skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PDF from the author's site: http://brockbastian.psy.unsw.edu.au/documents/Bastian%20et%2...
This seems to be over 10 years old...
We started working on the same issue that Pushbullet addresses long before we discovered it (or even before iOS8 was announced). We continued scratching out itch (both on an engineer and product side).

We do not match 1:1 Pushbullet's features, we worked on our version from scratch (I'm pretty sure we both took advantage of the same APIs).

In our approach we focused on "pairing" devices with a simple/secure token, with no accounts needed (we do not require G+ account in order to register). We probably (still) address a subset of Pushbullet's features but still providing some other useful ones (as for our use cases) such as:

Phone "control",
Device location,
a simple Chrome Extension where you can keep track of your notifications (and interact with your Phone).

I'm pretty sure Pushbullet would do the same but we do not store any data and just "push" it between devices over secure channels.

Hope I gave you a more detailed view of what I meant.
Ironically, lack of DIY/consumer powder coating (and, perhaps, more significantly -- steel bending) tools were reasons Bre Pettis gave for why MakerBot went closed source.

"Some of the shifts we’ve just made, that’ve made some people grumpy. We are not sharing the design files for the body of the Replicator 2. That’s because it’s powder coated steel, and unless you have, like, an open-source steelbender, you’re not going to be able to do this, it’s not something you can do, at home. It’s something that really you have to have a manufacturing facility to do." [http://makezine.com/2012/09/28/bre-pettis-ohs-challenges-of-...]
Ah, I didn't notice! Interesting.
Interesting to see Watchmen on there as the only(?) graphic novel?
Surely the size of the JSON payload matters for this benchmark. Just saying you can parse json in under 1 ms is somewhat meaningless unless you're comparing similar sized json documents, as well as marshalling into a user-supplied class.
Yeah but that's my point they are doing it right.They are not falling into the trap ;)
> I simple don't see myself, taking a watch off my wrist, charging it for the night and wearing it again in the morning.

It's a simple question of cost versus benefit. I have to recharge myself every day, but I think it's worth it. Electric cars have to recharge overnight.

> Is this one of this things that I will be doing anyhow, or just a passing fad.

To me, the advantage of having a wristwatch that didn't require recharging was offset by the fact that it didn't do anything except display the time, and not very accurately at that.
It's depressing that in 2014 this is something being discussed at all.

It's equally depressing that otherwise intelligent people will try to argue against codes of conduct, not realizing that as white men, they have literally no say in the matter (or at least shouldn't, even though many throw around their weight and privilege in order to disrupt things). I'd think that in a community so forward-looking and forward-thinking, people would have enough sense to be on the right side of history, instead of going down with the ship clutching their confederate dollars.
Exactly what I was thinking. Being able to apply force at different angles would make for an interesting test for a project like this. Sure it can make you run farther, but can it make you jump higher? What about prolonged ability to run on a steep incline (either parallel or perpendicular to the slope)? Once again it seems like the applications of this tech is dependent on energy technology that may not exist yet. Where's my pocket fusion generator?
How Cine.io Uses Node.js and IronWorker to Handle Their Background Processing
Surely that's better than laying them off the day before the event?

Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job, and if any of the employees had wind of what was coming, it would have been a great place to network for their next opportunity.
It just didn't do anything for me. It felt like it tried too hard to give some deep insights, but to me it just fell flat (that's the mystical self-help part). And I didn't care for the story as just fiction either - I can't really explain why.

But I know a lot of people of liked it, so I can see why it is on the list, even if I didn't like it.
How disgruntled ex-employees and bad reporting hung LucidWorks out to dry
I think most people's impressions of CALEA requirements are pretty far off base.
> This is particularly relevant in a civil suit, because the burden of proof is only "more likely than not."

I imagine showing that a defendant is using disappearing messages will immediately open them up for an interesting line of questioning.

It does kinda scream: I needed to use a technology that was not eligible for the discovery process.
They've also been pretty clear that the language is going to be in a state of flux for long while. From the Swift Blog:

"Binary Compatibility and Frameworks

While your app’s runtime compatibility is ensured, the Swift language itself will continue to evolve, and the binary interface will also change. To be safe, all components of your app should be built with the same version of Xcode and the Swift compiler to ensure that they work together.

This means that frameworks need to be managed carefully. For instance, if your project uses frameworks to share code with an embedded extension, you will want to build the frameworks, app, and extensions together. It would be dangerous to rely upon binary frameworks that use Swift — especially from third parties. As Swift changes, those frameworks will be incompatible with the rest of your app. When the binary interface stabilizes in a year or two, the Swift runtime will become part of the host OS and this limitation will no longer exist."
Not if the rest of the loadout is on a fully powered weight bearing exoskeleton.
Print media is dying.
Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
Introducing free full voice capture and voice analysis via your favorite NSL.
LOL! so far only MSDN has been refuting the claim

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2603531/why-steve-ballmer-wro...

(even the Verge)

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/4/6105203/steve-ballmer-blue-...
No, actually, print media are dying, one medium at a time.
China has 8 cities with bigger bike share systems than all of America
And that's exactly what I'm comparing. This was the shock that came from the same data being loaded into android as ios being over an order of magnitude slower.
It would be interesting to develop a vectored thrust inertia compensator. Allow the troops to wear heavier armor but handle the load as if they aren't wearing anything.
Passwords for 5M Google Accounts Leaked
Leaving aside the typical silly assumption that a "young adult" book is somehow less likely to grapple with important questions...

You shouldn't be at all surprised that a list of books characterized by "what has stayed with you" would skew towards books typically read during youth. I can still provide basic plot lines of the reruns I watched during my childhood, not to mention commercial jingles. Also, youth is a prime time for adopting such guidepost stars. A young adult book is probably going to prove a better roadmap than, say, a cult leader.
Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job

Are you serious? Live blogging events like that is utter misery. Constant stress for an entire day.
Papers We Love – NYC – Talk – LCA Problem Revisited
> Does this also mean that any user who is attacked with CSRF gets logged out of the website?

Nope. It only strips it from the specific request that fails the CSRF validator. A client shouldn't notice.
Apple Watch V/s Android Wear
"Before writing angular-data I used to create fleets of services for my various resources, each performing data management and communicating with a persistence layer."

Can someone give me an example of this? I just use $http and populte the $scope models in callbacks so I don't really recognize the problem.
I assume that some site has hostgator-related links with two slashes instead of one. Due to the two slashes, the GoogleBot doesn't realize that it's indexing their own results pages.
Accessibility is an important feature. Most of the country cannot read at a literary arts postgrad level, and that is OK.
(Shrug) Stressful or not, it's one of those jobs that someone, somewhere, will cheerfully do for free.
Is the Satoshi Nakamoto Hacker the Same Person Who Hacked Roger Ver?
They started with InfoWorld in 2007.
As far back as I can remember I had trouble with formal education for the simple reason that assignments are pointless. They don't solve real problems and have no personal significance to me, so why do them?

I have never been able to get good at anything unless there's a point-- a reason I want to do it.

It has to be my reason. Someone else telling me simply doesn't work. If the work has no purpose, my eyes will literally refuse to focus... my brain will refuse to parse the words. It's like the very substance of my being goes into revolt. All the willpower in the world won't overcome this. I really tried on many occasions since I could rationally grasp the long term value of better grades, but unless I could find a way to directly link the work to a personal goal my brain would literally refuse to operate. I remember this being a struggle as far back as first grade.

Math is a great example. I never did well at math in school, but when I actually needed to do something with it I found that I had no problem diving deeply into difficult areas like combinatorics, discrete and linear algebra, etc. and really understanding them. I could keep up with professionals in these areas, so it obviously wasn't an ability thing.

My wife is the same way -- probably one of the things we have in common. If something is not meaningful to her she says she literally can't read sometimes. The eyes move but the words are just shapes on the page.
> If SierraNevada can convert this thing to launch on a Delta or a Falcon

The Dragon is much lighter than the Dream Chaser. For arguably the same mission profile (land anywhere). The only advantage the Dream Chaser has over the Dragon 2 is that it does not need to use the launch abort rockets to land. Depending on how well their heat shields hold up, relaunching them can really be a simple operation.
The LG G Watch.
Wow! Your open source work is great. Congratulations. A great example of how maintaining good habits changes the game.
You are right. I jumped on it without giving the author the benefit of the doubt. This is one of those things that I personally have been burned by, and I wanted to save other from falling victim to the same mistake.
It's a ploy from the rail companies to have the tax payer foot the bill to build these high-speed rail lines, knowing full and well that there is just not enough demand at the price (per trip) they are proposing.

Sure there will be the occasional passenger train to warrant keeping it around, but the long term goal is to have the rail companies step in and say "See, no demand for passengers, but since you have all of these tracks built, we'll gladly use them to haul our freight."
Yes, I could generify it, but I'd have implement $q and $http (or introduce other dependencies), and extract angular-specific things like hooking into Angular's $digest cycle for change detection (when the browser doesn't support Object.observe).

This definitely warrants some thought. The next time I write a non-trivial application in a framework other than Angular then this will move up on my priority list. Or perhaps when the community wills it into existence :)
Archaeologists Have Made an Incredible Discovery at Stonehenge
In Rails4 you can do

protect_from_forgery with: :exception

This is also the default value if you generate a brand new rails application.
You don't need expertise in a particular profession to come to the conclusion that someone is being smug, rude, etc. If I saw someone on the street being disrespectful, is it unfair for me to come to that conclusion because I don't fully understand their field of work?
Do you think that computers are better at chess than humans? If yes, how does this relate to pattern recognition. If not, what makes someone or something better at chess, while still losing against a computer? Is that a beautiful move? Tactics? Irrational sacrifices to cause confusion?

Do you think that a machine's situational awareness can not achieve or surpass the level of a human? If not, what is holding the machines back?

Why do you think that instinct works better to create more rational, consistent and correct predictions? Are 100 security guards better than a single security guard at dealing with ambiguities? Do you think an algorithm to detect fights, drug dealers, and pickpockets from street cams can not exist? What if a NN could detect these cases faster and flag this to a human security guard for action/no-action.
I read the Great Gatsby out of my own volition (well prior to the movie coming out) and I didn't really like it.
These were my first thoughts as well. As is, the machine is really only good for long-time runners who have their own natural mechanics nailed down, and that's ignoring the long-term effects of the increased impact, faster than normal muscle movements, etc.

Lot more research required, and yes, they'll probably need additional hardware for feet/legs to prevent injuries.
Very cool, I particularly enjoyed the wormhole trip. Reminds me of 'Real Time Relativity', a fun program for exploring 3d worlds at relativistic speeds: http://realtimerelativity.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608972
> Net neutrality means that you pay one price for your Internet access regardless of what type of content you’re viewing on the Internet. In other words, checking your email costs the same as reading this blog post and the same as watching a movie on Netflix and so on.

Not really. Net Neutrality does not require that those all cost the same. It just requires that the cost is not based on the type or origin of the content. An ISP can charge based on the amount of data without violating net neutrality (as long as they charge the same for a byte regardless of where it comes from or what it is part of), and under such a pricing scheme watching a movie would cost more than reading your blog simply because the movie involves lots more data.
Jenga – Physijs
This shouldn't come as a surprise -- there are more people learning English in China, than there are English speakers in the U.S..

Also I suspect the Chinese don't try to steal or destroy the free bikes, a common problem elsewhere.
"Or waited a while after?"

Perhaps they think that there is a money tree that you just shake to pay employee salaries.

I think a comment like the parent (or perhaps that attitude) comes from a failure to realize that in the traditional business world business needs to operate at a profit. There is no runway like the startup runway.

Business and life isn't fair and it's not about hurt feelings. And you can't let personal emotions and feelings get in the way of sound business decisions. (This comes from someone who has and has seen what happens as a result...)

It's entirely possible that the laid off employees were fully aware of the pending demise and failed to take their own action first to their benefit (which for sure they would have done with "2 weeks notice" if they could).
it isn't 2 rabbits. It is one rabbit of advancing our civilization. Musk stated his pretty coherent vision something like 20+ years ago.
And Linux users, apparently.
That sort of suit already exists for warehouse jobs, and they will get more athletic with time.
Good quotes from the article:

"people who happen by and need to check something on the Web, but whom you’d rather not give WiFi or Ethernet jack access. In other words: enemies."

"As the only person in the company to have ever seen a Unix command line, I was left in charge of customer training and first-call support. In other words, I had been consigned to a role somewhere between lab rat and human sacrifice. "
They probably want to index some pages on google.com, but not search results. To exclude search results, someone wrote something to exclude URLs that start with /search, and forgot that //search works the same way.
I shy away from recruiters every time. Not sure why that is though.
The NSA Gives Birth to Startups
They disallow /search

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

but maybe //search slipped thorough?
Very limited audience? No marketing effort?
Google also caches itself: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T1NRLL-...
You're correct. Thankfully Rails4 provides the option of doing this by default, but in my opinion, it should still be default behavior, and should not require an option to the protect_from_forgery method.

Unfortunately, the Rails team have stated that it was introduced as an option, rather than default behavior for backwards compatibility reasons. It leaves me to wonder how many applications would actually have an issue if the default behavior was to generate an exception.
NASA need to pay to both - to Boeing to keep it happy and avoid its destructive meddling with the real deal - SpaceX. Paying a racket fee to Boeing will be very wise thing in the long run.
It reminds me of an experiment some biologists did (sorry can't cite) to demonstrate how wings could have evolved by showing how half a wing could help. They cut short wings on flying bugs. The clipped bugs couldn't fly, but they could move around a lot faster on water surfaces, which seemed a clear advantage over walking speeds. You could imagine a leg evolving to act like a half-wing to give that speed advantage, then you could imagine that leg further evolving to a wing that could enable flight.

Designers and inventors can learn from this. When we want to make a huge jump, like to a working jet pack for flying, it often helps to take small, evolutionary steps.
Thanks for sharing! Wow, 12 points in under 2 hours and all the way down to 150+ ? Weird!
Children have always been expensive, haven't they? But I think that's more of a cultural issue - people prefer consumption to investing in raising kids.

And working children don't usually bring in lots of money, but back in the day they would care for their elderly parents, which was a good reason to have kids.

I think it's not mainly about money (why do Germany's academics have the fewest children?), but about creating a children-friendly climate and a culture where raising children is considered a good thing and not just a burden that keeps you from consuming. Children and modern consumer culture - bad fit.
Interesting. What are you using for object marshalling on iOS? And which json processor are you using on your android benchmark? The referenced library?
The magazine market seems to be the worst possible use case for print, especially in the tech sector. With newspapers, at least you are only ever 1 day or maybe 1 week (sunday edition) behind the news, and its all general interest so there's probably something your reader hasn't read about in there.

On the contrary, look at the core demographic of a tech magazine to begin with: people obsessed enough to buy an entire magazine about one company's products. Add to that that that company's devotees are tech savvy and want the information yesterday, and you have a recipe for disaster for a magazine that comes out a month later with info.
For the infrequency of use, and the cost, I agree. A home brake wouldn't be impossible to buy (just a couple hundred dollars) but they're huge and not very useful.

http://www.harborfreight.com/36-inch-metal-brake-with-stand-...
That's insane that they think they would have to go to that extent.
They've proven the concept ("Can a jetpack make you run faster"), and now they polish ("Ok, just how much faster?"). That's how it works.
> Furthermore, I don't think we're going to get very far in space manufacturing without a high energy density power source (e.g. fusion).

Care to elaborate on this point?
Exactly. The session information is stripped from the request, but the session is not really "destroyed."

Rails leverages client side sessions, which are signed to prevent tampering. Because of this nature, however, sessions can be constantly replayed.
Enter Captain Netflix! With the cable networks improving to compete with the online content providers (hulu, hboGo, etc), Streaming in-flight could be a Business Class feature.
Can you link the 14 + 3 apps and let us evaluate them?

I do believe discrimination exists in our industry and have written about it, but I don't like to automatically assume its the default reason.
For some definition of "work." They are mostly fiction. Unless a "driverless car" is supposed to only really be driverless on the freeway.

The point is that actually shipping a successful product to consumers is the true mark of innovation. Anything else is research.
Twitter Announces Flight, an Annual Mobile Developer Conference
Multi-user access and realtime updates seem very connected to me. For these you could plug in my upcoming Firebase adapter for angular-data and boom! I actually had a complete GoInstant adapter...

Another option is too use web sockets or a pub/sub messaging service to notify all clients of changes to data, and each client can decide what it wants to do at that point (refresh data, get the changes, etc.). You could implement your own 3-way databinding this way.

Angular-data doesn't support offline editing and sync out of the box right now, but I'm considering writing an adapter that combines the existing http and localStorage adapters into one that supports offline editing and sync. Or you could make your own.
Liberia does not deserve your assistance.

"Since 2003, the international community has poured billions of dollars of aid into the country." (https://www.devex.com/news/a-decade-of-aid-dependence-in-lib...)

"Liberia receives an estimated $449 million in annual off-budget foreign assistance. And this estimate of off-budget aid excludes unknown amounts of funding from UNMIL, China, private foundations, and several bilateral and UN agencies." (http://aiddata.org/blog/the-elusive-quest-for-effective-aid-...)

After all this, if a country in the world's oldest continent still can't manage (because of corruption, apathy, whatever) it's certainly not your responsibility to step in and perpetuate such incompetence. If it takes a substantial reduction in population to finally affect change, then so be it.

Blunt, controversial, I don't care. 'Africa' needs to step up and take responsibility for its own destiny.

More reading: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9121361/why-aid-fails/
It works with

site:http://www.google.com/search

, but all the results are considered duplicates and omitted. Hit the button.
There isn't much worth reading on the site, except perhaps the occasional Macalope column and an occasional OSX-related tip.

If you're into reading columns and opinion pieces, there are much better blogs and sites, e.g. Daring Fireball, Roughly Drafted, Recode.

If you're looking for detailed reviews and specs there are again much better blogs and sites, e.g. Anandtech, Ars Technica.

And if you're looking for rumors, there are yet again much better blogs and sites, e.g. AppleInsider, MacRumors.

And there's Twitter, and HN, and what not for live coverage of news events.

And their site's redesign made it slow as hell on low-end iDevices.

In short the site brings little to no value to the table. Or then I'm too young or too old or too dumb to understand what that value is.