skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
W3C states explicitly that it can't so this is yet another instance where whatwg and w3c disagree leaving developers wondering what to do. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
Could you elaborate on that? I myself write a lot on how Bitcoin can be used for not only "serious" purposes, but also for purposes impossible without Bitcoin (blog.oleganza.com).

Since Bitcoin is at very least is just an asset, any money business that exists today can use Bitcoin and enjoy lower costs of handling it. Then, there are special properties that make possible entirely new business models. Of course, Bitcoin itself is not without risks of crypto failure or miners' attack, but so is any other asset: gold can be stolen, govt money can be inflated or confiscated, milk can be spoiled etc.
I still haven't found one good reason to use any of the semantic HTML5 tags instead of just good old divs. This didn't convince me.
Smoke and mirrors: The iPhone 5C was never the ‘cheap’ phone
GCHQ does two things.

1) It keeps things secret, even from the people who work there

2) It claims it obeys the law and that it has strict oversight.

Thus, good people work there in the belief that they are working for an organisation that does not engage in mass surveillance of their fellow subjects. Those people did not know that oversight failed, or that some of the work was a mass surveillance programme of uk subjects.
Business Insider CTO Forced To Resign After Offensive Tweets Discovered
That's exactly what they're doing with SSDs.
The thing is, Jobs didn't settle for just one product. He wanted to do something Apple hadn't done before. He did a phone. Then he did a tablet.

What else needs to be redesigned to make it better? What other markets need disrupting? That's what Appe should be asking.
How does mobile first solve Excess DOM? As soon as you extend it to desktop you will have the same amount of DOM elements. Are you not supposed to use media queries?
Formalism in math states that mathematical truth is what can be proved. Manipulating uninterpreted symbols is part of math no matter what philosophy you subscribe to. The author of the quote is clearly making a practical, not a philosophical, claim here.
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Identity is one part of authentication.
Of course, and I wouldn't be making fun of a plan to grow potatoes (such a plan was already discussed in another comment when I made mine). But what they are growing is lettuce, and the comment I responded to specifically supported lettuce over grains because it was easier to grow. And I'm sure that that's why they're growing it right now... but if we wanted to produce food in space, lettuce would be a terrible choice, because it's barely food.

The current efforts are more of a because-it's-there thing than a what-would-we-like-to-grow thing, and at some point "the calculus for what plants make sense in space" will have to take into account which plants we actually want to consume.

EDIT:

> Potatoes, rice, olives, a wide range of beans, even aq[u]atic plants etc are all w[or]th considering. After all the fact grains need little water is one of the[ir] main ap[p]eals

Rice is a grain. A grain that grows in swamps. It could best be described as "water-intensive".
And being public sector, that's "if you suck everyone's cock on the way up".
Show HN: A Screenshot Paints a Thousand Words.
The name for that feature is 'IVR' (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_voice_response). If you google 'ivr answering service' you'll find several companies offering this.
If you have a big image meant for desktop users only and you hide it with CSS, I'm pretty sure most modern UAs won't download it.
Apple offers docking station for iPhone 5c & 5s
To me, that seems to suggest that biometrics aren't really passwords (which are private, and authenticate you), so much as they are usernames (which are public, and identify you.)

Just like a username, you can know/have someone else's thumbprint, and "type it in" for the identification phase of login. And just like a username, you need a password in addition, in order to test that you're really who you say you are.

The main difference is that biometrics, unlike usernames, are unique to a person (two people in separate places can't decide to use the same thumbprint without knowing about each-other), so there's no equivalent to trying to log into a machine by using the top 50 most common username+password combinations. In other words, biometrics can always be compromised by HUMINT, and sometimes, given a flawed implementation, by SIGINT--but they're completely immune to MASINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_and_signature_intel...).

Another way to think about it: fingerprints and the like are pretty much UUIDs you're assigned at birth. Just like a textual UUID, anyone who can read it can replicate it or retransmit it fairly easily. There's no security there. What there is, is collision-prevention. Nobody will be using a UUID you just generated unless they're trying to collide with it, specifically. If they just generate their own UUIDs, they'll never pick yours by coincidence. Much easier to detect and flag malicious logins once you can be sure that there's no chance of accidental collisions (e.g., someone just typing in their username-on-some-other-machine that happens to be already owned by someone else on this one.)
This can be a good heuristic to find lib ideas, thanks.
"Responsive design" never was about screen sizes: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2013/08/responsive-design-doe...
This is a blog-spamming re-post of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357992.
Firefox 21, Chrome 26, and a WebKit r140374 have all implemented basic support for <main>.

They have all mapped the ARIA role="main" to the <main> element so assistive technologies can now recognise the <main> element without issue.
I meant that on current phones the main CPU needs to be on, which is why motion suppression isn't used much. Apple added a separate processor to handle the motion sensing, thus offloading the main CPU, and saving energy.

> Of course it will used to augment/supplement GPS.
> Of course

What do you base this on? Could you give me an example where a separate motion processor would augment GPS?
I would aim for equipment likely to have less complications, traditional methods for grinding most grains kicks up a lot of fine particles so the filtration of those particles would be a big concern. I do not know much about rice harvesting, but would not wheat have to be effectively dried to replicate what happens in nature before it would be harvested?

Now, cooking them down might be an option more suited, either that or most food prep is going to be done clean room style, isolated from the rest of the area. If we go along the route of wet, cannot some sea products be used as substitutes?

Also, the idea of using various combinations of plants to replicate existing animal products is coming along well, there are artificial egg products coming to market. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2416808/Artif...
More generally, something along the lines of: "You give us Snowden/limit his asylum claims/etc etc, and we give you favourable trade terms".
You avoided using the term "clone" because it's derogatory and then applied it to three other games... (?)
"The app runs in the browser"

Oh well.
You're totally right of course. Apple has a tight product line and dedicated fanbase. The feature will hit critical mass and be a huge success within months.

Over the next few weeks, everyone emotionally invested in the cellphone for any of the terrible reasons that make it a "must have" will go through a process with the new iPhone that is almost exclusively afforded to Apple products. If the consumer doesn't like a feature, they'll wonder if instead of the tech being wrong, if it is really them that is wrong about the tech. "C'mon," they'll think "this is APPLE after all, I just must not get it." The people who wait longer to buy will have both that thought _and_ the fear of having an outsider opinion on the trendy new toy.

My best indication that this is true isn't related to the conversations I had with other iPhone owners after I switched. Those odd little ones that I mistook for chit-chat about the phone but after 2 or 3 eventually realized we were rationalizing back and forth that our less-than-prudent purchase decision was the right one. Nor was it the time that I had my jaw dropped after realizing how stupid I was for failing to realize how much the iPhone is a status symbol. I deluded myself into thinking it had anything to do with tech, but right after the release of the 4S I heard a criticism of the design "how is anyone supposed to know I have the new one"?

No, forget all that. The best indication that this is true, is the fact that the contents of this post could be seen as a slight against apple. Instead of just pointing out they have a strong market position and loyal customers which allows them to shape the future more than any other tech brand. Good on them for winning it! They've got highly polished products and wildly successful marketing. So they get a real opportunity to show everyone that they might actually like fingerprint scanning in a phone.
> Although anecdotal, what I do know is that GCHQ is not stuffed to the gills with super-smart code crackers that are more giftedly geniuser than you is. There are flawed characters and intellectual also-rans making up the numbers. Like any employer (except Google) they have challenges in attracting the best and brightest, but, for the bulk of their work, they don't actually need the truly gifted. Do-as-your-told types will suffice.

> GCHQ can attract intellectual also rans for the 'data entry roles' by hiring locally, the deal being cosy job for life. But, to hire the really clever people needed that they really, really want, what is the hook?

Of course GCHQ don't use geniuses for data entry, and most of the work is mundane and most people don't know much about what the other people are doing or where their work fits in.

What's the hook for the actual geniuses?

Imagine you have Asperger's (or similar), and want to work on interesting math with similar people in a comfortable environment. GCHQ is that place.

Your point about images of child sexual abuse is interesting. GCHQ / CESG provide information to the Government, so it's surprising to see such stupid commentary coming from government about images of child sexual abuse. "Google filters spam, why can't they filter images of child sexual abuse" being one paraphrased example of pure idiocy. I don't know how much information GCHQ provides to the Internet Watch Foundation. I hope there is some channel to push information to them or to law enforcement.
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Nexus 5 Rumors Take a Turn
This is fair. We chose grain because we hated starving to death in the winter. But we like grain now! History and evolution are on its side at this point. Refrigeration enables us to eat many things that people two generations ago literally couldn't, but I note that cereals are still a very large portion of what we, in all our riches, choose to eat. My family eats a lot of bread, without bothering to refrigerate it.

Some things that we refrigerate now, but historically didn't have to, are eggs and milk. Do you know how those were treated in your grandmother's day? The image I have from history is that milk was produced and consumed in large quantities, and "refrigerated" (iceboxed) then as now. But clearly (?), what was good enough for milk was too good for... lettuce? ;)

Just as a fun side observation, there are some other obvious concerns, if you're starting from a hunter-gatherer state: jerky keeps significantly better than grain does, and is packed full of calories, and is ultra-low-tech, but grain production can be scaled up in a way that would be extremely difficult for jerky. So we built granaries and tolerated massive losses to rats essentially because even after the losses we could produce more grain than "other food".
“The Start of Something 52” - I’m optimistic, but hesitant that this will work
Good article!

However, I am curious about the research showing that users will leave a website after 3 seconds. Where was this measured? On desktop, or on a low-end/low-bandwidth device? With low-end devices and/or low bandwidth, most websites will load slowly, and my guess is that performance expectations will be different than on desktop.
Having been a founder, what I'm willing to share or not is different than you. To suggest that you know better than me about my strategic and timely reveal is presumptuous. Yes, it's wise to know what you should share and not share, but then you also miss the point of the Q/A.
I've heard this question so much, that I might as well ask - has anyone ever (in maybe the last 5 years) had their startup idea, copied then successfully executed by Google that led to the destruction of your startup?

I can only really think that once Reader was released it may have killed a couple startups but other than that I don't see the historical context for why this question gets asked so often. Google Drive didn't kill Dropbox, and AWS has yet to kill linode.
You do, however, get a government pension. Which is worth a small fortune.
"How can any government accept a situation where communications are so secure that none of their agencies can break it?"

Their friends in the business community can rest assured that foreign competitors, criminals, etc. are not able to eavesdrop on their communications. Spies in foreign countries could use a strong cipher without raising any suspicions. These arguments were made in the 90s you know.

"Essentially law enforcement do need to investigate crime."

Only to a point. If the only evidence of a crime is the plaintext of some encrypted message -- no physical evidence, no witnesses, etc. -- then the benefits of strong cryptography vastly outweigh whatever problem there is with letting the crime go unpunished.
Nitpicking but why understatement? Feeling betrayed sounds more serious that just pissed off.
Nice of GCHQ to use google analytics and incremental numbers.

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_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-43702630-2']);
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What are the answers for 3 and 4? I seem to be stuck.
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Been chewing on this since you made the comment, and I don't think I buy it. The "legal issues" angle is a dirty cop-out, and it ignores the issue at hand: he's being suppressed for holding an opinion.

He's not being suppressed (and now fired) for holding an opinion. He was fired for publicly expressing views that were incompatible with his job as CTO.

He said in a public medium (Twitter), tagged with his professional title, that he believed superb female developers were as rare as unicorns. Any woman who had ever interviewed and been turned down for a dev position at Business Insider might have a legal case for unfair discrimination in hiring.

The other stuff (racism, sexism, etc) is one thing, but the example I mentioned above exposed his company to legal liability. That's not a responsible thing for a person in a decision-making and hiring position to do.
Excellent post. My concern with RWD is the page weight. Whilst with the proliferation of 3G and 4G this has somewhat been negated it still leaves a lot to be desired. I dont believe an 'App' is the answer and the original answer, separate mobile sites still feels attractive (both technically, page weight, delivery and recruitment)
If you watch Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert often parodies this fallacious political correctness by claiming he is "color blind" and everyone has the same skin color to him.

You have profoundly misunderstood why Colbert does that bit. He's parodying racists who say they are colorblind in order to ignore white privilege. Racial colorblindness is the modern version of, "I'm not racist, I have a black friend." The bit is commentary on structural racism in society.

If you don't believe that is Colbert's point, consider that Colbert's character is a parody of bombastic conservative talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and O'Rielly. Whenever he does something obviously funny he's parodying conservative stereotypes not well-meaning but superficial liberal hippie types, and racism is a major conservative stereotype.

Here is an examination of how racial colorblindness affects racial minorities: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/colorblind/201112/colorb...

And here is some discussion of the principles via wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race-blind#Criticism_of_color_...
Sorry, for what? Stick by your words, don't apologize for them.
Great points. I am not an anarchist in theory, but I agree with many of your points on a practical level. Balance of power is critical to maintaining a fair society, which was obviously violated by the NSA's actions, insofar as their power to misuse their information advantage was not appropriately constrained. Please forgive my ignorance on the matter, but what claims have been made regarding innapropriate actions taken based on the NSA's surveillance programs? Inappropriate meaning "decreasing fairness of outcomes in a real sense", not based on the theoretical potential for abuse of an asymmetric information advantage.

I'm a thoroughly pragmatic person. I share all of your concerns about abuse of power (which I see very real cases of everywhere). Yet something in my core believes the ultimate theoretical good may not be ultimate secrecy, but no secrets at all. (Yes, I realize the best path there is not a straight line, if there even exists a practical path).

An honest question for anyone who is passionate about secrecy/anonymity: is it something you inherently value or do you value it because you don't trust other parties to not misuse it? Hypothetically, if that were not possible because their abuse would also be known and they would be held accountable, would that alleviate your concerns?
How Google Helps Copyright Holders to Fight Piracy
19-year-old inventor finds way to clean up the world's oceans in under 5 years
That's due to loss of manufacturing jobs caused by outsourcing.

Nothing to do with H-1B visas.
ARM is British and based in Cambridge. There's some worry there.
(Worth mentioning that the fancy new Mill processor takes this approach. It is technically viable, as Transmeta have already proved.)
I hate all this NSA spying but they do have a point - if they cant read the communications of the bad guys, how are they supposed to catch them before it's too late. Isn't there a way to accomplish both objectives of security and preserving constitutional freedoms?
I'm still waiting for some sort of <bull> or <hogwash> element to markup comments and other such tripe. E.g.:

<user class="spam">Buy my pills!</user>

It would be even more useful if something like this works:

<user rel="nofollow">Buy pills
<a href="fizz://example.net/pills">here!</a>
</user>

This is cleaner than putting the attribute on every anchor, I wouldn't mind crawlers skipping marked comment sections entirely either.
Should I make a simple script to use gnutls to encrypt a file with AES then openssl using gost89, then 3des ?
Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming
What Does it Really Mean to be Non-Profit?
Success at complete quantum teleportation
I found that page through other means.. ok.. now onto 3 and can't solve it!
As a smallish angel investor, serial entrepreneur and startup event organizer, I see no problems neither in asking those questions nor answering them, often in quite much detail. Agree with r0h1n it is more about the execution.

True, there are some things none of us will disclose. Don't think someone realistically would expect you to disclose your upcoming deals. Like said, many are also fun probing questions and you should take them as such and turn them to your advantage.

We did have mixed feelings at my current startup, Weekdone team management and collaboration tool when we decided to publish our roadmap: https://blog.weekdone.com/weekdone-product-development-ppp-a...
It might give great ideas to competitors or other upstarts. But the value of customers, both potential and existing, knowing this outweighs the secrecy. YMMV.

It's also a cultural thing. The blog is French. Europeans are much more secretive.

On one point in the article: I remember Jeff Clavier (also French, now in the Valley) telling at an event that when mentoring French and EU startups coming to the US, the slide he tells them to always out is the exit strategy slide :) Not for secrecy, but because it's silly to include in your startup's vision. Built a great business and product instead.
I would have exactly the same reaction - I don't have any issues specific to Autodesk, apart from those that I've expressed here related to their 123D suite.
<header>…</header>
header {…}

is slightly shorter than

<div class=header>…</div>
.header {…}
I don't think that's right; at least, a quick test on the browser I'm using right now (Chrome 29) suggests otherwise, as do this guy's tests from last year: http://timkadlec.com/2012/04/media-query-asset-downloading-r...
Google Video famously failed to kill YouTube, and not for lack of trying!
Central Challenges of the American National Security (new edX class)
Google Wallet – even worse than PayPal
The bugs in the background are fun to watch. They actually eat each other from time to time. Though it does seem to require some CPU power and got my fans to spin up a bit.
Or maybe we work out a deal over Syria.

Seriously.
I really liked this book the first time around and I'm glad to see it's (possibly) getting a second edition.

But I had to remove the background to finish the page, it really creeped me out.
Life has soured my outlook on life. The comments on HN merely reflect this.
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Anti-Piracy Efforts By Media Organisations Do Not Work
Source (listed on the link in the article): http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2010/press_0...

There's an option to download the full study but it requires registering.
Predicting solar energy from weather forecasts, a NetCDF4 tutorial
Hah, okay. That wasn't the intention at all. Why did it creep you out? Do you have a particular problem with little crawly animals?
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Padlet: Virtual walls
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Honestly, I wasn't expecting this submission to go through.. ops

Padlet is cool though, I didn't know about it before today's post.
If you watch really closely, they even 'mate' and lay eggs.

And yes, it's a huge cpu hog. But it will pause when you unfocus/hide the page.
Not sure. I have read his Hacker HowTo before, but looking now, I can't find that definition:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

I have a feeling it was someone on HN actually...
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Let's stop thinking about Africa as a single entity, for a start. Even within one country, (Kenya), we can see immense variability in culture, economic and political function etc... For example, Nairobi feels (culturally) closer to NYC than it does to Mombasa. Whilst there is undeniably an immense quantity of grinding, debilitating poverty; there is also great wealth, and a good number of very smart people who are not only doing very well, but also helping to build a good future for the country.

One should not overlook the crazy bureaucracy and inefficiency of course, but equally, one should not have a uniformly negative view ... we still need to operate, and to get things done.