skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a public service I will make a fast post that it is completely state controlled. Not federal level.

Where I live we dump all state drivers license and state ID card records into a pool and thats about 99% of the population right there. Volunteer octogenarians at the public elementary school your kids would attend, ask you your address and then name and then tag you in the records as having voted, then hand out "scantron" ballots and pencils which are optically scanned and reported to central control hourly or so and the ballots are later spot checked. Every task takes at least two octogenarians, we have a one party system in the USA with two competing P.R. firms and each firm provides one overseer for each job.

Never in my life have I had to provide ID to vote. There is a policy no one really knows to handle people who recently move or refuse to obtain a free ID card or a relatively cheap drivers license.

Note that we give out "free" state ID cards upon demand, but obtaining the prerequisite certified birth certificate is no picnic and costs something like $95, if you don't already have one. Identity theft is quite trivial but the punishment is somewhat severe once you're caught.
Another thing you need to know about Hacker News is that anything like sockpuppetry, astroturfing, and voting for your own posts is not ok here.
The reviews on Google Play don't look much better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.currentc
Getting a mix of application errors and 400 errors.
Giant Sunspot errupts Oct 26th- pictures from NASA
So only the enemy get to have weapons? Sounds like a self solving problem.
I think a lot of these cultural questions require you to say over and over what's important, and demonstrate that you really mean it. I always ask people what they think, and when I sense hesitance I work to draw them out. In the end a lot depends on your relationship with the individual; I make sure to spend time getting to know every engineer who joins.

More broadly, one point Marc often makes is, if someone does something you don't like/disagree with, let them know directly. (There are some exceptions to this, and sometimes it's helpful to role-play with a manager to get some practice before doing so, but we work hard to make direct feedback a core part of Stripe.)
Yup, it is! We've filed for general solicitation, which the jobs act made possible last year! Let me know if I can answer any questions about it!
You can avoid the bogus DNS server by manually choosing Google's alternate server 8.8.4.4 (They intercept the primary one 8.8.8.8 as well as 4.2.2.2.)
Namecoin works great in a vacuum. It would be amazing if DNS already didn't exist.

But using namecoin with DNS allows for duplicate and erroneous entries in one or the other. (DNS record != Namecoin record).

Currently most namecoin advocates pretend the former is the case. And it isn't, because have DNS currently. Namecoin is a complete re-invention of the system. Not a iterative improvement.

My issue is that in its current state one can make a namecoin entry that is correct as far as namecoin is concerned, and incorrect as far as DNSSEC or standard DNS is concerned. Thus rendering the system in a weird state.
Obligatory (somewhat related) XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
Apple needs the big retailers too. People are getting mad at the retailers for playing the same ruthless hardball that Apple plays all the time.
Dribbble announces marketplace, new API
At this point in time I would not work at a company where the cto is coding, unless the entire company is less than 10 people. The managerial job of a cto is huge, so seeing them code is a big indication that management is not fulfilling their responsibilities, or doesn't understand the tremendous and necessary role of good management.

[Response] - I know there are plenty of examples of good and bad CTOs who program or don't program, it's just been my experience that the likely situation resulting from a CTO coding is bad code and bad management. I see programming as something that generally requires full time attention to maintain good context, and good management is equally demanding.
Somewhat worrying that the people in charge of protecting Boston from flooding would waste their time on such an obviously impractical and pointless idea.

Even if Boston already had canals they would still need to build surrounding flood protection systems just like Venice and Amsterdam. So why build the canals?

Interior canals can actually make flooding more likely as New Orleans learned when breaks along canals were responsible for flooring the city after Katrina. The solution - as a everywhere else - was beefed up perimeter defenses not more canals. Canals just make the problem harder and the risks greater. Why build a system to deliver vast quantities of water to the center of a city?

The real problem with building reliable flood protection is that it is impossible to fully test and may not be tested by nature for a very long time. This requires sustained effort by level headed engineers and planners not politically motivated dreamers.
Also s/Logisitc/Logistic
The body is not found.
You're discounting the time it takes to learn the skill. That training is worthless to the worker now. It's an investment that is gone.
Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Google services?
I've heard a few suggestions:

* Fastmail.fm (Gmail)
* DraftIn.com (Google Docs)

But am curious if there are any alternatives to some of the other items:

* Spreadsheets
* Google Apps
* Wallet

Any alternatives are welcome.
Great technology. I'm maybe a bit stuck in my RAW file processing ways to find a use for this myself, but I am impressed with it's speed.

A couple of things I'd like:

- Proper support for high-res images - it might be in there, but the demo flower image is web res
- The hover-to-select mechanism from Lightroom. You only need to hover over a control to adjust it with the keys. Appreciate the tab support though.
- Finer/coarser value adjust with the arrow keys. LR allows for modifiers to increase/decrease the value change.

Bigger asks:
- Find some way of emulating LR's automatic lens correction. Using this still feels like magic.
- Spot removal is pretty important
- Other local adjustments would obviously be nice.

It might be nice to offer this engine as a technology plug-in sort of thing. I know at least a couple of clients who would love to be able to use this level of adjustment on the photos they upload to their Wordpress sites. I imagine there'd be some demand for this plugged in as an API'd service.
amazing story!
Why, your seventh word is obscene language. I dare not repeat it because I don't want to be branded a hater by someone's glorified grep program. :)
Same here:

"If you have multiple modes you can basically reuse the entire keyboard for commands. That's one advantage that is impossible to achieve in non-modal editors. Ctrl-ing, Alt-ing, Shift-ing stuff just isn't the same, especially as those commands get more and more complex."
I once picked up fight with a local goon who then threatened to take revenge (which probably meant some thrashing). I was scared, I moved to a different city for a month and things cooled down after that.
If you use mobile safari's "request desktop site" (ios8+), will they wrongly claim you're tethering?
This is a page that purports to dispel misconceptions about the industry's core technology. This would probably be the perfect place to add a section called "I heard SSL is broken because <list of obsolete flaws in SSL>".
I bet you that the algorithm could be adjusted to consider comments that meet the following criteria:

(1) If user has the most upvoted comment in any thread
(2) Check if that thread had a lot of flamewar language.

If so, return that as the most hateful comment. I'm only half joking about using this approach.
I think IE7 doesn't support display: table;
Lose the sound, please- or at least warn people so they can turn off their speakers in an office.
Give me a break, many/most normal people didn't know about the "final solution". Being a nationalist isn't inherently unethical, committing genocide is. Many Germans fought hard in WWII, not for Hitler or his ideals, but because they didn't want Germany to end up like after WWI again.

>>BTW, anyone that build weapons or be part of experiments to break and destroy too, nazi or not.

Are you saying anyone develops weapons is unethical? I can see how you might hold that as a personal POV, but don't pretend there is consensus around that.
"was this posted in response to some recent drama in the Django community"

What drama?
IMO the issue here is actually grey areas in general. Why not be more specific with the content policy or more specific with the reasons for removal. I don't think anyone who has been removed would complain if Google did one or the other. The issue is almost 0 communication and an insanely vague content policy combined with no consistency. I'm sure there are 100's of apps just like the OP's who are in good standing on the market.
Like every other site on the internet with game-ified comment scoring (starting perhaps with Slashdot), it mostly encourages groupthink and discourages dissenting views from being expressed.

OTOH, at least HN lets you create throwaway accounts easily.
Everyone can learn to read but only some are capable of learning to program. http://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-fr...
Reliability. Screws come loose, especially when flexed in a pocket etc. Its considered a win in mechanical engineering circles when you remove a screw from a design.

I look forward to metal-air batteries, where the charge can be expected to exceed the lifetime of the device.
Thanks for linking to the document. I can’t argue with the evidence regarding genetics, and I agree that real procrastination likely indicates troubles with goal management, but I strongly disagree that what these questions indicate is in fact tendency to procrastinate (by Wikipedia’s definition[0] and my own understanding of the word).

My main objection is that what appears as procrastination to an outsider may not necessarily be procrastination per individual’s plan.

Moreover, I think the common attitude to this is unfortunate, because avoiding externally perceived procrastination may actually go against individual’s own interests. Such conflict could be enough to induce actual procrastination in those sensitive to public pressure but not willing to fully cave in[1].

Meanwhile, the majority of questions in the document judge the procrastination by this “external” standard.

[0] “Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time…”

[1] “I want to go freelancing (fire my client, etc.) but when I lurk and read up on this topic (polish my resume, etc.) I feel like I’m procrastinating, so I’m writing Hacker News comments instead” is roughly how I imagine this.
@KevinMcAlear. I found a serious flaw in your algorithm's results.

Your own hate score is 3.61% Should not this post and the creation of Hater News itself up your score to 100%?

My own score is an even lower 2.06%. What gives? Maybe this comment will give me some points.
Offline bruteforce attack on WiFi Protected Setup [pdf]
Background jobs are good for this sort of thing. Hope it's not being done in a controller...
Exception: Carmack @ Oculus VR.
Manages the technical team. Provides direction on infrastructure, tool chains, architecture goals. Hires and fires.
> even if you spoof the UA from your phone's browser

I don't know about T-Mobile's ways of detection, but AT&T is detecting[0] tethering users by checking the network packets TTL values: If you are tethering then the TTL on their side will be below the expected value of mobile OS's default TTL. There are apps which can hide your tethering usage by altering your device's default TTL. You should still use a mobile browser's UA string, of course.

[0] - http://www.redmondpie.com/bypass-network-carriers-tether-det...
The last two letters of the "bulletin board system" abbreviation might be what the software is latching on to.
My IE8+ grid is based on display: table and just works. http://natuive.net
A Solo Developer's Development Environment
Thanks for checking it out. Good points you make and I'll add 'em to the queue. This has been a good exercise in shipping something despite my tendency to want to tweak it endlessly before launch. Yes, the color scheme is risky...I guess I just went for it! I get bored with many of the color themes I see out there, especially for news related apps.
@KevinMcAlear. I found a serious flaw in your algorithm's reaults.

Your own hate score is 3.61% Should not this post and the creation of Hater News itself up your score to 100%?

My own score is an even lower 2.06%. What gives?
Okay, I agree, that is completely reasonable. I do usually work with fairly complex algorithms, so I care about individual operations less than about the final result.
Show HN: Supercharge GitHub with ZenHub
It's easy to make someone sound arrogant by (a) taking comments completely out of context and (b) not bothering to understand the frame of reference by at least asking the question.

HN only does well with well defined technical discussion. On everything else it has degraded to almost what happened to every USENET list in the past. USENET did not have any voting mechanism to make opposing views disappear. In that case those who wanted command of the list and felt ownership of it simply resorted to brutal flaming attacks. Some lists were really horrible places for anyone to say "I disagree".

HN can be like that, in a different way, if you are not a 20-something drinking from the same koolaid bowl. To the point of someone taking the time to take something out of context and then using it to call someone arrogant.

So, come to HN to agree with the herd or risk being called arrogant for presenting a different point of view. Brilliant.
And I think you can leverage THESE criticisms at about 90% of software out there written in just about any language.
Probably an obvious error, but on page 81 (second page), they say the following:

Another correct test case is as follows:
> (rat (float -1 23 -6))
- (26) / (34)

In truth, this should be - 23 / 64, which is a very different number. Perhaps there's comical value in an article about accurate math having inaccurate typography?
> However, I doubt that it's that accurate.

How accurate is accurate? As someone who works out casually, I'd be happy with something that gave even ± 10 bpm, because that'd be far more information than I currently have.

If, however, as another poster speculated it's more of the case that it only works intermittently, then that's a deal breaker.
Building Hater News
Very interesting. I've been thinking about a similar feature that involves TAP-based tests. Where can I read more about this and any other similar features that OPAM has?
pg got a 2.95% with worst comment:

"The sort of incivility we're worried about is the more explicit type where someone replies to a comment with "You are an idiot. Don't you realize that x y z?" when they could have simply said "x y z." I'm pretty ..."

It would be cool to ignore/weight down quoted text somehow.
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Amazon's system works like it does because any single customer-side transaction can likely be multiple merchant-side transactions (most sales on amazon are not from amazon directly, but 3rd party sellers).

With that said, even Amazon.com has a shopping cart.
Duckduckgo for search, openmailbox for email, Spideroak for files.
Interesting, my most downvoted comment is also my highest rated: "Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354087
I didn't say Elephant was XTS. I said that neither XTS --- the industry standard sector-level construction --- nor Elephant actually authenticated sectors.

All three of AES-CBC, Elephant, and XTS fail to authenticate data. This isn't my point; it's Rogaway's, and the opinion of several other people during the XTS standardization process, including Ferguson.

So it's a stretch to talk about how Microsoft "weakened" Bitlocker by removing the idiosyncratic Elephant construction. None of the design alternatives Microsoft had available provided real authentication, and all of them provide adequate confidentiality (to the extent that's possible with sector-level crypto, which is itself just a bad idea).
At least a couple years ago, when I switched the UA in a different browser to Firefox and forgot to switch it back, it did use up all my tethering data. It just cut me off though, they didn't try charging me oodles of money.
Anyone that's been around a while for things like DivX (no, the other one that the now-bankrupt Circuit City backed) and Plays for Sure (until we yank support) knows how this is going to end. Though disappointing that those backing this can't read those same tea leaves, what's really disappointing is that consumers are just going to have to wait while this plays out to the inevitable conclusion.

Look retailers, we understand why you're trying this, but snowballs in hell stand a better chance. Save us all a lot of waiting, and save yourselves some expense, own up to the inevitable and put the NFC readers back. In the meantime, expect not another dime from me, as I will actively go out of my way to avoid you and will actively seek out your competitors who have NFC readers.

EDIT: oh, wait, is it just CVS, RiteAid, and Walmart? So much for my boycott, as I'm willing to just do without before shopping at any of those three, NFC readers or not.
There is code in nightly right now for it, I believe it is pref'd off though.
I ran into a similar situation a while back while building an internal dashboard that had a fairly complex nested-table layout. It wouldn't render properly because of a bug in Firefox that had been open since 2000. I think this was the one (it seems they've fixed it): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63895
The code is GPU intensive but not quite CPU intensive so in this scenario I believe no. Certain WebGL games need their engine compiled into JS.
All of those reviews are from the last few days after the news came out. I doubt any of them are real users.
The dots all look exactly the same to me. I'm colorblind, which I'm sure is the reason for this.
Don't forget Pete's React Wolfenstein3D demo! I bring it up every time I can =). Check the inspector.

http://www.petehunt.net/wolfenstein3D-react/wolf3d.html
Paying for the VPN anonymously is possible with Bitcoin.

The reason you tunnel it all through tor is because you can't trust the VPN not to fold if the government subpoenas them. So if the data center hosting the VPN is subpoena all they can hand over are logs of tor exit nodes. If you didn't use tor, they would get your home IP and the jig is up.
I am sure the future of writing looks something like this, (first technical, then all) but it can't happen fast enough for me. I am stuck with Word on my current project but I am planning to write early drafts in Markdown and convert.
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)

Non-citizens can acquire legitimate photo ID (a driver's license, for example).
>>>Exception<<<
“Public by default” is the future of professional communication
AFAIK gpu's and ps3 cell chip did not support subnormals for that reason, also as the other poster said, they can be disabled. Alternatively you can add white-noise to your data to avoid it (Say after an IIR filter on sound data).
This article cherry-picks one idea among many. A better article:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/09/29/venice-charle...
Why can't a non-citizen have a photo ID? In most states, illegal immigrants can't get a drivers' license, but pretty much every other noncitizen can get one:
http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/Licenses/LicensesNon-Citizens.htm
I think both of you have great points. I am not trying to demean anyone or give extra credit to trolls. I do agree that this app is focused on "haters" though. It was more just a fun experiment to see how well it would even work. One thing I noticed is that most people on Hacker News have well thought out comments and are not in fact "haters" (usually only a few percent likely they post insulting comments.) As far as a chrome extension, my intention would be to help give people context for comments based on previous actions. I think transparency can sometimes be powerful and give someone an additional lens to look through when encountering an encouraging or discouraging comment.
I like my Fitbit, but I'm having a hard time liking the company.

Thing is, they're providing a service, and they're only charging for a product. I don't think this is sustainable and it makes me feel very uneasy about the safety of my data.

The cherry on the cake is that they already put their Data Export feature behind a paywall (though last I checked they allow you to retrieve a small subset of your data once for free). I concede that storing that data costs money, but they do not provide an option for me to use my own servers for that. This leaves me feeling like they're holding my data hostage, and I don't like that.

I'm looking at ways of intercepting that traffic and setting up my own server, and am interested in any similar or related projects.
It's in closed beta, so of course it's unlikely that these are real users. That doesn't make the comments less true.
The app got featured on Reddit's Apple and Android subreddits and readers were encouraged to post bad reviews, so I wouldn't read it as "public" reception, although I do agree the app is suboptimal to put it generously. Most reviews in the last few days were most probably posted by people who didn't like Apple Pay/Google Wallet being removed as an option.
There are three keying regimes I can see in common use:

* Key continuity (a la SSH)

* Web of trust (a la PGP Keyservers)

* PKI (a la SSL CAs)

Of these three, only key continuity appears to work in practice.

I'm eagerly awaiting the UX invention that somehow merges continuity and web-of-trust to make the latter tractable.

I'm definitely not complaining that there's no web-of-trust, since I don't believe in it as a workable UX solution for normal people.
I think it'd be intermittent. The problem is that you move around too much when you work out. An simple electrical sensor needs constant contact with your skin to read your HR. If it comes loose, it won't give you a wrong reading, it'll give you no reading. This is the current state of the art.

The optical HRM thing they are saying they have is likely to have the same problem. I doubt it'd give you bad data, just no data.
Then you're not operating scientifically. You have reasons not based on perception for believing something.