skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so true - but don't you think that it's only a matter of time? Some of the futuristic applications that we only imagine today are probably not that far away... but I think it is misguided to limit wearable focus to watches.

Interesting article on the topic: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21646225-smartwatches...
The text is blurred on my retina MacBook Pro. (And not selectable, as others have mentioned.)
And because it's a slave device, will it still work with my iPhone23? Or am I expected to buy a new watch every three years?
So Amazon fired a warning shot at supermarkets and everyone went April Fool?
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How can I get a list of implemented business ideas as online services from internet early days till today?
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> What China did to Github is inexcusable.

How do you know it was China? An IP address does not mean the person sitting behind the computer is Chinese. The person could just as easily be controlling a botnet from a VPN while sipping a latte in a coffee shop in Palo Alto.
I think they are suggesting that it's a step toward independence from the smartphone ecosystem
Whats the argument against Mathematics for Computer Science? Can't think of any...
The CS department at the German university I work for started offering their lectures in English a number of years back. While a very good command of English is not uncommon in other parts of Europe, such as e.g. Scandinavia, this move is remarkable in my opinion because English is (more or less) ubiquitous only in the younger generation in Germany. A lot of middle-aged people do not speak English, or only at a very rudimentary level. Of course you won't have any problems getting around just on English in places like Berlin or Heidelberg, but this effect does not generalize across the board.

So the biggest problem I see with moving to English within the German higher education system is that it creates the illusion that you don't really need to speak German to live in that country. But at the university, you live inside a bubble: some of my coworkers have come here from other countries five or more years ago, and still speak hardly any German. And that's fine because the working language in our department is de facto English. There are even German classes that the university offers and that some of my coworkers took, but since they never really needed it inside the bubble, their success at learning German has remained rather humble.

Now, one of my coworker wants to move on from academia and has been looking for jobs -- IT-related, that is. He's (over?)-specialized (with his PhD almost finished) in a specific area (speech signal analysis), but basically speaks no German. He's having a really hard time getting any reactions at all to his job applications. Most of the time, the companies do not even send rejection notes. I've been helping him a little bit with this, and given his credentials, I really find it difficult to understand why he cannot even get to the interview stage -- except for his lack of German.

The big problem is: if he cannot find something very soon, his visa will expire and he will be forced to leave the country. He's got a wife and two young daughters, the younger one of which was 2 years old when the family came to Germany. She's now 7 -- Germany is the country she grew up in, and she might be forced to leave it soon and move to the country of her father. Ironically, she doesn't even speak her parents' language perfectly.

So, there is a caveat when studying in Germany if your goal is to start a life here afterwards. Language matters.

What I cannot understand at all in this matter, though, is that by offering university courses in English and not requiring students to acquire very good German skills as well, Germany is basically investing a lot of (tax) money in the education of people who are more or less guaranteed to leave again when they're done with their studies.

The return of investment is thus pretty low... you could say, almost non-existent.
It can seize assets from any foreign national based on the standards of evidence they've used in the past to declare someone a "hacker".

Under the CFAA, accessing a web page as an unauthorized person would probably be justification enough.
Haha yea, I am going to delve into your code and see if I can contribute. But nice work! Your site is probably getting hammered now with the traffic but I am going to come back and check it out.
Not implausible -- the first iPods & iPhones were accessories to desktop computers that needed desktop computers for full functionality, but now they and their descendants are independent and displacing desktops.
I didn't single them out, Mozilla singled themselves out of the others. They insist on being the only free browser out there, and when push comes to shove, they collapse.

Did you miss the discussion in the bug report? It was clear TrustWave was in violation of the policy, even at the time. If you issue a CA=YES to a 3rd party that then goes on MITMing Google, I can't imagine there exists a policy out there you are not in violation of.

And what did they do? Nothing. Instead of being the free-spirit out there, they just follow whatever Google does. Even now, they are only following Googles lead. They have the unique opportunity that their crazy compat layer affords in having their own root certificate store across all platforms, and they do nothing. It's a disgrace.
In my opinion, domains have become rather unimportant. Just create a name that does not return any search results on google and make it as short as possible and easy to pronounce.
My home security setup:

- Dogs. Obviously this won't work for everyone, as you may not like dogs or be allowed to have them or able to afford them. Also not all dogs will be effective alarms; one of mine starts growling if she hears a butterfly down the street, while the other one would unlock the door for a burglar if she could, just hoping he'd pet her.

- Lighting on all points of entry. I have time-controlled lights on the doors and motion-sensing floodlights on the detached garage. All are LED so they're fairly efficient and long-lasting.

- Simplisafe security system. It's self-installed, wireless, and no contract. Depending on your subscription you can get monitoring only, or monitoring plus a mobile and web app. I really got this more for the 24/7 smoke and carbon monoxide alarm monitoring, but the entry and motion sensors are a nice addition. (If you do have dogs, you might consider declining police dispatch though.) And there are little stickers / signs to try to scare off burglars.

- A large can of pepper spray (stream, not spray). I don't own a firearm (and I'd really rather not use it in the house even if I did). I think someone breaking into the house would most likely be a burglar and would rather flee than get in a fight, so I think a non-lethal solution is good to have.

- Cameras. I have a mix of brands of wireless cameras and iSpyConnect, watching the entrances. This is more for me to check in on things remotely, but the recording could be handy too.

- Neighbors. I'm not super-close friends with mine, but I'm neighborly, and we look out for each other.

- Insurance. If you're renting, make sure you have renter's insurance. A security system may get you a discount on your home or renter's insurance also. And an automatic offsite backup system is a good idea, of course (I use CrashPlan).
Mmmm I was going to put my email, then I thought...

1) If it's no spam and free why aren't the videos directly accessible and you need to put your email??

2) He mentions sublimetextpoweruser.com but the page doesn't exist and a dnslookup shows there is no such dns record...
> there's plenty of immigrants from Asia who'll happily rent and buy up with funds they earnt via questionable means in their home countries

Way to go there - all immigrants are rich and earned their riches via questionable means!

This kind of "blame the immigrants" is spreading; a shame since I thought Australia was on top of that.
You can get by without math in engineering? This is news to me... I think what you meant is: you can use existing hardware and software tools to build software applications and systems without relying on "advanced" math. I would say this is the point of building hardware and software -- so other people don't need to learn how to do it. They can just "use it"
Thank you. Agree, simplicity is what it is created for, will keep it that way.
I don't get why people do this without looking at least once at all the existing open source html rendering implementations.

Also, css shaders.
Although non-standard, Microsoft sure did several novel things back in the day here. Then they decided not to do the actual standards correctly and held a lot of things back since nobody updated these things.

On the topic of Microsoft and the web, ActiveX gets a lot of bad rep (and for good reason), though it seems like they were trying something akin to web components back then. It worked better in actual applications than the web though.
It depends on how far it will go. At the moment there is a plan how to do that, but not enough time to implement... You may use it for editor, but keep in mind that text itself would be sent to GPU every time it updates. Anyhow you may ping me in skype lp_funky if interested in doing this, would be glad to help.
This comes without any patent grants whatsoever. If you're worried that Facebook has patents covering react, you should probably be worried that they have patents covering this code as well. If you're worried about the patents, you should use react or use neither.
As a developer, where can I get a 1U ARM server? I thought they'd be much more available by now. Scaleway say they designed their own servers, which is interesting. Aren't there any on the market that are good enough? I guess not.
Or edit /etc/ca-certificates.conf directly and run update-ca-certificates afterwards (as the file advises).

I'm normally a fan of dpkg-reconfigure, but in this case, paging through 25 screens of 6 certs at a time, without search, is a far worse case than firing up your preferred browser, finding the root you want to revoke, and planting a bang '!' in front of it.

Otherwise, the processes vilda and I describe are identical.
I agrree. Being German, it's my impression that the Swiss are even more honest with taxes than the Germans. The general impression in many countries rather is: The Swiss are very honest with their taxes, but don't care about tax honesty about foreigners in their own countries (getting people to be honest about their taxes is a problem that each country has to solve by itself). This is different from the German mentality - also rather honest, but very missionary about tax honesty in other countries (especially the Greek seem to have a serious problem with this ;-) ). As one says humorously in German "Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen." (freely translated with "The world shall recover by the German quiddity.").
As an anecdote, some years ago, I heard about people in Poland that enroll in college (where education is nearly free) just to have access to student discounts!

Student discounts used to be massive in public transportation, accommodation and almost everywhere, even in some restaurants and bars in academic cities. Nowadays these discounts are not as they used to be, so I don't think it is still a common practice.
As long as you build it from source and realize the limited power of ARM, yes.

I wouldn't trust the packages for ARM because there are variations. Even GoLang doesn't work on all ARM processors, only some!

True dedicated servers would be much more powerful, and frankly, this is a service form Online.NET.

http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-classic

For 3x the price, you can get a real Xeon processor [that will likely perform equivalent or better to 3x scaleway nodes] and 8x the RAM. At this price point, I don't see the appeal outside of the object storage.
I'm sure if someone paid Amazon enough money they would consider building out their very own GovCloud. However, I suspect that the amount of money to do so would be so high that the only way it'd make financial sense would be when you're as hopelessly dysfunctional and leaking money out every pore like the Pentagon. I have a customer on track to be one of the largest users of AWS in the world within several years and yet they're not asking for their own datacenter despite the millions and millions that'll be spent.
Making an Infinite Scrollable Area on OS X
1.6 seconds to seeing the main content of the page is too slow. But if you're just loading up "other articles" at the bottom, or "latest tweets" on the side, then it doesn't really matter if it's slow.
> but don't you think that it's only a matter of time?

If there were a killer app for a watch, it would be out already. Most people just don't want a crippled computer strapped to their wrist except as a status symbol.
As far as I understand, this is roughly how iOS UI works (UIView - CALayer).

Obviously, this can be done at the browser engine level.

I have also tried to do this in my pet UI engine, but found out that it was tricky to figure out caching rules to avoid memory blowup and performance degradation for all possible cases.
At UT Dallas, calculus was used as a weed-out.

It was pretty well-known, and it was really obvious because at most schools, calculus is three semesters, while UTD condensed it down to two without reducing the material at all.
heroku charges $20 a month to allow a SSL certificate for a custom domain!
Did you consider using a WebRTC data channel for this?
It's fast enough, and newline/wordwrap are not that hard to implement.

Do you really expect them to fix those issues? I'm not holding my breath. In the mean time, I've got a text editor that works identically in almost every browser, with very little browser-specific code, in VR.
Microsoft: why we run an open source program
Add site text to warn users about ad injection
I recently added text like this to my web site: "Note: This site does not have ads. If you are seeing ads, a 3rd party has put them there. For help, please see this WikiMedia article.", where I link to a good blog post[1] by Wikimedia on the subject.

I think that all web sites should have something like this, as a way to educate visitors that they may not be seeing exactly what you have published (because of their ISP, some installed add-on, or other pest).

Of course, I would prefer to see a more technical solution. Ideally, a browser would be able to determine and display entity signatures for each part of a page, or at least give the user a list of all the entities that are represented and warn if anything is not signed. And for site operators, it would be great to be able to include the signatures of expected content in the site signature (e.g. page signature includes SocialNetwork.com and TheAdNetworkIActuallyPayFor.com, but clearly does not include CrappyISP.com or ShadyAdNetwork.net).

My suggestion is that sites start with user education, and my hope is that web protocols and practices can evolve to require stronger authenticity measures on all displayed content.

[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/
Interesting. I'm a regular emacs user though. Does anyone know of any pair programming extensions for emacs?
Yes, there is an issue on that. https://github.com/PixelsCommander/HTML-GL/issues/11 I d like to fix it before going public but HTML5WEEKLY made announcement without notice, so everybody sees know that bug =( As for selection - it is selectable in it`s bounding box, but selection is not highlighted yet.
There isn't one, frankly.

You'd be better off getting one of Online.NET's 30 euro nodes and using the Object Store from Scaleway. That is the only part of this announcement that appeals to me, tbh.

.02 euro per GB for premium Bandwidth + data storage. Compared to S3 Europe that is ridiculously good if you can eat the slightly higher latency.
His words: This suggests that learning and doing mathematics might play an important role in educating future computer professionals.

Your words: some amount of math is helpful.

Do you not see how these are the same idea, abstractly?

Also,
"if we define mathematics as 'handling abstractions in a precise manner'"

That IS the definition of mathematics. The author is not arguing for more calculus. His background is mathematical logic which is a standard course before all "real" math (analysis, topology, abstract algebra). All of these subjects handle abstractions in a rigorously precise manner.
A great joke always has a potential reality :-)
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Makes sense, once you can come up with a single word to refer to targeting civilians with violence to try to effect political change. That's what "terrorism" meant and that's what it means, even if our news media and government have decided that it can only ever be applied to Muslims.
Agree with this. Anyone who thinks blocking GitHub is not really a viable option has never been on the other side of the GFW.

The Chinese government will happily block any site they want to and they have little/no regard for the popularity or usefulness of the site in question, and often they will block popular foreign sites to help copycat local versions thrive.

Off the top of my head they block Facebook, Twitter and Youtube entirely and Wikipedia selectively (used to be permanently also). I can tell you they don't care about blocking GitHub.

The also have the ability to dynamically block sites based on page content rather than just entire domains, so it would be perfectly feasible for them to block just the project pages and not the entirety of GitHub.
How to Send Passwords and Files Without Fear?
> famous NSA smiley face

What's that?
Except Apple is successful and Tesla is not. When articles like these come out for a company bleeding money its something to worry about. I think its obvious the lithium-ion just doesn't have the lifespan and density to replace cars. At least when gas is under $6 a gallon. After 4-5 years the resale value of that $30k battery pack is non-existant as its begining to fail. We're seeing this a lot with hybrid sales where the car's battery pack has a fraction of its capacity. The makes the motor work harder, but with a pure EV car there is no gas motor to take up the slack.

I have very low hopes for EVs. Even if Tesla lowered battery prices by 20%, which would be impressive, they're still extremely expensive and still wear out quickly. They make sense when gas is crazy expensive, but its not, especially with all this investment in shale oil.

I imagine the future will have more efficient hybrids and perhaps Tesla will migrate to a hybrid company if they want to stay alive. 100k for a range anxiety inducing EV with a low resale value after x years due to its $50k battery pack wearing out is not the vision of the future here.
Ah, so now your plan to reduce the cost of desalinization is to build so many solar power plants that you literally have more energy than you can possibly sell during the highest demand parts of the day. Well, that sounds like a good cost reduction technique.

Oh, wait. No it doesn't.
Just use Cloudflare. It's free.
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It's SublimeTextBook.com - I've corrected it.

I'll use the list to let you know when new videos come out. The videos are free via email - unsubscribe at any time or use a burner email if you are really that concerned.
Occam's Razor is unscientific. Unless you know of any proof that given 2 or more possible explanations for a phenomenon the simplest one is always closer to the truth.
> I was programming off of those specs and quickly realized that all of the "fun stuff" was already figured out and I was just typing in code, so I started hiring out the programming work.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured.

As far as your status goes, in my book you can't easily transfer that to opensource projects: You do need to go through a bit of the programming work yourself, again, to see how things work in order to get to that same position you fill with respect to business prospects.

At this point I'd say: team up with a few opensource-interested developers and form your own project, from scratch.
You do get something for everyone in return

I think that this is the crux of it. In my experience in the U.S., my taxes are funding things that I not only get no benefit from, but actively oppose on a moral level. That makes it a much harder thing to accept.
I'm sure all of the played out exactly how you described it. Good luck trying to escape Google.
Just for the record, ARC is a runtime you statically link to in your NaCl app (not an alternative core Chrome feature).
It really is inaccessible.
My dad is a pro engineer and has been trying to get people to adopt surround for a long time. He's done all of his recordings (mainly orchestra and chamber music) with stereo mics + surround mikes since the early 1990s but the producer usually mixes everything down to two channel formats.

However, my Dad still has all the multi-channel master files and loves to demonstrate them on his home system by switching the surround speakers on and off.

With the surround channels on and properly set up, you really do have more of a concert hall experience. E.g. the reverb of a loud drumbeat from the back of a hall actually seems to come from behind you.

This is totally subjective, but I would say the 2 channel version is 90% there, and the surround adds another 10%. It's a subtle, but pleasing effect.

Is it worth it? Probably not for most people, due to media space constraints (less of a problem now), the extra equipment and room configuration costs, and the fact that there is no good portable option.
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>Combined with the existing surveillance dragnet, that's horrifying.

The cruel creep of tyranny. "Cyber-terrorism" is the new bogeyman, or the new "terrorism" but instead of using a real catastrophe like 9/11, the incident they're going to use to justify this is a "hack" on Sony pictures with probably the weakest links to North Korea that could be?

There was no proof issued that North Korea were behind that attack. All the evidence that came out of it made it look as though they almost certainly were not behind it. So instead we're just going to repeat it as fact until it's accepted as true?

This is horrifying but it's just another turd thrown onto the pile of horrifying things the powers in the US are doing now.

Without even touching the USA's utterly toxic foreign policy:

- NSA mass surveillance that has eroded everyone's privacy on any communication device they may own, stomping on their own people's 4th Amendment rights in doing so.

- NSA lying barefaced to congress and facing no punishment

- CIA overthrowing or attempting to overthrow governments in sovereign countries who aren't explicitly under the thumb of the USA, throwing these countries into disarray

- CIA torturing untried suspects in the most brutal ways that we've seen in modern times.

- CIA arming and training "rebels" abroad who've went on to cause absolute atrocities across the middle east.

- Creating a militarized police force in the USA despite violent crimes decreasing year on year. Hell, the NYPD wanted portable, mounted machine guns to deal with protestors!

- Supporting a police policy of no-knock raids which have lead to the deaths of an unfortunate number of totally innocent people, over nothing.

- Rallied against whistleblowers while at the same time claiming to be working toward transparency and support for whistleblowers.

The list just goes on and on.