skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've upgraded my phone 3 times so far (3G -> 4 -> 4S -> 5) and no issues with migrating Google Authenticator settings. I do have the habit of wiping out all my music but that's because I never bothered to setup iTunes properly (plus my desktop is Linux so I run it in a Windows VM).

I'm not too worried about the restore not working as I have the single use codes securely saved as well (and tested). If I lost my phone or bricked it during an upgrade I can just use those to set things up again in ~15 minutes.

I consider that process superior to waiting to get a new phone. More importantly on a day to day basis (eg the normal case where you don't lose your phone) it's more secure as it can't be MITM without getting the TOTP secret either from my phone or from the system I'm authenticating against.
Yet another article who supposes everybody uses Mac. Up until you reach the 'dependencies' part you realize it's for OS X only.
Agreed. If you look at the evidence we're doing quite well:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

(The iPhone 5 is 2.5x faster than the 4S and 12x faster than the iPhone 1)
Stop giving out corn welfare to corporations and problem solved.

It's the ONLY reason why it's so heavily used.

Corn syrup and ethanol - two massively damaging products of a completely corrupt system that everyone refuses to change because of massive profits off taxpayers.
Even if you accept that giving web apps 10x more CPU than today they'd be equal to today's native apps (I don't accept this), you must acknowledge you've given 10x more CPU to the native apps too. And clever people will find impressive ways to use that CPU in native's advantage (witness all the neat physics stuff in IOS7).
It makes me wonder...in the faced paced tech world today, where things appear as fast as they disappear, what the odds are of finding a title that stands the test of time.
I've always wondered whether the creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del was aware that the MIT Lisp Machines were rebooted with Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout, or if this is just a case of convergent reinvention. Does anyone know?
Dynamic programming already has a meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
The points in the post were selected for narrative value rather than accurate representation. Repeated use of misleading statistics is a strong hint as to purpose. I've lived all over the US and, like you, I've never really seen this problem. Americans are no more or less provincial than the people anywhere else in the world.

Ironically, the author essentially commits the sin he is accusing other Americans of, painting a large group of diverse people with caricatures and stereotypes invented and reinforced by mass media. The US has a common language (with some exceptions) but there is not a common culture except in a a very loose sense.
I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P
And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the common belief seems to be. Way over 90% of problems I witnessed myself was duewas dues to faulty software, drivers or hardware. And as you say it just got better with most releases which is (just guessing) partly due to less OS bugs and partly due to the OS taking better care of dealing with bad 3rd party software.
Performance anxiety for a whole class of devices that DIDN'T EVEN EXIST a few years ago, enabling GIANT NEW MARKETS.

'Our world is coming to an end.' Gotta love it.
I found this scholarly article to be a concise summary of many interesting points: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf ("What we know about the Voynich manuscript" by Reddy S. and Knight K.).
After Perl everything else is just assembly language.
The author's point number 8:

"We're Status-Obsessed and Seek Attention"

and he proves it at the end of the article:

"You should like Thought Catalog on Facebook here."
Show HN: NameMonk – fast domain search using web sockets and Bloom filters
That's certainly true, but for what kind of use case do you need 1 million rows? It think that 1000 is already a lot, and if you exceed this, maybe it's better to design the app in a way that you need fewer rows...
Nitpick: the technical term here would be "sex", not "gender". "Gender" seems to be used as an animal's social-sexual identity, whereas "sex" is an animal's actual biological reproductive sex. The word "gender" was originally linguistic, for example it was used to refer to the gender of spanish nouns. The use of "gender" to describe one's social-sexual role was popularized by the feminist movement in the 70s, who believed that social distinctions based on sex are largely arbitrary.

Anyways, gender is a fairly modern term and it certainly doesn't refer to the sex of an animal. Although, for most animals I would guess that their gender and sex are the same, unless sexual camouflage is used in that species as a reproductive strategy. Humans are unique in divorcing sex (and gender) from reproduction.
Hey HN, I wanted to show you a site that I've been working on. It provides super fast domain lookup using WebSockets to a custom domain lookup server in EventMachine and a set of overlapping Bloom filters. Would love your feedback!
This is more or less correct, but I think the author exaggerated the "non-noteworthiness" of the USA in order to make a point. While the rest of the world may not care about an individual US citizen, they all pay close attention to the country as a whole. They do this because the USA makes a HUGE impact on the world stage and not paying attention to us isn't an option. Just about every news broadcast in the rest of the world will have a short bit on "what's going on in America." Granted, the things the rest of the world thinks are important (who are we invading now, who did we make angry) are not the same things that CNN thinks are important (the popular murder trial, Kim Kardashian's baby's name). The USA casts a large shadow around the world. This doesn't give Americans the right to act like fools when we travel, but we aren't exactly impotent.
I despise Pythonistas because for their negative and controversial propaganda like this cartoon. http://bit.ly/14GmKsP
Computer Shopper is still somewhat nostalgic for me, but I quickly lost interest after discovering pricewatch.com:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/19970209004411/http://www.pri...
I was in my 20s, but pricing and building K6 or 300A machines with Voodoo2s or FireGL cards for Unreal and Lightwave takes me back.
> Keep in mind that a positive research result is not necessarily anywhere close to any of usability, commercial viability, or even possibility outside the lab. Nuclear fusion is a prominent example of this, and I'm still waiting for MRAM

I, for one, am still waiting for those jelly fish based CPU :(
Yeah, it was way too dismissive...made me think be has never touched any of these languages. I hate microsoft, .Net, and Mono the bastard child, and I love the JVM...but there is no way in hell you could convince me that Java is better than C#.
The conversions on this landing page are going to be close to zero. Not enough information about what it does, what the value is etc before trying to capture email address.

I would look to get a mini conversion rate optimization review ASAP.

Some things to look at:
- Switch over to the /features page as primary landing page
- change form fields to name, URL and email to reduce cognitive burden
- clearly state what value you get from submitting that form: "Enter your details to get a mobile version of your website"
This is where one time codes that you keep in your wallet come in.

Many second factor auth systems use this. There is a list of 10 codes that can be used once each (and they're only valid used in order, so only one is valid at a time). You print this list out and keep it in your wallet or wherever else in case you lose your phone. If you lose both your phone and this list, then you are in fact screwed.
The one thing I have not heard amid the denials from Internet portals, search engines, and social networks is any move at all to provide truly secure communications and storage. The only consumer-oriented service I know of that advertises the ability to encrypt your data with your own key is Carbonite, and they did so long before Snowden. They all could do it. They all could provide routine strong encryption, and they could make it simple. They all could have been securing your email from hackers and foreign spies, long before the NSA became an issue. By taking that step they could regain trust. And yet...
Google Glass: First Thoughts
I"ll just go ahead and remind that many people use google authenticator to authenticate accounts ON THE SAME PHONE.
It's dumb, inconvenient, but yeh.
Cool! It seems like it assumes the TLD is .com for now - do you plan on expanding it? Maybe do input.<tld> for .com, .net, .org, .io, etc?

Also it seems like your data source is out of date - for example, your site tells me that namemonk.com is totally available
>in 1991, a fresh-faced CompuServe service dubbed ZDNet—

Apparently the author of the article is not too familiar with Ziff Davis. (PCMag, etc)

(from Wikipedia)
In 1989, the company launched the ZDNet site. In 1991 ZDNet on CompuServe and on the fledgling Internet were augmented by the purchase of Public Brand Software, the leading shareware disk provider. In 1995 it launched the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the site Yahoo!.

I picked up on it immediately because I was once a subscriber to several Ziff Davis publications.

</tangent>
It's true that the excessive need for external validation kills many startups.

A pattern I've seen over and over (and I fell myself in that trap once) is:

A startup wants to disrupt an industry by making a self-served, SMB targeted product (think Zendesk). But they want external validation. Actually you can understand that: their bank account, their family, their ego want external validation. So they start reaching out to large enterprises. A few of these enterprises become customers and start to dictate the product roadmap. Soon enough, the startup has forgotten its self-served, SMB, disrupting vision and joined the ranks of the old-school vendors it wanted to disrupt.
That part was quite funny to read, as a german. If americans are cold, what are we? Frozen to death.
You could easily send an American reporter onto the streets of Canada, or any nation for that matter, and produce the same results.
Agree. Actually hard to believe that's not just a quick mistake given that "Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic".
Great article! One thing I'd like to point out though is how his note about making generalizations in the first section makes it seem like everything he says is mostly fact.

I haven't lived outside the United States, but I have spent a considerable amount of time in parts of Europe and I definitely saw "exceptions" to what he presents everywhere I went.

For example, in Poland, people absolutely loved Americans and telling people I was American and not British warranted free beers and lots of attention from women.

In Scandinavia, everyone was extremely insecure because their cultures look down on competition and individuality. In the article, he mentions that in America women don't know how to react when told they are beautiful. If that's the case then Scandinavian women all but have a stroke when you tell them they're beautiful. In contrast, in South America, Women have no issues at all carrying on a conversation after a bold approach like that.

My point is that there are some HUGE generalizations being made here -- the world is a very big place -- and you should take this all with a grain of salt. That said, I found this a fascinating, refreshing article. Thanks for sharing it blackjack48.
Yeah- it was a pretty standard thing in Desktop Managers for a while for <C-Alt-Del> to be logout (or return to DM, depending on what you're using). I think GDM 3.0+ finally threw it out, but you'll still see it in KDM, LightDM, and Slim.
Thanks. Yea, I'm probably going to follow up with other TLDs in the future.
I would hesitate to call tom uninformed.

HR tends to be the first line of defence between a job seeker and a hiring manager

From my experience (longer than tptacek's) there are BFE (big freaking enterprises) that use HR to screen, but in every one of those, if an external applicant could find a hiring manager, HR reduced to a pro-forma deal.

Even at the executive hiring level, if HR is meaningfully involved, it is with a specialist hired to do nothing but that.

As a "first line of defence" they are the opposite of qualified. External candidates and internal hiring managers find ways around them if they are at all involved. Otherwise, the result is not filled with qualified folks.
>What actual proof does this dude have that pocket-sized computers have reached their limits of performance and memory?

Could you quote the part where the author of this article or the original Why mobile web apps are slow article say that we have reached a hard "limit of performance and memory", because I don't see where they say that at all.

The article I'm reading says this:

Unchecked exponential growth has to end sometime, by definition, and this is how it would happen; not with a bang, but with a whimper. We won’t hit a wall, we’ll just…start…to…slow…down.
OS issues such as?
PC World the magazine. Not to be confused with the retailer of the same name (http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/index.html)

Not that I would be too upset if that retail chain closed down.
"Droping out of highschool" usually means getting your GED. Once you have your GED you'll be perfectly fine. If you don't get it though, you will be severely crippling yourself in society. If you have two years left of HS and you're struggling, then maybe a GED is the right option. If you're doing well, or you only have a year, just stick with it.
Totally agree. HN comments rarely stay on page.

The online front-end is awesome. I've never seen anything like it in CPAN, though I've never really looked for intense GUI.
This is the first online game I'm motivated to pick at, hoping to see where the perl CGI spins.

Looking up `lacuna', the single example of usage quote:

"self-centered in opinion, with curious lacunae of astounding ignorance"

seems keenly apt for most of us, I myself have over-focused for so long now on emacs, perl, that it would be foolish for me to voice an opinion on other contemporary languages, or my `problem with vi'.
Well, the 'sound engineer' should take a look at some frequency response charts.
Reminder also that OTP is NOT a strong factor, anyways.
Even if the manufacturer doesn't hold the secret seed (i.e. the device lets you regenerate it - vendors usually don't let you do that so that you're forced to buy again from them all the time).. so yes, even if they don't hold that secret seed, the target servers hold them.

There is no encrypted version of the secret seed. There is no hashed version. You and the opposite party (the server you authenticate to) both have to be in possession of the secret seed.

That means if any server containing those keys is compromised, your OTP token is suddenly just paperweight (yeah, people like these crappy analogies, i heard.)

Using something like an opengpg smartcard and true challenge/response type authentication is much better than the "2FA" provided by password + OTP.

Something you have (the keys on the smartcard), something you know (the passphrase to decrypt those keys), the key never leaves the smartcard, nobody else has your key.
Moore's law won't necessarily be progressing in a steady line. We will probably see more jumps and spikes as technology advances. Do you think computing power will only merely double once we take advantage of quantum computing? No, it will go up orders of magnitude in a short period of time.

Our current progression with silicon based computing is slowing because we're reaching the physical limitations of that technology.
Russia have said themselves that they will take him, but only if he stops his "anti-American" activities.
As a teenager in America with immigrant parents, I'm surprised at how few people understand metric units or even the universal dating system and 24 hour time. Foreign language classes are the only things even bringing this stuff up where I am.
Phones should be thin clients anyway, the cloud provides the muscle. What use is packing compute into it. You just want it get smaller and zero energy use (using ambient energy for charging).
Also I just view-sourced... holy hell, what are you doing with 130KB of minified JavaScript? I'm guessing its a huge blob of libraries globbed together?

Also your session cookie's name was amusing.
> EDIT: just want to add, I do think UX should be a primary concern of security; I just disagree with your analysis of his post.

Fair enough. I think the interesting thing to debate is his conclusion: that two factor auth using SMS is so flawed as to be avoided completely. That's complete nonsense.
Interesting about there being no gender-neutral names. How does naming work where you're from (and where is that)?
When I was first started out in programming, someone gave me the advice "never work at a company where you're a cost, always work at a company where your output is [directly tied to] the profit."

It seemed like a truism, and was somewhat memorable. To date, the only really bad jobs I've had in programming/engineering/what have you were ones where my work output was seen as a cost and not as a product or service, so anecdotally it's worked out.
Slim pickings reading wise the decade your were born for computers. I had to drive up to the Princeton U. Bookstore (about 40 miles away) in order to get a book on Unix or C.

The year before you were born I had a machine in which 4mb of memory (in 80's dollars) was something like $4000. That was the cost of the extra memory (the machine was perhaps 35k in 80's dollars approx.) The hard drive was 70mb (Unix multiuser system).

Separately you missed out on the era of hiding Playboy under the bed from mom.
It should be specified that what you say is true of ethanol in the US. In places like Brazil where they grow lots of sugar cane, it's a different story.

And in theory, if ethanol were widely adopted as a fuel source in the US, we could potentially move to production using GM algae or something similar that would actually be efficient.
That's what you get when you include jQuery UI for no reason... good catch, thanks!
Campaign to build backup mobile network
As a German, I'd say most of the points of this article are true for Germany, and I guess for many other countries, as well. They are not specific American but just typically human.

I think there is one thing were many Americans really have a wrong opinion about themselves. It's that they enjoy the most freedom in the world. IMHO this should be number one in the list.
It's not just for large numbers of elements. If you have dynamic elements that get added/removed you can define a single event handler on the parent with a filter condition on it's children that handles them all.

The following CoffeeScript event handler would be fired for every table cell with the foobar class that is a child of #myTable:

$('#myTable').on 'click', 'td.foobar', () ->
# Do something

What's great here is I can add/remove rows to the table without binding/unbinding event handlers. We use this a lot in our app (http://www.jackdb.com/). The main app content is a single page with all content dynamically loaded and added/removed on the fly. If we had to add event handlers for each data cell (or even row) there would be 1000s of them.
Manning is a soldier and subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Snowden is a civilian.
As a fellow German this was my thinking as well.
You will still have problems with latency and you cant get way from the fact that you need power to communicate via radio your not going to be able to cut down the power that the radio needs to use that much.
I think the interesting finding is that the biases in sex ratio were towards the more successful sex. That is, if A has more sons than daughters, each of those sons has more offspring on average than other males. But if A has more daughters than sons, each of those daughters has more offspring than other females. That implies that the bias is adaptive: whatever is causing it, it is maximising the number of grandchildren A has.

Also, I don't see any problem with conjecture in scientific papers.
I want to use clojurescript on the page, (which has a compilation step), and I don't want to track the build output in source control.
I personally prefer a copy in my hand, that I can carry around with me, and flip pages.. the quality of e-ink or tablet displays isn't the same.. I find navigating most e-versions of magazines I've tried to be beyond irritating. I stopped subscribing to Linux Journal when they went electronic only.. I know the reasons why, just the same it was less appealing to me. I still subscribe to Maximum PC, but even that is getting stale now.
You sound like you are a paid shill. I know that you aren't, which disappoints me further, because I'd like to think that people are capable of educating themselves instead of spreading misinformation.

On your first paragraph, pondering whether sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose immediately: No, it doesn't. HFCS makes sugars available to the bloodstream sooner, causing larger swings in overall blood sugar levels. Additionally, this study covers rats which were given strict diets; the idea that HFCS made them fatter because they ate more food is not borne out based on the experiment's premises.

Second paragraph: Irrelevant. Honey is not being discussed here. Additionally, you contradict yourself by noting (correctly) that HFCS is not half-and-half fructose and glucose, like sucrose.

Third paragraph: Inverted appeal to authority. You dismiss the information that science makes available, and then put your own opinion up for offering as if it is informed and accurate. You further confuse the issue by putting a well-accepted opinion (the diets of the USA are overly rich in sugars) next to a dismissal of this study.

Fourth paragraph: A delightful strawman, substituting artificial sweeteners for table sugar.

Fifth: More ignorance of the general study of nutrition, with a sweeping statement that is obviously true and yet completely uninformative.

Please go read the article before commenting further.
Very nice. If you could add support for other TLDs, I would definitely use this and recommend to my friends.
It's all fine and well to say that, but there's actually the meta-problem that Americans don't really want to watch non-Americans. Despite the dismal quality of network television, and drought of content for 24 hour news stations, no US television producer has thought, "We'll go to Canada and laugh at how they don't know how to make a Philly Cheesesteak!".

Seriously thought, did you watch the video? I should find the one where he says our Prime Minister is "Pierre Poutine".
>great content, syndicated effectively.

Great comment. What do you think are some of the most effective ways to syndicate? Successful channels, platforms, etc?
what can you even say to this? a system so corrupt and biased towards women accusers that a callous ex-wife can ruin her ex-husband's life with very little chance of punishment, with the full help and support of the police, the law and advocacy groups?

This is what feminism does - while there are plenty of feminists who want equal rights, there seems to be an ever-present element of women who will eternally play the victim card to stack the deck in their favour, with an undercurrent of anti-male sexism that somehow seems to be considered acceptable.

I will always support the movement towards equal rights but things like this make me sick and only serve to harm the overall image of equal rights. I hope something is done about these laws and policies.