skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NEWS link on gnu.org leads to a 404 so here are the changes copied from Savannah.

* Changes in Emacs 24.5

** This is mainly a bug-fix release, but there are some other changes.

** The default value of `history-length' has increased to 100.

** The variable `redisplay-dont-pause' is obsolete.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.5

** `call-process-shell-command' and `process-file-shell-command' no longer
take "&rest args".

** The option `browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments' no longer has an effect.

** ERC

*** New option `erc-rename-buffers'.

*** New faces `erc-my-nick-prefix-face' and `erc-nick-prefix-face'.

*** `erc-format-@nick' displays all user modes instead of only op and voice.

*** The display of irc commands in the current buffer has been disabled.

*** `erc-version' now follows the Emacs version.

** Obsolete packages

*** cc-compat.el

*** crisp.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)

*** tpu-edt.el, ws-mode.el
These emulations of old editors are believed to be no longer relevant
- contact emacs-devel@gnu.org if you disagree.

*** vi.el, vip.el (try M-x viper instead)

---

...and here's what we're looking forward to in 25.1 (corrected): http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/etc/NEWS

Package.el will attempt to download asynchronously by default. `package-selected-packages` tracks user-installed packages vs. dependencies of other packages. `package-autoremove` will remove packages that were installed as dependencies but no longer used. New minor mode enabled by default, `global-eldoc-mode`. Eww can render HTML with variable-width fonts. Good stuff. :)
FAA Gives Amazon Approval for Delivery Drone Tests
It is interesting that in western society (and perhaps society in general, I don't claim to know) cannibalism is considered one of the most horrifying things you can do... except in cases where it is necessary to stay alive. Pretty much nobody faults people for resorting to cannibalism when the choice is cannibalism or death. We might dance around it and avoid talking about it, but we are pretty understanding when it comes to a life and death situation.

We see examples of this when people are stuck in the Andes or on a life raft in the middle of the ocean.

In situations where negligence of the cannibals is seen to have contributed to the circumstances that lead to the necessity of cannibalism, we are a bit less forgiving. For example the Donner Party.
Take the interval [0, 1), keep cutting it in half and picking a side, until the interval's contained by a [k/n, (k+1)/n).

Consider your case where n = 129. After 8 subdivisions, you have 256 possible intervals, which means the 128 interior boundary points (numbers of the from k/129, 0 < k < 129) will lie within half of the intervals, and the other half has definitively chosen a number. Those which haven't have a 50% chance of terminating after each successive bit, so you've got on average 9 bits of entropy per call.

I don't know if that's optimal, but you can't do better than 8.
Chrome is the one that I feel gets it the most "right" ... I just wish that some of these interfaces were easier for other applications to use the system store. Even for host-based connections alone. I also feel that DNSSEC + certs would take this farther, and away from having to trust and pay certificate authorities.

It bugs me that it costs more for a wildcard domain cert than it does to host with a VPS for a year. I'm not saying it's prohibitively expensive for hobbies using multiple certs, just the same it shouldn't be this way.
Really comprehensive tutorial on parsing/rendering JSON in Haskell
I see the input fields, but it doesn't do anything:

Error:

TypeError: i[1] is undefined ssl-config-generator:211:28
The first swype-like input system I used was the IBM Shark.

https://gigaom.com/2004/11/03/text_entry_epip/

That had hexagonal keys and used the ATOMIK layout. It also focussed much more on shape, with the intention being that once you were expert, you could write words without looking at the keyboard, as the layout was just for guidance. You didn't actually have to start on the letter as long as the shape was right.
Controversial Police Drone Inches Closer to Flight in San Jose
I don't think they are providing fake evidence as much as just not disclosing everything. "The DEA told me to watch for his car and pull him over for a traffic violation. I noticed the suspect change lanes without signal and I pulled him over." They just leave out the first sentence.

The problem is when they don't disclose properly the worst case scenario (for the government) is just a mistrial or acquittal. In cases where the defense suspects parallel construction, they need to put the officers on the stand and ask them straight out "did you receive any information from a federal government agency about the defendant?". Make them either give it up or perjure themselves.
"Best of all possible worlds."
The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.
I have seen a demo and there was a huge speed increase (the app loaded content much quicker) with their technology. Is it the perfect solution? I have no idea, I am not a network person. But if you are looking to speed up your app I would check it out.

My big question is price, do I need to be a big company to afford this? It seems like it could get expensive.

Yes there are other people (as floatboth and jhugg pointed out) working to solve the same problem, but that is awesome! I want some competition, companies pushing the limits, standards organizations making it work everywhere and academics researching it. Who knows maybe one day my phone will load content so fast that I believe ATT really does have 4g in my area
Haven't tried the one you mention, but this is a huge problem with many sites these days. Some don't even bother to have a logical sequence of page transitions (like the examples you give) - and many other issues, which are easily avoidable. I think it's partly due to the mad rush for startups to be first to market and cash out soon as possible.
Windows Phone–Private Signing Certificates
Lately I checked the Perlin noise performance test that was linked to on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31mzu1/go_vs_ru...).

Summary:

Benchmark: C# (Mono) - 1052.041381 ms, Java - 597.9874 ms

My machine: C# (Windows) - ~475 ms, Java - ~552 ms

Even considering that Mono is using maximum precision available (so instead of floats it's using doubles), when I swapped all floats to doubles it still ran in ~525 ms on my box.

So while Mono might be 'getting there', sometimes it's still lagging behind. It's just something to keep in mind :)
and if.
Late Applications Interview call its the same ?
I can't see how this would be a problem even if a black hole was created.

A black hole is no different than any other massive object in that it doesn't exert any stronger pull than its mass allows for. In other words, if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole right now, we would not get "sucked" into it. The Earth would continue orbiting at the same period and distance. Of course, it would suck (no pun intended) not to have sunlight but hey, maybe the energy emitted by the accretion disc would equal the energy output of the sun :P! Of course, an accretion disc would probably take a while to form, so we would probably be fucked anyway, but certainly not because we would be sucked into the black hole.

Similarly, if the LHC created a black hole through its collisions, I can't see how it would be that massive. If it's not very massive, then it's not a threat. In fact, there are theories that support the notion that it would evaporate rather quickly (via Hawking radiation). Of course, I don't have any numbers on this and only have a laymen's knowledge of the physics involved. Anyone care to comment with more info?
Your form on the shoulder presses sounds really awful (perhaps even dangerous) if you were to actually follow your second advice...
I apologize for the self promotion, but some people told me they immediately grasped the Havel-Hakimi Algorithm by solving this puzzle I made: http://jacquerie.github.io/hh/
Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Get two desks?
Hah! This made me laugh. It's true, though. I used to think that the big dudes were just being obnoxious until I got up to that level, and realized that it's just incredibly fucking hard to lift that much weight. It takes a lot out of you, and the noises aren't for show.
> protecting the world from climate change requires the even more difficult task of disrupting today’s energy markets.

Let's not mince words, the plan is and has been to manipulate the energy market through coercive authority. Calling this "disrupting" is the most cringe-worthy instance of that term I've ever seen in print (and there is a lot of competition).
Facebook updates React Patent grant
This is what true commitment to open source looks like. Many companies may have remained silent about this and never address it. Their projects where already popular enough that they didn't really need to address the concerns that many had about them.

But they did. And I'm sure it wasn't a trivial effort from whoever worked on getting this amended. So I applaud Facebook and the people that worked to address the communities concerns.
Wait saying that 5 years hardware support is to short is wrong and that yearly updates in OS makes me into a religious Anti-Apple Zealot and Tribalism?

I don't like Apple's business practices, hard to hack devices and technology philosophy doesn't mean I am Tribal.

I have many machines that are over 5 years old.
Brainfuck.

Because it's fun.

My favorite Brainfuck interpreters.

http://brainfuck.tk
http://copy.sh/brainfuck/
http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/

This is a good IDE for Brainfuck.

http://4mhz.de/bfdev.html

If you are interested, you can contribute to this Brainfuck compiler optimization project.

http://www.nayuki.io/page/optimizing-brainfuck-compiler
It totally qualifies as a uniform distribution. Is it the case that generating [1, 2) generates a uniform distribution, but subtracting 1 from that does not produce a uniform distribution?
Somewhere, in a cold and desolate corner of the world, there is a security shack where the impatient security guard pulls open the door of the dilapidated microwave to get his coffee that much sooner, and researchers at a radio telescope jump at the notion of extra-galactic radio signals.

This was some great detective work, of course one always needs to check if you're getting events that occur more frequently during working hours.
No indication of this on the YC page, twitter, or FB. Likely trolling, but we'll know for sure tonight.

EDIT: Definitely trolling. See katm's (I'm guessing Kat Manalac's) post above.
Does it run Whatsapp? No? What is this, a cellphone? Oh, cool, but we stopped using cellphones a while back, we now use portable computers the size of a cellphone which run widely adopted social apps. It's for a niche market you say? Oh, cool.

Sarcasm aside: I am still waiting for an official FFOS Whatsapp version, meanwhile I am using my ZTE Open as a PC+camera+GCM dongle to run some fun hacks, kindda like a Tessel Machine.
At the language level, Rust is substantially more similar to C++ than it is to Go. C++ and Rust both have many properties (lack of GC, pervasive stack allocation [even for closures], move semantics, overhead-free C FFI compatibility) that many other languages lack, and the Rust developers actively work to match C++ on features. None of this is true for Go; Rust's similarities with Go are shared by many other languages as well, many of which are much more widely used than either (hence would probably represent a more informative comparison; e.g. I think posts contrasting Rust and Java would be quite useful, but I have seen very few of them). As such, Go and Rust comparisons tend not to be very illuminating.
Getting into YCombinator is a means to an end. If YCombinator is your ultimate goal, reconsider where you want to see yourself and your startup.

Get out and build. Get customers. Change the world. The time and energy spent being nervous about this is not productive.

I don't doubt YCombinator will help in tremendous ways (I also applied), but it's important to keep pushing forward in spite of whether you are invited for the interview or not.
I'm not finding the article I want to reference, but this[0] is along the similar lines. In short, research is starting to find similar adaptations to short, high intensity training as long endurance training, including increased VO2 max and measures of endurance.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22946099
I'm very glad Facebook was willing to take a step back here, evaluate people's concerns, and update the grant to address them. Most companies, when placed in the same position, would simply double down and tell people to go pound sand.

The fact that they didn't, and in fact, actually talked with folks and addressed this head on, speaks volumes about them as a company.
The CPU usage isn't that bad compared to some of the other things we did in the demo - with some help from interrupts it could be done with maybe 20% of CPU. There is also a much easier ~500 colour variant which doesn't take any CPU time at all once set up.

I think the real reason it wasn't discovered earlier is that most CGA PCs were not connected to composite monitors or TVs (people who could afford the big expensive IBM machine could generally afford a dedicated digital monitor as well). A few games used 160x200x16 composite but even those generally had modes for RGBI monitors as well (which wouldn't work so well with the 500/1K colour modes, though I guess there are the dithering characters 0xb0 and 0xb1 which might have worked). These +HRES modes also suffer from CGA snow, which might have been a deal-breaker.
I think it'll be the same but I don't think installing is straightforward until official the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu images are released
Governments can lose control of their infrastructure in the face of a well-equipped hacker.
Tiny light up bricks that work with Lego
They may review the applications, but if you submit it very late, they probably will look for absolutely ANYTHING that they could decline you for.

I submitted a late application for S14, here was the response:

"We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your late application for
funding. Please don't take it personally. The chances of a late
application being accepted are much lower than for an application
submitted by the deadline.

If you want to apply again for the Winter 2015 cycle, the application
will probably be online within the next couple of months.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. We have good statistical evidence that
we fail to interview a significant number of startups that we'd
accept if we did."

From the reading, it seems that they probably briefly reviewed it.
On the flipside, I've always considered 'disruption' in the modern sense to be precisely that: coercive authority. Its what programmers do.
More like a semi vs a dozen of Prii... Semi still wins.
Wouldn't the concept of borrowing avoid that issue in Rust though?
That Anthony Bourdain no reservations episode was pretty good, not really news, but worth mentioning because I still haven't saved anything over it on my dvr.
http://www.hypercapital.info/ - No demo and its a long shot, but you never know.
Energy in liquid form comes at a large premium to energy in other forms (coal, gas, electricity) because of it's utility for transportation. As batteries become cheaper, the value of liquid fuels will decrease. At some point, some current oil production is going to cease to be economically viable. This is likely even without carbon taxes and regulation -- which are possible and surely won't help petroleum industry.

LFTR videos are popular on social media, but there are many technologies that could produce superior fission plants to what we have now [1]. And thorium isn't required for molten salt reactors like LFTR in any case [2]. You may be interested in these designs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Current_technol...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
The scary part is that if not for the support of the local church/parish and the lawyers, this may well have been yet another case decided in favor of the company.
If you want higher res/better specs, check out the Meizu MX4
The $2B Startup that was in hiding
This strange history is poetically recalled by Salman Rushdie in the first pages of The Moor's Last Sigh:

I repeat: the pepper, if you please; for if it had not been for peppercorns, then what is ending now in East and West might never have begun. Pepper it was that brought Vasco de Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belém to the Malabar Coast: first to Calicut and later, for its lagoon harbor, to Cochin.

English and French sailed in the wake of that first-arrived Portugee, so that in the period called Discovery-of-India -- but how could we be discovered when we were not covered before? -- we were 'not so much sub-continent as sub-condiment', as my distinguished mother had it. 'From the beginning, what the world wanted from bloody mother India was daylight-clear,' she'd say. 'They came for the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.'
Just looked at eventual. It seems really interesting. I looked at Rust's std Future and was turned off by the fact that is blocking.
Here's a diff from the osquery project mentioned in the post:

https://github.com/facebook/osquery/commit/159899a303d0859eb...
If it doesn't evaporate, it would (slowly at first) absorb the Earth. We might not get pulled in anytime soon, but it would sort of be a bummer for the future if the planet was destroyed in the next few thousand years.

(I don't think I have an interesting opinion when it comes to the question of whether such a hole would evaporate or not, but the question of why having a blackhole on the surface of the planet is bad is easier to think about)
> I might as well use a netbook anyway

Are netbooks still being produced in mass scale? I was considering buying a netbook recently, as a 2nd lighter machine than my laptop, so that I can take it when I go out to nearby places like for shops / malls, and use short spells of free time outside to do some work (at least work that's light on CPU/RAM resources, like Python programming, or even email or technical topic browsing). But a few computer shops I went to, told me that Asus / Acer (for example) are not making new ones these days. This is in India, BTW. Don't know if this issue (if real) is specific to this region or not.
"mice munching on grain from an overturned truck.... But is this time really different?"

Your metaphor misleads you. It is inaccurate to characterize humanity as passively consuming a single pre-existing resource that it is utterly incapable of recreating. We are generating knowledge as well, and knowledge really is power, and from that we generate yet more resources of other types.

The question of whether we can outrun our own consumption is an interesting question that is not a guaranteed "yes", but the built-in hopelessness of your metaphor isn't part of the answer. It is inaccurate to the point of being anti-knowledge. The universe is awash in negentropy, and the true, physics-based boundaries of our growth are still inconceivably larger than we are right now.
3 minute survey about how you, as a startup, find investors
I once travelled to the United States from Europe with a prototype synthesizer I'd built to demonstrate .. after waiting an hour and a half in the TSA line, I was made to turn it on, play something on it, prove that it made music, and do an impromptu jam session for the TSA agents. I guess they get bored with their jobs too, but it was definitely denigrating to be made to dance like a monkey for the privilege of going freely on my way. It definitely left a bad impression on my entry to the USA ..
Neat. Any reason it doesn't appear to be on pypi? I didn't see it at first glance.
I'm pretty sure Cyclone used both regions and borrowing in ~2005. But it was a research project and not meant for wide use.
Most people give their data willingly because they get something worthwhile in exchange. The store cards exist because people trade tracking of their purchase data for discounted prices. Nobody is to blame because there is nothing to blame anyone for.
Complex tables? You could use a WYSIWYG HTML editor to quickly create them, and then use this to convert to MD. That's the only thing I can think of.
Exactly! I came to Rust thinking I knew all I needed due to trying to solve the same things by hand in the CLR. Like I figured I had a pretty good idea what I needed to allow F# to have fast memory management.

And while the core idea is correct, holy shit there's so many details that the Rust team has had to deal with and iterate over and reduce until it's nice. I suppose this is why the CLR and everyone just punt on the whole issue.
That's easy. All computers have a mute button.
[Lawyer, but not a patent lawyer]

I was perplexed by the uproar on HN about the original patent language (in the thread announcing the release of React Native [1]). This kind of open-source patent license--which, in effect, allows Facebook to use its patents against users of React defensively but not offensively--is exactly what we need more of in the open source world. Why did people think that their defensive patent license was somehow worse than the industry standard (the MIT or BSD copyright license with no patent license, which made patent rights murky at best)?

But this new language eliminates the major limitation on the original language, which was that the license would be terminated if you attempted to invalidate one of Facebook's patents or defensively argued that it was invalid or unenforceable (or even, according to a strict though implausible reading of the language, if you publicly stated that the patent was invalid).

Glad to see Facebook paying attention, even if the original complaint was overblown.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271246
PoS Malware Is More Effective and Dangerous
A parallel license is allowed, if you remove any third party GPL'd code.
Sure the client has encryption (most VPN clients do), but that's just up to their servers. From the PIA servers to the final web server, there's no extra protection, so if you're accessing an HTTP service, it's unencrypted.
Do you mean "hacking"?
Python in Education – free e-book from O'Reilly [pdf]
You're right, and my Nexus 4 and Lumia 521 are getting along just fine without LTE as well, and will continue to for the next 1-2 years I hope to get out of them. It will be at least another 10-15 years before 3G is turned off in favor of whatever the baseline is then (hell, we still have 2G which by all accounts should be dead by now).
>>This fall Yale will import Harvard’s most popular course, an introductory programming class called CS50 -- a move the department called innovative while students have characterized it as humiliating.

Oh, tell me more...