skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you'd want to load ads synchronously. Surely you can just load the page with placeholder divs, and swap them out when the ads are ready? The extra jarring blink when ads arrive, should increase visibility anyway. And for the rest of us, that browse with ad-blockers the only change would be a quicker load time...
I made a similar comment elsewhere in the thread, but lets assume it's not the Chinese government and it's something accidentally deployed or a hack by some unknown entity.

Why is the code still running a week later? It doesn't take that long to find the offending server/s code and remove it. Especially as it is making the Chinese government look bad, there would be added incentive to fix this pretty quickly.
You can now use "extensions" in the community edition and you can create whatever project you want, without installing 3 different versions of Visual Studio.

Which makes Visual Studio actually attractive for a community edition (the express edition is deprecated though - that's a good thing).
There's also a fundamental problem here: you don't want to be subject to the tyranny of notifications, but the people making apps want you to. They'll find any and all reasons to push a notification to your watch so that you will engage with their app.
As it was developed by Pusher I guess it was not their goal.
You clearly don't understand the distinction between a tribe and a society.
Harry Potter and the Well of Scammers
Very good to know. Does anyone know the status of the Truecrypt forks? Although it has proven reliable and doesn't need a lot more functionality, it will eventually break without further development.
This is true but very limited as well. GitHub isn't used for just git now, it's also an issue tracker, a wiki (yes, those are repos as well, but you don't usually have them sync'd), Github-only services (e.g. Travis), package managers (e.g. Cocoapods and Crates).

There is a lot riding on GitHub that developers use. Hell, even closed-source companies sometimes use empty GitHub repos so they can use Issues for openly available tracking.
I'm sure they worked with an OEM (they pretty much had to, to work within their manufacturing processes), but your implication that they grabbed a part off the shelf is just not accurate.

Keep in mind that doing an original design is not a terribly high bar, but yes beats were a custom designed part. They worked with an OEM the same way Apple worked with an OEM. That doesn't mean it is good, just custom.
Comcast Leapfrogs Google Fiber with New 2Gbps Internet Service
This seems like an excellent and concise piece on how to best use Make, and one I will share with other developers.

Thank you for writing it and posting it here!
> That's now this works.

Correcting self: that's /not how/ this works.
Show HN: Text and Image Analysis Demo (NLP and ML Based)
Best new fitness app (Kumu)
>If there is a killer app suited to the watch form factor, it hasn't made itself known yet, and it may not exist

The only "killer" feature I could see a smartwatch offering is way down the line when smart cars are around i.e. being able to lock/unlock your car from your wrist, locate it in a carpark easily with your wrist, get notifications if it's being stolen direct to your wrist or, being able to start/stop the ignition from your wrist, etc.

That would be convenient. No more keys and you wouldn't have to pull out your phone to carry out these basic operations. Further down the line, I can see something like being able to tap your wrist and your self-driving car starts itself, unparks itself and comes to your location being a super use for it.

But these are quite a way off and even then the cars with these technologies will be far too expensive for the average person currently eyeing up a smartwatch.
I find myself wanting one just for the health monitoring aspects but I don't really have any interest in wearing a watch on my wrist and am even less interested in it as a fashion statement.

Would it work to wear one around the ankle?
Is there a consensus project that's carrying on development?
Extremely unlikely.
GFW is, ironically, considered "critical infrastructure" and is closely monitored.
For what it's worth, regarding the recommendation in page 14 of the report, there is a portable implementation (well, direct port of the SSSE3 code) of AES-CTR in NaCl: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/tree/master/src/libsod.... Don't expect it to be fast or anything, but it exists.
Powerful image manipulation and categorization with facial attribute detection
Automatically extract detailed face attributes from any uploaded image, and apply different image transformations accordingly. Create accurate face detection based and eyes detection based thumbnails. Dynamically add image overlays of glasses and masks. Code samples included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, .Net and other frameworks.
Let's have a look:

Cheapest Home Depot Shed[1]: $800 ($649 +$250 delivery)
Windows[2]: $210 (3x$70)
Wall Insulation (shed walls are ~10x10): $113.50 ($11.35 for a 40 ft^2 roll of minimum R13 batt)
Ceiling Insulation (approximating @100ft^2)[3]: $118.28 (2x$59.14)
Actual Door[4]: $99
Drywall[5]: $84.80 (approx. 10 peices)

Total: $1524.58

Looks like you're correct, it could be cheaper. Wait a minute, we just have a pile of materials now. Let's put it together. Judging by [6], it's about $1500 of labor to hire a professional to build you a shed. Let's assume that you can negotiate installation of the insulation, drywall, and windows for free (it's for a good cause!). You are now at $3,024.58 final cost. Hmm.

[1] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Handy-Home-Products-Princeton-10-...

[2] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Handy-Home-Products-Princeton-10-...

[3] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-R-38-Kraft-Faced-In...

[4] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Premium-6-Panel-Primed-...

[5] http://www.homedepot.com/p/SHEETROCK-UltraLight-1-2-in-x-4-f...

[6] http://www.diyornot.com/Project.aspx?ndx2=10&Rcd=332
It looks like not, but here's a list if it helps http://karl.kornel.us/2014/09/an-analysis-of-the-cas-trusted...
> I have no idea if it will get you on some sort of list if you access it

I guess it will get you on a list of nuclear history enthusiasts. Apart from that, this sort of thinking is really just mild paranoia. While I recognise that the NSA monitoring is a big deal, I don't think that it can be extended to mean that ordinary people accessing sites like this will become targets.

So, don't worry, and go ahead and access the site, and also read the guy's blog - it's very interesting.
Show HN: Live Stream from the Inferno Metal Festival
I work with a bunch of Brits and they say the BBC leans heavily left like NPR here.
Almost any native UI framework (iOS, Android, WPF on windows, etc) has better layout options. Some of them like iOS have options that are not as beginner friendly (AutoLayout), but they are still better overall if you are trying to develop an application instead of formatting a document.

Many other UI frameworks have had Flexbox type layouts, a technology W3C has only just recently realized is a good idea for 8+ years (probably much longer).
> Its rational to support MAD. Thus far, its working.

Since WWII, none of the countries not engaging in MAD (e.g., all those that lack the capacity to do so), including those with no nuclear-power allies, have been attacked with nuclear weapons. So, while none of those engaging in MAD has been either, there is no evidence that MAD is the reason for that. It's Lisa Simpson's tiger-repelling rock all over again.
Germanwings Co-Pilot Had Researched Suicide and Cockpit Doors, Prosecutors Say
Forget the watch form factor; I want one in the shape of an arm bracer. At least the size will be useful.
Server Side Includes? (mod_include for apache, mod_ssi for some others)? Not sure I'd recommend that as a general solution today -- for static sites I think you're better of building the static html, and serve that up. With varnish, you might want to look at edge-side includes.
> if you're really getting lots of meaningful notifications, you're going to want to act on some of them.

Sure. But the problem is for every 1 meaningful notification we are getting 10 that just deserve a glance and 10 that could be answered with just a "I'll call you back", "Yes/No", "Sounds good" type response. Just look at your phone's notifications how many actually required a thoughtful response ?
GPA would be the other concern, if it's not perfect...
Warehousing people you don't want to deal with doesn't work either. See Cabrini Green, or other public housing disasters.
And I'm thinking of dropping out because of this. I'm just accumulating debt because the student's benefits are not enough for me to live on. The quality of teaching in my uni is really quite shit and they've seriously "compacted" important courses (e.g. in math) and it looks like most students in my group are not leaning anything at all, nor are they expected to. It's quite demotivating, even depressing.
I confirm, google complains.

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

Subject: *.herokuapp.com
Issuer: DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA
Expires on: 19 mai 2017
Current date: 2 avr. 2015
Express isn't depricated

>Visual Studio Express 2015 editions. (Non-enterprise customers are encouraged to check out Visual Studio Community 2015, which is also free and provides a more comprehensive solution)
UI automation testing: is it worth it - and how? Part 1
I am cynical on this: I strongly suspect this is an attack being orchestrated by google's competitors rather than an enforcement motivated by the public interest. Can anyone point to evidence either way?
Actually there is an implementation called react-canvas does the same thing on canvas. Flipboard uses it on mobile website and it has a great performance even for mobile.
Yes, the flexibility of virutal dom is really nice. I started to use it with rxjs (Reactive Extensions) only to discover that someone else is already doing so: https://github.com/staltz/cycle

If you really want a functional, stream based frontend in Javascript (vs Elm/purescript/etc), this is well worth looking into. Cycle's author sums up his criticisms of React here: http://staltz.com/dont-react/
Some New Features on Pentaho Data Integration for MongoDB
Some discounts are still significant (33% for railway and mass transit). But I don't think that it would be enough to go through trouble of applying to university. You would be kicked out for not passing first semester anyway. What destroyed recruitment strategies for less popular faculties was army. When army abandoned mandatory conscription many less popular faculties where quite surprised by dramatic drop in number of candidates. People used to apply to escape military service and some of them actually finished degrees despite silly motivation to apply in the beginning.
Ironically? How is it ironic that a centerpiece of the he Chinese Government's control and monitoring of information is considered critical infrastructure and closely monitored by the Chinese Government?
Calling someone xenophobic because they would be unwilling to give away for free what is worth money everywhere else to people who didn't contribute to what they're taking, comes across as quite self-serving.
I think there are two reasons for it.

First is that it's easy. Performance comes naturally to an electric car. Electric motors provide high power and torque, are easy to control precisely, don't need a multi-gear transmission, and lose very little efficiency with more powerful motors. Tesla's Model S has a 0-60 in under six seconds not because it has to, but simply because it can, and it's relatively easy to do. Lots of people don't care about performance, but lots of people do, so if it's easy to satisfy that second group, why not do it?

Second is that it's part of countering the reputation of electric cars as bad cars. Electric cars have long been seen as small, uncomfortable, and slow. Now we're seeing that they can be fast. Not just fast, but brutally fast. The best way to correct a misperception isn't merely to show that it's wrong, but to show that it's extremely wrong. It's not necessary, but as before, it's relatively easy, so why not?

Also note that range and acceleration go hand in hand to an extent. The larger your battery is, the more power you can draw from it, all else being equal. Part of why the Tesla P85D can do 0-60 in just over 3 seconds is because it has a 85kWh battery that gives it 250 miles of range. You wouldn't be able to draw 515kW from, say, a 100 mile battery.
Well, that's like saying To Do list apps are a solution with no problem, yet every few months there's a new favorite To Do list app that has some moderate success. So, I'd say that there is definitely a problem. It's not like people don't want / need to keep track of ideas. I would agree through that there are a TON of existing solutions. People keep track of ideas in notebooks and Evernote, etc. So, the pain point definitely isn't that high, but the solution I made is the best for me =]

I find it nice having an app dedicated to just my ideas, which also lets me categorize and rank them.
MailChimp Switches from In-House 2FA to Google Authenticator
Very cool. This could be useful for some applications, but I don't see it becoming a thing for general use cases unless it's implemented and exposed directly by the browsers.

Even then, the main problem is that the internet is still mostly text, and if you can't implement or access font hinting, your text will be blurry and ugly on any display that isn't ultra-high DPI. You can't really render text to a texture and then manipulate that texture with sub-pixel precision. It must be done the other way around: text rendering must be done last, and with the help of a hinting library so it will look sharp and readable.
Indeed. However, if WebRTC had been used, how would the state be synced? Having a central server vastly simplifies that problem.

Disclaimer: Pusher employee (didn't work on this project though).
> Having two similar but slightly different codebase for the same app is silly.
isn't that what flavors are for ?
> And conversely, most maths aren't that abstract. Mathematicians constantly draw diagrams, plot curves, and use various concrete representations of the object they manipulate. Geometric intuition is a very important tool. I wonder if it's not our best strength compared to machines.

That would fit with the whole gestalt theory and how our brains are really good at intuitively* finding shapes within shapes (literally).

* read: not with predefined conscious algorithms
Life in Lagos: Building the City, One Bucket at a Time
It's interesting that XTS mode in general is seen as a weakness – this has implications for LUKS et. al. as well, not just TrueCrypt.
Forks, in no particular order:

https://ciphershed.org/

https://truecrypt.ch/

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

Also, please refer to this stackexchange thread:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58994/are-there-...
Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan
Some of those features are available on my LandRover right now and am hoping they will be on my Apple Watch soon after:

http://www.landrover.co.uk/ownership/incontrol-and-bluetooth...
Exactly. In every village there are tons of casas available, which can easily be found because there is a logo on the door. You just knock on the door and ask foor a room. I did not book any hotels during my visit in Cuba this year.

The problem I see in the short term: mobile internet for travellers in Cuba is rare / nonexistent and internet access for locals seems not ubiquitous. Probably both will change soon now that embargoes are lifted.
There is never going to be serious public criticism of China in the west because there are vast numbers of western organizations making vast sums there. The public will see little to nothing that might ask for trade restrictions as a response.

If decades of continuous trade deficit and serious attacks on places like Los Alamos go under or unreported, don't hold your breath for GitHub.

Of course if it were North Korea (or Iran) it would be headlines.
Really wish projects like this and YCM would stop including most of Boost and provide an option to use the installed system version instead.
[Namecoin](https://namecoin.info/) is exactly that - in particular it's .bit domain is an attempt to be a blockchain-based decentralized DNS registrar. I'm not sure of the exact state of Namecoin with respect to DANES or other domain<->certificate binding protocols, but it looks like a pretty good start on the job.
The problem with not complaining if the Microsoft CryptoAPI can't be initialized doesn't appear to be really a thing to worry. I'd really like to hear about any known Windows configuration on which the calls can fail, and even if the calls would magically fail, the RNG is uses other entropy sources, including user's own mouse movements, specially requested from the user before the key is to be generated.
"leans heavily left" and "like NPR" are not mutually consistent descriptions.
Yeah, this is why I've been leaning towards regular hotels more and more. You can see dates of availability, and confirmation is instant. With Expedia, I always have that stress factor of "are they going to say yes or no?" and often times I end up placing several inquiries just to cover my bases.
They have pretty little form for it :) https://hstspreload.appspot.com/

My guess is no one bothers to fill out the form due to lack of knowledge about its existence.

Surely they let in more than just their friends ... though yes, I do recognize this isn't scalable.
Adding real world context to iOS apps with iBeacons
I don't know why you are getting down-voted. You are right, if you can't access to the Android framework, standard app development is heavily crippled.
No its not. That's why people think it's important to signal tribal membership. You don't understand the difference between a tribe and a society.
What is the pay range for someone who does "non-technical" work like writing technical documentations?
EdX Settles with Justice Dept. Over Disability Compliance
It's so named because its planned capacity is measured in gigawatt-hours of batteries per year. "A gigafactory" to refer to any factory of that size is a reasonable term to use.
Well, the principle of least surprise says the former.
PARCC Overview for Teachers and Parents
NPR does lean heavily left. I listen to it every day. I wasn't implying anything other than the BBC and NPR both lean left.
React.parts – A catalog of React Native components
With regards to smartphones: this just isn't true. The compelling app on the iPhone was not third-party apps (they didn't even exist at launch!), it was browser + messaging + camera + maps. That was clear form day one, and while you're right that some people argued for a physical keyboard and they have been proven wrong by history, the fundamental value prop of the iPhone was absolutely not a blank-slate platform that people kind of figured out what to do with. The value prop was "we know that you want to get emails on the go, look up simple things on the web, have a more convenient UI to your text messages, have a camera on hand, and be able to navigate."

Apps came later, as a differentiating point against other smartphones, not as the value prop of the smartphone as a platform.

Tablets: I think that the doubters have been proven right by history. Sales are way, way down on tablets -- largely because they just aren't that useful.
Why Brain Scans Are Not Always What They Seem
Hello World in EC2 Container Service
> someone made the call to ignore that possibility

Actually, they did the calculations and verified that it wouldn't happen. It was Richard Hamming who did the calculations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming#Manhattan_Proj...

I said to myself, "What have you done, Hamming, you are involved in risking all of life that is known in the Universe, and you do not know much of an essential part? [uncertain variable]" I was pacing up and down the corridor when a friend asked me what was bothering me. I told him. His reply was, "Never mind, Hamming, no one will ever blame you."
We Should Have a Better Condom by Now
And got fined big time for that violation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-06/microsoft-...
Congratulations on the release will check out later
Has it been released as well ?

(Sorry, non-MSDN subscriber here)
Well, I don't know anything about Gymnasium, but it doesn't sound very different from K-12 compulsory education in California. Except the many languages and computer science-- children learn to program in Germany? That's amazing.

I don't think the average high school-educated American is a drooling retard (contrary to popular belief...), but the onerous General Education requirements of bachelor's degrees provide additional breadth of knowledge.
With the annoying number of systems that don't have boost installed, such projects are forced to accommodate (by shipping with their own). After the accommodations are made, there's little reason to allow for the usage of the system's boost.

Similarly, color_coded downloads its own clang. Why?

1) People may not have clang installed (like boost)
2) (more importantly) color_coded is tested and proven to work with a specific version; it's more portable this way

If we suddenly allow users to use system-level boost and clang and foobar implementations instead of that which we ship, we're also opening a can of worms for incompatibilities. The amount of coverage that needs to be tested grows surprisingly quickly.
My statement is perfectly accurate in the context, which is discussing the representation of Java types.

Java doesn't hold a monopoly on the word "pointer." For example, Go has pointers but doesn't allow pointer arithmetic in safe code. Similarly for Rust.
Looks like the prices have been dropped and CodeLens is now available at the Premium level.

I can't wait until I can target builds against CoreCLR.
Consider me new to your philosophy. What other key rules should be considered known to the community?
That's the big thing that's stopped us from using this and similar tools. Most projects involve frequent switches between multiple files.
Explained for a layperson: should i be using TrueCrypt, or is LUKS okay? Anyone here use TrueCrypt for whatever reason?
The cells used in Tesla's battery pack are a standard form factor, but they are not standard off-the-shelf parts. If you read up on the battery pack you'll find that it uses 18650 cells, and you'll find that you can buy commodity 18650 cells from all sorts of places. But 18650 is just the shape, not the contents. Tesla's 18650s do come from Panasonic, but they're not off-the-shelf items. They have a custom chemistry and they also don't include the standard battery protection circuits found in almost all such batteries (because Tesla provides that circuitry externally).
Of course they are. Even if you belong to a tribe, interacting with anybody outside of your tribe is by definition social interaction.

If you've never had a non-inter-group interaction, then I feel terribly sorry for you. For most people, that's the normal mode of interaction.
This could have been about so much more than an alarm clock.
The benefit of TrueCrypt over LUKS is that it's portable to Windows and Mac.
That's pretty much the definition of "deprecated".
I've started a project doing pair programming livestream sessions. We're using floobits integration with sublime as editing (multiple) local files is ideal.

If this reaches that level I'd love to try it out.
The Ten Commandments of Sushi
It does seem to depend on the country. I've had great success/response so far in Western Europe (France, Belgium) but my attempts to book something in Greece were met mostly with rejections. It seemed to me that they don't bother to update their calender, rather they use the Airbnb platform in a limited way: to put out an advertisement. This makes it impossible to search for vacancies quickly, you still need to contact every single host to ask if you can stay.

On the plus side, my best Airbnb experiences were in Greece, there were some fantastic hosts (and houses).