skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand it's not about the prizes but I mean, come on. A Quora t-shirt, a Quora book, or a meeting with the Quora founder?

On the other hand, I think Hackaton prizes kind of tend to defeat the community building experience.

I'm going to ask HN: what do you think about this? Is it a thinly veiled attempt by Quora to get people to come up with ML algorithms for them, or is it a way to make the experience about community rather than the prizes?

Or you know, any other thoughts.
Although this only suspends the machine (by default, as far as I remember the only other option is hibernate).
What a fantastic app! Feels like a reverted foldify or so :-)
I've spread the word, I'm sure you should see a rise in downloads today from both Switzerland and US.
Thanks for sharing this!
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab work as next/previous tab in Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
Cygwins not bad if you just want a shell. It does Xorg too, but it's not fantastic. The main problem is not all programs will work on it (no tmux, but screen is ok), or be in the repos (I actually made an attempt to get Arch's makepkg/pacman working on it, but quite a few deps wouldn't compile properly, gpgme failed tests for example).

I think it would be great to have a tightly integrated VM. There are some that allow you to open Linux X apps in a Windows desktop rather than confined to a VM Window.

Perhaps we could get a Wayland/Mir port for Windows. Run the VM in the background but have a full Linux desktop environment. Might need a shim layer or some remote desktop extensions.
I know it doesn't really address the issue at hand, but as an alternative here Android features a little-documented local backup feature that can be done through adb, and can be encrypted.

Even google's official adb page has no mention of it, but I've done it and it works fine: http://tutznet.com/1283-perform-full-backup-android-phone-ad... (not my blog -- just the least spammy site i could find)
This is one of the reasons why I self-host DNS. Even with tons of users, the resources it takes to serve DNS requests pale compared to what you have to put behind your application servers.

Of course if you are using a CDN to provide your users with better locality, you might want to look into a service that provides localized DNS distribution, but the inherent caching feature of the DNS protocol might make that an unneeded additional burden (I remember a very old Stack Exchange podcast episode where they were talking about this, coming to the conclusion that self-hosted DNS and dns-internal caching is good enough for them).

When you self-host your DNS, you ensure that no provider can suddenly redirect to an ad-filled parking pages if users mistype hostnames and you can make sure that you can fix DNS when it's down. It's also much easier to transfer domains between registrars because there's no need to export and import DNS config - instead, your server just keeps serving the exact same data.

Finally, this allows you to keep the DNS config together with all other configuration files in puppet/chef/git/whatever you use. which further helps future deployments and/or configuration changes.
If you're going to dismiss an argument as "horseshit", you should perhaps offer a compelling alternative. Because your idea of what is going on is frankly ridiculous.

It's easy to see the user-experience story for this. Upgrade your phone, buy a tablet, etc, and as by magic all 10 wifi networks you use work without any configuration. No need to type that 32-character nuisance of a WPA2 password again, etc. How lovely!

Your conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that Google wants your precious wifi password for themselves, not for your convenience. That seems unlikely. Google doesn't care about your network. They might care about your web usage patterns insofar it makes it easier to provide better search results and improve ad targeting. Your network is worthless for that. Using the passwords to actually access these wifi networks would also be a massive legal and PR nightmare.

So on one side you have delighting users. On the other side you have a malicious attempt to gather useless data at massive risk. How can there even be a question of which explanation makes more sense?
>If that problem arises, we can deal with it.

This problem has arised in nearly all the sites that I know that have ever tolerated it. Eventually, someone learns that it's allowed and exploits that. Actually, you're that person because that link sounded to me like a sales pitch, but I can't prove that this was your intention.

In all cases, I'd rather prevent it from happening by disapproving it than "dealing with it" after the deed is done.

>To the actual end user, it makes no difference at all.

Bullshiiiiit. It makes the difference that this shit gets spammed all over the Internet eventually. Boo.

(as a side note, you can't prove they'd have gone to Bezos rather than contribute to an Amazon commission decrease if no one used these referrals)
It's also a diagnosis nightmare. The ISPs in my country used to use WEP with MAC filtering with their wifi-routers. The password was mildly complex (16 characters) and on a label on the box. Most users never changed the password. So Joe Blow connects his laptop using the password on the sticker, and it doesn't work. Imagine the same problem for a few million users.

It's false security because (especially for wifi) MAC filtering is like a verbal password that's been written down on a billboard. Everyone can read it so its not a secret.
Committing a crime does not make one a terrorist. Bombing an abortion clinic should probably qualify you as a terrorist, but theft/vandalism/etc in the furtherance of a political goal is not terrorism. If we do want to redefine terrorism to be this broad, then we really need to reign in all of the extra powers that the government has to go after 'terrorists' because those powers are predicated on the idea that terrorists are using killing people to further their goals.
Yes. I just upgraded from one Android phone to another. Was resigned to the tedious nightmare of setting up multiple WiFi connections again. This feature is fantastic. Not that that negates privacy issues but it is a massive user convenience.
I was going to say "looks like they don't use double-entry bookkeeping!" ... but if it's just a display bug, then nevermind.
I think these companies would work with Tim for just the exposure and press.
We don't make traditional suite like this... But we try to incorporate that stuff in our apps.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Kidoteca
I don't think the 4 hours book was written for high-growth startups. The point was to automate work so you can do 4h of work per week which should generate your target income - no less or more. In fact, the book had a section where he criticizes people who just maximize income/growth.
Maybe it came out undervaluing Tim's help (which is worth much more than 100k), we share the exact the same opinion. I'm sure that with Tim's help, any startup would get a huge investment within weeks.
34 Feature Film Website Layouts for Design Inspiration
Berkeley and 2U to launch online data science degree
Interesting approach to a real problem.

Talking out of my arse but could you use the list of "friends" to get a rough idea of who the candidate is? Amongst a given set of friends there may only be one Rubyist with JavaScript and Karate skills...
Seems like the author combined the spec side of mocha with should.js and a stub/mocking library, focused it on node and polished it up with some neat conventions and utilities.

I'll probably give it a shot on my next project. I'm interested in finding out if it went the route of throwing exceptions for error reporting like mocha, or something else.
If I buy a new Android phone, odds are it is not one which makes me a Google customer - i.e. Google gets none of the proceeds should I purchase a Samsung Galaxy.

The only means by which Google profits is by monetizing data leaking from my device. And my WiFi password is something potentially monetizable. When choosing between ignorance and malice as motivations, it is perhaps proper to choose ignorance even with Google. When choosing between my privacy interests and Google's monetary interests, it seems naive to place my privacy interests above those of Google's actual customers.

An American corporation is determined to be part of the military-industrial complex; film at 11.
Amazon sells busted, bootleg products all the time, and the reviews can end up in the 1 star area. They don't pull them.

For a while literally all the XBox 360 wireless controller adapters on Amazon, for example, were Chinese knockoffs. For some reason Amazon stopped stocking the real ones, and let vendors put up knockoffs branded as the real thing, despite the reviews making it clear that they were fakes (and broke easily).
Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Is Not a Chef by Any Stretch of the Imagination
In her lawsuit, plaintiff Lisa Jackson makes disturbing allegations against Celebrity Chef Paula Deen and Earl “Bubba” Heirs. As a food service General Manager, if any of the allegations were true, both of them would have been gone a long time ago.
Our site has been sporadically up and down for the past few hours. Glad I know the culprit finally. Hope this gets resolved soon
New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow
Some very doubtful assertions here.

> FBI cracked 512-bit disk encryption in a recent case

Very hard to believe that they brute-forced 512-bit AES. More likely they guessed, or otherwise located, the key, or found some implementation flaw in the software/device.

> don't even need to work that hard. They can just grab the keys in transit.

If and only if they have the private key. Which, I concede, they may well be able to get.

> Third, with a MITM attack, you can just drop in a box that makes SSL connections on both ends transparently

No you can not, not without installing a cert on every single user's machine. This would have been noticed if it was going on.

I admit that now I think about it, putting taps on DC data connections and simply requiring sites or the DC to provide any and all private keys would be substantially less invasive/visible than actually putting taps into the building, and with basically the same effectiveness (except for the PFS thing).
AirBnb Search Redesign (And SPDY Support)
I only use the Android that comes with my phone and I recall having to check the box myself on my T-Mobile Galaxy S3.
Site down? Don't link to it. Bad netiquette. Jesus christ.
I thought that even if you self host - isn't it your registrar that points the dns records to your dns servers? Would someone with self-hosted DNS still be working in this situation? (doesn't the DNS query first go to network solutions, who refers it to your name servers?).

I'm not trying to argue, I genuinely need to know the answer as I'll have to explain it to many other people, later today...
I will definitely look into that, I remember seeing the TED talk when it first came out and thought it was cool; thanks for the links :-)
Damn weak.
NeDB: A lightweight Javascript database
An intermediate language (or representation) is the internal representation of code used for program transformation and reasoning about the code. This is not what the story is talking about - all the benefits are about the object representation (the compiler emits C code), and the presented compiler does not distinguish between the intermediate representation and the object representation; it does not need to, as it does no optimisations. There's nothing innovative about emitting C code from a compiler - it used to be more common than it is now.

There has been a little bit of research done on writing optimising compilers that use source-code-like intermediate representations: the Janus project from the 1990s springs to mind.
There's no way to say that pwned originated in gaming. It may have been popularized by gaming, but hackers have been describing things as owned and for a long time. The "typo" is regarded as leetspeak and isn't really trashy because it's more descriptive than owned itself.
He seems to add value in the same way that Donald Trump does, and is only slightly less unsavory a human being.
I hope, for their sake, that they were banking on some sort of economy of scale where increasing volume would decrease per-unit costs and therefore negate the per-unit loss...
which has tuition fees of $60,000

Uhm, looks like they did get something wrong about the internet-degree thing.
Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that
> is there a landing page to follow?

Not yet. We are a couple of months away from an alpha.

> will it work on every device out there?

It currently builds for Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu but we will expand this in the future to include Andriod and iOS.
The UI looks fantastic. Did you do all the design(i.e images/logos and etc) yourself?
Yep, we all know google needs extra bandwidth and/or has the capability or need to illegally snoop on your over the air http traffic at enormous legal risk.
I remember tearing that book out of the box from Amazon and cramming from it for an internship interview as a college freshman, hoping the interviewer would think me at least a junior (it worked). Recommend it for the interested.

That text is not for start-ups - it too precise to be tuned to no track record. I believe start-up founders should focus on understanding their waterfall, revenue models, and the intersection: cash burn projections. Less for negotiating with investors than for guiding decisions.
Hacking government and hacking software are different things. You can't offer TCP/IP $100M to leak you some private keys from the server.

The smaller the government, the more value you could get per bribe (more power located in individuals) and the easier it would be to do it (smaller governments presumably lack layers of security measures against bribery). In case of extremely small government a big corporation could buy it out entirely.
Yes. Push the power button and your Windows 8 machine should resume in about two seconds, and even after hibernating overnight, come back in less than 20 seconds.

You don't want users to turn it off, and they shouldn't really need to restart it more often than Microsoft Update does already. Hiding away the reboot process is therefore a useful bit of design....
Historians won't but students in freshman level history classes probably will.
I believe this is really going to hurt their effort to sell Azure more than anything else.
Marxist here, I concur. You do have to admit that many people who are new to their studies or people who have a more superficial understanding of socialism often do assert that the USSR wasn't 'real' socialism as a means of distancing themselves from its 'failures.'
Good point - quite possibly, depending on the mix of how you describe yourself (e.g. if you just copy your Twitter bio), the sum of the people you choose to endorse you, and the density of the people with your skillset in your social graph/geographic location.

Selfishly, I've always worked in London/San Francisco where almost everyone I know is either a designer, front-ender, Rubyist, or an awkward mix of the above, and everyone knows each other.

I'm not sure how this would work out in more specialised disciplines, other industries or other locations, but the only way to find out is to see how people use it :)
pud is a tech legend (fked company, tiny letter, adhdlabs, ...)
Honest question from a networking beginner:

So suppose right now I've got two name servers configured, NS93.worldnic.com and NS94.worldnic.com. These are down as they're the part of the Network Solution's name servers that are having issues.

If I had added more, for instance if I used Amazon's Route53 and added two name servers of theirs in addition to the *.worldnic.com ones, would my site be reachable right now?
For an example web app that works just fine with hashtags, see https://WakaTi.me

Built using patterns from this Backbone.js example:

http://ahamlett.com/Backbone.localStorage/
It's cool, I'm sure we'd accept a simple apology if Iran surrounded Air Force one with jets and forced it to land. Oh did I say simple apology? I meant missiles, lots of missiles.
This is workable for small sites, but are you really equipped to deal with a denial of service attack? There are plenty of small DNS providers (Zerigo comes to mind) that can't even stay up during attacks.
You should put some axes on the steps/calories burned graphs. The upper left time looks like the updated time, but is the graph time over the past hour, day?
I know EDITD are looking for talented people — http://editd.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer/
I wonder if its time for microsoft to think about supporting a unix userland.
These are cool, but isn't the water filter backwards?
Seriously have you ever used WIndows Mobile more than 5 minutes? You could resize the icons to make it as big as what you have on iOS screens today in case you were not able to reach the small icons with a stylus. Plus, there was not a "single version" of Windows Mobile, the system went through many iterations and improvements and the later versions had nothing to do with the earlier ones. Your blanket statement shows your ignorance.

And there were many changes made by Microsoft vs your so-called "windows just putting windows into a mobile device". First, there were no windows per se, every application was filling the screen by itself. There were gestures as well, and the task bar had nothing to do with the windows task bar. So give me a break with that line. They did change many things to make it fit on the small screen.

I used Windows Mobile devices for years and it was certainly not the nightmare you describe. Why do you think so many manufacturers supported the system ? There was NOTHING like that out there at the time. It was the only convincing touch interface system. And it had lots of applications, too, from first and third parties. The key drawback was certainly the on-screen keyboard but there were many third party apps to make this less painful and more natural.

Google Wave's interface was certainly not a mess, it was more of a concept issue. Were you ever in the beta ? What did you do with it that made you dislike it so much ?

Listing devices without argument is not fun, it's just not very insightful. If you make a top 10 list, you should think a little bit more about what criteria you use to put inside there - if it's just that you don't like these designs, your list if worthless because I could say the exact opposite to most of your choices there.
Mark Zuckerberg Runs A Giant Spy Machine In Palo Alto, California
There is just one single (and dead) negative comment about Tim Ferriss in this thread.

"What have you done?"

Ask that more often, you will be surprised to learn that mostly every single person actually creates and do things that are important to others in one way or another. Don't diminish people just because their work is not broadly recognized, everyone is important.
I'm sorry folks, but my first knee-jerk reaction was yuck! To paraphrase Cristina "Is That All There Is To A Dashboard?"
I self-host for most things. I live on the edge and don't have backup DNS. For most situations, you'd want backup DNS as well.

ns1.kimsal.com
ns2.kimsal.com
nsA.offsite1.net
nsB.offsite1.net

etc. the kimsal ones are my primary/secondary, but having the others offsite, slaving from the primary, would mean that even if my primaries went down, the info would be at the 'offsite' ones. Those 'offsite' DNS servers would need to be registered with the registrar as well, and become part of your record (you can check that with a whois).
> you're that person

Did you read my past comments and actually judge how much "spamming" I'm doing prior to making accusatory statements like that?

Let me make it easy for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidw

> this shit

In this case, "this shit" was a book I happened to read and enjoy and was highly relevant to the discussion at hand and decided to share with people here. They seem to have appreciated the link. I know I'm always on the lookout for good books to read myself, and have found more than a few via this site.
That's a feature, saves NSA from the effort of building up rainbow tables.
It reminds me of http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461902402/a-bit-e-of-me, but in a very fancier way.
This idea might be pretty cool in an app to monitor your health.
Yes, but there may be delay, because the nameservers are tried in random order, and so each server that is down will have to time out before users move on to the next.
"it is a one way correspondence, then you start to write things that look like they should work because they reassemble an english sentence but they don't really work because of the limitations of semantics of the programming language"

This is why I can't stand AppleScript. It sort of looks like English prose, but you still have to figure out precisely what syntax is valid.
'exorbitant' is the word you're looking for.
CSS is basically witchcraft.
I can't completely agree with both of you regarding assertions.

There's always cases where a test needs to be done on several properties of an object at once (validation of a rails model attribute, for instance, when you want to test that the model is invalid and that the right error message is present) or where the setup to prepare the assertions is quite heavy, I think this is where custom assertions can be quite helpful, first it gives you more meaningful tests, and the reported failures can be more documented than with asserts.
In that regard, you can write simpler assertions for each of these tests, and do that for every fields of every models. In the end it's a lot of code duplication that may also lead to errors (tests have to be refactored as much as the tested code).
9 Facts About Quantum Computing
Some likely outcomes:

Product tieing (tying?). Lease a (megacorp) sedan for 5 years with a sprint iphone contract.

Serious issues outside urban areas. Poor Verizon coverage in rural area? Phone won't finish booting, no phone means no dashbaord, no dashboard means you can't keep your eyes off the road for 30 seconds wildly flicking thru screens trying to find the headlight control. So you're stranded until you can get towed to a place with better cell coverage.

Better NSA tracking, now you know for a fact the phone is connected to the car.

Most likely sleezy apps "partnered with the car mfgr for your convenience" taking non-car functions of your phone over. Oh, you'd like to have the "megacorp motors" app installed, well that contractually means your search engine will be Bing

Sleazy in general stuff like loan sharks who will now have apps to lock you out of both phone and car when you don't pay the car loan. Not only will you be unable to get to work to earn the money to pay the car loan, you'll be unable to even phone into the boss to tell him. This should increase profitable repo activity.

Rather than getting into accidents because of spending 45 seconds looking at the phone to text, people will start crashing because it will take 45 seconds of inattentiveness to turn on the windshield wipers.

Themeing and style... Sure the 2014 and 2013 model year MegaCorp Motors cars are basically identical, but the new phone animations with shinier even lighter blue icons are only available on a 2014 model. Why? Because we felt like it.

Rooting your phone now considered equivalent to possession of car theft/burglary tools.

I'm not really looking forward to it. It'll screw over the middle class and make rich people richer, so its culturally inevitable at least in the USA. But its still going to suck.