skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not much you can do to detect MITM by someone who has subpoenaed the private SSL certificates, is there?

I mean, there's no way to tell apart the certificate from the intermediary from the cert from the endpoint as they're the same.
I guess we need to make an distinction between short and long term conversion optimization.

How does a new and unexperienced customer at Ryanair feel when he sees the final amount he has to pay? It's obviously a good first conversion, but does it pay off a the second and third etc conversion for ryanair? Does he recommend the service?

He has other choices and the one that tricked him doesn't feel that good anymore...

Ergo: ryanair is optimizing short term conversion.
Regarding your counter example:
"Part of selling is to make the audience identify with you..."

This is distinctly not what you're trying to do. Part of selling is helping your audience understand that you identify with them, and you don't need to look/act like them to do it.

Also, I do think this correlation is "acceptable" (though admittedly I'm saying this as a person with minimal discernible american english accent). It's important when competing at a high level to play to your strengths. English not a strength? Go raise money/operate somewhere else, or work on it until it becomes a strength. Language is a tool in your belt just like someones ability to write code. No one expects to be able to play Major League Baseball if they can't hit a 90mph fastball.
Also, they count as your carry on bag, and they only bring one parachute on board, so if multiple people have to be thrown off and they've both paid for a parachute, they have to draw straws to decide who gets it.

Edit: And remember, OOF goes off on less than .1% of flights, so they have hundreds of times as many parachutes per flight as they have people who need them. Rumors that parachutes are oversubscribed are therefore wildly inaccurate.
It often is. Whether or not students learn anything is the issue.

Perhaps you could say that basic statistical competency should be required for a college degree.
Let me just fetch my meat-suit... and meat-cap.
I wanted to add that while in my PhD program I was studying this effect for a little while. In studies on ferrets scientists have discovered that the second auditory cortex, A2, tends to collect sonic motifs—things like a quickly rising pitch beginning near middle C, or any kind of warbling, or clear, constant tones at various pitches. Computationally, these motifs can be adapted to a particular corpus in order to improve detection and prediction rates while using a smaller bank of motifs. There's also lots of investigation into how these motif banks can improve robustness to distortions and noise.

As far as I know, it remains speculation that this effect occurs in humans, but it seems by your experiences (and my own learning Mandarin as a second language) plausible that the human brain itself "prunes" less useful sonic motifs in early life improving your ability to rapidly understand your primary language(s) even under shifts in accent or other distortions. This would likely come at the cost of literal inability to be attentive to motifs that haven't been stored. you would perceive them in A1, but they would have less resolution and perhaps semantic meaning (this is as far as I know quite wild speculation, mind).

I remember that it took almost an entire 6 mos of study before I really had a clue what tonality in Mandarin meant—I could hear it, but never perceive it as a linguistic phenomenon. After 6 months it appeared to almost overnight become something sensible to me at which point I had to relearn almost my entire vocabulary including the tonal information that I'd been unknowingly ignoring.
I like the use case for reading movie scripts, it could help to keep all levels of the story in mind:

https://gingkoapp.com/Alien-1979
I've been using Firebase in an Angular app I've been developing for the past couple of months, but instead of using AngularFire I rolled my own wrapper for a few reasons:

1. I didn't like how Firebase is explicitly injected into and referred to in the controllers. I don't want my controllers to be so tightly coupled to Firebase.

2. There was no support for associations. If you want to have object associations, which most non-trivial apps require, you need to manage all that complexity in your controllers using AngularFire. I wanted a solution that handled it implicitly, ala ActiveRecord.

3. I wanted additional features handled for me by the wrapper like timestamps, save/create/delete/init callbacks, collecting resources into stores to be used across controllers, etc.

4. AngularFire leans pretty heavily on Firebase as the place data is stored. I wanted to instead have my data stored in memory and automatically synced to Firebase without me having to worry about it. That way, if I ever switched away from Firebase I don't need to change any of my controller code.

5. Pagination is something that becomes very important as you start to build more complex apps, and it's not the most pleasant thing to deal with in Firebase at present. I wanted a wrapper that managed all those details for me.

Angular and Firebase are a great match, and AngularFire is a good way to get going quickly, but it lacks the features and depth required to make a truly complex application IMO. I had been meaning to throw my wrapper up on Github for a while so I suppose now is as good a time as any:

https://github.com/marknutter/firebase-resource

Examples and tests forthcoming.
Go for it, i've only tested it using Adblock. I'll test out Remove it Permanently and see if I can come up with some sort of anti for it ;)
I think one thing that's nice about this is a much smaller inventory to sort through that gives some front page exposure specifically to indie artists.

I played around with this for a bit and found 3-4 aritsts I liked just by hitting play on a dozen or so songs, and then exploring further.

Big fan of this.
Have you thought about allowing for the creation of arbitrarily deep trees? That's one of the features I like most about workflowy. This looks really cool, though!
Not really. Traveling for the last few months my kindle has been a godsend. No desire now that I'm back to get the physical alternative.
Read-only demo: https://gingkoapp.com/hyperloop
That sounds like a home connection. Is the same thing going to apply if you get a dedicated business line?
I feel rather similarly about number plate scanning for cars. My local supermarket lost literally £10,000+ when they installed scanners on their car park a while back and we took our custom elsewhere as a direct result. I don't know how much they make in fines, but I expect my family alone cancels out everything they made for a while after introducing the cameras. (And yes, some of that chain's stores did get pulled up for trying to charge fines that weren't justified after installing similar cameras. It made the local paper, with resulting PR about as good as you would expect.)
What about LA as being a good market for startups? We are expanding there soon :D
Weird, why were her husband and son using her work computer? Maybe she brought it home, and they used it, and her company monitored her in her home?
All The World’s A Stage, And All The Men And Women Merely Players
Thanks!

Screenwriting was one of the initial inspirations for the UI, because screenplays are naturally hierarchical (logline > Acts > Sequences > Scenes > Beats).
Just how tall is your screen?
Also, http://www.wikihow.com/Zoom-With-a-Web-Browser
Ask HN: Open-ended-questions.org — like StackExchange, but for open questions
Dear Hacker News,

I'm thinking about building StackExchange.com for open-ended
questions. Do you think it's a good idea? I have two questions:

But first:

1. There would be subdomains that corresponded to StackExchange
subdomains, e.g.: programmers.open-ended-questions.org and
writers.open-ended-questions.org. So if you wanted to ask an
open-ended question, or start a discussion, you could visit
*.open-ended-questions.org instead.

2. I've mostly built a hopefully better discussion system already,
as part of a failed one-person startup, see http://www.debiki.com/-84472

Now, the questions:

1. Do you think open-ended-questions.org is a good idea? Would you
use it sometimes, or perhaps people would use ... Reddit? instead?

2. Would anyone like to help out in some manner somehow? :-) For
example, helping promoting the site(s), or advising about how it
should be promoted? And/or suggesting features and things to add
and amend.
I couldn't have put this better myself, it's exactly the first thing I thought once I came on HN and saw this essay. It's just more fuel for the fire, which is a good thing when that's what you want. PG never struck me as a shock jock so I was quite surprised.

Within the US there are various accents and sometimes people from one area have a little trouble understanding people from another area. If a strong foreign accent is a big roadblock to start ups then it's understandable, said and done. Now with this follow up I have to revisit the whole thing to see why it is the biggest challenge. Since we're all into solving problems why not have a hot blonde take care of all the public interaction if it's that big of a deal (that's what I would do)?
Agreed. There is some great content there, but its just such a shame it is hidden by a wall of frustration. SO/SE seems to have it pretty much nailed, but I guess Quora wanted to monetize quickly... to the detriment of its users.
just make something people would pay for, accent be damned, on internet nobody knows you're a dog
I recommend you go with PHP, it's really easy to use and get started with. You can make some pretty amazing applications rapidly and deployment is a joy with PHP. The job market for PHP and Java is the same as a far as demand but Java pays much more.
Yes, we're definitely working on adding arbirary depth. We are starting with three because it's enough to realize the benefits.

Infinite depth is coming (as well as other exciting features).
> It's nice to see suffix arrays being used in the real world.

You are apparently not working in Bioinformatics. Suffix arrays are used a LOT here, but rather the more advanced stuff like the BWT. Although, maybe Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing technology are not very "real worldy" to most... :)
In my view, the good boss deflects as much praise as possible onto his team, and absorbs as much blame as possible.
Can someone explain why resetting the clock will give sudo access without requesting a password?
Their decision to dump the data right into the controllers and not have some interface with services always puzzled me too and was the reason I rolled my own instead of using angularFire.
The worst mainstream example of this I know of is PayPal.

Their entire business is predicated on steering you away from using your credit or debit card (better for you) to a direct bank withdrawal (better for them).

Bank withdrawals carry a risk of overdraft fees, have fewer consumer protections, and lack the rewards programs and other benefits of cards. But they cost less for PayPal. Merchants don't pay any less though -- it's how PayPal makes money.

Each and every time it defaults to bank withdrawals. You have to hit "Change" to select your card, every time. There's no way to change the default to your card. The only reason for this UI is to steer customers away from their best interests.
Are you sure the issue is racism and not due to sanctions that a US based company has to follow (and possibly may not be well defined)?
Oh! I think the point is: if you're comparing pieces to the whole, you should make a normal pie chart where the pieces are all on the same level. Stacking them up that way isn't really a pie chart at all, it's just a round bar chart.
You might be surprised what an intelligence agency can tell you about your country based off of those "larger" indicators. Especially when tied to other data points. Knowing what another state is capable of is by far the most important part of intelligence gathering.

The DIA has models to determine food supplies in China based off of the number of farm tractors and price fluctuations of dog food in the USA. It amazing how accurate they are considering the data points.

Really isn't a question of whether the information is a security risk or not. It is a question of freedom vs security.
I've enjoyed experimenting with AngularFire, but your wrapper addresses a couple of my concerns (#1 in particular). I look forward to taking it for a spin. Thanks!
Reminds me of Ted Nelson's Zigzag, only he had N dimensions and a cell structure. http://xanadu.com/zigzag/
I was just about to do this, very nice I'll be trying it.
I'd say the biggest problem is the treatment of foreign workers. Maybe foreign workers from "the west" get good treatment, but the ones bussed in from Asia, for example, aren't treated so well.
So the wrongly accused man was physically in jail at the reported time of the murder, and yet the system moved forward to imprison him for nearly two decades...because of this:

> There was a lot at stake for the detectives, who said all eight defendants had confessed. Because all of them had implicated Daniel in the murders, if Daniel’s confession were to fall apart, the rest of the case would be in jeopardy.

I think this is a sobering anecdote to remember when wondering why a bureaucratic decision has been made despite flying in the face of pure logic and science.
US Driver's License Numbers - Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, perhaps others
fake emails work btw
You said stupid. I say they don't understan because they don't care. Not everyone likes computer, you know.
This is an exciting model. I believe network connectivity should be treated like a local utility that is priced based on cost, not as a premium service
Conversely, I skimmed down the page, saw the list of references at the bottom, and knew it had to be a tokenadult comment.
Last year's was pretty good, too. He talked about managing developers and trying to fit code reviews and static analysis into their process. I learned a lot.
The percentges add up to 130%, too.

Assuming a simple typo, where the 89 should be 59, the pie slices still look wrong to me. Looking at the relative sizes of the 4% and the 3% slices, that might be a rounding issue (could of instance be 3.7% and 3.3%), but the Apple and Android ones look too big to me.
I occasionally have—some Newfoundlanders, people from certain parts of the UK, and so on. There's a whole lot of variation in the English-speaking world, and the line between dialect and accent isn't well-defined. There's even an island off the coast of Virginia (I think) where people speak 18th-century English!
Galveston underwent a similar transition of two stories after the catastrophic damage of a hurricane in the year 1900, in order that it would never be vulnerable again†

†Unless the city expanded outside the elevated seawall, which it did... for a time. Predictably, another hurricane has corrected this oversight recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas#Hurricane_of_1...
Yes, correcting other societies' backward ways is what the west does best.
"I am further not sanguine about the tech companies coming out on top this time."

Remember, though, this isn't just "government vs. the little guy". There are large interests that don't particularly care for the US government intercepting their every move. Some of these may sue, some may contribute to furthering encryption technology, who knows what else.

My personal feeling is that the NSA's surveillance is going to slowly but surely get much harder over the next few years. Centralization was convenient, but if there's enough push to decentralize, it can be done, and will be done. And further, the exact stuff that the NSA is most interested in is going to be the first to go.

We're overdue for another wave of decentralization anyhow.
Updated, try again ;)
http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/gt/leaveme.htm
Yes, Ted Nelson has some similar work in this line. But I think he went too far with the N dimensions... Text is linear, Gingko text is 2-dimensional.

With it, we can represent more than two dimensions, by simply "slicing" along any two we choose (e.g. text & comments)... not sure I'm explaining this properly :-/
Is Adblock a requirement? Opera has built-in element blocking: I clicked "Block elements", clicked the "ad", clicked "Done," and ... done :)
This is a very old bug on UNIX-like systems. - I'm surprised it's still around on OS X (and surprised that this is news).

IIRC, it's because sudo -k checks whether the current time > time_at_which_you_entered_password + ttl[0]

By resetting this clock, you make the current time before this cutoff, therefore fooling the computer into thinking you don't need to enter a password.

[0] ie, how long it takes for your password to "expire" before requiring you to enter it again.
Not worth the effort.
Leave me alone, can't you see I'm learning your language? (1993)
The best I can recommend is Learning the vi Editor by O'Reilly. This book will really teach you to understand the command languages of ex and vi (and how they interact). Once you've mastered that, vim will make a lot more sense as it's just a gigantic pile of extra stuff built around that core functionality.
I like how it organizes information spatially, like WorkFlowy. I much prefer this visual organization to tags, for example. That said, I found it hard to understand what it was, even though I'm a long-time WorkFlowy user and am very interested in this kind of thing. I wrote a post where I talked about organizing information visually in more depth here: http://colemanfoley.quora.com/Mind-Mapping-with-WorkFlowy (Registration NOT required to read).
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I think this is related to the research that your willpower and energy is limited. When you have to make tough decisions over the course of the day you get run down, and start making worse decisions.
Ctrl -
Is Lean Startup helpful?
CISCO vulnerability allows remote attacker to take control of Windows system
"letting this controversy blow over"

Could be an effective strategy or could be a technique employed by people with a low threshold or tolerance for adversity (as hard as that is to believe) or experience higher than normal levels of frustration when people don't agree with them.

You sometimes see this in people that normally are tops at something and where things come easy to them (vs. "normals"). So they are not used to having to put in much effort to defend themselves and the practice of having to do so feels foreign and distonic to them.

If you've ever attended a top school you see this in some of the students there. The ones who skated through high school and were tops find it hard to operate where they actually have to work very hard and study so much (because of the competition). The ones who struggled and had to work hard to get in take the "b's" in stride and continue working hard and aren't as bothered by setbacks. Because it's always been like that.

A generalization, based strictly on my observation.

PG rarely engages in long back and forth's with comments on HN. He makes comments but I don't normally see much of him replying to a reply. I remember recently where he actually told people it was time to "get back to work" just like a parent would tell you that you are being silly and to grow up.
I'm a native Mandarin speaker. I think the most important part is to figure out which part of the business is interface-heavy and their priority and allocate the finite resource to the most necessary. As you mentioned, channels with high local customer communication demands. Founders' time is finite. We second language learners all know how difficult it is to improve language skills from the current level. While keeping practice for a long term gain, a thoughtful resource allocation is a good thing to do to face up the short term challenges.
Not to be irrelevant to the question, but something to consider. Why not just go with java as a rest API and use a frontend framework? JSP with taglibs and all that aren't as heavily used now a days.

Keep in mind, this is coming from someone who has done JSP and spring (still use spring) for years.

Especially in light of some of the newer JVM frameworks, you'd benefit from being framework agnostic on the front end but take advantage of your java experience otherwise.
How To Work With Designers
It's really not. Once you sign up, there are no pop-ups, nor are there advertisements of any kind.
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Dude! This is awesome. Outside of the idea. I love how simple and amazing your UI is. Its light and brilliantly intuitive. I have been using everything from grooveshark, new myspace and spotify , rdio but i seriously like your UI the best. It has almost all the features and its so very well thought out. Good on you sir!
Yes - it's the type of thing you have to jump on quickly before the negative PR spirals. And unfortunately, corrections and clarifications rarely get the hype that original articles or misquotes get in the first place.
Have there been any examples of tech companies that have simply refused to provide access to governments?
If you think the Edward Snowden revelations are a "computer" issue, then you've not been paying attention.
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Ontology/taxonomy/classification are seriously difficult things. If not semantic web would have ruled the world by now.

Structural hierarchies (chapter/section etc) may be easy to get for everyone but a navigation side panel would work too. If you build a semantic hierarchy, new users may not know how to find things; yet repeat users may be frustrated by having to go through the layers to access the items they are looking for.
It wasn't a review. It was just misinformed, highly opinionated speculation.
We considered adding "lazy registration", but we're a team of just two, and decided to focus on improving the product and helping our users.

Might do in the future, but for now, that's what we have.
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And the pretzel to illustrate "flexible"
Let's not equate three cherry picked examples with "likely to succeed at X" either.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the list were hosted by a company who's revenue largely comes from ads. Like most internet companies today.

Maybe some kind of balance would be better than a block list. Effective ads that don't annoy.
I haven't used it myself, but would IPython work? http://ipython.org/
It doesn't have to be just for Android. There's already interest in it from developers for jailbroken iOS: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1lbyrr/pressy_a_b...

And the FAQ on the Kickstarter page indicates that they'd probably welcome that:

> We are not releasing an iOS app for Pressy. There are too many restrictions on the API. We hope our developers community builds an app compatible with iOS.
Wherever the key is, you get used to it. Some keyboards put backslash in really dumb places, but a few hours in and you hardly notice.

I've used keyboards with backspace where F5 is on modern keyboards, and you know what? You deal.
The hostility to Quora seems a little excessive. Is it so bad to just sign up, then be able to use it from then on? I don't see why someone would actually be offended by this kind of thing.
Yes, Amazon will do that conversion for you. It works OK, but I gave up on doing it for science white papers. Graphics are lost and it only works if the PDF is formatted the right way, so it was enough of a pain that I stuck to printing stuff out.

I use Readability to take web pages, get rid of pagination and beam the raw text to my Kindle, and I love it.
Godaddy is basically scrolldown+click correct button three times.

Ryanair is trap upon trap. Radiobuttons and checkboxes all over the place, and if you forget to confirm not wanting a bag you have to start over on that page and hit all the right settings again. Multiply that five-six times...

(And I wouldn't be surprised if Parsons and O'Leary are buddies.)
I like the way you think.

Or do I?!!?!?