skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seem to be a lot of posts that state, in one form or another, that unions are imperfect. Unions, it seems, are flawed and can indeed at times, or indeed regularly, act in the interests of senior officials rather than those of their members.
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They are organizations. They are staffed by human beings. They are not going to be perfect. They will do dumb things. Some may be outright corrupt. This however is not the point. The issue is not whether they live up to their ideals any more than whether any other organization does so. The point is whether their basic mission is such that they add value to the life of the average working stiff.
On this last point the evidence is fairly clear. For all their hideous imperfections, most people are better off with some kind of umbrella organization acting more or less in their interests.
Do you really imagine that the 'fat cats' think that their managers optimize their earnings as they would like? Do you think that they imagine that the members of congress they pay off do as good a job as they would like tweaking the laws to their liking? Of course not. They are pissed. They don't think they get value for money. They dis this lobbyist and scream at that editor and hold back funding from that congressman. Life isn't perfect.
Why should unions be any different?
Sure, drop us an email at contact@razorpay.com and we can take that further.

Yeah, Readme is part of current YC batch, they are awesome!
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This article is mostly about stock market numbers. Ok, its from Bloomberg.

I don't think its useful to use words like boom and fade when your writing about companies that have been doing well for 10+ years: Alibaba, Sina/Weibo, Tencent, Baidu, Tudou.

Hard to say what kind of future Sina/Weibo and video streaming companies Youku Tudou could have...I guess similar to Twitter and Youtube. Alibaba and Tencent could have a good shot at being world leading banks over the next 10 years among the things they already do well. The stock market may not see its fair shake on these deals, but users in and out of China are getting benefits.

China's Internet companies are growing fine from my perspective as a consumer of online services and as a person building companies here. Software development and management gets better year over year. In the IT space, there seems to be organic evolution of treating employees better. More people are practicing taking risk in creating companies.
You're not meant to be able to edit those settings from anywhere other than the setup page. In practice, that's as broken as everything else in modern UEFI implementations, and some allow userland processes within Windows to add signing keys.
But since you can't jail a corporation, all it boils down for Apple, Google and others is a simple financial cost/benefit calculation.
And I'm not sure if the class action lawsuit tipped the scale towards not doing such things yet.
California tops other states in job growth
Have you looked into Toptal.com ?

My experiences with them have been great on all these metrics. I've worked with them as a dev and referred a few happy friends. Email's in my profile if you'd like to hear more.
The Company of the Future: 5 Keys for Transformation – OpenMind
Colleges look to virtual reality tours to enhance recruiting
Every other way is up for debate?

We have a good education system, and I would not trade our healthcare system for what you're likely used to; as a gay Singaporean, I have no curtailing of my social freedoms. I cannot marry or adopt legally yet, but that's the conversation that we're soon going to have (and which the "West" has only just recently gotten). The civil service is good. More can be done for the low income, and that's happening at the moment. The roads are clean and everything gets fixed. I walk around the city at any time of day and night with no fear, in any neighbourhood. Which ways are up for debate?
"The Shanghai Composite rose 0.7 percent to 3,641.83 at 9:48 a.m. local time, heading for a ninth day of gains, the longest winning streak since 2007."

I like the use of the term "winning streak". No need to pretend it's more than gambling*

I hate articles that perpetuate the notion that share price is the ultimate raison d'etre.

*this is not supposed to be an absolute statement. it is to be taken with a pinch of salt!
Co-founder feuds at L.A. tech startups show how handshake deals can blow up
Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age – BBVA – PDF
Have you seen how the poor 'native Malays', poor 'ethnic Chinese', poor 'ethnic Indians' and 'lower class Western expats' live... side-by-side, in rather bad neighbourhoods (which would seem spectacular in most Western countries)?
The code for the CPU dispatcher begins at 1:26 in the linked video, for those not willing to watch the whole thing.

A comment elsewhere in the thread mentions Sprocketnes, written in Rust, which takes a different tack here: it uses a hygienic macro to implement opcode dispatching, which allows the giant block of dispatching logic to be reused for both the emulator and the disassembler: https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes/blob/master/cpu.rs#L...
Lotus performance tested against Sinatra
History of Mathematics archive
anyone else have to stop playing due to motion sickness? it's odd; i usually don't get that from games but this one made me feel distinctly queasy.
Thanks for the input, it's highly appreciated.
Agree about the barriers.
This one doesn't need plug-ins on Android and is easy to install, so maybe it'll have a chance :).
Another neat application of continued fractions is Wiener's attack on RSA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%27s_attack
Here in Singapore, you can bitch about it and not be jailed or murdered for it. We bitch about (everything) most of the time. We also have a healthy assumption that we are never going to be murdered in our lifetimes in Singapore, and that things do get better most of the time, which is more than can be said for America.
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This may not be much of an attack. The master key is used only during "commissioning", when a controller is introduced to a light. Then they exchange keys, and the random key generated by the controller is sent to the light, encrypted with the master key. The light then stores the controller key. The controller and light must be physically close for this to work.[1]

Once you've done that, it's difficult to reset a light to factory defaults. There's a program called "LampStealer" which does this, but the controller and lamp have to be brought very close together, and even then it doesn't always work.

Some devices can be reset by connecting to the Zigbee bridge with Telnet on port 30000, then typing various simple commands. That's a bigger worry than a leak of the master key.

[1] https://docs.zigbee.org/zigbee-docs/dcn/12/docs-12-0255-01-0...
OS X and iOS have Accelerate.framework: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Accele...

In particular, see vDSP_sve and vDSP_sveD which compute single-precision and double-precision vector sums respectively.
Wechat is literally used by everyone in remotely major Chinese cities (say all cities with a population of 3+ million) these days. People that meet ask "Do you have wechat?" instead of "What's your phone number?". Sure, it might not generate any money, but suggesting they are fading is absolutely patently false in my experience: they have virtually achieved total market dominance.
So we are too corrupt or are we too authoritarian?

After all we just jailed a man over pineapple tart corruption.

NKF is not the government. That's kind of like saying that TSA molests people, and that the federal government is responsible for it.
I would suggest 'jed' as a small alternative to Emacs. Its keybindings are mostly the same, and it's extensible.

http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

I happily used it on my first Linux computer, which only had 4 megs of ram.
It's worth noting that for the port 30000 Telnet interface (At least on the Philips Hue bridge), it also needs to be physically close for it to work. In fact, this is how LampStealer works - it sends the command to the bridge over TCP.
Seriously? Have you been to any of these countries?
Thank you, this input will help keep things in proportion :).
> I think any software that has the potential to influence election outcomes should be provably correct (the whole stack), open source and probably have been out in the wild for years before getting used in a real election.

Let's remember that even when paper ballots are used, the counting is done electronically. It's not something people often take time to consider.

When the ballot boxes are emptied, the ballots are scanned with scanners, and the results put into some sort of software to be processed further. This is how it's been done in Norway for many years, and we're only 5 million people here, so I can't imagine other countries doing it any differently.

Norway introduced a new voting system a few years ago, which also included Internet voting, but that has later been put on hold, as it was blocked by political reasons. The entire system was open source (you could read the code, but not allowed to use it), but I don't think it has been released since then, and I'm not sure what the plans were. Fun fact, the settlement algorithm that ranks the candidates is a Postgres stored procedure (http://goo.gl/PPMipF).

There is already a lot of places where there is software that can influence election outcomes, and it's definitely not proved to be correct. Given how trojans have been found everywhere in the recent years, I'd not be surprised if some countries election software stack has been compromised.
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Thank you - I had just posted questions to all your answers (deleted now) :)

The #DIY hashtag in the tweet implies that this is less about security but about allowing custom base stations to be built.
Right. Given the number of countries and companies and people that are involved as you move up the chain from transistor to application, how complex even the smallest stack is, and how many opportunities there are for inserting code at every level - the effort it would take to do a full audit, and then to prove that it's uncrackable from external sources - it's not even remotely realistic.

Again, I can't figure out why anyone takes the assertion that electronic voting can be secured seriously.
Dwight Lundell had his license to practice medicine in revoked in 2008-- his fifth disciplinary action in five years by the Arizona Medical Board. This does not prove his ideas are wrong, but it did earn him a lengthy profile on Quackwatch:

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
Yes, really. Did you read the article?
For more about this, there's an excellent paper about hacking lightbulbs: http://www.dhanjani.com/docs/Hacking%20Lighbulbs%20Hue%20Dha...

"In order to change the state of the lightbulbs (such as turning all the associated bulbs off) the bridge
uses the ZigBee Light Link (ZLL) wireless technology and protocol....

"ZLL requires the use of a manufacturer issued master key. This master key is stored on the bridge as
well as the light bulbs. Upon initiation (when the user presses the button on the bridge), the bridge
generates a random network key and encrypts it using the master key. The lightbulbs unwrap the
network key since they also have the master key and use it to subsequently communicate with the
bridge."
Or to sum up: show real interest in their well-being and their career plans. It's that simple.
OCD runs in my family, and as soon as I figured out I also had it, the way to get over it was to confront the things that "triggered" it. I've been wondering for a while if there's any similarity to not facing triggering issues in OCD and for all these people who've experienced trauma.
This is a really well-written comment. Thank you very much.

I'm Singaporean (though currently based in San Francisco) and identify myself as a supporter of the PAP.

I am currently traveling, and unfortunately got hold of LKY's passing a little late (though I had been following his health the past few days) and still feeling a little shell-shocked. I am personally very disappointed at all the comments on HN - most of them drowned out by expats and armchair political scientists.

Well if you had grown up in Singapore, read it's history, lived in HDB flats, recited the pledge and national anthem every goddamn day in school, played football at the void decks, served in the army, you will come to realize what a genius LKY was.

It's nice to see a message from a Singaporean from the other side.
Another ${things that exists} in ${current trendy programming language} submission, why does this get upvoted?
To paraphrase Churchill, what I called classic PHP style is the worst form of PHP programming, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.

The creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, recently said that "all PHP frameworks suck," and his gave reasons for that opinion: http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/226-4-Reasons-Why-All-PH.... Elsewhere Rasmus has described his preferred style of PHP programming, which is pretty much what I described in my article.

It wasn't my intention to damn all PHP frameworks, or the MVC model, though in my own work I agree with Rasmus. I do maintenance programming and the more I run into MVC-style framework-based PHP apps, the more convinced I am that those apps are actually more fragile and harder to understand and maintain than some of the worst PHP spaghetti code I've worked on. I don't think that's because the frameworks themselves suck. I think that's because the framework and MVC model force the programmer to scatter related bits of code and data in too many places, obscuring the relationships and the flow of control. Some people delight in this complexity (perhaps believing it is more ideologically OOP pure). From a maintenance point of view it's a pain.
Compulsive Behavior Sells – Nir Eyal (on) how to hook users in four easy steps
Bloomberg is blocked in China, so it has to be credible (otherwise, why would the Chinese government block it?).

Most of these internet properties are practically restricted to operating in the sheltered mainland China market, so they'll have a different future from the more international Twitter and Youtube. The Chinese market is cut throat, and all the clones that operate here have super small margins as a result. WeChat announced just this week that they were giving up on international expansion.

The question is: can these services exist in China alone, without the more stable revenue streams that come with a more diverse international market?

> China's Internet companies are growing fine from my perspective as a consumer of online services and as a person building companies here. Software development and management gets better year over year. In the IT space, there seems to be organic evolution of treating employees better. More people are practicing taking risk in creating companies.

I agree. Gone are the days of making your software developers clock in with time cards and mandatory Saturday work days...well, at least at most companies.
I went to a presentation by Nir at NJ Tech Meetup and he was fascinating - it was one of the most useful and professional talks I've ever witnessed.
Yeah, I think/hope he was trying to be funny as it was a comment made in passing. He also had almost no connection to my employer, so it wasn't very scary.

It's stuck with me ever since, though, so it seems to have meant something.

Over the years thinking about it lent me the same perspective you have. I used to be one of those really annoying anti-X (PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.) zealots. I thought it was funny but that experience made it clear to me that random snark can really hurt. Plenty of people use plenty of "joke" technologies to make real software people use every day, and snarking out on them is unlikely to help. I'll still steer people clear of MongoDB especially, but it's in more constructive ways and with a more clear eye towards actual use case.
Supposedly, they are finally cracking down on inside trading and the market will become more of a reliable place to make money without guangxi. So it is more like gambling with fair odds vs. having the cards all stacked against you.
If I may be so bolt to plug my tool, but would http://gotools.org/github.com/fogleman/nes/nes be a nicer way to look at the source of the entire Go package?
DuckDuckGo donates $125,000 to FOSS projects
> they have virtually achieved total market dominance.

Of the PRC market.

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/enterprises/article...
I downvoted you because you cherrypicked a quote from LKY without any context and of all people, you had to quote Chee Soon Juan - that quite shows that you don't have ground reality or an understanding of Singaporean politics.

[Source: I'm Singaporean]
Can someone explain me what this post is about?
Scanning micro fiches
Yeah, the Air Force wants all its officers to be "leaders of men" and not technicians. They really ought to bring back the warrant officer track for people with critical technical skills and no interest in management.
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Oh... how beautiful... much darker and more interesting look...

http://cinematicmod.com/images/cm_11/environments/cm_11_18.j...

Wait, why the hell is Alyx dressed like that? Was there anything wrong with pants? It's so incredibly out of place...
What does this have to do with heavy bombers?
Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?
It seems most Apache projects are written in Java. Why such a heavy focus on Java at Apache?
True but it does allow snooping of the commissioning process. And now it may allow easier factory resetting of zll devices by having a custom user device join the zll network. It could also mean some cheap unauthorized lights and remotes/accessories appearing in loosely regulated markets which would be compatible with major systems like hue.
Singapore: Yes, 5-10 times between 1989 and 2014. It's gotten a hell of a lot more generic and 1984-like in that time. The character once present been trampled in favor of dystopian public housing for immigrant laborers and a cleanliness. Frankly, last time I was there it gave me the creeps so much I was haunted by the smiley-faced actors in the propaganda-piece on permanent repeat in the airline departure lounge.

Thailand: Perhaps 30+ times from 1989 to two weeks ago. My wife (mainland Chinese Muslim) and I lived there for awhile, and our daughter was born there. We can read and write to some extent, speak the language, and have many friends - local and foreign - from all levels of society (journalism, finance, diplomacy, mafias, restaurant and bar operators, media, etc.) including those who have been 'kicked out'.

Malaysia: Perhaps 5-10 times from 1989 to a month ago, including smaller islands, though never to Borneo. It has a worrying governmental tendency to trend toward the Singaporean model, however away from KL this is lessened. Many successful Malaysians are either economic migrants to Singapore or operate businesses owned in some way by Singapore-resident straits Chinese.

Indonesia: Twice since 2012, but for months at a time spanning the most populous parts of the archipelago. Have had in-depth one-on-one discussions about the history of western relations with its diplomats. Have been invited to attend conferences in its national university. Owing to corruption, it has its issues, but it has preserved a certain admirable diversity that increases as you move east. Sure, they have their problems (eg. deforestation). However, the two faced Singaporean government blames the Singapore-owned palm oil plantations - burned regularly - on Indonesia ... but in fact I've had Singapore-resident Straits Chinese admit to me they own them.

What about you, just-arrived 7 point karma naysayer?
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The spy satellite Lacrosse 5 and its “disappearace trick”
The best Mac classic demo I've seen is this one:

http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/projects/three-and-a-half-inches...
I joined because I'm frankly a little amused by some of these comments.

More totalitarian: how do you quantify that?

I was born and brought up in Singapore and do business in all those countries (tech startup). That sentiment is alien (and not just because I'm Singaporean), it's because Malaysia for example is more totalitarian and is also on the way to becoming a failed state economically and socially. You seem to be reasonably well-versed in the cultural aspects of those countries, but how much of the political institutions do you know — to back up such a claim, anyway? Have you seen Thailand and the junta lately?
Transparent software: making complexity understandable
Because programming is fun, new languages too and hacking is what this site is about.
I'm also willing to wager that most of these armchair political scientists hate on Singapore because "it's not Asia" (meaning not poor enough). So much BS.

"I went to America once and here is everything I have to say about American politics and its people, and if you disagree you must be a brainwashed American."

Meh.
Some bulbs have a reset function built in, triggered by cycling the power. I believe that for GE bulbs it's 3sec off, 3s on repeated a couple of times.
Hardwired for betrayal
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Show HN: RazorPay – Stripe-Like Online Payments for India
There are different clusters (and a lot of them). 63.251.64.33 is one of the NA gameservers
how does this compare to torvalds emacs? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git
I think there is another boom that is fading, a potentially more serious one that is China's housing market. It is flooded with supply. Capital flight to the West, with property developers defaulting on debt, li kai shing (richest HK dude) dumping all his assets in China a while ago. The fading or faltering of the tech sector could be related but who knows, this is a government that likes to keep a blanket over everything.
If it didn't work, how would you know?
most here probably want there to be as distinction between the 2(including me) because their personal identity is tied to being a geek. They see it as a badge of honour. Being a geek to them(me) means applying yourself to things that are important/interesting without caring if it's cool or effects your social life. However language doesn't work that way. So our(my) aspergerness gets lump with all. So even though i spent my weekends competing at ski races since i spent weekday excelling at math, programming, watching syndicated Star Trek, and generally making little eye contact and mumbling to myself. I get lumped as a nerd/geek with anyone that watches star trek and lacks social skills.
It's really a shame something like FinderPath has to exist. Finder in Mac at this point is really a shame.
Philips already ships the absolute best zigbee light hijacking device with their bloom and living colors lamps. The remote.

The first thing I did when I got my hue set was try to see if the bulbs worked with the living colors remote.
Not only can you force-pair (steal) the bulb with it, you can then no longer connect it to the bridge without removing it to get to the serial number, or bringing it close to the bridge and using the lightfinder app or telnet.

Quite a hassle, and all you need is the standard remote and proximity.
Caveat emptor. There's no native desktop apps for Google Music, nor do they have an API for future integrations. On OS X, give Radiant Player a try.

I tried switching to Spotify but had a hard time moving playlists. More than half my songs were not found on Spotify.
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Semi-OT: i just recently started using OSX (coming from Xubuntu/XFCE). The Finder is my number #1 problem with the OS. I find it very uncomfortable and cumbersome to use, maybe i just don't grasp the concept... whatever.

Is there any alternative? Also open to a command line file navigator.
This is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249145