skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is broken still. I doubt they can justify UA sniffing for the homepage.
Automobilistes français, seriez-vous prêts à conduire sans permis?
Alors que les retraits de permis handicapent des milliers d’automobilistes français tous les jours, un sondage est venu titiller ceux à jour. Seraient-ils prêts à conduire en l’absence de ce sésame ?
"Orange and Apple Struggle to Deal with Java Security Issues" - wait, what? Oh, "Oracle."
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Your proposed solution and criticism thereof presume that there is only one way to delegate trust to a web app and that it should entail that the user understand UDP.

Consider Tim Berners-Lee: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMa...

And Alan Kay: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
Of course that may (or may not) change if the RPi foundation will be able to get the programming documentation for the DSP/GPU part of the processor a recent blog post hinted at.
Unfortunately Apple have adopted a philosophy of rejecting any app that loosely competes with iOS native apps - we for example had an app rejected for allowing users to share apps on Facebook/Twitter... the reason given was apparently it didn't provide any additional functionality over the native app (even though it did!)
I too would like more Zigbee support. As it stands the modules are overpriced but quite useful.
I apologize if I misinterpreted your response. Your curt reply "Quite a few references refuting it as well" struck me as a sign that you were looking only for confirmation of your existing belief, rather than for new evidence.

Yes, the article is vague, but I thought the citations were solid. I felt (and feel) that if you had a true interest in the subject, they would be of use to you. You declared they were not. I was reminded of the cartoon of the angry mother shouting "But he was wearing a hat" to the fireman who rescued her drowning son. No, you'll have to research and read, but that's about the best you can hope for when asking for citations from strangers. And no, not everything is available easily and for free -- blame Elsevier.

But if you are willing to pay, or willing to search a bit, most things are accessible. Here, for example, is a link for the 2012 metastudy mentioned on that page: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227708596_Depressive...

You'll have to click on the "View" link in the upper right. I've only read the abstract, but it concludes that depressed individuals have significantly less positive bias than the non-depressed, but that both still have a distinctly positive bias baseline. Further, they conclude that studies that lack objective standards of reality and utilize self-reported measures are more likely to find depressive realism effects.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Seems off-topic to me.
> Due to rule xyz, we would technically have to freeze...

This leaves me wondering, how clearly are PayPal's rules spelled out (I've just avoided PP like the plague, since I can) to help merchants avoid gotchas? Are freeze-worthy violations presented boldly ...or only buried in tiny TOS-like legal documents?
Have you actually done any of the drugs Saunders did? If you had, you wouldn't write:

"[R]ide a bicycle from Ramona to Borrego Springs and we can stop for apple pie
in Santa Ysabel. These drugs are a pale comparison."

I'm all for some early morning bike riding and... well, I'm paleo, so kinda oppose the apple pie thing... but I have no idea how you can suggest that: getting away with the wife for the weekend at a spa... with some Ecstasy... is a "pale comparison" to some early morning bike riding...

... you will learn nothing the world doesn't already know.

The world doesn't know what's going on in my head (or why was Wil Wheaton's post on depression so highly regarded?). Drugs [used 1-2 times per year] have helped me understand what's going on in my head. Therefore, I have learned something the world doesn't know and your statement is false. [Of course, you could argue that drugs only confused me into thinking I knew myself better, but... meh.]

If anything, you'll cloud the picture.

My drug use has done anything but cloud the picture. Unfortunately, I did know people (particularly in college) for whom picture clouding occurred.
Funny how allowing customers access to their own
Funds is now considered a "reward"!
Note that you don't have to cheat or scam the stock market in order to cause negative externalities. The same driving force of everyone trying to be the best instead of just good enough emphasizes short-term quick wins over long-term steady gains. It causes unconstructive volatility and noise in the stock prices, ultimately delivered by HFT in the recent years, which can't be ignored even by those who still wish to go by the more moderate strategy.

It's my perception that if everyone tried to merely be good enough to some respectable standards instead of trying to exclusively win, it would benefit the overall picture of the economy/society/activity/whatever more.
Could you not mirror the fonts from Google?
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Could it serve as a replacement to running mapreduce on large sets of data?
Dom - you and I know one another :)

In my case, I think the quality of the jobs was probably equal -- I know people at the other location.

In general, there is a risk in trying to assess quality of life at the possible opportunity. Unless one knows someone working in the group, you are going off of impressions formed off information through interviewing, possible external contacts, and the like. I do think you need to factor in what you are used to into the equation. I've been guilty of seeing a shiny technical challenge and running towards it only to realize a few months later, um..how'd I get here?

Quality of work is probably easiest to evaluate
Coworkers - you need to do the homework, find connections, references, etc.
Environment is probably the hardest to evaluate -- asking questions will get you some answers - but has the company/group been through any challenges? If not, how can you gauge that? How will management react? This is a risk.

You raise some great questions.

In my case, quality was probably a slight plus, environment (counting commute) a wash to slight negative, coworkers (a wash to some unknowns). So not enough of a net positive to give up the time working on my own projects.
It would be nice if we could develop a way of caching the same file across different domains.
Hmm, i've just left a comment suggesting combining assets. Based on what you've written here you've already answered one of my questions... I look forward to the warm/cold cache post.
BlackHole 2.0 gives hackers stealthier ways to pwn
Passes are signed.
Strength of "encryption" notwithstanding, it was a fun exercise: https://github.com/simonratner/fontcrypt

Perhaps of some use to those annoying coupon code sites that go to great lengths to prevent copying of the coupon code in order to funnel users through their affiliate link.
[Edit: To be an inconvenience to scrapers, you'd want to generate a random font per session.]
Books: Time seems unrelenting enough that I'm not interested in reading tens of books about bands whose music I don't already love. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I'm related to a serious (professional and quite successful at it) musician, with an incredibly solid background in jazz, and he can't explain why he's so head-over-heels for the Beatles. He's tried, to no end, but it usually goes along the lines of, "they were just so...perfect. Every sound, every little thing, they just had something that nobody else has." Plus all the standard stuff of, "they're incredibly influential!", which thing I don't deny, though I don't find it sufficiently satisfying a response, either. I don't mean to trivialize influence, but influence isn't, by definition, inherently good. For all I know, we'd have better music now if it weren't for them. (The argument for that is easier than it might be for some other influential songwriters, but getting into that isn't my intent.)

Social bookmarking: I asked why I "should," not why I "have to." Important distinction. Mine was an invitation for smart people (which tend to be in longer supply on this site than on many others) who tend to have reasoned tastes to try to explain to me why they're fans. Saying the records are "fabulous" is fine, but: why? Say it's wholly a matter of taste, and I'm OK with that, but then I don't understand why so many Beatles fan act like I'm the antichrist for not being madly in love with their music. It happens pretty often that, in this pop culture, someone expects me to love some Beatles song/Cirque show/something as much as they do, and upon the discovery that I don't, they usually presume that I'm some kind of insane. Which seems odd, if it's all just a matter of taste. But if it isn't, I'd like reasoned answers (and this thread is not without some good contributions).
That headline is serious linkbait. The main point is that the dock connector changing will be a bit inconvenient for existing owners. How does that not make it the best ever? There are so many improvements that it would be stupid to argue that the 4S is better.
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One thing I really liked about the original 30-pin connector is that you can dangle the phone upside down, without the phone coming out of the connector.

This is the thing that turned me off of micro-USB chargers, and it's a shame if Apple abandoned this feature.
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To me it's worth $30-40k per annum. That's approximately the pay cut I took to run my own business. I get to spend more time with my wife, and work on things I enjoy.
Ask HN: Video of Apple Keynote?
Hey Folks, i missed the keynote yesterday. Can't seem to find a decent video of the event. Does anyone have a link?

Thanks!
Yes, and PBKDF2 relies on other algorithms that have also shown problems. It's just looping and clever bitmasking (and takes about 10LOC to implement, assuming you have hash_hmac easily available). So if there's a problem found with sha256 or whatever hashing function you choose it use it with, then it too has a problem.

That's not to knock PBKDF2 - I'm just pointing out that both have flaws, and that people should use the right tool for the job. The "KDF" in "PBKDF2" stands for Key Derivation Function; i.e., it's for deriving a(n encryption) key. bcrypt exists basically for the sole purpose of password storage. In practical terms, it's more obvious how to use bcrypt's work factor as computers speed up than PBKDF2's iteration count, although either is quite suitable for the job. It's also easier to rehash bcrypt-stored passwords when upping your work factor - the old version will still verify, just check for $WF$ not matching your current work factor. PBKDF2 requires a bit more logic since you have to rehash with a different iteration count and do a second comparison, which conceivably also opens you up to a timing attack unless you're very careful about how you do it.

To me, it's a matter of what a tool was designed for. Given that I have the right tool for the job, why use something that's designed for something else even though it works quite well?
re the "get people stuck on GAE" comment, I could likewise make a comment about how most dev stuff shown on HN "get people stuck on OSX".

I use GAE and feel it's an incredible boon to teams who want to focus on app logic and not infrastructure.

sure it might not be your preference, but it's a great technology, extremely easy to use, and very useful. You should recognize it as such.
He is giving the money to his own charity.

With this guys track record, I wouldn't chalk this up to anything more than a clever tax-avoidance strategy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/02/08/manoj-bh...

Bhargava claims to have given away $1 billion in 2009, with a letter to FORBES from his attorney, David Lieberman of the Michigan firm Seyburn Kahn, to back him up. Tax returns of Bhargava’s U.S. charity, the Rural India Supporting Trust, suggest a different narrative. Virtually the entire donation was in the form of a 45% stake in the privately held Living Essentials. Only a few million dollars was in cash.

Rural India then sold that 45% stake to Nevada 5, a private for-profit company. In exchange, Rural India got a note worth $623.6 million. Bhargava’s accountant Paul Edwards of Plante Moran says his client is not a beneficial owner in Nevada 5—but another one of his associates says it is a vehicle for Bhargava’s philanthropy and affiliated with Innovation Ventures, the parent company of Living Essentials.

This kind of deal raises questions, says Roger Colinvaux, professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and an expert on tax and philanthropy. “If it were a private foundation, it would be prohibited from selling to a company re­lated to a major donor.”

Rural India itself appears not to be giving much away. It lists total grants paid out in 2010 of just $4 million off a total asset base that by the end of that year had been stepped up to just over $1 billion. Bhargava can get away with this because he set up Rural India as something called a supporting organization, or a group that financially supports other charities. Unlike a traditional private foundation, a supporting organization has no mandated 5% minimum outlay, pays no excise taxes on investment income and has fewer self-dealing restrictions. Bhargava is not doing anything illegal here, just exploiting a loophole in the tax code many other big philanthropists have used as well.
That's pretty dysfunctional. In Chicago, Metra, CTA, and Pace are three separate agencies, but they do have a common trip planner. (OK, they all fold up into the RTA, but their fights with each other for funding was pretty amusing. The MTA in NYC is much more sane.)
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/
Reading about culture, people and communication and than reading your post is just disheartening.
This is common on HN for a reason. The typical Y Combinator startup and the average HN reader does web programming for a living. This is HN's target group and there is nothing wrong with that.

Jeff Atwood has a point that desktop apps are dead. I would not build another business app on the desktop. Users are now used to being able to access their data and applications from anywhere, and without having to install any software.

There must be other forums dedicated to scientific computing and similar topics. These topics do find a place in HN from time to time. However, they are not the norm.
Someone has to do it: A cheap copy of the Goophone i5 we had here a couple of days ago!
To be fair, I still can't find a single source to back up your higher figure, while I can find dozens with a quick Google search that quote a market cap of around the $40B that I and at least one other poster who replied to you were using. If you want the $60B you stated to mean something other than the most common valuation (market cap), you could clarify what exactly you're talking about instead, or the figure doesn't really further the discussion.

In any case, it still doesn't matter. Your argument for Zuckerberg's effectiveness is that he has built a very valuable company. Part of my argument is that it's funny money and the company isn't really that valuable at all. Whether we're thinking of the same kind of "funny money" doesn't make any difference to this argument.
almost to obvious - look at the source headbang
thanks!
I know but ... My conjecture is that the vast majority of people, put in a situation where they are socially, culturally expected to deliver a better world, and given the time to do so, will.

I know it's pointlessly naive, but otherwise it's mcjobs all round.
For all those applying, this blog post was really helpful when we applied. We were in the W12 batch.

http://www.giftrocket.com/yc-application-checklist
The reason I said it was a sincere request is because I honestly wanted people to try to convey why they find the Beatles so compelling. It wasn't a commentary on the degree to which I enjoyed that post, however much I may have carelessly let it look like one. I hope that's clear.

Just the idea that for over half a century a bunch of serious musicians have been trying to exactly duplicate this chord and have been unable to do so perfectly is interesting, yeah. If someone just laid out that premise I'd think it unlikely that it'd be so difficult to duplicate. I get that. Thanks for helping me see that aspect of it a bit more clearly.

What I don't get is why people have been trying for over a half a century to duplicate a chord arrangement. If they said it was for the challenge of it, sort of THX-style, then I get that. But if it's largely because it was played by the Beatles, then that seems a bit strange to me.

Again, thanks.
There is a mild bit of self-negation in these iPhone5 gripes: on the one hand, it's knocked for not having enough that's truly new rather than incremental; on the other the one completely novel break-with-the-past, the 'lightning' connector, gets singled out as a negative.

When you go with Apple, you're along for the ride on their obsolescence decisions. There is never a great time for such discontinuities: you have to take the hit sometime, and putting it off would just mean an even larger ecosystem on the original connector.

Yes, Apple has gone their own way here... but matching the commodity/common-denominator practice has never been Apple's emphasis. I know that controlling/taxing the aftermarket is one part of their choice... but the size, durability, and reversibility of the connector will be offsetting benefits. (And an off-brand micro-USB-to-lightning adapter will probably be even smaller and cheaper than the 30-pin-to-lightning adapter.)
Boo, you clickwhore.

USB-PTP is already implemented on iOS. What's the win for going to Micro-USB beyond letting you reuse your Blackberry charger?

USB-MTP is a user experience disaster. USB-MSC is a user experience disaster in the context of a sealed filesystem. And moving to Micro-USB means you can't dynamically reprogram pins to support any of your old 30-pin shit via an adapter.

So we can either have no old shit at all, or have all the old shit via a $30 adapter, or put two ports on a phone, or stick with the old shitty port that's approaching the size of the products it's used in.
First of all, switching jobs involves some uncertainty. No matter how well you think you've checked out the new place, even if it seems great, you just don't know it like you know your current situation. (There are some times where the move is clearly better, but this isn't one of them.)

Therefore, in order to leave a job you enjoy, there must be a benefit to the new job substantial enough to offset that uncertainty. A 10% bump doesn't sound too substantial to me personally, but perhaps the distance from home would be for this person. But whatever it is, there needs to be something that makes you say "I'm OK with taking the risk of giving up a known good situation in exchange for this."

Make sure you are not considering the move out of a simple need to make a change or shake things up. That is a mistake.
It's always difficult to pinpoint the essence of a paradigm that doesn't have a formal definition. But I disagree with you. In my opinion, message passing is central to OO thinking. It's not a style. It is the essence if there is one at all.

Sending a message to one particular object isn't just a method dispatch mechanism. It also defines "self" and hence what data can be accessed without breaking encapsulation - another principle of OO.

Now, I'm not saying Clojure doesn't support OO. It does. What I'm saying is that whenever you go beyond thinking in terms of passing a message to one individual object you are using features that are not object oriented on a conceptual level. You could even do that in Smalltalk and it still wouldn't be OO.
> What’s more, this year Apple decided to go all out and aim for the “best iPhone we’ve ever made,” according to the parade of executives who took the stage Wednesday. Yes, the same executive said the same thing about last year’s iPhone 4S, 2010’s iPhone 4, and every other iPhone ever released. This time they said it quite passionately, though, so I think they really meant it.

Yes, I'm sure the creators of the product, which is faster, has a larger screen, a more high-quality screen, a better camera, an updated operating system, which is the thinnest iPhone yet, lighter than previous models...

Yes, I'm sure they were all lying to all of our faces about whether they believe this is the best iteration of the iPhone.

And then to follow that up with this?

> In truth, the iPhone 5 is a very impressive device. If you’re in the market for a new phone, you should certainly consider this one. [...] Despite its bigger screen, the iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever made, and the difference is palpable. I played with the device for a few minutes after Apple’s press event, and I was floored by how svelte it was compared to older versions of the iPhone. I also love the back of the new phone, which is made out of aluminum rather than the glass found on the back of the 4S. The iPhone 5 feels more substantial than past versions, and it’s probably less fragile as well. This, maybe, is a phone that you might not need to stuff into a case in order to use—if that’s true, then thin and light might really mean thin and light. [...] I’ve got only one major problem with the new iPhone.

So yes, basically, your point is that the phone is better.

But apparently all of this is invalidated by the fucking plug. The plug makes Apple executives liars. It makes iPhone enthusiasts chumps. It ruins the entire device, and certainly undoes the innovation/not-innovation (?) the author is so passionate about.

This whole article is, frankly, fucking garbage. The first few paragraphs are basically trolling, and the rest of it is overdramatic. I'm an iPhone user, and yes, if I decide to upgrade, the change in plugs is probably going to be annoying. Then again, I mostly use one plug for my current phone. So maybe not that annoying after all.

This is the best iPhone ever, with an annoying plug. That's essentially what this article says, but it's awful, worthless linkbait, so that's not what the article actually SAYS.

Truly terrible.
As an end user, I can keep web designers from messing with my settings.
Basically, I want to see the Google Chrome of email servers.
i was also very, very pissed at this ... until i discovered tampermonkey https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjoje... they do userscripts right, and as userscripts are a "high end geek/nerd application" anyway (i would guess only <0.1%[0] of all online users use userscripts) i think it's justifiable to install this extension first (if there is a security win for the rest of the 99.9%)

[0] if we guess that there are 2 279 709 629 wordwide internet users, then this means there are still 2 279 709 userscript users.