skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am first and foremost a software guy, but I work in a systems group. I write hardware device interfaces. I solve problems in the physical world. Motion control, digital imaging, electronics. Many of the problems I solve on a daily basis are problems of physics, yet I solve them (mostly) in software. I think the term "software engineer" applies here. Let's not forget that there are many, many engineers just like me who do not write CRUD and web apps every day.
The point is that Chrome doesn't even make an attempt to slow down potential thieves. And, while I understand that absolute security is impossible, Chrome makes it so even a technology neophyte can steal your digital life with a few minutes of low-effort point-and-click action.

I use Chrome all the time. As a developer I am keenly aware of the issues and manage the risk. I will not allow anyone in my family to use Chrome because the potential security leak could have dire consequences.
What a obnoxious write-up for a pretty straightforward optimization. I don't really see how this is worthy of any discussion, unless we want to discuss how some developers think they're a lot more clever than they really are.

"Developer profiles code; replaces slow library call A with faster library call B; ensures B does not change any important behaviour; writes self-congratulatory pull request."
I don't wear deodorant, I usually have no need for it. I've asked girlfriends and friends, nobody ever notices anything smelly. I do well at my job. The only time I'm excessively sweaty and smelly is when I work out. I would bet this is the case for a good percentage of the population, it's just that most people don't realize it, because they've been told they need it since the 4th grade, and never went a day without it since...
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UI reminds me of MS Maestro. Any idea how much of it is patented by MS ?
Either way they would be a great acqui-hire target for MS
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I think the fact that Android is largerly ignored when people consider the (lacking) success of Linux on mobile speaks enormeously of its success.

Android is just too good to be Linux. That sort of reasoning.
So, the term "Burner" is associated with temporary cell phones used by criminals to avoid wiretaps. Presumably that's the inspiration for the name and the concept.

What happens if your app indeed becomes a salvage for criminals? What's your policy around government requests for information about the person who used the number during a duration? Would you cooperate with subpoenas, or is this really only private on a social but not legal level?
An extremely noble goal, but I'd say it was unlikely for a reason not mentioned in the article, but heavily implied: this would be a one-way trip.

Whilst creating and maintaining a Mars base would be one of humanity's crowning achievements, I don't the proposed journey would pass the moral and ethical objections from the general public.
The way this has been handled has been disgraceful, but this is a ridiculous reaction. I am a New Zealander (now in SF) so I'm biased, but New Zealand is a peaceful country [1], frequently rated as one of the least corrupt [2], with excellent freedom of press [3], and is relatively easy place to do business [4].

You could certainly do a lot worse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
[2] http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/
[3] http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html
[4] http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/new-zeala...
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GNOME definitely does not include Android; it's a completely different OS that happens to share mostly the same kernel.
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Wouldn't the Wheezy feature freeze a few weeks back mean that this wouldn't apply in Stable until Debian Jesse, not Wheezy?
Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last five days
I'm not making a value judgment, I'm mentioning something that comes from recent research.
I'm not sure. I mean the types of installers where it's "download our downloader", like what chrome does.
All that stuff works, if you choose your hardware carefully. I've used both apple laptops and now netbooks with linux with great success.

The proliferation of hardware using PVR based video chips has been a pain though.

No denying hardware support is a pain.
So you're saying that only professionals (and more importantly, professionals that you personally agree with) should have and share opinions?
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I think Elon should get a car on the road first.
I disagree, the Israeli government should be working harder to distinguish itself as a well-governed state, especially when looked at from the U.S. as there is a large sum of foreign aid and military aid going from our tax dollars to the state.
What 'they' are 'doing' in this case is telling YouTube they have rights to stuff that someone else has posted, one of the 'remedies' available to the rights holder is that YouTube will put advertisements into that other person's video and then send the person who made the complaint any money that is generated.

So I disagree with your assessment that 'they' (various news agencies) are 'allowed' to demand advertising revenue from another user's YouTube video when that video contains no video to which they have any claim. But I may be mis-construing your comment.
Goddam those are some confusing mouse controls
Well he said Linux rather than Gnome, not sure which he actually meant.

As far as I'm aware Gnome have never really tried to get in on the phone/tablet space. I'm not aware if there is even a phone that you can purchase with Gnome installed.
Many would have ethical objections, but I think a lot of sane people would volunteer to be the first person on Mars even if it was understood to be a one-way mission.
Another problem, besides the ones huggyface is pointing out, is that if everyone decided to share their experience on a story like this, there will be 4000 comments.

I don't think many such anecdotes are fictitious like huggyface does--I think people just enjoy sharing their experiences--but I do think they are intensely irrelevant except en masse, and forums like these are not the place for that.
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They have a demo video, here: http://grid.binarythumb.com/

Unfortunately, the sound mix is atrocious. Music is way too loud, one can barely hear the narration. It was so bad that I stopped viewing the video.
The fun fact about this story is that -at least in my country-, a lot of those so-called medical "doctors" actually are not doctors. They completed medical school and some specialty, but they never completed a research thesis.
Hence my use of the word 'electric' :]
> false color

Too bad, it would be nice to just see it in true colour just to get the feeling of actually standing there.
Is this your pet theory, or do you have some way of documenting that it was staged? And do you have examples of records on the internet where this attack was discussed before?

I'm not saying that you are mistaken, nor am I saying that you are lying. But I can't accept an assertion like that at face value without seeing some supporting evidence.
Ditto. I have used "Crystal" off and on and my experience has been that it doesn't reduce odor or sweating nearly as well as something like Speed Stick.
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It seems like the focus is on casual usage (photos, videos, etc). Why not focus more on the business side (i.e. numbers)?
Pretty damning, I'm confident that all the mobile manufacturers do this against each other, why wouldn't they? It just sucks to be Samsung right now.
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slightly off-topic: i'm not a big reddit user, so i dont know whats what. can you recommend a good subreddit for showing webapps. is there a show-hn-like subreddit?
Great job guys. I've tried in vain to use google docs on my iPad when I was doing wedding planning. This is a killer app.
The Springboard is out of date for Android, and nothing about the Actionbar?
;-).

I am at VMware now.
I hate to be that guy, again, but I still feel like I haven't seen a very clear explanation of why this is a good idea. It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity?

Especially in light of Curiosity, why is it assumed that the logical next step after sending a robotic lab is to send a person, rather than sending a few dozen more robots? For a fraction of the cost of sustaining human life on another planet, we could construct a huge automated research complex capable of doing everything a human would want to do -- even golf -- and that would be valuable research toward developing the fully-autonomous robotic scientists which are definitely the only way we're going to have real long-term exploration of the outer solar system and beyond.

Basically, I can understand why someone might want to go to Mars, but I'm not sure why someone else would want to send them.
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Maestro looks really interesting.

As an excel power user and fan of spreadsheet innovation in general, I always felt that an excel disruptor would probably look and feel more like a robust post-it note than a spreadsheet.
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PLEASE stop posting this.
So anyone with a magnet in their finger can detect magnet fields. Wonder what that feels like.
This app probably isn't useful for avoiding wiretaps unless they've gone through the hassle of building an encrypted VOIP client (not likely?).

Also this is the same moralizing question asked about everything ever that could possibly be used for nefarious reasons on this site.

Aren't you bored seeing the same questions over and over about mostly interchangeable subjects?
Seeing those big squares was startling (in a good way). It was like, of course! Why have tiny little horizontal cells on a tablet spreadsheet? And with calendar widget datatypes, images, iPhone data entry... Lots of clever happening here.

I didn't see any formulas though. Not even a sum. I wonder how that's going to be in Grid.
The value of materials on Mars will need to take into account the incredible expense of moving the material off planet. It's unlikely that will ever be cheaper than recycling the materials we have here on Earth.

This is especially true if Planetary Resources succeeds in mining asteroids. If we can get cheap resources from our asteroids, getting them from Mars will be out of the question.

Orbital mining and habitat construction is roughly similar level of difficulty and much more economically viable. If we go to Mars (and we should), it won't be for pure economic reasons.
So, I know nothing about MSG, but when I see people say things like "you'll have a hard time finding an actual study proving the harmful effect of X" I tend to go check, as it is do easy to do so: it makes for a good check of academic honesty.

Regardless, this claim is clearly wrong: PubMed has tons of papers about random things being associated or impplicated with MSG, including neurological effects. In particular, here are some papers about excitotoxins (MSG in particular) and fibromyalgia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11408989

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22766026
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True and abhorrent racism isn't everywhere, but it is endemic in most societies. And the vast majority of people who have reached 'celebrity' status for their writing on the subject have written because they felt a pressing need to do so, not in order to profit from controversy. If money is your bag, there are far easier ways of making it than trying to become a successful author.
Android's growth was completely predictable for anyone who was intimately familiar with Symbian. I'd say that Android is much more the "Series 60" of this generation. It's the same model (albeit more open) that Nokia rode to market dominance.
Why is that weird? I don't consider it any more or less weird than shaving your face, cutting your hair, trimming nose hairs, etc.
Basically, they're trying to get more people to use spreadsheets in a non-business way. People already do, but the natural way to grab more users right now, is to put it on a multitouch tablet.

I think stats and a lot of other serious number-crunching/business oriented software is ready for multitouch disruption. I've been toying with the idea of taking an all-in-one HP multitouch pc and turning it into a "workstation surface" mounted horizontally and implementing serious business apps on it.

I'm in part motivated by my girlfriend's RSI. (Non-carpal tunnel!) Touch interfaces and styluses seem to bother her much less. No stats programs let you use it end-to-end that way.
Untrue. I can't find the exact story I was thinking of, of a man in a wheelchair suing every business in his town that doesn't strictly adhere to ADA standards, but apparently it's not even as rare as I imagined.

http://blog.therohogroup.com/index.php/2012/04/ada-drive-by-...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bullying_city_bi...

And yes, you can say that these places should be handicap accessible, but there is no denying that some of these people are definitely making a profit from these lawsuits.
To add more anecdote, I also really like Unity, especially now that I've remapped the HUD away from my Alt key (that belongs to Emacs).

I miss Unity so badly (well Linux in general) when forced to use Windows at work. I agree that the major focus of Linux should be science, development and data analysis. That's where a lot of the users are (its why I run Linux) and focusing on that would be, if not a huge market, a very dedicated and professional one.
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Can a multi-lingual interface actually convey the emotions you would like it to? I think you're asking a very interesting question.
Looks interesting, but I can't seem to find a list of supported browsers. Am I just blind?
Consider the frailty of our planet. The speck of dust that it is compared to the depths of the universe. If we don't start colonizing other planets, and gain the experience on how to do so, we'll essentially become extinct quite rapidly.

Forget the robots. We need the experience in sending actual humans there. This has to happen sooner or later if we want to ensure that our race lives on, after our planet becomes inhabitable.

With all this in mind, it's better to do this sooner rather than later. And why not start in 12-15 years? I hope you can see the value now.
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You can easily compile ZFS support into your kernel.
I would certainly go, but I don't have the qualifications to be a first expedition team member. =/
> It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity?

Survival. We will go extinct at some point if we stay on Earth. The more spread out we are, the less likely any single catastrophe is to wipe out the entire race.

In the more near term... Do we really need more motivation than "because it's there"?
You are right, and that's why this is not good design.
If you drop that piece of salt rock it breaks, as does the container holding it. Even if you don't drop it, it doesn't last forever, nor does sweat become "odorless" after "a week or two" of using it. (I've used Crystal off and on).

My suspicion is that you just aren't prone to sweat very much, or can't smell yourself. Did you notice that the salt rock itself smells bad once you've ever used it, whereas sticks don't?

I'm willing to concede the possibility that it works as you describe for you, but your experience isn't universal. It didn't work that way at all for me; I went back to mostly using the sticks because the salt rock didn't work very well.

Though when you say "just shower and apply some soap to your skin", that could work if you were using a deodorant soap. :-)
I had the same instinct, but I mean... OP called his app Burner. Haven't you seen The Wire?
thanks -- so glad u like it!
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It was a helpful summary for people not familiar with profiling.
Does anyone else here use cocos2d-x to do android game dev?
He applies for an architect position at another company.
Initial extreme profitability of platform and its relative openness to developers spurred massive competition. The newness (e.g. PS2 Games on release vs 5 years later) no doubt contributed to a bias towards competition by price instead of differentiation.

Now prices are anchored near $1 for the most part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Elon Musk does not want to just send someone over on a holiday -- the stated goal of SpaceX is to put a permanent, self-sufficient colony of people on Mars.
Wait, does Gmail ask for a phone number when signing up these days?
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It has long been Musk's contention that going to Mars would mean moving there, at least initially. He places less value on the return trip than NASA seems to.
to be fair, I don't think the parent comment was trying to moralize anything. I think it is a legitimate question to ask about their policy regarding handing info over to law enforcement and what not. A question worthy of an answer.
It's been a few years since I visited Germany, but it varied quite a bit with region, level of education, and age (pretty universal among younger Gymnasiasten, very rare among older people in former East Germany, particularly more rural parts).

I have gotten reactions from "Why did you bother to learn German? Everyone here speaks English" to "Gott sei dank! Du kannst Deutsch" ("Thank god! You can speak German")
For what it's worth, I've had very good luck with zfs-on-linux on my 12.04 system. Multiple pools, largest is 20TB. Zero problems after a year of use. Switched from mdadm/xfs due to major data loss from corruption, and I don't plan on looking back.

http://zfsonlinux.org/
What's annoying is this isn't the real issue. Of course Samsung felt threatened by the iPhone, and set out to copy the aspects of it they liked. That's how capitalism works.

The real issue is what degree of protection should our legal system provide original innovators against those who want to copy their innovations.

I think the guiding principle should be the least legal protection that would still leave enough incentive for the original innovation to be created. In the case of software, where there is little fixed investment cost and a competitive advantage to being "first to market", I have a hard time seeing the need for any legal protection.

For example, could anyone seriously argue that Apple wouldn't, say, implement a "slide to unlock" mechanism on the iPhone if they couldn't patent that behavior?

We really need an act of congress to rectify this situation.
The cameras (at least on the old rovers, and probably similar on Opportunity) are black-and-white cameras that accurately measure the amount of light hitting each part of the sensor. To get a color image, a filter is placed in front of the camera. There are lots of different filters available, and they are chosen for each image to highlight differences in materials. A "true-color" image would have to be planned in advance and taken multiple times with different filters, then recombined to make a color image. http://areo.info/mer/ (edited for correctness)
> "rubbish; passive-aggressive dump"

Many here were jealous someone had the nerve to redesign their precious wikipedia and lashed out at the poor sap who dared stuck his neck out.

It may not have been perfect, but what project of that size could be? A few things on the page looked like an upgrade to me. The appropriate reaction should have been, "interesting, meh," rather than ugly comments.

"...no one ever kicks a dead dog." --Dale Carnegie

http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/stop-worry.html...
All the facts are there. He presented them entirely clearly.
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Ahh, that's definitely an oversight on our part. Adding in a list!
Seems as usage requires a $200 phone on a 2 year contract (or $500+ on an unlocked iPhone), plus an Apple ID, plus a credit card, plus network traffic will still be pushed through a single point it seems too expensive/traceable to be truly disposable and anonymous.

Useful for avoiding telemarketers though.
I don't base my thoughts on the intersection of politics and technology on a TV show.
Yes, but not in the next twenty years. Or the next hundred years. Or the next thousand years.

A nuclear holocaust would not kill all the humans. A major asteroid strike would not kill all the humans. A super-flu pandemic would not kill all the humans. A single short circuit, puncture, or virus could kill all the humans on Mars.

The Earth is the perfect place for humans to live, out of the entire universe. If we can't figure out how to survive long-term on this planet, that's why we'll go extinct.

"Because it's there" is a great reason for an explorer to want to go somewhere. But that doesn't automatically have value for the future of humanity.
Neat API. It would be cool if it did the same thing for videos or gathered photos from a URL
If the rumors are true and Microsoft releases Office for iPad in November I think the biggest argument in favor of Win8 (which I agree with) will be no longer valid.
You would have made a better point and found greater comment thread success if your footnote markers weren't so clunky. People on the verge of joining your cause are thinking, "Why should I believe this guy, he can't even keep his footnote markers under control!"

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As an enthusiast/home-user I use ZFS, and it has saved my data in situations where no linux filesystem I've tried would. XFS doesn't have an fsck either; more to the point, more does btrfs, so you can't really give that as a reason why btrfs is more suitable for home users.
>The elimination of MSG and other excitotoxins from the diets of patients with fibromyalgia offers a benign treatment option that has the potential for dramatic results in a subset of patients.

tl;dr No positive conclusion.
Doesn't FreeBSD include ZFS and Dtrace, and run quite well on x86 hardware?
It's only convenient because you aren't prepared. Sometimes there are good reasons to not be prepared, but if you're bringing a car or a backpack along, you have a place to store water. Also it's a bit odd how much Americans obsess over water being ice cold.
Astronauts spend 6+ months at a time on the space station, without protection from the Earth's atmosphere. I'm told the magnetosphere is only helpful against solar flares, not cosmic rays, and you can shield against solar flares with a storm shelter on the vehicle.

Also, you can do a one way trip in 6 months if you're willing to spend a bit more fuel. So 12 months total in space.

A trip to Mars today, given our present state of knowledge, would be safer than Apollo was given our knowledge at the time.
Be pessimistic, start from there. Assume that they could and would hand you over to the authorities for a donut.

This is true of any information system you don't control yourself to any realistic degree. Solved. Next?