skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 3 videos they did with Minilogue took things to a new level. In one they had Minilogue describing their setup obviously with Live at the centre of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baMs9P50J-w

Then a video of them 'jamming' (a suspiciously well-produced jam, but I'll let that one go) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiL7lsIATA

Then the genius part. The third video had the band describing their philosophy to making music, and to life. One commenter wrote "This changes everything" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BHEAleNHs
As an offset to that risk, giving your employees more individualised attention than many companies want to give entry-level/minimum-wage employees would likely be a necessity.
The Nokia X platform is (was) a recent attempt at creating an Android device without Google for markets other than China:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X

X might have gone somewhere, but by the time it shipped, Nokia's phone division had been acquired by Microsoft.
Ruby Support in Firefox Developer Edition 38
> jsonx comes with a schema, so you can validate it and mix it with other xml if you namespace it

And you can't do that with pre-existing XML-based formats… why?
I use GCP and the support I've gotten with a silver plan (their lowest) has been surprisingly good. Low priority stuff like bug reports have been forwarded to developers and occasionally fixed.

High priority tickets I've seen a very good response time on (far better than the minimum guaranteed), though I am going to upgrade to the next level plan to get better response times on the weekend.

I have not used AWS support so I can't compare, but GCP support has been pretty good in my experience.

Merely being a customer is not enough though, without a paid support plan you're basically on your own. This might be standard for cloud providers though from what I can tell.
Dieharder: A Random Number Test Suite
Double clicking that button closes the window. Just tried on Windows 8.1
Because information theory says it's impossible.
My thought also: pass it through an Von Neumann extractor and run the die hard test suite on it.
I played with this a few days ago when it was submitted as "Show HN" (but only got 3 points).

It was originally vulnerable to Javascript injection (with potential for XSS), since the "ascii stream" had no protection against arbitrary HTML that could be injected by binary-encoding it and sending it using a little script. I only had the time to PoC by injecting goat pictures: the next day, I tried making a more fleshed out potential-XSS demonstration and the author fixed the vulnerability while I was playing with it.

There's still a (disputable) glitch that I'd like to point out: the ASCII stream is different for everyone, since it's rendered client-side and simply uses the first available bit on page load as point of reference to know when a byte starts.

This "frameshift" glitch obviously marred my injection demonstration, but it's still somewhat annoying for anyone who wants to demo their l33t skills, as other viewers only have 1/8 chance of seeing any binary-encoded text that we send. So currently, the ugly way of forcing a message to be seen is by sending it 7 times, once for every possible alignment. (But why would anyone do that, right?)

Edit: It also looks like nothing is working anymore today.
Want to become a developer? Cody can guide you
Concept tire could generate electricity
There is long tradition of evening schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern#History
Here's a "logic module" from ST:Enterprise - http://www.startrekpropauthority.com/2011/10/star-trek-enter... . It's apparently from "In A Mirror, Darkly", where the Terrans from the mirror universe acquired the Constitution-class Federation starship USS Defiant. So it's definitely an homage to the 1960s series.

At some point it's hard to know the specific lineage. Consider "Land of the Lost" from the 1970s, which had a control panel of colored crystals: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150109000245/villains/i...

They are colored crystals in an array, though unlike the scene from 2001 and the Babylon 5 images you found, these are not slotted.

I'm pretty certain there's a book or web site somewhere which goes into the details of the design sense of at Star Trek.
No, only in multinationals.

Don't expect many people speaking English in small to middle size companies, nor in smaller cities.
It is the seccomp type 2 mechanism, where you choose the system calls and arguments to allow, not the early seccomp type 1 that only allowed exit, read. That one would not really need to sync, as you cannot even create threads afterwards.
> Why does he want exactly his own random file?

He's running a model and needs to use the same random data each time.
When I first read the quote I thought: Of course this is way over the top! Then I read the article. If I'd experienced what she describes, I would probably haven an even more extreme stance.
Looks interesting, but I don't really know anything about Docker except the elevator pitch so I don't understand what's achieved here.

Can some explain what is container linking?
It is a sandbox, you cant trust the threads to apply it I guess, if they have been hacked.

I dont understand why you need to change the seccomp filter after creation though.
Congratulations John Meacham and Gaëtan Leurent!

I was one of the competitors that was eliminated early. This was my entry: https://gist.github.com/sarciszewski/4670875944f9f127a886

It was a fun idea and I'm glad I submitted something. If anyone's interested in crypto, you should play along next year. You might even win something awesome.
The main takeaway from Xiaomi's success is that being a ripoff is a valid business model. Not only valid, it can be better than trying to fake creativity. Xiaomi badly wants/wanted to be Apple. What they did with Android might look creative to you, but only if you look at it as an Android. Again, they want to be Apple. They want to have an iOS, modifying Android is the fastest way to get there.

To all the people saying Xiaomi is just taking inspiration - watch that:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODc0OTA0NzY4.html

I think we just have hard time stomaching the fact that people who blatantly plagiarize can win. We view it as evil and whenever someone does it and wins we try to explain how they really didn't.

It's okay, it's just globalization.
And vimprobable.
For new customers only, apparently.

I've signed up for some of Google's cloud services in the past, but not their IaaS stuff, and never as a paid account. I wonder if it's safe to create a new account to get this free trial, or will that just risk getting my account banned?
Debian has had the "Arch way" before Arch, it's called Unstable :) Personally, I like running that on my laptop and Stable on my server, since I like being able to fix security issues without suddenly having some component replaced or new functionality introduced that breaks the system and requires my intervention. Add unattended-upgrades, and I can essentially leave it running alone for months, if not years.
Hashes suffer from the same pigeonhole problem as compressed data.
The Certificate seems to be verified by a "Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd."

Speaking as an Indian, I am not sure i would trust a CA run by a company that is close to the Indian govt. (whose record on corruption and civil liberties isn't exactly stellar).
Implementing React.js in Swift
>when you know how it can be misused in a country like India which is a police state

Do you have anything resembling a proof for the utter BS you just wrote?
> If you design an impossible game, the only possible thing for anyone to do is to break it.

Which is the Kobayashi Maru in a nutshell. In that fictional case, Kirk was disqualified but also received a commendation.
Bright Eyes Badger Hill Music
A Spanish activist found a tracking device on her car after a police check
The University of Waterloo is a good example of getting an official degree all while doing courses online. Their transcripts do not differentiate between online courses and regular courses so if you get a BA in English or Philosophy for example (degrees fully offered online - http://cel.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html), nobody will know you took it entirely online.

Love that flexibility when I was there. The cost per credit was the same whether I took the course online or on campus.

Did three semesters online before switching to the regular campus (my program wasn't fully online). The education was top-notch too with responsive profs and (for the most part) a good pace even though you're doing a lot of self-studying. My final exams were either held at colleges near my area or proctored at public libraries (the latter though I had to arrange on my own and the school just mailed the exams directly to the library).
I disagree. You could legitimately say he just stored the data in the metadata fields. But files have a size, even as a stream, completely regardless of metadata. I think this is a more clever hack.
Larry wall - Perl,
John McCarthy - Lisp,
Dennis Ritchie had degrees in physics and applied mathematics.

I think you might need to reconsider.
There was a problem in comp.compression (or whatever Usenet newsgroup) of arrogant challengers announcing their brilliant new compression algorithm. This bet is a way of demonstrating at least the pigeon hole problem to other people.
What about Windows XP? It still holds more than 50% Chinese market.
It is ASCII (edit: ok, as per the replies, more like poorly-defined Extended ASCII since it uses 8 bits instead of 7). For every character that has an ASCII value, the Unicode code point and the ASCII value of that character are the same. Unicode was designed with backward compatibility in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
James, Bitte (German Copycat of Magic)
:set gui=none,tabs

[ed: that works for me, anyway]

[ed2: Just realized that I'm running Debian Jessie (testing) on this box, and was running "stock" iceweasel. But upgrading to Aurora (38) the address bar stays hidden (but there appear to be some other glitches -- that might be because of a mish-mash of libraries between mostly stock Jessie and just pulling in Aurora from mozilla.debian.net]

[ed3: definitely some gui glitches, so I don't recommend trying Aurora with vimperator right now - but looks like the address bar shouldn't be a problem either way.]

[ed4: with vimperator nightlies, things seem to work as they should with iceweasel/firefox aurora]
CSPRNG generated sequences can be trivially compressed. You just have to know the seed and the length to reproduce the sequence. However getting the seed from the sequence is unfeasible but theoretically possible by bruteforce.
You can add the number as a contact, and use WhatsApp to communicate.
John Doerr: UC Berkeley Distinguished Lecture Series
I think author explained the copycat claim rather clearly:

"It's a common reflex in the USA to call Xiaomi and similar companies copycats, on both a hardware and software level, and there's certainly a lot of design inspiration going on, but dismissing these phones as rip-offs is rather lazy. When you actually hold them and use them you would never mistake them for iPhones, any more than you'd mistake a $500 coat or bag for the $2,000 example that sometimes inspires the colour or trim. You can sometimes see where it came from, but it's not the same, nor is it trying to be. Rather, they deliver a similar approach to the user experience at a lower price in a way that's often been absent from Android so far (it's hard not to look at some of Nokia's beautiful Lumia devices and wonder what impact they might have had on Apple if they'd run Android)."
Berlin's startup culture is very international with employees from all around the world. Not really different to any other tech hub I know of. So English is the company's operating language, especially for global players like SoundCloud, Wooga, Ableton etc.. There are few companies in the tech sector who have German as their corporate language - and those mostly target the German market only.
Status of the Debian jessie release
I reject the premise that Android phones are the same as PC's. You can add a lot of value to a smartphone that you cannot with a PC and most manufacturers have not figured it out. Some ideas:

AppleCare equivalent. To my knowledge, Android phone manufacturers still don't offer comprehensive accident protection. This is the main reason I stay with Apple products: I can buy this type of protection.

Predictable and fast upgrade schedule. As is, carriers and manufacturers control the upgrade schedule. That still results in crazy delays in upgrades. No, upgrade the damn things ASAP.

Make the phone waterproof. Not resistant, -proof. I want to use it at 100 ft below.

Make it scratch resistant.

Give it better battery life.

Make it look/feel better than the competitors.

Give it a better camera.

I think the list can go on.
If you believe Business Insider, Britain grinds to halt whenever it rains.
Personally I've found Unibox a better fit for my usual conversation flow.

It's a bit new and not as polished as it could be, but when the chains get long, identity-based conversation threads seem much easier to manage.
Looking for Twitter Bootstrap / Foundation Coder
Hi guys, not sure if this is OK to put it here.. where could I find programmers for TB and/or Foundation?

Need reliable, punctual person who can create cool responsive website for my clients. I have my "own" logo designer and photographer.

I am from Slovakia, Europe.

Cheers for any help,
Martin
I'm sorry, but we ARE talking about arguably the most important piece of software running on an end-user device not being supported on a less than ONE YEAR old distribution. Not 5 years, not 15 years. Less than a year.

The result of your argument is basically returning to dark ages of having to support old broken IE6 because the vendor couldn't be arsed to support an older platform. When did dropping support for a less than a year old product become something to be applauded?
Most animations nowdays don't mask any actual delay, but actually introduce new ones. Often, they cannot be skipped. Even more often, they're not properly chained, in a way that breaks the interaction if you're doing something else while the animation is still completing its cycle. If the animation is is actually masking a delay, you can bet the animation is not interrupted and/or sped-up when the data is ready.

There are very few cases were animations provide visual cues which are actually an improvement. Very, very few. Touch interaction benefits for more visual feedback (such as sliding), but note that sliding in my eyes is not an animation as should be directly linked with the position of the finger.

In the last years I've been aggressively disabling all kind of animations in software which serve no actual purpose. Sadly, this kind of stuff often cannot be disabled.
Agreed. I was once wronged by Google Checkout (before it closed, obviously). I couldn't get any response at all from the company, so I called a few numbers and eventually a random developer at Google looked up and gave me the name and phone number for the director of Google Checkout. I posted the number in a few forums where other incredibly frustrated merchants were looking for help.

Instead of getting some people to respond to the messages these people apparently left, within a day, the number was disconnected. That is how they tend to deal with customer service issues.
I can click the buttons, but the number of generated bits does not increase. It does not increase at all.
Ableton couldn't find a single talented female developer on their team to speak on the video?
Why wouldn't binary run length encoding work here? E.g. "compressing" 11100110 to 30020 for example?
The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart – Khan Academy
In terms of behavior, we know Mike acted in bad faith: before he saw the approach, he had agreed that the challenger could use multiple files. But once the challenger had posted them, he proceeded to download only a single file to verify its functionality, not touching the others. It shows bad faith on the part of Mike when he chose to ignore the other files.

By the way in a theoretical sense Mike lost when he said he would allow multiple files and count their sizes: this is because [] is not the same as [[][][]], but consists of 3 empty sets. You can theoretically encode a file into just a bunch of 0-byte files, without using the order of the files or their names. He shouldn't have agreed to count only their sizes.

For the theoretical encoding into 0-sized files, you can simply interpret the input file as a binary number, and then create that many empty files.

This is not a practical solution of course - you can only compress two bytes down to 0-byte files this way, as 2^16-1 is already up to 65535 empty files. For three bytes it's up to 16,777,215 files.

If you wanted to store 9 bytes in unary as the number of empty files, you would need 2^72-1 = 4.7 sextillion (million quadrillion) files. Obviously that is not actually possible. But even 9 bytes is hardly enough to interpret the files as binary again. (Unless you can somehow get Mike to agree to the invocation - since the decompression program itself doesn't need to store any information and theoretically could be 0, 1 or 2 bytes.) But theoretically you don't need anything other than what Mike foolishly agreed to: allowing multiple output files counting their sizes.

2.

There is also another theoretical way to make money off of Mike, but it is not practical. (It doesn't work.) If we were not limited to bytes but could use bits, you could shave up to 5 bits off of every input file, if you figured out a way to decompress it by always prepending the bits 00000. (Theoretically there is only 1 pigeonhole to decompression, so you do not need to store any information in the decompression algorithm and it has no minimum size).

If Mike is using a random source for the files, this would result in a correct decompression in 1/32 of cases. But Mike is giving 49:1 odds (risk $100, get $5000), which is better than 31:1. So you could simply repeat the game with Mike thousands of times, always using the same decompression algorithm, until you have all of Mike's money. This works better if Mike is a computer, of course.

And it doesn't work at all on any actual systems, as a nibble is less than a byte and would not count as savings even if you could encode the decompression algorithm into a 0-byte (or up to 3 bit) invocation.
See also: https://github.com/philipl/pifs and https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/23

I admit this fooled me for a bit. Good news is, I won't be fooled again by something similar :)
Ex Google engineer claims she was harassed and “Google did nothing about it”
this is the least random "random" binary stream I've ever seen in my life. at the moment it's being gamed and people are submitting 99% 1's. (it looks like 111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111 with just a few 0's thrown in.)

it would work a lot better if the server made a pseudorandom bit that it sent to the user for the user to xor their choice by on client-side, and then out of spite undid that bit in half the cases on server-side.

edit: screenshot - http://imgur.com/TLUN8AT
You should also try "startup" and "golang"
They're in management.
The whole investigation is a complete disaster because no one has a clue what happened.

That means that everytime someone said what they thought happened and it turned out to be wrong it looks like a conspiracy. People denied things because they said something different earlier, and they didn't want to appear wrong.

It's fairly likely that foul play on the aircraft itself was involved, but it's pretty unlikely that there was a multiple-government coverup involving Malaysia, China and Australia.
"No Irish Need Apply"

Oh, you mean current policy.
Maven's Inflexibility Is Its Best Feature
I can't wait for Windows 94.
Anatomy of the Centaur [pdf]
Not to defend Google's attitude towards customer service, but you do realize it's inappropriate to post someone's work phone number as a public-facing custom support line, right?
The problems of waste management and global warming are closely interrelated though.

First and foremost the more stuff goes into landfills, the more raw materials have to be mined and processed to replace it, which consumes a lot of energy and by that increases the greenhouse gases footprint. The main point of recycling is to avoid the greenhouse gases emissions that are associated with producing products from raw materials.

A secondary problem with landfills is, especially if large amounts of compostable material go into them, that the biological degradation there happens mostly anaerobic, which in turn means it produces lots and lots of methane, which is a far more potent greenhouse gas.

In a properly setup composting facility, be it small scale in your backyard, or industrial large scale the degradation happens aerobic, so that no methane is produced.
I question your statement "a MOOC degree ought to be infinitely more worthwhile than any traditional college degree". (Taking "infinitely" to mean "at least twice".)

Do you have any evidence for that? That is, there's very little research to back that up. For example, http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1902/300... compared the two systems and found that they were roughly the same, in terms of outcomes.

However, that's based on completing the course. From the paper, "Although approximately 17,000 people signed-up for 8.MReV, most dropped out with no sign of commitment to the course; only 1500 students were “passing” or on-track to earn a certificate after the second assignment. For the IRT analysis we included only the 1,080 students who attempted more than 50% of the questions in the course, 95% of whom earned certificates. Most of those completing less than 50% of the homework and quiz problems dropped out during the course and did not take the posttest, so their learning could not be measured."

Further, "It is also important to note the many gross differences between 8.MReV and on-campus education. Our self-selected online students are interested in learning, considerably older, and generally have many more years of college education than the on-campus freshmen with whom they have been compared. The on-campus students are taking a required course that most have failed to pass in a previous attempt. Moreover, there are more dropouts in the online course (but over 50% of students making a serious attempt at the second weekly test received certificates) and these dropouts may well be students learning less than those who remained. The pre- and posttest analysis is further blurred by the fact that the MOOC students could consult resources before answering, and, in fact, did consult within course resources significantly more during the posttest than in the pretest."

This reads like if a student finishes a course then there isn't much difference based on how they learned the material. Hardly the sign of a 'radically superior' education system.
This is probably the Linda Problem -- the conjunction fallacy.

"Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Kahneman and Tversky stripped the quiz down and tried again. They had students read the same profile of Linda. But then they simply asked whether it is more likely that Linda is (a) a bank teller or (b) a bank teller who is active in the feminist movement?"

Most people say (b) because they feel the need to explain Linda's social conscience.
Try on a 18k Omega Constellation watch. The gold warms up to
skin temperature so quick it feels like a lambs skin band. As to weight--it's not heavy. Acually, I need to look down
to make sure it's still there. As a Horologist, it's by far my favorite watch. It's a simple watch, but it just feels right. My only concern is thiefs notice it more than high
end stainless/alloy watches.