skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this (artist undertook "Guerrilla Public Service", donning CalTrans worker garb and modifying a highway sign to be more helpful to motorists):
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-31/la-life/richard-ankrom-s-...

"The sign was so authentic that Caltrans officials let it remain in place for eight years, four months and 15 days, until its removal last month under a standard scheduled replacement. "
It's not just early adopters vs late adopters. And nobody is saying to disregard all of IE, only very old versions.

We're talking about dropping support for a browser that is mostly used on a thirteen year old operating system that even Microsoft has dropped support for.

My site is unlikely to ever have a significant number of IE8 users. It revolves around a nerdy hobby that people easily spend $500/year on, often in big chunks. They aren't letting their tech get that out of date.

I fully admit that this isn't every market, but you absolutely CAN make decisions about your specific market and decide that IE8 just simply is not and never will be worth it.

On the other hand, there are certain markets that will probably have to worry about IE8 for ten more years.
Facebook Open Sources Host Monitoring Tool
"By the late 1960s they did the technical ability, not to mention the requisite madness, to send three guys to the moon and back. They did not have the technology to fake it on video." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film
It SHOULD be intended for real time feedback. People aren't going to remember how they felt at particular times after watching a particular movie.
Flow Free with challenge mode
Or a sneaky market test for reactions.
Show HN: Review my startup idea – financial forecasting for small businesses
HN,

I've founded www.investable.io creating a web app for small businesses who need a financial/operational forecast for the purpose of pitching to investors.

Right now I just have a prototype working and trying to get my first paying customers.

Was hoping to get some feedback from those of you who have used something like this before or have done work in the space.

Any feedback on my landing page or pricing would be hugely helpful. Right now I just have a basic forecasting tool so charging a flat fee, but looking to get into a monthly revenue model once I have some other functionality built in.

If any of you are interested in trying it out, just mention to me that you heard about it on HN and I'll hook you up with a discount.
The parent's claim was that Drupal is monolithic, bloated, and behind the times -- not that it was lacking in functionality.

If anything, linking to massive governmental organizations and universities (both famous for their bureaucracy and resistance to change) that use Drupal would seem to support his claim.
Damn, thought I invented the array path thing :) I love how clear it is to read but my favorite thing is how easy it is to apply it:

var x = { a: 1, b: 'B', c: { x: "X", y: "Y", z: "Z" }, d: [{p:"P"},{q:"Q"},{r:"R"}] };
["d", 1, "q"].reduce(function (prev, curr) { return prev[curr]; }, x);
>>> "Q"

I got stuck at indexing as well. I feel like there's a good solution involving using an array element within the path array to denote a selector query of sorts but I haven't hashed it out yet.
I lived in a different world for so long that my default behavior is to make sure my phone and laptop are in my car when I go into someone's building.

Larger defense contractor facilities have those types of conference rooms as well.
I kept looking for what exactly made it "bomb-proof" in the product description, but saw no mention of any plating or kevlar or anything, so it seems like a suspicious claim.
Throwaway here. A couple years back, we thought about hiring this guy for a security assessment, so we looked into him.

He didn't check out. He appears to be lying about his military background in Israel and has little in terms of information security skills. No certifications. Nobody in the field knows him. He refuses to provide any proof of his claims. His blog posts are vague ramblings without real substance.

He's what's known as a "charlatan" in attrition.org lingo. I'm not sure why he hasn't been called out by Attrition yet, but he's probably flying below their radar.

You can easily find his real name and do some Google and Archive.org searching and see that none of his story or timelines check out. He did work in an entry-level security position for a Waltham, MA company for a short time.

The best I can tell is that he's an EDC gear junkie with dreams of being a spy.

PS: He is not affiliated with the fine people at GORUCK.
I think what a lot of people mean when they say consciousness
is "what is being directly experienced" (ie. the experience of ones own existence). Now there's seems to be more restricted definitions around, but this one is to me the most self evident, and useful (and I'm not aware of any other word that does the job, which is kind of mad).
Pfft. Classic Hackernews... downvote to pluto without discussion despite validity of alternate perspective. One day you kids will learn :)

To spell it out, "Optimization considered harmful" means time may be misspent caring about these things, and/or actually result in changes to your application or service that will take it backwards in measurable ways.

"In particular, optimization introduces complexity, and as well as introducing tighter coupling between components and layers." means, for example, that relying on Google Cloud's SSD support to run your service locks you in and makes you dependent on them, their ability to provide availability, their internal decision on how long they choose to maintain that service offering, and their internal decisions on pricing. It further suggests that this time may be better spent getting to the heart of the problem, eg. removing the disk I/O performance constraint from your application that made you want an SSD in the first place by sharding your datastore.

This is a pretty valid line of thinking as an antidote to 'rah rah'.
Text diff is based on surrounding lines, specifically, siblings, parents, and children in this case. In JSON Patch, only the parents matter.
Libsass is missing some hugely important features, but it (appears to be) in very active development and the disparity list is shrinking.

Even lacking missing those features, the 12x compilation speed improvement in libsass is pretty compelling.
Can I ask why you feel that way?
Microsoft Band (official site)
I don't see why writing secure code and new features are mutually exclusive tasks.
But that's exactly my point - Sprout doesn't do this, but it provides a form factor with all the sensors and actuators necessary to do so. An application could then provide this functionality and support these use-cases.

Yes, it'd be a very complex application, solving some fairly hard CS and CV problems, along with probably needing to invent a whole suite of new UI paradigms.
I think there is benefit in at least recording and optionally uploading data to the cloud for now.
Interesting, didn't sound like an ordinary nurse. Sorry if I came off somewhat arrogant in my earlier post.

Was she acting as a nurse or NP when she was taking care of you? The radiologist deserves some credit too in my opinion as they are the one to interpret the study. It is easy to include aortic dissection in differential along with other things that could kill you quickly (e.g. MI, pulm embolism, pneumothorax, etc ...) but harder to make the definitive diagnosis. Glad you made it.
Reflog: Samsung's Mobile Profits Plummet
Exposing the Flash EITest Malware Campaign
Do you wear it on the inside of your wrist? Otherwise wouldn't the display be sideways?
Yep definitely a fad. I used up band religiously for a year couple of years when it came out. After a while I got sick of one more thing to keep track of, was just too overbearing.

I see a counter trend where technology becomes invisible, fades into background and still works for us instead of being in out faces all the time.

Smartphones, smart glasses, smart watches everything that wants a piece of our attention is going away soon.

I want to learn the routes around my neighborhood and not need a map in my eyeglasses. I want to talk( or not talk) to friends in real life not text message them. I just want to come home an play my piano not read a twitter battle on my phone. I want fall asleep talking to my partner/dreaming about future, not obsesses about my deep sleep rem cycles. I want wake up when I am done sleeping not by a smart alarm keeping track of my sleep cycles. I just want to eat eggs and toast for breakfast not powdered rice from a plastic bag.

I don't want any of this smart* shit. Please make it stop.
Ask  HN: Dealing with Failed Interview at Google and AWS?
I went on the interview with Amazon AWS and Google, and I couldn’t make it to the final round. It is disappointed but I feel thankful for this opportunities and I’ve learned a lot. I am a person who never be afraid, always moving forward and never stop. Always looking for positive opportunities. I’m very sure what I want and where I want to be in the future. But this feeling I have right now is kinda lost and confused. I’ve been taking care of my family since I was in school, I have pretty rough journey of live but I’ve done quite a good job on being a good daughter, responsible sister and strong self. I never give up no matter what. But these days I’ve been quite depressed and never have this feeling before. So many night I have (real) dream about the night my brother die and I wake up and cry, feeling lost, lonely and kept asking myself random questions. I tried to meditate to tame the mind and thought but it seems like it didn’t work as it always. I make a joke on it, maybe it is quarter life crisis, I’m 25 and soon turning 26, I should be ok by then.haha. I guess this could be an aftershock from AWS and Google interview. And I don’t know how to deal with it.… anyone ever struggle in this feeling before and how to get rid of it? Any suggestion or comment would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much :)
Security is one of those things you can't just toss in at the very end. In order to do it right, you really have to include security in your design from the ground up.

It seems like bullshit at first. The model of "secure software development" tends to culminate in notably different software designs. For instance, a proper payments service would have security at its forefront. A naive one might process all requests that come its way; OTOH, a secure payments service might choose to process only those requests that seem trustworthy (does the request look suspicious? does the requester have a history of abuse? etc.).

Security is something that will fundamentally shape the architecture and design of your system. You can't just go back and make these types of gigantic changes.

I guess it all comes down to whether you are willing to accrue technical debt by not designing securely from day 1. If you get funded, you can go back and change things, but (in practice) you can only change so much.
You haven't defined "knowledge".
I wonder if this is a litmus test for rejecting CurrenC from the App Store for duplicating functionality that's already provided by iOS (Apple Pay). Have a go at the little guys, one of them bites with a lawsuit and Apple gets to duke it out in a fairly low-risk legal game.

Apples wins => likely to block CurrenC (and has a legal precedent for upcoming challenge)

Apple loses => unlikely to block CurrenC
"I would like to see some convergence of terminal and windowing-system happening. I initially dreamt of a graphical terminal but then I thought why not go one step further and make it the main interface (so something in the middle of a graphical terminal and a tiling window manager). However I still need to carve out the details."

While I am skeptical about discarding (some amount of) backwards compatibility, I'm very interested in this. Feel free to shoot me an email.
It would be really neat to be able to ski down a Web page. Is that what the Chrome extension does?
>Why can they lie to us, but we can't lie to them?

Same reason they can arrest you and you can't arrest them.

One of the jobs of the police is to investigate crimes. Deceit, when used properly, is one tool in the toolbox for good and effective police/detective work. I mean the typical "good cop, bad cop" interrogation technique can be considered deceitful.

They must use deceit (and other tactics) within the confines of due process of law to protect the accused as well as the public at large. Courts use the term "shocks the conscience" for the type of deceit that, well, shocks the conscience, and that type of deceit isn't allowed. There isn't an exact line drawn in the sand over when legitimate police work turns into "shocks the conscience" behavior because it can be somewhat subjective at times. However, a clear example would be a police officer pretending to be the suspect's court appointed attorney in order to gain evidence. See also: Rochin v. California[1]

If police posed as paramedics in order to enter your house, that definitely would pass the "shock the conscience test" thus violate due process of law. Doubly so if they somehow purposely injured you or your spouse to get you to call.

Furthermore, police don't need to obtain a search warrant if they have probable cause. The plain view doctrine[2] would likely apply as long as the officer was lawfully in your home (you invited her in for tea) and all your murder weapons covered in blood were laid out on the coffee table. I'm being hyperbolic, but you get the point. The officer also doesn't need a warrant if you consent to a search. Your consent can be taken away at any time though.

This is a really really great overview on the topic - http://policelink.monster.com/training/articles/1911-lying-t...

And here[3] are two recent cases out of New York (these are state court, not federal, but I still think they are good examples of the concept)

>In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals tossed out the 2009 conviction of Adrian Thomas for the murder of his infant son, finding that Troy, N.Y., police had overstepped their prerogative to use artifice when they told Mr. Thomas that his son, who was brain-dead, was alive and could be saved with his confession, among numerous other falsehoods.

>In another decision on Thursday, the court also upheld a lower court’s ruling to overturn the conviction of Paul Aveni for criminally negligent homicide in his girlfriend’s heroin overdose death. The court agreed with the earlier ruling that police had coerced Mr. Aveni into confessing, telling him that his girlfriend was still alive, but could die if he did not tell them what drugs he had given her, so that she could receive proper treatment.

It is all a delicate balancing act to try to keep the system fair to everyone.

And FYI, I am under no illusion that there are no corrupt police, things always are perfect, etc., etc. I just am trying to give an overview of the concepts, the implementation is not perfect.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochin_v._California

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_view_doctrine

[3]http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0221/How-much-can-police-l...
Not surprising with all its features, but for wearables, that's a killer. My Fitbit can do 5-6 days, and I would consider that on the shorter end of decent battery life.
Then you fall back on backups. These are all very old admin problems.
Yes - we use libsass across the board, including building BS3, and have had no issues with compatibility. It used to have a problem with high precision numeric values (like "6.666666666%" in BS) but that's has been resolved.
In the video where PhoneBloks visits NK Labs in Boston the phone boots.

http://blog.phonebloks.com/post/101254153023/video-project-a...
"A full charge can last up to 48 hours, but can vary significantly depending on your settings, usage, and other factors."[1]

That doesn't make me optimistic about using the GPS for very long.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa...
I might misunderstand your comment but FWIW, buried in RFC 5789 the description of PATCH calls for a "description of changes" to be sent, so JSON Patch is trying to define a format for the set of changes to meet the requirement for using PATCH (and implementing REST) correctly. Still, JSON Patch is just too clunky compared to the elegant simplicity of JSON itself, IMHO.
Promo video is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvjulEJH9w
> Speaking as a construction worker, you'd be quite surprised how easy it is to get into places you generally shouldn't with no one asking questions.

No, in general I'm not. At a place where the mere location of the main server room is confidential information, though, I would be very surprised.

> Your #4 assumes he'd be logged coming and going, which in my experience isn't true for construction workers.

It was true of every defense contractor facility I have ever been to.

> Also hiding inside the building isn't necessary. He knew his methodology for getting into the place, which meant accessing the roof. Security wouldn't check the roof once the electrical contact shows the door or hatch is closed.

Well, I was counting on the roof as inside the building; I wasn't clear on that. Still, security should have known the door had been opened at some point, and done due diligence with facilities to find out if there was a reason

> The weakest link in security is human nature. Build me the most complicated lock in the world, and it's only valuable if people remember to lock it and you can't get them to unlock it for you.

Absolutely correct, which is why training and awareness are the most important features of an effective physical security plan.[1]

Basically, I keyed off the author's statement that this client has security and started thinking, WWDSSD[2]? The items I mentioned in my original post are items I would flag if I were inspecting a facility, in addition to what the author mentioned.

[1] Shit, I'm starting to sound like a fucking DSS training pamphlet.

[2] What Would the Defense Security Service Do
That sounds like a good program.
Are we discussing consciousness everyday ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515361
Well, yeah, you can just pony up the cash and take the class. Your experience would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDob3m6rds - it's really technical, and really challenging. If you have the cash to waste, and a week, it could be fun.
Apple rejects tons of apps everyday, sometimes for wrong or incorrectly interpreted reasons. Its a pretty goofy, imperfect process. Doubt they're trying to set any precedent.
No one is forcing you, idiot.
My fitbit has just emailed me to let me know it's charge time. 5-6 days isn't really enough for my useage.

However, this is better than many of the smart watches to me, why have a large circular face?

Plus the price point of $199 isn't bad at all.
The main reason I bought a garmin vivofit is that the battery lasts a year.
Introducing Microsoft Band
I actually like the look of these bands more so than the watch look Apple is going for...
Got a nice package of on board sensors:

Optical heart rate sensor

3-axis accelerometer/gyro

GPS

Ambient light sensor

Skin temperature sensor

UV sensor

Microphone

Haptic vibration motor

The 2 day battery life is the one turn off for me. Otherwise this is actually quite nice for $199 cross platform fitness wearable
"WIRED: Getting back to the theory, is your version of panpsychism truly scientific rather than metaphysical? How can it be tested?

Koch: In principle, in all sorts of ways. One implication is that you can build two systems, each with the same input and output — but one, because of its internal structure, has integrated information. One system would be conscious, and the other not. It’s not the input-output behavior that makes a system conscious, but rather the internal wiring."

Isn't this the definition of a non-testable assertion? The observable input-output behavior is the same, yet he claims the property of consciousness is different. So where is the test?
for maximum effect, watch this first: http://funny.garrytan.com/this-is-a-generic-brand-video
For history buffs, Pierre Wellner built a similar system at EuroPARC in 1991 called the Digital Desk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lCetZ_57g
> The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result, is it not?

No, it's not. My definition of insanity is believing that every action in the entire world is idempotent. ;)
> Not every product on the market is designed for you personally.

Sure they are. I am product Gawd.

> Again, you keep saying that you have lots of exercise activities you know about and enjoy, and that the challenge you've had is overwork. Lots of other people don't have lots of exercise activities they enjoy, but measurement, and the feedback and sense of accomplishment from improving their numbers is something that they get positive feelings from which help counteract the negative feelings from an unpleasant activity that doesn't produce immediate tangible results

I see your point.

> although, for people whose challenge is overwork, measurement can be an early signal that an imbalance is occurring that might be visible before tangible harm, so it could be useful for people whose situation is more like yours

So a fitness app could use tracking to alert me when I need to take a break from work and repeatedly prod me to get exercise? I'd smash it and then I'd need an anger management app to help me cope with my fitness app. ;)
Now here's a thought!
This is like a deep ad for backpacks, right? Alpha Mac Infosec Warrior thing - like if you love minimalism and jingoistic tech-spy novels, we've got the gear for you?

I prefer that to the alternative - that someone is purring while looking at OCD pocket dumps of watches, wallets, pocket knives, and patches.
Sure. Ping me on XMPP if you like. I use OTR.

https://scott.arciszewski.me/contact

Or, GPG + Email works too.
Because on an ipad, there is not a calculator, so swiping up does nothing, there's no calculator button to tap.

I've installed pcalc for this reason, and love it.
Better than Basis Peak... except it's missing the galvanic skin response sensor. I'm really happy about the UV sensor (although I already backed SunSprite, which is a disaster)! Best of all, Microsoft Band will have APIs unlike the data-stingy Basis!
Why? That's a bit like saying a back end development framework is only a starting point, and you should start working outside of it as soon as your product is mature.

I don't think the name carries the explicit rejection of ongoing use that you believe it does. That you can use it to get started quickly does not mean you can't use it indefinitely; it's often necessary to tweak or hack Bootstrap to fit your specific visual requirements, but for a project that can actually use it without serious modification, I don't see a reason to throw out the convenience and consistency it provides arbitrarily, simply as a matter of course.
Wow, this actually looks fantastic. Microsoft has always killed it in the hardware department. Looks like it connects to their cloud service as well. Will probably consider getting one.
This looks like something Apple should have been working towards for the Mac Pro, geared toward creative professionals.
Thanks! Do you have a link to your games by any chance?
Yes, I think similar. That's the reason, I wrote "at least".
How Bad Are the Colleges?
No, they shouldn't reinvent the wheel at all. They should reference the WHATWG specs, like they do IETF and Ecma specs.

There's no "reusing" going on here, just plain old copying-and-pasting.
Thanks for the reply. Sure my twitter is @modernprogrammr - would love to check out his stuff.