skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a video response^ by a guy who wanted to test this assertion. He spent about an hour in one at BYU, and seemed comfortable enough throughout. Interesting points: at around the 16 minute mark, he verbally estimates his time at 8 minutes; after the 45 min is up he asks for the lights to be turned on, and gets no response from the people outside the chamber. He calmly finds the door by using his cell phone as a light.

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI
I just pushed the code. You can have a look at it @ http://amirouche.github.io/azoufzouf/ there is all you need to know and ⵣcode{pip install azoufzouf}.

With that markup, it's easy to plug any function you want. That's right. It's not nested and is inspired from unix philosophy, I dare to say. I tried several time Sphinx, docutils alone and other markups they don't deliver as much as this one (sofar).
Every few months I review the top js frameworks and always come to the same conclusion: for existing projects you're probably better off sticking with what you're already using.

Each framework follows such a different paradigm that it's hard to transition incrementally, especially if you're app has a rich data layer rooted in an existing framework's mentality (in our case the backbone model/collection/sync mentality).

I'd love a better view framework, but not if it requires a full rewrite of the model layer and all the related libraries.

Until there's a ruby on rails quality model/collection/associations library that can be paired with a performant view framework with two-way data binding, I'll just stick with backbone where things are simple. Even if it costs me a few extra keystrokes.

> A good rule of thumb is not to have more than 2,000 active bindings on the same page.

Anyone personally run into this? What are you supposed to do in angular if you need to listen to change events for thousands of models?
Yes. Multiple meanings.. gay pride, but also pride in our work, and in producing the first product of its kind for Apple machines, and pride in the small team of us that made it happen within VMware.
everything is in javascript right now
Wooops. Didn't see your question, so answering now. I simply like vim way more than emacs. evil doesn't work very well with a lot of the emacs extensions, and there are a lot of vim extensions that do not exist (or are just a simpler version) in emacs. vim + tmux is just too good. emacs syntax highlighting is inferior in a lot of languages (at least the ones I mainly work with), too. Sure, there are a lot of things in emacs that are way better than vim, but, for me, vim wins by far (my vimrc is not short and I use a lot of plugins).
I lived in Finland for six years. I speak the language fluently.

:crickets:
It would be beautiful to have such a simple and open package manager for node. Git FTW :-)
Does YouTube allow this?
I talked to the authors, they ran into the same issue. They just kill the network instead.
Demystifying C++ lambdas
Broke it?
Sadly, my own deficiencies in being able to read Haskel are keeping that from being a compelling argument. I do intend on visiting it more later. Just, right now, I prefer the dead simple to parse lisp over this.
I don't think that's accurate at all. Most games, and startups, are just bad ideas that can't pay for employees and stuff. The problem isn't living expenses, that's just one number you need to reach.

Developers who can't make money can't afford to make games as their occupation.
I program in Python for a living and I curse significant whitespace every single work day. Especially when I try to copy paste some code into the shell. It's one of the worst misfeatures of the language, and it wouldn't even be necessary if there was an "end" keyword.
Ask HN: Where to post a remote job?
I have headcount for 1-2 remote developers. What's the best job board to post that kind of job? The ideal candidate is a strong .NET/Java developer that prefers the work from home lifestyle. He/she ideally lives in the US in a lower cost area so the salary/cost of living ratio will be favorable. We're located in Seattle where cost of living is absurd!. The position will start out as a few projects and lead to a full-time position.
I'm pretty sure the bulk of the code is in a disk image, and that binary is embedded instead of loaded from disk... the source for the image likely isn't in the same as an integrated egg generally speaking. They likely added one embed statement and a hotkey listener...
Security event to learn about side-channel attacks on PCs
https://github.com/duojs/duo/issues/220
I'd love to use these to detect bike thefts.
From what I've read the difference between stickers and beacon is only battery life. Is this correct?

Why would one choose beacon over the sticker?
> The saddest thing is that so many are so passionate about it. :(

That's precisely why pay is so low.
And that's why, in my original post, I wrote, "The benefit to the end user only shows up when building custom hardware, repurposing old hardware, or using a VM--things I care about but the average consumer doesn't."
Hi guys,

I just did a talk during BSidesLV on the subject of URL Schemes and dangerous implementations.

For those who want all the details:

http://youtu.be/rJroherlZVo?t=1m33s

For those who want to skip explanations on how they work and see the bad examples, auto skipping about 10min:

http://youtu.be/rJroherlZVo?t=10m24s

One example that I have in there is Yo. Yo will automatically Yo someone on your behalf. So if an inline frame has yo://gepeto42 (basically), and you have Yo installed, I have just "de-anonymized" your Yo account as you browsed my website (or any page where I could inject that iframe). A good tip on where to find out about those is to buy Launch Center Pro and to extract the plist it has. This has info about hundreds of iOS apps and how their URL Schemes work.

Happy hunting.
This Guy Shed 60 Pounds in a 100 Days with No Pills, Powders, or Anything
The S in HTTP
People mentioned the manifest file, but I went one step further to try and get duo to adopt a lock file: https://github.com/duojs/duo/issues/220
well Apple did not learn from their previous mistakes and from the Android related Tel+USSD issues - http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504414/30/0/threaded http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/85806 . But I did follow responsible disclosure procedure before going to public and informed Google, Samsung. I hope he did the same :/
Announcing App Links Analytics, Windows Updates, and 3B Links Created
It's definitely standard in Node land and also Component(1). Bower, on the other hand, does not and thus is the culprit.
It hit me on a walk last night: What this needs to be truly complete, more than more KBs or other computer components (like the competing HN article), is the click-of-death when it dies of old age!
Shooting to Wound and Selling Popcorn
Yeah, that's working solution, when support for that is added. Assuming versioning works with these git urls.
I love tablets.

On the other hand, I hate smartphones. I can afford to buy a tablet and a Playstation Vita, eat out once in a while and even save for retirement because I don't owe a car payment to Verizon.
I am glad you sent me this video, but again the important part is that the test conditions are not the same as the original article. As much is mentioned in the video notes and comments... I do agree though that my source article is not exactly scientific, and it may be some kind of bias being introduced by the test participants.
Show HN: Album Release “8-bit” Raycaster in JavaScript
European Space Agency: the first 50 years
Significantly lower cost of living, or better sources of early-stage funding. Some countries have started including games in their arts or film funding, which can be a viable source of initial funds (especially in countries where the arts funding is fairly large, relative to population).

A lot of our students (I teach in a game program in Denmark) pay for the first 3-12 months of their indie studios that way. Those are typically $15k initial grants, and a possibility of around $100k-$200k follow-on funding towards production, if they're convinced it's worth funding at more than the seed level. Obviously that's not going to pay for an AAA game, but it gives indie developers some runway. The early funding for Playdead's Limbo [1] was through that route, for example, and then they sought commercial investors later. Here are this year's recipients: http://www.dfi.dk/Branche_og_stoette/Spilordningen/stoettede...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(video_game)
We make the lion's share of our profits from API customers.
That's because you're using a term you don't fully understand. Singling out men and women for gender-neutral praise ("great women in video games" or "great women in badminton" or whatever) isn't sexist.

"Sexist" is a normative term. It describes an "ought". Specifically: sexism points out instances where we "ought not" stereotype genders. So it would be sexist to point out that women as a class are inferior or superior at video game development. This post does neither of these things.

The term you're flailing around for is "gender biased". "Gender bias" is a descriptive term. It describes an "is". This post "is" about highlighting the achievements of women in the industry. It uses gender as a criteria for inclusion.

By itself, gender bias leaves you with too many unknowns to solve the system for a normative result. You can add intent and circumstances (for instance) to solve it for impact. If you think the intent of this article is to suggest that women are superior to men, you'll sound like a crazy person. If you suggest that the circumstances of gender balance in our industry are such that women's achievements are nonnotable, you'll sound like your head is in the sand. But you haven't even done either of those two things; you've got x, y, and z, one equation, and have just decided to leave y and z out and declare the system solved.
The most valuable real estate is the homescreen of your phone. A website bookmark isn't likely to get that placement.

The sad thing is, it's incredibly easy to add a website to your home screen.
Nice talk, I wish to see more advanced idea on the same topic.
Tanuj from Estimote here. Great idea, Daniel. You could build a simple app that sends you a push if your bike is in motion - that way if you're inside, you know if anyone is messing with it.
New Human Interface Guidelines for Gnome and GTK+
You actually can't PXE boot the RPi. At best, someone might get a port of U-Boot working with the RPi and that would be what's on the SD card. I was hoping to test out bare-metal provisioning systems using RPi's but no love ther.
Show HN: WhereTheyAt – Map of your friends based on shared Facebook data
paper.js has a nice method to do this. I actually used it in a whiteboard app I made as a proof of concept. Rather than saving every X,Y coordinate, it uses a configurable number of points and handles and makes bezier curves. http://paperjs.org/examples/path-simplification/
I don't really understand why programmers go into game development?

Is it predominately the ultra low-end of programmers or something? It seems crazy to me that someone would take something like half the pay and way worse treatment/hours just to be in a specific industry.
The issue is more significant than just changing a simple browser user-agent string. To completely prevent fingerprinting, you must also eliminate all browser differences (e.g. vender prefixes). Additionally, remember that the lack of information can also be information.

Also keep in mind that it's quite difficult to prevent leaking of other information. An example: OS type can be determined from lower-level protocol information like TTL and window size.
For the people using Crowdflower and MTurk, how are people dealing with low-quality work? I've tried using both in the past, but ran into issues with getting good results.
It's only moderately common. Just took a look at a project of ours, and of 565 packages, only 261 (46%) had an index.js.
What did I do? There was nothing that had to be done. I listened to the voices, the many voices, vague, distant, but astonishingly human, the Havasu Creek. I heard the doors creak open, the doors creak shut, the old forgotten cabins where no one with tangible substance or the property of reflecting light ever entered, ever returned. I went native and dreamed away days on the shore of the pool under the waterfall, wandered naked as Adam under the cottonwoods, inspecting my cactus gardens. The days became wild, strange, ambiguous --- a sinister element pervaded the flow of time. I lived narcotic hours in which like the Taoist Chuang-tse I worried about butterflies and who was dreaming what. There was a serpent, a red racer, living in the rocks of the spring where I filled my canteens; he was always there, slipping among the stones or pausing to mesmerize me with his suggestive tongue and cloudly haunted primeval eyes. Damn his eyes. We got to know each other rather too well, I think. I agonized over the girls I had known and over those I hoped were yet to come. I slipped by degrees into lunacy, me and the moon, and lost to a certain extent the power to distinguish between what was and what was not myself looking at my hand, I would see a leaf trembling on a branch. A green leaf. I thought of Debussy, of Keats and Blake and Andrew Marvell. I remembered Tom O'Bedlam. And all of those lost and never remembered. Who would return? To be lost again? I went for walks. I went for walks, and on one of these, the last, I took in Havasu, regained everything that seemed to be ebbing away.

-- Ed Abbey, Desert Solitaire

http://www.hkhinc.com/arizona/havasu/articles/havasuabbey.ht...
Default browser behavior (OS X Safari) of cursor changing from an arrow to a hand on hover is a visual indication. Default browser behavior of links with focus having a blue outline is a visual indication.

If unvisited links aren't in the default browser color (e.g. blue), I don't want a site to attempt a "house style" for visited links. Don't make me think.
Hey, Tanuj from Estimote here. Stickers and Beacons are meant to be complementary products. Beacons are great to attaching to fixed points inside venues - museums, stores, sports stadiums, etc. They add location context to a physical space. Stickers, on the other hand, are small and discrete enough to be attached to objects. Put it on any item to turn it into a nearable, a smart, connected object that broadcasts data about its location, motion and temperature. You can read more about our vision on our blog: http://blog.estimote.com/post/95382199590/nearables-are-here...
I'm not sure I see what having "a strong type system" has to do with whether or not a language can be considered functional. It seems like it's just a way to say that Haskell and the MLs are the only languages that qualify. And that sounds more like PR than a formal definition.

It's also not really historically accurate. People were referring to languages based on the untyped lambda calculus as "functional" before things like Hindley-Milner appeared (in the 70s). Were they (and I'm talking about PL researchers) all speaking incorrectly?
Out of curiosity, what kind of problems did you experience with ear plugs?
Chromium Bug Thread about this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=329259

"In practice, the closest to 'malicious' use I've seen the redict-to-app-store-from-ad case"
Lars Doucet's http://www.fortressofdoors.com/follow-your-dreams-or-maybe-d... seems relevant. His company made a reasonably successful indie game ("Defender's Quest"); this article talks through his ambivalence about following a passion for making games, in the context of that experience. Could work out but probably won't, and it's OK either to not try or to try, give up, and try again at something with better odds.

Edit: missing verb, missing particle in infinitive
The Stegosaurus Tail: When “The Long Tail” Grows Spikes
Having made games for 30 years, I can tell you that a big part of it is a love of making something fun. I get to make something, and then play. Joy comes from playing and I am very joyful.
In progressive tax situations that is called the 'marriage penalty' (second salary is all taxed at the higher marginal rate) which is mitigated somewhat by changing the tax thresholds for married people filing jointly. You can file separately of course, and it seems a number of people are living together and filing as individuals, it gets complicated as you get kids because they become dependents (and a tax credit) on one of the people's return.

There is a reason all this stuff keeps a legion of tax attorneys and CPAs employed.
apps, yes. But there are sites which manage to circumvent AdBlock? Any examples?
I think it is like why people become artists or musicians. Poor pay & very little recognition (except for the 0.1%) but it's fun to create something with your own two hands and see your vision slowly become reality.
lukas at crowdflower.com
The one thing my wife (a math teacher) has always been craving is a video solution for these - that is, write equations or annotate a document on our android tablet while she narrates, then upload the video to YouTube. Last I checked there wasn't a good offering on the play store for this.
Payment card information. What does that mean exactly?
Great article, but I think I'm missing something. Several times through it I thought: "ok, but what about obvious explanation?".

Examples:

People who live in consistently loud environments often
experience chronically elevated levels of stress hormones.

But did they prove correlation or causation? To me most things that make noise also cause stress. Construction work makes lots of noise and changes your routine. A failing piece of hardware brings me technical headaches along with the noise. The article implies it's the noise itself that caused that.

“In the absence of sound, the brain often tends to
produce internal representations of sound.”

When I think of a song, I can hear it in a very similar way to actual songs. Isn't this fairly well known? Same thing with the abrupt silence increasing attention. That seems... obvious?

There seemed to be a type of background brain activity
that was most visible, paradoxically, when the test
subject was in a quiet room, doing absolutely nothing.

First thing I would do is attribute this to the internal monologue, but I see no mention of that. When I'm by myself I'm definitely thinking harder than when listening to music. It's hard to actually do nothing, as people who meditate can tell you. Yet it's talked like it's entirely subconscious activity.

I enjoyed reading this piece, and did learn a few things, but it frustrates me to no end when they gloss over stuff like this. Maybe they are not as obvious as I thought, or I missed something that clearly proves them wrong, but my feeling is that the article ignores common sense in a few spots.
Product Hunt Is Now Banned from Reddit
Show HN: My partner and I created the only app you will ever need
Humans Need Not Apply: 47% of jobs may soon be computerized
npm supports git repositories as dependencies already (git://github.com/...), so that feature doesn't seem like much added value to me.

And considering that any real project needs a manifest, the versioning syntax doesn't seem especially compelling.

I'd like to be proven wrong, because this looks cool... but I don't see the value over npm and browserify other than some syntactical sugar (which could probably be achieved with an npm wrapper). Am I missing something?
Thanks for all the comments!

I mostly made the website for the laughs (i.e. the rocket ship), but I'll definitely make it more user friendly as I increment on the (still rather silly) design, taking your comments into account.

As for the login hassle, it's basically just linking your google account (two clicks, no need to write down anything) - but I do get the point about making polls as a guest before registering.

Anyway - appreciate all the feedback!
No, this is a gamma correction issue.

Software which work in full-float linear (Nuke, for example) don't have this issue, as the RGB values are already in luminance-adjusted values as they're linear.

The issue only affects software filtering images in lower-precision (and thus gamma-baked) pixel intensity values - i.e. 0-255 for uchar (8-bit) and 0- for ushort (16-bit), where the R,G and B channels are given equal weighting).
https://weworkremotely.com/ might not be a bad option - not sure how the traffic is, but ad placement is inexpensive, and its only for remote jobs.
Startups are a gamble with a high upside. If you win you'll be fabulously wealthy and probably never have to work again.

"Winning" in the game industry simply means you get to survive to work on the next project. Even high-profile studios with great track records are financially stumbling from one project into the next, and a single failure will sink them. Nobody is getting rich here - best case scenario you make a market wage, worst case scenario you make little to nothing.
How much difference is there between MP3, CD and 24-bit audio?
Oooo, cool thought.

I studied some psych recently and one of my biggest personal takeaways was amazement that nervous system works as well as it does for so many of us so much of the time, it is such a Goldbergian hackfest of spaghetti wiring and luck. That and reflex loops.

Gotta love evolution.
This has historically been accomplished by sensors on the lights and emergency vehicles flashing a specific pattern, not wifi.
This sounds a lot to me like "Do you even burning man bro?"
Ask HN: Do you have these problems?
Hi everyone,

Do you have to explain what you've just shared in dropbox? Or do you have problems trying to figure out why you received some file 3 weeks ago? Do you generally feel that the files/links/notes that you receive are organized?

I am asking, because we are currently trying to figure out a better description to our product. I have this problem, my partner doesn't have it. What about you guys?
Omidyar and Greenwald's First Look runs into journalism’s two big problems
Git-bisect – Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug
We own two tablets for businesss use - an iPad and a Google Nexus 7.

The iPad 4 is quite heavy, so I mostly use the Nexus 7 for private stuff.

- Quickly checking information on the web if all computers are turned off.
- Adding listings to our local Craigslist equivalent. This is so much faster if you don't need to transfer pictures from the camera to the computer and then upload the stuff.
- Playing games that are made for tablets.
- Reading websites for fun while lying in bed.
- Showing pictures and funny videos to friends.

I prefer the tablet over the smartphone for this because of the screen size.
One small thing that makes Consul exciting (especially when compared to etcd) is its -bootstrap-expect flag [0].

It's the recommended way to stand up a Consul cluster without a risk of causing split brain if it turns out multiple nodes are coming up at the exact same time, and it achieves that without an external / pre-existing coordination service.

In comparison, etcd's recommended way to bootstrap a cluster is to use CoreOS' "discovery" service, which is great, but does constitute one extra dependency.

--

Now, the downside of Consul is that it seems etcd has much more momentum.

[0]: http://www.consul.io/docs/guides/bootstrapping.html
> Before the Heise story, I naively believed that this sort of automated attack was only done by organised crime

You were correct.
Any claims go on your credit report, so it isn't totally true that there are zero repercussions.
> And true, one risk is that one would be happy with himself and isolate himself. But those traditions know and try to manage those risks.

Sorry, at least in Indian mythology the "ascetic" is idolized and glorified (they exhibited superpowers through their isolated meditation). In what way is this "managing those risks"?
I second my noise! I've used it quite a lot, and it's very customizable. No idea why SimplyNoise is ontop of search results lately, must be some SEO spamming.