skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im with you in spirit, but the US partly gets away with all this because other countries not only support them, but aid them. Prime sorry example, UK and GCHQ. Cant help thinking that if a lot of US allies simply said no, something might change. If the international community stood up to the US Gov, Americans themselves might then ask more question about the internal working.

Sadly here in the UK, Im vaguely sure we out do the US in terms of privacy invasion. So, I'll have a Coke and a smile and......
Mmm, I'm not so sure. If you read the Bluetooth 4.0 spec [1], it's very obvious on page 1047 (numbered 801 in the pdf) the exact advertising format, with its block of bytes for sending data. Sending a UID would be exactly what you would do, as a first approximation. There are actually much more interesting schemes that can be used - say if you don't want your competitors to be able to derive any information of their own from your beacons.

[1] - https://www.bluetooth.org/docman/handlers/downloaddoc.ashx?d...
Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box. They are all the same when it comes to your privacy to be honest. I wouldn't "trust" any of them with very private things. I use them for convenience of stuff I want easy access to/share with family but don't want to just stick up in the public internet for all to see.
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Not really. Sure, they may be more secure, but their user experience is really bad compared to Telegram.
I'm exactly the opposite. I signed up for Prime for free shipping. They keep bundling it with more and more crap that I don't use. And it's not "free", the price is rising. I'll cancel if this keeps up.
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nah, the guy is right there's better tech since 2010, just nobody has bothered to swap out the old style DOM stuff for pugixml/rapidxml/vtdxml.

http://pugixml.org/benchmark/

specifically:
http://pugixml.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/dom-memory-compar...
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Hey great article, just a few quick questions:

1) In "Becoming a Backprop Ninja", dx is never declared. Is it a variable that was set in a previous pass, or is it some value like 1 that depends on its function? I understand how to derive dx1 and dx2 from dx.

2) In the SVM, can "pull" be other values than -1, 0, 1? It seems like it might affect how rapidly the SVM learns.

3) It takes 300 iterations to train the binary classifier, could you add a brief paragraph about why this isn't 30 or 3000, and what has the greatest effect on iterations?

4) In 2D SVM, what is the α function? Are w0^2 and w1^2 an arbitrary way to regularize (like would |w0| + |w1| work as well?) It made me think of least squares fitting or RMS power, so I wondered what the reasoning was behind it.

Many more questions (and a sense of irony because I have learned NNs in the past and have since forgotten) so I am trying to give my brain some breadcrumbs.
As an iOS developer who has spent the last 9 months making beacon enabled things for my employer, I personally think beacons are shit. Some of my findings over the last 9 months:

- Estimated battery life was estimated very poorly.

- Nobody likes things they didn't ask for getting sent to their phone.

- Indoor navigation that relies on iBeacons only is going to shoot you in the foot. I recommend www.indoo.rs as the only solution that got close to what we needed (though it's still pretty darn immature).

- Speaking of indoor navigation, you need a ton of points to do it well (whether that's beacons or wifi routers, you decide).

- Using beacons for granular location-aware uses might as well go out the window if you're looking for accurate and precise readings around ~1-3ft.

- Did I mention power yet? All of the beacons we started with around 9 months ago have dead batteries. Even with conservative power modes set. The only beacons that don't are RadBeacons USB sticks that plug into wall outlets. And that's only because they don't have batteries.

I really, really want them to be good. But they die too quickly, and don't provide granular signal data. Hold the phone between you and the beacon and get a decent signal, then turn 180 degrees so that you are between the phone and the beacon. Apparently you've moved 45ft.
It's a good move for Microsoft, but it's not entirely obvious if this is a good move for dropbox or the storage ecosystem.

For example, Box is also working with Microsoft: http://content.box.com/box-for-office-365 -- I would expect integrations with other platforms in the future as well. If the consumer experience is driven around Office apps rather than around the Dropbox app, then at one point the cloud storage solutions truly become interchangeable.
Are there any ads? It is unusual for a game to be on the App Store without monetization.
There is no sidebar API, yet. But in the latest ST3 release they allow for custom icons. Hopefully we will see more sidebar APIs so we can do things like color code files based on their git status.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457 as well.

> They should just retain Riscure or Rambus to do that for them instead of the PR stunt.

I'd love to go back through either of the previous threads and count to see how many people were saying "well, if no one can successfully win the challenge, they can use the money for a security audit!" like they are right now.

Telegram is pretty clearly a bad player that should be avoided.
True. This is the "new Microsoft" EmExEx meaning.
Why would anyone send anything important into a 3rd party cloud storage? Even if you encrypt your files before sending? Really why?
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I've worked on some similar projects. Would love to see the code. Have you thought about open sourcing?

You could use something like, http://assembly.com, to crowdsource development. Or get a starter seed through Kickstarter.

Best!
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I'm the author, along with @patricko. Feel free to chime in with questions here. I'll link to this discussion from the post too.
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Well, that's sort of the point of having a spy agency. It's supposed to invade the privacy of other countries' citizens for the benefit of its own. What country do you live in? I'd bet good money that it has its own signals intelligence service too. Spying on foreigners is a tool of statecraft, and statecraft is a shady business.
...but they are stupid :)
I think this seems like a great idea. But I have never worked one place that used any of the seemingly trendy integrations. How about Lync -> Jira, Confluence, Perforce?
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Oh lord, I hope they don't succeed. Google seems more intersted in their products looking "cool" than being easy to use. Search is awful compared to 5 years ago. Gmail is worse. Google documents has turned into a real mess. Google Analytics has one of the most impenetrable dashboards I've come across.

Exacerbating all of this is the fact that they won't stop redesigning their shit. Their interfaces change monthly. Now, I'm not a user who demands nothing ever change, but I can't even learn any of this stuff before it's "new and improved". Blegh.
I switch back and forth. Each year or so the colors start to make code look like work, so I change it up and things look fresh again. So far, I've gone between Slush & Poppies, Cobalt, Monokai, Solarized Dark, Monokai, Solarized Light, and most recently Cyberpunk (the Emacs Live theme).
Have you read a better autobiography or biography about Woz? I thought the book was great. (Almost all autobiography's are 'humblebrags')
Doesn't TextSecure use some non-conventional cryptographic constructs, too?

It's just that I heard some concerns about key exchange (that triple Diffie-Hellman exchange) not having a formal security proof, although I'm completely incompetent to evaluate whenever those were valid concerns or just some chatter.
Still, won't the apps stay in memory? And i don't really like the idea of different users...
Although I read the article, I really don't understand much the theories and technicality of it. What has fascinated me for a while is the slit experiment. What I tie this to is the Law of Attraction. Say that the subconsciousness is the connection from ourselves to the universe (via meditation for example), what if this is the way for us, through our thoughts, to "observe" what is going to happen (in other words, what we want to happen) and therefore the universe "brings" it to us simply because we observed it? Thanks to having some sort of logic I can believe in, I use the law of attraction and it has proven to always bring me what I want in life so far :)
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Then use WhatsApp!
Frontiers [1] also on Radio 4 is good.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy5p
£50?
Nobody would use beacons this way. They don't have to -- your cell phone, if it passively scans for Wi-Fi, will check into the local access points for you.
this comment begs the question... what is leadership? It does not seem like Eich did anything that impinges or diminishes his ability to lead. it seems that Eich acted in a way that was consistent with his personal beliefs (donating money to a cause he believes in) and at the same time in the best interests of Mozilla (resigning so public outcry against him did not damage the company). It seems like he has integrity, which in some circles is considered a invaluable quality of leadership.
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This is the polar opposite of how I feel about Woz's book. I started reading it after first reading the Jobs biography, in which I found the parts about Woz to be the most fun to read. I never finished the Jobs biography after getting iWoz. If the book reads like a "humblebrag", it's because it WAS a humblebrag...Woz decided to write it after apparently being frustrated with how Jobs was getting all the credit for Apple's early innovations...and in my opinion, Woz was 100% entitled to shout from the walls his amazing accomplishments.

I'm surprised you say that the book doesn't provide insight to Woz's real character. If anything, one of the book's shortcomings is that it reads as if an overexcited kid wrote it...but that seems to be Woz's actual character. You didn't find it at all interesting to read about Woz's insecurities, and how he basically created the Apple I as a means to have something to initiate small talk about with Homebrew club members?

One of the best chapters was when Woz explained getting through the trauma of his airplane crash. Other descriptions of the incident are considerably more darker, but Woz approaches it as you'd expect an engineer to.
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This is perfect timing. My co-founders and I are currently in the process of duking it out over these choices. Now we have something to break the tie.
Google Drops Some of Its Cloud Computing Prices – Again
I actually had to switch to Solarized Light for awhile because my eyes couldn't stand white text on a dark background. I'm back to using a dark theme now though.
"We’ll also be releasing a Dropbox app for Windows Phone and Windows tablet users in the coming months."

Not a day too early for the Windows Phone official app and another tick off the list of missing apps for Microsoft's mobile platform.
>we'll never get Prime Video on the Android tablet

You can now but it requires some user intervention.

Amazon's video app can't be installed via the Play store for whatever reason but, if you select a video in the main Amazon app, it asks you to sideload the video app by enabling non-store apps for a bit. Install it an everything works as expected.
> Well, there's nothing in a Model S that is earth shattering in terms of technology.

Of course the car or company is not supernatural. But there's a HUGE difference between saying "anyone could have done it" and ACTUALLY doing it. That's the key to understanding the reviews.

I am not sure anyone is reviewing the electric motors. They are not reviewing how efficient their motor is or even how small it is. They are reviewing the car as a whole.

I believe you can say similar things of any market leader. Rarely does someone change a market and invent great technology or are involved in engineering marvels. But they do solve the problem in such a way that is significantly gives them a lead.
Exactly - their tactics failed with me, as I cancelled my prime membership due to having Netflix already and not wanting to be force fed amazon's instant video for a hefty increase in the annual subscription price.
My thermodynamics professor was there as a young scientist when this happened. From what he told us (probably in clear breach of the Official Secrets Act) this was a truly terrifying accident. The absence of temperature data meant that it was impossible to know how extensive the fire was or what remedies would work. Eventually, in desperation, water was used despite the clear hazard of creating a catastrophic Hydrogen/Oxygen explosion. My professor recalled being sent up these towers to monitor any radiation release, perhaps an early example of "this is a job for the intern".
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> I can understand how with iOS's "no files" design, this is the only way forward, but on desktop? Please let it stop.

Apparently mobile is the future and the desktop experience must be crippled to unify it with the mobile experience.

Personally, I don't understand how anyone gets real work done on tablets and phones. Sure there are some pretty silos, but trying to move data between silos is usually a nightmare.
Well put. I live here and can go months before meeting someone who works in finance. There are lots of big corporations here as well as lots of artistic/creative jobs.
Convenience. People need to get stuff done and sharing/syncing is often required.

Most of people don't have time/knowledge to setup any shared file storage.
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The weave environment always constructs a network between the nodes that supports multicast.
"Nobody used Stylus, sadly" -- Adam...curious why you say that?
Worst part is when people say "We did Country X..."
Essentially that is the case.

If you just want to launch a static set of containers on a specific VM, you can use our Container VM image -- https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/container_v....

Kubernetes (and GKE) is a dynamic system to run across a cluster of machines.
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I worked through the first few chapters on a flight yesterday and found this to be exactly what I need -- my ability to read code and sort of intuit alogrithms vastly exceeds my ability to read and understand math. Thanks for putting this together.
Lightning Source is who provide the actual printing services for my published books (though contracted through a third-party marketplace). Not bad quality, and meeting their standards was a lot more painless than Lulu used to be.
Beacons are nifty, but buying shoes is comparatively boring. Why do consumers get soooo much attention from these smart people selling smart phones?
Digging Your Way Out of the Trough of Sorrow
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Bitcasa was originally billed as unlimited cloud storage, but I believe they've moved to having really large tiers now instead.
This is appealing to the userbase who would never watch a dry boring scientific show in the first place, not hardcore science geeks.
Please do grow your buffers exponentially: multiplying the size of your array by c at each reallocation yields amortized O(1) operations for any c > 1.

But please don't use c=2: c=1.5 is a much better constant.

The reason is that that when you grow the array one element at a time, after i reallocations your memory is like this:

<previous allocations>|c^i| |c^(i+1)|
old new

Since the previous allocations are freed already, you would like to place the new allocation in the freed space. How much is that? Well that's 1 + c + c^2 + ... + c^(i-1), that is (c^i - 1)/(c - 1). For c=2 that's 2^i - 1, so the new allocation can never fit.
It turns out that if c is smaller than the golden ratio (1.618...) then eventually new allocations will fit in the freed area. It is a nice exercise to see how the golden ratio shows up.

c=1.5 is a generally used constant also because it's easy to compute as n + n/2.
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So, given the contest would "succeed" (or "fail", depending on the viewpoint) with no one getting the prize, the only thing we could be more or less certain of, is that no one would likely consider cracking Telegram under given conditions for $300K in 2 months. Or maybe I'm missing something.
Are you comparing the Axolotl key ratchet Trevor Perrin designed to the 1980s throwback block cipher mode Telegram uses?
I just want to add that I couldn't get past the first third of the book for the same reason. It felt like every chapter was another "humblebrag" event and the pranks weren't really that funny to me either.

I'm sure Woz is an amazing guy though. I would love to learn more about one of the giants from just before my time if anyone has another book they could recommend.
Here is a Trough of Sorrow... "Back to Back combat deployments". Suck it up...
The ecosystem is there, and getting better all the time.

Reasonable recommendations for ancillary publishing services can be found on any of the popular writer's forums like absolute write or the author's cafe on kboards. Several relevant subreddits also exist.

Like everything, there are scammers and people looking to make a quick buck for shoddy work, but there are also a LOT of frustrated former English and Art majors who have hung out a shingle.

As far as editing goes, you can pay for pretty much anything the publishing houses provided, from a proofreading to copyediting, even a developmental edit (recommendations on story structure, what works, what doesn't work, etc.).

In my experience, book design and editing are easily handled by most authors with even an iota of motivation. It's the marketing that baffles most people. Congratulations, you wrote a book, now what? etc.
Because for an established author, an advance can be really big, and also because not every author actually wants to deal with the work described above.

I know I sure as hell didn't, but in my case and my market at the time there just wasn't any other choice.
I agree. This can be problem. Even if they don't slap some crap together. They may in the end take just as long (or longer) than your estimate, but by that point nobody remembers who estimated what. Just that you were the pessimistic one who wasn't confident and they were the eager go getter who solved the hard problem.
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Stylus is a CSS processor similar to SASS/Less, but without the punctuation. Last year one or two teams tried it, but this year it seems to have lost ground. :(
Well fortunately there are no changes happening to how it already works. It's just added features if you want them, if you don't then don't use them.
4 things we want from products
> Your email must contain:
> - Your bank account details to receive the $300,000 prize.

Uh, no.
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Those two things also have absolutely no dependence on UI design, but are a natural consequence of faster computers with more dense displays. I don't understand what the obvious functional difference is between drop shadows http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Apple_Lisa_Off... here and drop shadows in any other application or webpage.
Softlayer.

http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers

They are the most used hosting service behind EC2/PaaS/Linode for startups.

It's not managed, but neither was EC2. You order servers, they build and put them online, then you are given the IP and root password and the rest is up to you.
Apple partnering with Southwest is a great idea. If you don't know, Southwest is the only airline company to have never had a bad month.
Small test. Uploaded 2 files from my mac. Output from shasum:

bead69d062c53436f19b6577ec7b524b9aa54445 DSC_0010.JPG
83ade975de96b81d272642740e06480fbc1484e1 DSC_0010.NEF

Downloaded each file from Amazon Prime Photos. Filenames preserved. Filesizes the same. Output from shasum:

bead69d062c53436f19b6577ec7b524b9aa54445 DSC_0010.JPG
83ade975de96b81d272642740e06480fbc1484e1 DSC_0010.NEF

Lock-in and missing features aside, preserving the binary data is pretty cool, and it's honestly the most important thing when picking a place to store photos (for me).

The most annoying thing was it treated the NEF and JPG files separately, and showed pictures twice in the UI.
What do you mean by product skill?
And that's why management needs to be both responsible in instilling this attitude in themselves, and in the developer leads that are responsible for overseeing the developers. And it is the developer lead's responsibility to ensure that their developers aren't going down to many rabbit holes unnecessarily, specifically because that's too technical a decision for management to make.
I'm trying to figure out how much work it would take to add on OCaml style pattern matching to this language, particularly list matching.

Would you mind pointing me in the right direction? Like a very brief(ie., a sentence or two), high-level overview of how you might approach the task?
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> and the desktop experience must be crippled to unify it

Windows crippled their desktop experience for Windows 8 and 8.1 and are reversing it in Windows 10. No other operating system crippled their system in this way. So must is an unwarranted intensifier. Mistakes were made, things were learned, what you're saying isn't true.
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> it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place.

Note to self: Remember this, whenever you feel stuck and look at the problem in perspective.

My experience, tells me this is one of the biggest guidance a technical/engineering manager must be able to provide to his team. I am not sure how hard or easy or for that matter even makes sense from the manager/lead's perspective, it is to provide this, but have found that whenever my manager is asking me to speed-up i run into these problems and lose the ability to judge whether i'm running against a wall or not.
Definitely in our plan :)
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