skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a similar option for the referrer?

And while I'm at it, is there a way to prevent a website from rewriting a url when I click on it? sites like Google and DuckDuckGo show the actual url in the href, but when you click it (or right click and copy it) it becomes something like http://example.com/something?url=encoded_real_url and I detest that.
This can't possibly... I don't even... wait what?
I had a nephew who got excited when he saw HR done on watches. We did some research into accuracy and were surprised to find that the light-based tech used in many devices does not give you accuracy when you are running or generally moving fast. No idea about the fitbit devices but I am vary.
The blogspot fails to discuss why Samsung Galaxy S4/S5 HDR results are much better than my Nexus 5's. Also, there are limitations in leaving it on. Besides it being slow, it also has other restrictions like the inability to use Flash while in HDR+ mode. Howsoever good it may be by default, flash is sometimes important not only in dark, but also when facing sunlight while taking the shot.
Great article, not your usual Koolade echo chamber.

Founders, CEOs and startups are recyclable commodities.

I wonder how that message goes down with YC and friends...
Technologies that allow airplane to carry Wi-Fi onboard (Quora)
It's very hard to go against this advice. So hard that many people stay in jobs that make them utterly miserable and cause them to miss better opportunities. I've watch my ex-colleagues take pay-cuts and benefit-cuts because they can't go against this advice.

I always quit as soon as I want to and on reflection I'm always glad that I did.

If you're in a job that's not right, and you're a flexible and skilled worker, it's self-evident that there's something better.

If you can't imagine anything you could fill your time with for 2 months out of work, your current job might just be giving you a paper-thin facade of employability, and you should be worried.
Hello Ilya! I will do just that, thank you. :-)
well, there is a closer parallel than you'd think.

Every McDonald's you eat at, has the ability to track your purchases, likes, etc. You are, after all, swiping your card with your name, etc.
Valid point, but speech recognition on mobile is improving very rapidly - e.g., see Robin - our other Android app. Also, email messages give you the context which makes it easier for the NLU engine to extract the meaning of your utterances.
Assuming the problem originates from something relating to eatabit's infrastructure, the important takeway (for me) would be: Depend as little on 3rd parties as possible.

I know this is not a popular opinion among the HN crowd, mainly due to the entire web's love of linking to some other site's js/css to offload cost from their own site. But this makes no sense; you're not really reducing costs, you're just delaying them.

People talk about how 3rd parties speed up development or (potentially) reduce costs. But if the success of your business depends on providing a service all the time that has to be reliable, the reliability of your product is directly proportional to the reliability of the 3rd party. And each 3rd party adds additional points of failure. If you don't control whatever service or product the 3rd party is giving you, you will be unable to even attempt to isolate and fix it yourself.

Typically the answer to this problem is 'buy a better service contract'. But if the 3rd party doesn't provide 24/7 365 support along with multiple contact methods and harsh penalties for failing to supply you with timely service, you're wasting your money. You don't want to be the guy who has to tell the CIO "Sorry, I can't get a hold of our service provider or they aren't giving me timely updates, so I do not know when our product will be up again."
A lot of questions are coming in around "nitty gritty details". I'm going to work on a blog post to try to address this. There are some aspects that are proprietary, but hopefully I can answer most–if not all–of these more technical inquiries.

Thanks!
The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein
From the book you link to: "All these hypotheses share one thing: the implication that the cognitive capability we call intelligence is linked with social living and the problems of complexity it can pose."

It's a long, long trip from "linked to social living" (which, duh) to "power is the basic evolutionary fuel". If power were really the big thing, we'd have a social structure and mating relationships more like elephant seals than parrots.

> Try killing a man and say that you are naturally violent.

Yes, that's my point. Your whole approach is a fallacious appeal to nature. You justify your obsession with power by saying that evolutionarily it's all about power. But what is natural tells us nothing about what it right.

Of course we are naturally violent, just like the rest of the great apes. Every toddler quickly decides that violence is a great problem-solver. We put a lot of effort into training them out of it and still don't do very well. Every human society has a history of violence. Every legal code deals with violence. And we do that because violence is natural but wrong.

As to the last bit, that looks like willful misinterpretation. His whole point is that he's not in it for the rewards, that those are mostly luck. As a fundamentalist, you can't of course credit his explanation, so to you it looks disingenuous. Because you only admit of one possible motivation, you take your interpretation as more proof of your obsession. It's the same routine that biblical fundies do. Something good happens? God be praised! Something bad happens? God is making us stronger through trial. Atheists? Well obviously they say those things because they hate God, so clearly they really do believe in God.

For them, it all comes back to God. For you, it all comes back to power. I hope you eventually get over it. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
The claim is correct. Bitlocker does this.
I finally made it to the blog, and I'm still not at all clear on what you're claiming SuperTCP does.

Is this TCP window scaling? Linux can already do this, not sure about Windows or Mac OS X, though I'd be surprised if they don't.

Is it larger initial window sizes (i.e. WSCALE with larger than normal buffers)? Again, Linux has this RFC implemented, and I'm pretty sure all the other major OSes do, as well. But, I guess this app could be increasing buffer sizes to allow WSCALE to negotiate larger windows.

I have a vague feeling this is snake oil. Possibly a GUI for adjusting some buffer sizes and enabling some options that aren't enabled, by default (because they can cause problems in some environments for some use cases).

If there were something other than hand-waving in the "how it works" and the "technical" blog posts, I might be less suspicious. But, there is nothing but unbacked assertions, seemingly random speed claims, and a pretty slick website.

I don't want to seem overly harsh here...I'm interested in what you're doing, if it is novel. But, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and you've made truly extraordinary claims. 4x speed up, without compression and without introducing new specifications that have to be implemented on both sides, would be absolutely revolutionary.

So, in the absence of evidence, I am inclined to call, "bullshit!".
Why Chocolatey is broken beyond any hope
I don't know anyone that wants to build photo-sharing networks of any kind. I've never been pitched that app. Maybe you guys have, but I haven't - that WAS actually an interesting problem and probably is to a certain kind of person now (and we shouldn't mock them for it) but everyone I know is interested in AI, health, new currency or supporting new currency and new ways to pay, and solving logistical problems for different industries.

The thing is not everyone feels ABLE to solve those problems - we need to stop mocking people who make photo sharing apps and start encouraging people who want to tackle bigger problems. Demeaning "smaller" problems does nothing and showing people what you CAN do will do a lot.
Primary reason I will be ordering two of these:

"Dual band/Dual antenna (MIMO)"

So tired of having to do the channel dance to avoid my neighbor's routers interfering with my Chromecasts.
So you can use it in your car. Commutes are exactly when I wish I could use the time better, e.g., catch up on my email.
> No one is advocating anything except not tracking users.

Did you read the submission before commenting? Because that piece of software clicks all ads, which has potential to harm ad-funded sites.

Just use an ad-blocker if you want to avoid tracking.
Thanks for that tool! Really great way to find the "hidden" gems among the followers and keep a closer eye on engaging with them.

/edited my spelling. Thanks tgcordell!
I would prefer not to as I find this useful. What I'm really trying to determine is whether this setting alone is responsible for leaking history metadata.

I'm using Firefox with NoScript and I have Firefox set to clear everything except saved passwords when I close it (which I do frequently). I'm hopeful that is good enough because it looks like JavaScript is needed for the leak to occur, right?
The first thing I noticed was: an actual remote. Are you serious Amazon?

I think Google got it absolutely right with chromecast. I love the convenience of using my cellphone as the orchestrator of all my digital entertainment. Think about it: single device that is my interface to digital entertainment; maybe AI in the future would replace even the little effort I do have to make. And Amazon comes up with....a remote? No, no no.

I really hope this doesn't catch on.
There are numerous ways to ensure this isn't accessible via an external source. Indeed, even if it did come with username/password authentication, or 2-factor authentication, it still would be an exploit waiting to happen if exposed.

You shouldn't be putting these things out on the open web in the first place.

So "No auth" isn't a bad thing, as there are better tools to ensure authorization is done before ever getting access.

Edit: should to shouldn't
Facebook's Like Button in 83 Languages
I've worked on HTML that was written by someone who cargo culted all of the tables into rows of Bootstrap columns, for tabular data. It happens.
A suggestion of features these stick-makers could implement so their products wouldn't be so retarded:

1) MHL port so I don't always need the power brick
2) Audio output from the remote control so my gf can watch her junk without me having to listen.

Oh wait Roku has both of these things.
Correct, as that's how the official APIs report it.
Of course not completely taken but to name a few: email, word processor, calendar, music player, chat clients, and many more.
Clojure Programming by Chas Emerick, Christophe Grand, and Brian Carper is really good in my opinion. I'm coming to Clojure from Ruby and I've found this book to be most approachable.
Who is to say the cost of production isn't artificially high because of all those legacy costs? If the prices fall then the barrier for entry should be lower as well. Currently many of these publishers decide whom we get to read.

Still you can follow conversations on this very site which rail against the costs charged for music and movies and yet they have high costs of production as well.

Another article I read today talks about how traffic on the internet has been shaped by the users to where very few sites, just a few dozen, are responsible for half of the traffic.

I am in the camp of, the legacy systems are doing their damnedest to stay relevant in a world where they are not, it is as if the milk man refused to stop delivering milk and wanted to and succeeded in stopping stores from selling it.
It is possible, but you'll get a higher accuracy of everything if things are done server-side, at least for now.
People who have learnt how to make Photoshop work will build a PS macro and fire off a batch process. It's not a GUI vs CLI issue, it's an issue with knowing more than just the simplest, shallowest face of your tools.
> The client actually failed to adhere to the "be strict in what you issue" principal

Well, that's the rub, right? How do you know how strict you're being if your tools accept things liberally? If anything, the lesson here is to test with the strictest possible tools.

> just as the Cowboy was not liberal in accepting

And this is hard too, because on what dimensions should you be liberal? How do you decide what the "real" set of inputs you're going to accept?

And that leads to my real issue with the principle: what should you, as the liberal accepter, do in those cases? Here it's easy enough to guess what the behavior should be with the extra space (just accept the damn request), but in general it's not -- you're creating implementation-specific behavior; what happens when you accept undefined or incorrect inputs will vary from implementation to implementation, creating a nightmare of uncertainty for people sending you stuff. Of course, you can always say, "they should send stricter stuff!" but then what's really the point of accepting inputs liberally?
Having no idea what a Chromecast is (other than it has something to do with Google Chrome), this tells me nothing. And if I have no idea, then I guarantee none of my extended family has even the first clue.
All that guy seems to have done is manually set the ISO to 100 when taking a relatively dark picture with his phone on a tripod. If the camera app did that by default pretty much every photo would be blurry
I bet your TV doesn't integrate with your phone/tablet.
If you're interested in seeing what the source code of a simple Clojure web application would look like, you might take a look at my implementation of Hacker News in Clojure:

https://github.com/taylorlapeyre/hn-clojure
AFAIK that doesn't work on the tablet (lol, yes - Amazon makes a separate Android app for tablet and phone), and it doesn't work with Chromecast.

Whenever I want to watch Amazon content I have to switch over to my gaming console. It's really silly.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense. There are no implications since the already in place rules of commerce would preclude any ambiguity.

I'll throw you and your analogy a bone though. You walk into a bar, bars are smokey, you don't want to smell like smoke, but you want a cocktail more than you don't want to smell like smoke. You've implied that you're okay with smelling like smoke as long as you get your martini.
hackerrank.com (formerly interviewstreet) - This came in at the right moment when tech companies are struggling to filter out 1000s of resumes for a programmer job.. You can read more about it here..

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/interviewstreet-disr...
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It goes beyond just demos... we can apply this to a vast number of OCaml Mirage libraries and speed things up quite a lot.

One of the nice things about OPAM (the OCaml package manager) is that it can recompile upstream library dependencies if some new optional features gets inserted downstream. In this case, Thomas has put together a "lwt.profiling" library that adds profiling hooks, and then every upstream Mirage library gets systematically recompiled against this new functionality.

This way we can have profiling-free production code, and then just "opam install mirage-profiling" and have a coffee while everything gets instrumented. This is going to be incredible as we hook up more complex distributed unikernel-based systems.
Thanks jkaykin! Hadn't yet heard of this team! I'll add them to my list. :)
This sort of tone is toxic and anachronistic in the extreme. Please consider the sort of environment you contribute to when you relate to strangers in a public community in this way.
A Mind That Unraveled DNA and Chased Consciousness
It's JSON over HTTP for the most part. We have a bit of legacy XML still knocking about and some services use message queues.
I have a fitbit zip, their cheapest model, which I leave clipped to my keyring.All it does (that I care about) is step counting, which syncs via bluetooth.

About 3 months ago it broke (after many ears of success) and after looking around at all the alternatives I bought... another fitbit zip. I just hope they don't decide to stop making it.
I like how they start ghost riding the whip at 8:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc#t=519
Caltrain was not built to be a high volume short distance commuter train. Which is why the shuttles exist. The shuttles are a crutch.
Most people don't have a Chromecast already so they aren't evaluating on "Is this different enough for me to switch" just which should they get.
10BASE-2 was pretty annoying. Nothing was worse than losing your connectivity because someone else unplugged their machine from the string incorrectly.
Even at $19 pre-order for Prime members, of which I am one, I can't even make this an impulse buy. I have an Xbox One and an Apple TV already, and all I see with this thing is "one more remote". (It doesn't help that my ancient Panny plasma only has one HDMI port, but I have a switch box.) Now it's possible I'm just not the target market, that being "I don't have a streaming box already".

I skimmed the list, though, and...nah. Music? Gawd, I've got more music options these days than I'll ever listen to. Video content, I've got video content. Hate to be the cranky old man here, but most TV content is crap (as it has always been), and of the non-crap stuff I just get it from iTunes or I can watch on Amazon Prime via the Xbox. Games? Did I mention I have an Xbox?

I'm not saying this is the next Fire Phone, but I do wonder who will be buying this. Not me, and I was looking for an excuse to spend $19 on a new gadget.
>Of course we are naturally violent,

...did you read my comment?

Do you think warfighter PTSD is caused by social conditioning?

It's possible to be fundamentalist towards mediocrity, which it appears you are if anyone in this conversation is a fundamentalist.

Sometimes the truth is not in the middle. The truth doesn't care where it is.
What a dismissive bunch of prattle. Meh.

This is about algorithms to achieve better results with a given sensor. The Nexus 5, like the various Nexii that came before, has a poor image sensor -- it's a $300 smartphone, and LG wasn't going to put the best in it. HDR+ gives rather decent results in a wide range of settings despite that, and mine has managed a large number of fantastic shots.

The Nexus 6, being twice the price, apparently has a fantastic sensor, and with that dramatically better base results, made even better with HDR+. Awesome. That's good.
It's fairly recently that my Twitter following has grown to the point of being too unwieldy to manage on my own but so far, SocialRank has helped a lot.
thanks for taking the time to try this out, really appreciate the kind words.
Ask HN: Have you been able to leave Google's claws altogether?
Here are the services I use/left:

Search: I have started using DDG a lot. Almost 90% of my searches are on DDG except for some rather specific programming or code searches that do not yield useful results.

Email: Still stuck with Google/Gmail even with my personal email. I had signed up for Google apps for my domain when there was a free version and somehow still continuing that.

Docs: Not sure if there is a reasonably competitive product out there

What other services you've been able to leave along with what I mentioned above. Are there any real alternatives?
Blocking the referrer in Firefox is easy, just go to about:config and search for the string 'network.http.sendRefererHeader' then modify it from the default 2 to a 0 (zero).

For the search links, I use this Add-on and it works perfectly: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
Texas Approves Equity-Based Crowdfunding Rules
We are a distributed group working to solve this challenge, and would really be interested in hearing from you and any others that want to work on this. Check out our site here: http://www.dev4x.com and let us know if you want to join us.
In Singapore customers have timely access (~15 min) to the product. In Indonesia it takes about 3-6 hours to get access to the product.

So in Indonesia they market themselves as "convenient and saving time". How do they translate this to a product placement strategy? Are their distribution channels more common (say gas stations) compared to the malls in Singapore? Is it the size of the containers so Indonesians have to travel less frequently to refill the product?
I don't like how none of the pictures display the FireTV Stick with power cord vs Chromecast which does not require one.
In fact, only 2 subtle note even alludes to a power cord.
The fatal flaw in the article is this:

>>On the other hand, it is incredibly easy to go around Amazon. One of the works Amazon is supposedly dooming, according to Mr Krugman, is a book called "Sons of Wichita". But if one googles "Sons of Wichita", then one of the first results is the book's page at the website of Barnes & Noble, a rival online bookseller. Barnes & Noble offers a competitive price and 24-hour delivery (same day delivery in Manhattan!).

There is a fundamental difference in how people search for books compared to other items. Since people know Amazon has such a huge inventory, they go to Amazon and THEN search for their title. 99% of people I know do not simply Google a book title and then select the first result they get in Google, it just doesn't happen that way.

This is an important fact which undermines the idea it's "easy" for consumers to selectively use another vendor to get their books from. It also gives a lot more weight to the fact Amazon really is a monopsony.
I have Galaxy 4s and Fitbit Flex. Their step tracker figures are close, withing +/- 2-3%.

I mainly bought it for sleep tracking, but then I realized you had to manually enter sleep / wake up times for you to see any graphs. I don't know why there can't be some default value that can be algorithmically adjusted, because most people tend to go to bed and wake up around the same time.
I have a friend who does a very similar thing on Facebook who is definitely a large influence on the news I read. I'd estimate that person accounts for 90% of the news I read on FB, and threads on a source he posted are almost always thoughtful and worth reading. I definitely believe that this is an effective method of cultivating a community that isn't deaf to opposing view points. Keep up the good work!
This is new for me. How do that? Exist a web service or something similar?
Chrome Incognito Privacy?
I agree that mate competition was a force. Not a huge one, though; compare male elephant seals which are not 20% larger, but 200%. But I believe the person I'm replying to is focused on a broader notion of power than merely getting to pick who you can mate with. I think he's conflating status with power, which are related but distinct phenomena. And then he's blowing power up into The Only Thing That Matters, which is what I'm objecting to.

Also, I think the monogamy thing is kooky. Your model there implies that men will be deciding the whole who-mates-with-whom question, with women as property. That is how it works for elephant seals, but it's not the only way. Instead of trying to construct a mandatory monogamy, we could let women also participate in the decision-making process. Novel, I know, but we've been moving in that direction for a century or two and it seems like we're making progress.
Introducing the HTML5 “Menu” and “Menuitem” Elements
Though I somewhat agree with sentiment: "too many companies focus on wrong problems" the article sounds a bit too pessimistic. Facebook/Twitter is important, party b/c a lot of ppl find it useful...

However, the cure is a bit more complex. IMO either follow lean startup "Steve Blank style" or do do bold ambitious "Peter Thiel style" startup. Saying don't work on made-up problem is harder too follow, a lot of good ideas looks like bad one (e.g. AirBnB).
germs? gems?