skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't. What this episode tells us is that humans often have frequent false positives, when it comes to pattern matching. This is common in most animal, and is the part how we perceive the world. Our limbic, fast-acting system works like this, when it spots a pattern that matches some kind of known "threat" reacts to it quickly. This kind of pattern matching is flawed as evolution has optimized for numerous false positives over false negatives (e.g. the one time you mistake a bear for a tree is deadlier than when you confuse a rock with a poisonous snake). This kind of input is bad in cases where false negative are as bad as false positives.

This somewhat flawed system, supplies our rational system with said bad input. In other words, garbage in, garbage out. This would have happened regardless of game, as long as one opponent is human and under some pressure, he would make a faulty guess and make the same mistake. This happens in a variety of games, from Chess to Starcraft to Street Fighter. As long as game has some pattern matching, it will be affected. So I'm pretty sure it applies to Go as well.

When you move up the ladder in a game, you start understanding how opponent mind functions and you make certain optimizations. You don't want to mentally exert yourself in all matches so you pick up a routine, that doesn't task the brain much and use it to weed out the lesser opponents. From time to time someone will use a totally different pattern which is when you mentally turn yourself on and start analyzing their moves, to figure out their next move. The presumptions your mind makes can often be exploited by a totally new/random enemy which screws up your evaluation model. This explains why people new to game have that "begginer's luck" effect. They can't value moves right, so they use a completely foreign way to play. For example in Street Fighter you expect your opponent to attack you with his far range fireball, which are that character's best weapon, so your prepare to block, but instead the newbie mashes button and starts throwing you around like a ragdoll. Of course good players will spot the newbie and change their play accordingly, however it might take some time for that.

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/the-invincible-and-the-beast....

http://www.sirlin.net/articles/yomi-layer-3-knowing-the-mind...
Cobra is compiled, there is a big speed difference compared to Python. There are a bunch of other features you should check out once the site speeds up.
I don't know why people in US automatically think they have the right to do anything they want, yet when somebody else does the same they find every reason to brand them evil conveniently neglecting everything they did.

There is no point in trying to act innocent, space or other wise US has been screwing earth since decades now. Wars, weapons and emissions all in the name of development. Yet now when some other countries do the exactly all that for similar reasons, they become bad?
Even Modest Datasets Can Enjoy the Speediest Performance
Sorry, but this type of "attempt to turn the table" retort in online discussion is tiresome and unoriginal.

(OMG meta-meta-hypocirspy alert. Pre-emptive medals for all.)

I sympathise with the OP, but it seems inevitable that communities largely in the business of making Xs are going to meta-comment incidental Xs. Xs in this case being websites. Your suggestion for the guidelines might help.
> Are there any websites with implementations that don't prompt directly for Mozilla's site

That's the OpenID model. BrowserID works somewhat differently. Your ID is an email address, so your provider is that email's domain. Because few domains support it directly yet, Mozilla operates an optional, centralized authority that can issue credentials to other users. But you don't have to use that if you add support on your own domain.

After that, the UI is also provided by Mozilla's cross-browser JS shim, but it's just a polyfill for `navigator.id.`. If your browser has native support for those methods (Firefox will, soon), then Mozilla's UI is completely uninvolved.

Basically, we're starting with a single, optional point of centralization: login.persona.org. As native support comes online from various domains and browsers, our central fallback will automatically drop out of the picture.

> Am I correct in presuming Persona is an implementation of BrowserID?*

Yep! BrowserID is the protocol, Persona is Mozilla's cross-browser UI and optional centralized services. It's kind of like how Google Login is really OpenID/OAuth under the hood, but more meta.

> "As part of the normal operation of the Persona service, Mozilla will retain a log of which sites you have disclosed your email to."

Yeah, that line sounds super bad. IIRC, it's a relic of a previous design of the cross-browser shim that needs to be removed. I'll follow up with Mozilla's legal folks.
Maybe 3 decades after it was released according to this paper; http://scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://59.1...
Even if the NSA appointed S-Boxes did improve Lucifer then decreasing the block size does not really improve on your point.
Ask HN: What do you think of Stanza.me
Hi,
It would be really great if I could get your comments on Stanza.me (http://stanza.me) a start page I've been working on.

Thanks!
My wife is obsessed with Fitocracy. She hates missing a workout, and, because of her, I consistently go to the gym, too.
Rule #1 of spying: Never admit to it.
Not everyone supports that though. I do the same thing for OpenID, and sites that "support" open-id like The Verge cannot figure out mine in that way.
For reference, here's a QR code with a three line postal address, email address and mobile number:

http://www.moongate.ro/products/qr_code-vcard/serve_card?c=K...

Not beyond the realms of what could be placed on a business card, a lot cheaper to make and certainly more useful for most phone users.

On the other hand, the NFC card is a lot more attractive looking and has an extra "wow" factor. Of course, it would be useless to me as my phone doesn't have NFC, so I would be left keying the contact details into my phone by hand.
Companies give out NDA's like candy, so that's hardly private.

I've written Linux device drivers. They're easy to write, and API changes are not a concern at all.
Assange to UN: US is trying to build a 'regime of secrecy'
Lectures and Conferences
Which pieces do you care about being self-hosted?

If you use Persona on all your sites, it feels very much like SSO.

I use the browserid plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browserid/) on my personal Wordpress site.

We actually had an SSO project based on CAS v2, which we killed because Persona was a better solution.
I wonder if this will be developed into a standard, or whether Mozilla will have to be the only ones operating this service.
I really want to believe in something like this, however you'd getting much better traction by explaining a few key details:

* What the hell does the JS assertion object look like?

* How do I run an independent service?

* In a single page, walk me through the steps to integrate?

Videos, dodgy music, overenthusiastic PFYs appeal to me much less than good documentation
Java has jars and classes and dynamic calling. You don't compile everything into one big lump, nor you have to recompile millions of lines of code for one change in a file.

If Go wanted to compete on compile speed, then dynamic loading would be a better idea than having a simplistic compiler that compiles fast into one monolithic executable.

The main reason the Go compiler is fast, is because it is simple and doesn't do many passes and optimizations.

Which is like advertising the fact that your company makes a fast car, but forgetting to mention that it can only carry a driver if he weights 10kg.
>Most people's brains breakdown when you start trying to tell them about the idea of a 4th dimension that holds the universe.

Sorry I could not understand a single word.

Can you explain this a little bit more?
Depends on the location. There are other perks as well, such as a kitchen, unusual locations, cheaper long-term stays, etc.
And with your explanation, all becomes clear. Thanks for that and now I can understand how slick this should become.
Show HN: Lone Tech Lover in NYC, Free Pass to Maker Faire If You Go with Him
Online Dash Search Update
I just tried it on the Times Crossword page. The workflow is really simple and elegant. I put in my email address. It took a second to determine there was no Persona account, then asked for me to create a password. After that, I clicked on an authorization link in my email account and as soon as I did that it immediately logged me in. I clicked Log out and back in again and it immediately recognized me and logged me in.

This is really what I was hoping to see with OpenID when it came out, but the process to set up an account and get started is much more cumbersome.

I look forward to seeing native support for Persona in browsers.
I use Fitocracy mainly to track my running, but also for some other workouts here and there. I just like having the historical data of how far and how fast I'm going each run (in fact I wrote a simple API to get at my run info out of Fitocracy: https://github.com/dorkrawk/unofficial-fitocracy-runs-api ). When I'm training for a race I have an idea of what I need to be doing each week so it's nice to have that data in one place. I also appreciate seeing what my friends are doing because it acts as a motivator for me to not slack off.
People that keeps logs tend to be those that want to focus on increasing the difficulty of their workout over time - progress in how much weight you can lift in a certain exercise, etc.

It's no surprise that if progression is not your goal then logging is not for you.
Perhaps making signing in to websites really simple, in a way that verifies the users email address to the site, isn't a good idea. Once it's widely adopted spammers will start using it.
Apple doesn't remotely "own" the high end of the PC laptop business. They're doing very well among web developers, so to a poster here maybe it seems that way. They're merely the largest single manufacturer among a very long list of PC vendors.

And the bit about "bargain" vs. "high end" presupposes there are features there that justify the distinction. A $99 tablet isn't going to have a 4G modem (though it's unclear if Apple's $300 item will either), but beyond that and its physical size the current Nexus 7 is a very feature-comparable device to the retina iPad.
“it’s better to regret something you did than something you didn’t do”

Isn't that line from Satan, by Orbital?
While that may be true, the focus here is different. Whether the game is closed or open source is developers' decision, while using or not using DRM is the distributor's decision. So in this case the complaint is addressed to Valve as a distributor who promotes DRM. In contrast GOG as a distributor is against any DRM.
My major concern with this, beside the eggs-in-one-basket issue, is that this places even more value on my email account.

Years ago, my email account was simply used for exchanging short pieces of text with acquaintances and companies. Now it's the central key to all my authentication sessions and finances, and therefore presents a huge target for attackers.

I've been looking for ways to reduce the risk associated with losing access to my email account, should that ever happen. Yet for all its benefits, Persona still places yet more importance on protecting my single email password.
Or rather: some hedge fund (of thousands all over the world) uses OCalml (Jane Street, IIRC).

That does not equate to "hedge fund trading code tends to be in Ocaml".
Community-owned Hackerspace
> A good programmer is ten times more productive than an average programmer. A great programmer is 20-100 times more productive than the average. This is not an exaggeration – studies since the 1960′s have consistently shown this.

That's folklore, not fact. The short form of the argument is: the studies are old, not very credible, and based on a notion of "productivity" which is most generously described as vague.

See http://leanpub.com/leprechauns (disclosure: I'm the author) for the long form, with a detailed bibliographical investigation of the "10x studies".

The rest of the "truths" in the OP are of a similar caliber: they are more properly called "opinions". A better title would have been "Some opinions about programming that you don't necessarily share". I happen to agree with some of them; but that doesn't make them true.
Endorphins? Where's the link to the science?

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--1102-...

quote:

"I believe this endorphin in runners is a total fantasy
in the pop culture," said psychobiologist Huda Akil, Ph.D.,
from the University of Michigan.

The endorphin theory had several problems, the most serious
being that endorphins are too large to pass through the
blood-brain barrier that border-patrols your gray matter.
As a deaf HN'er, thank you for taking the time to transcribe the video. It was a big help.
Have You Lost Your Designer?
At a NASA talk on space debris (part of the Space Technology Grand Challenge program at NASA [1]) the presenter mentioned that so called 'structured orbit' systems (like Iridium and GPS) were particularly vulnerable because their service depended on where they were in orbit and they had finite maneuvering capability. So GPS destruction is a combination of satellites which run out of gas swerving and jinking to avoid junk, and losing individual satellites due to forced (de-orbit) or worse actual destruction.

It was by that reasoning that this presenter was describing the space junk disaster as a sort of slow motion thing but the first indicator that you and I would notice would be that GPS service goes away. Its also exponential in that actual collisions threaten on 1 or 2 additional satellites but dozens in orbits above and below.

Then he finished with current NASA timelines (about 25 years before a system might be tested) and funding (0).

Granted he may have just been trying to rustle up funding for his pet project but I found his reasoning pretty compelling.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/503466main_space_tech_grand_challeng...
Are there any browsers that currently implement BrowserID? I just fired up Firefox 15 and still get the pop-up for login.persona. Or links to near future impementations?

Thanks for you and otzen for shedding light on all of this.
Super cool, great job. I know I'l be using this extensively.
Triathlon training really isn't just tacking together the training you would do for all three sports; this would be impossible. Instead, it is doing the same amount of training as you would do if you were doing one of the three sports exclusively. But in the same amount of training, you are training to perform three sports rather than one.

This necessarily means that a triathlete is not performing to his/her ability in any single sport. For example, a good time for the marathon portion of an Ironman is 2:40-2:50, but a competitive marathon time is 2:05 or faster. Just to add additional perspective, a good marathon time for an amateur runner is 2:30, faster than what a topnotch triathlete would be expected to pull off.
Beam Yourself Anywhere for $16,000
Agreed. I have a client reeling from fraudulent orders right now and looking to change payment systems. In order to suggest Stripe I'd need to show how he can set up his own rules within Stripe, e.g.:

- billing country/shipping country mis-match? DENY
- AVS mismatch or missing? REVIEW
- CVC mismatch or missing? DENY
- order over $X? REVIEW
- order from country in list X? DENY

Those are just the settings this client would prefer, but each user should be able to roll their own, regardless of whether they're using a custom integration or off-the-shelf third-party integration.
This got me reading up on buildings with 100+ floors.

It's interesting to note how the US basically just gave up in the early '70s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buildings_with_100_floo...

What happened in the early 1970s? It seems like that was the beginning of the decline of American power. Tall buildings construction seems symbolic of that.
Direct link, for the lazy:

http://quantcast.github.com/qfs/

Disclaimer: I Work there, as well.
For a classical analogy, compare an asynchronous analogue circuit designed to evaluate a specific equation to a clocked digital circuit that evaluates that same equation. The analogue circuit will orders of magnitude simpler, but it will be extremely difficult to incorporate it into a much larger circuit because fluctuations in heat, etc. will change when output is produced as well as potentially changing the result. Clocked digital gates allow for more deterministic output to arrive at a known time, thus allowing far greater complexity.

Currently, quantum computing is just barely at the simple analogue circuit level (e.g. D-Wave). Fault tolerance is crucial for scaling up quantum computing devices towards more complex algorithms and, eventually, being able to execute stored programs. Fault tolerant protocols typically operate by redundantly encoding a single qubit's worth of data in several physical qubits. How many physical qubits are required depends greatly on the reliability of the physical qubits used. Thus, the complexity of a quantum computer is massively dependent on finding reliable physical qubits, like majorana fermions could prove to be!
Tablets should eventually be sold for $0 with advertising attached. They are entertainment devices and not really a serious machines like laptop or desktop for any productivity work. If we were not willing to attach telephones to our hips, I believe tablets would have been the only device we had bought in addition to computers.
My startup which aims to help people discover unique and meaningful events, and most importantly, to find a group of people with similar interests to go with!
> What if someone owned the satellite real estate in a particular region of space? They would have an interest in keeping it orderly to maximize revenue.

In my mind this would only apply to geostationary orbit. Doing anything else would require incredibly complex coordination of "regions" of space, considering orbits are constantly moving with relation to each other and to the Earth.
Good, detailed answer.

But "does anyone say X?" does go a long way to answering "should I say X?".

I'll leave your pet example of "aks" which I really know nothing about so if you say it's widespread yet is nobody's dialect, then all right.

If you know that that English people almost use the word "pants" to mean "underwear" then it's clear that "does anyone in London say pants meaning trousers?" is "no" and when wanting to purchase trousers the answer to "should I say pants?" is also "no".

The only American dialects that I know anything about is from recently watching "The Wire". "does anyone talk like that?" Apparently so. it's not right or wrong, it's a way of talking. "Should I talk like that?" depends on whether I'm talking to inner-city Baltimore gangsters.
> The federal government has the authority to regulate the sale (commerce) of switchblade knives between states, the federal government does not have the authority to regulate the sale of a switchblade within a state.

Let's look at the case of guns. Do you really think that Montana could say "you can sell Montana-made machineguns in Montan without satisfying federal law"? (The feds don't much care about switchblades. They care about guns.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn . In that case, the feds got to regulate even though the wheat in question wasn't sold and never left the farm.
Well, I was kind of assuming that you would be doing a little filtering out of the worst links - only substantive discussions of your page.
Gwen here, I am building hackerface. Didn't quite expect it to land here before I do some more testing but here it is!
Re. the "all permissions" thing, it is required to circumvent the same domain origin policy since the plugin does bunch of GET requests to external websites to find information about you. Working on improving the results and some nice new features right now.
Import your Grove.io account into Flowdock
> What the hell does the JS assertion object look like?

Needs to be updated a little bit, but check out the spec:
https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...

Note: You don't have to implement this yourself! You can POST assertions to https://verifier.login.persona.org/verify instead, and we'll return a JSON blob that lets you know if it was valid or not. Or you could run that same verifier locally (it's a stateless node.js server, code's on github in the mozilla/browserid repo). The exact data formats are still in flux (waiting / hoping for IETF standardization around some crypto things), so we don't recommend doing verification yourself just yet, unless you run our node.js verifier and frequently update it. We'll get that stuff locked down in one of the next Beta releases.

> How do I run an independent service?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Implementin...

> In a single page, walk me through the steps to integrate?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Quick_Setup
Ok. So it cost you $127 to get 27 emails. Before you ask HN (is this good enough), you should ask these 27 people if they will in fact buy. Then you will have a sense if there is a market. Now it is pure conjecture. Be bold and ask. If you get mixed responses, ask them if you could interview them. Then pivot as necessary and iterate. Only your customers can tell you if the idea is good enough. You want their 'yes, I will buy" and not Adword stats to tell you if you should build or not. Best of luck
I used this for a recipe on IFTTT. It is just PDF though, but free. Seems to be similar in that regard.

http://pdfmyurl.com
Zenbox brings your Shopify customers with you across the web
You could say the same about any traditional username/password signup that sends a confirmation email and allows you to reply to an email to reset your password. Ultimately, that's just relying on the security of your email, too. So while you are correct that Persona doesn't solve that problem, it doesn't make that problem any worse compared to the default option of an email-confirmed username and password.
Death of the Sat-nav
Yes. First hand experience, around year nine our 3rd member was beyond contempt and we asked him to leave. Things run much smoother now.
Here's a video that really helped me grasp the higher-order dimensions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqeqW3g8N2Q
The US government is the last true sovereign.
that's wassap c;
Remove the books that are mostly too general introductions for novice programmers (the syntax etc). Remove the poorly edited, self published free ebooks. Remove the german language books.

Now divide by the number of C++ books published in the last decade.

You got something like 0.05?
It seems my ability to memorize has gone down drastically since high school (or probably elementary). I've messed around with freemind and orgmode and use them to track some things, but keep going back to marked up notes (I'll eventually convert to a cheatsheet if I use it enough) or books for programming. I'll highlight things that I don't remember.

I personally don't have the gumption to memorize api's to all the different modules in Python that may or may not be PEP 8 compliant. I don't want to waste storage on how to set up ssh-keys when I do it once every X years. But I know exactly in my book where it is documented and highlighted when I need it. I can fall back to google if needed.

As a visually learner, I know where in my physical books this stuff is located. Which is a drawback to ebooks as they re-flow there location of data on a page isn't consistent... I'm digressing now.
Awesomest link from that refereence:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/pdfs/ODQNv16i1....

The current newsletter on debris. Excellent data in there.