skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success rate was hugely exaggerated. I witnessed first hand missiles coming into and near Israel.

Missile defence is a funny thing, especially when it comes to budgets and politics. There is often this cost/benefit of perfectly intercepting a missile/at all vs. just letting it hit. It sounds sick, but it really is a problem.

Right now in Israel, we have an issue with our kipat barzel system. Originally they said it was a stupid idea and too expensive, but it has really proven itself in the field. This brings several problems. First, people are dumb sometimes and think when it is deployed near them that they are perfectly safe. Interception rates for this system are also no where near 100%. Secondly, shooting what amounts to flying garbage with this thing is really expensive. You might as well burn money to keep warm in the winter.

What is much different from a lot of other systems like the Patriot is it really factors all kinds of things like will it hit a projectile that will impact a populated area or will the target just explode in the middle of no where?

The same problems with people rallying around the Patriot are happening now. Luckily though it's being put into perspective and supplemented with systems that do other kinds of interception. At least the army realised that multiple kinds of interception are necessary and something like the Patriot will not be appropriate in every situation. These systems range from actually blowing up the targets to confusing them to throwing garbage at them to make them explode at the wrong time.
i tried that for a good long while; it was a great phone when i got it, and even after it started bothering me that the touchscreen was less than responsive, i enjoyed the OS enough that i stuck to it. however, there were two major bugs that it was clear would never be fixed after nokia EOLed it:

* sometimes you'd get a phone call, but the phone app would not swap in, and by the time it did the call had dropped

* the gps started taking anywhere from 30 minutes to never to get a lock

the gps bug finally made me say "okay, i can't deal with this any more" and get an android.
The basis and functioning of the UK government seems quite different than that of the US. For better and for worse, a large part of the American foundation is the ability to abstain from involvement with government and go your own way. Treating USG as if it's an authoritative entity that has an ultimate say over any aspect of one's life erodes this ability, and we get left with the worst of both worlds - a broken system that we can't avoid (eg what happened with healthcare).

And yeah, making this argument widely compelling is going to take a lot more than luck. Immediate short-term realities tend to dominate over long-term abstract ideals.
> Two sides of this coin: yes you pay higher fees for their service, but only users of Netflix/Google/Apple pay the higher fees. Everyone else is lower.

Once AT&T can charge the remote origin for timely, reliable delivery of data to end users on their network, what makes you think they'll restrict it to just the handful of most popular services on the internet? Why not apply it to everyone sending data to users on their network from points off of it?

> Second: This "will help startups compete against more established players." How so? Now start-ups are going to have to pay for preferential access to serve their content too.

Well, as long as they are setting a popularity threshold before they start the "pay or be stalled" extortion, it'll make it easier for firms that haven't hit the threshold to grow against firms that have already hit the threshold.

(It'll also make it easier for AT&T's own content services -- at least when targeting users on AT&T's networks -- to compete against both established players and startups, because they'll never have to pay the extra toll, while established players will, and startups will know that it is coming when they get popular enough, and have to account for it in their model.)
Excellent resource! Thanks for pointing it out.
How do you implement stateless auth in nodejs?
So I'm making a mobile app, which will use the API I'm writing. The API will be used only by the mobile app, and not by anyone else (maybe I'll allow others with a limited method set?).

The API itself, works except I'm concerned about:
- Security
- It being stateless

I'm using passport.js for user authentication, and a RedisStore for storing user sessions:

app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({
secret: secrets.sessionSecret,
store: new RedisStore({ host: 'localhost', port: 6379 })
}));

For api calls that require an authenticated user, I just check if the `req.isAuthenticated()` method is true or not. Pretty standard.

However, my reading and research suggests that API's that reply on sessions are poor design. How do I change that? What is a good, not complicated design for this kind of a model? What should I be doing given my use case? Any code samples?
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You can tap&hold on screen while countdown, when you release the screen it will immediately take a picture - so by holding the screen for more than 3 seconds you can overcome this. But there's still lots of room for improvement.
Now I see what you mean, equal drift rates but different up-time. Assuming two clocks coming up at different points in time this will indeed cause time differences if they are initially synchronized with a third clock. If the clock coming up later synchronizes with the other clock already running there should be no issues though.

I read the article, too, and this two different ways of converting are more or less equivalent of two clocks starting in sync but drifting relative to each other. Therefore my initial comment was quite on the spot.
Hi! I work on product at Stripe. We're currently working on better API for managing recipients.

However, I can't seem to reproduce the issue you're seeing--could you provide a bit more context? If you change a recipient's bank account, their past transfers will still appear on their page in your Stripe dashboard and when listing transfers via the API and filtering by recipient ID.

Edit: Feel free to PM me as well :). I'm michelle@stripe.com.
Perl is strictly speaking, compiled.
I had a dumb phone for a very long time, but after trying to navigate a cross-country road trip with a flip phone, I succumbed and upgraded to an iPhone. I can kinda be persuaded by the argument that we give up some of the adventure of traveling when we have the full details of the road before us, but I am more persuaded by having a gluten-free family who will need to eat at some point in the next hours and dammit, where is next Chipotle?

It is also interesting to me that many of the folks in the article admit it's not a problem with smartphones, but rather their own shortcomings--they can't not be distracted.
> I think at some point we'll look at smartphones the way we look at tobacco: a hard to quit, annoying habit…

Can't say I see that happening. As many users already mentioned smartphones add great value to people's day to day.
-Slightly slower release schedule[achieved in part by the previous item]

It's actually pretty slow. It doesn't matter if you have 29.1 and 29.2 at a 6-month interval. You will have to patch security fixes quickly and release urgent bug fixes like constant crash. The release cycle is pretty slow... And users actually expect to see more constant updates to ensure they are getting the latest bug-fixes.

Chrome on the other hand needs to slow down.
For $50/year, I get Evernote on my Nexus 5, my Macbook Air, my iMac at home, web browser, and my most favorite component, the Evernote Chrome Web Clipper.

I pay more for Netflix, and I get so much more out of Evernote. I'd prepay for life if I could.

So, to answer your questions:

> Is it worth it over the totally free OneNote?

For me, most definitely. I've built it into my workflow. For you, that depends on value.

> but I wonder if you could rely on your desktop to perform OCR for you, and then the phone could search the results?

As I mentioned, for $50/year (which I make in less than half an hour), it just works.
People don't always know if something is behind a paywall - you might have reached the read limit before they have etc.

I would much rather people posted paywallsd content than content from sites with scumbag ads, but I recognise this is just my personal preference.
For everyone not in on the internal joke, the reference was to this clip: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4578856/mozilla-ceo-on-the-la...
Well, you're just wrong about that. I'm personally aware of people who do.
You can also "press-and-hold" on the picture. And when you lift the finger the photo is taken.
Counter is pretty sweet when you get used to it, believe me :)
What about private businesses? It's becoming apparent that there will be a series of lawsuits against businesses in the wedding industry to force them to participate in gay weddings or go out of business.
Chicago is easy. It's laid out on a grid with a very few diagonal arteries. Texting CTABUS XXXX to 41411(where XXXX is the stop number) tells you when the next bus is coming.

There's only a couple of trains, and they shouldn't be very hard to get a handle on.

All of this is easy for me to say (having been born in Chicago), but there's really not a lot to memorize. It's no New York.

Edit: Here's a tip; memorize the major East-West boulevards on the North side (their order, if not their number.) The city is Cartesian, and that helps a lot with the conversion.
Yeah, I haven't looked into cheap smartphones (I bought my current dumbphone maybe two years ago and things move quickly).

But of course at time goes buy the low end phones get more and more featureful. That being said I doubt the Moto G has 10 days battery life and is as solid as my current brick phone.

Still, it's a good recommendation, I'll look into it when my current phone stops working.
Back to the old punch tape:

A computer is like a robot, controlled by a roll of toilet-paper covered in stickers. The pattern of stickers controls the robot. You can't put more than one sticker in a single square.

Let's say I buy a house-keeping robot. The manufacturers left 64 consecutive squares of toilet-paper blank. The manual says I can specify which parts of the house I want cleaned by filling in the blanks with stickers.

If I add more than 64 stickers, this means I covered-up some of the stickers the manufacturers put on. This causes the robot to malfunction. This is called an overflow. If I know the language the stickers are written in, I can intentionally overflow the robot to act in (potentially evil) ways that have nothing to do with cleaning.
No it isn't. Those tell you what types the values represent. We're talking about the actual source code itself. In lisp, the source code is itself a perfectly ordinary lisp value. That is what homoiconicity is. That is not something scala has, nor is it something scala wants to or claims to have.
This is exactly what I have wound up doing. A quality dumbphone is still like $80 (last one I had was a Nokia C2), so the Moto G isn't wildly more.

In my case, I was mostly after navigation and good calendar sync, plus I was getting tired of T9 for countless texts.
It is actually interesting that you should bring this up. I am opposed to slavery, and I am for the civil rights of all, but what about those people who are opposed to certain outcomes of the civil rights movement, like affirmative action, because they believe it undermined the principle of equality before the law and created legal privileges for certain groups in order to try and eliminate certain material inequalities? What if they simply believed that such legislation lacked a clear definition for success, and thus opened the gateway for future oppression in the reverse?

To take it even further, what if someone thought that the civil war was not (primarily) about the rights of African slaves, but rather a proxy for a rivalry between two political factions? Does the Union treatment of Native Americans suggest they were overflowing with humanitarian sentiment when it came to dealing with non-WASP peoples in general?

It's important to ask such questions, because the Union of the 1800's, and the political supporters of the civil rights movements of the 1900's, could have in fact been harmful to the very people they were claiming to help, because helping them was never their true goal. I am not saying that such people were consciously manipulative, rather it was simply easy for them to use the cause of others as a justification for actions that benefited themselves.

Likewise, could it be that Mr. Eich was not against the rights of homosexual people, but rather attempting to resist another political faction's attempt to control the moral narrative? Based upon his own statements, as well as the statements by those who have worked with him who are homosexual, I see no indication of malice. Furthermore, since he has been with Mozilla since the beginning, it would stand to reason that if he had a significant opposition to the organizations policies, he would have left long ago.
I don't think they'll be doing that many calibrations in this suit.
Couple of things:

1. Where I grew up there was a good deal of intermittent, unintrusive surveillance from adults--mothers looking out the windows from time to time. Their daughters weren't necessarily home when the kids got home from school. Some adults may be forgetting that level of oversight.

2. Kids, anyway some kids, will find a way. A dozen years ago in the DC suburbs I heard voices from an open manhole cover, and looked in. There was a kid of about 12 down there. Being the responsible adult, I said, "Hey! You kids shouldn't be down there." The kid said, 'Oh, we're down here a lot. We go all the way over to the middle school." (Say three quarters of a mile.)
pander, not panda

Although I wouldn't panda an auditor either.
CloudFlare does not host any website or it's content actually. They are not a web hosting service.
What is the difference between an ordinary Moleskine and the Evernote Moleskine? I couldn't figure it out from that product page.
Is that still around? I thought they were removing micro transactions.
Though, I thought EL Wire (at least, the stuff consumers can get their hands on) is sensitive to UV light and leaving it in the sunlight (in the Earth's atmosphere!) reduces its lifespan. Space would be the wrong place for that stuff, assuming that they haven't taken this into account.

EDIT:

Looks like the suit is for ground testing only, though this would still apply if they're using it in the sunlight.
Mozilla does not do this. Individual has the freedom to pursue their political belief just as anyone can choose to work for and not work for someone you do not agree with. Just as you can vote for a President who is in favor of X solution X instead of solution Y. An open web means exactly that: everyone can participate. And by that we don't mean everyone has to agree on everything.
UK firm behind Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 breakthrough
He wants to buy his mugger a taxi so he can have a new lease on life
I think it's very unlikely that airplanes will be battery powered in the medium-term future. The chemical energy stored in hydrogen bonds is just so much denser than the electrical energy stored in concentrated lithium ions.

I know that battery-powered planes have been built, but it just seems so uneconomical to me. Do you have evidence that could persuade me otherwise?

Or perhaps am I misunderstanding? By light aircraft do you mean aircraft less than 100 pounds or something?
> Studies indicate that kids of gay parents do just as well as kids of straight parents.

I would love to see these studies. I'll look into this a bit more, but do you have any you particularly recommend?
>Google Maps knows when the bus is coming, and which buses to take to get somewhere quickly.

I recently visited SF and mostly used public transportation to get around. Google Maps was awesome.
It absolutely does not have 10 day battery, but it does have one of the best battery lives of the crop. If mostly left asleep, it could last several days for sure.

I do grimace more when I drop it onto a stone floor, but it has already survived that once.
It's possible to talk to people about politics, even those you strongly disagree with, and keep it amicable.

The fact that it seems alien to people to be able to do that indicates something has gone deeply, deeply wrong with politics.
I'm building a marketplace just now... this could be very useful but 2.9% fee is too high(I take 4%), anyone know fee if process more of $80000/month?
I have a nokia 301 that I bought for the smaller form factor, good battery life and some international use, and found that I used it a lot more for many of the reasons listed in the article. If I need to, I can still check my email/the weather/bus times, but every now and then I find myself switching back to my smartphone for the same reasons you list.

Not having maps is extremely limiting. Sure, if I'm going a few places I can check google maps beforehand, plan out a route, and get to my destination. The flexibility to deviate from that is completely lost, and why I have to alternate between the two phones.
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The Purpose of Religion
I also can no longer read reCaptcha. So I did the smart thing and got rid of it. Instead, I've been using this:

http://www.nucaptcha.com/

A MILLION times better. It's actually a pleasure to use. I've had no problems with it at all. Go to my website websmithing.com if you want to see it in action.

Death to reCaptcha. Your usefulness as a product is diminishing.
Go for Apple then, custom batteries, not user-replaceable, not retailed. They'll sign you a check for $10bn instead.
For the curious this Václav Havel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._J._Havel

is not the better known Czech politician of the same name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel
Of course Inmarsat will encourage airlines to implement this. I believe it is in their interest as it makes them extra money and wouldn't cost them that much more. The senior vice president for external affairs claims it costs about a dollar an hour (www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26723980). I'm no expert and pretty clueless but to me this doesn't sound like a trivial cost on a fleet of about 100 aircraft.
Space has extremely high contrast light conditions due to the lack of reflective materials in a vacuum, shadows have zero visible detail. To counter act that effect you'd want an all white suit to help diffuse as much reflected light as possible.
Sell service of running a DDoS for you? Probably illegal.

Selling attack tools, however, is explicitly legal in most places, it's just software just as a port-scanning tool, DeCSS or zero-day vulnerability data.

"Promoting this sort of activity" again is free speech issue, no matter what "that sort" is. For example, there are posts right here in HN that "promote this sort of activity", and it would be ridiculous if having such content is even close to allowing someone to take down a server.

In short, unless the actual site is performing illegal activities (implementing the DDoS or uploading childporn&stuff), I'd say that they're correct in explicitly ignoring whatever else the site is doing.
I think "equal before the State" is implied here. After all, gay couples can already perform marriage rituals and live together, what they lack is the recognition of the official institutions.
How long until "I only have a landline" becomes the ultimate hipster creedo?
Phacterl – The Actor Model in PHP
I never understood why people say "I don't need a watch, I have a phone in my pocket!" You know why watches were invented, right? Personally I've been thinking about getting a pager.
I turned the data plan off on my smartphone about 1 month after I bought my first tablet. What sucks is finding a phone, in today's market, having a decent screen plus keyboard for texting. It's looking like Im going to have to buy a blackberry Q10, even though, really, I'm overpaying for my actual needs. Anyone know of other more affordable options out there that don't make me look like I'm on the A-TEAM? Is it possible there's actually a really big opportunity for phone makers that's being missed here?
Indeed, but that's not the reasoning you used above.
What a confusing site, or is it just me?
You don't have to leave it in the car, to prevent it from interrupting you. Silent + no vibrate. And it is nice to be able to place a call anytime, nearly anywhere.
I understand your argument, but the assumption it's based on - that pharmaceutical industry income is disproportionally financed by the USA when compared (per treatment) to other developed nations - requires supporting data.
> Is Apple friendly towards people who replicate their connector interfaces?

The exact opposite: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/hypermac/
@martianpenguin, your comments are dead. Only a small subset of users can see them.

You can reach out to pg@ to request an unban (http://www.andrewkkirk.com/2012/12/how-unbanned-from-hacker-...). Hopefully enough traffic will make hn reconsider this policy.
Just use any of the other Ubuntu variants that don't have any of that crap. At the levels that count for this discussion they're mostly the same.
The reason they have so much overlapping functionality is because they are built with the same general-purpose hardware & operating system. That saves money.

The reason both exist is because a big screen is great but it doesn't fit in your pocket (and it looks dumb when you hold it to your ear)
Android – openFileChooser not called when input type="file" is clicked
> What about private businesses?

'bit more complex. Private businesses wouldn't be protected if they refused to participate in a mixed-race or a muslim wedding — and could always be sued either way — but I guess the exact result would depend on sexual orientation being a protected class.

Public accomodations ("workplace and facilities that serve the general public") are covered under Title II. Sexual orientation isn't a federally protected class under title II, but it can be protected at the state level, it is in Colorado (since 2008) where a couple successfully sued a bakery for refusal to sell a wedding cake (Craig v. Masterpiece Cakeshop).

In such states, or if sexual orientation ever becomes a federal protected class under title II, businesses will not be able to refuse service based on it, just as they can't based on "race, color, religion or national origin".
Tesla, yes. The others likely have too much to lose and are too large for me - I like a position with flexibility. And I don't want to work on military hardware.
Actually, I see the word 'attack' as an emotional trigger and maybe not ideal. I much preferred their analogy that assures non-technical users (on github???) and makes sense:

> This is like a bunch of people blocking the front door and not letting you into your house. The contents of your house are safe -- you just can’t get in until they get out of the way.
HTC One M8 said to top new benchmarks
https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-...

We were essentially doing the lose-lose algorithm. It's a functioning hash table but there's a lot of room for improvement.
This is a very useful post.

Are the notebooks branded? I'm curious about that process but don't see anything mentioned in the post (maybe I'm missing it).
Also worth pointing out that while AMD does have PC hardware with hUMA (Kaveri series APUs), the unified memory pool only exists when you're using the integrated graphics processor. If you hook up a discrete GPU (which most gamers do) you get two separate memory pools that are in a unified address space, but don't have the magical consistency benefits that hUMA can give a CPU+GPU working on the same data. Not my area of expertise, but I doubt that kind of setup will help with PS4/XBOne emulation.

For drivers, proper support for hUMA isn't available yet on PC. There's some pretty recent information on AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7825/amd-updates-driver-roadma...
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