skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Firefox dev here) When you say Security Exception, do you mean you're seeing a certificate error on this page? The certificate is valid for me, so that indicates something dodgy on your end (perhaps a captive portal, or middlebox on a corporate network).
Wouldn't a server compromise allow someone to "lie" to the web client only, while continuing to give correct answers to the standalone client? Seems like that would be very difficult to catch.

(or, just hack the web client so it lies, independent of what it actually sees from the server)

Server compromise wouldn't even need to take place on the server itself.
I think you're being downvoted because of tone. I don't have enough karma to downvote but my feedback is that sometimes extreme cynicism makes HN not so fun to read. Cheer up, it's Friday before Memorial Day weekend!
> What I've learned in the months since is that in order
> to overcome the panic and anxiety you have to do
> something very simple yet seemingly incredibly
> difficult; you have to let it happen.

I believe you're referring to some form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy#An...
Does it really matter if they care about artists or not in this case? In order for them to get good publicity to the audience of Penny Arcade, they have to cater to artists. (assuming you aren't cynical enough to believe that Gabe is just a shill for Microsoft, which he likely is not) If Surface 4 comes out and they don't fix any of the issues Gabe has mentioned, and they send him one to review, he'll point out that things were not fixed, and they were obviously not listening. I think at that point it would be valid to say they don't care, but the way things are described, it does sound like they're trying to improve the product, at least for the specific niche Gabe occupies.
I imagine that the further I would go away from Meteor's style of programming and go to two isolated code-bases (front and back) I would also lose a major part of why one would use Meteor in the first place.
Are you sure that the biggest reason wasn't that you live in Scandinavia?
Microsoft went out to Adobe and got them to build a touch-optimized version of freaking Photoshop and had them on stage at the unveiling of this thing to announce a new Adobe product as part of their product launch. [1] Then they went ahead and added a new setting to the kickstand in the back of the surface to make it easier to draw on -- actual changes to the physical design of the thing with artists in mind.

Yeah, Microsoft really cares about artists. They absolutely want people creating digital art to be doing so on the Surface.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/7357/20140522/adobe-shows-...
I think it's an attempt at a broad grab, They like to be able to show multiple use cases for their devices, art being an interesting niche. The other grab is the obviously large audience that PA has.
Why would a system administrator care about ClojureScript?
LEVAN: Algorithm Learning Everything about Anything
I guess Meteor is a good choice for JS-only developers.
I should fly somewhere
Laplace transform is better. So nannynannybooboo
I think this shows how dedicated the Surface Pro team at Microsoft is to making a rock solid product. Yes there's issues with branding, Windows 8 tries to be too many things at once, and it seems like the company as a whole (including the Surface lines) has absolutely no idea where it wants to be in five years; but I think the total focus on making the experience as good as possible combined with Microsoft's budget and a little time will yield very impressive results. I certainly hope so.

I love the vision of the Surface Pro with a good dock. A single device that can be docked with monitors and a real keyboard/mouse, used as a laptop or carried as a tablet would make an awesome machine. It seems they are there in principle right now but need some time to get it polished enough to be usable for most.

Too soon to count Microsoft out regardless.
Being left handed I wouldn't have the problem Gabe does, instead I'd be activating a half dozen tools on the left margin of the screen. I appreciate the 'wrist' input for the JOT stylus which lets you tell it where you rest your hand normally.

I'll definitely try out the SP3, and I'm still trying to get my hands on a Samsung Note Pro (12" tab). The screen is what I crave, a 12" 3:2 aspect ratio screen with 2160 x 1440 feels pretty close to ideal in this form factor.
"1.) Doing things you don't want to do, but are necessary for a paycheck or otherwise is a basic part of being a grown-up. Lacking the discipline to simply get such things done and move on is a huge handicap as it's burning loads of time and energy that could be better spent elsewhere."

Realizing that changing your environment so that it encourages the right outcome is orders of magnitude beyond being a basic, mediocre grown-up who relies on discipline and will power, which is easily depleted, to overcome an onfavorable environment. No one should settle for relying on discipline and will power. That's a moralizing exercise in futility. I've had this argument with my stepfather until he became abusive. The result: I stopped talking with him. It has been one year. Reserve your discipline for differential association and for improving your environment.
I don't think its unrealistic - the bar is just very high for what you want to do.
Perhaps it may make sense to talk to people who would be looking for such an integrated skill set and find out which ones matter more than others and to what degree/level.

That will give you an automatic prioritization of how to go about getting these skills without becoming overwhelmed.
Zuckerberg and Gates would not be hungry, not with their family background.
I think that college is great. But also, I think it can also be somewhat dangerous to one's ability to think for oneself. There is always one and only correct answer, and there is an authority figure who knows what it is. University culture promotes reading and learning without taking action and making real impact. It also encourages that you seek to be told what is right and what is wrong, instead of endeavoring to figure it out for yourself.

But I guess being a good employee requires a lot of those qualities that I mentioned above. You have to be a good follower.

No one is telling you college isn't important. The majority of the population actually thinks the opposite.

I don't think education is (or should be) about finishing and getting that degree. It should not even be about employability. Why does success equate to employability?

College is valuable, but I think society would be better off if we did not focus so much on jobs, status, success, failure, etc. Why not focus on how to create value or make the world a better place? These are things that a college education alone cannot teach you how to do.
> This would seem to imply that mantis369 is representative of "the HN community" but jeorgun is not, which seems like an odd distinction.

I thought it was evident that I wasn't basing my assessment on a sample size of two comments on one thread...

You shouldn't read an opinion about a characteristic of "the HN community" as applying to "every single person who comments on HN", but rather to "HN in general, as expressed through comments and votes on those comments, across hundreds or thousands of different threads, has historically showed this trait".

Surely you understand why I went with the much more concise "the HN community", given that it's IME almost universally understood to refer to be equivalent to the above longer definition.
Visualization of Orientation of International Borders
I agree completely. I am very fortunate to have been taught a young age on the importance of learning how to learn and is something I was able to work out in my early teens when life is a lot simpler. I absolutely ate up university because I discovered that I loved reading textbooks and would go to the library all the time and pickup advanced books in my field and read them. Going to lectures was then a nice way to fill in the missing gaps.

I have found that all the successful people I know had a similar approach to learning. Instead of being complacent with education, they made it work for them, whatever approach that may be. A crappy professor would be fixed by either going to a different lecturer, seeing the professor after hours, discussing the subjects with upper years, going to the library, and so on. Basically, they took control of their education and made it work. Reading the biographies of all the people mentioned in the article, I get the feeling they were like that as well. The fact they dropped out is almost completely irrelevant to their success.
Exactly. Treating panic the same way you might treat a fear of snakes for example. Gradual exposure to it until at some point the brain recognizes that feeling as not dangerous.
> For this reason I was surprised to find out that there were no tools available for finding such domains.

Ever heard of Domainr?
How TDD Affects My Designs
>> The sad reality is that for every person who drops out and achieves great success, far more do not.

Also accurate: The sad reality is that for every person who finishes college and achieves great success, far more do not.

There's also a major sampling bias here, in that "all dropouts" includes those who dropped out because of laziness or similar reasons, rather than just those who dropped out because they found the cost of a degree to be far greater than it's value. Also, the cultural premium put on college degrees likely encourages many who could easily be successful as a dropout to finish anyway.

There's a false argument here: the question isn't whether everyone should drop out or go to college, but whether or not there are cases where going to college is not the best decision (which is empirically true).
Researchers Get Closer to Making Functional Human Sperm in the Lab
Right.

Is there something specifically wrong with that sort of leveraging?

Businesses in the online and physical world negotiate all sorts of things selectively for their own benefit. Amazon doesn't give every publisher the same deal just like I'm sure publishers don't give every author the same deal.

There are multiple ways to get books published and multiple ways to sell them.

Amazon is big, and as one of the linked NYT articles says 'controls about a third of the book business', but that is a far cry from the modern-classic example monopoly of Microsoft on the desktop (90% share) in the 90s or perhaps Comcast (Sole option) in some places today.

Amazon and Hachette are doing what big businesses do and authors, who have a direct relationship with Hachette, not Amazon are apparently suffereing.

I'm not seeing how Amazon becomes the villain here.
That's not likely.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744

It only has a 43% chance of passing. It's been up to the house for a year now, it's probably going to be shelved until after 2016.
I was surprised how much the article resonated with my personal experience. I too had anxiety attacks and ER visit fearing it was a heart disease. Many (too many) doctor visits later, here is what works the best for me:
- Exercise. Can not stress this enough. I swim 3 times a week for about 45 minutes each. It loosens my body and significantly elevates anxiety. Strength exercise helps too.
- Healthy diet. Minimum sugar, alcohol, caffein, processed foods.
- Lunch walks, weekend hikes.
- Standing desk. Don't have enough data yet but I think it was helpful overall. As someone mentioned below, I believe too that body tensions and pains have a lot to do with sitting too much.
- Enough sleep.
Google engineers open gates to Quantum Computing Playground
Doesn't appear to include any 8051 descendants. I have doubts.
The hinge actually looks quite sturdy to me: http://www.wpcentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/la...
This is slick.

Virgin has been my favorite airline for some time, but now just went up 3.14 notches.
I agree. I really want to like MDN, and I actually do quite like the site now. But starting out, I just want some damn form tags I can copy paste and throw CSS at to see how things work. MDN is like giving a kid learning how to read a Merriam-Webster.
This is the most valuable article I've read on HN all week. The fact that it's not on the front page is dissapointing. EDIT: It IS on the front page. Hurray!

Personally I feel HN itself is having this very problem with its community right now. It's not only gotten too big but user "Probablyfiction" nailed it on the head. Too many newcomers destroy the existing culture instead of assimilating into it. The more I read about immigration problems in the USA, Europe (mass influx of Arab immigrants), Africa (mass influx of Chinese immigrants), Isreal (influx of African refugees) the more I notice this same assimilation problem exists in real offline communities as well. [New] Growth (too much too fast) can hurt communities by destroying the original characteristics, culture, and qualities that made them successful in the first place. Time and moderation needs to be given to ensure the new follows the rules of the old when applicable.
Within hours of being indexed, the JavaScript on the page would have been executed and the links extracted. Presumably these particular extracted links didn't look particularly interesting to the crawl scheduling algorithm, and sat in the crawl scheduling queue for 16 or 17 days.

Source: I worked mostly on JavaScript execution in Google's indexing system from 2006 to 2010. I don't know the intricacies of the crawl scheduling, but I do know it's highly non-trivial.
I love that the default city is based on location.
I've been a believer in the Surface concept since the beginning. I'd bought a Surface 2 last year and was blown away by just how unique and incredibly inventive the design was. The 16:9 screen and the lack of power really suffered it, though...

But like the MacBook Air, three generations in, and it looks like this is going to be Microsoft's Hail Mary.

I preordered one.
> you lose your ability to surf a lot of websites

I must admit I've not encountered this yet [1]? I've literally never experienced any loss of core functionality? Like none...

Disclaimer: I'm in ZA...so its quite possible that the US guys are suffering from the bleeding edge effects here while I'm not.

1) Disqus comments aside....ghostery doesn't like those.
OP, do not listen to the moralizers who tell you that you need to exercise discipline and will power. Let them deplete their limited reserves of will power and see how far it gets them: you can change your environment so that you thrive in it. And that beats relying on will power and discipline by orders of magnitude. Quit early and often.
Both in Chromium and Firefox, after installation, an embedded "firstRun.html" page is shown, which includes the following statement:

[...] We send the Do Not Track header with each request, and our extension evaluates the likelihood that you are still being tracked. [...]

[Still, I didn't attempt to verify this in code or by sniffing packets.]

I, on the other hand, would be very interested to know if it is expected to work OK with NoScript (and NoScript with it)?

[edit] From https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/73 and https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/463750477075578880 I assume it is compatible with NoScript.
I don't think it succeeds in that goal at all. All it does is replace elite-university signalling with fellowship-winning signalling.

(And since most of the Thiel kids are from elite universities anyways, it's not even really removing that factor.)

YCombinator does the same thing, incidentally. It's more valuable as a stamp of approval that somebody influential is impressed by you than it is for the actual money or support.
2014, Intel Core i5, SSD and stutters when 'browsing files' in PS.

shakes head
I felt this review of SP3 was far less positive than his Surface Pro 2 review. I'm sure Microsoft also needs him as a conduit for his audience, but on the bright side, they've a dedicated tester for their target audience, a working professional. I don't see the downside
Quoting your first link [http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=2197]...

❝Of course, lots of CDs were released with the original 44.056 kHz rate simple reclocked at 44.1 kHz. This resulted in a very slight speed increase AND a pitch shift of less than a quartertone.❞

While technically true (less than a quartertone), it's much, much, much less than a quartertone. It's 1.7cent (1.7 percent of a half-tone, or 1/30th of a quartertone). If you accidentally mix up 48kHz and 44.1, it's a much more noticable 1.5 half-tones. I doubt that this slight detuning is so blatantly obvious that it "feaks out" even a very well trained and very hot tempered classical violinist.

If you want to check the math: There are 12 semitones in an octave. One octave doubles the frequency, so the frequency difference between two adjacent semitones (e.g. from any key on your piano to the adjacent white or black key) is the twelfth root of two: ~1.0595. When tuning your guitar, your tuner might display the deviation from the true tone in cents, that's 1% of the interval between two halftones, or (python) math.pow(2,1.0/12.0e2) -> 1.0005777895065548.

Frequency ration between 44.1 and 44.056 kHz is 1.0009987.
I use browserify and I'm happy with it, but I have one question that perhaps someone can answer :

how can I develop a library with different modules, say lib/module/func, lib/module/other, and compile the library as static, then import it in another project and be able to require lib/module/other from the other project using only the compiled lib?
Zuckerberg, Gates, Gaga, and Dell all had upper class parents and attended exclusive private high schools. Jobs was brilliantly smart but did come from a lower class family. Oprah comes from a very poor background and did make it successful. However she works in a completely different industry so I don't think it's at all fair to compare her to the tech folks.
How does this make it to the top page?
I love this. The boarding pass design is a nice touch, although I still feel like I'm going to fold it in a hurry to get it out of my hands and not in the way they intend.
Now if they could make some more money and expand to other airports.
My only worry with buying the Surface Pro 3 is how I was burned by the Surface Pro 2 late last year when I got an original Surface Pro early last year. Very much like the iPad, they seem to be releasing new Surfii every 6-9 months. Since this model isn't available at launch with the i7 and only has Intel 4400 graphics, I expect early next year to see a bump in specs, perhaps Intel 5100 (or better) graphics by next March? Which has me wondering if I should buy now or hold off. If they had the ntrig bluetooth pen with OneNote integration in a smaller form factor for cheaper, I'd buy that first right now and wait for the larger device to get a bump in performance. That said, no question -- if you want OneNote for school in September or can afford to upgrade once a year, buy now. The only thing I wish it had was a touch-optimized terminal app with tabs ;-)
I don't really care about top microprocessors per se, I'd rather see a feature / price index. Meaning can I run a HLL on a micro, deep sleep, number of io, pwms, usb, etc.

Track mips/watt/$ and ram/$ along with forecast lines. If design with $3 part now, I'd like to know that it will drop to 1.75 in 2 years.

I find it rather ironic that filtering by price in product selectors is new and or rare. We exist in an economy predicated on cost efficiencies, where many of my designs are driven primarily on a price-point, part selection is an iterative process where cost absolutely plays a role and often the first one.
This advantages page is interesting: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/advantages.html
http://www.powells.com/ - this is a great place to get books, although the best thing of all is to go there in person and wander around. I generally like Amazon, by and large, and I love my Kindle, but wandering around looking at that many books in person is great too.
> Windows 8 tries to be too many things at once

That is a very, very generous description of Windows 8.

edit: it is amusing to me that THIS is the first comment I've made that some clique decided to go medieval on.
It kind of seems like the least interesting possible thing to do with Hurd, given its major architectural differences from Linux, is to make it as much like Linux as possible. I'm just not sure who the target users are for "Debian GNU/Hurd" or why they'd ever be better served by it than by Debian Linux?

Edit to add: That said, since Debian seems to be the main group willing to do any kind of binary distribution with Hurd, they get to call the shots.
When I saw their new boarding pass I just had to laugh. Someone awhile back went and redesigned Delta's boarding pass[1] and got a lot of crap over it for not taking into account why the boarding pass was the way it was.[2][3] But apparently someone at Virgin was taking notes.

[1] http://passfail.squarespace.com/

[2] http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p...

[3] http://www.ryanholiday.net/this-is-what-real-analysis-looks-...
...rock solid product..
notice the number 3 in the name of said product? and still not good enough.

Not to mention UI lags. 2014 and GUI is lagging. Someone needs to get shot.
Exactly, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
> I have no real incentive to be polite or to put much effort into anything I say. Even my reputation will remain intact – who’s going to witness it?

> When communities grow to a certain size, people no longer expect to interact in the future, and thus are more likely to defect – to be petty, mean, aggressive, and to put little effort into their contributions.

If this is true, then HN should put users karma score next to their username when they post.
Yeah disco 3's are pretty good I understand. My boss has one. Never complained. I think the RR issues are teething issues with a new engineering line.

I drove a 1992 V8 110 county a few years ago. Best car I ever had. Didn't go down well with a young family though, all the climbing and stopping for petrol, so I had to give it up for a people carrier :(
> Remember that the majority of publishers just recently colluded with Apple to essentially fuck over Amazon.

Well, that's certainly how the Justice Department chose to see it. That doesn't make that statement the objective truth.

I still don't see how anyone can say with a straight face that the new entrant in a market is "fuck[ing] over" the dominant player. Especially when countless economists have weighed in saying that the kind of corrective measures employed by Apple and the publishers are not (and should not be) illegal and that the Justice Department basically got everything wrong.

(Google is failing me here for finding these economist opinions that I've seen in the past, but amusingly, my search is chock full of articles from before the ruling saying that economists think the DOJ is going to lose the case)
Looks slick, but felt like the actual booking process was extraordinarily disorienting. Too much movement and jumping around.
Not the parent but I have a thought on it. I'm not agnostic but a few years ago when I got really anxious about something praying/God helped me. I think the reason was that it took the thing that was making me anxious and passed the responsibility on to someone I thought could take care of the problem for me. I think it's similar to the way you felt comfortable when you were younger staying in your parents house but on your own might have got anxious. At your parents house the risks are the same but you've got someone there you feel will protect you. Essentially I think God/prayer helps because it gives you the feeling someone else more powerful than you is there to help.
A History of San Francisco in 26 Stories
A father's love letter to his daughter in Ruby