skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy for hacker news, should be the clarification.

But there's no point in using facebook if all your friends aren't on facebook.

I close websites if I hit a paywall. Would I really go through the effort to hit a VPN? ....nah.
Toyota to begin selling hydrogen fuel cell car Mirai for first time
This is from the Products division of Nokia Technologies. I am a proud employee of it!
They did, because it's Nokia's brand, not Microsoft's. We (Nokia) are doing this independently of Microsoft.
Yeah anyone who missed that.. reading between the lines it looks like a pretty cosy event.
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Personally I have to thank the great firewall for blocking Facebook and Twitter so that I would not waste my time on these nonsenses. For serious problems I do not mind find a way to access google, but I would not do it to try to access Facebook especially when none of my friends are there.
I'm not sure either. But it could be a ruby style and, and a mix between assign and equal operator.

Then

(s='a' and x=0)

would mean: if s=='a' then set x to 0, but if s != 'a' he would never jump to x=0, since and does stop when the result before is falsy - it is following the logical and behaviour.

The or would prevent the x=2 to be executed when the prior block is true, one true is enough.
As foreigner living in Germany I never understood this stupid law.

If someone is bad, just put it in written form instead of stupid formulations that sound nice to the unwary.
That may be an issue with yourself - Honestly the first thing I noticed people-wise was that they're all named Daniel
Greetings from Networks - good that we got informed via HN ;)
It looks amazing (and much more unique) in person. You'll have to try it! :)
Do you recall when Nokia corporate email was migrated to Exchange, and what was the prior system?

In a Hollywood movie script, after failure of internal reorgs, a company could be tanked with deniablity, speculators make $ shorting/bouncing the stock, sell shell to BigCo, retain brand, rebuild new company and new corporate culture. Only in the movies.
> Or, maybe it was that Mixi had been lagging behind for ages and deservingly died off.

Lagging behind who? ...foreign competitors. I'm not saying Mixi was great, but if it didn't have to deal with facebook/twitter/instagram/naver LINE then it would have had a much greater chance of remaining relevant.
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Atom is less powerful than Celeron, Intel's low-budget/low-power family. Plus, it will be throttled, to reduce power consumption/heat, like all mobile CPU... but... it certainly does seem like a desktop-class CPU.

It would be interesting to find the median power of a desktop CPU for each year; and the power delivered by a mobile CPU that's sustainable (i.e. without throttling/overheating - 2.33GHz is the "burst frequency"). Then, for example, you could say it's a "2003 desktop class".

As a super-flawed estimate, the first time a PC CPU was available at or above 2.3GHz was in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_chronology (Opteron, AMD) But this Atom may be a bit better, because that was high-end, not median; not 64-bit; not using fast memory or other advances; and single core not quad. How much they offset the crippled architecture of Atom and throttling, I don't know. It also has 2MB cache; my median PC in 2006 had only 512KB cache...

I'd guess it's around 2006-8 desktop class.
Actually, all the major economic powers got there by means of protectionism. Economic liberalism is nice when you're already at the top.
The Far Cry 4 wildlife you really shouldn’t hunt
The most interesting question to me would be, does this means that the server administrators now have a "get out of jail free card" due to the "fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine or similar?

Hosting a hidden service by itself does not mean doing something illegal, even Facebook hosts a hidden service nowadays. The only valid justification for the seizure would be if they had traced an illegal hidden service to that host, but from what I have read this seizure sounds too indiscriminate for that to be the case (IIRC even some pure relays, which don't host anything at all, were seized).
SNI is an extension, it's not required and makes for the traffic to be easily distinguishable, so what's the reason for Tor to send an SNI?
I agree, Haskell is a great language, but its ecosystem has much less support than C. Luckily for us Atwood made jgm write CommonMark in C.
Access the index document directly:
https://www.zlauncher.com/index.html

Worked for me.
As the article says, because the letter it's supposed to be good for you, just the companies found their way to pass along the message they want.

But yeah, it's all a bit crazy.
- It crashes when I enable/disable the 'service improvement'

- I agree it definitely lacks shortcuts. Maybe once it has learnt enough it gets better? Still insufficient to get started, event with a letter I can not get what I want.

- The shortcuts at the bottom are too small IMHO

- Seems like web history integration is limited to Chrome: I use Firefox Beta and not a single of my often-viewed pages was listed.
I actually had to go back and check, and it seems you're correctly quoting his mis-quoting of the startup log.

It's "delay loop", which at least gives some clue that it has to do with timing. I'm sure the OP at least knows this, but just had a typo in his blog post.
EOF: sync vs. async, the Microsoft way
Same for me, probably due to some broken localization redirect. However, this direct link seems to work: https://www.zlauncher.com/index.html
> But according to Gruber, "GPL software isn’t 'open'"

You stripped the context - "...in the way that BSD software is".

> But the weird thing about a truly open platform is that its openness allows closed things to be built on top of it.

His point was that you can't (easily) build closed things on GPL software the way you can with BSD software.
Nokia had Qt+QML and the opportunity to take this cross-platform, plus an innovation advantage with Meego (no Java overhead) and patents. Now Microsoft is attempting to take C# cross-platform and open-source, after blocking Qt on Windows Phone. Years have been lost. Meanwhile Java chews up memory and courtroom time on Android.

There's still nothing on the market to compare with Nokia offline maps -- uses no data when travelling, does not send location history to OTT provider like Google or Apple.

The entire industry lost when Nokia imploded, especially Google and Apple, whose UI has stagnated, unless hard to read "thin fonts" count as innovation. Competition from Nokia Linux nee Meego (not to mention WebOS) would have been good for all parties.
I would scrap it altogether, people aren't "bad", there is just contextes where they don't fit. I think people are always trying to create new means of exclusion, a new nobility. Introductions, elite schools, recommendation letters, references etc. It's like nobody cares about substance anymore, it's all about your background, like it was about your name before.
Because there are people of good faith who work at the NSA. They have been told by their losses that the programs they are implementing have been reviewed and are perfectly legal. If Congress makes a clear statement on the matter then that fig leaf will no longer apply.
Not possible to install in my country: wonder whether it was a legal issue or something else that prevented them from allowing an international audience.
One Platform to Rule Them All: How Unified IT Monitoring Puts MSPs in Control
Drones 'being used to harass people', police tell the House of Lords
Without having used it, they should add a feature to be able to assign a custom letter to it so that if you draw "P" it'll still show up. Long press -> add additional letter or something
Uber is just not a nice company, they skirt laws around the world, and do very shoddy business.
UK airspace traffic visualised. It's busy up there
You could always use netcat:

echo "GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: news.ycombinator.com

"|nc news.ycombinator.com 80 >yc
68008 it's a 68000 with a 8 bit external data bus and limited address bus. It's like the 8088 of the 68000 family. It was used on the Sinclair QL. If a Linux can run on a 68008, can run on any 680X0, that includes old Macs, QL, Amigas, Ataris (not the 8 bit family), etc...
> How does apple manages its update.

It doesn't. Apple's servers are notorious for going down for software updates, WWDC tickets, new iPhones, etc.... Calm down.
I'm not a massive fan of OS interfaces where stuff moves around without my control. Muscle memory remembers where the icon for Chrome is and if it moves then I have to look for it.

Also the list looks like it should scroll, because it has so few items on it, but dragging upwards draws an 'l'.

I only use a few apps - email, phone, browser, settings and twitter client. Camera is reached through the lock screen. Other infrequently used apps are available through a separate icon, same as on this launcher. So for my uses this should be a winner.

I'll give it a few days to learn my habits and see if it works for me.
When I was living in Beijing some month ago the bad Internet really upset me. Almost every international connection was quite slow. A lot of pages took minutes to load because so many sites use Google hosted fonts, js libraries or API. These requests took about a minute to timeout and finally the browser could start to render the page (e.g using a default font). Most vpns are like described often slow, so also no solution. I then wrote a chrome plugin to filter all requests to Google hosted libraries and rerouted them to a Chinese service which mirrors Google hosted libraries. This really improved my surfing experience.
I lived with this for a month. It took very little getting used to and was pretty pleasant to use. Writing letters for launching works great.

However, what I missed most was discoverability. I don't use all my apps all the time, so less frequently used ones dropped out of sight. And if you can't remember the actualy name of it, you'll likely just lose it unless go hunting.

If you like to have a controlled subset of apps that are always near the surface, then great.

If you like stumbling serendipity, not so good.
Brain Training breakthrough helping kids with autism and asperger's syndrome
Yes, this is true, going back all the way through history.
Astronomers Find Evidence of Two Undiscovered Planets in Our Solar System
CentOS package manager yum does have the --installroot option to change the installation root.

However it will still want to update the global rpmdb, and thus require root for that.
It's nice to see tech specs mention the audio chipset and codec package. In this case the Wolfson WM8958E.

I've tended to avoid audio on phones and tablets, preferring dedicated devices with better chipsets. I'd love to see mobile devices start competing on audio quality (as opposed to loudness of crappy speakers).
I would hypothesize that the vast majority of communication is between two speakers of the same language.
> You don't say things like this to an audience containing media members and not expect it to get out.

You do if you're a psychopathic megalomaniac who got shoved money up the ass by shriveling old millionaires for having a business model that is based on siphoning money off less-than-minimum wage workers.
Don't underestimate the old fashioned way of making friends..

Hit the bar, have a few drinks, talk to other people at the bar.
Sadly it no longer is enough to be profitable, you also have to make enough profit (~20% in the banking sector), which is why Thyssen decided to focus on high technology steel products, instead of competing with India/China on price.
I built a 68008 breadboard 'computer' as a student with 6522 VIA, an EPROM of 'code', some RAM and some LED lights to show if anyone was home. It took a lot of work to get that far. And that was a long time ago. The benefits of the 68008 were the same - minimal pins to wire up, more chance of it actually working.

Anyway I am impressed that someone can get a distro working on 68008, getting to the start line of that project is a big deal, going the extra miles - very impressive!
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can we please have a NSFW tag
Sounds like a type system to me.
This looks to be somewhere between Dolphin gestures and the old Palm Graffiti writing.

As an input method it could be great as I used to be able to scribble in Graffiti faster than I can type today on a touch keyboard.

As a search method for an app, I imagine it would be a little clumsy. Most of the performance from the input is gained after the first few letters have been drawn, once your hands are comfortably holding the device and accurately making the shapes in the input area.
The main application of computer vision is robotics and automation.

If you don't like war or mass surveillance, stop voting for it. It's like blaming the Wright brothers for the city bombings of world war II.

Do you really believe if these researches didn't work on it, the technology just wouldn't be invented at all?

And I think the military applications are sort of overstated. We already have drones and effective mass surveillance. Machine vision can help, but it doesn't make or break it.
This redirects me to

https://www.zlauncher.com/es/?redirect=true

but then I get a 403 error (forbidden).

Probably because I live in Argentina and/or my preferred language in the browser is ES-AR,ES, EN
I think he used pyramid building precisely because it was such an astonishing achievement. Similarly with the space programmes. His point was that accomplishment wasn't enough; that innovation requires a transformative effect on people.

His examples of innovation all had a multiplicative effect on human labour, knowledge or communication. Pyramid building and space flight were impressive and inspiring but didn't have a lasting effect on how people live their lives.
Being interested in Linux/Unix, file systems, crypto or whatever other technical topic doesn't necessarily mean you are also interested in developing graphical interfaces. That's an art form and discipline in itself. I suppose the people who make these tools are more interested in the tools' respective technical aspects than in interface or graphical design.

Moreover, many of these backup tools run on servers (or as an automated background process) where a graphical interface is more of a handicap than an asset.

I think that in open-source software "pretty interface" sounds often like "customer-oriented" which in turn sounds like "getting paid".
This is a good insight! Thanks
Nokia just announced an Android tablet, running Lollipop 5.0 (which requires VP8 and VP9), it also uses an intel chipset with VP8 encode and decode.

Does that trigger any of the reciprocal patent grant thingies that VP8 (and 9?) have and remove Nokia's patents from the picture?
Your assumption that automated surveillance and autonomous robotics is wholly negative needs to be tested.

If surveillance was entirely automated one could argue that it would be less likely to be corrupted by political or social influences. One could argue the other way too, but I'm certainly not persuaded that it is more negative than manual surveillance. David Brin has written on this and related topics extensively[1], and I think there are more subtleties on the topic than it is popular to acknowledge.

As for autonomous robots: I think there are plenty of dangerous tasks that could be given to more intelligent robots, and I'm fairly sure this would be a net good.

Additionally there are many fields where this technology will be used that are almost completely positive. Medical imagery, search and rescue, and many fields of science are obvious applications.

Like most scientific fields, this undoubtedly has both positive and negative outcomes. How those are judged probably says as much about a person's political and social views as it does about the absolute moral view of the technology.

[1] http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html
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They are building infrastructure. My guess is that there is valuation based on what they think it might be worth but what it will cost for them to get it up and running.

If it works 21million is going to be seen as nothing.
I disagree with anyone who says that code tests are scam. I work at Thoughtworks and we follow extreme programming practices. The most basic of which includes pairing. Pairing is a super strenuous activity which brings in productivity as well. However it is not everyone. Doing a code pairing round validates a lot of softer aspects.

I personally believe in show and don't tell. So if I am interviewing with someone or vice versa I would rather appreciate that I get to see some code that an individual has written or have someone assess me on that rather than how I well I can articulate myself or conjure up jargons and buzz words.

I am comfortable taking on large problems as long as there is flexibility in time. I spend about 15 hours over three days solving a problem that intrigued me when I interviewed 5 years back. I learned a lot about company, programming and myself int those three days.

Years later as I am trying to make that experience smoother for others, I have done a 5 series blog on what we look into coding solutions. Hopefully, that solidified them a little bit and doesn't make them look like "vague" and "just a whim and fancy" coding round.

Find my detailed take on coding problems given out by Thoughtworks recruiting here.

http://priyaaank.tumblr.com/post/95095165285/decoding-though...
I can't for the life of me imagine why they won't support rooted phones. And I only rooted mine last week.
Wouldn't that be good though? Then he's free to buy property and other things with his "laundered" money if he's cleared from any wrongdoing.

It's not that easy to convert a large amount of bitcoins into money that you can use effectively.
It's not blackmail by either the legal or common-usage definition of blackmail. Even if Uber followed through with such a sleazy plan, it would not be blackmail. For blackmail, a demand must be made, accompanied by a menace. Floating an idea that you plan on digging up dirt? That might have been an incipient but ill-advised plan, it might be idle dreaming, or it might be it might be machiavellian FUD.
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Services like Sumry and About.me are great for showcasing yourself but they fails to visualize your personality and feature your works. WEB Résumé helps you to show off with a visually appealing resume and also provides a portfolio to showcase your work.

This is a work-in-progress project. I'm a one-man army and currently hoping to raise some funds to improve this as a service. Let me know what you guys think.
20 hot Baltic startups you need to know about
Seems to run fine on my rooted HTC One with CyanogenMod.
We do support rooted phones as of this version. What device are you using?
Spec of the anchoring system: http://www.esmats.eu/esmatspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2003/thiel...
Of course not.

(I'm also starting to believe that these "Haskell is the best thing ever"-kids will become a bigger issue than all those "Haskell is not practical"-naysayers for the growth and success of Haskell.

The latter is annoying, but can cause people to sit down and think how working with Haskell can be made more straight-forward, while the former is blinded by his ideology and is hostile against improvements which could be seen as acknowledgements of existing flaws in the language/ecosystem.)
Well, if you are pulling down a vendor's binary, they can "inject" whatever they want in it :)

If you meant that a man in the middle can do that, then if things are implemented correctly on the app's end and if an attacker doesn't have vendor's private key, then - no, of course, they cannot inject anything that way.
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People who write command line tools that require me to install a runtime make me sad.

Also, I thought we'd learned by now that javadoc/doxygen style comments are evil? Comments are most often read in the code in plaintext, so they need to be easy to read in the code. Also, no one writes useful comments about each and every parameter to a function. "reader is the stream the function reads from" ... thanks.

Take a look at how godoc works, and emulate that. It's awesome, easy to read and write in plaintext, and produces nice html output. It does require parsing the code itself to get function names, parameter names, etc. Obviously that makes it a lot more difficult to make cross-platform, but it means writing doc strings is super easy.
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Online iOS Dev Course?
I am wondering if anyone is interested in an online iOS dev course where you learn to make apps that are currently in the app store. I published two apps recently which can serve as the content for the course (2 separate courses because one is more advanced than the other). Here are the apps:

1) PERC - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/perc/id907292964
Perc is an anonymous photo sharing app, a-la Yik-Yak with pictures. I developed it over a period of about 10 days in August and released it in September. It didn’t catch on with the college crowd so now it’s a portfolio app. Perc is the easier of the two apps because there are no user accounts, no registrations or logins. There is no web component either.

2) RADIUS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mercurymq-radius/id926659377
I just released Radius over the weekend. It’s an app for finding local jobs of the beer-money variety: babysitting, dog walking, painting etc. Radius is much more advanced than Perc. There is user registration, a web app where users can manage their profiles, push notifications, SMS notifications (via Twilio), and other stuff. For the frontend, I used Angular and the backend is on App Engine, same as Perc.

COURSE PROPOSAL
I'm trying to gauge the level of interest in a video series which will cover literally every line of code I wrote to create these apps (2 separate series, one for each). I will go through the entire project in Xcode and the backend in Google App Engine. For the Radius series, I will incorporate the work I did on the front end using AngularJS. Each course would cost $50 and consist of probably 25-30 videos (one hour each). On the videos, I will literally recreate the app and narrate what I did and why. I would also include downloadable code samples.
If you think this is a good idea, let me know in the comments. If enough people do, than I will set up the landing page and signups for the course, etc and get the ball rolling. Thanks!
These products can only be made if people don't opt out, otherwise there'd be no profit. And who would opt in? The only reason you can opt out is that most people won't.
I thought AOP was dead – this ebook changed my mind
Pingit is Barclays' implementation of a UK-wide system called Paym. If you already have a UK bank account and a UK mobile phone number, sending money with Paym to anyone who also has those things only requires the recipient's mobile number.
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No conflict of interest there at all in your badmouthing of Tor, with no corroborating evidence at all to boot.
Show HN: One App for Android
May sound opportunistic but there are some great opportunities here to create domestic companies that mimic those companies that have been blocked.