skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just quoting these bits so you don't rewrite them later as well then. I'm just combining my replies in one post.

> It had nothing to do with reading comprehension, and the fact that you both jump to assumptions that I must be something like stupid despite my evident articulation proves my point further regarding your propensity to mischaracterize opposing views. /r/politics' liberal bias is near-universally known amongst conservatives on Reddit.

> So it was a faulty assumption on my part that had no relation to reading comprehensive

You are correct. It is not reading comprehension but rather the fact you make ignorant accusations with no basis in fact and then rewrite your posts to make you look less ignorant.

The problem you have is a combination of ignorance and arrogance that you rely on to justify the assumptions and bias you have.

You still ignored the underlying point that you are looking for evidence to convince you that your bias is true while selectively omitting facts.

> Easy. Tone down the hostility and thanks for proving my point. Despite my ignorance WRT non-US posts, a quick glance at the top /r/politics stories from the past month[1] displays the bias I mention: there is literally not a single pro-conservative post, only libertarian, liberal and anti-conservative posts. It's not my intent to prove anything however, so lack of facts to support doesn't disprove my opinion either. I posted to have a discussion, not whatever you're trying to have.

Libertarian is a conservative ideology as evidenced by the number of Republicans who espouse Ayn Rand's views and read her books then regurgitate that in interviews. It is fiscally conservative by design which is why it is a common Republican reference point.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/news/la-pn-vp-paul-r...

Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, etc.

So I'm assuming you are basing it on stuff like this:

> http://atlassociety.org/commentary/commentary-blog/3448-myth...

However, if that is the case you are stating you are a social conservative.

Fair enough, social conservatism [e.g. anti-abortion, anti-LBGT] is not well liked on Reddit. I can agree with that.

> It's not my intent to prove anything however, so lack of facts to support doesn't disprove my opinion either.

"A lack of facts to support my opinion" is evidence you don't have an opinion based on reality and you can see where that rabbit hole goes.
Resentment: the silent killer of connection
European Patent Office (EPO) uses Razuna to handle press media
How is the new value for a mutable key propagated through the DHT? (as in how sure am I to get the newest commit hash?)
Yeah absolutely, I had some amazing highly personalized collections of youtube channels on different subjects that I could watch instead of TV pretty much 24 hours a day.

Google killed off collections the other day because it makes the viewing experience "better" or some stupid garbage that nobody will ever be able to explain and will certainly be replaced by a worse answer at some point. But for a couple years I basically had a half-dozen highly-personalized tv stations I could watch.
I believe that's how it's done.
Scientists Find the Secret to the Holes in Swiss Cheese
Just FYI a general rule is hourly rate x 2,000 or easier for most people to remember is hourly rate times 2 and add 3 zeros.
"Don't use bad tech"

That's a noble sentiment and I try to follow it as well.

Unfortunately the time is coming when I'll have the choice of being a Luddite or buying the bad tech because that's all there will be.

I already don't own a smart phone because I can't get one that doesn't have a secure or open source baseband processor.

I don't own a smart TV and by the time mine breaks down I'll probably have to go without a television as well.

The choice to go without rather than own and use invasive technology is not that big a deal when you haven't integrated it into your life yet. But giving things up that you've become reliant on is much harder.

Stallman saw this early on and built his life around it. I doubt many of us are willing to go that route.
I would argue that almost all FOSS is insecure and many (OpenSSL) have had easy to spot vulnerabilities for years. The important part of closed or open software assurance is review. People also often focus on the open or closed part as if it's a dichotomy rather than a spectrum. To help, I wrote an essay illustrating the security levels offered at various points in spectrum of open vs closed source here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...

Here's what it takes to assure systems at every layer (skip to "the essence of security" para):

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/essay_on_fbi-...

That's what secure takes against even black hats these days. It can be simplified with a strong TCB, better hardware, and better languages + toolchains. The problem is that only a tiny few projects in FOSS are doing that and not many more in commercial. Whitelisting, stack canaries, AV, firewalls... this is all just added complexity around the root problem that hackers bypass regularly. It isn't security except against the incompetent.

Getting the real thing might require throwing away a lot of code or apps. Or virtualizing it on secure architectures with crazy good interface protections. That's why market as a whole won't do it. Good news is there's small players making such things: eg Turaya Desktop, GenodeOS, CheriBSD, Secure64 SourceT. We'll get more over time but it would help if waves of FOSS coders invested in stuff that provably works instead of what holds them back. GenodeOS, L4, and MirageOS communities are only ones I know doing it at endpoint these days.
Yes and no.

Yes it can help understand where a candidate is confident or weak, but no it doesn't tell you if the candidate is qualified usually. I have had people flub the most basic of questions because of nerves or a stupid mental block etc. So I don't think this is a productive way of learning if the person is quality or not.

But even a slight twist of making it mainly interactive can lead to many more interesting discoveries. Recognizing people might be nervous and giving them some helpful hints and working collaboratively with them to come up with ideas/solutions and letting them lead you where they feel is the right place helps you learn far more. This doesn't mean that you aren't pushing them to learn the extent of their capabilities, it just means you are doing it in a way in which you are hopefully getting the best/most from the person.

I have also found that even when you need to say no to those that can't make the cut, if you followed the basic collaboration pattern they will generally spread good comments about the process and over a little time that helps you get better applicants.
I wonder how this compares to Leap Motion and Kinect?
Jesus. This site hurts to use. What's with the UI pigeonholing?
Lets not forget Java failed to produce that too, they just dont seem to care. :)
There are two tracks on a railroad. An unguarded lever allows someone to switch which rail the track leads to. A fellow has told the train company to secure the lever so that only their qualified individuals can pull it. They've ignored this fellow for years. The fellow see two trains are approaching on the separate tracks. They decide to pull the lever - temporarily placing the lives of everyone on each train at risk of a collision. Before the trains are in danger of switching tracks, they pull the lever again. A bunch of people were scared, but no real harm was done.

One day, a malicious person could be the one that pulls the lever and kills hundreds of people. The company has been putting lives at risk for years - but only after receiving bad press regarding the insecure lever have they decided to invest in its security.

The end.
One factor that probably affects rate of adoption is smartphones. It's much easier to actually observe your friends in the act of social networking.
Because there's an astounding amount of data leakage from something like this.

For instance:

Network snooping / spoofing / etc (even if it's on a VPN through an external router it still leaks congestion information!), temperature settings, especially versus actual temperature, power fluctuations, vibration sensors, etc, etc.

I don't particularly want random people knowing - and potentially selling - information about when I sleep, when I eat, when I take a shower, when I'm not home, when I'm on vacation, etc, etc.
They likely didn't spend millions, but got (hardware for) the robot for free from Boston Dynamics.
Or, less formally, the "Build An Internet That Pwns Itself For The Government" contest.
I dunno, I think at this point I get +2 to bash down doors.
If they didn't read to the bottom, they probably aren't interested in the product enough to sign up for an email.
> Because they already sold the download option to the backers.

That's not reasonable. They could get more backers if DRM-free release (for everyone) was a simple part of the base goal. I.e. selling DRM-free as a perk only reduces the number of their backers. I only support those projects which have a clear DRM-free release stated in their goals. And I'm not alone.

> People want exclusivity, and those people who have the mp4 are secretly (though not necessarily consciously) feasting on your tears of DRM-frustration because they have something you don't.

This sounds sick. I don't care for exclusivity, I care for art. And actually such kind of attitude in the project would make it feel repealing for me. And of course as with any DRM, it doesn't stop one from copying. That's all besides the fact that Youtube doesn't have DRM. It just makes downloading more manual than it could be.
For those who want to try it out: There is a small web-based editor with syntax highlighting, compile checking and code completion at http://try.kotlinlang.org/.

It currently runs on 0.11.91.1, but will (hopefully) soon be updated to 0.12.200 (M12). The reference documentation was already updated for M12: http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/.
Perhaps, although snapchat is deliberately oriented towards a lack of history. I could move my messaging off facebook easily enough, but photo albums of vacations less so.
I've tried the Oculus DK1 but not the DK2. They are similar in terms of resolution and tracking accuracy. There are two main differences. The DiVE is a cube-shaped room with six projected walls. So you can fit multiple people into the simulation at once (only one person gets head tracking and the proper perspective). The DiVE also had a "wand" which you could use to interact with your environment. I would bet there are similar peripherals for use with an Oculus Rift, but I haven't tried them.
Maybe you need to provide the B side.

"Will you get your work done this week?"
"To do that I'll need X and Y"

If you feel pressured to lie to your boss, that's a serious problem. Is it possible you're misreading him? Do others on the team feel the same way?
Ask HN: What TLS clients do you need to support?
The Let's Encrypt CA is looking at the question of what TLS protocol and ciphersuite defaults to offer sysadmins by default when they turn on HTTPS on their web servers. (Of course, if you use Let's Encrypt you can configure your servers with any cryptography of your choice; you don't have to use the defaults.)

A topic that's been in the news a lot is the way that old TLS clients require protocols or cryptography that's now known or believed to have vulnerabilities (like SSLv3, RC4, Diffie-Hellman with 1024-bit primes...).

This can pose a dilemma for server administrators because they want to support older clients, but don't want to support insecure cryptography. The TLS ciphersuite negotiation features give admins some flexibility about this, but not always a way to avoid undesirable tradeoffs.

If you run an HTTPS site or other TLS service, what are the oldest clients that you consider it essential to support for your particular service? I'm particularly curious about MSIE and Java clients, but any other compatibility requirements would be interesting too.
If your worldview is limited to "games" and "audio", then sure, you're right.
To be bold and attempt to summarize the difference in one sentence: Liberals hold equality as their guiding principle, conservatives, liberty.

I'm sure that will irk both sides to some degree. But regardless of the stated motives, I've found it to be a pretty accurate (as someone who identifies as neither). Of course there are many examples of partisan interests, actors acting contrary to stated positions once in power and/or being in bed with entrenched political/business interests. All that jazz.

But on a given position I've found it's usually accurate that liberals will value equality for all, including the smallest minorities. Vice versa conservatives and liberty (where even the 1% is a minority).

I'm not taking a stand here beyond that, and hopefully we can avoid pointing out all the instances where party dynamics (see: PG's essay on Identity) cause this to breakdown in inconsistent ways. Abortion, drugs, etc.

I've met many smart, educated, eloquent conservatives who have expressed entirely reasonable views if you take the fundamental assumption of individual liberty as your founding principle, some of whom have changed my own mind. Likewise liberals, so long as you take equality as your ideal.

Hopefully this doesn't step on too many identity-toes.
“unprecedented access to data about Washington's legal cannabis industry”
While I think there's a lot of possible ways that this can make money in the future, there are some that are just so obvious that it doesn't really compare to other research projects that are more of a departure. The ability to control our digital devices using input devices built into clothing and furniture is just obviously compelling.

Also, this isn't exactly new...Burton did something similar over a decade ago: (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...)
Like being a nerd is a bad thing :). Wear it as a badge of honour!
I'm in Colorado today can't wait to get done work, head back to my hotel, and enjoy some of what this fine city has to offer while watching this.
Introducing the Cannabis Transparency Project
Yes, the article did a vast oversimplification there.

In particular, Cauchy, Lamé, and Kummer were working with rings of algebraic integers[1].

One simple example is the ring denoted Z[sqrt(-5)], which is the set of all complex numbers whose real part is an integer and whose imaginary part is an integer multiple of sqrt(5), ie

Z[sqrt(-5)] = { a + b * sqrt(-5) | a,b are integers }

This ring has a lot of structure in common with the integers, but it does not have unique factorization. In particular:

6 = 2 * 3 = (1 + sqrt(-5)) * (1 - sqrt(-5))

and each of 2, 3, 1 + sqrt(-5) and 1 - sqrt(-5) are irreducible in Z[sqrt(-5)] (ie they don't have any other factors other than 1 or -1). This is in opposition to what happens in the integers, namely unique factorization of any integer (other than 0, 1, or -1) into primes.

The failed proof mentioned above hinged on the following assumption: if p is a prime and

r_p = cos( 2 * pi / p) + i * sin( 2 * pi / p)

is a primitive p^th root of unity, then the ring of algebraic integers

Z[r_p] = {a_0 + a_1 * r_p + a_2 * (r_p)^2 + ... + a_(p-1) * (r_p)^(p-1) | a_0, a_1, ... , a_(p-1) are integers}

has unique factorization[2].

It turns out that Z[r_p] has unique factorization if p is a regular prime[3]. However, this is not the case for non-regular primes. Thus, Fermat's Last Theorem wasn't settled in the 19th century.

On the bright side, however, these failed attempts contributed to renewed interest in algebraic number theory.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_integer

[2]: http://people.math.gatech.edu/~jrabinoff6/mathcamp/lectures....

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_prime
Your point is totally invalidated by "ALL THE RESEARCH IS TAXPAYER FUNDED", including corporate R&D in the form of industry subsidies. If I'm paying for it, fuck your "IP".
How far back in time does one need to go for a state of the art iPhone to rank on the TOP500 LINPACK benchmark?
A start for fitness is already here - it might not be the "killer app", but it has the potential to become so one day - liveathos.com
I'm having a bit of a laugh here trying to imagine what an enterprise version of Snapchat might look like.
In the last several months, I listened to the Hardcore History podcast about World War I. I am still struggling with the same question as the article poses, but applied to war instead of disease. I want to believe that it's respectful to try to understand these experiences on their own terms, maybe especially because of how horrible they were. But at other times I remember that I can walk away whenever I want, and so I can never understand, and if I enjoy the podcast (for example), is that exploitative?

I think it is important not to forget these people, but aside from that, no answer here.
Interviewbit
Well I started coding in 1986, and have seen quite a few screw ups.

So yeah, small teams it works great.

Now scale that to developer teams > 30 on average, with high turnaround and multiple outside partners coming and going on project basis.

I have seen what off-shoring does to C and C++ code bases...
Nvidia  AndroidWorks
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626713

IMHO such approach reduces the number of potential backers instead of increasing it. Clear cut DRM-free release on the other hand attracts more supporters.

All campaigns I participated in clearly saw DRM-free release as helpful for attracting more backers (those who reject DRM).
Introducing GlassWire Basic, Pro, and Elite
'Lowest quarter' is a huge range. I don't think it's scandalous that Facebook pays it's lowest skilled workers in the lowest quarter of wages.

If I looked at actual pay and actual expenses I might agree, but lowest quarter isn't a good argument to make.
I'm thinking more and more that the best way to do passwords is to not - you generate a random diceware passphrase (or similar) and give it to the user via a secure channel, run it through the KDF, and throw the original away. Preferably on an entirely separate server from everything else.

It still doesn't prevent users from being stupid w.r.t. writing down passwords, but it at least presents users with reasonably secure logins that are relatively easy to remember.
People love to predict the downfall of the US, even if their only proof is a single bad quarter. The reality is the US is still too big of a portion of the world economy. Eventually things will even out but that day is not near.
Not send a picture already taken. There's a sense of immediacy on the sender side (and urgency on the viewer side, before it goes poof) that reinforces the nowness. If you're into that.
It's an opinion, but I find that synchronous programming is a lot easier to reason about than asynchronous.
I'd be very interested to see a sort of combination of these approaches, wherein questions are submitted in advance and upvoted/downvoted to determine priority, then the top x questions are asked and the answers discussed by a live interviewer. This would eliminate some (not all) of the problems that @pdovy points out while keeping the positive aspects of a crowd-curated set of questions.
This reminds me of arguments that money must be on the gold standard to have value. Any theory that doesn't explain observed reality is not a theory, and it is definitely observed reality that the concept of value has no strict ties to work.
> Every scene is just genius :)

Specially the arcade-style fighting scene. Pure fucking genius!

The style and attitude of this movie (and that of the Danger 5 TV series) are incredibly well suited for parodying things we feel nostalgic about. Unlike the disappointing way in which Iron Sky tried to take itself seriously.
I didn't notice that JVM's GC do segfault all the time, with erratic behaviour depending on the libraries being linked.
Extending the analogy, passwords could be much safer, just as certain roads are much safer (better engineering, guard rails, fluorescent markers, accurate speed limits for a given stretch of roads), police/EMT accessibility. Enforced requirements for complex passwords, required routine password changes, 2-factor auth, etc. They aren't perfect but they can exceed 'good enough' requirements.
I hear you. I imagine that Scala poses a lot more problems than other JVM languages. Not knocking you, or anyone else at Parallel Universe.
For some companies, an IPO is more about their financial structuring than the dollar investment. Legally a private company can only have a maximum of 500 individual stock holders before they have to make public financial disclosures. This was part of the reason why Facebook decided to IPO even though it definitely didn't need the investment.
As a global stereotype, I agree that conservative doesn't mean that. But it's what the conservative side of the line in the USA wants. The republicans are anti-gay marriage, for example. (Not that the democrats are that much better...) And neither party is fiscally conservative - they just give welfare to different groups.

The unfortunate reality of first-past-the-post elections means "god botherers" vs "gun grabbers" is a more apt description than any that touches on the more-nuanced feelings of anyone who votes for whatever they consider to be the lesser of the two evils. You have nuanced views - your USA party of choice does not.
The next step is unlimited storage in Drive.

Google already does this for educational customers.

Dropbox's business model will get blown up when this happens.
He always presses Break instead of Enter. That's some next level hacking right there.
>I'm curious given these kinds of deals, what the point of an IPO is anymore

1) More capital/money.
2) Pressure from existing investors who want to cash out.
Yeah, this definitely takes "Android Wear" to the next level. Integrating pieces of your outfit into your phone/watch will allow for a lot of subtle little tweaks to every day life:

* Leaving work but forgot your keys? The electromagnetic sensor in your pocket will vibrate your phone to let you know the moment you step out of the office.

* No more "three tap check" for keys, wallet, phone. Every time you leave the house your clothes will check that for you.

* Two-factor auth is a lot easier when you can authenticate by wearing special underwear

* Feeling cold? Your clothes can probably detect that and adjust the thermostat in your car or home automatically (including heated seats!)

Lots of cool ideas, but these ideas have been floating around for a while now. Every piece of wearable clothing I've seen that had integrated electronics has been both bulky and gaudy. Maybe a concentrated focus like this will bring it to the next level.
> The un-updateability of torrents is something that seems to seriously limit it's use.

I am not involved with the development of torrents at all but (please bear with me until the end) my initial reaction is that we should think of the lack of ability of torrents to update as a feature and not as a bug.

Perhaps if ability of torrents to update is a concern then it warrants a new peer to peer protocol? (Please note that this is not the case of http://xkcd.com/927/?cmpid=pscau as I am not advocating a new protocol for every use case)

It seems like we can sign torrent files with gpg keys. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps, we can allow updating in torrents if we require that the updates be signed with the same private key as the original torrent? Am I barking up the right tree here?

Edit: Oops. I edited this post before I saw the reply about BEP-0039. Apologies.
Reclaiming the Weeping Time
Google Device Metrics
Wow, exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the good work! I will follow the progress, as I am interested in the upcoming IMAP support.
(That's an SNES in the picture, but yeah, the number is the same.)
I also believe hackTime() was added to the DateTime() API in Java 12, which wasn't released until 2011.
Thanks for the comment, it was what I searched at the time.