skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "You can say what you want about too much debt, overpriced real estate, manufacturing, etc..., but they'll figure that out."

If this logic were applied to an investment decision it would be considered foolish regardless of the eventual result. You don't go looking for facts to support your economic thesis; those are easy to find. You look for the objections to that thesis and think very critically about them, trying to figure out how (not just if) the strengths of the country or company can compensate for those weaknesses. Blithely dismissing some of the most significant objections to your thesis is the most damning signal of not having thought it through.
What he means is, its rare to raise without having to do massive PR campaigns first to get enough 'buzz' to attract attention.

Of course in reality, its mostly pre-established relationships that would raise this money, not buzz.
Adding WebDriver support to Peridot-PHP via scopes
I wonder how they're going to handle blocking ambient light from showing up behind their pixels?
I still don't get why javascript developers put so much effort into a library and don't provide tests for it.
What port should I use?
Part of the benefit of backpack seems to be that you can compile modules separately from their dependencies and if this is correct it should go some way to addressing the issue you raise.
It would be nice if it was possible to select / copy the message in the box. Sometimes you get a message that you want to copy / paste to someone (email, chat, etc) and it's annoying to have to type it out again.
Please have "Esc" key cancel\close the dialog box. It is the inherent behavior please do not break it.
This is great if you plan on having lots of servers all over the place (ie, a CDN or high growth company). Otherwise, you should probably stick to db1, db2, staging, prod, etc.
Kevin Systrom: From Stanford to Startup
Like responding to downvotes by whining about religious oppression?
Debt to whom, though? Remember that all debt is someone else's asset. This is where the wealth of China's rich individuals is going: back into the system as loans, bonds and investment to keep the machine going.
This was right before they launched their iPhone app and got acquired.
Ask HN: What bank is popular among YC companies?
We see Silicon Valley Bank or Square 1 recommended. We're in east bay so these are not very convenient from location point of view. Recommendations?
Re: your second point, on the original Sweet Alert page that this is based on it has this parameter:

allowOutsideClick - If set to true, the user can dismiss the modal by clicking outside it.
Thanks for the suggestion, that looks like a cool library. A future goal is to be able to provide higher resolution images to fully show off the high DPI displays.
What you're describing is so inordinately complicated that it really could only be used for specific targeting. Meanwhile it's so redundant it would be a waste of everyone's time.

In this case, we're talking about a MTM on SMS and Internet. When a token is sent via SMS, we intercept that and use it to initialize an account (this is totally superfluous since we already have the MTM on the Internet, but for the sake of this argument, let's go with it).

Now when a user logs in, we know our generated password, so we need to eschew user input and supplant it with the password we generated by intercepting the 2FA, then return the response as expected.

You can sort of understand what I'm saying here. If you have MTM on the network side, you don't need to bother on the SMS side, it provides no advantage. Meanwhile, if you have MTM solely on the SMS side, there's no way to do this without alerting a user, because they will be unable to log in anyway.
Ubuntu also issues stable release updates (particularly to the latest LTS version) to fix regressions, major bugs, or occasionally update minor release versions. Some applications known to have good release procedures are also allowed updates (eg Firefox).
It's open to abuse (hiding content until it's scrolled to, usually) but the actual visual idea of it is fine, as far as I'm concerned. Just don't try to communicate the main purpose of your page with it.
I had the same issue, using Firefox 33 on Windows 8.1. It looks like switching to Chrome fixed the demo. Would be nice to have some sort of notice that certain browsers aren't supported (if that's the case).

Also, fonts are rendering poorly in Firefox and Chrome [0]. Bumping the font-weight up to at least 400 makes the text much more legible.

[0]: http://imgur.com/2wVXvUr
Serverless WebRTC using QR codes
An important and tragic reminder of the importance of contraception as a technology there.
Hi Michael.

Thanks for taking a look! And sorry our site is having some problems on Firefox. Maybe use Chrome for now until we fix it up.

This service we put together would allow anybody to run iOS simulators in the browser for a whole variety of reasons. For example, a developer can easily send builds to clients/colleagues or even embed the demo in a website or blog post.

Cheers,
Weiyin
Looking through their most recently filed patents, it looks like their main innovation is a HMD device that uses a combination of a high speed digital zone plate, a masking device, and a traditional imaging device.

For each eye, there is an imaging device (720p/1080p resolution for example) that displays an image. In front of the imaging devices there are high speed mask device (LCD?) that blocks off portions of the image that are not at the current focal depth. The focal depth cycles quickly between 12 different values and easily driven by the z-buffer values from the renders. The light not blocked by the mask is partially collimated and guided towards the eye via optics and then a high resolution high speed digital zone plate is used to refocus the light at different depth levels using diffraction. The mask and zone plate update together at 12X (360Hz-720Hz) the rate of the image device (30-60Hz). The result is that pixels that should be at different depths are actually focused near that depth and the eye blends the 12 partial frames together to form one image that has a range of depth in it.

I expect they are using off the shelf parts for the imaging device (and maybe mask LCD) but manufacturing their own digital zone plates since they need super high resolution and high speed for those (at least 360hz) but only on-off values not color or grayscale. This is probably where a bit of their money is going.

If it works, you could get high resolution images per eye, and also see 12 buckets of depth so your eye would refocus to see things close up versus far away. This could potentially create a pretty good impression of something existing close to you, compared to existing AR where all objects are focused at a single fixed depth and there is a conflict between accommodation and stereopis cues.

Of course this is one of the patents filed, it could be just an idea they decided to file on, not what they are actually building.
This is really cool.

But. (Is there always a but?) it's very unapproachable. It has no welcome mat.

"Let's dive in" is normally an appreciated attitude, but here it makes it sound like we are coming in in the middle, and have missed the introduction. So, what is this thing? The page doesn't really say. There's an about page, but most people are too lazy to click. They want to see the value explained immediately, clearly, succinctly, on the landing page... or they're gone.

If they do click the About page, the writing is stilted, formal. But they don't, in most cases, I suspect.

When there are clickable images, it's not clear they are clickable. The text indicates you should click, but there are these huge arrows right there, and the obvious interpretation of the text is that you're supposed to click the arrows to see the image do its animation. Nope.

CPU is very jargonish as well. A better title would be something like "how computers work."

Still, nice design, beautifully made, good chunking of stuff into bite-sized pieces.
Aesthetics are just as much a matter of taste as they are engineering. A lot of code frankly lends itself to such verbosity/elegance/simplicity/density/readability/(...) because of cultural:personal [preference, pedantry, experience, understanding, knowledge base].

Rather, I'm not so quick to have an opinion on aesthetics, because I think philosophically, beauty defines a balance between simplicity and engineering. Every part expresses itself perfectly.

There are ideals that work across the majority, and there are ideals that are appreciated by a niche audience. There is the Ideal, which is never achievable, and there is the expression of the Ideal, which always exists. Engineering or design, I don't see a difference. Different content, same concept.
Some comments are pointing out how awkward this might be,

> I don't see a point in plugging my entire keychain (the physical keychain, with my car keys) into my laptop every time I want to log in

> I'm not sure about having to plug it in every time

I'll share my experience. I use two of these on a laptop and desktop and I have never unplugged them; there's no reason to. They sit very flush in the USB slot. I suppose if I ever needed the extra USB slot for something else I might unplug it.
What happens when pmarca (Marc Andreessen) mentions your name?
At our Portland Ruby meetup we used to have "Ruby Hangman." You might enjoy working through some of the old puzzles:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/pdxruby/hangman

It is a bit like Perl Golf, although the desired number of characters is known beforehand.
Rough translation of the Preface on page 4 by the person who scanned the book. The preface is written (mostly) in Malayalam [1], the language of the state of Kerala [2] in India:

I bought this book in 1986 for 50 Rupees [3]. Since it was a great book, I used to read it often, and many of my friends used to borrow it. Somebody borrowed it in 2007, and I never got it back. I searched the entire world for a copy, new or old, cheap or expensive .... I couldn't find one. Then a friend told me that if there is a copy anywhere in the world then he would buy it for me, no matter the price. He heard that it was available with Abe(?) Books in the U.S for $86, and ordered a copy. I waited for it to arrive ...... Then I got the regret message "Your consignment has been missed during transit, and we have no additional copy. Your payment will be redeemed however." I kept up my search. Then I got to know that a person in Koyilandy [4] had a copy, and I took a laptop and a scanner and journeyed from one end of Kerala to the other to reach there. It took 7 hours to scan the the entire book. I converted the entire corpus into text and edited it to make it identical to the original text, and added all the line drawings using CorelDraw to get it to its current form.

If you ever get your hands on this, then keep in mind that so much effort went into its making. Shouldn't I have done at least this much in return for the kindness which my good friend showed me, in offering to buy the book for me even at an exorbitant price? I offer this completed scan first to him, like a gift of the Magi [5]. I look back and think, was it worth it? Yes, absolutely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

[3] A significant sum in those days. A good meal could be had for 5 Rupees or less in those days.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyilandy

[5] He doesn't say "gift of the Magi" in so many words, but "a gift of a piece of a commonly found plant in return for a piece of broken slate pencil", but I guess the idea is somewhat similar.
I would have thought it obvious: it looks like a lateral thinking puzzle to some people, and it's painfully common to have the null case be a part of the solution (in a sort of perverted aha-gotcha! attempt).

After all, part of the linked article's point was how it struck him as potentially broken; if the problem seems broken, then many will heuristically start attacking the problem itself rather than the math. And once the problem's no longer trusted to be stated as exact and correct, well, a simple pedantic jump in meaning is a pretty small step. (I'll concede it's possible you've never come across a broken 'clever' math word problem before, but having found enough to be wary myself - both in school and college - I'm rarely surprised at people leaping for the lateral thinking solution.)
That reminds me of the story of how Walt built Disneyland.

When he went around asking others what they thought, every single person said he was nuts and it would never work. That made him extremely excited - and more determined than ever - because he knew he was on the path of doing something truly different.
LOL "No need for ... client software..." ... Uses ... built-in support directly into the browser".

So when did a browser stop being "client software" ?

Never let the truth get in the way of a good advertising claim eh?
A while back I went back and watched a bunch of commodore 64 commercials from my childhood on Youtube and was surprised to see that they almost all included girls. If that was an outlier, that's too bad.
I'm just asking, because I have no idea how this works. I figured an assailant could more easily make use of an NFC signal than they could see the code on the front of the device in the short time it takes you to memorize or copy/paste the code.
Looks like a very clean interfaces, though many HNers likely know how to build IP routes and per-host tables.

Is manual configuration an option for providers not supported?

What protocols are supported? OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP?
My wife is still using my iPad 1, although rather lightly. Upgrading is finally being forced on us as it's obsolete and has become rather crash-prone.
Well, no. Those standards exist for a reason. For the overwhelming majority ofJVM projects, they are a wise set of choices.

Having seen his work, and his tendency to reinvent the wheel (his original iteration of the Minecraft website used flat files for storage, which is really weird when you're writing Java and H2 is right there), I don't think he's a terribly good Java programmer. Gets stuff done, but doesn't work Smart, to use a Spolskyism. He happened to be right in this case. And that's cool, but throwing away best practices so contemptuously because they aren't applicable in corner cases is at best foolish.
Stripe: What the Open Source Grant was like
Agreed. Public interest is a very difficult to define - Snowden vs Celebrate gossip etc. I was being looking for a distraction and was doing a bit of a thought experiment :)
Yes, you just need to update your nameservers from your domain registrar to use Cloudflare's, instead of Digital Ocean.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/sections/200038206-H...
Agree. I've heard good stuff about them. Didn't mean to lump them in also. Just the overall balance.
Yes, but at the potential expense of grade-bearing classes, and because grades seem to be important, grade-bearing classes tend to take a higher priority than interesting non-grade bearing ones.

At university, I audited several modules, and there were many that I wanted to attend, but couldn't, either due to timetabling clashes with the classes I was supposed to attend, or because the process for attending classes in disciplines entirely unrelated to my subject was prohibitive.

When the workload expected of me grew too great, I reduced my participation or dropped out of my audited classes.

With the removal of grades (and compulsory modules) entirely, I might have dropped some of my graded modules in favour of others.
Yeah, it looks like more reasonably priced U2F/FIDO tokens are coming soon, probably to the Play Store.

Behind the scenes, the auth layer in Chrome is handled by a sneaky extension. There's a huge listing of product IDs in the manifest, all likely to launch very soon:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

(And some explicit Play Store references: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/c6b104c... )
Mathematics in the Age of the Turing Machine (2013)
The Lyme Wars (2013)
Windows 7 is worse. It is like find what you are looking for on Mt. Everest while looking through a tiny 6 inch by 3 inch view port.
“Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer”
4 million seems like such an odd limit for a system. I'm not sure what number that were using to store the counter for the call limit.
This seems to working for my. "Esc" closes all the examples. Mac OSX Yosemite - Chrome 38
That was quite impressive. Hadn't seen this tech before. I wonder how well the eye/brain can interpolate a discrete number of focal planes?
I am going to go put the number for the local police department in my cell phone. I can always call them directly.
It has a lot of features that aren't needed in modern application development. I just need indexible columns. Arrays were added later so you have to include a module, I mean maybe it's just a feeling but it all feels dated.

More importantly it isn't elastic. Constructing a heavy load or large database server cluster is difficult. More complicated than it should be. If there is on offer an elastic solution with simple arrays built in, I'm all over it right now.

Blob support in postgresql is seen as something you shouldn't do as a best practice. If it's a data store then what I want is to be able to use it to store data easily without a fuss. Postgresql is the king right now and I use it but I'm very open to looking at alternatives.
Yes, and that's exactly OP's point — it's a narrow market.
I was more struck that it misrepresented what biomimetics is.

There are interesting biomimetic things in display tech derived from butterly wings, which the wikipedia page conveniently mentions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics#Display_technology
Compare that mentality to trying to get a big new subsystem into the kernel.

Torvalds is likely to require you to hammer out all the details and debugging in a separate tree. This even more so if it is replacing a tested, stable and maintained subsystem.

As such, it is the Systemd proponents that should be doing a fork. And run it alongside stable for a time to demonstrate that it works. Then people can move over at their own pace.
Can it be so simple to create the future?
Creating the future has never been that simple.

Pendilly lets you send texts, pictures and videos which become available to the recipient at a time you choose. Before that time, the recipient will simply receive a notification that someone anonymously sent them a message with a reason why it was sent. How the content should be viewed, the name of the sender, and the type of content, are displayed when the message is received.

Pendilly dares to do things out of the ordinary and believes sharing differently can add more value to messages, pictures and videos.
We aim at empowering people to dare to create the future. We do that by using time and tags to send messages into the future with more emotions and more fun.

Time is a precious and powerful emotional medium which connects us on a deeper level.

Pendilly is a French based startup which dares day in day out to build a new temporal experience in messaging and remains laser-focused on delivering ever-increasing emotional value to its community.

Team Pendilly

www.pendilly.com
Were we contacted by aliens in 1977?
Summary: if the target domain is hosted by Godaddy, use their domain buying service because they might have contact information that goes beyond what WHOIS shows.
Thanks muraiki and michaelochurch. This is a similar frustration I faced. The moocs often seem to teach you just enough that is similar to formula substitution, everything starts to crumble when you depart towards data that's significantly different. So I have begun from the bottom starting with MIT's Linear Algebra and Harvard's Statistics 110. Your comments have validated my journey though this is going to be a long one.
Design isn't about us liking those tastes or not. One part is about ergonomy of course, and the other is about looking up-to-date. Just watching the colors of a website/app, you could tell which year it was made and whether it's well maintained or not.

One could ask "Why do we define a fashion, given this fashion costs heaps to everyone in the industry and isn't necessarily nice or ergonomic". Remind that for every free land, humans will populate it, define rules and laws and regulations and fashions and richness, and whether it is good or not it can only go forward, with more laws, regulations, fashions and richness.

And taste only tells how close you are with society and how distinct you are from uniformity. http://xkcd.com/915/ So you must both stick to the trend and stay peculiar. The trend is defined by very few "haute couture" designers in the industry and we're only adapting it to our clients.
Designmodo was first http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
Read the About page on Flat UI Colors.
The ground's surface wouldn't matter - skateboards are generally limited to (or at least work best on) flat, smooth surfaces.
I hold the opposite view for one reason: The iPhone itself.

With 85% of new phones running Android [1] I think it's only a matter of time before the 'app gap' tilts in Android's favor. At that point it will be game over for iPhone.

On a more personal note I have found my $420 Nexus 5 to be on par with an $869 iPhone 6 - and that can't be good for Apple's long-term financial health.

[1] http://bgr.com/2014/07/31/android-vs-ios-vs-windows-phone-vs...
Instant Docker running on ARM cloud servers
40 million, according to the article at the moment.

Edit: Thinking it might be because they limited the variable to a specific number of bits, I checked to see if any maxed out around that number. 25 bits max out at 33,554,431 and 26 bits at 67,108,863.
Good luck plugging a USB key into your iPad, or letting your security-sensitive workplace let you plug arbitrary USB keys into your workstation, or convincing your bank that you really did not send your entire balance to Nigeria, even though you signed that transaction with a tap, etc etc...

Remember Mt.Gox? That's Yubico's most public failure so far :-)

Strong authentication needs to be out-of-band, and support transaction signing, and work everywhere, or there's no point using it. You can't get "out of band" with anything that you "plug in" - that's simply connecting it directly to the same threats.

You also can't get "secure" when less than 100% of users can enjoy it's protection - it only needs to "not work" on one model of iPad, and it opens up the door to support bugs like "I can't log in to XYZ from my iPad 2" - so they need to give customers alternate access methods, like printable codes or recovery/bypass emails etc, at which point the entire protection goes out the window because that's just what the phishing gangs need to bypass it all.

Solving half the problem, even if you paint it blue and write lots of nice publicity about it, does not a secure solution make!
This demo(Clicking on 'start training' button) takes me to some spanish site http://synaptic.juancazala.com/wiki.html
I don't know, I think a lot of the design trends right now are being driven by touch interfaces. When the mode of interaction is the ridiculously inaccurate finger, you HAVE to have giant swathes of empty space, otherwise nobody is able to actually hit what they want.
Show HN: An experimental machine learning job board at fastml.com
If your company is looking to hire machine learning or data science people, you might want to post an ad (free for now):

http://fastml.com/jobs/

FastML gets more than 10k unique visitors a month (14k in September 2014), according to Google Analytics. About one-third to one-half of them come from the US, the rest from countries like China, India, UK, Russia, Germany etc.