skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one: that limitation is obvious, technologies such as the following can assist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast

two: i don't understand how encrypted traffic that maintains a noise level and hides encrypted data in the noise can be subject to traffic analysis.

third: popularity, that is a solved problem for the majority of limited bandwidth systmes, you get lag.

fourth users inclination: both endpoints being comprimised to that extent is beyond the scope of most counter surveillance technology that i have ever heard of.

of the criticisms only the one i labelled two seems really interesting to me, could you please elaborate?

i was able to run voice comms and play computer games simultaneously on isdn and modem lines and therefore the voice bandwidth concerns i don't think are realistic
>>> If we focused less on revenue generation we'd have a much much smoother web experience

But then rather than poor content, there would be next to no content (for the masses) because business have expenses ;)

Speaking seriously, yeah I see what you mean. Maybe reducing ads and improving speed would result in better UX, which would lead to better user retention, which would leave to more ad clicks. But that's a lot of maybes. Why risk that if people are used to ads? Ads often come when subscription is not an option.

You can explore other revenue sources (e.g. affiliate) but they are usually not widely applicable. And other than that, there's not much to do. I don't really think there exists a business model which could replace ads (when, again, subscription is not an option).

Yeah. That sucks. But that's the reality.
That's not what the picture in the article shows. It shows 10000 mAh.
> And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.

That isn't its core functionally, it's a social video sharing site, not a video playback site. It's core functionality is social sharing and all that goes with that, comments, related videos, channels, etc.
Can you give an example? Are macro keys used for doing several keystrokes with one key?
Hyperlink Auditing – the “ping” attribute for links
I would be interested to hear about protections against active misinformation attacks, where someone is attempting to change archived content maliciously.
Lately I've been helping to maintain a sizeable open source app that someone else wrote in Mithril with MSX: https://github.com/ScienceCommons/www and I have to agree that the learning curve has been very gentle. It's every bit as powerful as Angular but it feels so much more like writing vanilla JS with a lightweight MVC structure to it. It keeps the code easy to understand and maintain.
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I'd say jump into the non-OTP language features of Elixir first to get the basics of Elixir/Erlang's approach to FP. Maybe do some of your own process spawning and linking/monitoring. After that dig into "Learn You Some Erlang"[0] and/or "Erlang/OTP in Action" to learn what OTP is and how to use it.

I definitely recommend Elixir first, though. The development tooling are so good that they get out of the way while you learn the language whereas in Erlang you'll be immediately confronted by its lack/complexity of tooling.

0 - http://learnyousomeerlang.com

1 - http://www.manning.com/logan/
2,000-Year-Old Water Supply System Uncovered in Jerusalem
More info: the specific DMCA provision that allows for this is called "Safe Harbor."
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Interesting solution, will give it a try.

Microsoft has two good keyboard without numpad:
http://www.cnet.com/products/microsoft-sculpt-ergonomic-desk...
http://www.trustedreviews.com/Microsoft-Arc-Keyboard-review

My plan is to invest some time into learning VIM keys and migrate to Arc.
If your contract was over, were you really fired?
2,000-year-old water-supply system unearthed in Israel
I use the TECK and I love it. One suggestion for buyers: put Ctrl on the right space and Enter on the right Ctrl. And if you're an Emacs user, Alt or Escape on the Enter in the middle.
My problem is that glassdoor has information for my specific position, in my city, in my company but it's double what I currently make. I don't think I'm that underpaid but the taboo of employees not discussing salary leaves me without any real idea of where I really should be. I know for a fact I make more money in one quarter for the company than I earn in an entire year. I still asked for at least 20% more and am awaiting a response. Also applying for other positions.

The only big increases I've ever gotten were by switching companies or bringing a competing offer to my boss. People say the latter is career suicide but they are wrong.
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That's because the reviewers - and users - have been conditioned to think that thinner and lighter is the ultimate feature, even if it means sacrificing a ton of other things. The less material in a device the less it costs to make, and the more fragile it tends to be, meaning more profit for the producer. It's all about the marketing - convincing the consumers in the direction the companies want, so they can extract more money from them.

For a good example of this look at the new "portless wonder" Macbook and all the controversy around it...

With smartphones, the fact that I've seen many people put theirs in huge thick cases - and some of those cases have batteries too - indicates that we've probably passed the point of optimal size already. Personally I find it hard to pick one up or hold it comfortably by the edges if it's below ~10mm in thickness.
hmm, apparently I can't find the thing I thought I'd read about that, so I retract. I guess the IPO is on!
> Also, smartphones should have physical keyboards on the the back- blindly operable.

Octodon (http://octodon.mobi/ ) claims that their repositionable joysticks for phones' backs are even better for the text input than ergonomic keyboards.
> Why doesn't Python get new framework so often?

It definitely did with django, pylons, flask, turbogears, web2py, . . . I didn't know which way to turn.

PHP had the same thing with cakePHP, symphony, drupal, and so forth. I remember rolling my own using smarty long ago, because I couldn't decide.
Current numbers indicate humans have a 94% death rate, but we're pretty confident that the last 6% will succumb in time.
Another little benefit of this approach I just thought of: if you have a really complex CPU-bound calculation, this method could prevent it from blocking everything else in your event loop.
I've seen "split rendering" a few times.
A few weeks ago I was a bit surprised to see an older game of ours posted to HN, in an iOS version. Except we never developed the iOS version because it was never much of a commercial success on PC.

The pirate developer had copied the whole game wholesale, using the assets from the PC version, and presumably hoping to trade on the name recognition of it. He'd done a pretty good job too, it was getting good ratings. I suppose it was making a bit of money from ads and in-app purchases.

I had to remove links from Wikipedia and I used the forms Wordpress and Apple provide for copyright and trademark infringements. He took it down from the app store following that.

Many of my older games have been cloned in gameplay and in almost exact copies of graphics, musics, and title, but this was the first time someone made a pretty legitimate looking port to a different platform.
For it to be truly ergonomic it should be split and chair mounted:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1996/06/chair-mounted-split-...

I think that's something from StarTrek that has not caught up.

http://www.cnet.com/news/mythbuster-adam-savage-builds-star-...
What if I bought the DVD, got it signed by you and sold it for $100? Replace DVD with guitars, T-Shirts etc, definitely seen that happening.
The myth of async JDBC
That's obvious to me, but I've learned that it's not obvious to everybody. It's an instance of the mind projection fallacy that your or I think that is a simple obvious truth but others think the opposite is just as intuitive. I sometimes wonder if different people have different experiences of consciousness and self-identity...
There's plenty of production code only ever read by the person who wrote/maintains it.
There's something very strange about using a third-party package manager to install another third-party package manager.
no, it's a Realtek.

When I got the laptop, it wasn't working due to a kernal bug. I was able to get Wifi going using an external dongle. Then a kernal update fixed the bug and the internal worked. Since then something has changed and now neither work.

I'm using Arch Linux... I used to have time to spend keeping things running and I enjoyed the slimmed down nature.. but these days I don't and I'm considering going back to Ubuntu.
> 4. Broken/Insecure - Debian Testing

Often, testing gets security patches at the same time as stable + unstable (dependent on the scope of the issue). Sometimes it takes a few days for a package update to make it's way from unstable to testing.

Obviously you wouldn't run testing on a server, but for a dev workstation it's not a bad choice. Far from 'Broken/Insecure'..
BLU is making a smartphone with a similar feature, the BLU Studio Energy. It's a large Android phone with a 5,000 mAh battery and it's designed to be used as a power bank for other phones.

http://www.bluproducts.com/index.php/studio-energy

I've used a BLU phone before (the recently released Win HD LTE) and I wasn't impressed with the build quality; my phone suffered severe touch lag and an inexplicable lack of multi-touch capability, to the point that typing was impossible. It also suffered frequent stuttering and crashes that even my old Lumia 521 didn't have. I promptly returned it and went back to using Android for the time being, and now I'd hesitate to get another BLU. But the Energy does look like a nice concept.
In the UK, fired is generally for when an employer dismisses you from employment due to a specific issue (timekeeping, poor performance, caught stealing printers etc.)
It is very different to being made redundant, which occurs when the employer believes your role is no longer viable and has become redundant.
Most employers here would not have an issue with the latter, but might have concern with the former.
In both cases I found employment within three months, in both cases during a job market like the current climate, in both cases the employer in question acted like an arse, but did not make moving on difficult.
The redundancy was just a cheap move to offshore our teams jobs to southeast Asia, the firing was related to being told I was not pulling 100 hour weeks like the rest of the suckers there, and I said "damn right".
Bankers are being tried, see, for instance: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/13/uk-iceland-bankers-...
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I'm not sure it's a response to economic aspirations. I think it's more that a lot of the things that used to mark one as being a geek have become massively mainstream - owning a computer, owning a smartphone, using the internet, using reddit, using emojis / emoticons, etc...

At the same time (possibly it's the same effect) the definition of geek has softened. It's much less pejorative, much less sci-fi and math-club, than it used to be. It's almost trendy. It's certainly been co-opted by marketing and consumer interests.

Sort-of related, Simon Pegg wrote an interesting blog post recently [1]. Here's an interesting quote:

"[...] this extended adolescence has been cannily co-opted by market forces, who have identified this relatively new demographic as an incredibly lucrative wellspring of consumerist potential. Suddenly, here was an entire generation crying out for an evolved version of the things they were consuming as children. This demographic is now well and truly serviced in all facets of entertainment and the first and second childhoods have merged into a mainstream phenomenon."

[1] http://simonpegg.net/2015/05/19/big-mouth-strikes-again/
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Firing or layoff?
I think he meant to imply that React is slow.
Let's say that I a suitably advanced fMRI is developed that is able to map out the connectome non-destructively, I use this device on you to create a copy of your mental state, and then let you go about your day. At some point later I turn on a whole-brain simulation from this data. What do you, the you-that-walked-into-the-scanner expect to experience?
I'm aware, but whether they are currently still using it doesn't really change whether or not they started the project, which is all I thought mattered for the discussion. I wasn't casting any negative judgement against Canonical/Ubuntu for that, just the opposite actually (even if my limited dealings with upstart were not pleasant), that's a big way distro innovation happens.
And yet Google Docs on a mobile device is a native app, not a web site. The website experience is significantly degraded relative to the native app.

It's awesome on the desktop though, but there are frustratingly good reasons that Google couldn't just run that code on phones and expect it to be anything other than a terrible experience.
There is no Year 0. So the first century was Year 1 - Year 100, the second century was Year 101-200 etc.
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Well it certainly says that on the battery, but I really doubt has that much power in practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt5iLwNChyo
Found this video on verge comment section, I must admit Cortana is really impressive!
> Youtube comments are great for finding out the name of songs in the background of the video.

And here I'd concluded the comments section existed to allow pre-teens to practice their ability to make racist remarks.
Think Geek is mostly just a pop-culture store now, and that's pretty much what Hot Topic is, so this makes sense to me. Think Geek hasn't been focused on 'geeks' in a long time.
There's nothing wrong with asking for a tl;dr when you're trying to find out if the long form is worth your time. (Most are not.) In academics, the tl;dr is called the abstract, and it would be silly to think that they should be eliminated because people ought to just read everything.
Physically Based Rendering book

Lisp in Small Pieces book

Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography book

(that is, literate programs)
LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt5iLwNChyo on the comments
Since the 8210 didn't really have a working web-browser (by modern standards) or legitimate animations, you could likely make a 8210 today with an eInk display and also take advantage of the battery tech' improvements.

At the time it only had a 650 mAh battery. And while it is a very small phone, similarly small phones today can easily get double that in the same physical dimensions.

So I guess what I am saying is, if someone actually made a 8210 today and REALLY tried they could likely double its already insane battery life.
That's interesting.

Most "ergonomic computer posture" pictures (such as this one[0]) show that apparently your elbows should be suspended in mid-air.

Personally, I found this to be terrible advice. Instead, I make sure to have at least two feet of desk space in front of the monitor, on which I rest my arms. This also makes palm rests unnecessary.

I think this approach shares many benefits with that in the article you posted.

[0]: http://www.iogear.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ergono...
Looking for feedback. Why do you think there haven't been more people using these parallel programming frameworks?

I have my own theories...
Happened twice in the past 3 years. Both times I was back with a full time role within a month. The 1st time I actually was re-employed before I got my final paycheck. The 2nd time I reached into my network and had an interview within days. Then the hiring process drug on a bit but was back to work before unemployment paperwork was processed.
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Thanks for creating this project. I'm working through RxJava on Android currently, so this project provides an excellent learning resource.
More like "commensurate with the agony of your procurement process".
You mean 009 Sound System.
There are 5 different versions of the quran, with differences in wording and meaning, in wide use today. The number of different versions known to be in print is 20. As an example, buy one in Morocco and one in Egypt ... and they don't match. So while you're reciting one of the paedophiles' prophet articles of faith, muslims have actually not yet resolved to have a single version of the quran TODAY. Whatever date a single version of the quran gets, the year will be 2015 or larger. "During the time of the prophet ?" ... it isn't even cleared up after the THIRD time the line of caliphs died out, and islam as a state was destroyed by the Turks.

But islam clearly states there's only one version. Who is lying ? Reality or your paedophilic religion ?

As for the islamic history's version of the quran's collection, read it and you will realize just how absurd it is that it would be even remotely accurate ...

> "...By Allah, if he (Abu Bakr) had ordered me to shift one of the mountains it would not have been harder for me than what he had ordered me concerning the collection of the Quran... So I started locating the Quranic material and collecting it from parchments, scapula, leafstalks of date palms and from the memories of men.[Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari, 6:60:201]

This statement obviously means that there were no more than fragments written down 2 years after your prophet died. Supposedly, the first version was written down 25 years later. That's the version of history in the hadith, and very few historians believe it to be accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quran#Uthman_ibn...

Note that while there is a "canonical" version of the quran in existence (Ottomans robbed it from Baghdad and it's still in Turkey), "for some reason" nobody's allowed to see it. Fragments of one of the others was found in graves in Yemen (the famous Sana'a manuscripts) and ... surprise ! They don't match. Nobody was surprised of course, but you're still going to deny it, aren't you ? Usually muslim lunatics claim this is a conspiracy against islam, just so you'll have some inspiration ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%27a_manuscript

Do note that this is a script from after the canonicalization. So this should have been copied from a written quran, and thus presumably much more accurate than the copies made orally. And yet ... hundreds of differences.

(note that there are internal inconsistencies in the Sana'a manuscripts too. The multiple copies found don't even fully match eachother. Sorry to state the obvious, but clearly early muslims weren't very concerned with exact copies of the quran, in the way that, for instance, Christian monks were for the bible)

Muslims responded with violence and attacks. At the time, people were actually surprised at this.

Also note that, in order to "guarantee nothing got lost", the hadith actually contain alternative versions of ~40% of all verses in the quran. And that number goes above 50% if you take all hadith accepted by any sect of islam (instead of just sunnis). Another conspiracy perhaps ?
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Media player plugins attempted to embed the media player into the browser, which is not what I think is being talked about here.
MacOS should come with a layout that's the same as the AltGr-international on linux - normal QWERTY, but AltGr(right alt) is used to type "international" letters, i.e. RAlt+y = ü, RAlt+q = ä, RAlt+p = ö, RAlt+s = ß and more (using RAlt+vowel gives you the accented variant).
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With the items there's no copyright. With the DVD there is. The studio owns the copyright to the "image" on the DVD that was copied.

I guess the big question is does what he has done to the images count as derivative works or not? I say not, since he's used the image unmodified.

I hope at $90k a sale it catches the attention of a pro bono for a nice test case. Would be interesting to see what the courts say.
No, you are confusing people.

The person is James Strachan, he created Groovy. Since then, he abandoned Scala and he's now a committer on Kotlin (or was, not sure if he still is, he tends to bounce around projects a lot).
In California the lane to my left should be moving faster than the lane to my right. Big rigs tend to stay in the right-side "slow" lanes and typically aren't driving the 70-75mph everyone else is (although the speed limit is supposed to be 65mph)

People in the far left lane or carpool lanes are sometimes going 80mph~

Small side note:

When I think highway, I think a 2 lane stretch of road without any stop signs or traffic lights. The simulation makes it sound like they're talking about a freeway.
Of course!

But what if you're in a Starbucks, and the person behind you is the head of BMA Model's hands and feet division? (http://www.bmamodels.com/hands_legs_feet). As you reach for your frappachino you're "discovered" as the next-big-thing. About to explode into the glamorous, yet high stakes world of hand-modelling. It's a multi million dollar deal... but with the stipulation... no more coding effective immediately.

What happens to mithril then Leo? What then?

If it happened at facebook they'd give the job to Jimmy "Stubby Fingers" Malone and move on.

Obviously I'm teasing (hopefully at least).

I think there are actually a lot of advantages to your running mithril lean & (mostly) solo.

I've been impressed by seeing the contributors in github https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/issues and the quality of the discussions in the google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mithriljs ... to say nothing of how great your blog posts are.

You contribute and participate in all those places and even turn up on HN.

It does make it a consideration when selecting a direction for a project though. It's a bit of a risk awareness/tolerance thing. I still think C# is way better than node.js for some things too :)
I was let go a few months ago from a small startup. I had two good offers on the same day just from putting out the word that I was looking. Both were more than a 50% pay increase but I turned them down because neither interested me much and I didn't want to relocate.

I took a month off, went to see some family and friends out on the east coast and then started doing a little consulting while I look at other jobs.

Between my savings and my consulting income I'm in no particular hurry to jump right back in so I'm waiting for a full-time offer that I'm really excited about.

(Need a Scala/Akka guy?)
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Ya, vim bindings help a lot too. I even use VIM to do everything in the browser (vimium), and that helps cut down on mouse usage a ton.
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TimeTracker is another great solution ( http://creativeworx.com/ ).
the whole 1.4 seconds of it.
It's easy to forget that populations have a wide range (distribution) of abilities and mental fortitude. Sometimes someone on one extreme of the distribution doesn't realize their privilege and condescends to those on the other end of the distribution.

Examples:

- I can live on 5 hrs of sleep, why can't you?

- I can happily parent 5 children, why can't you?

- I've never been depressed a day in my life, why are you sad?

- I have enough energy for every hour of every day, you're a sucker for needing coffee/naps!
Nope. As you imply, if the contract is over, it's a mutual parting of ways, not a firing.