skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say as much right in the article. They know their test is artificial and is only useful as a comparison between the devices.

> The test sends a Google Hangouts message to the watch every 15 seconds, and uses ADB over Bluetooth to turn the screen on every 15 seconds. It's a fairly heavy usage example, but it allows us to compare battery life across Android Wear devices with a fair amount of scientific rigor.
Exactly. Out of all the things a smartwatch could do, only health tracking is something that your smartphone can't do. The successful smartwatch will not be a little window to your smartphone, but a high quality health tracker that integrates perfectly with your phone and ALSO shows you the time and notifications.
If I read the article correctly, the mtDNA was only used to correlate that the shawl reasonably belonged to the victim. The story of its provenance coupled with the fact that the mtDNA extracted matched her descendent perfectly. It certainly isn't bulletproof. The male identification came not from mtDNA, but from DNA extracted from epithelial cells.
Well it's presented as a trends piece, and unless I read the fine print, it's not clear if I'm being presented with US trends or worldwide trends and that changes from slide to slide... Perhaps you made it abundantly clear in the video/in-person, but I think it's a valid point not to have to read the asterisk, and instead just expect things to be consistent.

With that said, I enjoyed the slides.
Funny, my Ubuntu box shows an update dialog almost every day.
That's probably best addressed by the “security considerations” section of the JWT spec:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-...

My short answer to “How secure are JSON Web Tokens?”, though, would be that the relevant security issues are likely to come in “around” the use of JWTs, not as a result of JWTs themselves being “weak”. JWT is just a set of conventions for encoding authn/authz claims in JSON and then encrypting/signing the result.
The comment is probably glib but to respond to it in seriousness: Twitter is a place where you bathe in the stochastic. Why not see if it's also a place where people will make buying decisions based on the same? I think it's an idea worthy of experimentation.
If you don't like the direction twitter is heading, try quitter.se, ello.co, app.net
Python, JavaScript (backend and frontend web dev respectively). I like to focus on one for a chunk of time (before lunch / after lunch), but sometimes that isn't possible.
Serves them right.
> First the Jizya was not a Tax payed because they weren't Muslims.

Not true.

See here:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/304125/jizya

The additional clause or exemptions a "dhimmi" contract brings are explained here, including the exemption from military service.

Please note the clear difference between the above and the below versions.

Even then, it should be noted that "jizya" is enforced irrespective of if you own any assets or not. And failure to pay the same can lead to "refusal to pay Jizya by any non-Muslim subject in a Muslim state was a capital crime, punished by his family's arrest and enslavement. The women and girls of an enslaved family would become property of a Muslim master and serve as house workers and female sex slaves. In some cases, the family could escape this punishment by converting to Islam"

It is incorrect to equate with your above analogy of passport fees etc., It's not as innocuous as you try to portray.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya#Comparison_between_Zakat_...
Java and Python. I also have to do javascript in most of my projects but that's almost a given for this day and age.

Go/Node in my free time(hobby projects).
At the very least I'd expect most people to be using javascript plus at least one other language.
Signup is required to see the various challenges - this sucks.
Also, the website appears to require Javascript (so noscript users are forced to whitelist the website). You're far from the only one to have this issue though.
It's not a "market differentiator". If a company can't develop that "feature", they just won't be able to release their driverless cars.
PHP/Ruby/JS, previously, PHP/JS/Python/C/C++
> Other sites rewrite the host name in links redirecting the user to another site, mainly to "spy" on clicks. When this behavior is detected, IceCat shows a message alerting the user.

Easily one of the most annoying "features" I deal with on a daily basis. I almost wish the a.href property were read-only in the DOM.
This has been around for years; the title is misleading, making it sound like something new.
Back to the future (again): How to reduce legacy code threats before they happen
Google Starts Selling Their Stylish Motorola Smart Watch
It reminds me of Microsoft's early attempts at portable devices, where they seemed to think they needed a huge chunk of the Windows desktop API and its conventions in a phone or tablet. Watches are not phones, they're peripherals, and they don't need such a bulky software stack. Maybe Apple will handle this differently.
Well, one would assume that the police work of the time was done to the most reasonable extent possible and if the outcome of that police work was him as a suspect, being able to confirm DNA at the murder scene would only serve to affirm that suspicion. It all depends on what other evidence police based their suspicion at the time. The person who bought the shawl said he consulted the original written police reports in the archives. I suppose anyone could do the same, or... buy the book. ;)
From the introductory quotes: "Do you suffer from painful elimination?" Love Knuth's sly sense of humor. As brilliant as he is, he refuses to take himself too seriously. A model for us all.
Just JavaScript, day and night, client and server... No need for other stuff except for CSS.
Doesn't IceWeasel already exist? Are there license differences here?
Not sure if this is the right place to go considering Polanski's case.
By itself, I would imagine that might be enough to prove the innocence of some of the suspects, but not necessarily enough to prove the guilt of one suspect. Of course each court is different and the amount of evidence needed to convict isn't always the same.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284768
bash, vim, html, css, python, coffeescript, C, and bunch of lisp variants.

Planning to decrease it back to 1 some day.
Ruby, Swift, Objective-C and CoffeeScript.
But usually separated between projects.
Detect Fraudulent Transactions on Your Website by Tracking Visitors Behavior
Not sure how many people would like to associate their credit card information with their Twitter profiles. Maybe they can include other sensible options like Bitcoin?
150+ year tools? That almost excludes the entire Stanley catalog.
I go between python, javascript, and c++ most weeks (not on the same project). I'm doing a little rust on the side just to learn it, same with haskell. I had a project in ocaml recently, but that probably won't happen again for a while.

I find the biggest hassle working with multiple languages is trying to keep the libraries and data structure interfaces straight (i.e. push, extend, unshift, push_back, cons, :, ::, ...). Once I get into the language mindset the syntax itself doesn't seem to be much of a problem.

I think I'm probably the most productive in python, mostly due to the huge ecosystem. I'm happiest when solving problems in haskell though, and increasingly I like rust (really hoping for higher-kinded types, which would put it in the running for my favorite).
Usually Javascript (Node), but also Java. However I'm most productive in Python, for all and everything, from whipping up a small Flask REST service to doing some data crunching using Pandas.
Unfortunately for me, where I work Node is the language of choice.
Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitHub-backup
I think that is a very telling point in and of itself. I've sat on the boundary between the devops / security and networking world my entire career. I know many people who are great at *nix and tooling of backend infrastructure but choose to ignore the plumbing, and complexity contained within, the planning and architecture that can make the pieces above it that much more successful. When I read an article like this there are blatant points that showcase how green the OP is with regard to networking. I happen to have an advantage in this space and the point being is that I don't claim any expertise in compiler design, never will. However - it pays to bring people in to help. While you only see the story from the OPs perspective there's an entirely different side from the vendor most likely (probably around fundamental design if I had to throw a dart).

Sure, I knew I'd get downvoted for the post - but sometimes that's a calculated position to show a point, and my point is - sometimes you need help, this article was very one-sided and rife with flaws. Not something I generally expect to read on HN - but I know there is likely a lot of that out there that I "just miss" because I know that I don't know.
Part of my problem with Java tools is that I'm always on a laptop, often running on battery, and it seems like every single Java-based program on OS X just sits around using 3-5% of the CPU even when idle.
Would Lidar really be all that expensive if it was used in mass produced driverless cars?
Snowden has repeatedly asserted that the documents are out of his control, the only value that he has is in a potential barter deal with the US. Since even in the cold war spies were traded rather than those that fled their home country I highly doubt such a scenario could materialize. It would also make Putin look even worse than he already does on the international stage, and more importantly he'd look bad in the eyes of his own people (assuming they'd ever hear about it).

Snowdens main value to Russia has so far been of the PR variety (And mostly for the home front at that, 'sticking it to the USA').

If you wish to make the case that Snowden will not be permitted to leave Russia then I think that is the claim that needs substantiation, rather than the opposite.

Maybe you're right and they won't let him go but that would need a plausible scenario first.
Show HN: CloudTunes
Well, more like proved the possibility that the shawl was in fact from the victim, given the material, design, and the fact that the mtDNA matched a descendent. There are still many, many other peoples' blood from that time period that would yield the same match, but coupled with the story of the background of the shawl, they would like you to believe it a 100% match for their purposes. (A cynic would say... to sell the book.)
There is one Chef Server, and it is Open Source
Web tier: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

App tier: Java

Backend: Oracle

<3 my job
It is not easy to draw a circle.
C++, Qml, bash at work.

JavaScript, Python at home.
Multiple Aeroflot machines with Russian officials on board that were on they way home have been forced to land in EU countries because of sanctions.

The only plane that probably would be safe is the Russian presidential plane.
In an incredible turn of timing, I created a mockup of a Facebook icon for the exact same functionality about six hours ago:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sed9ewxz25turey/Screenshot%202014-...
East-Ukraine is not between Russia and Switzerland on any conceivable flight path and West-Ukraine barely so. But that was a funny comment.
It would only be circumstantial evidence. A man's semen could get on a prostitute's shawl because he raped and murdered her. But it could also get there because he was one of her johns.
"503 Over Quota" :-(
You should still use HTTPS with this. The signing used here is not to protect the payload, but to ensure that an authority that you trust has issued the token.
America vs China, is why. The East is the Enemy. :)
How a 48h hackathon led to a pivot
Maybe just a question of time. AppCode (the Objective-C version) runs LLDB.
Today it was Ruby, Go and JavaScript. I feel productiv in all of them. Sometimes some C, Shell and Python. Python is becoming a pain, because i use it so rarely, that i have to look up everything.
It was banned because its "sole purpose" was to distribute this kind of material. If they were posting to /r/pics, the subreddit wouldn't be banned.
I sometimes go between C#, C++, Java and php / Javascript. Much like being multilingual in the language you speak it just takes a little practice. It does hurt trying to remember the special features of each.
Non-constructive proofs aren't problematic for theorem provers---they just have no computable interpretation.

You can just assert the Law of Excluded Middle if you like whenever and all of the programs "downstream" will still be checkable. You can even technically provide computable semantics to Pierce's law via call/cc.
Polanski was eventually released and was never granted asylum in Switzerland.
VBA,

SQL,

Golang,

Bash

(sadly in this order of frequency)
Wait, wait. Look at Arc article. It cites no printed ("textbooks, survey articles, etc") materials at all. All the references in the article are either essays by the author, blog posts or github repos. Which makes it pretty much in the same situation as Nimrod. How come Arc has its page, and Nimrod doesn't?

Other than that, all the languages you mentioned are either old (5+ years) or have corporate backing, or both - and it should be obvious that we're not talking about langs like these. Aside from Arc you failed to mention even one language comparable to Nimrod in terms of existing sources.

Meanwhile, look at newLisp article and its references. Why does it exist? It has four referenced sources, where one is "unreliable", one is an article comparable to the one in Dr.Dobbs on Nimrod and two remaining ones are posts by the author.

Look at Felix article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_%28programming_language%2...). It has no source whatsoever, yet it still exists.

Same with Alice ML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28programming_language%2...) - which is probably just laziness of editors, because Alice papers were published IIRC. Yet they are not referenced at all, and the article still exists.

There is reference to one printed source in Io language article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_%28programming_language%29), so maybe it should be allowed to live. However, "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" is not a very detailed description of any one language it covers (of course) and I could argue it's not enough to rely on it as an only source.

Lisp flavored Erlang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFE_%28programming_language%29) is apparently well sourced, as the article for it exists. Not even one of the sources was ever published in print.

Same with Hy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy) - all sources are blog posts and similar.

Look, I could really go on. Studying obscure languages nobody heard about is my hobby and I have lots and lots of examples, but I'd hope the above is enough to show you a "double standard" displayed here by Wikipedia editors. Either remove all of those - and no, I'm not going to help you with this - or stop bullying some languages without any reason at all.
https://gist.github.com works reasonably well for me
it is a big conundrum if your core product, through its simplicity, is really great.

you hire all these product people, have all these investors, but any direction you can take the product actually makes it worse against its initial, great core use.

twitter as a protocol is on a level with smtp - a lucky strike, hitting a need, something for the ages. journalists, media, etc. love it. RSS on a whole new level.

but twitter as a product company? smtp is a not a profit model, you need to have real, closed products - hence the API limits, hence all this other bull. they have a narrow scope hit product and will kill it by making it broad. a little bit like google and search, put ads on it, done, the rest is noise driven by boredom and/or panic (we need to justify our existence!).

twitters design team is bigger than most startups - and for what? the whole slack team fits into the twitter reception area and covers how many platforms, apps, use cases by now?

you threw a lucky punch with a communication channel/protocol, but now you're stuck. aren't we happy that the smtp or unix guys as a whole didn't try the same. "monetize".
This watch looks really great except for the battery life. I hope that Motorola keeps working on it. I would love a longer-lasting successor. I'm worried that the poor reception due to the battery life might kill the whole concept.
Been working on this for about 6 months. The whole game was built using flash's compile for iOS.
People always forget that big companies do business with big companies so that they have someone big enough to sue if a major deal gets soured. (See BP trying to sue everyone related to the oil rig that started the Gulf spill to get money back)
my mistake, the 'news' is that it's being shipped on Fedora updates-testing repos

http://fedoraos.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/gnu-icecat-browser-...
> I point this out because I, in my short life, have seen people paint Islam with a brush that is really a reflection of the elements of their own society they are oblivious to. And this is not a comment about you in particular, but all people. It is trend. So I say, rhetorically, look in the mirror. Islam is foreign to you and these kinds of observations, sadly, are you seeing yourself in high contrast because of the foreigness in your face. Sorry.

Don't try to paint criticism of Islam as irrational, because that is what you seem to be attempting here. Claiming that criticism of Islam happens because it is "unfamiliar" or "foreign" avoids proper discussion. You have minced your words, sure, but you are still calling people ignorant. And calling people ignorant without backing up that claim is incredibly rude. It is the exact same justification that underlies people screaming "Islamophobia" at legitimate criticism.

Let me identify a number of problems in your argument. It is an unfair comparison. You are taking United States society as an example of western culture - but you'd have to be looking much harder to find problems of similar magnitude in many European countries or even some east Asian countries.

Secondly, you assume that people do not criticize the idiots in their own society. This is so incredibly false that it almost feels insulting.

Thirdly, you somehow equate the idiocy that happens within "Western" society to the idiocy that happens in "Islamic" society. The problem is that only very few idiots in Western society think that we should upturn society and live under early medieval law because their religion says so. This is much less of a fringe opinion in the "Islamic world" and even among Muslims in the Western world.

Lastly, because Western society also has its fair share of problems does not disallow anyone from identifying problems in other societies. Hypocrisy or even claimed biases, despite being bad intentions, do not make the arguments made bad arguments by themselves. You still have to show a hypocrite or a biased person to be wrong after you have made an ad hominem about their intentions (justified or not).

If a Westerner identifies problems within the "Islamic world" argue with him or her based on facts, and please do not be rude and attribute it to ignorance. If such criticism is truly ignorant, presenting facts should make enough of a difference. Imagine identifying problems in African societies and being called a racist for it.
The problem with those is no one I know uses them, and they're generally happy with Twitter. And I don't disagree with them.

app.net wanted more than I could afford to follow more than a few people, but the others look interesting. I'll give them a look.

edit: ello won't accept my email for the invitation request. Quitter looks like a clone of Twitter, and barely anyone in the public timeline speaks English. Not sure what to do with this.

edit 2: It looks like it took the request and sent me ten different confirmation emails while showing an error on the form. This doesn't make me feel good about the service.
Show HN: Numloop – addictive multiplayer number game
Whole Foods partners with Instacart for national delivery, pickup service
Cool, it's a good way to teach people about gravity. Most people don't know the basic idea of how falling and orbiting are connected. I once made a simple 'game' for this purpose:

https://www.learneroo.com/modules/2/nodes/42
I regularly switch between C#, Python/Django, some bash, and some straight up SQL. I'm fairly comfortable with them all - so the productivity is pretty much the same as switching between multiple projects in the same language.
I much prefer the 'pilot customer' myself where you create the product in close collaboration with the first customer. That way you get the benefits of instant validation, a chance to build a lasting relationship, immediate cashflow once some part of what you deliver is ready and you don't have to lie to anybody.
For a business, e.g. a taxi, you'll have to compare it with a driver salary for X years.
GNU Icecat will be available on Fedora updates-testing repositories for some days. That’s right time to test harshly this new web browser (really it’s not so new considering it’s a fork of Firefox) and leave a positive/negative karma or open a bug.

http://fedoraos.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/gnu-icecat-browser-...
You can see more information, select variations of the product ('red or green') and there should also be a link to the vendors product page as well.

The Buy button in the feed might confuse some users though, since it will likely open the information panel.
I don't as much as I used to, but for a stretch I was going between Ruby and Objective-C daily. It was a lot to keep up with, and I ended up with a lot of ObjC lines missing semicolons and Ruby strings prefixed with "@".

If I had to do it over again (alright, when), I'd try to segment the work better. I was writing a service in Ruby (Sinatra) and consuming it from ObjC. I should have planned better upfront so I wouldn't be hopping so frequently. Like, I don't know, spec out my API instead of just writing it.
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PHP, C#, VB.NET, Python, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, HTML, CSS. Switching between them doesn't slow me down.
Or, better yet, pump.io or identi.ca, federated services which can be bridged to Twitter.
Yeah, this article was pretty sad. I learned that I can "crack" my gmail with the password too. Pretty scary stuff.
icedove is the unbranded version of thunderbird; you probably meant iceweasel :)

I think Debian's reasons for forking Firefox & Thunderbird is more related to trademarks and licensing issues, while it seems IceCat is more focused on privacy concerns. All in all I'm sure Debian will consider IceCat though.
Site's down now, but the title sounds cool.
This is a quick commute time project I did because I had some data in Google Calendar and wanted to get at it but I could only export it as iCalendar (.ics).

I used Stripe for payments and found it gloriously simple compared to previously doing battle with PayPal.

All comments and feedback welcome, thanks.
Note that the linked article title is "Twitter Announces Its First Commerce Product — A 'Buy' Button On Mobile"

It doesn't mention any particular service. (I point this out because the HN submission title change may favor a particular payment service, whether intentionally or unintentionally.)
SICL – A fresh implementation of Common Lisp
Definitely not many tools that old :) You can find handsaws from the 1700's and get them working again, for example. Not that I do. I like to work wood, not tools (at least for now).
"Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software..."

It's entirely free software just like Mozilla's Firefox.
PHP, Javascript(does angularjs count?), Markup(html, css)
It’s Not Really Social Media, Maybe It’s Anti Social Media
It's interesting that they would not partner with Square somehow for this given @Jack...