skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, I'd actually be fine with having a big phone if I were making calls. It's really easy to hold a large phone against your head with one hand. What's not so easy is to try to text someone with one hand or browse the web with one hand. I suppose browsing the web isn't actually very difficult but it's just much easier to drop the phone when it's hard to hold.
So, "investing".
> Enforcing ANY law, even a seatbelt law, restricts rights and causes some amount of harm.

In case of seatbelt laws in particular you have a huge amount of proof/data showing that seatbelts save lives both of the person wearing them and other people in the car[1] and there is also a massive amount of proof/data that [a lot of] people are too dumb to wear seatbelts on their own. Therefore an enforced law is required.

[1] if everyone in the car is buckled up and one person isn't and you go into a crash, well now you have a 70kilogram projectile flying around at huge speeds and massive forces. Depending on what happens they could easily kill everyone in the car. Bottom line is, never ride in a car with anyone who isn't wearing a seatbelt.
Parents May Be Liable for What Their Kids Post on Facebook, Court Rules
I know, it's just that wiring up the two is significantly easier for me right now than for the other languages. Well, it's mostly just a matter of not having had the time to build out a workflow in C# yet.
Screw the Stereotypes
I'm no finance expert, but looking at the graphs, hasn't it already recovered?

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANFLX

The story reported it was at 339. Looks like it's currently at 448.

Edit: Nevermind, didn't notice the "After Hours" price in tiny-text above the graph which shows similar numbers to those reported in the story.
Apple messed this up as well, not releasing a new 4" version of their device. So the people who want a new 4" have to get a year old device without all the new features like Apple pay?
Typing characters like [, ], /, \ with Serbian Latin keyboard requires using Alt or Shift key. I'm used to that (for about 2 years now), but many of my programmer friends still use US keyboard while programming and switch to Serbian layout for the other uses.

If you switch between programming and something else often, it can become a PITA to switch the layout all the time.
The announcement email for the initial release of SBCL suggests that build bootstrapping (related to reproducibility) was one of the main reasons for the fork from CMUCL: http://jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/sbcl-0.0.

Even if your build process doesn't involve bootstrapping the implementation language, reproducible builds seem like a difficult but desirable thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023035.
They can fix this problem. Decouple the hardware and software releases. There is nothing wrong with a new device that runs the older OS for a couple of months. Look at it this way:

- New device with a new OS that requires a few rapid updates in the weeks following release because the OS was rushed and is very buggy.
> If one of these updates go wrong, which has happened, the user is stuck with a broken device or they could downgrade to an already buggy and less stable OS as before.

- New device with the "old" but stable OS that continues to function well until the new, stable OS comes out.
> Even if the new OS's initial release is troublesome, a downgrade will take the user to the older but stable OS, so the device is still functional.

Which provides the better user experience? I vote for the second option, but Apple have opted for the first option without any clear long-term benefits.
I agree as well, though this does undercut the original author's point. It's fine to embrace livestock raising as a human technological development. It's wrong to think that the relationship she has with her sheep is anything remotely similar to natural.
Yosemite takes some getting used to. I had the same initial reaction - that the Linux desktops were comparable.

However after a few months of using it as my daily OS, I find it far cleaner and more productive than prior OSX versions.
1) There are lots of privately owned and foreign media companies operating in Nigeria and they are not censored so the issue of Government controlling the media doesn't arise.

2) Secondly, what does the Government gain by saying they have controlled Ebola if in fact they haven't? People will still be dying and the news will leak.

3) I don't think it's proper to use a blanket statement such as 'one of the most corrupt government...'. You are simply tarring everybody who works in Government as being corrupt
It's not a zero sum game. The only limiting factor is how much really great content can be created. When the market for premium streaming matures it's going to effectively be what we always wished cable was. Netflix can only lose if they fail to keep going.
Plus you have trivial access to charging in a car.
I don't know about that. What you are suggesting doesn't really fit the MO of Skunkworks where they work on advanced projects for years before revealing them. It's not like they announced stealth aircraft in the 90s just to drive up their stock price, they'd been working on it for nearly 4o years by that point and the planes were flying missions for decades.

Also someone on reddit made an interesting observation about job openings at Lockheed: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2jbgcf/lockheed_...
I don't think FIDO conflicts with what you want to do. It simply doesn't mandate it.

If you wanted a 2nd channel confirmation like that, I suppose you could set up the service to link a mobile device (there might even eventually be some FIDO app that accepts FIDO challenge push notifications in a way that's not service-specific). Then FIDO would be used exclusively on the second channel (parenthentical stages 2, 3, 4 in your example). The web interface in that kind of setup would have nothing to do with FIDO.

I don't understand the MITM malware threat model you're envisioning that can hijack an in-band public key crypto exchange, but that can't simply hijack the session on the browser after you've completed (validly) the out of band verification.

Some of the complexity of FIDO is there to enable reasonably secure single-channel authentication (as might be expected, there are trade-offs between easy SSO and subdomain/origin policy security). But I think FIDO would still be valuable if you wanted to do out of band confirmation without a browser. The hardware dongles are standardized (although the requirements to unlock a key can vary from a button press like on the NEO to, hypothetically, biometrics in advanced dongles). Mobile apps would also be standardized, much like TOTP is now, so you could use any FIDO app with any FIDO dongle (or no dongle, if an app offers less secure on-phone secret storage). Without a hardware standard, you either have to store secrets on the mobile device, or you run into the existing problem of needing N hardware dongles for N services.
You can click on "Settings" and then check the box for "Extended hours" to see the after-hours trading in the graph itself.
> Hey, I'm the random guy that asked you to answer on Quora. How I found you isn't very mysterious, I just asked all the folks listed here: http://18f.gsa.gov if I could easily identify a Quora profile.

And hopefully it's clear in my post that I'm really glad you did! :) It really is a good artifact -- which is exactly why I get so mad that it's not being preserved the way it should be.
Do you consider the G1 to be a 'nexus' ? It had a micro-sd slot.
The thing about that is you can phrase nearly anything in terms of freedom. Illegal cannabis = freedom to live in a place where your children aren't exposed to drugs. I don't agree, but for me the notion of freedom isn't very helpful.
From my point of view, that sounds like pretty weak reasoning. I'm all for anonymity and the freedom to change your mind but you make it sound like this is one of the defining features of using Quora (& a reason why people use it). I'm not really convinced by that - but I accept that I may be wrong.
And your comment is enough to make people not take you seriously. You sound like a stuck-up jerk rather than a thoughtful person.

Perhaps you could explain exactly what it is about Java's type system that makes it not worth even discussing. That would be a comment that was actually useful. (And don't say something like "because Java doesn't have higher-kinded types". We know that it doesn't. What about that lack makes it not even worth discussing?)
I guess what I'm getting at is that, especially at this stage of the game, I expect errors like this. Doctors and nurses are going to make mistakes, no matter what sort of organization they're in, humans and their ailments are complicated. That's why malpractice is almost always a civil, not criminal matter. The problem here is that with Ebola, the consequences of making what would often be a minor and correctable mistake are uniquely grave.

For that matter, an early Ebola diagnosis currently hinges on the patient's self-reported travel and Ebola exposure history. These screening criteria will completely miss 2nd stage (? what's the term for this) infections when the patient doesn't know he had been exposed to someone who'd been to West Africa, or some place else it will hit in due course. Until the patient gets much worse and a lot more infective, with the same grave consequences. If we get enough primary Ebola infections in the US this appears to be certain to happen.

When was the last time our medical system had to deal with something like this? Pre-antibiotic, I would think. Nothing comes to mind, only partial analogues.

I've got a pretty good layman's background in medicine from nurses and doctors close to me when I was growing up, and serious study of biology and chemistry, plus paying above average attention to the big events like this. I.e. I can read the Merck Manual and other secondary and primary sources etc. without frequent recourse to a medical dictionary. I think we have reasons to be worried, as outlined in my postings and the obvious extrapolations.
Apple to expand iPhone availiability to 36 more countries
Google does not want people taking over permissions and privacy. This is demonstrated by the deliberate design of the phone state permission. Any app should be able to query "is the user on a voice call", but Google wrapped that up in a "get my device serial, as well as phone numbers I call or call me".

Download a flashlight app, then call your cancer or fertility clinic? Awesome, now some random developer has that information.
Ask HN: Bash vi readline mode, incremental search in line
Hi all,

I've been playing around with Vi mode in Bash, see:

http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.pdf

What I really want to do is put the cursor on a substring within my current line. So for example, if I have a long command like:

cat words | grep '100.00' | grep '111' | sort[]

where [] is the cursor position. I want to move the cursor to the 1 in '100.00'. My options are:

1. Press the back arrow 30 times.
2. Using Vi readline mode, press ESC then 'b' 11 times.
3. Using Vi readline mode, press ESC, then 'F1' four times (the F1 commands moves backward to the next occurrence of 1).

Within Vi I could search for the 100 by doing /100 but to my surprise this causes Bash to search the history, not the current line. How can I get an incremental search of the current line?
I wasn't aware of the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. Thanks -- I'm not keen on Samsung's products, but I do like to see the space being explored.

I guess I unintentionally excluded the Surface Pro 3 since it's so much more than just a tablet.
On my Galaxy Nexus you can swipe down on the entire top edge of the phone to bring down notifications. On the home screen you can actually swipe down anywhere to bring it down.
The thing is, with something like Gnome, the 'out of box experience' varies widely based on distro.
I used to be really bullish on Netflix, but then Amazon started giving Amazon Prime members streaming access to a huge collection of free TV and movies. The offerings aren't exactly the same and each platform does have its own exclusive shows, so a huge TV fan might want both. But for a lot of people, one is enough and if that one is Amazon Prime then you get free shipping of all your Amazon deliveries as a bonus! For those of us who had already become Prime members for the shipping, Netflix has even less of a hope of competing.

Due to its size, Amazon can also expect to extract an better selection of streaming titles from media companies.

Netflix should be terrified.
We'll get in touch to discuss further for sure!

We do have measures in place to protect ourselves and we appreciate your comments. There's always more that we can do.

It's also worth noting that an employer and employee have given all of the normal KYC information and have connected bank accounts so while the BTC wallet is "anonymous" on the network, we can link it to a specific person. The danger is near the same level as someone getting the money via ACH and immediately withdrawing in cash. (Many banks immediately mark the deposit as not-pending).

I'm not saying that there's not risk. Just that the risks are fairly similar even though the network is different.

Also I think what Tony was saying about debits only company side, is that we're only debiting company accounts which does decrease the fraud level vs a situation where we allowed an a personal account to be debited and money sent somewhere.
>This meant: 1. it was in development for 2 years and thus probably stabler to begin with

No. Shorter release cycles don't imply loss of quality. I claim the opposite in fact. Rolling releases are much better for quality. You're releasing smaller more focused features and battle-testing them in the field.

>There is no stabilization phase.

There are always stabilization phases. Not every major release will be an overhaul. Most will be incremental updates.
What OS/browser pair are you using?
You are coming awfully close to completely destroying any distinction between artificial and natural. Raising animals for food is not a natural human instinct and there have been plenty of human societies that hunt rather than raise livestock. Call it for what it is: a (very old) technology.
> What are some ideas about what Quora's long-term business model might end up being?

There's some good discussion on that on, how about that, Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-could-Quoras-long-term-business-p...
Hey guys! We saw that the other day when we checked out your platform. I was referring more to how the settings are updated. It just felt like it was all up to the employer. Where everything is controlled by employee only on Incoin. Personal preference I guess.

Also great little tidbit of information!

We don't have taxes quite yet, but we do the same with only handling Bitcoin/ACH deposits post tax.

Thanks for dropping in and the support.
A rational could be perfectly legitimate for deciding to not give someone information, but horribly inappropriate for forcing someone else to not give out information.
Does this endorsement also apply to people who don't already know Ruby?
Torrents provide a superior service than Netflix. I regularly download shows even when they are on Netflix. Better control over sound, subtitles without Netflix's schizophrenic language restrictions, ability to fix audio/video (move the video frame, brightness, volume), etc.
DockerHub-based Windows Package Manager - coming soon to an OS near you
Sufferers of schizophrenia have also been shown to have a very strong preference for smoking tobacco, so the question still remains unanswered whether people with schizophrenic tendency merely have that similar preference for marijuana, and whether that use might also trigger or exacerbate the pre-existing mechanisms for schizophrenia in their brains.

Someone else mentioned bipolar disorder, and it's interesting to note that schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar disorders share a similar relationship to dopamine, and so the primary method of action of many anti-psychotic medications is to block dopamine reuptake.

Also interesting is that things like alcohol withdrawal, amphetamines, and marijuana deplete dopamine while tobacco, heroin, and cocaine stimulate its production.
Yeah, and when they first announced it, they were predicting a working reactor in four years ("by 2017"): http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promise...

A year and a half later, they're apparently no closer to that goal.
There's a pruning threshold in some universal-substrate compression/optimization.

Until a macro-phenomenon repeats enough to reach that threshold, lossy chaos is used to minimize state. (The sim remains lower-resolution.) Once an arrangement starts repeating enough to exceed that threshold, extra regularity is allocated to it, potentially also assisting self-reinforcement (reproduction). That is, cycles (and attention?) is focused on the interesting parts.

Compare in speculative fiction: the terrestrial complexity-limit reached in Greg Bear's Blood Music, or the 'zones of thought' in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep et al. (And if my hunch is right, perhaps also the 'ragtime' in Leonard Richardson's Constellation Games.)
Thank you for sharing this! Not my field at all [1], but reading through your result, I cannot help but think of L1-regularization in ensemble optimization/learning algorithms; see for instance Section 6.3 in [2]. Perhaps it's too leaky of a heuristic, but it definitely struck a chord.

[1] http://xkcd.com/793/

[2] http://face-rec.org/algorithms/Boosting-Ensemble/8574x0tm63n...
It happened to me at DEFCON. I was drinking a lot, and I ate an entire bag of marijuana popcorn, and probably some other stuff. I blacked out, but the stuff people told me I was doing was pretty weird. The stuff I remember about the crazy ward I woke up in involves sobbing, screaming, and being absolutely certain that the doctors were getting ready to remove my organs and sell them on the black market. I tried to escape but I couldn't figure out where the exit was. In the morning when I was finally sane again, I had huge cuts and bruises all over and bloody knuckles. I was told later I tried to punch a very pretty medic in the casino my friends were fireman-carrying me through, so I can't imagine what I might have done to whomever brought me to the hospital.

To this day i've never felt anything as extremely horrifying, and I also now know what it feels like to resign yourself to death. Incidentally, for months afterward, heavy drinking resulted in word salad. Once I drank too much at a club and tried to walk out of south beach, because aliens had taken over the island. There might have been other substances involved but I don't remember.

I've never done a study of my own experiments with pot, but generally speaking if I took it by itself, I was fine, with the usually documented side-effects. Other times i've tried marijuana (typically with alcohol) i've ended up like others have mentioned: misinterpreting behavior or intentions of others in potentially bad ways. Luckily by that point I was aware that my mind would simply make shit up when I was on drugs, so I would just hide myself until the effects wore off.

Don't do drugs, kids.
I think it is probably a business decision.
Sadly, even though interface designers don't have to use the new real-estate, they still do. Even Google is guilty of this - Google Maps has interface controls at the top and bottom of the screen. This is aggravated by the fact that Maps is one of those apps people tend to use while walking (or driving), specifically when two-handed use is most inconvenient (and just plain unsafe).Folks don't care as much if Facebook or Mail takes two hands because you're far more likely to be sitting down (or at least standing still) operating them.
In a hundred years, I had better have my damned brain implant. Forget the phones.
Devils advocate to number 2 says to ask the US CDC the same question.
I love Internet logic. "She can always just change identities online." The flip side of anonymity everywhere: nobody is actually entitled to their identity anymore. How utopian.

The idea that I'm supposed to find more credible those people comfortably hurling innuendo from anonymous hidey-holes, rather than a person who actually signs their name to what they write. I don't even know how to end the sentence.
How a Startup Founded by a Nobel Laureate Nearly Went Bust
This certainly doesn't follow.

The bar to creating and distributing a paid app outside the store is far higher than creating an app for the store, so it selects for serious businesses like omni, or panic. Many of the apps in the store aren't even made by full time developers.

I'm not defending the store - as I said I agree with the identified problems. But I am asserting that the solutions are not the trivial fixes people pretend them to be.
As a tech-savvy person I'm not so certain about that. For example I see processors simultaneously get faster and more efficient year after year.

Do we have any hard data on this? What is the power draw of a 720p display vs a 1080p or 1440p display? A cursory google search doesn't bring up much.
This process sounds way too effective to be executed by a US agency.
These are thought-provoking.

1) Journals must pursue interoperability with the other online tools that are shaping the techne of scholarly practice.
(Yes, they're completely out of sync.)

2) Journals have opportunity to reframe their role in the academy as curators of the noise of the web.
(Excellent. See it as an opportunity. And they can deliver a lot of value this way.)

3) Electronic journals will have the opportunity to expand their curatorial mandate to include different forms of publication.
(The author mentions "a twenty-minute audio segment, a selection of maps shared on SlideShare, or a video segment of a conference paper shared on YouTube" as examples. I agree that, "properly curated," these can advance the state of a discipline just as much as the current article form.)

4) Against exclusive publication.
5) Broadening the criteria for participation.
6) The reconsideration of timelines.
I'm sure they're worried, but Netflix has a big lead on Amazon in the original content stakes. As a filmmaker I would much rather sign a deal with them than with Amazon, even for the same nominal dollar amount - Netflix has built an awful lot of industry good will over the last 10 years by treating producers fairly.
I apologize for the confusion, thanks for pointing out exactly what caused that. We'll get better over time!
Out of curiosity, any other countries provide this kind of data as part of a government program?
>Netflix has strong fundamentals.

It has a P/E of over 130, and just reported slower than expected subscriber growth. Of what specific fundamentals do you speak?
What's the source for the music? Youtube?
How to Write Highly Scalable and Maintainable JavaScript: Coupling
It's completely insane. The custom 4.4 Android ROM I use on a beaten up old Galaxy S3 is more stable than iOS 8 on my iPad.

If you told me a month ago that Apple's flagship OS would be less stable than a heavily patched AOSP build [0] maintained by a few part-time indie ROM devs I would have laughed in your face.

[0] International GS3 never got an official Android 4.4 release. So it runs with a lot of 4.3 code, including drivers and radios, forward ported to 4.4, all held together with parts of other Samsung device code releases.
An Important Indicator in the Fight Against Ebola
IA's spider respects META tags in the HTML right? Quora should prevent archiving of a page using the tags until maybe a couple months after the last person has responded, then allow the page to be archived by removing any META tags related to archiving.

AFAIK, noarchive still allows indexing of the page, which means the robot should realize the page is there and archive it during its next run.