skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but she doesn't want all the buttons from all the remotes moved to a single monstermote, she wants the TV remote to do everything as if the only thing connected was a TV.
"Why do I have to choose channels on my TV AND cable/satellite box?" and "why are there multiple sound levels for the HiFi, TV, cable and DVD boxes?" are questions no one has adequately answered and they're questions everyone except geeks and techno-fetishists are asking.

I actually want Apple to do something about this, though I'm not normally in on Apple's philosophy. I propose the following:

1. Any TV channel without content on it goes away. If you only have 3 channels with signal you get no benefit from being able to select 96 channels of white noise.

2. Cable/satellite channels stack on top of the TV channels. It just looks like your TV has more over-the-air channels when you plug in the box.

3. DVD-players and so on are treated as channels (see 3). EXT goes away. A device can be represented by as many channels as it wants, but they're all stacked on top of the TV channels. No special treatment, except perhaps a lower number. A device is turned on when you select a channel associated with it.

4. Any sound systems automatically defer to the settings on the TV. They behave as if they were the TV speakers. No setup. No settings. No knobs to turn. Plug and Play. If a sound system has buttons it's too complicated.

5. DVD/BR players lose all but play/pause, ff/rwd and the nevigational buttons. Why is there a numpad on my DVD remote? I don't even want to know. Just make it go away. Same with the TV remote itself: Everything except on/off, numpad and volume disappears. Remotes are not unified, but everything that can be deferred to the TV remote is deferred to it.

The above isn't completely perfect, but it's kind of obvious.

I'm currently studying but I might be available for hiring or consulting. I obviously compare favorably with whoever is maintaining the status quo.
> and the 3rd is my life insurance/savings account

I'm interested in learning more about life insurance. Did the book you recommend advise storing value in life insurance? Most resources I've studied suggest that any life insurance product other than "term" is not worthwhile, and that it's not worth getting until some stakeholder in your life depends on your lifetime earning potential.
Some suggestions: replace "Earn" by "Save" or "Earn __ additional"; replace "~ 80% less" (sounds sloppy) with "up to" or even "about"/"usually"
> But an attacker can certainly intercept HTTPS as well, and if they redirect you quick enough you'll never see the "wrong cert" errors.

No, any sort of HTTPS interception will be detected by the browser (assuming of course that the certificate authority infrastructure has not been compromised). There's no way to redirect "quick enough" to bypass certificate checking.
A good start, but not good enough.

Microsoft still puts limits on the license, it ties the hands of any developer who wants to make something with it.
you talk as if this already was a runaway success with consumers. did i miss something? cuecat bombed as well.

maybe it will take off, maybe it will not.

drawing any conclusions right now is bs.
i think this is a big deal. When I am working in kitchen, i see lot of items needing refill, reordering etc...it is little cumbersome to stop your work, wash your hands and get the phone to take the note. Not to mention, once u pick your phone there are 100 hundred things going on - facebook, mails, texts etc to distract you for long time. Knowing this distraction, if I just say - "OK, I will just remember in my brain and will not pick up phone" then you know I never remember that task or things later. I think you can also use this device as your note taker incase you want to buy from somewhere else. Enjoy the convenience ;-)
I totally agree with what you've said, although I personally think that in terms of long-term misery that fossil fuels have the potential to be just as damaging as slavery.
Yeah, not intuitive at all. Why do you have to click the reflection button if reflection is the only operation you have? There seems to be no response from the interface when you click the arrow if you have it poorly placed. It would be much nicer if it left the reflection line there in a different color and created a new line in a different color so you could see what happened more clearly.
I really did not need the detail about the "bacon waffles" though. Odd.
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A trailer of a short Film thats coming this Tuesday "A young boy has a sleeping disorder (Sleep Paralysis) and takes pills to sleep comfortable. What happens when he can't find his pills?"
There is no front-running: http://clarkgaebel.com/you-are-not-being-front-run/
1. Take pic of your white van.
2. Post pic with description and mileage on craigslist.
3. Don't mention what happened in the back of the van in '99.
3. Get a couple emails.
4. Sell it to the highest bidder.

Who's too stupid to not figure this out and needs a service?

Okay, so they pay you more than the dealership. That's a selling point. But I could find someone on Craigslist and sell it to them for more.
I'm surprised this exists to be honest. Not because of smartphones, but because I thought RFID chips would be sufficiently disposable by now that we'd have smart refrigerators and trashcans. I had to buy a new refrigerator last year and I was struck by how many different kinds of ice dispensers there were (a feature in which I have no interest whatsoever) vs smart refrigerators. I found exactly one of the latter - the unfortunately named T9000 from Samsung (Komm vith me if you vant a snack...), which is really just a refrigerator with a tablet stuck on the front, didn't do very much, was completely locked down (understandable) and cost $4000.
Since 2001 I have had schizo affective disorder. I has destroyed my career.

I tried to write about mental illnesses and the startup community, which I think is something that needs to be talked about. But my submissions get deleted and censored.

Sometimes your best talent has a mental illness, how do you manage them? Most just fire that talent when they discover they are mentally ill. It is something that has to stop!
I fully agree, except re baby/bathwater, which is to say we see the tradeoffs differently.

If we can't discuss contentious topics in a reasonable manner then we're already in trouble.

Precisely—and it's clear that we can't, and that we're in trouble. I regard this as, perhaps not a crisis, but certainly an existential issue for HN. Because of it, the site has drifted away from its values: intellectual substance and personal civility. Those values are why I'm here. They are our priority and not open for negotiation.

But everything else is open. There's nothing we're doing right now (including these feedback comments I've been posting) that isn't just an experiment. If we get better data or better ideas for genuinely improving HN, nothing would make us happier. We don't claim to know the answers—it's all about seeing what works.
(You keep editing your comments, replacing old questions with new questions, which makes it rather difficult to reply to you. I suggest making new comments instead.)

> Does it in fact reject connections to self-signed certs?

Yes, you don't even need HSTS for this. HSTS just disallows the user from overriding the browser and accepting the self-signed (or otherwise bad) certificate.
From what I've observed, the older, less technologically inclined generations struggle with quickly adapting to new technologies and appreciate the tried and true method of picking up the remote and clicking on a traditional cable/dish set top box and knowing it will "just work".

Hell, I have to constantly reteach my parents which buttons do what on a remote control, let alone navigating submenus. I think that when the millennial generation takes over, a larger majority of the population will understand technology better simply because they grew up understanding certain tech/UX paradigms that the older generations never needed to.
That hypothesis is completely wrong:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/07/02/the-mfap-hypot...
I'm curious what you think of this line of reasoning:

http://www.volokh.com/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-bans-and-...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
This if Amazon Fresh were available in her Area is targeted right at my grandmother. She Has Macular Degeneration and can not drive. My Grandfather has to drive and his energy level seems to diminish by the day. So needless to say Grocery Shopping takes both of them. With her eyes a smartphone is more or less useless. But this having a speech function seems like it would be perfect for her.
Are you implying that the story "Facts Concerning the
Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" By H. P. Lovecraft is not in fact so far-fetched at all? That such a thing is possible?
Why not use the open source Clearskies instead of BTSync?

https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
Yes, Fanout works as a publish-subscribe service. Clients listen on channels (topics), and you publish messages to channels which Fanout then delivers to the right clients.

In the case of HTTP streaming, Fanout acts like a reverse proxy in front of your web server. Incoming requests are relayed to your server, and you can control Fanout's behavior depending on how you reply. For example, you can reply with a "hold" instruction saying to bind the incoming request to streaming channel C. The transaction between Fanout and your server is now complete, while the connection between the client and Fanout remains open. You can then send messages to this client by publishing on channel C.

The process is explained in more detail on this post about our open source reference implementation: http://blog.fanout.io/2013/04/09/an-http-reverse-proxy-for-r...

Implementing something like SSE is just a matter of responding with a stream subscribe with initial response of Content-Type: text/event-stream, and then publishing event chunks using SSE formatting.
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And all this is bad for what reason exactly? If you see everything as a profit center - or, in other terms, something which gives 'economic benefits' (to whom?) - I can understand why you're peeved by free software. From a user perspective I can see no downside to the availability of a large body of free software, au contraire.

Understand that 'value' does not equal 'economic value'. There are many factors which make up the value of a good or a technology, some of them easily quantifiable - like your 'economic value', some of them less so. Also understand that in the long run the increased access to technology which free software and free protocols provide can actually lead to economic benefits as well.

You use the web as an example to support your thesis. Imagine what would have happened if CERN decided to license and sell web technologies in the way Apple and Microsoft license and sell their products. You would not have been able to write your comment here, on this web site, using that browser. There would not have been a web site for you to write it on. Even if you were 'lucky' enough to have some corporate sponsor to pay for your 'Platinum web access' voucher your comment would probably have lingered in the void for lack of readership. The web would have resembled America Online or Minitel, with limited interaction and commercial sites only. It would also have given but a fraction of the 'economic benefits' of the current, open web.
You could, it will just take 180 days (or whatever you have it set to).
This is interesting. Could the static HTML files connect to decentralized databases?
Of course it is detected, we are not trying to fool the PC. When I visit my personal website with a flawed certificate (for example, once I was missing the Intermediate CA) it loads the site all the same, but the lock icon shows a security verification failure.

What in HSTS protects you from that? Because it seems to me if you can get there, you can get back to http:// before the user notices the verification failure. Unless the browser simply refuses to load the site due to the verification failure, which I only see for "suspected attack sites"

Intercept 443 => Issue insecure page with new HSTS timeout => Redirect to 80 before user notices insecure page warning
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It sounds like you're not familiar with Amazon Fresh (understandable given that it's currently only available in 3 cities in the US). You don't have to use this device to buy groceries from Amazon Fresh. You can just use their run-of-the-mill web store. https://fresh.amazon.com/welcome

It's been available in Seattle for almost a year now, long before this thing came out.
Yes, you've failed to consider the time value of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money

50k today is worth more than 50k in the future.

(Consistent compounding at 7% is extremely optimistic, even before considering inflation at 3%+).
Does anyone know how they connect to WiFi? There's like two buttons and one beep for I/O.

(Half joking: Or is it a Speak Friend And Enter kind of thing, where you have to speak the WiFi credentials.)
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Then you're not the target audience for this. The last time I sold a car via Craigslist it probably consumed 8 hours at least. Multiple test drives, etc. Nowadays I'd let the dealer screw me rather than take that time. This seems like a great intermediate path if it's well run.
All this will do is encourage people to give money in ways that can't easily be traced. Mob rule will lead to LESS accountability, not more.

I've given money to Lambda Legal Defense Fund for years, but that doesn't mean I support rule by the Booboisie.
He's on the team.
Ok I give up even pretending to understand statistics anymore

I'm going to pick up a neglected "Think Stats" from OReilly and would appreciate anyone's feedback on Stats Moocs on coursera or similar

(I'm finding long division difficult these days)
Agreed.

In fairness however, my wife and I use grocery lists on our phones all the time (though it's only two steps, not the OP's 7: (1) "put peaches on my grocery list" (2) confirm).
That was mentioned in the article, and some polyfills were given.
The thing about the wedding photographer and cake designer who did not want to be involved in a wedding that violated their religious beliefs, is that the United States has already been there on a wide scale. Go back fifty or sixty years, and you'll find vast numbers of businesses that refused to serve non-whites, often for sincerely held religious reasons.
Actuall, that was one of the best episode of This American Life.
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Hey martian, thanks for the feedback. Your methodology is pretty sound - it looks like we use a similar technique. If you supply a small sample size here, you'll get the message, "There is not enough data to determine a conclusive result".
You misspelled "understand" in a comment criticizing the review process. If this was irony, I must say your trolling is sublime. However if this was an error I think you might want to rethink your position. I have no problem waiting 6 months or a year for peer reviewed publications.
I hope you find it useful. Also, I don't know what kind of language you're designing, but if it's an object oriented language, you might be more interested in some other papers on gradual typing, for example:

[1] J Siek, W Taha - Gradual Typing for Objects - http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~siek/gradual-obj.pdf
[2] T Wrigstad, FZ Nardelli, S Lebresne, J Östlund, J Vitek - Integrating Typed and Untyped Code in a Scripting Language - https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jv/pubs/popl10.pdf
[3] A Rastogi, A Chaudhuri, B Hosmer - The Ins and Outs of Gradual Type Inference - http://www.cs.umd.edu/~avik/papers/iogti.pdf
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Right, because the semver "standard" is inconsistent in that particular way.
I have personally completely given up on scanning QR codes and barcodes with a camera phone. It's just never worth it.
DB Navigator is for me such an example, the Android version improved but it is still very buggy and slow. The Android version used to look and behave almost exactly like the iOS version which simply doesn't work for Android.

While the iOS version works very well.

That is a frustrating experience.
Yes, the umbrella term for this HTTP server push is Comet[1], and it's been around in various forms for years. But standardizing this in the form of server-sent events is a very Good Thing, especially with support baked into modern browsers.

Also, unlike WebSockets it's also easy to add SSE support for mobile clients. I've implemented a SSE client class in just over 100 lines of Java, and it's similarly easy to do this with NSURLConnection/NSURLSession on iOS. The W3 standard provides an implementation section that reads like pseudocode.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29

[2]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/#event-stream-interpreta...
I'm in the same boat - I've given up and leave these things to the experts :)
Alternatively, make a plain html website and don't ask users to log in and don't track them with cookies, etc. If you want to collect money from them, make a real product and mail it to them after they sent you a postal money order.

Any attempt to defeat that model will be handled by the US Postal Inspection Service, (see also https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/aboutus/mission.aspx)
Ask HN: What programming topics would you like to know more about?
and can't due to lack of time, learning resources, etc
I liked Google Wave, and really liked being able to write software robots on AppEngine that joined waves like humans, and could read and write to waves. Potentially a nice platform to develop for, until Google Wave was cancelled.

I have run Apache Waves a few times, easy to set up and the simplified UI is very nice.

What I am missing from Apache Wave is a platform for writing software robots. Does anyone know of any useful options for this?
And here's a few more.

Dash device is an exemplar of a service in the same way that a Kindle device is. Amazon retains the option to later go the other way too, but while the constraint is still on the supply side (limited markets) this device serves to fix the service as a thing and generate publicity.

Also, the platform is controlled by Amazon. Free from interference by Apple, Google, OEM or carrier. Wifi and internet aside, all support issues will be standard and coming back to the same place.

For a mass-market voice UI device with no screen, at this stage in the game, voice recognition has to be best in class. I doubt Amazon could have managed this through a plethora of mobile devices. And they would not want their commercial voice data to be processed on Apple's or Google's servers via OS services.

I expect a tear-down will show that some of the parts used are, for now, relatively expensive, but at volume, this device can become a give-away / throw-away.
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Almost certainly if there were a decentralized database that exhibited bitcoin / namecoin like behaviour.
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At the time, though, Bluetooth was neither common nor very easy to work with on home PCs.
What browser flat-out refuses to connect to a webpage with an invalid SSL cert? Is this a recent development?

Edit: Apparently all of them now, I sure didn't notice that. Not a concern, then

Test site: https://tv.eurosport.com/
Here is my problem: it's been in this perpetual beta mode since 2007.

At some point they should be done with all the market research there is to do and either go big or stop wasting resources on building gadgets for it.
Yeah, but the concept of "offset" implies that there is something essentially poisonous to counteract. You may have to continue doing some of these poisonous activities...but you're acknowledging that the consequences of them are negative, period.

"Offsets" may not be literally a boycott, but the message is the same. And if at all possible, the organizers of such should avoid creating more "poison" to "offset"...in this case, if you wanted to put your name as a pledge, you had to have a Github account, and you had to use Github's services...which, in the end, helps to perpetuate Github.

But the kicker is that using Github as a necessary evil is not necessary at all, thanks to the great work of open-source developers...

(and yes, the question of, what the hell does "offseting" Github's culture even mean is a whole separate mind-dislocation, but not worth debating in this thread)
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HTTPS sounds great and st but HTTPS won't help you if you dumb enough to execute shell commands as a root on your server based on unfiltered user form inputs... Unfortunately, I noticed that lots of 'idea guys' trust the dev they hire first even if they have absolutely no skills whatsoever. lOOOl
I try hard not to be mean. If you'd care to suggest how to improve my wording, I'd be happy to. It's possible that my frustration after a year and a half of reading such comments as eps's with no ability to reply to them leaked through.

A better way for eps to help lacero, if that's all he or she wanted to do, would have been to email and ask us to check why lacero's comment was dead. We would have replied with a thank-you note saying what the reason was and that we had restored all the comments in question. But it doesn't feel to me like helping others is the only agenda going on with comments like eps's, which as you may know are something of a cottage industry on HN.

How you're "going to be treated by the new moderators" is with as much fairness and clarity as we can possibly muster, and willingness to correct our mistakes.
If marriage is a venue for biological reproduction, then people shouldn't get the tax breaks and other legal benefits (hospital visitation, etc) until they've done so. Maybe the marriage certificate should be provisional until the first birth? Also, adoption certainly shouldn't count, since that's something same-sex couples can also do.
Would guess you have to do some initial setup on some other way, maybe via USB connection to your computer.
I understand you are passionate about this topic but please consider this line of thinking:

Here is what I am seeing:
"The discrimination against Brendan was based on something that he did." [therefore the discrimination is morally justifiable]

He did what he thought was right by his own standards.

I don't suppose you are for punishing people who do things based on what they believe is right.

Rather, you want to punish Brendan, in part, because of the nature of his belief.

If Brendan had NOT donated, would you have wanted him to resign?

Perhaps not, because, then you would argue, it is okay for him to have bad ideas, so long as he doesn't act on them.

It is because Brendan had donated to a cause which you disagree with, that you want him to be punished. Because a donation to a cause, in itself, is not "morally" reprehensible. You wouldn't punish people for donating for a cause.

Rather, your problem is with the cause he donated.

Your problem is not with Brendan, it is with the anti-movement against taking gender out of the equation in legal marriage.

Brendan has a different standard than you do.

It is clear that you believe Brendan has a bad standard.

But who is to say Brendan's standard is better or worst than yours?

It is with this line of thinking that you might reconsider whether it is, in fact, "morally justifiable" to discriminate against Brendan.
Note for those visiting the thread, I found one of the big things with this release is the support for Edit & Continue:

http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/104141

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAroJmb6XY4

It was in the original title, but has been edited out.