skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also a statement used regularly by French newspapers. "Precaire" is a standard word in french to mean "underemployed", except it's a broader term for all those who have shaky economic systems.

Precarisation just means the process of more people falling into tenuous economic circumstances. It's a common topic of discussion in the US....the only difference is that word doesn't really exist in casual English.
What stops you from using Kotlin, Scala, or other languages that are available for Java VMs?
I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but, your concrete flaws are that you believe it's just designed for the sake of change, it animates too much, and that a font is too small in one place?

For what it's worth, the underlying usability really is very well explained and pretty sound in the material (no pun intended) from Google on MD. Eg: http://www.google.com/design/ in the top 2 items.
I was expecting something on C dereferencing ....
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The girls from priorilegal.com are lawyers and they're pretty regulars at HN.
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There is a strong belief in what is considered "right"; despite evidence to the contrary, "the system" is still very much in favour of enforcing an unenforcible law.

In other words, it is demonstrably true that some would pay for Downton Abbey Season 5 if it were available for them to do so in their country, but it's not, so they torrent it to keep up with their friends in other countries. By the time it comes out where they live, they won't need to pay for it anymore.

A significant amount of TV and movie piracy would be eradicated if media conglomerates and film studios realized they had a global audience, and released content globally as opposed to clinging on to some now artificial segmented distribution model.

In the past, a movie studio only made a given number of reels, so movies had to release piecemeal; likewise it took time for the cargo ship to move the physical books to various places around the world, in our digital connected age these things are no longer true, but the foundation of media distribution models remain the same.
I agree with that. As I mentioned in another comment, the behaviour of the security guards and the police officers is often the most unsettling part of the experience. To quote myself in another comment:

"Ok, you have to do your job and check their photos, but why not crack a joke, apologise for the inconvenience, and check the photos quickly as possible."
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Be careful he doesn't have the laptop you emailed him from seized.

More seriously, although your anger is laudable, complaining to criminals is rarely productive. In this case complaining to whoever can put a stop to this practice is what's really needed. I'm not a lawyer, but stopping it seems unlikely to happen unless it's brought to the attention of the Supreme Court. Pressure in that direction would likely be more fruitful.
Here is the original link - http://bbs.feng.com/read-htm-tid-8563343.html
The problem with email encryption
"the more interesting thing though about Connection Machines was the routing"

Indeed. This part of the article goes into it, including Feynman's participation: http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/theory/cm_txts/di-ch2.htm...

While I worked at the Naval Research Lab they acquired a series of these machines as they came out. They were very fast for "embarrassingly parallel" problems, and problems where computation dominated communication. I published a few papers on shocks and detonations in crystals from simulations using these machines. They used a language called "C*" that was C with parallel extensions specifically for the CM.
What a great article.

The sad thing about all of this is that the dinguses on the police state side are not evil monsters, they think this is the only way to protect us from some undefined attack, and if a few rights are trampled on the way, well you are going to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

It practically encourages bullies in the police force to take their will out on the people, and there is no real mechanism for justice for the citizens affected. The constant excuse "but it will make you safer!" or "think of the children!" is chanted while more and more of your privacy is eroded.

Any terrorist could simply use non-human intelligence to gather information on most structures of import, or if needed, would have a much better plan to deal with the problem of being identified as someone casing the place.
> Animation also has the potential to slow down users as they become accustomed enough to the interface to know which elements they want to interact with before the animation completes.

Happens to me so often. When turning off all animations in Windows, the system feels so much more responsive and doesn't hold me back in well-trained workflows.

With Android 4, the default state is really bad. Fortunately, you can turn off most animations in the dev settings, but still, it feels like the OS wasn't optimized for low latency (especially when switching apps). I hope that Android 5 will still allow for animations to be turned off. I can't say that I'm very eager to try Android 5.

Worst thing is, even with the reasonably powerful Nexus 4 (and I hear the same is true even about the Nexus 9), under a little bit of load, animations tend to become even more sluggish; inaccurate animations let the user make mistakes. I have noticed that it is nearly impossible for me to quickly check something using the Nexus 4 while waiting at the lights, especially if it involves switching apps (go from navigation to messaging etc. and back), the phone just isn't responsive enough. This isn't entirely the fault of animations, but it's one more symptom of a lack of focus on low latency.
When you provision a card to Apple Pay by taking a photo of your card or entering the info manually, what happens next is that the iPhone makes a call to the card network (Visa/MC/Amex) to verify the card data (the card network will also make a call to the issuing bank of the card for a validity check), and if all is well, the network will return the same information that is effectively provisioned to physical ICC chips that you see in newer credit/debit cards. These parameters are stored in the iPhone 6's secure element, and allow the iPhone to perform full EMV transactions.

One difference between these parameters and those provisioned to a physical ICC on a new debit/credit card, is that the card number (PAN) is not used; instead a payment token is used (it looks like a PAN - it has the same number of digits, etc). This allows Apple Pay transactions to run on the same infrastructure as chip+pin/signature transactions.
I still fully believe that any long-term security measure requiring secrecy is bound to fail and/or be ineffective.

A security system needs to be effective against attack. That's simple and obvious. But beyond that I think there's a very big difference between 'requiring secrecy' for the effectiveness of a system and wanting to keep something as secret as reasonably possible. Hypothetically, it could be that people attacking a system would harm civilians while capturing attackers in their planning stage (eg while they're investigating the system) would prevent danger to the public. If that was the case then keeping the system secret might well be worthwhile.

You shouldn't immediately assume that an attempt to keep something secret is 'security through obscurity'. It might be obscurity with no regard to increasing security.
Lucky guy who got a baby who respects schedules.

I admit it's really tempting: carry around a sleeping baby while doing some programming work. From my own experience, it IS possible, but one must be very flexible. I.e.: work whenever the baby lets you (you must be able to get focused very fast after interruptions); learn typing fast with one hand (in the other one you will hold the baby); find positions which the baby likes and which allow you to work, e.g. carry it standing in a scarf in front of you or on your back or -- what worked for me -- work with the laptop half lying on the couch while the baby is sleeping on your belly ;-)
The flip side to your flip side is that the cameras, for a number of reasons, do not always work. I remember dealing with a case of robbery, and it turned out that the camera was not working (either itself, or the transmission of the video to the center where they are monitored). This was some 7/8 years ago though, and the technology may have improved.
Related TED talk for those interested: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness
But your friend still got punched, so what exactly did you gain from being surveillance? Getting a drunk guy to spend a night or two in jail?
This is covered in David Brin's book The Transparent Society:

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

There are actually a lot of benefits to surveillance like this, but we need to be able to watch the watchers, so to speak.
Yeah, it's expensive. But it's the tax payers that pay for it, not the people who sell the equipment or training, nor the people who are payed by the tax payer to use said equipment and training against them.
I remember an awful confrontation with a first stage HR employee that was particularly nitpicking with my resume while not knowing the difference between Java and javascript. Ha.. keywords.
No SD card either, and I believe the Raspberry Pi GPU is faster. I also don't believe it's made by Mozilla.
The current trend is rooted in the fact that computer displays approach the visual fidelity of paper prints by now (> 300dpi). Consequently a more print like design language is adopted, which often features a small selection of colours and simple geometric shapes.

The large variety in print design demonstrates that this is not an unreasonable restriction. In my eyes the translucency of windows in Yosemite is a much nicer choice than "brushed aluminium" or "black with fake highlights", it does not pretend to be something it is not. Eventually I would prefer if the "Desktop" metaphor, including "Folders", was given up and replaced with something different. The faster the design language becomes more abstract to facilitate that change, the better. We are stuck with an overall UI design initially conceived in the 70s, alternative versions of personal computing like the Lisp Machine died unfortunately.
From this response, I guess that maybe you were meaning C++ favours RC compared to manual memory management, and were not saying that it is the globally preferred option, but this differs to everything else in your list: the others are the main/preferred strategy in those languages/libraries.
Which turns our police forces into proxy terrorists.
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They really needed $20M?

//

On a side note, I hate how most windows desktop software (including Evernote) just don't bother adapting to High-Res displays.
After the second interview, the recruiter told me to stop wearing a tie.
That's one of the success marks of MD I think; it retracts a bit from total flatness and says, ok, even though this is on a screen and will appear flat, how can we give subtle cues that it's actually a thing (material) and you can do stuff with it?

And they decided to do it with shadow, animation, and contrast.

Maybe there are better ways as well, but the end goal is sound.
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They offer regions as default downloads, but it's all open source and open data, so if you want you can export a single city and use it in the app. It is quite a bit more work than just downloading regions (or small-ish countries like the Netherlands) though. See OsmAndMapCreator if you want to do this for the OsmAnd app.
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I put seperate contracts on as seperate jobs and find getting PHP jobs hilariously easy. People do ask why I change jobs so often, but the standard "I'm a contractor and finance dept don't wanna pay our rates" goes down well enough.

This is my CV, I try to be straight to the point and keep it under 2 pages on the word version.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allandegnan

To be fair the advice is largely still apt.

#1 First step is generally clueless recruiters who'll want you to have 9 years experience with Java 12.

#2 Convince them, your CV goes over. If it has any meat or interesting projects, you'll get called in.

#3 Smile, be likable and be able to talk about $foo at a resonable level and you've got the contract.
Also, the CM-5 moved away from the hypercube topology of the CM-2 to a fat tree.
As someone who has done a ton of hiring, switching jobs a lot is definitely a red flag. Not an automatic reject, but I frequently have to make choices like "It will take this person N months to become useful here, they switch jobs on average every M months. M-N seems like a pretty short time..."
Aren't voting systems, all the way up to the electors in presidential elections, under control of the states, except for where they might impinge on voting rights?
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Of course, the CCTV only helped with the consequences of, amongst other things, excess alcohol consumption, apparent north/south hatred, and people with a violent nature apparently looking for a fight / easily provoked. I don't know if throwing money at a cultural change (i.e. drink less alcohol, love your southern neighbours, don't punch people) would've been more effective than throwing money at creating a surveillance state though.
Really need upgrade to armv7.
Yeah, let's not consider every copycat that comes along a valid and complete implementation of good UI guidelines... This one surely is not.
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I never lived more than ten miles away from a strategic target (in the UK -- which was going to be toast in that "limited tactical exchange") until the end of the cold war, in my mid-twenties.

Memories of that existential state make a really good wellspring for writers of horror fiction.
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It's not a myth, at least not in most cases.

If I take you on I want some indication that you're going to stay around long enough for the investment we're going to make in you to be worthwhile. We'll normally pay a recruitment fee and then we'll pay you while you're learning about our product, our industry, our processes and the specific technologies you haven't worked with that we use, and we'll be paying our existing staff to take time out from coding to do those things. That's not inconsiderable.

Obviously your experience may render some of that irrelevant. If that's the case then if you're massively better than the other candidates I may take the risk but if you're not, then I can take you or I can take the person who is as good but will stick around longer. That's not a tough decision.

I'm not looking for gold watch territory or even an indication that you might be around for 5 years, and I'm not looking for a guarantee, but if your CV shows a pattern of you moving every 15 months I need to work out why I think I won't be your next 15 month stint and if I think I think I am whether it'll be worth my while.
Cool, thaaaaanks!
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What an incredibly stupid thing to say. Yes, we do know how the natural world works but it is tenet of Abrahamic religions (and Christianity in particular) that naturalism is not true. And I would not really care about it if these people left it at that.

But these people get to vote too you know. What person believes influences strongly what they do and what they want. There is no such thing as a private belief. What you believe about the physical world and what you base your beliefs on determines how you behave, what policies you support, if you will deny scientific facts, what you want your kids taught in schools, etc.

If that weren't enough some of these people find it irresistible temptation to "share" their delusions to the point they want their brand of belief instituted in laws and constitution of the country, and things like commandments displayed in schools and courtrooms almost like graven images.

This is why they must be engaged in debate, discussion and idiocy of their beliefs pointed out. There is no polite way to tell someone that what they hold as most precious and dearest thing is false, and debunked. But it has to be done, esp. now that we live in times when we do know, are free to say so.

And the only reason we are having this discussion is precisely because these people feel the need to discuss and share their beliefs, because they can't be happy until you believe it too, and until every knee bows. The stipulation to proselytize is in the holy books.
I'm curious about where your company is, how big is it, and what kind is it?
I suppose this must resonate with you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJXrbWU1Aw

It does with me, though the being alone part might bother me after a bit, despite traveling on my own most of my life.
Wow you won the lottery ? I don't think I could ever afford these many devices in a lifetime !
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Just a rebranding of Aurora, focused on developers?

I was expecting something more from all the fanfare.
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Danny Hillis' PhD thesis, "The Connection Machine": http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719

A great read.
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He got fined about £300, which hopefully taught him a lesson.
IMO as this was handled by police trained for city center brawling, it would have been almost the exact same outcome without CCTV. They may have arrived slightly later, but if you were in the city center near the pubs/clubs, there's often a minimum of 10 officers hanging around
Can civilians thieves use civil forfeiture, in small claim court, for example?
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I think the fundamental problem with teaching code is that teaching code is not math, it's language, and language is quickly internalized once you 'get' it.

Most of the people who write books and web tutorials teaching code already know the code, but don't realize the extent to which they've internalized a large amount of understanding of the subject. So what makes perfect sense to them either gets dropped on the table without explanation, or struggles to actually give a clear why of the thing. Being able to recognize that, and explain those things clearly, is a very specific skill in programming just as it is in language, and just as sometimes language classes get given to someone who just happens to speak the language rather than who is a linguist, you will often find someone who speaks, say, Java or C++, but can't necessarily explain clearly why or how the patterns and techniques they've internalized work.

I'm increasingly a believer in more interactive methods of code teaching, because I think like language it's a subject that requires immediate practice to facilitate that internalization. Exercises like the Codecademy courses, or the Koans, which pair explanation with specific examples, immediate practice with new concepts, and equally immediate feedback about failures/successes, do a far better job of teaching a language than anything else I have seen.
I wonder if these images are all in the public domain.

Edit: Seriously, these are all personal pictures of people clearly visible. Isn't that question legitimate?
Haha, this thing is hilarious. Great job. I wonder if the author manually went through images locating the finger or there was some automated way of doing it. I did notice that if you move the pointer is certain ~20x20 areas the same picture appears. I'm guessing the set of images is small enough to just manually do it.
Rule of thumb is two years. You're allowed to have one or two where you've left after three months - not every role works out.

But more than anything: get comfortable talking about WHY it didn't work out, in a way that doesn't bad-mouth the company and still makes you look like a professional.

An advantage of applying through a recruiter is that they can have this chat with you first, and then make your case to the employer (who they will have a relationship with). As a Hiring Manager, I've said no to candidates, only to have a recruiter persuade me (rightly) that actually I should talk to them, even though there were things that spooked me about their CV.
The friend would have been punched anyway. The advantage was the (potential) prosecution.
I'm far from up on the research, and I've heard conflicting versions of what research supports. But, this article seems to be treating the relationship as clearly causal but modest.

From the first paragraph:

"Scientists have studied the relationship between money and happiness for decades and their conclusion is clear: Money buys happiness, but it buys less than most people think (Aknin, Norton, & Dunn, 2009; Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2002; Frey & Stutzer, 2000). The correlation between income and happiness is positive but modest.."
The scary possibility is that someone hacked you, backdoored the server, and then patched the vulnerability to keep others out.
"Principle 1: Buy experiences instead of things"

Figure 1 - highest on the happiness index is "making love"

I see what you're saying. ;)
It highlights the fact that it actually takes a lot of work to do all of these details and get the UI right, and if you miss one or two, it really doesn't hold up. Something we should all take to heart. Not many design frameworks have such complete and irreducible properties. The Material design guidelines and (good) implementations so far are really very impressive.
> and a 3V to 5V step-up converter

You may want to step it up to 3.3V only for the main power supply and do a little surgery on the Pi to feed it directly to its 3.3V 'rail', foregoing the 5V->3.3V linear regulator. (I'm just saying this from reading the given page, I haven't done this myself, so YMMV.)

http://www.bitwizard.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Reducing_power_...

BTW it's not clear to me whether the Pi or the Beaglebone Black use less power [when idle]. The latter would provide more CPU power, which would make it more interesting for a general purpose solar computer.

PS. I was thinking about the B+ when writing the above (stupid me, should actually read the article before posting). The A+ likely has lower power consumption than the Beaglebone (but also only 256 MB RAM, which is really going to be limiting for many tasks). Also, perhaps they have replaced the 5V->3.3V linear regulator with a step-down regulator which would be more efficient (still, doing only one transformation instead of two would give you a bit lower losses).
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I run a server on OVH, but I figured as I don't run any dynamic web app on it, I was unaffected by shellshock - the only way in is through the web server (which basically hosts a bunch of static files), or SSH.

From what I understood, shellshock was caused by poor sanitation of bash variable extension, and so only posed a threat to people who used bash from their public-facing interfaces, hosted bash CGI scripts, ...

Was I wrong to assume that I was safe?
Does anyone know how this was implemented? It's a great example of a case where, as a computer programmer, there are still problem domains which I have absolutely no idea how to approach!