skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silly, but actionable use case example: I run a llama shearing business, and I attach an aluminum ID block to each llama's collar as means to track each llama's shearing schedule. That's the type of example, where there are many blocks and few readers. Replace llama with "something else in inventory" for more practical examples. Clearly all is golden for the POS retail coupon verification case, with few blocks and many readers.

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Embedded in elastomer makes sense. I had several ways to skin that cat pop into mind, but I figured there was just one piece of the extant ID block I was missing. Thanks for clarifying.

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All other security points well taken. Wasn't trying to get down on the idea at all. Indeed have numerous use cases in mind that would work well in a reversed use-case of the consumer facing implementation. Not all situations need high grade security.

-phil
The second image is a tiff. O_O
Hear hear. The current day pat down is nothing of the sort. I like to stand post security and loudly call them what they are: gropes.
I know this is all in fun, but sunrise is way more complicated than that. Even the noontime position of the sun varies during the year, by a substantial amount.

More here:

http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/sunrise/

Just for fun. :)
Well, as a resident email-lover: both matter. So even if you're like me, you sometimes have to schedule a call, which is even included in the original article. You have to take into account what everyone involved is comfortable with, and find a middle-ground.
You're assuming that the most important thing to clients is cost. For a decent client, it never is.

It's a huge amount of work and risk to hire somebody else after a service provider has already shown themselves to be self-managing, self-directed, professional, timely, responsible, and knowledgeable/skilled.
Some missing features:
- Week starting on mondays
- Week numbers
You will read on Hacker News mainly startup that are focusing on web technology.
Startups focused on chemical industry, or biotech, are more likely to be on specialized magazines/websites.
Moreover, a startup of Biotech is likely to make use of innovative technologies that mostly people (without an education in that industry) can't understand. Web products like Istagram, facebook or Google are better understood by more people because they use every day
That's an excellent point. For a while I thought "Man, my new friends in this city sure do use Facebook a lot more than my other friends", but a quick glance at a distant friend's timeline shows that isn't the case.
It has been disappointing IT people for a long time now as well. The eclipse based designer client in particular was a difficult transition. And the move to Java based Xpages hasn't been all sunshine and glory.
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I'll add a tickler to my calendar to check your site once or twice a week. Thanks!
>I can tell you that your experience will be vastly different depending on where you live and work.

I'm not sure how this makes the US different from the countries it's being compared to. They all have more and less dangerous regions. There are more and less dangerous regions within a block's walk from me, but the average over that area gives me a general basis of comparison with other areas.

I always feel that there's a racial subtext to this kind of defense of US statistics (which I often hear in terms of education, crime, and health outcomes.) It is, basically, that the parts of the US that the average Scandinavian or Japanese citizen would ever be in have comparable rates of terribleness to their own countries - just ignore the massive portion of the US behind the curtain.

e.g. I am more likely to be killed when moving to an average Chicago from an average Finland. Since Chicago is segregated, however, very few white people would ever see an average Chicago - so an average Chicago can't be a meaningful comparison.
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> What other tax-payer money is used for the BBC?

License fee.
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Would be great if you make an option to be able to pick two dates (intervals) just like in Google Analytics.
Well, I've finished typing the post and submitted it, so that activity has been effectively knocked off. Do you have a particular objection you'd care to enumerate or do you just generally feel you have the right to tell people not to post anymore?
In the UK, you can't opt out. Also, you're subjected quite often to a full grope (if you set off the metal detector) before they select people to go through the X-ray scanners!
IOS 6 Kills iPhone 4S Wifi
This issue first started appearing in September with the release of iOS 6 and still persists in November without any response from Apple. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

It appears that many iPhone 4S (and some iPad) users are experiencing iOS 6 (or iOS 6.01+) updates are affecting the Wifi on the device. The Wifi is either disabled [1], can't connect to Wifi networks or experience frequent dropping of the Wifi connection.

Besides the obvious reseting of the device, "solutions" range from putting the iPhone in the refrigerator / freezer for a while or applying heat to the device. Quite a few people have reported success after trying some of the weird solutions suggested by other users on the Apple support forums. It's quite strange that Apple doesn't have any moderators advising against such extreme measures.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/message/19648459#19648459
Actually, I do that all the time (tell people it will be easier to do this via email). Most of my calls are support, and it's generally MUCH quicker and more efficient doing it via email than over the phone.

I actually removed the phone number from our website 6 months ago and we just have email sales/support now. If someone prefers to talk on the phone (or in the rare case where it would be more efficient to do a phone call), I just call them back.

The problem is that I'm thinking we might be losing some customers who prefer to see a phone number they can call, so I'm considering putting our phone number back on the website. I just wish I could educate people to consider sending a 30 second email versus having a 30 minute phone call to sort out problems...
I don't mean that everyone that goes to private universities here has bought his or her degree, but there are a few cases of famous people that went to Bocconi and well... let's say they don't need to make use of their degree. I don't know if you can read italian but this article (http://www.lettera43.it/persone/8320/il-lato-b-della-bocconi...) explains how many of the girls involved in the Berlusconi's scandal went to Bocconi and got one or even two degrees. That means either that the place is unusually full or very smart and very pretty girls or that there's something strange going on.
There was a common view at the time that they had significantly overpaid and that was based on the straight books. Also only $5BN of the write down was for Autonomy. If they overpaid by 100% (possible as they paid 64% over the share price which could also have been overvalued) then it could be that accounting irregularity accounts only for a fraction of the write down. 10-20% of the purchase price feels as likely as 80% but we may see when it is investigated.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110818xc.html
These libraries always make me sad by neglecting to include a time picker.
Well, since the empirical evidence is completely against it, "Intellectual Property" has to be sold on an emotional basis.

But anyway, well played knocking down a straw man based on a point only tangentially related to the real issue. Thanks for that!
Yes. I could accept usability updates but taking you away from all the other windows is just damn annoying.
That's not the doctrine the searches fall under.
The security field in such a universe would be a gigantic, insanely lucrative shakedown racket. "I can help harden your systems against attacks — or I can just steal your customer database and sell their info to these nice Russian gentlemen. Whichever you prefer."
It's nice to be able to see the footnote and the main text at the same time. (I usually open side-by-side windows to read your essays.)
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Well, it's equivalent to static RFID or QR codes, and seems easier than either. It's neat.

Other ways of doing handshakes with limited hardware: musical chirps, exchanging graphical codes with two front cameras, and ad-hoc wifi.
This is surprisingly strong language for a couple of supposedly mature companies. I think Microsoft would have been better off with a light-hearted response that would have highlighted Oracle's reaction of being over the top and unprofessional.

As it is, it just seems like two children throwing sand at each other.
Meteor is solving problems like latency compensation
(http://meteor.com/blog/2012/11/19/latency-compensation-impro...) the Right Way, so that we don't have to do it with a mess of ugly and buggy callbacks. Writing web applications today sucks, and Meteor is changing that.

It's really exciting to see it maturing so quickly.
It's unfortunate that we call the protection for pharmaceutical products "patents." They are probably more like a copyright on a compound with a 20-year expiration. Yes, this is totally necessary, also as is preventing someone from knocking out a direct copy of some innovative physical machine.

Conventional wisdom for a long time considered software more like a book (or else the "author" of the first spreadsheet would probably be a billionaire many times over).

When the legal industry saw the money involved in software during the dot-com boom they muscled their way in, as any racketeers would do. Their racket is of course protection and counter-protection services riding on the conveniently-broken USPTO.
Can it default to the native date selector on mobile?
Link redirects to home page.
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I have had to deal with Human Rights Commissions in two provinces over the course of 10 years and have never seen anything like what is referenced: HRCs do not have the capacity to access email and documents without the owner of such being informed. Your argument is just an attempt at changing the topic at hand. The orginal comment ended with "when it comes to this" thus referencing warrantless access to email and such.
As an Irish person, I disagree. The IRA had a very specific territorial objective: ending British rule in Northern Ireland. The Taliban are not articulating an alternative approach to Afghan nationalism, they're religious radicals that think it's OK to assassinate 12 year old girls, stone unmarried lovers to death, and behead their political opponents. When the freedoms you're fighting for consist exclusively of oppressing other people, then your cause is bankrupt.

Pull out a map of the region. The main reason the taliban got to be so powerful is that Pakistan's ISI (intelligence agency) considered a Taliban-run Afghanistan strategically useful in the ongoing struggle between Pakistan and India over the territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

PS don't assume that because I'm Irish I supported the IRA's objective - quite the opposite, in fact.
The lack of semicolons and the use of jshint bothers me.
I felt that Lotus Notes was trying to do too many things when in reality most people were using it for email and calendaring.

The UI looked terrible and it was overall slow and crashed often. You had to manually kill the zombie process or else you would not be able to re-open Lotus Notes.
Yet another reason I want to move to NZ.
I can understand that a payment gateway takes security more serious, as it can directly affect their business if clients handle SSL wrongly.

Maybe a kind of chaos-monkey for API connections could help? Every now and then the API returns a wrong SSL certificate. If the client ignores this, they could notify the customer, or directly block further access until the problem is solved? :)
Microsoft's bet the cash cow move
Ah, 100% agree. He probably won't be a CEO again with his track record.
HP Press Release on purchase of Autonomy at 64% premium [Aug. 18, 2011]
I like this, but as others have mentioned keyboard input/editing of dates would be nice.

While we're on the subject of date pickers, is there a favorite among HN users? What have you all used for your web apps?
I was about to say the same thing but there is no point in faking it because it appears that the stamp only tells your phone to pay that specific store, the app then would probably ask you for a confirmation on screen (it could also ask you to enter a pin possibly).
He didn't "scuttle" it. CNet saw draft language being circulated among Senators and reported on it. Leahy issued a clarification, saying that he didn't support the draft language. Leahy's own language eliminates the 180-day rule for warrantless access to email, which is a huge step forward for email privacy.

Unless Leahy is directly lying in his statement, what CNet's reporter did was to play "gotcha" with draft senate language. While this may make us feel better, like we all played a role in ensuring that a terrible bill wasn't passed, what it really does is ensure that senators and their staffs will work even harder to make sure we don't see draft bill language until it is more or less a fait accompli and the only two outcomes are "pass" or "discard".

Patrick Leahy has one of the better reputations in the whole senate on civil liberties issues (check out the ACLU scorecard). But yeah, let's definitely eat our own to ensure ideological purity. That worked super well for the Tea Party.
Is there a good book/resource on learning REST API ideas? I'm looking for a beginner's resource for someone who doesn't really grok the ideas behind REST and the motivation for REST. But also something that gets technical very quickly - I've been programming for long enough that I pick ideas up very quickly.
Sad to see that i18n is relegated to not "Now", not "For 1.0", not even "After 1.0", but to "Later" which probably means never.

In this day and age i18n should be part of the core, "baked in from the very beginning" feature set. The vast majority of humanity don't speak English.
Things were dramatically improved with Ice Cream Sandwich. Jelly Bean is just an incremental change in my opinion. (I am a happy Jelly Bean and iOS user.)

Things also keep getting better as apps convert their design to work better with Holo and Android 4.x. That is a gradual improvement that continues.
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The thing about finding complex artificial materials is the the likely explanation would be "it came come the rover."

While finding complex materials would be earth shattering, the threshold of accepting a martian source for a reading like is much higher than it would be for accepting the same for organic findings.
Did you read the entire article? The author rather explicitly showed that even if all 40 of those incidents would have resulted in the loss of a plane we'd still be better off going back to pre-9/11 security.

And the TSA doesn't have anything to do with car bombs in Times Square.
Good to know that the problem isn't my wifi.
Indeed, it is equivalent to a static RFID or QR code. Would you secure door locks or physical transactions using a static QR code?

"Scan this to prove you were here, but please don't share it on twitter."
Not your typical book, but it's very good: http://designinghypermediaapis.com/
Does the 'Activate JavaScript protection on login' option work for you with 'Secure Login'? It has been working for me for a long time now; I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong.
that's a lot of significant digits :)
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I'm afraid not - I just use a USB2 hub. I've got no need for more, as I only use one computer.
You're lucky and compliant. I don't think your experience is the norm, and my experience certainly doesn't match.

It's always a delightful start to a journey to hold your struggling infant in your bare socks while some college dropout pretending to be a lab tech tests your formula for explosive residue and your wife figures out how to cram the stroller through the X-ray machine. Definitely try to avoid flying now.
So I still have to type in a pin to prove its me? If I've already got my smartphone it would seem either NFC or Protean would be simpler.
So then what does it mean that "you consent to the search by choosing to travel by air in the United States"?
Some advice
-Remove junior from all positions
-Too much stuff about accounting if you are looking for swe job
-More verbs - I did A, implemented B, saved C amount of money
-Follow coursera courses = meaningless, remove it or at least put what courses you graduated from.
-Fix grammar and spelling
-Change objective to " I am looking for software engineer position where I can do ABC".
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"[T]he zero-sum game [...] leaves society as a whole poorer."

That's not zero-sum.
I do understand your point as far as templates go. But they could have replaced the template engine or even improved on Japid.

It just seems that for the rest of the system there isn't any real benefit over Play1 if you are using Java as opposed to Scala.
Arrows should be added around the year for quicker traversal through years.
Let's just get this straight: Being able to ID a phone is not the whole of NFC capability. Right now, there are tons of handheld scientific and engineering instruments that can upload readings over NFC. At the same time, there are tons of people who own smartphones, but who are reading digits off a readout on these instruments, jotting down these numbers, then going back to a computer to key them in by hand.

So, there's tons of potential out there for this, QR codes, and NFC. The make or break is going to be responsiveness. If entering readings is faster and more reliable than jotting them down on paper, then someone will be able to make a profit on this capability. If not, then it's too early for the tech.
> [Kappos] argued would allow the patent office to weed out low-quality software

I wonder how he would define "low-quality software"
What kind of technology is behind Present?
In my understanding it's easy to place all data to DB/FS buffers with any DB engine and get superfast operations.
Exactly. It's like saying "The bus is still hurdling down the road at highway speeds, therefore there is not hobo vomit in the back seat."
Ditto. As much as people complain about Reddit on here, the exact same effects are taking place and pushing irrelevant content to the top. Worse, this is somehow acceptable, but being lax in the comments isn't. So you've got gossip-blog headlines and people taking themselves way too seriously in the comments, rogue moderators and randomly hell-banned users, and no wonder people leave and feel the need to make a post about how things have changed for the worse.

Obviously whether or not this place exists isn't particularly PG's concern, but in order to foster a community and keep people from leaving that otherwise wouldn't have if they'd been able to filter the noise, something needs to be done. People won't submit content to a site they know it won't be seen on, especially if they're competing with shallow linkbait headlines.
Don't miss the real gem here - Ksvin Closson's investigation into what "in-memory database" versus "database in-memory" means.

https://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/oracle-exadata...
First of all, i bet you that much more users click on a send button then press some arbitrary key combination.

Second i bet you that most people find the send button easier when it's somewhere they expect. Where the other buttons are.

Third, physical analog bla bla, really... Nobody thinks "hey i am writing an e-mail, that's just like real mail, EXCEPT i write on a keyboard, look on a screen and everything else i touch and see is not a physical letter or pen or paper at all!".
The real-world vs virtual-world comparison makes most sense for icons and such, in my oppinion. Not so much for workflows. You also don't ask people to walk to a virtual post box to send the letter. Or let them "stamp" it. Or as you said yourself, to sign it or to seal it.

Nothing keeps one from putting ALL controls to the bottom, a good interface may even accomplish that nicely. Except that it's only there to annoy people, restrain adoption and giving users a hard time figuring that out. You may be able to quickly learn that, i may be able to do that. My mother or grandmother? Not so much.

It'd be very interesting to see some A/B testing on this. Maybe i'm wrong, who knows.
Not if I stick my fingers in my ears and shout loudly enough.
Without copyright protection, it would be pretty easy to interfere with two of the Four Freedoms.
Some more missing stuff: does not allow to block specific days or weekdays (e.g. sundays) that should not be picked. Also time ranges (hover over a days and the next x days get highlighted) would be nice.
The IRA are a brilliant example of this in how they became popular: they had very little support when they took (British) Dublin, by force, in Easter 1916. Yet, after the execution (for high treason) of the leaders, when some were still badly wounded from the British counter-attack, turned far more against the British than had ever been before: the British turned those freedom fighters who few supported into martyrs for their cause.
Would love a matching time picker. Anybody know of a good one?
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The last bit is the idea behind the Defensive Patent License, though the site seems to be down (and malicious, says google) so I won't link it.
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Cockroaches scatter when you shine light on them.
The lawyers are getting richer.
a future improvement could have a stamp with a microprocessor and many touch nubs, which "activates" certain touch nubs based on a time-based algorithm. It would work like any other one-time passcode like Google Authenticator.
If there's "no point in faking it", why does the page make a big deal about uniqueness and ? In your scenario, a GPS fix serves equally well.

The claim "Like snowflakes, no two SnowShoe Stamps are exactly alike." is wrong. If you stamp my phone, your SnowShow Stamp will have the same exact signature as a carefully carved potato.
You may be talking about a post by S. M. Ali Eslami called Patterns for Research in Machine Learning[1]. There was some discussion here as well[2].

The patterns he pointed out were:

1. Use version control.
2. Separate code from data.
3. Separate input data, working data and output data.
4. Modify input data with care.
5. Save everything to disk frequently.
6. Separate options from parameters.
7. Do not use global variables.
8. Record the options used to generate each run of the algorithm.
9. Make it easy to sweep options.
10. Make it easy to execute only portions of the code.
11. Use checkpointing.
12. Write demos and tests.

EDIT: Added list of patterns, formatting.

[1] http://arkitus.com/PRML/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4384317
This is way more expensive than QR codes (which is more or less free). Each tech has pros and cons. When talking about QR codes, I guarantee price will be at the forefront. I'm not sure this is anything more than trying to invent a problem to solve with a novel product.
OK, I don't get it. How is this easier or better?

NFC is a no-touch proximity read. QR Code is a no-touch read from a medium distance. This requires physically touching something to my screen? Seems like it's much more cumbersome to 'read' (IMHO), and it doesn't really solve some of the main problems of NFC and QR Codes: you don't know what is really lurking behind that tag...
What he thinks we should do and what most people actually care about don't align. For every Tesla there are probably 1000 Edisons.
am 4S user, and rely mainly on WIFI. I ahve not experienced any such problems till now !