skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of poor analysis in my view. While I have no doubt Apple Music will be popular in the long run (as new handsets become available), I saw very little in Apple's offering that was differentiated from Spotify. Pricing and features were more or less identical except for 3 months free (please correct me if I missed something).

Anecdotal, I've heard no excitement from any of my normal Apple-obsessed friends about using the new service. I find streaming music apps to more sticky than I had anticipated - people have their playlists/history - and they don't want to lose this. My wife was a user of MOG (one of the few), then of Beats post-purchase. She hates the Beats interface/app, but she will not change to another service. Spotify has another important sticky factor - the desktop app - which allows you to play back both what is on your hard drive with the streaming music.

This is not to say Spotify isn't doomed long term - they have, in my opinion, a fairly unsustainable business model that continues to exist only because of VC funding. They need to create a more multi-stream business - just working with the labels will put them into the ground. My guess is that they continue to evolve into a more complete media platform, and that they sign artists directly to get to a real margin.

But to say that Apple will crush them reminds me of the whole Netflix/Blockbuster comparison. Now Blockbuster was no Apple - but everyone thought that they, as the incumbent, would crush Netflix. That didn't happen - because Netflix was there first and Blockbuster launched a very me-too competitor. Spotify is also focused on winning this - it's all they have - whereas Apple Music is a tiny part of Apple as a whole.

Now, this could also play out like Google Maps - I believe Apple Maps now crushes GM in terms of usage - so Spotify will likely have trouble going forward if Apple Music is installed by default on every handset.
So refreshing. Hope the backlash against the author won't be too harsh.
The US and China both have the "unfair" advantage of a big homogenous market. I think that's the main reason you don't see a Microsoft, Google or Facebook in Europe. For example Spotify, headquartered in Stockholm, initially had a domestic market of 9 million people. Spotify is growing fast, but again, not enough engineers would move to Stockholm to sustain a Google. There's a language and culture barrier between EU countries that just don't exist in the US.
3d printed M.C. Escher's impossible structures
Hmm, I am not sure if they would have very sophisticated software on the lander, in the way your thinking. I don't think any processing is done on the lander itself. It might be just primarily used as a remote sensing telemetry system. I suppose the lander would have a lot of power management circuits, some control circuits, sensor-actuator circuits, and transmitter-receiver communication circuitry. There would probably be a RTOS for real-time measurement and actuator motion.

Still, I think someone with specific expertise might give a better answer.
360 Degree GT-R Race (Chrome, iOS, Android)
It might be the subscriber model. Consumer would loose their access to music and would have to restart from scratch with another service (favorites, playlists) and maybe buy special hardware (Apple Music?).

An audio CD has a longer term value, legal backup are possible, it can be resold, it has a higher audio quality and the musician ears more too.
Slightly off topic but I think they would be a great acquisition target for Google. Acquire, open source, push hard. I think there's tremendous strategic advantage in providing the goto tools for programmers. Could be well worth giving up a nice revenue stream, too.
[it's similar to providing scholarships and other "early access" recruiting measures]
Oceanic Next – Sublime Text 2/3 color scheme ready for ES6/ES7
OPM Breach Raises the Urgency for Collaborative Security
"Just this week we found out how security-clearance information has been extracted by attackers."

And the week before the FBI is going around all the media complaining about encryption.
China here. Google isn't working, supposedly they have connection issues (but we all know the GFW is blocking it). Not surprising to not get traffic from a country not letting it in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem

"Because acknowledgement of message receipt can be lost as easily as the original message, a potentially infinite series of messages are required to come to consensus."

What you want isn't really a handshake, it's a commit, and no finite amount of messages will ensure agreement over a lossy network.
"computer which is accessible to contractors"

Most of this stuff is built and/or ran by contractors.
A strange game.

The only winning move

is not to play.

;)
Yes, the power is pretty good. The temperature is currently told as -35 degree Celsius. I wonder how fast would the temperature variations be, with respect to the movement of the comet and how the lander with adjust to that.
The world's first 360-degree 8K video has hit YouTube
>For starters, there are important falsifiable questions that theoretically could be answered, but which would require resources (including time) orders of magnitude beyond any single human organization has had control over during recorded history.

Ok, so they're well-posed questions. So?

>Then, there are the problems for which there is not a single correct answer. What Schumacher called "divergent problems", which are the bread and butter of the humanities. Each approach to take give you a unique but ultimately incomplete perspective of the whole issue.

This sounds like the place of the argument. I think these questions aren't well-posed: they're actually being used to imply a large number of smaller questions. You can usually get a well-posed question by trying to break down one of these questions, or expose the bad reasoning that led to considering things like, "Well gosh, what's it all about anyway, when you get right down to it?" real questions.
>The IETF strongly recommends that ISPs hand out at least a /56

I never really understood that. IPv6 has 128 bit addresses, so even at /96 every single customer will have as many addresses as the entire IPv4 space. Why is /64 considered "tight-assed"?
With any luck we will have livestream of a comet entering Perihelion from the surface.

This is potentially the space mission of the Century.

More surface data is going to change what we know about Solar System formation.

Looks like Philae awoke earlier and has accumulated 8000 data packets for transmission to Earth, via Rosetta - fingers crossed for more surface photos later today :D

Coupled with Matt Taylor's seat of the pants trajectories through the tail and coma, solar panels buffeted by highly turbulent solar wind - this is going to be a super exciting science adventure.

Now we have located Philae, CONSERT'S volumetric map of the comet interior will find out the interior structure and hopefully resolve the contact-binary question.

That is if the tidal forces of Jupiter don't tear 67P apart.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8514169
The author of this article appears to be unaware that the major record companies have a significant stake in Spotify[1]. Of course they're not going to support any attempts to undercut the market.

[1] http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...
this is interesting. what are the advantages of being able to rate yourself more accurately? and how can these advantages be leveraged?
> I'll be taking up Android again soon. Every time I try I find Eclipse [...]

Is there a particular reason to choose Eclipse instead of Android Studio? Google is pushing its weight on the latter with their Eclipse+ADT combo being essentially on life support (and for good reason since Android Studio provides a vastly better experience).

Moreover, the next version of Android Studio will include C/C++ support based on JetBrains' CLion that will cover development with the NDK.
Wait a minute, I'm a little lost now. Women are allowed to enroll in the military cause equality, but they need 3 days a month to recover from their menstruations?

They should get paid the same but get an extra 3 days off a month?

What is this society that is trying to sell us the strong empowered you-go-girl women and at the same time tries to coddle them 24/7?
if i were playing the black hat, i would have targeted the reporters who have the document dump. they are least likely to have the technical know how to keep it secure. i think i recall that snowden gave them some instructions around how to access/keep safe, but i suspect when you have government agencies specifically targeting you, it becomes quite difficult even under the best conditions
Uncle.js – Tiny virtual DOM library
I've added HUSL support to the "Colour Picking by Simulation" program.

http://xqt2.com/p/colours_sim_HUSL.html

You can toggle between normal HSL and HUSL.
I find that the greens are too suppressed for my liking.
But what's the scientist wearing? :-)

Seriously great news, amazing what these guys have managed to achieve. Getting data from a device that's basically run out of power in space is not easy. Ever cut yourself off from a device in a datacentre? This is a fair bit harder.
>This is potentially the space mission of the Century.

I would really hope it isn't.
The difference is we all need to pay for public sector mistakes. We are all forced to pay for them. Poor, rich, doesn't matter. And the amount of money in public sector is much higher almost by definition.

In private sector, let's face it. Someone owns that business. The owner looses money if they are ineffective. Not all of us. Not all taxpayers. That's part of the reason why private business are better at not loosing too much money. Because this is Owner's money. He/she will make sure not too loose too much. Not to waste it. If he/she doesnt, more cost effective competition will take their place.
> It's weird thinking we used to pay for compilers

People still do. For example, Intel sells several compilers: https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers
"I believe Apple Maps now crushes GM in terms of usage"

That's a bold claim. Are there any sources on this?
You might want to give this a look: https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/a-guided-tour.html
For comparison (Bristol, UK)…

10ms to hacker-news…
130ms to facebook.
But only 12ms to a facebook CDN: scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
10ms to twitter.
13ms to BBC.
> That was kind of incoherent and rambling. It was poorly written

It's the current incarnation of BoycottNovell.com, so of course it is rambling and incoherent. Nothing has changed there except the name of the site. The author is one of the biggest conspiracy nuts on the net.

This particular article is actually one of the least incoherent and least rambling ones he's ever written.
Thank+you+God
Delphi was very popular in post-USSR countries. But very few people bought it. Probably 90% used illegal copies. I guess most people didn't even realize it, because they bought it on CD and paid $2 for it.
In this case, Infer is correct: the method test() by itself is harmless, because it could be the case that "s" has been initialised before it is called.

Infer does a bottom-up analysis (callees before callers), and will infer that test() expects "s" to be allocated to run correctly.

To get an actual error, you need to call test() without initialising s, or with s being set to null by some other means prior to the call.

Here is a modified version of your example that will get Infer to complain.

class Hello { private String s;
int test() { return s.length(); }
int foo() { Hello a = new Hello(); return a.test(); }
int bar() { Hello a = new Hello(); a.s = null; return a.test(); }
}

Running "infer -- javac Hello.java" will show an error in bar(). Infer also finds the error in foo() but doesn't report it as it considers it lower-probability. This is a trade-off made in Infer to try and report only high-probability bugs. In this case it could be improved. To see that Infer finds the error in foo(), run "infer --no-filtering -- javac Hello.java".
Tim Hunt hung out to dry
Chocolatey downloads Sourceforge binaries too: https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=sourceforge

And Microsoft won't curate nor provide a mirror for popular open source binary downloads, right?

Sourceforge basically acts as a web interface for a dozens of open source gratis mirrors. The mirrors allow Sourceforge to upload files, something that should be revoked and transferred to a free software open source community driven website.
TFB(ook) by TFA(uthor) of TFA(rticle) discusses the issues with open recursion, and describes a pattern for using ECMAScript 2015 symbols to address this exact problem:

const books = Symbol(“books”);

const BookCollector = {
addToCollection (name) {
this.collection().push(name);
return this;
},
collection () {
return this[books] || (this[books]= []);
}
};
"Internet penetration has grown to 44% of the communist state’s 90 million people from 12% a decade ago. Much of that is driven by smartphones, which are used by more than a third of the population"

Basically, like cell phones brought voice to many who could skip landlines, and the associated expensive infrastructure, smart Internet phones are bring the web to people. Local businesses are taking advantage of this.
I believe Apple Maps now crushes GM in terms of usage

Out of genuine curiosity, any source for that? Do you mean crushes Google Maps on Apple phones? Or overall?
Apple Maps is used a lot more than Google Maps on iOS.

It is the advantage of being the integrated application in the operating system.

There is no way to make Google Maps/or any other application the default one on iOS and any map link goes to Apple Maps
Pando, they are always funny
space mission of the Century , so far...
LeanClub: forum using C++/Crow, CouchDB, Redis and skel.js/mustache.js
Even more impressive. An actual business.
>It's amazing that in 2015 we have people that use Emacs, Vim, or other editors that don't have intelligent, realtime code analysis and we consider that "hardcore, programmer machismo".

You found me out! My preferred environment set up is nothing more than machismo directed at you, a complete stranger. If only I'd had the humility to try an IDE, I could have been enlightened

My eyes hurt from rolling them so hard at your comment.
This is a trivial change, and does not meet the threshold of creativity required for copyright protection, so the question is moot.
Apple is not Spotify's problems. The labels are. The labels have all the control. They'll squeeze out all profits from that company.

//

Apple Music is not a problem because it is for Apple users. They won't be able to help themselves, it'll be centered around their eco-system. There are a lot non-Apple users. There are a lot of Apple haters (I got annoyed last week when they restricted streaming of their keynote to Apple devices - seriously).
Obviously this is not my work.

Here is the Github repo: https://github.com/typcn/LeanClub

While C++ is arguably overkill for a forum, I think this is an impressive project with a surprisingly polished frontend experience considering it still has many bugs to work out.
Millennials Dominate Workforce
4. Another contractor with as much access as Snowden defected.
Red Programming Language 0.5.4 released
> Indeed this is what is happening right now with EU anti-trusting (remember Obama said "they can't compete").

Perhaps you have to look at the outcome of the proceedings of the last ten years and you will see that this is wrong
A very simple way of avoiding deadlock (circular dependencies) is to grab locks in a fixed order (if you want to get the N+1th lock then you have to acquire all of them from 1 to N. This way you avoid the situation where thread 1 has already acquired lock X, thread 2 has acquired Y, then thread 2 wants to acquire X and thread 1 wants Y.

The problem is that this strategy is only applicable in a very-very limited context, in most cases it's useless because the number of lockable resources changes dynamically and/or it's not feasible/scalable to get all locks up to N+1.
> Hmm, I am not sure if they would have very sophisticated software on the lander, in the way your thinking.

I think it's safe to say that's still an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything I deal with on a daily basis ;)
It's been a long time since I've seen my printed copy, but I think that remark was actually printed on the copyright page of the real book.
For me, the issue is getting the comments button to even display. It's Javascript (which I block by default), hosted by cloudflare (which I also block by default). Until I allowed javascript from both your domain and cloudflare, I didn't even know comments were available. Yet, I was still able to browse through the site for ubuntu & debian packages.

You may want to have a javascript checker like many sites to alert the user that the site works best with javascript, or something to that effect.

Side-note: After enabling javascript for your domain & Cloudflare, I also see my browser would like to run javascript from http://localhost. Seems like you have some code from your local dev system that made it "live".
During the WWDC keynote, Apple claimed that Apple Maps had 3.5x the usage of "the next most used mapping app" (probably Google Maps), for whatever that's worth.
Tech Tools That Everyone Should Know
"Spotify and SoundCloud are some of the European IT stories at the moment, if they are both slaughtered by Apple, that will not go well for trade negotiations."

Oh please, like anyone doing trade negotiations would give a shit. Do you think those people have even heard about soundcloud? They haven't.
Please don't! IntelliJ is both perfect, and very affordable. Google will only ruin it by neglecting for a few years, before shuttering it down.

JetBrains, stick to what you do best.
MySpace angle, check.
Well you're lucky that Eclipse has essentially been deprecated as an Android IDE.

Also Ant? Gradle and Maven are significantly more versatile and better supported for Android development (with Gradle being a first-class citizen now) and I honestly don't advise you to torture yourself with Ant.
I'm at Goldman this summer and come from a pure mathematics background (in an area that's not very quant-focused, by choice). The first part of the article is unequivocally true. Most in my area are incredibly interesting, diverse individuals with non-finance backgrounds.

I think it's somewhat fitting that these comments are made at the best university in China, however. It's emblematic of one of Goldman's recruiting challenges: those who have done interesting things prior to college, often continuing through college, may be less likely to get into top schools and if you aren't from a top college it's demonstrably harder to get your foot in the door with these summer internships.
//TODO: Make reply a method.
Meanwhile at Spotify HQ:

"OK guys — it's been more than a couple of months since we scrapped features that people like. Let's spin the wheel of misfortune, shall we?"

"Maybe we should hold more talks about how awesome our processes are, and how agile we've become — all the while letting our core product languish and not listen to our customers needs."

"Hey, could you take a look at this? I've spent all weekend creating a better version of the playlist-view. It uses twice the amount of padding from before. Maybe this encourages more in-depth listening, since you have to scroll a lot more. What do you think? It's nice, right? Perhaps we should also require the users to click and drag the scrollbar?"

(I love Spotify though. I just wish they put a little more effort into their applications — or at least made it customisable so I could make semi-permanent fixes myself. The only meaningful feature they have shipped that has impacted me the last two years is detection of duplicates in a playlist. Like seriously, what are you guys doing?)
How to write a book in Emacs
On iOS, not globally
Обяви имоти, работа
@tomtoise Exactly. The original image itself is Cloaked, and can be stored on a Cloud. When the hacker breaches the Cloud he will find a Cloak, not your original image, so he will not be able to see your content.
I read this book over and over again when I was a kid; my paperback copy is quite worn.
Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernation
For me, opening ethnically themed restaurants and food joints does not count as "influence of islam". At best it is an economic contribution of people who happen to be muslim.

Mosques are very underrepresented, considering the number of muslim, and they have to fight for every single one.

Walking on the street is no influence on Culture. Even a fully cloaked woman does not hinder my sense of European culture. They don't make anyone else follow their rules, in any case.

I'm not aware of islamic parties with any significant influence, at least in western Europe, despite I would think there is a need for one.

There is currently no way to solve the multiple crisis which are displacing people. At least not without actually displacing much more people.
This is truly great. I was looking for some introduction to programming for my little kid, and I wanted it to be very flexible but also visual, and I think this just the right tool.

I ran into a problem though. I can run the commands in the REPL and I can see the new turtle position in the terminal, but there is no quil window with graphics. I can also run the example function, but I get "quil.Applet cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn".
After a time in the military myself, I find military resources to be somewhat suspect in terms of quality and accuracy.
In the Future, Employees Won’t Exist
It would cost six people $14.99 per month for Apples music service.

14.99/6 would be $2.5 per month for a single person.

Spotify has something similar up to four people, but it won't even come remotely close to the same pricing.

Pricing is not identical for groups.
Yes, looks like a good solution for archival purposes. The price-surplus is rather big -- so for many usages, I would still want my TYs.
"“I should say you’re in the right place at the right time, but you also didn’t invent life.”"

"He then added, “I know they are filling the universities, I hope they don’t fill the mental institutions..."

Pretty loose phrasing. I would think someone in his position would be less controversial. He sounds like Peter Thiel, yet he runs a publicly traded company. As people get older they say crazier stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/tim-hunt-nobe...
You know, we used to have institutions for well-paid knowledge workers to cloister themselves from outside concerns and devote themselves to work. We called them "universities".
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9707177
I came to the same conclusion around 2001 while trying to adapt Cigital's ITS4 static security scanner to Perl, but stopped short of producing a "formal proof" :)
Richard Saykally: The chemist tells us why water is wet
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9712267
I suspect Apple's claim is true on iOS devices. It's a good example of marketing spin.
Invincible+summer
I don't know of any Muslim/Islamic party in Western Europe. Mosques are underrepresented, in terms of followers.

There is no indication, that Western Europeans are converting to Islam in droves.

Food is not a cultural influence of Islam, but of the particular ethnicity and home countries, not the religion. At best the amount of pork consumed by Europeans may be negatively affected...

Really, considering the number of Muslims, they don't seem to have any political cloud beyond being present. Most Muslim politicians I think of virtually ignore religious topics.
In my limited experience (been on the internet about a month), this is totally backwards. The 7-9s have all been exactly as advertised, it's the 5s and 6s who were actually 3-4s with clever angles and ancient pics. If there is no bikini or crop top in the pics, don't bother.

I feel bad for the real 5-6s, it's quite a lemon market out there for them.