skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if this fix would make scrolling the page less smooth.

It shouldn't. But why don't you try it?
I've been plagued with bad teeth all my life. No one ever taught me to know your teeth are clean, you just gotta figure it out. Who cares what toothbrush gets you there as long as it makes your life easier? It's not like it's a chemical.
Example: DuckDuckGo has placed some excellent ads on 4chan over the years and eat24 did a great blog post on advertising on porn sites.

Alternative channels have crazy low CPM and CPC.
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I don't really use bookmarks myself. Well, you could always just use Alt -> Bookmarks, right?
Everyone has their own pet theory of how people should behave in traffic. The problem isn't even that most of them are wrong -- most of them are "correct" in the sense that, if everyone behaved in this way, traffic jams would be less common and have shorter durations.

The problem is that you don't know which theories other drivers have, so you don't know how they will react to different situations. If you don't know how other drivers will react, you need to drive conservatively -- which usually means slowing down.

Take a construction merge down to a single lane. It might be the case that it's best to use both lanes up to the merge, so that the traffic jam takes up less space. It might be the case that it's best to merge as soon as you figure out what's going on, to provide more time for the merge negotiation and reduce the risk of accidents at the merge point.

In reality, it doesn't matter either way. If I try to use both lanes, I don't know that I'll be allowed to merge at the lane closure. If I merge early, I don't know if someone is going to use the now-unoccupied lane to zoom up and cut someone off, making both lanes slower and more accident-prone. I can't do either one and confidently say that I've made the correct choice, because I don't know how other drivers will react. What I do is just pick one, and slow down when something unexpected happens.

This article also generalizes some things incorrectly (it seems based mainly on German data, presumably because they have better infrastructure for measuring such). For example, I live in the northeastern U.S. We are notoriously bad drivers up here, even among other east coasters. Here, a two-second following distance at 65MPH is almost unheard of -- actually, a two-second front-to-rear distance probably qualifies as a "large space", as some people here seem to think such a space can fit multiple vehicles. That's about 100ft or 30m, so I suppose it technically can, but it is not safe.

I can react to this either by leaving a very large space (5-6 seconds seems sufficiently large that people get impatient and leave before it fills up) or by leaving a small space (.75-1.25 seconds is the largest I can leave and have a good chance of nobody trying to use it). The former is much safer, so that's what I do.

The key is that, over a period of about two minutes, I need to maintain this following distance relative to the same vehicle. Usually this is fine: at most three cars tend to use that space at a time, and if anything they're more likely to tailgate the vehicle I'm following than to stay back near me. Occasionally I need to slow down in a situation where many vehicles fill that space, or someone moves in and immediately slows down. This is the exception, rather than the rule.

Yes, I know this behavior can cause traffic jams under certain conditions and with certain other drivers -- but so could the alternative, under other conditions. Given the choice between two bad options, I optimize for my personal safety.
The first iPhone was barely a success. Apple had to give a price drop merely two months after it went on sale. The second iPhone, the iPhone 3G, was the breakout hit. Then Apple changed the rollout process and used a 'cheap' price[1] to accelerate sales.

[1]'cheap' initial payment with an expensive mobile contract.
No, it is not legit.
Blackberry's was the case of being too much in love with their own beliefs and processes. Also known as inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Microsoft also has those tendencies but they tend to get their act somewhat together even if that's too late.

Lazaridis saw the iPhone and the Engineer in him went - the battery won't last and it will bring down the AT&T network with its full fledged browser. Ballmer saw the iPhone and laughed at the $500 price. Both did not see the potential from a changing market's standpoint. Battery tech gets better, hardware, networks and OSes get better every year, and the prices can and do fall.

But some of it was inevitable for Blackberry. There really wasn't any differentiation potential left behind for them. iPhone got the smooth, attractive, computer replacement part. Android got the customizable, ubiquitous, many options, open and the "not iPhone" part. There just wasn't any way for BB to differentiate and win. They could've had a perfectly smooth touch optimized OS with great BB hardware, security suite and BBM etc. and even then their target market would still be limited.

The only way they could've saved themselves was if they had innovated ahead of time. After the iPhone and Android it was game over for them.
Any sufficiently large website doesn't run on autopilot or just servers, they require functional organizations/companies/whatever.
This seems to be the entire point of the article - publicity for HT Bridge.
I get that we want it to be consistent but having driven the same roads for years, in the same times of day, in varying but similar weather patterns the driving is completely sporadic so no amount of normalization well give you anything more than a crapshoot on any given day other than "it will probably take me anywhere from 20 to 50 minutes." Statistical analysis is great for many things but understanding the "now" of a traffic pattern is not one of them.
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I meant jailbroken, of course.
I still frequent Slashdot - I'm not that impressed. I'm reminded by digg 2.0
'Instead of the word ‘replace’ let's use "abstract away"...'
Putting a dollar amount on anything signals value perception. 12.50$ is a lot worse than a warm welcome, or other free rewards like public acknowledgement, because it says Yahoo really couldn't care less about finding such bugs.
Apple patents technology that will allow authors to sign ebooks
This has been a myth floating around since the early days of Chrome. I am and have for a long time been a big fan of Chrome, but it has never been light weight. It's just fast so people think of it that way. But you've always been able to check on the memory usage of tabs and see it just eating up your memory.
This was state of the art around the time the iPhone hit: HTC8525 [0]. That is not a phone, that is a ridiculously small screen welded to a slow computer with terrible battery life; and it was $299 on contract at the time.

The disruption in the iPhone was technical, social, political and economic.

[0] http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32...
>Maybe they are afraid, closed minded or really belive we are alone in this vast universe.

You're asserting false dichotomies. The universe may be teeming with life, but that still wouldn't lend any credence to the scenario of alien abduction. You don't have to be afraid or close-minded to doubt it, you just have to be rational.

It isn't proof, simply because it's entirely subjective. It exists inside people's minds.
> I could see some value, perhaps, in a tablet that I share with my wife, where each of us have our own accounts, with independent configurations, apps, and settings. We could each conveniently identify ourselves by our fingerprint. But biometrics cannot, and absolutely must not, be used to authenticate an identity.

I am not seeing the distinction. What exactly is the difference between an "identification" and an "authenticated identification"? With the family tablet, the fingerprint is still acting exactly like a password, and the reason the author is okay with it is because it's a password that's not protecting anything terribly important. Why not just have profiles that are selectable without any authentication? That would probably also work for a family tablet, but the fingerprint might be preferable to protect some info from your family members (even completely innocent things like shopping for gifts). Of course your family members could easily lift your fingerprint and bypass the biometrics, but it doesn't matter.
Even without TouchID, iirc on previous iPhone models entering an invalid password 10 times would trigger a wipe. So not a new threat -- just balancing maintaining the confidentiality of your data with the DOS risk.
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> To add insult to injury, they can’t even order a burger with their bounty, which can only be spent at the Yahoo Company Store

Yahoo gave them $25 in store credit at Yahoo.

I'd rather have gotten a nice letter, because that kind of "compensation" is as much trying to attract business to Yahoo products as it is trying to reward me.

In all likelihood, they'd have earned at least 10 times as much spending the same number of hours at Burger King, and probably over 100 times as much selling the flaws.

Grossly underpaying is much more insulting, because it says directly what they value your work at, than not paying, which may simply be a policy of not handing out rewards for that kind of behavior.
California is big - can you be more specific as to your location? Or is all your work via telecommute?
> or really belive we are alone in this vast universe.

...or understand that space is big. Really big.
> So, write javascript to trigger a java applet that changes the dom is a reasonable alternative to writing javascript to change the dom?

Depends on what you mean. These days people often have Applets disabled. But if you have an Applet with the access to do so, you can manipulate the DOM as much from it as you could from JavaScript.

> Yes, it literally does. When presented with one option, you have no choice.

There are lots of options, its just one is better than the others.

>> And there you have it. JavaScript wins by virtue of being a better deployment platform in the browser space

> Are you serious?

Absolutely. People made a go of it with Applets. Once they realized they could get the job done with JavaScript, they dropped Applets like a hot potato, to the point where Applets are being dumped.

Most other in browser programming environments are platforms in their own right that talk to browser platform. JavaScript's platform is the browser, and that turns out to make a big difference.

> Just that javascript sucks and we're stuck with it against our will.

Depends on you who define as "us".

You're going to want to get familiar with "worse is better": http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
A better product is one the public can imagine.

A disruptive product is one that the public cannot conceive of, such that its introduction alters the standards in an industry.

A better product is the HTC8525[0] over the HTC8500. A disruptive product is the HTC8525 versus the iPhone.

[0]http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32... - The leading WinMo smartphone in Q4 2006, pre-iPhone.
Funny, that you give startups as example.

As stated on my previous comment, I have been doing Agile projects, with distributed team across the globe, in the enterprise world since 2006.

While it is true, that it had its share of issues while we were discovering how to apply agile concepts in a distributed manner, I would expect most of the issues would be quite known in 2013.

Specially in the startup world, which tends to be more flexible in regards to the enterprises.

The human factor is actually quite important, but in many cases it is not possible at all to have everyone on the same place.
> With face unlock, I just need a photo of the phone's owner.

face unlock now requires you to blink.
The "sandbox" being referred to is the "Secure Enclave", which apparently is what ARM calls "TrustZone": http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.prd29-genc-... The data isn't accessible to even the OS. So, in theory at least, jailbreaking doesn't make it any more accessible.
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Well, packages can be signed, packages can be pinned using internal repos, and lists of installed packages (and their versions) can be easily generated.

Packages are also easier to audit and deploy on internal networks than an install script which can change at whim.

In short, I have no guarantee that the bash script or tarball I'm installing via the piped bash method is the script or tarball the authors intended to be installed. I also have no way of installing this on servers without internet access, short of hacking the install script (of course, this matters less since this is monitoring as a service, but as a general principle it still stands).
How do you get rid of Firefox's windows decorations in Linux? All I could find was for Windows, except one gnome-based extension which is known not to work reliably.

Also, checking for updates when I start my browser is the worst possible time UI-wise. I start my browser when the site I want to visit is at my fingertips, and my working memory is fading as I am waiting for my computer. How do you customize this away?

Sure, the bookmarks bar being always-visible or never-visible is a minor defect, but it is still worse than Chrome's show-in-new-tabs behavior. Showing menu bars and window decorations by default shows bad judgement, but indeed that wasn't the reason I couldn't stay with Firefox. It felt slower, had annoying wasteful window decorations, started with annoying extension version checks, and let bad web apps interfere with all my tabs.

Do you have actual responses for my actual points besides "you didn't really try"?
I completely agree about the terrible state of browsing in online bookstores.

In terms of non-fiction, I've discovered tons of books at a university library by searching the catalog for a few books on a given topic, then going to the shelf and looking at all the books around it, which I would not have otherwise found.

I'd love some kind of Dewey Decimal browser with a bunch of extra filters. I don't know if that's feasible.
The unlimited (even tho 2G) data plan was price-disruptive. Verizon wanted to charge me $45/mo for data for my Treo (again 2G/1xRTT).

The iPhone (mandated) plan from AT&T was $20/mo for data, including 200 texts.

Even if I didn't prefer the iPhone, that cost differential was a no-brainer to me.
1) I'm not smart enough to guess on that one.

2) Education and reference resources. I now longer have to spend hours and hours looking up information and synthesizing it myself, I can get an AI to do it for me. (crossing fingers that it synthesizes it like I want it to)

3) Thieving, lazy, sloppy warehouse workers (no offense). The amount of stuff that gets stolen and "missing" out of fulfillment centers is astronomical. Plus, it's basically a a task that doesn't require human level intelligence. What do I need to ship? Where is it? Is it in stock?

4) Service Bureaus and Machine Shops. Prototyping physical things is expensive and time consuming and requires lots of skill to do. When making any kind of physical thing, the equivalent of compiling and debugging, is to run off a prototype at a Bureau. It's so onerous a problem that very few organizations even bother to make more than half a dozen physical prototypes of an item before committing to production. In the end, it'll probably just mean more variety of cheap junk we can buy off of Amazon.
JavaScript is the one language developers think they can use without having to actually learn it. :-)
I'm sure there are other marketplaces that could offer a better price...
Hmm. After upgrading my ipad to iOS 7, I changed my pass code. Which I promptly forgot. I had to reset it from iTunes, on a computer which had never paired with the ipad (in fact I had to download iTunes to do this). When the ipad restarted it asked me for my Apple ID but that seemed to be for the iCloud restore. I think I could have skipped it and had a functioning ipad. But apparently not?
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How can you innovate when the standard for your product is Java 1.3?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959705
Does Yahoo have a public bounty program?
<rant>

Ugh this just makes me sad. I want to move to Portland next summer, and I've been watching for jobs in Portland. Right now I don't see any jobs but I keep seeing more, and more jobs in DC. I hate DC, I want out!

</rant>
Seems to be following all of the recent clichéd design trends. /. always had a distinctive style, and that's been bastardized. Not impressed.
Can you do the same for HN's "Who's available for hire" monthly posts?
What difference does it make practically in this case? Should I switch it?
It starts throttling attempts before going full lockdown. But, yeah, don't leave assholes alone with your phone.
Ah, that's interesting, thanks, I didn't know about it.
Example: Series2 TiVo - couldn't do HD like some of the cable set-top boxes, but was the first mainstream DVR and I much preferred watching a 30m show in 20m over "HD".
I absolutely hate that "don't move" kudos device. Terrible, obnoxious design.
Doesn't seem responsive to wider screens, i.e. fixed width beyond a certain point and wasted space.

Images also seem way too big. Seems like they want to go more of editorial (de-emphasis on ratings, emphasis on visuals).
Same thing could be said about lectures in college. I'm amazed at how much professors can expand on for a simple little concept making the idea more convoluted than it should be.
What makes you think they didn't also get a nice letter?