skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Referencing my much downvoted comment currently at bottom, Rothko (I had to look him up) is a prime example of exactly what I'm talking about.

Quite possibly I just don't get it. But what I suspect is something along the lines of wine snobbery. The experts all agree. Even if it really tastes like paint thinner. No one wants to appear undiscerning or unenlightened. To me, this is not art at all. Not beautiful, not enlightening, not interesting and serves no functional purpose with the possible exception of giving art folks something to talk about. The first person who thought of using fire. Now THAT is an artist.
Thank you! I used LÖVE (https://love2d.org), which began to support iOS and Android roughly six months ago through two community ports.
St – simple terminal
It's typically called Write Skew. Wikipedia discusses it on the snapshot isolation page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_isolation).

Also, Peter Bailis's blog has info and links to papers if you want more detail (http://www.bailis.org/blog/when-is-acid-acid-rarely/)
"dogmatic leaders" do exist today. They live in different systems. Not all leaders treat their people as people. If our system lost its balance, things would go really bad this time. As an individual, I wish I could have a peaceful life if that happens. Wish the system can find another balance point with little violence.
Here's my tool for measuring latency glitches in real time on any device with a javascript-capable web browser. Maybe it will help some people narrow down the nature of their wifi slowness problems. In short, if the latency is always high, that's one thing. If it is usually low but then jumps, that's a different thing. http://gfblip.appspot.com/
In this threat model it seems unreasonable to me to rely on a particular front-end/back-end separation architecture as a main thing that protects users. If the two are not separated this way, or the back-end can cause redirects or can inject Javascript at all, the users won't be protected.

I like the "test from a variety of hosts" approach better, and I wonder what kinds of tools exist or will exist that will facilitate this -- and whether some web app developers are willing to commit that their architectures will support it (that the front-end code doesn't do an eval, that the front-end actually architecturally treats the back-end as untrusted, and that users can expect to get consistent page contents every time they visit the service, even with a different user-agent or from a different netblock). I'm not trying to make fun; I want to see this happen. It seems like a big change from existing practice!
That's an incredibly interesting take. Flipping the script, is it useful or ethical to find a way to help him monetize his purpose in life to his benefit?
Awesome work! Looks like a promising library; you've thought of a lot of pain points of parsers.
Your point may be valid, but the math is a little off. If you're an H1B holder going through the employment-based green card process (which could take anywhere from months to 10+ years), you can extend your H1B beyond the 6 year cutoff in 1 or 3 year increments depending on where you are in the process.

A former boss of mine was on H1B from India (big tech company and he wasn't even remotely underpaid) for 12 years, most of that time waiting for a green card.
The real news should be : javascript framework is actually still considered useful for something after 2 years.
Kiscover, built with expressjs
Experimenting with expressjs ... and built Kiscover, a video discovery platform leveraging on youtube api.

Kiscover = Video discovery + Pinterest.

Feedbacks folks.
...and the grammar! Ugh!
Europa infographic
Thanks for the feedback, especially around the rating system.

I am planning on surfacing some type of rating or score, derived from the required permissions, in the near future.
A lot of fields can not be perfectly quantitated. Unfortunately, economics is one of them. And I think it's far away from that ideal. For fields like this, like jokoon said, opinion matters.

edit: typo: quantized => quantitated
"The breakthrough came when we started thinking about the components in the system as malicious actors colluding via covert channels."

That's probably the piece of that article that I'm going to remember for a long time.
Maybe it's an AMOLED-like tech with pre-configured drivers? e.g. instead of software driving the display, when the switch is flipped to on the entire surface goes ALL ON
Interesting, I did not realize READ_CONTACTS gave access to call logs in <= IceCreamSandwich.

I wish Android used a permissions model similar to iOS, where the application prompts the user for specific permissions as needed, rather than up front.
Is there an android version on the way?
In short: prior to version 9.2, postgres's "serializable" level still allowed some transaction patterns that would be rejected by a strictly serial execution. Later versions prevent it.

This paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1376690 outlines the general issue. This paper discusses Postgres's solution: http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
Higher Order Programming in PHP
HTTPS is a lower bound of reasonable security, not an upper one. The argument for HTTPS _everywhere_ is that it's the smallest possible thing you can do to make yourself slightly secure.

Would you find it ironic that someone selling combination locks for gym lockers wants a better lock on their storefront?
I have no doubt there are children today that are not growing up to become racist because of him. And I have no doubt there is less racism occurring, amongst todays' adults, because of him.

Hence the word "progress" and the reason why relying on decade old social studies is not the best idea.
Intel's insistence on x86 and dragging old designs around just isn't sustainable in the long run, especially once silicon gets to its absolute physical limits and Intel looses its traditional process technology advantage for a while (until a new material is introduced). Knight's Landing may be a temporary reverse to the killer micro order, but I give a higher chance to IBM+NVIDIA winning the next round, maybe followed by an architecture like yours.
I disagree. The article mostly consists of evidence for the hypothesis that the claustrum is essential for consciousness. This focus strongly contributes to its interestingness: while just about anything about the brain is interesting, people are naturally most interested in the elusive "consciousness". Not mentioning the focus, as in the original title, is burying the lede, and since people browsing the HN front page are expected to judge whether a link is worth reading from the title and domain alone, it gives them a significantly worse experience without any real benefit.
> that's not a VC-scale business

It's depressing that "VC-scale" (i.e. convincing some rich dude he can flip his investment soon for a 1000% return, possibly by unloading shares on unsuspecting rubes) is what matters. What ever happened to making something people want, then selling it at a profit?
Java Garbage Collection Distilled (2013)
The sacredness is hardly in the art. In the presence of secular people there is no sacred art. (Meaning that "the sacred" is only in the imagination of some of the mundane.)

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

-Douglas Adams
Different types of the stuff we stand on have different resistances or conductivities. You can imagine solid granite is not as good a conductor as a farmers field of moist rich soil.

If a particular section of earth has poor conductivity it and has a charge you can imagine the charge can't escape. Maybe it is charged from lightning, a downed power line, friction in a pipe, etc. this is called ground potential rise.

If an area has low resistivity it can't create a steep potential gradient and the charge is spread out over the entire area.

a ground grid of copper conductor is buried under substations and power stations so that the ground on the entire premise is at the same potential. When a power line touches the ground the current flows back to the source through the ground to complete the circuit. If the ground has high resistivity and current flows through it there is a voltage difference from one point to the next. If those two points happen to be your feet you are a better conductor than ground. By laying the copper ground grid no ground potential difference can exist as the copper connects the whole premise with low resistance conductor.
Yes, it's currently being worked on.
On rooted Android phones, there's XPrivacy, which can do just that--send fake data to an app.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy
Show HN: Tiny milisecond conversion utility for Dart
I need stickers!
Cosmos, apps, and selling your company. This week’s Shortlist. 26/11/14
We have the ability to filter. Due to his condition, he does not. We should embrace the good and productive that comes from his work, without judgment, and use our filters to deflect and ignore the bad.

(Note: this heuristic applies to almost any human, regardless of recognized DSM status. We'd be well-served to save our breath and embrace this outlook.)
How would a driver come about these numbers? And 5% per day? Pretty sure you were talking to someone not in the know.
Nothing, but you get a bank loan for that, or bootstrap. VC money comes with strings, including the expectation of high growth.

I agree very much with your sentiment, but I think the solution isn't changing VC, it's finding other kinds of capital.
Can you get Swedish citizenship through your wife?

I'd be surprised if the two of you can't go and live there together and after a while I expect you'd be eligible to apply...
Totally agree, overall a presumptuous piece of conjecture and a weak justification of the present state of suffering experienced by millions (excluding the author I presume).

It also struck me as originating from a highly US-centric view of the events in Latin America/Europe/Middle East. Low in nuance and meshing poorly with how the leadership of these countries understand and characterize their own economic/political dilemmas and decisions. It essentially assumes a "one right path for the world" and considers confused or invalid any deviation in discourse or policy. Also seems to perpetuate the old Colonialist chestnut - civilize the world (often directly against its will) at any price.
Aw, an advertisement blog post disguised as special insight.
The way I see it, unrestrained capitalism creating boom and bust cycles and wealth inequality were what lead to the upheavals of the previous century. We supposedly learned our lesson after the great depression, but then in the 1980's had a change of heart and decided that government meddling in capitalism was the real problem and started going back to the old ways. Slashing taxes and regulations Which has lead us into a new period of boom and bust cycles and wealth inequality. I know that's an oversimplification and not particularly technical, but the same can be said of this article.
> a world war is now too expensive

That's what they said about WWI. Direct quote. My observation is that most populations are pretty readily swayed to support a war. And the invisible hand is no match for martial law in organizing resource commitment in a war footing. It's been decades since this happened on a large scale, so I think we've forgotten how truly terrifyingly effective a war footing can be for a major power.

I mean, can you imagine the kind of utter devastation that would result if the United States, as a society, really, and I mean really, decided that Islamic terrorism was an existential threat, and mobilized to fight it on the fully integrated national level comparable to WWII?

If the country were all-in -- spending at the level of the European powers during WWII -- this would mean an expenditure of perhaps $30 trillion per year for three or four years focused on that goal, an intensity which is almost beyond imagining. That's war mobilization in a modern economy. It's hard to conceive because it is, frankly, inconceivable. How would that even work? But possible? Oh, yes.
Ask HN: Could you be deported for open source prj?
coude a international student be deported for working on open source projects while at uni, on f1 visa
Big Data Is Hadoop the good way to start?
It's not just that. Part of the reason they are designed to run that slow is because they are directly connected to the prop.
JPEG supports progressive rendering by sending one group of coefficients at the time -- first the DC coefficient (average value), then each AC coefficient in turn (starting with low frequencies).

This tends to actually improve efficiency, since coefficients of a given frequency are more similar to each other than coefficients of a given block.
TEU = 20ft Equivilant Unit. The traditional 40ft semi-trailer style container is actually 2 TEU.
I worked with an administrative assistant with Tourette's syndrome who would routinely blurt out observations about the sexual/physical characteristics of female co-workers, provoking "managers" passing by to take the opportunity to assert their inclination to be the strong gentleman and challenge this poor fellow to a fight for m'lady's honor.

It only took a moment of explanation and de-escalation to clue them in to what was going on, and the situation was defused, no matter how many more "nice tits" the administrator busted out in public.
Perhaps the most reliable way to know exactly what all a permission allows, is to write an analyzer tool that analyzes android platform sources and/or bytecode looking for calls to permission APIs, creates a list of such calling methods, and finally maps these callers to what data they affect.

Not sure if the underlying native binaries too use these permissions, but if they do, they too can probably be analyzed.

I wonder if such a tool already exists.
Has anyone tried to write gibberish while pretending to be language? (i.e. don't just write scribbles, but make an effort to look like language - but don't actually have a meaning.)

And then analyze it to see if you can tell.
Can anyone comment on why it's 2 stroke?

Just for simplicity? I have to imagine the stuff coming out the exhaust isn't so great for the environment.
Ferguson’s Fifty-Year Fire
What's new? Facebook has changed their policies so often, that I don't even bother. In fact I don't use Facebook much because they keep changing so much that I get this sneaking suspicion they are slipping in something nefarious and hoping that you won't notice. It's like the auto insurance companies. I keep getting thick envelopes in the mail about changes in my policy every few months. I don't know why that's necessary, but they keep doing it. ???
> housecleaners prefer to be paid in cash (so mobile payments were out), mainly use text messaging, and sometimes don’t want to reveal professional information online, especially if they were undocumented.

We have many users who fall into the lower-income bracket, and understanding their needs at a design level is very challenging. Many functions that we might take for granted within an application -- logging in, downloading, installing from the app store, etc. -- can be foreign if not altogether new concepts. We have to deliver success, error and information messages to users who fundamentally won't read or anticipate what is happening.

The SMS/text scenario is a big deal for us. We have users who interact with our service solely through their text message application -- nothing installed from our service on their end. When we offer a chance to use our mobile app, we have been asked "what's the app store?"

That said, it's rewarding to build something that makes someone's life easier for them. We are certainly falling in the do good camp.
A single cylinder that big would have SERIOUS vibration issues. Imagine dropping, oh, a 20,000lb weight from a height of 10ft. Every 6 seconds or so.
How about this guy from SAP who stole legos in an elaborate scheme involving fake barcode stickers: http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2012/05/22/silicon-valley-exec-...
Ah, good catch. I didn't click beyond the site I linked - bit misleading in its wording then.
In plain English, what is a typed array in JavaScript?
Mark Cuban Argues against Net Neutrality
We were talking about male-only conferences, and those links are about diversity outreach programs that focus on African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Latino, LGBT and males (listed in that order on both links). The very first successful example they bring up is an African-American woman.

There exist diversity programs in almost all professions. What does not exist is conferences, universities or network groups that only allow one group in the name of diversity. The linked example are what people that dislike affirmative action points at as good example of outreach in stark contrast to actions which only invite one group and exclude everyone else from participation.

But maybe if you had more time, you could locate all those numerous male-only conferences.
Why? All we have is a tel: link that opens the phone number in the dialer. They can choose to initiate the call or not, no permissions needed.
6 Important Big Data Strategies to Implement
Sure, but probably not in the form of a traditional job with an employer where he would likely endure mental trauma over mistakes being made at a job that he depends on for money.

The sad part that most people do not understand is that if he's on 'assisted living' and gets a job he may no longer be eligible for it ever again, even if it doesn't work out.

So the idea to push a job on him could actually be the death of him and what's worse: chances are good that he might even do it to his own detriment.

Edit: reduced unintended tone. ;)
Just point your web browser to foxnews.com, they've been doing it for years.
spare, adj.

> A spare part ... is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or replacement of failed units.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare_part

> kept in reserve, as for possible use

> being in excess of present need; free for other use

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spare?s=t

A replacement part made on demand is by definition not "spare". Let's not have this word go the way of "drone", please?
Sorry, I did misunderstand. Completely agree.
This Diet Watch App Utilizes Image Processing for Analysis of Food Items
The front-end/back-end separation architecture that I'm referring to is used for internal systems checksums. We're using it to make sure that the front-end code is still what we think it is... the main threat model it protects against is a front-end developer on the team having their machine compromised and an attacker deploying front-end code that wasn't signed by someone with access to the back-end code.

What I like the most about browser security is that it tackles this stuff head-on. There is no more thoroughly tested environment that runs untrusted third-party code. Code signing, checksums, signed software updates... all of these are most definitely issues on every other platform. They're the most difficult to protect against on the web which makes the web the best place to try and figure them out.

I'd really like to see a few additions to the Web Crypto API. Some sort of key management mechanism would be wonderful. And of course some sort of native mechanism to deal with signed code and checksums. As well as getting FIDO U2F standardized.
" At a meta-level, the next time you are debugging emergent behavior, you might try thinking of the components as agents colluding via covert channels."

An insightful way of looking at a problem when the cause is not obvious.
Pretty cool and hip till your parents are gone and you wish you'd spent more time with them.

Don't get me wrong, Thanksgiving with friends can be awesome, but you need to make time for family. You can't assume they will always be there.
Seriously, I would totally buy a ticket to experience that - seems like the sort of thing that turns out to be important and later everyone feels stupid for not acting on it earlier.
Some of the most important software in my life is code I could have written myself.

But I didn't. The developers did. It's still good software.

I don't appreciate art for its technical difficulty, I appreciate it for its aesthetics. There are a lot of Rothkos that look really nice.
YKK gets a shoutout on So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast.
most employers typically don't start your greencard application until you've been working for them for 1-2 years.
Not unless you were getting paid for it, no.
Here he is back in 1993 discussing some design philosophy, then demonstrating ColorFORTH and his homebrew chip design software. The second video is particularly amazing.

http://youtu.be/B_cf8n58Ews

http://youtu.be/Dbd7Xu0ibJM
the article ends with a trite dogmatic assertion that individualism will save the world. no, ayn rand, it will not. individualism and collectivism need to maintain a creative tension for economies to thrive. it's irreconcilable that the same troubles cited by the author (income inequality, militaristic aggression, religious extremism, etc.) have roots in stroking the individual's ego.

there are some interesting tidbits like technological change creating (short-term) economic upheaval and credit cannot fuel economic growth. but the conclusion drawn is a curious amalgamation of progressive individualism that simply doesn't follow from the observations that come before it.
You acknowledge it is an oversimplification, but is it even true? Taxes have shifted around, but in aggregate, they haven't been slashed. Taxes as a percentage of GDP were 26% in 1979, 26.4% in 2012, and haven't fluctuated more that a couple points. There has been some deregulation since the 80, but there also has been massive regulation. Yes banks escaped regulatory oversight, but the vast majority of businesses deal with greater regulatory burden that was present 35 years ago.
Evolving bacteria to produce more of all sorts of useful chemical
It's all relative. I live close to my parents, and have the privilege of having dinner with them about once every other week. Meanwhile, if I'm lucky, I get to see my best friend who lives far away once every 6 months. Given this disparity, I would greatly prefer hanging out with my friend during the holidays rather than burning vacation days spending time with my nuclear family (who I see often) and extended family (who I am not close with at all) just because tradition dictates that I should do so.
Small business – not consumer – is driving Alternative Finance
Needs some information (even if speculative) about temperature and energy sources. The Daily Mail (of all places) has a more informative introdution: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2848739/Europ...

Wikipedia's article is very good, as is typical of astronomy content there.
Small, but repeating daily, and predictable. Of course, if it is too repeatable, I guess drivers/riders could just forego the middleman.
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We were talking about male-only conferences,

Specifically you mentioned "male only conferences, universities or network groups", and I mentioned "support groups, outreach groups, and scholarship programs." You're right, I haven't had a chance to find any male-only conferences for psychologists and veterinaries (but for that matter, I can't find any "female-only" conferences in other fields like tech), but I did find examples of outreach/network groups. And as I mentioned, the fact that they do exist for fields like nursing and teaching is evidence that if these outreach groups don't exist for veterinarians and psychologists, it's not because they're seen as a "joke."

in stark contrast to actions which only invite one group and exclude everyone else from participation.

Example?
That's exactly the thinking which led me to the first published cryptographic side channel attack against hyperthreading: Intel's optimization manual had a comment about being careful with stack alignment to avoid poor cache performance, and I thought "what if slow could instead be maliciously slow?"