skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Lack of service for hours every day", is that a personal experience?

Telefonica was providing services in villages and small towns with very difficult geography (mountains, roads, ...). Now there is a big competition in Spain, for example Jazztel is offering 200Gigabit/s up-down for 36 euros/moth and phone tax included. Our country is getting better in the IT sector and telefonica was the pioneer. It is easy to critique but in the old times there was no other option, and for many to have the opportunity to be connected is much better than to be out of the web.
"In addition, we reiterate that Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with Wi-Fi, cellular, or public safety communications."

Can't every device that has an appropriate antenna be a potential jamming device? What a weird law.
It is Telefonica's OpenTok division that provides the webrtc service and javascript API upon which Firefox Hello runs.

http://www.tokbox.com/blog/firefox-hello-mozilla-enhances-op...

But taking it a bit deeper, this is all part of Telefonica's strategic partnership with Mozilla to market phones running Firefox OS.

http://blog.digital.telefonica.com/tag/html5/
The author's primary example for the "LTS is bad claim" was glibc, which is not a kernel.

Are you saying the "LTS is bad claim" only applies to kernels and other things very close to the hardware (closer than a database)?
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> At the end of the day, we need investors to pour money into telecommunications infrastructure, which is very expensive. If you make that unprofitable, they'll spend their money on WhatsApp or Twitter or other things that are less regulated. And when that happens, who is going to build the pipes? Google?

Maybe, if they find that market growth is limited by infrastructure. Though of course having the end providers get into the infrastructure business has some of the same problems that having infrastructure companies turn the pipes into selective tollways.

Ultimately, though, I'm not sure we want telecom infrastructure itself to be the place for economic profits (meant in the technical sense of the term). We've done a lot better by letting the innovation happen on the ends. Infrastructure should be boring, predictable, low-risk, modest but reliable reward.
This is why I started my own company. No matter how great the company, you will always eventually be put in a situation where management or sales makes a promise they can't deliver and you, the developer needs to suffer the consequences.

Now, I will only put in all my nights and weekends if I am at least a 50% owner in the company.
I’m listening... why do you think the government has hired ELIZA?
Why do counties deliberately obfuscate corrupt this data?
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One alternative is they spend that money on more employees (or raise the salaries of the employees)

The $160 billion is in easily liquidated assets (which is basically the same as cash for companies of this size), it's still being more or less useless economically.

This might come off as being a bit "waaah companies aren't allowed to be successful", but on a social responsibility level I don't get how you justify holding on to over $80 billion.

Obviously the US tax system also has things about it that contribute to this state of affairs. But even if the money could be brought back into the US tax-free , do you think Apple would be spending it? I don't know. Again, waaah Apple isn't allowed to be successful.
Firefox was always about switching to a user oriented focus. Getting rid of bloat happened to be a necessary early step on that path.
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In that case, must you create one or more separate bundles to contain your vendor libraries? I suppose there's no way to directly integrate a jQuery library hosted on a public CDN.
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I'm thankful and I'm not. On one hand, it's nice to know you're in-demand and can easily earn income. On the other hand, as a working developer, the subtext of a lot of this stuff is frankly pretty offensive.

"Let's throw some stupid, token perks at these developers who don't know how to negotiate for salary so they'll come build my dream!" How about, pay people commensurate with the value they create for your organization and/or demand (in cash, or if you're cash-poor, equity), and stop playing stupid games -- you'll have plenty of candidates.
Hmm, that footnote was very hard to notice, so I was quick to point out these errors to the person who maintains the blog, only to get blocked by her on twitter. Not sure why go that far.
Does this apply on private property, or on property with sufficient signage?

I've often thought about opening a bar (or movie) theater where all wireless communications are blocked, to force people to not use their phones.

Obviously I'd put up extremely big and obvious signs stating that, and I'd only be blocking if you were inside my building.

Legal?

EDIT: I wouldn't be blocking anyone from setting up a wi-fi hotspot inside my bar, but comms to the outside world would be blocked using that cool paint, or a Faraday cage of some sort.
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Proof-of-work having secondary commercial utility is troublesome because it can result in a situation where the secondary utility becomes more valuable than the former, in which case the currency is liable to collapse.

I tend to think that proof-of-work must be inherently useless in order for it to function for this reason - otherwise, it's not 'work'.
To give the clients a simple way to initiate their peer-to-peer session?
It will have to be a Faraday cage with an internal white noise generator.
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My experience has actually been the opposite! Most hacker houses I've lived in have been run by women and seem especially friendly and welcoming to women residents.
Not if the index values are encrypted (public-key) too.

hashed-word => encrypted-list-of-msg-indices

something like that.
Because, if you're going to criticize the article, maybe go read everything there is to read? Because every one of your points was addressed somewhere in the article.
Is that the meat space equivalent of telling grandparent to submit a pull request or something?
Well, to be honest, they were blocked even without a court order...
Nope, blocking cell phones is even more serious. Not least of which because you'd be blocking 911.

You could, on the other hand, have a policy of "turn off your phone at the door, and if your phone rings or you pull it out, we'll kick you out".

EDIT: Yes, you can build a Faraday cage. Consider carefully whether you really want to do so, or just set a policy ("go outside if you need to answer a call").
Did it pass the Turing Test?
Most people probably used the record feature on their cassette players and the cost of simply including it in every device may well have been lower than the cost of two production lines. Incidentally, for five years or so the Amiga was a great choice and any PC bought instead of an Amiga would have been horribly obsolete by the time the Amiga ecosystem collapsed.

Your parents sound cool ;-)
Thanks, but last I looked into this it wasn't possible for this to work for a square in a parent rectangle of arbitrary dimensions. Can you find an example that works, using jsfiddle or something similar?
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The title is completely misleading, seems like it's talking to the recommendation feature on Netflix, but it isn't. Everyone with common sense knows that big executive decisions aren't made solely by computers, yet the author seems amazed that big executive decisions are ultimately made by big executives.
Talk about clickbait, huh?
If it was legal, I wouldn't want to go there, since it prevents you from dialing emergency response.

I would think you could passively block it (via paint). But probably can't actively block it (jamming).
That's a bad and misleading comparison here though. Your cassette player had to add the bulky recording feature to become a recorder, but did not need it to be a player.

Firefox is a webbrowser, not a video conferencing software, but it had to add WebRTC to be a web-browser (the bulky bit), so adding in recording is trivial.

A more honest analogy would be saying you had a cassette player that already had all the hardware to record -- necessitated by it being able to play cassettes for some reason -- but didn't have a record button vs one having the button.
but for iOS I need to develop it on an Apple machine correct?
I'd say it is OK as long as

a) what you do absolutely positively cannot bleed outside

b) you are not using a wireless jamming device
>If it was legal, I wouldn't want to go there, since it prevents you from dialing emergency response.

...Just like you couldn't prior to about 1995 when cell phones were not a thing.

And let's be perfectly honest, if you really need to dial emergency response in a bar, there's a damn good chance the bar tender will do it on the wall phone, or someone can step outside the door and do it.
Telefonica is the one that is getting out manilva from the prehistoric in the FTTH (comments from this web)

in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKHUA3bs1iY

translated: Published on Jan 15, 2015

The Mayor of Manilva, Urieta Diego and director of the South Territory of Telefónica Spain, María Jesús Almazor, held a meeting to present the expansion plans the company has planned for the town. Thus, they have confirmed that it has begun the deployment of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and that citizens already have 4G technology.

According highlighted the mayor, Manilva, later this year will be the first municipality in Andalusia to have installed fiber optic network in the hundred percent of the town.
Do you have to pay for your traffic twice?
That would block cell phone signals as well. Their customers will get angry pretty quickly..
The footnote was very difficult to spot.

Furthermore, I am not sure why not write out the complete code, even if the author knew the code was not correct, even when pointed out, it would have been very trivial to initialize the variable.
perform a dickey fuller if you are unsure if a time series is nonstationary, perhaps.
Well,

1) if I understood correctly, the design of Angular has some inherent, and rather large, performance hits.

2) Google isn't dogfooding Angular save for one project. Facebook seem pretty serious about doing all new developement in React.

3) the specific kind of developement they're doing is similar to the one I have to do right now, viz. taking an established mostly static page and adding bits of highly interactive and dynamic behavior here and there. Google used Angular to reimplement the app from scratch. I can't afford that.

4) Angular, at what will probably the top of its popularity right now, just broke all interfaces and syntax and everything during the passage to 2.0, for reasons that were never fully explained (to me at least). Facebook won't be able to do that without breaking the proportionally large investment they had so far with React.js and incurring significant costs, which is nice and stable and comfortable. If the benefit/cost ratio of React 2.0 (or 1.0, I guess) is acceptable for Facebook, then it will probably be acceptable for me, too.

5) React interacts nicely with their Flow typechecker, which I think is, uh, the safest vector, right now, to foster the adoption of algebraic typing in the mainstream of programming. I won't typecheck my JS before the summer, probably, but still, this is philosophically fun.
According to the homepage:

Because Hello is built right into Firefox, you can rest easy knowing that your conversations and information will remain private and secure.

I'm not sure exactly why this is though.

Also, out of curiosity more than anything else, what's a decent web-site that implements the same functionality (i.e. set up a VOIP session, let people join by sending a link, ideally anonymously)? I could've sworn AOL had a service like this, but Google results return nothing.
Geez, I immediately thought this was ELIZA too or a really bad IRC bot. :)
Titanium comparisons are some of my top thoughts too.

1) How do they access the native API?

If there's no abstraction, just a translation, then the apps must be different for each platform. If there is an abstraction, then how much of the native platform do they cover? It can't be 100%, and the native APIs change with every OS version. Basic calls are easy, integrating things like device keychain, intents, and services are not so easy -- we learned this with Titanium.

2) How will React Native do cross-platform local data storage?

Being able to easily import, retain, and sync remote data is an absolute need for today's apps. Titanium uses SQLite on both sides, and has modules for more (like TiTouchDB). Not abstracting data storage would be a major mistake IMHO.

3) Can we use standard npm modules?

JS's killer feature is the module ecosystem, it's no good having a JS engine if we have to reinvent common modules to match a new API. V8 is the gold standard here, fingers crossed.

4) Debugging?

Speaks for itself. Debugging both JS and native code together bridged from a device is hard. Hopefully they are adapting existing tools and IDEs like node-inspector and Sublime Text.
C lacks a boolean type

This is false, as of C99 we have booleans in C, just include stdbool.h in your code, e.g.:

#include <stdbool.h>

...

bool test = true;

...
Yes, you need a Mac in order to run the simulator or build to a device.
It's nuts to me that this was 32 years ago.
Disabling it is damn simple.

All I have to do is right-click on the icon and click "Remove from toolbar", or "Customize" and remove it.

But wait, you say, it's not actually removed... well, for the sort of person that "about:config" is not a valid answer, it is removed.

If your actual complaint is about the functionality / bloat, well, it turns out WebRTC is required for firefox to be a browser and the delta from that to this is essentially nothing.
"Developing a meaningful philosophy of life" is a life-long pursuit, and to that end the four years I spent in college were way less influential than the years since have been.
Developers shouldn't be afraid to implementing new features just because they don't know if it's the best decision yet. And to drive innovation many times you will have to step into an unknown territory.

Moreover for someone who hasn't used anything but IE for his entire life, the video chat feature might be the only reason to sway towards FF.
Not such a good idea when the firefighters are inside and trying to communicate with the fire chief in the parking lot via wireless comms.
In law, intention matters. Capable of being modified to do so and marketed to do so are very different in the eyes of the law.
Author here, happy to answer any questions folks have on my analysis. Or about tubas. Your pick.
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> The only people talking about this are tech people

If that is the case then I stand corrected. One can only hope then that this information will find it's way outside the tech circles.
The current condition in the US seems to give both telcos the right to favor traffic and users the right to subvert that ability.
Would it not be fairer to say that the demand for highly-paid work has increased and that college is simply a victim?

Going back a few decades in the UK, a manual labourer could afford to buy a home, own a car, provide for the family, etcetera.

Nowadays that is falling fast.

Add to that the 'pandora's box' element of education (those who are educated will likely feel depressed if low-paid or non-stimulating long hours bar them from continuing to learn) and I think it's a natural reaction.

If you want to fix 'learning for learning's sake', then you need to get rid of the idea that the winner takes all and that those who are unskilled are fit for dog meat.

This also wasn't an issue when only the rich went on to further education, because they are not constrained by work.
Thank you. This kind of legal blindness gets annoying around here.
"Lack of service for hours every day", is that a personal experience?

Yes, it's clear from the post that it is from personal experience. Why would you think otherwise?

Telefonica was providing services in villages and small towns with very difficult geography

Yes, back when it was a public company; that was just their responsibility.

It is easy to critique but in the old times there was no other option

Yes, but neither BSousa nor I were talking about dial-up times. Nor was the EU when they fined Telefonica for anti-trust violations, multiple times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefónica#Monopoly
Let's look at the source of stdbool.h:

#define true 1
#define false 0

http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/stdbool_8h_source.html
While the DOJ should, but probably won't, correct it self, and should have gotten it right the first time, Andy Greenburg deserves a significant amount of fault for this misinformation. Both articles use somewhat ambiguous language, and have titles that are unclear.

The most important distinction is between "Dark Web" and "Tor". A reader not intimately familiar with Tor could easily assume that those are used interchangeably.
I wouldn't call it a quick buck, it's unregulated market competition.

| It makes my blood boil

You're taking my money and not guaranteeing no backdoors in your software, how does that work for my blood? I'm not saying my data is important or that I'm special, but the fact that my ERP data critical to my business is potentially open to someone across the world or even my own government does not sit right with me. Of course I will clamor for some oversight. I may be dearly mistaken but I can't agree with your comment.
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I was going to comment, this is like talking to SmarterChild.
Just need to repaint the walls. http://www.lessemf.com/paint.html or appropriately tuned wallpaper http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/anti-w...
Is it possible to patent something that is already in the public domain?
| It is not very different to what Americans did with the British.

Can you point me to sources?
Have you tried using hangouts?
I am also very interested in this.

A secure and easy to use solution for web chat is really needed. If it's easy to use but insecure, that simply raises the bar for competing secure solutions to meet, which is a shame.
While this is obviously a bit of a popular lore, I suspect it may be partially true, if only at a city level. Hollywood perhaps?
... and does this add hops?
This was the premise behind Spreadsheet.io (founder here). I wrote the xls/xlsx/csv/tsv pipeline parser that converts to JSON. Also wrote a native Excel add-in the embeds a JavaScript runtime / REPL for applying JS scripts against local files. Using scripts to extract, clean up and integrate data, etc.

Currently, it's sitting on my local machine collecting bitrot. Thinking about open sourcing it..
Governments get the same benefits that companies do from these things -- it's just that the government does the reinvesting in those cases while other companies might reinvest elsewhere (or in the not-to-distant past some of those very areas). It's the same principle behind companies backing open source. The companies themselves benefit from it, and so do others. And sometimes the initial contributions allow further contributions, like Walmart utilizing the transport networks to greatly improve the lives of the citizens and the tax base for the government.

The governments needing to pay for those basic things (while having a captive income stream) can't be the sole reason governments do so terribly at their duties. How do you explain the F-35 from the basis that governments gotta build roads? Why not look at process and management and incentives, which go a long way towards explaining why different companies do better than others?
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There are different definitions of "rogue AP". Originally, a rogue AP was defined as an unauthorized AP connected to the corporate wired network inside the firewall; these should ideally be blocked by turning off the wired port but that's probably too complex so they resort to spoofed disassociate frames. An unauthorized AP that uses the corporate SSID is also rogue because it could be used for MITMing. Recently some people have started calling "any AP that's not ours" rogue, which is taking it too far IMO and is likely to lead to some FCC smackdown.
My personal opinion is that there is a divergence product types between traditional AWS offerings and their new desire to break into traditional Enterprise offerings. The Workspaces and managed Directory Services are nods to the Enterprise space but they are currently getting more shakes of the head back rather than nods.
Actually, the comment is fairly accurate. Very few people in AI are reading neuroscience papers, and even fewer are trying to implement the ideas from those papers in software. Those who do, are not really doing AI, but rather writing brain simulators, and not trying to perform any intelligent tasks. The closest examples that come to mind (aside from Jeff Hawkins) are Chris Eliasmith and guys behind Leabra.

If you know any others, please mention them!
You know, all of this already happened once.

This time we don't have an all powerful Microsoft fighting the web, but Google seems very wiling to take their place. Last browser wars stopped the web evolution for about a decade, just because of a single party that didn't want to be nice.
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Both are absolutely excellent.
Yes pleaseeeee tell me I can take advantage of just the View layer and use my own Model and Controller setup. With Titanium views are 'just' JS objects, so I can use Spine, Backbone, and other libraries for business and data logic.
also: statistical tests on correlation coefficients don't test whether the correlation is "significant" or not --- they only test whether the correlation is reliably different than 0.00

So a small correlation (e.g. r=0.10) can still be "statistically significant" at p<0.001 but all this means is that r is reliably different than 0.00 --- it doesn't mean r is big
I'm not sure. The author says that adding a common component to two random time series doesn't make them correlated. But that's not true, by construction, at least using any of the simple correlation tests. It's a complicated subject explained in a confusing way.
Podcasts used to be simple: follow an RSS feed, download the audio files, listen to them, delete them when you're done. Now they're "cloud," so your computer is just a cache, and God only knows when you have those files, or when some program lets you use them.
Because the author made a stylistic choice to publish slightly incomplete code to get to the point faster (and pointed that out in a footnote, which was just as easy to spot as the "bug"). The point of the essay is not a perfectly executed C program, it's to demonstrate code disassembly and reverse engineering. More attention on perfect C code means less attention (reader attention and author attention alike) on the essential facts the author is trying to communicate.

In addition, I'm not an expert at this stuff, but it seems like initializing that variable would make the disassembly more complex and thus obfuscate the point just that much further.
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Sad story dude...glad it turned out well in the end!