skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using the latest Firefox on windows 7 and don't seem to have a problem with it.
Mind you it's a desktop and I'm using a mouse not a touch-pad to scroll.

The slight choppiness i see is because of how scroll works not the website's fault.

When you scroll there's a minimum increment that gets detected and the equivalent on the website for that is quite large.
But reducing that would make you scroll a lot more and would probably be annoying.

If you want the smoothness of a magic mouse use the down arrow on the scroll bar or your keyboard.
Publishing Hears Echoes of Netflix
looks nice - haven't got far enough to see the tower defence side of it though
Google apparently slips unannounced Nexus phone in its KitKat video
How does it beat plaintext?

A reversible hash isn't so much a hash as a bijective function. The security of all stored passwords then depends on the secrecy of the "hash" function.
[Hacked] KitKat on a Nexus 4
Wednesday fun: this is how we test our app on a Nexus 4! :)
good job Google...
Why, dear Guest?
Do Google even test the stuff they put out? This is a pretty severe mistake to make for a company as big as Google. Do they not have teams dedicated to testing this stuff? The small design studio I work at does a better job QA'ing their websites than Google does QA'ing major product upgrades... Disgraceful.
Of course not, understanding nuanced statements is hard, let's just hear whatever we want to hear when somebody who we don't like is making a complex point! Down with The Man!
Ugh, read the small print section. Horrible, designed by committee to attempt to sound like their audience. I sometimes find these quite revealing, although irritating. It shows how they perceive the people they are targeting with a product. In this case we are flighty, feckless, caught up in a culture full of meaningless catch phrases. They have mistaken the irreverence and playfulness of the y,z gen for low brow incoherence.
MS did "buy" the brand for this use; for two years.
It would melt.
The HTML5 standard actually defines a mostly-sane regex, which achieves that sanity through "a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for e-mail addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the "@" character), too vague (after the "@" character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here."

I like it.

Link: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
> I'm not old enough to be responsible for stuff like that but I am incompetent enough.

Now that is a great conversation starter! I assume you think you know more than the senior/lead/architect on the team. You might, but have fun with that mentality. It's not sure to last. :)
True..its good nonetheless..
Gameplay trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=pSDp5srTgrA
I have really bad genes, this is why I have to lift to look like someone with good genes.
Thanks, that makes sense. So the 'make' function is more about the reserving of memory.
Insightful Lessons From My Interviews With Bootstrapped Entrepreneurs
Contact customer service: they will take care of you!
Good luck. It's not a bad problem to have. Either way, the decision isn't irreversible. The same option may not be there in a year or two, but other options will be.
I am getting restless..
I was hoping this would a discussion about an old line tech company hitting numbers at all costs so they can buy back shares versus new companies (like LinkedIn) that issue stock to grow. It's the natural order of things, not anything to be feared.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say because the domain name in quotation marks, taken with the headline, clearly indicates that it's on Github and about Two-Factor Auth.
I am looking forward to it.
> If there's no value to curation then people wouldn't bother copying the lists

Yes. And since they (MoS) are obviously earning _something_ from selling their compilations there must be _some_ value in there. (I assume there are tracks from different labels on said compilations, otherwise they should just be happy about their Spotify revenue.)

> Is what they do valuable enough to warrant protection? Is it "art"?

It is a tough question, but answering with "yes" gets you on a slippery slope. Are MoS going to pay up if (by chance) a Spotify user made a playlist a month ago that exactly matches their next release?
This is interesting actually. I remember a time I stayed up all night trying to get a script for a game working (hobby project). I was hacking away all night until early morning and I just couldn't fix the issues. After a good sleep, I'd fixed the issue and got it working as it should within an hour. The lesson for me was that I shouldn't put my health on the line for these types of things; it doesn't help in actually making progress and it could set my performance back weeks.

Another big lesson, which is more general and took a few more mistakes, was the value of stepping away from a problem after intense conscious focus on it. This may or may not mean sleep on it but just means taking your mind off it and let the back of your head tick away on it. I think this might actually be the source of "eureka" moments too, which means flashes of ingenuity are not exactly what they seem!
I fear overworked managers will not be able to understand the issue.
I'm fairly convinced, with the exception of a handful, pretty much all the crossing buttons in Brooklyn NY are placebos.

I've seen people roundhouse kick the thing (not an exaggeration) and it makes sense to have one that doesn't work since if it did previously, this treatment would kill it in no time.

Also, newer ones are popping up that aren't spring based, but are touch sensitive instead. Basically a shiny Aluminum or Zinc knob that beeps to let you know it's pushed. I think these are more effective since with the old ones, you're not even sure if the push got received.

It makes sense to have buttons that work in places where people actually expect functionality and such is desired. Not in a place where the default is impatience followed by vandalism.
Given their... let's say controversial history, I find it pretty alarming that he wants control over the world's water supply. Don't you?
Google is 15 years old today, here is our tribute
We hope you guys may like this. Google is 15 years old today. Here's a little tribute we've made - http://www.getinspired365.com/google - it's a set of their most inspiring videos! Hope you enjoy it!
Lets face it, Ministry of Sound compilations are merely CD's with the hottest club tracks of whatever year they're released in with scantily clad women on the album artwork. Anyone with an IQ who listens to the radio could pick the tracks on a MoS compilation, make no mistake.

I can see why they would see they have a case, but all they're doing is taking other artists songs, putting them on the CD and leveraging their well-known brand to sell copies. It's an old way of thinking, everyone is a content curator nowadays as this court case has proven.

Having said that a Ministry of Sound CD is usually always mixed. I doubt they have a case because you're not getting the tracks that have been mixed by MoS DJ's, they're suing based on track order and not so much the content which Spotify have legally paid for to stream.
The differences between the comments posted so far in the two threads seem to illustrate the importance of the submission title.
I pay way too much attention to these things. I have found on my walk to work, some buttons which do nothing, some which you must press and some you must press if it is after 10pm.

At least where I live, it depends on the intersection. So don't assume anything.
lesson learned : do not upgrade anything unless you read some feedback about it.
If you are coding at all outside of work you will have code to look back at.

The question is:

Are you improving? Or are you beyond improvement?
Who is the performer in this situation, who is the recording artist, and who owns the copyright? This debate has been raging for over a century.

And this is UK law, so I'm not even going to speculate.

But this reeks of the Oracle v Google Java API copyright infringement suite.
Clickable http://www.getinspired365.com/google
Actually, this was just fun to see, didn't expected this when i navigated to their site :P
If you register in one of the approved countries and then travel to a country where it's not officially available, it will still work. At least for two weeks or so[1]. It really is everywhere just not for everyone.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/fi/learn-more/guides/#!/article/...
You seem to have missed the part where Spotify has licenses to stream all the music in question.

MoS is suing over user-generated (and shared) playlists of these songs on Spotify, claiming copyright on the act of assembling a compilation.
Even while on the computer its a surface area thing, which can be partially fixed by multiple monitors, but only partially.

So, I'd like to simultaneously see a PDF of the circuit board layout, the schematic diagram, the bill of materials, maybe some text commentary (best install C21 first, as U14 and R75 will be in the way later...) and maybe a datasheet of some critical ckt component. And if I'm doing something vaguely computer or microcontroller related I'm going to want another machine just for that. So 4 to 6 screens is reasonable. There are quad output video cards, another solution is I have three monitors on my desk both at work and at home with multiple computers connected to them.
PhotoShop is not a design tool
My roomate was just issued one of these "laptops." They weigh a ton, the keyboard doesn't work worth a damn, the trackpad is all but useless, and the wifi is flakey -- and it's brand new. Judging from its build quality, it's completely unintentional that this kind of leak was possible.

It's obviously completely intentional that the laptop be put together with less aplomb than a speak 'n spell.
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Which can be turned off
Because the variable are already declared and ready to be used. Difference can be seen here → http://play.golang.org/p/IVPiw_2Uph
The point is that more energy being put on closed source Android development rather. Yes, Google has a lot of money but money is not it's only resource. Unnecessary projects have been closed off like Google Labs, Reader etc etc.
Google has a limited range of focus, Google's Android developers have a limited range of focus and Google would seek to guard them against unsupported distribution systems (open source ones). Maybe Google will open source more?
Opera has sessions too, super nice if you want to clean up those 100 tags that accumulated in research.
I just read it and I actually found it funny. Come to think of it, I like the whole idea of the site. Slightly nerdy and, that's the important part, not taking itself too seriously.

There's definitely worse examples of trying to adhere to this new lifestyle/fun-centric culture thing (I hope you know what I mean by that, since I don't know a better word for it)
I'm still looking for the optimal device to connect to my HiFi and TV. I used to have a Fit-Pc2 but unfortunately it comes with a GMA500 chipset, for which there aren't proper Linux drivers.

So what I want is:
- something that is actually available in Germany
- Fanless
- At least 2 USB ports (4 would be better), so I can add external HDDs as well as a DAC for good sound output
- Fast enough to run XBMC and similar stuff (no, Raspi doesn't do that trick)
- WiFi
- HDMI

Optimal would be:
- an IR interface for remote controls
- Ethernet
- eSata
- An internal Hard Drive

Any hints? Prices below 99 USD would be nice :)
Why fix if it ain't broke? I don't think this Wayland port is needed.

Would be better to spend engineering effort to add more features to GNOME and make the existing experience smoother.
It is possible to check if a URL scheme is valid, which helps to know if an app is installed that responds to that URL scheme.
I'm still not from the UK, have no experience (even reading) about UK copyright law (other than some historical tidbits in one of Lawrence Lessig's books).

I completely understand what they're suing over and what spotify has copyrighted vs. what MoS is claiming.

Of course, what they're claiming, the track listing on Wikipedia is probably infringing as well..

(ed. also: Spotify may have the permissions to stream the original, unmodified tracks - but when MoS puts together their compilations there is significant mixing and mastering that happens to modify the tracks from their original; so these aren't even the tracks from the MoS albums - just lists of the original tracks used to compile the MoS albums)
> Yes, I decided to ignore that constraint because it doesn't make sense :).

Then the customer won't pay you because you ignored their requirements. They might even sue you because you breached contract.

If the customer asks you for a mound of poo you write them a mountain of poo; you try your damned hardest to make sure that the room smells like poo when they are using the app. If they go home and tell their wife and kids about the giant mound of steaming poo they have been using all day then you have succeeded because they will go back to the one developer who knows how to stick to their senseless requirements.

At the end of the day all the other developers are giving them apps built on principles that only make sense to developers - principles that only really make sense for millions of users and not the few thousand that they have. Principles don't put a house over your head and food on the table - money does.
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The reason a MoS Compilation is worth more than Joe Sixpack Compilation isn't necessarily the curation, but the skill at which the curation is mixed -- which cannot be reproduced with a simple Spotify playlist. These aren't just curated compilations; they're curated, edited/mixed, and mastered compilations.
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Not nearly as annoying as lift/elevator buttons.
In my hometown they replaced old buttons that emitted a sound and a visual cue (green light silhouette on the device) with touch-sensitive devices that doesn't blink, sound or anything. For months we kept on 'pushing' on it and then once or twice I saw some of them being lit for a few days and now they still seem to be 'dead'. Something's wrong with the interface and the local authorities badly managing urban infrastructure.
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It's ridiculous that sites like Facebook and LinkedIn would do this. They really should know better.
Would this mean that these two values are stored locally? Could they be extracted from the GA app?
>>having worked at a top company matters

does that mean that it makes more sense to know how top companies hire, rather than small ones, since small companies just shadow decision made by bigger ones and check for typos and grammatical mistakes?
In York (UK) it is a mixed bag. There are a couple of simple pedestrian crossings near my home where the lights never change without a press and change very quickly once requested. At junctions it is more complex and seems to vary: some definitely have their sequence altered by specific pedestrian requests, some definitely seem not to. I've not noted if any vary by time of day, as some people report.
Elevator paradox
I think it's motivated a lot by fear of autism, which contributes the vindictiveness. It also seems to be an offshoot of the anti-science left, which embraces natural food, loathes agribusiness, and prefers alternative medicine to the hated big pharma. I think it's grounded in Romanticism [1]. There's definitely a mistrust of doctors, but I don't see it as being generically about control.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
Well, some DB's "load" the value in some way before giving it to the user, so that time is implicitly measured for those types of DB's but not for others, so I don't think it's a particularly fair comparison. I think Tokyo Cabinet gives you a pointer to newly allocated memory, at least for compressed data (but I am not completely sure about this). Like LMDB, Sparkey also does no processing of the value for uncompressed data, but for compressed data some decompression needs to take place in the iterator buffer (I guess that's equivalent to your cursor object). Even worse, if this is done lazily upon value retrieval, the cost is completely hidden in the benchmark.

In any case, I think the easiest way to get a fair benchmark is to at least iterate over the value, possibly also compare it. If that time turns out to be significant (perhaps even dominant) compared to the actual lookup time, then further optimization of the actual storage layer is pretty meaningless.
There's some next-level traffic light voodoo I often see people attempting in the UK, which is repeatedly pressing the button. I like the idea that it's a democratic process: only when pedestrians outnumber cars will the lights change.
I don't think this analogy makes sense. I HAVE flown professionally for 6 years and now I'm jumping through cargo-cult like hoops to show that to a new airline.
Well surely it must be legal to create your own Spotify playlist with the same tracks? If you can see them online then all one of these playlists do is save you five minutes of searching...?
I learned early in life that it's better to work intensely and rest a lot than do more work of a lower quality. If you are sleep deprived you might miss insights and opportunities. Time is the most valuable resource in the universe: by staying awake longer you are not gaining time but shortening your available time pool in the long run.
HDMI 2.0 officially announced
I wonder how many machines have those backup auth token text files sitting on the Desktop or in the Downloads folder?
The linked "secret button" article discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792039
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You need a paternoster lift:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk
I love your comment. Funny and humble.
Depends on your definition of junk food. Chocolate covered biscuits were considered a delicacy and a snack before it was called junk.
This essay gave me entirely different perspective of things. Great essay! Here's my two cents.

If we were to have a ranking of senses, it is an unsaid fact ever since the beginning, the sense of vision takes the highest preference and touch or feel still remains at the bottom. So, one could say that Technology has evolved along these lines all these years. It might even be possible that technology will not be centered around the things that our hands can feel and it's power to manipulate things in the future unless we change our preferences.
Irrespective of boycotts, please please buy chocolate products that have independent certification from a third party (UTZ Certified, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance).

Certification isn't perfect, and different labels focus on different things (though most cover child labor, environment, fair working conditions), but they give a signal to the corporations that you are expecting more than just sugar at the lowest price. Some Nestle products in some markets have third-party certification. If you want to buy Nestle, buy those.
Technically, yes. The name of the key is set by default as the account name in the app. I haven't looked into how the secret is stored in the Google Authenticator app—hopefully it's stored securely or with some level of obfuscation, but the app definitely needs to be able to retrieve the secret key somehow to do the token calculation.

One thing to note is that neither Google Authenticator nor Duo Security let you display the secret itself in the app. Another thing to note is that Google Authenticator keys seem to be backed up if you back up your iPhone to a computer using iTunes (mine were still there after a restore).
Any crossing near a school will generally change very quickly after a button press, but only during the school-run hours. Knowing which these are can noticeably accelerate ones journey to and from work.
Not sure I'd risk a fake flash in wet environments.
Biggest problem with teenagers(I had my own when I was in my teens). They think their eagerness, fresh introduction to the world, and their raw energy as something that is going to stay forever.

Note, as a teenager you have least responsibilities. Hardly anything to lose when you fail, full of energy. And the only way you can go is up. And this is as easy as it gets, once you step into your 20's at every step there has to be a compromise, if you don't you will eventually anyway.

Though I wish this kid succeeds. But in general it takes two big failures, where things went wrong from reasons outside of your control to get a grip of the actual reality of life.

Basic things in life like hard work never change. But its important to realize merely just raw hard work is never enough. And there are people in this world who fail, despite working as hard as any one else. It takes experience to understand that.
Programmers in USA are paid 100 000 USD a year, when in Eastern Europe best programmers available will hapily work for around 36 000 USD a year. It's still much more than almost everybody else earns here, and they don't have debts after graduating cause university education is free here.

Even if automation of software development won't happen jobs will be transfered to deveoping countries. No reason for that to not happen. Salaries will average out worldwide, and that means they will fall in USA more than rise elsewhere.

So I think the analogy is quite good.
To be honest, most of the top programmers or engineers that I know have terrible, terrible grammar and spelling. A number of them do not speak English as a first language but others just don't seem to care that much.

Would I base my hiring decision for a new programmer or engineer on the amount of spelling mistakes in a resume? I would give it thought but I would be more interested in actual real life working experience.
For me the most interesting piece in that article was the image of a crossing where pedestrians can actually walk _across_ the crossing (like, diagonally) instead of just a single street.

Haven't seen those anywhere here and I assume those are actually kind of nasty for car traffic (since .. all directions need to stop). Fascinating :)
There are already companies making sense projection with electromagnetic fields on the screen. One was in the same building here.
If I'd start a business like theirs and behaved the same way, it'd probably be considered old media as well.

What bothers me about their attitude is that this is not something Spotify wants, it obviously is something the _listeners_ want, and it seems like they don't give a damn about that. If they fail as a business, they well deserve it for refusing to adapt to their listeners' wishes. Instead, they want to force their listeners to adapt to _them_.
I've seen people do this with the Clear button on calculators. They press it repeatedly, presumably in the belief that extra presses make it "really cancel". Something to do with their mental model of the calculator's internal state?
I was certain that I had seen it before - I think it was in Opera. The UX around it was horrible, it somehow got in my way (I can't remember why). I think the more important problem is how to solve sessions from a UX perspective.

Another problem is that when you are building up all of those tabs you are setting up a lot of context in your mind, returning to that context is going to be jarring or impossible. Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea: "remind me what I was doing."
People go a bit further in Australia. I've heard many different peoples stories of timing (you push it and hold for 7 seconds) or repetition (12 presses and it'll change right now). Complete nonsense of course, but it's amusing how far positive reenforcement can get a story.