skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that 99.9% just use the search input to the find the stuff they are looking for. What else could you do? Clicking through product categories?

BTW: UP/DOWN arrows and Backspace is redundant. Just use PAGE UP/DOWN or CMD LEFT (chrome, mac osx) for back.

At the very least the search input should be focusable by clicking tab ONCE... not 15 times.

EDIT: The whole Tab Order just makes no sense at all:

1. Try Prime
2. Sign In
3. Try Prime
4. Wish List
5. Shopping Cart
6. Departments
7. Fire & Kindle
8-14. No visible focus
15. Search input

I bet this has NEVER been A/B tested.
Zimbra might help.
Runs perfectly well on an AMD FX 8350 with 32GB RAM and a top-line nVidia graphics card!
Is Firebase secure even with your code on client-side?
I'm new to web development and am looking into using Firebase to get an application up and running. I was looking at the tutorials, and wondering if Firebase is safe? In the client-side code, you set up a reference to your Firebase data store.

Is this safe? The information is public (on the JS files), so what's stopping someone from copying your code and writing to your Firebase server?
My 2cents.

Don't be fooled by this false sense of know-how when you just start being able to write some html/js stuff.

Googling a problem is a reflex when you start coding, and yes, good or bad googling abilities could be the difference between you still being in the industry in 5 years or not.

But, still, this is only a first step on your path, and stopping there will also stop you from being a real hacker.

There are things that just can't be resolved with a single search: "How to center a div in CSS" is not like "How to share load across different servers", because a big question must be divided into a lot a smaller ones, and there comes the difference between you and your "code-god compatriot".

So the real path looks more like this:
1- read good literature (CS, functionnal programming, network, etc),
2- exercise,
3- read good code,
4- exercise,
5- goto 1.

Anyhow, best of luck at Google ;)
Autofocus breaks scrolling with the keyboard, especially spacebar. It can also mess with screenreaders and blind users.
Unfortunately, writing programs isn't an occupation for old people.

EDIT: To be more precise, I cannot image that I will write a program after my retirement. To me, writing ephemeral programs is the opposite of the artful activities described in the article.
THE INSECURITY OF THINGS: PART TWO
Beautifully articulated and I believe that the balance is hard but possible. It is of course easier to succeed in business if you ignore your family (and your health and your sanity), but that would certainly be a Pyrrhic victory.
Works pretty good with the latest Chrome here.
Sorry but this is complete bullshit. I don't do Atkins any more. I can lose weight other ways more easily now. But when I did, twice many years ago in my twenties and my thirties, there's no way I could lose 20 kg of just water. It was very obviously fat. Anyone could see and touch.

I don't know where this absurdity of water losing came from, but It's utterly ridiculous.
It appears his wife is alive and well at 98. Happily married for 72 years! A year longer than the average global lifespan.
Awesome, I wish I had a system like that! Doesn't seem to run on my chromebook though. :-(
Some people are mentiong services like Fastmail here.

To me this sounds like replacing one "evil" with another. Can somebody please prove me wrong! Right now, I'm walking the Postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube path. Other options I'm looking into right now are:

https://www.mailpile.is/ - which look very promising

https://whiteout.io/ - also interesting
Ask HN: Do you think iPhone 6 is a design copy of Samsung S5?
Today I was shocked when I hold for the first time the iPhone 6: it looked like a Samsung (!). Would Steve Jobs approve this design?

Three clear points that I just didn't like:
1. Rounded glass in the edges of the screen
2. Back camera comes out of the device...
3. Sleep/Wake button is on the side like most Samsung's (I know it's because it's taller, but the old place is iconic).

I'm exaggerating?
it's also heavily populated with government contractors and our friends at various alphabet groups, and Google employees, and Google competitors and people that don't care either way.
You can lose water weight to the tune of 10 pounds and conclude that a low carb diet is superior. But of course, once you lost those ten pounds and start eating carbs again you'll regain them as your body replaces that glycogen and conclude that carbs are the devil.

Just pinching your belly fat with a caliper every week and seeing the numbers go down is much more accurate. It doesn't matter what your body fat IS or how much it went down, as long as your caliper measurements decrease.

For the record, my caliper measurements were something like 25/14/27 (belly/chest/thigh) at a high body fat (maybe 18%?) and more like 17/6/18 in the low teens.

I didn't really see a point of actually trying to track my fat loss through caliper measurements because they were exaggerated, the calculators said I was higher bf% than I really was (19.3% but I wasn't that high), and then they said I was lower bf% than I really was after I lost it (12.1% but I wasn't that low). I only lost 10 lbs between a purported 7% change in BF from 200lbs to 190lbs.

But as a measurement of "yep, losing fat", it's very accurate.
You seem to believe that Intel can be intimidated by internet trolls.
It also seems that you don't know nothing about Phil Fish and that almost (if not all) the awards that Fez won were from the investors of Fez themselves. [don't get me wrong, I actually loved Fez]
(let the downvotes pour)
Any interesting point, though it'd be hard to believe that'd come anywhere close the amount of lives saved by ensuring food and medicine are safe.
It is very very much an occupation for anyone who chooses it - including old people. Young people happen to have this illusion it isn't.

What better time to start your own software business than when you've retired?
I'm disappointed they removed text. I'm also annoyed that typing in the search bar is afflicted by a delay probably due to a buggy script, possibly the one that makes all the images in each row flicker as they try to fit the row space again and again.

In short I'm not convinced by this redesign.
I, and others, have found Jitsi to fail in real-life situations on the simplest task: XMPP. The software looks great, seems to work nicely, but at the critical point of exchanging messages has failed me during training sessions.

Security-wise Jitsi might be awesome, but I can't rely on it and I can't recommend it.
> Of course they want to sell to the government. The government has money.

sell what exactly? Eric Schmidt as Ambassador for the US? That's what the article claims they are attempting to 'sell'.
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Possibly Yegge was being a bit hyperbolic.
Don't know why you got downvoted. It's been more than 2 years now and apple map still doesn't display subway station on correct zoom levels properly. Every time i wonder why i can't orient myself on google map, i realize that's because i'm on apple map.
Try and search for [microwave oven]. The results suck, especially if sorted by price.

Click through the categories. You get much better results. (Not on mobile).
Great stuff! Kudos to George Corney (haxiomic), the creator!

Chromium 38.0.2071.0 (279972) works fine in whatever setting on a medium sized machine.
> solutions like Maven have had tons of work put into them

Maven required tons of work because it's written in Java, not because the ideas behind it are advanced in any sense.

It's sounds absurd because it's so simple, but the issue is that Cabal/GHC doesn't deal with versioning. Different versions of the same library are not properly treated as different artifacts. That's why everything breaks if you install it into a global namespace.

"Great, let's just multiply our namespaces!" is the obvious knee-jerk reaction, but not a great solution.

> There are very intelligent people working on this problem

That sounds great! Because until now I have mostly seen "very intelligent people" who have been busily in denial that a problem even exists.
>Do you think Google is going to build robot weapons for the defense department?

Do you think they wouldn't?
No, but it's another step in the process for sure. It's not useless.
Amazon uses cookies to track which site design you have seen last.

They are constantly redesigning their pages (I've seen up to 4 completely different versions of a page in use at the same time). They have to lock the design through cookies (otherwise you would be seeing a different design on every refresh).
If you're already able to MITM the user, what about

- patching (more .. corrupting) binaries, hoping to break Windows Update

- intercepting and replacing the top 5 'Make Windows Update work again' downloads with a (signed if you want) application of your own?

Bonus points for injecting 'Already got this host' into requests from now on, so that Windows update magically starts working again..
Fitting that this comes just after Bezos also finally does something overtly public with Blue Origin (last month's ULA deal press conference), and that both efforts still seem, relative to time invested & return at stake, remarkably lame.
The fixed header is actually pretty stupid when you think about it. More and more people are using 11" and 13" laptops, meaning that a fixed header takes up space that could be used for actual content. In some cases the size of the header means that users on small screen have to scroll endlessly.

It would make more sense to go back to having a left or right menu, if the goal is to utilise screen space better.
I'm not ultra tech savvy. Just getting into programming but I know bits and pieces. What the guy made, is it superior to metatrader 5 or 4? How is it different from them. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 as a default machine. Also why is a huge cluster, Amazon servers required? Isn't it possible to run it on a home computer? I don't see any heavy computation. From what I understood, it harvests data from sources and displays them in a plot form.
Is there a tool out there that does the opposite?
Don't work 20 hrs; that's 8hrs productive, 6 hrs at 50% and 6hrs probably making a big mess. Followed with 8hrs at 50 % and 12hrs making a big mess.

Have the courage to stop, sleep, eat and then come back with a fresh mind.
In practice, you can get five young devs in Spain for any arbitrary number you may suggest. Many of them are still landlocked due to lower English proficiency and lack of valuable experience.
SPACEBAR is heavily used as PGDOWN. Auto-focus ruins that. I use SPACEBAR that way on nearly every site, so let's not talk about anecdata like it's concrete best practice UX.
Why wouldn't SSL help? Unless the offending exit node has the requested site's cert, there's almost no way they can carry out a MITM attack on an SSL request undetected. That's kind of the whole point of certs.

Or is this an indictment of Cloudfront offering to be your SSL termination point?
It's about 5kg of water loss that will mess up your statistics if you just measure weight. So if you are looking at weight, a low carb diet loses you more weight. If you look at fat, it performs the same as a medium or high carb diet.

That doesn't mean you can't lose fat on a low carb diet, of course.
Please tell me that the banks are not running Mongo?
Clicking through categories takes way to much time. Just type in the search then use filters on the left sidebar to further tweak the results.
Previous discussion from 37 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325700
You are correct that omissions are not lies. However, when you need to make decisions based on information you need all possible information, not half of it. So it's not presenting different interpretations, he's providing context.

If I tell you about somebody wearing a rain coat and using an umbrella on a sunny day, you might conclude that person is a nutcase. If I add the context that this person is highly sensitive to sunlight and is protecting himself, you will probably conclude differently.

Yes, this happens a lot in politics, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
Ideal VS real couples get along, good tired feeling in love don’t love
So move to Kansas.

They are doing exactly what you want.

Seriously. Move if it is so bad. Otherwise, realize that paying taxes is part of the cost of doing business.
Umberto Eco would enjoy this. Fiction becoming reality is his favourite topic.
> the same is not true for women

Many men would disagree.
Wow that sounds great! Could you maybe provide some examples of how you did that? It might be really useful...
Surpising to see discrimination expressed so blatantly. Luckily it's illegal in at least US[1], UK[2], etc etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employmen...

[2] http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/private-and-public-sector...
Your English is excellent. It's sad that a single non-idiomatically phrased sentence can "blow" your cover though, e.g. "some few words", that gave it away instantly.
And the saddest truth about the really ancient writings: most are still unread, remaining in some closed vaults, or are being often actively destroyed!

Specifically: clay tablets written in cuneiform aren't easy to read: experts are needed, and we have much less experts than the material. So there is a lot of stuff in the vaults of the big museums never read. One of the big problems is matching the texts: when you have unsorted tablets it's like having only the single pages from many books without the page numbers. There is a story somewhere but it's hard to reconstruct.

http://theamericanscholar.org/an-epic-in-flux/

Situation on the field is much worse: robbers and wars (US-led Iraq war was a very dramatic example(1)) are destroying a lot.

(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4461755.stm
These things make me genuinely happy.
I disagree with the tone with which yummyfajitas is discussing this, but I absolutely think he should have the right to voice his opinion. Aren't downvotes punishment enough? I wonder if he had been more cautious in his phrasing if his comments would still be dead-ed for picking the "wrong" side of an issue.

I see the direction that hacker news is going. Whether by mod or by algorithm, it ain't pretty.
Amazon.de often lags behind one or two versions.
No, actually carbohydrates are extremely easily digested and used as energy directly by your muscles and other tissues. Fats are also easily digested and used as energy primarily when you sleep. It's protein that's hard to quantify (how much is converted to glucose? how much does it cost to generate 1 gram of tissue? how many calories does it take to digest?)
You kind of contradict yourself then. Or are you saying eating high protein in the solution for everybody? I find eating high fat to work for me.
Of course they're not. Absolutely ZERO evidence or indication they are interested in building robot weapons for the government. To even suggest this is patently absurd and downright offensive. It has absolutely zero to do with the company mission, business model, and would be an affront to company culture as well.

Google might accidentally build SkyNet one day, but they're not going to build it on contract for the government.
Yeah, the whole article is based around the statement... "The collapse of Ukraine would be a tremendous loss for NATO, the European Union, and the United States." ...which he fails to justify in any meaningful way.

If I was a cynic, I'd suspect the entire thing is an attempt to justify more military involvement.
Intel did drop their ads http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/2/6886747/intel-buckles-to-a...
Feature Fake
The main mistake people do is thinking of it as a diet, instead of changing a lifestyle.

If you are dieting for 3 months and then going back to how you were eating before, you're just losing your time.

I've never been fat so can't comment for that part but when I'm cutting/bulking I eat the same things but in different quantities.

It's not about fighting your body, it's about having discipline.
The proposed hack has the upside that all of the bar charts on a site are governed by the same CSS.

The CSS is ugly because of the many redundant rules. But if you have x bar charts on y pages, then one ugly CSS file is better than x repeated ugly spots spread out in y HTML files.
Works fine in latest FF. Retina MBP.
Pretty "funny" but just some weeks ago we did a show HN proof of concept: http://spend-a-day.at/

It's the same but mainly for people who are sitting in front of computer all day long.

Did I understand right rooms.me is mobile only?
It will be interesting to compare amazon with Flipkart (in India, but growing quite big now.) Flipkart has largely followed Amazon's design. Yet, flipkart has better information handling and quicker searches. (And Amazon India site is noticeably slower these days when you visit product pages.)

I think the big difference is, how quickly they can change the home page experience to respond to business decisions. For example, flipkart has got a lot of attention in selling Redmi and other phones in "flash sales" - when potential users arrive at once. And flipkart has been amazing to make it easy for users to quickly access those product areas. When they ran big billion day recently, they had changed both their home page and mobile interface to reflect the right set of options and to easily navigate in the site. In general, amazon (Indian site) hasn't been able to put up similar experiences. During the same big billion advert days, even amazon also gave big press advertisements. However, they had hardly changed their home page for the visiting users to highlight the right deals.

But then, if they continue to focus on lower prices, who will care for better UI ?!
you're confusing glucose and fructose here

you can store 100g of glycogen or even more, depending on how low you are at the moment and how big your muscles are
A year is far longer than they would need just to achieve statistical significance. They've got over 160 million unique visitors per month [1]. Even showing the variants to only 1% of traffic you're working with over 50,000 visitors every day, enough to run large multivariate tests.

1 - http://www.statista.com/statistics/271450/monthly-unique-vis...
Facebook creates a new app for mobile forums
garage door opener would be translated to Garagentoröffner or Garagentüröffner. (door = Tür or Tor, depending on context, opener = Öffner).
How is this HN front page worthy? It's just a case study on only two people that ends up making a generalization about countless others. I could make a pro gamer gate statement for all I care, it would still be irrelevant.
I don't think a machinist falls into what your parent-post was getting at.

I have found skill and 'puzzle solving'(using Allen's analogy) in menial or physical labour.

But as stated, your body just can't take it. And you realize you're spending your off time tired, sore and wasted.

A machinist is solving problems and puzzles. A street sweeper or machine man on an assembly line aren't.
> Only sort of. "Technology" (by which I assume you mean the sort of things produced by Google - namely, software services) and cyber-security are different from Lockheed's products in one extremely important way: anyone has the capacity and reason to use them.

No. Lockheed and Boeing are defense companies. They sell safety to citizenry in the form of defense through government as a proxy. Anyone enjoying the safety of well maintained national borders employing equipment by either of those groups are 'using' their 'product'.

They (as defense contractors, and not private plane builders) are dependent on capitalization funding -- provided by the people through a vote for elected officials -- who will have the chance to provide a positive or negative pressure on the party in question with regards to allotted subsidies and funding towards that effort.

One way that both groups (both Google and the defense contractors) are much alike is that there is no way that they could have naturally grown to such proportions without anti-trust/monopoly/power-grab laws kicking in. Their (the companies) size is the largest indicator, to me personally, that they are playing ball with the world's governments.
That odd - it works fluidly (!) on High setting on my mid 2010 Mac Mini running 10.10 and using Firefox 33, and pretty well on Ultra High setting.
I also recommend Fastmail. No complaints. UI is great.
Yep: http://www.apportable.com/
List of 75 most popular papers in the Deeplearning.University bibliography
Surely the simple solution there is to disable voting on answers once they reach a certain age?
That is not true though. You can easily reduce the amount of food you eat by changing what you eat. Try to eat a diet high in fat and low in carbs. You'll find it extremely difficult to over eat. Then try the opposite, high carb and low fat. In my experience it is easy to keep eating until you feel sick.
So you prefer to scroll down the landing page of amazon which is full of product advertising with your keyboard instead of having a sensible way of searching? Really?

At least the search should be focusable by pressing TAB once instead of 15 times, which is insane.
Why is liquidity for settlement so strongly linked to making contracts (trading)?
tru.
i think what you made is cool. keep making cool stuff.
Ask HN: Does meditation work to cultivate genuine Happiness?
Is there science or research behind it?