skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably a trial balloon [1], a tactic of leaking information in order to gauge the reaction.

For a long time in US foreign crime/terrorism policy there has been a sense of "find our enemies, no matter where they are, no matter the cost." Changing that positioning would be a big U-turn in rhetoric.

By floating this change under the guise of "sources close to the matter", they get to gauge the reaction of interested parties while maintaining cover of deniability if it's poorly-received.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon
A Unix-style mail setup (2012)
Great article. I also played from 12 to 15. There must be more of us out there. Great memories from that time spent in such an immersive world. The thrill of the "Lord" title at 20 (and 920/implosion spell) and the "Legend" title (and Hearthstone membership) at 50. Real friends, real connections. To this day I can type >100 wpm and with almost no thought or effort my fingers are tapping out "prep 702" "cast 702" from ancient muscle memories. I've often thought it would be fun to create or join a resurrected MUD similar to GS3 later on in life. There's something about the experience that I haven't found anywhere else.
How do I enable the Omnibar search behavior you describe? When I enter "a" in the Omnibar, I see amazon.com in the Omnibar drop down list, but when I hit tab, Chrome just highlights the next item in the drop down list. It doesn't search Amazon. Have you manually added Amazon to Chrome's "Manage search engines" list?

Firefox has something similar: "Keyword Searches" bookmarks. I define my own search shortcuts, such as "am" for Amazon, "imdb" for IMDB, "nf" for Netflix, and "w" for Wikipedia. Using "am Harry Potter" or imdb or nf or w will use those respective website's own search forms to find "Harry Potter".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches
Android is also the land where almost every single app can see who you call, who calls you, and get a unique serial number for your phone hardware. All because Google smuggled "check to see if the user's on the phone" permission, which many apps rightfully need, into that whole bundle.

As this is technically a very stupid move, it feels like the only way to interpret this is that Google wants more people giving up privacy, for it to be normal.

Also see: Chrome flips around OK/Cancel in the DNT enable dialog, purely to confuse and prevent users from enabling DNT.
Working in a startup is the best thing you can do as a developer
I think it really depends on how many people you follow. Less than 50? You wouldn't want to miss anything. More than 500? There's no way you could read them all. As I followed more people I transitioned from FOMO into 'dip my toes' mentality, and I still enjoy it, and much prefer it to Facebook's over curation. I like that every time I check Twitter I see new things, which isn't the case on FB.
Remember porsche started to buy up volkswagon with borrowed money? Remember when market took a major dip in 2008 and the capital was suddenly gone. They had no more runway, and volkswagon ended up buying porsche.
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Ask HN: Do you think it's good practice to hell ban for not commenting?
My previous account got hell-banned because I rarely made a comment. That's the only reason I can think of. I rarely made any submission either, so spamming can't be the reason.

Is it a good practice to ban people because they won't comment? HN has high standards for comments, I rarely feel that I am knowledgeable enough to add something valuable to a discussion; it came to me as a surprise to see anything I submit is [dead] already.
+1 for IE's touchscreen support. I keep holding out and using Chrome on my laptop for a few extensions and all of the bookmarks/passwords I have synced over the years, but IE makes Chrome look absolutely kludgy and clunky when it comes to performance and UI these days. It's a shame IE doesn't have a more approachable extensibility model...
I see it the exact opposite way. So many projects get encumbered by the decisions made early in their development. I have a current project using Angular 1.3, it works, and I will probably never upgrade it, and that's fine

My next project however will be able to use all of the lessons which led to 2.0. Innovation is a part of tech, either the Angular team will do it, or someone else will.
The Discrete-Time Fourier Series is invertible. The problem is that for each pixel the Fourier series is a complex number and what is plotted is the magnitude (so the phase is not shown). Reconstructing a signal from only the magnitudes of the Fourier coefficients is ill-posed, i.e. there are multiple signals with the same Fourier coefficient magnitudes.

Still there is active research on reconstructing signals from only the Fourier magnitudes (under several assumptions). This is called the 'phase-retrieval problem'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_retrieval
You know whats funny, I stopped using Chrome and use Firefox now because Firefox is so much faster. The exact same reason I switched to Chrome 5 years ago. Also I'm slightly less creeped out.
The blogger wrote SynthCam for iOS first:
https://sites.google.com/site/marclevoy/

Some similar technology, my impression is less "automatic" I think but more control.
Haven't seen either in action so I'm not sure how it compares.
I imagine IRC has the excuse of wanting the UI to be a simple line-based system, and thus in-band signalling is an unavoidable evil.

This same reasoning is why mail and other messages have the Header: Value format - you can compose in plain text. This is documented at least as far back as RFC 561, in 1973. Again, that's a good excuse: Users must compose by hand. Also, the RFC is just codifying what people were already doing.

HTTP, SIP, and others do not have these excuses. HTTP headers are essentially never written by hand, and the extremely few times they are, we don't need conveniences such as comments, line folding, lenient grammar, etc. (Proof: People write XML and JSON by hand far more often, without major ordeals.)
Just 19 when he wrote this!
Apple's app store rankings are all messed up
How does having a cross-platform system make their servers or systems preferable?

I'm all for it and see Java as doing quite a bit of good (despite the terribleness of the language and brain-damage it's inflicted on developers, which is a great bit of bad). I just don't get how it helped Sun, and I suppose, history shows it did not.
>Ah yes, as with any good conspiracy theory the lack of evidence is itself evidence.

Like Nixon and his deleted tapes, it's pretty clear to everyone what's going on here. The evidence is Democrats have deliberately blocked any attempt to determine how much fraud is happening.
No, these people wouldn't know better or no, it's not possible?
Good points, I hadn't thought about the app being completely client-side and the restrictions that entails.

Still, in ye olde times, it was pretty common to accept image URLs. You might be able to do some fairly simple rate limiting on the proxy to help prevent abuse. Maybe the net was just a more innocent place back then.

Anyhow, if it only works with images dragged from the user's local computer, it should really say so. It's especially confusing on Chrome, where UI cues like the mouse cursor changing suggest that dnd between windows should actually work. It generates a drop event and everything, although it appears that the DataTransfer item just contains the image URL and not its actual contents.
Nice. Sent a market research task and had really quick turn around. Thanks!
Can you define what you mean by "hell banned". My primary account, with close to 10k karma, has some kind of 3-5 second delay associated with it, so I switched to this one which has no delay.
mysql version :P plz ? haha.
You're mistaken - 3G/UMTS supports circuit-switched voice calls just fine. It's 4G/LTE that hasn't supported voice calls until very recently when the first networks deployed VoLTE.
Not that it helps at all, but if this is the same case, the police claimed the crib was positioned to block the door. So given a situation where the police thought they were after "evil" drug dealers, and they encountered something blocking the door, it's slightly less absurd sounding.

It's still utterly disgusting, from the drug laws down to the police themselves.
Practical Timing Side Channel Attacks Against Kernel Space ASLR (2013) [pdf]
At least on one angle: Customs enforces the laws around contraband (including IP infringements) from being imported, and they are under DHS.
For non-nefarious reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495939
>It's like writing code without any review, testing and debugging

Well, most PMs don't personally review/test/debug. They assume their people have done it for them, which I'd guess is how senators operate. So in and of itself, not reading the laws isn't intrinsically bad. If they had proper oversight of their teams and knew there was enough QA in the process, they could rely on summaries from their teams.
This is one reason why burst coin is so interesting. It's mining algorithm uses stored pre computed values to force commitment of storage space rather than computation. It's way more efficient.
> safer software
What makes Rust-written software safer?
and one related article, TSX improves timing attacks against KASLR

http://labs.bromium.com/2014/10/27/tsx-improves-timing-attac...
More inefficient than using an engine rated at ~ 25% efficiency to propel thousands of pounds of steel, glass, and plastic to transport a single person?
If HB is a front for Steam, then there's a lot of side-deals going on: HB has its own distribution system and also ties into Desura. If that makes HB a front for Steam, then you might want to clarify what you mean by "front."
Apple CEO Tim Cook Happy with New Apple Pay Service – WSJ – WSJ
KISA phone is the ultimate seniors phone
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple Pay Activated 1M Cards in 72 Hours
You can do that in Firefox and with more granular control. If you right click in a search box you can choose to "Add a keyword for this search" and then you can make the keyword whatever you choose.

For example: I have a folder in my bookmarks containing like Youtube which is this url https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&oq=&gs_l= associated with the keyword "yt" so I can type yt <search term> and it loads the Youtube results. I've also added one for the Mozilla Developer Network (mdn <search term>), Python Documentation (py2 <term> or py3 <term>) and I add others as I use them more.
Check the star rating and count. Wasn't a 2-star app before they bought it. And only 1.4k reviews for a free Twitter app?

It may not be dead, but it's barely got a heartbeat.
Sadly, it has some major issues. There's no iPad version, which for me means that its feed location syncing is useless. The mentions feed doesn't include people following you or favoriting your tweets (even though they send push notifications for those events), which is major missing functionality. I've also encountered several UI bugs, but they're inconsistent and minor.
Also a review at NDPR, which makes some points similar to mine above: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/53333-philosophy-between-the-lines-t...
This has been covered repeatedly in the past. Rust inherently helps to prevent many types of memory related and concurrency errors.

Rust programs are not 'safe' in the sense that they cannot crash or have security bugs, but they are 'safer' in that the compiler automatically performs a series of safety checks to prevent common errors.
Option types and safe pointers, and modern abstractions. Some other programming languages offer these too, but Rust attempts to do them while incurring no run-time costs.
It's a nasty little feedback loop. Law enforcement displays force, people who use words like "statist" increase their arsenals and their desire to use them against what they see as illegitimate government, law enforcement feels it needs more force, people use angrier rhetoric and buy more guns.

If you believe strongly that the government is an out-of-control terroristic undemocratic police state and We The People are divinely endowed with the right to bear arms against it (like so many people in this thread do), then you must recognize that an agent of that state would be taking an incredibly stupid risk by entering your home in a way that would give you an opportunity to shoot first.

Maybe you think that risk is the price of doing business with an unjust institution, but the officer serving a warrant against you probably doesn't.
I'd love for you to dive into this one and see where you get. I think this example has a number of confusing layers. My conclusion after staring at it a long time was that the difference between SBB and SUB is that SUB/JNE allows macro fusion and leaves the loop with 4 µops, whereas SBB JNE does not fuse, leaving the loop with 5 µops. Having 5 µops slows the loop down by a cycle, which as you guessed, saves us from a problem caused by issuing the load too soon after the store, although from measuring events, I'm pretty sure this isn't related to store-forwarding. The relevant sections in the Intel Optimization manual are 3.4.2.5 for the µop multiples of 4, and 3.6.5.2 for the load too quickly after store. I'd love to understand better what's actually happening during that delay. Measurements seem to say that it causes the load to be re-executed multiple times.
Likewise, the Reagent version seems pretty short: https://github.com/holmsand/reagent/blob/master/examples/tod...
That is infuriating, isn't it, that these applications weren't kept in confidence? IANAL, but I wonder if your co-workers might not have grounds for lawsuits. It certainly has a chilling effect on your efforts to find something better.

How attached are you to living in this particular city? Because I don't see any likely way out except to apply for jobs elsewhere.
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Apple Watch to iPhone home screen prototype
I went expecting to say "well, if I'd be able to run it..."

Lo and behold, there's Linux support.

Pledged!
It is effectively impossible to have an unsafe memory access error in Rust. The compiler eliminates a huge variety of bug types, including null pointer dereferences, use-after-free bugs, memory leaks, etc. All arrays are bounds-checked and rust encourages good programming practice like using abstracted list-processing mechanisms (like mapping instead of loops) and algebraic types instead of e.g. null pointers.
IndexedDB is supported on all major browsers by now.
> data that it would not otherwise get at.

My argument is that nobody would have put that data online in a slow and sucky web. If you think Google wants full control over the audience, surely they also want a large audience.

(Note that I do not think that Google is evil. But if they were, I don't think they would need chrome to get most of that information anyways, given all the other ways they are collecting data. Sure, there are some corner cases they would miss but I don't think the incremental coverage would be worth the effort.)
> By complaining to your bosses about it - it ends up looking like you are the problem instead of them.

This.

Take that line to heart. No matter how abrasive he is, nobody likes a whiner...and you definitely don't want to be become known for cultivating office politics.

Focus on the things you can control. Namely: your work-product and how well you do your own job.
If you liked that, you might like this similar video about how a mechanical watch works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=508...
It may be suboptimal for German, but in addition to English it seems to work very well for Spanish, French, and Arabic.
Too bad they killed their developer ecosystem which was creating lots of free innovation for their platform.
... Yes. South San Francisco on the way to the airport. If it's South SF isn't that South Bay? Who drew the line and where :P
My memory was that there was a cold war, but not hot-and-heavy competition until chrome, although this article seems to agree with you.

But man, Chrome sure got good fast.

http://www.cnet.com/news/browser-war-centers-on-once-obscure...
Now that's what I call a panty raid!
I tried to search for it so I could include it in the title myself, but eventually gave up and posted without. Then I was confused when the usual 'automated' date tagging system (dang) didn't work as expected!
Sounds like a great reply. Clearly my worry was misinformed. Thanks; for the first two paragraphs anyway.

Y'know, there was a time on HN where making a supposition like that would be met with... an assumption that it was delivered out of genuine concern and not an attempt at "FUD" to "elevate interest" in the comment. Fuck you, basically.

This whole thread makes me sad. Your post is the most informative and valuable, and it's still just ad hominem flaming nonsense.

This site used to be better.
Plants Know They Are Being Eaten
Code: https://github.com/lmmenge/WatchSpringboard-Prototype
Can anyone confirm this in the UK? Also, if you're in the UK I am envious of your access to the BBC iPlayer and its ability to work as your alarm clock.
They've been mostly fine for us

* We haven't been able to transfer all our domains as they don't support all the TLDs (notable we have an .it domain languishing on godaddy)

* Their admin UI is still pretty confusing and bad. Granted not as bad as GoDaddy...

* The one time I used chat support it took 20 minutes for them to pick up

Also last I checked they were still an enom reseller.
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Ask HN: Are Dropbox and Evernote competitors?
Exactly, hell, this is completely invalid for contract programmers. Ive worked for 6 people in the last 2 years! Short term contracting is normal in some industries.
Genuinely curious as I thought I was a heavy tab user.

What do you use 18 tabs of hackernews for?

I often have the front page in one and my threads in another.. then at least a few comments pages in others.. but never more than 5-6.
I think it's likely that a few years down the road: purchasing something online will be more like clicking a "like" or "follow" button, and less akin to a shopping cart. There are some sites experimenting with this kind of idea already.

But those changes are likely to gain traction in parallel with e-wallets. Once users are used to having an ephemeral payment device attached to their online identities, it will be simple to hook into those payment devices without needing users to create a separate account on your site, add their payment info, or add items to a shopping cart.

Little by little, we'll get there.
That annoying scroll-to-top happens to me too and I use the latest Firefox version on Ubuntu. I first noticed it several months ago.

Also, some time ago, when you clicked a message to view it's context, Twitter would expand the message list inline. Now it takes you to a new page and when you return you're back to top.
I'm actually more interested in non-MVC approaches.
Have you ever considered that machine learning isn't fairly dust and that you can't sprinkle algorithms on a criteria that's poorly formulated to begin with and get an objective criteria for evaluation? I mean what is "hate" - insults? expressions of frustration? Sly insults? Sarcasm?

Also, the "most hateful" comment was me quoting someone else's rather unpleasant comment, whereas I'd prefer my distaste for lousy ideas show through more directly.
I find gandi's interface a little confusing at times, but the "No Bullshit" tagline is taken seriously.
From my experience, Chrome seems to learn about a search engine by using it. So search for something on amazon.com and it should start working.
I'm assuming it means it's the same as the Chromecast, i.e. it isn't powered from the HDMI port.
Angellist.

How? Because I can browse the companies that are hiring, see the compensation levels, and apply. The companies can find me and express interest directly.

No recruiters involved whatsoever. I think THAT model is truly the future. It's changing the world of tech recruiting because it's challenging that idea that recruiters need to exist at all... and it's a pretty convincing argument.
That's really interesting. Anything one could read publicly about this approach?
> what is the fear of drugs which is driving this?

It's just a good excuse to be perpetually at war, and war makes people very, very rich.

Notice how convenient it is that ISIS showed up and suddenly we need to go to war with them just as Al Qaeda and that war were winding down?

Pretty soon we'll have an entire generation of adults that have never known peacetime, then being at war will just be normal.
Yes and yes. :) The problem with the first one is I have to make an individual API call for each comment currently. If you go past 50 comments it starts to get slowwww. For example, I tried to pull back all of @pg's comments... Bad idea. It's like 13,000 of them. Check it:
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/pg.json?print=pre...
Isn't it actually whoever will pay the most to be the default search? I mean, I <3 google search, but i'd bet microsoft could pony up quite a bit of cash as well.
Is that available online?
Agree, for me most JS usage comes from things such as HN upvote arrow clicking, etc... and html5 youtube, yes.. but I think flash version was better ;)

Anyway, these are examples of content consumption - news, videos, etc...
You seem to fundamentally not understand how ad networks work.
We love our children too.
The "billion dollar" number is speculation, since the Google front page ad space that Chrome got isn't for sale to anyone else. "Priceless" would possibly be more accurate.
You've lost First-Mover Advantage, that's all. I'm sure your business model was premised on more than simply doing something first, wasn't it?
Thanks! Your work actually inspired the team a lot and made us think what we are doing are in fact possible. The saving/outputting part of photogl.net seems to be prone to crash. Are you planning to continue the project at anytime? If you're interested in chatting, please reach out to xiao@polarr.co!
There could be multiple equally valid reasons for Chrome to exist.
Not sure the dailymail should even be showing up here. They are notorious for being an unreliable source of information, generally with very plebeian taste for _news_ stories. I would go even as far as advising _not_ to take any news report from this tabloid as serious or news worthy. Sorry for the harsh comment, but unless corroborated by other news outfit, this is to be taken with a coarse grain salt.
Great wrtie-up. Thanks.

Europe wasn't so lenient. Microsoft paid more than $2bn in fines for Windows Media Player and for not giving the choice of web browser in some versions of the OS. Nellie Kroes was the leader here. Including €561 for skipping the browser choice dialog, which was mandatory because of a settlement of Microsoft, for 14 months in 2009.

This is 3%-6% of their worlwide revenue ($30bn circa 2002, $60bn circa 2009).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_comp...

http://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global-...

I wonder if European trial customs are a bit more intuitive and less based on the preciseness of contracts/laws than in US, leading to shorter, more intuitive decisions?
Elon Musk warns of our ‘biggest existential threat'
Found an SSL source:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases...

https://gpg.mozilla.org/pks/lookup?search=releases%40mozilla...
Does IE run on anything but Windows these days?

(Edit: Doesn't look like it. Alas.)
I just want to vent here as this article is about NASA. I have basic Time Warner Cable, the kind with basic local channels plus HGTV, Discovery etc. Got it while back for world cup.

I noticed NASA channel is not included in my package.

WTH? Isn't NASA funded by tax I paid? Why should I pay extra to see videos of NASA on TW cable? What am I missing?