skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they have a Zero Knowledge policy or anything close to it, though? It doesn't matter if they don't make money from it, if they still collect all the data.

I don't know how a service that's meant to cache data is supposed to be "zero knowledge", but hopefully they can do something about that - until it's too late and authorities already have a 1,000 requests lined up for their data.
My thought was that the comment rate factor would allow for old stories to be bumped back to the top. Highlighting new comments would allow to continue old threads. I clarified my comment above in that regard.
There is. In fact there's a whole suite of products out there serving it.

At the base level you have DIY solutions (small LCD's, e-ink etc) which are loads of fun to build and can work quite nicely for some scenarios.

Another option that a lot of buildings are starting to use is iOS / Android apps along with a device in a wall mount (https://eventboard.io/ et al). Cheap (ish), easily replaceable and upgradeable hardware and apps that are quite affordable.

From here you then move into more dedicated devices which also provide some deeper integration with the environment. Traditionally this has something that has been handled by the AV world with products such as AMX's (http://amx.com/) RMS or Crestron's (http://www.crestron.com/) RoomView, however there's a bunch of other really exciting players around to like Condeco (http://www.condecosoftware.com/) which merit some consideration. Regardless of who's providing it, its at this level the tech starts to getting a little more exciting. Generally you begin to tie in with sensors (PIR, seat pressure, signal presence on laptop input etc) inside the room to provide analytics on occupancy, auto cancel meetings when there's a no show, integrate with NFC for handling access control or user auth etc. If you coming from the AV side the rest of the room can also start to interact with that booking information to (for example, parsing meeting info for video / teleconference details etc).
>> Please do not allow your data model designs to be artificially constrained by the requirements of the past.

I'm currently dealing with a large piece of software where many of the high profile bugs stem from data duplication errors. This isn't even using a DBMS it's happening in classes (which a very similar to tables BTW). I gave up DB programming as my primary job about 15 years ago, but the lessons of 3NF are applicable way beyond the DBMSs of the world. It's still quite relevant advise.
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Enabled this, but when visiting website over https have error. "You attempted to reach YYYY, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as ssl2000.cloudflare.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of YYYY."
Looks like things are still in progress and does not work out of the box. Will see what will be in a day or couple.
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We are in the process of issuing 2 million certs. Your cert hasn't been issued yet so you are hitting a sort of 'default cert'. Once that error goes away you are set.
I can see where he's coming from. Any differences in the data caused by encryption or compression of the final video files don't even come into play here unless the raw video data they are produced from is bit-for-bit identical from one episode to the next, say in a precise lossless format like CCIR 601. Maybe this is true at the production company but I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't. It would actually be somewhat interesting to know what the typical workflow at the production company is for gluing the title sequence together with the rest of the show. Your blog post doesn't do enough to clarify these issues.
The most intriguing possibility here, IMO, is the ability to show other people how much those free services really learn about them, and how much they sell.
Ask HN: Review my startup/website: http://colate.it
Hi Guys and Girls

I'm fairly new to web development and have just pushed a new personal project of mine online (with the hope that it will help get me a job!).

In short, the site gathers news links from various news outlets (i know there are probably plenty that do something similar) including less well-known sites in the West like Al Jazeera and China CCTV News to help give a more well rounded view (if the person wants). There is then an Opinions section where signed in users can write their opinion on a news story (the story doesn't have to be from my site). All users can read the opinions regardless of whether they're a signed in user.

You're feedback would be greatly appreciated but please don't be too harsh! I'm still learning and i know there's plenty more than can/should be done especially if i get some traffic.

Thanks so much
How does this compare to http://calepin.co/ ?
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> I had 6 in January and it is just 2 now.

I'm fairly certain they changed the ranking algorithm for comments around April/May. My average used to be 10 (it's 4.5 now), and this meant that I could comment on a thread and it would essentially always be the top comment, even if it only had 1 point and the comments below had more.

This created a positive feedback loop - because the top comments get read more, they also get voted up more (as long as they're not blatant trolls/spam). So once you had an average of about 6 or more, it was very easy to maintain and rack up points.

They seem to have changed the algorithm them - I remember when they did it, because I noticed the effects almost immediately (not just on my own account, but on others' accounts, like tptacek and tokenadult).

Overall, this is probably a change for the better, since it mitigates the "rich get richer" effect of commenting frequently while still rewarding people who consistently contribute valuable comments.
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I am curious if it is related to just iPhone6 models or if anyone is noticing it on the older models. I have an iPhone5s and have had no problems so far.
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Side note: I talked to an Apple developer at WWDC and was told that HealthKit data never leaves the device (isn't synced with iCloud). Hence the lack of the iPad app. Given that, if the data is lost, its probably gone forever.
There's a fascinating story with respect to this.

Alexandre Grothendieck is a famous mathematician known for his incredibly abstract methodologies. He once compared his technique to mathematics to the norm by relating standard mathematical methods as using a sledgehammer to open a nut. To him, his method was to slowly raise the water level and soak the nut until its shell becomes soft and he can open it with just a little pressure from his hand.

However, his highly abstract nature got him in trouble at least once.

One time in discussion a colleague of Grothendieck asked him to consider the argument for a concrete example of prime number. "You mean an actual number?" replied Grothendieck. "Alright, well then take 57".

And now 57 is known as the Grothendieck Prime.
As I've said on Twitter, I'm excited to see this happen. Not because I think this will help against the NSA, FBI, et al. who are armed with NSLs and FISA letters, but because I believe (hope?) it will set a trend towards making security free for defenders and prohibitively expensive for attackers.
"I think by far the most twisted notion in the article is the idea that little changed between 1913 and 1967. I'm pretty sure technological change during that period had more impact on the average Westerner's life than any other 54 year time span in history. It takes a very peculiar world view to completely ignore the invention of television or to consider a biplane as being basically equivalent to a jumbo jet."

That's not what it says at all. He states that the 60s economy is still dominated by technologies that pre-date 1913. He even specifically cites the economically dominant technologies, instead of the vague assertion, "I'm pretty sure ...". He particularly notes aeroplanes and computers as being invented during that period and can be expected to have enormous economic impact. Which they did, but hadn't by that point. The same with television.

Looking at the rest of your comment, I kind of think you should delete and reread the article. Every criticism is incorrect or unsupported - like the MIT crack. He's clearly talking about the "thin client" approach to providing computing - he was wrong, but it was not an unreasonable supposition to make.
I think you might get something out of reading 'Happiness' by Matthieu Ricard.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007K9W0KM/

It's a nice rational introduction to Buddhist thought on happiness, which I thought might be relevant because of their acknowledgement of 'Dukkha', i.e. 'suffering'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha
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Will users be able to download their private keys for the provisioned cert?

If not, would CloudFlare ever consider provisioning free SSL certs for non-CloudFlare customers (i.e. let us uploade our crt file and you have your CAs sign it)? We desperately need an alternative to StartCom, since many devs don't trust them[1]. I've suggested AOL in another thread[2], but so far I can't find anyone who works there to talk to.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm very happy for this release and thanks to CloudFlare for stepping up.

[1] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087#c13

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374685
For me at least, it's not even the questionable morality of pulling dirty tricks on your biggest competitor. It's the fact that Uber feels they have to do these dirty deeds to get ahead in the game. If you feel you can't compete on a level playing field and you have to do such things to keep up, it tells me that you don't have a clue how to really do business in the first place.

If I can't trust Uber to build a better product instead of sabotaging their competitor, I'll go with their competitor by default.
Perhaps the best thing of the article is his willingness to do an AMA on Reddit. :-) Fingers crossed!
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Sarcasm? Would you mind to go into detail?
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> 3) Only tourists and transplants believe using an app is in any way better than simply hailing a cab (with exception for storms, bad times, and bad locations)

Spoken like someone who never leaves Manhattan. ;-)
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I tallied locations ~9 months ago [1]. Of the top 100 posters, I could determine the location of 81. Those broke down as 54 US, 27 non-US. Mostly from English-speaking countries: US/Canada/UK/Australia together accounted for 69/81 (85%).

[1] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html
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Nope, they were crazy for the gold version.
Your tinfoil's got a hole in it there buddy! But also https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency

Could probs do with being a bit closer to realtime but it's more transparent than most hosts/ISPs
Npm. It's meant for Node-js code, but you can use it to make sure modules are installed in your source directory for a website. Aside from npm, there are public CDNs available ( http://www.jsdelivr.com/ and https://cdnjs.com/ ).
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If i choose to ignore SSL warning I get ERROR 522. But I guess its better now to sit and relax while CF catches up with all this migration.
Either that or people with higher average karma per comment are posting their comments earlier so they get more upvotes. Or HN's comment sorting algorithm is privileging users with higher total karma, so those users have their comments appear above other comments that have the same number of upvotes. Or users with better name recognition are more likely to get upvoted.
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I believe the CEO said in their last post here that certificate pinning and custom certificates (even EV ones) would be supported by their new plans. (Can't remember if you have to pay $$$, though)

I imagine it will take a short amount of time after this change to realize that.
For the "Stealing the Password File" attack what they're actually getting is a list of users, not the hashed passwords. Hashed passwords are stored in /etc/shadow in all recent (at least early 90s) systems.

This is still bad since they now will have a list of possible usernames on the system but not nearly as bad as getting access to the hashed passwords as well.
Curious as to what makes you believe #3. Transplant here, but many life-long friends are NYC born and bred, and nearly all of them choose Uber over cabs quite often. Maybe the locals you know have just become numb to how shitty cabs here are ("it is what it is") and are fine with it?
As other said, it was a matter at bridging fast hardware with a lisp (racket) and its composable objects.
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It's not "websites" that record what you type, but Chrome itself that sends every character you type into the address bar back to Google.
Personally I'd love to have this as a part of my normal Google Apps. It would be a neat way to create tutorials and documentation for my teammates.
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Speaking of... I saw this on the Chromebook page "Chromebooks start at just $249 with a $30 management fee per device."

Does Apple or other vendors charge a similar "management fee" to this? Unless I'm missing something, the fees will surpass the per-unit pricing before the first year.
You do realize they are providing a service that hosts and serves that personal info for their users right?
It's ironic in the Alanis Morissette way.

However, it was more apt against the parent's comment. It did not say why NoSQL users are problematic, or even wrong. It just flat out lambasts anyone who walks away from the orthodoxy of ACID-SQL with an epithet. It truly was an incompetent comment.

I'm using ArangoDB on my project. My reason is that honestly what I'm doing really is document-y. I could use MySQL or PostGRE, but I'm opting for something different for the sake something different. I do want to have integrity, though. Arango has integrity at the document level as well as distributed transactions. It doesn't enforce references though. I'm fine with that.

What annoys me is when Internet commentator attack something new without at least a cursory show of reasoning.
What's the motivation behind posting these? Is there a way to say "these are the kinds of posts that are good for the community" without tacking a number on it?
Absolutely right. If you SSH-ed into my personal computer and started typing into a file, everyone would laugh if you claimed that what was in the file was your data. You're not doing anything different when you type into Facebook. If it quacks like a duck its a duck. Its data that sits on their systems, that you have no legal or contractual protection over. Its not your data, its their data. You're just the one generating it.

Folks desperately want to deny the physical nature of cloud services, and pretend that its the same as storing something on your hard drive at home. They want to believe that the software abstraction that shows local and cloud documents together is real. But you can't will away reality.
A guy on the linked forum reports this on a 5S after upgrading to iOS 8.0.2. Sounds like an iOS 8.0.2 issue.
My university has GApps, and also it has a longstanding Moodle platform. Moodle is awful. It's much better than it used to be, but it's still clunky and ugly. If this is Google's solution, I'd like to see it take off. It'd be easy to integrate and switch from Moodle.
This looks suspiciously similar to a map of urbanization. I would be more interested in seeing this for metropolitan areas instead of for states.
To the person making the decision on whether to continue to exist. Trees may or may not be making such a decision, same with zebras, I neither know nor care.

However, I do make that decision every day. So do you, whether you recognise it or not. Existence is not imposed on me, I have both the ability to know I exist and the means to change that.
Things like Windows Server (required for SCCM, I believe), Jamf Casper, and FileWave all cost money.
What's the reason we have to look at prehistoric versions of Scala?

That's like criticizing Java for the lack of Generics by picking Java 1.4 as a reference.

It looks like the recent version upgrades for finagle and twitter-util were pretty smooth, so what's the point of picking old data over new?
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Honestly, Lyft has been providing much more affordable pricing ever since Uber's surge pricing went into effect.
I've kept track of my karma and it only ever drops for downvotes.
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Lost all my walking data on my iPhone 5s. Not that I care much but since you asked...
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Annoyingly enough I've been in a situation where a needed a proxy to get around the corporate firewall blocking (constructive) blog posts. But Google proxy services didn't work (tried translate). I presume URL was filtered based on words like blog. Is there a way to obfuscate the URL using these services that anyone knows of?
It was light hearted, comes with a smiley now :)
I recall reading here on HN recently something about CloudFlare having their own internal CA infrastructure. I would expect them to allow customers to start generating certificates (signed by their internal CA) that they can deploy on the origin server.
I've had this happen a few times (iPhone 6, iOS8.0.2), but I've found that powering off my phone and restarting seems to restore the data. None of it is truly gone for me, it remains logged and listed, but it's almost like it cannot access the database of data that's stored and it gets a bit wonky but I'm not certain on that. Hopefully Apple will have it fixed for the next version or the app will be dead in the water.
They did not measured whether it is possible to prepare for SAT. They measured whether commercial courses boost your score. The comparison is not between student who does no additional work for SAT and the one who study a lot. The comparison is between student enrolled paying coach and the one who is not paying special SAT coach. The latter one can still work a lot with help of books and websites.

It does not mean you can not prepare for SAT, it just means that money spent on commercial coach are probably wasted. It says nowhere that if you skip all preparation altogether, you will get good result.

Quote: "Most studies have focused on estimating the effect of one specific type of test preparation, known as “coaching.” In this analysis, students Students have been coached if they have enrolled in a commercial preparation course not offered by their school but designed specifically for the SAT or ACT. The distinction made here is whether a test-taker has received systematic instruction over a short period of time. Preparation with books, videos and computers is excluded from the coaching definition because while the instruction may be systematic, it has no time constraint. Preparation with a tutor is excluded because while it may have a time constraint, it is difficult to tell if the instruction has been systematic."

Article conclusion focus on coached students only.

Note the time constraint in the above quote. People who take those tests seriously not only take the short course, but probably focused on the test long before the course started. At least, that is how well performing students I knew years ago behaved. The course itself might have boost their score only a little, but their preparation consisted of much more then just one course. After all, they are adults about to enter college - they are expected to be able to learn alone.
For the record: MySQL has fulltext search already for MYISAM tables and will have fulltext for InnoDB in 5.6.
Yeah, it is that easy. You don't even have to make up your own ad, you can just watch to see if other people's ads that are targeted to homosexuals are showing up on that computer.
Do you know if the data is included in iCloud backups or iTunes backups?
I encountered him in a talk at Siggraph 2001. He is a charismatic guy and used a lot of creative examples of interface design. In particular he showed http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammassalik_wooden_maps

It is sad that Maya is now an Autodesk product: Autodesk is such a square, white bread, corporate outfit. The interface to their flagship AutoCAD is ludicrously clunky and antique, while something like Revit (another acquisition) is clever but really dumbed-down and limited in scope. Oh well.
I think orbifol is right: we've learned that site searches are mostly useless.

But also: when navigating to a page, people are usually using the mouse. Switching between mouse and keyboard is somehow costly. While there are options (choosing from a combo box), users will use it and only switch to keyboard if there's no other way.
It isn't that hard to use in my opinion, but it is only a library. So you need to implement many things to turn it into a server which Solr and Elasticsearch have already done.
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Totally true, but on the other hand, the first mile will be encrypted for a lot more connections:

"Yesterday, there were about 2 million sites active on the Internet that supported encrypted connections. By the end of the day today, we'll have doubled that."

That's kind of spectacular.

I think the first mile is one of the key places where data gets stolen. OF course the final millimeters-on the server- is another.
>> "Given that the data was available later the same day, I'm guessing that the problem is related to services that are not as available as they should, probably due scale after all the devices using iOS 8."

All data is stored on the device, there is no cloud component so this is unlikely.
Only a publicly traded company would be subject to Dodge v. Ford.

Even then, making money and doing the right thing are rarely a strict dichotomy.

Trying to sue start ups out of existence is not the only way to ensure the profitability of an incumbent company. Lawsuits always have the risk of losing and flushing all of those legal costs down the toilet, or potentially inviting countersuits. A company like Fab for instance could've just as easily decided to buy the new competitor or get more aggressive on price or marketing to snuff them out.
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The step data is surprisingly fine grained. I will get 5-10 data points per minute, just walking around the house. So while it seems like a basic thing, it's probably the most data by volume that HealthKit is tracking.