skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Ryan responds to a Quora question
The quality of scan in the swipe sensors is actually better than the older area sensors and they also cost less and take up less space on the circuit board. Perhaps the enrollment scan you did was not as good as it could have been and you should re-enroll to capture a better fingerprint.
The timing of this information is very interesting. Tomorrow is the Cloud Gaming Summit.

Sony bought Gaikai, Onlive never had a way of controlling costs, but those two weren't the only players here. Agawi (a startup I joined a few months back) is making a big push into cloud gaming.
What's the ethical breach in using technology to route around bad laws?
I agree with ajdecon, but I want to add: the highest performing MPI codes scale to hundreds-of-thousands of processing cores. It is used for high performance computing where application writers want to squeeze as much performance as possible from very large, very expensive machines. Technologies such as ZeroMQ and formats such as JSON were not designed for such environments.
How would they do that? The data contained "Apple Device UDID, Apple Push Notification Service DevToken, Device Name,
Device Type." None of those fields necessarily indicate who owns any of the devices.
GoDaddy Services Down
There's a feature in a few iOS browsers (Atomic, Sleipnir at least) to report as something else to avoid broken mobile sites or whatever.

There are a number of firefox add ons that do the same, this one has site specific settings which is exactly what I needed and it works great:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
Who cares.

This is getting ridiculous. Originality counts when buying art, not tools. This is a box with some electronics inside. Does it do the job better than other computing devices?

This is like complaining when Craftsman came out with polished metal wrenches that look just like Snap-On. Stop trying to make computing into a fashion statement.
History of Mobile App Stores
Just wait for the moment when laptops will be called iPads with keyboards and radios will be iPods for streaming without internet. Oh and Google self-driving car is just Siri on wheels.
Honestly, I did expect a bit more, but damn...

You put just 23 lines and some amount of research into purely shitting on the submitter's choice of title. Did that do anything to help your obvious disappointment?
Comparing the design of a toaster with the Mac Pro design is not the same thing as comparing the design of a standalone PC with a standalone Mac. Especially if the company who copies had much different design before "everyone started copying Apple".

Inspiration is one thing but copying even the keyboard, mouse and the trackpad is a bit too much, don't you think? PC makers seem so desperate at the moment...
I'm curious as to how it's useful if you didn't hear about it. If you attempt to go to the site, you will see it's down. You will waste negligibly more time than reading the words "Site is down" but you will only waste this time if you actually try to go to the site. It's not particularly useful if you aren't trying to use the site but it still takes up a slot on the front page.
Confront reality
The following is a stream of thoughts, not a well-worked out position I'm trying to defend. I find this line of discussion very interesting and have no sure answers.

The Bible (and other holy books) often teaches maxims with stories though, which is like indirect experience.

Compare the Reddit post "Today you, tomorrow me", previously on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003515

Even if everyone I respect publicly vouched for "today you, tomorrow me" as a maxim, I don't think it would have as much impact as reading that story. And the impact of reading that story can't possibly compare to the impact the events had on the person who actually experienced them.

Why do science classes do experiments if not to add experience to facts which are already supported by almost universally recognized authority? Is there anyone on Earth who doubts f=ma? Yet the experience of it makes it more "real" somehow.

I'm not trying to say reading the maxims of others is useless. I tend to read most lists of maxims that come up on HN. But usually if one really becomes meaningful to me it's because it resonates with what I've already experienced. It puts my experiences into words in a memorable way.
Maybe not an example of great or innovative design (other than the replaceable components part) but clearly something original. While we've seen black monitors before, the feet and the arm and all that are interesting and different.

Contrast this with the iMac "inspired" one and you can see that this Z1 looks the way it needs to for its function- while the iMac one is an attempt to copy apple's aesthetics.

Its a confusion of the purpose of design.

Apple makes their products look good, but they are designed for functional reasons, not looks. The Z1 is a design that is made for functional reasons as well.
Ask HN: why do I have to sign into 30 accounts to update my address when moving?
I moved, so now I have to go through all my key accounts (banks, credit cards, student loans, etc.) to update my address. Why?

If Mint can get all my financial data in one place, why can't I update my address from one tool? I checked Yodlee, but they seem to only provide APIs for transactional data, not account address.

Am I missing something?
> In American English people say almost exclusively

As an Australian living in North America for seven years, my ears still daily pickup when the American dialect leaves out words.

Examples that come to mind:
"Two hundred three", "Write me", "September tenth"
The real time editing feature is great and definitely overdue. The only downside is it appears you can only edit docs and not other file types. I can live with that for now, but being able to edit spreadsheets would be nice. All in good time I suppose!
The easiest way to share iOS app with testers
and, of course, not just those traditionally "hosted," but every domain registered there using their nameservers, which I'm sure is the vast majority.
For the libraries that do not conform to CJS or AMD, most loaders support a "shim" configuration:

* http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#config-shim

To load a library that uses Node/CJS modules:

* https://github.com/requirejs/cajon#why

- or -

* https://github.com/linkedin/inject#writing-commonjs-complian...
I really fucking hate this attitude. It's so completely wrong. At college I Had tutorials with academics that we're all world leaders in their fields. My peers were all top performers and motivated me to push myself as hard as I could. Socially I mixed with great people from all around the world with different perspectives. I mixed with a guy from rural Peru on a scholarship and Jordanian royalty, people from the US, a guy from North Korea. Its a mind opening experience. I met my wife. The may ball at Cambridge is one of the top balls in the world. I was immersed in an intellectual environment like nowhere else, but also had the time of my life playing sport, acting in plays, writing comedy, all with a close community of people living, dining and working together.

And those people studying the soft liberal arts you so despise, two friends in my corridor did classics and English lit. Ones in finance the other is at a security consultancy and they both make twice what I do at Google.
humm, somehow I missed the caption. Sorry about that.
> That might be true if anyone had said it (avoid rhetorical escalation).

You have a habit of denying the obvious that is leading me to believe you are trolling, your profile and post history to the contrary.

You said, word for word, "I am not confused."

You then proceeded to say, "Confusing correlation with causation is a very common logical error -- you are not alone." This is quite clearly a statement that I am confused about correlation vs. causation.

Therefore, semantically, you said "I am not confused, you are" plus the well established point that confusion was related to correlation and causation.
Shot him a quick email for clarification:

> "Is "std::list considered harmful" in the general field of C++ or are
you only talking about the very specific game programming field you
used it for?"

> "I think it's harmful for all programming, but if you read the comments you'll find almost as many different opinions on the subject as comments!

The problem is that manually managing lists is error-prone, which is why I use a solution that automatically handles them; I think all programs, not just games, would benefit from their use."
GoDaddy's DNS services were unresponsive or their servers were offline for the past 30 or so minutes. I'm not sure the extent of the problem or how many sites this affected but presumably thousands.

The issue appears to have been resolved now.
Heh. Yeah I wanted to give a long enough timespan, but you are absolutely correct, even 6 months would be nice.

<rant class='mini'>
When I talk with friends in other industries (e.g.: civil engineering), they have a very specific way of doing things. These fundamental activities do not change very often because they're based on decades of experience (and, I assume, because bugs in their process could kill people). That doesn't mean things don't change: concrete mixtures and such are always improving and sometimes it sounds like the IT industry with all the new tech coming out, but that's just materials technology, not how specs and processes are written.
</rant>
Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12)
GoDaddy is down
In fact, this is pretty much what constitutes a comet's tail.
If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone.

Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do.

Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has been responsible for lately and am not hurting from this outage.
>Can someone explain why copying is bad?

Because it limits choices. Instead of 2 different options for your all-in-one desktop you have 1 multiplied by 2.
or Nettica
I'm half and half. Insert recommendation for name.com here.
No kidding. If this was the early days you'd have to wonder why it was called Silicon Valley in the first place.
It still is highly lucrative ...
The Conde Nast analogy breaks down since Conde Nast owns all those publishing properties while BlueToad is just a service provider to multiple, separately owned publishers. I think it's fairly reasonable to let the B2C entity be responsible for contacting the consumers.
I think Apple's clear use of Dieter Rams' design language is more of an "homage" than a "ripoff". The fact that the Apple products and Braun products are separated by decades and in different product categories makes a difference.
This makes me sad for a variety of reasons. One, because HP are being assholes and making what is clearly a knock-off product. Apple has every right to be upset, and probably sue them for trade dress infringement.

And second, because everyone (on both sides) is going to be conflating this with Apple's UI patents, which are total bullshit and which they shouldn't be able to sue over. Ah well.
If you need an ORM with Go you are probably _doing it wrong_.

ORMs make little sense other than to make flawed OO type systems match relational databases. Just do it right from the start: use a database model that matches your application.
That's about right, but note that both Euler and RK4[1] have the same kind of "whiplash" failure modes when faced with out of band inputs. So RK4 is good, and simple, and worth learning. But as you point out it's really just a performance improvement over naive Euler integration[2].

Basically, don't get hung up over pedantry here. Euler is extremely simple, trivially verifiable and works well in a large number of domains. Demanding everyone who wants to do a simple physics model crack open a textbook is, I think, missing the point.

[1] Fourth order Runge-Kutta integration, a common and reasonably simple algorithm for numeric integration. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods

[2] Euler is the simplest possible integration algorithm most people learn in grade school, essentially: compute your derivatives, multiply by the timestep and add to the current value, and repeat. It falls down and produces wild output when the derivative*timestep product is not small in comparison with the current value.
Not a criticism at all but what is the point of this?

This is a genuine question, I have no idea why this seems important/interesting enough to be No 1 on HN.

What am I missing?
Java vs. Haskell not-so-much.

But it's mostly in such comparisons that "closures" and "first-class functions" are brought up.

If you check out /r/haskell you'd be hard pressed to find those terms.

I hardly ever think of closures qua closures; they are a language implementation detail that's at a level barely above assembly.
I work at AutoRef and will gladly answer any questions.
Embracing the Front-end Engineer's Manifesto
Customer phone lines are down also.
This is about the only forum I visit where he's better known for Sneakers than for playing "Needlenose" Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day.
That was exactly my thought. Early days of Silicon Valley reaches as far back as the 1930s.

Learn your history, whippersnappers, and get off my lawn.
When you copy, you do something others have done.

When you steal, you make something others have done yours. While Apple built upon the work of others throughout its history, they made their products so distinctive that nobody would say could have come from anyone else.
this is nice...go go open source!
Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language
Anonymous is claiming responsibility: http://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
The screen size vs monitor size looks incorrect
https://aboutmybrowser.com/3056072335

I'm browsing on a second monitor
> What's the ethical breach in using technology to route around bad laws?

The fact that individuals decide on their own which are "bad laws", but without going to the trouble to defeat them in court. If a law is defeated in court, this remains a country of laws, not people. But if people decide on their own which laws to obey, it becomes thinly disguised anarchy.

That's all. No big deal.
Someone copied my precious round wheels. They will use another form. Triangle ones? Square-shaped? No restrictions!
We got tired of writing code to handle webhooks.
Bravo to Ars for publishing this valuable corrective, but I'm afraid that the damage has already been done. ENCODE was last week's news. People have assimilated the soundbite about 80% of the genome being functional (which probably seems like common sense to those with little or no knowledge of our genetic history and the processes that are known to shape the genome), and have now moved on.

The fact that their definition of 'functional' was utterly preposterous is a detail that will be overlooked, along with the rest of the work the consortium carried out.

The best suggestion I've heard is for the ENCODE scientists to produce a few hundred Megabases of random DNA, then test this to see how much would be 'functional' by their definition (my prediction - lots of it). Then we'd have a useful negative control and baseline.
I see that they mention backbone and ember, but how does Yeoman play with angularJs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
"Stealing" in the sense that Jobs means it is a reappropriation of an idea from a seemingly unrelated field into the new one to solve a problem (typically in design it's a teaching problem).

That's why his example from the Macintosh days is about applying calligraphy to rendering typefaces on screen, or why later in the interview he talks about how Apple took great pride in hiring people with a diversity of backgrounds (ex. zoologists and poets)--all to maximize the probability that someone would make an unexpected connection and hence, innovation. It's a subtle point that I frequently see people overlook here, but anybody with humanities training will tell you that there is a tremendous difference between inspiration and plagiarism.
Thread on Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/...

The GoDaddy status page proudly announces "No issues to report":
http://support.godaddy.com/system-alerts/

During last week's GoDaddy mail outage, they had no status info posted, even hours after reports on NANOG/Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/...
> In American English people say almost exclusively "September Tenth" in that order without any prepositions.

Possibly regional, but I hear people say 10th of September quite often on the US West Coast. I would guess it has to do with the way we talk about the date... days in the future seem to follow the mm dd format while talking about the current date seems to follow dd of mm.
Its only unethical if your country happens to be on the "war on drugs" bandwagon. People smuggle bibles into North Korea with great ingenuity. It's only unethical if you happen to be North Korean. Otherwise it's missionary work.
Why? If 98% of the posted UDIDs are in their database then I could see them say "98% correlation"
In other words put the hardware in hipster glasses.
I'm absolutely baffled by the emotional reaction of anger over this.

Is this really something to be angry about?

I mean, I feel anger at times. Anger at libraries being shut, poverty in the local estates, jobs being cut, growing up without a father present, that we go to war, that cycling in London is more dangerous than it need be.

But I don't get angry when <company A> does anything to <company B> for any values of A and B.
I'm going to try this. Any reason for choosing Zim?
Stop doing `curl get.whatever.com|bash` ! Seriously. I have nothing against your install script, but getting devs use to that is a terrible idea !

I spent weeks explaining to junior devs to not do that on production servers. I thought it was obvious, but apparently it isn't...
Other package managers seem to be pulling this off just fine. I am happy to go either way though:

http://git.io/_ZWfVA#configuration-file
The entirety of my objection is to the notion that the word "predicts" implies causation. I didn't read the article closely, and assumed it was talking about correlation primarily because of the title. If the article generally is making stronger claims, by all means object, but object to the right thing. "Predicts" carries no implication of causation. "Poll results predict the election" is making a claim about a correlation. "The weatherman predicts the weather" is making a claim about a correlation. Heck, even "the tarot cards predict the future" is making a (false) claim about a correlation. Correlations are real and useful things that do or don't exist in any given case, and which can be used to make predictions. Where causation is necessary is in predicting the results of a change or intervention. If I publish higher poll numbers, that won't make my candidate win. If I make it rain, that will make there be puddles.
People go into hock to buy iGadgets
Although mass manufacturing is farmed out, we (Bloomberg) have a surface-mount fab in NYC for work done in-house that does not require volume.
Bonus points for showing me just-ping.com -- that rocks
Gorilla and pat (by the author of Sinatra) are probably the web "frameworks" I would recommend if you want to stick with minimalist idiomatic Go style.

http://code.google.com/p/gorilla/

https://github.com/bmizerany/pat

And just say no to ORM.

Disclaimer: I contributed to the original Gorilla design, but all the credit should go to moraes (and everyone else who was contributed to the project).
The only similarity between these options are aesthetics. To argue they're the same product is to say all red coups are the same. No, they just happen to be red.
Status tweet: https://twitter.com/GoDaddy/status/245213898683318272
As much as I dislike GoDaddy, and am glad I've switched away, I can't see how this kind of attack can possibly result in progress towards Anonymous's goals. It serves only to make them seem like radical thugs, far from being aggressive protectors of internet freedom.
Straight and simple - as always truly Apple!
Killzone had this indeed, but it looked a tad different.
No offense to the kickstarter project, but I'd much rather see a device that I could just send photos to wirelesslessly and have some form of digital-analog conversion done to print it...having to dock the iPhone into this unweildy looking device is ______. I can't belive how much funding this has raised. I guess I don't "get it"
Saving a comment now for a future response.

You've just inspired a new part of my brain. I need to write-up a new idea for a website.

btw I agree with everything you said. The reason I used the bible as an example is that it is didactic through stories. Not just lists of laws. The website idea I was thinking of would have, for example, PG, Cuban, et al weigh in with their own stories, corroborating or contradicting the 'maxim'.

I agree completely that the proliferation of all the "rules of success" lists on the web proves ineffective in actually making a difference in the readers' lives.
How did you come up with the current price?
Which blog post are you referring to, the original or the debunking?
Move to Silicon Valley/SF it's awesome out here!
Some examples with actual content would be good
GoDaddy is down.
or Rackspace, which is free and has an API

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/dns/

There are many, many options.
That's like plagiarizing an entire novel and saying "what, I can't use the phrase 'it was dark and stormy'?"
Heh. I call my two files "foundation" and "empire".
>The baby’s mother had placed a candle in her crib, he said, and the candle fell over, igniting a pillow.

I'm pretty sure the baby's mother didn't deserve to be the mother of anyone. Either that or she spent too much time sniffing her own couch and it lowered her IQ enough to put a CANDLE IN A FREAKING CRIB WITH A BABY.
You're right!

However, both in this article and a previous article I point out that Euler is the least accurate of the numerical integration methods.

I also mention several times that there will be an upcoming article dedicated to exploring other integration techniques.

Additionally, in the previous article I mention that the reason we're using Euler's method is because it's the easiest for a student to look at and understand at a glance, not because it's the best or only technique.

Finally, other articles mentioned that we are not going through these exercises with game dev or optimization in mind. These are educational articles about physics and physics alone.

But as I said, you're right. Anywhere outside of the scope of education, Euler's method is not the best choice.
You should add pixel density to the output.
While your viewpoint is in a way logical, that's just not how the average consumer operates. Design aesthetics absolutely do impact consumer's purchasing decisions, whether or not they are explicitly aware of it or not. Poor design can undersell a great working product. And vis versa.
Is the keyboard the only thing you looked at in this picture?
As you are obviously implying, Apple secured the rights to Xerox's technology, very much unlike HP.
Literally just transferred all of my domain names and DNS hosting away from GoDaddy last night. Should have done it after the SOPA fiasco - glad I didn't wait until today!
Oh happy day, oh happy daaaaay!

On a side note, do we really need a post every time some website goes down? It's hardly notable or intellectually stimulating.
If you own IP rights to something generating [m|b]illions of dollars, you'll agree it's bad. ...and persuade lawmakers to keep the system in place.