skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if that's possible with the protocol.

I guess it would require associating a key with a kind of authentication API endpoint for that service, stored on the device, and forcing the service provider to maintain that authentication API url indefinitely (or would have to force regenerating 2-factor keys when the auth endpoint changes).

It would also require that your FIDO authentication device has separate internet access (either itself or by proximity/connection to a smartphone). That's unreliable, and one of the reasons I hate it when routine authentication tokens have to be sent from the service over data links. It also takes additional effort to pick up your phone, unlock it, get to a FIDO middleware app, select the site you're authenticating to, and then completing the authentication. I don't even know if that's possible... it would require a device (computer or smartphone) to be able to enumerate accounts stored on, for example, a FIDO hardware token. That "feature" could be bad. It would also have to violate the (typical?) FIDO protocol where a hardware token is responding to a specific authentication challenge. Sending authentication authorization blind, which would be required if it were sent out-of-band from a different device, breaks the continuous thread of login attempt, then challenge, then response, then mark the user logged in [and set a browser cookie]. The separate device authenticating out of band can't know that there was even a login attempt. It could be sending authentication tokens continuously, only restricted by service-side rate limits.

> requiring one device to complete the authentication is less secure than two independent devices

What security vulnerability is there with using the same internet-connected device to authenticate with the FIDO 2nd factor, that can't also be done by malware waiting until after authentication and hijacking or doing malicious things with the account then? Is your concern about malware on the computer compromising the hardware token? Malware on a smartphone could compromise a hardware token too, in that case.

I think there's a much bigger problem: FIDO implementations that don't have a separate hardware dongle; for example, using a Samsung S5 to log into some service, and using a FIDO-enabled app that stores credentials in normal private app storage space on the S5 itself. A secure computing enclave (like on Apple phones, does the S5 or any android have that) makes that marginally acceptable, but far from ideal.
iPhone 6: 138.1 x 67 x 6.9 mm (5.44 x 2.64 x 0.27 in)

Nexus 5: 137.9 x 69.2 x 8.6 mm (5.43 x 2.72 x 0.34 in)

So 63 cm^3 vs 82 cm^3 in volume, and 92.5 cm^2 vs 95.4 cm^2 in front area.
This is a repost. Just because you took it down ~6 hours ago when nobody voted it doesn't change the fact that its a repost.
The Anti-Privacy feature is probably a big deal to legitimizing the Play Store in the eyes of iOS devs who worry about Android's large piracy rates.

https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/antipir...
It's interesting that both the author's story and one other in this thread so far both mention their significant marijuana usage.

While the "marijuana causes schizophrenia" hype is statistically exaggerated (and the opposite causality may actually be the case), it's still a good reminder to perhaps avoid or severely restrict usage if you have a family history of the condition.
If you go look at all the Chinese Android consoles, you'll see they did the remote first, down to the integrated mic for voice search.

There are even a few of them that have a hockey-puck appearance.
Untrue, that's just the same human-exceptionalism with fresh set of paint from "we are uniquely awesome" to "we are uniquely terrible".

We're not that unique: Nonhuman species have wars, rape, pillage, lie, etc... and yes, that includes "raising" other creatures for food.

Certain ant species, in particular, manage aphid livestock. At various times, the aphids are raised, mutilated, drugged, and eaten.
Good luck finding a company that uses Win 8 so you can actually deploy a WinRT app.

And wait until they lose interest in WinRT too like they have done with every new technology quickly.
>> Too bad for you if you're abroad!

You should use a VPN anyway :)
additionally, no one can seem to detect the difference in battery life between 1080p and 1440p. Without having stronger data I have to lean towards the backlight taking up enough power that the difference in cpu/gpu work makes little to no difference.
The inverse of what you describe;) thoughtful personal customized with understanding both "me" and your client while respecting everyone's time. It is not magic it's time consuming work.
Is this going to be a paying service?

I'm not a professional developer, I often have design-related questions (e.g. what's the best approach to create an app which supports modules - as in code that changed models/views/controllers - a-la wordpress using Sinatra or Rails?).

Can this website help me connect with more experienced developers? Is it only for professionals?
Crazy. Vernor Vinge has an excellent short story called "Bookworm, Run!" [0] that, among other things, discusses the effects of cheap, clean, compact power being distributed around the world. In particular, it describes a wide-spread economic depression. Kind of interesting to think about, and definitely worth reading if you're into sci-fi.

[0]: http://books.google.com/books?id=tEMQpbiboH0C&pg=PA15&lpg=PA...
Does technology work with or against the climate?
So, I've been working in San Francisco about 3 years now, and anytime I need to defend the tech industry, I do so in a sort-of higher order philosophical manner. I think that digital applications and online media is a way for modern societies to reduce our dependency on physical commerce and raw materials...in one more step to make a difference in the climate debate. But does tech have a more specific responsibility to reduce carbon emissions? Are the companies we're starting moving towards that goal? Any thoughts?
I can't even read that page without Flash installed. That's a pretty bad sign already.
Intel's earnings report supports the concept that they're not making much money on Atom. Their mobile BU this last quarter managed to turn about $1M of net revenue ... at an operating loss of about $1.04B! [1]

Watching Intel Mobile strategically over the next year or two will be very interesting indeed.

[1] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/INTC/3545134377x0x786...
I was under the impression that DP's cables have all been backward compatible, and a 1.0 device could just plug into a 1.2 screen and work. Not the case?
Take a look at the Moto X (1st gen) as it has a 4.7" screen and receives very fast Android updates, unlike most other manufacturer's phones.
Or, it's just that battery life is not something you realize when you're in the shop. You see the device, the screen, how responsive it is, but until you've lived a few days with the device you don't really know what the battery life is.

So it's harder to market.
Thanks, will try to address those things.

Is there any specific element that makes it look spammy to you?
Soliciting upvotes is against the rules and is the definition of a voting ring (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). The idea of HN is that users vote for things they find intellectually interesting, not because they or someone they like are promoting something. If we didn't have such a rule, as well as software to enforce it, HN would be overrun by gaming of the voting system. Dozens of posts try to do so every day.

That said, we routinely override the ring detector when the post is good original work, which this obviously is. But we don't do that more than once per project. The trouble here is that from an HN front page point of view, these are all effectively the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460670 (the current post)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8308320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8259528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8238823

Of course, to someone immersed in hard work on a big project, those are all very different milestones, each worthy of a post. But from an HN point of view, this project has appeared on the front page a lot lately. At least two of those posts got significant attention within the last couple months. That's a lot—already more than pretty much anyone else gets. So I don't see how we can justify overriding the ring detector in the present case without being unfair to everyone else to whom these rules apply. (It goes without saying that none of the above is meant to impugn the quality of the book, which I don't doubt deserves the enthusiasm of its fans.)

Edit: We restored the post because mhartl explained in an email that he didn't know the rules, and I believe him. I'll leave the above comment in the hope that it makes things clearer for everybody, or at least somebody.
Unfortunately, you're not going to find any modern smartphone, even a "mini", as small as your 5s.

I personally find the 4.3-4.7" range compact enough, especially if the bezel is minimal.
While not very impressed with the administration/CDC's leadership in response to this crisis (insofar as public oommunication could be a lot better), I'm downright astonished at how badly THPH has dropped the ball, and how often.

Sending an Ebola-infected patient home, lying about why they did so (blaming a glitch in their IT system before coming clean), allegedly issuing staff with paper gowns, and having 76 different people treating their 'patient zero'...it's just one bad decision after another - some of which seem to be local to the hospital, some which are culturally ingrained in the medical profession (eg patients being treated by large numbers of medical staff seems to be the norm in the US).

For a variety of reasons the Obama administration has zero political capital to make any significant changes in the healthcare landscape in its remaining 2.25 years, but I hope that one or more serious contenders for the presidency in 2016 makes reform of the US medical industry central to their political agenda.

The market model for health care simply does not work because participants in a healthcare market are not voluntary actors (with a free choice of when to enter/exit the market), there is massive information asymmetry between actors which makes rating providers virtually impossible, and because there are noneconomic feedback mechanisms - eg irrational actors who choose not to get vaccinated can end up as epidemic vectors and completely upend the supply/demand equations for everyone else.
I have an HTC One M8, which is really tall because of the dual speakers. I also have large hands. That said, there are a few things I don't or can't use my phone for because the screen is too small, but there is almost nothing I can't do because the phone is too big. Yes, it's more comfortable in a pocket to have a smaller device, and it's better UX to be able to reach the top corner with your thumb, but I have started thinking that phablets are the future of smartphones, small tablets are going to disappear, and we'll end up with three categories of devices: 1) small screen feature phones (which are actually perfectly competent smartphones, just with reduced hardware specs) like the Moto G), 2) 5.5-6.5" high end smartphones/phablets, and 3) large tablets (9"+). There will be outliers, of course (Sony Z3 Compact anyone?), but it seems apparent that with apps & advertising being the primary revenue stream, the bigger the screen the more money to be made.

If I had a 6" phone I'd get rid of my 7" tablet. With a 5" phone I can't say that.
Just updated that too. Should be BY-SA 4.0 across the board now. Thanks!
It happens with my own WiFi access point at home, too.
Beware the BitLicense
> A couple of anecdotes about the last big tech bubble of 2000. At that time, there were 300+ optical networking companies in silicon valley. We had sold our network management software to about 150 of them. By 2003, only 2 were left standing. We survived because we had saved up some money for that eventuality, and we reinvented ourselves using those savings.

That's eerily similar to the situation today. A lot of startups today count other startups as their largest customer segment. It's not often talked about, but accelerators have greatly contributed to this trend.

The big question is how many of today's startup-dependent startups are saving their money and will be in a position to try to reinvent themselves when their customer ranks are decimated.
It is gone for good, because Jobs passed away and won't be reincarnated. So can we please give these "Steve is gone" comments on every Apple post on HN?
FYI, if you're using Twilio: https://twitter.com/twilio/status/522446663130963969

"If you are encountering trouble with inbound Twilio requests while mitigating the SSLv3 vuln, contact help@twilio.com for direct help."

(That is, they have to manually enable TLS on your account.)

Also, if you're using GET requests with ExactTarget, you'll run into the same thing, but I haven't heard back from them if / when they'll have that fixed.
Anecdata. I've heard plenty of people complain. What does it prove? You and I know different people. That is all.
MindTickle launches sales readiness software
Build a Rest API in minutes
Practice on existing problems. Check out https://www.hackerrank.com/ and https://code.google.com/codejam. I particularly like Google Code Jam because they provide an analysis on how to approach these kinds of algorithm exercises.
Thanks for the clear explanation. I somehow thought everything was in one "game world". The way you described it makes a lot more sense to me now.
It's called Avoid poor connections, and yes, it's indeed off by default. :(

I'm gonna give it a try, thanks.
Correction, it WAS Cleveland, OH.
Further: threats of violence used to silence anyone, are not anything like a valid argument form. They are the usual tool of a corrupt, authoritarian voice. The practice is to be condemned by all who support rational dialog.
It's the width that's what you feel when you hold it.
Why is reaching every corner of the phone such a big deal anyway? Speaking for myself, one of the biggest reasons I like large screens is that reading and viewing content is so much easier - I don't have to squint when I'm watching a video, or deal with awkward reflowing. Interface designers don't have to use the new real estate just because it's there, they can design touch areas that are well within reach, while using the new extra space for other visual elements.
My wife is very satisfied with the Galaxy S4 Mini. Suggest you check that one out, or import an S5 Mini.
This is mostly a selection bias. Given the wide variety of choices on the Android side, and the very obvious effect screen size has on using the phone, you have to be reasonably sure you want a big screen phone to actually bite the bullet. (Other factors are less clear cut and can be harder to decide between.) Since there is a good selection of screen sizes to choose from, you can often find something you want.

Contrast that with the two iPhone 6 people already replying to your post saying they think it is too big. As an Apple user, if you want a current year phone, you may have to go bigger than you want.

Android choice, for the win!

(BTW, I want! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love the Nexus 6.)
I don't understand how they can have almost all custom hardware, saying only generators and batteries come from an outside supplier, and yet have only 18 employees, which are mostly engineers. Someone has to build that stuff.

Maybe they think it doesn't count as 'outside supplier' if it is not off-the-shelf?
Probably the Nexus 5 will remain in production as the smaller alternative. It's going to run Android L so the user experience should be similar.
Ultimate Startup Decision Maker
The content so far has been fantastic, and the folks who have signed on include 50 cent, Carmelo Anthony, Le Ann Rimes, Miss Universe, former Olympians, etc. Feel free to check it out at http://www.tsu.co/invited
When talking about "what consumers want", the opinions of the people in your office really shouldn't indicate that much. Especially not if they just started using their big phones two weeks ago, and still need to get used to different usage patterns after using small iPhones for (I presume) a long time. Nobody disputes that larger phones are used differently than smaller phones (large phones have advantages and disadvantages), but "different" does not necessarily mean "worse". Although that's what people often think.
Quanta articles tend to be very good. They have an RSS feed: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta-archive/feed
mh, sorry for misleading you. not my intention. but i think my story is exactly about how to validate an idea on HN. I wrote about every step I did and couldn't have been more transparent about it. I learned quite a lot from similar articles on HN from other people... having said that, I'm happy to hear suggestions for a more fitting title, and have nothing against a mod changing it
I hope you meant "anti-piracy" ;)
At the time (and this was 2000, not today) TSMC had a 'boiler plate' for most FPGA families, which was the silicon and metal layers were already done, and all you needed to supply was the interconnection layer (which was generally all metal). The advantage was the single mask versus a full set. The downside was that it wasn't as compact as it could be, but this was essentially 'fpga -> asic' minimum cost, and at the time the FPGAs themselves were quite expensive chips. So if you had designed something you could do this to convert to an ASIC and then pop out a more cost effective version. That changed with the 90 nm node I believe (Xilinx had a bunch of 'Kiss your ASIC goodbye' type advertising at the time) where they had gotten the cost of the FPGA down below even this sort of inexpensive ASIC.

If you are all in, you just hand over your HDL code and test vectors and they crank it through on your process of choice, and poof out comes chips. At which point you are exactly a fabless semiconductor company :-).
Top quark still raising questions
My $.02 as someone involved in the space, it means:
* Docker isn't going away anytime soon * All the big IaaS and PaaS players will be re-positioning to incorporate * That the pin has been pulled on the future acquisition

They are becoming too big to be solo... and I'm thrilled for their team
The surgeon made a comment about roughly 3% of people having side effects, but I'll have to say that I'm skeptical. The way he said it made me think he was just repeating a line he'd heard years ago and never questioned. Certainly, he never knew how I ended up and made no effort to find out. His interest was in the surgery itself, not the eventual consequences of the lack of a gall bladder.

The gastroenterologist, on the other hand, seemed to imply that problems were a lot more common than 3%, but I was too busy telling him about my problems to even ask about statistics.

And then, after surgery, far more than 3% of others I've spoken to have had various problems, BUT it's still clearly a minority.

So, in all of these three "data sources" of mine, I'm guessing about tone of voice, getting an impression, and so on--not very reliable statistically, I'm afraid, but I'm trying to be both honest and somewhat detailed here in case it proves useful to someone.

I think your understanding is correct that 1) the removal (meaning process of extraction) has been essentially perfected, and 2) that it is considered safe for a (very?) high percentage of patients. It also seems to me that if you are going through the agony of gallstones, you'd do better to live without a gallbladder than to live with gallstones.

What I object to is the BBC putting an article out there that basically claims that science has proven that the gallbladder has no useful function and that the only risk in removing it is the risk of the actual cutting itself. Nonsense. Just being a "bladder for gall" was making it possible for me to work outside the home, go on business trips, vacations, etc.--a very useful function whose loss I have to compensate for with daily medication.
Didn't Google sell the Motorala cell phone business to Lenovo?
As it turns out, in practice, you usually want your data structures to be as strict as possible, but your control flow to be as lazy as possible. Further, some code just isn't well-suited to laziness -- so much so that there's work afoot to have a "strict-by-default" LANGUAGE pragma added in GHC 7.10.x[1].

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma
You might want to update your language that forbids commercial use.
I feel the same way; once you go big you don't go back!

However the $649 price tag (and possibly higher outside the U.S.) will deter a lot of people who otherwise would have almost automatically upgraded to the next Nexus. I'm such a person. The $349 Nexus 5 is suddenly very attractive, it's big enough and fast enough.

I wish Google would provide memory expansion but for $349 I'm willing to live without it. For $649 I'm not willing to live without microSD, however.
Thanks for your story...
I'm wondering if you felt or are people able to feel they start developing schizophrenia before they are unable to understand it? I have many bad symptoms, paranoia, have had few psychotic episodes (one was when i smoked mariujana a lot..) but i haven't gone out much in 5 years and haven't socialized much either but i cant remember many things I've done in past years.. I spend most of the time reading articles s, hacker news, do some programming i barely sleep..
At least 4 thousand words IMHO.
microsoft has been cornered for a long time, it has lost many ooportunities, glad it's not reacting.
Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?
It's ridiculous. I thought I remember someone saying the iPhone 1/3/4 size was designed to be perfect for the human hand and I agree. It's easier to make things larger, it's hard to make them small, how are we regressing?
Hell, if someone is hell bent on causing an incident, they don't even need a gun. I think that is something that gets lost in these discussions.
True, it is. Keen eye you have there.
Bitterly clung - quite amusing.

I have a 4S still around as my "iPod touch" and it does fine compared to my 5 in terms of usability for apps and music. Remembering back, I didn't somehow feel when I got the iPhone5 and later my Nexus5 that my 4S was "inadequate". I did feel that it weighed a lot compared the iPhone5 however, and was very glad for that.

When thinking about a smartphone, I care more about it's usability as a phone, then as a music/podcast player, and only finally as a media device. Am I out in left field here?
ZFSguru
Aha thanks for the explanation, that does make things clearer. Also a huge thanks to you for being at the forefront of technology. I consider energy research the single most important thing we can do for humanity, and I'm incredibly grateful to see real progress on fusion in my lifetime.
My experience working on an Android tablet: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/
Any other recommendations in the genre of "Hacker stories that start at the beginning"?
Turn Your Phone into a Cosmic Ray Detector
State Department's Top Drug Warrior Says Legalization Must Be Tolerated
How about /ncr ?
In Visual Studio 14 CTP4 you can still File -> New VB / C# Project -> Windows Forms in same as you could ten years ago, but with the next generation CLR in the new IDE.

It's still _supported_ and there are a ton of vendors still shipping components.
Abandoned/EOL/Discontinued is something like FoxPro or Apple's Rosetta emulator.
It's not even deprecated.