skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before this update hits, please y'all techies out there- log as much network traffic as you can. Then update, then compare if you see SSL traffic that wasn't there before the update. Also compare the DNS requests before & after update. Oh, and UDP packets too. Basically, just record days worth of traffic, before and after, and upload it so people(like me?) with free time can search for anything suspicious.

EDIT: Okay, for Danieru's & verandaguy's replies to my comment[1], be sure to set in your wireshark filter "ip.addr == [IP of TV]" so we don't see anything random internet-folk are not suppose to see. That filter is traffic that is only coming from or going to the TV. Also Danieru, if your CC is flying around unencrypted in network traffic... something and/or someone has made a mistake elsewhere.

EDIT2: I'll also take this time to promote http://cloudshark.org/ , not because I have anything to do with the website. I just think it's super cool. You can upload a pcap file and it'll give you a unique url you can share with others.

EDIT3: It'd be cooler still if you could actually capture the firmware binary being downloaded to the TV!

1. http://i.imgur.com/OHJAPGH.png
Alternately, when you assume there's nothing preventing someone from doing something, that doesn't mean there's nothing preventing it. First rule of debugging should be to not walk in with a bunch of assumptions and jump to conclusions based on them.

Start following out the logic of your concluding sentence, and it leads to "groups of people are unsuccessful because they are lazy and/or stupid". Is that really a conclusion you expect to reach, or that sounds right to you? If not, then maybe your assumptions are flawed.
You missed the point of the article. Ultimately, the universe is unfair. No special insight, ability, breakthrough, or perseverance is sufficient to change that.
> in our country's cabinet

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/20120730-cabin...
Have a google image search for "coloidal silver". See the people who have turned themselves blue. permanently blue - it's not going to change.

People are stupid. This isn't a label on a chainsaw saying "don't lick the blade". This is reasonable regulation of a product being marketed as a medical product.
Sounds like they save the meetings for when you are there. When I worked remote for a few years I had a full day of meetings every Thursday. Remote or not, meetings are still meetings.
I honestly had no idea this was a phenomenon and I'm part of the demographic which is ostensibly supposed to be aware of these new nuances in texted language.

I have a very inconsistent typing style when on IM or IRC, but I've never really seen anyone respond differently because of subtle punctuation differences like adding or omitting periods from the end of a sentence.

I don't deny that this is a real occurrence, but it seems quite ridiculous. The "because [noun]" thing at least has practical use in conveying implicit meaning through brevity.
Since I figured someone else might like to use it, I added some comments and uploaded a copy to GitHub. Here you go: https://github.com/tsumnia/Visual-Basic-Street-Fighter
There's no advantage in selecting them "randomly", the resulting hash is always random. If there was a benefit in some sort of incrementing method, the entire system would be broken. They do some optimisation with the way the hash is calculated in some cases, but that's about it. The current processors are so fast that they can increment through the entire 32bit nonce space in under a second.
> UPS systems will stay active for a few minutes, based on their capacity, and the manager process will gracefuly shut down each daemon and write data to disk storage. This will ensure durability--even against power failure or system crash--while still maintaining in memory performance.

How does a UPS ensure durability against system or program crashes, disk corruption in large clusters, and other failures that can affect a simple write()?

> The real killer for database performance is synchronous transaction log writes. Even with the fastest underlying storage, this activity is the limiting factor for database write performance. InfiniSQL avoids this limiting factor while still retaining durability

How do you plan to implement this (since it appears it hasn't been implemented)? What is your fundamental insight about synchronous transaction logs that makes InifiSQL capable of being durable while (presumably) not having a synchronously written transaction log? If your answer is the UPS, please see my first question.

Edit: I don't see any mention of Paxos anywhere. Could you explain what you're using for consensus?
Solving the User Logout Bug on iOS 7
Hi sparkygoblue, author here, thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned in your edit, I tried to break every step into simple-to-follow pieces.

Def let me know if you have any other suggestions :)
Wow, that is strange. I must be old, but I sometimes interpret the exact opposite: a sentence without a period must have a twinge of... bitterness? sarcasm? lack of care?

It can seem very passive aggressive.
Why your character encoding is broken on your blog post?
You might find either of these helpful:

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4157/what-are-som...

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Execution Makes Ideas Valuable
I wouldn't but some would. I am more interested in my genetic lineage. To get a more accurate test like the one Angelina Jolie did would be a better option.
What Makes a Brand a Brand?
I've helped friends with this. The most important item is for patients to get copies of their MRIs and related records.

These are crucial for long term follow up.
>>> These are lessons learned over a decade of being a corporate consultant, a freelancer, a startup employee and a startup founder.

Great advice and something I can confirm. Worked at two smaller start ups and they loved the idea I could think outside the box and wouldn't be bothered by a fast moving, sometimes chaotic process.

Since then, I've been in the corporate world. First few interviews I was proud of the start up work I did. Didn't get either job. Was told by a recruiter to tone my start up stuff down and communicate that I'm a more of "team" player. Next interviewed with a fortune 500 corp. Played down my start up experience while highlighting some of my successes and focusing on the bigger "team" wins.

Used the same formula in the last two interviews with success as well at large corporations.
Since the field is new, it is not clear to me that the FDA has a set standard procedure to determine one thing or another, so it is possible that the FDA is requiring a higher level of review that may or may not be equivalent to what you experienced. It is also possible that 23andMe is being totally negligent.
What if those young white men are all working in companies that depend on VC capital to survive and thrive? And what if the VC investment decisions are also made by young white men?

That is the real Silicon Valley of today.
Compass lets startups benchmark their metrics
It seems that this will happen during the first or second quarter of 2014 at this rate of difficulty increase...
Don't take away my freedom to trust test results.
Well, if you went to Stanford and are able to bang together some spaghetti that only runs by pure coincidence, you're a rockstar.

If the only diploma you hold is from some backwoods high school, you've got a bit more to prove.
> How do you think 23andme should answer that question?

I don't know enough about 23andMe's operations and those of what appear from the outside to be generally similar services to answer that. Assuming that they really are an innovative service, they would need to conduct and provide the studies supporting the validity of their innovative service.
To do that the chip would have to be designed to have that feature already. Otherwise it's like looking at a bicycle and wishing you could repurpose it into being a plane. The structure is just not there to do that sort of modification.
Wow, this actually makes me pretty impressed with 23andme. Yeah, ok, maybe their analysis front-end is borked, but hell, the science seems pretty sound if he was able to get the "right" answer from the original sample.
i imagine n+1 is much faster than generating a large random number for each hash.

They probably generate a guid and then append a number and increment

Whats the advantage of using a new random number each time?
Computer uses images to teach itself common sense
Thank goodness there are thousands of people being paid to prevent me from spitting in a tube and getting noisy data about my own body! I should only be able to get data about my body after running a gauntlet of specialists with millions of dollars in total education, for my protection, of course.
For a hundred bucks, I'm quite pleased with the results I get. Of course if I was flagged for something serious I'd go to a doctor immediately to get it checked and verified.
Tesla: Fundamentally, One Of The Worst Stocks To Buy At The Current Price
Does the system notify party#2 that party#1 has entered their key and is awaiting further action?
Well, the GPUs and FPGAs are (and have been) easily reconfigured after decommission. ASICs, however, are inherently specific-use (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). So because of the requirements of the Bitcoin computation mentioned in my comment [0], repurposing of ASICs is not possible.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796189
I don't believe this is fair. I walk into the supermarket and consciously attempt not to eat the first crap I come across, and it costs me vastly more than if I just went and bought a 10KB tub of mayo and ate it with a soup ladle.
Repositories in that team are very interesting and provide the same implementation in various languages, from Scala to Lua:

https://github.com/docopt

Here's also the link to the website and demo video:

http://docopt.org/
Quantum Break uses 9-camera facial capture
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform&...

Hey look at that, car use more fuel when driving in the city. Who knew?

Same thing with oil, if you drive on the highway you don't have to change it that often.

Brakes, in the city you stop much more often requiring more frequent brake changes (braking also happens to wear out your tires faster)

Every time you step on the gas you're applying force to metal, this means things more twisting force slowly fatiguing the metal.

Transmission, every time you shift you wear out the clutch a little.

Idling is also hell on your engine, you idle far more in the city than on the highway.
"then I guess it's gratifying enough people's intellectual curiosity"

Taking into account (see my comment "four guesses") the question is would this happen if:

1) Written by a Dental Hygienist at SUNY Binghamton?

2) Published under a community college domain?

3) No link to big money.

4) Place it happened was in a suburb of Cincinnati Oh?
You're correct. I should have limited myself to saying that at least there are stereotypes (and a few key public role-models) of well-adjusted, successful Asian and Indian entrepreneurs.

The point I was trying to make, staying with the spirit of the article, was that these stereotypes and the reality we see influence each other to a much greater degree than we often dare to admit.
The Facebook token isn't an issue, that is how Facebook authorization works.

Recording single player games and then sending them to other users to work as fake real time multiplayer games seems like a very clever move and is probably the reason this game is doing so well. Not that I have heard of it before this post, though. It's a good hack that capitalizes on the way a quiz game works and doesn't have any real differences to true real time multiplayer except for the likely lack of real time messaging. The same could be done for any game in which people compete yet do not directly influence each other.

The benefits are very clear: reduced matchmaking times, eliminates latency issues, eliminates signal loss issues. All of these are major hurdles to multiplayer cellphone gaming, so I don't doubt that this game would be pretty successful because of it.

Sending users data to other users without permission like that feels like it should definitely be a punishable offense, but then the legal system doesn't work on logic so who knows.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Merely 15 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792505
For most people, not having any symptoms is the (possibly false) negative that prevents them from scheduling a doctor visit. Seeing a catalog of 10000 potential risk factors that I don't have and didn't even know about isn't likely to change that. If I have flu-like symptoms, knowing that I don't have any additional risk factors for lupus won't keep me from seeking treatment for my flu-like symptoms, because I could just have the flu.
You call him delusional yet offer not one bit of real evidence.
Sadly, this article has already been kicked off the HN frontpage by the "flamewar" filter, and the comments here (including from HN's illustrious founder, Paul Graham) illustrate just how resistant tech types are to the mere suggestion that factors beyond individual gumption play into their successes.
Le sigh. "Regrets concerns the reports may have caused" but yanno, not the oops, privacy didn't matter to us. LG: The place where customers are still numbers and lawyers get to write the press releases?
The context might change when using proper capitalization. A sentence that changes one convention might change another.

A counter-example are the McDonalds billboards that have shown up over the last year. They don't use capitalization, but still end with periods.
Google Support is unbelievably awful - anyone got any sugggestions?
It's a shame that love and compassion has indeed left both the liberal arts educations as well as the worlds of business and entrepreneurship. But fear not, there is a coming Romantic Renaissance! Once again our children will turn to poetry, the arts and the love and celebration of their neighbors!

The danger isn't in rationalism, or in relativism, or in whatever weird and distorted man-made system of thought is de rigueur.

The danger is that the love of every man leaves our hearts and souls.

All systems of thought are ultimately erroneous because they must have been made by a single subjective vantage point. The truth comes from without, not from within.

This is the message in all great and lasting art. I dare you to find me a great song or a great poem where the messages of eternal and unending love for our brothers and sisters are not at the root of their creation!

I'd quote some poetry here, but I'm afraid the lot of your are quite illiterate! I apologize to those who do have a love of letters, but hopefully you'll grant me the license to call out this forum of philistines!

Art wins! Love is real!
Comments here currently call this strange. I personally thought this was common knowledge, and it's not a new thing, either. I own a large video game IRC community and we've used periods for this purpose as long as I can remember (since ~2001? it's a bit fuzzy...) "fine." is about as passive-aggressive as it gets. TFA is spot on about line breaks being the new periods, as well.

It's also a bit odd when people use capitalization beyond "I"--one of the best ways to tell newer users from older users.

I feel so weird dropping by, say, freenode, where the customs are so different.

(EDIT: Since people here are mentioning age, for the record, I am soon to be 26)
The reason you are being downvoted to oblivion (as you should be) is that your entire argument is a red herring.

Whether the author continues to use Google services is utterly and completely irrelevant. The point of contention here is the sleazy way Google re-activates a service for them after they have explicitly disabled it. If your answer to this dilemma is to stop using Google services altogether, then I'm sorry but you just lost all credibility and will not be taken seriously.
Back from a 30 year hiatus, M.U.L.E. has returned.
Schmitz is a deeply unpleasant man. It takes a fair amount of effort to make him look like a good guy, but it looks like the MPAA and the FBI are putting the hours in.
Timelapse camera using Raspberry Pi and a coffee tin
Penny Arcade have been running a public information campaign on punctuation for a few years now...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07

(and http://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/results/search&keywords=... )
It reminds of JS-based spellcheckers that plagued many web apps in late 90s. This kind of stuff simply cannot be implemented properly without browser integration. What if I am using a Latin-base language that is not English?

Besides, auto-complete should be explicitly accepted, not showed into the box after some unrelated keystrokes. If I type "h", pressing backspace should delete what I just typed, not "ave".
How are you going to punish fake calls if you established that you can't determine them. I agree on the last sentence.
I guess this is why class actions are sometimes good. Even though the lawyers are the one that enrich themselves, atleast the company suffers the monetary cost so that it will think twice before repeating such shenanigans.
Pico-ITX hacker board runs Linux on Allwinner A20
Probably nothing. Even if you could tell someone the exact instant in time they would die, it's bad news, so they'd deny it up until that time. People with chronic disease know they're going to die because the disease makes their body work incorrectly, which is easy to notice and be depressed about.
An in-memory RDBMS hardly seems to be "infinitely scalable". How would this work with DBs in the terabyte size or larger?
That doesn't surprise me. I hear automobiles also have short lives in Japan, for similar regulatory reasons.
It's a mutation of the HTML's DNA
DotMobi extends goMobi partner network to designers and developers
Now consider that this is a marketing message that wants to have it both ways: it alerts clients to genetic "risks", which are very likely to be subjected to secondary testing, but does not want to be liable for the accuracy of its negative results, which are very unlikely to be challenged.

It would be better if 23AM presented medical genomic information in a neutral way, with external links to descriptions of genomic variations but no assertion of diagnostic significance at all, or even a mention of how to obtain a diagnostically significant result.

Unfortunately, the way 23AM is packaged (see the website), they are incentivized to do the opposite; positive results are recognized by their clients as valuable, and, whether 23AM likes it or not, so are the negative results.
cmd + option + i always worked for me on mac. never tried J.
TX Text Control X10 Released - Reporting and Right-to-Left Support
Hmmm. Regarding the "relative profit" of small scale mining: There must be some gain in efficiency to moving to these largescale mining systems. Or everyone would just make lots of the small scale systems, right?
Visual story about a Zebra (d3.js)
Visual story telling can help a lot to understand data. Did you know that zebras are moving a lot in the night?
Oops didn't realize.. Thanks for pointing that out
This just increases your risk of a complication. If you have a disease with no symptoms, it's probably not time to try and treat it. Treatment has risks, after all. (Think about all the people that have some minor problem, get minor surgery, and then pick up MRSA in the hospital while they're recovering. Now they have a major problem.)
Hacking My Productivity - Experiment #1
About 5 years ago I suffered a concussion from a motorcycle accident (I had a helmet, only thing that saved me).

All my friends said it took me almost 2 years before I was back to "my old self". It was weird experiencing it firsthand as well. My last memories of the accident was planting my left hand on the pavement trying to save the fall. Thankfully my nice Held gloves have tacks on the palm so it wasn't a big deal but the next memory I had was waking up with a cat on my chest staring right at me in my buddies girlfriends house.

I think the cat wanted to eat me, those eyes /shudder. Anyway, PSA is always wear a helmet, that and hip armor, wear lots of that, I walked like an old man for a month. But for a few years after that accident I basically felt a fog in my brain.

I really don't like the idea of sports like football after that where people pile on concussions. I just don't see how it could be a thing that couldn't be detrimental.
Of course this is a technology shortcoming. It doesn't mean that targeted ads are inferior, they are just not perfect.

The idea is that you get targeted ads for things you are looking for. Not always the recommendation is perfect, that is bad for you, Google, Publishers and Advertisers. If you can fix that you might be into something big.
I don't know any married couples that live apart, but I know at least one very long relationship that broke up because people with two specialized jobs couldn't make their careers work in the same city.

But yeah, the constant tension compromising one person's career or living apart for substantial periods of time. This is especially true as competition becomes more national. 10 years ago I would've said that someone from Pennsylvania would be crazy to go to Stanford over CMU or Penn, assuming they wanted to work on the east coast. But today I probably wouldn't say that.
Woah - bold plan Mr. Mega.Com:

>Dotcom will launch Baboom! next year... It aims to directly reward artists by paying them when users listen to the songs for free. The price for downloading free music is that users install the "MegaKey", a piece of software which strips out embedded online advertisements in favour of those sold by Dotcom.
Toy Company Sues Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin Over 'Girls' Parody Commercial
They can tie all this stuff together all they want -- it doesn't really matter to me. I use GMail and that's about it. I was on G+ for a bit - it's interesting - but I have too much time invested in Facebook to switch.

So, go ahead, change the ToS, Google. Things being what they are, I can still get thru the day without the pain of switching.
I agree. It's more distracting than it is helpful, perhaps even just allowing more to be visible at a time.
Haplo-text mark-up language.
I guess that all depends on when Amazon starts accepting bitcoins...
Check which of their services are enabled in apps for domains.
Enable anything you believe to be relevant to what causes the errors.
NSA launches free cloud backup service
I'd never want to get my DNA tested by a service like this. It may be cool, but there's too many things at play here.

- privacy
- security of data
- wrongful use of data
- spread of misinformation
- mind fucking that ensues after reading your results
- probably a lot more

The only benefit is for those who are so curious about what genes they carry, what mutations they have, and who they may or may not be related to. Really, why risk having your mind potentially fucked by knowing something about yourself that you're not ready to handle yet?

Sorry if I seem overly critical about a service like this, but it just doesn't seem worth it to me.
I think it is silly how every new feature or slight bug introduced by Google is viewed from negative standpoint. I guess Google is new Misro$oft.

But really, I wonder how many of those things are really to increase number of G+ users (I suspect quite a few), and how many are simple setting resets because of a bug/move to a new system with different setting encoding.
Actually the encoding is UTF-8 but the server is not telling clients, so clients are often guessing it is something like Windows-1252.
> Not that I have heard of it before this post, though.

Tetris Friends does this for their multiplayer games[1][2]. When you "play against people", what you're really doing is playing against their replays. It's quite clever, and it had me fooled for a while while I was still in college.

[1]: http://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1434
[2]: http://www.destructoid.com/tetris-friends-has-instant-six-pe...