skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, all over the world people die, the only reason the events at Charlie Hebdo were so significant even for us non-French folks is because this was an act of intimidation against freedom of expression. But it's pretty sad that these events have been used to push for making surveillance lawful. This is very like what happened with the Patriot Act after 9/11. The irony is, because of the ensuing erosion of freedom, those terrorists have won.
The reason for it has a lot to do with how Academia works. You need to write papers and produce innovative works. If you don't then you won't get funding or advance your career.

> or (currently) number and group theory.

That was Xenakis back in the 1950s !

Xenakis is the exception. He's really the foundation of academic computer music and his music is amazing and moving and his compositional concepts are still being hacked out by music programmers today.
I think so too and agree about the power of being consistent with first class things (functions in this case)
Didn't you know? Famo.us for 15 minutes?
Signing software only proves that it came from you. It doesn't say anything about what the software does. That's what your reputation is for.
> Chalk is on it's way out. It's a rapidly shrinking market.

I am a math professor. Most of us prefer chalk, and have no desire to go to whiteboards, smart boards, Powerpoints, what have you. I think that there is a fairly durable market for chalk.

Moreover, over the last five years I think that awareness of Hagoromo (and more generally, of high-end chalk) has been growing. You see it for the first time when visiting some other university and think "Wow, what is this? I must have some!" This led me to buy several boxes of it at $35 a pop. My out-of-town guests, who give lectures in the research seminar I help to run, get treated to the good stuff.
Errrr. Does python support still exist?
Forensic Science is basically a fiction, one which unfortunately has great power to ruin the lives of the people it touches.
Really? You don't appreciate the effort of coming up with the phrase "hot and heavy slinging" in a article about TV dongles ? :)
Saudi extremists are treated to gourmet meals and saunas in jihadi 'rehab'
Now, I have close to no knowledge in super conductivity and how those puck manage to somehow stick to the rails centimeters away from the surface, but could we create some sort of directional friction? Sort of like a snowboard would work, so you could at least rely on one axis to balance yourself properly?

From what I gather, the board would apply a single linear resistance (vertical) aswell as resistance from every rotation axis. So theoretically, we enough skill, you could balance yourself on the board purely by using rotational resistance, even without the directional friction I just mentioned. You couldn't jerk your legs forward and backward, but you could push on the ball of your feet to shift backward, and push on your right foot to shift to your left.

Am I making sense?
If the buyers were to stick together and only buy from suppliers who allow access to modify and redistribute the source code of these devices, perhaps they could create incentives for the devices to function with newer software.

Why would the navy pay for support if the computers on xp were airgapped? The only reasonable conclusion is that these computers are on the network accessible from outside.
Ha, this was exactly my thought process when I was reading!
A happy-end story to dilute the sore: http://goo.gl/raZTTm
Object.prototype.get = function(k, d){
return k.split(".").reduce(function(a, b){
return a ? b in a && a[b] || d : a
}, this)
};

// ({}).get('a.b.c', null) === null
// ({a:{b:{c:2}}}).get('a.b.c') === 2
A Serious Conversation about the Future in Space
The US is a world leader in bureaucratic use of pseudoscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Usage

I was astounded to learn how widely the Polygraph is used in the US, despite it being described as only about "90% reliable" by its proponents!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Validity
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Where still is nearly a decade ago.
Yeah for that reason the Apple TV or Fire TV form factor is better.
I think you're all correct.

The key thing is MongoDB uses an AGPL _variant_ that has AGPL core and Apache 2.0 drivers. So you can run it in proprietary software if you're only calling the Apache 2.0 drivers and not modifying the AGPL part (MySQL is the grand-daddy of this variant model back to the days of GPLv2).

A number of other projects use the same pattern, and so does Mattermost. If you can run MongoDB there shouldn't be a licensing issue with Mattermost.
> Then why is the Navy on XP?

Because it's likely that a lot of their equipment was actually developed for Win95/98/2000 or even DOS.

> I've heard security called many things, but I think this is the first time I've heard of it referred to as 'hipster stuff'.

It was tongue-in-cheek, but what I meant is that most people don't upgrade their OS for fun (or for security) -- they do it only when forced by external pressure. Dunno about you, but I'd rather have nuclear submarines running on well-known and (literally) battle-tested software, screw smooth animations and glassy windows.
I own a Windows tablet (Voyo A1 Mini) with exactly the same CPU and amount of memory and storage, which I have been using as 7" keyboard-less laptop replacement, so I thought it would be interesting to share my opinion.

The CPU is fast enough for moderate web browsing, using Office, playing videos and music, etc. In other words, the casual tasks of an "average user". Of course, it wasn't made to compile software or run complex simulations, and it has some thermal throttling (my tablet has no fans and this stick doesn't appear to have any, either), so if you use the four cores to the maximum for some time, the speed will start decreasing from 1.56 GHz (I have made the max go as low as 0.96 GHz due to throttling). This is the kind of thing that doesn't show in all benchmarks, so beware. (To be fair, spec sheets also don't say that when cores are not fully used, turboboost kicks in and a single core can be working at 1.8 GHz for quite some time).

The integrated Intel graphics are (as usual) good for media playing, web browsing and dealing with Windows UI animations, but forget any kind of gaming that demands more than a smartphone game.

The biggest problem, for me at least, is the lack of RAM: 2 GB of RAM are filled quite fast with 6-8 Chrome tabs and some background software open. It also doesn't take much to fill the whole 4 GB of commit space, and of course, bringing pages in and out of the pagefile is quite slow (the storage is flash, but not quite a SSD). It is easy to make Windows show a "system running low on memory" message just by opening 20 Chrome tabs, some with heavy sites. If all you want to do is run Microsoft Office, I found it to actually be much lighter on memory use than I previously thought (I never saw OneNote, Excel or Word go beyond 90 MB).

Storage gets quite full very easily, mine is always with ~1 GB free (Windows and Office installed on C:, most other things installed on the SD card), and this is using things like NTFS compression. If this stick is like my tablet, it will have 6 GB of storage "wasted" on a recovery partition. Also, the trick Microsoft recommends OEMs use for fitting Windows on systems with as few as 16 GB of storage, which consists on using WIM images for storing the system files, works only while the install is fresh: as more and more system updates are installed, the altered files seem to be stored out of the image, which means there's effectively more space used with Windows files than with a normal install. I have "reserved" the Windows 10 update and I'm eager to see how it will deal with background-downloading the (possibly gigabytes) of files into a system with only 1 GB free.

I once thought of installing Visual Studio just to see how slow it would run, but gave up once I understood most components must be installed to C: (it appears that installing VS effectively equates to "extending Windows" with developer tools).

I am still quite happy with the purchase (it was about $150) since it allows for doing things Android tablets don't do, like running the full MS Office or using proper desktop versions of browsers and other software. I imagine this stick opens the same kind of possibilities.
Ok, not 22, then 2, or 5 years. They should be responsible for putting arbitrary people into jail just to get better conviction numbers.
As a student, I preferred chalkboards to whiteboards because they were easier to read. It seems that most of the time, unless the professor had an exceptionally well working dry-erase marker, the lines were too thin and light for me to read them, no matter the color.

I remember thinking that the whiteboards were an improvement at first, but that quickly changed when I realized I couldn't read what was written on them anymore.
Forecasting is a art - I think the Population Bomb (and other predictions made ~ that era - Hubbard Peak Oil? Ozone holes? Space Travel? Robots?) are subject to the initial conditions of the prediction.

Why were mothers in India having so many children compared to to those in Europe and North America? The model assumed static conditions that would continue the trend. Economics (cost of raising children, no need for extra farm help) and social factors (women's education and access to birth control) changed trends.

Population growth does continue to be a problem and concern for the future - both from over-use of resources and pollution of the environment.

But I think this does show an important point of not putting too much weighting into future predictions. The process of planning is very important, but the plans themselves are useless.

People worry about running out of oil. While not an excuse to be wasteful, I think its likely we will move to alternative energies before supply becomes overly constrained. Mega-batteries (reported today in Japan and proposed by Tesla) could be a key to make other energies feasible, and would not have been predicted even a few years ago. The future is exciting times!
I feel like I'm living under a rock, sheltered from all this except when ever so often I click on a link on HN an get taken to some website from hell. Complaining about that world is like complaining about how pointless broadcast TV is. You can't fight it and there isn't anything there worth fighting for, you're not missing out on anything.
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This is so meta: "US Intercepts of France Complaining About US Intercepts of France"

https://wikileaks.org/nsa-france/intercepts/#intercept1
That's cherry picking. I'm talking about cultural basics like learning the country's history, learning the laws and the Constitution, free market capitalism, etc.

Just having an immigration system that is followed legally would be a lesson in culture that we've currently abandoned for political purposes.
I was using an iOS device at this point, so it was actually impossible for me to watch.
For XMPP there is Kaiwa

http://getkaiwa.com/
Profile in Computational Imagination: John D. Cook
I have been a fan of John Cook's writings for a few years. So when I decided to launch a site where I could post some of my own writing I thought it would be fun to interview and post transcripts with people that I find fascinating. John graciously agreed to the first in an interview feature I am calling Profiles in Computational Imagination. The audio recording was only mediocre so I posted a lightly edited transcript.
Sorry, I got that wrong. Its got record levels of lauric acid, which raises blood cholesterol in humans.
Introducing Linux Visual Novel Reader
Now, I don't really know the scope your question and how much you might already know or what level of answer you might want, I am certainly not the best person to give you an in-depth one but look at this: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod... it's very good and explain in very good layman terms how a computer works(or at least some parts).
Devices like this usually come with a very short HDMI extension for exactly this reason.
Maybe Hiveage's response could be better but it seems like the OP is a serial complainer. Just check his Twitter timeline: https://twitter.com/kaihendry
Eyewitness statements aren't reliable (hell, I've given an eyewitness description that wasn't that reliable, judging by the reaction of the police officer who had just taken a statement from somebody else), but I'd see it quite hard for a court in a pre-DNA testing era not to have convicted when a reasonably certain and consistent testimony from a rape victim is supported by the supposed forensic experts at the time, especially not if the chief argument for the defence was a weak alibi offered by the accused's mother.

Though since they've had DNA techniques sufficient to overturn the expert witness evidence for rather a long time now it's surprising it took this long to overturn.
tl;dr
Guy landed his first developer full time job at 30 and thinks he has valuable experience to share. Follows up some cliches of SF tech bubble recruitment tips.
Part of the problem is identifying the actual abusers of the visa-system applicable to skilled workers, i.e. what makes someone "skilled" with "specialized knowledge". The public debate in elections may make the biggest noise about undocumented immigrants, but there is behind-the-scenes discussion about the H1-B and L-1 system. This August, the USCIS will announce its decision on expanding the L-1 definition of "specialized knowledge". The L-1 class, the lesser-known brother of the H1-B, is a 3-year non-immigrant visa that is extendable for up to 5 years (7 years for the L-1A) and can be reissued if the employee in question leaves the US and works for the sponsoring company for another year. People are eligible to apply for the L-1 if they have worked for a US company abroad or will be opening and running US-branch office for a foreign company (other cases apply, just not available off the top of my head. The L-1A is for execs and managers, the L1-B for specialized knowledge workers). No degree or education requirement is necessary for the L-1B by the way. No quota either, like with the H-1B. About a third of applications are rejected though, biased towards India. Abusers of the H1-B and L-1 system are the blue-chip, non-tech companies who use out-sourcing IT companies like Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro to cut costs in their tech departments. Talking about immigration reform is not so much about lack of incentive as it is about the emotions arising from the stories of Disney IT workers being fired and having to retrain their H1-B replacements who are getting paid lower wages. Another aspect not discussed is whether expanding the H1-B system perpetuates ageism in the Valley -- why not push out older workers at the expense of getting fresh foreign grads? No large change can happen when fear is present.
Part of the problem is identifying the actual abusers of the visa-system applicable to skilled workers. The public debate in elections may make the biggest noise about undocumented immigrants, but there is behind-the-scenes discussion about the H1-B and L-1 system. This August, the USCIS will announce its decision on expanding the L-1 definition of "specialized knowledge". The L-1, the lesser-known brother of the H1-B, is a 3-year non-immigrant visa that is extendable for up to 5 years and can be reissued if the employee in question leaves the US and works for the sponsoring company for another year. People are eligible to apply for the L-1 if they have worked for a US company abroad or will be opening and running US-branch office for a foreign company (other cases apply, just not available off the top of my head) About a third of applications are rejected though, biased towards India. Abusers of the H1-B and L-1 system are the blue-chip, non-tech companies who use out-sourcing IT companies like Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro to cut costs in their tech departments. Talking about immigration reform is not so much about lack of incentive as it is about the emotions arising from the stories of Disney IT workers being fired and having to retrain their H1-B replacements who are getting paid lower wages. Another aspect not discussed is whether expanding the H1-B system perpetuates ageism in the Valley -- why not push out older workers at the expense of getting fresh foreign grads? No large change can happen when fear is present.
No joke: Iceland's Pirate Party surges into first place in the polls
DuckDuckGo use sees 600 percent rise
Do you have any examples on hand of subreddits like this?
Turns HGT elevation maps into 2D images or 3D models
> for example by learning also loop and sample arrangements instead of only the waveforms

This is what I mean - its not about the loop and sample arrangements.

I've been doing exactly that since the 90s and I've made some great twisted computer generated stuff. Logical or predictable methods will always result in logical and predictable music. Its all about setting up code environments so that you can generate accidents and mutations and capture them. Its all about reacting and capturing it and putting it on wax (historically speaking).

But that doesn't mean that a computer can understand why or even recommend what is amazing. We humans don't even know why some things are so great. A major thrill is finding some sound that is so twisted (ill, stoopid, sick) and totally bypasses the rational mind, shuts your thinking down and you get a big smile and start jumping up and down acting like an idiot.

Then somebody else copies your track, then it becomes a style, then it becomes a cliche, then beatport is filled up with boring copie, then it becomes a sample set that people can buy, then somebody makes an app that can auto-generate that style and then they claim that computers are making music.

But they are just playing it back, just like tall the human copycats further upstream.

And the entire network of software, creators, audience and cultural is what we call music.

> This development might be scary because it possibly replaces human creativity to a large extent, but you can't stop it by claiming that it's impossible or that it will always be poor quality.

That's what I've spent a lot of my life engaged in. It often makes great music, but the machine cannot understand why. You'll need strong AI for that and it will need to have tensions, depressions, a body, chemical feelings, sex drive, longing and a strong psychological need to be lost in song. Then it could say "David, I think I've found a song you might like."
Chinese tech firms fight over Wi-Fi router with 'pregnant women' setting
Why do escalator handrails move at different speed?
> decided to make mass surveillance lawful, which caused a large backlash

That wasn't my impression. I don't know about twitter, but there were little discussion about this law on popular media (especially compared to other unimportant issues that are debated for months, and I'm not even talking about the gay marriage that led to huge protests). Sadly, most politicians supported this law, and so did most French people.
> After 5 years in the country I can apply for permanent residence

AFAIK, IANAL, you can get a permanent resident after 5 years on a preferential/highly skilled visa. This may be difficult for some people to get. See this Excel table:

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/evaluate/index.htm...

To get permanent residence on a normal visa, you have to stay at least 10 years. That is problematic for people who stayed in Japan before the preferential visa system was introduced: previous stay does not count towards the 5 years of preferential visa.

See here:

http://www.tokyoimmigration.jp/eng/eijyu.html

Furthermore, Japanese permanent residency is much weaker than other countries. Children born to permanent residents do not get citizenship (this is okay if you are from a 1st world country, but problematic for those from 3rd world countries who want to improve their situation). In Australia&UK, permanent residents' children can obtain citizenship. In Canada, USA it is unconditional.

And getting citizenship, when not married to a Japanese person, is next to impossible.
Is this article meant to be sarcastic? The world population has quite literally doubled since 1968 when there were 3.5B people worldwide. Yes, the population has doubled since most of your parents were born.
Tests are never perfect. And false positives are not critical in many applications. For instance, filtering folks for a job - you can reject extra candidates if you have plenty of candidates or a strict criterion that must not be violated.
PETA's job is to fight what they believe to be animal cruelty.
Columbia's job is to provide quality education. Protesting at CCA stockholder meetings doesn't advance student education...
'Internet problems' following blaze at Belfast (Northern Ireland) building
I wonder if any hosting providers are offering such micro PCs, or planning to. They would be a great alternative to VPS, arguably with better security. I've seen some Raspberry Pi hosting, but its USB NIC is too slow.

I'll update this if I find anything.
How did you learn programming?
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The front-end framework space is highly competitive - There are lots of great options to choose from. Many companies are trying to gain developer mindshare in that area.

Famous, AngularJS, Polymer, React, RiotJS, CanJS, ... All really great options.

I think Famous will have trouble competing with React, Polymer 1.0 and the upcoming AngularJS 2.0 in the current 2D browser-based market. I think if something like Microsoft's hololens gains traction, Famous would greatly benefit - Its 3D features would help it stand out.

Most of the value of a 3D interface is lost when you project it on a 2D screen.
There are many slack alternatives out already, as volent has pointed out. What I'd like to see is one that is based on Tox technology.

Having a decentralised network would be much better as it would remove all costs of self-hosting.
Update: We got in touch with Lexus, and confirmed that like the other examples we've seen, there is a metal surface underneath the skate park shown here -- it's real, but you won't be riding this thing just anywhere

source : http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/23/lexus-slide-hoverboard-ma...
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Your Startup’s Unique Origin Story Can Be Your Most Marketable Asset
If you're wondering about the target market for these devices, the main answer is digital signage. Those LCD signs in train stations and shopping malls constitute a huge market for small, low-powered and fanless computers. There are at least a dozen SaaS startups in this space, targeting a wide variety of hardware and OSes.
Private prisons do not get paid per inmate, they get paid based on capacity. The "Kids for Cash" scandal was not about getting more inmates, it was about filling existing capacity and triggering the need for more private prisons.
>You will work on a team smart, experienced, motivated, and ambitious

Just a heads up on this sentence
Uber may track you 24/7
This blows my mind - how many years of programming must you have under your belt before you can even comprehend writing something like this?

Are these established methods that you can google and pick up anywhere, or is there a lot of experimentation going on to see what works?
Which translates as "will tolerate", because what could they possibly do about it? The DGSE aren't exactly clean themselves.
Very interested? Somewhat interested? Not interested? Which one? Which one? Which one?
A blog post with that story would be interesting!
I assume Hollande knew about this. The French will pretend to be upset, and the US will pretend that it has never happened. End of the story.
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