skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple reportedly planning massive Q3 rollout
Memory lane: before everyone loved Windows XP, they hated it
Obviously Tesla would rather make public statements directly to the public, instead of having USA Today or some other media outlet spin what they say. Seems like a prudent move to me.
If you want insanity, try to name any female russian first name that does not end with a 'uh' or 'ah' sound.
> moms of the world

Sorry to go off topic, and I'm guilty of this myself, but this is very sexist and ageist* in that you are enlisting stereotypes against those groups in order to make your point.

*Not that all mothers are old, but that is the stereotype being enlisted, given the context
My half-baked theory is names ending with "n" are generally all clearly masculine. Many names are being gradually feminized, or at least androgenized, such as Taylor and Kacey. I bet many parents naming boys would try to avoid ambiguous or potentially ambiguous names.

All of the boy names that pop into my head right now that end with "n" are pretty unassailably male.

John. Shawn. Allen. Ben. Brandon. Trenton. Colin. Ethan. Jason.

Of course, the day is coming that some little girl is named Johnathan.
The article does a bad job of explaining what the Cochrane report finds to be flawed about the clinical trials.
The future DBA
That is fascinating. Please don't take this the wrong way because I'm genuinely curious, but are they all white kids? I'm curious to see if this is a way for some white parents to give their children distinctively white names.
Then don't buy a Tesla.
OK, I see what you're getting at. There is a difference between the end of the buffer and the end of the data. But copying some bytes into a buffer doesn't imply that you intend to discard the rest of the buffer. It's quite common to want to replace a header or some other subsection of a buffer and have the rest of the buffer remain unmodified.

Moreover, the purpose of the above is to achieve the level of bounds checking that you get with the likes of Java. If you want to go beyond that then you need something more complicated -- maybe add separate variables to the buffer struct for buffer_len and data_len and then have different memcpy functions based on whether you want existing data in the buffer to be truncated. But there comes a point at which further complexity produces more confusion than safety.
If the error is caused by the user, the message should not apologize.

Sorry, the email address you entered appears to be invalid.

That just sounds condescending; you know they're not really sorry.

However, if the error is caused by your system, including any third party dependencies, then an apology is in order.

Sorry, the requested service appears to be inaccessible at the moment. Please try again later.
I was curious about the technology they were using, and it turns out the background is more interesting than I thought.

http://www.zdnet.com/storedot-inside-the-nanotech-that-can-c...
The fact is linode is more expensive than Digital Ocean. I actually hope they stay that way. Why?

My expectations are that they take that extra money and give me more assurances. Pricing is screwy and I fully admit this just may be pricing psychology.

For the extra amount I expect:

* Better support

* More stable network and disk I/O

* Feature decisions that favor stability over bleeding edge.

Every quarter I am looking at digital ocean and wondering if I need to move our production boxes over. So far though Linode has me hooked. The extra amount I save is not worth it. Digital ocean wins hard on price but they need more than that to buy a customer. Just like the competition between Azure and Amazon, Azure needs to do MORE than price match. Azure needs to go above and beyond what I expect from Amazon.
Awesome video and complete validation of my theory that Ive is trying to eliminate design from user interfaces and make it so that anyone can do it even with MS Word.

Lowering the barrier to app creation is all this flat, modern crap is about. The end user's experience is of no consideration at all because they can be easily convinced _anything_ is cool. I can't wait for the backlash.

Everyone at apple with taste is either being forced out or quitting so when that backlash comes apple will be left holding an empty bag.
Inside the nanotech that can charge your batter in 30s
The intended contempt may have eluded brudgers, bitwize, and peteretep but it wasn't lost on me - hence my question.
You don't need to use Carousel to be on the receiving end. If the recipent isn't a Carousel user, they receive a link to a nicely formatted gallery page with the option to download all the photos in a zip file or copy them to their Dropbox.
The point is, there's no point changing them until the site fixes their certificates.
Apparently LastPass is still vulnerable: https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/?h=LastPass.com
I lost 40. Put on a fitbit, set the weight goal and did what it says to do - EVERY DAY. Took about 2-3 months. I didn't find it hard.

I know many people struggle. What fascinates me about the experience - I'm no different than anyone else, but this was not painful or even difficult. I just kinda blindly did what it says to do. People fail. Isn't the trick not what to do, everyone knows how a body loses weight. How do you trigger in people's minds the motivation and discipline? Now, I'm generally pretty lazy. I don't like chores. I just walked my 10k steps logged my food and it didn't seem like work.
It only uses wifi by default.
Fellow code-monkey, startup founder, alcoholic here -

It DOES get better. Shit I burned my entire life to the ground. Incredible salary (not to mention investments/savings), a house, fiancee, etc.. I had the whole fucking american dream and wasn't even 25. It felt though like the next thing I knew I was waking up and I was 29, having systematically destroyed everything in my life and was living off what little was left on my last non-maxed out credit card....eventually attempted suicide but my drunken ass failed at even that! I can't even begin to describe how un-comprehensibly demoralizing my life had become. In the absence of alcohol I'd shake uncontrollably which eventually led to auditory + visual hallucinations -- Some very scary shit! My neighbor took me to the ER one day after I stumbled down some stairs & promptly went into a full seizure in the waiting room....after a few days in their detox ward the simple logic of "What I had been doing wasn't working.....Maybe I should try a different approach," I found myself on a plane headed to a rehab out in Pasadena, CA where I remembered a few friends had been to (and were living the life I wanted). The entire experience from that moment on saved my life. That first year wasn't all peaches and cream but I quickly found my balance of life/work/family...got back all the relationships that mattered & the work/money eventually followed. I've seen the same shit happen to easily hundreds of others. Hell, I personally know a solid dozen VERY successful, well known posters/startup hero's on HN who are recovered alcoholics/addicts.

Please shoot me an email.. even just to chat...
unholygoat@gmx.com
(it's forwarded to my real email)

If you don't want to email me or Snail_commando at least checkout this site (It's a giant forum/directory of all the many different types of help out there & can put in in touch with all the various resources that are local to you).

http://www.soberrecovery.com/

Anyhow man, I hope to hear from you...there's an entire world out there of people who have lived through the madness and chaos and can help you do the same.
-b
I keep my KeePass database synced between devices using a Dropbox-like service that I self-host, so the file is never out of my control. But even if someone grabs the database off my machine or in transit, it's no good if they don't know my master password.
Glad to see this out. I've been waiting on famo.us to become available for quite a while now. Exciting stuff.

Now, where is the documentation? The readme from the repo points to a docs folder that does not exist, and links to the online versions of documentation lead me to login-only pages... registering only puts me in line for access.
>Go cares about scalability in the large

Which features precisely have led you to believe this? I can't see any indication of that anywhere. You seem to be creating a false dichotomy: "caring about abstractions and caring about scalability are opposing goals", so that you can ascribe one side of a nonexistent spectrum to go.

>But if you're not on a large problem, that 10% of repetition will chafe you...

Except that is simply not the case. The larger the problem, the more that duplicate code causes problems.
DNA robots work in a live cockroach
I was prescribed Tamiflu once a few years ago and wow .. what a weird drug. My memory might be off but I think it is supposed to reduce the length of the flu by just 2-3 days. And it has to be taken within a short period of getting the flu. Didn't feel it was worth it.
Roslyn?
Native threads for FFI calls are pooled. It's not cheap, but it's not too expensive either.
there are some obvious discouragements, as outlined by grrowl in another comment, but I agree with you that it would be nice. Security and convenience have a well known relationship.

I've thought it would be nice to consolidate 2-factor authentication methods in a single service, then require a single, 2nd factor authenticator for access to the service or vault. So a yubi-key like authenticator with your lastpass that then authenticates using 2-factor protocols of some sort automatically; again, trading security for convenience, but would also allow for things like auto-changing of all passwords (which happening more often couldn't hurt security) while still under protection of a 2-factor authentication.
Why is that? It's not just some sampling error, it's the entire social security database, and there is a definite trend over time.
They are not feature equivalent, so it's hard to compare directly. That said, excluding code reuse, to me Go feels like 75%-100% of verbosity of C++ without header files.

Also, I don't agree with your statement. If it were true, it would mean every language clearly sucks.
For context:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25376-dna-nanobots-del...

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano...

Edit: I wasn't sure whether or not to put the Nature article (original source, but closed to many) as the URL or the New Scientist article (Open, but lower quality). No complaints from me if a mod decides to change it up. Here's the original link for context:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7495/full/508153e...
> with the "very vague" promise

So it wasn't in writing. Therefore it didn't exist. Writing has a memory that promises do not. Everything jasonkester said.

I would merely add that anyone who makes promises, vague or not, but won't commit them to writing has precisely no intention of keeping them. Full stop. They might decide to keep them at some point, because they're feeling magnanimous or something. At the intersection of "make promise" and "refuse to document", they're telling you "I want the flexibility to not keep my word without consequence and I'm betting you're gullible enough to believe me". And if they say something like "we're doing this on trust and trust is important to our success" or "there's no need to bring a lawyer into this", you are rapidly approaching a 100% guarantee of getting screwed.
> some of the points they make and the way it is framed look pretty bad to me.

I'm not sure I see why. I understand you're thinking about the legal ramifications, but reading between the lines of Tesla's blog post tells me two key things:

(1) They have logs of everything that has happened to the car. That means they have evidence to back up every factual statement in their blog post.

(2) They have records of all communications with the customer. That means they have evidence that shows that at least some of the factual claims made by the Lemon King lawyer (for example, the claim that three buyback requests were made prior to the lawsuit being filed) are false.

In other words, they believe that everything they said in the blog post will stand up in a court of law, should it ever come to that. They're just willing to make an effort to not have it come to that. (If the Lemon King lawyer had half a brain, he'd be tripping over himself to get his client to withdraw the suit after reading this post. Somehow I doubt that will happen.)
I'm not sure if names that end in 'n' "sound" more masculine, or it's just that there aren't that many female names that end in 'n'. But you might have a point. Most popular female names end in 'a' 'e' or 'y'.

http://www.babycenter.com/popularBabyNames.htm?year=2014

But those female names that do end in 'n', I don't think they sound masculine. (lauren, Kathleen, Evelyn, Lillian, Allison, Carolyn) etc.
Are you talking about line wrapping? Because I don't know a single person who enjoys wrapped lines of code.
KeePass ftp sync, or what sliverstorm said
Lookout Heartbleed Detector: Check Android OS Is Vulnerable
But there's a flip side to that.

As everyone reading this site knows, there's always a way around these measures. And someone somewhere is going to figure them out. And then sabotage the car, and it's going to hurt that Tesla has all this logging and it shows nothing fishy.

Not saying they shouldn't use the logging, but it's maybe not so smart to make it a point of contention and then incentivize the circumvention even more.
One interesting fact I learned is that all words beginning with "sn" have to do with your upper mouth or nose. E.g. snarl, sneeze, snot, snog, snort, sniff.
I hated the first ten minutes of it, but by the end I found myself laughing, so I'm curious for more.

Particularly the "I memorized the hexadecimal times tables when I was 14 writing machine code", for whatever reason, made me laugh a lot.
Lubov.

does sanity dance
Wow, that Tweetus demo is SO clunky, like a bad Flash site :/
It says "distribution of last letter in newborn boys' names".
I think that's because nouns ending in a "ah" are considered feminine in the Russian language

http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_gender.php
As the parent of twins born premature at 26 weeks (missed the third trimester by a day!), 2-3 day reduction can be a lifesaver for some vulnerable populations.

Not saying anything about Tamiflu's effectiveness, just that 2-3 days can be a lot.
Snip, snag, snow....
How To Plan and Envision a Web Application From Start To Finish
This is why: http://raidersec.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-browsers-store-you...

TL;DR Firefox with a strong master password was considered safe at the time of that article's writing (June 2013). That + Firefox Sync is what I use - I would also be interested in anything more up to date on why this is or isn't a good idea.
How substantive is an n=1 anecdote about some biomarker interventions with no hard endpoints?
"Paracetamol" is acetaminophen (Tylenol) in the US, if anyone's wondering.
This article addresses a huge problem that Eating Academy and https://www.plantdietlife.com/ is attempting to address. This issue should be especially important to a community who does a majority of their work sitting at a desk for long hours at a time.
A lot of embedded systems don't need an MMU nor VM. That's why other OSs like uClinux exist.
There's a HN Kansai that's pretty tech and startup oriented. They meet once a month, rotating between Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka. Most of their events are in English and attendees cover both Natives and Expats. Worth exploring. http://hnkansai.org/
Has anybody already checked out the source code? Could you explain something about how it works?
As a professor and then the provost of Stanford, she probably knew a lot of people who were involved in the tech industry.
It was always my understanding that Tamiflu was more for people for whom contracting influenza was life threatening. Not for regular people to experience a shorter flu.

This report is pretty damning, regardless.
Facebook To Discontinue Messaging Feature in Mobile App
I would like to see socioeconomic status factored into the name trends.
It is about time. I've been looking forward to trying out Famo.us' Javascript engine to see what all of the hype was about and how they were achieving those remarkable benchmark scores on mobile. I am going to dig into the code tonight and find out what makes it really tick. Fantastic and exciting.
Twitter says it dodged the horrors of Heartbleed
The Top 6 Bitcoin Wallets
Using Heartbleed headers to share site status
perhaps it has been updated in the last 12 minutes, but that doesn't say LastPass is vulnerable. They are using a new cert, it's just saying they might be vulnerable because LastPass can't detect the server's operating system.
Нинель

Woot, Lenin backwards
Worth pointing out to American readers that paracetamol is known in the U.S. as acetaminophen, the active ingredient in (most notably) Tylenol.
Father of an Ethan here. Before we named him (12 years ago) it was a relatively uncommon name, and then suddenly it was the #1 boys name. Kind of creepy, to be plugged into the cultural pulse and not be aware of it.

One thing that drew me to the name was that there was no obvious "cute" nickname form of it. Unlike my other favorite name, Lawrence, which gets turned into the distasteful (to me) Larry.
The README refers to an "examples" repository at https://github.com/Famous/examples - it's not accessible right now, but presumably will be shortly.
Turning the Black Art of Performance Tuning into a Science
Congrats! I only discovered Mixergy after hearing Andrew moderate a discussion panel. His interviews are only a piece of the value he provides to the community. His signature is empowering the interviewee to be most impactful by his understanding of what the audience wants to hear about. He really gets to the heart of the issue and lets the interviewee surface what actually matters. Thanks, Andrew!
"sonseh" is another one
[T]hat people want to engage with brands online...[is] an infantile fantasy
I am a midwesterner. What startup communities should I be looking at to observe what you have observed?

(This is a serious question.)
I like Famous but there is so much buzz around it. ThreeJS had CSS and SVG rendered before they even started.

Some projects, thanks to VCs gets too much marketing that put main players under their shadows. MeteorJS is the same.
Another Damning Homeopathy Report
Statements like these are "legally reassuring" but it's very likely that you can get the same functionality but implemented very differently even if you looked at Windows' code. In the end it's probably another thing like piracy: everyone does it, but few would admit.
Lightroom for Mobile doesnt seem to have a set limit:

From their FAQ {1]:
Does syncing images to Lightroom mobile use a portion of the 20GB of cloud storage I get with my Creative Cloud complete membership?

[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/lightroom-mobile/faq.html
No, the images synced to Lightroom mobile are not counted as a part of your 20GB of cloud storage.
The people who believe the anti-vaccine stuff don't read. They especially don't read things this long. It would be great to see a video covering these points. Yes, there is a video covering one of the points, and that's a great start.
On GitHub and InspIRCd.
Supreme Court weighing when online speech becomes illegal threat
This is good. I am puzzled why the anti-vaxxers still exist at all? The original paper linking autism to vaccines was withdrawn, the researcher admitted to fraud, and he was punished by the courts. How can a movement survive when the guy who started it has been so completely discredited? And yet, instead of dying, the movement has grown and new arguments have been invented about why various diseases can be safely ignored.

I this this is well said:

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In light of recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine preventable illnesses, and the refusal of anti-vaccination advocates to acknowledge the problem, I thought it was past time for this post.

They say that measles isn’t a deadly disease.
But it is.

They say that chickenpox isn’t that big of a deal.
But it can be.

They say that the flu isn’t dangerous.
But it is.

They say that whooping cough isn’t so bad for kids to get.
But it is.
I've seen physicians disclose their relationship with said facility, which may or may not be used as a casual referral. I think the communication of the conflict of interest is the important issue here.
The announcement blog post implies otherwise:

> It places the focus value not on our super-secret-source-code but on our handling of the hosting, billing, and maintenance of that source code.
I'm sure it was initially created for that purpose however as soon as demand tapers off they'll being to seek new customers.
Just make sure you change them AFTER the services are fixed, or you'll simply be delivering your new ones into the hands of ten thousand scriptkiddies instead of a few uberhaxors.
It's funny I was just joking on twitter that, as a rule, every t-ball team in my son's league has to have a Jaden and an Aiden on it.

My son's name also ends in n (Boston) but I've yet to encounter it amongst other kids
statistically powerful stories ⊂ substantive stories
Do we have more details on what is famo.us? It says "opinionated approach".. How does it compare to ionicframework.com for instance?
Or even "ex-" or "rival".
It's not a peer-reviewed controlled study, of course, but HN isn't a scientific journal. In my view the post is clearly substantive enough for a general interest site.

There's such a thing as a substantive anecdote, and self-observation and self-experimentation have a long and noble history. It's wrong, of course, to draw hard scientific conclusions from such a piece, but it's not wrong to read one, nor to write one, nor to do this kind of experimentation, nor to find it interesting. Plus there's a hacker angle in the DIY aspect.

That's my take on it, anyway. I thought it was cool, and I hope that HN readers are smart enough not to draw the obvious bogus conclusions.
First of all, it's very difficult to prove a negative.

Second, I always thought that the specious connection was between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol, not necessarily the latter with heart disease.

Any comments/elaborations?
Certainly seems to checkout. It's an interesting trend, kind of similar to how the majority of girls' name ends in a vowel (including 'y').

Relevant Data: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/top5names.html
Tangentially (since this article is boring, I don't think it's unreasonable): acetaminophen is one of the commonly-used drugs which I think is most dangerous.

Aside from liver-damage-suicide-through-overdose, and accidental overdose, there are a common conditions where you'd want headache relief (hangover, dehydration, ...) where the liver-damage risk for a normal dose is substantial (and people commonly take 2-3x the normal dose if they have "a bad headache, as more is obviously better...).

Another huge sin of the US drug war is mixing likely-to-be-abused painkillers like codeine with acetaminophen to lower their "abuse potential" -- but, with junkies not being rational, it leads to abusers destroying their livers.
I've taken it in the past when my son tested positive for flu, but before I've shown symptoms. I've yet to come down with it under those circumstances. Of course, its impossible to say for sure whether I'd have gotten the flu otherwise, but anecdotally I believe it was successful prophylaxis.
And you came to SuperConf because of HN!
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