skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered this, perhaps ironically, while attempting to deactivate my long unused Facebook account.

I was able to log in using my credentials (which I store in a keepass database), but since the account had been inactive for so long (I guess?) this was insufficient. After successfully providing my username and passphrase, I was prompted with a security question, the answer to which I did not recall (I had created the account many years ago).

The only remedy, according to Facebook support, was to provide a scan of a government ID (via email, of course). Nevermind that I knew the password. Nevermind that I had access to the email address associated with the account.

I told them I was unwilling to provide this, and they told me I was out of luck. I decided that leaving a phantom, inactive FB account in the wild was better than providing these people with what they wanted, and got on with my life.

After several weeks, I for some reason decided to try again - and at that time all I needed was my passphrase. Why? Who knows. Maybe it was my lucky day.

I don't really know what the takeaway should be, but my personal lesson is that I should probably also store secret questions and answers in a password database, since apparently some services deem them to be required even when I have the passphrase.
I love Weebly for quick and dirty sites that I can hand off to a non-techie to fill in the content.

For example: http://mhsp75th.weebly.com

It's very fast to get something decent looking that has forms (and easy access to the data) and payments and layouts for desktop and mobile.
Do you not understand what "digital" means? The kids microscope is the lens, not the image recorder. If you set up an attachment to hold your smartphone in front of the viewpiece, then anything that your eye can see can be digitized.
I read that title as "Furry" at Facebook. I guess I need to put on a second pot of coffee.
The only reason I'd wear a watch is to have something to look at impatiently. Smartwatches are about to ruin this.

When you look at your smartphone impatiently, you could be looking at anything -- because it can do almost anything. Watches have until now been about one thing: timekeeping. And looking at your watch is (was?) a recognizable social cue.
They do appear to have gotten his key.

https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN4...

144k Bitcoins, transferred in 324 ("FBI" on a phone) BTC increments. Presumably, they got it via either a plea deal or by finding it on one of his devices.
Javascript is reliably second or third place to all of those mentioned, so it trumps.

Worse is better, sorry.
The dependency management issues that come with distributing interpreted source like Ruby are superset of the issues that come with binary distribution.

That's not to say that binary distributions can't also have dependency nightmares.
I can almost guarantee you that with this domain (getinch.com), and phrases like "human touch", "love your crm","highrise", "kept playing with my" you won't get past a lot of spam filters :)
Maybe an app to diagnose malign melanoma Galaxy Zoo-style? :-)
For those that haven't seen or read Paul Graham's bit on ongoing diagnosis: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html (#7)

Or if you prefer to watch it from 2012's PyCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI#t=1587
> I need to be aware of any name changes of him

You don't.

You have a contract with the person currently calling themselves John Doe. When they call themselves Jo Doe and then Jack Bob and then etc it's still the same person.

Currently in England you're allowed to call youself what you want, so long as you don't have the intention to deceive. In practice, 'deed poll' or marriage certificate are handy if you want people such as banks or doctors or airlines to actually use your new name.
Yes, of course it is a red herring! OP's rage was against the JS community taking it as an excuse for shity implementation, that's all I was trying to clarify...
Cell phones and other contraband may be prohibited, but they still exist in prisons.

State prison records show that for the first seven months of
this year, corrections officers have seized 319 cell phones
from inmates [in Ohio's] 28 prisons.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/08/ohio_prison...
JavaScript is hospitable enough that you see entire applications written in a functional style. Where is the Python and Ruby applications written mostly in a functional style? I've never seen any.
Thanks for the note about the picture. I knew it didn't look like any remotely recent screen in Epic. I worked for Epic for a couple years circa 2008, and even then it would have looked outdated. Also, at least in Epic, I know there's a huge focus on usability. That doesn't mean they always succeed, but it's not for lack of trying.
The reality is far from what you say. What they give is nothing in that economy. Many people just spend that money in 2 days. What Argentina did is just print money without limits and offer many credit lines to anyone with possibilities. That's ok, but to a certain level, when you hide the real value of your coin you're losing investment from outside. Who will invest in Argentina when the money isn't on the real price?
We are actually only on the cusp of intelligence. The very first things to emerge from evolution capable of building a technological civilization. If it were possible for chimpanzee brains to build a technological civilization, we would be having this conversation at an even lower level of intelligence. The brain was designed by evolution, a very stupid and slow process. We are the result of iteratively improving what worked good at controlling locomotion in fish. Certainly we can make improvements, certainly we can do better.

The fact that the human brain is limited to fitting through the birth canal is a great example. With c-sections that isn't particularly relevant, and computers/AI aren't limited in size or energy requirements at all (or at least not anywhere near the same constraints that humans have.) So imagine if brains that constraint was removed and you made brains dozens, hundreds, or even millions of times larger.

You could build a computer the size of a planet, though it would require a ridiculous amount of technological ability. The energy of a star doesn't mean literally as hot as a star, but something like thousands of solar panels to efficiently collect as much of the energy as possible for powering the enormous computer. It was just an example of what the limits of technology might be.
This does feel a bit weird - short-term rental of petting animals? I'm worried about mishandling, animal cruelty and the whole concept - pets form an attachment with you, doing it as a short-term rental isn't an acceptable way of building a relationship...
Maybe this comment was meant to be sarcastic, but the version number is not an indication of progress as it was with prior development. When Chrome went all nutty with frequent new version numbers, Mozilla followed suit.
With All of their effort shifted to Firefox OS. Dont expect much improvement with Desktop Firefox in the short run.
> It would be awesome if there was a lisp that could compile directly to LLVM using native objectiveC libraries on iOS.

You might be interested in http://programming.nu/
Someone spent $1 million worth of bitcoins for mining gear
I found two non-torrent-related Android apps called "Transdroid" and one called "Transdrone". Is that the one you use?
Unsurprisingly, wieners are called frankfurters in Wien (Vienna).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener_W%C3%BCrstchen
It may not be the writing on the wall, since running a docker PaaS will be a useful way to understand ... what problems you encounter while running a docker PaaS.

But we'll see, I guess.
I was at their presentation earlier today. Maybe not a big thing, but I liked their conclusion. they demonstrated a mitm-proxy that gave 301s so that ignorant native apps loaded and cached external trusted resources. They also mentioned using malicious iphone profiles with new certificates or configured proxy. Demoed also using faked captive network, maybe also with pineapple/wifigate

Thy also claimed many apps had this vulnerability. They also said it was easy to fix. Think about caching in native clients, and ignore 301s in native apps. They didn't mention 302s

More info here http://www.skycure.com/blog/http-request-hijacking/
I am talking about the rest of them. In particular, the most useful ones: date, time, datetime(-local), hell even number is useful and forever missing in firefox.
How Video Games Are Getting Inside Your Head — And Wallet
> I'd guess more people get a nice 9-5 job with a good salary vs a startup job with a lot of pressure.

NYC financial jobs are not 9-5 or without a lot of pressure.

For any job that you're likely to get in your 20s, NYC finance jobs pay worse, have far longer hours, and are much more high-pressure.

Beyond your 20s, it varies greatly by level of seniority, so it gets tougher to compare, but the high-paying jobs still require very long hours.
> We don't carry on commerce with chimps or dolphins and they are obviously much closer to us than any alien would be.

It's a little odd to compare non-technological species with those capable of interstellar travel. We don't do commerce with chimps/dolphins because they don't have anything of value to us (at least, not that we can't just take ourselves w/force).

Plus, encountering aliens isn't the same thing as encountering aliens we'd trade stuff with. You never mentioned that qualifier until the follow-up.
> how does this happen?

It's called the new oligarchy.
How is this any different from an iterator in Java? IIRC, if you have the iterator of a Collection and add elements to it during iteration, the results are undefined. You can, however, safely remove elements even while iterating.
because firefox needs some love
I agree. It's the first thing I thought when I read it.

This is a stunningly huge point of failure with a very high probability that any one patient will either: forget their phone, break their phone, not have a phone, have the wrong phone, have no charge on their phone, not know how to use their phone, have an out-dated phone, etc. I think you get the idea.
A mixture of cultural norms and legal norms. As to cultural norms, I'll give an example. Go to a Starbucks and note how people don't crowd around the bar area where the drinks come out. People will stand in a wide circle around the bar, because nobody wants people to think that they're not waiting their turn. This attitude is indoctrinated from elementary school, where teachers chastise kids for cutting in line or not "playing fair." That same attitude inhibits corruption. Taking a bribe isn't "playing fair." It's shameful and socially ostracized in a way that it isn't in India or Bangladesh (my family is Bengali). In India, everyone will crowd around the bar because appearing like you're "looking out for yourself first" is much more socially acceptable.

As for legal norms: bribery and kickbacks are prosecuted strongly in the U.S. The federal government being separate from the state governments means that federal prosecutors have no inhibitions about going after state and local government officials. Moreover, low-level things like bribery are easy to prosecute because it's easy to prove that money changed hands.
For reference the author is Bob Nystrom: http://www.stuffwithstuff.com/bob-nystrom.html , user 'munificent' on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=munificent not that it should matter who he is.

Since I'm talking about him I'll say I think his Game Programming Patterns book is great: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com
This is a misinterpretation of what they are saying. Firefox has a "Reset Firefox" feature that will reset many of the settings within Firefox that may be causing a poor browsing experience.

Previously, when the "Reset Firefox" feature was used, all of your open tabs would get lost in the shuffle. This has now been fixed, and you won't lose your open tabs and current browsing session when Firefox restarts with a fresh and clean profile.
Why on earth would BTC collapse 10x after the SR shutdown? If anything, it'd drive the value up as a significant portion of the money supply just evaporated.
Right and ClojureScript, for example, has full goroutines in it (i.e. core.async) if doing standard callback based async in JS isn't your thing.

Functionally, it makes little to no difference whether you're writing something that compiles down to JS or writing something that compiles down to its own runtime (assuming you turn source maps on your browser).
Same here. 202 books, going back to 1998. Only 5 are eligible. :(
It's still somewhat false though, from that wikipedia link:

> Here is where President Kennedy announced, Ich bin ein Berliner, and thereby amused the city's populace because in the local parlance a Berliner is a doughnut.

and

> What they did not know, but could easily have found out, was that such citizens never refer to themselves as 'Berliners.'

In Berlin itself, a Berliner is actually called "Pfannkuchen", so while it might have amused other Germans, that wouldn't apply to citizens of Berlin themselves, which do in fact call themselves "Berliner".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut)

> While called Berliner (Ballen) in Northern and Western Germany as well as in Switzerland, the Berliners themselves and residents of Brandenburg, Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony know them as Pfannkuchen, which in the rest of Germany generally means pancakes; pancakes are known there as Eierkuchen ("egg cakes").
Hmm, well hopefully just one of many steps and not "that's all it takes".

I'm no FB fan, but if they are using friends pictures as a CAPTCHA to verify the authenticator is a human not a automated computer, I grudgingly tip my hat in respect toward them. That would be much more elegant than the usual lame CAPTCHA.

This strikes me as it may become more of a problem as kids abandon FB and older people use it. The kid I sat next to in middle school lunchroom back when Reagan was president, and I clicked "yes" on his friend request out of guilt, well, I have no idea what the heck he looks like now. Ex-girlfriends? Well, I remember really well how she looked when she was 19, but that was a long time ago, and...
Hi, I don't think there's a Latin-America wide answer to that unfortunately.

Here in Uruguay, the most popular method for payments is through a nationwide payments network, the two biggest being Abitab and RedPagos:

"Abitab and Red Pagos, channel some 49% transactions of the retail payment system, with credit cards (39%) and cheques
(9%)"

https://twitter.com/marslombas/status/302521188939358209

The local Groupon clone, wOOw (www.woow.com.uy , which vastly outperforms Groupon here) uses mainly Abitab, as well as credit cards, with the important distinction of accepting locally issued credit cards which do not exist outside of Uruguay or Argentina.

In Argentina there exist similar payment networks (RapiPago and PagoFacil I think)

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapipago

I'm not sure what the situation is in Brazil or Chile (I think they have ServiPag) or the rest of the Latin American countries.

There must be services to integrate with those payment methods easily, here in Uruguay we have CobrosYa

https://www.cobrosya.com/sitio/

It seems very primitive and it introduces a huge friction, especially for impulse purchases like apps.

Apple buyers here in Uruguay are usually wealthy and do have credit cards. The problem is Android users (the vast majority), which don't have a culture of paying for apps (and most have the attitude of just looking for the free equivalent).

I investigated starting a micropayments platform based on the cell phone, but I gave up due to the extreme complexity involved, but there's certainly a lot of opportunities to disrupt - and some are doing it like former coworkers who started Paganza:

http://www.paganza.com
I looked into Stripe's API a while back for a project. It can't be easier. Give it a try.
Yeah, session probably means tabs open, etc.
Reverse it: If you've already purchased a softcopy, why does a hardcopy cost anything?

Because the hardcopy has intrinsic value? So your position is essentially that a softcopy has no intrinsic value, which is very arguable.
Pretty sure they just meant the web design. Not the application.
That's also a way to look at it. But also consider that if there was significant demand in BTC just to spend on Silk Road, it would go away after SR is gone.
I'm getting the full version download. It might just be location (UK) or maybe random. I don't know.

Edit: It's probably just that I'm using Linux.
Wasn't there supposed to be a new UI with this release? When you Google "firefox new ui", the headlines all point to 25 having that. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/05/mozilla-is-planning...
Wait, what? I hadn't heard about that. Whatfuck?
We condemn anyone that stores passwords as plaintext. Time to treat access tokens as nothing less than a password.
Thanks for the comment. We'd be eager to know what you guys think about the app, feel free to drop us a line.
This has been my experience as well. Dealing with the carrier over it was awful, but going to an Apple store saw me given me a new phone there and then (and I was out of warranty). Obviously it's dependent on the problem (1st: case cracked, 2nd: lock button failure) but I've always found them to be very helpful when dealing with failures.
I'm a bit concerned about the "indefinite length" stuff for arrays, buffers, and strings.

That seems like something that's going to come back and byte us.
Update: Fixed a bunch of bugs in the encoder and have a working decoder as well. Still no tagging, but you can encode/decode pretty much anything you could with a naive JSON implementation.
In a recent thread on reddit, a former inmate listed what was issued in county/state/federal, and paper with a pencil or a pen with a rubber body was in all of them.
They might as well have been speaking Aramaic.

Someone named YHWH should probably be able to understand Aramaic! :)
There's even this (awesome) guide on optimizing video to gif conversion with ffmpeg and ImageMagick: http://blog.room208.org/post/48793543478

The file size reduction was quite impressive for our use case (roughly 10x smaller.)

In the end we did decide that while putting 5 second video intros in emails is cool, a 200k image is still a bit much for mobile users.
Ask HN: Would you pay to get daily, weather-focused clothing recommendations?
Would you use it if it were free?
> .... I live in Canada, where we have very little to no
> corruption...

Or it could be that Canadians rarely hear about corruption, and think that everything is fine. As the saying goes: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/revenue-canada-corrup...
I disagree strongly w.r.t. Python as anonymous lambdas are heavily restricted there. I disagree less strongly but also somewhat insistently about Ruby where the distinction between methods and functions is warranted but thus involves more overhead.
Chrome is better.
May I suggest:
[mobile] yes
[mobile] no
In fairness, the concepts of money and ownership could also be argued to the products of a social contract, and that the inability to beat someone over the head and take their stuff is an abridgment of freedom.
Cool, I'm gonna write an extension that removes ads from your page, and encourage people to use it when using your site...

I don't know why people do this... Google provides Gmail and other services free of charge because of Adsense, don't ruin that by facilitating the removal of their ads...

Here's a great trade off, don't want to see ads in your email? Don't use Gmail.

This is why we can't have nice things.
I get the same impression. I have worked at startups in SF/SV and recently relocated to NYC. Even if you look at job posts in both cities/areas. The SF tech scene is much more vibrant, the startups cover a broader range of sectors and interesting problems, and VC money is easier to find, i think, in SF than in NYC. NYC is definitely 2nd, but it's still quite a ways away from the SF/SV area. I also observe that there are riskier startups in SF/SV than NYC and as a CS researcher, I think the SF/SV area has much more interesting positions and opportunities. For example, Nanosatisfi is launching mini satellites into orbit. I don't think you'd find something like that in NYC.
Is there any good real-time AV for desktop linux available?
New 'mini-neural computer' discovered in brain
It seems unlikely this would be generalizable in much of a useful way. "We conjecture that this phenomenon is universal for a class of complex dynamical systems and discuss implications." the paper says, I'd like to see more on why they think it's reasonable to conjecture that.
At work I'm required to use a locked-down Windows 7 machine, which has antivirus software I can't disable. (I would disable it if I could.)

At home I use Linux and do not use antivirus software.

I also always log in as root. I like to live dangerously. :)
Entitlement and true idiocy. It was so entertaining to read because the author is moaning and bitching about using an experimental feature. Great candidate for being an IE6 advocate.
That might very well work, but part of the problem would be the content others generate about you. Pictures and video of you, mentions of where you have been and so on.
Sigh Yes about those three.. But really, I just used those three as immediate illustrations and they are by no means the only ones doing this! And I am really not interested in offering a big list of all the software on my PC, that all do this online thingy, but are not similarly reliable as those three.

>> let's say you want to load it up, [snip] but without contaminating your normal environment.

Add-ons don't necessarily survive every upgrade, and take some time to catch up with the new release. Many people that I know, (in the family and outside) would rather wait on a new release than have one of their add-on break on them.

So, whatever way you put it, I am firm in my statement, that an offline installer should be a de-facto proviso, rather than being buried somewhere else.
Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Google
> phones aren't expensive

A new smartphone in the US is $600-800 off contract.

In my own experience: that puts it in line with (A) my car which I purchased and titled for $500 last year, and (B) my workstation which cost $1200 without peripherals.

Both my car and workstation are, unsurprisingly, modular systems that can be useful for years or even decades with proper care.

My retired work-station is still in use as a file-server, and that machine is 8 years old. My car is 300,000 miles young without a single major mechanical fault.

---

So from where I'm standing: $600 is a rather sizable chunk of change that I'd much rather spend on a system that's _not designed to be disposable._

I can't even find a current-gen smartphone that I'm remotely interested in purchasing. The "smaller and lighter" you speak is not so much _smaller_ but _thinner._

I don't need, or even desire a 1080p screen on my phone; despite being interested in other current gen components like the latest round of cameras.

You can't make the physical package and smaller than the _gigantic displays_ these phones are being equipped with. I would sooner part with $600 for an iPhone 4S-sized "endo skeleton" with current gen "RAM and CPU modules" and a slightly smaller battery. A tradeoff that's possible when you're dealing with modules... but a financial disaster when you're trying to design a mass-market phone to compete with the Android flagships.
"No one has to, I just like to learn something by solving problems, even when those problems are not mine."

I liked your answer, but its not a "facebook problem" its a problem for anyone on the internet who has users log into accounts. Probably a large fraction of HN is directly or tangentially involved with that problem.