skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing this for quite a while now with Knock [1].

It's pretty good, though I have to remember to take my phone with me when I leave my desk at work for an extended period of time.

It's nice to be able to walk up to my desk, tap my phone while it's in my pocket and see the computer unlock.

[1] http://www.knocktounlock.com
The critical difference with Aero is that it's never your antenna. It's leased, not owned, and moreover, Aero treats the antennas themselves on a fungible basis, meaning that they they simply maintain a 1:1 relationship between the number of antennas and the number of subscribers, so you're not even leasing any specific piece of equipment. You're just buying individual access to an independently owned and operated antenna array.

That's miles away from "just hiring a tech guy to come over and set up your cable card".
Hands On With Google’s Incredibly Clever Cardboard Virtual Reality Headset
As much as I want to like web components, Google's behavior with this new "standard" has been very suspect. The "intent to ship" thread from February this year is something everyone should check out.

Here is Maciej Stachowiak's response to Google's irresponsibility on the intent to ship announcement:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0103.h...

Shoehorning more and much junk into HTML, a markup language with only two types, strings and children, will likely result in bad juju. It may be great for setting things up declaratively, but not for controlling something with state that changes over time. It will serve to reduce what's possible instead of enabling others to explore ideas on the web that are currently only possible in native.

What we need is a low-level retain mode scene graph with a JavaScript API. DOM is a pretty inadequate replacement for a real scene graph. DOM is simply too costly to manipulate and re-arrange and I don't see what WebComponents does to fix that problem.

This might delay the crisis the web feels relative to native, but will just punt the problem a few years down the road at best.

Lastly, some required reading for anyone who wants to educate themselves on the Shadow DOM:

http://acko.net/blog/shadow-dom/
Backupify became the first cloud-to-cloud backup
If you'd take the $3500 fee after I have the job, I think anyone would do it.

I'd even go so far as to say I'd be willing to give you guys 40-50% of my pay for 3 months.
It is based on the google tracking cookies, not being logged in. I don't have a google account, but I still see the house #s on firefox, until I flush their cookies.
My new startup motto – Make People F***ing Happy
GPU-accelerated scrolling with scroller.js
Hypothetically, wouldn't really aggressive archiving accomplish the same task?

Have a 0-email inbox, and if you get something that you can't address immediately (but you can take care of later in the day), then you leave it in the inbox. In the meantime, anything you can act on in some way gets acted upon and then archived. By the end of the day you would ideally have just that email in your inbox (and even in a realistic world you might have a few tasks lingering in your inbox, but few enough that you can glance and see that "task" still there). Check your email at the end of the day and act on the things you needed to postpone for whatever reason (as well as pruning emails loitering in the inbox).

This requires, as previously said, really aggressive archiving, but since there's no difference between inbox and all-mail as far as I know (unless you use it as a search operator e.g. "from:friend@university.edu label:inbox"), it wouldn't be that big a cost (except that you would have to remember to archive or go through later and archive stuff).

I had been doing this somewhat organically for a while - tagging emails that didn't get filtered automatically and archiving them when there was nothing more for me to do with them - but when I disabled all of my filters (a misguided experiment I don't recommend anyone attempt) I stopped.
I use Evil with emacs prelude now. Has more than enough features I need.
Shouldn't you save for retirement after paying down your debts?
Maybe a significant proportion of the clicks you got were from click farms or bots

Given the obvious keyword spam I mentioned on one of the top referring sites, that wouldn't surprise me at all. But again, if Google are that bad at dealing with fraudulent clicks, we're going to make that their problem rather than ours!

I have had much better results with Search ads.

Google search ads are actually our second worst-performing experiment by some way as far as on-line channels go. However, in fairness to Google, we already rank on the first page for almost all the targeted terms in our current strategy anyway, so it is entirely possible that any keywords generic enough to be useful on top of that are also broad enough to be the wrong scale for our needs.

A more interesting contrast for us is the results from advertising say via Facebook (targeting similar interests/demographics) or via individual ads we've placed directly with a few established sites relevant to our target audience. Those channels should be directly comparable to GDN, yet all of them have consistently performed vastly better.
I don't think it is just a matter of adding a font, with 12 additional letter for urdu. The actual layout algorithm has to change (how characters are laid out, their size, how beginning of one connects to ending of another, etc.).
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Useful to know there is a (rather obscure) opt-out and also that you were able to get money back from Google. Thanks.
Yes, I would actually. I can do a CAPTCHA in about 5 seconds, whereas generating the proof-of-work took around 10 seconds on my computer.
Completely agree that the Polymer Material "look and feel" is really nice and well thought out. The WebComponents ideas it is based on gives me the jibblies though.

You could do the polymer look and feel with the react update model via famo.us (disclaimer: I work for famo.us). Famo.us also plays pretty nicely with Ember.js (tutorials coming soon) and React.js.
You should give a try to VsVim [1], a plugin for Visual Studio that provides Vim emulation. It supports a lot of features [2] and settings [3] and, most importantly, it is Open Source (it is also written in F#, which is nice).

It's always the first plugin I install in Visual Studio, I cannot work without it. It might not suit the needs of more advanced Vim users, though.

[1]. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...

[2]. https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/wiki/Supported-Features

[3]. https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/wiki/Settings-Reference
How to build AGI
I understand that you think it's really dumb but I think most people would disagree with you. When you get bogged down in the technical details of Aereo's datacenter configuration you miss the forrest for the trees. They're a company that streams TV into people's homes. Other companies (the cable companies) have to pay a fee to the content creators to do that. Why should it be different for Aereo?

It costs a lot of money to make American Idol and CSI and to license the rights to the Super Bowl. The people that own that content should have a right to license it out in whatever manner they choose.
Clearly software should be written more efficiently so that his phone is still capable. The LG G2 is a two year old smartphone. It's pretty unacceptable that something doesn't run well on it, so long as the underlying software (operating system and browsers) are up to date.
I think the point of the article is that even if you can get yourself to a state of zero debt, and then start saving...any significant purchase (home, auto) ends up placing you right back in that state. You've locked away a significant portion of your income for a very long time, and generally most people can't then afford to purchase a home or car without going right back into debt.
Are Debtors’ Prisons Coming Back? (2012)
2nding
No. Not on the original repo. There's plenty of activity on forks, but no solid consensus on a new official repo. See https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/issues/356

The site is up for me. IMO http://www.chartjs.org/docs/ is one reason why the library is so popular, despite its lack of interactivity.
CAP Theorem and Elasticsearch: Will it fail together with the network?
Too bad HN doesn't allow edits to old posts:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22papers+and+effects%22+rayiner#!...
Engineers, Inventing Ourselves Out of Work?
Folding@chrome – folding with just your browser
There is also our product, FollowUp.cc (https://followup.cc). We've been around for a little over 7 years!
Surprise iOS 7.1 jailbreak for most iPhones and iPads uses year-old flaw
Eh, I've hit some really frustrating captchas where after five or so attempts I ended up just closing the page (these were reCAPTCHA ones...) The problem was most definitely with the captchas.
Not if the function is inlineable or an intrinsic (console.log will likely be either), which is the most basic trick of any JIT.

Unless you can specifically measure caching the length is faster, I wouldn't do it. Most of the time it doesn't matter anyway (won't cause a bump in performance), and even then most of the time the compiler will be able to figure it out for you.
It looks like an attempt to respond to AWS kinesis which was released last year. The monitoring stuff seems to be about the software they got when they bought stackdriver.
Yeah. In my experience of contracting, I had to use Windows for at least something.
LOL! What an oxymoron; US and privacy protection.
How a Machine Knew When a Democrat Started Voting with Republicans
iOS, Android and Windows 8 are all greater than the sum of their parts when you buy in to the complete ecosystem. I hope auto manufacturers are going to be able to make mobile OS enhancements modular to their vehicles. I would really hate to pay for CarPlay (iOS for cars) in a car but have cast my lot with Android, or vice versa.

Edit: corrected name of iOS for cars
I'm starting to wonder if the Federal Reserve is no longer an effective tool for job creation.

After years of propping up the economy and expanding the supply of money, we have very little to show for it on "main street." We have booming real-estate prices in some cities, a growing stock market, and lots of cheap money flowing into the hands of the wealthy -- but most regular folks have been completely shut out of this recovery.

Imagine if in 2009, instead of using the traditional means to expand monetary supply, we just started sending checks to all citizens. It seems we're still waiting for the trickle down effect to kick in from the Fed's stimulus. Why are we waiting for banks to lend and businesses to hire? If the goal is to prime the economic pump with an influx of new money, put that money in the hands of people who will actually go out and buy something.
Well, if Aereo would provide antenna and SDR that end-user could control (and a third party decoding software would decode the video, huh) - would it be the same?
But the Amazon reviews for the book are BS, so the title is appropriate.
Relevant illustration http://explosm.net/comics/2696/
I love the look and feel that went into the design of Material here, but with respect to web components, we should be worried that Google is monopolizing the future of the web. See my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947119

It bugs me that Polymer is being marketed as "polyfills", since the term polyfill generally tends to connote something that fills in for an already agreed upon w3c standard that will appear in all user agents eventually. Whereas web components and shadow dom is still very much in the proposal/experimentation stage and has a ways to go before reaching standardization. There are still some disagreements to be resolved by all those that contribute code to the major user agents.

Calling polymer a polyfills library is misleading and an abuse of the intent of the term polyfill [0].

Also related: "Apple Removes Shadow DOM from Safari"[1][2]

[0] http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/

[1] http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/164131

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243122
Has anybody tried out Orly? https://github.com/orlyatomics/orly
Which all points to the EA being the problem and not some random lawyer employed by an enormously wealthy global corporation.

The reasoning behind the Ellis Act is to allow landlords to quit being landlords without selling their property to another landlord. What? Huh? Of COURSE that's going to leave the tenants of their property out in the cold (well, SF, so uh .. chilliness). And of COURSE if you increase the amount the tenants must be compensated you'll get a rush of evictions before it takes effect.
I like that UIs are being given depth, but they should respond as physically expected to, too. Why can't buttons move into the screen when pushed instead of changing color and rippling?
Not sure that anyone outside of the USA is going to trust important data to any USA company. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't trust these companies with my important business data, even if I lived in the USA.
Introducing Ampersand.js
Depends on your messaging volume and typical message size. For some types of apps it won't matter because the volume is small; for others it won't matter because the payload is huge. But you get battle-tested federation, scaling, server discovery etc. nearly free.
Or, you know, when your 9-year-old asks you "Papa(Mama), what is 'bullshit'?" You could explain that it does not literally means cattle manure, is a strong and rude expression sometimes used by people, and it's best to avoid that kind of expression in conversation.

Either you kid will learn the word from you (instead of their peers) and gain more knowledge, or they'll just mentally shrug and think "What the _, I'm nine and my dad thinks I don't know bullshit!"

Just don't act horrified when you're asked. That will fascinate your kids to no end.

Source(?): I have a 8-year-old daughter. (Hopefully she doesn't know what is 'bullshit' yet... but what's the big deal?)
https://twitter.com/GoogleCardboard
Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher
Chromium uses ffmpeg to decode h264. In fact, they even include ffmepg in the chromium source tarball.
DataFlow is not Kinesis. It's more like Kinesis plus Esper plus BigQuery and you still wouldn't have one set of queries to run against streaming and batch data like you do with DataFlow.
I didn't say hand-picked. By cherry-picked I mean that the software picked out two arbitrary values that are just outside of the range of the data. The values are still arbitrary: they show direction well but magnitude poorly.
I'm in the process of migrating to IntelliJ. The 4.x releases broke the plugins I wrote and I couldn't figure out how to get them working again. Stuff like incremental builders. Life's too short.

Too bad. I've used Eclipse since the alphas. It's muscle memory for me.
Just sending checks to all citizens is politically difficult, because it starts conversations about “class warfare” and “socialism”, and implies that the federal government should have a policy of explicit wealth redistribution, rather than the current hodge-podge of means tested welfare programs and monetary policy tools.

But to answer your question: yes, we’d increase liquidity, reduce unemployment and dramatically improve the lives of basically everyone in the society if we taxed capital gains as income, restored inheritance taxes to historical levels, raised the top marginal income tax rates, and closed various corporate tax loopholes, and then just took the resulting pool of cash and distributed it equally among citizens.

In the long term, the great-great grandchildren of today’s billionaires would probably end up richer, too, since the whole society would be richer.
Everything and nothing. Nothing to do with computers, everything to do with hype and name recognition.

Besides, computers are just tools. A means to an end. To the hammer designer, is a discussion about home building relevant? The economics of home building? The economics of people buying homes? The psychology of homebuyers? Is psychology relevant to hammer design? Maybe. Relevance is complicated.
Novick's Law: Nobody understands Godwin's law.
The TLDP bash guide is full of a range of submitted examples that run the gamut of good and bad practices. That said, it's still one of the better resources out there, and I have the reference page bookmarked. But this is Bash we're talking about, "best" practice is a relative term.
Aleem, this is great to see. We at FollowUp.cc (https://followup.cc) have been doing snoozing for quite a while and have a Chrome extension that does this as well. We are getting close to rewriting our entire extension from the ground up, and this API is definitely going to make our lives easier. Side note, I'm a big fan of Streak =)

It will be interesting to see how and if Context.io (http://context.io) starts to use this API. We use Context, and it's a fantastic product.
This is scaring us -- we rely on Heroku every day have large marketing pushes scheduled weeks in advance. This maintenance will forcefully interrupt any running attached processes, so it really is shocking they are planning this during midday.
On my Moto G (which is listed as being 'Partially compatible'), it's nearly impossible to get any of the demos in the app version to respond to the phone's movement. I'm assuming that's down to the lack of gyroscope, which is a bit disappointing.
Why is such streaming a "public performance" really? Aereo rents one antenna per user. Or public is now redefined?
I'll bite. What should we be using instead of `if [ $? -ne 0 ]`? Because that's pretty standard in my (admittedly very basic) bash.
NEEDED HELP in reversing Skype. Is here yet any good reversers?
So, is this yet any good reversers?
Here is almost plain-text skype chat messages. ( http://wiki.epycslib.ru/index.php/Newdump4_with_41_from_scratch auth: skype/skype )
Here is skype binary, ready for olldydbg, and well commented ida database ( http://dev.epycslib.ru/reddit/skype_55_deobf.zip http://dev.epycslib.ru/reddit/skype55_last_idb.zip )
Here is code, with session setup, crypto stuff & etc. ( http://dev.epycslib.ru/reddit/multysend.zip )
Can i get any help with these, or you are all to stupid for this simple task?

its not harder, than reverse ICQ proto or any plain-text network protocol for now.
So, is there yet heroes for this?
> I'm starting to wonder if the Federal Reserve is no longer an effective tool for job creation.

The principle purpose of independent central banking is to put government debt on a secure footing by minimizing the risk of the government acting to monetize the debt by separating direct, day-to-day control of the money supply from the government organs responsible for borrowing and repaying debt, setting spending, etc.; it also seeks to avoid harming the economy through policies that inhibit economic activity, but actually actively promoting job growth is more about fiscal (and specific program) policy of government than monetary policy of the central bank.
Quick Summary:

- Pluggable Storage Engine and API: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1153

- Document Level Locking: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1241

- MMS Automation: provision and automate deployment of complex clusters through MMS (looks like both an API and a UI are going to be made available). https://mms.mongodb.com/learn-more
I don't know much about this, either, but I don't think that is a feasible approach.

- where are you going to 'mark the array'? Does that mean every array gets the overhead of having room for that mark or do these marks live elsewhere? If so, where, and how is code checking it going to be performant?

- in nested calls, are you going to allow multiple marks? (Solvable, I think, as you can get away with an integer mark count)

- that would mean that all code that modifies any array must check whether such a mark is present and then find the return address on the stack (and nested return addresses)

- even if you do all of the above, the simple checking for presence of such a mark can kill performance in tight loops, even if you do that with branch prediction hints.

- how do you know what mutating changes are important for the calling code? You can use a function pointer as the 'mark' and call that so that it can figure it out by itself, but that surely will kill performance in tight loops.

I think the normal way is for compiled functions to detect when their own assumptions (may) no longer hold, not for other code to signal any compiled code on the stack that its assumptions (may) no longer hold. In tight frequently run code, you may be able to inline calls and recompile, but that is costly, too.

EDIT: I just realize that it is possible to do something in the spirit of this without needing any marks. The really bad calls, such as those to eval, will have to tell the JIT compiler that the current game is over, and that they can start over. It is too costly to do that from any innocuous call, such as that which adds an item to an array, though.

As to that length optimization: it use to say that C doesn't have a for loop; because it evaluates the end condition through every iteration, its 'for' is a 'while' in disguise. Pascal, on the other hand, has a for loop.

JavaScript inherits that IMO bad decision.
Perhaps you might be interested in Rust?
Wouldn't your proposal cause massive inflation? My understanding is the fed are somewhat obsessed with keeping inflation down, possibly to a fault.
Blaming the victim. Yes of course, but no, not reasonable to expect users to be smart about passwords in general.
Have you check the 'Dimensions>Search terms' report to check the phrases your ads appear for (which won't be the same as those you bid on, unless you are only using exact match) are well targetted?

Another common mistake I have seen is to advertise expensive English-language products to people not searching in English in poor countries.

It is so easy to make mistakes in AdWords.
> Or public is now redefined?

Providing a service to the public vs. doing something privately, in law, is generally about doing the service commercially via an arms-length transaction in the general marketplace, not about the ratio of inputs to outputs. So, its not "redefinition" at all.
I think App Engine's Datastore is generally an under-appreciated gem. Possibly because you have to use App Engine to use it without sacrificing performance, maybe because it's not easy enough to use if all you have is some JavaScript + JSON and don't want or know how to write Python/Java/Go.

But it's actually the only generally available product I know of that solves all the hard problems (availability, partition tolerance, some - but well defined - consistency with cross entity transactions) with zero hassle for you.

If you read through http://aphyr.com/tags/Jepsen, you get some appreciation for how hard this is to pull off without running into operational nightmares (massive data loss, split brains, etc).

Disclaimer: I work for Google, though not on Datastore.
Not anymore. "The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator."
So … are they really still fully embracing the hamburger menu? That seems like such a horrible design pattern to me.
Link is broken. I don't think the finder.cfm link is supposed to be shared. Anyways, I found the correct (I think) lenses on http://surplusshed.com by going to the lens finder link and looking up double convex, 40mm focal length, 25mm diameter lenses. $4.50 each, which is pretty good.

EDIT: The article says to use biconvex lenses, whereas I looked up double convex lenses. The surplus shed website has double convex as a separate search option as biconvex, but wikipedia says they're the same thing? If someone has more knowledge about this I'd really like to know if they're at least "close enough" to use, since I couldn't find any biconvex lenses on the website of the correct parameters.