skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lock screen is indeed infuriating! Does anyone know if there's a way to restore the old behavior where you could enter your pattern lock immediately after pressing the power button?

The extra swipe serves no purpose at all, given that I've already pressed the power button, and have a pattern lock.
Strengthening Our Privacy Practices
Cool point, thanks.
Neural networks are impressive only in that they are able to give any kind of meaningful results at all. In the end, they are only a poor mimicry of real machine intelligence, and not much better, conceptually, than plain old nonlinear regression.

Nobody has been able to determine what the structure of a neural network should look like for any given problem (network type, number of nodes, layers, activation functions), how many iterations of the parameter optimization algorithm are needed to achieve "optimal" results, and how "learning" is actually stored in the network.

Statistical learning methods are obviously still useful, but I think the field is still wide open for something to emerge that is closer to true machine intelligence.
Citadel Malware Steals Password Manager Master Passwords
Nicholas White's translation is my favored one. It's quite modern and very digestible.
A scientific paper on this topic: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1368064

Its conclusion: "In jurisdictions where cycling is safe, a helmet law is likely to have a large unintended negative health impact. In jurisdiction where cycling is relatively unsafe, helmets will do little to make it safer and a helmet law, under relatively extreme assumptions may make a small positive contribution to net societal health." The negative health impact is "increased morbidity due to foregone exercise from reduced cycling" as a consequence of mandatory bicycle helmet laws.
> It's far more important to ask why people are violent than with what tool they perpetrate that violence.

Well the former question is certainly a good one. Maybe you're right that it's the most important one.

However, tools matter too - a gun is a way more efficient way of killing a lot of people quickly than a knife is. Both are far more lethal than Kinder Surprise eggs.
WatchKit has Landed
> Then imagine a ninja comes in and slices the pole up, perpendicular to its axis, so you've got 20 short poles.

Why would you expect the ninja to do this? Why would you expect large-scale structures of the universe to form parallel to the quasars' axes?

As far as we can tell, the alignment of planetary systems in the Milky Way are random.[1]

[1] http://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/546/why-is-our-...
They cover slightly different territory. The post you linked is more about the aesthetics of good UI, with a little bit about functionality and UX. The solutions there do not solve or address the problem brought up in the OP here, which is more about UX and the modification of existing user interfaces. For instance, it wasn't the updated graphical style of the keyboard that the OP complained about, but the rearranged placement of keys.

That said, both are good reads and complement each other.
I rode the Honda unicycle from that OK Go video and it was surprisingly awesome
The sapphire is a completely separate issue and has nothing whatever to do with the screen resolution.

In addition, it's not even clear yet that a sapphire screen on an iPhone (as distinct from a watch) would be an improvement, because sapphire apparently shatters more easily. Which is why Apple is reportedly working on a screen incorporating a layer of sapphire on top for more scratch resistance, since it's harder, bonded to a layer of glass below, for more durability.
the article claims they are working on/have an LCD 'masking' layer can black out the area behind the projected light field
will check it out...thanks., i did work as VB.Net developer in my first job :)
Death threats, death wishes... it's over an init daemon on a software project.

I can't imagine "Someone wants to paint the front door RED?! They should die." happening under any circumstances. It's concerning to me, on many levels, that this is happening over systemd, regardless of the technical benefits or issues.
The New Boot in Windows 8.1, 8 and 7
looks interesting... thanks for the link :)
I'd maybe agree regarding the UI/animation. But L has brought some significant improvements (ART, Project Volta, background batching API, et al). So it is a good release inspite of the UI/animation updates.

Google Maps and Windows Search are two products that have been over-worked to death. Both were better in older iterations (Windows Search pre-Vista, Google Maps before they went all minimalism-stupid).

Google Maps in particular stripped out tons of useful functionality for a long period (My Places seems to appear and disappear every second release, location search history is currently MIA, compass is gone, et al).

Windows Search just tried to make it "clever" but instead made it "unreliable." They wanted to add support for everyone file format one by one (and ignore everything else) but instead managed to only support native Microsoft formats well and nothing else at all. File Search in Windows (Vista-8.1) is horrendously poor. Give me Windows 95 search.
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Machine Learning Showdown: Apache Mahout vs. Weka
I still don't see how that's bad. My current lock screen, a custom one, only unlocks if I swipe right. Not up, not down, not left. Swiping left would open the camera. There's no easy way for me to get to the dialer straight from my current lock screen. From the way you describe it, Lollipop's lock screen sounds great to me. Full notification list, the ability to interact with the notifications, the ability with a single swipe to either get to the camera, the dialer, or just unlock the phone... sounds great to me. I'm not trying to be facetious, just to be clear. It sounds like by far the most useful lock screen Android has ever had by default.

Also, for what it's worth, I find swiping up to be easier to do one-handed on large phones.
I had no idea it had gotten that bad! Seems my overreaction was justified.
No, it's your fault. Saying your IDE is to blame is the equivalent of saying using C to program is making you stupid because it abstracts you too far away from the underlyung architectures. Or like using the languages implementation of quicksort is bad because you don't know how efficient it is. IDEs are great because they can provide you with useful information about your project, and they can automate tasks, like refactoring, or setting up the boilerplate code. If you feel like you don't know what's going on, then it's up to you to understand what the IDE is doing. Once you know that, you'll appreciate the value of the tool doing most of the heavy lifting for you so you can focus on the actual work that needs to get done.
Blog post: atomic cross chain exchange, standard transaction semantics for this
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What to Pack for Certain Death: Necessities for Your Doomed Expedition
Hmm. So if I'm reading this right, Shazam makes their money from user data? I've used Shazam in the past and never realized that the data was being aggregated and sold. Interesting.

I guess the argument is that the service is free and provides value, so the data can be anonymized and sold?

As far as music goes, this seems backwards to me - and ripe for gaming. It feels as if artists are trying to score some sort of Shazam effect, rather than trying to produce good music and let the chips fall where they may. Music should be an art before a science.
Scripting Twitter: Collecting Data and Writing Bots
Why is Amazon getting into a price-war with Walmart on groceries?
Which route did you take from Oregon to California? My wife and I drove from Seattle to California after our wedding and when we entered CA on I-5, we were stopped. I initially thought it was a toll booth, so the guy at our car had a good laugh when he saw me opening up my wallet.
Physicists often DO add the arxiv reference to the published version in citations. Moreover, people know to search the arXiv, so I wouldn't discount the possibility that people find this version.
The reason I don't recommend iOS is because Apple keeps changing their policy on apps and their stuff works only with products they make. I like my friends and family to not live in Apple's world view / walled garden.

So, it's not about Apple designing great products; i recommend android because it's a better choice for freedom (which usually always ends up having to make more effort).
I doubt most do, but there's no reason to not be forward thinking and hope that new users will - IMO it's a far better experience.
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130128230?dq=inassignee:%...

This patent describes the "occlusion mask device" which is supposed to do exactly this - darken light coming from certain angles to grant the perception of blackness.
> because there's no reason you'd ever explicitly wrap an Option in an Option unless you wanted them nested

This line changed my mind. You're absolutely right.

Thanks for the feedback :)
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the videos!

Cheers,
Robin
Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it from the back-end. So now you can charge 50$ for people to search in the "special" data pile, where people took the effort to remove it from the front-end.

These data brokers crawl publicly available information. Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all, since the data was already shared. It is not plugging the leak, it is mopping up some of the water. A false sense of security and a clear sign to the doxxer that you care about your anonymity (so more "lulz" to be had).

A proper doxxing is also much more than entering a name in some search engines. Especially hackers do not like to be doxxed. For internet civilians who already put this data out there (on social media) a simple data broker doxxing is a mere reminder that such data is public to everyone, not just friends.

Doxxing defense is guarding your anonymity online. Everywhere. Doxxing defense is knowing when to change persona's, and when to log off. That is: If you care about it at all. If you care about keeping your identity a secret online, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU (The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd).
> That's the third time you've insulted me and you're saying you didn't insult me?

You are failing to comprehend the exact words I wrote in a way that I am having a hard time seeing as other than willful. Because of that, I'm taking you as a person with an axe to grind, not someone who's serious. So if you would like to be taken seriously...

And given that you leapt in to accuse me of being part of HUAC, calling me a troll is a little rich. Regardless, gender issues in tech are an interest of mine going back 20 years, so no, I am not trolling. But by all means keep up with the drama.

> By the way, judging from my comment score at least four other people inferred the same thing

Yes, that is the only possible interpretation of an upvote on Hacker News. Oh no! You have showed me! Chastened, I retreat from the field.
Or you know, use Chrome. That way, I don't have to consider what type of "web browsing experience" I need to have today.
If feminists just behaved more to his liking then he'd totally support their efforts.
Hi- this is Chris from ScaleScale/MaxCDN. I wanted to thank Kris for making himself available for this. I'd be interested in hearing pros/cons about the format for ScaleScale so we can keep tweaking our posts. We have some more great ones planned very soon - your feedback will help make them more relevant.
You know, you could replace Android 5 with 'Gnome 3', 'Ubuntu Unity', 'Windows 8' or 'Systemd' and the discussion would be exactly the same.

People just hate change, and will always think the old way is better. I remember when people were bitching about the Start button in Windows 95... Now they bitch about the Start button in Windows 8.

Personally, I think all the above items that I mentioned are better than what they replaced...
Apple's plan to beat Spotify: push Beats Music to every iPhone and iPad
Even today you can have all your HTTP traffic encrypted and compressed, using Mozilla Janus[1] or Data Compression Proxy[2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/janus-proxy-c...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-compression-p...
IIRC, there's actually a distinction between clickable stuff and text in material design.
There's something infuriating about record labels figuring out if something will hit and then jumping on it.

In the record label golden years, record labels could justify their outsized piece of the pie with the idea that (a) the make stars and (b) they take all the risk. These days, digital recording and distributions makes it all cheaper and de-risks record production. This kind of thing de-risks things further.
You are forgetting one critical fact: the NSA's language is entirely different from the language that you and I agree upon and understand.

If they are saying "only 30 intelligence employees are permitted access to the database, and only 300 searches a year", they could really mean "only 30 employees (and a multitude of contractors and military personnel) are permitted access to the database (of which they can make a copy of all remotely relevant information and then distribute to whoever), and only 300 searches a year (under our atomically narrow Byzantine definition of "searches" which completely misrepresents the real number of database queries)".

Additionally, people are really placing way too much faith in the warrant/court approval system. These courts are in the pockets of the people requesting authorization for searches; after all, the people with real information (power) can twist the arm of any judge to suit their needs.

We need to clean house from the bottom up and rebuild a system which does not permit for human corruption or human error.
Brightness is by default adaptive brightness. The slider in the menu is for relative brightness; it's still adapted.
It's one of my favorite features!

Full disclosure - I made it during my Google Summer of Code with Bram in 2008.
Any recommended links for info about moving to / living in the cities and countries mentioned on the site?
I agree, the success or failure of UI design depends on conforming to the implicit assumptions and culture of its intended audience, and, being task-based, having a thorough understanding of its intended use-case: how easily the target audience achieves the desired goal.

While the 'greatness' of aesthetics are debatable, I'd argue for design it's not. Aesthetics are based on taste, culture, technology, background and approach, whereas design is about solving problems. Everything that goes into a design must have a purpose – aesthetic choices are important, but they should be in alignment with the brief.

There are rules and concepts which one must understand and know when to follow or subvert: form, size, colour, contrast, proximity, structure, action, relationship etc. This visual grammar forms the building blocks of design. Scary territory like postmodernism or constructivism or whatever just use these concepts in different combinations to express their ideas.
* 'Excessive change is generally better than no changes at all.'

Can't agree with that. If the change isn't needed then change can't be better. The burden of responsibility for justifying the change is on the person wanting the change. To identify why the change is needed and how it's an improvement.

It's a weakness of the production team if there's a "must evolve no matter what" mentality on repeat-cycle. You could aim for "stability", for "baseline" for "solid foundations" instead of "excessive change". Then your efforts are about extending, expanding and tweaking rather than changing.

There's nothing subjective about evaluating reasons for changing an interface. There's either good reasons for the change, or there isn't. Too many people try to manipulate discussion in this business with "it's subjective". It dilutes the discussion because "subjective" doesn't commit either way, it just kind of shrugs and says "oh well, too hard to conclude anything".

When a consequence of change is that you piss off a bunch of users, then you can't say that change is inherently better each iteration. A wrong turn might be made and literally breaks the product or dents the reputation for many iterations. It happens. Nothing is immune from the great unwashed interface testers, and we don't like useless layout changes for things already committed to muscle memory.
I swipe, but I must be in a minority. People always seem a bit surprised when they see me use the keyboard that way.
The fact most of these sites even have opt-out mechanisms, and that they're apparently effective, is surprising and quite nice.

Though, I suspect this became the case out of necessity as a result of horror stories and litigation.
The Secrets to App Success on Google Play
I don't want joy, I want to be able to see my schedule this month and my schedule today, at a glance, so I don't lose my job.
for our HN friends direct invite https://algorithmia.com/signup?invite=HN24hr
In my opinion starting out from the mess that vim's code base has become over the years, can't result in something good.

That is why I started from scratch:

https://github.com/martanne/vis
While we're on the topic:

Clock - I used to be able to dismiss my 7:30 wakeup alarm if I woke up at 7:20 by simply swiping away the notification. But now I can't find any way to suppress the next instance of a recurring alarm.
The Secrets to App Success on Google Play [pdf]
The hate is strong with this one..
To the point it's blinding and making it hard to write a company's name properly :P
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> I don't know about juridical sense and I'm not sure there's one applicable worldwide.

The statement is even less true then. I would certainly guess that in every country that leasing is a term, it doesn't match your agreement with your registrar.

> "Your" domain can be seized, blocked or transferred to a third party,

That is trivially true with pretty much anything, in pretty much any country. The police will take back a stolen bicycle and return it to a third party, for example.

But it is a system governed by rules. And so is the domain name. It is yours to use, and will remain yours unless you break the rules. In most countries you can challenge any stolen or revoked domain in court.
I'm surprised that Spark's mllib wasn't included in this comparison.
And people complain about the government being unethical
Agreed, I think GMaps is probably the best example of "we have too many people working on this and we need to give them something to do". Perhaps people could have accused me of just needing to "get used to it" a year ago, but after a year of usage I find the new GMaps less useful in almost every way.
Kris from NSONE really knows his stuff. We are on process of moving all our DNS traffic to them. When starting to look into them I was skeptical of US ever using such a new provider... But their hands-on approach changed our minds...
Yes. Agreed. I'm fed up of this. One day Hangouts is fine then next day everything has changed...swiped from left to view contacts, now it's a click. Swipe to delete, now its a button...few months later here we go again. Rinse and repeat for every Google app it seems.

A friend once said to me "iPhone hasn't changed since day 1, it's still the same stupid square icons, they can't innovate"...I was befuddled. There is a reason things stay the same. They work and users know them like second nature. Unless you have a REALLY good reason to change the paradigm, just don't. Mac OS X and Windows until recently didn't really change that much in terms of usability. Why does Google love to change everything constantly?
This is a great observation.

One of the facets of the banality of evil lies in people's inability or unwillingness to integrate in their minds the purpose of their day to day production as it relates to the larger picture. In an intelligence agency, the larger picture is obscured by design.
Show HN: I'm 16, I made a game for people who hate balloons :)
Three dots. Obvious it is a menu (sarcasm).

I have just realized in the last month or so that three stacked bars is a menu (bootstrap style). I am sure those have been around for a while now.
Wow. This is an app just waiting to be built. I would definitely subscribe to a service like this. And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Developers, start your IDEs!
The funny thing is I just switched from my Windows Phone back to Android and Lollipop and it's been a nightmare.

All my friends told me how much better Android would be and this is a nightmare compared to how much better my Windows phone handles stuff like the calendar, multiple email boxes and other things Lollipop seems to fail at miserably now.

I'm actually considering going back after less than a month trying to wade through all the changes.
You have to differentiate the actual network that holds the data (possibly as a DHT) and the network implicitely described by the statements.

The way you avoid clique is by staying within your clique. That is requiring that the entities you extend trust to be trusted by people close to you, who themselves trust each other.

But it's not just cliques. Say you have a system like eBay, based on buyer feedback. eBay can be fooled by playing a long game, and selling a lot of cheap items for a while before selling a big item.

If instead of eBay you have a distributed store of transaction report, you can constantly refine the trust algorithm. For instance, you might pay attention to the price of the items sold, or to the trustworthiness of the reviewers themselves, etc.

The more data goes in, the better your inference. Truth is coherent and entangled. The more data there is, the harder it is to convincingly lie (but the harder it is to remain anonymous as well).
Wait...swiping? On a keyboard? That makes absolutely no sense. Most words contain a pair of letters that are not adjacent on a QWERTY keyboard.
New shared OverlayPanel in PrimeFaces
OmniFaces 2.0 RC2 available for testing
Yosemite should be the case study right behind Windows 8 on how not to change a UI. Spotlight is horrible and harder to use (pop up away from mouse, UI smaller and harder to click).

I still want to have a transcript from the meeting that decided the tabs on Safari should now "scrunch" to the right of the active tab instead of all the way to the right. It makes selecting the next tab without closing the current tab a huge pain. I can see no advantage.

Let's also add that bugs get introduced / reintroduced and really irritate people. Nothing, and I mean nothing, irritates a computer user when they thought they knew how to do something and now cannot. Then, after finding the way how, it crashes with a bug. Finder for Mavericks and Yosemite is broken with Applescript (doesn't refresh view).
Dota 2 monthly patches are generally not actual game play changes. They're mostly additions of cosmetic items and fixes for the Dota 2 platform.

The thing with Dota 2 and other Dota clones is that the depth (problem space) is way too big. There's no way competitive teams would have the time to explore all the combinations and still be successful in a reasonable time frame, with the same roster.

That's why every 3-6 months Icefrog (the main developer behind Dota/the game design lead for Dota 2) makes game balance changes: slight nerfs on the most popular heroes and generally slightly higher buffs on the least popular heroes. The main intent is to break this natural tendency of humans to "cluster".