skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger my mother used to tell me that the family that plays together stays together, and that's a pattern I've found repeated more generally in life: I tend to look at my friendship in terms of what people do with me. What activities we engage in together.

Interpretation is all well and good, but if you don't really do anything together what are they interpreting? It's a relationship built on dreams and imagination. And what do they really stand to lose in thinking poorly of you?

I'm actually constantly amazed by how strong friendships are, and how much people seem to respect each other. It seems like most people are only weakly friends, and that more by necessity than anything else. What interests do you really share with people? It's hard to think of having a really serious disagreement with someone from the office - you sympathise with them even if they'd be bores were you to meet them under other conditions.

From my perspective the world seems full of friendships and relationships that people invest heavily in emotionally and yet seem terrifyingly fragile. (Pretty amazing that they don't fall apart more regularly.) Maybe people would be happier and more secure if they paid more attention to the things they enjoy and the people they enjoy them with than being bothered about what just... other people... think of them - I don't know.

For myself, I know that I'd be very worried if it turned out that someone, even someone close to me, regularly spent a significant amount of their time just thinking about me. I have my own life and interests, and expect others to have theirs too - being elevated to some ideal of perfection in someone's world is a little creepy.
My assumption has always been that there's too much data for the vast majority of cases to get anything more than automated analysis.
> If someone uses the technique to inhibit usability or make you dizzy, then shame on them.

You've hit the nail on the head. The problem is that I've seen so many pages that do just what you describe and it causes a knee-jerk response.

Don't get me wrong - when it's done right parallax can be beautiful. It's just too overused.
I've done both and ray tracing techniques are much more complicated and heterogeneous.
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I'm a photographer, i want to be able to offer 150 limited prints to viewers of my website printed onto very specific paper sizes and qualities.
Is this something infraprint can do? How does it integrate into payment systems such as stripe?
Ideally i want to offer the user 1 button to print that takes them through the entire ordering and fulfillment process.
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Network auth timing attacks against hashed passwords
That would be quite annoying with large READMEs. I could see it being useful the first time I view a project, but any time after that there's a good chance that I'd rather see the file list.
I am reminded of the relatively recent poll on HN about whether to use real names.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5721896

At the time, I was of the opinion that using real names was fine because the internet is a public space and one could self moderate. However, one big difference between this public space and public spaces INRL is that this one never forgets. I think this is a significant qualitative difference. With the ability to sift through the past, this means that your past self is not really past. I guess Faulkner was right. Imagine having to explain your past to every new person you meet!
If I understand this correctly, it is supposed to be free to the customer, not the provider. So it is not about whether provider A pays provider B if A's users roam in B's network, but whether A's users pay more to A while roaming.
Let's just all use ( http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ ) and stop arguing.
The government creates foreign policy around the maintenance of oil supplies, which has a very large cost, and is largely a gift to the oil companies. This is reflected in income taxes rather than in the cost of gasoline. There are also large tax breaks given to oil companies. Domestic fossil fuels like coal and natural gas don't get quite the same treatment, since we have plenty.
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I'd argue that the biggest issue is simply that the App Store interface is terrible, and that results load far too slowly. The prominence of the Top List is only a symptom of that.

Suppose you were at at a new bookstore, and each table of books was in its own little room, each isolated from the next. Once you think you want something, you have to unlock the book's acrylic case to take it out and read the dust jacket.

You wouldn't go browsing in that store the way you would at a Barnes and Noble. If the deals were good enough, you might check out the Bestsellers Room and the "Recommended By Our Staff" Room. You might even stop by the "10 Bestselling Books About Home Improvement" Room, if that's what you're looking for. But there's no way you're going room to room to room to room to room in hopes finding something else.

That's the App Store we have.
For FED's that are curious, iOS doesn't fire requestAnimationFrame or update the DOM when the user is scrolling natively, which is why it appears very jumpy on those devices.
Apple discloses US data requests following Prism leaks
Fantastic article. Reading it felt like I was reading a guide on how to become a better coder.

Sidenote: I'm sure to want to reread this in the future. What terrifies me about Medium is that if I'm flipping through my notes, say 5 or 10 years from now, will this link still work?
How do you find a terrorist hidden in millions of gigabytes of metadata?
I wish there was a good way to search code. The input is filtered to be safe, which makes it really difficult to find a specific piece of code (especially when searching all of GH).
And if you connect with your Google account it'll take care of everything automatically. Feels like Google Reader with a red theme.
Papilio one and papilio pro are both under $100

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Massive number of Yahoo email accounts compromised
Many complaints are showing up on Twitter [1] about compromised Yahoo! mail accounts. I received a propagation attempt email today from a friend with a Yahoo! account. The payload was a URL presumably pointing to a malicious web page.

Apparently there is another method to compromise an account besides the malicious web page, as people are reporting old, unused accounts being used to send the emails containing the malicious URLs.

An article today on the UK-based PC Pro site titled "One in ten emails from BT accounts is malicious" [2] discusses the current rash of account compromises on Yahoo! as Yahoo! is the provider for email services offered by BT to its customers.

This is not the first time Yahoo! mail has suffered a compromise recently. An article last January describes an ongoing campaign targeting Yahoo! mail accounts: "How Yahoo allowed hackers to hijack my neighbor's e-mail account (Updated)" [3]

Two articles appeared two weeks ago about Yahoo's email woes, one was: "Yahoo Mail reportedly loses key customer following mass hack attack". [4]

[1] https://twitter.com/search/?q=yahoo%20hacked

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897030

[3] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/how-yahoo-allowed-hackers-to-hijack-my-neighbors-e-mail-account/

[4] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/yahoo-mail-reportedly-loses-key-customer-following-mass-hack-attack/
Speaking as a parent who has left his children to be babysat at houses with both guns and pools, the pools are a far bigger concern. When both are treated as the dangers they can be, neither is a threat. It's much easier to forget about a pool than a gun, though, and a gun is much less likely to be accessible to a child than a pool. Kids who can't swim can fall into a pool and drown before you realize that anything's wrong, and playing around pools is normal kid behavior, while playing with Actual Real Firearms is not.

I wouldn't leave my kids at any place that I felt was going to be a tangible danger to them - be that a house with a pool and a back door that doesn't have a child lock or pool gate, or a house of an irresponsible gun owner, or a house with exposed electrical wiring, or anything else that I feel poses a material threat to my child's life.
Spotify's implementation is actually very clever; they've accomplished it in a way that doesn't involve repositioning background images like nearly every other library out there. They also stick to native functions as much as they can to reduce computational overhead (replace calls to cssText with jQuery's css() function for example, and performance drops dramatically). That said, it only works on devices with CSS transformations, and poorly in IE9 (which is why it is disabled on IE).
The prosecutors say that because Salinas was not compelled to speak that they could have used his silence against him, but (in their view) the only truthful thing he could have said was that his shotgun would match, which would be self-incriminating. Why bother making "compelled to speak" a factor at all if it would be abused like that?

Likewise Alito says that the Fifth Amendment right must be specifically exercised even before the Miranda warning to have any effect, once you've started speaking. What's the point of the Miranda warning then, if not to remind one of their Constitutional rights?

Even refusing to talk to the cops is no longer enough now, since if you're not under arrest and they are not "compelling" you to speak there's no end to the questions that they can ask you where silence or self-incrimination are the only choices.
It's stunning to me how the App Store has so many downloads and so much revenue and yet still is such a huge piece of trash.

It needs to be much faster. It needs to be more engaging. The search needs to be improved. The taxonomy needs a massive overhaul. Users need to be more encouraged to review apps and the review process itself needs to be overhauled. App sellers need to be able to perform legit SEO on their keywords and get insights into where their downloads are coming from. Even buying an app feels sluggish and unresponsive. The recommendation system is crap because they recommend similar apps not complementary apps. The whole thing is just begging to be rebuilt, it's basically the same as when it first launched.

It's a huge optimization problem and it's absolutely embarrassing they are not constantly A/B testing, iterating, and improving the experience. It feels like they have no data science team at all working on this product. The fact that the App Store only changes with iOS updates shows they are approaching this product incorrectly. They should have dozens of experiments running all the time trying to drive up install rates. It's probably the biggest example I can think of where Apple really shows that they are unquestionably not Google.

It's hard to underestimate just how much of a boost Apple will see if they actually build a real, first-class, fast shopping experience into the App Store.
Yes we can do this. However, currently they would have to pay you and you would have to pay us.
Take a photo and upload it to tumblr on every commit
s/come clean about/let us use their system for/
It's mostly because young engineers do not like lifestyle of urban areas. Startups understood the situation and open their office in downtown San Francisco to attract club-going young engineers.
I think these campaigns are great, both for giving these people a chance and drawing attention to cryonics.

But it can't go on, this is not a stable or reliable way to fund cryonics.

Sooner or later the novelty will wear off and the money will run out, or someone just won't be sympathetic enough, and the goal will not be met.

Life insurance is the way to handle this for most people. Charity needs to be for the exceptional cases.
And then the NSA would claim that more people die from falling in bathtubs than due to terrorism, so that the beneficial effect of their efforts, while psychologically quite morale-boosting, is not actually a substantive effect.

I guarantee they win your game of screwed-up logic. Just look at the contortions they're able to make to record phone calls without a warrant. ;)
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Well, for one thing the 9th Amendment doesn't address the problems with the positive rights that most of the other ones establish or acknowledge.
Ok, so how does that work. You're stopped on the road, what do you do? You don't just sit there in the care not saying one word right?
I didn't see "Firewall that thing off from the Internet" mentioned as an option. Not all web apps are public-facing, after all.
He may be trolling, but its probably not far from the truth.

Other than releasing the Android source, Google doesn't really play any part in most Android devices on the market. Further, their store is plagued with malware and shady apps that never get removed. I know because I've reported them and continue to see the same apps by the same developers on the Play Store.

On the manufacturer's side, they rush out devices with subpar hardware (and hardware bugs), build, and software. And getting system updates is a game of prayer.

It's important to remember that for Google, Android is a means to an end: to get people using their services and in turn get eyes on ads and gather demographic info. They aren't selling Nexus devices at cost/a loss for nothing.
>Most new crypto software doesn't even attempt to authenticate ciphertext; cryptographic software developers share a pervasive misapprehension that encryption provides a form of authentication (because tampering with the ciphertext irretrievably garbles the output).

Can you elaborate on this? What is the most common scenario where somebody gets this wrong?
'hedonist, listen to this advice. It's dead right.

You aren't going to collect this invoice in time to solve your pressing needs. So play the long game that 'tpacek suggests.

My suggestions were made on the assumption that your client is a smaller outfit where the nonpayment is due to, well, a desire to not pay you if they can get away with it.

If you're dealing with BigCo your invoice might be in payables hell. Endless followup is sometimes required. I get banks as clients. Sometimes they're fast. Sometimes they're ridiculously slow in paying.
> But I imagine that even the US government would have some significant day-to-day challenges if Google were not available to it's employees (State or Federal).

Oh, you have no idea. Even in the DoD Google is a required element of much of what I do on some weeks.
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Thats fine for someone to say with no apps in the app store.

His previous app kept around 7 - 8 in his category chart and so he definitely benefited from the top charts.

Giving total exposure control to Apple would be an absolute nightmare for most developers that didnt have the exposure Marco does.

There are plenty of good apps, that Apple arent sometimes interested in, that users are, that do well by climbing the charts rather than being picked by some guy in Cupertino.

Marco is completely out of touch.
As long as the overall economy continues to grow, Manhattan real estate continues to appreciate.

Infinite divisibility is irrelevant. That's not the problem. The problem is that the first people on the scene (I.e. Old people) end up with all the wealth.
In some states you have to provide your name.
More than getting rid of the top list is that the App Store has a search model from 1995. Let me buy keywords, run experiments, optimize paid placements, and give me tools to perform SEO for organic search. Let me track conversions more easily and bid on a CPI basis for search placements. Build algorithms to figure out paid vs. legit reviews and use these signals to perform search ranking. Add more metadata to apps and give users more degrees of freedom to explore, rate, and discuss apps. App Store search is just as much of a black box as the day it launched. For crying out loud Apple, just copy Google on this one, and there will be a massive lift in revenue for everyone.
OK? And for Apple, iOS is a means to end: to get people using their services and get their money alongside getting their money upfront. It just so happens that delivering quality experiences are a good way of achieving both Google and Apple's ends. People who hate their phones don't see as many ads as people who enjoy their phones.

But, of course, we are feeding the troll.
What's problems are those? (No snark, just honest confusion)
How well does hardware-accelerated OpenGL work in your VM?
personally the old reader has been the most seamless transition for me. It's pretty much the same as google reader UI but a bit less clean but the important thing is the keyboard shortcuts are all the same.
Huh, a pithy joke about the tendency of news organizations to bury retractions is somehow my most hated comment ever? Color me confused - I still amuse me.
People don't say "south bay" anymore?
He was the one calling it the place a ghetto. As you mentioned, bringing in more economic wealth will surely be better for the skilled and non-skilled alike. My argument is saying too much tech is the problem and then saying but I'm going to teach html is backwards.
Because a curated feed of news that you pick for yourself solves a different problem than a USENET facsimile.
My brother who has a yahoo email account suffered from this. He sent out a weird URL to his whole address book earlier today.
I've always assumed the US gov't does have this computing power and that's why we spend so much on national defense. Besides, when you employ more mathematicians than anyone else, I'm sure you can come up with some smart ways to store big data. Also, I think it would be fairly cheap to just write everything out to tapes or disk and dump them in a closet, even if you don't have the money to load them all in a database (so that you can put them online when technology improves or you have more budget/time). Further, I haven't seen where Snowden clearly retracted his 'direct access' assertion. You might keep some identifiers in a database and the whole dataset on a user can be ingested on demand from Google or whichever company (even if that means sending an automated request to Google which automatically responds by dumping data to FTP).
south bay stops somewhere between mtv and cupertino on the peninsula side.
"If you're being questioned by the police, even subsequent to an arrest, however, your silence should be sufficient."

Post-arrest silence cannot be used against you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle_v._Ohio

Pre-arrest silence can be used against you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_v._Anderson

IANAL
Are they having trouble getting people to download the Vespa app?
As a result, by commoditizing yourself and creating a new unique selling point which is, unique to you, important to your customer (or potential customers) and is defensible against your competition, on top of your SaaS you can increase demand and give yourself the opportunity for highly profitable growth.

I don't follow. Okay so I find a selling point but what exactly makes it defensible or 'unique'?
I had the exact same observation but for another Apple app ecosystem: Game Center. I could not care less how I rank in the global rankings for an iPhone app. Do I care that some 10 kids or idiot savants have scored 100x higher than me? Not really. Maybe if I had actually joined a league or something I would like to know how I ranked globally but otherwise, that's not what you want to show people by default.

There is some pride in knowing that you are one of the 10 best people in the world at the iPhone version of carcassone but that pride gets to be enjoyed by exactly 10 people. Everyone else gets to see their relatively low scores compared to total strangers.
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First impressions and all that but .. Wow, that language bar is pretty jarring - especially when the main language is Javascript (bright red).
You mean like the Paul Revere "what if" article from last week.
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In the past, when he had apps in the App Store, he still said that there should be no "Top" list.
I can't upvote you more than once, so I'll add an "amen" and a personal experience.

A while back a company where I'd been doing contract web dev work had a dual account/project management role come open and offered it to me. I'd done some client-facing work for them before and freelancing on my own, so I thought "How hard could it be?"

Two things I didn't know when I said yes:

* how much work there was for the small team in place -- and because I wasn't replaced as a technical resource, the team had just gotten smaller

* how different development and management work are in terms of headspace. It's very hard to do both simultaneously, because one job requires a lot of immersive concentration, and the other requires near continuous back-and-forth to discuss, track, and push a lot little pieces of information where they need to go.

So... I'd end up having to find non-office hours to do development work, but still had to be "on" and available during normal office hours.

I managed to keep it up for about six months. Kindof. Wouldn't recommend it, though.
It's imprecise to say the exchange was only with Mueller, since Clapper responded to the questions raised in that conversation. Yet another strategy that is adding to the confusing narratives being sown by the government (and that can cause stories to be retracted).
Don't they all have trials? The Play Store does (sure, it's 15 minutes, but that's usually enough for most people).
Both can be made to work quite well for various ANN implementations. Currently GPGPU is a lot more popular because it requires far less hardware knowledge to get going, which translates into much quicker development cycles. For example, the boom of deep learning which has been going on since ~2002 has been largely couched in the massively parallel training of neural networks on GPUs. Some clever folks have written libraries like Theano, which allows you to create computation graphs in python that can be compiled, targeting either CPU or GPU.

In principle FPGAs can be an extremely attractive option, because a well designed implementation could run very fast as scale very well, given that their massively parallel architecture lends itself to the parallel nature of ANNs. A few groups have gone to lengths to implement, for example, a Restricted Boltzmann Machine architecture directly on FPGA, and in raw benchmarks it works well. However, you start to run into practical limitations if you try to apply those archs to real-world problems, because all but the most expensive FPGAs have trouble fitting very large neural net architectures on-chip. Furthermore, the data required to train the nets is often too big to fit in RAM on the chips, meaning you're left with network or SD-card type approaches, which can be cumbersome and slow. I can recall at least one instance where the design explicitly addressed this issue by designing the architecture to be distributed over many hardware linked FPGAs, but even then you still run into the usual parallelism and concurrency issues: you need to balance parallelism overhead against speedups, you run into synchronization issues, and things can become non-deterministic and very difficult to debug.

The bottom line is that it doesn't look like neural network FPGAs or ASICs are there yet. I'm sure there will be more exploration of this space in the future. As it stands right now, neural network training is dominated by GPGPU implementations.