skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to mention that iPads don't really have any private browsing mode.

Safari on iOS certainly does have "private browsing". Just go to the Settings app and select "Safari" from the top level and it's the first setting under the "Privacy" (just below the "General" section). When it's enabled, the browser looks different to let you know -- the normally gray bezel UI becomes black. This has been a feature ever since iOS 5.0 was released in 2011.

More info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Interesting. Where have you learned this information? Are there some books / studies / other sources you can point to? (Not a demand for evidence ... just that I'm curious to look more into this).
Can you send me one as well? albzey@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!
How long will it be before we can quickly test these things in a computer simulation?
For sure, their Radimparency spoof is pure comedy gold, and rather scarily close to portraying a large portion of the startup scene here.

http://watch.vooza.com/post/27284828649/radimparency
this is really just a slip-up allowing a user to visualize a tiny piece of what is going on behind the proverbial scenes. and its getting worse. the amount of data and info collected and used but never seeing the light of day is basically unfathomable to the average citizen now. i'm surprised at the lack of knowledge sharing by HN even in this article. this includes the ability to match/map our offline activities to our online usage. fyi: i work with www.abine.com and our tool for some of this is http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php
this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613135
I can stand behind Accutane (isotretinoin). It really, really works. And in my case, it was the only thing that worked.

But the leaflet of possible side effects is likely to intimidate you – anything goes, from falling of the nails and hair, to bone damage, depression and suicide.

In my case, the only serious side effect I remember having was that throughout the treatment my skin was exfoliating badly, regardless of any creams I was using. It's really quite an aggressive substance.

However, one day, my acne entered remission. And after it went away, it never came back. I had perfect skin ever since.

I don't know if Accutane was worth it – it certainly worked, but I don't know what price I actually paid. When I took it a few years ago, specialists weren't even sure why it works; I don't know if this changed since then.

But it definitely does the trick.

Edit: 1) I read someone suggested washing your pillow – it made me chuckle. Seriously, I don't know what kind of acne you have; but trust me, when I had mine, I tried EVERYTHING. You must know what I mean – acne is annoying, and Google is handy. But in my case, nothing worked; besides Accutane.

Accutane actually cures acne; it's not like Aloe Vera or washing your pillow.

2) I remembered one peculiarity about Accutane: you finish the treatment (and acne starts entering remission) once you have ingested a certain amount of it, calculated per body weight. Doctors prescribe that you take a small quantity every day over the course of 6 months; I used to disregard that, and take a bunch of it every day, so I could finish the treatment quicker. One downside is that the side effects (i.e, exfoliation of skin) become more aggressive in the process.
or this. http://coderstats.geeksta.net/
Bush's justification of the invasion of Afghanistan was completely flawed. Whereas the Israelis have a geographically tethered foe, Al Qaeda can move its operations to another country (which they did by going to Pakistan). In reality, the primary country from which the 9/11 hijackers originated was Saudi Arabia - a country whose royal family includes a prince that Dubya considers a brother.

The right thing to do would have been to send special forces into Afghanistan to assassinate the Al Qaeda members responsible for 9/11, not get into a decade+ long war.
The Darling Project
As a humanities academic I find myself leaning toward Coyne's side.

Yeah, he goes too far. There are areas involving qualia that could probably be handled by science eventually but the tools at our disposal are too crude for the moment so the humanities get them. There are also ought-questions in ethics and aesthetics that science isn't built to answer. They ought to stay in humanities too, chiefly because humanists are good at poking holes in arguments for certitude.

Most importanly, /we don't want/ the kinds of Big Why questions Hughes is laying on us. Humanities academics are busy toiling away on little subspecialties and trying to be as methodologically rigorous as possible given the limitations of the subject matter.

We do not want the responsibility of answering why people exist or proving that someone's religious fantasies are true. We can give you a historical tour of thinkers who tried to do so, or point out weird side-effects of some of their arguments, or point out some major religious traditions that don't actually care very much about those two questions - we can do all that and more, and I'd argue that's valuable stuff, but we are not going to be errand boys for crypto-creationists.

So, one demerit to Coyne for being a little too dismissive humanities. Infinity demerits to Hughes for trying to make humanities something it doesn't want to be and shouldn't be.
It was. Yet not that much smaller to dismiss this is as a good counter example to the claims that every DRM will be cracked immediately and if something is not cracked then it just means there is zero interest in crack.
Ask HN: buying Kindle Active Content outside the US
Does anyone know how non-US people can buy Kindle Active Content?

I have heard that changing my primary postage address to a US address will allow me to. Has anyone tried this? Could it put my account in danger?
Wait wait...surely Adventure Time, Frisky Dingo or The Venture Brothers are of equal excellence.

I'm not sure if I'm being serious or not. I do love those shows though.
Only for applications that don't deal with binary data. The company I work for uses ODF, PDF, DOC and other formats regularly and the inability to attach those files to GitHub issues is a monumental PITA.
T-Mobile Ending Phone Subsidies: A Victory For Transparency
> It's actually an indictment of our programming tools that they require one to hold so much of the design context in one's head.

Completely true. That is exactly the Bret Victor's point in "Inventing on Principle":

http://vimeo.com/36579366

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

Programming tools (languages, APIs, IDEs) needs to reduce the problem you need to hold in your head.
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I'm curious why you disagree, aside from the quota thing? I have written many API consumers over the years and there is basically no difference between parsing HTML or any other format; XML especially, for obvious reasons.

HTML APIs to come with the added benefit of being less prone to change, which I realize goes against conventional wisdom, but seems to hold in practice.
Well said. I fear your humility may be more like that of Socrates, and I'm about to be hoisted on the petard of my own unexposed ignorance. I have to run at the moment but I'll come back to this tomorrow and hopefully have something useful to contribute. Thanks for the parley!
In my city, in Argentina there's already an rfid card that people uses for the bus, train and trolley. You can load it using cash though. There are also an increasing number of cameras in every corner as well, and a week ago the president herself said on tv that she wanted to put up cameras everywhere.
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Hackers we made this for you guys. Please tell us what you think and how we can make it more useful. Hope it saves you lots of time. (if you like it please spread the word).
Cool explanation. I didn't conceptually get that the mitochondrial energy process is the same as a coal power plant. But if everything gets burned, how do I build new cell walls and stuff? Where does the actual matter come from?

Some of the matter must be used to create matter directly, rather than as simple an energy source. Or if all the matter in my body is grown/created entirely from energy and cell division (can't be true of essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids, by definition) isn't growing and repairing my body going to be a huge factor in energy consumption?
Like throwing yourself at the ground and missing it.
Did you submit a bug report or a patch? You seem to have diagnosed it quite sufficiently.
Tablets Are Waiting for Their Bloglines
Assets (illustrations and examples) are now retina-ready.

Too bad this is for the documentation pages only and doesn't include bundled icons. :(

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons
Conceptually, I don't think it's possible with HTML5. Eventually, the browser is going to open a connection to the resource, and then the user can see it in FireBug. You could hide it with Flash, but you'd have other problems with compatibility on mobile devices. You might be able to do it with a proxy too, but then the proxy would be visible. Not sure if that suits your needs.
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That's a myth! Please see my post in this thread regarding Accutane. It cures acne successfully.
Lay(wo)man's understanding:
You burn the oxygen, one molecule at a time. But there is more in your food than oxygen.
so is the conclusion to be that statistically significant sample size is as important as the 'result' when measuring standard deviation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination
Not really. As I understand, the different layers are:

1. In-game, he can write non-arbitrary but sufficiently powerful machine code to be executed directly. He uses this to write layer two.

2. He can write arbitrary machine code using A, B, start, select. He uses this to write layer three.

3. He can write arbitrary machine code using all the buttons (including d-pad combinations that I assume are physically impossible). He uses this to write the balloons.

All the code that actually gets run is precompiled machine code being executed by the processor. (There's nothing to stop him writing a shell, he just didn't.) He's not exploiting a system which happens to be turing-complete, he's gaining access to a system which was designed to be turing-complete but locked down.
I enjoyed the article on process partitioning, however the article advocating assertions in place of tests is very immature. It needs at least some explanation of how you might implement the advice, and how asserts would actually provide equivalent protection. I was very surprised when it ended, it feels incomplete.
Seems an interesting idea for a Firefox add-on. Also, randomizing part of the user agent for each domain should be nice too.
However, it seems pretty unfair. I've met maybe 30 people who have gotten rich from startups. None have really changed all that much.

There's plenty to parody (pivoting, easy money, demographics, ivy league obsession, VCs, new angel investors, the term "disrupt") but how people handle success is really not one of them.
Old, but good: Complete overhaul of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Absolutely totally true.

Ignore the laws of statistics at your own peril.

Knowledge of statistics is the best investment one can make with one's time. A/B testing is the tip of the iceberg - a simple practical application, which can be exploited much better with statistics.

Learn about statistical distributions - Bernouilli, Binomial, Normal, Poisson and Hypergeometric at least, then Chi distribution to grasp real tests like chi2 goodness of fit, 2 way, calculating intervals - and you will see so many possible daily applications and avoid so many pitfalls (such as the ones outlined in the article)

BTW I saw in another comment something about significance. DeMoivre is not directly related to significance- it only means that if you know the population standard deviation, the standard deviation of any sample extracted from the population will depend on the size of the given sample - ie smaller samples will go below and above the expected value much more often

Consequently, if you try to deduce the SD of a population using a sample, the bigger sampler will give the best results (ie smaller or more accurate intervals)
Gamification Can Work — Just Don’t Hire A Game Designer
Spoiler: The first dungeon is awesome; you have to save princess Zelda before you get the wooden sword. That means pots are your only weapons!
I'm evaluating Python game frameworks and tools right now, so this is very welcome, Thanks! I'm likely going down the road of the cocos2d lineage, though. It seems to be the smartest choice if you hope to port your game to mobile platforms as well.

I would strongly recommend removing the Apple Game Center logo, though. It's not ok to copy anyone's logo.
> Yet when Hawking does metaphysics, the reverence for science as an institution leads people to treat it as they treat science.

This simply is not true. If this sort of a priori judgement occurs, it occurs because Hawking is a famously intelligent and thoughtful person. Of course people take what he says seriously. However, he is also continually engaged in debates with other scientists, often publicly, and is in no way walled off from questioning by either the institution of science or his own fame.

Additionally, I have heard the exact opposite of the sentiment you stated claimed. His biographer, Kitty Ferguson, ludicrously criticized Hawking's atheism as him going beyond his field. As if because one is not a theologian, one cannot discuss religion. What tripe.
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The problem is that the "mangling" occurred long ago and have been largely accepted as "settled law." This "mangling" is not a particularly new phenomenon.

The 9th and 10th Amendments long ago were widely considered by the courts to be fairly limited and, in the 10th Amendment's case, redundant. There are very few cases in which the 9th and 10th Amendment have been used to strike down federal laws.

In the 1940s the Supreme Court ruled that basically the amendment stated a fact which would still be true even if the amendment did not exist. And the 9th Amendment is limited because the wording of the amendment makes it clear that it only limits expansion of enumerated powers; the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause have long ago been interpreted as granting the government powers beyond the enumerated powers (powers to which the 9th Amendment does not apply).

These interpretations are unlikely to change - they have many judicial precedents.
You shouldn't make assumptions based on usernames, at least not in HN, where we value anonymity and privacy.

A life without art would be quite empty indeed, everyone does art and consume art in some way or another, and in the same way everyone does philosophy (eg: thinking about the existence, the meaning of life, etc) at some point, we can't really avoid it. But I don't see the point in having people dedicating their lives to philosophy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is hardly any progress. In school I learned that every philosopher, to understand other philosophers, must walk the same path they walked, and every philosopher creates its own path from zero. So what's the point? There is never any progress, other than what they can grab from science. I think it was Aristotheles who decided planets where perfect spheres, because that made more sense. I know, at that time there was little to no science, and everything was mixed up. But I see philosophers are still doing that. The other day I saw a video about determinism by a philosophy professor in a university. The guy didn't fully understand quantum mechanics, he just overheard everything was random at that level, and made stupid conclusions. That's the image I have about philosophy.
The OP mentioned that there's a death sentence for two kids who were friends with Americans. I suspect that any Americans still in Jalalabad are keeping a rather low profile.
Laxatives really are not necessary to have inefficient digestion or energy storage. There are plenty of skinny people who have a hard time putting on weight even though they regularly eat like hogs.
This appears to be somewhat outdated. There's more recent information here: http://trac.secdev.org/scapy/wiki

Includes a FAQ and a great guide for capturing rogue DHCP servers on your network: http://trac.secdev.org/scapy/wiki/IdentifyingRogueDHCPServer...

I've had to use it a few times. It is also (or used to?) be in MacPorts.
Wouldn't Flipboard and Zite (not to mention the more direct descendents Feedly and Newsblur) fit the bill?
That's fine, but your intuition is incorrect. Additionally, as has been pointed out, this kind of comment is simply dismissive. If you have an argument to make about intuition, I would be interested to read it.
Is that difficult without Feedburner?
> Currently, the popular idealized interface is finger-touch, such that even a toddler can figure it out.

OK. That's bad... why? How is it bad to remove accidental difficulty? 'Accidental difficulty' being difficulty imposed by a bad interface, such as how annoying it was to drop a deck of punched cards. Sorting punched cards is not an essential part of programming; it is accidental. This terminology is due to Brooks, in The Mythical Man-Month.

> Styluses and keyboards and other peripherals are ostracized as laughably archaic/geeky ways to do input

As long as keyboards remain available, reasonably high-quality, and not too expensive, I'll be happy. If most people don't use them, that's fine with me.

> the result has been more passive consumerism than active creation of media

Most people have never created most kinds of things. Most people don't want to and are not good at it.

Besides, whenever we do focus on user-created media, what do we do? Laugh at blogs and GeoCities pages. There is literally no way to please the kinds of people who think Idiocracy makes good points.

> Ow My Balls

Bear baiting. When bear baiting makes a comeback, come talk to me.
Social Dating Decisions
Why doesn't everyone try Apache Traffic Server with its LUA plugin which has way better performance and many more capabilities?
I don't see how they could actively market something that is broken for the majority - most people don't want tiny text and icons.
And Children's Hospital, largely unknown...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs5QbUjmtt8

Edit: Sorry, not by Judge, it's just really funny.
If you can give an example of how such data can be used, you could make a case for this, but putting "emotions" and "intuition" in the same sentence as "valid and objectively true...data" is, I think, all the answer you need. If you are studying emotions, then of course reports of emotional responses are useful data. If you are studying intuition (as has been done in great detail in studies of how chess players make decisions), then intuition is useful data.

It is not clear, at least to me, how an astronomer looking at Saturn and saying "Gee, how pretty" is going to lead him to a better measurement of Saturn's gravity. It is not a matter of what big brother Science wants. It is a matter of what is useful in answering the question being asked. Draw a line between beauty and gravity measurements and show a reliable connection and you have done all you need to do to convince people to apply this data.
As I understand them they are. I don't know what you mean by them.
I would be beyond content if this was nothing more than 30 minutes of the Start-up Guys [1] with Mike Judge creating buzzword fusion words for company names.
[1] http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...
TDD done correctly should allow the validation of "speed of thought" changes. It happens to me often that ideas spawned between my ears break functionality in the actual application if the application is complex. It doesn't mean that the idea was invalid, tests simply illuminate what else needs to be changed if you'd like to go forward with the change.
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That's a really nice perspective, and probably not one I would come up with intuitively. If I understand you correctly and may paraphrase, keeping it anonymous will prevent skewed perceptions on weight of opinion based on "clout", and rather keep it relatively anonymous and base clout on positive contribution, with the addition of opportunity to show off positive contribution elsewhere?
Not everyone's using an appliance. My fingerprint is unique in their list.
You just wrote

> Your inability to fit it into your belief system is not my problem.

and

> I'm not trying to convince you.

And now you are complaining that people fail to engage with you meaningfully. You are drowning in a pool you filled yourself.
HTML5 is a fat man’s bag of surprises
Absolutely. There's a huge psychological and group mentality thing with this project the team and I are working through right now. There's a huge risk in it spiraling towards being too negative or also too superficial. We're trying to keep a balance with meaningful, constructive feedback, similar to this site to be honest.
Evil mode is excellent. I used emacs for about 3 months without learning almost any emacs-specific key bindings.
Love and emotions are being studied scientifically. The neurotransmitters behind love and affection are extremely well studied. One could quite easily construct experiments to see if exiting fMRI technology can determine the difference between a brain experiencing love and one not. These questions are in every way within the domain of science.
Ask HN: Where to travel/freelance abroad?
Open ended discussion question! My girlfriend and I are SF based but looking to spend a few months traveling, starting around March. She's a writer/blogger/social media manager and I'm a freelance developer.

I'd love suggestions from the community for places to head to. Considerations are cost, safety/health, food, weather, interesting experiences, local dev community / ease of finding cafes to work out of. Would be fun to learn to surf/kiteboard while traveling. I figure that I'll aim for 2-3 days a week of client work to support us (which I already have). She'd like to pick up some work here and there as well. We'd like to see a few different places during our trip, but want to spend a few weeks in at least one of the locations. We're less interested in backpacking / changing locations nightly and more interested in the experiences of getting to live abroad.

I speak some Chinese and would love to return to there. She speaks some French. I also have family in Brazil. Current considerations:

Buenos Aires, Santiago, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chengdu

Look forward to hearing thoughts!

p.s.
We've recently traveled to Japan, China, and Australia.
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Adventure Time is surprisingly excellent (I don't watch a lot of TV, but my kids watch AT).