skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auto manufacturers do the same thing. Stop giving me a button to talk to your shitty computer and have it be a bluetooth command action for Siri or Google Now.

My phone is smarter than you.
I've had to think hard before replying to this. I don't think that's fair at all. I would agree that the Chinese put a premium on loyalty, and don't have as much of a culture of open expressions of affection, but that's mostly a matter of appearance and I've seen it break down many times. I'm not down voting you, because I can see how you might think that and in the general for all I know it might even be true, but it doesn't fit with my experiences of my own Chinese family.
>The major flaw there is that most americans will never want a visa anyway, so it ends up being a largely invisible protest on the part of the other countries.

Most Americans don't even have passports! [1]

By punishing the tiny fraction of Americans visiting Brazil or China, these countries are simply shooting themselves in the foot.

It's a mostly invisible protest - and the only people witnessing said protest are the ones who already like you.

[1] http://andrewhy.de/percent-of-americans-with-passports/
All this reminds me of Paul Heckbert's ray tracer written on the back of his business card:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/src/minray/minray.card.c
Was there any further evidence of this? I remember a lot of speculation at the time of Hasting's death, but I never saw anything conclusive.
The only thing I can say is degrade gracefully as possible.

I am completely unwilling to unblock a sites main items (noscript user) unless there is a pressing need for their content, and there rarely is. (Also, his content works fine with noscript on. I dont get why ghostery would want to inject more content into a site, that does seem a bit ridiculous.)

However, I dont blame the person who makes the site, we just have different priorities.
I'm curious to know what the plans are to keep driving revenue. Obviously very impressive numbers, but it looks like YoY top line growth looks slow: less than 100% [$116->$200M+]. It leaves one scratching their head as to how Dropbox gets to something like $1B/year under its current business model and later justify something like a 20B public market cap. That would take a something billion users with roughly the same conversion rate. They would need the same base of users as Facebook, but with a huge percentage of them actually paying money, while facing intense competition by players who demonstrate they are willing to lose billions of dollars a year to compete in new markets.

One obvious answer is Dropbox for businesses, but it remains to be seen how well they actually compete in that space. Fined tunes permissions/controls. Integrations. Enterprisey things. They all become more necessary at higher price points. I wonder if Box is in a position to improve their existing sync client faster than Dropbox is to add all those features/controls yet keep their core simplicity.
Remember that the guy working the border post for the train from Montreal to New York is fairly unlikely to be particularly well traveled, and I'd imagine the vast majority of people they meet fit into a very small category of tourists and Canadians. A border officer working in LAX will have seen far more international travelers. Suspicion of Singapore and Malaysia as a whole doesn't really hold up when you get 500 people a day arriving from there.
Solr is pretty good stuff, but I've had a bit more luck clustering and scaling elasticsearch horizontally with many hundreds of terabytes of data. From what I've read however, the newer solr versions took a lot of ideas from Elasticsearch and they are somewhat comparable at the moment.
Oddly that mania lasted less than 12 months. Bitcoin has been on the rise for years, is used for more than decoration and won't rot...
Called it =P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6704338
And?

I don't mean that in a flippant way. I'm curious about what this huge number of shares equates to in real terms. Beyond the amorphous "SEO link juice", how does it translate into sales? Additional "onboarded" users? Increases in revenue? Anything that would count as measurable traction? There is a tangible difference between highly sharable content and highly effective content. If you're trying to make a difference to your bottom line, effective is better. Although, of course, sharable and effective is better still.
Personally, I use the Dashboard clipping tool in Safari, I don't quite see what this adds.
I believe you get the same effect by doing the following,

stackoverflow: fast string search algorithm
Others have mentioned NoScript. I find that when NoScript particularly bombs is when the referenced JavaScript domains themselves reference 3rd party domains. I am not update on how JavaScript is dynamically loaded but this is what I have pieced together.

For example, suppose you are using NoScript to view www.somedomain.com. You check the NoScript menu to find and enable www.somedomain.com, www.somedomaincdn.com, and youtube.com. But suppose whatever youtube.com scripting is done, in turn, relies on say www.youtubecdn.com. You are not going to see this "3rd party domain" on the NoScript menu.

I have found by trial and error, mostly just visiting the "2nd party" domains and looking at their dependencies, I can often tell a site owner how to make their site work with NoScript. Basically they just need a reference to the indirect dependency, even though it isn't needed per se.

Hope this helps someone out there!
MeteorJS: Do not use the Session for every tiny little job
The post was part analysis, part opinion. The analysis was spot-on, but the opinion seems to be based on a faulty understanding of web tracking.
Will the use the funds raised to finally optimize their CPU-hungry client, so that it doesn't cut my battery life by 30%?

I'm worried about Dropbox. Worried that they concentrate on adding features (photo syncing?) instead of caring about their loyal paying business customers, who mostly want the software to Just Work and Work Well.
I have a Samsung "Smart TV" and fortunately as their frontend is a piece of shit I never use their "smart" features.

Unfortunately for me my cable and internet provider (Bell Canada) has decided to start tracking usage habits to target ads:

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/bell-to-start-tracking-customers-...
You seem to be saying: enjoy it for what it appears to be, exclude the actual purpose of the ad.
Back online :)
This is really neat, but I am very wary of building kernel modules with garbage collected languages especially ones like Haskell, which can has very difficult to reason about runtime characteristics due to laziness.

One approach that I find much more promising is using Haskell (or other robust and semantically easy to reason about and easy to verify languages) to generate C code which then can be used with normal toolchains for low-level development. Galois is doing a lot of work in this area that looks very promising. One of their projects is an autopilot system called SMACCMPilot[0] that uses a Haskell eDSL called Ivory[1] to generate safe C code. I am particularly excited about its integration with FreeRTOS tasks using the Tower Language[2] (another Haskell eDSL).

This makes it possible to generate code that can be reasoned about with Haskell but has the runtime characteristics of C. This is particularly interesting because embedded systems code is notoriously non-composable and difficult to reason about due to the enormous shared state of the hardware itself and the highly concurrent nature of interrupt-driven design. Embedded C makes a good target for this sort of design and analysis though, because it has very constrained memory usage (developers typically eschew dynamic allocation), very subtle potential issues (debugging race conditions with LEDs sucks), and very serious consequences for errors[3].

[0]http://smaccmpilot.org/index.html

[1]http://smaccmpilot.org/languages/ivory-introduction.html

[2]http://smaccmpilot.org/languages/tower-overview.html

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
That doesn't refer to any intent on Google's side.
This is only true because people fail to vote (or even pay attention) in the primaries

... which is only true because they don't really care who the candidate is as long as they have the R or D after their name.

More than most people want to think about problems and their solutions, they want to feel like they belong to a family, a tribe, a team, or an organized religion.
Besides sharing files (for which Dropbox is great), I am increasingly symlinking folders to subfolders in my Dropbox to attain automatic synchronization between machines. It's just by far the most seamless and painless to set up solution I know of.

I recently became a paying user and I now store all my personal docs to my Dropbox. My main impediment to doing this was concern about security, but then I discovered and deployed Boxcryptor Classic (https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/boxcryptor-classic), which give me a great deal of peace of mind. It's a fully client-side, zero-knowledge file-system encryption app. I now keep all my documents in my Boxcryptor, which sits in my Dropbox.
There are so many factors to take into consideration that the argument would be a book to get a full view...

For example, if you want to move past generalizations (such as the author of the blog post made) you would also have to consider things such as the type of people using the cars vs other premium vehicles. Likely Tesla users are going to be more apt to try more things, which in turn makes them at a higher risk to drive erratically or at higher speeds (even perhaps higher than other premium vehicle users).

Further, I would suspect premium vehicles have a higher rate of deaths due to accident than the average population of car. However, that data might not be available to him.
During the Dublin Web Summit (two weeks ago) Drew Heuston stated that Dropbox hadn't touched the previous funds they had raised. I wonder why the need to raise the money at this point?
Seems like this company should be an insta-cquire for Apple any day now. They display Apple's core values more than any other company I know (outside of Apple).

Since it's Bluetooth it seems to be a great way to get probably close to 100% accurate palm detection which has always been the most annoying part of stylus usage on iPad for me. Genius.
Correct. They simply caught fire, and there were two potential design flaws in the system. The first was no fire suppression in the compartment with the batteries, only smoke detectors. The second was fire containment, concerns that it would be insufficient (especially paired with the lack of fire suppression systems) to contain a fire.

Compare to the Tesla fires: still no fire suppression baked in; deliberate effort in containing and directing the fire away from passengers; ample notice (so far) to drivers that something is wrong! and that they should pull over.

Also, I'd take a fire in a car over a fire on a plane any day. The car is: cheaper to repair/replace; already on the ground. If a plane has a fire, sure it'll end up on the ground, but depending on where on the aircraft and the effectiveness of detection and suppression systems it may not be a state where people can simply walk away from it.
This is very well-intended, but it suffers from both lots of formatting errors and pure factual ones. It makes my highly conditioned (from Stack Overflow) C lecturing mode almost auto-trigger.

It's way too long to do a rebuttal here, though.

Some problems:

- Bad terminology ("C has no object", when in fact the term really is very useful in C even though it probably doesn't mean what you expect if you come from C++ or Python)

- "Booleans don't exist", I don't understand how the author can both acknowledge C99 and say this. Booleans do exist! Their name is not so user-friendly, unless you include stdbool.h, then you get bool, true and false.

- Pure random errors, like the first structure example code ("struct point foo={x: 5, y: 4};", what are those colons and numbers doing there?!)

And so on.
Since you're nitpicking, I'll just point out that both formulations actually have the same meaning. There's nothing (not even an implication) in the first quoted sentence that suggests that Dropbox is younger than its competitors.

'Competing with' and 'facing competition from' are exact equivalents.
> Idealists lie to themselves and others, because they mix up their self image with their opinions

Yes, they do. And so does everyone else.

> From what I've read, the Israelis make border checks less problematic.

Or any country in world for that matter.
Thoughts on teaching: emphasize content, not section numbers
Why classification by "race" or "ethnicity" isn't considered as racism?
Galois are doing lots of interesting things in this space, including HaLVM, which allows you to write Haskell programs that run without an OS [1]

[1] http://corp.galois.com/halvm
And I don't mind it! Truly, I don't really care about a scrolling tab bar or not. I do hate how Safari handles it though... My point is that Firefox is great in that you can at least fix that! I've yet to find a way in Safari :'(
Lets also compare the amount of people that die/injured because their isn't a sufficient crumple zone to absorb impact and that can prevent the doors from jamming, due to having an ICE in the front. Lets compare how many people die/injured from a vehicle rolling over because it has a higher center of gravity. We kind of just put up with these things which are more of a design flaw that has serious consequences. Model S are much safer in these areas yet we are concerned with road debris fires. I wish Tesla would make more safety features standard such as front/back sensors+camera, collision warning, adaptive cruise, blind spot warning, etc. The car of the future should be safe and prevent needless death.
Actually, they do have that. Check it out on http://iswebrtcready.appear.in/, or try to create a room on https://appear.in/
Well, it doesn't limit you to clipping in safari for one.

And even if you only clip in safari, it's not that seamless of a process with selecting the area and all.
It’s about time to take control of transactional emails
Recently, more of my software has added Dropbox as an option for synchronizing its data between devices - but I'm hesitant to do so. It seems like Dropbox lacks the necessary access-control granularity. If your FTP client, and a chat program, and a password manager all decide they need read/write access to your dropbox, doesn't that open up attack-vectors across completely unrelated applications and services in ways that previously may have been isolated and sandboxed?
What magical action did you have in mind?
It's Telugu not Teligu.
By Panjabi, do you mean Punjabi?

As others already mentioned, it would be good to have users try examples before signup.
Paper is the only app I've ever used that makes me wish I had a bigger tablet than my iPad 2 (because I love it).
What My Mom Taught Me About Client Services
FCC Chairman's Phone Unlocking Fix Is a Good Start, But Consumers Need More
I'd agree that the Republicans play both sides. As you mention, there's the job base group of Republicans, like those in line with the Chamber of Commerce. There's also the Republicans who think that somehow they're going to get in the good graces of illegal immigrants by maintaining a softer stance.

That said, the only opposition to illegal immigration comes from corners of the Republican party. The Democrats are all-in and willing to use the Justice Department to sue states even trying to protect their own borders.
I thought this was superfluous until I downloaded it. It does what it does so well that it makes itself useful in a surprising number of ways - for me, I can quickly screen grab anything I need to remember or keep around for the day and put it at the front of my secondary screen.

Simple idea, great execution.
While watching this, I started wondering how much of the code base you could OCR from the video.
I read "facing competition from" as being the incumbent and getting a challenge.

And "Competing with" all are on equal basis.
Elasticsearch PHP Clients test drive
A lot of modern high-paying jobs that require rare skills are all-or-nothing affairs: the choice between fewer hours & less pay and more hours & more money just isn't there.

Some teams have to be small and be able to react quickly to very tight deadlines meaning high work intensity and long hours to remain just on top of what's going on in the environment.
everything is good, but i think the image sharing url is a little bit of ugly :((
Could you elaborate? What e.g. would be a common mistake? I have traveled a little bit in past (asia, europe, north america), but never had any trouble with customs / immigration.
Theoretically. But I've found out that it doesn't work on small Linuxes like OpenWRT -- the guy who took over maintenance obviously only works with big desktops and servers, he even removed the mechanisms for proper cross-compiling, at least the last time I looked, a couple of years ago. It looks like the people who use such distros aren't particularly interested in URL-based blocking?

We are really making it easy for all the companies that do the same that LG does.
Hacking a Cheap Toy Quadcopter to work with Arduino
Russian leading mail provider mail.ru launches my.com
Some content serve different purposes. There is content that is meant to drive conversions to a product, or newsletter, etc. Then there is content meant to improve social signals, drive brand awareness, and link juice - all for SEO purposes.

I imagine this post is of the latter. If it's of the former, then yes he should've mentioned how effective it was in driving conversions.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm curious to hear more. Could you share how (or to what extent) you got over your feeling of being taken advantage of?
Wireless SNES Controller for Logitech Receiver
I agree there are big network effects to sharing folders and that is a big push to sign up. Paying is a different story however. If you are a casual non-business user, sharing photos or the occasional document (e.g., Grandparent use case) then even the annoying space restrictions won't move you to pay.
It is not lying. It is simplifying the story so that their narrow mind can understand it.
Salvaging Gold From Old Electronics
The design is fine, but the language used on the page itself isn't quite right.

I see three spelling errors in your language list:

- Panjabi should be Punjabi;

- Teligu should be Telugu;

- Ukraininan should be Ukrainian.

There are also a few grammar problems earlier in the document, and style problems (e.g. English doesn't use a space before sentence-ending punctuation marks).
If you've been traveling to Yemen and Somolia and all over the Middle East to places that do not have good relations with the US - then it wouldn't be a terrible idea to "lose" your passport and get a replacement without all the stamps before entering the US.

These stories get everybody riled up but in reality are a tiny fraction of people who enter. I have a story too - when I was visiting Amsterdam I had the most rough body search I have experienced when traveling. Maybe I should never visit there again to see all if the rich culture and friendly people? That'll show 'em! My wife was called into the back room on our way to Aspen because her bag triggered some false alarm. Cross that place off my list, I'm never going skiing there again!
But still no support for being opera instead of a crappy chrome clone? What happened to that whole "we're not going to make the webkit based releases the official releases until we've added back all the missing features from opera 12" thing?
A Simple, Overkill, Electric Car
An Awesome Wireless Motion Sensor
I love it. Something I won't use all the time, but will be glad that it's there when I need it.
Squarespace Launches New Suite of iOS Apps
Isnt't it ironic that the cofounders actually came out of Microsoft R&D. They were among the Courier team, for those who don't know. Courier was a pre-iPad tablet device with amazing untapped potential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpftPSuXe4
I answered too. We use a homemade solution but it's quite a pain to maintain.
HID Global's ActivID Authentication: Online Banking
Great point. Often overlooked by people who only know what I call "drive-by machine learning" (finished an online ML course or something).

There's a multitude of problems with real-world texts that a robust guesser must deal with gracefully: short texts; texts in none of the languages the "guesser" was trained for (is it able to return "none of the above?" or does it return a random one then?); texts in multiple languages (incl. common noun phrases phrases inserted into text in another language); texts with parts repeated multiple times (web pages and blogs in particular are a bitch!), which skews char/word distributions and messes up statistical models etc.

It's the same thing as with spelling correction, really. "But Norvig did it in 1.5 lines of Python!" See "A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466927
Spoiler: it still is, except for "drive-by ML apps".
Show HN: Interestin
To me as an European it already crazy enough, that the US even interviews it's own citizens. In the EU if you are an EU citizen you just get waived though at immigration. (At might still get checked later at customs but that is a 1 in 100 chance).
I use Jing in first place for fastly sharing screenshots and videocasts. But I also use it 3-4 times a year for the same functionality your app provides.
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
To make money, of fucking course.
Understanding Secure Work Space for iOS and Android Devices
A) Some real expansion
B) You generate insane amounts of free marketing and get a check at the end.
My City Mobile App Changes the World
Are there corporate implications to this article? I'd be interested in how someone might extrapolate the lesson. (Asking from interest, not to be a smartass)
Google project shows how Gettysburg Address evolved
When A Method Can Do Nothing
This irks me because of the absolutism in the writing voice. But I'm sure you'd say there is no absolutism present (not even an implication).

Let's leave the linguistic criticisms on this one to Frege and Russell please. I can interpret the phrasing in both your terms and in the previous commenter's terms quite easily.
a well made comment system is a fair amount of work, and you are vulnerable to spam.

I agree with you though, it's not worth having disqus whore your patrons to the highest bidder and make product suggestions in your name.
I think you're deliberately misunderstanding me. And that's fine. I'm definitely detecting a bunch of do-as-I-say type of sentiment.

But my mother fled a country (her European home country and the country of her birth) that tried to kill her and every one like her. SO...please pardon me if I don't agree to entertain your Europe is oh-so-much-better than the US diatribe. If one persons difficult experience can indict a whole country of 300m people, well...what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know, it is. We're shortening it with the next version. :)
> I'm sorry that happened to the submitter, and I hope he'll give us another try some day.

I hope he doesn't. People need to stop coming here, stop doing business here, otherwise there will be no perceived need to change. The Constitution and just plain decency have not proven enough to stop this shit.

Treat us like the backwater shithole that we, by our actions, are aspiring to be. Then maybe we'll change. Otherwise you may as well welcome your new overlords.
How javascript breaks simple websites.
"Pencil is the most natural and expressive tool for getting ideas on Paper"

I thought this would be some kind of parody at first...
Another great use is combining percentages with pixel values. 100% wide with a 30px border? Simple. Used to be impossible with only one element.