skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the xfeed filter is really only trying to mimick the way the far ear can hear more energy from a speaker at frequencies low enough that the head doesn't shadow it. So it doesn't need to be a particularly complex filter. Trying to make the correction curve too detailed will likely just result in clearly heard artifacts.
Thanks guys. I am definitely going to use this, provided it is indeed a simple and straight-forward API. Much better than having to deal with existing solutions, trying to build HelloSign from scratch.
I always felt Jar Jar Binks was more the Goofy of Star Wars :)
"To become a member you need a valid credit card, PayPal account, or promo code. Students with a verified DreamSpark account can register for free. "

From the registration page.

This works even if you are not a current student as long as you have a valid e-mail address from your college/university.
Mark Cuban: Apple TV Is a Pipe Dream
I personally prefer brew over other package management systems, especially given that it's open source. Rudix is probably just as good, but I can't see other people fixing packages in a github/issue format like i could with brew.
Went with Dyn - thanks.

Route 53 is nice but its concerning to have hosting and DNS with the same provider.
Two responses.

(i) Millions of kids saw that episode and went on to pirate movies and music anyways, because kids don't really derive their ethics from cartoon series, just like you & I aren't secretly animated by "Knowing is Half The Battle" from G.I. Joe. (http://www.joeheadquarters.com/joeendings.shtml)

(ii) The particular message you're suggesting Iron Man is "propagandizing" is so anodyne that it was the subject of a whole episode of Arthur on PBS.
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1) Absolutely. We'll be adding OAuth support shortly.
2) We don't have any filtering by signer's email address at this point but I like the idea.
I think it is great that before the interview people have a chance to talk with others, network etc. to get the nerves out.
Windows Phone 8 SDK Released
That is a great reason why they never should have tried to approach this as a business where they employ cleaners. If they were just a service to hook up cleaners and customers, the pricing would not be a problem. You'd avoid all of it, and so would the cleaners and the customers. Step in the middle and say 'I employ the cleaners' and, bam, you have just destroyed the entire concept. You've just radically restricted your geographic reach. You've massively multiplied the cost to EVERYONE, including yourself, your customers, the cleaners, everyone. The cleaners are immediately divorced from receiving benefits of efficiency improvements. If they become more productive, their employer pays them the same (or less) and expects continued improvements. As opposed to actually making more money for less work, the way productivity improvement is supposed to work.
This is true up to a point. To my understanding, in a sandboxed environment a third party AI can only work if it is incapable of choosing which application should execute the intents. All it can do is determine the intent and pass it along to the OS, which then presents the user with a confirmation or, in the case of multiple apps receiving the intent, a tiebreaking interface.

A possible workaround would be a cumbersome two-way permissions system ("can app X access app Y?" [and, for purposes of apps asking the AI to ask follow-up questions] "can app Y access app X?", ad nauseam), but this is something of an impractical solution, because the AI would need to be granted permission every time the user installs a new app to access that app.

So yes, Apple makes it the job of the OS. This is a design compromise that mitigates the risk that the user is overburdened with confirmation dialogs, choice dialogs, and/or permission dialogs. And for an AI that just works, I would say this is pretty key.
Agreed. In its current incarnation, social is merely a utility. Network effect inertia ~ Natural monopoly
I've been waiting for this feature since I upgraded to an iPhone...
We'll eventually add in more advanced API features like embedded signing, customizable branding, etc. We may charge for some of those advanced features.
I was insulted by the implication that I should be ashamed of sex or of talking about it, or that I'm supposed to consider this lofty magical think that has to be a big secret and people can't be open about.

I'm also guessing that I'm supposed to be 'repulsed' at the hypothetical software, that it might let two men talk to each other too, eh?

Ironically the solution to both are the same. People have different opinions, societies tend to have evolving, and shifting views about social networks or social behavior just like they have about sex in the past. Going around being all judgement of either set of behaviors is not productive.
The Web Is A Mess
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The issue is communication between the boots on the ground and the NOC. Earlier today, we brought our servers down too. People that stayed up (squarespace) have been up the whole time. Until I understood the whole situation, we made the same choice you did. Now that I know more and I spent the day at the DC, I realized we should get 1-2hr warning before power goes out. Peer1 should be running even after all fuel in the header (shared tank) on 17 runs dry... at least for a little bit. I can't guarantee it, but that's my take on the facts I have at hand (I am President of Fog Creek and spent the day at Peer1 and our office. They are currently using my aquarium pumps to try to pump diesel to the tank on the 17th floor).
> Netscape was technically superior on the core ability of
> rendering web pages

No. Unless you are comparing IE3 with Netscape 3. NN4 and onward got worse, IE4+ got better. We now call it crappy browser but by the time IE6 was out it was a clear leader (well some my argue for IE5 on Mac).
I still remember first widespread CSS bits that started to appear in the wild with IE4— hover on links, fixed background.
It was possible to duplicate hover behaviour on NN4 but it was nightmarish.
iTunes 11 delayed into ‘end of November’
I really think you have to go through the experience of blind testing to really get it at a visceral level how wrong your gut feeling can be and how much you're projecting what information you know onto your sensory experience.
Facebook tries to monetize the difficulty of letting relationships go. I realize this, so I don't accept friend requests from former friends/acquaintances. You're only my friend on Facebook if we're actually friends. I have 15 Facebook friends, and I care about all of them.
It's true. I remember just before Empire Strikes Back was released the Detroit Free Press had a full-color section insert with movie artwork and interviews with the movie creators. George Lucas said the cadence was to be episodes 4-6, then 7-9, and then 1-3. If anyone has that newspaper section I'd love to see it again.
>Lets just hope they acknowledge the internet is the retail distribution channel of today.

I wouldn't count on it. Just look at the absurdity that is the "Disney Vault."
Too bad they're not in Silicon Prairie anymore.
I feel a great disturbance
If you wanted to restrict all API access to only logged-in users (to your Django app), it would be as easy as this:

from tastypie.authorization import DjangoAuthorization

and then in your 'Meta' class for each resource, you'd specify the following:

authorization = DjangoAuthorization()

That's step one. To go further, and limit access to resources per user, so that they can only access the things they should have access to (according to Django permissions), you'd simply use 'apply_authorization_limits' to narrow the query object to what the user should have access to. So, if your default query looks like

queryset = Resource.objects.all()

You could filter that down in your apply_authorization_limits method to something like this:

def apply_authorization_limits(self, request, object_list):
object_list.filter(user=request.user)
Show me a respected design authority who advocates grids then. "STUPID STUPID STUPID" is not an argument. The fact is, grids tie content to presentation, and are entirely unnecessary. The fact that you think grids is the reason some websites look right and others look wrong is astoundingly ignorant.
I don't follow.

Sony is not a distribution platform, ok. Apple is, ok. ESPN is mission critical for all cable platforms, ok. Dis by proxy, ok.

None of these statements are false but none of them lead me to think Apple wants to own any of these content businesses.

If Apple was going to buy any content company it's pretty obvious that they would have bought Pixar. Instead Steve sold Pixar to Disney. Now you're telling us that Disney's owning of these properties like Pixar is terrible for Apple but it doesn't fit the observed data.
I thought the sexual lead in to the main point of the article was rather silly myself, we don't disagree there. However, that's no reason to call the author insecure.
I agree - I think users would simply not use it, as many choose to not actively engage in Facebook.

That is not to discount the age issue. Youngsters are conceivably less ready to think of the longer-term consequences of using such a "social network".

But still. Plumbing.
Fairly Simple Math Could Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
So obvious, I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it first.

Much thanks!
Your theory reminds me of Fassbinder's 1973 film Welt am Draht ("World on a Wire"). The technical director of a simulated world project slowly realizes he lives within a larger simulation. He tries to outwit the simulation's programmers, as they deactivate or reprogram his friends and co-workers to stop him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welt_am_Draht
You can get pretty close, the tel URL scheme will let you make calls. MFMessageComposeViewController will let you send texts. Calendar stuff is already possible with Google Calendar so that could work pretty easily.
> Why should I develop a native app for _ platform? .... This is why we chose to focus on iOS for the next iteration

You just made the argument for the web. I'm curious, why didn't you refocus there?
Like rainnnnnn on your wedding day? Because there's no actual irony there.
Three issues with that, from least to most important --- that is, (c) is the most important issue:

(a) DNSSEC doesn't actually do a good job of making the DNS secure (for instance, it doesn't secure the "last mile" between desktops and recursive resolvers).

(b) Securing the DNS doesn't automatically secure the other core protocols that also need to be secure to rely on DNS promises; an IP address is still just an insecure IP address even if you learn about it from an RSA-signed message.

(c) There's no compelling case that the DNS needs to be secure, or that we need systems that rely on a secure DNS. A secure DNS doesn't make it any easier to clear credit card transactions, to transfer funds, or to create secure & anonymous messaging systems.

It seems to me that if DNS security was such a serious problem, it would be easier to come up with a scenario that benefited from it; that is, you wouldn't need to handwave with a comment like "the DNS needs to be secure before systems that rely on DNS being secure are written". Well, sure, but that shouldn't make it hard to merely imagine such a system. What is it?
That's fine, whatever. I just find this the next in a long line of preachy, "Everyone does this; everyone must stop doing this." line of rational.
> "You were repulsed by the above description of this imaginary site."

He's giving the Internet more credit than it deserves.
Thanks. We don't do anything special to help or hinder Lua's handling of Unicode. In general, Lua strings store bytes. This is handy when dealing with something like file uploads, but it's not always what you want for other text encodings. If you have any suggestions for what we should do (or what we should document), I'd love to hear them.

Interesting point about json.stringify. We should take a harder look at these kinds of cases. What would you expect the output to be? In general, JSON can't represent a lot of things that Lua tables can, so I don't expect json.parse(json.stringify(T)) to always return T. That said, anywhere we can do something more sensible, we should, so thanks for this feedback (and tell us more).
MSNBC definitely does not have a consistent message, other than one or two primetime programs, the rest of their lineup is all over the place.
I don't see the resemblance.

Are you joking?
> Actions have consequences.

So, assuming I'm born with genetic defect that escalates into brain tumors, I shouldn't have been conceived since the my genes gave me 15% higher chance of developing spontaneous brain tumors.

That sounds like a wonderful society.

As correct as it sounds (to quantum theorists at least), some consequences, don't have actions, other than "being born" or "happening".
Wow. You really invoked some hates. All your long and thoughtful comments have been voted down. I would say you have hit a nerve.
Scrive looks like a good product but is not free after the initial 3 documents. HelloSign is completely free.

I believe the HelloSign API also covers most, if not all, of the same use cases.

NOTE: I am a HelloSign co-founder
The Google search app on Windows 8 has this
I'm unfamiliar with Lua, what should it return instead?
I think you're romanticizing HN a little too much. There are some really smart people here sharing some fairly unique insight, but for the most part it's just dudes making websites that fail in every sense of the word and people here for tech news because digg died and reddit got too popular.

Why bother trying to extract the tiny bit of lasting value when there are sites like Quora and Wikipedia that specialize in it?
Meraki Is Giving Startups $15K In Free Wi-Fi Gear
Meraki offering free networking equipment for funded startups
All I wanna know is whether or not Lucas signed first.
Disagree - there is nothing rude about this. The thread is not "someone else's" - it exists to benefit the community. I, and others, found these additional leads useful.
There's https://www.dotcloud.com/
Most of Gawker Media performs (or fails) similarly. There are others. I typically just reject them.
I am exclusively responding to the part of Kaminsky's post that discusses amplification. Please don't make a straw man argument that I've dismissed the whole thing based on his handling of amplification; I can do a better job of being dismissive of it than that.

I agree with very little of what Kaminsky has to say about DNSSEC, but my arguments are reasoned well enough that I'm not afraid to actually make them.
One of the first things I checked as well. I was really hoping I could work on Windows 7. :(
Website Changes: A Recipe for Smooth and Effective Updates
Infographic: How this web design company has found to best way to make website changes that minimizes unnecessary revisions while major considerations being taking into account – strategy, design, copywriting, technical development, and SEO.
What do people use for onboarding?
I look forward to Plinkett's evisceration of the Thrawn trilogy's mothball fleet of 200 dreadnoughts all slaved to one ship that can be effectively operated by a skeleton crew.

Sadly the best Star Wars books I know are Brian Daley's Han Solo Trilogy and the X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole. Both are light on Jedis and not likely to get made into films.
I think we're talking past each other.

I completely agree with you that it would be challenging and probably quite unsatisfactory to take existing flash controllers and 'pretend' they were a memory controller.

What I am suggesting is that if there is a processor out there which can "consume" a large amount of flash attached to the physical memory bus, then you can will see controllers that are designed to operate well in that mode. Current arm chips for example often have the PSMI "bus" which is used both for pseudo-static memory and sometimes people hook up LCD controllers to that bus.

AMD is big enough to create a market for such flash controllers. And they could put hooks in the TLB such that a cache line fetch from that space could happen asynchronously with other stuff going on. I've got core memory planes that have slower read speeds than flash, I know its possible to make it work :-) But as you (wmf) point out it hasn't been done yet (other than internal NAND flash for embedded devices)

So if I were writing up the MRD or PRD [1] for the controller chip I'd start with provides a multi-channel way of doing load and store of program data at the cache line level. I'd put the wear leveling in the controller to minimize implementation complexity. I might also provide some 'staging' static ram, much like the 'open page' registers in a DRAM controller to keep track of requests that had happened so that I could do read ahead to improve sequential access.

[1] When I worked at Intel each new chip started with a 'Market Requirements Document' (MRD) which described the market for the chip and a 'Product Requirements Document' (PRD) which was a description of a product that could be sold into that market.
I, like pg and hopefully other Hacker News readers, am pretty sick of every story about something cool being immediately derailed by a know-it-all in an industry dismissing the innovation as "not cool enough". pg calls it middlebrow dismissal[1]. Rather than being treated as an imperfect launching-off point for further innovation, everything has to be world-changing perfect to have a reasonably sane comments section.

I'm actually glad this thread got pushed down, so maybe some actually informative discussion can rise up rather than an analysis of how minutely the people behind this screwed up.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
You can't just wave a magic wand and make it so attackers can't bounce DNS packets, and so it actually does matter than one DNS feature makes those bounced packets much much larger than any other DNS feature.
We all know how Apple can't keep any secrets and how leaks always happen. <sarcasm>
Lucasfilm was essentially a holding company, so it's not unreasonable for him to own 100% of it.

I don't believe the subsidiaries (Skywalker Sound, LucasArts, ILM, etc) are wholly owned by Lucasfilms.
Good story! Thanks for your help at the 2012 Startup Weekend CoMo!
Guaranteed performance would be my guess.
Sweet, I'm interested in checking out all their configs!
Unless you process an enormous amount of payments, you're going to be dealing with a reseller, because the banks don't want to deal directly with small fries, and $250 million USD per year can still be seen as a small fry in the payments industry.

So the reseller is going to mark it up a bunch. Plus, there are multiple rates (called interchange): a plain credit card is one rate, a card with points/miles is a slightly higher rate, a corporate card, - still higher, and a corp card with points/miles - higher still.

That's just one card type (say MVS/VISA), there's another set of interchange rates for AMEX, another for Discover, etc.

If you want to see this in action, talk to the people at you local bank about processing credit cards, or call intuit about one of their dongles. The interchange rates are part of the contracts.

The per tx fees (the $0.30 part) are built up out of several layers of the transaction including fraud review, and there may only be a nickel of profit built in on that side.

I think that all the providers are charging the same because they are trying to attract small businesses (SBs) SBs are notoriously price conscious, and if you go a tenth of a point higher, or three extra cents per tx, they'll use your competitor. So all the processors are priced about as low as they can go, and are trying to compete on features. They might all use the same reseller.
The one in Japan is the only one I know of. I was surprised myself, given how Westernized Japan is compared to the rest of Asia, and how nominally illegal prostitution is there now.
Please make this happen.
My thoughts exactly when hearing of the news, but I doubt it'd actually happen :( They'd probably have to get rights from Zahns publisher or Dark Horse or whomever owns it, I'd think. I don't think this purchase counts as an umbrella IP grab for all offshoots too?
Hurricane Sandy's Effects on Polling
Does Koch Industries own any media companies to speak of? Pretty sure they're not a media conglomerate...

News Corp is a better example.
Your mileage may vary. I'm a Ruby developer who picked up RubyMotion. I was up and running and productive with it within days, and after a month of part-time work my first app (which isn't extremely complicated but is by no means trivial) is nearly complete.
Antipodes - Jason Davies
News Corp owns Fox News, which is stridently right-wing, but also the Fox network, which broadcasts more left-leaning shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad. In fact, Fox's prime time cartoons regularly mock Fox News.

Koch isn't a media company.

Try again.
Ruby’s EventMachine – Part 3: Thin
Monopoly & Anti-Trust concerns, anyone?
Samsung solar-powered school shines in rural South Africa
Let me try to explain myself better:

Two particles are entangled and separated by a vast distance.

At some point, I conduct a measurement on the first particle, causing me to split into two different versions of myself that have measured two different states. Now, the effect of that measurement spreads outwards from the site of the measurement, so I may affect other things based on the measurement, etc.

My problem is that if a measurement is done on the other particle, long before any message from me could possibly have got there, then that measurement and the effects it has on its local environment and the effects they have are all also dependent on my measurement.

I imagine this as a wave of universe splitting spreading out from the site of my measurement and the entangled particle despite the separation.

Now, perhaps this is a nontechnical use of the word nonlocal, but I'd describe that as a nonlocal phenomenon.
...for the price of 4 Instagrams.
You mean I'm the only one that "Knowing is Half the Battle" animates? Gadzooks!
First, Bernstein is talking about servers, and Kaminsky is shifting the goalposts to caches.

Second, you can compare their numbers directly (get Bernstein's from any of his DNS talks at cr.yp.to).

Third, read closely and you run into things in Kaminsky's post like this:

That’s a 3.6KB response to a 64 byte request, no DNSSEC required. I’ve been saying this for a while: DNSSEC is just DNS with signatures. Whose bug is it anyway? Well, at least some of those servers are running DJB’s dnscache…

Well, probably not, because dnscache was, from the time of its release, the first cache server to ship default-deny for remote queries; if you want dnscache to serve as an open cache, you have to jump through hoops to configure it that way. Most open cache servers are BIND.
Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015
(X -> FLT) -> ~X
He won't enforce it. How about that elevator pitch:

> Makeup is a standardized version of John Gruber's Markdown. It has a formal specification, a reference implementation, and an exhaustive test suite. It also handles edge cases in a more sensible way than the original Markdown.

I think "Markdown" as a name can no longer be killed. The same holds for Markdown as a format. Alternate implementations will exist for a long time, and they will be referred to as "Markdown implementations", at least informally.

And so will whatever Markdown based "standard".

I probably crossed the line by suggesting "<qualifier> Markdown" as an official name. But as an informal name, it will be used, and John Gruber won't be able to do a thing about it.

By the way, I can't fathom why he wouldn't want Markdown spin-offs to be called "Markdown" as well. That name is his legacy. A standard would make sure to preserve it. As for his Perl implementation, it belongs to the museum, to be glorified as pioneering. But for actual use, Perl is now obsolete.
I will miss the 20th Century Fox intro and fanfare. That still sends chills down my spine.