skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any yet they say Grigori Perelman is crazy for not accepting either the Millennium Prize nor the Fields Medal ([1]; I didn't remember he refused not one, but two prizes...)
What a different time we live in, in which great people can be called crazy (by worthless "journalists") just because they are different. No wonder everything seems to be going down, there is no respect anymore, there are no high social references.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#The_Fields_Med...
MIT analysis paints bleak outcome for Mars One
When the action is harassment of the form described in the article, then that is misogyny, no matter what the victim did.

I'd say that the people who issue these threats are poisoning the discussion a whole lot more than someone who argues in bad faith. And in the same vein, while it's annoying and hurts the cause of equality that some feminists will call anyone a misogynist who disagrees with their particular radical form of feminism, if you consider that a worse problem and spend more attention on it than on people who tweet "I’ll go to your flat and cut your fucking head off you inbred whore.", then you really are part of the problem and giving those feminists too much cause.
But do you have nethack and bsdgames (with the cool game "hunt") installed?
I value my precious internet points and feel emotionally hurt with every down vote.
I any case congratulations for the release. I am eager to take it for a ride.
Url changed from http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/227464/New_report_looks_i..., which points to this.
This is clearly the best one:

http://tilde.club/~cat/
Be careful with using // in CSS. It causes some browsers to completely ignore the whole rest of the CSS file after the line you wanted to comment out (iirc IE9 does this).

When I want to quickly comment something out (and don't have an editor shortcut handy), I just put an 'x' in front of the property name. I.e.:

xbackground-color: #f0f;
Given all of that, and also Oberon -- '80s too, and even the Engelbart's Demo -- '68!, I totally every day wonder and can't understand why in 2010's all of the "modern" OSes still provide the developer just with text-only consoles??... okay, maybe for end-users there was a jump (in interfaces and features), and maybe it was significant indeed (movies editing, 3d modelling/sculpting, possibility of instant communication with significant fraction of all the people in the world, to bring up some). But it still feels like even for them, some things were there, and now are not (sorry for vagueness, but I don't have much time now to think about examples, unfortunately. When I'm gonna finally start this blog thing, one day...).

Any theories, anyone? I'm really curious. Still believe this can be improved, and work on some ideas in my free time, but I often wonder why I have to, and I can't already use those beautiful ancient features?
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Nah, you can look at their financial reports that Opera 12 was still providing good profits on the desktop WHILE they were working on making Chromera 15: http://www.operasoftware.com/company/investors/finance

Once they were able to fire most of their dev staff though they made more money with the Chrome clone.
The world if full of possibilities... for now to be honest I focused a lot in the technical / community side, and the sponsorship model helped a lot with that. However for 10 years before starting this project I was self-employed and started two companies. So yes, doing companies is generally tempting for me, just in the case of Redis so far it was more an evolution of an hacking session, lasting 6 years.
Very interesting to learn that what we now call "responsive layouting" was already proposed in the original document. Of course, at the time the proposal was written the original "the user agent has the final say of rendering decisions" philosophy was still going strong, before the years of rigid pixel-size-everything, "requires 1024x768 or more" mentality borrowed from the print world.

Also, I'm glad that the percentage-based weighted-average influence system did not make it into actual CSS :)
But why LIDAR though?

Humans proved that for current level driving two not particularly high-resolution cameras are sufficient. Seems like pushing in this direction will remove this expensive component?
Yeah, well anything invalid :)
it obviously needs a tilde clicker too :-)
Not so much "failed", but "discovered SaaS revenue is harder than consulting", which, to be honest, every software entrepreneur knows.

It's always far easier to sell your hours than to sell a product. Hours are more flexible, don't have the "round peg, elliptical hole" problem that many products do, and give the customer more control (and thus are an easier sell). Of course, as the author details, selling hours doesn't scale.
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There are other camps too. Like software consulting firms building software for large enterprises like banks, insurance companies etc. The consequences of breaking things are all written down in very exact legal terms. It is not at all fun when a regression bug shows up.
I just had a vision of a youtube video from the near future of some slow driving cars on automatic parking mode getting stuck in loops against each other. Somewhere in the background, a dog barks.
Interesting. Why do you think that files are good abstraction for a web shell?
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Worth commenting how good the interviewer was. Great follow ups, comebacks and prompt questions. Really enjoyed this.
I'm pretty sure that if you are a Redis user, whatever you hate or like the current Redis Cluster design, what you never wanted, is a CP system. CP systems need agreement at every query so the latency and OPS/sec figures are not suitable for Redis-alike use cases. Actually with an existing CP system you can easily build the same Redis data structures since CP systems are linearizable so you can have a CP shell that internally runs a Redis kernel. Imagine the CP system is Raft, you just consider Redis your internal state machine, and every operation that is committed is applied to Redis just sending it the command.
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I'm a bit worried that, as far as I see, the Syncthing protocol doesn't really allow having servers/peers that don't see plain-text. (Since I think it mostly just uses TLS to keep things secret from eavesdroppers.) I've always been looking for an open source Dropbox-like that allows having storage that only sees ciphertext (despite the fact that it would require a little key management from the user, which I think is a usability challenge, but one that can be overcome).
Malala wins Nobel Peace prize
Apple's Design Boss Jony Ive Gives a Rare On-Stage Interview
Isn't this on October 22nd?
Here's a short clip of him giving the answer on what he learned from Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oksetv3i90
I am trying it and it looks very cool! What library do you use for the cards? Does the android sdk provide way to make them?
http://www.helicopter-game.org/ :)
That last sentence pretty much sums up ASO :)
Look at Fiver, Odesk, and Elance.

My friend also offers virtual assistant jobs for $500/mo. I'll send along your info.
very well done! love the UI! very responsive, has a very good native feel to it. well done!
I know, thats a nice little "secret". What do you think would happen if you added a bunch of engligh words in the spanish localisation?
Malala and Satyrathi Win Nobel Peace Prize
Convenience, low prices, extensive catalogue, pleasent customer support, innovative products... Yes, we need to kill the beast. Maybe pander and bait some clicks in the meantime.

I particularly liked the part where threatening Hachette's business is threatening democracy. What about shitty journalism? Seems like a much bigger threat to me.
Brilliant piece, also in comparison to Walmart:

"Meanwhile, both companies have studiously avoided unionization and treat their workers miserably. In one famous incident, Amazon hired paramedics to revive heat-sick employees at a Pennsylvania warehouse rather than buy an air-conditioning unit."
Bertrand paradox (probability)
One thing I can think of is when you want your inner content to be a specific width while adjusting the padding and borders to fit the layout.
Does this reflect Cisco's status quo?
http://kcal.pw/

Gets you to the same challenges.
did you take a look at sparkleshare,
it's kind of a dropboxreplacement based on git.
Last time i checkt it was possible to enable ciphertext storage ( https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Client-Side-Encry... ) .
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He's happy with CSS? I'm gonna shoot myself.
please dont link to an article whose only purpose is prurient and which contains private pictures of people posted without their consent.
While driving, humans assume that the road ahead is OK (at least without significant potholes, and in sunny hot weather no ice-patches). We would expect better of robots (i.e. if a human crashes because of an oil patch, (s)he's a bad driver; if a computer crashes, it's a million-dollar lawsuit).

Edit: a better solution would be to observe the behaviour of other drivers; if there is someone driving ahead of you, you can assume that the road between you and them is OK; if there's noone ahead of you, you need to drive slower and be more careful (that's how I drive at night). Once there's a critical mass of cars with cameras, cars could communicate road conditions automatically.
The title needs a NSFW warning. It also embeds content that is most likely illegal and most definitely immoral.
Humans, also posses a listening system, balance system, a highly advance pattern recognition system filled with auto complete from a huge database of pictures (which to this date hasn't been replicated - face recognition doesn't count it needs to recognize cars, signs, people, animals, pavement, trees, obstacles, etc.), not to mention knowledge of various possible scenarios, various models of how their body/car/traffic works, etc.

You get to use worse hardware, but you need several order magnitude better software.
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What? I have the same problem. It starts as blank. Nothing happens.
Good to see finally Noble Peace prize is awarded to people worthy of it, not to the people worthy for the organization.
Ain't Amazon unstoppable by now?
I don't really understand the negativity. You get paid to spend your time:

1. finding work inside ubisoft
2. finding work outside ubisoft
3. improving your skills on your own
4. work on projects you didn't have time for while
in perpetual crunch on a ubisoft project

The alternative is to be let go immediately and do all of the above on government aid (if your location even has that).

Am i missing something or are the negative voices mentioned in the article just people who don't deal well under self-direction?
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So Snapsave, which saves photos and videos received in Snapchat on your own device, also uploads them to their servers? That's pretty damn creepy.
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel peace prize 2014
The sender of the pics wouldn't know that the receiver uses Snapsave.
what the article doesn't say though, being written by Sartre, is that Sartre was pretty pissed off that Camus did get the prize before he did.
"On an unrelated note, are there areas that use a [lʊv] pronunciation of "love" today? That might explain the to-me odd use of "lurve" in humor."

According to http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/lurve:

"Origin - 1930s: as a parody of the pronunciation of love in popular romantic songs."
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These cards do not run Java, but CardJava. Yes the syntax may look similar at first glance, but it's a completely different beast with huge limitations.

Then - an antenna for bluetooth, NFC and for wireless charging? Combine those and you'll have issues. NFC requires a very small amount of 'wireless power'. Charging a battery requires a more serious amount. Having fried more than one NFC card here at work, I know how tricky it is to work with wireless tech. Good luck managing that.

There is no way this technology exists in the form-factor they're presenting or require. The dynamic magnetic stripe sure is possible, but not that small. You also seriously underestimate the cost of all this. For this to work, they need their own silicon - no way around that fact - which is very expensive, certainly because this is clearly not a product that many people will actually order. But from your pov, "just some more silicon" seems to be a walk in the park. I'm not aware of any e-ink displays avaiable with touch like they presented there. That would by the way need another separate controller. Oh look - more silicon!

This entire picture is not just a "couple bucks". It contains technology you find in current phones at an even smaller scale, with a much smaller target audience. Really - who is going to pay 155 bucks simply to have a plastic card?

To me it all looks like someone dreamed up an utopian payment solution for the US market and built a scam from it. It uses seriously outdated magnetic stripes which is irrelevant to most part of the world, and by the time it would actually be possible to make a stripped down version of this, hopefully NFC/EMV will have replaced this insecure mess and everybody will be paying with their phone.

Anyway - keep an eye on Cartes on 4-6 November - which is THE fair for payment related technologies. If it's not there, it doesn't exist.
The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted.

Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be classified as child porn (sub 18 pics).
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On the topic of getting a raise, i wholeheartedly agree with this blog post:

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140908150126-7...

TL;DR: The best way to ask for a raise, is to ask your manager/superior "What do I need to do to get a raise?"

Asking what you need to do to receive a raise does the following:

- Maturely suggests that you want one without putting your supervisor on the spot

- Communicates that you are willing to do what is needed to receive one

- Generates clear goals for you to work towards

- Exposes areas where your boss thinks you need to improve

- Foreshadows whether you should be looking for a new job
An extremely conservative choice by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Many had hoped they would award the price to Novaya Gazeta or Edward Snowden, which would have made a more powerful statement to the global community, and more specifically Russia and North America, respectively.

China has criticized the way the Peace Prize is awarded and how the committee, opposite of what they publicly state, are heavily influenced by the political situation in Norway -- after they awarded the prize to Liu Xiaobo in 2010.

To quote Wikipedia[1]: "Its five members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and today roughly represent the political makeup of that body." -- so there should be no surprise behind China's criticism or how the parliament tries to appoint members that do not ruin ties between Norway and foreign markets (as they've done with China).

As a Norwegian, the way this committee not at all is independent, contrary to what they publicly state, makes me extremely ashamed and it have effectively destroyed the value of the Nobel Peace Prize, in my eyes.
I seriously need to get a copy of this book. I've been hearing about the Little Schemer ever since I first entered the Lisp world; and one of the authors of that edition even works on my favorite Lisp (Racket).
67, still developing, still inside game console audio DSP engines.
The emergence of data blending – and why business analysts bypass IT to do it
This caught my attention as well...he said it with the same kind of passion that Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos had for Segway. Obviously Segway didn't live up to the anyone's expectations. Hopefully pg isn't nearly as far off the mark as those guys were.
didn't want to seem too self-promotional but since you asked!

http://growthhackinghandbook.com/
Youngest winner ever. Some see awarding young people as risky because you never know what they will be up for in the years to come. But although she has most of her life ahead of her I bet she won't fight as many wars as the guy who won back in 2009.
>Amazon has left a trail of destruction—competitors undercut, suppliers squeezed...

We normally call that progress. That "trail of destruction" is leaving money in the hands of millions of people who used to be captive to the local brick and mortar retailers.
44, CTO of my own little IT company. Mostly managing. Some coding - backend - in Java and Lua. Missing Turbo Pascal days.
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That's weird. I live in a country where 95+% of all payments are done with debit cards, and I don't know anyone who ever had a problem with fraud.

Maybe debit cards are a bit better at security than "oh let's copy this number and put a fake signature on a piece of paper"? Even the mag-stripe version of our payment system that we have had here since '79 required online PIN verification.
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At least Jony Ive is irritated. But we have to commit that Xiaomi did some micro-innovation in its MIUI.
Strange he didn't mention Xiki: http://xsh.org/ http://xiki.org/
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Yeah, I'm right there with you. What an opportunity! You're sitting in an office, surrounded by a bunch of other game developers / designers with nothing to do. How are they not churning out indie-style games by the dozen???

The description of "interproject" sounds like my dream job (well, apart from the lighting). Anyone that finds themselves in that position, and then wastng it by doing nothing, well, those people would by high on my list for firing if I was management of Ubisoft. Maybe that's the point, maybe this is a test to see if they actually want to retain the employee or not. You would have to suspect that the people that find themselves in interproject are already not the best performers, who would have already been poached to participate on other projects, so this is a way of winnowing the herd a bit maybe?
Great selection, Malala Yousafzai simply amazes me that a young woman from such a background as hers has such drive and is willing to go up against the odds she does.

Honestly I had to look up Kailash Satyarthi, his efforts to free children from slavery or what is effectively slavery is certainly notable. It takes a lot to change culture its so interesting we have people at opposite ends of their lives working on similar goals
Did you all have to do work with navigating through snow and heavy rain? I was under the impression that snow is a big challenge and heavy rain isn't much better. Does that still hold true today?

It is one thing to anticipate threats, but when the road is under snow how do computers make that intuitive leap people can?
Quinoa

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Hmm, then we also need to stop Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, TimeWarner Cable, military industrial complex, some big oil companies, a few hedge funds, a few banks, etc. Probably might as well call it quits with this whole capitalism thing.

In all seriousness though why don't any of these articles ever address the underlying issue of why this stuff happens. If you have a certain kind of economic system then some things are inevitable. It is the exact analog of traffic on highways. It is just an emergent property of the system.
"Seeing" and "Perceiving" are likely very different. Yes, we only have binocular visual input, but the excess in processing in the brain takes perception to another level. However, machines have trouble with the perception part and so have to make up for it by seeing in excess.

That's just my theory on it.
Sweet! I am a bit disappointed to see that you don't get your own e-mail subdomain, to which mail is routed using UUCP...
That analysis was done by a group of individuals with strong ties to the biggest opposition party in Estonia, whose voters are primarily those who are less likely to participate in e-voting; they've been anti-promoting the e-voting system ever since they went to opposition; prior to that, they'd been openly positive about it it.

The analysts themselves were invited to the country and to do the analysis by that opposition party (Centre Party/Keskerakond); they had participated in several Centre Party events prior to publishing the research. They were reimbursed for their expenses and most likely paid a fee for the analysis. The group had demands that the system be taken down; they however refused to publish details about the study which is uncommon and is not a sign of goodwill.
As a driver of a car with these systems (Audi, having a 'Lane assist' and 'ACC'): The implementation is absolutely crushingly useless, every day.

Lane assist kinda, sorta works (I can choose if the car will actively try to stay in the lane and/or if it's going to alarm me by vibrating the steering wheel when I cross over into another lane). It's limited to the Autobahn though and really more often then not just doesn't recognizes the lanes.
IF it does, it has the kind of protection you describe. Unfortunately that makes it even less useful. On a really straight road I cannot turn it on, because it's going to beep at me after 1-2 seconds. You need to drive (I exaggerate, but the idea's true) like in a Hollywood movie from the 60s (or the Simpsons intro), turning the wheel left and right for no reason.

(The ACC in this car is crap as well, but .. let's leave it with lane assist for now)

I am extremely skeptical that this system can work, in general, any time soon. Even in a Tesla.
I wonder how many news articles will report on the fact she is a committed socialist:

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.[1]

[1] - http://www.marxist.com/historic-32nd-congress-of-pakistani-i...
(Scala tech lead at Typesafe here)

> Scala had its time, and I was a frequent user, but now I am not sure where it is going. It certainly helped bring functional programming into my vocabulary, and into a lot of other developers' too. But I get the impression that it tries to appease to many different notions, and lacks a core guiding principle. (In a more positive light: it is more democratic).

You sure piqued my interest there! Could you elaborate?

Why do you say you don't know where Scala is going? Our roadmap is intended to be pretty simple: stability + full Java 8 support. Our guiding principle is to make sure your investment in your Scala codebase is safe in the long term, which entails a tricky balance between stability and getting rid of stuff that turned out not to work that well (we do this slowly, though still much faster than Java).

I'm glad you feel we're more democratic. We certainly try to be transparent in what we decide to work on as a company (which implies the community is welcome to pick up our slack, and we do try to help out where we can -- see e.g., the Typelevel fork).
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8436840
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It seems as though the author has a problem with capitalism and free markets in general. Yes, let's abolish capitalism, allow some central bureau to fix prices and use its power of violence over actors who don't comply. Oh wait... it was attempted 90 years ago and it didn't work out.