skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be great to support iOS. I've ended up buying apps that allows writing and running code on iPad and they are not even close to what this site does. Also, if you can support C# and Python, you would have covered a lot of ground.
Could “Force Illusions” Help Wearables Catch On?
All that's saying is that they can use whatever mechanism is available to unlock the device. In an enterprise environment, the supervisor has the credentials to unlock the device.

> "Oh, and… there’s a bypass switch for pairing anyway"

Nice conjecture. Please show us actual evidence of that.
It's not 25% inflation (of the outstanding money supply) per year; it's a fixed number of ETH per year. Essentially another open-loop deflationary monetary policy.
One of the egalitarian things about physics is that no matter how much you get paid per hour, you still have exactly as much time as everybody else.
Kildall was the real deal, IMO.
Indian eCommerce Giant, Flipkart, raises $1Billion
Because it's 12 volt, not because it's DC. Though, I don't know if stepping DC from 12 to 240 is any easier.
And Takei doesn't like Shatner.
Easily one of the most tone-deaf responses I've ever seen to a legitimate piece on sexism. My god.
Oh, Sublime Text 4 announced. How nice. I'm glad I didn't waste money on Sublime Text 3 (given how little it changes over 2).

Don't see much of a reason to buy 4 either - 6-8 seems like the sweet spot. /s
We support Python
http://runnable.com/?filter=Python&page=1

We are considering iOS support
Zdziarski also claimed house_arrest was not used by the dev tools (slide 32), but Xcode allows you to archive and restore your app's entire filesystem. (I believe it uses house_arrest for this.) I tend to use "ifuse" to access this data, but definitely find it an invaluable development resource.

I hadn't seen the packet capture thing before, but after reading the slides a quick google search turned up the link to the apple dev util that you referenced.

I'm also not sure how big of deal the "doesn't require developer mode" thing is, since the issues he raises require pairing records, and I believe you can enable developer mode if you have that much access. I've never had the device ask for confirmation when I turned on developer access.
That's roughly equivalent to discovering the identity of someone on the internet who you're arguing with and using it to "win" the argument.
> I imagine the number of people that are philosophically opposed to DRM (rather than practically) is asymptotic to zero.

GOG think otherwise. And GOG users confirm that. Visit GOG forums and find out for yourself. Unsurprisingly, many GOG users don't use Steam at all. Whether that is because of ethical or practical reasons doesn't change the fact that they don't. GOG know what they are doing and know their audience as well.
Interesting, but explain to me how your product is going to get me more than just using this: pagekite.net. I've used it to share features with my collaborators quite often (and especially with my UI/UX designer, quality-assurance people, etc. for front-end work) to make sure that I'm going in the right direction as I work. It essentially allows me to forward external traffic to my localhost, on which a dev server is running the code from my branch. No dockerfiles, no branches.
I think the conclusion of that first link is worth lifting into the thread here:

> In the end, I’ve never heard a founder of a successful company say the name of the company was an important factor in its success; similarly I’ve not heard of a name being the fatal blow. (emphasis original)

Solid, common-sense advice, and one reason I qualified what I said to "existing companies". For a new one, it doesn't really matter. But for Nike, it really is important to them that their name isn't descriptive.
https://github.com/wingspan/wingspan-forms
https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor
http://www.dustingetz.com/2014/02/18/react-dynamic-forms.htm...
Having an official explanation what the processes do is very welcome, but this still leaves out the question whether there is a way to access these daemons without prior user approval.

And if there is, the question is, who has access to that method and how well that access is protected (from rogue employees with access to keys for example)

At this point, I would still consider all data on my phone to be accessible to law enforcement and criminals (assuming they have stolen the keys) provided they have physical access to the device.

I'm basing the data stored on the device on that assumption and, for example, keep ssh keys separately encrypted and don't store the pass phrase.
" The Pcapd service, for instance, allows people to wirelessly monitor all network traffic traveling into and out of the device, even when it's not running in a special developer or support mode. "

So does this mean a private key ripped off a paired Bluetooth speaker ends up pwning me? If you are taking case of IT, I think a valid hacking scenario also needs to be considered. Furthermore, all the data in available un-encrypted. I don't know how comfortable I would be with that. Also, once trusted means permanently a slave?
It is disingenuous for the author to not cite Elevated.
Things against Facebook rarely fail to rise to the top of HN. Anything not favoring Facebook gets up here quickly. Why am I surprised.
DC in the house doesn't remove the need for switching regulators - you still need to step down from the house voltage to the device voltage. Don't forget that devices that accept 5V or 12V from a wall wart almost all still have switching regulators to step down to 3.3, 1.8 or less. It does remove the need for transformers and rectifiers, which would buy us some efficiency.

And don't forget that if the house DC supply was at less than 120V, then you'll loose more power in the house wires, because the electrician who wired your house was too cheap to buy superconducting romex.
To be fair, ST3 is pretty stable for everyday use.
"The pessimistic view (which I'm sure has factored in) is that they're only publishing such things to poke at Google."

Why do you consider this pessimistic? I, for one, would love to live in a world where all the smart phone vendors started aggressively competing on how they each protected my privacy and security.
Docker acquires Orchard
The most sought-after problem in data visualization right now (amongst the professional data vis community) is reusable charts. D3.js is pretty low level. I've seen company after company reimplement the same things. Adding legends, nice styles on your axises, even resizing visualizations takes hours of extra work per visualization.

I have not come across one clear winner in the open source reusable charts world.
This is a very good primer on a lot of what is going on under the hood to make Bitcoin/etc work. I particularly like how it explores emergent features of the "protocol" that people very rarely understand, like "no block is ever final." (I had been trying to draw an illustration explaining that today and the words "time-ordered probability space with tree-like characteristics" may have been used.)
If you don't use a complex passcode, then they do have access to all your files/mail/contacts once they have physical access to your device. Apple has always made that abundantly clear, and it's how they provide Law Enforcement access to your files -it's trivial to brute force a 4-digit password once they've remote mounted your file system (which they can do once they have physical access to your device)

The great security concept behind TouchID isn't so much that it's using biometric login, but that it makes using a secure passcode viable. Nobody is willing to type in a 15 character password every time they unlock their iPhone - but most security people are willing to do it during bootup, and then use touch ID to submit their passcode the rest of the time.
A New Digital Tattoo for Moto X
PTP is a good choice for synchronizing clocks on a per-segment basis, but it doesn't work across a WAN and there are lots and lots of devices out there that don't support it.

NTP is good for doing time sync across the WAN, but to get the most out of it for certain applications you need to hook it up to reference clocks.

So, NTP can use PTP as a reference clock, and Bob's your uncle.
10 types of regressions. Which one to use?
Mere slander. What evidence is there that this happens? Overcoming bias is a blog dedicated to overcoming biases that many humans have, economic productivity abstracts away too much from what it means. Economic productivity translates into higher living standards, far superior healthcare, and income per person.

Most on LW are fiercely individualistic. I do not share most of my views with the LW end, but it is still a noticeable improvement over the ghetto that is thinking everywhere else. Also I hate fanfiction and think most is generally lame, but let people have it I guess.

I was introduced to LW over two anti-LW articles and failed to see what any one was talking about.
People die at all different ages.
Console makers will sign deals giving you advance funding if you promise to make the game exclusive to their platform.
I see. That stinks, but I can understand why some developers can fall for this. Crowdfunding is a good alternative to prevent such kind of lock-in.
It's kind of a fun working out how many passwords that is.

So letters + numbers + 3 special characters. Our first and last positions can't be special characters, and we can't have the same letters concurrently, so we're in the ballpark of:

62^2 * 64^6 = 264,157,668,573,184 passwords

However, passwords must contain a letter, number, and special character. This means that we can eliminate the entire letters + numbers set, the numbers + specials set, and the letters + specials set:

(62^2 * 64^6) - (62 * 61^7) - (10^2 * 12^6) - (52^2 * 54^6) = 2,261,873,997,098 - Did I get that math right?

That's still a decently large space, but it's small enough to be attackable even if the passwords are hashed.
So it seems to me like there isn't enough raw data about the auto industry available to consumers. What are the odds of having a lemon Model S like Edmunds' vs the odds of having a GM that drives itself into a tree, for example? I'd obviously rather have to replace parts than have my accelerator go nuts, but is there any real source of data outside of anecdotal evidence via Consumer Reports or relative outliers from subpoenas in the case of Toyota and GM?
China alone has more people that can afford an expensive phone/tablet than can in the USA (the USA has a higher % that can). India likely has more than the USA, if not they will in 5 years. Indonesia has many people that can…

The percentage of income spent on such gadgets (and cell phone plans) etc. is much higher for most customers in the non rich countries (essentially OECD) but those non-rich countries have over a billion people that are willing to spend a lot of money on gadgets.

And beyond those spending a lot of there money on gadgets in non-rich countries, there are hundreds of millions that are actually wealthy even in comparison to the USA in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand etc.. The countries economies are changing amazingly quickly. Overall many are still extremely poor but many are also as rich enough to be above median income in the USA.

I am pretty sure there are way more people above median USA income outside the rich countries North America, Europe, Japan (and go ahead and include Korea, Australia and New Zealand) than live in those rich countries.
From the article:

> a better conceptual model is to treat logs as time-ordered streams

At scale it's probably better still to re-think logs as weakly-ordered lossy streams. One form of weak-ordering is the inevitable jitter that comes with having multiple processes, threads or machines; without some kind of global lock (which would be impactful to performance) it stops being possible to have a true before/after relationship between individual log entries.

Another form of weak ordering is that it's very common for log entries to be recorded only at the end of an operation, irrespective of its duration; so a single instantaneous entry really represents a time-span of activity with all sorts of fuzzy before/after/concurrent-to relationships to other entries.

But maybe the most overlooked kind of weak ordering is one that is rarely found in logging systems, but is highly desirable: log streams should ideally be processed in LIFO order. If you're building some kind of analytical or visualisation system or near real-time processor for log data, you care most about "now". Inevitably there are processing queues and batches and so on to deal with; but practically every logging system just orders the entries by "time" and handles those queues as FIFO. If a backlog arises; you must wait for the old data to process before seeing the new. Change these queues and batching systems to LIFOs and you get really powerful behavior; recent data always takes priority but you can still backfill historical gaps. Unix files are particularly poorly suited to this pattern though - even though a stack is a simple data-structure, it's not something that you can easily emulate with a file-system and command line tools.
It's cool that you use something to share your progress. However, forwarding traffic to localhost means it's only live when your computer is running, it's prone to network issues, and it's limited to serving at your computer's speeds.

We're looking to make Dockerfile creation a lot less of a hassle, probably with a Dockerfile generator tool. We're also looking to add ways for gathering feedback to make this a stronger collaboration tool.
I didn't see the original title, but I still thought it might be a parody of TM2.

The TextMate saga is a big part of the reason why I have become reluctant to make any non-OSS tools part of my daily life. (Although I might not say that had I not seen the vim light.)
Quick feedback: when you change the filtering on the left hand nav, you scroll to the top of the page. I really don't need to see the huge masthead (on my small Macbook Air, in Chrome, the masthead is over 2/3 of my vertical screen) again on every click. Just scroll to the top of the list/filter section, not the top of the page.
It's really not that serious.
haha who is this guy.
fight the machine, bro.
Actually there are regular checkpoints. Hashes of some of the blocks are hardcoded into the main bitcoin client.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3114/which-block...
PDFium.js got faster than PDF.js
How ‘Helping Faceless’ is trying to help street kids reunite with their parents
I can confirm this - I've stopped clicking links in the official Twitter client on Android when I'm outside in Australia, Australian mobile Internet is already slow, combined with t.co's huge latency all links just time out.
Discussion from the last time this was posted (about 1.5 years ago, linked from a 2002 post on JWZ's blog): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948768
Google Play Store 4.9 Brings New, Image-Rich UI with a Hint of Material Design
Bluetooth pairing is totally unrelated.
Embedded Terminal Extension for Atom Editor
How Can Precision Actually Be a Bias?
Somewhat.

Years ago, the answer was to run NTP on the host and use VMWare Tools to help ensure that good quality time was served to the clients. That's when the earlier versions of the page at <http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Sectio... were written.

Since then, that advice has apparently been recanted.

The ultimate problem with any virtualization system is the frequency and accuracy of clock updates to the client, and the loss of clock interrupts.

To the degree you can solve that problem, protocols like NTP can work reasonably well to monitor and correct for various types of known clock issues.
I once installed GGClient in C:/Program Files/ instead of any particular folder

so of course, I said "I'll just uninstall it from there and install it in the correct folder"
and it proceeded to delete C:/Program Files/
There are a lot of Facebook employees on HN, just like there are a lot of Google employees here. Those employees will do some level of astroturfing. Unless HN prevents us from voting on topics where there is a conflict of interest, it's hard to keep the bias out.
Correct, I should not have given you the Overstock example, since there is not enough data for them.

"yes we could say [Google's] revenue is shrinking"

Here lies your lack of knowledge. No analyst ever said Google's revenues were shrinking when their 2014Q1 results were announced. Instead analysts said they "grew revenues 19 percent year over year." See http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5621450/google-q1-2014-ear... . This is because, as I explained, it makes no sense to compare one quarter with the previous one as this is only 6 months of data and as sales are cyclical (typically a yearly cycle). So analysts compare a quarter with the same quarter from the previous year to cover a span of 15 months (a full yearly cycle).

"how many actual users do you think that leaves"

You make a common mistake: assuming that each user has at least 1 address. In fact, a LOT of users leave their coins on exchanges who tend to consolidate coins in a small number of Bitcoin addresses. Therefore you cannot estimate the number of users from the number of addresses with a non-zero balance.
They can also just remove the link from the system like reddit does. :) t.co makes it a little easier, but not much.
Time – memory tradeoff with the example of Java Maps
"this claim still ignores my point, which is that the fact that there is nonzero quantity demanded at zero price tells you very little about how much is being removed from the pool at non-zero prices"

But again, that's not the point. Indeed, asking about the amount of dilution assumes the dilution is taking place, and moreover, when it comes to artists and/or formats with established track records, demand prediction isn't a game of wild guesses. The ability to estimate, if not predict, demand is essential to the budgeting and capitalization of programs. So if you're aware that dilution is taking place at scale, you can approximate what you would have taken in w/o having to deal with the skim.
That's a fair assessment. We banned link shorteners from reddit pretty early on, so we didn't have to deal with that.
I think it's more the amount of money bugeted for prosecutor's offices. Normally things like this would go past a review attorney whose job is is to separate privieleged communications from non-privileged and pass only the latter to the prosecutors, but those are the bottom-rung jobs and the first to go when there are budget cuts. Not many politicians are interested in the legal problems of federal prisoners, standing up on this sort of issue is a sure way to be labeled as 'soft on crooks' by your electoral opponents.

Chances are that this won't get fixed until a sufficiently high-level court rules on it, at which point we'll hear a lot of whining about 'activist judges' and so on. What a revolting development.
I should have been more clear.

The airforce had two mission profiles outside NASA's goals. Polar orbits AND capturing Russian satilites. Neither of those missions types where ever flown. The Airforce ended up having a huge impact on the design including much larger cargo bay etc but it was those two mission profiles that really fucked up the design.

If NASA had gotten it's way the shuttle would have been more reliable and cost less than 1/3 as much per mission at the cost of significantly lowered cargo capasity. Intact both shuttle disasters can be traced back to these compromises.
Are new users joining Facebook? I hear from more and more people that either they have left or "wish [they] could", if it weren't for "everyone" with which they wish to stay in contact[1].

I myself deactivated my account 6 months ago. The only time I regret it is after I've been drinking and want to troll someone. So actually all around a good thing.

Are new people actually, really, honestly joining Facebook? I know the "delta new accounts" number is positive, but do they represent real people, rather than just spam bots?

I just have this feeling that, given a certain plateauing of new users, there comes an associated stagnation of follow-actions. No, I certainly don't have data to this issue, but I know that I personally only spend effort following people when A) I first join a site, or B) I think there is a good chance the person will follow me back[2]. So, for your everyday Joe-blow user who has is more than a month old, it seems like they are either already following William Shatner or never will.

My own observations in blogging have been that engagement with users is highly dependent on novelty. You either grind out finding new followers who haven't experienced your content yet, or you post radically new things all of the time--which could backfire and alienate your established followership, though honestly by that point they are probably ignoring your posts. Either way, you write off anyone who has been following you for more than 6 months. 90% of the time, that person is unretrievable.

I guess I just see followers as a limited, unsustainable resource, sort of akin to oil, except much easier to deplete. But it seems like Facebook, et. al., are banking on it being more like solar. IDK, I've seen reports saying FB has 1.3 billion users. There are only 7 billion people in the world. Do I really believe FB has almost 20% of the entire world's population? Do I really believe they could get more?

[1] Apparently "everyone" doesn't know how to use email or a telephone or text messaging.

[2] Incidentally, a policy that works for about 50% of cases. And for 90% of people, they will be unfollowed within a week, regardless of whether or not they follow me back. I don't need their crappy animated GIFs of Sherlock or Dr. Who clogging up my dashboard.
Yeah, looks like right now they just forward http[s] requests via nginx to your "terminal" so SSH or any other raw, non-HTTP connection won't work.
Wrist-worn electronic device and methods therefor (Apple Patent)
Teradata acquires Hadapt and Revelytix
I really don't think that makes much difference. I'd be much more interested in the judges' political affiliations. The notion that attorney-client communications are privileged, regardless of medium, is not a new concept.
pomodoryo@gmail.com
Solid points, dbrian! Also reminds me of Julian Assange.

And the lesson I took from my comment: never ever post a link to your own website (even if there's relevant content behind it), people here seem to immediately think of spam and downvote :(
With appropriate configuration, you can get ntpd to settle down and consider itself to be fully synchronized in a matter of seconds after startup.

You just have to configure an adequate number of upstream time servers, add judicious use of iburst, and you should be good to go.

On my laptop, I usually get good timesync within ten to fifteen seconds of startup.
Okay, so it sounds like a pretty smart application of Docker containers, then. I like it.
Cool. What's your business model?
It would be titled the same even if a lot of other users felt that way.
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Mayday is truly a new level of customer service, and makes the phone a great choice for those who might struggle with new technology -- like the remaining population without a smartphone.
Containers are great but this guy is right, you do need to secure them almost like a regular service - and it doesn't seem to be a very well understood thing around my coworkers ;)