skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Look over someone's shoulder to get their phone password
2. Take phone discreetly
3. Enter phone, add self on snapchat, put money in Swiss bank account
4. Put phone back in person's pocket
Haxe's compiler speed probably isn't from OCaml, and rather from a much simpler compilation process than is necessary for Dart or emscripten.
Is this like an early April Fools day joke?
I completely agree with you on Excel. It's gotten bad enough that I'm starting to toy with the idea of replacing Excel with a CSV viewer in my workflow (since all that I use Excel for is to view small-ish CSVs, anyway).
Because (for the most part) non server-admins don't do backups. It's like flossing; everybody knows you should do it, but nobody actually does it.
as is the case with most 100% volunteer-based free software: lack of time and/or ppl to help.

There are currently multiple interfaces available to bup, but each one has some quirks. bup's web interface is still very embryonic and would need the magic touch of some designers / integration specialists to make it fun to work with.
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I find parallax scrolling to be ineffective. Call me old school but it takes a well understood action (scrolling) and overloads it to perform animations. Animations which often times do not add much value besides "flair". An ineffective tradeoff in my opinion.

And yes, videos behind text is absurd :).
I'm not talking about what should be, I'm talking about what is. The reality is that Ruby on Windows is a relatively tiny fraction of the Ruby community; that doesn't mean nobody should use Ruby on Windows, it just means that you can't expect a first class experience compared to the environment where most Ruby code is tested, lives and thrives. This is the same reason why very few developers target .NET in the nix world, yes .NET can work on linux, but, despite the efforts of mono and Microsoft's upcoming OSS push, getting .NET to work correctly in a non-Windows environment is fraught with annoying problems and obscure compatibility edge-cases.

Except for educational purposes, if you're a programmer, I just don't see a reason to fight one's tools by deploying them in an environment they just aren't optimized for in practice.
NaCl would be somewhat faster in Chrome, and would be infinitely faster in all other browsers, as no code executes faster than no code at all!
Well, that's one way of using it :D
How does attic compare to obnam?
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It would be possible for Verizon to implement this really bad system without anybody noticing and even if Speedy/HTTP 2 or HTTPS is used:

Currently they inject the header with an ID which changes e.g. daily and charge third parties to associate the ID with a profile. They can only inject in HTTP.

If instead the third party (e.g. an adserver) contacts a Verizon server with the IP (and port number in case of carrier grade NAT) on every request and that server gives back the profile and Verizon charges the adserver for this, then nobody would ever know and there would be not much protection against it (without a third party proxy or vpn to hide the IP).
You can see asmjs vs flash vs GWT vs Dart vs hand-written JS vs JavaVM vs compiled C for Box2D here: https://plus.google.com/111111598146968769323/posts/e2yJn3QA...

You can see a chart of size and performance here: https://plus.google.com/+BrandonDonnelson/posts/DSUgfWefyR3

GWT won on size across the board and beat everything but C on performance. Of course, this benchmark, like most, is biased. It uses a lot of polymorphism, and GWT does exceptionally well at removing polymorphic dispatch statically.
Unless they have changed something under the hood I would NOT trust this service due to the insecure nature of the Snapchat API.

There are many 3rd-party API clients for Snapchat that can access all parts of the API (send message, send picture, get picture, etc.). I even wrote one for Java. They are easily accessed from a console with a username/password combo.

Considering how many password dumps are out there, it's reasonable to assume that many people have had their Snapchat login credentials compromised. Now I can use that info, log in from a command line, and start "snapping" myself money.

I know that getting someone's username/password is a pretty high barrier, but not high enough for the ability to send money instantly. Maybe there are more security details, but I wouldn't put my info into this just yet.
Indeed, this is a correct assessment. Sorry about my poor phrasing. In particular I was thinking things like using the HTTP protocol correctly in a similar manner to more "modern" RESTful APIs, removing some of the unnecessary things and allowing for alternatives to XML like json for size and ease of access from web platforms.
Those stats just don't create leverage for Microsoft anymore outside of the enterprise. And even within the enterprise, their influence is shrinking with the growth in hosted SaaS applications like Salesforce, Basecamp, Google Apps, etc. Heck, even MS themselves are going down this route with purchases like Skype and Yammer.

I work in a corporate job; almost everyone has a Windows PC on their desk. Here are the stats for our Sharepoint intranet:

IE- 47%
Chrome - 47%
Firefox - 5%
Safari - 1%

Why? Because IT now installs Chrome and Firefox on every desktop. Why? Because most employees need to work with hosted services, and all the hosted services target their development to Chrome and Firefox first.

Open source doesn't need to dislodge Windows from the desktop. Instead they just used the server/client model to commoditize desktop OS's in general. Heck, Microsoft is the only company still trying to charge money for their desktop OS at all.
Healthcare Triage has a video on milk being not particularly healthy or even beneficial in ways people think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzyFZcuHmeI
I'd like to see a venn diagram of Snapchat users, people who actually know who Square are, and people who don't trust snapchat's security. I'm willing to bet that people who wouldn't trust snapchat would also know enough about security to have heard of, and (possibly) trust Square.
If it's public and immutable each core will get only its own cache, which would be pointless. I like your thinking, though; perhaps there can be a way to always pass the last 'visited node' cache around in a timely way.
Well, I'm pretty sure nothing I eat specifically evolved to be eaten by me. Guess what, I eat anyway.
I think you're right. I plan on trying it, next time I need to enter equations into Word. For me, the key to ergonomic use of the computer is being able to look away from the screen. For instance, I can type text forever without constant focused eye contact with the screen, which greatly reduces the eyestrain issue.

And I suppose a useful thing is that if you do misspell one of the keywords, it just sits there until you correct it, as a reminder of what you were trying to write.
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This is not really "news" at all. I stopped drinking dairy milk a couple years ago because I realized it offered no potential benefits, and only alleged risks that kept surfacing in these studies.

There is literally no up-side to drinking milk, only purported risks. Thus, IMO the only reason to drink it is if you REALLY REALLY REALLY like the taste and can't imagine your life without it.

Also, interestingly - I personally have seen absolutely zero studies that showed milk benefits, that was not funded by the dairy farmers.
the global issue, in theory, is easily solved with a cryptocurrency like bitcoin. if bitcoin could ever get a better user experience (don't have to go through the pain of setting up a wallet, etc.), these type of services would be much less attractive.
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Maybe it's one of those things that should not be allowed even if people agree to it.
Ah right.. I read the post in isolation. Thanks for the reference.
I don't think it is actually nutritionally neutral, as it is calorie and protein dense. Hence, why I drink it. But I don't ascribe any magical properties to it.

I do agree with your overall point, as ethical reasons where why I was a vegetarian for ten years. But going vegan was, personally, a bridge too far. My quality of life was impacted too much by removing eggs and dairy as they were my main sources of protein - and still are.
Yeah! We have full curriculum around it, as well (Intro to JavaScript, Game development, and Natural Simulations): https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

It uses a real-time JavaScript editing framework that we're in the process of open sourcing:
https://github.com/Khan/live-editor

A technical talk on the editor (a bit dated at this point, but most of the points still hold) can be found here:
http://ejohn.org/blog/talk-khan-academy-computer-science/
New thread going on at the FP. This one was brought down for a reason unknown to me as all the traffic was organic! :(
Where was the gravity assist when the Ranger travelled from the huge wave planet (where 1 hour = 7 years) back to the Endurance? They just took off and flew straight there.
some ppl have already started working on this and there's been activity on the mailing list lately about this topic.

however it's a dangerous feature to add in (backup tools should never screw up their storage, and this feature goes and removes things) so a lot of care is needed.

the boring answer is: it's coming, and we need a lot of help for vetting patches and testing them out.
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Given that old backups cannot be remove, isn't backuppc a better solution?
almost every major internet company has security issues nowadays. In my opinion, they should be judged on what the ultimate consequences to the users ended up being.
You may be thinking of another game. In Arkham Asylum, they disabled the glide function ([1]), you definitely knew about that before the final boss.

Now, EarthBound had a hook like that one [2], where the game would first make it much more annoying to get through the game (by churning out extra random encounters), and then when you get partway through the final boss the game will freeze and delete your save game.

[1] http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=95030

[2] http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protec...
Finally I can get payed for my dickpics!
I used to drink soda and sugary fruit juices for every meal for years, up until about 5 years or so ago. I noticed that I was starting to gain weight, so I got rid of it all, and switched to drinking pretty much all water, with some milk and alcohol as desired. Now, I drink sugary drinks maybe like once every few weeks at most.

It does feel a little weird for the first week or two, but after about a month, I was pretty used to it, and sodas taste kinda over-sugared now.

My diet advice, for what it's worth - if you do nothing else, dump sugary drinks, including soda, fruit juices, energy drinks, etc in favor of water. It's pretty easy as long as you don't try to change everything else at the same time, and every school of thought on nutrition I'm aware of agrees that they're awful. It's also kinda nice to not have to carry everything you drink home from the store.
See, this is the kind of problem I have with feminism (and a few other things). It was just a feature of the language, exhibited heavily by most slavic languages (which have much richer grammars than English f. eg.) and thus impacting thought process, yet it was your a natural response to "defend the beatnen".

If you position yourself as a victim, don't be surprised when you are treated this way.
I smell a paid placed article. Assassin's Creed has been getting killed in the press for its numerous bugs, graphical glitches and its slowness and lag even on the beefiest of PC machines. Then all of a sudden this article but the game's "rich history" pops up?

P.S. The Atlantic has no articles written about the numerous bugs from the game, even though it made it into several websites that usually don't cover video games.
P.S. #2, The Atlantic is the website that produced that awful Scientology Paid Content Article[0]

0: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/1...
I'm so tired of whiny babies screaming because they can't have everything their precious little selves desire for free, free, FREE!

Now the whiny babies are also developing potty-mouths, which is not an improvement.

I look forward to this infant's continuing series of articles, including "Fuck You, Netflix," "Fuck You, Spotify," "Fuck You, Apple," "Fuck You, Every Business On Earth."
I haven't used obnam much, the feature sets are quite similar, perhaps someone else can chip in here.

My personal choice of attic over obnam was based on this performance comparison[1]

1. http://librelist.com/browser//attic/2014/1/31/attic-vs-obnam...
Where there really coins they didn't get? Source? (Not to dispute the claim, just interested)

About it being half the point: Perhaps not stated explicitly, but he knew what he was doing by not baking in a government back door. From the whitepaper: "any two willing parties to transact directly with each other"

I'm probably not getting the joke, but are there people who memorize their secret keys? I've never looked to see how long they are but I assume that's quite a feat.
It's not so much that in my case at least. In Norway, the general assumption used to be very much that you will not be lactose intolerant, and will not "acquire" it, because lactose intolerance of any degree is extremely rare in the "native" population.

As far as I know, about 4% or so of the population in Scandinavia is lactose intolerant now, after increased immigration from parts of the world with more widespread lactose intolerance have increased the percentage substantially.

It was simply not on our radar until perhaps the mid 90's.
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Girls Make Games is Hiring a C#, Unity Programmer
Girls Make Games is a series of international summer camps, workshops and game jams designed to encourage girls to explore the world of video games.

This year, "The Negatives" won Grand Prize with The Hole Story and crowdfunded over $30,000. The game will be released on Android, iOS, desktop, and major video game consoles.

The Hole Story is a top-down adventure game about
Wendy, an aspiring archaeologist, who gets sent back in time. She finds herself in a strange kingdom, and must quest and solve riddles to find her way home. Features: Adventure! Riddles! Digging!

This is a contract position from start of hire until June 2015. The ideal candidate is an experienced video game developer with a strong understanding of the game development process, excellent programming skills, and the ability to work closely with artists and musicians to recognize the shared vision and see it through from concept to completion. The developer will collaborate with the girls, artists, musicians, producer, and director of the game.

Responsibilities:

• Programming and developing The Hole Story game

• Deployment to mobile, desktop, and consoles

• Integrate art, sound, and music into the game

• Work collaboratively with our team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or relevant field

• Experience developing and debugging in Unity, C#

• Previous Experience in video game development

• Familiar with dialogue, items, and digging systems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities

If you're interested, please email info@girlsmakegames.com with the subject: "The Hole Story Programmer"
It is amazing that I knew your comment was sarcastic. But, a computer parsing this sentence would never be able to tell. This is a reason that humans are special :)
I had thought that Facebook itself was always trying to be a LinkedIn competitor. They just weren't able to convince users to displace LinkedIn.
It's much harder to get the same amount of sugar from actual fruit, as fruit juice is pretty much extracting the sugar and water from the fruit. That is, a glass of orange juice takes more than one orange. The part of the fruit that is thrown out when juicing is also good for you: fiber.
Ideas are not singluar
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Sugar is the best and fastest source of energy found in the nature. We are programmed to like it and remember when we ingest it, and that behavior is rewarded by feeling good.

A lack of that feeling will make you feel less good. Experts say it takes up to a month for that imbalance to normalize.

Great talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLnlhLNa28&feature=youtu.be...
I've tried a few of these. Kevo, lockitron, and some RFID one from samsung (which was my favorite). The main problem for me, mentioned in the article, is that residential doors are often not well aligned. if you try to open the door while locked you can end up putting enough pressure on the deadbolt that the motor can't open it. Humans recognize this with mechanical locks and we automatically adjust.

The worst part of that, though, is when the smart lock tries to reset it self and try again. You end up standing there while it goes back and forth, and in the end it's a huge hassle.

Humans are good at adapting to new situations and dealing with ambiguity like misaligned doors. With my mechanical lock, I can get really good and really fast at opening it in all circumstances. but with the smart lock I'm subject to it's slow speed and inability to adapt to new situations. I can't make it go faster.

I'd rather doors be redesigned to be more like car doors.
Side note: Tarsnap is listed at the same level as Juniper (2013) and VMware (2014); I have mixed feelings about that.

If you look at the donors listed in each category for 2008-2014 (why those years? Because that's what I scraped the website for) then Tarsnap comes after Anonymous (one or more people giving $250k+, $250k+, and $50k+), NetApp ($450k+), Cryptography Research ($250k+), Hudson River Trading ($250k+), Google ($180k+), LineRate ($150k+), NetFlix ($75k+), iXsystems ($70k+), Swisscom ($40k+), McAfee ($35k+), and John Baldwin ($30k+). And of course WhatsApp, who aren't on the donors list yet for some reason. Part of the reason that Tarsnap always looks like one of the largest donors is that Tarsnap's donation always arrives a few weeks into the new year, while other companies are faster and get their money in at the end of the previous year.

Not to say that Tarsnap doesn't contribute, of course; just that other companies contribute far more over the long run.
By Kerckhoffs's principle, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
...to produce delicious veal, presumably?

More to the point: if we didn't drink the milk of the mothers, neither the mothers nor the calves would exist at all; we wouldn't maintain millions of head of cattle for nostalgia. I'm not at all clear that's morally superior.
Making the world a better place!

Are you going to use some of that 21MM$$ to buy some of the coins currently setup for auction by the US Marshall?
> I said that freedom does not inherently mean no limitations.

No, it pretty much does: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom

It's true that too much freedom can produce awful results but let's not redefine the word?
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As someone else from NZ I would like to second this. We got a US bank account for our company and I was surprised how archaic the US banking industry is.

Another thing very interesting in NZ/AU is EFTPOS. EFTPOS is like the credit card system only with no transaction costs. Any shop in NZ/AU will take it.

The original business model for EFTPOS was that the user pays a fixed charge per transaction. I think it was something like 20c originally. However, because each bank was free to charge it's customers whatever it pleased for EFTPOS, price competition very quickly reduced that cost to zero (Which to be fair is what the actual cost of a purely electronic transaction should be).

There is no reason not to pay for even the most trivial purchase with EFTPOS so I haven't carried cash around in my entire life.

The only reason everyone still uses credit cards as well is for online purchases. EFTPOS is in person only. The number on the front of the card has no ability to be used for making a payment.

I think the place where VISA is starting to get more inroads into the NZ market is with NFC. NFC is getting more prevalent, and we are also starting to see things like this turn up as well: https://www.asb.co.nz/paytag/
I must have missed the memo on the terminology change. So, now, waste is "injected" into the environment, not "dumped"? Guess that does sound better.
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That just gives an error on sign up:
"We're sorry, but we're only accepting invitations at the moment.Please check back soon!"
Uber is on-demand, and costs more because of that (convenience tax). Spending 15min on a Sunday evening to book your kids activities for the week isn't awful, and it gives MB a chance to pick optimal routes.

Convenience has a cost, planning ahead reduces it.
Tarsnap does all of these.
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I didn't say there'd be an epidemic of underage people selling nude selfies. I said I think this is going to get interesting. By that I meant that there will likely be some overlap between the child porn stuff and the new payments system.
So Ubisoft is also paying off the French politicians complaining about this? There are numerous links in the article.

(If they are, that's pretty impressive work by the Ubisoft PR department.)

The simpler explanation that someone at the Atlantic pays attention to French politics, saw these complaints, and spun it into an article for their American audience.
Now there's an interesting idea. Instead of a solid axle between the two door handles you could have a split axle and some sort of dynamo. If you gadget dies you just sit there and crank the handle around a few times.

I'm picturing someone with a scarf wrapped around the knob and employing a method similar to starting a stick fire...
fpm is the solution: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
true. and actually bup can't use git's tooling directly because of the different use cases it's optimized for. git won't make any use of bup's optimizations: midx (combination of multiple .idx files into a handful of bigger ones to reduce page faults during binary searches) and bloom filter.

git's tools, namely filter-branch and gc have been reported to work on limited-size bup repositories, but it very quickly eats up all ram and cpu and never finishes because of the sheer amount of objects that are usually stored in a bup repository
Strictly speaking, copy-left licenses can be applied to commercial purposes. Though certainly there are many purposes with which they are incompatible, and many of those are commercial in nature.
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