skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just hate not having a choice. So many sites now make it impossible to see the non-mobile version, unless you have a browser that lets you fake the User-Agent, and mobile Safari isn't one of those.

This is exceptionally irritating when the browser is more than capable of displaying the full site properly, and the mobile site doesn't have all the features of the regular site.

Continuing a bit off topic on my rant, another terrible UX is finding an article you want to read in a search, tapping the link, and finding out that article isn't available in the mobile site, and simultaneously not giving an option for the full site. Taking it even further, some sites force you to download the mobile app, and only then do you find out the article isn't available in that app! I'm going to stop now - I'm getting so mad just thinking about it.
Crazy things 2me: wars, glass steagall, no tech leaders in govt, 2 party system
Yes, Medicine is not performing as well as it could do.

But it is a million times better than medicine circa 1263 AD

I am reminded of the Google logo "Don't be evil". I always heard that and wished that I really was living in a world where evil was defined as monopolistic business practises and bad UI, instead of rape, genocide and torture.

I respect Ben Goldacre, and I understand the need for a little hyperbole. But forcing pharma and regulators to publish all trials, and fund independant on-the-job training
will not lead to order of magnitude changes. Its an evolution not a revolution.

Some day someone will find cancer's penicillin. They will probably have been badly funded, and roundly ignored by the rest of Chinese medical establishment (!) and none of the prescriptions in Ben's book will have helped.

I would liken this to the car industry - If the world has not invented the internal combustion engine that is not something changing regulation will fix. Ensuring that after it is invented, the industry is honest, accountable and constantly pressured to improve - that is fixable.

Welcome to Nader-hood Dr Goldacre.
Facebook will NEVER use Tent, you have got to be kidding...
This is a neat idea. There are plenty of sites that I only use once or twice a year, or ever. I'm not sure how widely this will be adopted, though, since most sites tend to cater to the people that access them frequently.

Also, as a user, you can accomplish this same thing by just using a common username across all your 1-off sites, along with a gibberish password that you reset every time you want to log in.
Buying stock into Tesla should definitely be a 5-10 year move. I think Tesla will become the next Ford/GM of US (Ford as in the initial market innovator, GM as in the eventual market leader), simply because they are the ones moving the market forward, and the others don't really have the ambition or even the know-how to catch-up or surpass Tesla in making great electric cars.
Does everyone hate MongoDB?
Am I the only one who feels like this story is hugely, hugely embellished? It is just too picture perfect. And absolutely none of the comments herein seem to question any aspect of it whatsoever. It is straight-up revenge-porn. My bet is that certain aspects of this actually happened, but things just don't happen this smoothly in real life.
"Upfront payments from libraries will fund the access." Great, so the Library still has to pay for it...
The Note is about to get Jelly Bean if Engadget is to be believed.
Wait, what about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550529 ?

I assume that if a maps app is compatible with iOS6 it would also be compatible with the iPhone 5, no?
Should We Subsidize Journalism?
Just wanted to tell this is some really cool work you've done.
> That's an impressive show of self control,

It would be, if this had happened. Which I sincerely doubt.

I do not doubt that OP went through some real awful stuff at the behest of his troll, or that he even met or confronted his troll, but this story is just too finely crafted to be a true reflection of real life. I could be wrong, but, honestly, I doubt it.
Seems like the top listing for most categories is mostly there because they seem to do informal support via twitter leading to people responding happily. I'm not knocking them, I've never heard of them and they certainly could be great, but I'm not primarily looking for a hoster that uses twitter as a ticket system.
The only JB device I have to hand is a Nexus 7, which of course just prompts to add the number as a contact...
If that is the case, you should probably consider religion rather than college.
I've read/heard a lot about how the best way to get people to vote is by showing them which of their friends and neighbors are voting (it is all public record).

That being said, I honestly don't want to encourage people to vote who haven't done the research. The last thing we need is a flood of uninformed voters.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, it was pathetic. They would interview people who were in line to vote and ask them who they were voting for. They would say "Schwarzenegger" and when asked why, they would say, "because he's in that movie I like!" No joke. And they were proud of that response!

So I honestly don't know how I fee about this. Yes, I personally go out of my way to encourage others to vote, but I only encourage people who I think are informed, intelligent voters.
It's a QR code of the tarball's hash, so you can do an easy (albeit less secure) visual verification instead of comparing two text strings.
Under the site guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html it's requested that you post the original source. There's still time to delete this one and make a new post.
I think you misread me. They (AFAIK) invented the first XmlHttpRequest implementation years before anyone else. In fact, there's comments/submissions on this site describing developer experiences with AJAX on IE before anyone called it that.

I'm not claiming MS coined the term AJAX. They didn't. I am claiming some bright people there saw the potential in it years before anyone else, and then released an actual implementation you could use.

No idea who that was, if it was a lone shark sneaking it into the system, or if it was a team/management effort that saw the potential in the idea and ran with it, but that person deserves a cookie.
It would be interesting to hear what the difficulties were.

Mongo markets ease of sharding as an advantage, and if that is not the case at times, it limits the attractiveness of losing RDBMS features.
If they are going to refocus on music, they need to make some kind of acquisition to make us care. SoundCloud maybe?
I agree, responsive is challenging and always worth a conversation before starting. However, his arguments in this article have no place in any meaningful discussion. He essentially puts the blinders on and claims there's nothing wrong and mobile design is unnecessary.
I've tested this using both a galaxy S2 and S3. On the S2 the above page is safe and triggers the exploit to view the IMEI. On the S3 it launches the dialler however, the dialler is empty and does not display the IMEI.

After investigating further, the S3 does not launch codes that begin with * # but will trigger the factory reset code which is in the format of * 1234 * 1234 #

Edit: Those with an S3 can confirm this by visiting http://no.tl/s.html in which I've embedded * 1234 * 1234 # (which is not the reset code, but is the same format)
It's great to have a library for this ... I first encountered a service using this type of login with www.wasitup.com (sadly now down) in 2010 and never had an issue with logging in, though it was indeed necessary to open an e-mail when using a new computer.

Thanks!
Jailed Russian chemist freed after researchers campaign for her release
There's a con scene in a movie, Nine Queens[0], in which a grandkid sends a friend to con his aunt. The movie is quite awesome btw..

[0]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247586/
They have twice the range, are more than twice as fast, charge in 1/10th the time, AC, power steering, etc.

But, yea then again by your estimation internal combustion cars have not improved either as they still use fire.
The market has a credible alternative to iOS and Android, the market just chooses not to use it, which brings to question whether or not the market really wants an alternative to iOS and Android.
Huh? No, you don't need a plugin to set cookies. They will just email you a link to a page that presumably has a timeout and will set your session cookie so that you get logged in.
That the canvas API is implemented with OpenGL is very impressive. CocoonJS [1] (a similar project for Android, as noted in the comments below) seems to have taken the same approach.

On a completely tangential note, given that the main desktop browsers now sport hardware accelerated canvas implementations, is there a performance difference in 2D graphics rendered with canvas vs. WebGL?

[1] http://ludei.com/tech/cocoonjs
> it's even possible that's a consequence of how Solaris stored email/user passwords back in '96 before Microsoft bought Hotmail...

From what I remember, Hotmail was a FreeBSD shop before Microsoft bought them, and ended up spending a boatload of money switching all the servers to NT.

But to the main point, I agree the 16 char limit smells strongly of plaintext passwords. However, there might be an argument that at one point those were all hashed for a massive security update. That would maintain the 16 char limit of the plaintext password since that would have been what the hash was generated from, but solve the issue of actually storing plaintext. I'd like to give Hotmail/Microsoft/Windows Live ID the benefit of the doubt and not immediately assume that they are _currently_ storing plaintext. (yeah, I know I shouldn't give anyone the benefit of a doubt in regards to security procedure)
This is a brilliant strategy on Google's part. Wait until enough people are unhappy, make them really miss Google, and then release it. Suddenly, it becomes the number 1 app in the app store and really puts egg on Apple's face.
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My bank starting texting me a one-time password which at first I thought was weird - but now I like it better than actually having to create and save a password. Seems like a nice natural extension of this for more secure things.
You are correct, but the calculation needs to also factor in how much ad revenue is lost by not having maps on iOS.
But the browsers can't use their own rendering or Javascript engines. So all the browser vendors can work on is the user interface, not the core of the OS. It's a real shame Apple forbids it.
If I understand correctly, you are proposing a single globally scalable system that provides everyone a platform to project their voice. This has implications for every business in every industry not just the ailing news industry. As a business owner I can now directly engage in public discussion without having to pander to some news outlet.
works on an old cheap Galaxy Gio (Android 2.3.4)
Not sure but perhaps it could be this: http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2011/03/positivessl-untrusted... ?
It's very easy to fake a very human emotional response, especially when those around you are sympathetic (e.g your parents).
Nukes are the most effective deterrent we have against non-nuclear states.

Of course Iran fears that it may get nuked. Why do you think they are desperately trying to develop their own nukes?
"They estimate that it's somewhere between $10K and $20K per patient per year to run a phase III clinical trial"

CROs pay enormous sums of money to doctors to get them to enroll patients. The reason they do this is because the patent clock is ticking, so no matter what it costs it's worth it. But if you were actually testing a drug that's not under patent, then there is no reason to pay doctors to finish the study as fast as possible. Of that 10k per patient, 8k of that could easily be the fee that the doctor gets for signing up each patient.

Also, the majority of drug approval studies only have a couple hundred patients. You'd be hard pressed to find many phase III trials with over 500 patients. IIRC the Jupiter study was a phase IV study that was done for marketing reasons to promote what was already a blockbuster drug, so it's not really relevant
This is a very disruptive technology. I am wondering how much surface of solar panels (and "solar power") do they need to charge to answer to all the demand on a daily basis. And by extrapolation is this can be done widely (for buildings, universities, homes...)?

The oil industry should rethink its business model. And we should buy Tesla's stock right about now.
So I have to log into my email to avoid logging into the site? Isn't that the exact same thing, yet now I have to include a few extra steps in between?
This has been my sideproject for the past few months. I did it by building a bluetooth client using packetdumps and decompiled Java code. I also had to make a virtual touchscreen driver. It sends the display over HDMI and everything else over bluetooth. The radio comes with a directional microphone which lets you use voice commands for a lot of the functions. Its a great setup. The sound is digital. It basicly turns your phone into your stereo.
I would pay $0. I see Facebook as more of a "nice to have". I don't need Facebook. Facebook needs me.
Using only simple blogs to prove responsive design is unnecessary is like using only nails to prove that powertools are unnecessary and all you need is a hammer...
The idea is nice, but I see a couple of problem with that kind of implementation:

1) You don't have/won't access your email account on that computer (ex: Internet Cafe)

2) Spam filters that may delay the mail and so will delay the ability to log in. (ex: Grey Listing)

3) Changing your email account (ex: Work Email to personal email)
Interesting. I'm guessing the pharma industry uses the term pre-clinical differently, I was just using it to mean anything that happens before clinical testing, which is how it's used in Wikipedia, Merriam-Websters, etc.
I have samsung galaxy s i9000 Android CM9 4.0.4. Can confirm that exploit is working and shows imei popup
I'm disappointed. Ars is usually pretty good about these things but in this case it sounds like a techcrunch'y over-sensationalized headline as a result of over parsing some casual statements from Eric Schmidt. Not having submitted the app to Apple yet, doesn't mean google is not building one at all. It'll be crazy for google to let go of half their local queries from mobile. It's just not going to happen.
But then you can easily, heck trivially, argue that people should be forced to exercise or to eat a particular diet that makes them more productive. Look, more goods and services are rendered! It's a public situation!

People should be forced to live within 5 miles of work, because they're not being productive during their commute. Also, HackerNews and reddit should be forcibly taken down because of their contribution to idleness at work.
Scientists who believe in a deity are not necessarily bumping into contradictions to their faith. Plenty consider theistic evolution to be a possibility. A deity actually makes a lot of the problems with our current theories much easier. It is actually possible to analyze all that can be observed and still be left with questions, and reserve the possibility that a deity is involved. You don't have to believe that, and I'm actually all for science education based on questioning and reasoning rather than forcing dogma down students' throats, but you shouldn't just assume that all creationists reason in the same ways and blatantly claim none of them advance scientific knowledge.
railscasts also uses an email link for a login
I hope that Mozilla Persona[1] (or similar) will solve this problem soon.

[1] https://login.persona.org/
I would be very surprised. Apple has tried hard to have standard apps that are always standard apps. Intents give you choices for your standard apps which give you (even if minor) fragmentation. That is something people see differently and for me personally that sounds like hell. But to each his own and I'd even guess people with no technical knowledge might prefer not to be bothered by such choices.

I love Android intents and can't wait for webintents to take off but I can't see Apple embracing intents or something similar on iOS.
The thing is I'd log into my email anyway to check for new messages.
For what it's worth I was kind of joking, I agree that it would be basically impossible for the speed of light to change over time.
What is the reason behind the decision to only use Facebook for sharing? I think at least adding Twitter would be useful, since a lot of people talk about politics on Twitter, maybe more than on Facebook.
Co-Founding Love: Lifelong Business Partners
This works well for mobile.
safe version confirmed to work for HTC Desire
Http Proxies are Old-fashioned and Uncool
citizen journalism is the future. writing needs to be nurtured in the culture, but if kids don't see a purpose they won't develop the skill.

spread the word about nwzPaper.com
It would be interesting if you could integrate a mail handler to this service so that you could simply email them to request a session.
All crazy people think they're sane and everyone else are the crazy ones.

If you can convince other people that you don't deserve to be locked up for growing these plants, then you won't be. All this talk of "implicit contracts" doesn't change that, it only overcomplicates everything.
This stalled me also, read it four or five times because I thought I was the one being retarded.

I don't mind spelling mistakes and poor grammar, as long as I can get the point of what the author is trying to say.

However half written sentences make me think you don't really know what you're talking about and I immediately begin to subtract credibility.
Trolling, as I first encountered the term (on 4chan, many years ago, back when "trolling was a art") was nothing new. My dad's generation calls it "fishing", and engages in it offline by parroting Daily Mail-esque views in the pub because they know I will "bite".

These days it seems to be a cover-word for the sickest, most malicious bullying, and also the most yawn-inducing unimaginative pranks... basically, any behaviour that could possibly be frowned upon by anyone is defended after the fact with "no, I was trolling" (a valid defence when you're espousing views of the far right with no sincerity... a less valid defence when you actually have just done something terrible)
3D Restaurant Menu Concept
Can you manipulate future and past states by manipulating the current state? I'm not too knowledgeable about the matter but it seems like if the crystal's states at certain points in time are fixed from its inception then it can be manipulated to transfer information to future and past states of the crystal.
>> It's a win, just not as big a win as it might be.

You might be right, but context matters.

Me pulling my "cranky old man" card-- As Louis CK says, "Everything's amazing, nobody's happy."

My first computer was a 4K Tandy Color Computer, which cost something like $400 in 1982 (a significant expense at the time for my parents), and I learned to program in MS Basic.

To me, the Raspberry Pi is a huge win. It can do a million more things than I could do as a kid, and it's not relegated to loading code via cassette tapes or typing (we had to copy code verbatim from magazines back then).

That the device is so inexpensive makes the barrier to get into programming lower than it has ever been... Amazing.
You need to replace # with %23
Icon fonts could speed up your page loading time by 14% compared to images
I'm suggesting no such thing. I'm saying that if someone thinks that this person should be sheltered entirely from the consequences of his actions then it is similarly logical to shelter society from his cruelty. If you'll notice I haven't actually suggested a course of action for dealing with him, I've only suggested that he needs to experience consequences for his hateful and violent attacks.
I'll defend anything that I see people criticise without offering a better solution.
Who cares about a "fully developed" brain, if there is even such a thing? Human beings at any age are largely irresponsible and irrational and most people never move beyond this. Yet I know that the vast majority of 17-year-olds I have encountered do not mail boxes of ashes to Jews, or anything of the sort. That his brain is not totally "developed" absolves nothing. Should a person with an IQ of 100 serve less time than a person with an IQ of 140, because the latter is more "capable of rationality", or whatever other quality you want to ascribe to the mind? At some point, certainly short after the reasonable age of entry into the working world (probably sixteen) people need to be expected to act decently. Sure, I'm in favor of rehabilitation -- punishment is a revenge-instinct and waste of resources -- but we should do ourselves and these people the service of being honest about what they are: criminals.
Will Fast Charging Make Electric Vehicles Practical?
The thing is when I used internet cafes, the first thing I would always open would be email.

2 and 3 and really valid though.
absolutely not! people should take initiative to support the flow of socially important information. spread the word that nwzPaper.com is out there! nwzPaper is about decentralizing the news industry while empowering the journalist to build his own user base.

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When I'm on an untrusted computer, e.g. in an internet cafe, I typically try to avoid logging into webmail. E.g. I'll first put files I want to print into Dropbox and then log into that instead, (the consequences of an attacker getting access to my Dropbox are less grave than an attacker accessing my email account). This extra precaution is not possible with this NoPassword scheme.
It's no such thing. You're not forced to get a passport. Plenty of people live quite happily in the same country or region they were born. People should travel, and experience other cultures, but they're not being forced to pay for a passport if they don't want to.

I see $100 as an administrative fee that covers the process of applying for a document, the issuing agency reviewing the credentials of the person applying and then manufacturing it based on the current security standards. If it were free, it would still come out of tax payers money somehow (FWIW, I'm not a Dutch taxpayer, since I don't live there).

The fact is, we live in a world with different cultures, different economies, different norms, and some have chosen to place limitations on who may enter/visit/move to them. Having documentation to meet another country's requirements is basic cost of living if I want to participate in a global society.

It's simply impractical to erase all border controls and have anyone be able to enter any country without an ID. Poorer populations would seek to better their lot quicker by moving to a richer country, rather than stimulating the economy where they're from. It's not ideal, but we can't live in a world where the entire third world can just decide to move to the industrial world because they don't impose immigration standards. And in order for them to do so, passports are needed.

If you can't afford $100 every 5 years, how can you afford to travel to another country?
already posted 50 million times, here's an example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4569114
Purposeful iteration
inb4 "bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt bcrypt"
Somalia was a land without a government for a very brief period. It now (and has, for many years) has several governments in different regions. Some are based on Sharia (or at least purport to be), others on Guurti (traditional clan-based government). None are or claim to be based on libertarian principles.

None of it's governments are recognized by the UN, but as far as I'm aware, no one claims that the mere withdrawal of UN recognition of a government leads to prosperity.