skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the iPhone (or other smart-phone) ever need a user guide before?

What I find so surprising about this is how ugly the site is, and there doesn't seem to be a single image of how to do these tasks on the phone.

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account
is a perfect example, why would they not do a video type tutorial, or just screenshots with animations showing people exactly where to push.
Being bullied doesn't breed sensitivity--quite often the reverse.
Since Android is an open system, would it be possible to write an app that runs on a phone and forces applications to batch transfers?

I'm thinking of a "limiter" app that runs locally on the phone, and disables TCP/IP transmissions every 18 minutes out of 20. That way things like email you can still get relatively quickly, but the radio's only on 10% of the time.

Developers and users both being aware of the problem and trying to fix it might mean their solutions collide. E.g. a badly behaved app that tries to access the network once every 30 seconds will always get through during the 2-minute window, but a well-behaved app that only hits the internet every 10 minutes might miss the window entirely.

So maybe the limiter should intercept outgoing TCP/IP connections, lie to the initiating app and tell it the connection happened but the remote end isn't sending any data, then connect the outgoing app to the real remote end when the radio switches on. Of course if there's an application-controlled timeout interval on the connection, it'll trigger and the 10-minute-interval app would miss the window.

You might get around that problem by using whatever UNIX signal Ctrl+Z generates, to lock up an app entirely when it tries to open an outgoing connection, then resume it when the radio's on. Of course, this'll probably lock the app's UI too, so it'll become totally unusable. Although if the limiter acts like a screensaver and goes away whenever the user's recently given any touch or keyboard input, that doesn't really matter, does it?

Or maybe Google should make an API where an app can say, "I want to make a connection, and I'm willing to wait if turning the radio on right now wouldn't be good for the user."
> Wait... WebGL games are still not as good as game engines that have been developed for 20 years? SHOCKER.

That's the point, isn't it? We already have all these fast, battle-tested game engines Heck, we have 15-year-old game engines that run on the browser (or do Flash games no longer count?). Is it really worth it to toss all that out and switch to WebGL?
It doesn't. But NameCheap is a drop in the bucket from an industry perspective. Take a look http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/

They have 32% of the market. WildWest is also GoDaddy (another 3% market). So They have 35% of the market. The next biggest (Enom) has 8% and really that's a split between them and NameCheap (NC had 3M in 2012).

GoDaddy is much bigger than anyone else on the consumer side. A lot of those competitors are focused on domain holders/resellers (Tucows, Enom, ResellerClub, Moniker).

Now they are going after the other side of the domain business. And they just secured the missing channel which comes with technology and distribution.

It won't affect consumers that much (my prediction), but it just positioned GoDaddy to dominate all the key aspects of the domain market.
Ask HN: I'm in the Host Matching period with Google. Can I do anything?
I've been in the host matching period with Google for SE internship for 2 weeks now. Haven't received a call. Can I do anything at this point to increase my chances of being pulled from the pool?
It doesn’t slow down the actual focus, e.g. you can start typing in a text field before transition is finished.
Does this mean that I won't drop connections when I leave Wifi range and switch to 4g, which happens literally EVERY TIME I LEAVE WORK OR HOME? :)
So basically what the article says is that apple should make a chromebook?

It could work. A touchscreen chromebook-like could be very attractive to the end user, especially if you can remove the base somehow and turn it into a big iPad. It would be like the Surface, except with a good app store.
Brilliant, just brilliant. I found myself laughing and nodding all the way.

The sad situation is we have no worthy competitor. Go?
No trolling whatsoever. My day job is as a web developer, so I really meant it when I said I wish I could do cool things like this, but given the fact I work a 9/10 hour day, 5 days a week and have family and freelance commitments learning something as complicated as this isn't really within my capability at the moment.

I'll just remain appreciating what these developers have been able to do from a distance until I can learn the basics myself. Programming these games is only half the work, it's the art direction, storyline and mechanics that make up the other 50% of the work to make a game in any language or framework.
Maybe I should make an animated GIF next time.
SLAC scientists create twisted light
Why learning Prolog can make you a better programmer (2009)
The tale of a TCP bug (2011)
So the hospital started sharing its information with the police, after removing names and other identifying information.

Strange, I thought they were obligated to call the cops when someone with obvious such injuries went to the hospital. You know, if you have a black eye, broken nose and a stab wound, "I fell from the stairs" probably not gonna do it.
reverse iterate a string? i have never done that
Rope millionaires
Seems quite similar to GoInstant.
the publish-or-perish rat race is one of many factors degrading academia. Couple that with steadily declining numbers of tenure-track faculty, making the glut of PhD students and early career faculty ever more desperate to pull all the stops to secure a meaningful career, and it really shouldn't be surprising to see a lot of misconduct. People are desperate.
I'm not sure you can really write production quality code in a Ph.D., because that requires a production environment, which just isn't available in academia, and also because writing such code conflicts with research goals.
iFixit iPhone 5s Teardown
No, what the article says is that Apple wants to make a phone that can also double as a desktop machine by docking it with the appropriate peripherals. That's a very different approach than Chromebook takes.
ProTip: when whiting out your wireshark packet captures, always remember your hexdump:

dst=17.130.16.4

$ whois 17.130.16.4

...

NetRange: 17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255
CIDR: 17.0.0.0/8
OriginAS:
NetName: APPLE-WWNET
NetHandle: NET-17-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Assignment
RegDate: 1990-04-16
Updated: 2012-04-02
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-17-0-0-0-1

OrgName: Apple Inc.
OrgId: APPLEC-1-Z
Address: 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., City Center Bldg 3
City: Cupertino
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 95014
Country: US
RegDate: 2009-12-14
Updated: 2011-03-08
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/APPLEC-1-Z

OrgTechHandle: ZA42-ARIN
OrgTechName: Apple Computer Inc
OrgTechPhone: +1-408-974-7777
OrgTechEmail: droot@apple.com
OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZA42-ARIN

OrgAbuseHandle: APPLE11-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Apple Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-408-974-7777
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@apple.com
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/APPLE11-ARIN

RTechHandle: ZA42-ARIN
RTechName: Apple Computer Inc
RTechPhone: +1-408-974-7777
RTechEmail: droot@apple.com
RTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZA42-ARIN

...

EDIT:

also

subject=/1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US/1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California/businessCategory=Private Organization/serialNumber=C0806592/C=US/postalCode=95014/ST=California/L=Cupertino/street=1 Infinite Loop/O=Apple Inc./OU=Siri/CN=guzzoni.apple.com
issuer=/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA
I tried to get an unpaid internship once but the guy wouldn't even consider it seriously. I was trying to switch fields and felt that if I had a month or two I could learn it and apply for jobs in the new field. In most areas we'd be able to deal with liability with a contract. Unfortunately, labor contracts seem to be illegal now. Somehow that feels wrong to me but no one talks about it.
Sturgeon was an optimist
Subtle change is often underrated...visual feedback that makes it clear what has changed is a pretty cool improvement.

Some of the mildly frustrating elements of using websites include not knowing where "I" am on the page. facebook, in particular, has some conventions that leave me confused and fumbling around for where I was typing a lot. This particular trick wouldn't fix it for facebook, but I'm pretty likely to add this to my current and future web UI projects, assuming it works reliably across browsers and doesn't interfere with other JS libraries I'm using.
iFixit is awesome and they're building a new office right next to mine. Go SLO, go Poly!
He's absolutely right, this will be the future of office type of work. He doesn't mention the Motorola Atrix (http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/motorola-atrix-4gs-webtop...) which tried to do precisely what he's talking about but failed due to Moto's incompetence (and lack of software like iWork). Apple's not Motorola though, they got everything aligned, including connection to the TV screens at home, something Atrix couldn't do.
I never said catch-up.

I personally think WebGL IS good enough to make quality games, I have no issue with it. I just don't think it will catch-on with the gaming public for other reasons. Look at how much resistance there was to Microsoft's 'always-on' feature of Xbox One, to the resistance to DRM that calls home (it is annoying if you're trying to play a game somewhere that you have no connection), and then the requirement that the developer also maintain infrastructure.

The current system, where you create something native using a cross-platform toolkit, then distribute it once, and the user has it forever - this is what gamers are used to, and what they like. And I admit, it's nice being able to play games when I have no internet connection. I don't think this paradigm is necessarily the best one, but it certainly has its merits.
Yes.

Want to know something scarier? Snoopy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsn7_4qUdwk&feature=youtu.be .

Well worth the watch.
Sounds similar to the Lapdock by Motorola http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Lapdock-100-Smartphones-Packa...
I personally really like hipsters. They made tattoos non-scary. Before them, it was all bikers and sailors... many of them want to hurt me.

I'm sort of joking and sort of very serious.

I think hipsters, with their funny tight pants, single-speed bikes, and amusing attention to facial hair, have had a positive influence on society. The world needs people to be overly fixated on the mundane, or else we get too productive.

I personally am not cool in any way, nor do I aspire to indicate coolness through my physical appearance. I've got a wife, a kid, and a mortgage. I just can't spare the cycles trying to look cool.

But, I'm happy the hipsters are out there.

Plus, some of them serve excellent coffee.
As I mentioned, it was two working parents and the move to surburbia. (Well, I said non-walking-friendly neighborhoods, and didn't elaborate). This was what changed.

These suburbs, often designed after 1950s, were designed for car travel, rather than walking or biking. Many suburbs are designed with streets as fractals, often without sidewalks. It might be a "safe" subdivision, but there was a real risk in being run over by cars. Kids living in suburbia had to be driven everywhere for activities.

It's no coincidence that the kids growing up in that environment and coming into adulthood have increasingly moved to gentrified neighborhoods (the ones designed for walking). There has been a decline in buying cars. Whether that means allowing the kids to have free play remains to be seen. (But I suspect, things like the popularity of the books, The Dangerous Book for Boys, The Daring Book for Girls are indicative).
I would think you use a combination of IP address, browser fingerprint, and machine fingerprint.

Much better than cookies, because the user can't delete anything. Plus the fingerprints would still work across browsers (I think).
Show HN: Butu -- A Better Way To Plan Your Trip
Here goes my first post (Hello HN!)<p>We build this site (www.butuzone.com) to make trip planning easier: plan from scratch on dashboard or guided by our blog turned trip plans.<p>Love to hear your feedback, suggestion, recommendation or any random thoughts.<p>Thanks!
I don't see the point in this, you can't dumb down the complexities of the real world just because it'll make some engineers happier.
I've been doing IP networking from early 90s and I didn't find anything new in this article, except false claims. Also many attacks weren't as advanced as I would have assumed.

Btw. With Windos 3.0 Trumpet Winsock allowed you directly to snoop IP traffic as well as packet content. So there's nothing new with it either.

I also worked in networking department monitoring network issues, and it was painfully clear, that anyone who used telnet to access bank was easily monitored. (of course) Best thing was that banks didn't offer back then any other alternatives, except traditional POTS modems, which were just being replaced by IP networking.

Oh boy did I laugh about firesheep news, it was so obvious and over 15 years old trick.

I was naturally expecing this post to contain information how to MitM HTTPS and SSH sessions. Yes, users are stupid, and they might continue accessing services and login, even if cert isn't valid. As addition to that, they could have listed tips, how to create own cert authority and create "self signed" certs for every site being accssed with HTTPS. We're currently doing that in corporate environment. Only thing you need to arrange, is to use AD to get devices to trust this new cert. When you access facebook.com you'll get valid https connection with cert signed by IT. Yes, we can evasedrop and virus monitor also https connections, of course.

I'm sure there are many guys who have much more to add to this short list, what can be done.

Often with high security sites we opt to trust predefined exact public key fingerprint instead of any "publicly" signed cert. Because we all know the problems with official publicly signed certs and authorities.
I had a paid internship in college, many years ago, where I basically spent three months twiddling my thumbs waiting for a project, and when I finally got one, it was creating an MS Access database to count SLOCs. If they were that concerned with productivity, perhaps they could have given me something useful to do.
A 4yr old reviews iOS 7
I'm not so sure about that. Bars have machines to scan your drivers licence and verify if its real, so why can't other companies do the same thing.

No, those machines don't work that way. They just check for integrity in the physical license itself hologram in the right place, etc -- something you can't do with a scanned copy of a license. They don't have a master database that they phone home and check in with to see if the data on the card is forged.

Actually, they do have a database - of the info they read off the cards. The bars use that info for two things: (1) if you are enough of a troublemaker, they put you on the list to reject next time. (2) they also sell all of their card scan info to the data brokers. That's right, places like Equifax, TRW, etc know the time and date of every time you went to a bar that scanned your ID.
Ditto, I am usually half-hearted about the design related stuff that appears on HN but that is a really solid piece of UX.
Looking good. But, demo doesn't work in Chrome 30.0.1599.47 beta-m
LOL, that'a little extreme. He could just mute the sound :)
Several Android phones have offered this. Ubuntu is providing it next year. Can't wait for "revolutionary".
From the wikipedia page:

> WPS has been shown to easily fall to brute-force attacks.

(along with citation).

Sounds like it's a good thing Apple doesn't support it.
> The victim of being upset that people on twitter and reddit didn't like him? Cry me a river.

I suppose you think the notion of "cyberbullying" is nonsense, then? And their purported victims should just "man up"?

I don't even know why you brought up fox-hunting and singing. The guy was being hated on for nothing more than his appearance.
I'm pretty sure that site's numbers are wrong. Try digging into the details on any registrar - the "gain/loss report" for GoDaddy, for example, says that they're registering and transferring in exactly -2560 domains every single week. (This is separate from the transfers out and deletions, so it should NEVER be negative.) Other registrars have similarly "quirky" numbers.
> Being a jackass isn't somehow excusable just because you don't know who you're being a jackass to (in fact, some would argue that it makes it worse.)

This. "We didn't know we were hurting anybody" is no excuse for hurting somebody. Man up, accept the blame, apologize, and move on. It's not the end of the world if you hurt somebody's feelings, but you're a piece of shit if you knowingly hurt somebody's feelings, or they make it publicly known, and you DON'T apologize.
I've come across browser games a number of times that wouldn't work in my regular browser, requiring me to switch to another one I have installed. Your analogy is not very apt.
No, but it is worth it to both keep all that and work on WebGL.
I don't understand. What does dst being apple's IP imply? It's connecting to Siri server which is supposed to be an Apple's server. Am I missing something?
Brian Goetz's State of the Lambda (final version)
Smashing the stack in 2011
I believe it supports them, just like it supports game controllers now, but apps will have to include their own implementation of support to actually make use of them. It doesn't seem that iOS 7 supports using a mouse/touchpad by default throughout the OS itself.
BT keyboard has been supported back when original iPad was released. But BT mouse hasn't so far. If it is supported, then I think iPhone 5S could have the potential of being the first pocket size workstation.
Feels off if you _dont_ use keys. But I guess thats not the point.
This post and comment section are tool's gold. I've been wondering where to start expanding my toolkit. Now I have a lot of great stuff to learn!
The video is also 30fps, which I think is completely inadequate for demonstrating a subtle effect like this.
Laws don't mandate this like they do for gunshot wounds. Doctors do have discretion, and if they feel that there is a danger to the public (i.e. a nutjob stabbing people) they are legally able to report it (it wouldn't be a HIPAA violation).

That said, due to the litigious nature of the US some patients are still likely to sue and/or generate bad press. While it's unlikely that a court would find the doctor/hospital guilty of any HIPAA violations it's a giant headache the hospital and their lawyers don't want to deal with.
Yeah, you're not gonna leave it in your pocket so the battery can die. You'll drop it in the something that will also connect the i/o.
I believe there is a company that started with your exact business model and pivoted away (Tripadvisor? Trivago?)

Site looks good though, hopefully you find more amount of success with that model
give http://etherpad.org/ a shot
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This information may be US-specific.

AFAIK you can file a police report at any time. Whether your report leads to any results is probably negatively correlated with how long you wait to file it, but you can't be sure it won't until you actually report it.

However, many crimes (especially more minor ones) have a statute of limitations, where the crime can't be prosecuted after a certain amount of time.

And older investigations are harder -- a witness in a house adjacent to the crime scene may have remembered hearing a crunch followed by a car speeding away at the time of the accident if interviewed the following day or week, but may have utterly forgotten, or moved away and be impossible to locate, or have become unable to testify due to developing mental incapacity or becoming deceased, if the day in question was months, years, or decades ago. Likewise, the next day there might be tire marks, bike parts, or other physical evidence at the crime scene, but after months or years it will have deteriorated or totally disappeared.

Also police surely know that older investigations are harder, so in addition to the problems with the evidence itself, having an older case you might not be assigned as many police resources because they know there's a lower probability of success, and it's their duty to taxpayers to use their limited number of detectives, etc. on the cases they have the best likelihood of solving, so those taxpayer dollars are used most efficiently.

But this doesn't mean you shouldn't report it. You don't know exactly how your crime will be classified (assault? traffic offense? attempted homicide?), so you don't know what the statute of limitations actually is.

It might be that your report provides the missing piece of a puzzle -- there might be a cold case file in the police station saying, "A local mechanic noticed a car brought in for repairs had bike parts embedded in the grille and blood on the tires, the license and owner information was entered in the case file, and we're pretty sure we know who was driving. But no hit-and-runs had been reported recently, we know a jury won't convict without an identifiable victim, and the investigation was closed due to reaching a dead end."
Pitfall II had a custom cartridge with additional memory and chips to do multi voice sound (there's music continuously playing in Pitfall II) so it is possible. I just don't know how much the custom hardware can take over the machine.
I am not making the argument that afternic is the entire domain market.

Your title is.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just trying to clarify my perspective, which I think the author shares with me and I feel is not being understood. We know what has worked in the past. To me the author is saying functional programming with language features helpful for parallel programming is a better path to take. If I say I believe electric cars are better suited for the future and you say millions of internal combustion cars exist and work just fine, you haven't told me anything I don't already know or addressed features of electric cars that you feel make me wrong. That a large electric car infrastructure doesn't exist yet also doesn't disprove anything. The internal combustion engine is going away and so is C++. That's my opinion.
Instead of hooking a keyboard to your iPhone/ipad flip it around. Apple TV can be an airplay receiver, your ios device sends it's display to the larger screen and you type, touch, or dictate on the device that's already in your hand most of the day. Some die hards won't give up their dedicated keyboards, but many people can transition over to the "mobile desktop".
This is one of those neat little things that make a big difference in how a program is used and perceived. Very nice work.
Maybe so. Even though I am not aware of any studies of this kind of a link between insanity and genius, the kinds of afflictions I am talking about are not imaginary. They are real mental disorders like OCD, bipolar disorder etc.
please don't club 'C' with 'C++' :)
Lifting the lid on the iOS 7 UIPicker
Facebook Pages: No one is talking about you
Could someone with the appropriate clout contribute this to chromium and Firefox?

It seems like in a perfect open source world, a change like this should be simple to at least propose (pull request).
"I was under the impression he was speaking of parallel programming (software algorithms utilizing parallelism,) not sequential code running in parallel"

The argument was about squandering the powerful multi-core hardware because of deficiencies in imperative languages. No notion of some platonic ideal of a parallel application was raised.

My point is that the "squandering" claim is clearly and obviously false as I argued above.