skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their mobile website breaks about 30% of the time for me on my android 4.4.x phone. It just redirects to an error page from my bookmark. Turning on request desktop site works.

And to echo parent's complaint, god forbid you accidentally click a link; you lose your place in the tweetstream and have to hit back then scroll again.

I can't imagine anyone at twitter actually uses the mobile site; problem #1 is particularly frustrating.
While this is great for those keeping track of the stats, I doubt it will have much effect on the average consumer. Almost everyone I know uses Chrome; that includes family members, co-workers, tech-minded and non-tech-minded people alike. For them, it's been IE vs Chrome for awhile and telling them "Firefox is a tad bit faster" isn't enough to make them switch again. Unfortunately, I think Firefox lost too many people during its sluggish phase awhile back and it's going to be tough getting them back.

Also, as much as I keep hearing "Google is evil" in the tech echo chamber, again, the average consumer doesn't care. Even I know Google's policies and still choose to use Chrome purely because it's more convenient.
I'm sad to say, the police state is complete. This is just SOP at this point.
> Does it understand twitter so if I watch a user, it only alerts me of tweets, not e.g. a change in the number of followers?

What do you think if I provide a numeric filter option to watches, which filters out numbers on the page before comparing if turned on.
What does age have to do with the number of tabs you keep open? Don't pretend you are perusing the contents of each of those tabs any time soon.

Some people prefer to use bookmarks for that sort of workflow (as they are intended)
L.A. tech economy is underrated, venture capitalist Peter Thiel says
Google has used it's position in Android and Chrome to undermine privacy. Both platforms encourage users to "knowingly" give up privacy. This is beyond simply preventing monopolies.
> Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes?

I don't have a good solution for this problem yet. Let the user specify a css selector or xpath?
'cause sometimes two-year olds are packing

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_m...
What about hstore support?
Haha. Awesome! :) I'll fix the site and I'll keep improving the model.
I'll reply the same way as before (likely to end with the same result). Here is a much, much better source.

Apple's announcement itself:

"Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...

"Specifically, Apple has radically improved the way that data on those devices is encrypted. Once users set a passcode, Apple will no longer be able to unlock your device—even if ordered to do so by a court."

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

"To get started, it's worth pointing out that disk encryption is hardly new with iOS 8. In fact, Apple's operating system has enabled some form of encryption since before iOS 7. What's happened in the latest update is that Apple has decided to protect much more of the interesting data on the device under the user's passcode.

...

So to a large extent the 'new' feature Apple is touting in iOS 8 is simply that they're encrypting more data. But it's also worth pointing out that newer iOS devices ... also add substantial hardware protections to thwart device cracking.

In the rest of this post I'm going to talk about how these protections may work and how Apple can realistically claim not to possess a back door."

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-app...
For sure. I'm just speaking in relative terms. Scala makes it really easy to write seriously complex code and types.

You end up with fun stuff like this:

def map[U](f: T => U): Group[U] = collect { case e => f(e) }

implicit def canStackFromFac[Req, Rep]
: CanStackFrom[Filter[Req, Rep, Req, Rep], ServiceFactory[Req, Rep]] =
new CanStackFrom[Filter[Req, Rep, Req, Rep], ServiceFactory[Req, Rep]] {
def toStackable(_role: Stack.Role, filter: Filter[Req, Rep, Req, Rep]) =
new Stack.Simple[ServiceFactory[Req, Rep]] {
val role = _role
val description = role.name
def make(next: ServiceFactory[Req, Rep])(implicit params: Params) = filter andThen next
}
}
He may just have a bit of a god complex or is being very competitive and that may just be his personality. I have yet to figure out a perfect way of dealing with it because you can't change who people are.

Some advice I can give is to ride it out and do great work for the experience and switch jobs when you can because not all companies are the same and there are some that have really nice people.

If you can't switch jobs or don't want to switch jobs then something that worked for me is just hear what he has to say and then do what you was going to do anyway if and only if it's better than that persons suggestion.

Try to be open minded,listen to the things they say and not stress yourself over his personailty because he could have some valid points in his rants.

As for interviews .. Try to do a separate interview with candidates going forward if those things are going to stress you out.
O'Reilly Atlas looks really interesting but the "email for a quote" thing really puts me off.

Leanpub offers something really similar but it pretty much locks you in to their platform to unless you want to publish through them it's not really an option.

A self-hosting option for this type of software, open source or not, will be really nice.
They're protected, by law. As far as I'm aware, they can't also be sued (in an individual capacity) for anything they do on the job (unless they're blatantly violating laws/policy/protocol, obviously).
Thanks very much for the note. I see where you're coming from, but keep in mind our pricing drops to $3.75/user at higher volumes - quite affordable compared to the products we replace.

Please do take ZenHub.io for a spin and, if you love it, shoot me an email: r[at]ze.nr - we can talk about your team's needs and find a win/win.
twitter is profitable, depending on metric [1]; their rationale is [2]. it's also monetizing better:

It generated $1.77 for every thousand timeline views in advertising revenue,
up 83% form (sic) the prior year's rate [3]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/27/7079277/twitter-q3-2014-e...

[2] https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=...

[3] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/27/twitter-inc...
3. Every time I click an image, it shows up in an overlay. Ok, great. I press esc to hide it, and the page rescrolls all the way to the top. What jackass thought this up?
There never was a good reason for Chrome to exist in the first place. Content companies should not produce browsers, it is too much of a temptation for them to optimize their content for their own browser and vv.
Charging extra for tethering is total crap—it's just another way the telecoms are trying to erode net neutrality. The fact that they charge for it makes it seem like somehow IP packets from my computer are totally different from IP packets from my phone. If they are worried about computers using more data, then just charge the correct amount for bandwidth (though honestly, in these days of mobile netflix and nice mobile web browers, I highly doubt computers use much more than phones).

Apparently some IP packets are more equal than others.

I don't know. There are some lines I'm willing to cross and feel completely ethical, and bypassing stupid arbitrary net-neutrality rules is one of them.
Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information
I think for CTO architectural discussions and code reviews are better than writing code.

But code review should not be done alone. It should be review and discussion with the developer who committed that code.
How to view Blu-ray on iPhone 5
I moved just about everything below web root cept icons and images, and other browser side necesities. All directs go through index.php, nothing is referenced by directory publically.

/core/apps/[name of app]

/core/config/ (config files, PDF templates, etc.)

/core/inc/ [libraries/extensions]

/public_html/index.php

/public_html/info/ [icons, images, and other public accessible data]

mainly index.php has

$home = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];

$loc = explode('/',$home);

define('CORE_BASE', implode('/',array_slice($loc,0,-2)).'/');

require_once core_BASE.'core/inc/main.php';

which defines the core path (below web root), then includes the main base code. From there all code is below web root.

note: css and javascript can be included directly (saves having browser request them anyway)
Banks and Hamilton seem a little to close to "Magic" vs scifi IMO. Basicly, plot driven technobabble vs. a look at reasonable possibilities. Ex: A culture knife missile has a rediculusly wide range of weapons with little thought as to why you would use A vs B. Hamiltons first series is about a psychic and his second revolves around ghosts in space causing a zombie apocalypse.

Though if you have a good counter example I am interested.
This certainly isn't true for the part of the Internet I generally try to use. Most of it works without js (some of it works better with js on, some of it works worse (but "as intended") with js on.

Demanding js for showing simple text+images on the web, is a little like distributing a text email as an .exe-file IMNHO.
Hi $4.99 is for Box, which is a different product from the editor.
Related, worth watching (IMO):

http://youtu.be/dEaecUuEqfc
Ah yes, as with any good conspiracy theory the lack of evidence is itself evidence.

If Republicans are so concerned about the integrity of our democratic system, their efforts would be much better spent fighting the outrageous gerrymandering[1] that so often benefits them.

Or why don't they put THEIR efforts into making sure poor and minority voters have IDs?

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/a...
Well, we can certainly find a million ways to complicate something that is very simple. I just took my 15 year old to the DMV to get him a permit to start driving lessons. We had to bring his original birth certificate and pay $30. It really isn't that complicated. You seem to think everyone is a poor idiot who can barely read and tie their shoelaces. I happen to think people are perfectly capable of these simple tasks. If they can get cellphones, use the internet, mavigate the DMV, drive a car and generally navigate modern life they can certainly meet well publicised voting requirements. If it is a matter of money, well, tack on $5 to every ID processing fee to help thise who cannot. Non-citizens should not be able to vote.
Stop Being So Positive
0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012)
Super-duper pedantic, but I would say broken can be considered neither hard nor hardened.
It seems the United States has managed to evolve the term "police state" into something new: in the traditional form the police are the enforcement arm of a political power. In the current United States, the police are seemingly beholden to no-one (I include district attorneys as part of that mechanism).

For lack of a better term, American police forces now operate largely 'extra-state'.
there is a demo video which explains everything.
My feeling is that if you live in a good coverage area and you don't do a ton of travel then theres no good reason not to use T-Mobile.

Actually if you go to the EU often t-mobiles included data and texting come in handy.
"The project was performed by the Paragon StratEx team to test spacesuit technologies for several applications, including exploration of the Earth's stratosphere, supersonic research and spacecraft emergency escape studies"

http://www.space.com/27537-supersonic-near-space-dive-photos...
This one's older, but a lot more fun IMO http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/
Your network stack is being handled by a GSM/GPRS module, it might support SSL. Using Arduino was easy in this case, but I would have gone with something a little more substantial like an STM32F4
An interesting combination that would only cost you $118 is the Fire Stick and the Fire HD 6. For the price of basically an Apple TV you can have everything the stick does, plus one hella cool remote to control everything you beam to the TV. Sure my iPhone can do it as well, but there is something cool about just leaving the Fire as a dedicated remote. That might just be be though.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-Display-Wi-Fi-GB/dp/B00KC6I06S...
Decoupling the Presenter
Sounds like you have a browser that isn't a major one? Doesn't happen on Safari/Chrome/Firefox.
I wrote how we use ZenHub at our startup here:
http://devblog.edsurge.com/scrum-kanban-trello-github-issues...
I'd like to see a source for the billion-dollar-a-year campaign, that sounds crazy. That's 3 times Mozilla's entire budget, if memory serves me right.
Show HN: The Nearest Ebola
Too long didn't read (all), but still.

I think I'm in plausible denial or perhaps I'm a blind jerk, but can someone confirm we are in such bad state(!!!?).

I know the gender income gap, and some people in HR prefer a dick but this was too awful.
I'm surprised this doesn't mention Blowups Happen and Solution Unsatisfactory, involving a nuclear power plant and the development of nuclear weapons, respectively. They were both published in 1940. Two years later, the first nuclear reactor was made, and the Manhattan project started. After three more years, the first atom bomb was detonated at the Trinity site in New Mexico.
Yeah, like any number of Olimex parts. Or a Raspberry Pi Model A.
It looks like they are going to account for this. From their Fire TV page:

"Coming soon—take Fire TV Stick with you to use with HDTVs in hotels, college dorms, or anywhere with captive portal Internet access that requires entering a password or a log-in.
"
Note that Safari also uses out-of-process rendering (using WebKit2).
Ebola can survive on surfaces for almost TWO MONTHS when stored low temperatures
Sounds like you need to VPN out of your ISP, ;)
I get what you're coming from, but personally I'd feel guilty getting something for free when I know I'm supposed to pay for it -- even if I disagree with the way its priced. It's not that far from people who justify pirating Photoshop because Adobe charges too much for it.
> Even I know Google's policies and still choose to use Chrome purely because it's more convenient.

What do you find is more convenient with Chrome over Firefox?

I don't (yet) use all of the sync features in Firefox, but just having a unified history on Android and desktop is quite convenient, as is syncing saved passwords -- and knowing both how data is handled, and that I can set up a personal sync-server if I want to (actually tried that with the previous generation of sync) -- gives me peace of mind.
Honestly, my issue with Firefox all comes back to the Omnibar: I just like how Google does it better. And the only Firefox plugin I've seen that gets similar to that behavior, is slower at every step of the way. Also, having to manually add every search engine is a hassle even if you are willing to put up with the extra steps that plugin asks.

I really like Google, but I want to support open source(and am not quite willing to put up with Chromium). But for me, core usability is still king, and nothing really touches Chrome for that.
That is not the point of the post. The point is that Mozilla for a long time have thought these benchmarks to be sidetracking and useless for normal users, and now that they are beating the competitions they can rightly say "we need to focus on something else" without sounding like sore losers.

Mozilla sees big potential in ASM-js and if the competition starts working on getting that optimized a whole new type of web application will be broadly feasible, which is something Mozilla cares much more about.
My most hateful comment was

- "Yup"
Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ Interview
Original research that is also relevant.

Assessment of the Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites

(1) http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142....

Marburg and Ebola viruses as aerosol threats.

(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588056
What makes a good engineering culture? (Quora)
Doesn't look killed off to me https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweetdeck-by-twitter/id48581...
A few things:

1. Thanks for posting my blog post @chippy. :) The actual app ( haternews.co ) kept getting booted off HN...

2. There have been a lot of interesting comments on the three threads on here. People pointed out some bugs and overall issues which I will be fixing (also, the site should not crash half as much now). This is just a fun side project I have been messing around with so I can get better at using data science in various applications. If you would like to help build it out for fun further let me know! Also, feel free to submit a bug or suggestion for an improvement if you really want to.(https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news/issues)

3. I wanted to build the "hater score" for two reasons. First, to see how accurately I could build a model to measure insulting comments in the wild and second (if it's accurate), to see how people would react to seeing how positive or negative they usually are on Hacker news (or other social networks).

4. I wanted to make sure everyone knows that just because something is your "Worst Comment" doesn't mean it is negative. Most people have very low scores and most of your comments are not identified as insulting. (It would be over 50% if it is actually an insulting comment.) So most people on HN are not actually haters. I just had a more "hater" focused design just for fun. There are in fact actual haters though, if you look hard enough.

5. Something I found interesting is clicking the "Back In The Day" checkbox. It takes your 50 oldest comments and analyses them, instead of your 50 most recent.

6. Finally, if you're not sure why some comments are getting ranked higher than others, feel free to look at the training data I used (it's from a kaggle competition from a while back.) and read my blog post. If you don't want to here are additional features I used on top of standard bag-of-words (CountVectorizer):

* badwords_count – A count of bad words used in each comment.

* n_words – A count of words used in each comment.

* allcaps – A count of capital letters in each comment.

* allcaps_ratio – A count of capital letters in each comment / the total words used in each comment.

* bad_ratio – A count of bad words used in each comment / the total words used in each comment.

* exclamation – A count of "!" used in each comment.

* addressing – A count of "@" symbols used in each comment.

* spaces – A count of spaces used in each comment.

If you have suggestions on other features I could collect let me know! I'll also be building a way to get actual training data from HN itself and letting HN users determine if a comment is actually insulting or not so that the predictions constantly improve.
Reminds me of the time I was at LinuxWorld, ages back, and Sun had a Java booth. I wandered over and remarked that my mother was using Java. They thought I was insulting them. I wasn't.
You could draw a parallel to a state overrun by terrorist groups, with a government that doesn't want to intervene for political reasons, and a public so terrorized out of its mind that it feels the safest thing to do is to not make eye contact.
Your comment doesn't entirely make sense. However bird strikes are generally only a problem under 1000ft, and the parachute will have opened at that point. (You can get bird strikes at higher altitudes, but it is quite rare as the majority of bird activity is close to the ground).

I know this as I'm a pilot and I've had quite a few very close encounters with birds when taking off or landing. The plane I fly only manages 100mph, so generally the birds have time to get out of the way.
Issues with Twitter for iOS:

- Main timeline screen: you can swipe left/right for your time line, discover and activity. It is bad UX choice when you try to read your timeline with one hand scroll down the page. Many once in a while your swipe down gesture will trigger the swipe left/right and is utterly annoying.

- It does not play well with Instagram the top social app as picture is displayed as link and not shown.

- The load more tweets implementation is broken. After tapping "Load More Tweets", it brings you to any tweet in your timeline, and you are lost to where were before.

- It does not support GIF natively.

Other issues:

- Follow named brands are a waste of time on Twitter as they repeatedly tweet the same news.

- Twitter is major pain-in-ass email spammers. There are 7 email notifications type you receive from just Twitter for marketing. The options should be off by default. Why give users a chance to hate you?

Irony is Twitter is pushing to be the mobile app platform of choice but they don't have the best mobile client.
Dude, where's my A record?
> There never was a good reason for Chrome to exist in the first place.

Chrome kicked off the browser performance wars, especially javascript. A fast and performant web was important to any strategy Google could have had, regardless of their status as a good or evil company.
It happens everywhere. The tech community just seems to really wants to fix this issue. But it really doesn't help when things like this read as if they are blaming all men. Even a lot of things that are supposed to help bring women into tech is not that effective as could be. Some exclude men from attending which doesn't help with the most important issue: helping women work better with men and helping men work better with women.

It would be much better that instead of referring to men as sexist jerks, we refer to sexist jerks as sexist jerks. I have yet to meet someone who has openly been against women working in tech, but I sometimes feel that it takes one post on medium to make it feel like we are not really progressing in the slightest.

Jeff Atwood said it best: http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/

Read the "What can you do?" section at the very least.

Disclaimer: I'm a man.
So SIP is like IRC?
Yea, it is a related-key attack.
Internet surfing is my hubby. Symbianize.com is my favorite site that gives you access to many softwares that traditionally would be desktop only.
Call the FCC
How old are _you_?!
None of your quotes from Apple support your claim that they were able to decrypt encrypted data before. And in fact, I gave you a source right from Apple that said they couldn't -- the very document they give to law enforcement.
That's brilliant. After posting this, I searched music videos on hackernews and came up with the same solution. Do you have any

I am splicing music videos together, only need a minute of each video.
I think that's mainly because of the incredibly remarkable developments in computer technology.

Since 1966 most industries have seen technological improvements of one or two orders of magnitude, if that. 7% economic growth compounded over 50 years is a growth by factor of 30x.

Data storage per $ has increased by a whopping 8 orders of magnitude, or a factor of 100 million.

Meanwhile, FLOPS/$ has increased by about 11 orders of magnitude, or a factor of 100 BILLION.

That scifi writers were able to get even close to modern technology is amazing. Of course, don't forget that as late as 15 years ago, portable audio players did only have an hour or two of capacity.
Just to clarify, the group interview was one at the end, we do individual interviews before.

So are you saying that you have ran into this sort of personality? Did you confront it at all?