skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is their false matches. For example I looked up cffi (C foreign function interface) library. They decided to add a stock ticker of the same letters despite me never clicking on any stock links.

Any lookups of other things give the same results, such as looking up news stories (eg a plane crash starts tracking flights of the same number) or how many calories there are in a McDonalds burger (starts showing nearest locations). I don't remember the example now but I've had it decide other searches are really for sports teams. (Annoyingly they also don't consider Formula 1 a sport.)

The biggest problem is the functionality is non-deterministic. You can't be sure if a card will appear for flights (eg you look one up you expect to meet tomorrow), and you get unintended junk at other times.

The reason is that Google are taking a superficial approach, almost just doing string matching. They aren't going deeper and figuring out more context (eg did I mean a stock, which day do I care about for a flight, is there any chance I'm looking for a McDonalds versus looking at corporate financials).
I think we're all going to look back at the launch buzz over Siri and wonder what we were thinking (if we don't already). Obviously there is plenty of time for Apple to improve it, but Google Now really beats Siri on every meaningful level. Now that it corrals so much predictive data, having to speak to Siri to get it to do something seems like stone-age era stuff.

Have Apple added much to Siri since it launched? Certainly, I don't remember any big banner features.
The Company That's Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem
Like not getting invited to parties and gatherings if you don't use facebook or not being approached for jobs if you don't use linkedin? We're already there.
Ars Technica has been doing a lot of excellent work recently.
Do you get high population that way? Because that solution is highly effective for low population special taxing districts like Chevy Chase Maryland
It is false color because it has to be.

If you're sending a camera from here to another planet, it makes no sense to send a camera that takes pictures in the same wavelengths that we see so you can claim true color. Instead you pick wavelengths that for whatever scientific reasons you think will be most informative.

And then once you have that information, for humans to understand it, it makes no sense to leave it as raw binary data. Instead you map some of the wavelengths that you've got onto wavelengths that our eyes can see, and trained human eyes can identify and understand features very quickly. But at that point you've got a false color picture.
Visionaries of personal computing - the tee
It's incompatible with standard Javascript libraries, which is why you would use Dommy because you can't use jQuery. The ClojureScript compiler is also fairly slow (due to google closure compiler I think) so even with a running jvm it takes several seconds to compile small example files. To slow for me so I switched back to CoffeScript which is lightning fast.
>This whole thread is making me very pleased I didn't buy a Macbook Pro. It isn't the fact that stuff goes wrong that bugs me, it is the fact that seemingly both the problems and solutions are via "magic." Even people who claim to be very UNIX knowledgable have no idea what is going wrong...

Sounds like rationalizing the non-purchase to me.

Nothing voodoo about how OS X works. Just that nobody bothered to investigate this problem further (and that OS X sandboxing a custom component, and a recent one at that, not some standard UNIX/POSIX functionality, so not everybody is familiar with it). My guess is that the safe-boot thing lets some maintenance scripts run uninhibited by restrictions set in other run levels, which fixes the md issue.

That said, md is just a normal unix process. If you cared enough to find this out, you can see what's going one with fs_usage, you have Dtrace available and other niceties etc.

In any case, nothing unlike the numerous problems people have with the intricacies of selinux.
It's a distinction with a microscopically negligible difference.
I was planing on going the relay/vaccume tube route.
I can't begin to understand how you could make a comparison between a STEM career and music, art, or professional sports. I have worked, directly, for decades as both a professional musician and as a user interface designer, a web programmer, a graphic designer, and an internet marketer. I am a far more competent musician than any of the other skills. My resume in music is in the top 1/100th of a percent. I have been doing music far longer, and with more devotion.

But I can far more easily pay my rent doing any of the other things listed. I can make mediocre user interfaces all day long and cover my mortgage with a week's salary. While doing web marketing on the side. And learn python in my spare time. If I want a world class musician to come to my studio and play, I can probably get them to do it as a favor, or for a small fee. If I want someone to do some coding for me, no amount of money seems to be sufficient. It makes my brain explode when people in computer science try to compare their lifestyle to that of a musician's. I have lived both. They are completely, utterly, unlike each other.
> password management software like 1Password, Keepass, or browser-based, etc.

AFAIK all these programs allow generation of <=64 character password

> but 64 characters seems kind of weak.

A 64 character alpha-numeric password has 36^64 combinations. That's 2^330. You're trillions of times more likely to find a hash collision than brute force the password (assuming 256bit hashes).

Security-wise there is absolutely 0 difference between allowing >64 character passwords and not. From a user experience perspective I'm sure arguments could be made either way
Auto-generate disambiguation pages?

When a search term matches a tag, and none of the tagged pages have a clear "majority probability" of being correct, it would display a list of all pages with the tag, in order of popularity.
“Criminals attempt to victimize our customers in various ways and we’ve found the vast majority of attacks are through […] and the reuse of passwords on third-party sites—none of which are helped by very long passwords.”

I'd actually disagree with this assertion. If I can just prefix my insecure password (let's say "password123") with "Microsoft", it becomes both more secure, essentially distinct from the password on other sites, and easy for me to remember. If the limit is just 16 chars, then I can't do that.
On Android it turns on the GPS once every 30 minutes to update your location. If another app turns on the GPS it'll take the opportunity and update then and reset the 30 minute timer.

When I got Android 4.1 with Google Now my battery life actually got better (presumably because of improvements made throughout the OS) so it's hard to say what impact it has on battery for me.
Non-false color image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia1494...
Dealing with Insecurities
I think the same thing was happening with medium.com, not sure if they fixed it. But On my phone i could not scroll down.
Haha, I was just thinking that myself.
We got out of the great depression by turning labor into bombs and destroying the results of productivity. And by hiring people to kill people.

It really can't get more unproductive than that.

Sure, I'm all for doing something productive -- that's icing on the cake. I'm not for using it as an excuse to do nothing.
Playtomic shuts down, open sources software
Plenty of webforums use text ad-links interspersed with content for unlogged-in guest users.
It's obvious companies want to increase H1-B for hiring top talent at lower salaries.

An amazing programmer in India or China probably makes 1/10th of what he would make in America, but they don't know this. They'll be recruited to America on H1-B but they won't contend their salary, they'll be happy making 2x or 3x their previous salary, even if it's 45k/year. Their ability to negotiate salary will be further hindered by a strong possibility of poor-English skills, therefore inability to communicate well.
Obama didn't say his tax rate was too high, so that isn't relevant.
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Why do you assume other planets don't have temperature differences powered by the Sun?
For what its worth my previous boss seemed to share the same characteristics as Steve Jobs. At times I didn't like him much but he had two redeeming qualities. He was hard on everyone including the server guys who were giving me the run around. Secondly he worked bloody hard! If I asked him to review something, he really would review it. He replied all my emails in detail. When I told him what I needed he would apply his energies to getting what I needed, then it would be my turn to deliver.

Now that I don't work for my former boss I do miss his ability to get things done. I guess the moral of the story is people can get away with Jobs' like attitudes as long as they deliver themselves. Being shitty without the hard work will lead to failure and very unhappy environments. Is it worth it I don't know.
Just think of how many pages such an article could be bloated out to!
Financially, at least, they're doing fine; record revenue almost every quarter.
Nope, what typically happens is the account gets locked out and requires a confirmation sent to the account's email address to unlock it.
That is exactly it. Thank you SO much!
yes, it is really a pale copy of Woorank.

I hope he will incorporate different features, and opt in for a UI that is more distinct from Woorank's...

Funny also that it's presented here as a 'mone Month project' although articles from Aug. 2012 speak about it: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/statsgram-check-website-trafic-...
> Adding support for spaces only in the middle of the password would make the regular expression defining them three times longer, Engberg said.

My fucking god, because obviously you can't trim it then apply your bloody regex.
While I see the value in this, couldn't you just utilize lists to work in your favor?

ie - make a list of the ~100 accounts who are of the highest value to you and rely heavily on that stream.

There are just so many interesting people out there (I follow ~750 accounts).
A recent favorite example of example of terrible password requirements, VMWare VDP. The appliance requires exactly 9 characters, no more, no less.

Personally, I'm most aggravated by services with uneven complexity requirements. It seems pretty often that I run into situations where special characters are required but underscores are forbidden, things of that sort.
It was in a calendar (this case G+). It's not going to know you don't want a reminder for something because it's not a human and it can't read your mind.

I'd rather have it remind me of things that I don't want to be reminded of than not be reminded of things I do.
gwern talks about it a bunch on his site [1].

[1]: http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#the-ed...
Managers to Millennials: Job Interview No Time to Text
Holy graphene: Giving batteries a boost with graphene and tiny holes
Could IGZO be the technology that pulls Sharp away from the edge of bankruptcy? Or is there not enough money in panel manufacturing?
Hmm, maybe just send them directly to an addiction treatment program would work?
No, we should not enforce laws efficiently, because that weakens the protection against tyranny. We want law enforcement agencies to have to jump through hoops so that tyrannical and oppressive laws are hard to enforce. The reason the US government is so inefficiently organized is to thwart the establishment of tyranny. Yes, it means that people who creep us out, who are "obviously" guilty, and whom we personally want to punish will continue to walk free. As H. L. Mencken famously said,

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
Is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence science?
Solar powered plane to fly around the world
I don't care for 1000+ pixel wide pages (like the OP's site). And why do all the CSS bootstraps have such lousy left margins? There should always be a least a little padding there.
Well, I'd pay, say, $10 a month for a service that was simple, offered some retry algorithms, logged responses, gave me a nice UI for the whole thing and worked reliably (unlike dynos on Heroku, which are nuked regularly.)

Not rocket science, to be sure, but I'd rather not build and maintain the infrastructure.

Or I'd rather build and maintain only that infrastructure.
At the time of my reading and comment, the Ars text says a minimum of 6 and maximum of 8.
Internap Compromised
Seems like you would still need to provide something like syntax objects and a special API to manipulate them?
Supreme Court rules states can limit FOIA requests to their own citizens
Passphrases are lame.

You use the "passphrase" thing in a system that silently ignores the extra characters (see below for "brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab" which does just that), and "wonderful undefeated password ftw" becomes "wonderful" (trivially cracked with a dictionary attack). Pwned.

Or you get your way, and, as a naive user, use a common passphrase, included in more involved attacks. Like "rage against the machine", "let me in", "my secret password", "empire strikes back", etc. Pwned.

Or you end up with 30 passphrases in 30 different systems. Or, since a lot of them don't allow long password, you end with a mix with passphrases and short passwords.

Might as well have used a password management app with cryptic generated passwords all along.
Wider shot, sadly sans colour, but plus another awesome weather phenomenon: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130220.html
To add to your fun fact: the reason that most of the planets spin in the same direction is that the solar system formed from a single giant rotating disc of rocks and debris.

I have found that to be endlessly fascinating - that the reason the planets dance together in harmony is because of their common and violent birthing process.
But here's a "natural-color" image of the same hurricane:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia1494...

"Images with red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural-color view, which is what the human eye would see if we were there at Saturn."
>> Again the time saving comes from macros moving the work of parsing the template data structures from runtime to compile-time and directly generating efficient JavaScript.

If it ends being javascript string in the ends, how is it 7x faster (or whatever number)? I mean, sure the compiler could optimize a part of my code, but other javascript compiler could do it to.. right?

Although I find the Clojure example very sexy, I don't like how the examples tries to compare to contrived Javascript. I.e. I've been coding javascript for a couple years and I've never used jQuery "sort/filter/slice". But more importantly, it uses pre-defined function in Dommy but not in javascript. For instance:

(->> (sel [:ul.my-list :li])
(sort-by #(-> % (sel :input.last-name) .-value))

This uses sort-by where there's:

function(a, b) {
return (
$(a).find('input.last-name').val()
.localeCompare(
$(b).find('input.last-name').val()
)
);

in Javascript.. Obviously, I can say:

$('ul.my-list li').sortBy(function(x) { return x.attr('last-name'); }

My point isn't that much that jQuery is longer/shorter, but mostly that if two examples in two different languages are to be compared, it makes sense to use the same function.. where in this case sort-by is a high-level sort.

>> One is the loneliest number

It's not just "1" or "more than one", it's also zero. Iterating on a list makes it such that you can freely think in a high-level way about the operation and not about the exceptional cases. I.e. $('.blabla').hide(); It Just Works.

>> (mapv #(add-class! % :first-ten-adults)))

Yes, of course you can use map.. but using $('..').addClass('first-ten-adults') makes it so much easier to deal with, instead of knowing what works on one object, what works on multiple objects, what will throw an error if there's nothing, etc.

Meh.

I think Dommy is a great library but the author didn't do a great job at explaining why it rocks. I guess attacking a very popular language with its most popular library doesn't help :p
> Well, if you take some of that potion and mix it with the power of Google Glass, and you have something remarkable: an app that lets you see the world in real time through other people's eyes.

That is the essence of what I dislike about Google Glass. It's the idea that somehow if we record our experiences it's somehow enriching them. It really does the opposite, it cheapens them. People don't get excited about watching videos of live music, they're more likely to watch a recorded music video with higher production quality.

> Using location data and the camera on a smartphone, Color could create a temporary "real-time" visual social network - one built around taking the photographic experience you were having right now and sharing it with the people nearby.

Yeah, except then everybody is too occupied inside of their virtual world to actually share anything of value. The world around you is happening around you, not on your phone. Glass may attempt to blur the line between your virtual world and what's happening around you, but ultimately your brain will either be paying attention to one or the other.

> Imagine the nexus of Google Glass and Color at, say, a concert at a sold out stadium: the band is all wearing Glass, and with a simple voice command, you're watching the show from the lead singer's perspective.

This is just too gimmicky. I could imagine Google sponsoring a concert and having the band do that, but I don't think it would catch on. What's the point? If you're just trying to get a great view of the show without actually being there in person, buy a professional recording of it. I think people love going to live shows for bigger reasons than just what they can see and hear, and that's the only thing Glass can extract from the experience.
I don't think it would be a good idea if wikipedia required that you to run Javascript to navigate the site, and it would make for pretty bad SEO.
how so? cutting off an IP after many failed passwords is good security anyway. Only side affect may be if someone's machine is infected and taking part in the attack they get locked out while it goes on.
I was with you a few comments back, and I think I agree with your overall direction, but in nitpick land, I think the details of your argument have gone off the rails a little, here.

I think it's not clear that "society" "wants" copyright to exist. Society, or at least the collection of individuals composing society, is pretty clearly conflicted on the subject. People want to retain creative control over their own work, to a degree that is clearly insane and impossible. And simultaneously people (some of the same people!) want to be allowed to do whatever they feel like with the works of others, to a degree that is... dubious. The sum of these positions is not clear.

And in any case, the legal status quo does not derive from any such sum. It derives largely from Disney's lobbying, as you acknowledged.

And in fact, what society does about statuses quo is not "take the bad with the good", and "try to change the law". Historically, that's not how the law gets updated. I'm not personally drawing an equivalence between copyvio and e.g. slavery or e.g. marijuana policy or e.g. religious intolerance... but hopefully those examples will demonstrate that in most cases the law follows popular sentiment and disobedience, not leads.
Would it be possible to (document how to) replace jQuery in Backbone apps with Dommy?
Having no left margin or padding like this site might do the trick too.
I'm thinking if it says '15 days trial', then after the 15 days you could probably pay the service provider some $$ to continue using the service. hence it wouldn't be a total waste.

I could be wrong though.
The Black Metal band "Fell Voices" [1] is using the uncolored image in OP as the album art for their next record "regnum saturni" [2]. Beautiful picture with or without color!

[1] http://fellvoices.blogspot.com/

[2] http://fellvoices.blogspot.com/2013/03/regnum-saturni-europe...
Show HN: A "Flat UI"-style color scheme for your text editor
I'm all for friendly URLs, but my point here is that there is no point having URLs that look friendly when they don't work friendly because they are ambiguous. Addresses, in large swaths of the world, are not reliable. Yes, most countries in the world are able to get mail from A to B somewhat reliably over the matter of days, but not always without human intervention. That's not good enough. Having URLS that work "most of the time", just because you want them to look "nice" is engineering masturbation. It doesn't serve the user at all.

> put in an exact mailing address, and get a pin on a map. Therefore, one can obviously parse an address from a URL, and get the same pin on a map.

Yes, in some places this works... most of the time. In others it doesn't. That's not good enough. Worldwide geocoding is hard. Reverse geocoding is even harder.
If you press shift when you use your scroll-wheel you scroll horizontal.

Apparently that isn't nearly as widely known as I thought.
Crysis 3 running at 3840x2160 on Sharp PN-K321
I'd love to use Clojure and clojurescript to replace js/ruby. It's a shame I never come across consulting gigs that use it. Or know any local clojure devs, so I'm still wary of using it on my own projects.

So it continues to only be the ideal choice for pet projects.
The regexp might be longer to write, but I doubt it would perform worse, once compiled.
They didn't find "clever ways to issue mortgages to unqualified borrowers". Simply put the US government guaranteed all the mortgages via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by law. The law passed by Congress in 1990s to increase number of homeowners among minorities was to guarantee all the bad loans by the Government. So from a banker perspective it didn't matter if a borrower will repay. Because if he doesn't than the tax payer will by the law. So, ultimately, it's government fault. And democracy fallacy that voters vote for idiotisms like this and then complain that "banks are greedy".
"Cash is King, Annual pre-pay is God"
I'm extremely interested in this component based system -- I'm currently working on a project in the Seaside framework for Smalltalk and have fallen in love with the composability offered by this approach. However, I'm also a fan of Clojure, and it also seems like Clojure has a stronger community at this time. I'd be very happy if you release this at some point!
HTTP the protocol every web developer must know
There is part two already available too.
It's true that SJ built a high pressure work environment, but I bet if you asked any Apple engineer, they would all admit they produced some of their life's best work under that culture.

It may seem draining and offensive after the fact, but in the moment being pushed to your max, you really can change the world.

No one is against more positive work places, but not everyone can handle hostile ones, so there is an allure to that in itself.