every day for the rest of my life.

Every human being on earth that I know of needs this. It's not just vegetarians.

What foods were you eating while homeless?

I imagine it's fairly tough to come by nutritional yeast and other B-complex rich foods whilst living on the street.

My girlfriend is a strict vegetarian, gets her blood checked regularly, and is apparently fine. We assume because she supplements all of the necessary nutrients that she lacks in her food. Mainly iron and the b complex vitamins I believe.
Apple's iOS8 fix announcement is listed on the page under "Advisory", http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6441

There are 50+ security fixes bundled into iOS8, http://www.zdnet.com/ios-8-fixes-dozens-of-security-flaws-70...

And a long list of new bugs introduced in iOS8: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ios-8-bugs-roundup-top-reasons-why-...
The more interesting part is probably that Gil Tene, one of the authors of C4 makes some good comments on it.
> Moreover, the fact that the approval rate is 99% is still evidence that judges are not being very critical in approving warrants.

No it is not.

> The high rate makes it statistically more likely that judges are approving warrants uncritically than would be the case if the rate was lower.

As I said in another sub-thread, you are going to have to explain the statistics involved if you want to make an argument from them. Otherwise you are just being circular. You cannot expect a statement to be its own proof.
What's the worst job listing you've ever read? [pdf]
Microsoft supported XP with security fixes for 10 years.

Apple can't support iOS7 for one year? Good luck to IBM selling iPads into the enterprise market. Enterprise customers need time to validate corporate applications with a new OS version.

Let's see if Apple's enterprise customers are happy to risk corporate IP to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability, or impact corporate productivity by "upgrading" to the bugs in iOS8, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ios-8-bugs-roundup-top-reasons-why-...
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The point is that when someone sells you a thing, they should no longer be responsible to someone else for it. You should be responsible. It is now your thing.
The question is: is the DNA contained inside the stuffed pigeons enough (and of good enough quality) to clone the birds entirely or merge the DNA with rock pigeon DNA?
"Linux Sucks" - 2014
Hmm... you might want the login link to point to /entries/all instead of /past?
No offense to Azul, but that looks sort of like them just trying to get their kernel patches into the main linux kernel for ease of deployment.

Having a pluggable scheduler and memory management module might be nice for other pauseless GCs too, but not sure how that relates to any patents Azul may hold in this area, for instance: https://www.google.com/patents/US8452938?dq=ininventor:%22Gi...
Seems he already knows the solution. Go native with c/c++. Re-write the front end per platform.
> It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind.

There's something going on here beyond just loss of raw visual input. If you lose an eyeball, or hold your eye closed, and look in the mirror, your one good eye will still show you that you have two eyes (or, as the case may be, sockets / sets of eyelids). Perceiving yourself as having one has to involve a loss of brain function, not just a loss of eye function.
Bjarne Stroustrup: Software Development for Infrastructure (2012) [pdf]
One trick I've used quite a bit in games I've written is to do a breadth-first search of the entire playfield, with no termination, resulting in data for how to get from any tile to the destination.

This has a few nice advantages:

* Breadth first is trivially broken up to iterate over multiple frames, amortizing the cost of visiting each tile

* It reduces the worst case as the number of enemies scales up but the destination counts are low.

* The implementation in general is very simple

* You can still early terminate if you keep track of the farthest distance a pathfinding layer needs to satisfy.

* No pathological, worst case situations where a playfield becomes very expensive to pathfind. An open field is the worst case.

I first used this in Robokill, a flash game which often had 20+ enemies on the same screen tracking the player. I estimated at the time that it cost about as much as doing A* on ~5 enemies.

In games, the worst (common) case is basically all that matters - a constant 60fps is significantly better than 100fps dropping to 30fps occasionally.
Data Mining Reveals How Social Coding Succeeds (And Fails)
Are you seriously comparing IOS 7 to MSDOS?
> I read somewhere that judges approve something like 99% of the search warrants presented to them. They no longer serve as a check on law enforcement.

Where? Most sources I can find (usually focussing on individual departments) indicate rejected warrants applications aren't tracked, so there would likely be no basis for this conclusion.

Even if it was true, it would likely be misleading -- the fact that a warrant is approved doesn't mean its approved with the scope originally sought. Most sources I've seen also suggest that while rejections are uncommon, limiting the scope of the warrant is not.
Another great paper on Stroustrup's website. If there was one salient point in his paper, it's "use types".
Crucial wake-up call for Isro's Mangalyaan today ahead of entry into Mars orbit
An amusing prediction, given that Tesla and SpaceX are both vertically-integrated manufacturers.
I tried Titanium. Its horribly slow. You can't really build native UI's unless you mimic them. Using Javascript is super simple but you trade off in power, big time.

General rule of thumb; if you're building "content" apps you can get away with Titanium. If you're trying to build awesome experiences you'd have to go native and Xamarin is currently the best cross-platform suite out there.
Depends. Generally PDF or Word format is how I get them.

Recruiters will want it in Word format, but be careful. They want to be able to remove your identifying data (not so bad) and but also sometimes decide to "improve" your resumes by adding or changing keywords. Have had some times where things were changed making for an "interesting" interview.

I'd take Markdown in a heartbeat but it would probably scare off HR before it got to me.
Popcorn has the distinction of having been composed specifically for the Moog; as far as I know it was the first piece of music composed for a synthesiser, as opposed to a reinterpretation of a piece originally composed for traditional instruments.
what does .net platform offer over the jvm? (And to be clear, I understand differences between java and c#).
This is really interesting (if not exactly HN material). The two things I got from this were 1. That bisexual people might feel somehow worse about not being straight or gay. I've always assumed that bisexual men would face the same stigma as gay men and hadn't thought about the gradations therein. 2. That being attracted to both genders doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have sex with anyone of that gender. It sounds like a particular kind of anguish to think you want something repeatedly, not have your body respond as you think it should, and, on top of that, feel like you're misleading the people you're with.
Besides, a sufficiently competent criminal could benefit from the same level of security that Apple allegedly provides, using crypto. If something is lawful and technically possible, making it available to the masses (under the assumption that Apple's statements are correct) does not sound like a bad thing.
Jeff Bezos's newspaper publishes an article impugning Apple.
I actually have GEOS but I never used it. I snapped up a few Commodores like two years ago and one really had a ton of stuff with it. Most interesting for me were the cartridges that could be used for freezing and reverse engineering but it also had GEOS and some kind of drawing tablet.

Watch out when you buy them though....the transformers are notoriously bad and could fry your SID chip pretty quickly! Always warm them up for a while and measure the lines before connecting it to the C64!