skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say I enjoy your company's forthright communication style. Glad apple's control freak diva routine didn't stop your project.
Sorry, forgot to take off Google's params crap.
Note the patents IV discusses in their dealings with the press: e.g. one for zapping malaria-carrying mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers. Surely, the entrepreneurs are lining up to bring that invention to the wealthy markets of the Dark Continent and the rest of the Third World. Right after they introduce Bill Gates' high tech toilet. In all seriousness, the sad truth is some projects will not be driven to completion by market forces. They require "brute force" (personal wealth and force of will) to make them happen. Gates' push for a malaria vaccine was one. Glaxo, as a "rational actor", would not have finished that project if not for all the free Gates Foundation funding. Truly an amazing achievement. However, his former CTO appears to be cut from a different cloth. His brute forced idea is IV. Not, e.g., a device to kill malaria carrying parasites with lasers, or any other such noble invention (they have plenty of examples to feed the press I'm sure), but a company to _license_ that invention, for a _price_... _if_ it can find a _suitable_ licensee. Big difference. Back in the real world...

Finding suitable entrepreneurs to take great ideas covered by someone else's patents forward is not how IV makes money. (Nor is it usually how great ideas reach the market. Theoretically of course it sounds great.) Rather, IV threatens successful businesses with lawsuits based on allegations of infringement of patents IV controls - low quality patents that would likely be partially or wholly invalidated were they to be re-examined or challenged in court. The targets of IV's threats are faced with the option of either challenging the patents (made more difficult through aggregation and extensive use of shell companies) or paying fees. The latter is less expensive, so they pay the fees.
Many front end designers do a good amount of front end development, and the reverse is also true. At least most that I've met.

If design is most important, you want a front end designer, and specify that CSS/JS experience is preferred. If development is the focus, ask for a developer who knows their way around Photoshop/Illustrator and ask for some design examples to see if they have the design chops you need.

There are some out there who are amazing at both but they will cost ya.
I wondered about the revenue sharing for a bit before realizing Google didn't take a financial hit from the fake views. If anything, they profited. It's the advertisers who took any hit by paying for ad space that was only seen by bots.
New programming languages have been the downfall of many a great tech company, but not nearly as many as "focusing on your flagship product" to the exclusion of a changing world.

Rust, Typescript, Go, Dart are all awesome. I'd love to see any one of them change the world of development.
The AWS Management Console was recently redesigned with Bootstrap.
First, Rust is a handful of people working on a research project.

Electrolysis was "put on hold" because there were better ways to make Firefox a more responsive browser, now. That's projects snappy and supersnappy. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy and http://taras.glek.net/ and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718121 -- the final bug being what I think will make Firefox a great browser again.
fast hashing is bad for storing one way functions of passwords because it makes them easier to attack and make many guesses about the original value from the transformed value, hence all the noise about using slow "key derivation functions" instead. for all other common use cases, faster is better, all else equal.
Slow hashing is usually bad, except for password-derivation functions.
TL;DR http://www.google.com/finance
I'm not sure how this app works, but Snapchat takes certain precautions to make screenshotting more difficult (the most obvious one being that you have to hold your finger on the screen or the image disappears, but I think there are also some technical safeguards as well). And as someone else pointed out, it tells the sender if the receiver screenshotted, which allows you to in formally determine whether or not you trust this person in the future.
Password hashes and general-purpose crypto hashes are not the same thing. If it helps, try using the technical term for the kinds of functions cryptography offers for password hashing: key derivation functions (KDFs).
You can buy any pc from store.microsoft.com or the physical microsoft store and that would come with no crap/bloatware
I'm pretty confident that most comments that start with "not to nitpick" would be better sent to /dev/null. Nitpicking is usually a sign that deeper, more interesting arguments aren't available, but negativity must reign supreme!

Shouldn't it be said that it is powered by vacuum energy, since that is what kicked of the Big Bang? (And, before anybody tells me I'm wrong, let me say, "I'm wrong!" Instead of telling me I'm wrong, educate me. I love learning about this stuff, and I know my knowledge is weak.)
True randomness is a system that say generates a 10 digit number and 11111111 has the same odd's as appearing as the other permutations. But then thats not strictly true as we all know any system that monitors the outcome (a good example will be fruit machines) to make sure there is a even distribution of all permutation will in essence remove that level of definition we like to think as truely random.

With that it gets hard to truely say what is random or what is a as yet unknown pattern. This is why many have taken the approach of not having a single source of random numbers but use many and average out from there. There again is that random as the chances with such an approach of getting a high or low value would be biased out.

So with that I postulate one mans random string is another mans non-random string. So with that I define randomness as a yet undertermind sequence or a data. So the included Dilbert post is with that extreemly clever and totaly true.
It must be back up, it works for me.
Yeah, domains seem like a desperate solution. Will be interesting to see what eventually becomes the standard.
It still seems to me like, if you have thousands of open tabs, it is your browsing habits that need to change- not Firefox. How often will you even look at the 1,925th tab?

Firefox has a perfectly good bookmark system.
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Yeah I don't believe I use any of those.

I'm confused about your statement, though -- are you saying that that specific MS page requires SL, or that the sites listed require SL?

If it's the former, well, that's expected as it is a MS site, and I qualified my prior statement with regards to such.

If it's the latter, I think it may be a stretch to say that SL is "required"; more than likely, it's used for a specific widget on each of those sites, which probably isn't integral to that site's core functionality.

For instance, I see NBC listed on there, but that seems to only be for the Olympics. I watch The Office on nbc.com, but I can see in the source that it's definitely a Flash player.
I'm just taking a look at [1], and they're typing mongo inserts into the javascript console on the browser. I assume this is only enabled when in some kind of development mode?

[1] http://meteor.com/screencast
Final Fantasy XIV did this very well in my opinion. They designed for the economy right from the start, and everything revolves around that (and the amazing graphics, music, and exploration), rather than spells, grinding, and raids.
Fix Installous API Error on iPhone iPad & iPod Touch
A combi oven does what you want: it creates a temperature-controlled humid environment, but uses steam instead of a circulating water bath. Unfortunately, they're extremely expensive.

You don't have to bag the food, for whatever it's worth. You don't even have to use water as your cooking medium; people have circulated butter for lobster. But the bag prevents the flavor from the product from leaching out into the cooking liquid and being diluted away.
Hey lucb1e, thank you for your feedback.

In answer to your questions:

do you support Symbian?

Unfortunately not, it only works for android.

Does it integrate with the OS; Whatsapp; Nimbuzz? Pidgin on Linux?

It basically is fully tested on the native android text messaging app, and it should work for anything that sends out texts, provided they are up to specification and broadcast the standard events.

Thank you for taking the time to comment, and I appreciate your feedback.

-Yevgeny Chertov
My point is that the $1 message would only want to be seen by people who would make more from it than they value the time spent to read it, and companies would only want to send to people who they want to reach for the money, and could not reach for less - and the region between those two constraints is shrunk by the middleman's cut. I'd guess that mostly the only people who want to sit through $1 spam are on a boring conference call or unemployed, people who aren't good prospects. The better prospects would rather do an hour of consulting or work on a promotion.
Does IV stand for "Intellectual Vultures"?
TBH that could work. I remember lots of talk in the late 90s about messaging systems where you'd pay the recipient of an email -- there was a not-great-but-good-ideas sf book, I think Earthweb, which had a great moment where a character, feeling crowded by another, bumped up his price for receiving messages from non-contacts to a high amount and realised the other character was in earnest when they paid that amount. Often thought it would make a good startup, though I don't doubt that it's been done and didn't work out for one reason or another.
Well no, if you look at the whole sky then obviously you'd see more stars in the direction of the galactic centre (the milky way) than in the opposite direction, but if you consider only a small sliver of sky the results would be pretty close to being truly random.
This is indeed the pitch that publishers use to get subject matter experts to write books. But as Patrick keeps saying, if you're in a position to successfully pitch yourself as a subject matter expert for a book, you can make the same pitch for something more lucrative.

For the amount of effort that goes into writing a book, the deal major publishers get from authors borders on predatory. I have a lot of friends who have written books, and I'm not sure any of them really benefited from it.
1. Ask about neighbors and noise.

2. Check the voltage output. Many older places can't handle too many wattage and the circuit breaker can flip easily. Sucks for tech folks.

3. Drive around and check how ease of turning out into traffic is. Some places royally suck and makes it insanely more time consuming.

4. Personal but ask about typical things like washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc...

5. Check how strong or weak a toilet is. I've had a toilet in the last that almost always clog even with constant flushing to ensure nothing is in there. They eventually had to replace the entire toilet.

6. If its a brand new construction, especially large condo complexes, stay clear. Tons of random issues will come up.

7. Check deposit and move in fees, policy.
May be the case that it was coded with one version of a programming language and upgraded later and the newer version changed the handerling of rounding. Believe python from 2.0>3.0 had some difference along those lines and whilst on the surface may not mean much they can add bias into what you get dropped as rounding and somebody adding .5 will never get the low value with some rounding as it will always round 0.5 or > to 1 as apposed to some which demand at least be > than 0.5 . Yes there are standards, but they advance and evolve over time and we all know intergers are completely different from floats.

Last thought, if there was a truely random number generator then why do fruitmachines have control systems to monitor the distribution and with that what is paid out to maintain that x% payout to comply with laws that say x% of money taken has to be payed out. Mostly 70-80%, but does vary and whilst the legal min may be say 70%, some casino's and the like will generaly have a higher % payout in a promenant place, just so people think it's even higher.
We're saved! This Poke app must be what averted the Mayan disaster.
> The second question is whether the TSA's more onerous policies, like use of full-body scanners and bans on liquids, prevent fatal bombings of airliners (not hijackings).

The thing most people don't know is that the reaction of Acetone and Hydrogen Peroxide produces nothing but heat. If mixed in the bathroom out of the smell of anybody, it can be left in a bottle and looking like pure water. It will slowly crystallize acetone peroxide as the reaction occurs. Given enough time - like a 7 hour flight - you could have sufficient quantities of highly reactive acetone peroxide crystals that would likely go off at the slightest movement even while still in a liquid. So screw the bathroom, it's under any seat in any backpack.

Most people think of the anarchist cookbook method that uses an acid to form it, which works in creating DADP or TATP which are the more stable variants. However they require a lot of ice, and still take a lot of time anyway.

Even a water bottle full of the mixture would produce a sizeable amount of explosive (assuming using 30% hydrogen peroxide). The fucked up thing being I can grab a can of acetone and a can of hydrogen peroxide (wood stain remover) at home depot for under $20.

The only question is how do you get it in? Boil a bottle of water and you can pop the lid off it without breaking the seal, keep that in boiling water, refill the bottle with what you want, take the lid out and push it back over, when its cooled it looks like new. I've gone to enough concerts to know how to sneak a bottle of rum in.

I really wouldn't want to be on the plane when a guy was allowed to mix together two 1L water bottles to make almost a lb of primary explosives that detonate with almost twice the force of TNT.
I don't know that X86 can't grow over time (servers) but I think you're spot on that dirt cheap chips, and big companies that want to keep them dirt cheap, are in some sense Intel's deeper problem. Intel could make up any given technical gap eventually, but it's hard for them to shut down competition when other, very well-funded players want to maintain it.

But on the flipside, ARM right now is very, very low-end -- the fancy new Cortex-A15s only match up against Atoms in single-thread CPU performance, and Atom < ULV < LV < desktop/server. You get away with it in mobile because of lower user expectations and heavy use of the GPU. When you look a little further out (Cortex-A53/57 on newer processes) you can picture ARM in actual client computers, or at least in super-zippy mobile gadgets that some people will happily replace their computers with. (Consumer software will probably adapt to an ARMy world too--use the GPU well, adapt to slower cores, use UI tricks to hide some CPU-caused delays.)

But I can't see an ARM chip that acts exactly like a Xeon within the next few years. I bet ARM finds some niches in the datacenter, where servers today have far more CPU than they need, or applications adapt well to a sea of tiny slow cores, or both. (For instance, Facebook uses AMD memcached boxes; they could just as well use ARM, and are looking at it. Intel will make cheap slow cores for those use cases, too.) And I bet ARM will put some price pressure on Intel. But all the things a top-of-the-line Intel chip does to maximize instruction-level parallelism will be really hard for anyone to copy for a very long time.
So Facebook implements an anti-spam measure that people have been clamoring for since the early days of slashdot and that makes them the bad guys?
Free Cities Are Coming, With or Without Honduras
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That's a lot of text to throw at two simple words
Isn't the ordering of the Hobbit scenes on the graph backwards? The unfamiliar scenes ("orc-filled battlefields ...") are more acceptable because they are less like the real life we know & love than the familiar ones ("... a character standing in the doorway"). So they are on the less realistic (left) side of the Uncanny Valley, not the more realistic (right) side.

Other than that, I think your argument works.
I met patio11 at TwilioCon, and just chatting less that 20 minutes with him I learned a ton.

Needless to say, I just bought the book.
Austin Police Arrest Santa
What is this? Just photoshop files of startup websites you made?
I really like the drive around and check out ease of turning out into traffic. That's one that I've buggered up before.
Although I don't have a christmas themed night or dinner planned, if anyone in the Eindhoven NL area wants to meetup that night with me and my girlfriend I'd be up for hosting something. Let me know @ salmasi[AT]gmail.com
"The Black Arts of SaaS Pricing" - copywriting hat tip ;)
Which makes PSY hitting a billion all the more impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
This is not a new idea. Cuckoo clocks, which is common in germany, works without a battery. we need to pull up the weights everyday.
Right, so we just throw out the ones with gibberish and brute-force the remainder.
Right. But the grandparent comment was suggestive of the possibility that he or she wanted the mirror to fulfil multiple roles, including being the backup.
Not sure where you got these numbers. Software is ~150B business, and patent trolling is a ~22B business, or, roughly 15% of the entire industry.
Just that, yes!
a masterpiece!
Consumer Satisfaction and Why iTunes Match seems even worse than it is.
The advantage of this lamp over a spring powered wound clock would be that it emits light. The disadvantage is that it's comparatively poor at keeping the time.
Ask HN: What are some examples of great software specification?
I'm hoping to get some good feedback from HN on some examples of excellent work on software design.
Hearing music with Lisp at Stanford in the 1980s
The issue was much worse than Unicode support.

Ruby natively supports multipleincompatible Japanese encodings, including Unicode and shift-JIS. This is a lot harder than just marking off a Unicode checkbox.
Congrats on the book, Patrick! I think that is a feat that a lot of hacker news readers hope to accomplish one day. I know I fall in that category.

Anyway, I really appreciate the earnest care you took in talking about the book in this linked-to post. You didn't publish "20 blog posts" in the book. You published "20 essays that appeared in your blog." Now I haven't read all of your blog. And for a few parts of a second, reading the word "essays" (instead of "blog posts") made me think you had some kind of book-marketer coach this enunciation. But, I have read enough of your blog where I think I know what you mean. I have definitely made posts in my own blog because I have felt it's been too long and I have needed to make a post. But, on the other hand, I have also had a teensy-handful of posts because I had something itching at the back of my head that needed to come out. Maybe I would call these essays. I would definitely try to distinguish them in my mind from just another "blog post."
can anyone explain to me why this comment would be downvoted?
Typingpool: Automate Mechanical Turk audio transcription with a Ruby gem
Right. So I understand. People seem to have started reporting issues since early December. I know you COULD do it on Verizon ...I wouldn't have considered them otherwise. It's just disappointing that they appear to have made a recent decision to change that.
Here is an article on how to assess whether your data sample is "random enough": http://goo.gl/opl52
Actually, it was impossible to restrict updates when the screencast was made -- the Meteor "auth" system just landed a few months ago, and now it's possible. (You can provide your own update methods that do authentication before proceeding, and then disable the direct Mongo updates.)
It's also worth noting that Blizzard recognized this and "fixed" it in their questing system by progressively improving the drop rates of quest items for players, which provides a natural upper limit on "bad streaks" for quest drops, as a means of reducing player frustration without removing all randomness from the system.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/57886/blizzard-details-secr...
Big iOS 6 uptick linked to China launch, not Google Maps
Story time:

Two years ago, I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad with the intention of running Linux. I bought it from the Microsoft Store website, because it was $200 cheaper than buying it from Lenovo (even with discount codes from dealnews.com)

So, as I was checking out, the store asks me if I would like to pay $80 more for "Microsoft Signature" setup. Given that I was going to run Linux, I was already upset at the implicit Windows tax, and declined without even checking what "Microsoft Signature" was. Especially since the whole thing was $650, so $80 is almost a 15% increase.

Three days later, I get the thing, and the box says "with Microsoft Signature". I first looked to see that they did not charge me for it. And then, just before calling to shout at them for installing crapware I didn't ask for, I checked what "Microsoft Signature" really means. Lo and behold, it means "Lack of manufacturer crapware".

Microsoft was offering to charge me $80 more so that I would only get Microsoft software out of the box.

(The Intel Inside and Win7 stickers were still there, however)
Go by at night. Sometimes neighborhoods that are fine by day are sketchy after dark.

Even better if you can get inside the apartment at night. It's probably when you'll spend most of your time there, and the lighting and neighbor noise levels will be different.
Backbone.js. I'm a backend developer but need to get up to speed on the new ways of doing the frontend.