skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many cycling brands use .cc domains, not sure who started it. Also the main competitor for this sort of style is probably more along the lines of Castelli/Gore than Rapha. I dig the idea, but the aesthetic types are going to stick with Rapha/SAS/etc.
There's a program called "wmname" specifically designed for this: http://tools.suckless.org/wmname

Just run "wmname LG3D" then restart any open Java programs.

LG3D is "Looking Glass 3D", a Java window manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass . It's quite amusing that Java's UI toolkit contains special-cases to avoid breaking their demos.
Txt2Speech now available on RubyGems (Google Translate lifehack)
emirozer (the author), you're marked as [dead], which means that your comments are hidden by default and nobody can reply to you. Try emailing hn@ycombinator.com and see if a moderator can sort that out.
I'm hellbanned (too easily trollable) so you probably won't see this, but I recommend an article by Krugman which changed my world view:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
I think that UDEREF works here, on brief inspection of the code.

However I haven't looked too hard, but grsec seems to have its own bugs in this area. I'll email them.

As usual, my nasty IRET test case is available [1], and, as of the embargo expiration (Monday), it contains tests for the whole pile of issues here, among others. Save your work before running it.

[1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests/sou...
I was doing a laravel project from tuts+ and you don't know how many times I had to check for stackoverflow for answers to problems. I was discouraged that I wouldn't fix some of my issues with the project but I was able to complete the project after a week, which made me happy.
What's the magnet URI for it?
Sony cancels the Interview theatrical release after theaters pull out
The last time this happened was in 1977, when an Islamic group made threats if "Mohammad, Messenger of God" was shown. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Hanafi_Siege)

It's now on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/The-Message-1976-StoryofIslam
2017 is about as soon as the CBs can start returning to some semblance of pre-crash normality. The ECB could, for example, start a QE program soon. That's kind of shocking, even if one understands why.
> One thing I did not understand is where all the mobile money on facebook is coming from. Looks like it is from app installs (don’t think FB breaks it out) which in turn is created by VC funding bubble.

In July re/code put the App Install Ads at $400-$800m in revenue per quarter. I'd guess it's on the upper-end of that spectrum and is out-pacing other revenue lines. It's not unusual for a top tier game to pay up to $3-5 for a US install.

This is why Twitter is so keen (desperate?) to replicate what FB is doing.

http://recode.net/2014/07/24/why-doesnt-facebook-want-to-bra...
Leaked Emails from Sony Hack Reveal Snapchat’s Big Ambitions
replace(/framework/ig, 'library')

better?
Teardown of the Microsoft Band
Theater chains are pretty spineless in general.
> Sony Entertainment has consequently decided to cancel the film’s theatrical release, originally scheduled for 25 December.

Not a single bone in your back Sony. I was actually really looking forward to seeing the movie.
>i don't think she considered them "higher" or even equals.

She might not consider them to be important, but some of them most certainly were by any objective standard. An executive from one of the largest advertising agencies in the world publicly asked her why she never returns his emails. He was exactly the type of person that the CEO of Yahoo should consider important. If she doesn't someone should show her the fucking door.
Paradoxically I think it will help him.

The leaks to this point have showed him as obnoxious, careless etc. This one shows him as focused, driven and smart (the details don't really matter anymore and will likely be forgotten anyway). While I think most people who have experience dealing with the media probably assumed this was the case, now most people will see it without any surrounding PR.

Overall though probably won't sway things too much either way.

(Not that the media is always wrong, sometimes they're probably right, i.e. clinkle)
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They are able to stop not because they are worried about another 9/11, but if something happens, the class-action suits will fly all over, that scares the theaters. So, in essence its not the North Korean dictator or his minions, but the good old lawyers of US&A.
Possibly relevant: AMC theaters is owned by Chinese Wanda Group. China is an acquaintance of North Korea.

Also, the Chairman and 100% owner of Wanda is a high level communist party member.
I used Enlightenment 16 in Gnome 2 for years, but Gnome 3 seems to take more of an everything-or-nothing approach. These days I'm using Xmonad standalone, plus Xmobar as a kind of pipe-driven, text-only notification area. If I ever need a system tray, I run trayer (and curse whoever designed the program that requires it!).
they should make it available for downloading. that would protect their partners and defy the hackers all in one shot.
Every startup is completely fucked until they start raking in money through a sustainable business model.

The ones that get there are the ones that proactively take steps to avoid being fucked.
Ask HN: How do you decide when to use a library?
I'm teaching myself bioinformatics and have some knowledge of the major libraries (eg, scikit-bio and biopython). I'm finding it helpful to lean on the libraries sometimes, but then I'll feel guilty and go back and rewrite those sections from primitives. Is this a normal pattern of behavior?
The terrorists have won. :-(
It's liability, which you might call the corporate version of fear.

Even though the chance that North Koreans would stage a terrorist attack in an American movie theater is slim to none, if something did happen, there would be no end to the lawsuits. As the article mentions, even in the case of the Aurora shooting there was plenty of blame being thrown around in the courtroom. The shooter dressed like the Joker, is the Batman movie to blame? Is the theater to blame? Even in a case like that, where there's clearly one violently insane person to blame, lawsuits happened.

In this case, where there was a clear threat issued, if something happened the theaters would be instantly culpable. It wouldn't even have to be North Koreans, maybe just some sick DPRK sympathizer going nuts and shooting someone.

And like they say, on top of that there might be reduced attendance for other movies as well. If someone's going berzerk in the theater that's playing The Interview, do you really want to be next door watching the Hobbit? Do you even want to go to the mall?

I don't think anyone is seriously worried about an attack. They're worried about the potential legal fallout / lowered profits that could occur in a variety of ways. Controversy isn't great for business, especially during the holidays.

That being said, I think it's spineless. The US Government doesn't respond to threats and blackmail, but corporate America is more than happy to sacrifice anything in order to preserve the bottom line.

I had no intention of going to see The Interview at a theater, but if I can find an independent place playing it on opening night (assuming they'll even try to have it open that night), I'll be tempted to go and support them for standing up to idiocy.
Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex and AMC made this decision for Sony.
Hold off 6 months, wait until the figure out who hacked them, and then release it.
"relatively pedestrian as a web framework"

In early '96 having a RAD MVC web framework backed by an ORM was really pretty groundbreaking (even moving codebases relatively seamlessly between an OpenStep desktop app and WO was possible), though yeah, this was Jobs going after the Enterprise audience rather than consumer electronics, very different vibe.
If I were to recommend three of the four volumes of TAoCP, I would drop Volume 2: Semi-Numerical Algorithms in favor of Volume 4a: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1. Developers, junior or otherwise are simply less likely to find themselves in situations where there is a good reason to implement a psuedo-random number generator or a complete numeric system than to wind up dealing with problems of non-polynomial order or boolean functions.

Of course, I don't know why anyone would recommend three but not all four if that were an option, so I guess I really could just say, there's no reason not to get volume 4a too, for a person heading down that road.
I'm from Cuba, living in Spain right now.

The Cuban government is reluctant to open internet access to the people, despite of they already have the needed bandwith through a submarine cable from Venezuela. Is really fascinating how the Cubans have developed a higly optimized offline distribution channel to share dowloaded content like websites, software, video games, tv shows, movies, with almost the same comsuption patterns of the connected world.

This is a loable move from Obama admnistration and can have a pontentially impact on the near future of cuban internet. The White House fact sheet (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/fact-s...) said:

"Telecommunications providers will be allowed to establish the necessary mechanisms, including infrastructure, in Cuba to provide commercial telecommunications and internet services, which will improve telecommunications between the United States and Cuba."

If Cuban government allow this kind of companies to do business on or with Cuba, that could be huge. But if happens, this could be very slow, sadly.

Disclosure: I'm the cofounder of some Cuba related startups, a classifieds ads site censored by the Cuba government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUmPkb44n_w, they block us by ip and dns, despite of the censorship, revolico is one of the most visited sites in the country, taking into account that cuba has a 5% internet penetration. Also a atypical remittances platform https://www.fonoma.com and crowfunding site for cuban artists shutted down by the USA goverment because of the kind of restriction that they are softening today http://www.yagruma.org
Well, this is somewhat disappointing, but the original "threat" did accomplish one thing: It reminded me I need to get off my ass and go get my concealed-carry permit.

Granted it wouldn't help if they crashed a plane into the theater, but if some whack job decides to start shooting, I'd like to at least have the option of returning fire if need be.
The major movie theatres decided not to show it - they're the ones to blame here, not Sony.

What Sony needs to do now is just release it online. If they're really ballsy, for free on Youtube (with ads, maybe).
It appears that Sony pushed really hard for a Christmas release when it would have made more sense to wait until summer when the furor would have most certainly died down.

Back in the day the studios always released their best pictures on Dec 25th. If it was being released on Christmas day it was a picture that they expected would be a great hit and garner multiple Oscar nominations.

I don't intend to be a movie critic, but I've seen the trailer and my question is did Sony really expect this picture to be a blockbuster for them?
I don't think an internal email is representative of a person's writing skills. Take it for what it was meant to be, stream of consciousness communication to one other person. Something that he obviously spent more time on is below. I don't see a single run on sentence in that link.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegel-o...
Will there still be a release outside the US?
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"This is a horrible precedent."

There is more than one horrible precedent, in that the plot of the movie from what I've read, is the an assassination of a contemporary country leader by specific name. AFAIK that barrier of good taste has never been crossed by Hollywood before. Close, but advocating assassination of a current world leader by name?

Of course, two wrongs not making a right, and all that.

My gut level guess is the whole thing is being orchestrated for PR, lets call it the "snakes on a plane part 2" marketing plan. Hoping for the netflix revenue.
FWIW I would have never seen this movie but now I will due to all of the hoopla. Though obviously it will be harder to see if it isn't in any theaters, this is still a lot of free publicity for the movie, and I'm sure it will be viewable somehow.
Interesting, this must be a Finnish mutation on the theme then, since tarkkailijatonttu ("watching tomte") are very much a thing in Finland.
They should stream it for free, today. Perhaps with a 'pay what you like' button.
What does getting basic primary care to the population (vaccinations, preventive care, well baby care) have to do with how many research papers get written?

I have worked in one of the top medical schools in the US, with world-class researchers, and know that there is very little there that is directly applicable to a population of rural farmers and impoverished city dwellers.
>> "It appears that Sony pushed really hard for a Christmas release when it would have made more sense to wait until summer when the furor would have most certainly died down."

It was originally supposed to be released in October 2014.
I'm not a fan of SV culture myself, but I found this banal and unoriginal.
I didn't want to see it but now I do. I imagine this is more PR than spinelessness.
>> "advocating assassination of a current world leader by name"

It's a movie. It's make believe. There were two movies last year depicting the White House getting attacked. Were they advocating attacking the White House?
Are Network Effects Overvalued?
Tom's Hardware is a garbage website now. Anandtech was much better. Now that the Anandtech podcast doesn't exist anymore, I have nowhere to go for my hype-free hardware newscast.
I'm not even sure that was the goal of the hackers, but either way the fear of lawsuits certainly carries a scary level of influence. Not sure that I like that.
It was actually one of the first and heavily inspired the beginnings of Hibernate.

And yes it is the basis of Core Data.
Seth Rogen and James Franco were concerned about the Oscar contention.
Globalization never ceases to amaze me.
I could imagine them taking a patriotic tack and inviting everybody to show up well armed to the showings. Or heck, put it up for streaming at $15 on all the major providers, let the terrorists hit every data center between here and Pyongyang.
Yes, because more bullets flying in a dark room full of panicked civilians would help the situation.
Overall, this is just great publicity for the movie. I predict that in the long run, it will be successful financially. Before, I just wanted to wait for it to get to Netflix or Amazon. Now I want to see it when possible.
"I'm hopeful that we'll get cancer cured in the next decade"

Not to say that I'm pro-cancer, but I feel like this is a little bit unreasonable. Cancer is a very complicated problem, and medical research takes a long time. Personally I think it sounds like Thiel is just trying to get swole.
I get the feeling that theres a bunch of black hat guys with no affiliation to Korea snickering to themselves right now.
I thought that was your intention. I'm interested to here your response to my second point.
Cinemark was sued in the wake of the Aurora shooting, and their defense has been there was no way for them to expect something like that to happen. In this case, the threats they've received would prevent that defense, and the theaters don't want to take on that liability.
OTOH what represents the white house won in the end. Does the same thing happen in this movie?
I don't blame you, but it's going to be a real bummer if you're not the 2nd person carrying, but the third.

Three people with guns in a close, crowded, dark space seems intuitively worse than only one.
I just had a play.

I think it is a great idea. Always struggling to pick a gift. I like the phone charger suggestion. I like how you ask for feedback presumably to make the results better next time.

Will it be a success? I guess it depends on how the word will be spread? Do people want to admit they used something like this to buy a gift for someone?

Another idea for you - can you scan a Facebook account to gather a lot of the information you ask? Would save a lot of typing. It could also send you an email when it is someone's birthday with a recommendation of the present.

A common theme in the how to start a start-up is to do things that don't scale. What if you had a phone line that you answer, people can phone and give the information and you suggest a present. What if you order it for them? You will get a lot of information about the nuances of choosing a present, which can be fed into your algorithm.

In my example the person hates to read books on self development, but likes trashy novels, but on the other hand is very ambitious. It suggest all kinds of self improvement books but I had to keep saying no.
Nothing wrong with exiting. It's dangerous to start a business with the intention of never exiting.

Sometimes you just want to move on to better/bigger things.
"Pakistan may ban Skype in Karachi, citing use by terrorists" - The Washington Post

"Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under 'anti-terror' data snoop law" - ZDNet

"Terrorists move to Skype, frustrate eavesdroppers" - The Times of India

"Pakistan's Sindh Province To Ban Skype, Viber For 3 Months of Terrorist Usage" - TechCrunch

"Talk Like a Terrorist: Use Skype" - United Liberty

"U.S. Jihadis being recruited by ISIS via Skype" - NY Daily News

Among the first languages to get speech support: Arabic, Russian, Chinese. (A full list is here: https://translator.skype.com/#/home)

Honestly, I don't know how widely speech-to-speech will be used (how many people are trying to Skype with someone who exclusively speaks a language they don't?). But I do know how speech understanding will bolster Skype, one of the major PRISM programs. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance will gain a lot of speed and drastically reduce costs by automating most foreign intelligence collection.
That's theoretically a good thing. If it costs less to eat rice from the US, then that capital can be put to use in other ways. The problem can be an existing large imbalance in income producing resources. If rice agriculture is the only thing available, then wealth imbalance can/will increase and power dynamics start looking like oil or natural resource rich countries.

If, on the other hand, people are able to eek out improved standards of living, in general, with savings on food costs, they can increase health and education spending and get into a virtuous cycle of increased living standards.

There's a bigger context necessary.
> Lastly one has to wonder about her frequent tardiness. I am all for gender equality in the workplace but one has to wonder that trying to turn a massive company around as its CEO during and immediately after pregnancy is a good idea.

Didn't she have an in-office nanny taking care of everything?
It's more likely she's losing her mind from that 4 hours of sleep.

Of course, that is one great reason to take maternity/paternity leave.
Philae comet landing 'all a blur'
> AFAIK that barrier of good taste has never been crossed by Hollywood before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_%282006_fi...

I'm sure there are earlier precedents too, but this one comes to mind immediately.

Oh, another one: Team America: World Police... which actually did depict a mission to go kill Kim Jong Il (while he was still ruling North Korea). Though to be fair they didn't actually manage to kill him, since in that movie he turned into a cockroach and fled in a spaceship.
I don't believe for a second that the Sony hack was North Korea.

It was a made up story to cover up their shitty security.
Thoughts on my new non-QWERTY iPhone keyboard?
Launched recently, but it may be too unconventional to succeed: http://herokeyboard.com
I'd like to add an auto-complete/suggest bar in phase 2. Any input and ideas is appreciated! Thanks.
Sort it out BBC. British people (without VPNs) can't view this link.

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."
.min.map files are only requested when you have the dev console open.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
If you want to see ugly code, you could look at the compiler's source code. A lot of code in it is clunky because it has evolved since Rust was a very young language, with gradual changes rather than full rewrites.
Linode VPSs can boot custom kernels: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-d...

I don't know if this is possible with other providers.
Well, I was not planning to watch this movie but now plan to visit any movie theater that is screening it and watch it. Hope those chains who show spine make more money this holiday season.
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The only people who ever said it was North Korea was the media, not Sony or even the FBI!
> education health care and the arts flourish

Yes. Music also.

THIS is the Cuba I'd like to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozhe0yTAqo
In general libraries are there to make your life easier and help speed up development so you don't reinvent the wheel. The issue is then that you have a dependency, so you have to be able to manage that going forward(including testing other versions usually). In my experience, people normally use libraries pretty heavily and don't rewrite the functionality using primitives unless there is a real reason that everything needs to be standalone(such as writing embedded software where there are space or other limitations).
Even if there were, wouldn't a more elegant solution be to engineer glowing tigers?

...perhaps not.
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We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the
distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our
company, our employees, and the American public.

I hope the spirit of "the American public" is not too badly damaged and that they will rise above this very trying episode.
Potential tangent, but it annoys and amazes me in equal measure how self professed liberals always seemingly have an axe to grind about libertarianism. This also relates to people accusing the actions of someone else as "ideological" as if their own are not.

Ultimately things like this remind me of Matt Stone's "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."
Ask them about their journey from pain-point and idea to where they are today. Listen carefully and somewhat skeptically to this story. Ask yourself, where do you get the sense that they are exaggerating or glossing over something. Ask about pivots in product and strategy. Ask about financial near-death experiences. As you probe this story try to get a sense of how the founders handle tough circumstances.

Ask about false starts with co-founders or employees that just didn't work out. Try to get a sense of how the founder makes tough choices and deals with interpersonal conflict.

Do I think the company will get traction and grow? If I am employee #7 and I can credibly see how this becomes a company with 100 employees then there is room for me to grow and succeed with the company.

When the pressure is on, how does the founder treat employees? Is he quick to sacrifice their interests for his own? Does he take responsibility or is he quick to shift blame?

Is there a good fit for my skills such that I can make a noticeable difference in technology and business outcomes for the company over the next couple of years?