skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What's wrong with doing both?

(I used a WinPhone for a number of years. It was a fine phone).
Check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing

Encrypt the answer and maybe some salt or if you're really brave, some known plaintext provided by the other guy (here be dragons), give the pub key for every node to everyone, split the private key using SSSS or some other strategy, and give all SSSS key-halve to the other guy and google only gives up precisely two of their halves upon request so you only get to SSSS reassemble the private keys for two nodes and thus only know two nodes.

There are some other schemes involving hashing that I feel a little fuzzier about.

Also look into "double spend" algos for digital cash. Go ahead, opfor, make my day, you double spend a token and you get more data but GOOG gets the transaction's swiss bank account number so the financial transaction auto-completes. That might take a little more fooling around at the protocol level to set up.
It's conveinent to see things through western or SV capitalism eyes, but Japan's 'malaise' is all about demographics and a 20 year inept Government response to deflation. If you look at metrics like GDP per working age adult, household net worth, etc then it's a very different story.
This. While I have won (and placed) in hackathons, I never took them as this super competitive challenge, I didn't expect to win. The teams I've been on always went home and got some rest. To me hackathons are a fun way to explore new things and meet interesting people.
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Interesting. I didn't know about gccgo, and it'll be fun to see what problem domains Go ends up in with a predictable GC. Thanks for expanding on the topic.
This is just wrong... its a beautiful example of how messed up our patent system is, and how it hurts tech rather helping foster it.
¿Por que no los dos?

There's a space for both well-written content and well-written ledes.

Gripping ledes with poor quality content are a letdown and tarnish your brand. I've null-routed numerous hosts for persisting in that practice simply so that I don't go there.

Interesting content that's either poorly written or has bad ledes also suffers. I run across these all the fucking time, and to its detriment, the fact that Hacker News relies solely on the original content headline and not a bit of introductory text (Slashdot did and does a far better job in this regard, Reddit's link posts share the failure) makes this site susceptible to the problem. I'll generally click through to comments in search of context before going to the article itself.

Jeff Atwood's got a recent excellent post on a related topic -- getting people to actually read linked articles and avoiding dysfunctional incentivization:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-...
Lol. So, FB comes out worse in comparison to drug dealers.

I agree with you that it isn't surprising because it seems to be in FB's DNA to perform bait and switch like tactics (privacy policies come to mind as well). I wonder if that DNA spreads to their business internals (e.g. treatment of staff, inter-departmental agreements, etc)
Out of the myriad new languages the crop out almost daily, Dart stands out as clean, modern, fast and ready to roll with a large standard library. The team is strong and stacked with experts in the field.

On the flip side, algebraic data types have been invented in the 70es and are fundamental to the logic of programming. I don't understand the process through which an otherwise informed team ships half-baked sum types in 2014 in the guise of enums.
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They can feel free to fight over which of them owes the other

But netcan's point is exactly about this fight. You and downvoters seem to be assuming something that's not actually in the post.

They can feel free to fight over which of them owes the other

But Bob here is your local government! So the fight necessarily involves you and everyone else who lives in the area. That doesn't mean that Uber should be banned, nor did netcan say that.
>Please don't use 'common sense' and talk about how they design bombs and core reactors when you have no physics education.

If I can step back from mrschwabe's immediate questions, I'd like to point out how problematic your attitude is, NamTaf.

Nuclear power generation in the West is a political question. Which means its future is going to be decided by the average voter. The average voter is not going to have a "physics education". Maybe they took high-school physics[1], and maybe that class touched on radiation and nuclear power generation. But odds are, even in that case, the average voter doesn't really remember it.

I just checked my alma mater's undergraduate physics course catalog, and nuclear physics is an upper-division topic. It is unacceptable, in a democratic society, to suggest that voters have the right to an opinion on a topic of importance to society only if they've taken upper-division university classes on the topic in question.

The real failure isn't that mrschwabe doesn't have a physics education. The failure is that, 66 years after nuclear criticality was first used to power a light bulb, the physics/nuclear power advocate community hasn't figured out how to incorporate the basics of nuclear power generation into the average person's "common sense".

[1]Obligatory disclaimer about this being a U.S.-centric post. I'll let others comment on the quality of secondary-level physics instruction in other countries.
The list of patents was leaked:

http://betanews.com/2014/06/17/china-leaks-2bn-of-secret-mic...
I envy the ignorant people, for they are happy...
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that tweet is from 2013.
A big part of when I go to hackathons is meeting new people, coming up with new interesting idea, learning from other's idea. It's a good learning experience, and I get to network with people.
Female here & I agree. Feminism should always be about equality, not bashing men down to elevate women.
It really is a fantastic feat of engineering. I've witnessed it at close-range, over the last few months. Over a number of years, I've come across folks working on an array of missions that literally blow my mind (e.g., Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons, MESSENGER). The Mars Curiosity rover is another example of insane engineering. Yes it was over budget, yes there were many technical difficulties (e.g., the wear on the tyres), but landing using the sky-crane absolutely deserves to be heralded as a fantastic feat of engineering.

I haven't played KSP myself, but I'm glad to hear that it's providing gameplay that offers insights into the fundamental difficulties of operating in space. I'm going to be leading a project from January to study and simulate on-orbit proximity operations to actively remove discarded rocket bodies in Low-Earth Orbit using a robotic arm. There's so much prep work that goes into missions like these; I wish we scientists & engineers did a better job of communicating the challenges faced and the innovative solutions that are thought up. I have had the pleasure of working with colleagues who amaze me time and again.

So now, keep your fingers crossed for Hayabusa [1] in a couple of days. If only we could sustain the excitement, motivation, and sheer wonder that these missions create, the budget for space exploration and planetary science wouldn't have to keep shrinking.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa_2
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It's different due to the fact that Internet is a "utility" now in the same way gas, electricity and water are (isn't it considered a human right in the USA now?)

No, it isn't, and no, it isn't.
I'm probably not the best person to argue in favor of one flavor or another of PAKE, but balanced schemes give you forward security whereas a naive preshared-key scheme does not.
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It is mainly for deep-linking from urls in other apps/sites. Primarily so apps can reenter previous states rather than opening on the app, in some cases to push data to the app.

Example: Game app has buttons on a website to play specific levels with some special powerup, so you can link to it just like a website but in the app play the level and bypass the main screen etc.

It is a bit like DNS hosts within the devices but the only problem is it is not standard and there is no listing so it is more like old school file type or port claiming, there may be clashes/name collisions.
I don't understand the downvote-anger.

I think it's because they're being sloppy in the reading of your post and assuming "therefore Uber should be banned" somehow.
Yes - and very highly compensated for it too!
Good instructors start with people where they are. If someone is greedy, then you have to explain to them how what you want them to learn will help them satisfy their greed. Otherwise they'll just ignore you.

Here, for example, you'll note the pitch is that it's easy to improve one's brain, of great appeal to nerds. And it's backed up with high-tech science, a great draw to we technical people.

As a long-time meditator, I could happily talk about how it has improved my ability to make software. Deep awareness of my sensations and subtle reactions has made me very good at understanding exactly what parts of user interfaces work and what don't. The increased patience and focus is great for dealing with complex software. The greater self-awareness has helped me avoid things like gold-plating and architecture astronautics because I'm better at sorting out my motivations. I'm way better at noticing when I'm really too tired to be coding, so I create a lot fewer bugs. Et cetera, et cetera. If somebody starts because of that, great.

But knowing a lot of other meditators, I think the reason people start is relatively unimportant. As with almost anything deep (e.g., fitness, science, math), serious study and practice change you more deeply than you intend. More deeply than you can even understand when you start. For example, many people take martial arts classes because they crave the power to beat people up. But we don't have a problem with karate students roving in packs and attacking people because long study teaches them self-control, teaches them the limits of violence, the proper use of power. Similarly, even if people start meditating in pursuit of self-enhancement, they can't help but be changed more deeply.

We start with people where they are.
I had the same thought. Now I remember that most of the best software for developers is already open source.
I just use LinkedIn's export to PDF function.
There are no lectures during meditation. There are some instructions given prior to meditation sessions the first few days of the course, and then again on the final day where "metta" meditation is introduced. There are video lectures every evening which are more or less based on the 4 Noble Truths.
Seems to me me you're juggling several straw objects here. Obsession? What's your evidence for this? Who knows what people are finding meaning in, and not necessarily reporting that finding to you? People's internal life sometimes remains internal with certain elements permanently so.

I may be wrong but I suspect that you don't want to understand; rather you want to find fault in a raw naive meme that you think is held by a group of people - 'westerners'.
I would think the first thing to do would be to figure out what "unfair advantage" you'd have as an online incubator. One option would be to to find an affluent geographic area without a big tech community and then be "the only guy in town" for raising angel money.

You could own the "supply side" of money for the region and then advertise yourself as being someone who is able to fund people living in low cost places.
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One company spends billions researching, building consumer products, getting feedback, developing software and interfaces for over a decade.

Another company (or two, or twenty) comes along, builds off of that and spends billions on advertising...

Isn't this exactly what patents ARE for?
FYI the Yen has depreciated against the dollar by ~50% since 2012. (chart: http://imgur.com/3kjJf4I)
Interesting. Did not think about ISP caching resolvers having to deal with massive zones. But a TTL of just 1831 in the second delegation sounds too low.
Good and bad in this article:

Contextualizing the $1 billion in royalty payments across other business lines is useful. Though a comparison with its net financials would be more appropriate. Microsoft's revenues in 2014 were $86.8 billion, net income $22.1 billion.

Devices and Consumer were $37.7 billion, of which $18.8 billion were licensing, the remainder being hardware (computer and gaming, phones, other), and "other". Commercial revenue was $49.6 billion, with $42.0 billion in licensing (OS desktop and server, Office, and commercial Cloud products).

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar14/index.html

So, yes, Samsung's contributing a lot in some business lines, but comparatively little (yes, a billion dollars is comparatively little) overall.

This does highlight the challenges Microsoft has had in expanding beyond its traditional desktop and small server markets. But those markets continue to serve the company very, very, very well.

In the "bad" category: the assumption that patents are valid and that innovation elsewhere somehow "owes" Microsoft. The long, long history of patents and patent abuse suggests that this isn't the case, but that a large trove of patents is effectively a potent weapon and threat to wave around -- its primary benefit is in being able to proclaim "not doing as we request of you is going to prove hugely expensive to you", in a "lovely business you've got here, it'd be a shame if anything were to happen to it" kind of a way.

But an interesting (if still insufficiently contextualized) factoid.
>Using hackathons as a hiring tactic doesn't seem like a very smart idea, given how self-evidently discriminatory it is on the axes the OP describes.

Assuming that this is a problem for the companies in question. Personally, i agree with you: there ought to be Less Discrimination. I'm just wondering if a stereotypical SV outfit worries much about that.
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Not a dev tool per se, just a general purpose app that may come handy as a part of the development pipeline. Here's the Show HN I made several months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027405
This article is a badly rewritten ripoff of a much better article written two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8412349
That is not the same person as the one who made the 3D.CITY game.
Awesome! Brings back old memories of late nights and precious cities with the very first simcity.

At this point, my browser has ground to a halt, my retina macbook is running very hot, and the little green rectangle does not follow the cursor anymore to aim where i'm going to plant the next building: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14314213/Screen%20Shot%2...

cheers!
https://pragprog.com/ has 50% off all books. I don't see that listed here.
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He's been consistently up-front about who he works for; he's even talked about which projects he's worked on. You haven't paid attention, and that's fine, but you can't then feign offense when he doesn't start every single conversation he has on the site with "I work for Google".

Also, once again: you can't accuse someone of being biased by their employer, and then say you've "taken pause" about it, without insulting that person's integrity. To do so casually says much more about you than the person you're talking about.

People like Daniel take a lot of flak on HN simply because they sign their names to their comments. As we saw downthread: not only do the anonymous assholes taking potshot not do that, but those anonymous people are actually paid shills.

It is fine to have questions about people, but you should have been much more careful asking them. You share a community with these people, but just now, you didn't act that way. Like they say on Wikipedia: WP:AGF.

(This is a hobby-horse issue with me on this site, because I've been here awhile and had a lot of dipshits question my integrity over utterly fictitious biases, like "you work in security so all that government contracting money you get selling vulnerabilities to the CIA is why your crypto advice is obviously corrupted by NSA".)

(Also: 'DannyBee is one of several compiler-wonk/lawyers we have on HN, and how cool is it that we have any of those? It pisses me off to see people try to chase them off with torches and pitchforks, even if those chasers are so dumb they're using nerf pitchforks.)
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Nice format.
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In Chrome on OS X I find myself clicking to place a zone then having to wait, then move my mouse a tiny bit before the zone would appear. If I started moving the mouse too much after clicking it gets put in the wrong place and if I don't move the mouse the zone never appears.

After 10 minutes I hit a bug where adding more zones seemed to place an 'invisible' zone. Which deleted the trees that were there and could be connected to electricity but didn't draw anything on the ground and would never populate. Or at least I couldn't see if it was populated and I couldn't play anymore.
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It's Ok, I'm just bringing that up.

Since they themselves developed an DS emulator and never filed a patent claim that's a precedent. Ok the DS and the GameBoy are different but if you add that Emulation is not something new, plus they never considered protect that asset so is another argument Against that patent.
It was one of the most difficult things I've done, mentally, physically, and emotionally. It was also very rewarding. It completely changed my understanding of meditation and instilled a belief that meditation really can be life-changing if practiced in earnest.
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Parallels 10 has a good bundle offer. Worth it if you were thinking about getting two of the listed items.

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Looks like JJ can do action scenes but just throws in stuff "to make it interesting". Also the intro dialogue? Phantom Menace level bad.
> smaller parts required by well known FOSS projects that they see value in supporting on Windows

Sadly, Microsoft don't see value in projects like FFmpeg, at least not to the point of making the compilation process with Visual Studio less painful.
It's basically the same reason people shouldn't sign up for marathons as their first race: most people aren't prepared. That it worked for you is great, but you shouldn't mistake your experience for the general case. I have a lot of friends who do retreats like this, and they universally recommend that most people work their way up.

Regarding point #3, for those who would like guidance, I recommend finding a local meditation group. There are lots, and there are many different styles.
Reading this list makes me happy I develop for/with Linux.
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I'm not sure you are correct in either of your claims. I would be surprised if MS spent billions developing the Android enabling technology. I don't think they were active in Java or Linux development or mobile in the time before Android. I've played with windows CE when I was young. Nothing like modern phones.

And I highly doubt Samsung simple took MS engineering and research output, slapped a Samsung logo on it, and advertised it heavily. I doubt anybody would really think that either. Which begs the question...
And they were risking money on handheld devices and tablets since the 1990s, years before Samsung got in the game.

The WindowsCE software stack is where these patents probably come from.

I had one of these http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/13994/Ericsson-MC12/
Multi-line lambdas, for one.
This is facebook going the way of myspace. Godspeed!
Other browsers do this by asking. But it's pointless anyway because most people will not know what a cookie is and they leave that check box checked.
Really enjoy this! Like everyone else, the nostalgia is so strong.

The only thing that seemed off for me was the "Drag", which I think somebody else mentioned. I found myself clicking and re-clicking it multiple times to pan around the map, which got old after a bit. That was in latest Chrome on Mac OSX.

Great work however!
pretty awesome. just wanted to say that in latest chrome on windows 8.1, when the city gets in 30k population range, new buildings and zonings model's don't appear; well, everything new doesn't appear, pretty much. also, wire seems to have trouble being built over steets most of the time
Yeah I love Uber but the one thing that's really annoyed me the past couple of years is whenever it goes above 2x surge every UberX driver immediately "forgets" how to navigate the city. Even a couple of blocks out of the way means a couple of bucks extra on your fare at surge pricing levels. Uber definitely has this data, I would love to see them release it given their commitment to data transparency. Even some really simple metric like average distance traveled vs. average GPS route distance during surge vs. normal should give a fairly unbiased view of how often this is happening.
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It absolutely will happen. Maybe not in the immediate future, but almost certainly before the end of the century.[0]

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-30/china-is-ve...

[0] Barring some kind of technicality, i.e. stock markets merge such that in the future there is only one "stock market" or something.
Surprisingly it runs on my Jolla. I thought the browser is not enough bleeding-edge. It's pretty smooth as well, although switching to snow kills it a bit.
lol. your brother.
What about Apple? Do they license these smartphone patents or do they have some other kind of deal?
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How does this product actually work, except by violating the standard TCP congestion avoidance algorithm?
India's stock market is 3Trillion (Not very far behind China's).
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VMware is doing 30% off on Fusion.

I'm looking at it for some extra performance over VirtualBox, and so far it seems to deliver.

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion
If you install native software and it is malicious, you are already owned.
This is uncorrelated to the visible use of other apps' data locally. This is your data and it is still on your PC, why bother?
I think he's right, though. It's too much to ask for all this memory unsafe code to be rewritten into Rust, which is a large leap in semantics from C. There really is a space in the market for a safe variation on C which is easy to port to.

Now, how much safety you can demand before the language turns into a unicorn is another question and would be interesting to explore.
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This is great! Proper support for this has been lacking in the Node world. I recommend json-bignum [1] if you need a Node library for JSON serialization that can handle large numbers. For example, retrieving a JSON-formatted row from Postgres which has int64 or numeric values. It is slower than the native JSON functions though.

1. https://github.com/datalanche/json-bignum

Disclaimer: I wrote json-bignum.
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