skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"how different is it to write a chromebook app than an android one?"

I almost bought my wife a chromebook for christmas, I researched this a bit for fun. Might buy one for myself too.

Basically you google for "how to write chromebook app" (or Bing, LOL who am I kidding no one uses bing) and eventually get to

https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/index

You probably want "packaged app" which unsurprisingly turns out to be "how to write a chrome browser app"

I thought it was all pretty interesting and have a few ideas to try.

"I really don't want another platform to write native apps for"

Careful careful, thats how cobol programmers and the like get stagnant and then unemployable. I'm not saying dive in head first, but sticking a toe in to see what the water is like, is perfectly reasonable. Go have some fun.

In practice, lets be realistic, its 2013 soon 2014, 99% of "apps" use web pages as the presentation layer. I'm not going to write anything to use gmail or hangouts or google drive or facebook or a bazillion other end user applications. 99% of her time osx is just a Chrome bootloader for my wife, so I'm thinking of moving it out of the way...
Lie is a strong word, it most it would mean someone claimed bing was stealing search results from google while knowing it was not true, rather then misinterpreting the data.

I do not remember such a case lying. Do you remember any other details like who uncovered that it was a lie or who made the report?
I recently bought a laptop for my daughter this Christmas. I considered all makes and models and finally decided on a Dell running Windows 8. I looked closely at Chrome Books, but felt she would be at a disadvantage without Windows and Office. It cost more than the Chrome Books, but I felt it was the right choice. She can still use Google services if she likes and MS software and services as well. I thought it was the best, most versatile choice. Just my own personal experience, I can see the value in Chrome Books too.
Any interaction with the press is terrifying in almost any circumstance because you never know and really have no control over whether the outlet is going to pull something like this. I always have the impulse to refuse media interaction unless I can get final approval on the published piece, which, of course, no one will ever give you.

It's important for all of us to remember that the incentives of the media and their subjects are not necessarily aligned, and that bombastic distortions such as this are common.
Jakob Kaplan Moss owes PG a public apology for his behavior. The witch hunt tweets that were coming out of him without getting the facts straight are downright disheartening.
Thanks for the wading and additional, nuance-providing details. It would still seem that they would first focus on a single tier of support focusing around their favorite few largest OEMs to set the guide for the others. I'm not saying top 20% of devices, but something along the lines of focusing on the an 80-20 principal. Then, if you see a star being born that will disrupt your top picks, bring them in. Market dominance can be sustained that way. Those OEMs aren't going to be making iOS or Lumias. "It's not nice, it's Google." (TM)
You've went ahead and since heavily edited your comment after all the downvoting, but your initial comment was asinine and demonstrated that you had little understanding of the contents of the article (eg. probably didn't read the article).

That's why you're seeing all of the downvotes.
You seem to have "gatekeeper" confused with "guidance."
I wonder how much time and energy is wasted defending or clarifying comments, particularly by people who would otherwise be creating value.
Memory escapes me...is a shift guaranteed by the standard (and if so, which) to sign-extend or not sign-extend?
Now we just need a Fedoracoin paper wallet...
I think the OP makes some good points, but I dislike when people are put off of working on their own crypto. Can crypto be difficult to implement? Certainly. Is it impossible? No. The OP makes it sound like properly implementing and authenticating a block cipher is way too difficult for the average programmer, when it is really rather trivial.
Yeah, publishing remarks made to a reporter as part of background on a story is unethical.
Blog post:

http://coreos.com/blog/etcd-0.2.0-released/
Some things R can do you might not be aware of
I know what you mean. It's the retargeting ads that bother me, mostly because I get so many for something I actually bought, not just something I went to their site, considered, and then didn't buy. Leave me alone now! (I'm looking at you, zappos)

For google ads, at least, you can click the "ad choices" button on the ad and clear the things it guesses about you (you can obviously also just delete the doubleclick cookie). I actually don't mind doubleclick ads so much (don't burn me at the stake) since they can't combine it with your google account information and I have depended on them for my source of income in the past, so I do wish they had a button for "clear retargeting ads" but left all the other demographic info in place.
I'm sure he's unhappy about it, and feels betrayed. What good would it do for him to make an expression of that a major component of his response? Wouldn't that just result in another witch hunt like the one PG is trying to quell with this piece? He can handle his personal resentment in a more quiet context and save everyone else the chaos.
Hence why self-sacrifice is usually an exceptional thing. We don't want everyone doing it all the time!
Yes, we all know that the line workers are usually:

* given high(er)-level information on how the company is doing

* asked for their opinions

* highly motivated by management to solve problems like that

I highly recommend reading The Gervais Principle.
Perceptron based Branch Prediction
1.) This is just a particular method to detect tampering. It's pretty clever in a lot of ways. As mentioned elsewhere, try reading the article.

2.) The presenters specifically mention that this isn't the "be all/end all" of detecting tampering and the sort of people who would believe that probably have no interest in watching this presentation. Relax.
FWIW, The Information's piece definitely crossed the "too indignation-inducing to be true" threshold for me. And I for one, would enjoy an essay about such topic as it would be very relevant to the HN community that is often just as eager as journalists to see certain individuals or startups fail for whatever reason.
"It took me some time to track down the macro definition "

Right-click -> Go to definition?

Your IDE must suck.
There were a few breaking changes, like renaming things, and they dropped the "print" statement. It is possible to write code for both 2 and 3, but you have to jump through a few hoops, and can't use the nice features of Python 3.

The official way to do it was to write in Python 2, and then use a converter to generate the Python 3 code (which was backwards IMHO). If the Python maintainers encouraged writing code that worked on both versions, they could have done a lot to help so (like providing compatibility modules, or backports).

But more important than new libraries that work with both versions (or even with just Python 3) is all the legacy code that doesn't run without heavy modifications on Python 3. If they had refrained from needless breaking changes (like removing the `print` statement), and made the braking improvements opt-out (like renaming str->bytes and unicode->str), it would be much easier to transition to the newer versions.
FYI: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift
As a female founder, I think this is a well-thought-out, articulate response, and I appreciate pg stepping up to say something about women in tech.

In a similar vein, I'd love to see YC take on one or both of the following:

1) Do at least one application cycle completely blind. How could you accomplish this? Much like in the concert auditions where this was first tried, put people behind a curtain--and then use technology to change their voices so every voice sounds the same. I think it would be a really cool experiment to see if different types of companies or a more diverse founder set would get funded.

2) Publish more stats on the success of YC companies, and publish stats on % of female(, black, ...) founder applications submitted, % accepted, % funded after acceptance, etc. Of course, I'd fully expect that this would be "opt-in" from the founders as well--i.e. each set of founders would need to agree as part of the application to have their data anonymously shared. You could also share data on % who opted to not have their data shared. (Techstars is doing some great stuff with their stats here: http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/ )

I've talked to many female founders and YC does have a reputation as a "frat house" (I told one of the YC partners that personally when he asked me to apply.) I decided to not apply to YC and instead was in the first Techstars Austin cohort, which was a fantastic program overall. Techstars definitely seemed more welcoming to women from my perspective as a geek-turned-tech-entrepreneur.

I'm hoping this is the start of breaking down the "frat house" reputation around YC and getting more women actively involved with it.
I'm of mixed opinions about him. On the one hand, he's been influential in making Pycon more friendly to women, which I support[1]. On the other hand, he appears to have swallowed the feminist kool-aid without reflection. He has a knee-jerk reaction whenever an alleged case of "sexism" comes up - he is inclined to take the side of the "oppressed" group and facts be damned. He takes a guilty until proven innocent standard for people with a Y chromosome.

[1] The anti-harassment policies of Pycon are a gold-standard for the industry
> But there's no public interest in redirecting attacks; the public interest is in reducing them

I'm not sure that's true though. Airplanes can be used as powerful weapons. I'd rather leave the knife depot open than the nuclear power plant, even if the number of attacks remains constant.
My favorite quote: "I err on the side of late binding for everything.."
If you think like this, even a little, I think you can find a way to see everything in life as having a gate. Can't get on TV, radio, on some blog, etc. ... gatekeeper present. That's the wrong mindset to have IMO.
Docker is writing in Go (http://www.docker.io/)
I think the assumptions you provided is more than enough to not support the idea of gun control because of suicide.

I fail to see how an individual deciding their own fate, whether it makes sense or not, is a "Public Health" issue; especially if it's an issue because of the most chosen method. If the number of suicides increases enough to become a real public health issue, then I'd rather they spend the resources trying to determine the why as opposed to restricting everyone on the how.

I feel I understand the other side of the argument; I just disagree with it. I do not agree that an individual's rights on owning an inanimate object should be restricted based on how another individual may or may not use said inanimate object on themselves. People who use homicide rates, and I mostly disagree with them as well, have more credibility on this for me.
<quote>Russian officials claim that the barricades reduced casualties.</quote>

Yes they did, but according to this article they claim all sorts of things, much of which is not true:

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/powerlessness-a...

Such as the identity of the bomber (she later posted on her FB page, "Nope, I'm still alive!").

Not that I'm trying to imply that Russian officials are particularly different in this regard!
I'm not sure I want to work in an industry where some offhanded quip can lead to the kind witchhunt and character assassination like we saw over the last few days. Paul Graham may have some views that seem controversial to some people, but don't we all? I really blame the tabloidization of the tech press and the "twitter controversy of the day" bandwagon effect for these kind of incidents.
I never understood how much healthcare in the US costs until I got Appendicitis
Thats what happens when you get your news from a p0rn outlet!
I read the article. It makes no mention of the fact that this isn't any guarantee your laptop hasn't been tampered with. Was it asinine to call this "another false sense of security" and "humans have invented ways around every lock in existence"?

It felt very much like people were going out of their way to misread me, so I replaced my comment with one that was absolutely clear that I was saying "this provides no guaranteed way of detecting tampering." Which is true, no?

I recently promised the mods that I'd try hard to be less inflammatory, and I was legitimately shocked to see my comment downvoted to oblivion when it seemed to contain no mistaken ideas. I'm doing my best to learn from this experience, but no one is providing anything for me to learn from. All I've learned is not to warn people about invalid security assumptions...
Whatever happened to Barnaby Jack? I know he was found dead in his SF apartment sometime after this DefCon talk.

Port 18456 is the port BTW. If you do a masscan sweep you'll find a ton of them facing the internet.....

I don't think he ever released his exploit or scrooge rootkit.
Thanks for the clarification. It is unfortunate that your statements were taken out of context and spun. I typically look for the original source, and am relatively skeptical of poorly edited viral stories such as this one.

With that said, I do think that the moderation / upvoting / flagging of Hacker News is overwhelmingly male. I sometimes see sexist comments here, and there doesn't seem to be a good system for women to flag and remove those. This is a problem in my opinion.
Publishing anything that's not presented in a "this is blatantly on the record" or "this is blatantly in public and observable/reportable by anyone" context is unethical. Unfortunately, this happens all the time because it generates a lot of buzz for the outlet, just as happened here. In fact, there are outlets whose entire business is made up of publishing "off the record" stuff, like tabloids.
I don't think it's so much about shaping public opinion as it is playing up people's fears. The threat of discrimination is still present in our society and is a very important topic across multiple demographics. You can't blame someone for feeling strongly about something they fear. However, journalists who write in a blaming tone to play to these fears should be blamed for mislaying trust instead of being lauded for raising awareness.

Nitasha Tiku made several negative blaming statements in her story. The one that stuck out to me as an obvious tell of a blaming statement was "That archetype, of course, is usually attached to a penis." In all fairness, I don't think that anyone wants to be addressed via 'being attached' to their private parts.

Here's a link on NVC if anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication. It's powerful stuff.
I think both of those are a great example of the fact that X-Ray + metal detectors provide sufficient protection in conjunction with alert passengers. Is the guy next to you trying to light his shoe or trying to set his pants on fire? Take him down.

More importantly, security is provided by catching would be terrorists before they even get anywhere near the airport. Because otherwise they can do a lot more damage at a crowded security checkpoint than they could with whatever explosives they managed to mix in their underwear. This is a job for intelligence agencies, not for the TSA.
I see comments putting all the blame on the Drug War, but that doesn't quite make sense. While the illegal status of drugs certainly contributes to the criminal and violent nature of the cartels, it's naive to believe the cartels would be upstanding, respectful organizations were drugs legalized. Diamonds are quite legal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond) and so are bananas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic), yet cartels dealing in those exports have been quite violent indeed. When a high-value product can be grown or mined in a country with weak internal security, the trade can often be taken over by violent gangs, whether or not the product itself is legal. There's a lot to be gained by violently controlling supply, even if the product is legal.
Ask HN: Tools or gadgets for real-world feedback of virtual events? (e.g. sales)
Hey,

we just just got a proper office and one of the items on my buy list is to get something that will show the team when a specific virtual event, like a click or sale, happens - but I can't find anything!

A few years ago there was this water column with air bubbels that had a web API, so you could make it create a bubble every time something happened, but it isn't sold any more.

I also remember some startups posting about building something like that themselves (gong, lamp...), but googling didn't help me much - I couldn't find anything useful.

Do you guys and gals know anything?
Thanks.
I agree. Blind applications would be great.
+1, but I'm ont sure how that's going to work. Even if you support Py2 syntax, some of the internals are different and might cause code to misbehave, especially the str/unicode/utf stuff.
Rambo screenings would likely have a better effect, myself and others often get so pumped up by action movies we're one wrong tone of voice from going postal. Hijackers wouldn't stand a chance in such an airplane.
Two years after quitting my job: 2013 in review
Have you ever had an ACTUAL issue with a TSA agent, not simple search/bodyscans?

Earlier this year I had a planned vacation and unfortunately lost (stolen wallet) my drivers license prior to the flight. I had enough time to goto my License office to request a temporary which here in Texas means you get a paper ID with your picture on it for 3-5 weeks until the new license arrives.

So I showed up with my paper ID and all I had to do was fly from Austin to Miami. I knew the paper ID would get scoffed at but assumed they were well trained in the various temporary/permanent IDs that states provide for emergencies. Ha! I decided to bring my birth certificate, social security card, and a utility bill (my passports expired, else that would have been logical) in the event that TSA had a problem with the paper ID. Figured I'd go prepared.

Well, lo and behold every single TSA agent outside of Texas not only grilled me about the paper ID, they didn't care at all about the fact that I also had the other items (birth cert, ss card, util bills). Because I had a temporary ID I was pulled out of every line, called a "No ID" (this became so frequent that I eventually wound up walking up to every agent and stating "Hi, I'm a no ID, here's my paperwork"), privately searched over and over and in two cases missed my flight that I'd arrived 2-4 hours early for. These were FTL to Austin flights that evidently only happen once or twice a day with the carrier I had my ticket through (Jetblue I think). I wound up in Miami an extra two days and basically lived at the airport at that point. I ALMOST missed my cruise completely, luckily the bulk of my issues were getting BACK home after it.

It took that much time for them to decide that I was who I said I am. I would get bounced from agent to agent, each who would personally search me, the one step below strip search search- not the pat on the back type. They'd offer to do a private search (meaning in the security room) but after mutiple searches in one-two hours I just said screw it, do it here in front of everyone and get it over with. Then I'd have to wait for a superior to come out and decide whether or not I was legally allowed to pass. The most amazing thing to me was that every single TSA agent seemed like they had NEVER, EVER dealt with a temporary ID before. Like I was this black plague that wasn't covered in their rule book at any point in time, or they were told that, my god, if somebody ever shows up with a temporary ID they are CLEARLY up to something.

Prior army, raised on Army bases all over the world, I've never felt like such a non-citizen in my life. I have the utmost sympathy for people who are systematically treated poorly by the TSA due to their attire/skin color.

I do absolutely everything I can to NOT fly nowadays. I also do not wait in line during Black Friday nor do I wait in line for a fast food restaurant. Those are pretty weak assumptions.

I went on a cruise and the Customs officers had absolutely no issue with my temporary license and documentation.
Is there an editor's rebuttal to this? If unintentional, at the very least a limited apology seems fitting.
Wax stamps, for the internet dark age.
I'm not particularly familiar with x86-64 calling conventions. Where is the code that sets up the stack frame? Would this code look different if temp were created inside the if() block, not just initialized there?
Exactly the opposite.
The NSA already had firmware exploits for BIOSes, harddrives, mobile phones in 2008. They have won on the technological front - if they want to track your communications, they'll find a way.

Only laws could rein them in. There's simple no computing platform that can be trusted to do your encryption on.
No doubt. But these sorts of things also do happen.

I used a 20 dollar pen cam off eBay for diagnostics once, avoiding tens of thousands in diagnostic downtime needed otherwise and found a root cause of an otherwise undetected massive failure mode. All because the blasted thing fit. (Full disclosure: the idea started with a plant tech who wondered if there was an application for the pens - research and testing later showed it safe under our operating conditions (a small explosion was possible).)

It's a rare opportunity, but magical when it happens (and modern, cheap tech is magical for heavy industry).
You've described a number of the Django old guard. That is definitely not limited to him. Remember the gendered pronoun brouhaha against libuv?

And no, Jacob is already bitching about pg's essay on his Twitter.
That one's a bit... silly. It's a surprisingly religious sentiment for Mr. LessWrong.

Yes, I have heard the shpiel. However, from the shpiel I've heard, cryonics is currently a faith-based ticket to God Only Knows Where. Very few people actually believe whole human beings can be resurrected from cryopreservation, and it's certainly never been actually done even in animal experiments, so why should anyone sign up?

Well then, the cryonicists say, let me tell you about neuro-cryo, which is cheaper. We can totally plausibly claim the information content of your brain is preserved in cryopreservation, or possibly brain plastination says gwern. Anyway, point being, you sign up, and it will result in a future friendly superintelligence reading your brain out into a computer to resurrect you someday...

To which I say, hold the fuck on you just skipped a whole lot of freaking steps there!
This is why I think the smartphone took off as rapidly as it did. If you look at a modern waiting room, 80% of people are staring at their phones, playing games, surfing the web or checking their email.

Previously, people might have a book or a discman on them but many people had nothing and were simply sitting bored. Now, they're at least at 50% productivity if not more.

The smartphone alone eliminates half of the losses that the DMV has caused.
TodoMVC. Pure Python.
Can I use the skewed article and PG's response to now make a case that women can't be newspaper writers?
Can anyone link to an objective "what PG actually said" so we can, you know, actually evaluate these claims in context?

I see a link to https://www.theinformation.com/YC-s-Paul-Graham-The-Complete..., but there's no way I'm subscribing to this junk website.
A good description: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6339790/what-does-a-ajax-...

The idea: you need such workaround only if you return JSON Array.

Most of the API returns JSON Object in which case the attack does not work, it will result in syntax error.