skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, there is more than just figuring out how it works; one also needs to have physical access to the phone and be able to imitate Apple cryptographically. Not out of reach for the NSA maybe, but not exactly typical hacker stuff.
Those videos have no substance... I realize in marketing that it doesn't ALWAYS make sense to layout all the details but these types of wearable/smart devices have been blowing up and the claims get more and more vague.

I get agitated watching these. I find myself saying "What does it actually do!?" throughout the whole thing. I could completely be missing the boat on this trend but things like this and the weird eyepatch that came up a while ago completely baffle me.
> She's the CEO of Yahoo. That's not a "waste of a good brain".

How can you be sure? What a CEO of Yahoo can do? Hire some people, fire some people? Pick some project to develop and some to abandon? You could say that this has some value but you can't predict which project will turn out worthwhile. "Predictions are hard especially about the future." What's sure that there is one smart person less actually working on those projects.
A few years ago I started waking up with the sun. Since then my waking experience has been great, I get a solid 7 every night and my day doesn't start with an abrupt bell. The sun is up, so I'm up.
Let's Meet Up Somewhere Other than Facebook – alternative streams of connecting
I tried Writer Pro a while back and was pretty disappointed... it was expensive for what I felt was delivered. I might give this one a shot.
> ...now so overwhelms the developer experience...

Now? This is not a new sentiment. In fact, it's older than I am. That may qualify it as a cliché.
Thank you! Credit goes to Chart.js [0] and FlatUI [1], they are doing the heavy lifting ;)

[0] http://www.chartjs.org/

[1] http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
Duolingo Launches Its Certification Program To Take On TOEFL
Anecdotes don't make for a good business model.
> Apple has the power to look through your encrypted files given physical access

> However, that's it. There's no "back door".

What? How is that not a backdoor?

Edit: Also, from the article, "Apple apparently has admitted to the mechanics behind file relay, which skip around backup encryption, to get to much the same data. In addition to this, it can be dumped wirelessly, without the user’s knowledge."

So not even physical access, just proximity/same wireless network?
Announcing Free Incoming SMS For All
The design looks top notch and beyond that, it looks like you've really identified a specific part of the time tracking/invoicing workflow that has not yet been solved well and you have come up with a solution that completely nails that pain point.

Great work guys! : )
I don't think that targeting major metro areas is a bad idea. The downside to making any geo app is that you suddenly have to provide for the whole world, and that isn't possible. Better to prioritise areas where you get the best benefit for your work - and densely populated areas are exactly that.
Did I miss it or do they simply not acknowledge the possibility of mesh networking?
Can it sense my wife's mood and flash a certain color so I know to make up the couch?
Apple Case Over Labor Code Is Granted Class-Action Status
Ah, your message contains a clue that you're using your own (hopefully) static IP to send SMTP mail, rather than using a forwarding host from your ISP.

Speaking of looking up in databases, you can check multiple block lists in one step for your IP using: http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check/

If that's not the issue, there could be other problems. For instance, does your SMTP-sending IP address have consistent and reliable reverse DNS? Does the reverse DNS match the forward DNS?

Some SMTP receivers perform DNS checks. You need clean forward and reverse DNS for reliable mailing.

As a minor point, probably it is best if, in addition to clean DNS, the HELO string used by your server is a fully qualified domain name identical to a reverse lookup.

You might want to have a "plan B": that is, have some SMTP forwarding host that you can fall back on if things go wrong with your direct mailing.
I saw his one-man show when it came to town about a year ago. After watching him alone on stage for 90 minutes, I have no doubt that he is still "with it" enough to not only comprehend modern tech (if that's what we're calling Facebook), but to provide this level of insight and understanding.
a large majority of people attending these programs have them payed for by their employers

- Not true. This is number is < 35%
Marketing can degrade into con artistry. It isn't always, but it certainly can.

That being said, I think in the long run people appreciate it if your marketing isn't scummy.

(Not directly aimed at the original article, though I do think there's a lot of deceptive, confusing, and overly hyperbolic FUD in the security sector.)
I think that an over-the-top video helps to get more reach, helps to introduce more people to a song. There are many songs with similar qualities, but if yours reach a wider audience, you will dominate the sales (and award) charts.

Put it another way: it doesn't matter if your song is good for many people, if you can't reach them, nobody will know about you.
I especially like the recursive "Service As A Service"
Fixed. I had to remove my cool embedded, recursive chart showing how the post itself was doing. But yeah, that redirect back loop was maddening. So now to see the chart, you have to click on the Post History page or this http://www.hind-cite.com/multiPost?postIds=8075216
Useful Chrome extensions for product development and design
Utilize is "use" but focusing on the thing being used rather than what it's used for.

I utilized my calculus textbook to prop up my monitor.
I used my calculus textbook to prop up my monitor.

In the first, I'm looking for a use for the book and that's what I could do with it. In the second, I need to raise my monitor, and the calculus book was handy.
Thanks for mentioning the Zeo. I used it for a month a few years ago. It was ahead of its time using 1-wire EEG monitoring. I felt the REM graph was actually telling me something. Any sleep monitor to try and take its place must be EEG based. An accelerometer is inadequate for sleep monitoring.

The closest thing I know of is the OpenBCI.com project (Brain-Computer Interface) which is entirely an EEG project.
Are you familiar with NameCoin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
That's great if your schedule fits your sleep schedule, but I'm not sure that's very common. A product that can wake you up in time for your schedule and avoid waking you in the middle of a sleep cycle could make it easier to make due with less sleep. At the extreme of little sleep required for newborn overnight feedings, for me, three hours of sleep is significantly worse than two or four. That said, sleep cycles tend to be shorter and shallower as the night goes on, after several hours of continuous sleep, the penalty for waking up at a bad point is not that bad.
Functional Programming Tutorial in JavaScript
So Long, Craigslist Scammers. This Startup Will Change the Way You Find a Home
Thanks! We appreciate it.
Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress
The shareable URL has a bug - when I re-open the same URL I've generated the top-right and bottom-left colors are swapped.
> Expensive tailored suit, fist-bitingly expensive wristwatch, huge house in an expensive area, very new luxury car... I could go on and on.

Yeah. Right. Because there is no such thing as credit.

People that display expensive things don't project outstanding competence. They project just that they value displaying expensive things.

And that's usually something (I just speak from my experience) that inversely correlates with thoughtfulness and competence.
I'll check it out too. To understand SpriteKit did you rely on any learning resources besides the docs that Apple provides?
Ask HN: How do you become a UI/UX Expert?
I have a strong background in graphic design (namely print design) I've started dabbling in web design but my real passion so far has been in UI/UX work. I want to become incredible at this and built up a portfolio enough to get started doing this as a real career. Looking on jobs boards to get a lead on what might be needed to this right it seems most places want 5+ years of experience with it
So basically two questions.

1. What sort of projects would be portfolio worthy?

2. What would constitute those 5 years of experience, can I do that on my own without a position? is there a market for freelance UX work?

thanks in advance, I really appreciate it.

-Mike

PS: is there any other advice or recommended reading I should look into?
Serious question: could they be sued by Hemingway's family for using his name on their product? I mean, if I made an app called "Tolkien" I might realistically run into trouble with his estate.
My thoughts about why Haskell is not popular
I find it very strange that you've thrown LOOP in there. It may not be as sexy as canned functional algorithms or simple recursion, but for complex algorithms, it's an absolute joy to use.

I couldn't count the number of times I've been writing C or C++ and wished I could express an idea more complex than "Initialize some variables (which may or may not be of the same type (but not of arbitrary different types)); run while this is true; do this thing after every iteration" without just slapping everything into and in the immediate vicinity of a while-true block. I don't have that problem with LOOP.
It's interesting and I agree with you about their huge brand recognition. Unfortunately, they have a lot of negativity around the brand. Just look at the comments here around "horrible vanity app" etc. I wonder if they shouldn't have left Foursquare as the Check In app and had the "Swarm" equivalent be the new search and recommendation engine. They could have gotten most folks to move I suspect and not have to deal with all the negativity around the Foursquare app. Personally I love a pivot so I hope they're successful either way. I've started using it for discovery when traveling and think it has legs.
Interesting to see some more details on the appliances. Isn't the argument primarily about peering, not open connect appliances, though?
I've long thought that the different liability regime is a big part of that. In just about any business that is not software, it's much harder for a commercial vendor to completely disclaim all liability via a boilerplate contract. At the very least some basic liability attaches when you ship a seriously defective product: if it's not even remotely fit for the advertised purpose, has failure modes bad enough to be negligent, etc. But the way the existing doctrines have been applied to the software: 1) are quite deferential to EULAs; and 2) de-facto raise the bar for "negligence" to something approaching intentional malfeasance or fraud.

(The economic effects of the different liability regime might be good or bad, but it's quite striking how doctrines that are well-understood in other areas are applied so differently to software.)
I know plenty of developers who are all too ready to reassess the TCO of source control or bug tracking, or who are already as free as a newborn puppy of the complication of a "deployment process"---which can be a problem if you are the one responsible for making sure their app gets deployed and stays deployed.
We have a button for this in Appointment Reminder. If I recall correctly, the implementation pops a modal and says "Sure thing, we can get any email template you want set up for you. Send it to support@ and we'll get it ready within a day or so."

I've done this a grand total of once, so didn't spent 3 months building out the rest of the feature.

I use the same trick for doing data import. I'd love to get that working in an actually automated fashion, because it does get used pretty frequently, but unfortunately arbitrary column-to-column mapping UIs are hard to do well.
Apple is a respectable company who cares about their brand image, so they're obviously allowing only high-profile adversaries' malware on your device!
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I think it has a lot of promise. I understand the need for ads but I think you should offer a pay-out of a dollar or two for those who hate ads enough. I also think the blocks base movement should be a little faster, it would speed up gameplay a bit.
> the Bay Area is not exactly a representative sample of Mass Market Behavior.

No, it's not. But neither is

> After the novelty wears off, nobody wants to check in. Nobody. Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over.
I'm one of those 15%. I have a first gen Intel MacMini that I bought in 2006. I've since put in a 64-bit Core 2 Duo CPU, SSD and 4GB of RAM. It runs everything perfectly, but 10.6.8 is the newest OS I can use. I'm pretty sure it's not getting security updates so I'm considering replacing it only because of that.

I think it can run 10.7 unofficially, but it requires a little bit of hacking.
> and be able to imitate Apple cryptographically

Like impersonate them cryptographically with a forged/stolen ssl cert?[1]

> one also needs to have physical access to the phone

The user only has to pair the device with their PC for the PC to become a "trusted device", from which this exploit can be run.

[1]
> Serious Security: Google finds fake but trusted SSL certificates for its domains, made in France
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/09/serious-security-...
> > After the novelty wears off, nobody wants to check in. Nobody. Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over.
The eyedropper is using a panel with a call to openPopupAtScreen to open it (http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/devtoo...).

I'm not sure exactly in what ways this is failing, but please file a bug under "Developer Tools: Inspector" if you have STR and we can try to narrow it down: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox.
By Jafar Husain from Netflix. Based on a few different talks he's given http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE692Clb5LU
It sounds like you are not really a systems expert... so my recommendation would be Ubuntu, mainly because of the answers you will be able to find via Google compared to CentOS.

CentOS is a remix of Redhat's server, so support is generally secondhand and also a lot of the community are pretty sysadmin savvy, so you may get lost in the terse explanations and lack of hand holding.

On Ubuntu you get a wider audience, a lot of "how to" guides as well as a lot of "what do I do now" discussion forums to glean from. As to the flavor of ubuntu, you will only be doing a few things in the GUI (copy files, maybe a backup program, etc.) most of the meat is accessing and editing the config files via a terminal. I Would go with xubuntu as the GUI is not as resource intensive as the others.
I don’t think the kind of people who fix UX bugs, and the kind of people who design new type systems, have much overlap. Putting a bunch of the latter to work on a new language doesn’t decrease the number of the former available to work on XCode, in all but the most global “now Apple has infinitesimally less money to budget for new developers” sense.
I have the book Obedience from Milgram at home, although I just skimmed through it. I think the situation is similar, Zimbardo would probably do more experiments as well weren't the first result so horrific.

What I am a bit worried of is that we are not able to replicate (because of the ethical problems), in one way or another, results of these studies. How can future generations become educated about these problems? Especially if we cast doubt over their results. Are our descendants doomed to figure out these things the hard way?
That's a good point, but I still think it's tricky: we're talking about OpenSSL here. Making contributors liable for defects in open source software would have some very, very negative effects: we would not even have an OpenSSL to complain about.
CSS, Lisp, names, scopes, predicate dispatch, Cassowary, and a plot to kill CSS
Ed tech promoters need to realize we're not all autodidacts
Codility's candidate interface is now open source
how much does the self-hosted option cost?
The ingredients can be purchased on Amazon (Prime too)

http://www.amazon.com/Nutrigold-Bacopa-Clinically-proven-Bac...
http://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-L-Theanine-Veg-Capsules-60-C...
My Basis band addresses your point 1 quite well; all I have to do is wear it to bed.

Unfortunately, there's no good API (and your choice of three variously lousy ones [1]), and it syncs in the same way as the Beddit does, i.e., via Bluetooth to a phone. (Or via USB to a computer, but that's not much more help.)

I've thought about trying to MITM the data on its way out from the PC to Basis's sync endpoint, in order to see whether I can trap it there instead of having to query it back out of one of Basis's various APIs once it's synced. On the other hand, I've already got > 1 month of data synced, so I'm going to need some method of extracting data from their backend in any case. (But on the third hand, since Intel bought Basis and Basis apparently doesn't bother much with new development any more, I figure it might be handy to have a backend for sync data in case the hardware becomes otherwise useless.)

[1] Two equally undocumented and unstable not-really-supposed-to-be-public APIs, for which various clients exist on Github in various states of disrepair, and a third, also undocumented but probably more stable, API which feeds their web UI..
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Show HN: Speaker Wire Gauge Calculator Web App
This is a step in the right direction for them, but in order for Dropbox to be the go-to provider for small businesses they're going to need to integrate better into the every day lives of people at those companies. Features like volume shadow copy and image based backup, local backup, centralized management, and reporting are common features provided by competitors targeting the small business market.

Dropbox was designed for consumers and I think the core experience lends itself well to them. They certainly have that market nailed down. But there's a reason there is a huge market they've left untouched and I don't think it's going to be easy for them to enter it without some fundamental changes to how their product operates.

Disclaimer: I work for a small online backup provider.
I wrote them and suggested they have some type of liquor icon for "Write" and a coffee cup icon for "Edit" (a play on "Write drunk, edit sober," which he never said but everyone wrong attributes it to him).

Sad it didn't make it in. Guess I'll keep writing sober.
The body works amazingly well when taken care of and listened too. Really. Instead of hyper tracking every aspect of your life [and making assumptions based on that data] Just exercise, eat well, no caffeine, minimal sugar/food after dark, get 10+min of sun around noon, go to sleep when tired. All of which is almost impossible for 90% of people who are forced into regimented, high stress, excessive work lives.
My first experiment with all Angular formulas and calculations. Please provide feedback! Thanks.
Based on my own experience in EMBA program and then finally dropping out 2/3rd of the way. I also know several people who have gone to top-rated EMBA program and have good idea of their results before and after EMBA program.

Goal
----
If you are interested in entrepreneurship/startup, EMBA is not worth a penny. You are better of taking the EMBA fee, spending some on buying a few book focused on starting a company and investing the rest in your startup. But if you are corporate type in large organization, the EMBA degree might help you get up the ladder.

To give an example, couple of my classmates decided that they wanted to build a business based on the idea and business plan they developed in the entrepreneurship class. After finishing MBA program, they invited me to join the dinner to discuss about getting started with their idea and next steps. They were interested in bringing me on the team. The outcome of the meeting was they wanted to rewrite the business plan document already written during the program. That's when I knew these guys will never start the business and declined to join them. And, they never did start! They wanted to plan first. They kept planning and strategizing and never executed.

Knowledge
---------
If you are the type who can self-learn and don't need external stimulation/kick in the behind to get started, you can learn on your own what you need in business. EMBA program will actually be drag on your learning. These programs are much more appropriate for people who need to be fed information in small bite-size chunks.

Majority of the information I received during my time in EMBA program was something that I already knew and/or rarely have used. But couple of my fellow classmates have really benefited from the structured way of delivery of information, the basic business knowledge program provides and training on developing framework/process to evaluate and address issues.

Networking
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Over-rated. Majority of EMBA students are mid-career level and corporate type either trying to move into management or move up the management chain with limited future upside potential. The homogeneity of the type of students makes networking with them not as rewarding to both parties because everyone in the same boat. In addition, with family and job pressures, you/they are least likely to go out of the way to respond/help/meet after the program.
Running your perf test, I consistently get Backbone being the fastest, Angular the slowest, and the projects using Virtual DOM approach somewhere in the middle. Is that expected?
http://evancz.github.io/todomvc-perf-comparison/

edit: I was running the original test instead of your fork.
Do you have any coding experience? In addition to HTML/CSS?

I'm not sure if there is UX/UI position that doesn't require coding...but I'd take a designer with a lesser years if they were competent around frameworks, such as Compass/SASS/Less, etc. and various build systems.

Speaking as a general web developer, I find that it's not at all fun working with UX/UI people whose primary experience is in providing sliced layers from PhotoShop...and greatly value designers who understand the overall workflow of web dev. If you want to skimp on years, I would highly suggest getting practical web development experience, even if it's just building your own sites and getting familiar with commonly-used frameworks and systems.
The only problem with that is you can't think of cold as something you can generate. Cold is the absence of heat, and so the only way to make it in a place where there is already heat is to move the heat somewhere else.

If you keep it inside the vessel, then you're faced with containing a zone of steadily increasing heat (and thus steadily decreasing efficiency of your heat pump). If you try to dissipate it outside of the vessel, you run into further engineering problems (the heat conduit has to pass through the hull at some point, which creates a weak spot for pressure and a potential heat leak to the rest of your hull).
>The reality is that they realized a critical component of their security-focused project is broken and needs fixing, urgently

They didn't 'suddenly realise' that it was crap. They have been criticising OpenSSL for a long long time. Why didn't they create a fork until now?
There is such a thing as exaggeration to make a point. I'm pretty sure the author is aware that there are more than literally zero people checking in with Foursquare. As is everyone.

On a similar note, I could list the reasons why checking in is, in fact, nothing like "those stupid plastic awareness bracelets". But that would be a waste of everyone's time.