skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know anything about Nir Eyal, you know this will be awesome.

Details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hooked-a-workshop-on-building-h...
Darpa program “grows” lasers directly on silicon-based microchips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number
Color me impressed.

This is AMAZING.

You have no idea how easier you just made my job!
You're right, synchronization means making two directory trees identical. Nothing about that definition refers to or relies on the concept of a canonical source and a target to be wiped. That's cloning, which is a special case of synchronization.
> In some cases it is only yes if you are white.

The reason that this can be true and decidedly not wrong is because of white privilege[0].

0: http://racismschool.tumblr.com/post/55307010922/what-is-whit...
1) RC4 is broken.

2) TLS 1.1 is nearly 4 years out of date.

The fact that the site only uses RC4 shows that the site's manager understands the BEAST attack (as BEAST could attask TLS1.1 that weren't RC4). Yet simply doesn't care about the CRIME attack, or that RC4 is completely cryptographically defunct.

If you transfer a static document over RC4 changing keys constantly, you can actually average which bits are high and low, and get the clear text.
Ha! I also uses the screenshot feature as a ruler.
> And all bananas are cloned from the same variety, one reason this virus is such a concern.

Did you read the article? One of the MAIN POINTS of this article was that this oft-repeated 'fact' is untrue. That, in fact, only a small portion of bananas are Cavendish grown for export, and that the non-cavendish (not cloned) bananas are also vulnerable to this fungus (not virus).
Two girls, one cup. That hurts the stomach muscles...

Other than that it isn't :)
Kobo and Kindle both sync promotional copies (typically a few sample chapters) of books you might be interested in.
And Tomatoes... Though fortunately that is finally being rectified.
Then it is time to learn about Ctrl+L
> I've never met or heard of anyone (except in sensationalist and hence untrustworthy news reports) who was addicted to video games.

Is that because video game addiction would remove those peoe from the group of people you come into contact with?

I hadn't met anyone with a severe OCD until I started visiting MH hospitals, and then I met a bunch.
A long discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293610
It is in discussions to buy the studio "Mojang AB", not just the game Minecraft.
That's not the law in California. It is perfectly legal to be within an intersection when the light turns red. It's only illegal to enter an intersection while the light is red.

Source 1: California Driver Handbook

http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/traff_lgts_sgns.htm

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Solid Yellow – A yellow signal light means "CAUTION." The red signal is about to appear. When you see the yellow light, stop if you can do so safely. If you cannot stop safely, cross the intersection cautiously.

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The "stop if you can do so safely" wording is safety advice, and sound advice too. But it's not a statement of law.

Source 2: California Vehicle Code

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&gr...

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21452. (a) A driver facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is, by that signal, warned that the related green movement is ending or that a red indication will be shown immediately thereafter.

21453. (a) A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain stopped until an indication to proceed is shown, except as provided in subdivision (b).

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Note that the yellow light is described only as a warning, with no mention of it being illegal to enter the intersection while the light is yellow. And there is no mention of it being illegal to be inside the intersection when the light turns red, only that you can't enter on a red light.

I can't speak for other states, but I suspect that the laws in many of them are similar.
Confound it Correlation is (usually) not causation but why not?
Or F6. I've doubled your productivity!
> I'm black. I don't think its like that at all.

I'd like to remind everyone this is one data point from someone who is black. I'm sure trustfundbaby didn't mean for what they said to be extrapolated to every black person in the world.
Security holes such as? Please elaborate.
They also bought Rare in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Ltd.
There was recently a kpop (iirc) video featuring all black women... maybe they are next!
Requiem for a Golden Age
YC may soon bring its startup school to India
Naruto Shippuden Episode 376
Status quo, real food, is significantly better. On so many levels.
For everyone who uses Cmd-Shift-4, try Cmd-Cntrl-Shift-4 to accomplish the same thing without risking a 31px by 2px file cluttering your desktop when you don't click Esc on time.
(I'm one of your users) This was a lot of fun, and it's ruined now.

Seriously, why don't you let people do this?
The also bought Rare (I loved their games on Nintendo 64).
And they have had Microsoft Game Studios which published PC games for a long time.

The also bought Digital Anvil, which made Wing Commander, Privateer, and Freelancer, the latter almost completely under Microsoft control.
From what I gather you are leaving the api_tokens for the services in local memory. This means that the user or anyone else that can get there hands on the token can act on the service providers api masquerading as your application.
But its simple to measure! Take your blood pressure; eat a lot of salty stuff; take your blood pressure.

This is how I learned that caffeine raises my blood pressure about 20 pts. One can of coke. Sigh. And every doctor I have says "oh that's not true, you'd have to drink like 35 cups of coffee". And I'd like to tell them "The more you talk, the less I respect your opinion". Off topic, but what is it about experts that make them spout off their book knowledge exactly when they're faced with contradicting evidence?
I believe F# runs on Mono, thus mac and linux.
> But its always seen as a stretch to me, to use ancient history to explain the current generation.

Calling it ancient history is disingenuous. History does repeat itself, and as any historian will tell you "If you don't know history, you are a doomed to repeat it".

> African-American folks uneducated and over-incarcerated? Blame slavery.

You are reducing it into something much less believable than:

"Blame the current people in power (white) for African-American folks having a harder time because there are still racist effects, cultural ideologies, subconscious denigration, uncaught biases, and traditions passed down from their great-grandparents who were slave owners."
I guess Google could never do such a thing if they wanted...

How does that make it any better? I don't care about a pissing match between people that have emotional attachments to their devices that pretend to be criticism of the products. I care about the products and services.
My apartment has one, but it's too loud to run it overnight. The vent itself doesn't seem like a big deal though. It falls shut when the fan isn't in use.
Apple apparently understands the watch market. So yes, fashion.
It has louvers so when the fan is off it is not visible.

We had on when I was a kid. It is much cheaper than box fans in every window and more aesthetic.
Some things I'd like to see are a single unified stdlib, more use of sequence types and have the toolchain streamlined (death to Makefiles).
I didn't vote the comment either way, but it isn't all that relevant. Grocery store bananas are a monoculture because seedless fruit is more desirable, which makes breeding difficult, and also because 'the generic consumer' desires consistency, which makes it difficult to try to market new varieties. There isn't some big agenda behind it.

I think it is mostly government supported now, but in the past, it's been the case that banana companies have supported research into creating new varieties, which is sort of the opposite of the claimed corporate agenda of making it impossible to maintain heirloom varieties.
Or maybe they are just angry at you for taking away their fun toy.

Previous generations had moral panics about novels and then comic books. Parents were warned to not let their kids become "book-worms" (aka reading addicts).
> Neither does Google in most places. And Apple, Google, Microsoft etc all rely on third party data providers for most of their map data. Surely they would be confirming the data.

Apple Maps has been out for two full years now, and it hasn't improved at all where I live, and the benchmark for demonstrating improvement is quite literally "find almost anything at all".

Admittedly, I'm in Iceland, but Reykjavik is a world capital, and a city with a bit over 200,000 people, so it's not like we're trading pelts over here either. And I don't think anyone understands how shockingly bad their maps are here. I've done quite a bit of testing with them, and if you search for a city in Iceland, you have pretty good odds of finding something (maybe 80% accuracy). If you search for a point of interest, it drops to maybe 40%. Everything else is 0%. Literally 0%. There's one fucking highway in the country, and if you look for directions between the two largest cities, it says "No results found". Way more than half of the searches I've tested just pop up that message in a UIAlertView, and it's exactly 100% of the searches for directions. I work at a university with 4000 students, and we're not on the map at all. It points you to a dozen high schools in the city instead.

Open street maps supposedly provides their data, but OSM is quite good here. Somehow Apple turns correct data into "No results found", and that's been true since launch day.
And yet that's exactly how most people are managing their computers, especially with the devops movement. They standardize on a single OS, a single set of software, and make the entire process identical and repeatable over the entire cluster. Managing servers is just impractical otherwise.
Wikimedia's Individual Engagement Grants
The problem is that, as a security solution, having your own mail server and being careful about who you send emails to doesn't scale and it's not feasible in the general case. If you're worried about Google/NSA/spies as the main attackers, I'm not sure hosting your email is the best solution. Yes, it works if you never send email to anyone with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. But that will prevent most normal uses of email. And if you do send email to regular people, then someone, somewhere, will read your emails; that's what they are for after all. And then the privacy of your email is as good as the security measures your recipient has in place.

Same with 2FA: it's a security measure to make it difficult for an attacker to gain access to your account, and one all of us should use, but it's not there to prevent them from reading your emails.

Maybe the overall solution is "don't use email -- self-hosted or otherwise -- for anything sensitive, ever." This will probably work, but is not feasible for most of us.
Ok, then that it is a valid comparison. Did they even change it so that is part of the Library? I vaguely remember a feature like this (still using my kobo, just not updating regularly) , but it was separated.
" I hate being forced to use iTunes to update and sync."

In two years, I've never used iTunes to update and sync - I'm not sure what I'm missing, but apparently one can use an iPhone without iTunes.
brand erosion
Golden Delicious can also get mealy, but quality varies a lot. As a kid, they were my favourite apple, but as I got older, they got softer and more mealy. Or maybe they were always mealy I only started noticing it then.

I don't buy them anymore. When I buy apples (which is rarely), I usually get either Jonagold (cheap and good enough), or Gala or Braeburn when I want something better.
I'm worried about the implications on the labor market. Here are some quick numbers from the BLS about US employment:
There are 3.664 million motor vehicle operators with an annual mean income of $35,000.

That includes 158,000 transit bus drivers, 500,000 school bus drivers, 170,000 taxi drivers and chauffeurs, 1.6 million tractor-trailer drivers, 777,000 delivery truck drivers and 400,000 driver/sales workers (restaurant take out, newspaper delivery, etc)

By comparison, there are 3.7 million working in all computer and mathematical occupations.

[http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#53-0000]
Show HN: Gem to Submit URLs to Wayback Machine
This title is more misleading than the article. Notice the question in the headline? That almost always means No.
Why does this need a cookie to function?
I block cookies by default and I get annoyed every time some site requires a cookie for something mundane like displaying the time or playing a game that doesn't even preserve state across browser sessions (like 2048)

edit: 2048 does indeed restore the game, but it should still work without a cookie.
I absolutely agree. With Linux on a Thinkpad I never have to worry about my tools. They just work, upgrade without issue and don't get in my way. Suspend works, and the hardware is solid and upgradeable. I really can't fault the setup. They're not as shiny as Macs, but give me a Thinkpad any day.
The whole attraction of Coinbase for me is the convenience. I want to use it like Chipknip; for large/important stuff I'll stick to my local wallet and whichever exchange has the best rate.

Mass adoption is important. I see Coinbase as a big driver of that.
Gambling addiction seems to be fairly common or recognized. It does not seem that it would be too far of a logical step for the same to happen with a mobile device. You can play on the thing for hours, in fact many games encourage you to play fairly constantly to advance in progress, and you get small but consistent rewards for doing so (which are ever harder to obtain). The analogy doesn't seem that far off to me.

There are a certain subset of people who can easily throw themselves at things (games, hobbies, etc.) to the point where it negatively affects the rest of their life. I'm not so much a fan of calling all of them addictions, but I can see how some people feel that way.
My kindle only does that if I request a sample chapter. It's a nifty feature, but I need to explicitly choose that.
Having two kids under 10, my observations are identical to yours. We have experimented with strict limits to screentime and less strict. Each time we have tried the less strict approach the behaviour of our kids has changed for the worse. At one point we noticed the only thing our son would do was wait for the daily screentime - he was disinterested in all other activities - at which point we reduced the allowed time considerably. We are now at 1 hour per day, max, and it seems to be ok. Small children seem to be drawn to the games like moths to a flame. The problem is not that they would be damaged by the gaming itself. Rather the problem is how it affects their psychology when not playing on an ipad.
> two very reproducible tresholds (freezing and boiling points of water)

Reproducible if you happen to be near sea level.
> Contrary to popular belief, dictionaries do not list word definitions, they list what people think words mean.

I have no idea what you think the definition of a word is, besides what people think it means. Are you imagining a platonic Word floating in the ether somewhere that we see in a mirror, dimly? Is there some official "This Is What Words Mean" tome somewhere that all true definitions flow from? Was there some secret international treaty wherein all word definitions were all agreed upon?
As a connoisseur of Minnesotan apples, I've always thought the SweeTango was a perfect iteration on the HoneyCrisp. Both are good though.
>It's 2014, I thought the sillyness about being addicted to video games and computer was over. Apparently not.

It's never going to be over, as long as young children have access to technology.

HN seems to preach a perverse gospel about this subject: that you should never limit a child's technology access, because not only will nothing bad come out of, but in fact, it will make them more capable. It will turn them into developers and engineers!

I'm guessing the reason HN thinks this way is because they themselves got into technology in the first place through such avenues: dicking around as a kid, sometimes with the help of their parents, sometimes contrary to their wishes. If THEY had been restricted, they wouldn't be where they are today.

But this reason suffers from selection bias. While people like yourself (unless I'm misreading you. In which case, substitute the stereotypical HN user for yourself) may have used videogames and computer access as a spring board for your career, I'm willing to wager that you are minority among videogame and computer-saavy youth.* You are a bigger majority, however, on HN, and in the tech world in general, so such reasoning becomes canon without being subject to enough criticism. Plenty of technologists were gamers, but not all gamers become technologists. It's just that the former dominate here.

*I don't have any statistics on hand to support this. But since the videogame industry is as big (and growing) as it is, where are the rising mountains of developers and engineers that supposedly spring from it? Why aren't girls, who spend comparable time with technology, catching the wave as well?

My little brother has been addicted to Minecraft for the past 2 years. I keep waiting for him to "discover" something else as a result of it. To get into programming, or design, or architecture, or something more constructive. Hell, even building things in Minecraft would be more productive than what he does now: go on PvP servers and throw snowballs at people--for 12 hours a day, if my parents let him. He's tried programming lessons a few times, but he usually gives up, because learning a new skill is harder than playing (even difficult) games. He lacks the trait of perseverance. And he's not going to learn it by playing videogames.
Thank you for the correction. I'm in NJ and remember my instructor going out of his way to mention that it was illegal to be in the intersection when red. However upon investigation I can't actually find anything to back this up now. It would appear I may have been operating under false information all these years.
I can quite clearly tell you omited Linux from that list, for example.
Also OneNote is one of those things where MS benefits from cross-platformism. Games are not.
Classloading mystery solved
> Siri talks to homekit compatible apps/devices. So in that scenario it's up to nest to support homekit

And Nest is owned by Google, so I'm not sure how likely that is.
Do you see Apple as being better for privacy? Sure, Google has my Gmail, but only because I choose to give it to them. I could use anything else on my Android phone.

Do you use Firefox, duckduckgo, XPrivacy etc.? Because Apple, in reality, only gives you one choice (even when I was using Opera, Safari would butt in all of the time - I haven't read a word about iOS8 so correct me if I'm wrong), and you're screwed if it doesn't work.
More data gets you way more than that, but it's not just the data anyway. Google has the personnel who are able to make use of that data. This isn't the kind of stuff you can easily outsource, you need a superb research team. (Source: I'm a professor in machine learning). As far as anyone knows, Apple doesn't have one. They do fantastic product research, and it shows, but they're at least a decade behind the knowledge contained inside of Google, and increasingly, Facebook, Baidu, and a few others. And worse than that, the gap is widening, not shrinking.
It's been very smooth for us. We use UIImage+PDF to load and cache assets. The only issue is that you can't use PDFs directly in Xibs or Storyboards — you'll have to load them in code.

I'd recommend creating all your assets on non-retina sized artboards in Illustrator. We wrote a simple script to export all artboards to separate PDFs, using the name of the artboard as the file name.
> Uhmm, did you not notice that HUGE countdown timer? That pretty much covers entire world.

It want's there when I visited. :-(

> And, no, whole world doesn't use GMT (talk to Indians and Chinese about what time they use). Also, entire US doesn't use PDT time. You know, some people live on east coast.

But they must most certainly know their GMT offset, since it's the worldwide reference.
Programming Language Influence Network
The timer was not there when I posted this (my complaint was, in part, that there wasn't one).
It's well known that caffeine causes a rise in blood pressure. That's one reason we have 300-400mg daily maximum level limit. I find this quite disturbing that your doctors didn't know this.

There's a lot of sugar in there too, which is also linked to high blood pressure.
It's more a texture than a taste.
Good physiotherapists in Canada?
I am looking for a good physiotherapist in Canada?
Can it cool down your place really fast? For example in my house, when it's 80 degrees inside and 65 outside, I can open all the windows, and it gets down to 75 overnight :-(
A more useful question would have been "does your child react similarly to any other toys?"

I've come to think the principle of charity is a useful one to apply in arguments, especially online. It's possible you're correct – but that would likely require that the original poster has utterly ignored the evidence of their senses to focus on electronic devices exclusively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Worse than that; I've found Skype on Android will actually kill the wifi connection. It's awful.
> For a while a couple of years back I was an Apple geek (the fruit, not the computer).

You can make this clear by not capitalizing "apple" in this case.
Absent further evidence, that seems like a safe conclusion given the caveat that it hasn't actually been tested.
Looks great. It's such a pain to write separate authentication / profile retrieval logic for each service.
Oh. The joke is on me then.
Hey doc-to-be:
Am I correct that there is a very basic cellular bio reason that salt causes vasoconstriction? No one is questioning this?
There are at least two holes in your reasoning.

1) Dangerous driving is not always an active choice

2) Even if (1) was true, it is incorrect to assert that the entirety of the danger to cyclists on the road is dangerous drivers

It may be that you were aware that this was the case and your phrasing was simply an attempt (consciously or unconsciously) at being emotive, but it made your statement incorrect to be so definitive.
So stability and reliability do relate to cost-effectiveness. Every time a shuttle or other vehicle fails catastrophically, the program is delayed and costs increase.

Similarly, if SpaceX and SNC can't deliver, you end up with no capability.

A Falcon Heavy has as much lift as a Delta IV Heavy. I wonder how much the cost would be to modify the CST system for a Falcon Heavy.
Can't confirm. Whenever I use salt, my blood pressure goes up fairly quick. That's why I use Ansible instead.
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