skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually wrote about this three years ago (has it really been that long that we've been anticipating an Apple TV SDK?) with some thoughts about what a remote-slash-game-controller for iOS TV apps might look like: http://interuserface.net/2010/08/rethinking-the-remote/
Where did you get that yield stress number? Is it from that graph with Aluminum and the plastics?

Because that graph shows modulus(stiffness), not strength. Which is pretty hinky when placed next to the statements about strength. Looks to be a bit misleading.

On top of that "stronger" has no meaning when it comes to composites. There are about 9 different failure modes, and you can't just choose one and report the "strength". I'm guessing they're talking about axial tension numbers (because I'm cynical) where their material would perform the best. Even then, their yield strength is about 200MPa (based on the "5x stronger than ABS" statement) whereas aluminum's yield strength tops out around 600MPa.
How come this story doesn't get above the fold?

23rd and clearly more upvotes than several older stories. Is this a technical issue or a mod issue?

http://i.imgur.com/peD9gk2.png
I'm skeptical of some of the hype around Dogecoin. The various stats sites are currently showing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Dogecoin transactions every day (http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/sentinusd-doge.html). These are trivial to manipulate by sending transactions to yourself.

Where are all these transactions happening? Am I just out of the loop?
Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards?
Take a look at http://mbed.org/

The supported chips are pretty powerful and a Bluetooth dongle is available.

The development boards start at about $12 but can go up to $100. The bare chips from NXP themselves are $6.

The LandTiger board even has a 320x240 pixel LCD touch screen display and is < $100.

Amazing really.
Just like Twitter heh.
Before writing any code, technically not. Before product was alpha? Yes.

PS: I wanted to followup to this, because I should mention that I was just as much a skeptic as you about this. I thought it would be impossible to get a check up front, despite people recommending it as a way to bootstrap the business. Well, it totally works. Just make the customer happy, grab a check upfront and have a contract.
The website is wonderful, and is an inspiration for people like me who are new to webdev. Congratulations and thank you!
The Oculus Rift Put Me In Game of Thrones and It Made My Stomach Drop
Do phones send some kind of unique Bluetooth signature that could be used to authenticate a user? The user would have to just tether their their phone to the computer. A browser plugin would authenticate sites that way. That seems like it'd be pretty painless.
I'm new to this app, how do you post something? Please help.
there is a little bit of that, perhaps, but consider: from the OP we have

> Until now, we’ve been an exclusive platform open only to approved users. We took this initial approach because we wanted to ensure that the software worked, first of all, and that the platform was seeded with great content by seasoned and experienced authors.

but if you remember the original svbtle announcement, that is disingenuous. dustin deliberately tried to build up some sense of exclusivity in the "cachet of belonging to a selective group" rather than in the "starting off small" sense. to me that came across as manipulative and a little sketchy (i always wonder, subconsciously, what is wrong with your product if it has to be sold on the premise that not everyone can get it). to a lot of other people, it came across as elitist (just read some of the other comments here). either way, he took a nice piece of software and gave it an unnecessarily blot, but since that blot was deliberately highlighted you can't blame people here for the conversation choosing to focus on it.
It doesn't. You can't run a program made of only pure functions. What it does it manage it.
Since you are into making random websites I have one.

SkinProblem.com

Let users upload pictures of there insect bites, infections,...
Make them categorize their problem by race/skin color, location, time of the picture since the bite,
Source expert opinion on cause of problem
List treatment options
Mathematics of Roughness
wow. he sound like a bit of a... well I'm not sure what that makes him but it feels like something I don't want my kids to be.
It would look like

result = range(1, 3).concat(range 4, 6).map((x) -> x * x).filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0

or

result = range 1, 3
result = result.concat range 4, 6
result = result.map (x) -> x * x
result = result.filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0
Dates are must. They don't need to be big and bold, just to be there, somewhere. When I read a blog post, I need that information for context. It is especially true for technical blog posts. Was it written before version X? What was the context this was written in? Date helps.
That's the effect of flagging a story, which I have no doubt many people are doing.
The password isn't the problem. If PSN / Adobe / Etc used large random salt for each password stored, industry approved hashing algorithms and other best practices while storing passwords, there would have been less of an issue with getting those hashes exposed.
This was the part that I stumbled on for a few hours late at night and kept me up. Next morning, when investigating what git hash-object did, it was obvious. should have just went to sleep.
Very Enlightening post!
Then it's time to try Jekyll, Octopress, nanoc, Pelican, Hakyll, etc.
Network Communication and Serialization in Rust
what? there is no sign up. copy paste into the wrong thread?
As someone who had an internship coding an working on circuits in high school, I can say that it was one of the best experiences of my high school career. I was fortunate enough to have channels in my community to facilitate landing the gig but I worked there for 9 months and learned a tremendous amount.

I would start by figuring out what companies are local to you and seeing if you can make a connection through friends or family. You can always try cold calling a recruiter but typically positions for kids in high school are exceptions and so won't be advertised.
There seems to be a lot of people here who think that technology ate up all the jobs.

Actually the largest number of jobs that have disappeared are from the manufacturing industry. There is a few reasons behind this. Trade agreements, heavy regulation of pollution and over demanding unions made it far cheaper to have China (and the rest of the world) manufacture everything for us. The other reason is that people in the US have changed. They don't want to do these jobs anymore. They are lazy and feel entitled to better jobs (though they aren't qualified for them). People would rather go an permanent disability or welfare. There are literally thousands of labor and manufacturing jobs sitting unfilled in the US today. Jobs that US citizens used to do.

Couple this with the lost jobs that illegal Mexicans do today (jobs that "American's won't do"), and we have found 3/4 of these mysteriously disappearing jobs. This has nothing to do with Silicon Valley or technology in general. It is about policy and attitude.

It is ridiculous to make claims that Technology has displaced 18-20% of American workers in the last 15-20 years. Why do I say 18-20%? Because the true unemployment today (by more traditional US counting) is currently at 30%. I'll, give you 10-12% for being in a bad economy - thus a loss of 18-20%.

Show me how this is the fault of technology (and I don't mean from a sociological standpoint - that is a whole other argument).
What is the craft web?
I agree that the assumption of email is problematic. I would love to hear some constructive suggestions for alternatives to email as a token delivery channel. The reality is that password reset already runs over email, so we are already in pretty deep.

1. It isn't that inconvenient once you get used to it. I've been setting a completely random password for all services and not storing it anywhere for awhile now. I do password reset every time. It's a small price to pay.

2. Again we should not assume email. What are some alternatives? Are there none?
What are your thoughts on how to attract users to your projects?
Actually, even if you don't want to use a hidden volume, according to game theory the correct solution is for the user to always have a second volume and for law enforcement to continue torturing the user until they divulge their second volume (or die)
I actually looked for this the other day, and even took pictures of this weird rash I had on my hand for when I found the right place to upload them. I never found that place, and I still have these weird photos on my phone.
Can I have a chip-scale one? With zero jitter? On every motherboard? Feeding TSC clock? Please? Pretty pretty pleaase?
Are we in a bubble or what.
$('body')
.click (e) ->
$('.box')
.fadeIn('fast')
.addClass '.active'
.css 'background', 'white'

If I omit as many parentheses as possible. Also for the other example:

result = range(1, 3)
.concat(range 4, 6)
.map((x) -> x * x)
.filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0
If we have the audacity to disrupt entire industries, we should have the audacity to take on the most pressing problems facing our communities

this.
Apple TV would disrupt hardcore console gaming to the same extent the OUYA did. Hardware capabilities are still a very real and important part of console hardware.

The reason the iPad has hurt Gameboy sales is because they can both provide similar level of games. Due to size restrictions a dedicated gaming handheld really can't be that much more powerful than an iPod. There isn't a size restrictions on consoles. Xbox and PS4 back in a whole lot more power into their consoles than Apple ever could in a Apple TV sized piece of hardware. Unless the Apple TV blows up again to something like the size of a Mac Mini, it isn't going to get the same Call of Duty that real consoles get.
Keen has a great team, and some great ideas + technology. They were on it back at the Techstars Cloud program, and glad to see them getting some press these days. Kyle and Ryan are both wonderful to talk to about big data problems. Keep up the good work guys!
I Hate Usernames
At least from the scuttlebutt I heard, almost all sellers on Silk Road required new buyers to release the money from escrow before they'd ship anything, and some of them were taking advantage of this to selectively rip off new buyers.
Techcrunch is probably one of the sites that gets automatically penalized.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
As inaccurate titles go, this is a exemplary one. Other than that, a nice if fluffy overview of Keen. The "data" space is getting incredibly complicated and it will be interesting to see who finds a profitable niche.
U geiv missel?
You can get them for free, using a throwaway email and fake identity if wanted. Why is it preferable to get a Medium account?
having a hundred billion dollars in the bank helps, that and a near monopoly on good tablets if not a real one.

They could always cut a deal that makes some studios jump, something for a few years to lock them in.
How I Proposed Using Salesforce and Twilio
there is a big tipping culture in the community, especially on reddit. in addition to karma upvotes, people can use a tipbot to send doge to each other. the /r/dogecoin subreddit has 40k+ subscribers, with lots of tipping in each thread.

additionally, it may be that each transaction is counted multiple times. if I were to tip you, I would first send funds to the bot, who then sends funds to you.
No more wage suppression cartel? No problem, on to the next schtick; cries for more H1B's because of a "STEM worker shortage".

Don't fall for it folks, the STEM worker shortage is a myth.
Feynman on "trivial":

http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&lpg=PA84&ots=e...
Looking at the heat map, what does surprise me is how he never uses Escape or ^[. How does he managed to move out of Insert mode? My [ key is starting to wear out due to such heavy use..
Hate to be that guy when it comes to being pedantic about headlines, but wouldn't a `quantum leap` in accuracy be rather un-noteworthy?
Is this comment meant for me or the grandparent who made the comparison?
The local port for outgoing TCP connections is chosen randomly in the normal case - and you can't have two TCP connections between the same pair of ports and hosts, so it would be hard to write a good proxy server that let you pick the local outgoing port.

You could use ipt_owner with iptables to block by source user matching the proxy server, however. Or just configure your proxy to block by outgoing IP if it supports this.
Use trycelery.com and you can start taking pre-orders immediately, and see how much they are willing to pay.
http://customerdevlabs.com/makemoney
And together with source maps significantly improved error reporting. I think that might be important for some people who struggled with CS's syntax.
Nintendo’s $2.7B mobile games opportunity that’s never going to happen
Dogecoin is deliberately silly. It's based on the doge meme, after all. Have you seen the Dogecoin client? It's in Comic Sans, and includes buttons with labels like "Pls Send" and "Much Receive."

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DwqrqLq.png
>> 0xDEADBABE ("Dead Babe") is used by IBM Jikes RVM as a sanity check of the stack of the primary thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak#cite_note-13
But it could.

What if the website I wanted to login to sent me a text with the token? Then all I had to do was reply to the text with a Y or N to log me in (or enter the code directly into the site if I wanted to).

When the text back is received by the host, my browser finishes the login request.

If you can sync your texts with your PC, maybe it could all be done right on the same screen where you are trying to login.

I think this could be mainstream. The hurdles don't seem that huge, and you can still leave passwords in place for a while until everyone is on board.
This growing strategy of doing a top post that purports to respond to caricatures of other people is tiring, but is increasingly common (I would wager that an average depth query for HN posts would show a strong trend towards decreasing).

Yes, someone said the post is hyperbolic drivel. You can argue subjectively whether that is true or not, but simply calling it "denial" is not a credible way of responding to it.

And FWIW...public enemy #1? Linkbait garbage. The "hero tech genius of SV" remains an absolutely common media story, and SV companies remain among the most respected and adored names. Comparing them with banks, or claiming that they're perceived as a public enemy, is indeed, hyperbolic drivel.

Some people protested a bus in San Francisco. Cue hysterics and gross-overreactions.
I wonder whether console gaming will indeed be seriously disrupted, as opposed to merely supplemented. So far, phones and tablets have had certainly had an impact on traditional portable game systems (3DS), but the former are still widely considered to be limited to casual, low-quality games, with the serious stuff to be found elsewhere. There is Call of Duty and Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto on iOS already, but only spinoffs and retro ports.

Part of the cause is issues such as controller support. I'd say this would be a much easier sell at home than mobile, since using a physical controller would just require buying one, rather than buying one and then carrying it around everywhere in case you feel like playing a game. But still, not bundling a controller, which is almost certain, fragments the market and means that developers will probably end up having to support awkward touchscreen controls anyway.

Another part is pricing on the App Store. If people are only willing to pay $5 rather than $60, how can you make the same caliber of game? Freemium works, if you're lucky enough to get popular, but it's also a miserable user experience that I hope traditional games stay well away from. Another way to see it is that on a console you have less choice, but if the indirect effect is to increase game quality and I don't mind the price, please give me less choice.

On the other hand, PC gaming seems to be doing pretty well even though for every $60 game there is a free online Facebook game; the market managed to sustain both "casual" and "serious" gaming on the same device. The same could theoretically happen with iOS... It would help if there were multiple storefronts rather than one big one, but that isn't going to happen.
Google San Francisco Bay Area car search beta program has been discontinued
>Or you can keep aiming for 6-figure salaries with a sports car. And a bottle of anti-depressants.

I was with you until you brought out this incredibly smug false dichotomy, and this presumption with the anti-depressants. Up until this sentence, you were making a solid point but you injected your personal feelings into it right there. There is nothing that says you can't make 6 figures, drive a sports car, and still give back and be happy. The notion that anyone who enjoys spending the money they've earned is popping anti-depressants and trying to find meaning in their lives is just as bad as comparing progressivism to nazism mentioned in the article it just goes in the opposite direction.
There are cases of them being re-issued accidentally, but they're supposed to be unique, and we have massive data systems based on that premise. Texas has only just recently begun transitioning from using SSN as the primary key for their statewide student (and school staff) database.
Not to mention the absurd number of small planes that go down due to running out of fuel.
Off-topic but:

It makes me sad that it's the top-voted comment

Not necessarily. It's also less than an hour old, so that helps to make it raise.
Maybe it's because Dustin is a wannabe elitist who thinks he knows better than everyone else.

Proof #1

http://dcurt.is/3-point-5-inches

Proof #2

"Until now, we’ve been an exclusive platform open only to approved users. We took this initial approach because we wanted to ensure that the software worked, first of all, and that the platform was seeded with great content by seasoned and experienced authors."
In that case you might still want to test that it's correct within a certain degree of precision.
Or it could mean, in this case, a leap in what is considered to the smallest discernible difference (the quantum) of the measurement. ;)
Ask HN: What DNS provider do you use?
I have been using moniker.com to register my domains for years. They have always been solid, but their name servers are failing today and they have no indication of when they will be fixed. I use AWS, so I'm looking into Route 53. There are numerous DNS providers so I want to see what the HN community suggests.
An additional problem is that the rendered images will leak.
Show HN: WebGL 'Falling Sand/Powder Toy' game clone
It's another step forward in the maturation of the Internet technology industry, which grew up, with the Internet itself, under a regime of benign neglect.

That time is over, as evidenced by the growing impingement of regulations, taxes, law enforcement, spying, and now populism on what Internet technology companies are trying to do.

I don't see any reason to believe that Internet technologies are somehow unique or special enough to avoid these sorts of interactions and conflicts with the rest of broader society.

Many CEOs and investors of Internet companies seem to think of themselves as self-made and self-contained leaders who are naturally free from the constraints of other industries. The leaders of railroads, steel mills, oil companies, car companies, real estate, etc. once saw themselves the same way. Now those industries are tightly hemmed with regulations at the local, state, national, and in some cases international levels. Internet companies will be too--especially as they tread onto these turfs.

I'm not saying this is good--I'm just saying it's reality.

To fight back, the Internet industry will need a strong presence in Washington and in politics. But that goes against the pseudo-libertarian culture, so they don't have one, aside from the few biggest companies like Google and Facebook.

The hardest part is that there is no natural political home for the Internet company mindset today. The Democratic Party, while in line with the social leanings of Internet leaders, is also home to the populist movements taking aim at Silicon Valley's riches and entitlement.

And while part of the Republican Party is in line with the economic and regulatory mindset of Internet companies, it does not hold the reigns of the party. It is at least sharing them with Tea Party and religious grassroots movements that most Internet company leaders are personally uncomfortable with.
But just as users don't generally pick secure passwords, lazy/time-pressured/incompetent (pick one) developers don't create secure password storage mechanisms. If the fix is as simple as defaulting to the other factor of two-factor auth for single-factor auth, it's worth thinking about.
Society is starting to get tired of the tech industry exceptionalism. You see it in many places, off-line.
Show HN: Just finished a color based strategy game for iOS
The first line of diff tells me how serious they took grammar into account...

From Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr", "we", "us", or "our") to Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr," "we," "us," or "our")
Am curious as to what the "public beaches" thing is in reference to (being as the links don't seem to be working in the original article):

Some of the blows have been self-inflicted,
like venture capitalists who compare progressivism
to Nazism or who block access to public beaches.

I mean, I know that libertarian types (in SV and elsewhere) don't seem to put much stock in this "public property" concept, generally, but is there some particular local controversy they're alluding to here?
He may have it set up the way I do: if I tap Ctrl rather than holding it, it sends Escape. If that's the case, his heatmap might be lumping Escape and Ctrl together.
Engineers Convert Yeast Cells into Biofuel
It's exactly how 2-factor authentication works for banking sites such as Bank of America and Chase.
Remapping?
The idea doesn't matter nearly as much as the execution of said idea. Roku product is OK from the little that I've seen, but they haven't put in the marketing or the branding effort to hit it big. Google didn't even pretend to know what was going on with their TV attempt when it came to content. Xbox/Ps3 are fairly terrible UIs, and don't respect the user enough, as they assume that the user is going to be a 15-35 year old male gamer, with attendant good-enough UI. Amazon seems to try to hide their streaming business, I apparently have a subscription through Prime but haven't streamed a single thing because I can't consistently find out how to browse it. (Please don't tell me how, my point is that Amazon has not made streaming a focus.)

If, and this is a big "if," Apple can make this easy, and generate enough noise, and most importantly of all get critical content provider momentum, they could see significant market penetration. What's clear is that the traditional tech media has been absolutely terrible at judging products' potential at their initial launch, at least when it comes to Apple.
Like the Node.js community, when they're not busy fighting themselves over gender pronouns.
Good catch on them showing E vs strain instead of stress/strain. Very misleading, as it clearly got me!
If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes.

Do you have any opinion about Svbtle itself, incidentally? Have you tried using it? What do you feel are its advantages and disadvantages compared to Medium?