skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this was discussed on another HN thread. The app is native to handle the push notifications, but loads a webview to handle the actual display of the inbox. And it seems like it loads the webview every time you view the app.
Lots of Googly magic is probably happening in all of that JavaScript.

The load time led me to delete the app. But I can't get mad about the loss of push to mail.app. TANSTAAFL.
Non-descriptive property names
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tl;dr: TCL is retarded, and if you use it, you will be too.
I agree about native Photostream working better than Dropbox's camera upload stuff. But as for the other uses, you've already nailed it: easy access to your files. You just use a $5 app to do it, whereas Dropbox's is free. What's not to get?
With all these changes to Googles free lineup, can anyone paying for Google services give some insight to what the support is like?

On the free accounts, I pretty much felt like I was on my own as far as Google is concerned, which I suppose is fair enough.

I'm just wondering if you feel like a paying customer? If not, does the service itself make up for it?
Not at all: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/christopher.hsee/vita/Papers...
In order for someone to be considered "insane" in court they have to have a mental illness so severe it prevents them from comprehending the nature and consequences of their actions.

Serial killers in general are perfectly aware of what they are doing, they just don't care about the judgement imposed by society on such actions and at the same time the personal payoff is too great to ignore.
Well the OP was titled "The Worst UI Pattern in Existence". I offered a current UI that is worse to show how absurd the OP is. Seems plenty relevant
The problem is that the model was fantastically far off from reality. (For whatever reason - incompetence, bad inputs, willful deception, religion - doesn't matter for this discussion.)

I could construct a prediction that the high air temperature in New York tomorrow will be 80 degrees Celsius with a standard deviation of 3 degrees. Then when the observed value is actually 5 degrees, that's 25 standard deviations off from my "prediction". But it doesn't mean that the observed event was actually a 1-in-billions occurrence, that New York experienced an astronomically unlikely cold snap. It means my prediction was unrealistic and wrong, that it didn't model reality.
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Wow, Google's stock should rise on this news. Many folks may not know Kurzweil keyboards (for music), but they are excellent. I can't wait to see where he leads us next.
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Lots more.
Perhaps it is a silly question, but what advantages does this offer over Gmail's rather robust set of keyboard shortcuts?
In addition, I'd rank Minsky, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Dean Kamen, Rafael Reif, Tomaso Poggio, Dileep George, and Kurzweil's other supporters as much more qualified to judge the merits of his ideas, than Kurzweil's detractors like Hofstadter, Kevin Kelly, Mitch Kapor, and Gary Marcus. It seems that Hofstadter is the only one of that group who is really qualified to render a verdict.

http://howtocreateamind.com/
This is a decent summary of that issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Measuring_IMR

The same event taking place in two countries can be called a still-birth in one and an infant death in another.
I wonder what (if any) legal recourse Ryan Lanza might have against the news agencies that libeled his name. I imagine it really depends on the exact wording used, but Ryan could have a great defamation/emotional distress case on his hands, when everything settles.
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Exactly. And I'm pretty sure I've never used an infinite scroll site that didn't have a big, hairy pause that locks up the scroll while additional content loads.
No argument here; there's no clear evidence that fatalities would be dramatically reduced from these sorts of perpetrators if guns were not available. [1] Psychology is too variable to predict whether any particular killer would resort to less direct methods like bombs or poisoning if guns were not available to them. Serial killers tend to prefer either more direct or less direct methods with not much cross-over (the same serial killer will almost never switch between strangling and poisoning, for instance), but I don't know if there's evidence of rampage killers having a similar bias in their selection of weapons/methods.

Also note the gender gap in rampage killers generally, and school rampage killers specifically. [ibid] Perhaps all males should be locked up until their obvious psychological faults, which contribute to this tendency, can be dealt with.

The problem with increasing sensitivity to mental health issues is the vagueness of some of the "warning signs". Should society punish students for playing cowboys and indians on the playground, miming gunplay, drawing or writing about scenes involving killing? Lots of adolescents who exhibit the same "warning signs" (though not going so far as to plan an attack or execute it) as school rampage killers turn out just fine without intervention. What level of interference and "reeducation" of marginalized and/or antisocial students should be tolerated in the name of catching the small minority who go on to commit these heinous acts?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers
And yet they were not able to use these weapons effectively against homegrown tyrants.
Is it possible to do a... reverse class-action suit? In which you file suit against everyone who created a "Ryan Lanza burn in hell" Facebook page, every news outlet that libeled you, etc., all at once?
What's emacs? Is emacs that editor released by Microsoft?
You should also consider the possibility that the type of neural network you chose is not capable of learning the rules of chess, but may be sufficient for OCR.
But American Sign Language is gestures, and it seems higher bandwidth than spoken English. Just an informal uninformed observation, I don't know ASL.

And I can't type as fast as I can talk. So I'm thinking gesticulating > speaking > typing.
I'd never heard of malbolge until last night, when it played a role in the mystery on CBS' "Elementary" (an excellent series, BTW). Kind of weird to encounter such an obscure language twice in under 24 hours.
I run 3 different sites by myself that each make over $1,500/month.
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> And I can't type as fast as I can talk.

Some of us can.

http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanz...

Well, almost. Mobile interfaces certainly aren't helping. I am not sure how much I would like a vocal way of typing out code, but I suspect I wouldn't.
Betteridge's "law" has been mentioned on Hacker News 151 (!) times already. Thrice by you, with the requisite wiki link. Let me be the 50th to ask we stop adding this comment to every article.
Could someone please clear up my confusion as I am not very familiar with email protocols and standards. Which of the following will not work after Jan. 30th?

iOS
- CardDav for contacts (2 way sync)
- Exchange for email and calendar

Android
- default setup, I added my gmail at setup
- email, contacts, tasks, calendar... all work out of the box once you have added your gmail account.

Thunderbird (PC)
- email, contacts, calendar
There are already implementations of Clojure and Haskell that target JavaScript, but I'm not sure if that's what you meant. I don't know if there are any implementations that target JS using this specific approach but I don't think it's one to necessarily emulate; as nostrademons points out it is interesting, but not really optimal.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
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Saving this post to laugh at later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923821
Car healthcare arrangements? Incredibly better than our own
There's a firm in Vegas that already does this in plastic...
Very nice list that may be useful for those running their own servers or managing some vps...
5KMVP will offer $37 off the building of your MVP.
I get your point (weapon is too destructive). But it's not quite that bad. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem alright now.
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in the end, this would mean nothing. Think about it: the President already has an extra-Constitutional kill list, why stop there?
I've heard of this done back in the day with pen and paper and one trusted referee just after graduation at certain Ivy League institutions.
I don't know much about the cryptology they use, but I do know that the keys are time-limited and I'm pretty confident the encryption is strong.

* If you steal a key, it will stop working after a brief time (probably hours to days).

* Knowing the decryption key does not (necessarily) mean you can perform the encryption.
Instapaper, Google Authenticator and Google Chrome and Youtube Player, 1Password.

There is no good HN reader app
Incidentally, HN's memes would be a lot more amusing if we could embed animated images in posts.
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I was prepared to post this exact comment.

It's frankly amazing how broadly consistent this behavior is, martial arts, weightlifting, video games, network engineering - across the board.
That's a ludicrous argument. There is a fairly good correlation with gun control and welfare states - I wonder if gun control is a communist plot.
The "Standard" responsible disclosure technique is as follows:

1. Discover vulnerability
2. Inform vendor, tell them they'll have x weeks before general disclosure
3. After x weeks, post it to the relevant place on seclists.org
could you tell us how many books have you been able to sell on amazon?
Do you accept startups from Brazil? I would love to apply!
> I'm not sure if you're entirely correct here. True, VC has had a long history of exits and failures. However, PG & co have generally had a better history of Black Swan-type events in their portfolio (e.g. Dropbox).

I don't see how Dropbox is a black swan. 'Wow, another Internet company went to billion-dollar valuation? Who could possibly have seen that coming?' Pretty much anyone who has been breathing since the Netscape IPO...

> From his Wikipedia entry: "As a trader, his strategy has been to safeguard investors against crises while reaping rewards from rare events, and thus his trading career has included several jackpots followed by lengthy dry spells."

Yes, that's his strategy for exploiting convexity, but Taleb is the one insisting on 'Black Swan' as a term for the unpredictable and unpredicted, not me. I am merely pointing out that by Taleb's lights - the inventor of the term - VC is not a black swan.

> His fund steadily and intentionally loses money or breaks even on a normal day, but vastly outperforms other funds on days when the market swings wildly in either direction. The strategy is not for the faint of heart.

They also failed, BTW. Even in 2001 his Empirica fund turned in a crappy performance; and personally, if you set up a fund to exploit sudden market shocks and you can't profit handsomely off 9/11, you have failed and partially discredited your overall thesis.
Then victory was ours circa 2004 ;)

Tetris in Vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=172

Towers of Hanoi: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=900
I agree that the UI needs some improvements. But for me, the Gmail app is the only way to get consistent push notifications for new emails. The iOS Mail.app would always stop getting new mails if I don't use my phone for a while. Also you can't manage labels in iOS Mail, or specify a different From address.
If you buy the argument that the Internet would be better off if everyone had their own domain names (as was recently discussed on HN), it doesn't make much sense to then take Facebook to task for not getting involved.
That's just called naming multiple defendants.
There's no such thing as a language-agnostic bytecode. A bytecode is just a compressed source encoding of some language.
The "people of old" were just as intelligent as humans today, they just didn't have the same access to technology or stored knowledge (which is why Wikipedia is so revolutionary in some ways). If you look at the statuary from Classical times or the cathedrals of medieval Europe, you come to realize these people were just like us. Some went through life unthinking, others probably had unrealized gifts, and a few were able to show their talents. Also, I'm no anthropologist, but I believe modern humans have existed longer than wrting and the historical record, so I would conjecture that humans up to 10,000 years ago--perhaps all the way back to the Cro-Magnons of 40Kya--were just as intelligent as people today, just they didn't have the means to express it the way we do.

In some ways, the wasted educations and wasted talent of today is apalling. I was in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris recently and realized no one has created anything like it in 800 years.
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Hi,
So, I am a college student and I was looking for a cool start up to join. I recently got rejected down by my dream YC start up because they wanted college graduates with start up experience and they would find right candidate given some time. How do I convince them that I am the best bet? I am super passionate about their product but I don't have the start up experience. I have had two internships at big corporation and a small academic institution.

Please advise.
thank you.

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Or the "someone" GuiA recalls was Mitch Kapor.
"Dr." is a title; "doctor" is noun which only ever refers to an MD.
Talk to the RIAA/MPAA/MAFIAA about that, they do it all the time.

There's a very large legal industry surrounding shotgun legal claims in rapid succession throughout the country.
I think using the word "value" is a bit too strong at this point, but
maybe someday algorithms along these lines (and the ones I mentioned to
you in email, article spinning) will be able to do more good than harm.
The trouble is, at present, they are more harmful than beneficial.

Machine generated, or guided, curation may eventually become a good thing,
but as you know all too well, there are far too many uses of such tech
that are harmful (e.g. poisoning search results, &c).
It's bills like this that make me hope that encrypted communications software like Silent Circle[1] becomes widespread. It's a good way to make large-scale wiretapping impossible.

Disclosure: I currently work at Silent Circle.

[1]: https://silentcircle.com/
> every other victim of this law would them equally deserve a pardon too

That's not exactly how pardons work. There is no reason to suggest additional people should then be pardoned. When Presidents pardon people, they don't pardon every single person in the country who committed the same crime.
Every time something like this happens people react in quite predictable ways, the creation of Facebook pages is one of the more common ones. Why do people do this? Does it come from social pressure to show just how angry they are with actions, is it just how people cope with terrible news (by doing something even if it's ultimately futile) or is it just another case of humans doing irrational things? My google-fu isn't very good so no results of relevance are coming up, but it seems like there must be a reason behind these reactions.
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> He was guilty.

That the only time a pardon is needed.
Come up with an AI that can play the game of Go well. Then we'll talk.
Linked from their corresponding blog entry: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/12/14/mozilla-in-2012/
Im happy when people dont laught when you tell them about it. Somebody beeing 'more than a bit skeptical' is quite a step up.

I would point you to everything by David Friedman and Peter Lesson. I think they have done the best work in that area.

Edit: If you have questions, the reddit Anarcho Capitalist Subreddit is quite civil as far as reddit goes. So if you have questions you might want to ask there, r/anarcho_Capitalism.
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Sorry to be simplistic, but that rule is the best. If you think you need to pile on someone, don't.

Our primal lizard brains just love to stomp the shit out of someone, so when society gives us signals that it's okay, we love to do it. We must resist this urge before Piggy's head get crushed by a boulder.
> Led to his suicide? I think that is assuming too much.

You mean cutting him off from all of his research and shaming him to all of his peers is assuming too much??
> That itself would set a terrible precedent

Pardons do not set precedent.
Indeed, there was a lot of noise about his desire for broad-sweeping streamlining -- namely dropping projects (or combining projects) and increasing acquisitions.

Notably they stopped projects that had limited adoption.

Incidentally this was also when 20% time fell through and Google Plus really started to be pushed as the centre-piece connecting all other projects.
As a counterpoint, the first JS MVC I tried to use was Backbone.js, and it was really easy for me to learn, much easier than most others that I've tried.
about 3 years back, I suggested KA founder to go offline (even I was ready to contribute) however he declined saying that its not feasible.

I really congratulate Jamie for going ahead and making it happen.
Seems sad, I'd like to see Kurzweil form another startup and get bought by Google, rather than go work for them. I assume he could self-fund something, I don't how his hedge funds are doing.

But maybe he's been there and done that, and wants mucho resources from day one. Maybe the AI space has grown up and it's hard to start up companies now, you need the resources and big data sets to do anything significant? Or he's just after the free lunches.
>(Gawker also changed its story, but proof of the original headline is still in the URL)

You can put anything in the URL you like, as long as the number matches and it passes whatever regular expression gawker runs on those URLs, it will point to the right news story. Hardly conclusive proof that gawker changed the headline when someone can do something like http://gawker.com/5968551/ryan-lanza-is-a-cold-blooded-murde... and the URL bar doesn't even change to reflect the original title.
This page has some serious issues with it's floating header in Chromium on Xubuntu 12.04 http://i.imgur.com/5Z3H6.png
I remember conceiving of the idea of Sql injection all by my lonesome in 1996. When mentioned this thread to my employers, I was old that "we do not to consider such possibilities since they exist in every part of our code".

So there was "no understanding" in only a particular sense of the terms... (I doubt I was the only smart person to conceive of these attacks back in the day)
aha! Coworking mostly fails to ease my anxiety about working alone managing people remotely and i've never quite understood why. So it's not a lack of any human interaction, but rather lack of shared peer interaction, that is so frustrating. That rings true to me.
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This is something I really just learned through experience. I'll frequently just look at the example, type it out, and then immediately start fiddling with it.

I learn coding through doing it myself, not from simply seeing someone else's work.
Either way, they say what they ammended the title from at the bottom of the post.
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"Assumed" is the operating word. A much simpler explanation is that the drone crashed due to a malfunction, the Iranians found the remains, glued and taped it back together (note that they did not show the underside), and then made up the spoofing story for propaganda purposes.

Here is a more skeptical article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/21/spy_drone_hijack_gps...

There has been at least one valid spoofing demo: http://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/archive/2012/todd-humphreys-re...

"During the spoofing demonstration at White Sands, the research team took control of a hovering UAV from about a kilometer away. Next year, they plan to perform a similar demonstration on a moving UAV from 10 kilometers away."

That demo was a much simpler scenario than what the Iranians claimed to have done. The demo was a stationary UAV and it was most likely using the civilian (C/A code) signals rather than the (classified) encrypted P-code. They also knew exactly where the UAV was, and could likely see it.
2-factor has a lot of forms, from trusted third party (authy, duo security, etc) to non-networked app (OATH implementations like google authenticator) to smartcards as part of a PKI, to dedicated hardware tokens (RSA/EMC tokens).

They do not suck. Which one is best for a particular need depends on the service and the user.

Toopher's location awareness looks like an incremental improvement on services like Duo. However, it still depends on a third party (Toopher) in addition to the Toopher-enabled website and the user, and it additionally depends on the device having internet connectivity and having location information (GPS, or rough location from cell towers). Some applications cannot rely on a third party; they only want to require trust in the application servers themselves and the user's device, and not trust of third parties (Duo, Authy, Toopher) or network access (internet, SMS). In those cases you need a OATH app like google authenticator, or a hardware token, or, if you don't want to support mobile access, perhaps smartcards as part of a PKI.

The problem with hardware tokens, which are arguably the most secure, is that they don't scale well: you need one per application, and the marginal cost for each one is not trivial. That's fine if you only need one to access your employer's VPN; the employer decides the cost is worth while, and one thing on your keychain is not a big deal. If you need another one for your bank, another for your primary investment account, another for your employer-sponsored IRA, another for AWS, and on and on, pretty soon you need a man-purse to carry them all, and the services that offer them have to absorb the hardware costs somehow. Either the risk mitigation has to make the costs worth it, or else the service will pass on the costs to you, the customer, in some way.
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We've done about 1 million titles, 1.2 million poems, thousands of vids and games, etc.
How about when the bottom is reached the footer becomes fixed with an X over to the right to close it? That way you never need to chase it and if you want to scroll without it you can just close it. Or rather than requiring a click it can become unfixed after a number of seconds?
That'd be hugely appreciated (at least from me). I've been using nmh+fdm on a trial run for a secondary e-mail account for a bit but would love to see an actual flow blown setup.
This is why Dutch publishers are prohibited to publish last names of suspects (even after conviction). In this case it would be abbreviated to "Adam L.". They even protect the identities of the most notorious killers and terrorists (Volkert van der G., Karst T., Samir A.). The US should do the same, solves a lot of problems outlined in this article.
Solution to the end of the world.
Pages download and execute things all the time. The problems with ActiveX was that it was tied to the Windows API, and that it wasn't sandbox - it wasn't the idea of downloading code.
Having used Dericks (the OP) Marionette package and interacted a few times with him, I can attest he practices what he preaches.