skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that may be a true factor, it's still undoubted that the tactile feedback is much more vibrant, and engrossing than digital.

Physical books are cognitively superior in that they allow a reader to firmly establish the progress of narrative through physical feedback. The very act of turning a page, and accumulating each page as physical entities allows a user to see the accumulative progress of a story continuously. In that you can physically see the beginning, and the end, the only obstacle is familiarizing one's self with the contents of the book.

Digital reading however is totally abstract. Chronology, and pagination, beginning, and ending, don't really exist, but are completely an abstract object established by some magical forming of pixels. Every time you "turn a page" there's nothing actually happening, save for the movement of pixels, there's no visual, or physical feedback, no interactive feedback, at least not as in depth of a feedback as physical books provide. And as encoding only enhances with increased sensory input, I would say that digital does comparatively have a decreased sensory input, and therefore decreased ability to encode.

So perhaps the missing link is the vast array of cognitive feedback that one receives when physically turning pages, that is sacrificed in digital reading.

Another possibility is that a reader is more distracted when reading digital books, due to the multiplicity of tasks one can actively partake using computers. Since there are many tasks, a reader could actively seek out, or remember other tasks that are more enticing, or urgent. In comparison there's only one thing you can do with a book. That does not take into to account the physical surrounding of a reader, as that also may have a profound effect. This is only conjecture.
>This is a crafted communication targeting information to Microsoft employees and investors. It is not a 'leaked memo'.

Leaked memo? Who made that claim? It's posted on Microsoft's own website.

Carefully crafted? Uh, yeah, it's a resignation letter from a major corporate executive that is publicly posted. Should it have some LOLs and emojis?
That is an important possibility not represented in the story. Do you have personal experience or a source to complement the theory?
We extracted Carom Analytics from the CRM we're working on, and we're releasing it for free since we've seen a lot of interest in actionable Stripe metrics--customer LTV, churn rates, etc. I'm happy to answer any questions and would welcome any feedback.
"...with equivalent reading habits and experience with tablets..."
Agreed, bits should only be used for bandwidth.
This made my head spin. Fun ride! I'm always in awe of crypto guys. Truly, their mind works in a different way!
Completely agree. I hope nobody's naive enough to say "Well, if this style guide works for Google, it sure should work for our company...!"
Impressive detail, but (as with a great many tech how-to guides) I struggled to find an explanation of why you might want to do this.
The resale value of a phone that can never be taken out of Airplane Mode is going to be pretty bad, especially if it's "will instantly brick when you touch the setting", so it doesn't seem like much of a loophole for the anti-theft goal.
*Solid advice from csixty4--

It's a ballsy (smart) play going to the CEO. Assuming this is cultural, he may be very isolated from these issues. Be prepared for that. Ultimately, how they respond will tell you if this is a client worth your time & energy.
Commenter created that company he's linking to...there is no relevance to this article!

"JackPair: protect your voice phone calls from wiretapping
by Jeffrey Chang & the AWIT team"
Am I the only person who started shouting "Developers! Developers! Developers!" at the screen while watching this?
"success requires moving to monetization through enterprise subscriptions, hardware gross margins, and advertising revenues"

That's a big step for Microsoft. My opinion is that they are late on subscriptions and ad revenues.
That was a great story -- I thought of it for this question, too. Social Security Disability has become a long-term welfare program for the unemployable. They cite judges and administrators who will basically approve SSD if you can demonstrate that no one would employ you, just so people with little chance of retooling their skills can make it to 62 and start drawing from regular Social Security. (Example: A high school dropout who's performed low-skilled labor in a mill/factory for 30 years but then the plant closes, leaving him/her with few skills and 10-15 years until retirement.)

This is another good argument for Basic Income: SSD keeps people from earning some money through whatever skills they have (cleaning houses, selling food, making clothes, day labor, etc.) because of the strict income restrictions on how much you can earn while on SSD. If everyone knows it's a program for the unemployable, why keep up this charade that it's actually for the disabled? Just write them a $1000 check every month and allow them to earn extra income however they choose.
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Yeah, I know, it's just a stupid suggestion. :-)

There were many other online currencies proposed before bitcoins. The real innovation in bitcoins is decentralisation, so I suppose if you want to centralise it again, you can just throw out the whole blockchain idea.
I don't think the people downvoting you realize just how big of a project a self-sufficient off-planet colony is. Nobody really knows how many people it would take to be self-sufficient, but I'm guessing that it's at least 100,000. The total number of people who have been to space, from all countries' space programs over the course of ~60 years or so, is 536, and not one of them has left Earth orbit.

Looks like we need at least 3 orders of magnitude of improvement before we can even start to think about it. If SpaceX's program for reusable rockets succeeds beyond Musk's wildest dreams, we might get like 1 order of magnitude of cost reduction. There's still a hell of a long way to go, and that's if everything works perfectly.

A semi-permanent colony might be doable, but anyone there wouldn't last long without regular resupply from Earth.
By the way it seems that Dart is struggling to get any support at all within Google. Also, it's not statically typed and bringing it to the Android runtime might be much more effort. In short no, I wouldn't bet Go or Dart will be the solution, not unless these languages change a whole lot.
One thing that raised a red flag to me is telling his tenant to stay at a relative's if the house was unlivable during repairs. Every state's law is different, but I'd be very surprised if it's not his obligation to provide short-term accommodations if the property cannot be lived in.
You could try:

https://angel.co/montreal/jobs

There is also:

http://ca.indeed.com/jobs?q="full+stack"&l=Montreal%2C+QC
Where would it be used? It seems like declaring that the derivative of every prime number = 1 is entirely arbitrary.
> A monetary authority will be established to regulate the money

I suppose I should not have been so excited. The title really does read a "virtual" currency and not a cryptography-backed cryptocurrency.

This isn't what it sounded like, it's just like Paypal except the government is in charge.
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Half as long as you think they will. No exceptions.
Something to take note of.

Different types of energy production are useful for different roles.

Nuclear tends to fall into the category of base load - it costs (close enough to) just as much to run it at 5% capacity as at 100%.

Most traditional fossil-fuel steam turbines (coal, oil) have spin-up times on the order of several hours to a day. As such, they tend to be used to compensate for longer-timescale variations, but cannot really cope with very short term spikes.

There are fossil-fuel power stations with shorter lag times, but they tend to be relatively inefficient, and as such only get used for unexpected high loads.

Hydro is really good in a lot of ways, at least where hydro power stations can be built. The biggest reason is that it can be adjusted on really short timescales. Read: minutes or less. Longer lag time for larger power stations - the biggest limitation tends to be preventing cavitation and water hammer.

Solar and wind are both extremely variable, and unpredictably so (you can predict, but there is enough inaccuracy in the predictions that you cannot trust them). As such, they are practically useless without at least one of power storage, fast-responding power generation, or fast-acting power usage cuts when necessary. (Read: hydro or paying aluminum smelters to only run in the back shifts. (First thing that came to mind))

As there is no efficient and decently long-lasting power storage at grid scales (Vanadium-redox batteries are good, but have issues. Molten-salt storage leaks heat quickly. Etc.), effectively: you can forget about solar and wind for grid-scale power without hydro.

Nuclear power for everything is a waste unless society changes. And good luck with that.
His spelling needs a bit of work, though. There's only one 'e' in 'bled.'
Definitely. The subtle but ever present tactile reminder of how much book is left to be read also helps build anticipation as the end approaches with certain works.

It's like the metadata is being delivered kinesthetically, without distracting from the simultaneous visual delivery of the message itself. Page numbers and percentage read indicators just can't compete.
Such things are used much less casually, though. There is immense public pressure not to misuse guns that isn't there for other stuff. Obviously guns are not immune to misuse, but it's not all that common. "Less lethal" weapons like tasers and batons and rubber bullets and tear gas get misused way more frequently, precisely because they're less harmful than a regular gun. It's likely that the same thing could apply to a cell phone kill switch.
This makes sense - a line-by-line analysis has limited utility for certain texts. I think the entertainment factor will keep the non-musical annotations burgeoning, and perhaps over time due to increased exposure, quality analysis will surface.
If you add more than one stock to a Google Finance chart, it should automatically change the y-axis to %.
Who does provide unbiased reporting? In the UK? I have yet to see a newspaper that is unbiased. In Germany, I am quite sure, we do not have that. But saying the Guardian is as rotten as the Daily Mail seems far fetched to me.
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Like this?

http://www.thekremercollection.com/art/artists/Pieter-Codde/...

It's actually based on Google Maps API, which isn't open source, but OpenLayers has equivalent functionality though I find it less fluid and slower...
Criticizing the stats of an article that hasn't been published b/c of science news reporting on it is an exercise in madness.

Criticize the science news instead.
I'll violate Apple copyrights until the day I die. Copyright is protectionist, monopolist bullshit, and it gets in the way of empowering users--and "empowering users" is the only ethical purpose of technological development. Anything else will merely work to reinforce existing imbalanced power structures.

Additionally, copyright doesn't disallow you from copying a file from one device you own to another. Copyright is about the distribution of ideas between people, not about arrangements of bits.
> So, using a battery of test questions divided into five subjects, INCLUDING TIME AND EVENTS, there was no significant difference between the two groups

It says right in the part you quoted that the Kindle readers scored significantly lower on the event time questions.

They also did poorly on the separate plot ordering test.

I fail to see any problem with this, since I would expect the to be good correlation between how well people do on questions about event timing in the story and how well they can order a timeline of the plot.
Why are you past tensing him though?
When would one need a SVG version of a PDF instead of just using pdf.js by itself?
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The loophole is handset exchange at the local retailer.
The commenter did mention that:

> my voice encryption project
If they were early Steve probably would still be running the ship.
Show HN: TOTP authentication web service
I recently implemented TOTP authentication[1] for a webapp of mine. Then I decided to extract it into its own web service offering.

http://www.totp.me

I felt TOTP auth was one of those things that's easy to do insecurely, just as storing passwords salted and hashed correctly is.

This is the crappy V1. I'm trying to get a sense of whether this is a pain point for anyone and to keep at it.

The service doesn't give you very much control. You redirect your website's users to it for authentication or master secret provisioning, and it redirects them back to you when done with a pass/fail response. I wanted security mistakes during integration to be difficult to make.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Algorithm
See, this is where I think you have over thought it. I think it is just as likely that people read their ebooks in more places and more "on the run" than they do physical books. In large part because you can.

Now, I fully agree with the "more distracted" portion. Especially if we are considering such reading devices as iPads or phones. Reading from my paperwhite, though, I would be surprised if this is much different than reading a paperback. Other than that I am now reading more than I used to. (Seriously, I got how many books from the humble bundle?)

Also... just because I "don't buy it" doesn't mean I'm right. :) More research will show more data that should help actually answer these questions. I'm just saying I don't expect more research to necessarily confirm this one.
There are others, like Stripe is currently developing and the former e-gold, but none backed by any government that I'm aware of. Norway mentioned plans to abandon physical money altogether, but no specific mention of a new, virtual currency. It wouldn't be any time soon anyway.
Call Gov. Brown (916) 445-2841 and let his staffers know how you feel. This is SB962.
"California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests"

As if it were designed for any other purpose other than control. When did preventing stolen phones become such a hot button issue?
Yes, it is completely arbitrary. However, this arbitrary definition follows certain rules and properties and can therefore be used for certain types of mathematical reasoning.

This is why, when we talk about rings and fields and such we say "multiplication-like" or "addition-like" operators. The operators defined for the algebraic structure may not be exactly like "standard" operators, but they still follow rules and you can still do cool things with them.
Right. I am not saying that these folks did bad research. I just don't expect the findings to stand a long test of time. And, just because I don't think so, doesn't mean I'm right. :)
The argument will be that you don't "have a right" to cell service everywhere at anytime. "It's not like your service isn't restored after the protest."
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The relevance, as I see it, is that the same capabilities used to spy on mobile devices (0-day vulnerabilities/backdoors, or just leverage over telcos) could be used as a de-facto "kill switch".

That said, a law that explicitly gives the state authority to shut down all cell phones in a situation "they perceive" as a risk is an order of magnitude worse.

(The "kill switch" counterpart to JackPair would be systems like mesh networks, ham radio / APRS, etc. GoTenna is one recent commercial product: http://gotenna.com/ Of course it can probably be easily jammed)
> With UTF-32, you don't have to worry about copying less than a full code point to a destination string

But you can still copy only parts of a grapheme cluster. If you want to do Unicode right, you have to treat even UTF-32 as a variable-length coding.
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The wikipedia presentation must have been a couple of years before that. But the idea didn't originate with them. You can find similar musings from the 70s. (Which is funny, because they probably watched a lot less back then.)
Healthy thing for him to do. People should have two or three distinct careers, in my opinion, in their lives. I hope he has a blast owning the Clippers and teaching.

Off topic, but: I have been a bit negative on Microsoft since NT, which I liked and helped me get work done. However, I like their direction with Office 365 for all devices and their high end Surface Pro 3.
What does "the fonts are not kept" mean? http://pramodhkp.github.io/pdf2svg/svgdump/tracemonkey-1.svg looks as original PDF page and the SVG contains embedded fonts.
> The next day, bitcoin increases its value 25%.

Yeah because the Dollar was perfectly stable when it was five years old and accessible to only a select percentage of the population (how many people are really able to use a wallet with the cryptic addresses? Not my parents at least).

Besides, when many people buy their house in Bitcoin the market cap would be much higher and the price would not fluctuate 25% in one day. Not without a fatal flaw in the algorithm or World War III anyway.

The only reason Bitcoin is unstable is because it's not used by that many. That's not a flaw from Bitcoin, that's the network effect. Like Facebook versus Google+, though that's a bad comparison because G+ has no game-changing advantages, at least none that Facebook couldn't replicate.
While the XKCD comic has a lot of truth to it, it's mainly about many different individual experiments (as well as some poorly done ones.) When running large sets of correlations, standard operating procedure is to use one of several techniques to counteract this effect.
What are the power specs? For battery powered applications like the shown mini-quadcopter you really need to know the watts as well as weight. Admittedly, WiFi has a very spiky power consumption profile.
It's very difficult for the new CEO and old CEO to be on the board together for 100+ reasons. As stated this comes at the 6 month mark. I'm sure this was all part of a carefully crafted calendar going back to the transition.
on a frequent basis, and other than HN:

inbound.org

growthhackers.com
> Your ultimate values shouldn't change depending on the challenges that the universe throws at you.

To the contrary, everything you are and believe depends entirely on the peculiarities of the universe we live in. To claim that you have a higher moral compass than that is like a brain in a vat talking about the weather outside the vat maintenance facility.
We do have a number of financial industry customers (e.g. http://www.datomic.com/pellucids-story.html), and they like it for the reasons you mention (history/audit-ability), plus a few others:

* first-class/annotatable transactions (which Stu mentions in the blog post)
* read scalability
* local-process query facilitates analytics queries on transactional data
without need for ETL
* pluggable back-end storage means they can run it on top of what they already have
and easily move to something new/better later
So basically what we wanted to avoid was doing lots of redrawing during panning. If there were a single static canvas with the image tiles moving underneath it, then it would have to constantly redraw during panning. By using tiles, you only have to draw or redraw as necessary, e.g. as you pan to a part of the map outside of the current bounds.
Wouldn't they check the phone against the list of stolen phones, or at least make sure the thing works as a phone, before accepting it?
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"Police could use the kill switch to shut down all phones in a situation they unilaterally perceive as presenting an imminent risk of danger"

That's only one step away from the use of an EMP to isolate a crowd of people from the Internet (and each other) in Cory Doctorow's "Homeland" (I'm not a teen reader but I enjoyed it anyway)
This title is a bit sensationalist, but the points this article makes are valid. The mind is too complex to diagnose psychiatric illnesses with labels, and if we associate rewards with having one of these labels, people will game the system.
"Card" is two characters less than "shield", and has a long history in computing denoting a circuit board that is plugged into another circuit board. (Whereas "daughter" is usually not redundant in "daughterboard", it can almost always be dropped from "daughtercard".)

Examples: network card; disk controller card; video card; SD card.

"Shield" is such an entrenched term in electronics, from long before computing, that it's completely stupid to try give it another meaning. It's also not from some specialized sub-domain whose rare terminology can be reused; shielding is employed in all kinds of devices.
Sublime is first and foremost a text editor, so I don't think it's a stretch to think people would use it for text editing.
Agreed. For an article that provided so little view of the other side, and seemed to be on the landlord's side entirely, the fact that a huge red flag like that would slip through is, well, a red flag. If a landlord ever said something like that to me, I'd tell them to go live at a relative's house while I stayed at their place!
slashdot, bruce schneier's blog, null-byte
In my interpretation, 10,000 hours is the amount of time most other people are unwilling to spend on a skill, which places you as world-class.
> Some of them (music from Eurythmics, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd) required several passes to get a clean copy, but I was able to copy them all.

Did you use something like Exact Audio Copy? It has options to automatically try try and try again if it reads a bad sector, which really reduces the amount of (human) time required to rip a disc.
Calif. teens accused of plotting a school massacre
"Bleed" is fine. He's referring to both the past and present. You can replace "bleed" with "ooze", if that helps.
Thanks!

We were running concurrent experiments - one focused on easy payments for small businesses (think ecommerce version of Square, with tools like invoicing & storefronts), and one focused on an API for crowdfunding sites.

Small business payments got earlier traction, but the economics of it weren't sustainable. (it cost us about $400 to acquire a customer that had a lifetime value of ~$250). We iterated for a bit to see if we could significantly lower CPA or raise LTV, but only made marginal gains.

Our API was started as more of a skunkworks project. It took a little longer to build traction, but it grew like wildfire (double digit monthly growth since launch, sustained over many years). Once platforms integrated it, they stayed, and they grew really fast. So not only were we adding new customers, but they were all growing month over month as well.

Last year, we made the decision to shut down our small business products, and invested further in our API, expanding it to marketplaces & those building SMB software as well.
4 steps to knowing your app's users better
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You can have a cypto currency controlled by a central bank. In fact, we'll probably have them eventually. It would have a lot of the benefits of a cypto, like instantaneous transfer, without the drawbacks like major volatility.
I'm glad I used a fake email address and unique password when I signed up for this:

- no HTTPS
- passwords are stored in plain text
- password is easily extractable on profile page
> SpaceX has raised $245.5 million in private backing

Looks like SpaceX's total funding is $400-500 million (private + Musk + VCs and excluding income). It's astounding what they've accomplished with such a relatively small amount of money compared to NASA's budget.