skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving user data without requiring login
Useful to know! Double-tapping would be completely non-intuitive on a phone, how did you discover that?
There's a larger discussion here: the erosion of parts of the hacker ethos (ideas over identity) in the face of an increasingly corporatized Internet.
I'd like to see some data, but at least in my country Facebook has vastly more location data than Foursquare.

As many have said, Facebooks' data is not necessarily very good (especially lots of duplicates).

calinet6 said it best:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743917

I do agree that this move will probably contribute better data to Facebook Places.
I don't know about UK, but in US I have a blast every time I go to a dealership cause of all the fibbing and BS I hear. Of course it's not every salesman, but it happens a lot. One time I was buying a Dodge minivan and I was using the safety rating which I had compared earlier as a reason it should pay even less. The salesman told me I was wrong, that it had the best safety rating cause the steel was thicker! He even said I should check on his computer! I mean this is like poker level stuff. I have heard the best stories when buying cars - like about hidden underground ICBM launch sites where I work, alien abduction, crazy stuff about Denver airport, how one guy had been a sniper or spy or something - I love it, it cracks me up inside. I expect UK dealerships to be similar.
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To clarify for US readers that might be confused, as I was initially: think of this as "(Tax) Receipts for Stripe".
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It's 100k, not 1m:

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Security services are behind massive DNS DDoS attack
I usually find these kind of comments inappropriate, since it must be interesting to have been submitted and upvoted.

However, in this case I agree... it's a stretch to call this relevant, even though I'm sure a lot of us respect Louis CK.

Can anyone offer some insight into how this fits into Hacker News?
hey! that's why we've created the web version as well, so you can have it whenever you want instead of having as your start page http://usepanda.com/app
I came here by way of reddit, by way of Spolsky.

I first heard of reddit from Joel Spolsky when he mentioned it sometime in late 2005 or early 2006, which is where I discovered of Paul Graham and ycombinator. For a long time a blog post by Paul Graham was the top up-voted article, with a few hundred upvotes. I was active on reddit from 2006-2009, then migrated to Hacker News.

I now frequent HN but reddit has devolved into a image board for memes.
IPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing
This might happen, but this may be easy to filter in a CV/Interview setting (especially if the recruiter knows what they're looking for), and, of course, job application (one of the reasons to tune-up the cv and add relevant information to the cover letter).

I always made sure to get the point across, for example "oh, I see that your job opening mentions Finite Element Method and the area of numerical computation is something that interests me" or something similar for the other examples (if it's relevant to my case).
I think it has more to do with the language's overwhelming presence in the world, not to mention that GUI-related programming has a lot of sensible-seeming options for how it should be designed.
I recognize that the costs become less straightforward the larger you get, and that a number of larger companies have to develop their own bare metal infrastructure. But I was including companies exactly like Foursquare in that handful of tech companies.

I'd still like to see an actual cost breakdown, because to me hiring a full-time staff of 5 or 10 people to run such an infrastructure, at $80,000/year or more a pop, seems like it could quickly get just as expensive or more expensive than outsourcing those costs to another organization.

There has to be some reason Netflix is able to justify placing their entire high bandwidth streaming operation on AWS, a third party that relies on full virtualization.
The odds of this being a real issue that will affect anyone are in the tiny fractions of a percent range.
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2232 days ago, I also saw a post on Techcrunch... Discovered a whole new world.

Interesting how a small tiny link can lead to information that can reshape your entire reality.
Yeah it all depends; unit tests can make refactoring even more difficult (especially if you heavily rely on mocking).

I've done major refactoring (moving from one language to another) and the testing was done entirely on the rest api. With several thousand tests I felt very confident that the user experience and expected behavior remain unchanged.

Honestly I don't hate unit testing and do I use it on a regular basis, the article was rather heavy handed.
My friend had an Android phone. She was pretty good with tech. But her and I, working together, could not solve some of her issues. Android is infinitely more customizable, but the iPhone, as a general rule, just works.
The Popular/Latest buttons are a nightmare. It's only by using the 2x/1x button I realised that clicking on the button changes the view to what was previously on the button.
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Thanks, this is great feedback. We are considering a community tier of pricing aimed more at hobbyists to suit what you're talking about. We're currently targeting startups who are building creative IoT apps and want to iterate quickly and for whom enterprise platforms don't make sense. We're trying to help them move as fast as possible while they optimize their product/market fit.
My kind of rule of thumb is whether it's interesting and thought provoking, not whether it's related to technology and startups. This article, or rather, the content of the episode, is interesting and thought provoking to me, and presumably other people.

The guidelines here say "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Although of course, that's subjective.
Apple hires Nokia's Lumia photography lead
Yes. We can generally all agree that ISPs in the United States are effectively monopolists with no incentive to do what's right for their customers.

Now, let's talk solutions.
It also looks like you need a different cartridge to measure each of those 5 things which would be terrible.
In the words of The Hold Steady: guys go for looks, girls go for status.
> or because they expect users to be able to enter the password in via a telephone keypad, which vastly reduces the number of possible combinations since every number substitutes for 3-4 letters (also bad).

Not so much as you may assume. I'd bet (not with much money, admittedly) that you can't get into the web interface with a telephone-digit variant of your password.

I'm not sure where in their architecture phone-keypad-compatibility lies, but it's quite possibly not even in any user-facing system.

In that case, the security of your password is not much reduced -- only if someone has access to that telephone-access system, and can do something bad with it.
Personal (non-company) VPN still doens't fully work on smartphones. It needs to be manually activated each time, making 'all-traffic-behind-vpn' impossible for now. It is possible for coporate VPN's so we know iPhones can do it. A choice by Apple HQ?
I would be more angry if the government allows monopolies to throttle our Internet speeds and discriminate content delivery towards major players who can afford to pay extortion money.. To me it's worth a few annoyances over the next few days if it helps raise popular awareness of this important issue.
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The problem is that refactoring definitely can also cause components to not do what they're supposed to do outside the happy path.
Ask HN: Why is evryone making Chrome extensions without a Firfox counterpart?
Is it a lot easier to develop for Chrome?

The last I checked, the market shares are basically equivalent, but maybe Chrome users are more likely to download extensions?

I see this as a problem for Firefox in the future, and if they have a plan to curb this trend.
I live in the least rural place in the country (midtown Manhattan), and that's about what I'm paying (technically it's $60 for 20 Mbps advertised[0]).

[0] Which usually gets me about 1 MB/s in practice.
"Your website is important to us" is addressing the site owner, which is the point in some respects, but doesn't gel with the experience of opening the site and seeing this dialog.

Should be more like "We value your experience on this website".
Switching to HTTPS everywhere means that we have to drop the traditional CA model; certificates from CAs are just too expensive. (Replacements are either DANE, which depends on DNSSEC, or Namecoin, which replaces the DNS system entirely and has many problems of its own.) Expect all this to be fought tooth and nail.
As an additional point, in the UK interviewees can request copies of any notes you made during the interview under the data protection act. So an HR Drone told me, anyway.

Not sure how this would work with an ex-trader friend who rejected an applicant by writing "BROWN SHOES" across their CV and giving it back to HR.
Thanks. But this is exactly what I meant by micromanagement.

Plus I'm afraid that strict settings will break sites I haven't visited before without me knowing they're somehow broken.

Is there a way to configure the extension to just block ads?
I've been seeing a lot of back and forth about this issue and it seems to me the one thing we should be concerned about is not so much the user experience, but the experience of those with new ideas, which rely on access to an open internet. Today we have these massive companies making enough money to buy the access they need/want to run their businesses, but small shops don't have that capital, and from what I have read/seen, this law does not help to level the playing field. Furthermore, as commentators have stated, as users, we already get changed more by the internet ISPs, for faster speeds, so exactly what else do they want, other than the users' $$? We are still discussing what this law does in a tech blog, so what makes anyone think the FCC actually knows that it is doing, long term?
There is some interesting behaviour so far as cat communication with humans. Cats will not meow to other cats unless it's a kitten / mother situation. Meowing with humans is pretty unique.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_communication#Meow
I think to be "oscillation" they'd have to change their minds three times or more. chrismorgan in this subthread mentions "Nested block comments is one that was removed a year or two back as unnecessary and reinstated a few months ago.

That's trying out something both ways, and after experience deciding one is best. That they changed their minds twice just means their initial first cut turned out to be "right" after all.

Now, if they're doing X -> Y -> X -> Y that would be cause for concern.

I think your concern for "stiff competition" is perhaps overblown, I only see C and C++ as being a real competitor, I don't see Go or anything based on the JVM as being even in the same category, you're a lot further from the metal. Personally, after doing plenty of C++ in the '90s I've decided it's no fun at all (a supremely dangerous language), am defaulting to C at the moment and will at some point decide if Rust meets my requirements and is likely to be viable for a long time. I gather I'm not the only one.
Profit margin is very important in this context, because it's indicative of how much of the money you pay as a customer turns into profit in some shareholder's pocket. If you're using profits as justification for the claim that some company is gouging you, profit margin is a much more relevant metric than total profits. HP is much more profitable than Facebook, but I don't think anyone would argue that they're gouging customers. They sell products at razor-thin margins in an insanely competitive market.
This type of literal pedantry and dissection of minute details is the polar opposite of the type of insightful and revealing observation which Louis CK is so adept at weaving into his work.
What were a couple of them?
This article "How to write shared libraries"[1] also from Ulrich Drepper should be added to the list. At least for C/C++ Programmers.

1 - http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
It's important to seek-out like minded people, especially those that have successfully a chartered a similar path. As for competing time demands with family/friends. We all have that. Eliminating time wasters like TV & web surfing can be huge.
Do it on your router, so that all devices that connect over wifi are automatically router through your VPN.
If you've bought into the lexicon of marketing it is. They're stealing revenue from you.

If you haven't, you're an asshole and you're fucking your users for no reason at all (ads are no reason).
That's what market research really is good for. And frustrating potential users to minimize your business risks isn't acceptable, in my opinion. There's always risk involved. That's the nature of business.
Doesn't look like a failure to me, though it's pretty early to tell.

https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/375798653/superhot/
Good list. I would add "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"[1].

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
I wish you had said this differently. Not only is it hostile, it doesn't contain enough information.

I run a web site. All my pages contain <meta charset='utf-8'> in the title. What are you suggesting I do differently?
Testing Responsiveness with Google Chrome
We all know what responsive means nowadays. We, as developers, normally develop responsive applications. There is a dozen of instruments helping us achieving our goals. Some of us use extensions and even pay for them. However, I'm using one thing - Google Chrome browser. In this article, we will see what the Chrome's capabilities for testing responsiveness are.
Will it get a totally admin based method to upgrade Drupal 6 & 7 sites, ie something that doesn't require migrate scripts?
As are ASP.NET Web API, and several non-Microsoft projects such as Fubu MVC, NancyFx, or MonoRail.

That said, can't blame anyone for once again being confused by Microsoft's ultra-confusing "give everything the same name" approach to branding.
From my experience, we don't need to discuss if we should use unit tests, or integration tests. We just actually need to write tests. They are often left to last, never completed or poor. If you have an exhaustive set of either, good for you!
Louis CK is a hacker of culture and comedy. It's totally appropriate.
I was not so thrilled when playing Braid. First of all I really liked the idea - but after some levels it got cumbersome. Some of the events can not be rolled back totally - so you have some annoying levels, where you have to start from the beginning (at least this is my foggy memory).

The story was absolutely cheesy - I simply lost interest in it. Which is not really something unusual, because I am not a gamer at all.
Are your (GitHub) SSH keys outdated?
I get that it's all about familiarity and simplicity (and maybe a little superstition), but I can't help but think that with how complex his books are, something like Scrivener with organizational tools for writers might speed up his process. Then again, I think he likes not being hindered by having to look things up as he goes.
Had a text message that would not go away. Ever. Killed every app, reset every messaging service. If she did reset her phone she would have to re-download her apps. Sync wouldn't work? And her data would come on at random times. She didn't have unlimited so it was a stress she didn't want. :)
>Young attractive women aren't afraid to talk to you like they were when you were younger.

Ha, yes this is happening to me. Where before there would be tension and standoffishness, attractive young women rarely hesitate to talk with me now, particularly when I'm with my kids.

I like it much better this way, since 99% of the time I really wasn't interested anyway. It always bugged me when physically attractive women assumed I would be interested in them. My physical ideal does not match the ideal of most of my fellow countrymen.

To be clear, I've seen many physically attractive men behave the same way; indeed, my wife and I frequently joke about this now.

In any case, it's a relief now to be able to just relate to people as fellow humans, without some sort of social expectations to live up to regarding our mutual attraction (or lack thereof, more often).
Louis C.K's comings-and-goings have been on HN's frontpage before, most notably how he's decoupled himself and his work from the demands/constraints of TV comedy conventions, even to the point of him learning to shoot video and edit it on his own laptop, nevermind writing it (he even wrote all the lines for Dane Cook in the episode in which Cook rips on him for a real-life incident in which CK fans accused Cook of stealing CK's work)

Given such freedom in creating and producing content, it's interesting to see what content he actually chooses to produce.
The connection to HN, IMHO, is this: Louis CK is extraordinarily creative and committed to his art and craft, attributes demanded of entrepreneurs. He sometimes figuratively "hacks" viewer's brains with clever, surprising, insightful works, even when he gets parts wrong. It's the kind of accomplishment I think we can aspire to. We want our code, or our hardware, or our bare idea, to change minds, to inspire discussion, and even to disrupt lazy convention.

Oh, and the topic of this episode is not at all removed from women in tech, and how to "get it" and treat people well, regardless of age, size, shape, gender, religion, etc; these are perennial HN topics, if I'm not mistaken.
I must say that I don't get it. The subject is TV and TV dating (not to be confused with real-world dating). It's water cooler conversation material, and not even the programmers' water cooler, but the one all the salesdroids hang out around and talk about TV shows and football.
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"that the problems with data races and memory safety arise
when you have both aliasing and mutability. The functional
approach to solving this problem is to remove mutability.
Rust’s approach would be to remove aliasing."

This is the crux of the argument and it makes sense to me.
I'm starting a newsletter. That's sad.
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Women are assessed by their looks, while guys are assessed by their social value. A funny, outgoing, charismatic woman won't get a guy everyone wants. A hot woman will.
Do any of us actually control who we're attracted to?

I for one can control who I'm sleeping with but not who i find attractive on the other hand I'm not hesitant in enjoying to company of funny, flirtatious fat girl but the likelihood of me actually sleeping with her is very slim.

She just doesn't turn me on.

Then again there's one chubby girl i know that i wouldn't be against sleeping with. There's always exceptions...
Search will never be a substitute for hierarchical organization of information in all cases. Imagine if the taxonomic tree of life was abandoned in favor of a fuzzy search on organism attributes. Sometimes the relationships between conceptual elements, whether files or organism, are more important than a fuzzy key word.

For this reason I detest the Windows 7 start menu for its anti-organization UI, for example.
Then you're not refactoring. Refactoring is defined as changing how the code is implemented without affecting the functionality / behavior of said code.

Also, Unit tests are where you ensure the non-happy-paths are functional (error handling, input robustness, etc).
I believe the fine details of the "good" bill are on the reverse side. Seems to be following one of the article's main points which is to hide the details until you want them.
> They opted for configuration over convention. . .

I believe you meant "convention over configuration", right?
This question seems to be impressively bad at generating discussion.

I have no recollection at all, I'm afraid; I only know it was about 6 years ago because my profile tells me so.
You're absolutely right, in the comparison you choose to set out.

I was probably being vague: I wasn't really looking at this in terms of mobile/desktop usage, more considering the average HN readers's expectations of the non-HN reader's technology preferences.

They like Microsoft Word, and there's more of them than us.
Are you guys from Cape Town?
I don't know how they're accomplishing it technically, but http://getcloak.com manages to auto-enable my VPN on my iPhone every time I connect to a non-whitelisted wireless network.
Wait, am I reading this incorrectly, or are you implying that men who are attracted to "bone thin" models are less mature?
Like minded people - yes- that would help. Sometimes it helps when people thinks about computer startup process instead of shoes when you use the word "boot".
I don't know why people think Google will be any better.

Sure, now they're all about unicorns and rainbows, and talking the good game to get into what is a very capital heavy market. I can easily see Google switching to this exact same model to inject Adwords and extract even more money from subscribers once they're hooked. The difference is Google won't let you opt out.
it does depend on headphones for an antenna. As a result I don't use it much on my moto g. It is nice though.
I've been finding these tests are like a lot of "personality" tests where they're highly dependent upon mood and such, except for this it's moreso a function of "what do you like to do these days?" or rather "what would you rather be doing?" For some people this is pretty stable and for others it changes constantly. The ones that try to match your personality to your career may do a tad better but it's still only so accurate I'd presume. I do like how this isn't really a personality test at all though and just asks what you like to do. Most career recommenders are glorified Myers-Brigg topology tests I've found.

Got business thinker when I've been mostly a software engineer. What's interesting is that on the suggestions list they have technical and/or likely software centered careers like physicist, VC, quants, and actuary but nobody actually writing software or systems as their primary job. Not a single software developer type career listed but industrial engineer and geneticist are higher recommendations with economist at the top? I dunno if the results are telling me that I probably wouldn't enjoy writing code primarily or if this type of thinker shouldn't be writing code.

But really, none of this means you'd be any good at it. Maybe there needs to be more of an assessment of different skills instead of the usual self reporting to contrast with these types of tests.
Oh, I completely misinterpreted the earlier comment! Sorry!
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I heard about YC first. That was just a little more than a year ago, so HN was already strongly related to it.
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Chrome has added an API to block requests: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest
If you ask me, Mozilla is already over-committed with Firefox OS... So much so that they are looking for ways to make more money to hire more programmers (read: sponsored tiles). Google pays them 313 million / year to be their default search engine. I wonder if they're spending that all on Firefox OS, which may not be generating any revenue for them. If creating a desktop operating system also doesn't generate any revenue, it would be just another drain on their resources.
Has anyone heard of http://www.readcube.com/ ?
No wonder I was not able to find newly opened restaurants and some local spots which were available before the auto-update.