skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Take first a prior - due to my knowledge of physics, my prior on microwave/RF/visual radiation having any biological effect is 10^{-5}. Multiphoton ionization has simply never been observed to happen except under extremely intense (read: it'll melt you) fields and there are strong theoretical reasons to believe it won't happen."

He we go again. The assumption that microwaves won't have biological effects because it would have to be at a melt you level. Or focusing on one aspect where this might be true. That's despite plenty of work in the past showing otherwise. Example:

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

Did Frey's subjects all die? No? QED.

Now, since microwaves can affect us, what effects do they have and how? This piece of research claims one. So, the question becomes: is it producing good data from good methodology? If so, then we duplicate that data from a few groups unlikely to collude to forge it. If it checks out, especially eliminating other variables, then cell radiation is probably killing sperm and we find out why.

"if this effect is real, it'll require new physics to explain."

Another common line of nonsense dropped often when people push the envelope in science. Most of the time, we find that existing physics explains a new phenomenon but scientists were just looking at the problem wrong. My favorite example is always how gecko's cling to walls: neither suction nor sticky hands but van der Walls force. We knew it existed but people's existing beliefs delayed understanding the truth.
They've already said they'll start shaming non-https sites.
> Why is immoral to make sure people earn enough to support a spouse and a child that they will bring with them or have come over?

Because separating families is immoral. If you don't think causing a parent and child to be separated is immoral then your list of immoral actions must be slim.

> Is England obligated to take care of non citizens?

You call them non-citizens, I call them dependants of UK citizens. Also the rules entirely ignore the spouse's earning potential which is stupid.

> US has same rules.

No it doesn't.

The US does have a minimum income level but firstly it is much lower, and additionally you can get numerous additional sponsors to combine incomes.

So someone in the US could get their parents as co-sponsors, and thus allowing even someone working at Walmart to bring in a foreign spouse and child.
Yes, although the VPN regression was reported in iOS 9.3 Beta 1 and remains unfixed in iOS 9.3 Beta 2.
> This isn't a criticism of capitalism.

> This is an acknowledgment our current "capitalist" financial system isn't able to produce "capitalism" itself.

That's a No True Scotsman argument intended to shield capitalism from any criticism. "The system isn't working? Then it must not be real capitalism."
For organic traffic pirate sites, the biggest blow was Google's algorithm change. For websites which used a freemium model, the biggest blow was PayPal, Visa and Mastercard banning file sharing websites from using them. Todays announcement was merely a nail in the coffin for those sites.
Does anyone know the brand or model of that beautiful keyboard with the orange and green keys in the photo just above the title?
You can redirect the traffic of your device through a proxy and sniff it (e.g. https://mitmproxy.org/) to determine if an app uses https or not, and furthermore if it performs certificate pinning.
Well I looked at the images for the phones and they all say 33 minutes of talk time on their lock screen. Why wouldn't they put a higher number or leave that off completely?
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Pretend to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity — like your own device or browser, or the website itself.

These are deceptive tactics, intended to confuse and trick.

What you describe is annoying and perhaps exploitative of humans desires, but in the end no different from normal advertising and far less evil than the ads described in the quote above. You want a full ad-blocker. Perhaps you're already using one and want to justify it.
Only congress has the power to do something about it - but they're disporportionately conservative and pro-patent and can't agree on anything.
From the abstract: Some studies have shown a continuous decline in semen quality since the beginning of the 20th century. One postulated contributing factor is radio frequency electromagnetic radiation emitted from cell phones.

If the decline is since the start of the 20th century (1901), cell phones are unlikely to be a primary cause. The first cell phone was in 1973 and they didn't become commonplace until the end of the 20th or start of the 21st century. Unclear if the premise is wrongly stated or if the authors are confusing the 20th and 21st century.
I agree. I don't think this is a Steve Jobs thing at all. In fact, I think post Steve Jobs Apple actually pays a lot more lip service to better software than they did before.

I simply think the attempts to build stuff in common with iOS is taking its toll.
I'm glad to see another like minded person. I see the massive explosion of web dev tools, frameworks and libraries as a good thing. I think it's strong indicator that things have become approachable. It's easy to create something new and share it with the world.

I find the authors sentiment very similar to that of those who complain about "all of this terrible music." Music is much easier to create and distribute and that means more of it, which, IMHO, is a good thing.
I'm curious as to why a movie review is on the front page of HN. This seems out of scope for HN.
The same is true of comments that make a claim that isn't already widely known. It would not be easy for a non-UK resident to know what to look for in this case.
BTW, to fix these issues by software dev process is not that hard.

* Start by use/create a full functional regression system.
* It is not that hard to create system level functional test coverage for wifi, Siri, search, etc.

* Require ALL SW developers to run full tests every evening, weekend.

Code are not allow to checkin or merge upstream if any test failed.

* The test system should submit report on all test scripts pass/fail and performance characterization to central server every night.
I'm sorry, I'm going to discount your comment due to the fact that HN access was handed to you and not won in single gladiatorial combat.
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What kind of work do you do, and what kind of companies are letting you do this setup?
"I remember when this was all form fields"
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"We think we have created one of the best speech recognition engines!"

Then why don't you have any numerical evidence for that claim? Speech processing/recognition isn't a new field by any means, so you should be able quantify performance for your particular domain.

I don't know if any such numerical results would drive conversions for you, but it should help you get something more definitive than "we think".
My iPhone has wiped my contacts out of the blue 3 times last year. I have resorted to manually doing monthly backups. This never happened before. Apple Maps, which was awesome (Bless Forstall), is now cluttered with icons and logos on new queries that obfuscate my previous searches while I'd WANT the new searches. It feels like UX is going downhill, and it pisses me off. More than anything, what was meant as a personal device I can trust, has become just "another personal device". Wake Up Apple.
Yep, saw this the other two times you posted it.
I have been a client of MetroBank since a few years ago and just love it. My recent experience with Aldermore has also been nice.

Anyone tried any of the others?
I completely agree that geo-redundancy is a hard requirement for a site as critical to the functioning of the internet as Github.

A generous reading of "We can also take steps to mitigate the negative impact of these events on our users." would include improvements of that sort.

That said, I also didn't spot any concrete proposals for geo-redundancy in the post-mortem. Perhaps that's a detail that will be figured out in a following exercise, or perhaps they really don't have any plans for GR, in which case the generous reading would be unwarranted.
No, this is incorrect.

Firstly, the debt burden is only diffused because those "mustache twirling CEOs' decided it should be.

Pensions used to work just fine before they were financialised by sharks. So did insurance.

No one sane should be trying to increase the returns on a pension fund by gambling on student debt, on real estate loans, or on consumer credit.

That was exactly the approach that caused the implosion of 2008 - or more specifically, it was "mustache twirling CEOs" hiding the fact that the investments they were selling as a sure thing were junk loans with a cheap wood veneer.

Secondly, even if this wasn't true, the social and economic costs of an economy that runs on usury instead of productive investment are so predictably crippling that the hair cut, with associated uncontrolled demolition, will happen anyway.

A debt jubilee would do a lot to restore confidence, because everyone will be able to stop looking nervously at everyone else's obligations and wondering if they're going to be able to meet them. Instead, some realism will be restored to book values.

This would still be cataclysmic, because the financial industry needs to understand that it can no longer run on cocaine and bullshit.

But it won't be the financial equivalent of a self-inflicted nuclear strike, which is a real possibility as things stand today.
Yes; typically they go after traffickers like this with RICO cases. Their organizations break US law every day, and by being part of the conspiracy to commit those crimes, they are guilty under RICO. All the government has to do is prove that laws were broken, there was a conspiracy of many people to break those laws RICO laws were designed specifically to take down large, loosely connected criminal organizations like this.
iTunes was awesome on Windows when it came out (until about 4.0?). Compared to its contemporaries, Music Match, which was a bloated piece of junk, and Winamp 2.x which while awesome, had a steep learning curve to get really useful (J for the win) and had an extremely unpleasant UI.
It's the judges and the court - somehow a mindset has developed there which is at odds with most other patent cases in the US. This is a part of the country which has very little, so big corporations fighting patent cases bring a lot of money into the area and prestige to a court which otherwise would be in a backwater. It's a federal court, so the same laws apply as anywhere else, but there's enough wiggle room in the way those laws are written to allow this kind of "bad faith" interpretation. The solution is for congress to tighten up the laws, but that won't happen anytime soon.

The idea isn't just that a win there will discourage an appeal, but that the court will hear cases that most other courts would dismiss out of hand based on obvious prior art, vague claims, or USPTO investigation results. So the defendant is tied up in a court case, which includes an expensive jury trial. Worse still, the jury is so biased that they're all but guaranteed to loose the case. Most savvy defendents would choose to settle in that situation - which is all the patent-holder actually wants.
No.

That's about recognizing there would be no mean reversion, a great indicative of the existence of crony monopolies and, therefore, lack of capitalism.
Bloomberg keyboard with specialised func keys for std cmds.
This is a great move. Computers are extremely difficult and deceptive for those who can't remember the myriad of rules and gotchas.

What we really need is an open pledge of non-deceptiveness, give it a catchy name, and then advertise sites as conforming to it.
Using Parse Push :-( heres some good alternatives
The UI and UX has also become much less intuitive and more complex. iTunes used to be very easy to use. Every few updates and they are constantly making you relearn where to find things which is annoying. The same thing is happening to the Music app on iOS. It's not nearly as good as the original iPod software. They've added features that don't improve the experience at all.
Medium appears to generate and append a unique tracking code onto each page load, you'll notice only one of those submitters was aware of it and stripped it off.

I bet Medium has a nice social graph of blogger and social share influencers based on this tracking, leveraging this might be the biggest value of their platform.
Title didn't make sense to me until I clicked through to the article. Of course Node.js web dev sucks. It's an immature stack. If you'd just learned Rails your sanity would be much improved. But no, the siren's song of using the same language on client / server lulled you in, and now your life is a mess.

Don't make the same mistake he did. Use the mature tech that is designed for small teams to be maximally productive. Use Rails.
The title is accurate. People think of Firefox OS as a smartphone operating system; Mozilla is killing that off. They may be reusing the name on something else, but Firefox OS, (as we know it right now,) is being discontinued.
Does anyone else get a kick out of reading stuff like this, where people bitch about how much they hate JavaScript? I get a weird sense of enjoyment out of that, I love JS and so it feels like opportunity to me. I can certainly understand things that people don't like about Node, but if you think JS was the worst language ever designed then you're probably never going to like web development no matter what.

I don't understand disliking npm though, I think npm is pretty great. Every time I spend a bunch of time wresting with pip, coming back to npm is like taking a warm bath.
Canonical has been pushing that for a while. Even the main Desktop page doesn't mention Linux.

I guess the rationale is that for the consumer market, it's just another word that confuses [even scares]. Therefore it's safer to omit.
As much as I love the idea of the Coen brothers doing a send-up of 1950s Hollywood, I'd love to see them tackle the auteur era of the 1970s next - the era when cutting-edge directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorcese, and William Friedkin were given free reign and free budgets to make edgy, socially complex dramas. That era came to a close with the incredible flop of Heaven's Gate (which bankrupted United Artists as a studio), but it created the environment where modern stylists like the Coen brothers could thrive.

Come to think of it, I may just be repeating the plot of The Player here...
Ofc entrepreneurship has gone up since 2011, silly!
Gallup has some info on long-term pre-recession trends, which blow the recent slight tick upwards out of the water.
http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/180431/american-entrep...
One of the tricky things (I presume) about detecting Medium links is that they append a custom hashtag to the URL with each individual share, so that they can track the "path" of the sharing. So everyone who copies the Medium link from their browser will be pasting a new unique URL into the HN system. Maybe there should be a new rule written for the medium.com domain that strips the hashtag when determining if it has already been submitted?
Hey, Jamie, Can you talk a little more about how this works?
It would seem sensible for Apple to fork an OS like Debian and focus on the distinguishing features of Mac OS such as the UI,gestures,power usage optimizations and Apple specific applications.

From the user and developer point of view, the only major drawback would be applications. Devs porting over apps to linux and users not having some of their favourite apps available.

It's becoming clear that Apple is not paying enough attention to the under the hood details of an OS and the security situation. And maintaining the OS is a huge investment from Apple. So it only feels natural to base Mac OS on linux and, as I said earlier, focus on the distinguishing features.

Technically though, it would still be a huge challenge as there are lots of factors to consider,but in the long term everyone wins Apple,linux though maybe not Microsoft.

I have been thinking about this idea of Apple using linux instead of its proprietary Mac OS for a long time, and have considered the transition only at a very high level. I would like to hear what the HN community thinks of this idea.

Edit: So instead of forking a version of linux and developing it independantly like what Apple did previously, a better model might be where Apple periodically forks from upstream projects and makes its modifications. Something like what Linux mint does with Ubuntu. So this way, they continue to get the latest and greatest developments from upstream projects without investing additional resources into maintaining their forked OS(this is currently what is happening with Mac OS).
I am not a lawyer, but I find this little area of law interesting so I looked it up. Here's what I found... That statement is commonly believed, but it's sort of functionality true, not literally true.

Embassies are still part of the host country, but generally (a) police/military of the host country cannot enter without permission of the Ambassador and (b) most employees who came from the mission country hold a diplomatic passport or have (some) diplomatic immunity by treaty, making them immune to prosecution, and (c) some laws of the host country apply to the embassy employees or operate on the embassy functions, but this would be moreso about procedure and secrecy than mundane daily life laws.

There may be exceptions to the above in treaties. In the UK there are exceptions to getting permission to entering an embassy (legal exceptions -- obviously the political fallout would be up for debate).

If two people making a visa application got into a fight in line, resulting in major injury, the Ambassador would probably just call the local police and have them dealt with locally, because the host country's laws still apply. However if one of the guards shot a local troublemaker who appeared to be a security threat, the Ambassador might simply do nothing, resulting in the guard not being able to be arrested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrit...

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

US Marine Security Guards carry a certain level of diplomatic immunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Security_Guard#Responsi...
Welp, hopefully they will make it optional and we can turn it off.
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Is anything truly out of scope for HN?

More to the point, the Coen brothers have created many movies that are cultural touchstones for the kind of nerds who hang out here. Who doesn't love The Big Lebowski?
You can't just use The Deck, you have to be invited.
Something to do in a big city, apparently:

And later this week, activists in London will hold what they are calling a Kleptocracy Tour, a bus ride past properties that they said had been associated with illicit money. They plan to hold a similar tour in New York in April.
This pretty much sums the intellectual depth and research of this rant:

> From what I can tell the background of React is: Facebook couldn’t create a notification indicator on Facebook.com, so they create this over engineered dump pile to solve that problem...That’s right. All you guys using React like it’s the only way to solve every problem ever are using it because Facebook couldn’t build a fucking notification icon.
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Considering what a brief and skewed description of the Julian Assange story is reported by the article, this is probably a good time to repost John Pilger's more thorough reporting on the events, for anyone who wasn't following it or doesn't remember clearly:

http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-siege-of-julian-assange-i...
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If you like. But Apple is not a "non-practicing entity"
Asserting that one's company hit a triple when it was born on third base is self-serving and manipulative.
Luck is embedded into the definition of "opportunity" so the quote is contradictory.

I am invited to an interview for the #3 job at Newgle. There's an earthquake the day of my interview and it's postponed. While waiting to be rescheduled, Barry, the co-founder bumps into a great engineer at a cafe and hires him instead. I never interview. Newgle goes onto become the most valuable company in the country. I stay at Oracle as a senior engineer but never do much else.

Where exactly did I fail to prepare here?
I wouldn't be so sure. I run Google apps on Android, and although I'm not sure the situation has gotten worse, it definitely hasn't gotten better. I can concur that navigation will crash without warning mid-route, maps will suddenly decide I'm somewhere very, very far away (and change the results list to "match"), and so on. It's not unusable by any means, but it could stand improvement.
For Live chat, there are a couple of options like LiveHelperChat/Livezilla. In the end, I ended up using Olark, since I didn't want to maintain one more service.

For support - It really depends upon your use case and volume. One non-open source alternative is Google Groups - You can configure a Google Group as a Collaborative inbox
I think you've misdiagnosed the problems. They have little to do with transferability.

1. Patents are a crap shoot.

2. No realistic means to recover legal fees if you do fight.

3. So it's a one-sided crap shoot.

You could say that being a NPE is a part of #2, but there are easier ways to fix it: just require posting a bond when suing for patent infringement. If you lose, some or all legal expenses will be deducted. If you win, you get the whole thing back.
The title is right.

PSD2 / XS2A are forcing the big UK banks to offer APIs. This is good, but will mean a current account will essentially stay the same, and startups will build the services around this.

Mondo is already setup perfectly for this and has the early advantage, but startups build for users, and the users are with the big banks. I expect challenger banks to challenge, but in 10 years the big banks will have some incredible integrations which have been gifted to their customers , making them stay.
On the WiFi issues I have noticed that when using a normal 2.4GHz router in combination with any Bluetooth mouse, keyboard etc. causes lots of issues for me.

Typically I would be getting really slow speeds and intermittent disconnects.

Switching to a 5GHz WiFi router solved a lot of problems in the WiFi department for me on both El Capitan and Yosemite.
Why not? There's no reason in principle that you can't have hot standbys that are switched over to immediately when the primary fails. Or even a no-primary setup with each cluster being master for some data and slave for others (a la Cassandra's replication model).

There may be specific aspects of Github's usecase that make this difficult, but please don't pretend that geo-redundancy is impossible. Look at Netflix's architecture for an example of a site that services traffic from multiple AZs.
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We already have tubular structures for transporting water.
You need access to LANs themselves to get ethernet addresses which would easily map to people on many devices. De-anonymizing based on traffic in a cafe is going to be a bit more complicated than average for some users and the random passerby who accidentally connects.

Besides, how can I be sure the people I am tracking actually work for the NSA? I refuse to do blanket tracking just to catch a few criminals, that is unethical.
He has 0 risk once his check for $500K clears. Every month he keeps the app there is a risk that something goes wrong; and that 1 hour a month probably doesn't include time that is spent thinking about those things going wrong. Getting the money all at once reduces his ongoing cognitive load.