skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many ordinary Jews wanted to leave including my great grandparents and their relatives. The US put up a quota to keep most of them out and none of their visas were ever granted. Other than my great uncle who went to the US in early 1930 and my grandmother who survived a camp (my mom stayed hidden for two years). The remainder all died in camps. My mother told me my great grandfather continued to believe he was as good a german citizen as anyone right until they took him away in 1943.

Well known Jews could get out at least until the war.
I believe that what he meant (Correct me if I'm wrong), is that instead of creating a system of classes that tries to abstract everything out of the DOM, it's better act on the DOM itself, via jQuery, Zepto.js, etc.

In some ways, what I showed in the post is functional.

- Select a DOM i.e var $elem = $("#anElementId")

- Act on it i.e $elem.fadeOut()
How Adecco screwed up their social media crisis response
We once had an error that booked quintillions of dollars notional position with a client. It was caught the same night and the client never saw it. Here is how it happened.

An end of day aging process was supposed to look at all positions marked "old" and trade into ones marked "new". Some positions may go through several transition until all the resultant positions are "new", so the process recurses until it finds a fixed point for the day.

This day the aging process for this very bespoke trade went a bit haywire and instead of booking "-1 old position, +1 new position" it booked "+1 old position, +1 new position". Seeing that is still has +2 old position, the process booked "+2 old position, +2 new position", it then booked "+4 old position, +4 new position". This went on for 16 iterations until the auto breaks kicked in and stopped the process. A quant on watch saw the process fail and restarted it causing the positions to double 16 more times.

This was billion dollar deal that grew by 2^32 times plus now existed in old and new variants for a total notional in quintillions of dollars. It was 7pm when the quant called me over because I was the only other guy still there and by happenstance I heard of similar issue happen on my old team. I fixed the position for the night but the permanent solution was made later in normal business hours.

As an aside, when a similar error happened on my old team, the recursion continued until the process ran out of stack. That was when the 16 recursion limit was put in. (The position didn't grow huge that time because it was booking "+0 old position, +1 new position", so the growth was arithmetic and not geometric)
> he said himself people would not
> believe him anyway

This is proof of nothing:

I know that most people will call me a crack-pot
and few will believe me, but hear this: The Moon
Is Made of Cheese!
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Why did I click on the link to a down website? What did I expect?
Shame on me.
You guys can't be serious.

How many APs do you even have to use regularly?

And slightly related, do you have two factor enabled on your email or is that the end of modern life convenience as well?
I always have this feeling, that console is more about tools that you can run (such as unix commands), than just some console improvements (like command history, copey-paste, etc.).
I think the article focuses more on the latter.

Anyway, for people who really need some linux tools, cygwin is some viable option.

For hardcore hackers, I'd run an instance of colinux. you can the whole linux environment within windows with almost no performance overhead. (don't forget to configure "cofs" for windows files access.)
You would hope that a registrar would have better bandwidth and/or capabilities to protect against that then what you would generally have for your server(s).
I am the author. If you want to contribute pull requests are welcome: https://github.com/cenkalti/pypi-notifier
I think the author is using Withings: http://withings.com/
Yeah, I mean, this simply isn't true.

Google's pretty clear on their motivations here. It's the same reason that they back up what you have set as your background. It's not about multiple devices, it's about fungible devices.

The result is that you log in to any fresh android device and in a few minutes it's automatically configured itself. If you wipe your device, or lose it, or whatever, replacement cost is the biggest issue.

As for the harvesting of signal strength and name of wireless networks, the user convenience is that Google Maps will work even when you don't have clear line-of-sight to GPS satellites in most places. That's pretty darn convenient.

I think it's bad that they have this data, because the potential for abuse is large, but please don't suggest that there aren't clear and benevolent reasons for these decisions. It's extremely rare that people do things with obviously dubious motives. This is clearly not one of those cases.
(I work on Route 53).

We've done a lot of experiments on this one and we've found that the most common resolvers make 3 tries to 3 different servers by default. At first those servers are picked at random, but over time the resolvers usually "home in" on what the least-latent nameserver is. Once they do, and have a good round-trip-time estimate for how long it takes to respond, they stay using it. But they have a hair-trigger; if the nameserver doesn't respond, they'll very quickly fall-back to trying the other nameservers.

In practice what that means is that up to two of your nameservers may be completely unresponsive and the effects will be pretty negligible. So if you're using multiple DNS providers and want to protect against one going off-air; use no more than two nameservers from each provider.

That said, for all of the reasons above, and some more, the Route 53 SLA currently only applies if you use all four Route 53 nameservers.
Had this happen to us in Texas. We had paying customers, and customers who wanted to pay that couldn't afford us (needed to nail down pricing), but we weren't profitable quite yet. Angels wanted nothing to do with us until we were profitable, so that sucked.
> Not some tinfoil hat paranoia nutjob site btw: http://biasedbbc.org/

Oh yes it is! First story:
"Seems to me that those working on Today have an issue with Israel, since on no basis can it be said to have “questionable” human rights issues."

From the very report this story is about:
"The human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) continued to be of concern to the UK in 2012. Much of this stemmed from Israel’s occupation of the OPTs and actions taken by the Israeli government in contravention of international humanitarian law and international human rights law."
Of course, the drawback of this approach is that you're now sending javascript with every request. If you had done the traditional approach of sending your javascript in one big minified chunk it only needs to be sent once and your browser will load it from cache on subsequent requests.
I wonder how much of it's related to fears that every iPhone is a secret NSA listening device?

I mean if you knew the KGB could possibly listen in on your phones, how likely would US carriers keep it?

I've been thinking an overseas consumer and business/government backlash against US technology products is inevitable now that the NSA being in bed with every major US technology company is public knowledge.
Programming and The Sunk Cost Fallacy
You're right, I used the word "prove" way too loosely.
Current historians view the 18th Century as part of the modern period (though most of it is the tail end of the early modern period.) So, to the extent that historians in the period of the future under consideration view the early 21st century the way historians now view the 18th, it won't be very hard for them to see it as modern times.

Historians have broader perspective than you give them credit for.
To echo some of the sentiments here, I don't know why you even question your potential value to startups. Assuming you self-assessed properly, your skill set falls directly in line with what many companies are seeking (JS, HTML, CSS are all relevant, as is iOS/Android). Being in your early 30's is certainly not going to exclude you from being hired, and having some experience should be a positive for you. I don't think people are yet to see early 30's as some red flag (but I'm over 40 so what do I know?).

Why do you feel you would be restricted to only working remotely? It appears you are not aware of any startup scene in the UK. In talking to some recruiters in the UK, I assure you that there is a vibrant tech scene in at least certain parts of the UK.

Dedicate some time to finding a job. Take it seriously, get a portfolio of code together and be able to demonstrate what you are able to do. I don't think your age is a factor at all, but the ability to write good code trumps (almost) all.
"100 Emails. 100 Calls."
This is really a great idea. It has the potential to offer a practical end-run around recruiters for potential employees in this situation.

As an employer, I'd love to be able to sign up and have your system DM me any time there's someone in my area looking for a job. Heck I'd even pay a small fee for the service!
http://withings.com/en/api
With the Woolwich killing, where a soldier in London was hacked to death in broad daylight, the BBC and other newspaper web sites refused to allow comments "for legal reasons". Yet there's no problem allowing comments for any other murder or celebrity overdose.
The centralized bit is only for managing your contacts though right? The data would be peer-to-peer unlike Dropbox.

Genuine question, but what are the security implications for this other then being able to see who you have as your contacts?

Or is your preference of decentralized simply because you do not want to rely on a third party staying up and running?
Thanks for the kind words :)

I'm using a JawboneUP to track mood, steps, calories, and sleep. And the Withings Smart Body Analyzer to track weight, and heart rate. And a few open source gems to pull down the data: https://github.com/chocolit/dashboard
loving it myself.

i am also using it for that weird category of data you need to transfer that isn't suitable for dropbox or git.
7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right
Depending on your taste, you might get away with buying indestructible plants. Aloe doesn't mind if you forget about for a while and is (maybe) a little more interesting to look at than yet another cactus. And there are lots of other succulents.
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This is not totalitarianism, its creeping authoritarianism:

>Authoritarianism is a form of government. Juan Linz, whose 1964 description of authoritarianism is influential,[1] characterized authoritarianism regimes as political systems characterized by four qualities: (1) "limited, not responsible, political pluralism"; that is, constraints on political institutions and groups (such as legislatures, political parties, and interest groups), (2) a basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency; (3) neither "intensive nor extensive political mobilization" and constraints on the mass public (such as repressive tactics against opponents and a prohibition of antiregime activity) and (4) "formally ill-defined" executive power, often shifting or vague.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
I expect that applies equally well to the UK with gantries of ANPR cameras over major motorways as well as portable ones in laybys, like the one I saw this morning on the A1 leaving Edinburgh. It wasn't a police car, though, but a dedicated "road tax enforcement" vehicle running it.

I was reminded by a colleague today of a quote attributed to Roger Needham, something along the lines of "privacy is a transient condition in between people realising there isn't an omniscient god, and government realising there was a vacancy" (quoting second hand from memory)
This article pointed out that a red button amidst a green palette converted better in one instance, because the red button contrasted starkly. That's also my current theory on how to make an app icon.

For my App Store apps, I choose loud colors that contrast well with other apps in the category. I look at how the icon stands out in searches on iPhone, iPad, and iTunes. I still want a beautiful icon, but my primary concern is whether it pops.

Unfortunately, it's hard to test the theory.
How do you know that they won't get at least something more meaningful out of this? Spain especially is very dependent on good relations with South-American countries, since Spain has a kind of diplomatic "gateway to South-America" role within the EU.
A massive new Skyrim mod, and the 19-year-old who built it
Any one care to tell us how good/bad is a market that outlaws phone subsidies?

Is there better competition on service quality and cost or does it end up being just the same?
Ever since clicking on that link, Google does not like me and is making me submit a captcha :-/
I love your site Will, it's a really nicely designed, to the point resume page!

Just out of interest how do you find these types of clients you mention? I guess you're looking for medium sized "real world" non-tech companies that you can come into an sprinkle your wizardy tech magic over, to either save, or make them more, money...

I'm thinking about going roughly the same route after I have some contracting money built up to give me a buffer.
Raising Money From Top Tier VC Firms Means Less Than You Think
Author here: it was a surprise to see this old article on HN. To reply to your comments, even if you fix the safety problems, this charger would generate really terrible power. They're using a primitive RCC circuit instead of spending a few cents on a controller IC, and they're using low-quality capacitors. I have oscilloscope traces at http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap... that show the huge quality difference between a $2 charger, a good charger, and an excellent charger.

I'm familiar with fusible resistors, and this charger doesn't have one. I've also torn apart the transformers from cheap chargers and the transformers are usually unsafe due to insufficient insulation.

These cheap chargers cut corners everywhere. You're likely to have touchscreen problems while using one due to the poor power quality.
Nice homage.

Just an interesting observation that both of these "3.11" are actually referring to different relative versions.

Windows was not using the now-common semantic versioning. Windows 3.11 is actually a patch to 3.1, which in semantic versioning would actually be 3.1.1.

Linux 3.11 however, is a minor upgrade to Linux 3.10.
Most people really have 10 different WiFi networks? I have two. Home and work. Who has 10?

Apple solved this by supporting local backups. My phone backs up to my computer. When I restore to a new device, the backup goes with it.

When I set up a completely new device -- which happens only once every couple of years -- I set up WiFi again. I've never, ever, ever thought "oh wow, setting up WiFi is just So Hard! I wish Apple would store my private WiFI password on their servers by default without telling me first!".

iCloud backup does store your data on Apple's servers, but it's opt-in, and it makes it quite clear what will be stored.
While this program seems interesting, valuable, and a step in the right direction, the minute I read the $60,000 price tag I nearly choked on my gum and quickly pressed the back button. Coursera classes for me at least in the near future, hopefully within the next few years these degree programs will scale a little better and costs will plummet.
Any thoughts on where/how is this 'home in' state is saved? Other the cache and filtering/acl state resolvers should be stateless, so would be interested in any details, especially if this is on a per-zone, or per-set of nameservers or etc basis. I've never seen bind9 act like this.
Computer Chess: The Movie
Cool. We are looking for strong JS developers at Skimlinks. PHP and Python would be a huge bonus. My email is in my profile. Give me a shout if interested.
FTA "which has helped enable the Microsoft OS to overtake iOS, gaining 8.3% of smartphone sales compared to 8.2% for Apple"

So maybe windows phone will actually become a competitor to android in russia?
Encrypt the data on the device. Backup encrypted version in the cloud. Download encrypted backup to new device. Unencrypt on new device. Merge versions on the device.

No need for plaintext on Google servers. No way for monetization by Google.

Or to put my alternative another way, how much is a data set mapping WiFi passwords to networks for the city of Bejing worth to a foreign intelligence agency or other state-level actor? An answer in terms of dollars or 1000 clicks is equally acceptable.

As an alternative, how much is such a data set for Redmond worth to Google?

For extra credit, determine the value of each data set if includes historic data on password changes, changes to the individual password repositories of each user, and changes to the densities of WiFi networks at specific locations.

In the end, it comes down to money in Google's bank account, not delighting users (see Reader). Since Google does not directly profit from the sale of nearly all Android devices, the burden for the thesis of delight is to show an alternative mechanism by which Google directly profits from the plain text storage of passwords.
I tried clicking on the "Feedback" link on the left. When that didn't work, I've tried sending them email to their support address.

In the meantime I've factored out and lifted all the GeoCoding from my application and added my own internal "API", so whatever service I end up using, I can switch fairly easily to another when necessary.
I think the guy that coined the term fascism (Benito Mussolini) was pretty explicit that the government should be bound in the service of big business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Creation_of_Fa...

("opposed to class warfare" / unions)
PRISM And The European Cloud
Am I the only person in the galaxy that wants a car that simply gets me from point A to point B with reliability? The more gadgets and whiz-bangery built into the car, the more possible points of failure, which leads to a higher cost of maintenance. I'm still driving a 1995 Honda Civic with a stick shift, no power windows or power steering, and nearly 200k miles on it.

As much as I'd like to get a newer vehicle I'm not sure I want to buy something with a dock that will be obsolete within the first quarter of the car's life.
>How many APs do you even have to use regularly?

Let's see, I've got a private side and a guest side wifi at home, no less than three at work depending on location, the motel I usually end up booked in for trips, local bars and restaurants.

So i'd say.. probably 10ish in a given month? Sometimes more?
Ask HN: Review my startup, libramatic.com
I'm looking for some feedback on our startup, http://www.libramatic.com/ so we can improve our user experience and improve our product in general.
Developers are the new kings
Buffett calls it management by abdication.
Maybe ‘lifestyle’ isn't an appropriate word. I wanted to find an umbrella term for all the small stuff that may look irrelevant, but actually is not.

I remember a study not long ago that found sedentary lifestyle drastically affecting chances of death from cardiovascular disease. It does seem plausible to me that there could be many more things that affect us in more subtle and unexpected ways. Posture, thinking patterns—those little habits. Two apparently similar lifestyles may actually turn out to be very different when analyzed to such fine detail.

And since children from early age imitate their parents, it's natural to expect those things to get passed (with certain variance) from generation to generation.

Now the above is very unscientific, of course. I don't deny that genetics matter—just that there might be other things that matter as well.

Analogies from software engineering world are often flawed, but I'll draw one: a shallow fix of an annoying bug without full understanding of a complex system (and decent test coverage) leading to perplexing problems down the line—I think it's a familiar situation.
There are different customers today than there were back then, though. The market of "people who buy software" has expanded massively as software has crept into all sorts of places it didn't used to be found. Lots of people are buying apps for their phone who would never ever have walked into a CompUSA, so they don't have the preset expectations of what software "should" cost that you and I do.
Perhaps it's a trade-off that shouldn't be on by default.

I didn't even know this happened until a friend bought a new device and it suddenly knew everything. Didn't bother him, did bother me.
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Not a single Russian iPhone user I know bought it in carrier store. Mostly they've got it from Europe trips, others in non-official stores where prices 15-20% lower.

So, despite official sales numbers are low, there is a remarkable iPhone user base here.
The thing is that it has to work cross-browser. If an IE user copies an URL with both a fragment query string and a real query string and then shares it with a Firefox user, the URL should resolve to the same thing (and the same thing the other way around).

Not impossible by any means, but, as Jeremy points out, it involves subtle details :)
"Matt Hofstadt wanted to make your day so Matt sent you..." is uglier and less pleasant to read than the version with "they've". I don't see any argument in the article for what's actually wrong with using "they" - sure, it violates one of English's alleged rules, but the author acknowledges that those rules don't actually matter.

(Personally I think women should insist on being called "he" - "she" is a grammatical diminutive which implies inferiority - but given that they haven't, singular they is the best approach available).
It depends on the implementation of the resolver, but in general when no information is known about a nameserver, the resolver will pick one at random. Overtime, it'll keep track of the latency and pick one (usually randomly within a band specifying a range of latencies). See this paper for more info: https://www.dns-oarc.net/files/workshop-201203/OARC-workshop...
It's a stupid way to get into a specific network, but it's a pretty convenient way to get access to everybody's networks. Sure, it would be hard to hack Google, but the prize for doing so would be pretty nice. And if the systems are impregnable, there are always ways in that relies on the human factor. Humans can be bribed and/or threatened.

Or if you're law enforcement, the knowledge of the existence of the resource is enough.
I found this a rather good explanation (well written article). My favorite para is in the closer:

"Others say that Wetterich’s interpretation could help to keep cosmologists from becoming entrenched in one way of thinking."

I like this attitude. Science is about playing with hypotheses and trying out new ideas. The most important thing for me is for my viewpoint to be zipped around and turned on its head - just for fun. I think it makes the mind more nimble.

Also, could a physicsy person elaborate a bit more on why we can't test increasing mass? Is it in the same class as 'we can't actually measure the increasing distance in the cosmic expansion, because locally, nothing is expanding'?

Thanks
Eritrea.
You can also click the back button.
The charger I tore apart was from eBay; see the article for details. Cheap chargers shown on Amazon are typically sold by third-party sellers, which I think lets Amazon sidestep any quality issues.
I don't think the legit chargers _have_ a ground, at least around here they don't.

What it sounds like is that you have a direct connection to the mains, BUT EVEN IF YOU DON'T YOU SHOULD CEASE TO USE IT RIGHT AWAY. GETTING SHOCKED IS _NOT_ HEALTHY.