skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to see that Coursera is beginning to prove their business model.

However, given that they are way past their minimal viable product, it's probably too little. Might grow though...
Walmart to sell iPhone 5C for $79, iPhone 5S for $189
That ads will be directly served from the same server where the content resides, and thus be indistinguishable from content?
Why would you remove HTML, it's the easiest way to create a UI ?
Also this introduce a lot of coupling between the style, the structure and the logic.
I do understand this, but then again you can't both have the cake and eat it too. At the end of the day, maybe it's better to have ads at all if the alternative is getting blocked by users.
I was thinking the exact same thing while scrolling through the docs.
If they can't produce some kind of evidence or test, they're most likely trying to avoid their warranty obligations. Saying "water damage" is a common dodge among unscrupulous businesses, because once the water evaporates, there's no remaining evidence -- or counterevidence.

> Is this a sign that I should take it to another store where the geniuses are better?

Yes, of course. It's like getting a second opinion from a doctor. But guess what? This is one of the downsides of dealing with a monolithic vendor like Apple -- you have fewer options than if you bought a non-Apple laptop.

> Is this a ploy to get out of fixing this under AppleCare since it is a 2010 model?

Yes, and you need to realize that they only need to stall you for a certain amount of time, after which the warranty coverage ends with no remedy.
Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society'
New Startup TinyTorch helps businesses discover, create and share social content
> You don’t have to like baseball, but you should understand the concept of what a pitcher’s ERA means. Approach life similarly.

Umm, Why?

I expect this is mostly for the irony as he paints a picture of a douche.
Best Buy will trade you a free iPhone 5 for your old smartphone
There is already an arms race between ad blocker and ad producer technologies...
Let’s turn censorship into sensorship
This isn't as uncommon as you might think.
Can you give some more detail on how burning muscles works? Wikipedia isn't particularly helpful.
#3 then becomes the worst kind of rule, one that is no only under unanticipated circumstances which are not going to be covered by rules, by definition.
Are there significant symbologies not contained within unicode?
Well, as they say in England, 'He would say that, wouldn't he?'

Someday perhaps all the links between Google and the NSA will be revealed, and we'll find out Schmidt's role in it all.
Ask HN: Is Phonebloks Using Next Generation Copyright/Patent Trolling?
Phonebloks (http://www.davehakkens.nl/) is an ideadeck web page making the rounds today. It appears to be a page made by a designer pitching a product to nobody in particular. The person has no interest or ability to make the device, they just want people to 'like' it in hopes it gets made.

This is the second such website I've come across this week after trying to see if a tchotchke from 'Doctor Who' was available for sale. It wasn't, but some guy posted up details about how he wished someone would make one and any interested companies should contact him.

If a person or company ran with the idea are they somehow responsible for compensating the people who post things like this? Is this a new form of poor man's copyright or lawsuit trolling?

I'm worried because if I had an idea, I'd research it first. If I came across some website that had the same idea I think I would give pause to developing it further because of this.
You know, i keep hearing how most php developers are horrible, but it's not what i see at all. When you go the php events you meet really clever people who've programmed in a ton of languages in the past.

I think the thing that php needs right now is a 'good parts' book and an accompanying movement. Like javascript the way it was used around 2000 was embarassing, but that is simply no longer the way you use it.
This server side execution is a good idea ! I think this is an important/valuable point of your idea.
Adelaide creates world’s first solar-powered public transport system
Is this true?

I used to work out a lot, and was in good shape- muscular and probably 12% body fat.

I haven't been working out for about eight months and I've lost probably ten pounds. I don't feel leaner though. I'm pretty sure I'm still at least 12% body fat, and that I've lost a significant amount of muscle.

I think I have been significantly losing muscle without losing any significant amount of fat.
Can we just not go there? There is a qualitative difference between "being in public" and "being recorded while in public" and "being recorded in public over an extended period of time."

You take a picture on the beach and catch me in the frame, I'm totally fine with that, you take pictures of that beach every day for a year and then put IDs on every 'face' so that you've got a history of everyone who has been to the beach, I'm much less comfortable with that, you create an API so that someone can send you a picture of a face and you will give them the history of that face at the beach for the last 12 months, I've got a huge problem with that.
Oh good, another abstraction around html and css. Please murder me and this project.
Your math teacher never taught you these because they're just labels attached to quantities expressible in terms of sine and cosine. They don't aid mathematical understanding, and they don't let you solve any problem that you couldn't before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

The impact of alcohol (ethanol) on the metabolism starts around minute 50. Still, I strongly advised watching the entire lecture/presentation.
Research has shown that the problem is becoming an epidemic, with publishers losing an average of over 20% ad revenue due to ad blocking software. Tech and Gaming websites, along with other sites with a more tech savvy audience, are hit the hardest, with block rates sometimes over 50%.

With the current online advertising model, ad blocking will force publishers to take drastic measures that we as users do not want. We can shut down the ads, but the content will still have to be funded. We as users will still have to pay to view that content. Only in the future, instead of paying passively (by viewing ads), we will pay actively, being forced to deal with things like paywalls, freemium models, and subscriptions.

You can view our brand new report on adblocking here- http://blog.pagefair.com/2013/the-rise-of-adblocking/
I don't like OpenSSL as a CSPRNG

What's not to like about it?! The potential for multiple processes to share PRNG state after fork()s (unless the processes explicitly reseed)? The tri-state return value from the RAND_bytes() function (success, failure, more failure)?
could be great if i could describe the reusable UI building blocks in a markup language, do their formatting separately with style sheet fragments and add a simple scripting language for actions and animations.
Why not? Do you walk around naked at all times?
I think Rudyard Kipling did a much better job: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
On Debian you just can use these patches/packages[0] to integrate HTTPS Everywhere into Privoxy.

[0]https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy‎
Yes, I am a developer as well and have been using iOS 7 on my personal device for about a month now. I am only speaking about the UI - sorry I didn't make that clear. I prefer the previous UI. Easier to read and navigate and buttons/controls stand out more, which is important for a small touchscreen device. Control center is a small improvement, but iOS 7 UI is a step backwards for overall usability. That's just my opinion after 1 month of heavy use.
I think I'll stick to markup.
Of course, the recent revelations that they "do" does mean they "do".
The goal of these types of systems (react.js essentially does the same thing) is to fully abstract away the need for direct HTML/DOM manipulation.

Now it's possible that the layout of the current browser DOM represents ultimate perfection and we will never improve upon it. However, it is more likely that we will find some way to come up with a better design for the DOM in the future (i.e. new types of nodes, node attributes, member functions, or some sort of entirely new data structure) and these types of frameworks allow us to experiment with new DOM ideas. With oj.js or react.js you could write to this "new DOM" and the library will project changes back to the legacy DOM.
Great! Now the NSA knows every Wi-Fi password in the world!

Which i am sure they are willing to share if just pushed a little.
Constructing a sexist joke is generally seen as a misogynistic thing to do.

There are FAQs perhaps the most relevant is:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Misogyny

But you can find examples everywhere. In Australia, the first female Prime Minister had terms like "ditch the witch" used against her, which is obviously beyond sexism and is hatred see:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/17/differe...
Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but it seems like all the HTML is created as a side-effect. How can this possibly be a good idea?
This was extensively discussed on HN when it first appeared in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273034
I think the journos are missing the point entirely here. Apple is playing up '64-bit' because it's an easy shorthand for people to understand. The salient benefit isn't the 64-bit address space per se, but the benefits of a next-generation architecture. Compare with ARM: the difference between Cortex A15 and Cortex A57 isn't just the register width or even ARMv8. The latter is a more sophisticated architecture overall. That's what Apple is using "64-bit" to refer to in this context--a post-Cortex A15-class chip.
Tech Crunch Disrupt SF 2013 Observation On Blacks In Tech
if it can't validate emails according to the RFC's don't include email "validation"
I was going to post a link to this movie. I think they have it on AMZN Prime. Netflix has it. It's pretty inspirational, and discusses a great way to eat.

Another one of interest is Forks Over Knives, which talks about the benefits of eating a mostly plant based diet.

http://www.forksoverknives.com/
Apple No Longer Innovates, Says the Man Who Helped Steve Jobs Design the Mac
Well, feel free to disagree. I've spent enough time on wondering where to make the most impact with donations and I've found it extremely hard to figure out the angles, where the money goes and lack of transparency has made me decide that donations are best spent where I can see exactly what happens with those donations.

Watsi is extremely good in this respect, they're very transparent about what they do with the money. Most other charities do not cross that threshold for me, I'm happy to hear that other charities do cross that threshold for you.

http://charitywatch.org/

Is a good place to start when considering giving to a charity. And if it isn't listed there then you're probably better off giving it a miss rather than your hard earned money.
...consider upgrading to tinfoil.

Hearing this is almost never a sign for optimism.
I think this is a perfectly legitimate question. What is the parent post genuinely concerned about? (assuming he's not hauling drugs)
There is also x-tags [1] by Mozilla which uses some polyfills from polymer.

They also have some repositories for ready to use webcomponents like x-registry [2] or brick [3].

[1]: http://www.x-tags.org/
[2]: http://registry.x-tags.org/
[3]: http://mozilla.github.io/brick/
Pretty sure they would need to file a patent for them to patent troll you.

Patent trolls file ridiculous patents and hope to catch you on a technicality or bleed you out (and have you settle instead of going to court) -- If these people didn't put patents on the ideas, then they won't have a leg to stand on as far as patent trolling goes, right?
I as a consumer prefer to pay for my content, the primary issues I have with ads.

- A violation of privacy
- Content creators' incentives are not for me the consumer. Important in editorial contexts
- An impairment of my computer systems, between another attack surface to being resource intensive.
Nicely done media-rich layout for an extremely important, if thoroughly depressing subject. Personally, I had a hard time slogging through it, due to the overwhelming nature of it all. We need more great coverage like this. Great job, Seattle Times!
At one point does the NSA become considered a terrorist organization in and of itself? It seems to me that they have stared too long into the abyss.
Ad blocking has already become widely used. Adblock Plus, the most popular ad block extension, reports over 150k downloads per day. Adblock (not affiliated with ABP) also reports over 20 million users. Adblocking in general is growing over 43% per year.

We aim to educate the internet about adblocking. You can read more here- http://blog.pagefair.com
That's the premise of the article we're discussing. They mention that experiment specifically.
It's a great language for quick prototyping or doing sysadmin tasks (i would choose php over any shell script language any day). I also see no evidence that php apps in practice are any less reliable. Php is in fact probably more reliable because it doesn't give you dangerous stuff like multi-threading and because its very forgiving of errors (it doesn't consider an error a good reason to stop running code).
Diving deep into iOS
I have been a user of EZ pass, and it is wonderful from that standpoint. From a security design standpoint, it's a matter of a pointy haired boss reasoning through "out of sight, out of mind."
From browsing around, it looks like an exceptionally well done conversion. Thanks for doing it.
Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly
Delhi gang rape verdict
dumb question maybe -- what does he mean by when he says the license is "salted" is this referring to road salt?
There are two concerns:

1) Security of email messages in transit, assurance that you're receiving emails from the person who claims to be sending them, etc.

2) Preventing your email service provider (and any MITM) from reading your emails.

These concerns are relatively independent of each other. While if you're a die-hard PGP advocate you'll want both 1 and 2, PGP-in-Gmail gives us 1, and that's a pretty great start.

Right now we have neither, and we're all much poorer for it.

PGP-in-Gmail instantly gives it to everyone that has an @gmail account (and anyone else who has signed up to a WoT). It would probably insist that you use two-key authentication. And it would work like this

0) Every message you send is automatically signed by you by default.
1) type in >=1 email addresses in To: bar
2) If all of the email addresses you sign have public keys associated with them that Gmail can locate, they all look "Green" (or whatever) and the [Send] button becomes [Send securely].
3) If any of the addresses doesn't have a public key associated with it, then nothing is encrypted (i.e., exactly the behavior we have now).

If you don't trust Gmail, you shouldn't trust it any less if/when they deploy PGP for it. And no one is saying you have to use it. All I'm saying is that Gmail, Hotmail, etc. seem to be the best equipped to trigger the widespread adoption of PGP.
yeah but for each category there is already hundreds of libraries with new ones popping up every week, it would be a massive time consuming effort to just analyze one category and keep up with any recent developments in it, times that by say 20 categories and your looking at 100's of hours of effort
Maybe Jimmy Page will change his legal name to Zoso? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_page#Interest_in_the_occu...

But that's exactly the issue here; there aren't many people with names as long as Janice's, but when these people have problems with computer systems, we get to hear about it.
Since earlier this year, they are taking an alternate approach with the Golden Gate bridge, and have switched to electronic only tolls. So either you have fastrak, or when you drive across they photograph your license plate and mail you a bill. No more pay by cash, or differentiated lanes. I could see that becoming the norm.
Multiplayer online pacman in coffeescript
Procuses aka Professional Excuses (Tech Professions)
Nice pun in the title.
Stuff like this is useful to an extent but not when you go so low level as to generating individual divs, ol and spans like this.

For example, it makes sense to have a Javascript class such as "ShoppingListView" that takes care of rendering a shopping list via a template that it references. A component like a shopping list is coarse grained enough to be styled and designed on its own (by designers) and then stuck into a template (by designers) that the Javascript developer can then use and populate in code.

oj just takes us back to the tedious GUI development of Swing style frameworks. It is unfortunate that some people in every generation forget what the previous generation has already learned.
Thanks! What I dont get is why the "Genius" wanted to try and intimidate with his "superior" sense of smell! It is just the oddest thing.
This dosen't really work at all with SEO
Try a different genius - I did have water damage to my laptop, and he showed me the tripped indicators before agreeing to the repair.
While I agree with the general sentiment posted here, here's an anecdote from a famous publicist. He got in a taxi cab and in the conversation he told the driver what his profession was.

"oh well, that advertising thing never works for me" the driver said.

"what brand of cereal do you buy" - "Kellogs"

"what toothpaste do you use" - "Colgate"

"what's your favorite drink" - "Coca-Cola"
They are called "designers".
The ad blockers start selling ads.
I've had great success using Lamina for in-process message queues in lieu of futures, although this does nothing towards making your system distributed.
Author here=). OJ is trying to solve the View layer by creating objects that act like website building blocks. So you can insert a YouTubeVideo or a TwitterButton as easily as you add an img or a div. Check out the plugins: http://ojjs.org/plugins.html

But to your question should all CSS be in JS? I'd say no, that wouldn't make sense. Clearly site level CSS should remain in a file and can be just included in a link tag normally.

The CSS being moved into JavaScript would be just that CSS used by the objects. This is how OJ Objects have no dependencies. The CSS for the YouTubeVideo, or Tab control, or the TwitterButton is included in the objects themselves. So definitely imagine still using CSS as you do now, but pulling out only the css needed for the reusable components into OJ Objects.
Publishers will start blocking users that use ad blocking software. Those users will be shown a message telling them they can't see the content until they turn off their ad blocker.
They've already started. Google has made a deal to regain some of the $887 million they lost last year alone due to adblocking.

You can read all about it here- http://blog.pagefair.com/2013/acceptable-ads-soothe-google-p...
Similar to something like ExtJS. Using Ext you declare the UI purely with JavaScript (CSS and HTML can be inserted if desired but that is antithetical to the standard practices).

It works pretty well. But when you have complex layouts, your JavaScript files can become very complex with many layers of nested object definitions. I use Ext and love it, but personally I think an HTML markup approach to defining UI's is cleaner.
> I think that if adblocking grows, a system will come up where users pay a monthly fee to not see ads on content sites & that fee is distributed among the sites.

But that's a kind of ransom, and once established, the payments could only become larger. It would be like a government demanding tribute with no benefit to the payer, just so they won't invent a reason to throw you in jail. Oh, wait, that's already true. :)

Seriously though, if a pay-the-advertisers scheme were to be considered, wouldn't it make more sense to pay individual websites a subscription fee directly? That would be more efficient, and by being focused on specific sites it would improve the relation between quality content and income.

Obviously if a website had reliable subscribers, they could do away with the advertising. So could television and radio. I don't fully understand why this isn't the model, but I suspect it has something to do with people thinking they're getting something for nothing. But if we've learned anything from nature, it's that you only get nothing for nothing.
Smart helmets, imaging to study brain injury risk in young football players
Android 4.4 is likely to get at the very least the Linux kernel 3.8 (if not 3.10), which includes support for ARMv8. Granted, that doesn't necessarily mean Android 4.4 will be "64-bit Android", and they'll probably wait at least until Android 5.0 for that (hopefully to be released no longer than Google I/O 2014).

But I'm not sure if the kernel support will be enough for Android to be "64-bit", or if they need to make the Dalvik VM 64-bit, too? And can they even make Dalvik support both 64-bit and 32-bit, or how would that work?

I've just read this part:

> “This will not be true with Android, by the way. The Android Java app and native app environment will need support from Oracle, who owns the Java environment.

That almost makes you disregard everything that guy said prior to that. He probably thinks Google is actually using the JVM.
Thanks. That is the plan! The Genius didn't show any indication besides opening the lid and saying "smells like water damage".
No, they couldn't because it would be immediately obvious from the camera footage. Photos are always taken, even when a tag is registered.
I agree, way too many sites do this. I've done usability tests and users get scared that they're doing something wrong.

I just listen for a blur event and then display errors until it's actually valid.
I believe so, but what about prior art copyrighting?
consider that, if there have been undetected rampant MITM attacks, the economy never noticed or cared.

the economy side of things will be fine. the economy of what the internet is used for isn't really the concern, here. arguably, even with rampant MITM attacks going on, e-commerce is loads more secure that what we've had for in place for the past 5,000 years.

this is much more than an economic issue.
Thanks for doing this, Michael, it's awesome that this is now available!

I notice the material is copyright Caltech. Any chance that they'd consider releasing it under an open license? A CC-BY license would enable this material to be repurposed and improved in all kinds of interesting ways.
At some point Apple is going to discontinue 32bit iOS - just like they did with OSX, they need about 3 years before they can do this. It makes sense to start early, because at some point they'll only be making devices with 4GB+ of memory (samsung already make 3GB phone).