skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, VbV unloads a lot of the security burden to the consumer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1909862
Interesting Wall Street Journal article on pair programming
This discussion began when people pointed out that running shell scripts directly from the web was a Very Bad Idea. You then seemed to claim that browsing with javascript enabled was a similarly bad idea. I simply pointed out that they weren't equivalent at all, since the web browser was explicitly designed to execute untrusted code while your shell most certainly is not. I did not argue that web browser security was foolproof, and you're welcome to disable javascript and similar browser features if you feel it's a good tradeoff of functionality and security for you.
Because there is no first factor. You don't log into Dropbox or Google with only your OTP, you use a password and OTP. With the method above, you scan a code with your phone instead of using a password or OTP.
Depends on the issuing bank. My credit union offers the same fraud liability protection on their debit cards as credit cards. That said, with debit cards your money is (temporarily) gone until you notice and complain. Depending on the amount, this could cause problems with your balance.
At our startup, we use ClickDesk for tickets, calls and chat.
That's almost a different business than indie rock/folk music, it's always expensive to cram garbage down people's throats.
Actually they have a matching grant of .85M from New York so really its 1.95M raised, so 1.6 for the property and 350K left over to renovate the laboratory as a museum.
Explain please. I was providing reinforcement for his statement.
I can already hear someone asking "Is it PCI Compliant?".

Unfortunately payment technology, and monetary exchange in general is so valuable that frozen accidents stay because implementing something better would be detrimental to an incumbent's revenue stream.

Bitcoin :P
Well, it's pretty obvious this isn't Slashdot but I'm curious, where did you get your psychology degree because without it your analysis rings pretty hollow. Oh, and the affected ellipsis at the end of your drivel... What does that imply about your psyche? That you like to wrap your trollish sniping in a little pretentious veneer? Thought so.
If you only have Macs, using an encrypted sparse bundle disk image is pretty simple, and changed files result in a small delta for dropbox to sync. It's built in and you'll be up and running in a couple minutes: http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/free-easy-encrypted-storage-...
I'm impressed they are indexing two letter words and a typical stop-word "ask".

Must be an interesting database size.
Just as predicted by Mr. Jean-Pierre Petit: http://jp-petit.org/science/colloque2001/Colloque_2001_1.htm
There isn't a way past this yet unfortunately. If you're stuck with someone who wants sports access, you're stuck with some form of cable.

The worst part is even if it's a high profile sport, and the league itself will accept some ridiculous amount of money for access, you're STILL at the beck and call of regional blackouts and restrictions.
Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners'
Sad story, I hate hearing about businesses going belly-up. But when I read "the 3-Days were 75% of our business" it gave me pause...
Consider what your goals are with respect to encryption -- allowing the deltas generated by modifying your TrueCrypt volume will almost certainly make it easier for an adversary to break into your encrypted volume.
There's another saying: in order to be ready when necessary, you must also be ready when unnecessary.

The importance of luck, and the importance of being able to capitalize on good fortune, are both true.

The important thing is to recognize that both agency and lack of agency will have very strong influences on your life. There is a certain merit in knowing that you tried and gave your best, regardless of success. There's also a lot of merit to expressing a certain level of humility at your success. Correctly selecting your parents and childhood ZIP code had a lot to do with it.
Luck is the product of preparedness and opportunity.
There were phone handsets with buttons on before cordless phones, so as far as the UI goes, there was little major invention initially.

The main inventive requirement in touchscreen phones is in making small, thin, cheap touchscreen modules. The UI concepts that then run on those kinds of devices have however been the subject of design studies for decades before that, and have been implemented in various forms on commercial touchscreen installations.

Also, much of the graphic polish of many of these devices seem to draw a direct lineage to stuff like the old praystation series of websites by Joshua Davis and his experiments with tsunami menus and inertial scrolling elements.
Whoah, this sounds spectacular. Is it available in the States, besides BoA?
I say theres an easy way to test whether the "invention" deserves to be patenable - if you can work out an implementation without reading the patent, but by just looking at the end product, then it is not patentable.
Tried adding something very close (RFC 2289) to busybox - discussion is still on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36136

Finally gave up, considering how weird the idea seemed for most people. Glad that dropbox saw how interesting this is, especially in the light of the recent journalist hacks.

Hopefully, icloud will be next :-)
Just ran across his stuff today, then ran across your comments from HN praising well... your comments and this was at top. I guess Younfook really knows his stuff, or it was just a random event.
Merging tissue and electronics
Thank you. That was an excellent interview.

It is rather sad, that one of the latest and more detailed interviews filled with personal insights, thoughts and comments came from an Australian CPA organization. I know why the connection is there, the disappointment is in the news organizations here locally. NBC even screwed the name as Neil Young when they announced the death.

How his death is handled, as a society, shows how we treasure what he stands for and what the priorities are.

He made a good comment in the last part how probably the best thing NASA did was inspire young people to do the best they can do, to dream of becoming engineers and scientists. What is there today to inspire that? Writing video games? Is flying larger probes with bigger cameras to Mars?

One can argue we need a good global threat so we have a competitor. Maybe that's true. If we don't have one, we surely invented some. Goat herders in Pakistan or cocoa growers in Colombia. Maybe our children will be inspired by building stealthier drones to more efficiently eradicate goat herders in a country half way across the world.
> Some other particle may interact with nothing we are familiar with -- and thus we could never study it. Is it even "real" then?

Philosophically, this is equivalent to the question of whether other universes, which do not interact with ours and therefore we cannot study, exist or are "real". It is not a question that Science can answer.
Somehow I feel that bleached out featureless flags on the Moon matches the message in that plaque perfectly.
While I think they actually are doing minimal stemming, those are key terms that an index for this site absolutely should include in their index: even if every other two an three letter word is thrown out, "ask" and "hn" should not be.
"Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the brain that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired."

Huh? As far as I'm concerned that's the wrong way to think about neuroscience. Although perhaps the goal here is to replicate parts of the brain's function without regard to the underlying structure, in which case I suppose this is a fair way to go about it.

And "The Geometry of Genome Space: What notion of distance is needed to incorporate biological utility?" is a question I work on every day!

I find many of the rest to be quite vague though. "What are the Fundamental Laws of Biology?" huh? The same fundamental laws as the rest of the universe . . .
It's strange to give NYT a free pass, though, which has had its own scandals with both fabricated stories and a penchant for editorializing its reporting. CSM is at least as serious and careful and unbiased.
I think this is an OK list of tactics but figuring out what works for your market and your offering and your target customers is where the magic really happens.
Lead food is indeed a huge source of brain disease. That's why lead is banned from paint and similar household products.
> If they were so "obvious", why hadn't someone created something similar to iPhone's interface?

My Sony-Ericsson P800 (from 2002) was pretty close to the iPhone interface.
I think it's very interesting that there's reasonable questions about things that science can't answer. If you can't study it, can't predict it, or can't reproduce it, then it isn't in the domain of science.
Heh. Get born into the right family and off to Harvard you go.
No that could mean you find the reason 2 months from now as you start hammering toward your solution and reach an impass.

Design your app and determine if MonoTouch supports everything you need to do. Dig around to see if it has any runtime quircks found by others. yaknow research.
Actually it looks like they are doing something special when phrases are searched for.

as it was returns zero results, while "as it was" has plenty
The problem with your argument is that jury nullification is designed to prevent unjust punishment. In this case the jury appears to have deliberately increased Samsung's punishment.
Gluons also interact gravitationally, like anything with energy. So would any other hypothetical particle, since it would have to have energy to exist at all.
> Within just a couple of years, smartphones all went from looking like Treos to looking like iPhones.

That's revisionist history right there -- every single phone from HTC going back to the original PDA/phone Pocket PC hybrids looked like iPhones. But they didn't have multitouch.
The unexplored territory might be better, or it might not. Still, cleanliness has far more I think it's favor than the previous state of the world.
I just put an xterm over them.
Looks like it was a site that would crowdsource mutual funds.

It's now been folded into the parent company collective2. Which is like a shopping site for automated trading systems - and very cool I should add.
Startup handles 100 million calls for Open Science, per month
On the other hand, perhaps due to school schedules in the US, or perhaps highly intelligent people having less sex in the summer time due to other correlations, winter conceptions correlate to higher academic success as well.
I said earlier in the post "there's one interaction between ALL of the particles that is missing: gravity", so it was implied. Perhaps I should have made that a little clearer.
Google responds to Apple v. Samsung verdict
How RESTful is Your API?
I've always viewed privacy and user freedom as 2 sides of the same coin. The lack of privacy on the internet is not because of the nature of the internet, it is because when you go to a website, you send unnesasary information that you are not aware of, and the current model is that the website owns your data.
Just wondering: Is there any decent Pdf host besides scribd? Every time I visit the site I regret it once again. The list of additional domains to whitelist in no-script just to view the content is endless. Just a simple Pdf link would be much more pleasant.
I think you're over-discounting the zeitgeist effect. Breaking Bad, for example, is fantastic TV on its own, but the fact that lots of people I know (even those who aren't caught up in the current season) are watching it right now makes it a lot more fun to consume. There are thousands and thousands of books, films, etc in the archives, so why do we all get so excited about new stuff? Because there's something about enjoying these things together that's a big part of the human experience.

In other words, access to specific parts of the culture is still a big deal.
Oof, here's a list of things I can buy with $2200: A $600 1080p tablet, a $1200 slightly-heavier-but-beefier laptop that runs Linux, a small telescope with the rest.

Give me a break.
Ask HN: what is the highest reward to effort ratio you've ever experienced?
Monetary or otherwise
Seems like the most important page in the application is the letter from ole Joe Kennedy.
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It's not a PDF, but here's the source:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPP-002-00...
Ah, yes, correct.
How I got an email from Costco’s CEO on a Sunday
If you're coming from the "right family" a Harvard education probably isn't worth that much to you anyways.
Timing may not be as simple as "first".
> Admittedly, "think" is perhaps an inapt word choice, but how is response to stimuli not, in some fashion, awareness?

Sure, it can be, if you're willing to admit that computers respond to stimuli.
>> I find many of the rest to be quite vague though. "What are the Fundamental Laws of Biology?" huh? The same fundamental laws as the rest of the universe . . .

Indeed. I'm not sure what they mean by that. In my view, the best way to understand biology is to develop a greater understanding of QM and then model macroscopic structures through simulation. Biology is really just an emergent phenomenon after all.
Perhaps it wasn't obvious, but clearly it was obvious enough that MS came up with it too.
Well, I don't expect anyone to like it, but I think it will probably happen eventually, with a bit of groaning along the way but little mourning.

Unless the Next Big Thing happens first, but I don't see that as likely.
> It's probably not a great model for fiction where you have to pay writers and real actors

Check out "The Vault" that I linked to above. Very reminiscent of Lost and (so far) of excellent quality. I gather from some of what I've read that they've received outside funding for the show.
Does his application make him out to be unworthy? I'm having a difficult time reading bits.
> people who only eat plants that died of natural causes

Not that I've heard of. I have heard of fruititarians, who only eat the parts of plants the plants produce specifically to be eaten. (It's more complex than that, in fact, but I won't go into it all here.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism
The recommendation letter takes pains to talk about JFKs health and vigor, but this is now known to be a front. He had health problems from an early age, and took lots of medications. Reference: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec02/jfk_11-18.h...
Alternatively, people are more used to writing with a pen than with their fingers.
Before I clicked the link to read the review I worked out in my head what his review would be like. I figured it would be gushingly positive with minimal criticism.

What a joy it was to read the first sentence of that second paragraph. Vindication.
Age of Acceleration
> can't predict it

This is the one a lot of people miss out on. Standard theories predict several types of "other universes"--thus that question is answered from science's view, it's just not an answer people like. See http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0302131v1 for a general overview. "Containing unobservable entities does clearly not per se make a theory non-testable."
A lot of these are really cool/thought-provoking.

I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on...

Mathematical Challenge 6: Computational Duality
Duality in mathematics has been a profound tool for theoretical understanding. Can it be extended to develop principled computational techniques where duality and geometry are the basis for novel algorithms?

Mathematical Challenge 7: Occam’s Razor in Many Dimensions
As data collection increases can we “do more with less” by finding lower bounds for sensing complexity in systems? This is related to questions about entropy maximization algorithms.
"drag something" was not a common interaction at the time, especially because there weren't any other products with touchscreens accurate enough for it (try to unlock a chinese %pad knockoff. they are 10x better than what existed in 2007). Remember, actually touching the screen was novelty.
>Biology is really just an emergent phenomenon after all.

Absolutely, and it enrages me that there are many in the field who don't think like this.

I would point out, however, that the physics/chem we have is likely good enough for the representation biological systems. A more nuanced understanding of QM or fundamental physics in general, while obviously necessary in the end, is not going to do a whole lot to further the biological sciences at this moment. Unless of course, there's some sort of fundamental physics we're missing that is somehow intrinsic to protein/RNA folding, but that's a vanishingly unlikely prospect.

EDIT: oh I see, you do MD stuff, which helps explain your mindset :P I work in developmental genetics and the mindset/goals are very different.
Well, I'm not sure about that reducing the cost of housing. However, you bring up one point that could lead to answer to get to the $25,000. If instead of making the schools better, you make them really really bad, you might be on your way. But $25K is going to need more than just bad schools, you need crime, you need disrepair, slums etc. A lack of jobs could help as well, but that could have the effect of making $25K still too expensive.
This argument doesn't work for everyone, and you've basically said why — there is so much stuff out there, so if I'm going to spend my time on entertainment, I want to watch the best of the best. My time is an expense, so I want to get back the best I can for the time I lose.

In this sense, there is "must have" entertainment. I'm not going to waste time on anything but that I'm most interested in.
The primary difference is that JSON isn't considered executable-- at least not by any Java JSON libraries that I've seen; it's just data.

(Yes, non-executable data can still deliver a malicious payload, e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms04-02.... It's just much less common-- presumably because it's a much smaller attack surface.)
Tips for the Extroverted Developer
> if I eat seafood

Do you kill invasive insects? Frankly, a shrimp or a lobster is pretty much on a level with a cockroach, when you get down to neural complexity and everything relevant to moral vegetarianism, as opposed to vegetarianism for health reasons.

Bony fish are not much more complex.

Things like sea cucumber don't even have brains: They have nerves, but they lack any centralized structure for them to converge on. Same with jellyfish.

So I suppose my point is that it isn't a dumb question, at least if you're a vegetarian for moral reasons related to killing a living being with emotions.
I just recently got hold of an older MacBook pro after years of Windows/Linux laptops and I got to say that I've been really impressed by the both the hardware and the user experience that's created through the amazing touchpad.

I feel that the OS itself might be a bit too heavy/slow for what I'm used to, and so I'd love to have the option to install Ubuntu on a MBP Retina and still have that awesome user experience. It's my understanding that getting any distro to work perfectly with Apple's laptops has been a neverending uphill battle.

I read that Gnome and Unity don't quite scale properly for the new resolution and I also don't think you get quite the same awesome gesture-based navigation you expect from every app running on OS X.

One can dream though. It would be unfortunate to let such wonderful hardware go to waste. I've always been that guy, carrying a wireless mouse around with me because all of the laptop trackpads were absolutely atrocious, always in the way, always accidentally clicking for me when my palms would be over them. After trying a MBP, I finally figured out why I would never see Apple customers carry around mice.
Well, if the answer is everyone has to become a hippy then housing can already be cheap. Go live in a commune. I don't think this issue is about cars and homes making people happy per se. I think the key here was "average home" not some completely unrealistic societal change that I sure wouldn't want any part of.
Yes I realize that my dumbass friends are posting all these meme's and pictures. But what I want facebook to do is show me their status updates and other meaningful things other than the "Don't worry be happy" meme that shows up on my feed. The problem is that I get all this junk from them and have no way of turning off that part of it and keeping the other part. Not an unreasonable feature request IMO. I would love a text-based facebook feed. Like a twitter within facebook - one where I see all my friends status/profile updates to begin with..

Facebook's algorithms prioritize picture uploads over and above status updates. If you've been a long time Facebook user you'll see how now you see way more picture posts as opposed to status updates (just check the occurrences on your feed..) In fact, it appears that picture based posts are prioritized. So a picture post of a cat/anything-else will have a higher probability of showing up on your feed as opposed to "YAY We're getting married!" (unless that status update has a lot of likes.. etc..)

What I meant in my initial post was that facebook's news feed algorithm is changing and the end result will naturally be quite different from what it started out as. As this algorithm evolves to keep investors happy and ad revenues up, things will change considerably. If that pisses users off, then another social network might be able to fill in/take over. As an example, Path has had plenty of success so far - not a facebook killer but in a nice niche..
This is also because we are not in a forward-looking society anymore, aiming at bigger-than-ourselves kind of purpose. Now we live in a age where worthless stuff is highly valued and mostly talked about, losing sight of higher ideals.

Tyler's words come back to mind: "we are the middle children of History. Our great war is a spiritual one."
The letter from his father to Harvard does mention that he has had some health problems (blood disease) but that he has fully recovered.

Interesting that he was willing to contradict the letter of recommendation that you mentioned. However, it looks like the letter from his father was sent after he had been admitted, so maybe it didn't matter anymore.
cycling, hands down.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2796/4223470946_b93ce34f76_z.j...
Assuming you are correct about non app-store distribution, you still have the problem that few users will ever find those other distribution systems when the app-store is so close and convenient.
This can be contrasted with most Linux package distribution systems. From the end users perspective, they work the same way as the app-store (except that most don't have a payment mechanism, and they handle dependencies). However, in addition to the officially supported repository, it is a simple checkbox, in a readily accessible menu, to enable the community supported repositories.

If these repositories are not 'free' enough for you, they make it easy to add 3rd party repositories. This would be the same as Apple letting you integrate non-Apple app-stores seamlessly into the app-store app. Admittedly, at this point we are back in the realm of more advanced users, however the distributions make adding 3rd party repositories as easy as I can imagine (you just need to put the URL in the user-friendly menu). And, once you add another repository, you need to go out of your way to where which repository you are installing from. Assuming Apple does not change their app aceptence policies, and don't have a less strict repository that can be checkbox-enabled, it does not seem difficult to believe that 1 or 2 3rd party stores would gain widespread use. It is even more believable when you look at how common jailbraking is. Now replace the concerns about warranties, bricking, hacking with comfort by how well supported it is.