skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpret that to mean that the NSA are not able to bring into plaintext communications that are protected by strong cryptography, unless there were exploitable mistakes in the handling of the cryptosystem.
The NSA /are/ however very capable of, for instance, gaining access to and control of a persons computer. That could be used to inspect the communications before they are encrypted or to reverse the encryption by using the keys the same way the legitimate receiver would.
It's an interesting point, what you're saying is that theoretically "be more white" is something that would make logical sense (while being repulsive). A big difference though is you can't change what you look like (which is why racism is so disgusting) -- but you can change how you speak. So his advice is quite practical: Work on your English.
It does have a backlight for just that reason. The size and simple functionality are the best if that's all you need.
Apple fell to the PC because the hardware was a fraction of the price since clones were allowed to exist in the PC world.

Apple sued their clones out of existence. Might all be using Apple today if they had not.

Then they eventually switched to pc hardware themselves.
I wouldn't say that was typically American by any means. I would say that hyper political correctness is a reaction by a subset of the population to the overt ethnic discrimination of much American dialogue, policy, and action.

A quarter of the country belongs to an evangelical church. Those people discriminate against anyone that isn't Christian, because that's what being evangelical means. A third of black males born today will go to prison. There is a war on anybody that is vaguely middle eastern, even at home. The Jews controlling Hollywood and Wall Street are reviled. It goes on and on and on.
I hate finding work. Let me rephrase. I HATE finding work. That is, by far, my least favorite part of freelancing.
You're right that BCD is very common for calculators. BCD was also commonly used in microcomputers, since you save all the binary-to-ASCII code for I/O. This is why x86 has a bunch of BCD instructions like AAA (ASCII adjust after addition), which was important enough to be a single-byte opcode.

The 6502 is notable for its highly-efficient and patented (https://www.google.com/patents/US3991307) decimal arithmetic mode. I'll write up its interesting circuits sometime. One consequence of the patent is the processor in the NES video game is a 6502 clone that lacks decimal mode.
Yes, it is LED 'backlit' (more like side-lit). The eink display is readable even in the lowest light though, as it has a pretty big font.
I sympathize with the NASA chart. It was clearly created using IDL, which is powerful but also suffers from allowing lazy scientists to use automatic plot parameters.
Wow....just looking at his 'about' section in his profile - that's another essay with references.

Interesting!
Fascinating story. Of course the Wired version of the story is a little more sensational. There he does the 30 miles for his 30th birthday drunk in his skivvies.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html
Might be a bit hard as a Syrian citizen...
Read the rest of the comments in this discussion on HN and you should quite easily be able to see how he can allow himself to make this kind of statement. There's a huge amount of people willing to portray anyone who interpreted his statement differently from how he said it should be interpreted as malevolent, as part of "the looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended patrol", of only caring because it's in their "business model to generate politically correct controversies".
Damn, you went for the same solution as me. I didn't think anyone else would so obtuse as to use a canvas to access the raw image data.

Here's my equivalent solution:

var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.height = 1;
canvas.width = 1;
var twodctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var blockImg = null;
var qs = document.querySelectorAll('img');
for (var i = 0; i < qs.length; i++) {
var img = qs[i];
twodctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 1, 1);
var imgd = twodctx.getImageData(0,0,1,1);
if (imgd.data[0] == imgd.data[1] && imgd.data[0] == imgd.data[2] && imgd.data[3] == 255) {
var badDiv = document.createElement('div');
badDiv.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(badDiv);
badDiv.appendChild(img.parentNode.removeChild(img));
break;
}
}
You bought yourself an RSS follower here. Good luck. :-)
I guess I don't check except when I'm low, and if I'm low, it's due to using it and having the screen on. If I leave my phone "off" (that is, I don't actively use it, but the radio is on), then the display is less (for a N1 I have on me, it says screen is 20% this morning, and it's done nothing but sit there for a day).
Any recommendations for a good dumb phone that can tether?
Have you seen eLife's Lens reader? Example article is at http://lens.elifesciences.org/#00772

They took a fresh, web-centric look at how to interactively display research papers. It's being used — right now — to display all of the new articles from a major biology journal.

I think it's quite nice.
Many of these could just as easily be the result of really bad UI design, especially when there are "technical constraints"—the RyanAir example in particular reeks of an opt-out being jammed haphazardly into an existing form to avoid adding another control.

Hanlon's Razor, yadda yadda. These patterns aren't any better if they're accidents, of course, but there'd at least be a chance that the offending company would fix them.
"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book" - Albert Einstein

All of us who program for a living use google,stack overflow,...etc. Keep your reasoning skills sharp, and you are a perfect fit for developer role.
Yes, I see that. However it is a few mm thicker, 50% heavier, 400% more expensive and 7 years(!!!!) newer.

Imagine what they could do if they were actually optimizing on dumbphone strengths!
Cool, hadn't considered having a tag list at top. Thanks.

Collapsing to "header only" is something we might have to add, after we implement infinite columns (so we can get a quicker overview of large trees).

Thanks for the feedback.
You can do that if you like. Use vm.overcommit_memory - setting it to 2 will still allow overcommit if there is room in swap for it. (So a process doesn't have to use the memory, it's just assured of a place in swap should it need it.)
I have nokia x1-01 for family & friends only number and as a phone that I use when I want to be reachable but not to worry about loosing the smartphone,
with 20-40 min talk time a day it lasts for more than a week on single charge, thus 4weeks standby seems credible to me
http://www.sanctionswiki.org/Syria#EU

That's a big legal minefield to deal with just to sign up some small accounts from individuals.
Really? You can get into the UK without a passport from Syria these days?
What do you think our grandparents did? You think it was easy for them?
Forth is arguably the best language in terms of expressive power/language complexity, though that's largely due to the denominator.

It's a great choice for tightly constrained devices, though far fewer devices have such constraints now. The mental overhead of having to track stack-effects for each function makes it difficult to scale to large systems and maintain productivity, but if you're trying to eke every iota of power out of a chip with a tiny amount of ROM, it's hard to beat a direct-threaded (or token-threaded...) Forth.
Anui’s Jasic jsut was released on the app store. It's a full fledged integrated developer environment for iPad. Build a full app on the iPad. The team behind this effort is impressive. Mohsen Agsen built Visual Studio and ran the C++ team at Microsoft.
Thanks for the feedback! This site is going to target adults with no/little experience playing piano, but music theory will definitely play a part in the content.

For example, beginners should definitely know that most western pop/rock music can be played just with C, F, and G major chords. That's something that would have blown my mind when I was a beginner.

And if you throw in an Am, you can play all the songs featured in the Axis of Awesome video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome
Shouldn't it be forever and not for ever?
STOP HAVING FUN. THE FUN IS OVER.
Still want to use Facebook to remain connected, never like/comment anything, never post a picture or a status update. If you want to chat, tell the user to use one of the apps listed on https://prism-break.org
I love the redesign of darkpatterns.org.

I am looking forward to the form to submit a dark pattern.
Keep up the great work!
While cool, the article left me wanting more science. It suggests that a highly alkaline diet might be related to his performance?! Low body fat? A significant difference in gene expression due to childhood activity?

All of those are topics that I'd love to read about, but the article is very light on details.
Metasploit - The Exploit Learning Tree (paper about Metasploit internals)[pdf]
Cool, I hadn't seen that.

Personally, I think that things like this Lens reader are evolutionary advances, but science communication needs a revolutionary change.

I don't expect actual journals to be using Gingko any time soon, but there are already grad students collaborating on research papers right now :)
I'm no fan of PayPal, but I interpret this as a reflection of the state of the banking industry rather than scummy behavior on PayPal's part. Cards skim a ton off the top and are generally designed to gouge the merchant (i.e. PayPal) so customers remain blissfully unaware and keep using them; banks aren't making much effort to compete with direct transfers, probably because they get kickbacks from debit card use.
You're focusing on one case instead of looking at the whole thing as a system. What's the standard of proof for establishing that it's knowing and not inadvertent? Who "finds" that the prosecution knowingly withheld evidence? You can't have official legal "findings" until you institute a law suit, so what's the bar for instituting a law suit and how do you set that bar high enough to keep prosecutors from being inundated with lawsuits by every criminal they put in jail?

It's a cost-benefit analysis. What's the benefit of reducing the error rate of the system versus how much does it cost to achieve that reduction?
Face Visors: http://www.sungrubbies.com/Web%20images/SolarHat-UV-Protecti...
> In hindsight, nicely presented lunches, gym (and perhaps babysitting?) on campus apparently serve a very real purpose. It makes sense that they are minimizing distractions.

One of the less savory goals of these perks is to make sure that you go back to work as soon as possible after you're done with your things. A different perspective is that it's win-win: your employer benefits from less downtime in their employees, and the employees benefit from the perks.

> The article makes me feel like the wealthy people don't have worries like that. I kind of envy that.

There was an excellent article a year or three ago about the stresses that the super-rich go through. I can't seem to find it anymore (I can't recall any keywords besides "super-rich"), but it gives you a sense of how their financial stress is of a different quality.
Ask HN: Cloud printing for small print shops
I recently found out that FedEx has a cloud printing system that allows users to print to FedEx stores using a mobile app or via google's cloud printing services. I haven't seen any small print shops with a service like this available. Usually they require you to log into their computers which is insecure and less convenient. I've seen companies like square and level up succeed at selling payment systems to small businesses near me. Is anyone in the HN community aware of a company trying to do something similar for small print shops?
I'll make up an example company, LocalPrint, to give an idea of what I have in mind. LocalPrint would provide print shops with an out the box way to connect a printer to their cloud printing service, perhaps the hardware and printer would be included to simplify configuration and enable other businesses like cafes to providing cloud printing capabilities. LocalPrint would also build software that enables users to print through their service from a variety of platforms and pay in advance using services like paypal and google wallet. LocalPrint could then generate revenue by charging a few additional cents for each print job.
Symmetry in the universe: Physics says you shouldn’t exist
- I had a friend who did freelancing for a bit, and got caught completely unaware of the tax implications of doing so. When tax time rolled around, he had a huge bill... and then was goaded by his friends into trying to DIY his tax return using TurboTax (while the alternative he wanted was to go to a random accountant who had set up shop in a local mall).

- Something I've never understood why it's so painful and expensive it is to pay someone electronically. A paper check/cheque costs something like 10 cents (when you amortize it over the cost of the entire checkbook) and if you use the duplicate kind you get a paper record that you paid someone else. When I use Simple Finance to pay someone, they contract out some other company to snail-mail a paper check to them! If you want to use a wire transfer, the fees range in the tens of dollars. Plus, when dealing with account numbers, it's all too easy for you or your client to transpose two digits when writing it on a form.
I had a Nokia 6790 "Surge" running Symbian that could do Bluetooth tethering.
Why does chrome prompt me for keychain access on this page?

I'm not logged in, and it doesn't log me in.
Bloomberg Loves Security Cameras... Until Police Ordered To Wear Them
The meaning is pretty clear in the interview:

"I'm not sure why. It could be that there are a bunch of subtle things entrepreneurs have to communicate and can't if you have a strong accent. Or, it could be that anyone with half a brain would realize you're going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent."

He is talking about strong accents as a superficial data point. You would have to make shit up to infer anything beyond that.

I actually think his second suggestion (a lack of a critical kind of sensibility) is the deeper and more meaningful one.
Solar Backpacks
"They could've done even better" doesn't invalidate his argument, though.
If you're looking to learn iOS, I'd suggest contributing to an open source application.

An app requires a bit of setup so taking someones app means that most of the minutia is set up. Therefore you can take on manageable size chunks. Also, and maybe more importantly, you'll have an experienced iOS developer review your code.

https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios is a good one. Shameless plug: https://github.com/Ink/ThatInbox, ThatPDF, ThatPhoto, ThatCloud are ones that my company open sourced.

Related: https://learn.thoughtbot.com/ios is a good listing of iOS resources to get started.
This looks awesome, but the elephant in the room is how does the document look offline?

Can it be exported to PDF or be printed or something?

When you print it, how does it look?
I agree with you. It may be leaner than even Eric Ries would recommend.

I was trying to meet the deadline for the Coursera course :-). All they required is a landing page with donation and tweet buttons, so that's all I did for now.

But now that I know there is some interest, I'll get to work building some real content!
"but in his entire life he has never experienced any form of muscle burn or cramp"

Having read his book "Ultramarathon man" recently. I grabbed it and here are some quotes:

"My legs throbbing and cramped"
...
"Then without warning the quadriceps and calf muscles of both muscles seized in wicked cramps"
...
"The cramps were still so severe that..."

I'm gonna stop there, but ctrl-f finds at least 10 more references.

Really shows how far these pseudo-journalists go for a story. The rest of the portrayal of him being some super human is also completely in opposition with his biography.
I don't think it even got a ruling from a Federal Court yet, because the feds kept playing legal games, and got away with dismissing the cases. But I think it's been declared unconstitutional at least 3 times by normal Courts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsXCNLB0CI
I'm pretty sure it would be illegal without an NSL. Tipping of the subject of an investigation over a search conducted pursuant to a valid warrant.
I took yours and lukegb's a bit further - thanks for the inspiration. Probably overkill, though :-P

var removeImageByHash = function() {
var bad = [525994816];
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img');

for( var idx = 0; idx < imgs.length; idx++ ) {
var el = imgs[idx];

canvas.width = el.width;
canvas.height = el.height;
ctx.drawImage(el, 0, 0, el.width, el.height);

var hash = 0;
for( var i = 0; i < el.width; i++ ) {
for( var j = 0; j < el.height; j++ ) {
var pixel = ctx.getImageData(1, 1, 1, 1);

hash = ((hash << 5) - hash) + pixel.data[0];
hash |= 0;
hash = ((hash << 5) - hash) + pixel.data[1];
hash |= 0;
hash = ((hash << 5) - hash) + pixel.data[2];
hash |= 0;
}
}

var found = false;
for( var i = 0; i < bad.length; i++ ) {
if( bad[i] === hash ) {
found = true;
break;
}
}

if( found ) {
var hidden = document.createElement('div');
hidden.style.display = 'none';
hidden.style.width = 0;
hidden.style.height = 0;

document.body.appendChild(hidden);
hidden.appendChild(el.parentNode.removeChild(el));
}

console.log(idx + ": " + hash);
}
};
I have donated 90% of my shelves to the library replacing them with digital versions. The only books I'm keeping are first editions, rarities, art or photography books. I like the notion of paper books, had 5 large bookshelves full, but I hate moving with them and the Kindle/iPad setup is really quite nice.
What I'm curious is whether it's $150 after subsidies or before subsidies. If it's the latter, then this phone could easily be offered as a $0 phone on a two or three year contract.
The Color of Apple
They don't know whether you are some regular person just trying to live your life, or some supporter of the sanctioned regime trying to protect ill-gotten gains by moving them out of the country. Unfortunately the latter is a frequent occurrence in military conflicts. The problem is that they don't really have the cultural or social context to judge which sort of Syrian person you are.

The best idea I can come up with offhand is consider a closer but wealthier and more stable country as an intermediate destination, such as Turkey or Dubai, but I realize that's not very helpful.
I've been working on a project with AngularFire for the last few weeks, and you just outlined every single issue I've had with the library so far. Associations were presenting a lot of complications especially. Thanks for sharing!
Have you considered a BlackBerry Q10?
The Syria Live Blog - Washington Exile
With better support mobile devices (including eReaders and whatever comes after them), we hope it'll be less of an issue as time goes on.

Right now, we simply export the Markdown to flat text (breadth-first). But we will be adding PDF export options, for exporting the whole document, or one column.

That way, you can still end up with a traditional document at the end, if you want.

Any other ideas?
Awesome, this is one of the best explanations of version conflict resolution in distributed storage.

The best engineers not only needs to write great code, they need to write the best documentations too :)
No, a dumb phone has calling and SMS only. It is distinct from feature phones, which have features like a camera or Java ME.
Bruce Schneier to speak at TEDxCambridge 2013
Movile Partners with Boingo for International Roaming
I like like this, and I want to support independent artists, but consider grouping similar songs together like Songza does. My .02.

Congrats on the great site and what seems like a successful launch!
Even worse is when said lazy scientists plot time series data as a set of images where each image is autoscaled.
As an anecdote, I make a software developer's income, but I also farm on the side. With some new expansion this year, virtually all of my cash assets are tied up in crops that are still growing and I'm going to struggle to finish out the remainder of the season. I'm probably considered "rich" on paper, but I have been feeling these effects start to creep into my own life regardless.
I used to work for a magazine who had specialists come in who recommended this kind of crap.

This is not simply bad design.. these things are very deliberate and usually controversial within these companies that implement these tactics.

Its a pretty standard story where Marketing is pushing for short term gains while IT/Web is thinking about the big picture.
Listen to some "native English speakers" in Glasgow - I understood them reasonably well after a week, but when I arrived the cab driver might as well have spoken chinese, I had to write things on paper to get where I wanted...
On a slight tangent, is the better education "rich" people are getting thanks to their money making them smarter in the first place though?

These things feed on each other, the feedback is a loop.
My dream e-reader has a 8.5*11 display (standard paper size), high res, color, glow-lit, and can flip pages as fast as you can flip them on a physical book.

It's exciting to see this come closer to reality every year.
If we want to get rid of them, why not just stick with one? Before REST came along people were doing just fine using only POST for their APIs....

cough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP cough
After the recent price drop, it ends up being only 25% cheaper than a Nexus 4, which is way more phone than this. It's not clear to me that there's anyone interested in the particular price/features intersection where this phone sits.
I gave all my books to Goodwill last year -- a lifetime of collected & curated sci-fi & fantasy paperbacks, plus some antique tech titles (the "Be Book" was in the pile) and went digital.

I have maybe 20-25 books now. Nearly all of them are technical titles, because the typical reader device isn't large enough to display their diagrams/charts (Amazon doesn't sell the 10" Kindle any more, and iPad-like devices don't have the battery life for a reader)

I do miss the possibility of re-reading the titles that never made it to digital (muddy copyright ownership, lack of interest on the part of the publisher), but I'm happy that perhaps someone browsing through Goodwill might pick it up and enjoy it too.
> "PG is an evil monster who hates women and foreigners and people of color and doesn't ever want to invest in their companies".

There are long-standing complaints with the structure and the predatory nature of YCombinator. It is very unusual and complaints center around how HN is essentially a very high-pressure situation designed to try and sell kids on the value of PG & YComb as investors on very small funding events.

Personally, I don't think this article really justifies the behavior that has been consistently (if not as high-profile) that PG has had. His reported castigation and refusal to see people who have Indian accents is troublesome. It's very difficult to take his claims seriously when he affects fake russian accents while proclaiming his innocence.
1) Finding Work and vetting them (making sure they are serious/pay/etc.)
2) Getting Paid
3) Repeat
Things like:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230487030457749...

And more generally, moreso from the free software angle:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html

Of course, there are suppliers of ebooks besides Amazon, or besides Apple, who do not infringe upon at least most such concerns.
VisiCalc on the Apple had a huge contribution to its success. It was the proverbial "killer app" that drove Apple II sales.