skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Chip and PIN came in, as part of the TOS that you accepted by using the card, it included a clause that the bank is not liable for any fraud on the card as Chip/PIN is unbreakable (the implication being you must have given away your PIN).

I believe that this has now changed (although I've not had a new card recently and I don't remember seeing any new TOS).
Yes, the whole paradigm is to use 'reactive' functions - i.e. functions whose output is cached.
Except the first point everything else seems like they can go wrong at anytime.
I always thought that "free" in the FSF and other names stood as "for free", no payment needed, did not realize it actually stood for freedom. I think it might be that other people also mistake free software with some spam foundation, since the more common association of "free software" comes from spam malware filled websites offering "registry cleaners".
not sure if trolling or just dumb
Shiny is really outstanding - I use it internally in our department to quickly make apps for biologists to explore their data while the downstream analysis is queued. It's also promising for its ability to very easily create a front-end to command-line R scripts and workflows.
I spent almost 20 minutes trying to work out why a new Gmail account didn't work on my phone when an older one worked without issue. My mistake really, should have just assumed Google had cancelled a popular service.
Haven't they done this since forever?
Where I live in Malmö we have Four hackspaces. Four of them!

I'm quite proud of the IT scene in Sweden.

Edit: To clarify, Malmö is smaller than both Göteborg and Stockholm.
The CCC previously published a German minister's fingerprint. They acquired it by lifting a water glass he had used at a public event. http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.7/fingerprint-schauble
In a way, yes it seems quite bad that Google has enough power to just completely destroy small sites like that. But when it's a lot better from a user perspective just to instantly see the result than to navigate to some poorly designed ad-ridden mess to get what they need.
I think what you fail to understand is that Google are building a tool for the masses and I would bet that they have analysed what features people actually use and most of the time the majority of people don't change the subject or modify the recipients or format the email.

In short - they're catering for the typical user, and the typical user doesn't use all the features that the OP thinks they need.
The one I use most often is Google's dictionary:

https://www.google.com/#q=define:hello%20world
Free software is definitely high on my list of priorities right now.

However, what seems equally important is data-ownership. If you can't obtain ownership of your own data, what does it matter which software you run?

In that regard, this commment on reddit has some good leads to get started taking your data back from Google:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1mxtbl/spike_in_twi...
Chakra 2013.09 released, featuring KDE SC 4.11.1, Linux 3.10.10
It's also probably a product that didn't take too many lines.
I want to inherit from the base image, to keep the shared files actually shared. This is a feature. It's just the dozen layers of that inheritance that bothers me.
Wow cool idea, someone needs to test that
I think this was inevitable as when you read and send mail only using exchange you can access nearly all the gmail features without having to see their ads. Running the exchange servers costs money but generates zero revenue. They should just create paid accounts that allow them to keep exchange accounts
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Yet again I am reminded that my google is not necessarily the same as 'your' google

Just like how "define: something" doesn't show a dictionary definiton for me anymore, a functionality i used all the time. And now can't be sure whether was actually removed, or just removed for me!
If you are implying that Google used its search results to push Android somehow to consumers I'd love to hear some kind of explanation as to how exactly you think that occurs.

What would consumers be searching for where that would even be an issue?

How did Google's search results influence CEOs to demand that corporate IT departments let them use their iPhones against the corporate email systems? Because that's how BB lost its corporate stranglehold, and only later did Android come in a clean up what was left.

I don't think Google is above some tech conspiracy - I just think they didn't need to bother. BB produced uncompetitive products and the market punished them for it.
Internet Explorer 11’s Many User-Agent Strings
In particular, it turned out that there was a flaw in the Chip and PIN specification which made it possible to bypass the PIN requirement. There's some evidence this was exploited fairly widely in the wild before security researchers found the flaw, but since the banks erased the logs that recorded whether a PIN was actually used all the customers ended up liable for the fraudulent charges.
Yes, not limited to the "new" Gmail, though they only admitted to it recently.
Hacking iPhone 5S touchID
http://istouchidhackedyet.com/ changed to MAYBE ....
Well i guess so thats why its best that we stay prepared for it.
I don't get anything special - Google Chrome on OSX
The establishment rewards those who aid the establishment.
I live close to Malmö, which hackspaces are you referring to? I only know of two!
Based on what they've said previously, I'm pretty sure the people who ran that competition expected TouchID to be a lot harder than this to bypass and were doing it as a publicity stunt to try and demonstrate that.
How do you change password with one finger left?

I'd say 9 password changes...
"perhaps xor the RSA output with a OTP of something 'random' you scribbled yourself on a page ;-)"

... seemingly random bits, xored with anything not directly related to the bits in question produces seemingly random bits... There are other ways of transforming a sequence of bits to look less uniform, though.
This unfortunate dual meaning of "free" in English is the reason for Richard Stallman saying:

> To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer".

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
You are completely detached from normal practical realities, as such your beliefs on security can be safely disregarded.
Not true. There are two separate groups in Columbus: OSU Police and the Columbus Police Department.
Ha! I have you beat! I've been waiting 7 years for to be able override autoload's require.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7716

In fact, after 10 years of dedication, b/c of this and a few other issues (and attitudes) I don't use Ruby any more.
That's why I buy ibuprofen instead. It's safer, except for someone who is pregnant.
Malmö's startup scene is truly impressive! Plenty of serial entrepreneurs, access to capital, co working spaces and a history of exits.
it's not DoD's job to volunteer to help in situations where the movie itself would portray DoD in a negative light.

But is it the DoD's job to help in situations where the movie portrays the DoD in a positive light?

I'm not from the US, so my opinion doesn't count much, but I'd rather have our Ministry of Defence help no movies than playing favorites.
10 year doesn't include the 1999-2000 bubble era, 15 year does. Those couple of years were among the best periods for VC returns ever, hence any period including them will have disproportionately high #s relative to other periods.
They'd get money from Bing [1] if Google dropped the contract in 2014. Firefox sell a commodity product - their default search engine - so have no need to be blackmailed by their customer.

[1] e.g. see "Firefox with Bing" move last time renewal came up: https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221226/Mozilla_Micr...
The title is "why the new gmail sucks" not "a reason gmail has sucked for a long time already". The scanning of content to fuel the advert relevance engine has been a part of gmail pretty much from the beginning IIRC.

If you don't like that, you shouldn't use the old one let alone the new one.

I run my own mail server(s) anyway as I like being in control of the backup processes, having access to recent and archived mail if the Internet has a blip, and being more in control of the interface (I currently use Zimbra, but if they go a direction I don't like I can easily move to something else that supports IMAP but also provides a nice web-based interface). I pay for that in my time (and in having a server to run it on and resource to hold/manage backups, though the cost of that is not particularly high), people pay for gmail by allowing the adverts thing. You pays your money, directly or otherwise, you takes your choice.
What are your credentials?

Downvote for this. Questioning or criticizing the author's credentials is a poor substitute for questioning or criticizing his thesis.
you can combine this with the voice option from search, nice way to speak out loud and have this timer set. I've set up a custom shortcut for triggering voice search ( besides the Ctrl+Shift+.) and works like a charm.
A list of language and library changes in this release. It does not include some things like the GC and method cache changes.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_1_0_preview1/NEWS
Mojang actually is even more profitable than stated in the article. Unbelievably profitable.

Mojang AB[1]'s profit is 324m SEK after taxes (39.3% profit margin before taxes) but they also paid out a lot money to Notch Development AB [2] (Which is 100% owned by Notch) in licensing fees. Notch Development AB had 637m in revenue, (almost?) all of it from the licensing fees from Mojang, with a profit of 467m (97.24% profit margin before taxes)

Mojang AB is owned by Notch, Carl Manneh and Jakob Porsér while Notch Development is soley owned by Notch. That is some good future proofing of his assets, in case of disputes or whatever down the line.

[1] http://www.allabolag.se/5568192388/Mojang_AB

[2] http://www.allabolag.se/5567597686/Notch_Development_AB
I wasn't aware they'd ever denied it.
Sorry, but what is your point? You rambled on about how the author is unqualified and not everyone feels the same way he does and yet you didn't provide a single point to rival any of his. I'm confused?
Related: Fall in paracetamol deaths 'linked to pack limits'

Deaths from paracetamol overdoses fell by 43% in England and Wales in the 11 years after the law on pack sizes was changed, according to a study.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21370910
The Hitman franchise is from neighbouring Denmark. And the last Space Hulk game as well (though it didn't get stellar reviews...).
Yes. And it is somewhat surprising. Matz must have rejected this idea a dozen times. It was certainly one of the oldest feature requests around. Hard to imagine what must have changed his mind. I've rarely seem Matz change his mind.
Of course many thanks to Go To Webinars amazing codec that made editing an absolute pleasure :)
You did read the article, didn't you? In the case of the Buran they copied the concept, not the technology. Funny thing in aerospace, form ALWAYS follows function. So little surprise the two shuttles resembeled themselves a lot optically.

All the rest is pretty well explained in the article.
To be fair to Google, Gmail has always sucked...but it sucked many millions of times less than Hotmail or Yahoo mail, and still sucks many millions of times less than them even with the new revamp.
If that Allabolag page doesn't get you inspired, I don't know what will.... :D
just wrote something similar in 60 lines of JavaScript: http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018
also weather, stocks etc
I do not understand this kind of comment.
Even if Open Source is a great thing, some people just want to use the tool. They are not interested or do not have the time to participate in the project.
TouchID*

* Note: TouchID is not the panacea to all our security woes. will not cure cancer, create world peace, does not kill kittens, [continues on listing everything it's not for 9 trillion pages]
It still works for me, I use it constantly.
How to teach your girlfriend programming
Arrays could benefit from a little wrapper
The Story of Engineering Education in India
The launch of the iPhone 5s/5c, we saw price rises in Australia due to the Aussie dollar.

I think it's likely we'll see similar price rises on the release of the new iPads shortly
I should refine what I said in that I meant Gmail's UI has always had suck here and there. Other features like the bang-on spam filtering are pure brilliance, and I love the way it sticks ads and social network crap into their own folders.
When using statistics, it needs to be done with more care. This is a typical example where the article fails to support its main argument because of not using statistics correctly:

> The amount of acetaminophen these patients had ingested was close to the recommended daily dose of 4 grams. The median was 6 grams per day — a surprise, because the toxic dose was thought to be between 10 and 15 grams, Erush said. She also found that most of these patients had other risk factors, such as chronic alcohol use.

That is like saying: The median speed in fatal accidents are 10% over the speed limit, with most involved drivers having other risk factors such as chronic alcohol use.

Without separating out the factors, we can't say how much higher risk of an fatal accident a 10% over the speed limit might cause. The information is simply not there. I would have liked that the article told me about the increased risk that 6 grams per day might give by itself. Combining 6 grams with alcohol is a bad idea, and is as obvious as being drunk and speeding. The article really shouldn't focus on those kind of scenarios, and it weakens the main argument they are trying to make.
Not to mention that they make up around 40% of the Swedish Game Dev revenue and 70 all of the profit. Though, most other devs are actually owned by EA et al. So there is probably some Hollywood-style accounting going on

http://www.dataspelsbranschen.se/media/134049/spelutvecklari... Swedish only sorry, page 6 & 7 for the numbers
That seems an odd definition of "greater"; why do you say it's an absolute measure?

I'm no mathematician, but at least Mathematica disagrees with you (Greater[-1,1/2] returns False).
Agree. What Google did replaced plenty of functionalities that are available on desktop (math, spell-check, dictionary).

But their recent card-based solution to a lot of searches seems to show that they're trying to keep users on Google-owned properties. Try searching for a movie review. You'll notice that everything that pertains to the movie is shown on top and on the right. Clicking on actors lead to yet another google search result with another card on the right. In short, you're being kept within Google.

Does it get you the information you're looking for in as little time as possible? Absolutely. But they're doing this at the expense of the sites they took the data from.
Already back in the glory days of the demo scene, the best teams came from Sweden, with the other Scandinavian countries also well represented.

It is definitely both a culture and a climate thing. The point about consensus culture is a good observation - in some contexts it can be crippling, but in creative-technical hybrid endeavors like games, these teams can really do some damage.
From what I've heard, at least some of those extensions work by faking the user agent as IE8 and will break as soon as Google discontinues support for it.
Just read that report this morning, some really interesting up and comers too.
A monkey, clearly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_saddle
We did a couple of online-demos / webinars of our product for potential customers lately. Here's what we learned:

- Our customers strongly prefer to call in via landline than to use their computer for audio. Make sure to send them the national call-in number (we've been talking to customers in Germany)

- Either only share a part of your screen or put your screen resolution way low. This will improve image quality/speed and makes sure the image will fit onto their screen, even if they use a small laptop

- Online-demo software that "just works" for the customer doesn't seem to exist.

-- Skype and Google Hangout need registration/installation, most others (including WebEx) need Java in the browser.

-- If you are lucky, the company uses one of these themselves. We've mostly not been lucky.

-- We also tried join.me but their screen updating algorithm is awful. It updates squares instead of the whole image, but in a seemingly random order. If you scroll down a page, it's just confusing chaos. Way worse than updating the whole image once.

I'm open for better suggestions...
Here is a New York Times article on gmail from 2004 discussing the privacy issues around google scanning email content. It is a controversy that came and went, so I can imagine people who were young and not using email at the time missing it entirely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/technology/21google.html
Ever wonder how bland, feature barren, largely useless lowest common denominator shit that nobody really seems to like, or identify with can come to dominate design of software products?

My theory is that the assumption there is some kind of meaningful "Average user" which a product is then built for ultimately destroys utility in software.

If you have 50 features that on average 1% of people use, you can easily reach the false conclusion nobody cares about these features, when on aggregate 90% might use at least one of those features. Thus in aiming for the average, you haven't designed for anyone at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy
Why didn't she get a full time job?

I can't see how the school is responsible for her horrible career and long term financial planning.

If you're making $10,000/year is the US, while having an education, it's your own damn fault.
Scanning email for content to target ads was a public controversy when gmail was introduced to the public in 2004.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/apr/08/onlinesupp...

http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html
Definitely!

We should see a good spike in Starbreeze's revenue as well as both Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons have sold well and received good reviews.

I expect there will be a fair few mobile/casual game companies coming up once the devs over King start creating new companies. Candy Crush has been such as success that we will probably see more along that line in the future.
This reminds me of a coworker who uses National Instruments' LabView's graphical programming capabilities to parse text files. Graphical programming is just not suitable for some tasks.
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Also some of the best e-sports teams in the world come from Sweden, like SK Gaming or the winners of this years "The International" Dota2 tournament, Alliance.
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Google Analytics missing 95% of clicks from a Reddit ad?
I agree, 'what are your credentials?' is the wrong question - 'where is your data?' would be better. But I too question the author.

The author is posting a list of his personal gmail bugbears. We all understand the author doesn't care that you can see the email in the reply window, he'd rather a much bigger space to write.

I think we can safely say that Google test UX changes with actual users. Asking the parent for some data to back up that most users don't like the change is reasonable.

Also making the compose full screen would result in a very wide compose area, which is widely though to slow down reading (eg, of what the gmail users has just written).

I've actually flagged the submission: evaluating UX based on opinionated users without data is simply poor.
I'm seriously not convinced they ran any UI test.

For what it's worth, my wife and my mom are totally lost with the new Gmail, and they're the very average typical user.
How can we know what they are testing for? Maybe they are optimizing for revenue and not how happy or distracted an email author is.
What if they don't employ fulltime ?
Also what is so special about parttime employment that it shouldn't also give (partial) pensions and health insurance.
Yep! As part of the article research, we actually came across countless companies who have developers who have contributed to some of the bigger hits like CC etc. Will be very interesting to see how those dev's use that knowledge and apply it to new companies.
Yes, I think you're right. When they brought in priority inbox, then the split tabs for promotions, etc, I couldn't switch them off quickly enough. I aim to get my inbox to zero, so these just got in the way. I imagine that the vast majority of users let their inbox pile up into the thousands, so these features would be a huge help.

Thankfully these examples are optional, unlike the author's qualms.
Yep, we recently interviewed some guys who built Abios - which wants to be like a calendar for competitive gaming/e-sports. http://swedishstartupspace.com/2013/09/02/abios-games/ is the link if you want to read it.
Considering Google was the one sending them all their traffic before...
STL stands for Standard Template Library -- I think you just mean "Standard Library"
Nothing new in this article, but I will endlessly upvote anything that says loud and clear that the new Gmail sucks till they fix it.
Had the same though initially when we heard the "consensus culture" remark, but seems to ring true in this context.
> But this version of inflation cannot account for the Universe’s lopsidedness except as a statistical fluke — similar to, for example, a fair coin that happens to come up heads many more times than tails over 1,000 flips.

So, does this mean p = .001 for this result? Does the result hold if we choose a different way to partition the sky into two connected regions?
It's not the DoD's job to help with movies period. The fact that the DoD does not assist with all movies makes it worse, not better. If the DoD were assisting with all movies it would merely be a waste of funds.
I think this is what Malcolm Gladwell talks about in his TED talk about the best spaghetti sauce - http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...
Are big editing area or the option of editing subject really such esoteric, geeky features beyond the concern of an average user? What has become of us if so?
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Rook is also a good option. I've built several apps with it. It reminds me of sinatra. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AT8nQo6jrZ9SwPgdwqkH... and http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rook/Rook.pdf
Fixed it, thanks :)
Haha, I just made a commit where I'm going to start adding that.
> If you're making $10,000/year is the US, while having an education, it's your own damn fault.

That is a bold and broad generalisation.
The right acronym would have been SPL
Will CPython always remain the reference implementation?
some feedback from me:

1. the value types are not immutable, which will make it very hard to work with them on larger scale. You should create new instances instead of modifying the original ones, keeping the originals intact.

2. The object hierachy is borked. You are exposing way to much information. Instead of generically allowing to save values and options in the Object, you should specialize the types much more and hide the actual value.

3. You should convert the value when creating the type, using (int) for example, or throw an exception if not convertable. The current converts the values at many places, which increases the complexity of the code unnecessarily.
paid google apps does let you use EAS...