skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's surprising this medium hasn't been explored more. It seems like everyone just finally figured out app install ads.

Especially since the nascent mobile advertising market focused so heavily on the gaming industry, it makes sense that people weren't terribly motivated to start indexing deep app content early on.

We (at URX) feel especially passionate about non-game apps that we use on a daily basis, and get excited about the ability to help them grow faster and reach their users in more relevant ways. Personally I'd prefer to see ads from apps that I already trust, rather than ads trying to get me to install more games that don't add a lot of value for me as a non-gamer.

I'm interested to hear what about Facebook's approach [1] is so strict. It's a little funky that they make you register an ugly custom protocol scheme... in their words, "the deep link scheme would be your app id prefixed by "fb". e.g 'fb1234567://'". I'm also somewhat surprised that they limit you to a very specific set of call-to-action phrases:
- Open Link
- Shop Now
- Use App
- Book Now
- Play Game
- Listen Now
- Watch Video
... "Use App" is a little boring, isn't it?

Would you have done anything differently than facebook?

I really think twitter is on the right track with Twitter Cards [2]; it seems that once we're able to better understand the content within apps (or pair it up with the web equivalents), we can construct a much richer data set and make awesome new experiences possible in the ways people use their apps.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ads-for-apps/mobile-app...

[2] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/app-installs-and-deep-lin...
It surprises me that anybody uses Amazon or PayPal when Stripe and Balanced exist.
Using DHT could be a really powerful solution for this.
> If customers ask, supermarkets must either redeem cans themselves or pay a fine of $100 per day - as must all stores and cafes in the area.

It sounds like this is mainly a question of enforcement - and the willpower in the city to back that enforcement. Here in Sweden we have no law forcing stores to take back their cans, but I don't think I've ever seen a supermarket however small without a recycle vending machine. Then again, we don't have the homeless problem SF does.
Just tried it. It uses https as soon as you login for me.
This idle timeout can be increased by at least an order of magnitude now, upon request to AWS. Open a ticket.
Battery-Stored Solar Power Sparks Backlash From Utilities
My smoke alarm goes off semi-regularly when I cook, but I never remove the batteries when that happens. I just open up some windows, turn on the range fan, and start blowing air across the detector with a broom. The very principle of taking the batteries out bothers me, I wouldn't do it unless I had replacement batteries in my other hand.

How many people actually disable smoke detectors when they insult their cooking, and how many people just think that this is what other people commonly do? I suspect this is one of those "problems that everyone thinks that everyone else has, but few people actually do."
I got shouted down in a reddit thread for suggesting that getting cops to arrest people that were scavenging for recyclables was not the best use of their time and our tax dollars.
By that logic AWS isn't a good fit for new web technologies either, since that was the blocker here.
I will not be purchasing my digital serfdom. I expect to be served it.
True, and don't leave out "greed" and "power". (a.k.a. float)
it says a lot when siding with criminals is in the best interest of law abiding citizens than siding with the goverment.
May be they can try different approach — install fume hood.
You will cause no pain to Google by developing on these.
Descent of Man
Wow! I do also like that. I like that very much! Thank you for pointing me to that.
The industry standard for citations between scholarly publications is CrossRef, which is the official DOI link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. I don't know what the original document said, but if it was a scholarly publication, the citation should/could have been done by DOI. DOIs resolve to URLs, but publishers have a mandate to keep them up-to-date.

http://crossref.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
http://www.doi.org/

(I work for CrossRef)
I'm exactly the same, I just forgot to use built-in tools except the responsive, because I have that Firebug button.

However, I mainly use FB to inspect network requests nowadays and if you do a lot of Ajax calls, inspecting the responses and the json could require less clicks IMHO.
As a daily commuter with technology, I understand the desire to create a personal bubble and tune out your surroundings. That's one of the advantages of not driving.

Insert gameboy, walkman, newspaper, book, etc in place of phones etc and the article is the same.
I'm generally for governments doing things, in terms of personal ideology.

That aside, I think that we need to take a big step back from making everything we can think of automated, integrated, and available online until we take a hard look at the role of privacy and the nature of public records about individual's information.
Most detectors only have one sound.

It seems that the Nest will specifically tell you with words that it has detected CO, so you'll listen.

I wouldn't be surprised if the CO detection can'd be dismissed since you would never really want to dismiss it (unlike smoke).
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"None of the domain appraisal tools rated it as having any significant value"

Well first let me tell you that means practically nothing.

Especially on the end of "no significant value". Although I've seen more errors with domains with value being said to have "no value" than I've seen with domains with clear value "having no value". (Can't off the top see if I mean "false negative or false positive" but you get the point.)

"He made an offer, I accepted"

In general, in any deal to sell there always needs to be some "kickback". Otherwise someone might feel they have left money on the table. General rule. Kickback doesn't have to be "more" or "less" money. It can be as simple as "ok but only if you..." (some non monetary item that makes the other party feel you are borderline on their offer).

"trusting each other over $100.00 and a domain"

Easy because the total amount at risk is $100. (Would you do the same if you had a domain and someone offered $20,000 for it and that was the value?).

"We are not going to get anywhere without some serious face time when it comes to selling this stuff."

Agree.

Let me know if anyone ever approaches you to sell any other domains.
irb(main):001:0> x = [1,2,3,4,5]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
irb(main):002:0> x.inject &:*
=> 120
The law enforcement and audit activities kind of makes sense with the territory. In my mind, at least. BUT if personal emails and details are therefore considered public record, doesn't that completely break HIPPA privacy requirements? Requirements the government wrote?!
Yep, I thought it would be of interest to the HN community, but most importantly I was interested about the comments/feedback/criticism of those who would potentially be using it.
"Is due process the wrong term? Can't due process occur after the fact?"

Yes, it can occur after the fact. At least in the US, it's a complex balancing act whether you get pre or post-termination notice/hearing.

For example, deprivation/termination of social security benefits only require post-termination hearing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_v._Eldridge

Welfare, on the other hand, requires pre-termination notice + hearing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_v._Kelly
I use the Nightlies, and am really digging the new stuff that's coming in. What I want the most is, a DevTools-level universal shortcut to focus onto the Web Console prompt. I know that C-S-k is the Web Console short-cut, but when focus is on the other parts of the Web Console, pressing C-S-k just closes Dev Tools. I like how Chrome uses 'Esc' to focus on the prompt, and I find it a very superior UX.
If computer science interests you, feel free to take computer science. Seriously. At a reputable college (no, it doesn't have to be MIT, I just mean an academically serious school) you'll take calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, physics (maybe). You may need to take (or have the opportunity to take as electives that count to the degree) advanced courses in stochastic processes, mathematical optimization, numerical analysis, simulation design. You'll learn very interesting things about data structures and algorithms, graphs, pattern matching. You will write a compiler, and it will be hard as hell.

If you are interested in computer engineering, well then, of course study that!

But don't let the vacuousness of some of what masquerades as "tech" deter you from studying something so rigorous and fascinating. The applications are very broad. If you like this sort of thing, you can find something very meaningful that will interest you!
Isn't the answer to this DHT? A well chosen hash algorithm should give you suitable prevention from collisions and serve as a way to verify the contents of the retrieved file.
I agree, but do realize this is written for a mathematical audience, not a CS audience. It's reductive, but it's not that reductive to your average math major/grad student.

Code by/for mathematicians is particularly ugly to a professional programmer. There is significant historical (pencil & paper) precedent for what single-letter variables represent in a given context. For a mathematician, ConstantArray[0, {m,n}] reads more cleanly than ConstantArray[0, {cols,rows}].

Similarly, seeing variables like p1, p2, p3 is off-putting to me as a programmer, but I still immediately recognize them as 3 arbitrary points in a triangle.
Heh. I remember the problems I had with moving around graphs, tables and pictures in MS Word. Man that sucked.

Doing references and placing images in Latex, on the other hand, was a breeze once I got a hang of its programmatic behavior.

Maybe it's better in Word now though. As I said, it's been a while since I seriously used it.
Because we never know where the next threat will come from, or perhaps the threat after that.

Your country may be perfectly at peace with the US now, but there is no way to guarantee that peace unless we have people to continually watch for potential threats. Even that is, in itself, no guarantee, but it's better than nothing.

Maybe someday, mankind will be able to share universal goodwill and peace, but until that time, trust, but verify, at a minimum.
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Whoa interesting! I've heard of people playing OpenWRT pranks like Upsidedown-ternet [1], but it's cool to see more practical use cases of router-level filtering.

Did you hand-roll the ad proxy or find something open-sourced? I'm definitely a believer that if you don't want ads, the resources should be widely available to avoid them.

[1] http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
How's the view from the armchair? You comfortable over there?

Your reputation for presumption precedes you. I know exactly what it's like to perform on stage, it's not exactly a difficult opportunity to come by, even my teenage niece and all her siblings have performed on stage for years... and yes, just like everything else in life, the more you do it the better you become.

Practicing in a room, without an audience, does NOT make you good at anything other than practicing in a room without an audience.

Contrary to what you might believe, practicing your instrument/act/set/speech/flow/delivery always improves your public performance, that's simply an indisputable fact and you come off as foolish arguing otherwise. Your logic is akin to suggesting that you'll never get better at programming by building applications that you don't sell or push to github. It's true that exposure to a live audience presents unique challenges that sharpen your edge, but it doesn't matter how many times you've been up on stage if you don't spend the lion's share of your time refining the technical skills that produce the art. As any music fan will attest to, the stage performance is secondary to witnessing your favorite musician flawlessly assemble their headlining composition, live in front of your very eyes.

If musicians are expected to make money ONLY from touring, that is, traveling from town to town and getting up on a STAGE (not just going from town to town and setting up in rehearsal studios), they must already be really good at it. Do you not see the conundrum here?

Musicians aren't expected to do anything, they should make money any way they can. Yeah, these days it's hard to sell strings of ones and zeros for money since computers make it trivial to store and transmit those strings, but that's the nature of reality, it's the same reason why nobody is willing to pay a person to organize paper documents in a filing cabinet... the world has moved on. Even if we accept your assertion that you have to get up on stage in order to start making money getting up on stage, you do what everyone else does: invest in your product (your music) and take a loss till you're good enough to start turning a profit. You don't need a VC to be successful in the music industry, period.

When the music industry was functioning record labels would advance money for a tour in the hopes that the venture would result in more money made from record sales than it cost to keep the van full of gas and a roof over everyone's heads for 12 weeks.

Yeah, and there was once a time where the VCs would dole out cash for every other mobile/social/local iPhone app in hopes that the venture would result in more money made from app sales than it cost to keep a van full of college students fed on ramen for 12 weeks. Now that technology has caught up it's become trivially easy to produce apps that would have been game changers when the app store first debuted. Nobody wants to invest in that. The world moved on.
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The Extensible Web (adapted from LXJS presentation)
The trouble is that literally everyone is a musician. The pie is not only smaller, it's sliced more thinly.

This is great for culture, so-so at best for aesthetics and shit for working musicians.

http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthe...
Of wonderful note:

At approximately 1:30 p.m. CDT on August 2, 2013, Mr. Levison gave the F.B.I. a printout of what he represented to be the encryption keys needed to operate the pen register. This printout, in what appears to be four-point type, consists of eleven pages of largely illegible characters. To make use of these keys, the F.B.I. would have to manually input all two thousand five hundred and sixty characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the F.B.I. collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data.

I tip my hat to this magnificent bastard.

EDIT:

The core issue is summed up nicely thereafter:

Levison believes that when the government was faced with the choice between getting information that might lead it to its target in a constrained manner or expanding the reach of its surveillance, it chose the latter.
"[W]e may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities."

Sounds like fraud detection and reporting. Is this really a problem?
Lost in Smartphones, Bus Riders Didn't Notice Gunman Until He Pulled the Trigger
Sure, you could pre-calculate your filter coefficients and use a bandpass for each frequency band then do the math in Javascript however it's slower, and more involved. Also, unless you're going to be using WAVs, there's going to be some overhead for the decoding of the sound. Also, the filter won't be very high order since you're going to be doing at least n*44100 operations per second (at the standard sampling rate). (Web Audio API filter nodes are only 2nd order but you can cascade them.) Do you have examples of the above working in Firefox? I'd be curious to see the implementation.
If you have an alarm that warns you only every 30 minutes, spend a little and get new alarms

A 30 minute interval is bad design, mine are like 30 seconds to 1 minute (been a while) plus they have a yellow LED when battery is low, red when dead or removed, and green when all systems go
Ask HN: When is something ready to be exposed to HN?
I am currently in the process of building a startup, and I am already taking pre-registration while the MVP is still under construction. Something that I am very curious about is when a startup is ready to be shown to the world of HN? Should the MVP already be released? Or can a simple preregistration/landing page suffice for a submission? What level of content would you prefer?
I wonder why most ORM's don't let you turn off lazy loads -- "only fetch when I ask for a fetch, if I try to access something without having asked you to fetch it first -- raise an exception!" Just as an option.

This would not be a particularly difficult feature for an ORM to implement.
The secondary effects of the bottle deposit plus curbside recycling are visible in my town, Portland Oregon. I know a homeless person who survives on can recycling and I see many other people doing the same work of pulling cans out of curb-side recycle bins and delivering them to supermarket recycle centers for cash. He works hard at it and while I'm not sure of the dollar amount, it appears to be a significant source of income.

Intentionally creating these secondary effects to increase the options for people to work outside of 'traditional employment' for even paltry sums has a lot of potential.
I was going to say not all Sierpinski pages, because I didn't expect to cover CGR with genomes. But it covers it! My version:
http://8iterations.in/cgr_hanako
When it's done.
dangerous waters.... so you are suggesting strolling about and collecting cans from trash as a viable way to live?
Keys to a $ pitch going viral (legal since 9/23): serialize, excerpt from...
many high-quality texts (e.g., authoritative books, timely journalism), be funny...

More, via Rule 34:

http://slidesha.re/1a49ZWS

Thoughts? Questions?

Best,
For real: when is the last time you saw an iAd?
the theoretical foundation for Higgs mechanism was first discovered by Jeffrey Goldstone from MIT:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambu-Goldstone_boson
this is a misleading title in particular because it applies to the maryland exchange's website and not, as a whole, to 'obamacare.'

regardless, how is this any different than any other website handing over information when a lawful request has been made? is there some expectation that exchanges are immune from these sorts of requests from law enforcement agencies?

similarly, is there any question that correspondence with a public agency can potentially be entered into a public record? this doesn't actually overturn doctor patient confidentiality (which would be worthy of a scary headline), it's just enumerating the same problems you likely already need to contend with when dealing with private insurance.
clickable: http://paymentrem.herokuapp.com
Thanks! We think it's an exciting space, and feel strongly that deep-linking is a good starting point to begin breaking down some of the silo's that exist between apps on our smartphones.

Is your friend anyone we would have heard of? If he's working on deeplinks, we'd love to get his feedback on our open-source project, Turnpike [1], which helps developers enable deeplinks in their apps.

[1] http://urxtech.github.io/turnpike-ios/
That quote made me feel sick to my stomach. I mean, I knew it had gotten that bad...I've been involved in Restore The Fourth organizing, and before that I've been paying close attention to all the previous leaks about the surveillance state. But, knowing it and seeing a judge state it outright is two very different things. It used to be under cover. It only happened in the darkness of secret documents and agencies. Now, it's come out into the light of day...and they're getting away with it. Not even getting away with it, really...they're wearing it proudly, as though they are the people in the right; they honestly believe they are the people who have nothing to hide or be ashamed of.

It's astonishing that more of our reps aren't standing up and shouting about this. So many of the people in power are complicit, it feels hopeless at times.
£109? Bit steep when it's $129!
That's just not true, and skirts the line of the being a deliberate lie. Fusion has occured in tokamaks, at an efficiency of 65%. ITER, as currently designed and being built, is expected to make a 10-fold return on energy input.

We are precisely at the position of "the math is all there" with regard to magnetic confinement. And so is the engineering and the funding (barely). It's going to happen, hopefully not before it's too late.
That was his point, the war on drugs creates violence and is not a deterrence.
As in the MVP or just the general concept, becuase I often see submissions which simply promote an upcoming product or service rather than display a final product itself.
To be fair, the 5250 is perfectly adequate in last year's Chromebook, and since this model has the same sized screen, it should be totally sufficient. It has pretty good battery life, and charges quite quickly.

Unless the 5420 has better battery life characteristics, I'm not sure if it's actually a better processor for the Chromebook.
It's not the 'net that they want to censor. It's your brain.
There are a few updates:

http://www.danisstory.org/

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/three-years-l...
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Looks like Google is reordering results for us. When I'm logged in, daemonology.net is the first result I get for [cryptography answers]; when I'm incognito, it's 3rd, after two crypto.stackexchange.com pages.
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Who knew that Yahoo was killing it in Japan?
They can't find Higgs, who won Nobel today for predicting hard-to-find particle.
Your words were "These are the guys who made a bad taste rape joke". But now you admit that is not true, and you are upset at their response to the histrionic reaction to the comic. You said something false about someone you don't like, by accident? Did you slip and hit the keyboard and that particular combination of characters was produced by pure co-incidence?
Why do horrible pieces like this end up on the front page? From the article:

"'Personal posture trainer' startup LumoBack released the results of a study today that examined 'Silicon Valley Syndrome,'...The results are shocking: 60 percent of participants reported that they have experienced adverse health effects as a result of technology."

So a company that did its own study found that their service would help 60% of people? Big surprise.

But there's more wrong with this. "60% of participants reported ... adverse health effects ... of technology." 60% out of how many? And does that mean that 40% of users reported no bad effects at all? I mean even if you don't feel back pain and posture problems, you probably get eye strain when looking too long at a screen from time to time. Of course, eye strain isn't a hugely debilitating problem, so counting it with more serious things is deceptive.

This is a terrible article.
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