skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, you're quite possibly using a VLIW chip right now: your GPU.
My kids get an Izzy (a 10-oz can of juice-sweetened soda) as a treat about once a month or so, and a "Zevia" soda (no sugar or calories of any kind) a couple more times a month.

One kid gets a (small) chocolate milk a 1-3 times a week. That's probably the most sugar either gets (outside of birthday parties and sugar-based holidays); the other will drink water even when she has the option of free soda.

Funny thing is that we don't restrict sugar. There's a container of candy in the cupboard that they can eat when they want (they typically ask first, but we rarely say no), but it frequently goes weeks without being touched. Sometimes they'll have a square of chocolate or two, but it's not a regular thing.

It turns out that if you "allow" kids to do most anything they want, but give them the tools to think clearly about what is healthy and why, they are perfectly capable of making good choices. I think it's the very restrictions that parents place on kids that makes them crave the same things those parents restrict.
Commuting actually is a huge waste of energy and time now that we have the internet and stuff.
I've been using Google+ since the first day it was available; I figure about half the people I have circled are not using their real names.
Sadly, yes. Trials can be ruinously expensive even if you win. 97% of federal criminal prosecutions end in plea bargaining [0]. Prosecutors often make offers that are coercive. Consider the Aaron Swartz case [1]. After his death the prosecutor released a statement saying that they would have recommended to the judge 6 months in jail. While they were trying to secure a plea bargain they said he faced up to 35 years in jail and a $1 million fine.

Quoted from the Forbes article:

> If Ortiz thought Swartz only deserved to spend 6 months in jail, why did she charge him with crimes carrying a maximum penalty of 50 years? It’s a common way of gaining leverage during plea bargaining. Had Swartz chosen to plead not guilty, the offer of six months in jail would have evaporated. Upon conviction, prosecutors likely would have sought the maximum penalty available under the law. And while the judge would have been unlikely to sentence him to the full 50 years, it’s not hard to imagine him being sentenced to 10 years.

> In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial.

[0]: http://www.thecrimereport.org/viewpoints/2014-01-how-plea-ba...

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/01/17/aaron-swar...
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> Drake speculates that Stagefright has its excessive permissions and Internet access to satisfy some types of digital rights management processing or streaming playback.

Goddamn you Hollywood.
Probably has engineering challenges past what you would normally face, which thankfully makes a 1B device botnet a little unrealistic. I can't imagine how you'd even begin to control such a thing, just a sequential numerical list of the clients is 4GB. Scary prospect though.
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> I can already imagine many celebrities getting hacked through it

Pretty sure celebrities use iPhones.
I'd argue that it's not that easy to "ban" something by getting the UN to say so, or even getting conventional treaties signed. First, the nations have to ratify it. And even if they do, they have to abide by it. Here are some random examples that I googled-for off the top of my head where these treaties, laws and the UN have failed.

Torture:

http://www.cfr.org/international-law/united-states-geneva-co...

Tear Gas:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14...

Kyoto Protocol:

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

Extrajudicial Killings in Drone Strikes:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/21/drone-strikes-i...
They mean "Using Google with a Google account but without a Google+ profile", not "Using Google without a Google account". Google pushes really hard for people to be logged into Google. Google search results pages have a whiny banner ad if you don't log into Google. (And it won't go away if you have their cookies blocked.)

Incidentally, Android phones work fine with no Google account. If you buy the phone new and unlocked, click "Later" when it asks for your Google account, and delete the "Google first time activation" app, they're fine.
"This is idiotic. Website operators who use AdSense are now required to figure out if a visitor is from the EU and show them some stupid warning."

From comments on adsense.blogspot.com
Well, everyone gets nothing except the people with the retention bonuses - the employees.

So, money was funneled from rich VCs to workers? I'm... okay with this.
You still have to perform the byte-by-byte comparison and this is where TheLoneWolfling alleges the optimizations kick in and give away secrets. However, from my testing, the variations in timing are unpredictable (I get variations on compare speed on different runs of the same program with the same input) and small and would be swallowed up by variations in network latency.
Heap analytics is already doing this for desktop (and maybe mobile) if anybody is curious as to what it looks like. I find it amusing that Heap also just happens to have a job posting on the front page at the same time as this Mixpanel news.
Yep, it's frustrating. Youtube comments really are hopelessly broken.

Re-shares are not good reading. They are written by users for their followers, not for the people on the actual video page. As you said, they have zero value.

When I first noticed this way back when Google started publishing re-share comments under the videos, I would reply to those comments with remarks such as "I already knew that; yes I know what the video is; why are you repeating the video name"... and some people responded with "what are you talking about" because they didn't even know their re-share comments were being published on the video page. That's how broken the comments are.
Wouldn't you know if you'd received a sketchy MMS from a number you didn't recognize?
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no, it's not exactly (daily) correct, you can check wikipedia information for the songs
If it was any other company, I would be incredibly skeptical. But I had great experience with Mixpanel, even on Unity (where all SDKs come to die, including Facebook's — especially Facebooks), and they seem to be very solid on all fronts.
Google Accounts were around long before Google+.
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Then how do you coordinate attacks? Even elite military units, deep behind enemy lines, have the ability to receive new intel. You aren't going to build a swarm of robotic generals, each fighting their own war, with no communication between them.
Oh man did I have some great conversations about articles on Google Reader. My friends would share great articles to a common stream that we would fight over. It was so much fun because we could be honest without worrying about information leakage to friends, grandmas, and the public.

I looked up some history behind Google+ on Wikipedia and it looks like Vic Gundotra was behind that (footnotes removed).

> His responsibilities as Vice-President of Social included Google's social networking and identity service, Google+. He is widely believed to be the man behind Google+, and was responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader. Apart from Google+, he is widely credited for his contributions to early versions of Google Maps (application) and Google I/O.

For it's time it was kind of the proto "news feed" for my group of friends.
Nice pun, but the same holds for any other berry or fruit that grows in the wild: by definition humans aren't the primary consumer or propagation vector of wild sweet things, so the idea that fruit sweetness is the product of millenia of phenotype guiding by humans is only very narrowly true.
Unfortunately, and unlike a QR code, the data is not encoded in the drawing itself, which means an Internet connection is always needed. For URL sharing the Internet connection requirement is not so much of a problem (you'd always need that connection for browsing to the URL, unless it's a local or data URL), for everything else it may be.

Also, once the Meshtag service goes down or closes for good, all tags become impossible to read, which pretty much puts me off of using this for any permanent purposes. I suppose it will also have to deal with copyright infringement issues (and there would need to be a mechanism for submitting DMCA notices), but don't take my word for it. Related: it's easier to censor.

Whether these disadvantages are enough to make up for the fact that the codes can be drawn by hand, and can expire, only time can tell.

By the way, if this could be made to use squares instead of triangles, I guess it would be easier to draw on grid paper.
Well, caffeine is addictive, and many sodas have caffeine in them, so it is not a 'used to it' thing, it's very physical[0]. When you order that diet coke with lunch everyday, you develop a habit that is very hard to break for a lot of folk. Also, enjoying a Dr. Pepper is not terrible, you just have to know you are drinking a lot of sugars.

As an aside, the sugar profile of most sodas is made to mimic that of honey closely. So much so, that 'stretching' honey is a cause for concern in apiarist communities as it is quite easy to do so [1].

[0]http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-withdrawal-symptoms...

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23575142
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I just bought a washing machine with a ten year warranty, to replace one made in the 80's for which there are still official spare parts (but that I felt was better off being replaced than repaired). You can find companies who are in it for the long haul, but it is true that most aren't.
To be fair, it's not like YouTube comments were ever working well.
What if you mark token, input, and match_count as volatile?
Not if the attacker deletes the message post-pwnage.
For this to work there has to be a good definition of what they mean by AI. Control circuits to stabilize quadcopters or airplanes? What about a "formation" system, so that a number of drones can be controlled as one abstract entity? What about using computer vision to lock on a target (keep in mind radar locking has existed a long time)?
What about a drone patrolling along a predefined route? What about "macros" like a big red button that means fire all weapons, then rise and return home? What about an automatic avoid-anti-air program?
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if we'll ever get over the hump of the looming energy crisis. I'm not for an all-eggs-in-one-basket approach, but I honestly don't think there's going to be a solution to the energy crisis that doesn't include some form of nuclear energy production (fission or fusion). For fulfilling high load near instant demand on power only nuclear (and hydroelectric where can you build a dam) seems to compare to oil and coal in that regard. Solar doesn't cut it at least with our battery technology and our climate (some parts of the US only get around 150 sunny days a year like Minnesota). Wind looks to be good for helping with voltage regulation but like solar I bet that in areas like Minnesota it won't work (Kansas? Sure, we get plenty of wind from the north or south depending on the season). And biofuels don't look good to me since it becomes a choice between eating or powering your TV set (eating always wins).

So, nuclear will have to be the backbone of a new energy economy if we're to advance the standard of living for developing nations and to maintain the standard of living for the developed nations as is. Anything less than that will probably wind up forcing everyone back down to 19th or 18th century levels of productivity and standards of living.
I think Polymer is a better software design but it may still not be performant or compatible enough. If its an internal or desktop app or you do perf and compat tests maybe you can use it.

As of today React is vastly more popular, but that doesn't mean its still technically the most relevant.

6-12 months from now I would say Polymer may be trendy in some circles.
They were warned about the negative consequences of identity conflation, then built a system that did just that. They didn't "decide" to out someone, but they built a machine for outing people.
This is really clever, and solves a lot of the problems with QR codes. Not just the hand-drawable-ness, these also look a lot better aesthetically.
I'm really glad people do lump C and C++ together, because the tiny fraction of the C language which is not a proper subset of C++ affects life very little in practice. C++ is a multiparadigm language and it is completely reasonable to use it like one uses C, if that's what suits your need and environment.

In embedded firmware development, for example, one often simply can't afford the RAM it would take to run a malloc/free heap, and may have hard realtime constraints that would preclude the use of dynamic memory management even if more RAM were available. It may still be worth using C++ for such systems even if you're writing functions-and-pointers style code like you would in C, because namespaces and class/struct encapsulation are useful tools on their own.
A frame of traditional animation looks like this:

http://www.animationsensations.com/media/catalog/product/cac...

That doesn't look too detailed, but imagine drawing four of those every day for a year without weekends. 365 x 4 is about equal to 24 x 60. Congratulations, you've created a minute of footage. To make a feature film, you'll spend a life.

I guess Disney-style animated characters occupy a kind of sweet spot. They are carefully stylized to look good enough that adding more detail won't really make them much better, and simple enough that a large team of animators with top-down planning can make a complete movie in a few years. Japanese anime has slightly more detailed characters, at the cost of having fewer frames per second. If you want a lot more detail with good enough framerate, you need more money than your audience is willing to pay.
I though most of them switch when the whole GPGPU movement happened?
Yes, I know about Esprima. But I think it would be perfect library to create some more high level tool. Pure Esprima is pretty low-level (and JavaScript ASTs are pretty complex to traverse).

Angular 1.* for me was just an experiment full of accidental complexity and I am glad that Angular 2 will be more simpler.

If we talk about HTML/CSS I think that we need two different kind of tools (possibly integrated):

- structural editor of HTML/CSS that would be operate on tree nodes rather than text (my previous answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952022 ). That would allow editor to be smarter.

- WYSIWYG in browser (realised for example via plugin extension or browser itself) as a method for tweaking end results. I think about something like that: https://twitter.com/malyw/status/615974892928954368
Yeah, you'd need a fully functional global judicial system that included a police force to make UN regulations stick.
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You are spot on, upgrading frequenty and aggressively is the right way to go when the libs themselves are on the stable version. I was planning to upgrade them by release by release to avoid huge updates.
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Of course, not all of fruit sweetness is the product of selection, but cultivated fruits tend to be much sweeter than their wild counterparts. Relatively wild species like blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and their relatively low sugar content actually illustrate that point.
That is something we in the US should harken to. Especially: "when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world." So much instability in the world is due to or exacerbated by imbalances involving the 1st world economies affecting the rest of the world. (Chief among these would be environmental problems, but they are not limited to only those.)

Also something to apply to one's personal life.
From the article: "The messaging app Hangouts instantly processes videos, to keep them ready in the phone's gallery."

Do you have to have the "Hangouts" app installed for this security vulnerability?

Google doesn't seem to have learned from Microsoft's decade of "autorun" problems.

It has been (0) days since the last C language buffer overflow vulnerability.
> Ouya had already added the play store I thought

This is incorrect. It only officially has its own store. You can "hack" the device to install Play though.
For the common Hangouts use case:
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Many know of him as an alpha technologist and as India's Missile Man.

Less known is the fact that he helped design a coronary stent at a much lower cost, utilizing techniques and lightweight materials from the missile R&D labs. He also designed lightweight artificial limb production processes.

In this way, he had a deep concern for the social benefits of the common man, and distinguished himself from other scientists who lived in a world of their own.

RIP Sir.

May your memory be eternal!
> I drink beer (which has most of its sugar fermented out; still has some calories, but not nearly so sweet).

Beer is better, but it's still got a surprising amount of sugar, depending on the brew. A can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar [1]. A Sierra Nevada Bigfoot has 30.3 [2]. Of course, that's the worst offender. Popular "craft" or "imports" seem to be around 10-15 (Anchor Steam is 14.2, Beck's is 9, Guiness is 14, Killian's is 14.8, etc.).

American light beers are around 3-5, which is much better than a can of Coke.

If you're switching from soda to anything but "light" beers, you're cutting some carbs, but not by about 1/2 or 2/3.

[1]: https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/soda/carbo...
[2]: http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Calories-Popular-Beers-15046...
That wouldn't be bad, pizza is always the solution.
Ask HN: Growing Outdoor with Hydroponic Lights in the City?
Would the LED lights be effective if it would automatically turn on during outside when the specific area is shaded by the buildings or trees, early morning, late evening, or in storm? I am trying to determine if it is sciencific possible to use grow LED lights outside among with natural sun? In general life as city gardener/farmer, we tend to get limited direct sunlight between 3 to 8 hours when the plants should get 12 to 18 hours a day. Can we use LED lights to cover up the missing direct light? I like the speed of the growing with InDoor Hydroponic, but I would like to have the similar effects for outside. Is that possible?
Mono has worked fine for me in the past but I was more referring to CoreCLR which is consistently called 'cross-platform' now but is far from it as their own tooling crashes all over the place when attempting to use it (dnu restore, dnu install, dnx . run, etc).
They don't mention (4) here's how Microsoft solves this in Windows, or how Tesla solves the problem, either, and I don't think they need to. This text is about the problem of updating a billion phones, not of updating all other kinds of stuff.

I don't see how they would have to cater for what their readers infer from this text about open source at all, as I can't find any way they even suggest that Android is open source.

The only reference to 'open' I can find in the text is "open an attachment or download a file that's corrupt.". The closest I can find to "Android is open source" is "Google gives its latest version of Android to manufacturers, and they then tweak it as they please.".

I think anybody who makes the jump from that to 'they can tweak it because Android is open source' also knows enough to not make the further jump to 'open source is dangerous'.
Wiktionary disaggress.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indigenous

Thought I suppose it depends on if you want the word to mean what it means or if you want to use it for some other meaning.
That would be a highly effective way of learning but not everybody has the time for it... and also it's not just the ready made code that I envy, but also the added value of someone having already picked the relevant, working libraries, tools and so on..
This is confusing to me. What IS a "Google Account"? Is it my gmail? That makes no sense to me, it's an email service. A "Google Account" sounds like I work at Google. If you were to tell me I had a "Google Account", I would assume it's Google+.

Google messed up when it tried to make some master account with Google+. Maybe everything could be incorporated into one account, but the way they've done it is one of the most complicated and confusing systems I've seen in computer engineering, and that's pretty sad considering it's Google.

Take YouTube. When I go there now, I have my Google+ account, but I have my old YouTube account that has been consumed by the Google+ account, but yet it's still separate on YouTube?? Now when I use YouTube, I have to make sure it's my old YouTube account being selected instead of my Google+ one. Why is this so hard? What's going to happen to my old YouTube account when it gets owned by this new "Google Account"?

If you can't do this right, which is obviously an issue, then just keep everything separate. Stop Google-fying services that are separate.
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I suppose that's fair. I'm interested to see how this all pans out.
It's worst than that. The state of the usability of mobile sites on mobile devices is horrible. I've run across so many sites who's "m" versions are utterly unusable on an iPad. To the point that I wish Chrome (mobile) had an " always ask for desktop site" setting.

The other problem how layout is sometimes handled. For example:

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects

If you read this in portrait on an iPad with Chrome you get this tiny font that is hard to read at 11:00PM when you are tired. Switching to landscape doesn't help. I don't think there's a way to get a larger font. Zooming does not help because you now have to pan right and left to read every line.

I get the feeling that the state of mobile isn't all that great in general.
I think the better statement would be that it was a panic, but one with very different and more practical goals.

The US government was primarily trying to keep some big companies and banks that were caught in a liquidity crunch from going bankrupt, because them all going under would likely be a spiraling problem. The crisis solution was also rather simple in aggregate...loan them a bunch of money temporarily until they could free up the assets to repay it.

China is currently trying to prop up a stock market that is STILL (even with today's decline), up 50% in a year for no reason. And most trading in the market is done by very jittery small investors (who are also overleveraged and now desperate to get out) rather than big firms and funds. Said small investors are unlikely to be reassured by anything the Chinese government can possibly do. I don't see great chances for the government to be able to stop this from returning to a more realistic valuation.
to be fair Ouya console was always uyseless
I'm speaking from the USA, where food also has to be labeled. But nobody really pays attention to the back of the package, and there's very little regulation over what you're allowed to say on the front of the package.

So you get sugar bombs like this prominently claiming "no sugar added", and many consumers are confused into believing that this somehow means the contents of the package are healthy: http://www.healicsu.com/art/photos/643-juicy-juice-no-sugar-...
Funny, not long ago I created a writing system that worked on the same principle. It proved a bit too unwieldy for writing but it was a fun exercise.