skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always bewildered by "experts" like Francis Fukuyama saying that liberalization in China will lead to Democracy, that really shows that they don't really understand how the current Chinese system works.

As for the elites stashing their money outside of the country, this happens in almost every country as does shipping their offspring to Western Universities.
PCBs cause birds to sing a different tune
Yeah. I can't figure what business they have in St. Ignace though.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought too. They don't look like clickable buttons at all.
Amazon’s Music Download Site is Cheaper Than iTunes 78% of the Time
That's a fair point. And just to clarify (since you mentioned "instructions"), my references to MC above were referring just to the colored circular non-buttons discussed in the OP, and not to the "A quick primer" and "Need help with your first campaign?" instructions (which I'm assuming are always there, and are unrelated to the non-buttons… I guess it would be nice if users could dismiss these newbie instructions once they've become experienced with the site).

But if these large circular non-buttons are to remain a permanent fixture on the MC Dashboard (rather than just a temporary "look, here are our new features" exercise), I still wonder why I'd want it to jiggle the blue pointer as if to say "Oh there's the place you SHOULD have clicked just now", when it could actually just take me to my obviously-desired destination immediately. That destination page would then become active on the navbar, presumably with some kind of visual indication that it is now the active one ("presumably" because I'm just speaking extemporaneously here, I haven't used MC in ages)... so the attentive user will have learned a second way to reach their desired feature (as in, "I clicked the big round button and it took me straight to the place I was expecting, and the 'Lists' item on the navbar has become active").

Then you've provided two different ways to get to the desired feature in a single click (each method reasonable in and of itself), rather than providing one direct method (the navbar), plus an indirect method that attempts to retrain the user to click somewhere else instead.
Those are charges of eurodns; I called them and they said that they're just passing on me what the registrar charge them.
Poll :Who is the author of the brightest technological breakthroughs?
You don't need authorization to quote someone.
Out of idle curiosity, can anyone tell me more about what a 0.4 (0.6, 1, 2...) °C anomaly feels like, maybe with reference to cities that have climates with differing annual averages? I mean, is it like shifting every city 5 ° in latitude closer to the equator, or what?

(I know this wouldn't capture the whole story, I'm just curious.)

EDIT: I guess the state of New York has a range of annual average temperatures from 4 °C to 12 °C, so maybe this isn't useful at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_New_York#Temperature...
Well they're just hacking the system, seeing just how much they can get away with, seeing just how far they can push the rules before someone explicitly tells them to stop.
I find the Mailchimp UI very confusing. I always forget where to get my API key for example. So many important items seem to be hidden in hidden menus and submenus.
With this in mind lock screens should be advertised as screensavers with passwords instead of actual lock screens; screens you tend to trust to protect your phone at all cost. Not screens which you can't be 100% certain of they actually lock your screen.
Isn't sluggishness and feeling unnatural one of the more common complaints about Android?
> The plane cockpit won't show you by itself how to start the engine, that's in the manual/training.

The plane cockpit is also _not_ intended to be used by first-time users having to discover everything themselves as they go along. It is assumed the new user of the plane cockpit will be given detailed training on how to use the cockpit.

UI's, and esp. web UI's, don't tend to come accompanied with _detailed training on how to use_ them. Which is why UI's _need_ discoverability and plane cockpits do not.
A C++ Immutable String class
The 1st line says:

"PRESENTATION TITLE: How Apple Can Read Your iMessages and How You Can Prevent It"

The 2nd line says:

"PRESENTATION ABSTRACT:"
The devices shown had similar RRPs to the iPhone 5 when it was still on sale, with the exception of the Moto X.
Was this fixed in 7.0.1?
It used to be the same for nic.it, but things changed some 2 or 3 years ago.
>> modern era.
> exclude the 19th century.

As they should
I guess that's one way to look at it
Am I the only one who had considered this obvious from the get-go?
Agreed but once you have started the conversation with someone on the dating app, scheduling would make it easier to meet!

Yes starting a conversation is hard but then there are apps like tinder and truffle that let you like or ask out for a coffee directly!
I'd love to get these implemented:

- Ctrl + L

- 'w'

- 'ls'
I'm not trying to suggest that /all/ code shouldn't be structured; it's all dependent on what you are writing. I have contributed to a decent sized C++ ftpd program (https://github.com/jawr/ebftpd) and it is well structured in my opinion. Go can be well structured too, it just seems to approach it in a different way. As I said before, it's horses for courses.
Am I alone in finding the graph scary? This rate of change in temperature is probably not something that would be easy to slow down, yet it feels like not many people care about this.
Moti - smart motors you control from a browser
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I agree in theory, but I think that breaking the mold slightly will help it grow past a cool tech demo.

I'm mainly comparing this against using SoundCloud directly, or something like turntable.fm. A big feature I like is being able to +favorite a song that I like, or buy the album, so anything that causes me to lose context greatly devalues the app.

And for the cookies, it's really just the background and comment preferences. Maybe the cookie could be named .cmdfmrc or something?
No one suggests the latter; at the limit, it's provably impossible.
I have no idea how to even give Apple money for music without installing iTunes, which always struck me as bloatware.

Building a device, a software music player, and a marketplace that all require each other was a brilliant strategy to reap monopoly profits, but it might not be the most pro-consumer strategy...
Maybe the rich are more comfortable with taking more. Or the notion of 'I deserve more'. Maybe that's why they got rich ? Maybe pushing the boundaries is what it's all about - whether that means not stopping for pedestrians - or taking more candy ?
It's more surprising that DHS keeps copies of the PNR data. The passport/visa stuff is acceptable but you can tell a lot more about someone from PNR data. Who they travel with, payment information, itinerary, changes in travel, medical conditions, baggage, services, it goes on and on.
A little formatting magic in the background would be great. For instance "progressive rock" and "triphop" work, but "progressiverock" "prog rock" and "trip hop" don't.
I believe 7.0.1 fixed a fingerprint issue with the iPhone 5s.
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Spread this knowledge and soon all companies will transform their email answering teams into twitter teams. This will improve the quality of their customer services.
Well, at least we found out about this the same time the NSA did.
I came to the same conclusion (~85ms for the iPhone4s) in my own benchmark about a year ago, using Mobile Safari:

http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/measuring-input-lag-in-brow...
They've been doing this for a while....
Fact is there's a 125,000 year cycle. We're at the high of one, due for a long drop. When I bring out this long term data, funny how many people shriek at it - but there it is, and the "warmers" won't produce any graphs covering the same (or longer) periods.

Yes, the data is limited. BUT - I hunted it down, put it together, gave it what I considered fair context, and there it is. Don't like it? counter with your own half-million year graph, not snide religious insults.
Newer products better than older products. More news at 11.
I'm not singling out one spreadsheet package.

I'm not even singling out spreadsheets - thus the link to Panko and "human errors".

But fat-finger errors are very easy to make with spreadsheets, and very hard to find. This error, (20,000 instead of 10,000) was only found when LOCOG realised they didn't have enough seats for all the tickets they'd sold.

Spreadsheets are particularly tricky because people scatter input data among all those cells; Sometimes data is manually copied and pasted (which can either update automatically with outher changes, or not, depending how it's cut and pasted); they then manipulate those cells with formulas (sometimes across multiple sheets) and then they spit out a number. Or sometimes not even a number but a bar on a chart. Few people bother looking at the input or at the formulas used, they just see the output and sometimes apply a brief sanity check.

> You could argue that there should have been error handling or data validation, but most custom software doesn't do that either.

Most people don't write custom software. Spreadsheets give people a very powerful tool. Most people don't have the skills to protect themselves from that power - they don't know about error handling or data validation and spreadsheets make it hard to provide those sanitation and checking tools.
If I were a new web developer, I would be overwhelmed with all the buzzwords. That list should have stopped after JSON
The same reasons why many flightless birds continue to have feathers. First off they are excellent insulation. That could be critical for a not fully thermoregulated organism. Dinosaurs are thought to be warm-ish blooded but it's possible they didn't have the kind of thermoregulation that modern birds or mammals do.

Add to that waterproofing, which can aid in thermoregulation as well. The phrase "like water off a duck's back" is quite apt, feathers can shed water better than a modern high tech coat. Keeping dry means keeping warm. Also, dinosaurs that were occasionally aquatic could have benefited from feathers.

And very fast moving dinosaurs could have used feathers to aid in aerodynamics, which would allow them to run faster and maintain greater control over their movements.
Thanks, its 500ing atm.

After edit:
“We need more conferences in the Caribbean,” said Linux. “That said I have been diving enough because two days ago I was on a boat and it turned out that I knew the boat captain because he used to be on a boat in Hawaii. When you start recognizing boat captains from around the world you know there is something really, really right.”

I bet writing Linux and Linus two dozen times makes things like this happen constantly.
I don't think those buttons are particularly flat. I actually think it's more that they look so big that they look like illustrations and not buttons.
Startup failure: How to prevent online vandalism from killing your startup
Why I'm Planning to Kill W3Schools
W3Schools has dominated the search results for longer that it deserves, yet we haven't been able to do anything about it.
really cool) It will be much more cooler with more count of social networks!
I've done similar (but more single-use) things to extract text from PDFs, and data from PDF and PostScript plots. PDFs are actually surprisingly easy to dig into when they're decompressed (e.g. with pdftk), since they're mostly text based.
These latency numbers are around the border of minimum perceptible visual latency, which is somewhere around 100ms (http://stackoverflow.com/a/2547903/547213) A difference between between 55ms and 123ms is enough to matter.
I find the narrative from the Wikipedia page on Lisp Machines to be really enlightening (far more so than a dry chart like TFA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine . In particular, I think it is much easier to understand Stallman's outlook/philosophy if you put yourself in his shoes around this time. The MIT AI Lab went from a bustle of futuristic technology to essentially a ghost town, consisting of him and Marvin Minsky, following the dual raid of LMI and Symbolics on the AI Lab staff.
IMO, the difference here is that Apple has iTunes - a music player on all of its iOS devices. Amazon only sells the music but lacks a software like iTunes.
If Mercantile run the SRS (Shared Registry Service) for .np, then that is a choice of the state of Nepal not ICANN. The government of Nepal appoints a registry (typically a company, sometimes a university or communications arm of the government), and in the case of smaller countries the registry appoints a technical provider to run the technology side of the registry; i.e. the SRS.

Another point to consider is that the policy of having to show up in person may be a policy dictated by the government and/or the registry, not necessarily the SRS provider or the registrar.
Slides: Mobile to mainframe - Challenges of Enterprise DevOps
Thanks. I looked into that recently, it does make this a lot easier, so now I have a node version of this as well.
Interesting reading! A lot of the ghost towns in the US are pretty small, maybe 100-200 inhabitants maximum. They eventually seem to fold into nearby communities with better road/rail connections.

FWIW there are ghost towns like the US examples in Spain too - villages of about 50-100 inhabitants that eventually just seem to dry up as populations give up on agriculture/subsistence/mining or whatever and younger generations move to larger cities.

Then there's Valdeluz. Political corruption at its finest, producing a semi-ghost town with less than 2000 people living there. http://desertedplaces.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/the-spanish-gh... - I visited there a couple of summers ago. Nice and peaceful, plenty of playgrounds for the kids to play on, no queues at the supermarket :-)
Probably relevant: Amazon's "$10" albums are $9.49 whereas iTunes "$10" albums are 9.99

From the article, the average savings is $1.08, so I think those 50c make up a large part of the population of savings.
You either install iTunes or you use someone else. Apple aren't interested in catering to 100 different music applications and 1000 different music devices - either join the ecosystem and gain the advantages, or don't. That strategy doesn't sit well with some people but for most consumers, it's the easiest way to get songs on their phone reliably and in good quality. The same also goes for films, TV shows, etc, with Apple TV.

I agree though, the iTunes software is pretty awful and even worse on Windows I hear.
A cultural item missing from the MIT side of the history: The Lisp machines at the MIT AI Lab were named. First, the names were all dead rock stars (I was there in the 80s, so Hendrix, Joplin ...). Eventually there were enough machines that the namespace needed to be expanded, so dead actors were added to the list (Sinatra...). Some wag decided Reagan, who was president at the time, had done enough unpopular things to universities that he deserved to be added to the namespace.

It was all fun and games until one of the funding agents was on a tour, saw the Reagan machine, and put it together.

Edit: All above IIRC. It was a whlie ago.
The manufacturer can hide a 3G module on the motherboard and use audio out cables for an antenna.
I don't see anything related to web development on this site. It's just an empty page with a header, About Me and Pull request. What's going on?
> working on creating military robots that are as lifelike as possible

Ars wrote a while back about the linux-powered rifle,[1] it seems clear we still have some healthy reluctance for letting AI decide when to fire guns. So what could you use a battlefield infantryman for if no one wants to go down the road of arming AI?

Sure, the dog is one thing, to carry supplies or retrieve someone for medical assistance. Another though, might be behavioral camouflage.

A sniper has a group pinned down. What if you could have a bunch of humanoid AI trained to make furtive movements, pop a head out briefly, dart between cover, to make it more difficult for the sniper to tell when you were moving? What if self-driving humvees were going up and down every road with tinted windows, so that roadside bombers never know which convoy is worth blowing up? What if you have to escort an MVP to safety, but you have the option to do so in a crowd of other apparent people?

Wait, maybe that's the more interesting question. This humanoid AI is great and all, but how long until we have an AI crowd?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-ya...
Would you trust a computer security company who didn't hash the passwords of their users on their web site, and instead stored the plain text passwords encrypted in their database, with the keys to decrypt them on their server, because they claim that "Your data are encrypted on our server, if you request the password to be sent to you by email the system knows how to decrypt the information and it will send you the Email. This is for customer convenience as many customer do not wish their password to be reset each time they have a problem."

Would you trust a computer security company that when you reset your password on their web site, sent you a new password that was literally the same as your email address that you signed in with?

If this company sold closed source encryption software, would you trust that the software was competently written and did not have back doors, if the president of the company defended their actions of not hashing passwords, and of resetting passwords to their user's email addresses?

What if the president of that company had been prosecuted for computer crimes in the past, and had spend time in jail for it, because after he was first caught, he went right back to phone freaking again and got caught again?

Would you trust the president of the company, who is a convicted felon, who fraudulently made a lot of money by computer crime and got caught, but had most of the charges dropped and his sentence reduced, not to have made a deal with the government and promise to return their favor of giving him a more lenient sentence in exchange for certain favors in the future?

Can anyone guess who I'm referring to?
You might not be entirely aware of the scope of the problem. When I said the bottom 0.1%, I was being generous.

How much social education do you think it takes to make socipaths not sociopaths? I am asserting a fact. Most actual bullies are really just mildly, or even completely socipathic. and socipaths can not be cured.

Anti-social factors that manifest as socipaths have an incidence of about 1/100 in any given population. So of the several hundred people you saw on the street today? Maybe 2 of them would have no problem stabbing you in the back for a nickel. The population of my town suggests that approximately 2,300 residents are socipathic. My school likely had ~15 sociopathic kids. I've personally known 2. What kind of education regime did you have in mind?

and about the hipsters: For every innocent caught in the crossfire of ridicule, there's at least a thousand more narcissistic children who were just attention seekers. They posted online about how important they were, and were ridiculed for it. That process was necessary. People need humility. The Subject of this article emulated those children exactly. Whether he deserved it or not, that's what happened.
For a little while I was interested in paleoclimatology and I started studying how researchers developed these historical temperature reconstruction curves. Basically you take “proxies” for temperature, things like tree rings, coral growth, sediment layer thickness, etc. and you posit a relationship between the proxy measurements and temperature. Measurements that better fit the hypothesized model get more weight in the temperature reconstruction.

The main problem is that no one knows if the hypothesized models (temperature vs. tree ring thickness, sediment layer thickness, etc.) have any validity. Why should tree rings grow linearly with temperature- what about a huge number of other variables? The temperature “signal” is at best very weak. Decoupling the temperature signal from other variables (humidity, elevation, tree species, CO2 concentration, etc.) is a hugely difficult multivariate statistics problem and most of the researchers I've corresponded with do not seem to appreciate this fact.

Another major problem is that proxies get weighted in the temperature reconstruction based on how well they fit the hypothesized temperature model. The weighting is where things get really shaky. Right away, you have biased your results in such a way that that nonconforming data is discarded / de-weighted. Note that there is not anything wrong with these nonconforming samples that invalidates them; they just don't fit the proposed models very well. Typically researchers develop their own methods for weighting samples in the temperature reconstructions and many of these methods would make a statistician cringe. Often during the weighting phase you find that a handful of proxy samples (out of a sample size of hundreds) get the vast majority of the weight in the temperature reconstructions. Sometimes the weight of a temperature reconstruction in a location is almost completely computed from a few proxy samples taken halfway around the world at a completely different elevation.

If you try to discuss these fundamental problems with climate scientists you'll typically get told that you're not a scientist (not true) or that you're a "denialist" being paid by big oil (not true). I am convinced that these temperature reconstructions are useless at best.
The test measures the "minimum response time", but I don't think that's the most useful measurement of responsiveness. After all, changing the software does make a difference in how "laggy" the phone seems.
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There's a preview here if anyone's interested: http://kogakure.github.io/gitweb-theme/
There is an archive of his quotes related to various topics:

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mason/wisdom/predrag.txt

As he has not objected to this in the ten or so years it's been around, I doubt he'd object to my quoting him either. I thought what he said was illustrative.
Without trying to say too much, one big reason we can predict winter is that we've had hundreds of thousands of years of experience with it.
Here's a video http://youtu.be/84Sx0E13gAo
The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance