skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase desperately needs a sandbox mode
Show HN: New Hack Insight Promotional Video Is Out
It sounds like they've got some trick that gives some experience of real objects - probably far from perfect (hi-latency, lo-res, etc); but that's a good thing for a company. It means they have somewhere to go when competitors catch up.

Maybe opaque and depth of field really fool your eyes?

As a comparison, consider how surprising it is that animation works: line-drawn cartoons look like real objects, animals etc; secondly, that if you just change the images at a mere 24 fps, they come to life (the meaning of animation at the time).
Shit!! Someone guessed my password as well, on line 1120!

000000.000000000**0000000000000000000ooooo000111222333000OOO00OO0O0O0011447700384zxh.007Martin00idc805188..e0102030114110123.01234.01234.*012345601234567.*0123456789!@0123lhb0123014785236901601hr0205\\023022-58810235025516700270301fjfzw1=-03110368350037804047

I thought for sure a 260-character password with 1,560 bits of entropy would be sufficient. I better go change it right away :O
The Fuffr Touch Case – Multitouch Outside Your Smartphone
I really like this and enjoy the fact that the interviews aren't fast-paced, snappy-answers kind of drivel. Its OK to take your time, think, reflect, stare out the window - and that's coming from a true expert ;). I don't have a mobile-phone, only a landline and an answering machine. Never lost a friend or a client due to that. On the contrary. I find that people value my presence more because I don't make myself immediately available. That's scarcity economics in effect. Feel free to copy.

Its hard to beat the life experience of a 80+ year old person. Its like a fine whiskey. Distilled and aged. Some have survived wars and famine. I think its time to stop talking about so much of today’s vapour values and listen to someone who has managed to get to 80+ and learn a bit about what really matters in life. Someone who's lived through wartimes should know.. right?
7 Rules for making designs that adhere to principles that have recently hit their peek of popularity.

Rule 4 - Apple's started blurring backgrounds. You should too.

I do agree with the spirit of the article, if you want text to be legible, then you should make it legible.
been trying to register with google chrome and have been unsuccessful.
Part 1 posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629538
It's perfectly fine to not use only black on white. This is not a light grey in the slightest. All green: https://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/#rgba%280%2C0%2C0%...
Haha I remember seeing comparison of how The Verge covered release of Samsung Note 3 and iPhone 6 plus. This is what drives me mad nowdays.

Ok, I found a picture http://www.oneclickroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-v...
This is a workaround. A completely different topic.

My issue with Persona is about its very concepts, not some particular implementation issues.
Martian packet
Berlin Newspaper open-sourced one of its interactive maps
Menu > Settings > Customize > Search. Tapping any of the search providers brings up an option to set it as the default. Are you using an older version? (Tested on v33.1)
\tangent I've always loved the idea of eye-tracking. It helps the whole graphics stack, because don't need to render the whole "screen", just the exact part you're looking at. And you only need render the center of it in sharp detail (what impinges on your hi-res fovea); the surroundings can be blurry and even monochrome (no cones outside the fovea, only rods!).

Unfortunately, because eyes saccade (twitch) extremely fast, latency must be ridiculously low or it would send you insane (figuratively).
Hey, I don't understand what the problem is. The premise is ambiguous enough to invite creativity. You'd probably stumble upon a lot more innovation and playfulness here than in, say, the Sherlock Holmes fanfic section, where people would have to deal with character and setting established over decades.

(Note: I'm really just speculating here. I haven't read any of the fanfic here, and the only Sherlock Holmes fanfic I've read is Neil Gaiman's. I could be wildly wrong.)
You can achieve that by letting the caching take care of it for you, there's no need for two images there.

I think OP wants to not have to reinstall every dependency again when they update just one. For that I think you'd have to use multiple Gemfiles, one for slow things that rarely change and the other for anything else new.
One assumes the big players are seeing through the gimmicky whales and seahorses and can see a wider more functional future.

Pretty things cost huge amounts of money to create. Making them 3d and interact with your environment just adds to the cost.
Haven't had a salaried job in more than 6 years, so no. All of my income is through the course I referenced, my SaaS (https://planscope.io), and a few other courses/books I offer.
Want to know which startups hail from Estonia?
Check out the #EstonianMafia hall of fame at Garage48:
http://hub.garage48.org/estonian-startups
Uh, why does it look like this comment thread got lost and ended up on the wrong article?
This European Fintech Unicorn Is Low Profile and Bootstrapped
Avoid Calling Yourself a “Philosopher”
I promoted it to my list of ~22k, and asked opt-ins to share it on Twitter. It also got on Product Hunt and a few links from various blogs.
As someone who doesn't listen to "hits", I fail to see the downside.

Hits already did much much worse things to perception of music than shazam-isation may ever.
How splitting a computer into multiple realities can protect you from hackers
Yeah, so there's a coupon offered that expires in a week. I'm applying an "Eligible for discount" tag in my marketing automation tool when I announce the discount, and retract it when the sale window ends. And my sales site checks for the presence of that tag before applying the discount. This effectively allows me to create a sale-for-one type system.
Guidelines for AppStore assets
Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
I've refused to get into any Google product beyond GMail, YouTube, and search. I'm trying to ween myself off Google search and I block YouTube cookies (though I doubt that throws Googles behavioural monitoring off).
Thanks, I didn't know that, I'll be exploring that feature, it'd be nice if they did that for icons - using a script to generate 20 different sizes is getting old. Unfortunately it looks like it is only supported for images at present.

Of course it'd be better if this was done at run time on the device, and bitmap representations cached as required (eventually they probably wouldn't be, even if initially they are).
Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware there was a for-profit subsidiary.
Estonian startups on Angellist:
https://angel.co/estonia
The earliest known megalithic construction site is 11 thousand years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

The problem is that there has been no continuous architectural tradition. Most of the advanced Roman building methods were completely lost around the 5th century (concrete was not rediscovered until the 18th century). The Egyptians around the time of Cleopatra had no idea about the construction techniques used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza (this is why the Greeks assumed the pyramids were built by slave laborers). This is not surprising considering that Cleopatra lived closer to the first moon landing than she did to the construction of that pyramid.
I'm impressed but skeptic, too. Laypeople might not get an accurate impression on what is possible.
Considering the image with the guy in a black shirt playing guitar. What if it was a picture of a naked man standing next to a black shirt that is hanging on a clothes hook, and next to it is a guitar is mounted on a rack: My guess it that the computer will still spit out: Guy in black shirt playing guitar, just because this sentence is very plausible in the underlying language model.
That happens whenever there is an attempt to formalize a creative field. UI design itself is typically judged good or bad, very loosely, on the relationship between how the user base 'knows' how to use/navigate/read/understand things and how that translates to something new. That's a loose definition on what intuitive design is. You can couple that with simple elements like surprise and intentionally manipulated expectation for a light creative jump.

However, if you stray outside of the "function and form = great design" crowd: the kind that makes things that are actually usable and considered well-designed in their use by a random sampling of people with a well defined intended use case, and venture off into scary territory like post-modernism, metamodernism, and so on, you might find that "great design" has no definition at all; not even a single leg to stand on. And you can bring those elements of what you learn there, back into popular design, just to shift it a bit.

Those facets of design and art are all about breaking your expectations and understandings of what a thing is, of what it means to see it, interact with it, even think about it, and instead it forces you to see that you are looking through one window of aesthetics, when there are really billions of windows.

Technique is good for mainstream, a how-to, a guide, an introduction, something to google when you want to start incorporating various elements of design that are thought of as 'fundamental' by contemporary culture. Design and aesthetics (let alone defining greatness of either) are something much more philosophical; and arguably debatable.
How can we be "ahead of schedule" when we still don't have the first couple tasks from a decade ago? Dictation, for example, is pretty good but it's not a solved problem.

* Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.

* Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzw...
Quite.

If coffee roasteries could develop a decaffination process that would preserve the taste of the individual beans 100% (or even 90%), I'd drink decaf exclusively.

I don't actually want the bloody stimulant effects. I just want the tasty brown drink.
For those with Lightroom, on export you can select 'Minimize Embedded Metadata', which strips all but copyright info. Pretty handy.
Alternatively or in addition, add a firewall rule to permanently ban any IPs after too many failed attempts or simultaneous connections, make sure root login is disabled, and/or put sshd on a non-standard port (I find the last one a bit of security theater, but it will reduce some wasted traffic if nothing else.) Here's my pf rule for ssh (brute force filter):

table <sshbans> persist
block quick from <sshbans>
pass quick proto tcp from any to any port ssh \
flags S/SA keep state \
(max-src-conn 15, max-src-conn-rate 5/3, \
overload <sshbans> flush global)

Raise the values a bit if you have other SSH users on your box.

I get about 50 new bans a day. It's pretty much guaranteed if you have a server on the web with port 22 open, that bots will be attempting to brute-force it.
Nice, though several examples don't work on Windows with ANGLE (OpenGL seems ok):

- DX11 ANGLE: no specular in Blinn-Phong, nothing shows in Variance and Exponential Shadow Mapping, nothing shows in HDR

- DX9 ANGLE: nothing shows in Variance and Exponential Shadow Mapping, nothing shows in HDR

Tested both in current stable Chrome and stable Firefox, GPU is Nvidia Quadro 2000M, Windows 7.

------------------------

Chrome throws these errors in console:

VSM/ESM

Filter Horizontal(program): linking: Failed to create D3D shaders.

Filter Vertical(program): linking: Failed to create D3D shaders.

HDR

HDR(program): linking: Failed to create D3D shaders.

------------------------

Firefox is more verbose, relevant parts:

VSM/ESM

(14,9-30): error X3000: unrecognized identifier 'webgl_ae64c5282b720ffe'

HDR

(40,33-55): error X3090: ps_3_0 does not allow textures or samplers to be members of compound types
True, but Emacs, gcc and Linux didn't take millions of VC dollars.
What Are the Benefits of Block-Level Backups?
Regrettably a significant number of back ends (principally Microsoft ones in my experience) regard the +bit as malformed and reject the email address.
I wonder how such a "display" of the Magic Leap is controlled. Could it be that it's no longer a rasterized display? Maybe rather than coloring pixels on a plane, the developer is required to send display information of a volumetric object like in a volumetric display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display
Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence
One of the related articles at the bottom references the paper "Transcranial stimulation of the developing brain: a plea for extreme caution" [1] I would be quite interested in give tDcs a go but the tail risk of making some permanent brain change freaks me out.

[1] http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00...
Why your annoying friends are bad for the health and could even accelerate aging
What's the best option for getting Windows and running it in a VM? I have a Mac but would like to try Visual Studio.
It's an interesting idea, but I recently got a 5k iMac and now I can feel the jaggies on the 1080p displays I use at work cutting my eyeballs. The longer I use the Mac at home, the more I get used to it and the more annoying the screens at work become.

For sub-27" displays these days I think 4k is definitely the way to go. Affordable modern graphics cards are perfectly capable of driving such displays now and I think, or at least hope, that by the end of next year they will have become a pretty standard mainstream choice. A non-standard aspect ratio is all well and fine, but if it's still at standard dpi resolution it's just icing on a cake that's getting towards the end of it's shelf life.
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595948
Musings on mostly defensive programming styles
I think open standards are things to be implemented if you want to interoperate with others. Google used to do that but doesn't want interop anymore. That hurted communities that used those open standards. I guess, that's a pretty valid reason to complain.

It all boils down to millennia-old issue that if business interests aren't aligned with minorities' demands, those are being ignored. Don't think this can be solved in reality.

> Where's the outrage that Twitter stopped letting users post via SMS and XMPP?

Lost in time. Personally, I had complained. I heard the other rant, too. I had registered for an API token and set up personal XMPP-to-Twitter gateway. And then I got bored with all this stuff and just trashed it and gave up.

But, hey, is it really silly that I had complained and cursed them evil?

Well, maybe it was...
Crappy chocolate, crappy toy. Yet somehow, put them together and kids find them irresistible.
> Using either windows or linux, anything over about 105 dpi is too small and I need to get closer to the monitor than what is acceptable from an ergonomics stand point.

I see this as a big failure of "modern" graphic systems. Having a 105 ppi should just mean more refined graphics, not smaller size of rendered objects.

The way a GUI appears on the screen should be a function of the screen size and the viewer distance, not a function of the screen ppi! We must get rid of all the layers of hacks that we have accumulated over the years (the reference 72 ppi, for example).
VirtualBox, but you will still need to buy Windows with license.
Obscurity is a perfectly legitimate and valid security technique.

Relying on obscurity alone is the mistake you are alluding to.

Why wouldn't you recommend using fail2ban and changing the port?
In that scenario, not violating your users' privacy would become a differentiator for your product, something you could market. Ever noticed how much advertising in highly competitive businesses seem to hinge on ever more strained explanations of how one product is different from the other?

Except, of course (and this is probably the ugly truth) - as long as Facebook doesn't do creepy/embarrassing things or otherwise actively annoy their customers, the vast, vast majority of customers just doesn't care. And then there isn't really a problem.
You can't return anonymous types from functions.
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> Conservation of angular momentum. I don't see this as all that shocking.

What is fascinating is that the angular momentum seems to be roughly aligned with the underlying "membranes", as if the voids themselves are actually expanding.
You could use one of the trial versions Microsoft offers:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-8...
Good point. But I doubt any significant share of users will consider doing it. Most of them are of course unaware that it’s even possible.

Perhaps someone here has some statistics to share? It would be interesting to know how common this trick is :)

[Edit: Better wording]
"The organic route lowers risk and reward."

Yes on the risk, fully disagree on the reward part. And i am not talking about the reward of being able to focus on the business rather than raising money.

I am talking about cold hard cash. In a successful small business, many owners will make mid 6 figures, year in, year out, and still many will make 7 figures. After a few year, it beats a lot of exits. And there are many many more of those than the few IPO / big acquisition we can read about. Even with IPOs, the remaining share of the founder sometimes makes me sorry for them.

VCs don't publicize that though, understandably.
Apple is at least providing some tools to help with this - for instance, you can specify a storyboard whose initial view controller will then be used as the app’s launch screen; this avoids the problem of separate launch images for all screen sizes, resolutions and orientations their app supported.

http://oleb.net/blog/2014/08/replacing-launch-images-with-st...

I seem to recall Marco Arment took a bit of pride in having 100% procedurally generated graphics with overcast, so that he didn't have to create/ship any bitmapped images whatsoever.
How to choose the safest seat on an airplane?
Just re-read this and realized it's unclear: when I said O(n) time, I meant linear in the length of the URL to be parsed. The point is that with this technique, it doesn't matter how many routes there are.
"Right now you can clone Neovim, compile it, and it will run almost all Vim plugins without issue."

Easy compile? (I'm at work and no git clone/compiling here!) Might try later on tonight.
Did Russia Secretly Launch a Satellite-Killer into the Space?
The Washington Post launches a new kind of tablet news app
If you just want to try, test VMs are available here:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
I get it the numbers are irrelevant, but just wanted to share where those came from.

http://www.process-one.net/en/imtrends/article/usage_estimat... - "that study relies on a panel of 7292 XMPP domains as discovered by the IMtrends engine"

So, I'd guess, if there's was least 7k public servers in 2008, it won't be wrong to say "thousands."

http://xmpp.org/xsf/press/2003-09-22.shtml - this one is old, much before the popularity peak, when XMPP was still called Jabber, and yet: "the JSF's estimate includes more than 4 million paying customers of Jabber, Inc.'s commercial software as well as an estimated 6 million users of open source and other commercial implementations of the Jabber/XMPP protocol"

So, I guess, "millions" isn't a wrong estimate, too.
Yep. But it can be circumvented if one’s mail server use another delimiter. E.g. ”.” will hardly be filtered.
Parallels works well.
I do development in Visual Studio using it and it works pretty well.
Actually yes, I remember now that's why I use - in my Postfix instead.

Postfix allows you to choose any character as a separator.
So the Valley is supported addiction. Great.
The Good, the Bad, the Onion; Data Security on the Dark Market
Incredible, I don't use Vim very much (once in a while) but I think I'll make a donation when I get paid just for the times when I do.
We could also call them "high resolution images" or "HiDPI", because not every high resolution display comes from Apple. Nitpicky, but important. :)
This is a great series of articles but I couldn't help and think that if you have to be so analytical about this, you will do better to trade with a designer that gets it more intuitively.

A lot of these rules exist simply because something looks or feels better (or is more readable, or simpler, or more historically consistent, etc.) Unless you can empathise with the underlying reasons, you will be memorising and misapplying a lot of rules.
Sorry, this is confidential. :-(

Also, the capital equation is something you can compute: if you want $x in income, then how much capital cost is there etc

Keep in mind, we're in a low interest rate environment.
You don't need fiction for bizarre minesweeping stories.

During the Falklands War the British needed to confirm whether the entrance to Falkland Sound had been mined before the landings could begin. Not having any minesweepers with the task group HMS Alacrity, a Type 21 frigate, was detailed off to find out.

This involved sailing up and down to see if they hit anything, with all non-essential personnel staying above the water-line. Thankfully they didn't find any mines.
Rule #x - Test your design on lower resolution/quality screens. I see a lot of articles/blogs/whatever that look like crap on my Dell 1680x1050 (non-ips) work display.
Uberfied Car Wash? On Its Way…
The linked greyscale monitor above only had 8-bit greyscale, but describes it as "256 levels of gray out of a palette of 3826". Does that mean anything significant?
> > I think I'm a human

> You sure?

Sounds suspiciously like something a neural net would say ...
I've never been in a position to receive one from a startup, but I have received one from a well established company before.

Most of the time severance is used as a vehicle to establish good relations with the person being fired (so they don't bad mouth the company), and as a way to get former employees to sign a document stating they wont sue for any reason.
Guide to open Football/Soccer data and APIs
Looks pretty much like what Pinterest are doing with Guided Search.
Important info:

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Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
Addiction is very profitable, See: Opium Wars, Drug Cartels, and Pablo Escobar.
You can drag-and-drop items between keychains -- you just need to enter the passwords for both keychains when doing so.

This makes it possible to keep valuable items in one or more auxiliary keychains set to always prompt (lock after 0 minutes). (This technique isn't a panacea but it contributes to defense in depth.)
On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8630418 (Submitted 15 hours earlier)
I think everyone's been inspired by the likes of JSBin/JSFiddle, GLSL sandbox and the like. Shadertoy is for pure fragment shader programs - raymarchers being the most popular. Whereas this is a more traditional mesh/vertex/fragment/control program setup.
Does Russia have an orbiting space weapon?
Works well, and is very easy to install with minimum resource usage. I will be using it for a long time.