skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Founder's Story of Solving His Own Pain
The Lumia 520 costs $70 in the USA without a carrier subsidy and without a contract. I know this because I own one and because I just checked a few online retailers to see if they had increased the price.

And for that price difference the differences in features become irrelevant, especially when you take into account the surprisingly good build quality of the device and the fact that WP runs very well on low spec devices.
FCC Finally Approves App for Deaf
Photos of Air BnB rentals TO DIE FOR
Thanks for the info! So many people are fooled into parting
with their hard earned money, and time. I guess that's capitalism?
http://watched.li/ is awesome to track tv series
Yes, even renewing your keys and certs doesn't mean any previous communication is not compromised :)
I didn't even notice, I just assumed I reached the end of the page after scrolling one "page" and swiping down on my trackpad didn't do anything more.
Renting – the good, the bad and the ugly 
What it's like to rent your home - and how you can make it better.
First, a fabulous idea that is simply not ready.

I like the concept here, but the mobile integration seems wholly arbitrary and shoe-horned. Yes, we want everything mobile, but if I'm sticking my blood sample in this thing I don't know why I couldn't just get an email or have it connect directly to my device.

Like others here have said, I would mostly want guarantees about the efficacy of the device wrt results. And I'd want a whole bunch more than fertility (is this just a LH measurement), "inflammation," vitamin D and the flu. Perhaps that's a phase two?

And to echo others, please stop scrolljacking. Thanks.
This is great. I use it for prototyping app ideas, and it works good so far. Only thing I've found to miss for my particular prototype is a "wait" function, but there's ways to build a little procedure for that.

(Also I submitted AppInventor to HN a while ago [1], but it didn't get any attention. Bad timing maybe? Either way, I think it's excellent in it's simplicity)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715679
You can resize a cmd shell in the properties, and as someone posted in a sister thread, turn on Quickedit to smooth out copy and paste.

Turning on tab completion requires some fiddling though (and I have no idea if it survives in newer version of Windows).
I think it has more to do with Q and Z missing from old phones keyboards.
The broken scrolling totally destroys the experience. Also, the lack of text made me wonder whether the page was loaded completely.
New AR App for Historic Sites
Interfacing with an external js library that publishes changes would be trivial though. Typically if you're building a ClojureScript app you're building a ClojureScript app... which means using atoms.
UX pattern library for the Digital Humanities
I immediately recognized the `pact` tool to be a clone of `apt-cyg`. Did a search on the repo source to confirm (https://github.com/babun/babun/blob/45484c55a3b017248329ddd5...). It seems as if the author of Babun is trying to pass off apt-cyg as his own creation.
I'm currently thinking that for my next SAAS project it's going to be pay up front with a 30 day money back guarantee. I've done freemium and 30 day trials and the data I got early made me think that people would convert and they didn't even though they would use the product every day. Maybe my pricing was bad or my sales technique was terrible. I don't know.

What I do know is if you price something up front you'll know right away if your sales pitch works and if your pricing is remotely reasonable.

I know the conversion rate without a free trial won't be maybe as high, but when you are looking to just validate a product and a marketing strategy, you need to know if it will turn into real sales. You don't have to have a free trial to sell a product.
Yes, it is. The only house I bought was an owner-to-owner before the days of the web and even then I couldn't see what value the realtors would have brought to the game. Now they seem totally useless parasites, at least for residential sales.
the point for me is the visual noise, not the memory that ads consume. Actually, normal users are used to the lag, they don't see it as much as we do. You can take a look at consoles that have run games at 30fps for decades and nobody complained.
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https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
Seems like a no-brainer. Facebook owning Instagram means this is just Facebook ditching a competitor's product for their own.
Ray Peat is contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
I started with Mendeley (used it all through my masters) and have gone entirely to BibDesk for my PhD. I keep .bib files in git, and sleep very well. For writing papers, I use biblatex-chicago if I have a choice. My workflow might look old to an outsider, but to me it feels dependable--an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
> The line in the post where "You can't even do something as basic as that with Web Components."

Actually that's factually inaccurate. You certainly can do that. registerElement returns a Constructor function, so you can export that in your module if you want to be able to require it elsewhere.
A "lie" requires intent as per the response that "Audi UK said there had not been any deliberate intent to mislead". Audi dealers did make false claims which were misleading. You would need something in writing, like an email for example, to provide the intent and then uncover the "lies".
> We send the invoices on your behalf. Your customers will see only you emails address, not ours.

If you're not doing this with my SMTP credentials those emails are going to go straight into most folks' spam folders, as I have properly set up SPF records.
Looked up the founding team and advisors, they're backed by some serious science. This is probably fairly accurate.
No reference made to this in the article.

The solution is there however, Apple just needs to fix their iMessage software to properly disassociate the number with iMessage.

Again, like my unnecessarily down voted comment suggested, unlike this blog suggests, the solution is there, it just doesn't work.
I don't hate Cygwin, but anything using it should bill itself as "blah on top of Windows", not "blah for Windows".

(Or alongside if you want to say it that way.)
I'd tried this in the past but my machine slowed to a crawl. I guess it was to do with the algorithm used for handling the list of hosts (this sounds like a job for a bloom filter).

I've just tried the list you provided and it seems to be ok. Will try it for a while to see how I get on.
You don't see how it might have been a problem for the original system to allow you to set a password on one phone that (appears to be) impossible to enter on a different phone?
I haven't used cloudlfare but from what I understand there's no way it should interfere with that.

If you load a page on your site and 'View Source' in your browser, do you see the google tracking code showing up on your site? Another thing you can cheque it on the Google Analytics side of things you can see if they are having difficulty crawling your site!
It's true; my comment wasn't fair.

Returning to your original point: I've been working on Firefox's memory consumption for about three years now. There are quite a few people who take your viewpoint. But there are also plenty of people who care very deeply about memory usage. Some of this makes sense, e.g. from people who are on low-end machines. But some of it is less rational... there is a subset of people for which memory consumption is almost a moral issue, and excessive usage indicates the general decay of western civilization, or something like that.
You do have some information in the browser you can't get to from the outside. For example, the filter with the most hits for me is "@@||192.168.$xmlhttprequest", which whitelists XMLHttpRequests to 192.168.*. A proxy can't really tell the source of a HTTP request. But that kind of thing is sometimes the only indicator telling the difference between an ad and useful content.
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ does just this and works very well when configured properly. It's also one of the few ways to reliably block ads on iOS apps.
In that case you can add our mail server to your SPF records.
After re-reading it a few days later, I realize it reads a lot like advertisement.

Some technical stuff wrt. SNI:

We waited a long time for the SNI-support to be widespread enough for us to provide to the customers. Despite we have a lot of users in the 'mom-and-pops' demographic, which typically tend to have older equipment, I'm not aware of widespread complaints about it.

It also turned out that most webservers can't handle being loaded with a few thousand SSL-certificates...

Finally, we were somewhat nervous about the rumored 'SSL/TLS has lots of CPU usage', but it didn't turn out to be an issue AFAIK.
Does HTTPSB have a keyboard interface? I just installed it and it seems great, but I'd prefer to not use the mouse. E.g. NoScript has Ctrl+Shift+\ to temporarily whitelist the current page's domain and Ctrl+Shift+S to open the drop-down, and the drop-down works well with the arrow keys.
Popcorn Time Now Streams TV shows and is Available on Android
It just doesn't make sense to target a developed nation with high smartphone penetration that has a population of only 35 million. Moto's aiming to sell the G and E to price-sensitive first-time smartphone buyers in developing nations, probably with the plan that by building a brand now, those customers will buy higher end Moto smartphones as they gain wealth.
Portal would be interesting as a concept alone, but they packed it together with a cool story and characters like GLADOS that turned a cool mechanic into an excellent game. There were a lot of things outside of the puzzles, the warnings on the walls (the cake is a lie), etc... it was brilliant.
Also they sound very arrogant, and have a blantant typo on their landing page. Not impressed.
Why does it look like a failure? As far as I can tell, the kickstarter began this morning at 7AM EST, and it has been pledged $10k in the past 2 hours it has been open. It doesn't necessarily mean it will reach its $100k goal, but I don't see how it looks like a failure already.
Incident, Makers Of The gTar, Launch Sequence App So Anyone Can Make Music
One reason I can think of is that the high end now will be the mid range by the time Ubuntu Touch is any kind of shippable form.
In my experience, JS memory usage is nearly always much higher than DOM. For example, my current Firefox session has 16 tabs open and ABP enabled. JS memory usage is over 600 MiB, whereas DOM memory usage is only 120 MiB.
netty's buffer management libraries do a good job at what you are looking for. Having an instance of the pooled allocator that is configured to prefer "direct" i.e. off heap memory might just be the thing.
However you can block specific HTTPS sites with privoxy. Admittedly this isn't very fine-grained but I use it to block a lot of crummy HTTPS ads and trackers.
"Inflammation" is likely measurement of C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration.
How to Use Java 8′s Default Methods
It's pretty rare that I want an application to use less ram these days, if anything I wish more programs would take full advantage of it.
I think I've seen a similar mechanic in the critically acclaimed side-scroller Braid [1]. There's a world called "Time and Place" where the flow of time is tied to the player's horizontal position. Going right and left takes you forward and backward in time respectively, and standing pauses it. Amazing game, really.

Also, a new game from the creator (Jonathan Blow) is scheduled to release this year, The Witness [2].

[1] http://braid-game.com/

[2] http://the-witness.net/
I would have thought 20% was skim reading?
Spying on my CPU cycles with perf
Still useful, but outdated.
Then isn't the real issue that the proper solution doesn't work? Doesn't the blog unjustly criticize Apple, as if they don't even have a single solution?

Sorry, just realized I am arguing over the formality of someone's self opinionated BLOG...I'll show myself to the door.
Detecting what you are watching on Hulu or Netflix is a stretch goal for them and according to their description it would only be for Chrome. Right now it's limited to avi, mkv, mp4, m4v files you watch on your computer.
I hope all phones will adopt this feature: "Built-in FM radio"
I don't care about the "visual noise" of normal/banner-type ads - the real problem are those fucking layer ads with confusing icons (the X is the left one, the maximize button the right one), so if you want to read the content, first find out which type of layer ad it is, try to spot the 2x2px hotzone for the close button and THEN read the content.

People install adblockers because too many idiots became too fucking greedy and ruined ads for everyone else!
Yeah, that's absurd wording. "Momentarily" would be far more accurate.
Automated reports using your Google Analytics data
The problem surely applies just as well to ABP on mobile Firefox?
Alright Google, listen up. I think it is time to attach a bunch of kinects or kinect like devices to drones and have them 3D map the country or at least major cities. Then let me attach an VR headset that isn't the Occulus Rift to my computer and take virtual tours of cities and navigate with a game controller. Call it "World View" or "Street View++".
Yeah, the config is horrible IMO. A packaged privoxy install with ABP-comparable rules would be very useful.

I've never tried converting ABP rules into privoxy, but I did write a crude perl script to grab Ghostery's blocks and convert them into privoxy config files.
I'd be interested in methods for monitoring the soil to be able to automatically add the nutrients the plant needs.
I agree that the two developers are really good community people and therefore are able to win over votes that might not be as objective as they should have been. But I think it's also a skill to tackle a community together and focus them on one goal. This also improves FOSS as a whole, even if the software might not be the best.
I was not aware of Tynt, but I believe it's well blocked.

I just looked at the adblock-hosts file, and 'tynt' appears several times. One of those lines is commented with a link to an article about tynt[0]. I tried copy-pasting from The New Yorker and TechCrunch (who, as claimed by the author of the article, use tynt), and both times there was no crap appended.

0: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
The mechanic itself isn't actually that interesting. When they released the demo there was a discussion about how the mechanic works over on the destiny.bungie.org forum: http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=15007 — in a nutshell the time pausing mechanic doesn't really make the game a ‘puzzle’: it just lets you pause the game arbitrarily to let you line up your shots. This is why other shooter games (F.E.A.R, Max Payne) that have let you slow down time do so with finite resource mechanics to prevent overuse.

If the developers implemented any more interesting mechanics that let you rewind time, or made some enemies immune from time pausing then this might become an interesting game, but based on the demo it just looks like a shallow but pretty game, and is unlikely to be that much fun.
> I only have 4GB RAM

I've also seen this in some other comment, so I think it's worth pointing out: if you have a desktop computer then yes, it's ok. However, there are also netbooks and notebooks around with a lot less memory than that. Tablets, while not currently one of Firefox markets, are also commonly seen with less than that. Lots of parents with second-hand computers, too, which haven't been touched in a while because it "just works".

The overall attitude towards hardware is apparently "use it for two years, then throw away and get a new one", and yet underpowered computers surround me in a 5:1 ratio. I sometimes have to install plain old versions of software (Office '97 comes to mind) because the new ones provide 5% new features at the cost of half your memory.

Maybe everyone else has techie friends that only care about the latest and shiniest, or maybe the rest of the world is rich enough to throw away perfectly good hardware just because they feel like it. But from my experience (as biased as it is), 4Gb is not an "only" situation.
Cue John Woo inspired gameplay (ala Max Payne) ;)
HTTPS Everywhere is mostly annoying because it stops random sites from working, and people generally forget to check that it's HTTPS Everywhere that's causing it.
There's a difference between reading 20% of 100% and 100% of 20%.
Which never meant much, really. Google was absent from Motorola (been there, seen it).
Louis C.K. Takes On TV Hypocrisy, Aiming Scrutiny Back At Himself
Getting loads of text encoding oddities everywhere - is that just me?
I noticed that AdBlock now offers to block those as well.
> But can you say you will remember this insight in 6 months if you don't serendipitously encounter it again? 1 year? 5 years?

Good point. I think I misunderstood your intention behind asking why questions.
I am a huge fan of the unlimited (duration) free trial. How many of us sign up for something, poke at it, forget for a few weeks, and then go back again more seriously? I'm sure I do it all the time. By the time I remember, I am most of the way through a trial period and haven't actually evaluated wether the product is a good fit for me or not.

Regardless of how long your trial runs, people really need to bake in resource limits. I assume most SaaS companies have offered (or will offer) tiered rate plans based partially on consumption, so if you are starting as a free-only beta, why not bake in some sane resource limits from the start? Some ideas for this might be:

* maximum podcast size/duration (10 min or 3MB free?)

* 4 free uploads, then you pay

* Retention period - free accounts only store data for 30 days from upload

Sure, you are still technically paying for the free folks, but you greatly limit the cost damage while providing reasonable motivation for people to move to a paid tier when they are ready.
Very very cool game. Seems like it has a lot of cool puzzle opportunities.
I never played portal exactly for that reason. It seems to have a story, more than one tool to interact with, flair, etc. Therefore it's not a perfect example. But I actually believe there are probably a lot of games out there who simply won with one mechanic, like back in the day when Max Payne was a not-so-bad shooter with a simple mechanic added, to slow down the time until some "Mana" runs out. It really happens, I agree on that. But if I want to invest my money in a crowd funding campaign I don't bet on luck. I bet on things I believe to be success factors, which in this case is not a mechanic.
On the Road to Continuous Delivery at Localytics
Researchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects Like Yogi Berra
I'm not so sure this is "obvious". It presumes that those people will never refer anyone who would watch your ads, and also that search engines won't down rank you in results based on the number of people bailing from your site instantly/avoiding clicking on it.
Host files are very limited, and when you start dealing with anti-adblock scripts and other css/js scripts on some sites it falls apart.
Basically hosts file was great 10+ years ago when the Web was new(ish) and Adblock was only used by a few. Now we're dealing with CSS, objects, subrequests, first party ad/tracking scripts.

With all the features Adblock Plus gives us, far far more than just blocking xx and yy domains like in a hosts file... Why not just use the extension? Let's leave the host file to the history books.
Thank you for the interesting read. My first thoughts are of the Placebo itself (as it's coming up in the first part). A bit off-topic, but the placebo is often called sugar-pil but its exact content is often not revealed. It can be full of harmful stuff and this causes the examined group to look much better. "The control group experienced equal amounts of stomach aches" when the placebo was laced with stomach ache inducing stuff!

About parapsychology as mentioned in your link: Personally, that stuff scears the crap out of me. I just like to think there is more between heaven and earth than we know...
I remember something about an option turn_limit: -1 to shut off turn limits, I went thru a phase of "can 3 archers win the scenario" and the answer was often yes, but it sometimes exceeded the totally arbitrary turn limit.

You can create a whole new game out of the intended game that way where it turns into something like a counterinsurgency game where you battle for the hearts and minds (well, at least the hearts) of the gold generating villages.

There's a lot of interesting railroad track in the game, but if you step off the tracks there is also interesting land that doesn't have a track on it, thats not even on the map. It can be turned into an imperfect sandbox, and that itself is a metagame to find the "best" way to convert it.
CoreOS and Vagrant setup
> Chrome has a "star" button right in the address bar, FF and IE have Ctrl+B to create a bookmark.

The Classic Theme Restorer add-on for FF allows you restore the star button to the address bar. On FF, Ctrl-D bookmarks the current page, while Ctrl-B opens a list of bookmarks.
And ASP.NET will now run everywhere too (that's one major chunk of this vNext stuff).
Russia is Turning Elon Musk into Tony Stark
Design Tools for Today’s Web
From the FAQ:

How accurate is Cue?

We use rigorous, gold-standard internal testing and validation techniques to evaluate the performance of Cue. We cannot make any specific claims on the performance of the device, because it is not yet cleared by the FDA. However, we will not release Cue until it has met our own internal performance standards.
There is an entire genre of games that are about dodging bullets. Bullet Hell games. You might have heard of one, called Touhou.
Except that, because it's not open source, it doesn't make it in to the package repos. Also not Free/Open Source, if that's of importance to you.

I'm kind of surprise that nobody has cloned BibDesk from OSX. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's BSD-licensed and functional.
How does Mendeley help to keep up with the state of research? I thought it just lets you manage the papers you read. Does it actually give you access to paywalled papers?

By the way, as a non-academic, I've always wondered how I could keep up with the latest developments in the field of information security/cryptography. Are there simply some key journals that one has to keep track of, or are there other more frequently updated sources that one should read?
Why I’m Finally Excited about Web App Development
The AT&T version is actually $59 [0]. I think the advantage the 520 has going for it is that MS and WP app developers have realized that the vast majority of WP users are on 512MB devices like the 520.

So, MS has committed to excellent support. Even these low-end WP8 devices are getting the 8.1 update, and it runs really well on them. MS has every reason to support these devices throughout the complete WP8.x lifecycle.

And MS is heavily pushing for developers to make sure their apps work there. This was a huge focus at the recent MS Build conference.

Contrast this with the Moto E, which is only promised "at least one update" to another version of Android. My original Nexus 7 became quite sluggish after a couple of OS updates.

Of course, I'd rather own an Android phone than a WP phone, and app availability is just a totally different ballpark. But for a "basic" smartphone, given the price, performance, and support, I think the 520 might win for a ton of users.

[0] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/No-Contr...
Yes, but as mentioned in the article, concerns had been raised five months before the BBC investigation. Which suggests that Audi only care about being caught.
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