skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this way about all sorts of shopping now. Online shopping of all sorts is very different from physical, in-store shopping. Online there is no tactile element at all, no sense of place and no ability to examine products or be surprised by what you find. I'm not saying it's necessarily better or worse, but I do think it results in buying very different things.

The thing I miss most is book shopping. Particularly for technical books. You can't buy them on any basis but recommendation now because it's not worth it for any book store to carry them.
they didn't pay me.
Definitely doesn't need the most help, but there's been a call to action for helping write Rails docs for the 4.2 release: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/16576
Firefox OS overtakes iPhones in Peru
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544321
ps x | grep "nginx" | wc -l
But then you are back to square one - how do you establish the trustworthiness of the PPA?
"Meant to work" is very strange here. First monogamy it supposed to be a natural state. Now its an artificial social construction? Then what's so precious about it? Versus the other states that people are, and have been, living in for centuries?

Oh I get it - argue whatever it takes to make male-female marriage sacred and anything else wrong. Ok. I see.
Very nice. It's quite interesting how much better the /dev/random implementations seem to be on FreeBSD and OpenBSD than on Linux. On Linux you have to choose between long-term blocking on information theory and completely unblocking sources which can produce insecure output. Wonder if they'll ever fix this.
Why Dota 2's latest matchfixing scandal proves the game is growing up
To give a concrete example of your excellent point:

You could hack into missile guidance systems and have the missiles all route to the Pacific ocean -- having the boards fritz-out is a MUCH less powerful weapon, blowing up the factory for missiles is much less powerful than that. I'm sure if Stuxnet could make the machinery seem to work but not give them good enough materials to build anything worthwhile, (1) those engineers would have done that, and (2) the public would still not know about it.

This is perhaps the best argument for cyber-weapons, too (the intelligence/espionage element): it inverts the incentives. You build a gun, I need a better gun. You have a bomb, I need a bigger bomb that kills more people and destroys more and more. But cyber-weapons? Best cyber-weapons change the very least possible to accomplish the actual objective.

Breaking the ENIGMA, for instance, didn't change every single tactical choice for the Allies. To do so would eliminate a large portion of the benefits.
In Australia video rental stores are still relatively popular, and people generally cite reasons similar to those you articulate
I started using Respond.js and SignalR to create a little multiplayer game about a year ago, but lost my steam because there doesn't seem to be much to go on if you're just casually learning. Maybe I could give this a try, thanks.
It's not js, it's Processing, which is a simplified version of Java with an elegant, simple API for doing graphics and visual art. It compiles to Javascript via Processing.js.
The web platform is a lot more complicated than any ISA. The right comparison is having the same operating system version as the user, and anyone that develops native apps does have to care about that.
Testing JavaScript with Mocha, Chai, and Sinon
Turns out... one of the easiest ways to create a better economy is to eliminate malaria. It's that bad of a disease, that it contributes to poverty at the national level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Economic_impact

It's more difficult to expand and modernize your economy when a significant fraction of your population contracted mild brain damage from preventable infections.
Looks great so far! Are you planning to open source it? I'm sure, many people would be glad to contribute, including myself :)
great product! Takes the worry out of the parents when the kids are using youtube.
I'm not a big fan of Windows 8 either.

Linux mint was the the distro I was using for their HiDpi support. I'm not sure if it matters that much as it's really the drivers that let it down. I also tried the latest Fedora but that failed to even boot on my machine... (probably wasn't monitor related).

To be honest you could probably get it to work with perseverance and Linux nohow. One of the problems I was having was that whenever I would wake the screen from sleep it wouldn't give me a login dialog and would require a hard reset. When I searched the problem I got the open-source blame shift, "it's their implementation that's broken. We're not changing our code" so I ragequit and went back to Bill.
I can't fix your police or healthcare systems, and I do appreciate that it sucks if you have people behaving unpredictably around you. We do need to remember that if they have a mental illness then they're probably not living on the streets out of choice, and that if they had affordable meds and healthcare you would be seeing a lot less people on the street.

What I can do is to ask you to not assume that violent behaviour is a result of a mental health problem; or to not assume that a person with a mental illness is going to be violent. (Apparently I can do that more politely than I have so far.)
As a public policy matter, and if I had to guess, these controls have more to do with retarding the flow of any high-end technology to the USG blacklist. The policy goal isn't to prevent organizations on the blacklist from being able to deploy RSA encryption, but rather to prevent them from sourcing technology of any sort from US companies.

Blacklisted organizations can obviously still source RSA, along with whatever platform they want to run it on, but it's presumably more expensive for them to do so.
What you are talking about is a new phenomenon. Silicon Valley in 2008 was different - rents were lower, and $120K with 2 kids and one income was OK. There has been a dramatic increase in rent/real estate prices in the last 6 years that has completely schewed the system and the culture. Silicon Valley has thrived in years when rents were OK, people were not greedy and yet great Companies were built.

I remember going out of Stanford in 2003 - at the time a job at Oracle for a CS MS grad was awesome - and yet, people went on to create Facebook, LinkedIn, and all these Companies, and rent were OK, salaries were good, and you had this mindset of "I am going to give this a shot" everywhere that is at the heart of Silicon Valley.

Extreme greed as you describe is a new thing. It may have been there in 99-01 but I can tell you none of that was there in 01-04 and it was much less profound in 06-09.

The reality is that all things work in cycles. People who genuinely love tech will stay, others will go back to Wall Street or Consulting.
The Scalable Commutativity Rule
From the paragraph above the photo:

> The researchers went about this by sneaking up on a nesting penguin from behind, covering its eyes, and sticking a cardio-frequency monitor on its back and putting the receiver (a watch-like device) around its flipper.
According to http://www.fastcoexist.com/3037899/we-took-ikeas-new-automat..., it isn't being released just yet due to a production problem. It was on the IKEA website a few days ago, so they probably just took it off for now.
It needs to be a concrete threat to Daniel J. Bernstein.
It will be interesting to see how Redbox fares in the next few years.
Lumino City – puzzle adventure game with hand-made sets
Atypical Startup Career Advice Learned from 4B-Dollar Exits
> I would much rather wars were fought with code and robots than with tanks and bayonets.

I don't mind Robot Wars either, but last time I checked we have plenty of robots killing nothing but people.

> Certain countries were going to neutralize that facility. Had to, for survival reasons.

Really? I'm pretty sure Iran's nuclear facilities are operating and everybody in the region is still alive and kicking.

I don't mean to offend you, but when you use phrases like "had to" and "for survival reasons" the argument is pretty much over anyway. Furthermore, even if it were true, chances are you and me wouldn't know about it.

> I am a big fan.

I bet you are.
It's not about already released browsers, but possibly future versions.
I don't know how he got there but I can get a similar list by getting a Browse dialog out of Downloads and going to the security settings for a folder and looking at the dialog for selecting users to add to a folder's ACL.
Being in the top 15th percentile of income might not be as much of a consolation if you live in the second most expensive metro area in the U.S.
Another reason I think the valley works so well is the audience its news outlets have. If you have a great product but can't get news coverage on it, its going to be hard to get growth without a large marketing budget. However, if you're friends with a friend of a Techcrunch write, its much easier to get covered and start to get a core group of users who love your product - and are tech savvy enough to understand that features that don't exist yet will be coming, and they should be patient.

If you try to bootstrap a startup without using SV's media outlets (as would be the case for people who don't have connections to these folks), you're going to have a much harder time.
Figlet sighting. Font: slant. :-)
Is the driver situation any better in Bootcamp for Nvidia than AMD? Bootcamp's drivers for the AMD 6750 in my late 2011 MBP were usually many versions behind, meaning some games it had the specs to handle wouldn't even run, and there was no way to upgrade with the OEM drivers. I ended up removing Bootcamp entirely to have more room for the now quite extensive selection of OSX-compatible games on Steam.
White House moves to 'kill off the password' – TheHill
Hi, the author here.

I hear what you are saying, but I think the big difference between Angular 2.0 and (for example) something like Python 3 is that the goals and direction of Angular 2.0 are directly aligned with the future of the web whereas Python 3 changes were changes just for the sake of changes.

In other words, the world of the web is going to change drastically over the next two years regardless of what Angular does.

Now, I do think there are other approaches. Take Ember for example. They plan on building on top of all the new features coming out, but they are taking a more measured, iterative approach. The thing is that just because it seems like a good idea for Ember does not mean it is a good idea for Angular.

Look at it this way. If nothing else, it is really awesome to have two big front end frameworks taking two drastically different approaches to achieve a similar goal. There are merits to the Angular approach, but it all comes down to execution.

As much as I am rooting for Angular 2.0, it very well could be a train wreck. But, that is why I am planning on being an active participant during the entire process and I will do my best to make sure that doesn't happen.
Looking forward to all the great new features. Your commitment to the regular release cycle has made a huge difference to our team. We're backing ember all tge way.
Ask HN: How do you test your work?
I am currently looking at tools/software that my company can use to help improve our testing workflow . We are a digital agency and most of our work is building responsive, cross browser websites for clients. I have been looking at saucelabs.com for automated testing and also looking into TDD(test driven development) but I am interesting in finding out what you do at your company to test for code/products before you ship.

Another question I'd love to know the answer to, large companies such as GitHub who push code everyday how do they browser test? Is it someones job to just sit there and manual test all the browsers? Or do they use a system such as sauce labs?

I'd love to chat about this in depth, so if anyone is willing to spare a few moments and would rather talk offline they could email me hello @ joshhornby.co.uk
If house prices are as bad as HN indicates I can understand how that income could put a person if not in the "working poor" then into the lower middle class.
If you have a pointer to an immutable data structure, you know it won't change, so you can write it out to disk at your leisure.
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I am using a $50 standing laptop desk that I got from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BBNROI/ref=oh_aui_detai...

It doesn't have a huge table surface, but the height is adjustable and it has rollers if I want to move it around (a feature I use every day).
There's a difference between an algorithm and a piece of working software, as most programmers are painfully aware.
I don't think he's saying that there is no network, or that the using the network isn't helpful. It seems like his primary point here is that your relationship to this network doesn't need to be pre-existing. If you know nobody in SV, but build something great, you will quickly get to know people.
> Since PUFs typically get their values from random process variation

How sure are we that this is the case, and how can we verify it? You can burn in whatever bits you want to the PUF. If there is a list, a product to UID mapping, a deterministic UID generation process or even PRNG that isn't strong enough the Secure Enclave falls.
Thanks - that is the first argument I heard in favor of Uber. I mean thinking why cabs sucked so hard, I suppose it is difficult to create a new cab company to fix things. So maybe Uber makes it simpler to fix things by starting a cab company (a cab company of one car+driver).
Forgive my ignorance, but are you taking this as a MOOC? If so, what were you expecting?
A great idea but it exposes a lot of rough edges in Azure:

1. The Microsoft Remote Desktop Mac app is a UI trainwreck – not just wasted space and odd keyboard shortcuts but things like the Azure login process disabling password managers and the one-time auth code via SMS service never arriving.

2. Azure's federated Live.com logins are broken, cycling between the login page and the console hitting you with a “You have logged out elsewhere”

3. In US East, US West, Southeast Asia and East Asia, connections hang (20+ minutes) at “Please wait for the User Profile Service”

I'm really looking forward to trying this service when Azure is more stable and, hopefully, they add older versions of IE.
I just gave up trying to read a newsweek mobile form article because of this (site kept resetting the scrollpoint to the top of page). If I can't read a text article on my $500 pocket super computer, I'm beyond annoyed.

And I agree, even if your scroll .js works perfectly, the callbacks leave a perceptible pause on most phones.
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various gulp and spa boilerplate.

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Microsoft provides free VM images for IE6 through 11 -- https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
Try looking into Scribe. They describe it as:

> A rich text editor framework for the web platform, with patches for browser inconsistencies and sensible defaults.

https://github.com/guardian/scribe
I'd certainly love to get a group of people together and design a nice HTTP/1.2+ step. But unfortunately it would stand no chance of wide adoption. There's an unbelievable level of bureaucracy and unwillingness to work with outsiders in the major web browser developer teams.

Nonetheless, it's nice to at least put proposals out there. Would you be interested in my 'Content-Push: "filename", ETag' header for your spec? Basically, a server could tell you in advance all of the stuff you're going to need to load the page, and give you the ETags (which would usually be sanely formatted timestamps or file hashes), which could prevent lots of If-None-Match connection requests. That would greatly help on thread-based servers like Apache.

And FWIW, I really like the WWW-Authenication: Mutual idea.
To be fair to Altman - his article touches on costs: "(assuming, of course, that they can afford the wildly-out-of-control housing costs, which is probably the biggest weakness here right now)"

Interesting take though, you argue that the issues generally considered the biggest problems of SV, are the cause of its success.
Author of ember-cli here (and previously the maintainer of ember-rails), this is essentially how my team uses ember-cli at work. Purely as a development harness and deployed to work nicely alongside a rails app.

One of my co-workers has a great related talk: https://speakerdeck.com/lukemelia/lightning-fast-deployment-...

And another related blog post: http://blog.abuiles.com/blog/2014/07/08/lightning-fast-deplo...

I suspect we will want to migrate the ember-rails story to be officially more aligned with the above approaches.
Building free software will never be a default mode, simply because building software inherently requires effort. Having the tools in one download or another doesn't appreciably change that.
trucoin is legit
> You seem to be confusing "food security" with "very low food security".

From the link:
"Food insecurity—the condition assessed in the food security survey and represented in USDA food security reports—is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food."

"reports of reduced quality"

What do you think quality means in a nutritional context? How it tastes? No, that is desirability.

> The natural consequence of not getting enough food is weight loss. Where are the skinny poor people? Note that here in India, even in a well developed city, they aren't hard to find. In the poor parts of the US where I've lived, you mostly just see fat people.

You do realize you can just eat a bunch of starchy foods and suffer malnutrition but not lose weight right?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/malnutrition-obe...

I think the issue here is you are trying to be pedantic without understanding the context of the words being used. That and complete ignorance of "sufficient calories to gain weight" != "3 square meals a day".

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
"(Especially of food) having different elements in the correct proportions:
a healthy, balanced diet"

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
"A substantial, satisfying, and balanced meal:"

So your argument is basically:
"Well 14.3% are alive and not starving to death"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512141912.ht...

2-3,000 people a year die from malnutrtion in the US.

> The natural consequence of not getting enough food is weight loss. Where are the skinny poor people? Note that here in India, even in a well developed city, they aren't hard to find. In the poor parts of the US where I've lived, you mostly just see fat people.

This isn't evidence either btw. Its anecdotal. You are refusing 5% of the population doesn't get enough to eat and people dying every year in the US as "well, I don't see it".

But hey, 2-3,000 people dying a year isn't a problem for you eh? Because its just envy. Nope. No material impact whatsoever.
Calling all Growth Hackers
Having attended ISWC numerous times, this conference is long dead. It is the perfect example of eminence-based vs evidence-based science. Technicality of paper if low, most of the paper gathers bad and useless description logic theorems from the very same guys each year.
The consanguinity rate is higher than any other CS conference.
The quality of the conference is in fact well disputed among academics. Core[1] ranking puts it as a B conference (later updated to A due to request based on scholar values[2]). Arnetminer[3] and Academic Search[4] put it in A+/A tier.
These latter are drawn from bibliographic metrics while the first ranking is the result of a poll among australian researcher. Altough we disagree on rugby, I'm with the aussies for this one.

The industry track exists for the record. Much of semweb companies were funded using EU money and went bankrupt when the money went out. I can't believe the EU continues to inject plenty of money for the semweb in H2020 despite having wasted more than 1B in the previous decade (publicly admitted by the EU).

At ISWC 2012 in a workshop that took place the day before the conference, some guy (don't remember his name) asked the speaker "would this building explode, do you think the semweb would still exist ?". The speaker tried to find examples of people doing semweb in the industry, but did not manage to convince anyone, not sure if he did it for himself.
This was (and is) a nice summary of the situation of the semantic web.

[1] http://core.edu.au/

[2] http://103.1.187.206/core/1338/

[3] http://arnetminer.org/page/conference-rank/html/All-in-one.h...

[4] http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=3...
Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77
No, no, no, listen, all of these people knew exactly what they were doing, and made great decisions. They must have done - why would they be CEOs and investors paid telephone number salaries otherwise? You'd have to live in a pretty crazy world for that to be the case!
Emulating an era, not just the video game (In VR)
I happen to like many of the New York Times articles that "mess" with your scrolling (that is, use the position changes to trigger events). To me, they somewhat resemble magazine articles with full page images in them, and I don't see a problem in there.
Now if only Apple would do the same thing for Safari...
"not too many people drive Ferraris or talk about their vacation homes" unless you're in Palo Alto, Atherton, Woodside, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc.

That's probably why there's been a geographic shift to SF.
Yes, we're actively working on getting a mobile version out, we expect to have an Android version this week, and iOS shortly after (obviously pending app store approval as well). If you shoot us an email at press@1157.pm we'll let you know when you can download it.
You may want to take a look at Rainforest: https://www.rainforestqa.com/
American tech companies still in america are becoming the unluckiest bunch. Their competitors pay a third of tax, are free from having to answer to the NSA, and generally don't have to put up with cold war nonsense from the likes of the BIS. If it weren't for american talent, many many more companies would make the move.
>[..] The answer is that they were incredibly lucky.

I'll never buy that statement.
Did you read the article? It claims that Blockbuster had Netflix on the ropes with their "Blockbuster Total Access" thing, which was basically Netflix but better due to the physical stores and 10x more customers. Then they decided not to pay the CEO what he was due, he quit, the whole leadership team left, they brought in a new CEO who was terrible, and they abandoned the Total Access plan and were bankrupt within 2 years.