skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only place SMS is problematic is when messaging abroad

Or when you don't want to give people your phone number.

When you don't have a phone number (data only cellular or WiFi only tablet).

When you don't want your messaging ID tied to a number owned by a phone company that you can't control and instead want it tied to your own domain name / email.

When you want to be able to send as different IDs (personal, work, consulting).

When you want some way to send pictures, formatted text, transfer files.

When you want to send/receive messages on your desktop, or tablet as well. Either switching between devices or using multiple devices at the same time.

When you want to send/receive more than a few characters in one message.

When you want to integrate into another service, e.g. an IRC bridge, because it's not just data there's no open API to link to. And even if your plan has unlimited SMS the days when you could email -> sms freely are pretty much gone.

(And if you don't have unlimited SMS).

SMS is terrible, the worst possible implementation of sending text between people. The only good point to it is that every phone can do it - and that doesn't even apply now in the days of iPod touches and smaller tablets that are basically smartphones /without the phone/.
I would assume this product really comes in handly when you really want to add some structure to the data that's being submitted.
I'd advise against making it a total submissions limit. I would not bother attempting to use a service that is guaranteed to blow up on me one day even if the site remains low traffic.
If you like AirBnB so much then perhaps you would enjoy it if this house was across the street from you:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airbnb-party-hou...
... so they're talking Turkey?

Yeah, down vote me, you're just jealous that you didn't post it first!
Clientside Timezone Detection
> It's not hard to solve these problems with money

Have you ever read The Mythical Man-Month? These things are very hard to solve, no matter how many resources you throw at the problem. Sometimes, it's just a choice between quick iteration / innovation and bad bugs vs slow-release and less bugs. Since reliability is fairly difficult to assess above certain levels, people will pay for the new shiny, not for less bugs.
You are right and I do understand that actually. So instead of whining I'll go help improve it. Not the web version for now though; the everything web thing is not working for me as at least my i7/16gb/ssd system is far too slow for productive work in that kind of context.
There are some good beginner tutorials, but beyond that the documentation is absolutely terrible. The typical documentation for a Haskell library will be a page that lists all of the modules in the library with a link to a page for each module. The page for each module will be a list of functions in the module with a type signature, and if you are lucky a one sentence description of what the function does. There will not be a single explanation or example of how to actually use the library.
I avoid Stack Exchange totally now because I can't stand the anger I feel when I find that two out of three things I search for and just about anything I post are "moderated" into oblivion for reasons having more to do with condescension than anything else. I think its moderators for the most part self select for personality disorder the same way that cops tend to do. But it's even worse than the cop syndrome because of the personal anonymity.

I sure like your reason on the other hand because it's the other hand.
JQuery's browser bug workarounds
I'm confused -- the osx dev center doesn't have 10.9.2 at all (any build), only the original October 10.9 release. I guess that happens whenever they push a new release?
Which reaffirms what I've been saying for a while: Plenty of programming prowess is creative pattern matching.
I imagine they would have some idea of the age of the rock layer the crystal was found in and thus be able to approximate the age of the crystal before more advanced aging techniques become involved.
Not sure how much Acton had, but Koum had $400000 when he left Yahoo. Respectable but hardly "winning the lottery".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-...
App Deployment Platforms
This idea fails a basic reality check -- piracy. During my around-the-world solo sail (http://arachnoid.com/sailbook) I heard any number of accounts of cargo vessels being boarded by pirates late at night, to steal cargo and slip away undetected by the skeleton crew that shipping operators prefer. The idea of a robot vessel would only make this problem worse.

The article says, "Unmanned ships would also reduce risks such as piracy, since there would be no hostages to capture ..."

But much piracy, for example in the eastern Indian Ocean, is after cargo, not hostages. Pirates could disable the propulsion system of, then loot, a robot cargo ship in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean where governmental controls are much weaker than elsewhere.
"Most plans for smartphones come with unlimited SMS nowadays..."

Ahh, but that's the reason Whatsapp took off outside the USA. An SMS costs me 29c per message, it's a big profit center for some mobile companies. But if I use Whatsapp, I get free texting from iPhone to Android (and other platforms) and my total monthly phone spend is just $5, because I only pay for data. Some of my friends are on $30 - $50/month plans... so Whatsapp (and/or Facebook Messenger) save me $300 - $540 per year by not making me switch to those plans.

Also consider that in Europe, "international" can sometimes be just a 30 minute train ride away. If you have many friends in other countries you might want free international SMS more than if your friends were all only in the same country.
Its fixed
Hey Amiad, this is a pretty smart service. Solves a real need.

Nice one!
I'm sure the military is working on that, and I imagine it is a lot harder to interfere with a drone flying thousands of feet into the sky, than to interfere with a ship that you could get very close to. Yet, it looks like Iran was able to use some sort of GPS Spoofing to take down a US drone last year [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... ]

I agree with you and forecast that big rigs and trains will eventually be automated as well. Energy companies are already using autonomous dump trucks in Canada. [ http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/autonomous-dump-trucks-are-... ]
Just tried it with Safari on 10.9.2

>Safari can't open the page "https://www.imperialviolet.org:1266" because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server "www.imperialviolet.org".
Tested with this and gotofail.com on 10.9.2. It's fixed.
Speaking as a former ship engineer (and designer), the engineering crew is mostly there to operate and monitor the plant. This is done from a computer. Almost everything in a modern engine space is automated or can be operated remotely from the engineering control station (the aforementioned computer). That includes opening and closing valves, starting up and shutting down systems, troubleshooting, and so on.

Unfortunately some times the sensors or actuators break, so an engineer will have to do some manual work. I suspect older engineers are more likely to do this, because they still think their own intuition is better than some algorithm (case in point: see quote in article from the union representative).

As for maintenance, it gets done in port. There are times, however, when things break horribly, and the engineers have to fix it themselves while at sea or find a work-around. With a drone fleet, one way to deal with this may be to have engineering teams on stand-by, ready to helo to a broken drone ship and do repairs.
Sometimes it seems like Mt.Gox is a corporation in EVE Online. Like in EVE, they're trading in virtual goods and there's zero regulation. Similarly, scams are part of the game.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6114

says at the bottom "For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple security updates.[1]"

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Monopoly is a single seller of a good or service. There is an economic definition that must be met for a "natural monopoly" to exist, which depends on the marginal cost of producing additional units and the fixed cost of maintaining the capital. Basically, just as you don't typically see two different rivers draining the same watershed, you don't see multiple firms serving the same natural monopoly market. That doesn't mean that it never happens; it just means that any challenger to the incumbent either displaces them entirely, acquiring their capital in the process, or goes out of business and yields its capital to the incumbent.

The lowest energy state of the natural monopoly is a single firm. Excited states can also exist, and are necessary for transitions to occur, but these states are less economically efficient. Customers see higher prices, and firms see lower profits. But given that a monopoly is in itself inefficient, it can still be worthwhile for a challenger to attempt to displace the incumbent, especially if they can operate at lower costs.

In a truly free market, the switch could be accomplished by an initial investment of sufficient size. In the context of the analogy, huge machines dredge a new channel for the river. For a time, water flows in both channels, but in the end, one dries up and you are left with one river again.
I always wondered why they didn't put the dotted i in the same spot as the English keyboard and move the undotted I to the pinky where the i is.

(I've done the same thing.)
In what universe is having a $400,000 bank account not winning the lottery? Holy hell, dude.
In either case, TextSecure will not get more people to adopt a product until they learn to market themselves better.
It was still released after an estimated $3 million ransom. If it had no crew, how would they have been able to achieve this ransom?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sirius_Star
but I was told only worthless parasites that are too lazy to work use foodstamps
have you tried to have friends/family in another country? unlimited sms plans do not apply anymore.
Words chosen very carefully that potentially hold a subtext. Are they hinting at a security service takedown and gag? MtGox would be a potential target if, say, someone wanted all the data to do a statistical analysis and tie MtGox accounts to SR accounts.

Way out there, but it's anyone's guess right now, and I thought I'd throw this hat in the ring.
I don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages.

10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion.

10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now referred to as a trillion.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ explains it all quite nicely.
$400,000 is a life-changing amount of money for the vast majority of people on the planet, let alone Americans.
It's not there yet: Apple usually posts that information a few hours _after_ the update has been released.
See my edit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299294

It has been found a long time ago on Jack Hills. But you are right, somehow, someone, a long time ago, walked on Jack Hills and found a crystal pretty old and started calling for interest.
WhatsApp has had multiple security incidents. See the Wikipedia entry.

Kind of hard to see how he values privacy without proper security.
If anyone from Apple is reading and can influence this - could you convince whomever needs to be convinced that you ought to have less vague/shitty release notes, particularly wrt issues like this?
None of these are established as a single compatible language but rather as a family of languages.

Wolfram obviously isn't aiming for that.

Go to Wolfram's page. That is no spec, it's a rough description of a particular implementation of a (closed source) system.
We did something similar a year ago but it didn't get any traction.
http://instant.jotform.com
If you're signed in in more than one place at once, Hangouts just doesn't know what to do. I was sending messages to a friend from my phone, but her replies were only showing up on my desktop!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're almost completely abandoning an OS just because of 1 security problem?
It's an amazing language - basically lisp with the biggest standard library you've ever imagined, and nice (but slow) pattern matching. I used to use it all the time when I was doing one-off projects at school and for clients. But I don't see it taking off unless it goes FOSS - while I have a license and I'd love to keep using it I can't justify it to employers or clients who want to actually be able to run my code after I leave. The alternatives (Python, R, maybe Julia) are good enough now to do most things you'd want to use Mathematica for, and they don't come with per core usage restrictions. To me Mathematica is well worth its price tag, but I only came to that conclusion because I was able to experiment with it for free during college.
Thank you! We actually had this problem ourselves and looked for a service like Superhost. Only after we couldn't find something affordable we went on and founded Superhost.
Wikipedia cofounder: How should I start my dot-com?
As a Native American I think I understand how this identity problem feels. I just asked a couple of my "Mexican" friends what race they were and they said "Mexican...." They are not from Mexico.

It's a complicated issue and it gets marginalized in various ways, one which way is to accuse of whining. Just because Mexican literally means "from Mexico" does not mean that is how the brain understands it, especially to people who live near the border.
I'm really excited about this library -- thanks Leon and Climate for releasing it!
I know it's not a bit coin problem, but I'd like to hear his (or her) thoughts on how people are implementing the technology, how these sorts of problems are being handled and what he sees as the major lessons learned (other than don't trust some non-insured entity with your cash).
Would it be that difficult to just queue up those threads on a single 32 bit processor instead of sending them off to separate cores?

It wouldn't be optimal, but at least they wouldn't have to completely write off older or lower-powered devices.
confirmed here as well, it's fixed

https://gotofail.com
HHVM: The Next Six Months
I think that's a solvable problem. As quoted in the article, just make the trouble of stealing cargo more hassle than it's worth. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but it's not the showstopper you make it out to be.
WhatsApp's greatest strength is that it's username is tied to your mobile phone number. To date, the is the only truly global identifiable standard for identity. Is there variation? Sure, but not as much as confusion with duplicate names, languages, standardization of names, etc. IMO this is the only reason WhatsApp won over Hangouts/ICQ/IRC/AIM/etc.
Japan's mafia is differnt than American's mafia. They are
technically savvy and might be more ruthless? (Don't ask me how I know--I was even shocked they exist, but even in Marin
County I knew a guy who owed them money, and they were the first one he paid back. I have a huge suspicion that The Yakuza is running Mt. Gox? Asians not involved with gambling--what is that called ironic? And no I not racist, but just pointing out an observation. And funking yes--crypto currency is gambling. It's not backed by anything, other than code, and promises. If banks weren't insured by the federal government I would not keep my money in them.
I blindly trust most poor, middle class people. Once they
get a few shekels save up--they change. Yes--Most of the
wealthy I have been around literally stole their money.
Some legally, but many just stole. I hope Internet sleuths
can find out what happened at Gox. And God bess the brave
who lost their lives in the Ukraine.
There's now content at the support page you linked, but the security content of the patch still hasn't been published [1]. See the new thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299287

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Tastes irony.
True Identity of Andys Mom in Toy Story
Authorization in a Service-Oriented Architecture
At a recent hackaton, my team created an app for using iBeacon for employee tracking: http://tracktimeapp.com/
Preview Issue of Indie Hardware Magazine
If there's no crew, why can't you just fill the entire thing with poison gas?
I'm the author, and I'd be happy to answer your questions!
BBC – Future – What it takes to fly spy plane U-2 to the edge of space
FF4C0002150 in Binary? 11111111010011000000000000000010000101010000

Number of 1s in that? 15

Number of spaces in the fixed iBeacon prefix? 5

15 / 5?

3

HL3 Confirmed.

That's what you sound like.
It's interesting that PG will no longer be reviewing applications. I wonder who the 10 people he referenced who do review applications are.
It might still make economical sense to hire a gunship to protect the "droneships" while passing high-risk areas.

Besides, take some of the money saved on salaries and use it for foreign aid to countries such as Somalia and you'd have stopped piracy before you know it.
>> or at the very least they don't give a crap about anything at all ...

> They were the market leader, with substantial revenue and lots of cash flow.

Yes, but there are any number of examples where being the market leader breeds indifference and irresponsibility -- example Microsoft.

> Why they didn't prioritize hiring some people and securing their platform is still beyond my understanding.

It's likely they grew from a tiny operation to a very large one without anyone fully grasping the meaning of the change and adjusting to the new reality and taking the precautions that their new status demanded.
How long do you think it will take for him to start lobbying against taxes on the rich and social programs? It'd be nice if he maintained some perspective, but that doesn't seem to happen with SV millionaires/billionaires...
That's something I don't have the mindset to do. I would sooner drop a book completely than just skip whole passages.
They cover security issues in a separate announcement (listed on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222), but only a few hours after the update has been released. I do think high-impact security issues like this SSL bug deserve a mention in the release notes as well.
Also forgot to mention, this autonomous drone just finished sailing from California to Hawaii -> http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/02/saildrone/
Lord British on Bitcoin: Virtual Worlds, Real Money
It's not like you can just grow most bacteria on petri dishes, either. They often have extremely specific requirements to be cultured, and there are plenty that nobody has managed to culture. See:

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2010/07/the-uncultu...
I have my own approach.
From what I remember from the Rust/Servo ML they intend to pursue 64 bit as default and 32 as a legacy option.
Hope it also fixes the "issue" where my 2013 Macbook Pro reboots when it wakes up from sleep if there's a USB drive attached.
Or you could just implement their protocol and work with any code you want to. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2
Smart engineer/entrepreneurs #1 mistake is thinking that because they are competent in their field(or got good grates at an elite school) that somehow magically translates to competence in business and entrepreneurship. I know and have met quite a few people that are grinding away at or have made products which have serious business challenges that they underestimate or are blind to and predictably fail to overcome. It's kind of sad when you see a product that has taken a high degree of workmanship/skill/and effort to make, but which has no market. Or the flip side, which is an insufficiently differentiated(aka not better enough than what people are already using) product in highly competitive market.
I see at least two universes:

1. The sort of universe where winning the lottery actually means winning multiple millions of dollars.

2. The sort of universe where having $400,000 is something to be proud of having earned.
I agree, 1000%. Once every several months, I work up the gumption to ask another question there, only to see it down-voted and close-voted into oblivion. It's a pit of misanthropic hostility.
You can read many Latin works, and find the language taught in many schools. Since it isn't spoken except in a handful of limited contexts, it gets the special qualifier "dead language." Gold is basically a "dead money." Hung onto by various people for historical and religious legacies, but not really suited for modern use.
Sounds like a cool library but I'd be embarrassed to say I use something named after the dude from Primus
This is even more 90es:

<form action="mailto:my@email.com" method=post enctype="text/plain">
...
</form>
I just use the 50 or 100 point minimum feed in my reader, and skip articles that don't look interesting based on how much time I want to spend. Sometimes I only read articles if they're a day old and the first comment makes them look interesting.
We are so insulated from our community.

I guarantee you that for the vast, vast majority of San Franciscans, suddenly having $400,000 would be a truly life-changing event.
That's where the robot defense system comes in.

Lack of crew will greatly simplify the implementation as it can be trained to fire on all humans without concern for friendly fire.
Developer preview builds are now pushed out the Mac App Store.

See the Dev center for the instructions to set it up.
Les actually spells it "Claypool", without the e. It's not named after him, I assure you.
AirBnB pushes up housing costs for local residents.

http://www.rooflines.org/3498/airbnb_way_to_make_ends_meet_o...

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airb...
Some people believe lives are not just something you could take, you know, even if it's not people from the crew.
The ships are on autopilot in deep ocean. International regulations say you need a (human) lookout, but the main job of the watch officer is to be there to handle problems and make sure that the ship is where it's supposed to be.

But most of the rest of the time is spent doing maintenance. The ocean is a very harsh environment and things are always breaking/needing attention due to constant motion and corrosive salt air.

I don't know that there would be an overall savings since if routine maintenance isn't being done underway, while the ship is making money, then it has to be done in port when it's not. So now you have a long period when your expensive asset isn't turning a profit. I haven't been in the industry in a long time, but I was taught that the second highest operating cost of a ship at sea was wages (fuel is first). As a result, ships are essentially understaffed to keep those costs down. I had to laugh at his "quality of life" comment. When has any shipowner cared about his crew's quality of life? These are people who literally fall asleep on their feet from exhaustion.

I wonder what the payback period will be. You're removing the salary cost, but replacing it with more automation that has to be extremely high reliability due to the environment and distances traveled.
That largest bacterium's size is incorrect. It shows a chain of them as 750um, but in reality just one can become that large. In the picture, they look as big as a human ovum at 120um, but obviously that's not accurate.
email is already immediate anyway.
> till now, had someone to "repel boarders"

Not really. The standard procedure to "repel boarders" is to:

1. Try to outmaneuver the pirate boat.
2. If that fails, point and blast fire hoses at pirates.

Crews don't [usually] carry firearms because of insurance liabilities. If there's no crew on board, then more robust defense mechanisms can be used.
Mine grey screens when I have my usb hub plugged in at startup (doesn't get to partition selection).

Android file transfer utility stops the keyboard and touchpad from working.
IMHO, I thought that web designers that don't code where extinct long time ago.