skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely disagree.

> Twitter is good for two things: engaging with #Brands, and broadcasting messages to whoever wants to read them.

I almost never engage with brands on Twitter.

I do broadcast messages — to anybody who has chosen to follow me and hasn't chosen to unfollow me, both of which are freely done without any social consequences.

On the flip side, I read that which others have broadcast, provided I follow them. And I'm free to shape exactly who's in that set of people, without worrying about circles or unfriending or which IRC channels to sit in.

The author writes about communities, and about moderating IRC channels and making decisions about who can stay and who is banned. Perhaps he prefers to shape and steer communities in a way that Twitter doesn't facilitate.

Personally, the ephemeral and asymmetric nature of the Twitter social graph is the defining feature. The 140 character limit is perhaps just a constraint which helped that feature survive.

The author also mentioned harassment on Twitter. I've never been on the receiving end of it, and I hope I've never been on the other end either. But I believe it's a real problem. I hope there's a solution, but “Twitter going away” isn't that solution.
I would offer that terseness is not a substantial goal because it can be achieved in too many terrible ways.
PLOS Biology: Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
Microsoft have a patent on power-and-data connectors, which have shown up on devices before
(I think ms kin phone had one)
I find it hard to believe that a guy as smart as Gottfrid would "hack" a government computer in 2012 when he's obviously extremely aware of the magnifying glass that's on him from governments and companies all over the world.

> the pair downloaded police and social security files.

What exactly are those? and what would he even want them for?

> In a separate trial in 2013, Mr Warg and accomplice were found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of computer services firm Logica, which was doing work for Sweden's tax office and a bank.

Again, why would he hack into a bank knowing so many eyes are on him?
I don't agree with anyone who says this was an easy call. I think there are very good arguments on both sides.

The good argument on the side of opposing his CEO-ship was the concern that he would use his position to influence company policy and culture in a way that he couldn't do as CTO. Like most people, I don't know Eich nor have I ever worked at Mozilla, so this initially sounded like a very valid concern.

Eventually, though, it became clear that Eich had done a very good job of keeping his opinion out of the workplace. That's a difficult thing to do, and I don't think I and others were necessarily wrong, at first, to expect that he wouldn't be able to do it. But I read everything I could find on the case, and I never saw anyone even accusing him of intolerant behavior toward gay Mozillians, either in person or in policy -- and he was one of the drafters of the company's diversity policy.

Given that, I think it was unfortunate that the Board accepted his resignation. (It's particularly sad considering that they had talked him into taking the position in the first place.)

Had the Board told him "No, you can't quit; we're going to get you through this" I think they should then have tried to explain that his record on diversity was excellent, and that he and they both knew that the eyes of the world would be upon him, and that people should give him a chance.
C isn't a subset of C++ (eg see [1]) but more importantly proper C++ has very little to do with C.

In my experience people use "C/C++" to refer to "C with class compiled with a C++ compiler" rather than to "C or C++".

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1201593/c-subset-of-c-whe...
I really wish the could name their products better. Their two watches right now are named:

- LG G Watch

- LG G Watch R

Fortunately, the product is fairly decent. (I've seen it in person.) I happen to have a Samsung Gear Live, which is quite comparable in terms of specs. I think that Android Wear probably needs another year (or 2nd generation of watches) to mature a bit more.
What about meeting the compiler in the middle? I like the matlab/numpy/blas approach. Ask the developer for the high level vector operation (i.e. vector addition, inner product, matrix multiplication...). And then have the library/runtime turn that into SIMD instructions.
Yeah this seems like the path of least resistance.
>It just means he wants to have a meaningful communication.

If you want to communicate you don't create barriers for it to happen. There's nothing inherent to comment systems that prevents people from writing meaningful comments.
Heck, short awk programs are often written as one-liners that are invoked from the command line. I sometimes do this, but use a program file ("-f hithere.awk") for anything beyond semi-trivial.

And I always use "--lint" with "-f".
Cool! I was just thinking about building something like this myself, after reaching the point where I save almost everything I read to Diigo, just to get searchability.
Wow, that's really interesting! I am always amazed at the geographic diversity in tech.
Yeah... I've had trouble with the FreeCAD API:

This works:

Workplane("front").rect(1,1).circle(0.41).extrude(1)

This doesn't:

Workplane("front").rect(1,1).circle(0.49).extrude(1)

Might have been a cadquery bug, but I doubt it. Hopefully not an OpenCASCADE bug!
That's a first. In my experience at least. Sheesh.
Just out of curiosity, what does the warning say?
Yea.. bookmarking sucks. All i do is export every month to sites I barely visit again. Something better has to be created.
That's a reasonable concern to have, but it's worth being aware that it's the exact same concern people had about Hans Reiser. Intelligence and judgement are orthogonal, and sometimes even in slight opposition.

If you want to consider a different perspective: I'm an example of someone who does not have a hard time understand how someone who has enjoyed the rush of getting over on the entire media industry from behind a computer screen might find it harmless or at least personally safe to hack into some dumb server on the Internet and read documents off it.

I've been a pentester for the last 10 years and in my experience, taking advantage of the knowledge of how to break into an application is an urge that takes some energy to suppress.
I've been off caffeine for 2+ years now, I always feel like I've been poisoned when I use it, jittery and completely unable to concentrate. Also interesting that they didn't mention any of the longer acting transporter blockers like methylphenidate or other "performance enhancing" drugs that have been widely reported to improve attention (the button pressing test is actually diagnostic for the action of these drugs).
You (and a lot of people) make it sound like its magic but it's not - http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2014/01/x86-memory-disambiguation...
I had a similar issue, tfw "responsive" means adapting to the site rules, not the other way around. Reminds me of "This site is best viewed in 1024x768", just poor web dev work.
I wish that this doesn't require any phone. I wish that the watch could completely replace the smartphone. You'd look really stupid looking at your watch all the time while you are walking or in the restaurant.
Why not a IRC chat room?

In fact, I'll enter the #nomads channel and see what happens.
I didn't realize when I was supposed to place my boats at first.

You should have it say "Place your Boats Now" while it counts down during the first phase. I thought I was supposed to wait until the game starts
There are no carved out exceptions suspending constitutional protections for really bad opinions.

No, but there's a reason why those constitutional protections don't apply here, and it's not because the people writing them couldn't imagine this situation.
A self reply rather then edit: I'd also like to share my bookmarks, to which I have added the touch of folder organization..
> Sure, but you are comparing federally mandated minimums.

Which is exactly what you were talking about, so I don't see a problem. And like I said, some states go above and beyond.

> It's not just about pay either, but about what security (if any) someone has after maternity or paternity leave [...] in the U.S. this is much harder to do

Not at all, that's precisely what the federal FMLA is for. 12 weeks of job-protected leave. No payment unless covered by something else (PTO, company policy, state law, etc), but it is 3 months of job-protected leave.
What's technology for? Technology isn't neutral (like science can be). It is either to advance social justice or to obtain or maintain power. I think you're not particularly powerful, so I can only assume you're so laser-focused on technology, so religiously fanatical about it, because, how did you put it? Well, because you're a "social justice idiot".
my pet hypothesis is that caffeine catalyzes energy consumption, at the expense of efficiency. that is to say, drinking a cup of coffee in the morning makes me a good worker for 1 hour, then i pay the price over the next 5-7. in contrast, no caffeine means a slower start, but more total "energy" towards work gets produced. basically, i dont think you can top natural energy regulation.
Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise
I don't think this is right. I assume the odds favor the house anyway. They can make money without scamming anyone.

I assume the game is "fair" in that they decide where to bomb before you place your battleship, and that can be proven.
ZGameEditor – create 64kb games using procedural content
Could not agree more. There's always that voice in the back of your head wondering why you got a funky error message when your input contained an apostrophe; it doesn't take a lot to tip over the edge into something risky, even if you're conscious of the attention on you.
You were thinking maybe a gigantic new language feature would show up in the delta from 1.3 to 1.4.

If you follow Golang development, one of the uncanny things about it is how they really seem to nail the release schedule. They say what they're going to do. They say when they're going to be done. Then they do it, and announce their completion.

I think you can safely assume you'll know a ways ahead of time if Golang is suddenly going to become acceptable to people who require parameterized types to adopt a new language.
It is very difficult to contribute as a new user.

I try to upvote, I can't.

I try to downvote, I can't.

I wanted to reply to something, I couldn't.

shrug
Helen - Always happy to talk with empathetic people. Drop me a line - mallyvai@offerletter.io
You're quoting a rather meaningless poll given the low sample size: "The latest Field Poll was completed February 5-17, 2013 among 834 registered voters in California."

Since we're quoting statistics, here are some from the CDC.

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the United States population...
In 2010, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63% of estimated new HIV infections in the United States and 78% of infections among all newly infected men.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/

In 2012, there were almost 9,000 cases of syphilis, and 84 percent of them were among gay and bisexual men

http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20140509/syphili...

My friends (who are gay) tell me there is a growing complacency amongst their younger gay friends, that HIV is seen as a long-term chronic condition rather than a killer disease. The results can be seen above.

Why does the issue of marriage dominate media headlines but not a peep about health? How much funding has gone into the campaign to legalise gay marriage versus educating people on safer sex?
I'd love to see a round smart watch that homaged the Rolex GMT look-and-feel and then utilized a rotating (and maybe clickable?) diver-style bezel for input (maybe like the 1st gen ipods) in addition to the touch screen.

Classic, understated look, but another few interesting dimensions of input.
1. Gays have a reason to. We have you kind to thank for killings, reparative therapy and most of our entire lives stained by the social stigma caused by you.

You just don't get it. You just want to make it about you. You must have it just as bad. Boo hoo. You're so cluelessly privileged. Why am I even typing this? When was the last time you were threatened? Harassed? Beaten up? For being Catholic?
Those "bookmarks" mostly appear to be locations I've starred on Google Maps.
When you mentioned Hindus and being stabbed in the back I remembered reading about Thugs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

Didn't they go around stabbing and strangling people?
Going to hijack Aline's thread here - we do this in a very targeted way at http://offerletter.io. We charge individuals to help them negotiate their offers and really make the best decision possible overall. Is this closer to what you were thinking of?
Yes, you should know what you're getting into. Especially after the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster decision. I posted a pseudocode liability IF-ELSEIF-ELSE tree here a few weeks ago (replace "distributing" with "offering"):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455648

Note the above only discusses copyright liability, and not other potential legal issues.
I was about to ask if you knew of iGoogle but I guess that was dicontinued in '13
I'm not sure that's possible or desirable. They're relying on a bigger device for their cellular connection. Given that there's no immediate mention of battery life, we can assume it's quite a problem already without jamming more radios in there.
The author probably created the header when he was a twitter user, and hasn't gotten around to reformatting it yet. No great conspiracy.
I was talking about Python enhancement modules -- and no, I won't consider C++ a good replacement for Python.
Yep. You train a lot of app pentesters and you get used to warning them: do not try this at home. You know you can just edit a URL in your browser by just a couple characters and poof be an admin. It should would be interesting to find out what it's like to be an admin on this site... oh, wait, if I do that I might end up talking to a prosecutor.

That's obviously not a normative description. I don't think it's good that the world works like that, although I probably blame different people than most of HN.

Anyways, point being: the assumption that a very smart person wouldn't dream of breaking into a government server: does not at all square with my experience. Doesn't make the assumption wrong; it's just a data point.
I know for a fact that if our CTO took a month off of work we would probably go out of business

Well, reality is that your CTO could get hit by a car, get sick, or not be able to work for a month for all kinds of reasons unrelated to childbirth, so that seems like a problem in general. At least when it comes to children, you have many months of warning.

Or, have you considered what would happen if your CTO said "actually, my family is more important to me than the company"? If the company fails without them, they are in a pretty strong negotiating position.
> Similarly, J programmers prefer to write

> a =: a + b

> instead of

> (for i=0; i<a.size(); ++i) a[i] += b[i];

Well, sure, most people prefer not to write code with syntax errors.

But, nitpicks aside, your post is mostly frequently-made commentary in favor of functional programming (both FP languages and functional style -- which, again, has nothing to do with avoiding line breaks or whitespace -- in other languages), but really has nothing to do with the characterization uphtread of the mass of minimally-whitespace, non-line-broken C code presented upthread as being a matter of "functional vs. imperative", which remains completely wrong. So its a complete nonsequitur to the post it "responds" to.

Not using whitespace, including line breaks, has nothing to do with functional style, and using it has nothing to do with imperative style. (If it did, your C++ example, minus the syntax error, would be just as "functional" as the J example.)
Why people build so much apps for "organizing your content"?
Wow, why has no one done the rotating bezel yet? I hadn't thought about it before, but that seems like such a simple, obvious way to interact with a smartwatch. That should be done.
You seem to have a mental disorder when everything seems to be revolving about the issues you like, and so you are unhappy when they aren't covered by site X you visit.

Most of us like technology because it's interesting, not because it gives us some magical power. It's infinitely more interesting than whining about the abuse of virtual characters in games and other such idiocy.
Defence in depth. This single overflow check could very well be the difference between denial-of-service-via-OOM and heap overflow.

Should we then abandon ASLR or PIE or other defensive measures as well, just because some code is "already in trouble" due to a bad strcpy or something similar?
I've never seen an image hosting site require so much Javascript (3 different domains!) just to display a PNG.
How would you spend $5m?
Say you were asked to develop a funding program as part of a non-profit foundation in charge of a total of $5m. Topic/focus is up to you (within the limits of being a non-profit). What would you do?
Why not go further?

I'd be all for very disturbing warnings for any version of TLS before 1.2, and somewhat scary warnings for low-security or non-PFS operational modes.

Basically, enough so that in a big company corporate would ring up the IT department to "fix the ssl site for giving an error", but not enough so that everyone clicks through the "ignorable warning".
I'm not sure why this is on Hacker News? I didn't think this was the place for these types of articles. Perhaps I'm wrong in that assumption, but I'm unsure how HN differs from Reddit if this is the case.
It's absolutely scalable, and extremely high-leverage to boot.

We have a lot of advisors right now - there's a culture in the Valley of proactively wanting to help and connect with good people who need guidance. So even my friends who are busy founders, PMs, and leaders in their own right, are more than willing to make time to serve as Advisors. (It also helps that they get compensated well for it - and compensated proportional to the value they deliver :-).

The more interesting question is how we get the word out more aggressively to get more individuals on-board. If you have any ideas about that, let me know - mallyvai@offerletter.io.
How Many People Want to See You Succeed?
Does anyone here like Mark Zuckerberg? Interested what the community really thinks on this thread.
It's better. I still think that "contributes to the core value" is vague.
Not every DN is a programmer. There are no good clients for mobile and tablet. Sharing files would be a pain. Every individual would need to store logs for themselves. And finally, you can use slack over IRC if you like.
+1: snoop n' dre. all day.
I spent about 8 hours using this today. Some notes.

+ It does feel heavy at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly.

+ I plugged it in to charge and it seemed to be stuck at 80%. This may be because of the port I was using so I can't lay blame on Band.

+ The charging mechanism is solid and feels great.
+ I keep wanting to swipe the screen to turn it on (you need to press the "home" button).

+ I went for a 1.5 mi run. It took *4 minutes* to lock in GPS. This is in a fairly populated area, but the I was kind of in the woods. My iPhone has zero issues locking into GPS.

+ It mirrors all my notifications from my iPhone which I love.

+ After running, I went straight to Starbucks and tried to pay with the band but failed because the screen does not respond to sweaty fingers. This is partly my fault.

+ Haven't detected any UV yet.

+ HR locking is quick.
Ask HN: What's the best backup solution for shared / VPS hosts?
I manage a handful of web services spread across multiple shared hosting accounts and VPSes. I do manual backups on an occasional basis, but the process of backing up all of the web content combined with databases and, in the case of the VPSes, settings and config files, is very tedious and exactly the sort of thing that should be automated.

I've been working on and off on a batch file to automate the FTP backups / database dumps, but I'm curious how everyone else manages offsite backups. Are there any clear market leaders in server-backups-as-a-service, or any open source software that already does this well?
Ridiculous. "I wasn't going to vote, but now that Tim Cook came out as gay, I think I just might!" - said no one ever.
There's a Dutch saying that roughly translates to: "Life is a party but you've got to hang your own balloons." Twitter can be a fantastic place for community if you know where to look or are willing to organize it yourself. Tweetchats are a great example of this [1], the phenomenon known as "Black Twitter" [2] is another. (Although many ostensible members of "Black Twitter" have legitimate issues with how "it" is being studied and reported.)[3]

Not to mention the ad hoc communities that spring up around events and pop culture happenings. As with many other things, it might just be a matter of what one makes it.

[1]http://janetfouts.com/how-to-participate-in-a-tweet-chat/
[2] http://www.annenberglab.com/projects/dsail-black-twitter-pro...
[3]http://io9.com/what-happens-when-scientists-study-black-twit...
Sorry, I'm still not following you. OpenCASCADE is the upstream; OCE is the downstream. OpenCASCADE is LGPL 2.1 and OCE is LGPL 2.1, so that means OCE can pull every single line of code from OpenCASCADE.

Are you saying OCE is not pulling certain tests downstream despite being free to do so? Or are you saying that some OpenCASCADE test are still close sourced? If so, then what would be the motivation behind keeping these tests close sourced?
It wouldn't work. Users would see "very disturbing warnings" so often that the warnings would quickly stop disturbing them. Everyone --- everyone --- would blame the browsers, the way 3/4 of HN blamed Firefox when they enabled the fascist warning for self-signed certs (incidentally: a much more severe security problem than POODLE!).

If you want to think about "further", you want to suggest that Chromium disable support for TLS 1.1 and below. Nobody can ignore sites that break because they don't use the most secure variant of TLS. But that's obviously not going to happen.
What happened to Fulcrum? I know Intel bought them. The FM6000 is still their top of the line chip. When can I get a new switch that's competitive to T2, with FlexPipe?
I know people who work on Wall Street and I know people who work in the White House. They are some of the most brilliant people I know.

That doesn't make the systems they collectively run any less corrupt or terrible than they are.

You originally said:

> These are very intelligent folks we're talking about, I'm sure there is a rational explanation.

If the examples I mentioned aren't good, then logically, there may not be a rational explanation.

But in any case, I think all 3 situations are quite similar. VCs are probably just as smart as the top people in finance and politics, yet they often appear stupid from the outside. It's actually quite intriguing. If I were a researcher, I'd definitely want to investigate this further...
> Turing made great contributions, and had a great mind. But we did not need him, or any other particular individual.
> What do you think would have happened if Turing had never been born?

And yet, he was born, and he did contribute, and we remember him for that, and we remember what his peers did to him in response. And we learn a lesson from that.

Why is this controversial?