skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an app developer, I like this trend. More time on mobile and more time in apps. Both good things for me.

That being said, I think the more time in apps vs mobile web might be a bit misleading. How many apps out there have webviews taking you to the web for various reasons? I can only imagine this time is counted as app time for the graph in the article, but it's really web time for all intents and purposes.

And frankly, I think that this is a much better user experience in a lot of ways. the facebook native app is much better than the web version is and even really could be (at least at this point). Much of what happens in that app though is clicking on websites to random articles around the web, and that is done in a webview inside the app. I like the app over the website, and i definitely don't want it to kick me out to safari while I'm in the app. This is a good ux, but I think it skews the data in this article. How many other apps have similar functionality?

All that being said, I strongly prefer the experience of native apps over the web, but I'm only interested in using the app if it's something I'm going to use all the time. If I need your site 1 time ever, I'm not wasting time downloading the app. If I use it every day, I absolutely would rather have an app. For everyone saying "Hell no I don't want your app", I suspect the above is actually true for a significant majority of people. 1 time use people don't want app. Repeated use people do want app.
That's kind of silly to point out not for profits and freemiym services. Not all products lend themselves to one of those.
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Two things:

1. I suspect the genisis of this immunity was to inoculate prosecutors from coercion by politicians - which is probably a good thing. But I would be curious to know about the logic behind it.

2. While perhaps it might be worthwhile to have some level of immunity that logic frays somewhat when acts that would generally be considered immoral and perhaps criminal are unaddressable.
This project attempts to measure the overhead of calling out from $LANGUAGE and into C, which is the reverse of what's necessary to solve the problem stated here — to write a low-level library in a high-level language.

There are other means of achieving a secure implementation, such as programming in a very high-level language, such as Cryptol, and compiling to a low-level language:

http://corp.galois.com/cryptol/
Any ELB deploys I've done in the last hour seem to be fixed.
That can be solved without changing the colors of anything, BTW :)
I don't think they should lose their licenses, they should be tried for contempt and the mandatory minimum applied.

Prosecutors might be well served in these instances by the judge refusing a plea bargain as is their prerogative.
The defined behaviour would be to discard the packet. In a secure language, the buffer would have had a "length" property, and the code would have crashed when a read beyond the buffer's end was attempted. But in C, buffers are just pointers, so there is fundamentally nothing wrong with reading beyond the end of the buffer. So instead of a crash, we get silent memory exposure.
It tends to be the legal system. With phycical books there was no question of going after illegal copies, but now with DRM you can actually go after physical copies, so the court demands that.

Amazon "usually" doesn't have a choice in this matter. Of course the better way to proceed is to make sure they don't have a choice.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550741, which is still on the frontpage.
I need a french acoustic model, if anyone has one...
A H1 Visa is a great job perk for wannabe immigrants to US. Do you want to know the worst part of it?

H1 is supposed to be for high skill individuals, the actual people getting it are really like the absolute worst mid level corporate sycophants. The real high skill individuals are likely working at start ups, bootstrapping, or successfully running their own start ups. Who will never get Visas.

There are also other H1 candidates like doctors, Many of whom I think justifiable deserve it.

Either way the Indian start up ecosystem is growing wildly due to these Visa restrictions. Most people who would have likely started in San Francisco given a chance are starting up here now.
In a related point - what would the cultural mindset of the final descendants become, both individually and collectively?

They would have no shared experiences with those who first set off.

Ideals could be passed down, but with cultural evolution through the generations, would their priorities or preferences even be remotely similar?
"2. Raising venture capital doesn’t make you a good person." Is there anyone out there trying to raise money because they think it'll make them a good person?
did kozmo source the goods from convenience stores?
Your not really an employee as I understand. Also seems like the automobiles should be liable in an accident.
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What always amuses me about the "bad apple" defense is that in many situations I would imagine that if you objectively looked at the size of an organization vs the number of people involved in scandals over the years, it's not just a couple of bad apples but quite the opposite - say a statistically significant higher rate of xxx crime or behavior vs the general population.
I don't know the exact breakdown of numbers, but it's increasingly common for a Strad to be owned by a benefactor and loaned to the musician. I don't know of any other artifact that straddles such extremes of being a treasure but also a work horse. Even the owners of lesser instruments have to deal with the implications of taking a valuable and delicate instrument out of the house to play in a saloon.

For this reason, tweaking a Strad is unlikely to be done casually. Re-stringing? Sure, at the very least E strings, which break all the time. But a set of fiddle strings is damned expensive, and takes time to break in so they don't sound too harsh, so re-stringing has to be coordinated with one's performance schedule.

Online, one can find a list of every known Strad, its history of owners, etc. Interestingly enough, a couple of them are listed as missing or stolen.
The web was originally a means to collaboratively publish helpful documentation stacks and research papers. It was and still is rooted in "document objects", not apps and certainly not monetization. To recoup the costs of authoring these help files, we have to rent out real estate in the margins.

Apps predated this model in more or less the same form we currently find them, with monetization inherent in the distribution model.

If native apps are dominating web pages in some medium e.g. portables and wearables, maybe that means the audience of that medium isn't inclined to create links or author documents, so isn't well served by the web model there. Specialized apps will tend to serve their specific needs better, especially if they can be monetized easily.

There will always be a place for the web, and for the dedicated app. "Web apps" were and are a bit of a hack, although often a very useful one. Creativity can be channeled into all of these media, and the barriers to entry are lowering for all of them. It's a great time to be online. As long as IP remains ubiquitous, I imagine there will always be a market outside of the AOLs, Apple Stores, Google Stores etc.
Hi this is Rob one of the founders of hiku. A buddy of mine pointed me to the discussion going on here, great dialogue.

Like many have mentioned, we find the appeal of a dedicated device tends to be embraced more by non-techies. We like to say hiku is more Kathie Lee (http://tinyurl.com/mxjxml8) than Engadget (http://tinyurl.com/nbpyg97).

The part of hiku that 'remembers for you' is in market now (scan/voice, list on your iPhone), shops for you is coming (integrated commerce).

If any of you are interested in playing around with hiku, we would welcome your feedback. We are backordered but will begin shipping again end of this month. Use hackhiku at checkout and we'll knock off $20 (limited to the first 10 people).

We use our API externally for retailer integration, and are considering making that public or at least opening up more private access. So if you are interested in someday creating something with hiku, we would welcome your input there as well.

Happy to discuss more offline, rob@.
Hmm. Particularly regarding #1.

Isn't that enough for a very large number of practical applications?
I feel like everything is a bubble these days.

These guys ask for $50,000 and get 3/4 of a million. Or maybe I'm just old.
People also use SourceConnect as a way to do studio-to-studio sessions. Works very well in the studio where I set it up. Sessions to Portland, Chicago, Germany, etc all go off without a hitch.
http://source-elements.com/source-connect/

You can use an ISDN bridge service to be able to talk to those studios that are still on ISDN and that works well, as well.

So, this sounds like a decent thing to also have available as a service. That way clients can be on SourceConnect pure, ISDN over a bridge, or Skype TX.

Skype is used currently sometimes if the talent is local but the producers are remote. Allows them to "be in the room". But Skype TX sounds like a decent solution for collaborating between studios.
You are forgetting there is a difference between the perception of freedom and actual freedom. While someone may be free to write about the problem, if there is no change in the system, is there actual freedom?

People in the US often equate the freedom of the press, which is under attack as it is, with freedom. The freedom to speak is not the freedom to act, and for many reasons rightly so. In this case, if the justice system doesn't uphold justice, we end up with only an escape valve for the pressure, but no change in the fundamental system.

Looking at the last 50 years, I would find it hard to say that everyone has it better. Look at the convictions for possession of crack cocaine versus cocaine powder. Things have gotten better for some people, but for many others, the world hasn't changed that much, especially for minorities in criminal cases.
Isn't being an employee unnecessary bureaucracy for a messenger service? If anything, I think Uber is doing a great service here to all parties involved by connecting supply and demand in a low-friction way.
Node.js sort-of dodged a bullet here. It includes a version of openssl that it links against when building the crypto module (and, I would think, the tls module). Node.js v0.10.26 uses OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013.

However (in openssl.gyp):
https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/deps/openssl/open...

It disables the heartbeat with the compile time option due to a workaround for Microsoft's IIS, of all things.

So the affected window for node would have been Sep 11, 2012 to Mar 27, 2013 (based on the commit history).
We use openvpn. Does that need to be updated?
My understanding is that this is how the bike messenger industry has been for a while?
That's...bog standard for studio use these days.
really impressive. note, if you accidentally add a / in one of the input fields, it gets a bit wonky and only refresh will repair it.
They fear corrupt judges, perhaps, theoretically. Maybe the proliferation of laws that make everything illegal.

But probably, they just want immunity for their crimes.
The Los Angeles prosecutors are very nasty. Especially in Van Nuys where I know a woman & her experience. She was afraid of going to court because she was taken to jail a couple of times in a row. A simple case of petty theft ended up costing over $20k in legal fees, court costs, & other opportunists scamming money from her. Courts don't try to work with the defendants. They have strict rules and breaking a rule means being punished, usually through loss of freedom and/or some heavy fine.

It's difficult to speak out about this because people don't want to pay heed to, nor believe, "criminals". Our society is intolerant & also complicit with these injustices. It's quite often to have measures to have "zero tolerance" and "lock up criminals and throw away the key". There is collateral damage with such measures.

Such measures is tantamount to creating an underclass who can be easily taken advantage of and who have little voice and no sympathy.

Note: She also had some emotional issues. Being put in jail for minor incursions does not help. Instead, it rips apart her life & the lives of those who try to help her.

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@crito - Now you know a bit more about where my "persecution complex" comes from. People who are in a judgmental frame of mind show little restraint when meting out punishment. It's f*cked up & unhealthy. At risk of sounding like I have a victim mentality, there's more.

That's why I'm a proponent of a tolerant society. People make mistakes. People have unhealthy viewpoints. Our society feels a strong desire to blame & punish others. However, judgement only makes things worse for everybody by perpetuating the cycle.

It's far better to encourage health & rehabilitation. But then, there are entrenched interests who want to, or at least have no compunction to, keep the majority of the population down. Thus they encourage a perpetual state of fear.
What does Blink have anything to do with this? Blink is completely open source as is Webkit?
Traffic has zero to do with this.
Just so you won't feel your efforts here have been entirely useless (as one can often feel in such conversations), you have convinced me of this point, that restrictions on marriage are a modern view and not supported by ample case law.
Ah, yes. That's very convenient.

I don't see anywhere to edit on level 21, and level select says there's one more...
How does one reliably determine 3D printer accuracy "on paper"? I have used both a Lulzbot and Makerbot Replicator 2 and the Lulzbot is not half as useful because the accuracy isn't there. With the LB I have to change my 3D models to estimate how off the printer will be. With the Makerbot I print exactly what I want.

What measurements should I look for when buying a 3D printer? Is there any way to tell how accurate it will be?
I would ignore the feedback around pricing. Anyone who beefs over $600 and thinks they "won't need support" is not worth having as a customer. $600 is fine for SMB and wouldn't even register for enterprise.
I'd extend it to include even rural and suburban areas.

It is easier to imagine if you consider that it is likely safer for a dealer to simply travel to their customers. One attracts too much attention if they have random people showing up at their residence, or takes on more risk if they have to meet under the public eye. Customers share in this decreased risk.

It also provides low level dealers a competitive advantage in markets they don't have locked down. It might be more of a necessity than optional service these days.
I'm saying the company would try to "artificially" increase the value of compensation without adding anything that really is valued at the price they say it is. Think extra benefits, not increased salary.
Isn't there any memory protection on Linux? Something running as www-data shouldn't be able to read the ssh-server's RAM?

So it's bad, but it's not that bad unless something exposing this bug (webserver with ssl, vpn, or other service) runs as root?
You're an employee, blah blah blah aside. Come on. They take their cut of the profit, they must take their cut of the responsibility.
Is there anything on the market to melt your printed parts or toys, to create a new spool of plastic for printing? In short, some type of recycling process you could do at home.
If you want to offer up the code on Github I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to put up some mirrors to spread the fun/pain.
I'm surprised that the Pepsi Challenge thing isn't more obvious to people. I mean, hasn't everyone experienced this themselves when it comes to those "healthier" versions of snack foods?

First bag: "Hey, these taste much better than I expected! They're just as good as my normal snack. Eating these instead of my old snacks will be easy."

Second bag: "They're pretty good, but I do taste the difference."

Third bag: "Oh god, get those away from me."

It's not just sip test versus can, but it's how things taste when you come back again and again.
Yes, it's not new, & yes Uber is doing well in connecting supply & demand with a great UX.

For Uber to be worth its high hype & valuation, it's going to essentially expand these types non-employee situations. That's why I'm "mixed" feeling about this, as I like great UX, smooth marketplaces, & know many people who want part-time work, not full time.

But, I also know many folks who had "decent jobs" (nothing special, but they can raise a family) driving UPS trucks or other things like that.
Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Schiller, etc.
Hey, that is an interesting idea that I have often thought about before, but have not been able to wrap my head around how this could be done. Are there any links/literature you can point to for techniques that sort of fit this bill?

I almost imagine doing something like this in a physical system is easier than at the cryptographic level, but that probably is to be expected considering my physics background. I mean, using quantum phenomena seems to be an obvious way to do it this albeit completely infeasible at this time.
Mike Nifong is a good example of someone who abused his office. Wikipedia calls him a "rouge" prosecutor. Maybe he wasn't so rouge...
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As someone who is new to the startup community, this is a tough call. I believe that you should follow what your heart tells you. I know that being married adds a curveball in there because you have to do what is right for you and your wife. At this point it's not just about you and it's about your future together.

I'm going to launch my company based out of Seattle and I'm going into it blind. We are working to develop and everything is new to me. This idea though is pushing me through all the tough times and it actually makes me happy. I want to do something that I enjoy everyday. Currently I work in corporate America and while it's a great job, I definitely don't love it.

I know that's not a real answer but hopefully it gives you some perspective.

I hope the best for you!
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> If OpenSSL suddenly became twice as slow, it would cost a lot of people a lot of money.

All other things being equal, yes. But responding to security incidents also costs a lot of people a lot of money.
That doesn't make much sense to me: doing an Ellis eviction is a voluntary act by a landlord. If it would bring them to ruin, why would they initiate it?

(I hope your second paragraph wasn't directed at me. I haven't given any indication of my opinions on the laws in question.)
You hipster. It's starting to get a larger following, so you can't like it anymore. Everyone already knows, quality doesn't go downhill until the stock is publicly traded. Then they start "value engineering".
...If they're going to take a cut of your pay but not call you an employee then this is the biggest business loophole in history.
No.

Its Mac Only right now. can't try yet.
I always thought it was just about how people judge apples. That's like if the laws of physics and biology had a real example of broken window theory.
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Wait, it's not "a few bad apples are no big deal, dispose of them when something happens to get press"?
House fall on someone, very bad.
Software crashes, meh.
As far as I can tell, openvpn with TLS authentication is vulnerable as it just uses the usual TLS suite. If you use PSKs or the (mis-named?) --tls-auth PSK additional MAC, then you are only owned if one of your own legitimate nodes revealed the PSK (or was coopted into performing this attack) in which case you're already owned.
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I second this point. The keyword here is "modern" C++, which encourages people to write shared-memory symantics, and to create strategies that make it impossible to screw up.

"New" is a thing of the past, along with the need to even see T *.

These days good code in C++ is so high-level, one almost never sees a pointer, much less an arbitrarily-sized one. This is of course unless you're dealing with an ancient library.

Another thing of importance:

If you're working with collection iteration correctly (which tends to be the basis for a lot of these out of bounds errors), there is no contesting the beginning offset, or the end offset - much less evaluating whether that end is in sight. Even comparisons missing stronger types showing "this thing is null terminated vs that is not" can be eliminated if you just create enough definitions for the type-system to defend your own interests. If you're coding defensively, these shouldn't even be on the menu. One buffer either fits in the other for two compatible types, or you simply don't try it at all.

It'd be amazing what standard algorithms can leave to the pages of history, if they were actually put to good use.

Python has some nice high-level concepts with their "views" on algorithmic data streams that show where modern C++ is headed with respect to bounds checking, minus the exceptions of course :)
The abstract you linked does say something about identifying them:
"most players seemed unable to tell whether their most-preferred instrument was new or old."

And in the full text of the study:
"Asked about the making-school of their take-home instruments, 17 subjects responded: 7 said they had no idea, 7 guessed wrongly (i.e., that a new violin was old or vice-versa), and just 3 guessed correctly"

edit: the link to the full study is http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/760.full in case anyone was having trouble finding it from the abstract.
>>need to get into the USA then an Indian IIT graduate.

I'm not from IIT.

But I guess it was Tom Friedman who said, It is a no brainer for the US to take people from IIT. Because you really have like the extreme best of India landing at US doorstep and practically begging to give them opportunities, to make US awesome.

Why would any country want to not have that kind of people?
The Blue Bottle siphon bar in Chelsea (NYC) is a bit of a step back in the direction of "coffee itself". The brew methods are on the fancy side, but you can get the flight of two siphon coffees and compare the different qualities of the beans and such :)
Yep, and for the price of 1, you could probably save a life: https://watsi.org

People like their toys even if at the other end of the earth people still don't have food or good health.
Weird that JC in on HN. Completely odd premise to me. I wasn't aware people discounted the gospel of John when considering this. Here are some of basics as I understand them (as a christian):

* OT prophecies refer to Jesus as "God with us" and "mighty God" [1][2]

* He said "I am in the Father and the Father is in me ..." [3]

* He said "If you had known me, you would have known my Father also." [3]

* He said "I and the Father are one." and immediately afterwards, jews attempted to stone him, citing "because you, being a man, make yourself God." [4]

[1] http://www.esvbible.org/Isaiah+7/ (verse 14)
[2] http://www.esvbible.org/Isaiah+9/ (verse 6)
[3] http://www.esvbible.org/John+14/ (verse 11, 7)
[4] http://www.esvbible.org/John+10/ (verse 29-33)

Note: no desire to debate these points (too busy atm). Just wanted to point out where some get their stance on the topic.
I'll stick with PIA for the foreseeable future because it's OpenVPN-based and they allow me to choose my cipher. I get great speeds from every location I've used, and they have quite a large number of locations. That's all I want in my VPN.
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Meh, why not just store them locally (or on Dropbox) encrypted with a key only you know?
Hmm, do you notice anything different about the menu now that you're on level 21?
Having some trouble connecting to the site, can anyone mirror the text?