skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, so for example, Google (or anyone with a warrant) can recover saved passwords if the user signed in to Chrome (strongly encouraged) but did not set up a sync password (buried in settings).
You can try this out https://atom.io/packages/atomic-emacs. It's not yet complete, and I'm still working on it, but I think it's a start. Feature requests are welcome :)
I almost got a patch pushed through to Perl to add a new operator that would help that problem (and the similar problem of nested objects who might be undef). Someday I'll have to dust it off and try again.
Happy Birthday: World Wide Web to Turn 25
Why, their wireless counterparts will surely buy spectrum or what not to make happen during a 20yr adoption cycle in the US.
> in built-up areas with lots of signal reflection?

If there are multiple plausible positions due to multipath, it probably wouldn’t hurt to create multiple cells for one device.
Random opinions on titles that have no definition in the software world. Good read.
FDA proposes updates to Nutrition Facts label on food packages
Yes, I agree with you on using a 2-tier search which will increase the relevancy to optimize the quality of search. And Google's search quality is not unbeatable.

I also agree with you by using distributed sites to optimize the results locally. Actually what I proposed is to make the distributed search from both geographic location and vertical market point of view, as opposed of dedicated sites from you. But they are complementary. The dedicated sites definitely will provide better and more relevant results than a global search engine if Google search was not limited to a particular site.

However, the only thing I don't agree with you is when you said it does not have to be distributed though, the search router can integrate the algorithms from the dedicated sites. Then I think it's not quite feasible since it's not possible for Stack Overflow or Wikipedia to share their algorithms with DDG.

Let me know if I misunderstood you. If you'd like to take if offline, I'll be happy to discuss with you via email. See my profile.
> Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media!

I'm not sure you understand how shame or social mediaworks. You can't shame someone unless they've actually done something shameful. Things don't go viral unless there is something there.
I wonder if--in the same way most browsers use a heuristic to block pop-ups if they weren't triggered by a user action--we could come up with an effective heuristic to do the same for pop-overs.

I'd think the simplest thing would be blocking "position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%;" curtain elements, along with anything that stacks "above" them. They only have two valid uses that I can think of: displaying lightbox-like image galleries, and embedding modal confirmation dialogs in single-page apps. It'd probably be easier to figure out a heuristic to whitelist these two uses, and deny everything else.
I completely agree. I recently started looking for this topic because the feeling I get is that everything is messy and its becoming a nightmare just to think about it. In my case, I'm taking more responsabilities and I think we need to start implementing best practices with our engineering team. Does that makes sense to you?
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Android’s popularity is ever rising for the past couple of years. One of the reasons for its popularity certainly is the “apps and games” a user can have in their mobile phone and tablets. Here are some free and popular android games that you can have in your cell phones.
I doubt if anyone I know has 6 hours (or even 1 hour) per day to dedicate to reading alone. Reading big novels is too time consuming, and those who do read, usually read articles and blog posts. Also, it is probably easier and more fun to just watch a TV show or something on the internet.
I would like to recommend http://crashplan.com. It is set and forget online backup that keeps versions!

Inexpensive and truly unlimited storage. Windows, OSX, and Linux too!
> Humans use <todo>.

Not me.
Boiling frog expirement?
Bitbucket? Gitbucket? There are viable alternatives for many purposes. That doesn't answer the why, though.
Ive just added Bitcoin payments to my online store
Robert Graham (ErrataRob) pointed out some problems with this study: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-trollers-are-sadists-...
I like this approach, data cannot be argued.
Been doing this since a long time ;) http://scummos.blogspot.in/2013/08/gsoc-collaborative-text-e...
This is one reason I'm moving back to the LAMP stack. It's ugly, boring, and cheap. Great for prototyping.
Steve Jobs Memorial Statue Has Been Unveiled
Ingenious. Now if only I could Ctrl-F through unloaded elements I'd be a happy camper.
So you are of the opinion that convenience is not a good reason?
> There's only one formulation of Moore's Law

You can't dictate that to the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#Other_formulations_...

> Clock speed is generally not a good indicator of a processor performance.

I didn't say it was. But if all else is equal, the exact same architecture running at a doubled clock frequency will run exactly twice as fast as the original.

You are arguing that not all else is usually equal, and although true, it's a different topic.

The point is that the "free" doubling of speed that we used to get stopped some years back.

Computation per watt is another important subject -- but it is s a different topic (and for that matter, is yet another formulation of Moore's Law).

There are a thousand issues that are important to varying degrees when discussing architecture and performance, but there is no point acting like we don't know what people mean when they say "Moore's Law has failed". What they mean is quite clear.
That makes sense. In a personal note, I think doing monkey-patching code is okay in a discovery mode, but now we have a small revenue stream, we should focus on make the platform more reliable, and probably taking our users as the proxy to understand where the product lacks quality.
So, out of genuine curiosity, why are you doing it? To help the country? It's exciting? For the money? Or some other reason completely?

What about your co-workers. What's everyone motivation to help fix this site?
An International Update From Hulu in Japan
Halting a clinical trial when the result is clear is very different from skipping the clinical trial on the basis of a correlation study or two. Your comparison is so nonsensical that either you are being deliberately disingenuous or you don't understand statistics at all.

Either way, no point in continuing this.
Fact is, this is Content Marketing in 2014
Is this acceptable marketing in 2014? Or just littering the Web with manufactured content?
Same thing. Image you are Iran. If you have 10 people to pick from to bribe and ask to work for you. Pick the one with largest dept and offer to pay that debt in return for co-operation.
The actual company logo [1] uses Helvetica (apart from that bizarre 'C'), however the font printed on the back of the plate seen in the article [2] is definitely Arial. Note all the angled terminations.

[1] http://myrevuze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/crate_and_bar...
[2] http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140227182036-02-helv...
Governments don't regulate technologies, they regulate people. There are a million ways governments (who are also made up of people) can and will regulate bitcoin and the like. The persistent belief among some cryptocurrency proponents that they're invincible to the powers of government is really naive.

Just because there isn't regulation now means jack squat. It's not a feature, it's a side effect of newness and reactionary politics.
Never claimed it to be one.
What dictionary is on the Netflix?
But can't you do all the complex/difficult stuff for them so they just have to type "vagrant up"? What are some of the complexities involved in setting up a vagrant env?
Google Android Chief says Android designed to be Open more than Safe
In the ideal world, we'd analyze all of the ACA's costs and benefits and decide whether or not to repeal. But realistically, the most visible "promised" benefits (not necessarily those promised by the authors of the bill) are overweighted in the analysis.

I believe the ACA should be understood to promise increased insurance rates leading to (a) less medical bankruptcy and (b) moderate improvement in certain healthcare measures (not mortality). I don't think it should be deemed a failure in any sense if it fails to reduce mortality amongst the newly insured.
I guess not, although the page number is shown for you to see which page you are on, but you may forget where you were after you visit a particular link. It's improved to resolve the memory issue, I think. So when you browsed to page 10 and want to get back to page 3, it will reload for you seamlessly, rather than let the browser to keep all the pages in memory.

I agree the parent post, I'd like to keep where I was when I open each link in a new tab. Then the infinite scroll just helps to eliminate the click of the next page.
> new tools

If I see an ad for a tool relevant to me, the chance that it's just a repackaged version of an open-source tool I'm already familiar with is almost 100%

> new conferences

I would never go to a conference, especially one that needs to run ads.

> new competition

If they're a threat, I'll hear about them through news or word-of-mouth. Otherwise, just another waste of time.

Your industry only exists for purposes of brainwashing. All other purported uses are better and more honestly served through other means.
Stealthy attacks multiply and victims turn to spooks-as-a-service
> is so firmly rooted in math jargon that it's basically incomprehensible to someone used to thinking in C++.

It's firmly rooted in like 5th grade math. Every child in the US that takes basic algebra in school learns about identities and identity rules like "0+x=x" or "1*x=x" or in pseudocode as something like "(id `op` elem)=elem".
Another case of application might be localization.
the (full!) source [0] of the extension i think shows how easy it is to extend the editor. i am impressed.

[0] https://github.com/firebase/atom-firepad/blob/master/lib/fir...
The memory issue is solved, but the browser and CPU are so busy because when you want to get back to page 3 from page 10, page 3 has to be reloaded.
Might have meant to say documentary. There is one about Helvetica, named so.
3 weeks at the beginning of jan is no big issue. After christmas / new year in a big part of the world, where rarely anybody is starting new project.

The most important part is that your expenses are covered, so you should have some $$ on your saving account to survive the next 12 month without earning a single $. Then i guess freelance could be an awesome option for your.

Your could also try, to acquire a long-term project as a freelancer for a better start.
> Don't languages with native MOPs, such as Python and Ruby, create better internal DSLs than Perl?

Why would you say that?

It seems to me that a DSL's function is at least reasonably decoupled from the method it uses behind the scenes, and that there is no real difference between a native MOP (like that in CLOS -- I don't really see an equivalent in Python or Ruby) and a non-native one like Class::MOP in Perl in this regard.
Some random thoughts, as a recent hospital patient and EMT/paramedic.

- You think your bill for $150,000 is bad for your car-bike MVA? I had a kidney stone and walked away with a bill for $58,000 (thankfully I had insurance).

- I don't work (you didn't claim I did) for an ambulance service that performs "wallet biopsies" on scene. Never heard of that term until The Sopranos came along. Interesting fact - in most states, ambulance costs, private or otherwise, are regulated, and must be registered - and approved - by the DOH EMS and Trauma department. This is due to the fact that very many, if not most, of the people who receive this service have only "implicitly consented" to it.

- you're right, we don't care about insurance - nor do the docs we work with.

- Your ex-gf swore the Hippocratic Oath? Out of curiosity, at what school? Mainly because it's generally the Declaration of Geneva these days... only 2% of medical schools use the Oath... fun fact, the Oath forbids the use of the knife on flesh, which might be ... problematic ... for surgeons.
It seems that I'm too tired to use my phone to type anything correctly. The documentary "Helvetica" is on Netflix. :)
HN has built in polls, please use those: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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WeChat: The Chinese chat app stealing Weibo's thunder
No, it's contractual. Netflix cannot act as a "broadcast" service due to the way they license content. It means that there is a limit to how many pieces of content they can play without any user interaction (a user-interaction will classify the play as "on-demand" as opposed to "broadcast").

(Yes, I'm a former employee who worked on the auto-play feature).
Members of the sec could be required to register their trades (tested against IRS records yearly to ensure 100% accuracy and eventually automated).

Now, place all holdings in a database table.

When a company is going to be investigated, select only sec employees who are not listed as having holdings in that company.

My solution is obviously incomplete, but maybe it could be the basis for a more robust system.
Every one of your objections relies upon the assertion that iMessage is vulnerable to certificate forging attacks. Do you have a citation? Has this been demonstrated, or is it theoretical?
I think an on-board "repeater" would be the best solution. Of course, a high-powered directional antenna would translate to less hopping between towers but also increased costs to the carriers. Something like Google's Loon project might have more coverage and work well with aircraft.
I needed some depixelation software for some graphics awhile back, so I threw together a quick program that depixelates using various technologies.

https://github.com/kstenerud/depixelate

So far it supports HQX, XBRZ, and Scale2x.
Apple Design guidelines
As many positive things as I have heard about it I have one question: will we ever actually see this as an actual product? I feel like I hear about so many cool things which never come to fruition and I have a nagging feeling that this might be one of them. Why? Because, as I've read, the companies would need data centers to manage all of these connections. What interest do these companies have to risk all of this money (a recurring cost, might I add) when people probably wouldnt spend more for it? I dont profess to know, so can someone who has actual information enlighten me?
I didn't want to change the title so I left it as is. A tl;dr; is that Hulu Japan is being acquired by Nippon TV.

It's a very interesting move as it may indicate that Japanese networks are starting to push more streaming services in the country. Something that wasn't the case two years ago [1]. I speculate that this is partly due to Amazon recently releasing instant video in Japan [2]. I'm also wondering if both of these moves indicate that Netflix is actively working to expand into Japan with Nippon TV wanting to not fall behind. It'll also be interesting to see if other streaming services start popping up and becoming more popular for things like music (Japan is still the land of CDs with regards to this).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3628376/japan-digital-con...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/27/5151312/amazon-instant-vi...
>But working "on the Internet" means you're also comparing yourself to the best, brightest, and driven.

This reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. My spouse and I bought a condo in a very expensive area of a big city. We realized we were very lucky to have stock options that were worth real money to sell and pay for a downpayment on the place. I felt a little like we were "cheaters" or "fakers" because the other people in the building seemed so successful. It felt like we hadn't "earned" the money since it was pretty much luck getting the options at the right time.

The guy above us in his 50s had his own business - some lighting stores or something. The lady next to us was about our age (late 30's at the time) and was an event planner and had done the work for some famous awards show recently. The couple below us were retired, and the husband had been a highly-paid salesman. etc.

A few months in, we learn that the guy above us doesn't actually own his condo. It's owned by a trust set up by his family. The lady next door co-owns it with her father who paid for most it. The couple downstairs actually did own theirs the "normal" way, but they seemed like the only ones in the building. It was really eye-opening. We were no less successful or lucky than the other people in the building. Most of them had "cheated" in some way, too, and comparing ourselves to them in that way was pointless. Did I work any less hard than the lighting guy or the event planner? Hell no! Did they "earn" their condos any more than me? Not at all. They were no more or less successful than us or anyone else in the building, it just looked that way at first.
So by your reasoning, Federal Express is also a branch of government? From Wikipedia: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."
Why do so many designers/developers of pages with infinite scroll forget they put their footer menu in there and it is now inaccessible due to the scroll ?
> So why is a company that sells internet telling me to use less internet?

Probably because you're using more internet than you're paying for?
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Fantastic article. And god I love this website's design.
Google Pays for the Ride
That was not the hourly rate
How long do you think that's going to take, though? It's probably going to take years and years. It's going to be inconsistent. Different browsers will implement things differently. The standards committee will mess something up as usual. And that's just the implementation. Then you have to wait 3 more years for adoption to catch up.
@ivan_ah Yep I totally use it for proofreading. Often I find mistakes in news articles and such and end up being that person notifying them of a mistake :)

Mine is a little slower than yours - http://i.imgur.com/WGW1QWk.png - I use cmd + alt + shift + s as my short cut.
GP's point is sound: the weakness in public key crypto is key exchange. Unless you can independently verify that the keys you're getting from Apple belong to the intended recipient, the system doesn't work. You don't even have to add a key to the pool, you simply replace a key in the pool with a key generated by Apple, and when the message arrives on the server, it's decrypted and sent to anyone at all, and then re-encrypted with the recipient's key and sent along as normal. Even signatures aren't really a barrier in this case, since Apple can MITM your public key (used to verify the signature) to the recipient, as well.

Any crypto system whose security is predicated on a trusted server might as well be compromised. It's way too easy for servers to be subverted, either technologically or (il)legally.
Look at the beauty of the sin function and tell me that has more to do with triangles than the circle. sin and cos are the length of the projected vector along each axis as a point moves about the circle. connecting those points forms a triangle, sure, but it seems less fundamental.
I don't have a fitbit,but I've considered getting one. This might be a feature that would push me over the edge.
Ask HN: How do we get our app on Chinese app stores?
We're receiving a lot of interest from China in our Android app (lots of Chinese engagement on our website seen via Website Analytics) but we can't sell it there because of Play Store restrictions!

Any HNers have first hand experience distributing their Android app in China? Primarily asking for "gotchas" we should be aware of!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> Trolls turn out to be extroverts -- but extroverts with "disagreeable" personality traits.

I seriously doubt that extroverts waste their time trolling others online. They probably have much better things to do in real life.
You are right, the 2009 Wilpers paper does bucket out current and former smokers, as well as look at BMI and other factors. The authors should be credited for that. But when those factors are considered, the null hypothesis is only barely rejected at 95% confidence. The Kronick paper uses a much larger dataset and discusses the issue of what is controlled for more extensively.
Wrong verbage here - would suggest seems better?
Join the ##atom-invitations channel on freenode and ask for an invite there. Plenty of folks sharing.
I was being charitable to your example, because generally speaking there are no observational studies done before a drug is put up for approval - that's not how the approval pipeline works. The closest I can come up to your example is the occasional off-label use of a drug for some other condition, but the reports from those are largely small n studies. That's entirely different from a series of studies based on NHANES.

Beyond that, in an intentional randomized trial, rather than the 'happy accident' like the Oregon study, the actual control is not 'Nothing' but the medically indicated standard of care. Studies are often required to provide medical care, education, etc. to their participants. I cannot imagine a study managing to get "We deny a bunch of folks health insurance" by an IRB unless it was an externally forced process, like the Oregon study.

Your insult about not understanding statistics, in addition to being off-base, is rather spurious. This isn't a statistical question, it's a public health ethics question. Statistics doesn't really come into whether or not "Keep a bunch of people from accessing healthcare" will get nailed by an approval board.

Also, the FDA often does take observational evidence into account, especially when expanding things like what age range a drug is medically indicated for.
Is there a website output for the word of the day etc. for the repository code?

Couldn't find anything quickly on your site http://sartak.org
Ask HN: where will the next Silicon Valley be?
You hear so much about Cities trying to be the next Silicon Valley. Obviously it won't be the same, but would love to here what HN think. Any dark house guesses?
You're so funny. I guess they will make a fix number of items in the memory for the DOM.
They do have a page list on the bottom and show which page you are on.
Thanks. The homepage was using the <video> html5 tag, looks like some browsers don't support them well, I finally decided and have changed to youtube video instead...
> Will it work for WiFi as well? It's protocol agnostic, so it could work in unlicensed spectrum as well. The issue is that you don't have complete control over all the other transmitters, so you can't coordinate them.

From the moment I heard of it, the first thing I thought about was: this could make long range Wi-Fi possible (and therefore meshnets and carrier disruption possible).

Seeing this tech being used by wireless carriers would be cool, but I really want to see it (or something like it) being used in new mile long Wi-Fi standards. Now the Wi-Fi Alliance only needs to make one for us.

Long range Wi-Fi could also make communication between self-driving cars much more feasible (got your attention now, Google?) - although that presents a pretty huge security risk, too, but I imagine the industry already wanted them to be connected to the Internet, so it wouldn't be much worse.