skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It means readable HTML with the proper HTTP headers."

said all the other frameworks's authors a few months before him that are now churning out deprecated headers just like that one will in a couple months, while gallantly trying to protect the user from handling headers.
Nothing more scientific than, at the time we started out with Clojure, that was what we found first and it worked! Recently we've begun using http-kit in some high-load areas with some really good results.
More likely, Apple and Google will cooperate if they have to. Or Apple will revert to their old policy and remove Bitcoin apps from the App Store.
Oh but it gets worse.

Apple Pay is very accessible because of it's design, but CurrentC isn't. http://stevensblog.org/apple-pay-rejections/

But don't worry the CurrentC app is horrible for people without any accessibility issues. They want your driver's license and Social Security numbers. http://twitter.com/hasanahmad80/status/526551322523623424/ph...

TechCrunch walked through how this terrible app works and what data it wants including: location (OK), health & medical (WHAT?), browser history, phone & text logs.

And who needs security? Its privacy policy only shows that it may share data with carriers, ad networks, consumer data resale, analytics, government, and others.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/25/currentc/
Yeah it should be noted that all of the referenced decisions we made around web frameworks in this thread predate django's 1.0 release. I think I was comparing pylons to django 0.96 iirc, and in 2005 when aaron wrote web.py, I don't think django was on anybody's radar (or at least it wasn't on ours).

Django has definitely come a long way!
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I don't think you can act so surprised or outraged when people respond predictably to incentives. People will be motivated by money and security and power.

If you really want to be cynical about it, most of workers of the world are ultimately working to make some rich dude(s) just a little bit richer.
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Odd. Im on 14.04 with the same UA and it works fine. Do webGL based apps work on other websites? You might have to enable webgl on Chrome I think I remember doing that at some point... My guess is he is just checking for webgl/experimental-webgl and popping up unsupported browser vs checking user agents. Not an ideal error message though.

User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36
How dare the retailers have their own system that tries to cut out the credit card middleman.
Good on Tmobile. I had them about 5 years ago and they was pretty good to me. I only switched because I wanted an iPhone and at the time the unlock community didn't come out with a patch. Because of that service I just opened a new line with them for my second phone and so far so good.
Try https://www.polarr.co/editor?force_browser_support=1

Thought I fixed that but..
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Just a reminder: TMobile is also actively chipping away at net neutrality through their 'free' music streaming feature.

That is, they inspect your traffic and don't charge your bandwidth quota for network traffic with TMobile-selected music streaming services (Spotify, Google Play, etc).

http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-music-streaming.html
They're doing pretty well for how much little info is on their website. What do they do? Apparently they're the easiest way to publish on social media...but there's not much more info
I'm trying to imagine what line of thought led to this "authentication" scheme. Surely someone along the way must have realized that this was a terrible idea?
Correct, I was just commenting for general commercial purpose use!
From the article:

Active attacks, involving a device called an “IMSI catcher,” may still be able to eavesdrop on individual calls by manipulating a phone’s security settings directly, without having to crack the encryption.

So, just hardens against passive eavesdropping (and only by upgrading to the latest standard, not by any specially devised method).
It's almost like a starter pack...

I am convinced we are entering an age of 'software literacy' similar to the literacy explosion after Gutenberg. And that era generated organisations that learnt to follow written policy - this time around the policy will be executable. So it's not a major stretch to imagine a younger version of you downloading the equivalent of Grove or Welch's GitHub and running their recruitment process with the same code - sort of like an executives dot-emacs.

Ok maybe it is a stretch, but at some point our companies processes will be programmable - and that means shareable.
Already got the plugin and asked my bank if they would introduce DANE. Only got the answer that they would look into it. That was months ago...
>Google search can perform human-like behavior.

So can my toaster. I don't think my toaster has consciousness.
Ask the community. :)

That's a little glib, but basically I ask other people with experience. You can throw as much fake traffic as you want at a framework but there is nothing like a real world test.
There is definitely a get-rich-quick mindset that a lot of people enter the startup world with.

Thankfully, I think that segment is starting to dwindle as they realize they aren't getting rich quick.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but a bunch of common counterexamples immediately spring to mind. Very often, sorting through a huge amount of low quality phone camera pics from a party or something, I encounter a "happy accident" that would have made a great photo if only: it had been properly in focus, not blown out by light, less noisy (especially when you'd normally crop the pic, phone camera grain is way uglier than film grain), or any of those things that'd a medium-quality camera suffers way less from.

Am I wrong? Is the blurry picture possibly just as great (even if you can't recognize my friends' face?), or would it have turned out to be a shitty picture after all, obscured by the lack of focus?
I can't find the answer with Google, but maybe someone here knows.

During the raising of Chicago, how did they get the jackscrews under the buildings in the first place? Especially those (presumably) positioned in the interiors (as opposed to edges) of the buildings?
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It is! My most hateful comment is about the Apple Air: "Please provide an example why a screw or removable panel would provide less value to the consumer than gluing the thing and making it impossible to replace the battery on your own. I eagerly await your response."
Could someone please give me a quick explanation on how voting works in the US? Do you just turn up and vote? Where I live you need to bring your national ID with you(it looks like a driving licence), staff at the voting office checks the number to see if you haven't voted already, and then you are given a sheet to put your vote on. How could non-citizens even register to vote in the US?
At the time it was "TBNL" (http://weitz.de/tbnl/), which I believe has indeed evolved into Hunchentoot.
Could Google's HDR+ also use DNG instead of jpeg and combine those automatically? That would make it much slower, though, so they'd have to take 3 at most.
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That's funny ... how long can and will this consortium flagrantly piss off their customers?
To sum up the researchers' proposal for preventing non-citizens from voting:

Demanding photo ID is ineffective, because many non-citizens nonetheless do have a valid photo ID.

A better way to prevent them from voting, the researchers suggest, is to merely let everyone know as they present themselves for voting that you have to be a U.S. citizen to vote. (It appears that less-educated non-citizens are more likely to have cast a vote, possibly because they didn't realize they weren't allowed to.)
Very cool. Is there a plan to allow third party integration like Nik Efex Pro?
https://github.com/support11/discussions/wiki/Watch-QPR-vs-A...
Until I saw this I didn't even click that it was him.

Wow.
I'm not convinced it's actually that important. There's this feedback loop where the media treats Twitter as important and so celebrities and politicians (but I repeat myself) treat it as important and so on. But do real people actually care?
So having used a Polar heart rate monitor (the kind with the chest strap), I am used to the heart rate to be very accurately measured. The downside to the Polar HRM is that I can't wear it 24/7. It'd be nice to see my HR all day long, but the strap is not comfortable for anything but actual workouts. The improved version of my HRM includes Bluetooth to connect to my phone, a GPS unit, and a large display that shows me where I'm going. It also includes things like connectivity to a cycle computer on an exercise bike, etc. All of this is still workout-only, but doesn't help with day to day stuff.

Now, the Charge HR and Surge promise the same thing without the chest strap. This sounds really appealing, and it's at a price point that's very competitive with the Polar and Garmin products. However, I doubt that it's that accurate. The reason is that I am sure that if the technology existed to get rid of the strap, by now Polar and Garmin would have been all over it. Remember, these companies are targeting people that are very serious about getting info about their workouts only. If they could deliver the same level of accuracy without the annoying chest strap, or even with the chest strap that you didn't have to use with electrode gel, they would.

What I suspect will happen is the same thing as happened with the previous iterations: you will get moderately accurate heart rate at rest, but when you start running, swimming, playing basketball, etc., the FitBit will not get a reading.

I'd love to be proven wrong. The moment I see serious fitness nerds jumping from Polar to FitBit, I'll join them. Until then, I remain skeptical.
When he said "Whatever happened to that Lisp clone?" I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp.

The discussion was not about writing a new Lisp or Lisp-like language, but a clone of Reddit.

The fact that HN is a site that performs a function very similar to Reddit, and happens to be written in a dialect of Lisp is completely coincidental :-D (unless there has been some comment by pg about his motivations for making HN that I missed, but I kind of doubt it).
"Are the days of forced bundling in Italy numbered?"
https://github.com/support11/discussions/wiki/QPR-vs-Aston-V...
> PurePulse uses safe LED lights to detect blood volume changes right on the wrist to deliver heart rate monitoring 24/7.

Is there such a thing as an unsafe LED?
The solution to that problem is not to add another device, rather, it is to improve the app interfaces themselves.

Cellular phones used to be the size and weight of bricks not too long ago.
Is this handheld or mounted somehow? That last image looks great, but I thought HDR Pro needed it to be stable between shots.
"colorblind mode" is an antipattern. Using more contrasting colors and using other distinguishing features such as shape and texture benefits all users.
Interoperability is critical for WebRTC to gain traction and the WebRTC spec does not define mandatory video codec. Firefox and Chrome support both VP8 and H.264. Microsoft and Apple only support H.264.

http://webrtchacks.com/webrtc-video-codec-discussion
The rules of commerce exist outset the net, I fully agree on that. If we applied similar rules on the net, the implied permission will go away in favor of a common set of rules.

And that is what the EU is trying to do for private data. When it is illegal to track users, then users can't silently give permission by visiting the website. The whole question about implied permission goes away when rules of commerce specify what is and isn't allowed.
Have you thought about compiling dcraw to javascript with emscripten? I'm not sure what the performance would be like, but I've seen this work in the past.
They don't DPI your traffic for this feature - if Spotfiy detects you're on .tmodns.net, they will serve you from internal Telekom network caches instead of hitting the wider internet. This is pretty much equivalent to australian ISPs' freezones.

They do DPI for other purposes though, such as ensuring that you don't tether without paying (if you use a desktop browser user agent, it'll count your tethering quota separately -- even if you spoof the UA from your phone's browser), and for "caching" HTTP traffic (you'll see a 'X-Via: Harmony proxy' header on any HTTP traffic, on any port).

They also hijack DNS NXDOMAIN for ad-filled pages, with no usable opt out ("opt out" uses a cookie that uses javascript to serve the page anyway, then hide it with a fake nginx 404)
The people want bread and circuses, if you want to make money you sell them bread and circuses.

No one really gives a shit about important projects. Look at Musk almost go bankrupt twice between SpaceX and Tesla. Solving real problems requires spectacular amounts of capital, however with $1500 in gear you can make cat sharing apps, which beats stacking boxes. (My previous career). Solving an important problem is generally dismissed as a science project.

Just look at the ratings difference between CSPAN and TMZ, that's all you really need to know about what society wants.
> I would just give up on the continuous HR monitoring. I'm not sure of the actual value after having a basis watch for over a year now.

It strikes me as a "because we can" feature. Frankly, step counters almost fall into that category: "what can we do with solid-state accelerometers and gyros now that they're $2 in lots of 10K?" But beyond counting steps, not a lot has been done. (The exception were the Nike+ shoes, but I can't even find them on the Nike site anymore. Pity, too, as they were actually pretty cool.)

I fail to see the value of continuous HR monitoring. For starters, as others have pointed out, it's a PITA to get it working and keep working. I'm a scrawny guy with single-digit body fat % (I assume that the monitor has less to have to look through), and I still have to clamp a Samsung Gear Fit to my wrist to get it to work consistently. Second, what does it tell you? Your resting HR? You can do that without having to turn your hand blue from lack of blood flow. HR during exercise? Doesn't work that well, if at all, and is a HR strap that much of a burden? That your HR rises when you get pissed off in that meeting with your boss? Duh.

Maybe it's a useful metric, but I haven't seen any information on how it's useful...other than "because we can".
The interesting thing about the second HDR+ photo is that it seems to have true high dynamic range instead of the limited range created by different exposure settings. The subjects are actually darker than in the non-HDR picture. I'm not saying that it looks great, just that it's interesting from a technical perspective.
is this an offer to sell a security?
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There are a number of problems with this article and the cited study. This, in particular, is highly questionable:

We also find that one of the favorite policies advocated by conservatives to prevent voter fraud appears strikingly ineffective. Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted.

A majority of non-citizens in Voter ID states self-report that they were required to show photo ID (which they could not have had) and subsequently voted successfully? I don't think Voter ID is very effective, but that statistic just doesn't make any sense.

The study is based on self-reporting from only about 500 non-citizens, from a larger pool of about 30,000 voters, by the way.

EDIT: My point is a bit unclear, but I am not suggesting that non-citizens cannot have any sort of photo ID, only that the photo ID would not correspond with an existing citizen's voter registration.
The switch to Git happened one day before we open sourced on June 17, 2008, I remember that day well :) So yeah, the history of when we switched to Pylons is probably lost forever sadly. But yes it was right around when I started in March '07 that you guys started working on the transition.
Hi guys.
Some time ago I noticed a few posts here about an interesting browser game and some other similar ideas. I thought it would make a cool game for mobile.

So I created an iPhone puzzle game with 16 levels (for the beginning) and I'm planning to keep updating it. I also already have some ideas for new game mechanics to keep the game interesting with incoming levels.

This i just the beginning and I would love to hear some feedback from you (here or on the app store), to make the game better.
Does anyone know if Amazon or Google are somehow obfuscating or DRMing their casting protocols to these devices? If anyone ever made an unofficial 3rd party stick that supported both Amazon Prime plus all of the services already supported on Chromecast I'd buy one for every TV in a heartbeat. Until then I'll probably stick to Rokus.
Yes. Polar lower level monitors will do this. They don't have Bluetooth, but will analyze stuff right on the watch. Workout-only, but it's a fantastic way to boost your workouts.
ISPs in the 90s never cooperated to form a neutral standard for content design and layout because there was never a standard that could possibly serve any one of their interests without coming at an expense to every other member in a coalition. This early mobile payment space is highly comparable to that industry. Further, there's a lot more providers in this space than Apple and Google. Those two have already merged onto a fairly similar NFC standard, which is about as far as they could go without support from merchants. Meanwhile, merchants are fairly rapidly adopting Bitcoin.
This isn't a bottom-up fixable problem.

There are, for example, a lot of 40-60 year old VLSI designers who could be doing amazing things with hardware. They aren't.

Why? No funding and no exit. VLSI requires $5-$10 million and 3 years MINIMUM. $50 million and 5 years is more typical.

Why do that when you can throw $100K at software and a half-dozen of 20-somethings and flog them like slaves? If one of them turns out to look like a socioviroblogo threat, Yahooglezonsoft will pay $50 million+ for one of them.

Low monetary outlay. Short time horizon. Much lower risk.

Only a fool would do something that requires actual hardware.

It's okay. The boomers are dying. Suddenly they are becoming much more interested in actual medical advances that, funny enough, require hardware.
They make it easy for people to manage multiple accounts, and build a buffer of posts for later release. So your account is always active, even if nobody's on the clock 24/7.
Yeah the home page is a disaster, super laggy and the photos are even revolving over most of the 'read more' text so I can't even read about the features. Please think about redesigning it.
So the CurrentC people are trying to assure CurrentC's future by pissing off the very same companies that they need to authorise their app? That seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot.

What are they going to do if Apple in particular rejects CurrentC as an app? Do it via HTML5/WebKit? Cannot see the user experience on that being particularly good.

Plus as people on Reddit pointed out, with Apple Pay/Google Wallet, the liability for fraud is still with the banks. With CurrentC you MIGHT be liable for any fraud in the US (because of how credit and debit fraud is handled).

PS - The name "CurrentC" is just terrible. Least memorable name ever. They should have just called it "Vanilla."
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This is one of the very few sites I've flagged in my 3+ year HN history. Here's why: HN seems to work because we focus our attention on high-quality posts and "content-filled" comments. Low-quality (and sometimes unpopular, unfortunately) comments are penalized.

This project -- if it does what it claims -- seems to focus on people that create low-quality comments (i.e., "trolls"). In a way, it's rewarding them for their behavior. (and yes, I realize the irony in my comment).

Also, it blanket labels anyone meeting its algorithmic threshold as a "hater", when in fact they may just have written something unpopular.

So I'd prefer for people to create value using HN's API in more positive, constructive ways.

Just my opinion, obviously.
Maybe ones that put out UVA and UVB rays? Just a stab in the dark.
Does this only affect 2G/EDGE for the most part? Because I know that T-Mobile falls back on 2G more often than AT&T does.

The only time I’ve been on 2G with AT&T in the last few years was going through the BART tunnel in South Bay… haha.
Yes, exactly. All foods contain some level of natural toxins and anti-nutrients, and wheat has a long history of consumption, i.e. we can assume that we've adapted to it already. What we haven't had time to adapt to is the modern wheat.
Few people use ad blockers. Less than 7% of Firefox users have Adblock Plus installed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/compatibility/33.0
Keysersosa answered this better below, but basically maintainability. There was no writeup, I guess because doing write-ups about internal software switches wasn't really a thing back then. :)
> And this is part of the problem - it was never about detail, or more generally technical perfection.

While I agree with you for the most part, and never argue about gear (other than having been a fan of Bibble before they were bought).. there is one thing I really miss from your example photos, and from smartphone photography, and that is something being out of focus. Now, I'm not a great photographer, I just take snapshots and then edit them badly, but for example this I like: http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/376/

I wouldn't be surprised if that will one day be possible with very compact lenses, or with multiple ones plus software or whatever, but for the time being, at least for some shots, you need focal length period. Candid and news photography is a lot different from, say, wedding and product photography. And if an algorithm allows better handheld photos, it also makes tripod photos even better, so sometimes there isn't even a gap being closed, it all just gets shifted.

> nearly all cameras (including cell phone cameras) are well past the point of enabling.

During that same vacation, while sitting at the beach in the morning, I noticed a fish jumping out of the water. Using my 1337 video game target leading skills, I moved the viewfinder across the ocean surface where I expected the fish to be, and was able to take two photos of it, one with two ladies having a chat while doing their morning swim. Again, not a great photo, but for me as the person who sat there, it's a nice memory, something that will always make me smile http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/241/ And it's still totally a snapshot, I just sat at the beach, watching sea gulls, smoking cigarettes. Candid ocean photography, if you will ^^ Of course I got lucky, I wouldn't have had time to change lenses; but still, cell phones cameras are not "well past" being able to reach everywhere.

I'm really happy for anyone who makes photos, and I think you are right that dismissing them on technical grounds is silly. A good photo does not need to justify how or why it was done, and when it comes to once-in-a-lifetime moments, even a drawing from memory is better than nothing. But just like you can make a useful website with just HTML and no CSS, and a very pretty and functional one without Javascript, doesn't mean these tools don't have their uses, right? What's more, sometimes a website that works fine without them, would work even better with them, and not everybody who cares about progress and performance is not getting anything done - those things are orthogonal. It can't just be easily generalized.