skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another part about this kind of magic IMO is that it requires you to start from the ground up within this system. Otherwise the magic is either not doable or very hard. I know it's a tired argument but it's a reality - enterprise will have a hard time reaching for this kind of thing because it's so full-stack. Not easily separated without breaking all the magic. Maybe I've missed something about it, but it appears this way.
I agree that the conversations are difficult. When I click the notification window to see a reply, all I get is that one reply. I find it cumbersome to find the full conversation, to the point where I usually go to that person's page and find the original, eschewing the notifications altogether.
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Yeah. In Slavic languages it's similiar - it's all about post- and prefixes. Each verb has like 15 or more versions, which to use depends on tense, how many people are performing action, are there any males in that group, is the subject of the action human, was the action finished (or will it be finished), etc. It's all included into each verb.

Example in Polish:
"Policzyłyście długopisy?"
means
"Have you (more than one person, no males in the group) finished counting pens?"

If you started counting, but then something interrupted you, and there were some males in the group (and you feel it needs to be pointed out), you can just answer with

"Liczyliśmy", and the whole meaning is preserved :)
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Can you cite any non-trivial benchmark of this?
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I see many people hoping for features/changes...

I hope they will add anchor with target to images (and content posts in general, I guess). You can't middle click to open image in background and you can't do anything at all with javascript disabled. I really, really hate that (the former). Especially because they change the cursor on hover which makes you think it's an clickable anchor.

Double middle-click used to work (seriously, what?) but it doesn't for some time now.
I think you're thinking of it backwards. The source looks jumbled, but the font that the browser renders the page with is readable because the font acts as a substitution cipher.

Still pretty pointless though, since substitution ciphers are child's play to break.
To follow up - the OP shows that the permissions are far from clear and visible.

Would people reasonably expect that the contents of their SD card and a list of all their purchases could be silently uploaded by an app they'd given no permissions to?

If not, this is clearly not delivering control to the user.
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Ask HN: How are stories buried?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827257

I recently posted this, and it almost made it to the #1 spot, then I refreshed the page, couldn't find it, and now its dropped to #318.

What happened?
[EDIT: I assume the main point was to make documents readable, but hard to copy. My comment is about breaking this trivial copy protection scheme. I see that other comments read the purpose of the font differently.]

Given a long document, one could easily crack this Caesar substitution cipher. Of course one could also do OCR on the characters to learn the mapping.

Tangentially, these thoughts remind me of a cool Master's thesis [1] where they did basic OCR, by clustering blobs of ink and solving the Caesar substitution cipher, rather than trying to recognize the shapes of the letters! That approach can be used to adapt a real OCR system to the current document.

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~scottl/research/msc_thesis.pdf
It looks great to me, no problem with navigation or loading time. But can't remove post description. http://www.sociableblog.com/2012/04/11/google-plus-gets-rede...
There is no additional compromise.

What you say is generally true for file transfer mediated by server. I am unconvinced it's specifically true for Bump. What I said still stands: security is inversely proportional to convenience. Often security is purchased up-front, paid for by inconvenience. With Bump, you "pay" via an app which uses a coincidence in time and space to "authenticate" you. Such a transaction usually works out, and is probably no riskier than giving clerk you don't know your credit card. (Another place where one gets convenience in exchange for privacy and security.)

In the case of transactions with serious downsides, should they go wrong, then users should be aware where there are compromises in security. Denying the truth of this is to spread ignorance.
Most enterprise CIO's understand Amazon's place in cloud computing. You'd have to be criminally negligent not to.

Most enterprise tools vendors are positioning for AWS support/compatibility as well. I'm attending a BMC webinar in a few minutes that's squarely focused on AWS.

The point about brand names is more about loyalty, in my experience. Companies that buy Oracle will continue to buy Oracle. Companies that buy HP are more likely to pursue an HP Cloud offering. It's all about established relationships and sales channels.
Fair enough - if that's their choice, that's totally understandable. But my point is - if they wish to make it a wide-spread popular platform for web development, this is not the way to go about it. An MIT license like Rails would be a much better choice.
Usually the government gets a fine or change in behavior.

Afterwards, individual claimants sue the loser, using the facts of the government case. For example, a few states have sued Intel and LCD manufacturers after an FTC ruling.
Yes. For example:
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans >
If HP were to cancel it for whatever reason, you can go to one of the half-dozen other OpenStack clouds that will be up and running this year. Or you can install it yourself, on your own hardware; it's open source.

Now if Wall Street tires of Amazon's lack of focus...
Give me google glass and I'll start using my google plus account. Until then, FB is too convenient and ubiquitous.
For me, it's not having a native client for my phone, and not having a good web interface to make up for it. I know Windows Phone doesn't have a large marketshare, but at some point Google+ will have to work with the Metro framework if they want Windows users to notice them in the future.

Of course, this could all be made up for if they had good email notifications, which they don't. I have a lot of people I follow on G+ to make up for the lack of people I know using it. With that, conversations from my real friends get lost. I'd love to have email notifications based on which circle someone is in, and have email notifications for everything my friends post.
Mark Cuban's answer:

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/10/04/how-to-get-rich/
Thanks for this; I was going to bring it up if no one else did. Yes, the average human eye is sharp—acuity of just under a hundredth of a degree—but not sharp enough to need that resolution at such distance.
I would guess it matters if you have a product that targets other startup-type people (e.g. some PaaS products), but otherwise I agree, the emphasis placed on it does seem odd. I had never heard of it before starting to read HN, and I still rarely see it mentioned elsewhere. Articles are linked here regularly, but the only TechCrunch article I can remember seeing linked in "regular" circles on the internet (i.e. anything other than startup-specific blogs/sites) was http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/women-in-tech-stop-blaming-..., which provoked a bunch of responses.
I have just picked up SML again after 10 years. SML/NJ is sharp .. I built it with 2-3 commands and it even downloaded the extra sources it needed :-)
Analyst firms and analyst publications are a related business area where some folks might be surprised at the processes and procedures that are used to construct the papers and recommendations.

The analyst data collection process can involve some very bizarre fill-in-the-spreadsheet questionnaires that are distributed to vendors by the firms, and there are sponsored technical reports and sponsored product reviews widely available, to what could be termed a product push poll. More than a little of what's printed in various publications and that's available at various web sites is little more than analyst- or vendor-provided text, too. Reworked press releases.

Informed and impartial product reviews are expensive. Which means they're comparatively scarce at the "free web site" product tier.

Corruption? No. It's a (sausage-making) business. Look for the disclosure statements where required, and generally follow the money. If you're not paying, then you're the product, after all. It's all sausage.
Yeah, said much better than I could. I don't regret any of the time spent with these frameworks because it really broadens your horizons and makes you think in new ways. Lots of the techniques I've seen now make regular appearances in the versions I roll myself. Other ideas I've completely rejected. Eg. ORMs. A few years ago they seemed like a godsend. In reality they simply shielded me from the basics of SQL and were inflexible black boxes.
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I have autofill enabled with Chrome 19.0.1081.0 on Windows 7 and it did not fill the hidden fields. I have an update pending for Chrome, maybe it will reintroduce the issue.
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The users don't have a choice for the most part and it's a small enough difference that most don't know about it. That doesn't mean it doesn't negatively impact people. If you want a non-16:9 laptop you have to buy Apple.
I can't believe they just copied the header of Facebook's timeline approach.

I wish they'd be more original and old-Apple-product-experience changing with this damn "project."
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I think you're quite wrong on this, about the financial stake part, at least.

Gossip rags' fortunes thrive when there are big stars in the media. No Brangelina, Lindsay Lohan, Suri Cruz, Lady Gaga, etc., means overall less interest in gossip/celebrity news, thus fewer pageviews. So, there's an implicit interest to drum up fervor/attention, including coining attractive-easy branding phrases like, "Brangelina."

Celebrity agents work in tandem with publications all the time, offering them "scoops", such as, "Lindsay is going to be eating at [swank restaurant] at 7PM with her new respectable BF" in exchange for favorable coverage that makes their client look good.

And then of course, there are the many instances in which a publication will outright pay millions of dollars for exclusive rights to photos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_(magazine)#Competition_f...

> "People reportedly paid $4.1 million for newborn photos of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, the child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.[2] The photos set a single-day traffic record for their website, attracting 26.5 million page views.
>What the user really wants to know ... is this malware?

Yes. And unfortunately the permissions don't do anything, at all, to help you with that.

Permissions for a really useful, non-malware app: access address book, internet, blah-blah.

Permissions for a really terrible, malware app: access address book, internet, blah-blah.

Permissions are security theatre. The app store management may continue to use them but they should be hidden from the user - they are completely useless to the end user.
Thanks for giving me the vote. You are right - the person interviewing is not on equal footing with the hiring manager. I guess that I was thinking in aggregate, if enough people will see the employer/employee relationship as an equal partnership this should not be an issue.

As it stands now though, you are correct there is very much an imbalance between employers and employees in favor of the employers.
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Svbtle is the new hello world.
Another issue that wasn't covered is duplication of effort.

Imagine working on a feature for weeks, only to realize that other people with more experience and knowledge of the project are doing the same work.

What's the incentive from the maintainer's point of view to reduce duplication of effort? The maintainer's not paying either developers, and they have a backup if one of them doesn't come thru.

But from a developer's perspective, it's frustrating to put efforts into a patch that doesn't end up being used.
Nobody is going to steal your idea
Yes I talk about Miltion. He supported the negative income tax because it was a better system (I think that BGE is even more effectiv). The diffrence between Milton and me for exmple is that he tought that the NIT was only temporary. He wanted a temporary system until the Free Market did not need such a system any more but I think he agree that it would take a while.
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Agreed. I prefer the term "auto-synchronizing" rather than "real-time."
Well, I have no idea if Bump uses HTTP and such to do this via vetted methods or if it is really secure in terms of opening your device up to attack vectors. I was making the general point that transferring files between proximal devices by uploading to an intermediate server isn't inherently pointless.

I do not think that Bump is attempting to be secure in terms of keeping your images from being intercepted or that it is right to even describe what it does as "authentication". It would be more accurately described as "client selection". There is a niche of insecure file transfers to be filled though. For example, I sometimes send images to people via imgur, which is completely insecure, but sometimes I'm sending images and I don't care if other people can see them.

That is a very different kind of security issue than one that allows an attacker to control a device, which is the sort that I meant when I said that using an intermediate server doesn't open up security holes.
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Svperbolide, Meteordvst, Spacedvst, Bvrst, Sodivm, Spectrvm, Eqvinox, Tempel-tvttle, Altitvde, Baetylvs, Svrface, Chondrvle, Dvstbowl, Lvnar, Vrth, etc etc.
So being featured in a tech blog is not a silver bullet?
Good to know.
If they lose, it's not obvious how this would hurt Apple aside from the fine. Wouldn't they just adopt the wholesale model for books leaving the publishers high and dry?

Presumably the only way Amazon was able to force the wholesale model in the first place was to threaten to stop selling paper books from those who wouldn't accept it.
you probably won't like some of the suggestions for 4K, one was 4096 x 2048 (2:1).
Well perhaps its one login with a safe word, like the spy's do in the movies when the agents on the phone ask them if they are safe and there are several words they can use to respond to.

I wonder if it is something I might use, not just for an interview with a potential employer but on other computers, not under my control.
I think Lvnar is a winner for me. I might have to change it.
Since I moved to Belgium I have being using Spotify again. But It's getting annoying the loads of ads per song played. So, I think I will go back to use Grooveshark on a daily basis. I refuse to pay a premium Spotify at the moment.

I suppose It is gonna be the same for this "Spotify Play Button" button, tons of ads and less music.
Another way of looking at it would be that there's no way of proving that Earth was the starting point for all the life around us. So instead of looking for life that originated elsewhere we could find lots of "alien" life that looked remarkably similar to our own all over the galaxy.

If that life uses DNA, centuries from now the kind of genetic analysis we use to determine where one species branched of from another could be used to find where life on one planet came from.
Define "real programming".
Why would a lyric site want to obfuscate lyrics in the source code? It seems like that'd be counterproductive since their traffic is largely driven by search engines.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm doing something related at the moment, so it's nice to see previous work like this.
>ask on-demand, when the app actually performs a permissions-requiring action, like it is done in J2ME.

I own a cheap feature phone with MIDP app support. (J2ME)
I don't think that's a wise choice. In Opera Mini I press through the "allow network access" screen every single time I use it, because, presumably for security reasons, I can't choose "always allow" (maybe because app isn't signed by carrier certificate??)

It's even worse than asking once as you train yourself to click/tap/press through the prompt whenever you use the app, so if it suddenly changed from "access internet" to "make phone calls", I might not notice.
Know a HS Senior/recent grad who's doing a tech startup in NY instead of school?
Sure they would. But if a company has a complimentary quote from a reputable source then I'm more likely to find it credible than one without.
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1.8.7 remains popular, but is declining, and for good reason. While there are some areas where 1.9 branches gave up ground (I'm looking at you `require` [1]), there are other areas where it absolutely smokes older versions; like date formatting functions [2]. Fortunately, Rails processes run for a long time under most app servers, so the performance regression of `require` isn't a huge deal. It is, however, very common to format dates as part of output, which may happen on hundres or thousands of records. There are also some nice features of 1.9 branches that are useful in a practical sense. For example, hash order is presered in Hash under 1.9, so you can get the extra features of a hash, and avoid superfulous sorting (can result in big compute savings).

[1] https://github.com/bradland/require-benchmarks

[2] https://gist.github.com/1352997
> What's the incentive from the maintainer's point of view to reduce duplication of effort?

The maintainer has a lot of work that needs doing, thus s/he wants to avoid duplication to get that work done. Also, s/he will know how disappointing it is to write software that is not used, and s/he will want to keep programmers happy.
No, the life on earth was here to early for that. What they are suggesting is after life evolved on earth sometime in the next 3 billion years single celled organisms from another planet may have reached earth. Or in theory, life from earth could have seeded another planet, and then a different impact could have sent some of that life back after billion years or so. Granted, it's more likely some life from one of those seed planets could visit another of the seeded planets.

However, I suspect whatever made the trip is unlikely to be able to out compete anything native to a planet.
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While probably a different issue, a while back, IBM had messed up storage that's attached to an old mainframe. The nicest thing is that they didn't bother to tell us anything. It was only discovered as we started seeing FS corruption on a linux image.
How a computer boots up
When is this being rolled out? Everything looks the same to me. A skim of the article doesn't appear to say.
Ah the Idea would be to get a colision that is more than half the gov and then putting in all the seven head ministers only from parties in the colision. Now I see, that didn't even occur to me that one could do that but in hinsite its pretty clever. In Switzerland this almost equal distribution of the 7 head ministers was just called "Zauberformel" witch just means "Magicformula", now I understand why the called it that.

Well it has been broken anyway, the right wing basiclly kicked out both of there ministers witch led to the split of that party. The biggest party ended up with no seat in the Bundesrat (Top 7). Now they have one again but he has the militäry and nobody cares about that :)
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Noise filtering is just another form of spam filtering, Google has a lot more in-house experience with that than Facebook I imagine. I think even something as simple as a personalized Naive Bayes filter would go far.

Ad hoc groupings of people in your Lists and ad hoc set operations on your current groups (school intersection friends, union of all groups filtered where profession = X or Y, etc.) is something a write api would let a budding entrepreneur develop an app around and potentially make a lot of money.
A majority have tried google+ and moved away. Will this redesign make them come back?
Problem with the SD Card is, AFAIK (might be wrong here) it's FAT formatted, so unless Android adds a security layer on top, there's no file permissions system.
In the twenty-five or so years of the free-software movement, we've built the Internet and the World-Wide Web; made the Encyclopedia Britannica obsolete by producing something dramatically better; built history's most portable operating system, which now runs everything from most smartphones to most supercomputers, with contributions from hundreds of companies, including its biggest competitors, IBM and Microsoft.

But even after twenty-five years, there are still people who think they have to make a code base proprietary to make money on it.

I'm horrified.

What do you think will happen if you toss together a contacts manager or to-do list app and charge a monthly fee, and give out all the code, just as the Meteor devs have given out all their code to you? Maybe some of your users will decide to run the app on their own server and stop paying you. Or try to compete with you. But probably most of them will want to use the site operated by the app's primary developer. And all of your would-be competitors are just free R&D increasing the value of your site.

What's so terrible about making web apps that are free software?
And what will happen to Podio?
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From the article: "Both Quick Erase and DoD Short should be more than enough to prevent people from snooping on your data — but if you want to be really certain that no one, including the feds, can read your data, use 8-pass PRNG Stream."

On a modern drive, quick erase (a single pass writing random data) is good enough to keep anyone from reading your data. As Peter Gutmann says in the Further Epilogue to his famous paper [0]:

"Any modern drive will most likely be a hopeless task, what with ultra-high densities and use of perpendicular recording I don't see how MFM would even get a usable image, and then the use of EPRML will mean that even if you could magically transfer some sort of image into a file, the ability to decode that to recover the original data would be quite challenging."

[0] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
I've had similiar problem, and I've found that's not a problem at all. I was reading sci-fi book with many unknown (to me) words. Most of the time I had not bothered to check dictionary, because you could guess from the context what the missing words mean. If not right away - maybe the next time you encounter the same word. Or because you see how characters in the book reacts to our hero phaser. It's actually quite addictive - it feels like you're not only reading a story, but also solving a riddle.

When I wanted to check every word, it quickly became a chore, and I've lost motivation to read further.

So I recommend this way of reading foreign literature - for me it was very effective.
Had to read this closely. "Strikes off" is slang for "removes" where I'm from :|
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>A full-screen Terminal window on this monitor in landscape mode is 270x81, which is just plain silly, but 81x270 in portrait mode is very, very useful.

Except you are not going to get 81x270 characters in portrait mode unless the characters are square, as in Chinese script.