skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely: no

But better latency is something nice to have.
Crack dealers and whores would not be so judgmental as you and everyone else you presume would be.
I can sympathize with you because cross-browser development can be frustrating at times. However, when you ship a product and only support one browser (which happens to be the browser your company makes) you're making a statement (even if it's only implicit) that you don't really care about the open web. You personally may care about the open web, and I'm glad the issue is fixed internally, but releasing a major web application with support for only one web browser is a big "fuck you" to the web.
I must disagree. First there are different level of psychopathy making it a fuzzy set. Second I have heard of people diagnosed as psychopaths and indeed struggling to remain socially adequate in order to avoid to be caged in psychiatric hospitals. In this way cold logic is used as leverage to induce socially compatible behaviour.
Similar to the way deductions are enforced on income tax, i.e. self-reporting and it is a crime to lie about it (essentially the same way that mortgage interest on primary residence is deducted, etc).
"Bay Area tech company" tells me:

- this is a tech company

- they are based in the Bay Area

If they'd used "Electronics for Imaging", I would know:

- there is a company called Electronics for Imaging

Sure, if it was Facebook, they could just use the name. But not in this instance.
We use angular with RequireJS, though we don't (yet) load any Angular modules lazily because it is not supported by Angular. There are workarounds (like https://github.com/marcoslin/angularAMD) which I have no experience with. We do load external libs (like MathJax, which is comparatively huge) lazily where possible.

Our AMD modules are actually TypeScript modules that generate the AMD wrapper. Works great, and makes for a very clean and modular codebase. In the end, we use r.js to concat and minify most of it (everything except the lazily loaded libs) down to a single file. Including Angular templates, using https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-angular-templatecache which can output the templates as initialization scripts inside and AMD wrapper as well.
Shut up, America.
I guess someone thought Ukranian government bonds were a real bargain a few weeks ago ...

Sorry but I do not believe George Soros has any sympathy at all for either Europe's, America's or Ukraine's problems, only if it affected his own investment outcomes. Besides, if he wants to play interventionist, he's in the wrong party.
In case you think that's theoretical, a bug with integer overflow let an attacker creating 184 billion bitcoins out of thin air. To fix this, a new implementation was pushed out, which ended orphaning more than 8 hours of transactions. In other words, even after 8 hours you can't be certain that Bitcoin transactions are durable.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2010-5139

Another interesting case is when bitcoind 0.8 changed the underlying database from BerkeleyDB to LevelDB. Due to different database lock limits, bitcoind 0.7 couldn't process a block that bitcoind 0.8 could. For 6 hours, there was a fork where old clients were using a totally different blockchain than new clients, because of this single block they couldn't handle. This is what patio11 means, that you have to be bug-for-bug compatible with the reference implementation.

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/3668/bitcoin-network-shaken-by-bl...
Thanks for your comments both of you I am trying to figure out which I should learn being an ASP.Net developer

PS - FYI http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=react.js%2C%20ember.j...
> Cocaine and Heroin (and also for not selling drugs but services). Those are very addictive drugs by almost any definition.

I've tried cocaine myself on two occasions. Not addictive whatsoever.
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I think you take the right approach to true security risk analysis.

But there are all sorts of cases you leave out.

Someone might very well have access to your device without having access to your physical person. Because your device was lost or stolen.

Someone may very well not be willing to threaten you with physical harm, but be willing to hack your device. (Not every adversary is from a Hollywood movie either!)

Law enforcement agencies may not be legally allowed to compel you to reveal your password, but legally allowed to hack your device.

Etc.
True, but the expenditures of the Vatican are only ~$300 million [1]. The Vatican doesn't just spend money from other countries. (The only exception is Peter's Pence, which is an annual collection taken up in late June where Catholics can give directly to the Vatican.)

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
There are other books full of photos of prototype devices, especially from the mid to late 1980s.

http://twistedsifter.com/2014/06/apple-prototypes-from-the-1...
>"We unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local US standards."

I hope that readers keep incidents like this is mind. There's a tendency to pile on in populist fashion against the "bankers", the "lobbyists" and the "politicians". In reality, the "tech" world is just as dirty. Peoples is peoples.
There are a lot more people per driver in the train, than in the car, so you can't expect to get a great saving on wages.

For the same reason I don't see why ubiquitous driverless buses should come before driverless taxis.
One thing that's lacking is out-of-the-box audio. Granted, I do have to install Nvidia drivers to get competent video, however there are numerous guides for that, and it's not entirely necessary.

Audio, on the other hand, remains a mystery to me. It just didn't work and there was nowhere for me to turn for help.
It looks the cookie format is just user={hash}, and looking at an older version of the code it matches that up to data loaded from a file called arc/cooks

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...
Are you anti-drug and anti-prostitution, or do you think drugs and sex should be given away for free?
This was a good read. Its nice to see indie game developers getting some love. Did you know the guys?
Yup. UTC dates are stored system wide. This post is just about determine the user's time zone. This has been helpful for various situations for us: for example, knowing the best time to send out a daily email to a user based on their TZ.
It makes some sense to me. I always find it pretty painful writing anything but the most simple queries in MySQL - for starters, there's no CTEs, no windowing functions, and no table-valued functions, all of which I find invaluable - and the query optimizer (and performance in general) seems... not so hot.

As far as I can tell, the main reasons people use MySQL are 1) it's well-known, well-documented, free, and widely available; shared hosting, for example, is almost always MySQL and 2) replication. I often wonder if the inadequacies of MySQL are part of the reason for the success of NoSQL databases and general un-hipness of relational databases.
Also,

"The Economist estimates that annual spending by the church and entities owned by the church was around $170 billion in 2010 (the church does not release such figures). We think 57% of this goes on health-care networks, followed by 28% on colleges, with parish and diocesan day-to-day operations accounting for just 6% and national charitable activities just 2.7% (see chart). In total, Catholic institutions employ over 1m people."

"The church is the largest single charitable organization in the country. Catholic Charities USA, its main charity, and its subsidiaries employ over 65,000 paid staff and serve over 10m people. These organizations distributed $4.7 billion to the poor in 2010, of which 62% came from local, state and federal government agencies."

http://www.economist.com/node/21560536
That was my biggest disapointment with "Real World OCaml", as the book requires OPAM to follow along.

Apparently it works with WOBI, an OCaml distribution for Windows. I haven't tried it though.

When on Windows I just go for F#.
You can't "defend" your code, period. Not front-end code at least. Go ahead and minify and obfuscate it all you want (or add domain or date protections) ... anyone with minimal knowledge and a little effort will walk right around that in no time...
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Soros is always uncomfortable for conservatives and liberals alike, including me. I don't agree with half of what he suggests here. For example, in my opinion, this conflict is simply about power and not about right or wrong. Furthermore the tone feels quite aggressive.

The key point he makes is correct, though: The west can't achieve its goals, if it is not willing to fight, either by investing enormous amounts of money into Ukraine, or by a military intervention. We should probably go for the first or accept that Ukraine is lost.
In the biometrics field we use the threshold that separates an authentic and impostor match score to adjust our system sensitivity - for TouchID it's set such that the false acceptance rate (FAR) is high, while the gov may set it very low (usually the standard for papers is looking at the false reject rate at 0.1% FAR).

The alternative you suggest is related to biometric key binding (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vboddeti/key-binding.html).
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That said, as you go back there is a lot less writing. Less writing happened and less survived.

The Hamurabbi code from 1754 BC is amazing partly because it's an island. A longish piece of text when all we have from the periods around it is lists of names and other short texts. Reading the Hamurabbi code (or the best translation we can get) really lets you feel like these people were real.

Still, there's a huge difference between that and something like Plato or Sun Tzu 100 years later. They were literate in a way we would recognize as literate and they could explain themselves through text, writing to convince other literate people like us, like we are doing write now on These guys really do exist through their works. You can form a mental model of how they think.
Note that the Twitter response to this news is generally "wait, Ello still exists?"

Additionally, let's say they'll make their money through subscriptions instead of display ads. Then they can just adjust the UI/UX to push toward subscriptions, which will result in the problem that Ello had claimed to be solving. The $5.5M has to result in an exit, somehow, and therefore the incentives between business and consumer are misaligned.
Our reverse approach to hit product-market fit
Right, this is my contention. I admit that it's definitely speculative.
Look outside the window. I'm less then 30m away from you. 4th floor, other building. Let's meet for a coffee
Not sure what NYC comparison you're referring to.

The chart was simply an observation that SF isn't "pulling away" from Los Angeles and San Diego, since their percentage movements are very similar. I.e., if there were something unique to SF that significantly affected prices (crazy laws, etc) it would follow that prices should rise faster than in other big California coastal cities.
Not sure why an aggressively political post should appear in Hacker News. This one has no relevance with IT in any manner.
~hacker news "moderating"~ strikes again
Sadly, you are correct. The AGI conference this year was about 84 people total. Growing, but nowhere near where it needs to be.
WMD stockpiles supplied by the US for use against the Iranians in the 1980s. So in fact, we had a pretty good idea that Saddam had WMDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destru...
With a team of 3 how many of these hackathon interviews have you done? Seems like a great way to interview.
I wish my mom could auction off the Apple ][+ she bought for me in 1980 for $2000 for $900k. Who are you to decide she doesn't deserve such a good return on her investment? That's up to the buyer to judge, not you.
> $5.5M has to result in an exit, somehow.

Or maybe they'll run an actual business, instead of the startup pump-and-dump. Not every success story has to be "an exit"
Good on them! State mandated minimum wages are socialist bullshit. Might as well have minimum potato prices while you're at it.
Over what period does this law apply? If you are a multinational and you bring workers over for a two-week training course, do you have to give them a raise for those two weeks?
Doesn't surprise me that this was in Fremont, California at all.
> This seems like a weak excuse. (…)

Fair enough, but for the ';', as others explained meanwhile, I think it's pretty simple to understand, it's just that we are not used to it because of C syntax.

EDIT: actually, you are right about ';', it is confusing when I think about it: it does not have the same behavior in a branch of a `match` and in the branch of an `if`… I wonder how I never had problem with that before.
I wouldn't say we are competing. Our service has some features similar to patio11's, but we mostly focus on the appointment planing it self (the calendar).
Please don't name it just "Meta", it will make it a lot more difficult to find resources for it in the web. Imagine googling for "meta", "meta lang", "meta language", "metalang". Maybe something to go with "meta", like MetaCaml.
Actually, that's the thing that worries me about the American "support the troops! Support the war!" warrior culture.

Anyway, you can go to Japan tomorrow and observe yourself. I've only been to Berlin, so I haven't noticed much of this in Germany (Berlin is very hippie-hipster), but I think you will have better luck observing the phenomenon in Bavaria, which is generally regarded as more old-fashioned, strict and conservative.
Trolllolololol?
What "localized nonsense"?
Thanks, no I didn't know them. But I really enjoyed the game and was curious how they were able to get it released.
Generally the people complaining about the US acting as world police and the people complaining about the US not intervening are not the same people.
Ah, So this one was written by Soros itself. I just overlooked the little red line below the title. Well even worse, but still have to disagree with him. But again, why is this post appearing on hacker News?
great piece!
I also see now how Asimov inspired a whole generation of scientists and engineers.
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> The argument that has prevailed in both Europe and the United States is that Putin is no Hitler; by giving him everything he can reasonably ask for, he can be prevented from resorting to further use of force. (...) These are false hopes derived from a false argument with no factual evidence to support it.

So, according to Soros, Putin is literally Hitler?

I'm not really comfortable with the idea of fighting the "deflationary forces that are already at work" by going to war against Russia. And I'm not comfortable either with fighting Russian power through a proxy country.

At risk of being labelled a troll, I'll say: go back to sleep, Soros.
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They must've heard smoking is bad for your health.
"which Ello says makes it legally impossible under US law for investors to require Ello to show ads, sell data, or sell the company to any buyer who would violate those conditions"

Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever seen written in Techcrunch.
Can a fingerprint even be used as an encryption key? I'd imagine that the reader doesn't generate the exact same data on every scan, and to get a "yes/no" requires seeing if the scanned print is within a certain margin-of-error of a stored print.
Wow, this reeks of bias.

Putin has done a lot of good for post-soviet Russia. Russia in the 90's was full of murder and unpoliced brutality that people who grew up like us couldn't imagine.

the EU is not facing a threat, the US was- the US has funneled millions in trying to get Ukraine away from Russia and has succeeded, what they didn't count on was the fact that the extremists that were appointed power would galvanise Russia by outlawing Russian as a spoken/written language, this, of course prompted action because a _lot_ of Russians live in Crimea.

Russia has enough to worry about on it's own, it's not interested in expansion, every move we've seen them make has been to protect it's people from what it see's as harm.

Now, every time this topic comes up I'm chastised for being biased myself, but I very much see the US and Russia as two sides of the same coin, except we allow America to brainwash us and forbid Russia from telling it's side of the story.

Edit: My family are mostly from Eastern Ukraine, so I know what they tell me- there's no "Russian Troops" although they really wanted support- there are some supplies (water, generators etc; because the Ukraine government turned off the water and power) the people you see are using anything they could find- raided military bases and stolen gear.
I used MySQL a lot at my last job (MS SQL Server now, which has its own ups and downs) and I examined using Postgres for some personal projects, and there's a few features that I used rather heavily in MySQL (partitioned tables and upsert are the really big ones) that Postgres doesn't have an out-of-the-box equivalent to. There's a lot of tradeoffs between the two, I think it's wrong to say one is better than the other without context.
This is why, if you own one of the first FPGA/ASIC Bitcoin miners, you should keep it. They could become historical artifacts of a technology that may end up changing day-to-day trade & finance... Personally I kept my Ngzhang Icarus units, Enterpoint Cairnsmore1 units (one of them is serial# 3), Ztex 1.15y units, Avalon gen1 units (the first commercially available Bitcoin ASIC), and our TAV 105 Gh/s units. Most of them were extremely small production runs: less than 1000 units ever built.

Back in 1976, very few people understood how the Apple 1 and personal computers were about to change day-to-day communication.
"The bureaucracy of the EU no longer has a monopoly of power and it has little to be proud of."

The need to reform the EU bureaucracy is desperate, but it is very difficult to argue this when the debate around the EU being so all-or-nothing serves both pro- and anti- EU groups so well. I'm not using "reform" as a codeword for dismantling the EU here, quite the opposite.
Interesting information. Gives me some motivation to work on an app of my own! Are you currently working on anything yourself?
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> It's funny how people used to complain that America is the world police. But the second they scale back their global intervention everyone starts whining they aren't doing enough.

Have you considered that very often the people complaining about the latter are the opponents of the people complaining about the former, rather than the same people?

You seem to have just discovered that among all the people commenting on public affairs, there exists more than one opinion on the proper level of US intervention.
Blows my mind that IDEs and environments are not better at this. This is something that computers are good at, pattern recognition and scanning the whole file. Of course the it wouldn't work every time, an could make ridiculous suggestions, but I would love the computer to suggest something every time there is an issue. Even if it is wrong 90% of the time, if those guesses don't slow down the programmer the time saved would be huge.
I suspect you do, legally, if you're otherwise paying them less than minimum wage, and they are your employees. Although i'm no lawyer.

It is probably unusual for companies to bring people getting paid less than U.S. minimum wage to the U.S. for a two-week training course. Why would you spend so much money (travel? hotel? they're staying in your basement?) on workers you're paying less than minimum wage?
Crowds love that stuff though. When you're sitting there in person, you don't have the luxury of switching to a different tab for entertainment :)
It's a museum. Should museums sell off their collections to pay to keep running?
I still don't understand what value Ello brings. It seems to be a social media network for the sake of being a social media network.

Myspace let young people (and then everyone) connect online, share photos, and declare who's their friend.

Facebook let young people (and then everyone) chat with and follow their classmates, and eventually let everyone keep in touch (using that phrase loosely) after graduation.

Ello let's -- uh, let's say tech-savvy 20- and 30-somethings? -- do -- uh, let's say send messages? -- without seeing ads.

The mission statement is equally vague.

"Ello is a simple, beautiful, ad-free social network."
Something isn't quite right with this article.

Engadget links to their "source", and their source doesn't link to anywhere they got the info from.

They say the workers were allegedly working 120 hour work weeks... if my math serves me right, that is 5 straight days and nights without sleeping. I don't think that is humanly possible in a 7 day week, even under slave-driven conditions such as described in the article.

Also, it sounds like, from the article, that the workers were hired as contract workers from India, then flown in to perform a contract. If that's the case, their pre-agreed wage in India would be fine imho, and easily confused with local laws (no intentional malicious intent), and perhaps why they weren't fined more heavily here in the US.
I think it's ok that it appears. Things on HN don't have to be related to technology and he points out some interesting facts in the second part of the text. It has been worth reading for these alone.
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This a thousand times!

When you think about security, you should have in mind who you are protecting against, and the same applies to passwords.

Security purists love to advocate that password reuse is evil, but who in the first place is going to be your attacker and for which purpose?

For example, in the context of money (online banking, paypal, ebay, etc.) I completely agree that password reuse is evil.

But when it comes to random websites, or simply to access my devices does it really matter? The first time I saw the Chromebook my first impression was "do I really have to write my entire Gmail password EVERY TIME I want to access this thing???" With my Galaxy S5 I was like "Don't tell me how should I create a password to unlock you!!! If I want to use 0000 it's my problem!!!"

I personally like the approach of FastMail: Different Login methods (like using Google Authenticator to generate random one time use passwords, or the ability to create different plaintext passwords). You decide which login methods allows you to access your account, and which ones allows you to manage it.
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But every business needs to have a balanced budget, or they die.

If they won't do advertising and they won't exit, then how should they stay out of bankruptcy?
I wonder what kind of condition those large electrolytic capacitors are in after 38 years? They don't last forever.
Still, I'd rather not give hardened criminals a reason to cut off my fingers.
These namings seem to suggest they don't plan a lot of future expansion (not down to the national level)?