skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can do it, but as you can see, it's not very efficient and eats battery. nobody would actually put this "decode video in javascript" stuff in an ad, as it stands

No, but they can already show any arbitrary video they want by using Javascript to add any number of videos playing on the website -- that's just plain vanilla HTML5.

Adding hooks to low level decoding doesn't add anything new that they can't already do when it comes to showing ads. For ads they only care for high level decoding.

It only adds something new when it comes to creating video mangling apps in JS.
Probably a good idea to use one of these on your SaaS portals for safety: https://github.com/nicjansma/adblock-detector.js , https://github.com/sitexw/BlockAdBlock
Anonymous hack group plans to out anonymous hate group
It's worth pointing out that anything with patient IDs (even though all personal info is removed) is still not really anonymous "safe" data, and should be treated carefully.

I'm not sure what measures Mimic takes (beyond just stripping demographic info), but a given patient's pattern of healthcare interactions make quite a unique fingerprint -- and some parts of that fingerprint are likely public information for some patients.

E.g., imagine a celebrity who (you can find from the tabloids) was treated at X hospital for a sprained ankle on 2012-07-14, and gave birth to a daughter at Hospital Y on 2014-04-01. If her record -- completely "anonymized" -- is in a data set that lets you search for patients matching these two events... it seems fairly likely you'd be able to narrow it down to only a few candidates, or quite likely an exact match. And then once you have her pseudonym/ID, does the rest of the record reveal anything interesting? An abortion no one knew about (possibly not even her partner)? A venereal disease treatment?

Even the fact that a patient had an appointment at a given clinic is sensitive data -- e.g., seeing an IVF specialist, or oncologist, etc..

It's a tricky field to navigate.
Ask HN: Client is bullying for refund since beginning
If you have a client who signedup for your SAAS service and after 5 months wants a full refund going back to his start date, is that reasonable ? Not to mention that terms and conditions clearly say no refund after 30 days. He is using scare tactics and threatening to take legal action because he apparently missed "Deadlines". Typical example of client from hell. What will you guys do or have done in situations like these ?
Are there any guides like this one for building a logo interpreter? I'd wager it's been around 15 years since I last played with that - but it left me with a lasting impression
Still fuming over HTTPS mishap, Google makes Symantec an offer it can’t refuse
Right, but browsers are pretty important, and a lot of apps are just web views. (Can't remember if JIT works in web apps on iOS these days though.)

They also load all that crazy ad tracking javascript from everywhere, optimizing that on every page load has power costs!
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Every democracy should have one.

The author credits the original idea to Egypt and links a MorsiMetre in the 'about' link: http://morsimeter.com/en (there is an Arabic version too).
>as security through obscurity only hurts us!

People keep saying that, but nobody proposes we all reveal our passwords. Obviously SOME obscurity is beneficial...
The Southern states were not in a state of rebellion; they had constitutionally seceded.
Mosfilm, the Soviet/Russian film studio also uploaded a lot of their old films to youtube[1] including Stalker, Solaris, and Battleship Potemkin. Many of them also have English subtitles. Here's a small list of more examples: http://366weirdmovies.com/your-guide-to-mosfilm-in-english-o...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm
Based on Star Wars attempts at recreating the original material (https://vimeo.com/channels/starwarslegacy) I'd say the tech is barely there, and the art is almost lost.
Reading through the spin.. it's just an object store and pubsub with some demo apps? Like S3 and SNS on Amazon or Google Datastore and Cloud pubsub? That's it? Why would anyone use this instead of AWS or Google?
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The "pressure" for these women to find their ideal spouse is similar to the "pressure" startups face in finding ideal employees. That is, they want the absolute best at rock bottom prices.

If you read the article, many of these women who desired to get married had numerous suitors, but these suitors were judged unfit for one reason or another and thus failed to meet the women's strict requirements. Much like companies wanting to hire 100x developers at 30$ an hour, these women are unfortunately trying to bend the supply/demand curves to their tastes, rather than working within the reality of the market.

As an aside, marriage as an institution in western societies is now a legal quagmire [1]. It's legal roots were laid down in times when women did not earn much and did not vote, so they were paid very generously in case of a divorce whose fault could be proven. Nowadays, divorce is the single most powerful legal instrument to take half of someone's net worth without any reason whatsoever. Marriage as an institution is beyond repair, and any couple who supports the spirit of family unity should boycott legal marriage for their own sake, as it leads to extremely toxic financial incentives for the lower earning spouse.

Just another case study in man-made systems which are patched and reworked continuously without thought to the designer's original intent.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTOT6DKfZ8
I don't see why you couldn't use the cloudwatch metric to just turn off all your instances if you go over budget.

Of course it would require you to set it up, but for the vast majority of companies that are on AWS, if they were to go over their budget, it would be worse to shut down the instances in that case...
I really, really wish startups stop assuming everyone has unlimited data plan and broadband Internet available 24/7. I'm not even begging for the common engineering sense anymore (don't route around half of the globe the data that has to travel only 5 meters in physical space; some data does not belong on the Internet, etc.), or even common decency. For practical reasons and the love of God, stop with the requirement of being constantly on-line to use a goddamn app.
There's a clear trend where Chinese men are marrying Russian women.

http://www.chinawhisper.com/6-pictures-of-chinese-farmers-an...

http://rbth.asia/society/2013/05/25/the_key_to_a_happy_russo...
Yes, the tendency to shed vortices is much greater at small scales. A rapid flapping motion is basically a vortex generator and more efficient than a wing (rotating or fixed) which relies more on steady state, laminar flow. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number for more explanation.
Google's products make you more efficient. Facebook's products make you less efficient.
I was lazy, that's why I mentioned talks. But I'd be happy to have a list of books too. Thanks.
The HeLa line was actually the subject of some debate two years ago. In essence, her family only found out in march 2013 that their ancestor's cells (which had been taken without consent) were widely used for research. The family complained, and a settlement was reached with the NIH, allowing the family some measure of control over where the cells are used, crediting the origins of the cells in publications, and removing the genome from public-access databases. Some hail this as a victory for research ethics, while some feel that it confuses the issue of who has control over donor tissue and genetic data.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/henrietta-lacks-fam...
Apple's market share is fairly small compared to Android, on a world-wide basis. And because Apple is closed and proprietary, it can do what it likes. No other companies are installing iOS or Mac OS X on devices, so Apple has nobody to mess around.
So the one thing that you might be missing is that in the engineering org, we don't hire into a job or team, we hire into a ladder. While individual job openings exist and drive the number of people that we're looking to hire at a site, during the recruiting process you aren't really being matched to those. If the job opening is for a SWE, then you get a generic SWE recruiting process and interview panel. If you pass that, then the site managers will figure out which SWE roles at that site you would best fit into - but because everything we do is secret, as an outsider you are basically unable to have any useful input into that process, you just cannot know enough about it before you're hired. The public versions of job postings are missing most of the important details, and the way we do things is too different. We're also far more interested in skills than experience.

Moving between teams is easy once you've been hired (because you've already passed the generic interview for your ladder), and at that point you'll have enough information to make an informed choice. People are expected to move around, and do. This has got a lot to do with why the hiring process works the way it does: you're being hired for all the future jobs you'll do, not the one you get assigned to on day one.

(If this was about roles outside the engineering org, I have no knowledge of how hiring works for those)

> On the positive side, all the Googlers who I've spoken with through the various interviews have been smart and pleasant.

This is in some sense both the goal of our hiring process and the evidence that it's working well.
I'm floored that someone would define "niggles" as borderline racist. That's just ignorant.

I hope you pointed them towards a dictionary.
The main risk here he is that he issues a chargeback on the credit card he used. That would be a hassle. If you are not worried about them politely inform him you won't be doing what he wants, then block his emails unless he actually sues you.
Thanks for that link! It looks like something that I could comprehend. My C programming skills are pretty limited -- I learned C to move myself one step away from assembly language on microcontrollers.
The Herero genocide is a plot point in Gravity's Rainbow. I didn't realize it was a real until years later.
> The leftover men are called an army, and they either die in combat or conquer foreign lands

Or they conquer their own land, i.e. a revolution.
Is it possible to tell whether you're running under Xen?

Because that should be considered a security hole. Knowing the attack surface is there is, in this context, a security bug in and of itself, because it implies there is already an attack, or an attack is forthcoming.

Unless it's possible to run an unmodified Xen as a guest under Xen, the project is incomplete.
Apple has a significant, growing share of the computers which people buy for themselves. If you go to a conference, coffee shop, etc. notice that more than half of the laptops are Macs.

Windows has a huge lock-in for the business world due to compatibility, and a few other niches like high-end gaming for similar reasons. Without API compatibility that's a really tough space to get into.

It's quite believable that Android/ChromeOS will take over the netbook market by being cheaper than Windows, and the premium personal market – which is where most of the profit is – if they can get quality hardware shipping at prices competitive enough to make up for the lack of applications (almost all Android apps will need some sort of UI modifications) but it really doesn't seem like they'll get anywhere in the business world. Cracking that means either convincing everyone to drop legacy apps for web apps or remote clients (how many more decades?) or offering API compatibility (invest heavily in WINE?) — otherwise, the cost of a Windows license isn't that much (especially with 10) and certainly not enough to push someone towards the most limited option.
Is this the same client that cares more about the people behind the product than the product itself?
so what do you suggest ? Is it worth the hassle for me ? The refund will be about $1000 though. He is clearly trying to bully here because he legally has no grounds. I am willing to fight the chargebacks but I doubt he will take any legal route because what is he going to prove ? All records says that he signed up agreeing to the terms and conditions.
I would imagine the courts would place an injunction that would set what amount should be paid and for what period of time. The court may even end up setting the same amount as the original agreement.
except putting the code back into mainline postgres
Codec2 is an open source speech codec, shooting for 700 - 3200 bit/s, specifically for digital voice over radio.

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=452
haha no. this one is different. But really, for SAAS providers, how to handle clients like these ? On principal and even legality, this is wrong. He is just trying to bully here.
Seems everyone here is panicking because they think that this means Chrome OS will be killed and Android will be made to run on Chromebooks - but I actually think the signs point to the opposite - Chrome OS becoming the Phone/Tablet OS under a new guise. I wouldn't read too much into a leak filtered through journalists, and instead look at what Google's actually working on:

- Google has Chromium developers working on a DART-based Mobile UI framework and execution engine, Flutter (http://flutter.io/). It's looking to be far better than the existing Android UI system - built for touch and 120fps from the start. This uses the Dartium VM and a bridge to allow the DART apps to use all the native features of the platform, it's much more than just another web framework. Development on this is very active right now, clearly a sizable team working fulltime - and they're building new developer tools also. There was a talk on this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIWl33YMwA .

- Google has built a Runtime to allow existing Android Java-based apps to run on Chrome OS, and is currently testing this and working with developers to get their apps to run on it. It doesn't make much sense to invest in building that out just for chromebooks, since the experience on a Chromebook with Android apps is pretty awful (can't resize etc), but it makes total sense if it's going to be how legacy Java/Android apps run on the new Chrome based phone OS.

The sad truth is that Android simply isn't a very well engineered system - it's been improved over time, but problems persist - like the complex update process leading to unsatisfied users and security problems, poor UI performance (even now, Android can barely do simple animations at a steady 60fps on the latest Nexus devices, and has little hope of allowing for the beautiful animations the Material Design team has come up with), and poor battery life. Google's also at a dead-end with Java given the ongoing legal battles, and with Apache Harmony dead they have to maintain the standard library implementation themselves.

On the other hand, Chrome OS performs great, has awesome battery life on Chromebooks, is quite possibly the most secure end-user OS ever, and Chromebooks get speedy updates for at least 5 years. I know which one I'd choose as the basis for a merged OS.
Yeah, inventing an API and implementation of a date/time/calendar library from scratch without an existing spec, implementation, tests or experience will surely be totally bug-free.
I regularly discard resumes and applications because of font and typographic transgressions. Why?

Because I have a hard time reading the resume with a script font or some other equally hard to read font.
Seeing Android on PCs would be cool. It runs on top of Linux, it would pretty much do away with all current Desktop Linux variants I'm guessing. I could be missing something since I can't read the full story, it requires me to create an account or sign in. It might even give Windows a run for its money, heck I'd finally have a real reason to make and sell Android apps since I can actually read the fonts on my desktop "PC".
I don't think the tiny market share of Chromebooks is going to make any difference in Javascript's viability.
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Babel 6.0.2 slowness reproduced on Ubuntu 14.04 using only node 4.2.1 and npm 2.14.7:

$ uname -v
#94-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 00:27:10 UTC 2015
$ node -v
v4.2.1
$ npm -v
2.14.7
$ npm install babel
$ npm install babel-cli
$ npm install babel-preset-es2015
$ node_modules/.bin/babel -V
6.0.2 (babel-core 6.0.2)
$ echo "class Foo {}" | time node_modules/.bin/babel --presets es2015
2.49user 0.12system 0:02.58elapsed 101%CPU

Compared to babel 5.8.23 on same Linux VM:

$ babel -V
5.8.23 (babel-core 5.8.24)
$ echo "class Foo {}" | time babel
0.58user 0.02system 0:00.57elapsed 106%CPU
This is quite simple board to use, it provides UART interface to the LoRA module and can be used with microcontroller or USB com port interface: https://www.tindie.com/products/DORJI_COM/long-range-semtech...
What about if it's Android that gets killed, not Chrome OS? Then it'd be a great day :)
React to the Future
Once they figure out how to power them.
I advise against the use of the term "multitasking" to mean anything other than OS/unit of schedulable work multitasking, which is the proper meaning. The same happened to "real-time", and generally having technical terms with concrete meanings be watered down isn't preferable. Multiple workspaces is really what Android lacks.
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New technique could make cement manufacturing carbon-neutral
While we're on the subject, stop pronouncing "billion" with a pause and explosive B, like you have to take a deep breath before saying it:

"_____bbbbbBillion"

It's not a big number any more. ;-)
To be honest, I just grabbed a PDF of the Apple Logo II manual and blazed away at it, hence the scariness of some of the eval and rendering code...
I got distracted by other things before completing the IO and editing parts but it was a lot of fun.
If anyone is wondering about some specifics and doesn't already know the story, this was a (now well-known) trick by Van Halen. Their rider included a provision where backstage needed to have a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed. It was explicitly done as a safety measure. More details: http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
Edward Snowden praises EU parliament vote against US extradition
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I agree. This problem is growing exponentially.
Hey, is there any chance for us putting something like this to the Taipei Hackerspace (Taiwan)? https://taipeihack.org

I've been checking LoRa for months to do some projects, but all got to some bottlenecks. (E.g. here are some notes on a USB-stick LoRa communicator plans: https://hackpad.com/LoRa-USB-Communication-Stick-xKGgChuwbzL )
I love the schoolboy-ish urgent excitement of BBC reporters.
Twitter's first TV ad confuses World Series viewers
Would be really interesting to see some serious productivity studies done on this. Not to pick on you -- I appreciate you insight -- but humans don't do multi-tasking well.

I wonder (and have no idea, just throwing the idea out there), if people would be more productive in that single tasking environment.
Doesn't really matter. Apple makes a very narrow range of products for high-end consumers, and that's a small portion of the market.

Apple has nothing for the average home user who wants a $199-$399 laptop. Or even for the geek or gamer who wants a reasonably-priced tower.
or, you know, you could pay a QA department to do the job correctly rather than looking over your users shoulders and forcing them to make after the fact requests that won't change their experience at all.
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This is what my mother calls "insufferable, incredulous shouting." She's not left-wing by any stretch of the imagination, but she listens to NPR because she'd "rather get information from people who aren't so angry all the time."
Interesting you mentioned two vocal practices associated with young women.
...and all the lawyers make a lot of money.
Ah, right. I'm in total agreement with you.

What I was referring to was the arrangement between the worker and the State, when compulsory taxation is involved.
My question is, why does he want a refund? What concerns does he have?
I dislike real name policies, but my vision is that I do want people to be able to use their real names as often as possible.
I don't see a date on this article. Anyone?
> If you read the article, many of these women who desired to get married had numerous suitors, but these suitors were judged unfit for one reason or another and thus failed to meet the women's strict requirements

In traditional societies where marriage is a one-shot that generally ends a woman's career prospects (or, one could argue, shunts them into being a wife), this is entirely rational behaviour.

If you were only allowed to pick one job when you left university, and couldn't resign and get a new one, you'd give suggestions you lock yourself into McDonalds the short shrift.
Interesting. Well, it's all getting folding into Android now.
org-mode sounds nice, but I've tried it and it's complicated and annoying. I hate how it folds everything as a default, so that when you open a file it's folded and the content isn't visible. I know I can change this somewhere but not having sane defaults is irritating.
If you've never seen it, you might enjoy Blow Out, a 1981 thriller starring John Travolta as a sound engineer who, while collecting weird sounds, an actual hobby of theirs, collects the evidence of a murder.
Towards a Flexible, Lightweight Virtualization Alternative (2014) [pdf]
This has to do with 'modernization' in the sense that moving away from agrarian society has changed the dynamic of picking partners. It has also given ample freedom to pick and reject: the search space has broadened. When the search space is broadened, you end up thinking that 'more suitors' are out there.
Next, we complain about HN being an echo chamber.
Yeah, I must be missing the point as well.

"Upthere says it plans to offer an API in hopes that developers will make it the default storage solution for their own apps"

So... how is that in any way different to using the AWS API to upload stuff to S3? Being a "storage solution provider" (and reselling other companies' cloud offerings at that) has some razor thin margins and a whole lot of competition. I don't understand what makes these guys different.
Security through obscurity is specifically about secrecy in the design or implementation of a system, not the specific parameters used with the system. It's not a catch-all phrase referring to any possible secrecy.
Nacchio broke multiple laws every day, just like you and I do. They were always going to be able to find something.
I really like your point on the Unicorns "having their cake and eating it too" in regards to public funding.

I am very worried that the technology industry is creating this new capital market that reserves access for the super rich and is completely free from goverment oversight. Are there any points in history that had similar market structure? And if so, how did those markets respond to successes and failures?
Except most studies show that more men are exclusively homosexual, whilst more women consider themselves bi-sexual.
PayPal is Down
Anyone know of an official status page?

Official announcement: https://twitter.com/PayPal/status/659927440974725121

I'm currently following Twitter mentions of "paypal":

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=paypal&src=typd
You can't dismiss Facebook for copying myspace then in the same breath credit Google without respecting all internet entities that tested the waters before it. I was using Netscape Navigator, mapquest, yahoo, hotbot, lycos, and altavista before any of this Google Chrome/maps.google.com/ Google Search/Gmail stuff came along.
I thought AWS free tier is one year only?