skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know how exactly Emscripten handles the uints question but everything worked well and pretty fast without me having to worry about it and having to turn uints into ints.

Isn't that a bit cheaty? IE is potentially a lot faster with that change, which Haxe's port benefits from. Haxe's port got more work put into, so proclaiming it a winner because Emscripten was already pretty fast without any work put into the port makes me doubtful of the results.

(Also, Haxe's UInt 0xFFFFFFFF not being converted to -1 sounds like a bug waiting to happen.)
Same here , Not Available in India.
The issue is just, 99% of the people who use Snapchat, probably don't use facebook anymore.
This sounds like a really well cushioned description of a generic system to implement Jim Bell's[1] Assassination Politics[2] system... "well cushioned" in that it uses the 'free market' rhetoric of the establishment to preemptively self-justify.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell#.22Assassination_Poli...
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Exactly, that was my point. If you're starting a simple consumer product you'll write lots of code quickly. When working on something complex you need to consider how your changes will effect every aspect of the product.
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Does it though?

There is very little lockin with Uber at the consumer level, so goodwill is incredibly important for the company. At some point if they keep this shit up they are going to come up snake eyes and something will go viral.

Beyond that they are more or less loading the gun for anyone who wants to make the argument that the industry needs regulation.

If I was an investor I'd want heads rolling.
> If you've identified one or a few companies you really want to work for the best way to get interviewed is to know someone who works there.

And that's gameable with a bit of effort.
certainly Tor is a great service. Dut due to it's popularity it is very inetersting for FBI. So they are making an effort to deanonymize service.For example, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/11/07/how-did-l...
It's a little strange for a Coverity product to appear as a "Show HN".
It's also worth mentioning that the CEO has recently stated that they're not interested in returning to the mobile handset market[1]. Of course it's anybodies guess as to how much stock to actually place in that statement.

[1]http://www.zdnet.com/nokia-says-no-return-to-handsets-as-ceo...
meetup.com is a good way of finding other people interested in the same things as you are.
Film and digital differ fundamentally in how they capture under/over-exposed areas. You can overexpose film and still preserve some - it won't be all white, while underexposed is... pitch black.
With digital its different: once you overexpose you get plain white and everything is gone. Underexposed areas still contain some detail.
It seems like Khan Academy initially covered whatever Sal Khan found interesting, so there is Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. Now that it's become more focused, a side effect is that there's a bigger concentration on grade school-level stuff.

It is a pity though. It would have been great to see KA covering Theoretical CS as well as Discrete Math.
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So there goes my productivity this week. Amazing work, all of it! Is there any kind of simple setup with which we can test any of this? Python, numpy, anything along those lines?
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Just one more shining example that the easiest way to be successful in business is to be a sociopath.
When Godaddy came out in support of SOPA, after a string of other obviously bad actions, I thought for sure it would harm their business. It didn't.

Unfortunately I don't think this Uber story will be different. Most people don't take a stand on anything (unless it involves consuming even more fast food, like a Chick-fil-a "reverse boycott").
IIRC iOS 8 performs MAC address randomization for just this reason.
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Most notable to me was that the jihad-funding site was left up while its clone was taken down. Does that mean they couldn't locate the server, or that it's controlled by the FBI?

I was wondering the same thing - and this line from the article too:

In a number of cases the FBI has seized the clone or scam version of a site while leaving up the real site.

Is it because all the clone/scam sites were hosted on the same set of servers, or do the FBI know where the real ones are already but are deliberately leaving it up (and just removing the fakes since they're presumably interfering with their surveillance)?
It's a first name in Sweden, which sometimes makes me smile when doing that particular typo.

Something about suddenly SCREAMING someone's name right in the middle of the code feels like a (harmless, virtual) version of Tourette's. :) Of course no disrespect meant to people who actually suffer from that.
SNI is optional for clients only in theory. In practice, since there is no way of knowing whether a server needs the SNI hostname to select the correct server certificate, current browsers always send the SNI extension.

Therefore, since Tor tries to mimick common browsers and servers, it must always send a SNI extension.
It's possible he's pissed of at Sarah Lacy for reasons other than that she's a woman.
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Have you looked at sailfishOS? I think that's the modern descendant of maemo.
you're right. VPN is a good solution in this case
On a related note; London is transforming the payphones into free charging stations.
They should probably fire Emil Michael or similar. The

"spending 'a million dollars' to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. .... they’d look into “your personal lives, your families,” and give the media a taste of its own medicine"

proposal is a bit out of order. The money to throw $1m around that kind of way comes from Google and like investors and they could object that they don't want to be associated with that stuff.
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Rome wasn't built in a day. Legislation is a series of compromises. Think of it more as moving down the field towards your goal against the opposite team, instead of just teleporting there. Specifically, this bill makes phone spying much more onerous, and critically increases transparency which will immediately curtail abuses and fuel further debate. This isn't the last word on the topic.
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This is the first product I've seen to feature the new reversible and just generally very promising USB C-type connector. Just wanted to point that out, since it's fun when new tech enters the market.
If you can charge $250 an hour and work 2,000 hours per year, your gross will be $500K. That's probably not realistic. Regardless of your rate you are not likely to have 2,000 billable hours per year as a freelancer. What you can charge depends on your skills, the demand for those skills, and keeping your pipeline of work full. How many billable hours you can work depends on the projects, your energy and dedication, how organized you are, and your quality of life choices.

As a freelancer you will have higher taxes. You may have to pay for lawyers and accountants. You won't have employer-paid health insurance or retirement benefits. You won't have paid vacation time. You probably won't get stock options or equity. You will have downtime when you have no projects or you are waiting for your client(s) to make decisions or deliver something. You will probably spend a considerable amount of unbillable time finding clients and projects, negotiating contracts, and various marketing and administrative chores. You will probably have to learn new tools, languages, and application domains on your own time. You may miss working with other programmers and being part of a team.

Some people choose freelancing because they can make more money. Some people choose freelancing because they want more control over their time, or they don't want to be stuck in a cubicle job. I started freelancing because I was working as a salaried employee at a company that was slowly dying, and I wanted to have a backup plan. Then I decided I could travel and work remotely since I wasn't working on-site anyway.

Having a marketable speciality helps, especially if you can build a reputation around it. Marketable speciality doesn't just mean an unusual skill or talent; you need to have a skill or talent you can get paid for. Back in the minicomputer days of the 70s and early 80s I freelanced doing performance analysis and improvement on PICK and PR1ME computers. That was a lucrative speciality for a while, because those systems were fairly popular, and buying faster hardware was prohibitively expensive. Now hardware and cloud computing power is cheap, so a slow web app can be made faster by throwing RAM and CPU at it. I'm not saying your skill isn't valuable, just that you need to be careful not to back yourself into a niche that has other, cheaper, solutions.

I don't work 2,000 billable hours a year. Instead I have more free time to do what I want to do. I live in places that are cheaper than the US, sometimes a lot cheaper, so I can work less and enjoy an equivalent or better quality of life.

I don't think you're missing anything. You have to weigh the pros and cons of a full-time salaried job and everything that comes with it against freelancing and decide which is best for you.
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That kind of labelling is never going to happen. But really it has always been the wrong way round. For example, you shouldn't really need to have "dolphin friendly tuna" anymore than "kitten friendly chocolate". If a company spends millions on marketing but does horrible things it is incredibly disineguous. Having unethical practices and not telling customers is like selling vegetarian food which contains animal products.
arpnetworks offers openbsd and freebsd. They're pretty cheap and quite good. I've used them for years and have no complaints.
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China should block itself from the internet instead. I am running several servers and getting the most useless/annoying bot/malware traffic from China. Even that I had to block everything that comes from them.
Hungry Planet: Can Big Data Help Feed 9B Humans?
Xen Security Advisory CVE-2014-8594 / XSA-109
I'm pretty sure the language barrier and a massive internal market do most of the heavy lifting here. Look at Yandex.

The Great Firewall is a wash at best. It protects local companies from international competition but it's part of a policy that makes foreigners trust Chinese products much less and will hurt their adoption.
Big Data Is Being Used to Fight Parkinson's
Misleading headline, from article it wasn't in any way a serious suggestion.
I own (and love) the Barbie computer engineer doll. I keep it on my desk at work. But the book is beyond belief.
Aren't BSDs planning to support wayland in the long run anyway?
British music tech startup ROLI acquires C++ framework JUCE
By obsolete, he probably meant that new companies wouldn't be adopting it anymore, and that the only jobs left would involve maintaining legacy code.
How certain are you that it would have shipped? Maemo had missed deadlines for years and never been in a mainstream product.
That shows that vitamin D supplements are useful, not that milk is. Vitamin D can be added to anything (it is already in lots of orange juice for example). Coke with vitamin D in it isn't suddenly "a healthy part of a complete breakfast!". If most people removed carrots or beef from their diet without replacing it with some other source of the vitamins those provide, they would become deficient. If most people removed milk from their diet, nothing would happen. That's the point.
Vegans only need to supplement b12. The rest they can get just fine. But they do not have an average american's diet. Simply removing meat from an average americans diet would be a huge problem, they don't eat nearly enough vegetables to make up the lost zinc and iron.
That was Microsoft, this is Nokia. Two different companies using the Nokia brand.
Your link says you are mistaken. Milk has only a few vitamins and minerals in reasonable quantities. They are still there in skim milk, and still just as available. None of them are fat soluble other than the vitamin D if you are consuming milk with vitamin D added to it. Compare whole milk from your link to skim milk from the same site: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/1...
Sadly, The OpenBSD Foundation seems to be getting a lot less donations, while some of their software (eg: OpenSSH) is incredibly widely used.
I disagree. Hitler didn't come to power on the promises of gassing millions of people to death - that came later. Actually, if you watch his speeches he had some good points and if you heard someone like him today you could even call him patriotic. And even if you could tell that someone of that attitude is coming to power, what are you going to do if the government already has your data? Protest?
Nokia launches a surprise Android tablet
Am I missing something? It seems it's only the PaleMoon fork that's not supported?
I can find no evidence to support that claim. Do you have some?
> Attempting to blackmail the press if they challenge your company's PR?

Every major company does this, just not in the ham fisted way that Uber has done. Want NYT tech reporter to give positive reviews of Apple? Give him special access to newsworthy stories from inside, early access to devices, free gear, fly him out to special events and treat him like a prince. He gives an overly critical review? Take it all away. He'll have to hear from his friends at WSJ how great this year's event was, or how cool the devices are. They'll be special, he won't.
What burning issue does this solve? I thought there was research showing most people use only a few core apps, so I don't see that many people will have a need for this. I certainly don't.
"...is that the skin in the ears isn't really tough enough to stick something in there for too long…"

I use earplugs every night. The ones I think are most comfortable block up to 38 db at low frequencies and 48 db for high frequencies. They are really soft - and I mean: really. I sleep like a baby (and I don't miss my alarm in the morning). Still, in case of fire during a REM phase, I probably will die ;o).

I also have professional plugs from the acoustician that were fitted to my ears, but they are much harder (silicone). Those I can wear during the day (underground, bus etc.) but not during the night. They do hurt the ears brutally. The little movements that happen, when the ear rubs the pillow are sufficient to cause severe pain.
Kind of ironical that the lousy layout & typography of the book gives away MS Word usage (confirmed by PDF metadata), and that the Risc emulator available at http://ProjectOberon.com/ is for MS Windows. Self defeating?
That's called "getting disrupted."
A computer programmed to deal with sarcasm would contrast this statement with (local) popular opinion and deduce from the large contrast between the certitude of the statement and the popular opinion that this statement is either sarcasm or obliviousness. I think exactly as humans do. It's not that sarcasm is hard to detect for computers, it's just that it's hard for computers to collect enough contextual information to judge the validity of any statement.
What do you find to be vague about the GPL? I've personally never even had to visit the GPL FAQ at gnu.org.
App was a great step forward, but it's clear they have a poisoned culture. Emil isn't a bad apple, he's the same as the rest of the barrel.
there was an ongoing joke in the company that they had "the most expensive clock application ever made" because they kept reinventing it.

but they would have shipped, the deadline was a _dead_line and the product was very close to completion.

the build-systems were finalised and we had started package version locks for builds of the software we were going to use on the distro.. it was very much final stages and polishing.
Surely you can see the difference between "loss of favorable treatment and perks" and "gross abuse of private data and anonymous slander"?

What you've described - while highly problematic - is a pretty big distance away from "blackmail".
Good open source projects should have documentation for you to help you get started. Like the other posts, there are many ways you can contribute, and every little bit does help.

As far as I know, no one will be standing over you expecting you to finish anything, unless you made some kind of agreement to start.

I would suggest finding something you enjoy and just start. When you are ready to submit your changes be ready for great feedback and a ton of learning. You will be working with some really passionate, skilled guys so there will undoubtedly be a big, but rewarding, learning curve.

Our project is .Net based, so not really a fit for your skills, but feel free to check it out or share with your friends: https://github.com/Warewolf-ESB/Warewolf-ESB

Good luck, and most of all, have fun!
That's very very different than ruining the journo"s life.
I don't think he's pissed off because she's a woman, he's pissed about because she's critical. Still, when he says someone will be "personally" responsible for someone's sexual assault, he's essentially trivializing sexual assault. It's like saying that a rape victim is "partially at fault", it's wrong, indefensible and misogynistic.
Taunus Is a New Micro Isomorphic MVC Engine for Node.js
Yes and it's being produced with my ex-bosses and there is a working phone over at Jolla[0] I've not tried it though. :( I'd like to.

[0]http://jolla.com/
Currently Frank Herbert's "Dune", which is quite good from what I've read so far.

My problem is, I can never actually muster up the motivation to sit down and read it.

I'm coming to Dune from "Fahrenheit 451". I'd give it 8/10, I've found it's a little slow to kick off, but the plot soon picks up.
I'm not asking about proof, I am asking about your personal subjective opinion. Your post doesn't appear to address the question at all, it appears to be justifications for why you want to "punish" corporate software companies. I want to know how do you think preventing people from using free software benefits society at large?

Also, your post contains a very common myth: "the BSD license is that it leaves the developer full freedom to restrict the freedom of users". It does no such thing. The only thing the BSD license restricts is your ability to use the code without including the license like it says.
Looked at as in read about it? Sure. Looked at as in actually seen it on real hardware? Nope.
Microsoft: 'Nobody loves developers more than us'
Maybe people in more fortunate locales are seeing something different, but based on this page I wouldn't say that the table has been "released". This is just a "coming sometime" site, and I can enter my email at the bottom to be the "first" to know about something. (I assume that emails entered here are sold to spammers. If I actually did find out about availability, say 24 hrs in advance, this might be worth it, but is there any indication that will be the case?)
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that's seem fit....
It's disrespectful that the community cannot allowed to at least see the stories we want to see bubble to the top, good or bad. There are good lessons to be learned in all of these issues, moreso than a lot of articles that bubble up to the top here.
I wouldn't count on that. In the financial market, its already happening. You can buy information from a ratings agency that assesses a companies ethical behavior. If they don't meet the investor's targets, they won't invest in that stock.

I could see that happening on a consumer level as well, all you need is that data and a smartphone.
If you really want to program mathematics, look at Coq, Agda or Idris.
I upvoted you. Very detailed back story but I'm not clear where criminal charges against anyone would arise. What am I missing? Has evidence of purposeful fraud by the board members been uncovered since Sept 2013?
We have developed RKT Launcher http://www.gesturekit.com/rkt-launcher/ with a similar concept. Its based on gestureKit SDK http://www.gesturekit.com/ a cross platform gesture recognition tool.

You can find it on the PLAY store here http://bit.ly/1okJIfc and you have the souce code here https://github.com/RoamTouch/app-rktlauncher-android

2015 is the year of the smartwatch technology and we are going to be there.
yeah that is not....
the current one has a "/" at the end. So they aren't the same url. (I checked using FF inspector, otherwise hard to notice)
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Whatever people think of this idea, it's probably a bit late to be coming up with new designs. Any future adoption of a different password hashing algorithm will probably be determined by the PHC[0]... at least, I'm not aware of a more comprehensive ongoing effort to improve the state of the art.

[0] https://password-hashing.net/
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Indeed, that's exactly what I do (with a small script that wraps rsync): the backup server PULLS data from my machine, and saves incremental backups (uses hardlinks, see --link-dest). In case my machine is compromised, the backup server is still inaccesible.
Come check out Warewolf ESB - https://github.com/Warewolf-ESB/Warewolf-ESB

It's recently become open source so now is a good time to get in early and stick your name on it. It's .Net based, so a little bit of polishing up will need to happen.

Looking forward to your contribution :)
That was an interesting and well written article. I also found the comments interesting and like how the author interacted with the commenters. Unfortunately I can not provide any significant constructive criticism to improve it, as it is extremely good.

Could we talk about presentation?

On the good side, no 90s era re-imagining of the splash screen that has to be ignored and scrolled past to see the text... I like that. Another good side is no scroll bar hijacking where click hold the scroll bar in the lower half of the article makes the page flip downwards unusably, I hate sites that do that and will go out of my way to avoid them.

On the bad side, lets look at the first 5 seconds of user experience. The site renders with 3 pixs, a large artists interpretation of the Harappan (cool), a smaller strange landscape with a only slightly tinier headline "Imagine What It Looked Like Before the Collapse" (to save you time, it has nothing to do with the Harappan although that headline would be a cool follow up story) and, I kid you not, "The Origin of the Speculum Is Just As Creepy As You Imagined". I would suggest fine tuning that a little bit. Especially the last bit. Unless there's a Harappan connection to the speculum (which I guess is possible?)
Directly taking funding from an occupying army to manipulate popular behaviour in to a centralized intelligence gathering system, then claiming some form of moral outcome for the greater good? Somehow I missed the connection.
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