skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very smooth animation, but those colors ... ech ... I wish it had the color and style customization that Highcharts offers, for example gradient fills and opacity support ... or rather I wish Highcharts update animations were this smooth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

"A shibboleth is a word or custom whose variations in pronunciation or style can be used to differentiate members of ingroups from those of outgroups.

Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' they then said, 'Very well, say "Shibboleth" (שבלת).' If anyone said, "Sibboleth" (סבלת), because he could not pronounce it, then they would seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell on this occasion.

Today, in American English, a shibboleth also has a wider meaning, referring to any "in-group" word or phrase that can be used to distinguish members of a group from outsiders – even when not used by a hostile other group."
Which one should be running anyway, seeing that 10.9 is the current version for a year, and we're on to 10.10 soon.

OS X releases are like minor Linux distro updates -- not in they have limited changes, but in that you don't want to fall far behind the latest version.

It's a different approach than Windows, where people can still run XP with no problem -- not that you couldn't run 10.4 or 10.3 (and some people do), but the Mac world changes and software is updated to reflect that (takes advantage of new APIs, integration, changes in style etc).

In Windows there is software available in new versions in 2014, even MS made, that still uses stuff like file open dialogs from 1998.
It would still be integrated and build by someone putting on the hat of a developer for a while.
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Obviously, I failed miserably where it matters! Thanks for the thoughful comment.

I'm glad that at least you had a good time reading it. Landing pages are usually so boring.

This one came naturally, it's easy be cocky when you know your product is really good and are not afraid of the competition :)
Stupidest Android bug unresolved for 5 years
No, it takes two. Countering violence with violence is not always the only solution. Sometimes sustained violence in response (war) is the the way to go, sometimes it just escalates the original violence into something far worse and far harder to unwind. For example, and as the OP states, we may be generating far more "terrorists" than we are killing.

We humans often fail to see this because we are so myopic and vengeful. We suck at seeing the big picture and taking the long view.
Show HN: PlaintextOffenders API and Searchable Database
based on the work of the from plaintextoffenders.com - guys (@omervk and @hmemcpy, see more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943365) i build a browseable and searchable page (https://8ack.de/plato/) for easier access to the entries. there is an api included ( https://8ack.de/plato/info/#api ) that should serve app/browser-extension-builders who'd like to retrieve the whole list at once. short docu is available ( https://8ack.de/plato/info/ )

thoughts and comments appreciated

p.s.: be gentle, it's my first time :D
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XAML is a perfect example:

"When used in Windows Workflow Foundation contexts, XAML is used to describe potentially long-running declarative logic, such as those created by process modeling tools and rules systems."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_L...

PS: it is of course also used for modern GUI mark-up.
absolutely not -- at least not on every login into a service.

the on/off metaphor is not clear either - at least make the "login" button be not enabled until the switch is moved

Its sitting on the login form for at least a minute now, filling up the switch background btw
Pretty impressive! Native speaker: 69%.

Leaned on the side of `no`: 0 non word yesses at least.
The article failed to mention that the previous $199 ipod touch hasn't had a camera, but now it does.

Apple mentioned in a previous keynote that that $199 price point is kind of a magical barrier. If you can lower your price to <200, lots of people consider it that previously have not thought about buying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgyQcyDthw#t=425 (jump to 7:05)

So what they tried to communicate, badly, was: a product that is already a best-seller now also includes a camera. So now it has the potential to upend another category after music, communication and gaming: photography.
I got 76%, I'm not a native speaker. That might have helped though, as several words were clearly from Latin or French (my native) origin.
Here's a mirror since ugent.be seems to have gone down: http://mu.ms/f/Oo7ccb.txt

or Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1meGtpl...
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Support for WebRTC, among the many other features Blink has over WebKit.
Native; 93%.

Missed: rood, ceil, catchfly, slickens, tuberculation

Some of those non-words were gorgeous: costyhibbles, neatherden, quiffiness, concodion
Related research that actually does what that page claims:
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
The "underlying theme" of spreadsheets may be declarative, but declarative has very little relation to how real non-trivial spreadsheet-based apps are constructed.

Spreadsheets are a tool in which one motivated in that direction can do fairly pure, fairly complex, dataflow oriented programming -- but that's not generally what they are used for.
More men might be familiar with bipods (e.g., affixed to a rifle), or monopods and tripods (from the male-dominated photography hobby), or even gastropods or pedals...
I'm mainly favor in this because I could trust the cooperative more than I trust the existing CAs. As long as it doesn't cost me more than the existing cheapest options [e.g. StartSSL, NameCheap's cheap ssl certs] and had 99.7%+ coverage, I'm 100% sure I'd pay for it.. :)
looking at the specifications page, other than megapixels what differences are there now? This new model looks like a significant improvement.
Image manipulation recipes in the cloud
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I used to donate to the Open Rights Group but you soon realise that all you are funding is for the guy in charge to do as he pleases, regardless of what the majority of members want. You fund his ever increasing life style and he complains on your behalf. I think a lot of the members would much prefer some input into the campaign, especially since the campaign is ineffective.

Having found the founders position untenable in a number of ways I realised I couldn't support that position and that the detonators opinions (despite having a discussion) didn't matter. I can't recommend donating to the ORG really, its a bit of a scam and it is definitely not a Charity.
Hey all, this is @omervk, one of the co-founders and maintainer of plaintextoffenders.com. I was thrilled when OP approached us with the initial version. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys can build on top of this :)
I'd probably argue that it just pigeon-holes the iPod touch into being primarily a gaming device when it can do much more. Not that gaming isn't a good reason to get one.
We have a few customers at Ducksboard that are building dashboards for their customers and embedding them into their apps.

Everything (pushing/pulling data, create widgets, auths, reordering, etc) can be done using our APIs (http://dev.ducksboard.com/apidoc/).

My email is at the profile page if you're interested. Thx!
Interesting, but even my dictionary doesn't know those words.
So everything is working according to plan, then?
non-native : 67%
It's good to hear that I know 67% of English words.
Apart from the fact that both of these words pre-date the Internet and/or computer nerds. The word dreadnaught is a neologistic spelling of dreadnought; which is a portmanteau contraction of the phrase "fear God, and dread nought". The first historical use as the name of a naval vessel is HMS Dreadnought (1553). The word claymore is another very old word, 14th vs 15th century. It comes from Scots Gaelic and literally means "great sword". Since both words are terms for two weapons of war it probably is more likely to be known by men.
Someone should make a list of all the little tricks you can use on Google, or any other site for that matter.
If you compare these two search results:

https://searchcode.com/?q=MongoDBObject+find+lang%3AScala

https://github.com/search?q=MongoDBObject+find+language%3Asc...

I find Github much, much more digestible, and to the point than search code.
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One of the best courses I took at Texas A&M in the late 80s was a digital logic course. We started with boolean algebra and Karnaugh maps. Next we would draw a schematic for a circuit to implement the logic. After that, we would get out our TTL Data Book, a required textbook for the course, and find the parts we needed to build the circuit. There was a room where you could hand the attendant your parts list, and checkout a breadboard and chips so you could build your circuit. Finally, we would connect the circuit to a scope in the lab and make sure it worked. I loved how the course took us from theory to practical hands-on experience.
Intuit beats Web encryption patent that defeated Newegg at trial
Native, 84%. I missed 'pshaw', but 'myeah' is apparently a non-word!
That's a silly conclusion, since the US has been engaged in essentially non-stop war since at least WWII (with a developing national security state based on that permanent war footing), most of which didn't involve drones.

Drones certainly lower the political cost of war, but they aren't something that "risks" war without end, they are something developed and deployed in an environment where "war without end" was already the established reality.
My biggest use for Markdown is writing my README.md files for my Github projects. And while I do care how it looks plain, I care more about how it looks to users who visit my project's Github page.
Seems like provenance ought to just be it's own triple describing the relation of another triple to some source. Is this just a shortcut?
Well, a robots.txt (much like an implicit TOS/EULA that nobody ever sees nor agrees to) isn't exactly legally binding.

Yelp, LinkedIn, and Craigslist are examples that have taken legal action recently against other entities scraping and re-purposing the data.
AFAIK it's related to the "inbox zero" concept. You want nothing in your inbox except things that need to be actioned, but if you can't action something yet, you might want to snooze it.
Non native, 81%. I think the test might be easier for non-natives speaking european native languages, as they cumulate etymological understanding from several languages.
Wouldn't referral headers give this away? Unless you change those too of course.
It may not be as good as the iPhone camera but it's still great, it's the same camera as the one fitted into the iPad range and there seem to be more people than ever using an iPad as a camera.

It's an improvement to the camera that was in the iPhone 4 though with the same megapixel count. I've taken photos with my iPad mini in a pinch and they still look good.
Accessing C++11 Features of the Android NDK
OK, I failed this test before I even got to it. Apparently you are only allowed to put one country in the "Where did you grow up in?" question. I don't know why they aren't interested in the verbal abilities of the large number of people whose parents weren't sedentary - e.g. military, mining industry, diplomats, aid, disaster, mega-construction etc etc.

/whine over.

EDIT: Also, no way to communicate this flaw to them (I'm not on Twitter).
In particular the 2008 terrorist attack at the Taj hotel in Mumbai, wherein the attackers were directed by controllers in Pakistan via cell phone and VoIP always struck me as the horrifying equivalent of a terrorist poor man's drone.
IDs are tightly coupled with domains, no?
And if you start entering some number that are close to the correct answer most times it's accepted. But if you do it like ten times you might be switched to the two words version.
LIKE '3 glasses' in inglorious bastards.
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Be aware that you stink, your clothes stink, and your house stinks.

Someone pointed that out to me. Somehow the fact that people thought that I stank was worse than all of the publicized health issues (to me).

I quit 4 years ago. Now I realize when I come across smoker how much they truly stink. As a smoker you haven't got a clue how much you smell.
Wow, I wasn't familiar with the site before seeing this, but I would never even consider purchasing a product from them no matter what the discount/price was. This shows blatant disregard for their customers and sends a loud message that all they care about is their image. Ironically this clause degrades their image more than any negative consumer review could.
Maybe they should spin their word generator off into a domain name finder?
The future of medicine
I was surprised to find Bolshevik in the list of little known words. I learned about it in secondary school during classes on Russia history (live in France) and everyone is supposed to know his Lenin from its Trotsky. Although we spell it « Bolchéviques ».
I wonder what the effects this kind of VR stuff has on the health of your eyes.
Which ORMs support WITH RECURSIVE?
Not really, I live about an hour outside of the city and carpool in everyday. I can tell you first hand that Google is always late in recognizing traffic pattern changes. It's actually become a bit of a joke amongst our car pool because we get the alert once we're already stuck in traffic.
Bread and Circuses always win, usually.
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Show HN: Data-driven Lorem-ipsum generator with Casper.js + Angular
VO is the ticker for the Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF - https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0939&...

The Sharpe ratio is a measure of the Risk/Return for a given investment - http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharperatio.asp
SoundCloud launches a revamped iOS app
90%. Native speaker. The non words were gems, blurishness... why did I say yes to that?
Yes, that is the traditional inbox zero method. Snoozing is just a tweak to make it easier to get back to zero at the end of each day.
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I agree. Cut out that line and it's a much more persuasive comment.
Can I fight back?
PHP - Part 1: You Are Doing It Wrong
This release has a secondary new mode that we hope will replace the older OBML-without-javascript mode over time, as devices get faster. It's basically Opera Turbo v2, attempting to get optimally efficient network benefits of the old Opera Mini to work with full web rendering using webkit. (On iOS Apple have been thoughtful enough to make it possible to make it possible to replace the network layer of the built-in webkit component.)
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You totally could do that, but it doesn't really help with the lack of interest problem he described. If the contributor can't be arsed to fix their patch, can we expect them to be arsed to merge a patch to their patch and then re-PR it?
Yeah, I think all nosql db's will have that issue if you have extremely unbalanced sharding. This is an application level fault and should be solved there.

But, the thing that is extra bad about dynamo db is how they are paying for 10x higher provisioning as a stop gap, and still getting throttled. That sucks.

FWIW we're using dynamo db and we love it. Pro tip: setup dynamic-dynamodb and let it autoscale for you in realtime. http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/auto-scale-dynamodb-with-dyn...
Whoa! This is incredible! Great job mate!
I would recommend Highcharts[1] - a very wide range of great looking charts with minimal effort. Also free for personal/non-commercial use. Unlike D3-based charting libraries, it works on everything from IE8 to mobiles.

[1] http://www.highcharts.com
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Fascinating. I could confidently define 11/12 of the male words and 1/12 of the female ones.
> $100,000: Invest half, spend the other half on the previous items

What would you do with the remaining $38,889? Rinse and repeat the list?
I could not read that article without becoming thoroughly enraged. How can they make rulings on these kinds of cases with such an incredible lack of understanding of the subject matter.
Agreed on everything, except:

> But here in Brazil is not like that. If I fail this company and try to found another, I will be irresponsible.

On mistakes we learn. There are millions of examples where people succeed after failures taught them invaluable lessons.
Are you willing to hold Churchill and the RAF to the same standard?
> It used to be that Fortran was "declarative" because you no longer had to write machine code and schedule instructions by hand!

Maybe, but even at that time, pure mathematics was still more declarative than Fortran, so it's not a relative term.

> In truth, it is about how many, not just the kind, details can be omitted.

I think it's about the kind of details that can be omitted. If I can omit implementation details (how to execute my code on a given machine) from my function declaration, then that is a declarative function.
Taking the test, I didn't claim to know any of the fake words, but because of their disclaimer about that, I'm pretty sure I took the safe "no" answer to a few words that I seemed to recognize but wasn't positive about. So my score could have been higher than the 70% I got.

But it's an interesting test overall, and I can see where being a well-read individual, a writer, or an English professor could achieve high percentages in "male" and "female" vocabulary.
Google IMAP has extensions for single sign-on using OAUTH, see https://developers.google.com/gmail/xoauth2_protocol
Depends on the size of the feature, and the maintainer, but you're right about "talk to the maintainter."

Some projects, you'll want to do a weekend of really rough work, contact the maintainer, get their thoughts. Others, you'll want to do 8 days work, get it far enough along to show, get their thoughts.

Often though, before you write a line of code, talk to them.
The UK accounts for 18% of app developers and 32% of app revenues in EU28
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Oops, you closed the whine tag too early!
I was extremely surprised to see that one listed in the Women category.
So what happens to everyone that has been arrested and convicted based on this in the past? Are they suddenly able to appeal?
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The article is somewhat out of date, the default is now to verify (though you can turn it off if you need to). A lot is changing with PHP, and people aren't keeping up.
If knowing the city gives someone an advantage there probably is a traffic organization problem
"Your best employees should be so good that you practically never think about them."

I'd just LOVE to work for her /sarcasm
Just imagine how many lives it will save once Google is allowed to implant Maps directly into our parietal lobes.
Well, there is a way to communicate this flaw to them. You've just chosen not to participate in that medium.
There is plenty of unique things about this new type of long-term warfare:

a) every operation is conducted in total secrecy

b) most of it is executed remotely, or occasionally via Special Forces commandos on the ground when drones can't get the job done

c) they are (apparently) based off of a 'kill-list', which is essentially an assassination list

This is very different than the decades of conventional warfare the US traditionally engaged in, using troops and engagements openly talked about to the public (even if it's after the fact).

It is only comparable to the CIA operations in latin america in the 1980s.
A very organized site for group discussion board!!
It fetches all the PRs. Once you open a PR for a project (even from a fork), github creates a local branch for that PR in the upstream project.

Note though that doing a fetch will take some time the first time after you set up this - it will fetch all the historical PRs.
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Yes given the admonishment about "heavy penalties" at the beginning I hit no on any word I was on the fence about (and accidentally when I got to "triennially"). 71% as a native speaker.
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The drones are taking poor man jobs.
> At least part of the problem is that we, as a society, have no idea how to fund the development of creative / digital works. We can't find good business models for this in general.

Very true. This says something about how we as a society values those works and how our economic organization discourages some kinds of work/content.
Cur.to/Suarez
That's a beautiful table and a beautiful video. It would definitely appeal to users with good taste in aesthetics. Unfortunately, I wouldn't buy it. For less money, I can get a Steelcase Airtouch. It's straight forward, mechanical, adjusts faster with one hand and some elbow grease and there's zero chance of a prankster hacking my desk. That said, I have no doubt you'll sell plenty, it looks really cool!

Something else to keep in mind: I hope you have an easy way of locking the table height. Whenever somebody comes to my desk to look at something on the screen, they lean on the desk. With your desk, if they lean in the right place, the table moves.
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The pricing seems extreme. Is it based on some specifc insights?
nice writeup, I especially like that you talk in detail about the things you learned from your "failure". Failure by itself isn't always good, but this shows how one can learn and get oneself up again after falling (technology wise).
Because having a multi-select plays havoc with stats.
It's not clear it's an Android bug.
My point is that it's not really even better.
I got all of the male words, and 10 of the female words (I'm male). I love to read both fiction and non-fiction, and I'm fond of writing, so I'll see a word and form a picture in my mind even before a definition forms.

For example, with "mascarpone" I picture all of the ingredients for making tiramisu, which I've prepared a few times in my life. With "claymore" I picture a Scot brandishing a sword as large as he is, even though it can also refer to a modern military weapon.
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Anonymity is not just a byproduct of frictionless experience. It used to be a fundamental part of most interaction on the web (on the internet no one knows you're a dog, etc.).

I agree that anonymity is orthogonal to the purpose of captchas, but usually a captcha is only required when you don't have identity. This can be because you haven't established identity, or because the identity is in question, but also because the site does not want to require identity. In fact, outside of first time user sign ups, most captchas are used specifically to allow people to engage without needing an account. So in most cases you use a captcha because you want to allow anonymity.

There already exists several systems like you describe: login with your Google account, Facebook, Twitter. There are already several comment systems (Disqus for example) which make using these as simple as using a captcha for sites who don't care about anonymity. We don't need to integrate identity into captchas.
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