skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not reading what I said. I covered that:

> you requested a resource, they just served it

Again: If you tell me a link will take me to very specific content (eg, a news article) I expect to receive only that content. Surprising me with other content is not welcome. Maybe it would be easier for you to relate to if the unwelcome material I'm forcing you to download is porn, gore, or malicious? Ads are equally unwelcome and you shouldn't be allowed to force someone to receive them.

This is why it would be great for search engines to analyze all of the elements on a page and rank those with less javascript and smaller page load higher than those with tons of junk...And if a website is entirely javascript it should go at the bottom of the bin, because so much can be hidden and we don't need to play cat and mouse games with search engines...

When you have a 500MB data plan and a single news page loads 50MB of junk, that's 1/10th your allotted transfer for a few KB of text! THIS IS CRIMINAL.

I'm getting the feeling nobody here has ever read RFC 1855? I think it's just as relevant now as back then when tailored towards mobile users and the current way we consume content.

> Don't send large amounts of unsolicited information to people.
5 Reasons to Avoid Audience Based Navigation
Apologies was traveling all day yesterday.

We are building Twist (www.hellotwist.com). The long term vision is a smart home platform for Apartments (and more specifically, renters).

In the short term, we've built a great multiroom audio system that doesn't take up valuable space, add to your clutter, or require setup / installation.

We've leveraged the light socket to deliver a quality lighting and audio experience that anyone -- even small spaces -- can benefit from.
> Online education isn't the solution

Eh, speak for yourself, it is the solution for millions of people who want to learn something, not only have the degree as an end goal...
I've owned my 2009 335i since early 2010. It's fun to drive to say the least (twin turbo, 300 hp, 300 ft-lb torque). You have to pay to play though, the A/C evaporator started leaking last month. $2400 USD to fix. In it's defense, that's the first unplanned maintenance I've had to perform in over 5-1/2 years owning the car. I spent far more during that same amount of time on my previous car: 2001 Chrysler Sebring...wow, what a piece of shit.

I don't see owning my BMW as a status symbol. Maybe more of a performance symbol though...because it certainly does perform.
They have the consistently great part up to (and possibly including) the black album. Then they start to fall into the disappointing category.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't a "procedure" something that is well documented set of steps to be taken to remedy a person's ills or assess what is actually wrong with the patient (ie. mri, xray, etc) ?

Sure, like with anything, there may be some unknowns that cause some variations in the implementation of the procedure, but it's likely a valid (in most cases) way to track performance and control costs. If some hospital is regularly charging 2 standard deviations more than other hospitals for same procedures, that seems it would be a red flag.

Or if a doctor is regularly taking 2 standard deviations longer to perform same procedures as the rest of his/her peers, that's a red flag.
As a homotopy theorist who (probably) is not a dummy, I don't really feel like the title of this is apt.
In the US, unless you are signing a contract of some sort, then a sale is a sale. Any physical object that you simply buy at the store is yours, full stop.

I don't understand the comment that you make about not owning the batteries in an electric car. If you own the electric car, then you own the batteries, that's not in question.

However, manufacturers often put measures into place that make ownership less useful:

-- They might load software into the device that makes it respond to their control, and limits your ability to use the object

-- They might restrict availability of manuals, repair parts and other information to incentivize you to use their service facilities

However, I would argue that these are not the same as infringing on your ownership.
"7. No one cares how you did it"
Hey sorry that you were stuck with a framework. It's not a framework, it's meant to be a quick way to add styles without having to make more css classes.
Make a working key from scrap metal by reverse engineering a lock

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-working-key-from-scra...
That project was my inspiration for this hack :)
Okay, fine. I visited your website, refused to be told to buy a subscription to a dating website, and now after you've served me the page and saw that my browser isn't rendering something that is telling me about that subscripton, you then decide to tell my web browser to not show anything at all.

From here I am supposed to feel guilty for not wanting to hear about that new car model, and thus after hearing about about that new magazine I should buy, I shall be allowed to hear how to fix my computer problems.

Thus I learn how to fix things, you get some fractions of a penny off me, and hopefully I will some day go on to buy some great new self-help book.

This sucks. I don't want to be told to buy anything. If you want money, just take my money. Don't tell me to give other people money.
(See EDIT) Okay, so what's preventing them from develivering strange stuff to you, that claims to be your test site, but isn't?
Hi shockone,

A new terminal/shell is a very hard sell, as I know from my own experience. Six years ago I wrote my own terminal/shell combination ( http://wiki.tcl.tk/23446 ). It works well enough that I've been using it myself full-time at work ever since, but although a few other people have tried it, no-one else ever adopted it. My own attempt is implemented in Tcl/Tk, an older but much lighter-weight framework (it has no problem with cat-ing a 50MB file).

I combined the functions of shell and terminal because I found the shell/terminal split made some of the functionality I wanted difficult or impossible. One example is that I colour text written to stderr in red - standard shells mix stderr and stdout together before the terminal even sees them.

I decided early on that I would not support terminal escape sequences. I set the TERM environment variable to "dumb" which tells well-behaved programs not to use escape sequences. So you can't run vi/vim in one of my windows, but I always use gvim so I don't find this a problem.

Similarly after some experimentation I decided not to use ptys as they created as many problems as they solved. So programs which change behaviour based on whether they are connected to a terminal behave as if running from a script. Eg. running "man command" lists the whole man page rather than trying to page it - but this is what I want since one can page up/down in the shell anyway.

However it seems that people who use a terminal get very attached to its idiosyncracies and will reject anything even slightly different. Since it's very difficult to make any real improvements without introducing incompatibilies, attempts at improving the terminal/shell user experience rarely catch on. In contrast, a few other tools I have implemented using the same technology have been adopted by a worthwhile user community at work. I think the difference is that they are used for more specialised tasks and don't require the user to change their everyday workflow.

Anyway, good luck with your endeavour!
eink apparently has 32" displays: http://www.einkgroup.com/news.php?recordId=526

Or you could tile smaller modules: http://www.eink.com/press_releases/e_ink_mpicosys_pdi_eWall_...
I'm not using Vim or Emacs but still doing intensive use of ctrl and shift in Visual Studio so I might give it a try :) Thanks for your replies
Docker: Containerize Your Startup (Part 2)
It does say: "more to come" maybe you'll get more laughs.
I wonder why this should only be exploitable on the WhatsApp web application. If it is possible to trick browsers into launching arbitrary applications by using vcards, this should affect many web application using vcards and the the security issue would have been in the browser side of things. What am i missing?
I remap LALT to CTRL so i can hit it with my thumb
I'm asking a different question.

Forget about leaks for a second.

If a mechanical engineer can get their hands on 1,000 sample locks and keys (for instance: by simply buying them) and then imaging them, is it that difficult to reverse engineer the skeleton key system?
Realtime counter on any tab
While SuperFish was a security risk it wasn't a "malware", there is a difference between various really stupid and blatant backdoors and other security risks and actual malware.

Lenovo didn't use it to steal user's data they could care less about it, but some one could abuse it to compromise users both through compromising SuperFish it self and by exploiting the fact that SuperFish will issue certificates to SSL websites even if the original certificate isn't really valid which will allow attackers to MITM SSL connections.

Sony also had distributed software that could be classified as backdoors or rootkits in it's CD's as DRM, many other companies also had similar incidents.

While it's a stupid practice and quite unfair to your customers you can't really call it malicious since they didn't really used it for that just never thought it quite true or didn't care enough in the first place.

The packages in this case seem to be actual malware and not some adware/unwanted software installed by the vendors which while might be a security risk wasn't intended to actually compromise the user.
One could argue they are actually selling you the ink and simply renting out the cartridge. Not sure if the verbiage on the terms of sale in this case support that.
Perhaps, which is why I appreciate everyone's feedback.
Service Discovery: Zookeeper vs. Etcd vs. Consul
I don't think it's acrimonious to say that no, that liquidity is not beneficial to society as a whole.

I struggle to see how any sector other than the financial sector would suffer if all trades happened once a second, or even once a minute. No process in the human world is going to change the value of a company quicker than that.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184166
>offer choice, allow people to shop around, and costs will go down, right?

Just wanted to point out that tough medical licensing regimes actually make it quite hard to shop around. This paper provides an interesting analysis: http://econjwatch.org/file_download/54/2004-08-svorny-reach_.... Or, for the short-of-time, a shorter, more biased summary: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-associatio...
Maybe your bad example made it difficult to understand what point you were trying to make. :P

My point is simply that there are tasks where human drivers outperform computers, and there are tasks where computers outperform human drivers, so simply looking at some scenario where humans do better doesn't tell us anything. You have to look at the whole picture.

And yes, currently humans are way better than computers in the general case. I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying that "computers can't handle situation X, which humans can" is a pointless thing to say by itself.
No problem, and thanks for the frank follow-up.

--

Regarding the ISP part, I fully agree it would be tough to implement; I was throwing this idea because I had never seen it being expressed and wanted to see if commenters could point to related "prior art" / similar experiments in some parts of the world.

Mainly, my own starting point for the idea is France's (and maybe other countries?) interrupted path to a "Global License" for music [1]. The idea, expressed as a law proposal in 2005 at a time of majors freaking out about P2P, was to (fr.wikipedia translation mine) "Authorize non-commercial access and sharing of cultural content, in exchange for a proportional artists remuneration."

It was interrupted in 2009 in favor of a repressive fine system (HADOPI, [2]). But if such a very much pie-in-the-sky idea can make its way to a law proposal (with assorted technical analysis) somewhere in the world, maybe something similar is worth discussing for ads.

[1] (french) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale

[2] (english) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
A nice video on the cubli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6p-1J551Y
The Ikea one seems more practical.
Note that most of the products/catalogs still exist. Sky Mall was basically just a catalog of catalogs that basically picked some of the more out-there examples from a variety of companies in the Brookstone/Hammacher Schlemmer/etc. vein. I've actually occasionally found useful products from these companies but they're mostly just oddball stuff that's somewhat amusing but not very practical.
Dark matter and dark energy lowdown: James Bullock, XENON100, ‘chameleon fields’
It seems like the real value of the picture was that it made it obvious how insecure the system was.
There's nothing stopping you from using inline-styles. It's another approach.
Great Unsolved Problems in Computer Science
For the interested, simulation of distributed synchronous network: https://github.com/rkarthick/morpheus-client

Did this as my school project.
There is a clinic in Houston that was profiled earlier that did price per procedure and knew their costs. They were not a Medicaid / Medicare provider which might have made a difference.
Poor response time is the main negative.
The Physical Web and Eddystone Beacons
GitHub Pages down
Two different screenshots of browser responses to requesting websites hosted on GitHub Pages.

http://i.imgur.com/yhSxXeB.png
http://i.imgur.com/pVwxxrG.png
> The idea of pricing out hospital procedures as if they're widgets or oil changes is ridiculous to begin with.

That seems pretty silly. There are plenty of procedures with marginal effect on survival and/or quality-of-life, and a health-care consumer will have varying preferences for them.

A rich man might be willing to spend an hour in an MRI if he's sprained his ankle; a poor man might prefer to keep his money and walk it off. Neither is wrong: they just have different preferences.

For that matter, given a choice between a $15 pill of Tylenol and dealing with an ache, I'd take the ache every day of the wee.k
Automated Restaurant
I might be misreading the story, but (a) there should be some mention of (staggering?) tuition debt from Law and Grad School or (b) did he transition from tenure-track to tenure? "Walking away" from failing to get tenure is merely a step ahead of the moving vans. Tossing tenure, however, is a significant personal and career move that should be discussed in some depth.

And going through two professional post-graduate schools (in the US anyway) costs serious coin. Can such debts be forgiven or delayed in any way, or did the author split from both a job and regular meals?

Hopefully, this isn't a "poor little rich kid" story following the path he was told to follow and then realizing that the result's not beer and skittles? If so, I hope the author finds out what he'd like to do... Should be well-trained for the law or politics. Politics with training and a heart would be a nice change!
Your Seagate drive could be a hacker's haven. Here's how to protect yourself
Different phones, different regions, different vendors.

Could just as easily be a supply chain issue where a reseller decided to make some money on the side, could censorship relted crap mandated by the Chinese government for local usage leaking into exports phones, could be some one on craigs list, could be completely fabricated.

However the fact that some phones didn't come with it doesn't mean much either.

As far as the facebook App goes

AVG has some reports on it
http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/ww-en/android-app-reports/app/c...

Mentioned in Google Groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ugs-support/katam...

Was removed from Google Play
http://www.bestappsmarket.com/p/app?appId=1588222&title=com-...

Someone with a Xiaomi MI3 phone complaining that that app takes up 22% of his battery
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=872251

Questions about it dating to 2014
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Facebook-app-package-name-in...

Seems that the original code name for the facebook app was Katana so using katama instead is akin to registering www.worldofworcraft.com for you phishing domain.

So while this whitepaper might be overblown and pure marketing it seems that there's some truth behind this.
I was thinking the exact same thing. In 2006, this company called BugLabs made this device called a Bugbox[1] which was a modular CPU that you could attach components to. It had GPS, basic touch screen, Wi-Fi and a few other features plus it was programable. I started to write an app for it and in Jan 2007, the iPhone was announced. It had more hardware sensor components at a similar price with significantly higher build quality. I loved the Bugbox concept, but it wasn't pragmatic and that's the sense I'm feeling from this.

[1] - http://gizmodo.com/5364703/bug-labs-releases-wi-fi-base-at-l...
Employee Engagement Survey Podcast
How does that make it legacy?
> I'm arguing that "unfamiliar" does not necessarily mean "hard to find".

Fair point. :)

> "Interestingness" is what humans get a buzz from and reward each other for all the time, so if I get a dose of interesting too, served just right and not too much, then it's a winner.

I agree with you but, clearly, it's a hard balance to find. Going back to the article, most website owners (and some designers) don't know what that balance is so they take a safe option. It's an understandable choice, they're not experts. I think it's a net win if those non-experts don't experiment but settle on something that's easily readable. It's a step up from the time when everybody was doing their own thing and standards didn't exist.

In short, you're right: a well-designed website is still better than a generic one. But a generic one is better than a mess put together without paying attention to standards.
Design and execution count.

You mention "well-screwed-together package". To my mind, if they defined the "well-put-together mass-produced sporting sedan" segment by showing you could have a entry-level luxury sedan that wasn't perpetually in the shop, then yes, they did define a segment.
The simple idea is that while linear maps(matrices) are generally a combination of rotations, scaling and other stuff in higher dimensions, sometimes they will act on a vector simply by scaling it.

Since scaling is a really easy operation to understand, the space generated by these vectors will be really easy to understand. Note that different vectors can be scaled by different amounts.

Now it often turns out that the space generated like this is actually the whole of the space under consideration and this really simplifies the linear map we started with. Hope that helps.
Sorry, I don't get it. Why is this interesting?
You only need one person in the world to write an interface and then sell it for a open source bounty, via something like Patreon.
SaaS Data Points for your article, presentation, deck, infographics
JavaScript Enlightenment
Cody Lindley

Helped me a lot.
Who knew it was so easy to hack the duplicate algorithm on Hacker News? Just toss in any query parameter, such as "&again" to a previously submitted link. Brings new life to something that was previously submitted less than a day ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178641
Now that brings back memories!

"Who were you talking to in Pennsylvania for four hours in the middle of the night for a week!?"
Rjw57/yt – YouTube command line client
First off, why?

How on earth could you possibly makes a cost vs. value trade off if you don't know the cost? You might have a hospital with better outcomes that charges 1/2 of that of another hospital with worse outcomes. Unless you know the cost, you'll never make the system efficient.

Medicare already does it. There are ~700 diagnosis codes that capture everything you might need to do to a patient admitted to the hospital. The diagnosis codes are linked to a dollar amount that is supposed to cover everything (except labor which is a separate payment).
Likewise. I'd also LOVE something like a cheaper/smaller version of Sony's Digital Paper to replace my notepads/sketchbooks. SIDE NOTE: I keep a Thinkpad x220 with a retrofitted IPS display and a 9cell battery for dedicated writing/programming. It's got fantastic viewing angles, an amazing keyboard and 10hrs+ battery life! You can find great deals for a used x220/x230 (and its IPS display) on ebay. Worth every penny!
We can come up with a long list of simple conditions that wouldn't stop an average computer but would stop an average human, too. For example, a computer won't have any trouble driving for 48 hours without powering down, or with a stinging insect in the cabin.

That's not to say that computers are superior to humans. It's quite clear that the current state of the art in autonomous driving is way behind what humans can do. My point is simply that comparing scenarios which one can handle and the other cannot is not very informative.
6 myths about mobile learning
There have been lots of press releases about large e-ink displays over the last few years. I never find anywhere that I can actually buy them though.
Secondlife is good for idea visualization

I think the big challenge is getting the wall dimensions right for the hidden stuff, like piping wiring, central Heat/AC, etc.
The 6 things that should be included in any project brief
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I'm flattered! The unfinished draft is in http://canonical.org/~kragen/tmp/backus-rebuttal.
Comparison animation between 1997 and 2015 El Nino
I was looking in the article for a followup to that statement, but there was none. The reason I raise an eyebrow is simply that even in the absence of a communication gap, talking+swallowing as top concerns seems like a reasonable response.

What matters more to you, being alive, or having a tolerable quality of life? Are we sure that there's a misunderstanding that death is a likely outcome (I could believe it; but I would also be slightly surprised, since "cancer==death sooner or later" exists even as a trope in mainstream media) as opposed to just a prioritization over things that matter so long as you're alive?

Anyway, this was quite a tangent from the original article content, just something I was mulling over given your comment.
> You may discover as you work in the subsystem that maintaining it is simply untenable — and it may be time to consider rewriting the subsystem from scratch. (After all, most of the subsystems that are in the first category replaced subsystems that were in the second.) One should not come to this decision too quickly — rewriting a subsystem from scratch is enormously difficult and time-consuming. Still, don’t rule it out a priori.

It's good to see this important trade-off mentioned. I've seen Spolsky's infamous allegory about Netscape [1] that "[rewriting] the code from scratch [... is] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make," used to browbeat people in response to their quite justified opinion that "maintaining it is simply untenable." While Spolsky does go on to nuance his statement a little bit, advocating for a careful refactoring process with lots of tests, I was happy to see the same advice formulated in a way that precludes such cherry picking here.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
For some entertaining sci-fi applications of this sort of tech, you should check out Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.