skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Data on Drones: Why David Weekly’s New Drone.VC Syndicate Might Have Wings
What is the point of uploading music I own to a cloud service so I can stream it later, wasting my precious mobile data? My phone has gigabytes of storage and I can transfer thousands of tracks in seconds.
Its interesting, every uber I take in Chicago (typically a yellow cab instead of UberX) and ask the driver what they think. They generally seem to like it because its safer, easier and more efficient for them (they always know where people are instead of having to hang around popular corners, they can skip on people if that last cab had bad things to say, etc.).

But it is surprising to me that they don't complain about the fact that they laid down serious cash for a medalion, or pay other fees to the city to operate. I would especially think UberX would bother them. I think in the short term they are happy but I suspect they will start to get more upset if uberX starts to take away business. Right now, its earning them more money.

In Florida, they are having issues with UberX for that very reason (http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/11/4172680/miami-dade-tax...).

Its interesting to watch a number of industries just get blindsided by these disruptive technologies.
Seeing it with crowd-sourced cab rides (uberX), direct autosales instead of dealers (Tesla dealer controversy) and crowd-sourced accommodations (airBnB). Some of the regulations placed on the older players in those spaces were put there to protect the consumer and/or the industry but my take is that consumer choice is providing better options and bypassing the need (or maybe it just hasn't come up yet) for these regulations. But then the people who played by the rules get mad or cling to them if it allows them to maintain their position a little longer.
Design Placebos
In psychopathology specifically, though, you're not making inferences about 7 billion people; you're just making inferences about the population that actually has the disease. If only three people in the world have ever had Rudolff's Aphasia, then you'll want to study them to help the fourth guy down the line.
I agree, but the tu-quoque is not really helpful here.
Great design, very entertaining, and you put a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
Far out
I think the people on this site are intelligent enough to read the command and look for themselves. The syntax isn't hard.
It seems you can use unsafe versions of vectors/arrays/strings to bypass bounds checking. Essentially, if you're very confident that your code is correct, then you can speed it up (is it worth it?) to C levels.

On the other hand, a lot of bounds checking is probably going to happen where you'd manually enter it into C/C++ code anyways (if you wanted to avoid certain errors).
I had the exact same story until

- I started to constantly feel nauseous

- I started to feel vary anxious about everything

- I had a hard time eating or wanting to eat anything

- I started to feel overloaded by my environment

Got off of it and lost some of my super powers, but gained my sanity. Which was worth it. Converted over to understanding my strength and weaknesses, eating better and getting out.
From Business Intelligence to Operational Intelligence
You're less visible on the sidewalk than in a lane, and you pose a threat to others. I'd almost go so far as to say, "Cycle where you're supposed to, or don't cycle." Moving in unexpected ways in unexpected places is what leads to collisions.
It appears the compiler optimizes out bounds checking if and only if it can tell during compile time that the index is correct [1]. Arrays of dynamic size or with dynamic references are bound checked. In dynamic cases you should be writing manual bound checking guards in C anyway.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/9024
Yeah, I don't know how it is in SF. But in LA, you're competing with multiple cash offers, usually quite a bit over asking price. First time home buyers are pretty much left to the sob story route (that is, writing a letter to the owner and praying).
The Mongoid Wars: Removing Production Indexes
Collecting Activity Tracking Data And Effectively Making Sense Of The Noise
AngularJS Service + Rails API
'www' is not their tld, .com is, and .com is a US tld, created by the US government and administered by US corporations. Russia has .ru, and if there was an article on theverge.ru talking about a nation-wide rollout, we could assume they were talking about the nation of Russia.
Seriously, I was expecting an article about Odo.
"source code management system i.e. SCM"? i.e. a VCS? They're not limited in utility to code.
Not productive, value. Hanging out with the same people, doing the same thing and having the same conversations. I try to push for new and interesting and a small subset of friends are stagnant people. It's hard to want to spend time with them any more.
It was a blog post based on personal, firsthand knowledge of dyslexia, rather than academic knowledge. I wouldn't call that "little knowledge of dyslexia".
Swift Optionals; Gone are the days of crashes
Conquerin App
nothing new about that…after all the app is rendered in html, for that matter it will run on iPhone too..but if the app only runs on the firefox browser on Android, I don't see many people creating apps for that reason rather using Cordova.
Amazon Smile – Charity Rewards
If your API supports it you can use the EmbeddedRecordsMixin[0]. In general though, what would be a sane default for handling multiple REST API calls to single-model endpoints?

[0]: http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.EmbeddedRecordsMixin....
I see what you're saying, but then you'd have people complaining there was too much text in the man page.
Note the info pages are available on the web so you could
have a wrapper like:

cinfo() { xdg-open "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/$1-invocation.html#$1-invocation"; }

Which you could use like:

cinfo dd
This is really fun. Well done :)
It's possible that the backup could carry over malware depending on the type of malware.
Ditto on the didn't know what to do bit.
> "(...) got the mental model for JavaScript apps right from the start."

If you remove the Views from Backbone the only thing left of value are the Models and Collections. Are you saying they got those "right"?
I really have no idea what that means.
On the contrary — I think Backbone got a number of things wrong. Their router especially.

> "Ember just seems to have been marketed much better than Batman was (...)"

You said that Batman was buggy and got MVC wrong. Perhaps Ember is /not/ buggy and actually manages to deal with state quite well?
Looks like you took higher dose than needed. Ritalin is really dosage-sensitive, you'll have to calibrate it carefully with your doctor.

I'm taking the dose determined after some experiments (27 mg/day) for the last 6 months, and I don't feel particularly insane. Anyway, like I said, it works differently for different people.
You should be able to charge with a USB cable after you've snipped the data lines. At that point, it only provides 5V of power, and nothing else.
I am not sure, if such a system was already implemented somewhere, but I wanted to discuss the idea here to find out, what the opinions about it are.
Ask HN: Who are your favorite examples of impeccable customer support?
Doing a quick poll to compile a list of sites/services that have a reputation for excellent customer service, particularly in the opinion of HN's audience.
The new part is that the app is automatically packaged into an APK (Android Package) file, so you can manage it (launch, restart, uninstall, reset data, switch between apps) just like other Android apps.

Android and iOS both offer "bookmark to home screen" features that include some of this functionality, but not all of it.
Concrete molds for curbs are built in-situ to deal with the situation of that particular curb, and the rubber bits are at most $200, so the cost really is fairly negligible.
I'm saying it should i.e. it ought to, not that it does, but I can see how you'd be confused.
The Corvus was 10 Megabytes for $5,350 in 1979. $4,900 for 5MB seems plausible.

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/...
Would be interested in hearing more detail about your objections to both Poly1305 and ECC.
@-moz-document url-prefix() or @-moz-document domain() ? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@document http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=286866
Page Builders and Visual Content Editors for WordPress
Even they are around for a long time now, the page builders got into people attention just recently.

These beautiful plugins help you create complete WordPress websites no matter if you are a good programmer or new to the coding environment.

They provide a visual drag and drop interface that let's you pick the content elements you want and move them according to your preferences.

With these around, all you have to do is to focus on content creation and let the design and coding on their side.
Net Neutrality: FCC Hack is a Speed Bump on the Internet Fast Lane
I think that in this case, it's fair to compare the number of people who have a disability instead of the amount of browsing they do, because it speaks to the potential market.

Suppose that there was no technology to help blind people use computers. Then blind people would have 0% of browsing, but they're not 0% of the population -- should we create technology to help them even though they do no browsing? (Yes.)
#f6f6ef forever, baby. I like my seamless page.
Contextually, I believe "should" is referring to what the OP would like HN to do not what HN does d.
"ALL of the behaviors you'd like to believe are strictly efforts of will are composed of complex chemical interactions in the brain that can be hampered or helped with the addition of other chemicals."

FTFY

As for chemical imbalances, yup, many suffer from extreme divergence and undoubtedly need therapy and meds. There are, however, a lot of 1st World hypochondriacs and lazy folk, as well.
People who sit sedentary for large blocks of their daily life consuming input that requires little effort and yet gives them a sensation of drama/humor/fear/lust is absolutely consequential to how their brains develop over time. I'm yet to meet an ADHD person who cannot muster the will power to never miss their "shows" or spend countless hours with a game controller in their hand...
> So actually the OP's comparison seems fair. "The US may be bad these days, but at least it's not (yet) as bad as some of the worst in history!"

Pondering how bad things could get is not going to make things better.

Surely the comparison should be "It's not as good as it used to be, let's make it better!"
The product seems pretty cool, but people really do use the spacebar to scroll.

Headers like the one on this site make doing so very difficult. There's probably a CSS correction that can be applied.
I am not advocating pretending nothing is wrong. We've all (for reasonable approximations of 'all') acknowledged what is wrong. What I'm advocating is moving from the 'raise awareness' stage to the 'implementation and experimentation' stage.
The free cryptography courses at Coursera. I have seen the videos uploaded somewhere, maybe you can find them.
> CVS still works just as well as it ever did, but it is super crusty at this point. If an open source project hasn't transitioned off of it, that's a sign to me that the maintainer either doesn't know any modern DVCSes, or doesn't care about the project enough to transition to them.

http://www.openbsd.org
The malware spreads by USB, the honeypot catches it :)
A Morning Ride to Work
It's not just anti-phishing, IMO.

Even if they realize there is a consensual relationship going on between newsite.com & facebook, people don't know what's going on. Does this give newsite.com the ability to see my friends? Spam them? Does this give facebook access to my newsite.com stuff?

Is 'sign in with google" like that time linkedin had access my gmail and spammed everyone?

I think that's a grayer area than phising and something more people have actually been bitten by.
My First Race
the nice thing about cpp is that you can use it on any file.
Did nobody actually read the Zeldman post linked above? This was not intended to be a discussion of a redesign.
really cool app that gives new challenges each day that you can complete to brag about and compete with friends. Sign up if you want early access.
This sounds absurdly stupid. I thought it was a joke.
Convenience. I have like 150 gigabytes of music. I can't put all of that on my phone and even if I just put a subset on there I'd have to re-load it every time I get a new phone. What if I want to play the music out of whatever laptop or tablet I happen to be using at the time? Also, I don't have to worry about my hard drive dying. Also, Google lets you save the music to your phone so you don't have to use mobile data.
Maybe technically (or maybe not--never bothered to check), but I've never heard of it ever happening.

I usually put a legitimate address that's in the same city (and sometimes the same general area). Where I actually live is completely irrelevant wrt DNS and I can think of no reason to have it trivially available to anyone who can do a WHOIS.
Make sure you get water with it.
Kind of a niche offering, but Metrowax records (www.metrowax.com) has been incredible in my experiences.

In one instance, the owner of the shop actually reached out to let me know that the condition of the record was such that track 1 didn't play. While this was mentioned in the description, I didn't notice at first and he revised my order for me and gave me some good turntable advice.
Does this actually support the interesting parts of phone APIs like push messaging (and notifications), bluetooth, in app billing via the stores etc.?

And is it compatible with the equivalent Chrome OS APIs or are we looking at writing web apps two different ways?
What problem is this cup solving? Is it that hard to figure out what you're drinking? (Hint: look at the bottle when you pour, and don't take drinks from strangers.) Is it that hard to keep yourself hydrated? (Just drink when you're thirsty.) And how is a calorie counting cup gonna help me lose weight? (Just DRINK WATER).

I want something that simplifies my life. Not something that needlessly complicates something as simple as drinking without giving me added benefits.
SQL Server Performance: DIY Caching with Memcached vs. Automated Caching
There you go. Nice hack on the ROM switch as well.

The Apple ][ I played with had the PRAID1 ROM manual, but the chip was missing. I was fascinated with Woz's assembly code in the back, especially the music making library. I managed to hand-type that routine into RAM and make it run. I learned a lot from that one little book.
I'm wonder if this means we've hit peak 'smart<x>', or if we're still some distance out.

Although I do like the hydration level stuff, I'm just not certain I think a $200($99 if you get in early) cup is the best solution for it.
Cassini obtains first movie of Saturn's Hexagon jet stream
> I live it every day.

Really? Link the bill, please. I'd be happy to signal boost it.

> That's what I'm saying: it is like being pulled into meeting after meeting where the same thing is said over and over -- while you have already implemented the action items and you're wondering what good will come from Yet Another Meeting where the only things expressed are ones you've long since agreed to and committed yourself to acting on.

I don't think you understand what "proactive" means. What you're talking about is like getting into your wheelchair everyday and expecting your legs to fix themselves as a result.

> while you have already implemented the action items

This is the vaguest part of your analogy. What were the action items? If you wanted to improve system performance, and your action item was splitting the engineering department into two groups, how does implementing that help meet the goal?

The "meetings" and discussion happen because people disagree on what the action items should be. You feel you know better than everyone else, and that's a pretty common sentiment. A company has the luxury of splitting apart or shutting down when people can't agree on a strategy to proceed; a society does not, because that generally involves the usual suspects justifying war.

Now, it turns out that society is large enough that it has millions of departments, and some of these departments have picked action items to go on. Some of these items worked; some of them were poorly implemented; some of them were well-executed and still failed. The discussion continues because people have drawn different conclusions from these events.

Of course, who invited you to the meeting? Why are you here, if you're getting no value from it?
> I'm pretty sure this was discussed at ng-conf and it wasn't implemented by the core team after another team in Google asked them for the same functionality.

What functionality are you referring to specifically?
Do you even /need/ a backend though?

It would be much simpler if you keep it entirely client side, using something like Pretender (https://github.com/trek/pretender).
Really cool!

The part I find the most interesting is that you can separate SMS and voice services on 800 numbers (like leave your crazy Verizon TollFree rate intact and do your SMS through Twilio). Very interested in how that's happening.

I assume Twilio contracted with Syniverse as a TollFree SMS manager, but I'm very curious how they can send and receive SMS on numbers they don't own. I would hazard a guess that Twilio has gotten a contract with Syniverse, the first of its kind, that decouples voice and SMS from toll free.

Crazy times these, way cool feature!
My thought was that he may be able to use the iTunes 30 second previews but after looking into it further I think this would qualify as "the main focus [..] of a web experience".

> 5. Song previews can only be used to promote the track. They cannot be used for entertainment independent of that purpose, or as the main focus of an App or web experience.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-p...
Opera kept that feature, it works.
I'm not sure that creating a catchy headline telling HN how much they added to your bottom line and then berating/shaming a large percentage of members in your article is going to be a good longterm marketing strategy. I would recommend thanking them for the exposure and adding $1,500/month to your bank account. Todays "Wantrepreneur's" could be tomorrows millionaire/billionaires. This line of business requires a bit of luck and just because you received some (and built a great product) doesn't give you the right to put down others in the community.
Feedly under second DDOS
Except how do you decide whether it's worth spending the money to buy it when you can't listen to it fully until you buy it?
http://www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-mac
Moderate to heavy sessions of running and swimming (minimum 40 minutes for me) really help with focusing but that doesn't last very long. Maybe an hour or so? That's still much longer than when trying to ride the caffeine waves, exercise also doesn't come with the risk of "wiping out" my focus (getting unproductively hyper-active) because of borderline coffee-abuse (not good for the stomach either...).

So regular exercise and meditation? Check. Discipline with my diet? Check. Proper sleep hygiene? Check. Still fed up? Check.

Thanks for your always-uplifting comments, they are very much appreciated.
Functional Differential Geometry (2012) [pdf]
Can you determine the amount of sugar in a liquid using a low-voltage current? Then possibly, yes.

After some quick googling, it appears this may use the same principal that diabetes glucose monitors use.
"Solutions that start with 'let's change the world' never, ever work. Let's fix screenreaders. And help the blind by analysing what;'s in front of them, rather than changing it."

It's not screenreaders that are the problem, its the quality of the content (in terms of structure, perceivability, operability, usability and robustness). In short, GIGO. The garbage input is where the fix is needed, not the tool that's attempting to treat it as actual quality.

The "fix the screen readers" argument is a terribly terribly deep rabbit hole, requiring pretty much world-changing technologies: solving artificial intelligence, solving computer vision, teaching computers empathy, emotion, spatial relativity and context, cultural awareness, interpretation of imagery, spot and be able to translate visual cues... so many many deeply technical problems to solve.

In the choice between "fixing screenreaders" and web developers doing their jobs properly, the latter is a low hanging fruit in comparison. I assume teaching web developers basic skills is easier than teaching computers how to think and perceive (though, I recognise some people are beyond help). It takes a year to teach a web developer professional web development, it's been 60-odd years and they haven't seriously cracked artificial intelligence yet.
After a while of reading the replies, Iron Man came to mind.
Torture your ruby code
My mistake. I'm confused easily :)
I would highly recommend reading Cryptography Engineering [0] cover to cover. It's amazingly readable, covers the basics, the theory necessary to understand how things works and includes ample practical advice and observations on the industry.

The first thing I did after the Snowden leaks was read through the entire thing and after doing so I really wished I had done this years earlier. There's very few books that I think should be required reading across the board for software engineers, but this is one that I do think everyone writing code should read every page of.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Cryptography-Engineering-Principles-Pr...
Dang, dude. I started from the bottom and pretty much stayed there.
I'm not sure why exactly I would need this (I don't need a cup to tell me what I'm drinking, and I don't find it difficult to keep track of my beverage habits).

This is interesting from a technical perspective, though. How does it know what's in the cup?
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Museum of Fine Arts apologizes to The Onion for not having a Mona Lisa
> "We (the OpenSSL team) are considering a more aggressive EOL strategy.

> In particular, we may EOL 0.9.8 right now, and 1.0.0 when 1.0.2 comes
out (currently in beta).

> Going forward we would only maintain two versions, so when 1.0.3 comes
out, 1.0.1 would be EOL.

> What do people think about this?"

Makes a lot of sense in my opinion
"And I still maintain that recommendation. CTR+HMAC is far more robust against side channel attacks than any AE mode." -- https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/475360367191674881
SoftGozar Toolbar
Feedly Denial of service attack continues
Drew was rejected on his first application?

Anyways this is obvious because if you don't you fail and go back to employee land more than likely.
Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, MF Doom, Deltron 3030 Aesop Rock and maybe Captain Murphy(might not be enough content). Gotta fill in those hipster rappers.
"Just reviewed my "crypto in 1 hour" talk slides in preparation for giving this talk on Wednesday. 4 years after writing, no updates needed." -- https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/475359526145646593
This is very interesting. Automating parts of self-measurement is a good way to get people to do it.

I could use this to cut down on the caffeine... lol... would be cool if the lid locks shut after 400mg of caffeine. No more!
Tesla - All Our Patent Are Belong To You
How small teams can win through exceptional customer service
http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/37993/is-there-a-mi...

"Historically, the very first demonstration of the t-test (in "Student"'s 1908 paper) was in an application to sample sizes of size four. Indeed, obtaining improved results for small samples is the test's claim to fame"