skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YotaPhone 2 the World's First Dual-Screen Smartphone Launched in England
Why? If no need to type any captcha - do the verification in the background, don't show me anything until you think I'm a bot
Instead of focusing on an installable client you should use these new techniques: http://substack.net/offline_decentralized_single_sign_on_in_...
I like the fact that while the site isn't mobile compatible, they actually took the time to identify mobile visitors and give them a friendly warning about it :)
SAFEs on the East Coast
The latter, Microsoft speak.
I do not get the problem of hiring a clickfarm for 1$ an hour to click on cat pics.

If we take reputation, IP and cookie. All must be in order to pass. We want to spam a 1000 forms today. Scenario 1: The clickfarm itself fills in the Captcha. Result: Their IP's will soon be blacklisted, reputation of a third-world account will be inherently low. Scenario 2: We let the clickfarm send the answer to our own bot, which selects the right pictures. Result: Google will see a single IP and cookie trying out 1000s of captcha's a day, and ban you. Scenario 3: We let the clickfarm send the answer to our own bot, this bot uses a list of proxies that haven't yet been banned. Result: Google will see a single account cookie trying out 1000s of captcha's a day, from different IP's and ban you.

Can anyone come up with a scenario which involves reputation, IP and cookie that does not end up with Google detecting and banning your efforts? Cookie swapping?
Google Earth link of launch site

https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cape+Canaveral+Air+Force+St...
I think it's a descriptive language issue, combined with the projection of judgement onto things that are like Jungian archetypes, but individually composed. I experience these things on accident because I suppress judgment of others, and then it comes out accidentally.

It seems to be when someone wants to live totally scientifically and can't believe the language of other people, because they weren't there to make the recording or observation directly, therefore they can't asses the potential biases of every scientific conclusion fully.

The logical form still fits because the theory is composed within the perspective of exactly one person.

The theory of logic and the logic of theory are interesting.

Science often paints one picture of the world, with the a priori assumption that that picture is correct and can be used to describe new evidence. The present evidence is established formally using the language of the past. Not everyone speaks this language. Many people venture down rabbit holes that are infinitely complex, in order to find 'the base' in which everything can be rested upon, in which their subjective view of the world intersects with the objective view of the world. And if they even can find that, then what base does the base rest upon? Many times while you are searching for it, trying to explain it, you change it.

There are so many ways to interpret information mentally, coherently; that I don't feel like science has considered this as a influential component (or a component to at least consider seriously) when measuring error margins, biases, correctness, significance. People need to be educated in how maths and logics connect us mentally in a way that is unified and solid, but in another view, the world of information defines mathematics and logic, rather than math and logic supporting the base of objective measurement. But then again, I'm talking about individual people, rather than the idea of the scientific institution as a monolithic establishment.

It's a choice selection of information combined with formalization. You can't know all information at once. Every theory is composed of a selected subset of information, assuming [the set] of information exists from which the subset is derived, and a subset of [the set] represents [the set] correctly.
I think a lot of people don't really understand the extent of their rights, or when they should take offense at someone offending their rights or ability to exercise them, so they presume that the large company that produces neat-o products must be right, because they have attorneys, and attorneys are usually right (pedantic) so why bother.

At least, that's how I think we slouch.
The Men Who Planted Trees
How come this get no attention here?
He used to be important in the Ruby community as the author of Mongrel. But yeah, if it's not massively hyperbolic,it's not Zed Shaw.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Oh, it's already too late. Google already has enough data about you. I can imagine the future - people train bots like kids, make them visit different websites, google things and pretend to be humans. Your search history will be like your credit score.
Launch update: it's 12.45pm GMT. Time to launch in 10 min, 7.55am EST.

Update 2: at 7.53am EST, a new launch time being established due to wind anomalies.
So it's JS right? Where does it sit between PhoneGap/Cordova (Web pages wrapped in WebView) and Titanium Appcelerator (JS transcompiled(?) to native code).

My experience with Cordova.. it's slow at runtime, and you build the UI yourself using CSS (which gives the feeling, "Why am I building this by hand, while in native I can just drag?").

My experience with Appcelerator.. it's slow at compilation (imagine GWT), debugging is printlns, and you're at the mercy of whatever feature they provide (e.g. if the latest version of Android has new widget X, you can't use it until Appcelerator comes up with their version of X).

I still hope there's holy grail for code reuse / cross platform, but until then I'm forced to go native.
Formation 8, Raises $500M
Hedge Funds Urged to Beat Benchmarks Before Charging Fees
He's nutty, not a nut. Subtle but important difference.

His calls are amazingly far-reaching. But yes, he can call 'em. The trouble is, his Al Gore beats his delivery. They both gotta up their PR game.
Interesting perspective on the changes! Our lead designer actually had similar concerns (can read them here: https://www.funcaptcha.co/2014/12/04/killing-the-captcha-wit...). You both look to be drawing the same conclusions. What are your thoughts on the metaphorical 'black box' being implemented into the new reCAPTCHA?
Stanford has a great online course titled "How to Learn Math". It doesn't answer your question directly, but explains what approach should you take to learn math effectively. Course is very short, just 6 lessons by 20 minutes each.
The 10 Best Books of 2014
I've seen bad employees come in and slaughter morale, stirring up conflicts between all other employees, and causing a wave of staff attrition. Twice.
Does it work with cython?
impressed that works so well!

Another alternative that comes to mind (albeit much more complicated) is link encryption ala SpikeStrip: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/publications/pdf/spikestrip...

This would mainly only work against scrapers, tho, and not so much for account creation.

My argument is that Google could have done better to offer a completely different solution (e.g. some sort of proxy service) than to add a (apparently fallible) whitelist to recaptcha.
How to Get a Quant Job in Finance
Scenario 1 - we don't need to create a clickfarm for this, maybe we can clickjack random users online. Literally every porn site will be happy to make some money with it. Scenario 2 - of course we won't just use 1 IP, it will make us look Bad guy. Speaking of Scenario 3 - which account cookie are you talking about? The clickfarm has thousands of own trustworthy cookies but our bot doesn't send any cookies, it only solves challenges (neutral guy).

As soon as you have valid g-recaptcha response you don't need to persist any cookies - use it outright.
Everything is GO right now... Winds, too, finally.
Your last sentence is conjecture, and not in the Register article or in the paper. (FWIW, jonbaer submitted a HN link to the paper last week.)

The paper points that the reason why it works is because the factors are only off by two bits, eg.

3599 = 0b111011 * 0b111101

It also specifically addresses the RSA claim you made:

> However, unless we know in advance that the factors will differ at two bits, this reduction will not allow us to crack big RSA codes.
...and aborted. :(
From the comments on the article:
http://imgur.com/a/BfcK4

Some more tests of the algorithm with less impressive results (though still good looking)
I think fraction of their executive bonuses would be quite enough to fully fund a fairly decent security effort. If security were designed into their processes, it would probably cost much less.

If the 100 TB figure is correct, this has been going on for some time - it takes time to steal that much data in a way that does not raise a bunch of red flags. If the red flags weren't there to be raised or they were and were ignored, well... at least their executives got their bonuses.

Also, in the interest of fairness, while this malware attack seemed to be directed to Windows machines, a dedicated enough intruder would have developed attack strategies for any platform.
Thanks so much.. I really am thinking of switching from PHP, I really do agree with about improving chunks of code.

I have a to do list of functions that i'd like to program again because I think the way of I have done it is either totally inefficient or simply the worst way of doing it.
Hi, AppGyver dev here. I understand the confusion around that claim. Especially taken out of context (http://www.appgyver.com/supersonic/ui) you can read it as ridiculous hyperbole over something readily achieved with eg MVC architectures. I'll try and explain the difference between SPAs and MPAs and why we think the latter has merit.

A Single Page Application will usually consist of any number of logical views handled in a single web browser view. Since the app is Javascript and HTML, everything is loaded in the same runtime environment and switching between views is actually about swapping things in and out of the DOM. We feel that this isn't a very good approach when you're doing mobile applications, not least because everything you do will be an approximation of the native UI capabilities. Companies like Facebook and LinkedIn have famously failed to deliver hybrid mobile apps with a good enough user experience when using the traditional SPA approach.

This is where an MPA architecture comes in useful. As opposed to a single runtime environment in a single web view, multiple web views can be run concurrently and the native layer is used for transitions between them. This is different from both SPAs and traditional server-side architectures which you could call "multi-page" if you squinted a little. Besides the readily felt advantage in user experience, the approach also has architectural benefits which help out in growing your app. When your Javascript runtime is working towards rendering exactly one kind of view instead of dozens, there are radically fewer possible states and thus less issues with global state leaks and the like. In short, it helps make development simpler.

Hope this clarifies. As a dev, I think the ability to leverage multiple concurrent web views is one of the core advantages of the platform.
"Smashing considered harmful" - The Hulk

About C++:

"When it’s 3 A.M., and you’ve been debugging for 12 hours,
and you encounter a virtual static friend protected volatile
templated function pointer, you want to go into hibernation and awake as a werewolf and then find the people who wrote the C++ standard and bring ruin to the things that they love."
Show HN: Nintype, a two-fingered slide keyboard for iOS
Anybody understood why the countdown was aborted with only 3 minutes left?
Proposed Memorial for Qatar's World Cup Workers Grows as Tragedy Mounts
+1 also consider s/click farm/malware worm bot/g
I wouldn't be surprised if approval for a Visa depended on your search history.
Wind. Again.
The Science of Why We Are Racist
Ask HN: What is your best online marketing advice?
Not spammy stuff. Just good clean advice to ensure that a good product gets the attention it deserves amongst the noise of the internet
More details in a friendly format: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-largest-factored-quantum-device...

From the research article:

> In fact, it turns out that the product of any two numbers differing at only 2 bits will lead to the equations:

> p_a + q_a = x (19)

> p_b + q_b = y (20)

> p_b q_a + p_a q_b = z, (21)

> where the subscripts a and b correspond to the two bit-positions that differ, and the right-side variables {x, y, z} can each be 0 or 1 depending on the number being factored. However, unless we know in advance that the factors will differ at two bits, this reduction will not allow us to crack big RSA codes.

This is interesting, but it's a very special family of numbers. When the numbers are more different they need more qbits.
And what if there are unicorns?

There's no evidence to suggest what you're saying, and mountains of evidence against it. It might be fun to daydream about "What if?" questions, but the flaw is that the hypothesis is discounted by what we already know to be true. We've mapped the genomes of many primates and have a pretty good handle on how the branches of our "family tree" play out.

As far as the hundreds of 8'-tall giant human skeletons at the Smithsonian, I'm going to need a source.
Here's a scenario: a dissident living in a third world country with pervasive surveillance. He accesses the net using TOR, and disables cookies.

Now his IP is blacklisted, because there are lots of people using the same exit node; his reputation is low for the same reason, and the cookie is rejected. There's a good chance that this one person will be blocked, even though he didn't do anything wrong.

For a simpler case, private browser sessions over a VPN would suffer from the same issue.
Oh yes http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/31/british-tourists-tweets-...
Thanks, I'll watch it later.

Note I do not doubt NK is a dictatorship. I'm merely commenting on people's preconceptions strongly coloring what they see in this (or any) country. They expect to see deeply unhappy people (because that's the story that gets told in the West), and that's what they see.
How is the null hypothesis that AI is harmful?
the press release doesn't give much context to what this is about - why are they reducing headcount? what's the story here?
Anecdotally, I knew some guys who worked at (or with?) the global security division at Sony US HQ.

The story went that each of the Sony subsidiaries[1] had their own security division that was largely autonomous for reasons of politics and budget, of course. Each part of the company had different vendors, different policies and procedures, and different philosophies on how security should be implemented.

When they would all send their representatives to have a global security pow wow, however often it happened, it ended up like an episode of game of thrones.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corporation_shareholders_a...
It'd be really great if NASA found some particularly charismatic engineer to act as a colour commentator and talk about the technology at play. The silence while we wait for a new launch time is peaceful but a bit dull...
Yeah malware bot will generate lots of free g-recaptcha-responses! Good idea
Awesome. Reminds me of the vim screenshot mode ;-)
http://usersnap.com/blog/developers-will-never-need-leave-vi...
I wander how many of them accept overseas (Europe) candidates...
I love that article. In fact, it may be my favorite article ever written (although "What you can't say" is a close second).

What I've come to realize though is that to a certain extent, it seems futile to try and overcome tying things to our identity. I've often been accused of being overly analytical in everything I do (including things like relationships, which apparently you're not supposed to evaluate using statistics).

The problem is that my attempt to catch my own biases kind of drives me crazy in a way. I already have OCD, and all of my layers of meta-analysis toward my own arguments and viewpoints just ends up exhausting me. Add that to the fact that when I get in an "unwinnable" debate (you know the people; the ones who never give an inch) I just end up getting cranky and unhappy.

So while I do think this primitive, illogical, emotionally biased soup of a thinking machine we call a "brain" is far from optimal, I'm not sure if it's much better healthwise to attempt to force it into the other extreme.
And goggle dont have to woory about the hard stuf in the same way that full on IBM sysplex thats running 20% of a coutrys bank acounts does. RBS COUGH COUGH
How much equity should I give away to co-founders/early employees?
Science is broken. Being open could fix it
Perhaps you might enjoy an essay I wrote on this very topic, based on my experiences of learning math on my own for 5 years: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-3...
Mobile music app called Ubuzzin
I am part of a company that is developing a music sharing app called Ubuzzin Our website is called Ubuzzin.com. We have been developing the app and it is finished now. We are about to release the app but we want to get ideas on how to present our app and make a bang with it. We are also looking to present our app to meet ups and investors. Any help will be appreciated. I can be reached at J.Broadhurst@ubuzzin.com. Thank you all for your time.
Why do you think we need general AIs to replace human labour?

I'm struggling to find any cost-intensive labour that would require anything beyond a small group of specialist AIs to replace human labourers.

Also, these discussions tend to assume that we (by which I mean those making these decisions) want to replace every profession with AIs. We don't. Even if we fully automate certain forms of labour, we still want human oversight, if only so we have someone to blame in case something goes wrong.
I've never watched/listened to a live launch before. I'm finding it really interesting, terms like "race position", the alarm going off and the list of checks etc.

I'm really excited for this! Let's hope the wind dies down.
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
Workbar Is Unifying Community Through New Centers of Excellence
Because of page layout. Having a fixed size element is better than having something (that is not yours) that might be there or not.
Yup, found a LinkedIn profile for him.

You're absolutely right that this is illegal in the US, and I'd imagine most modern countries would have similar laws against it.

Since it has a battery-operated device, including a beeping alarm, you'd think a better solution would be to just make a loud/obnoxious noise when the bike leaves the 50m radius.

But now I really feel like I'm wasting my time pointing out flaws in an idea from a Wiley Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon.
James Watson to be the first person to sell his Nobel Prize
The down votes may not be because people disagree with open salaries, but because this has no value in the discussion.
I discovered Hy two weeks ago through this previous discussion: How Hy backported “yield from” to Python 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8641126
" Brainteasers are popular." Can somebody explain why? I'm genuinely interested, since in software dev interviews we see less and less brainteasers...
"Perhaps the most tragic demonstration of this involved workers at the United States Radium Corporation factory in Orange, N.J., which in 1917 began hiring young women to paint watch faces with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The workers were told that the paint was harmless and were encouraged to lick the paintbrushes to make them pointy enough to inscribe small numbers. "

How awful is this ? I had never realized radiation had been so misunderstood back then...
How to Turn One Idea into Two Successful Kickstarter Campaigns – ATK052
I have no idea why my question was downvoted. GitHub is a social site built around a software for version control, primarily for code. GitHub also has a history of removing content that uses GitHub for other purposes (e.g. GamerGate raid/doxing coordination).

The reason I'm confused is that most of the examples I was able to find that match the claim are text files in otherwise unrelated repositories. It is odd to find a text file describing ways to off yourself in a source code repository that has nothing else to do with suicide.

Also, unless it's a more complex document (e.g. an e-book), sites like GitHub Gists or Pastebin would seem to be more likely choices than GitHub proper.
Interesting!

Thanks a lot for writing/posting this. I enjoyed the read.

One thing I had to chuckle at was this:

>Mark Joshi obtained a B.A. in mathematics (top of year) from the University of Oxford in 1990, and a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He was an assistant lecturer in the department of pure mathematics and mathematical statistics at Cambridge University from 1994 to 1999. Following which he worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1999 to 2005 as a quantitative analyst at a variety of levels, finishing as the Head of Quantitative Research for Group Risk Management. He joined the Centre for Actuarial Studies at the University of Melbourne in November 2005 as an associate professor and is now a full professor.

Pure math to quant to actuary. It's kind of funny how I see/have met so many people that have gone this route. It's like they got sucked into pure mathematics, then thought: shoot I really need to get some practical work done with this math! And afterwards, at a later stage in life they wanted to back out and wanted a stable, high paying, but still math heavy job (actuary!).

Does anybody here have any experiences with being on the 'front office'? I'd love to hear them.
NimbusBase Android, iCloud app data storage clone on android uses personal cloud
Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
We all know examples of paid online services that became profitable. For example Balsamiq, Tarsnap and Bingo Card Creator.

I love to build small tools that do something useful. But they do not offer enough value to charge for them. Imagine tools like "When will the sun rise today in city X" or "How much taxes are in $X" etc. Some of them are used by tens of thousands of people a month. And I get a lot of "thank you, that's cool and useful" emails.

So far I'm not making any money from them. When I slap adsense on them, I only make a few bucks. Like $0.5 per 1000 visitors. Even if I optimized that to $2 per 1000 visitors, it still would be just around $150/month for all my websites.

But since I love doing these little, interesting projects, I will probably make more of them anyhow. Most of the projects I have in mind are little tools that cater my own curiosity. Nothing people would pay for. Like "find all xkcd comics related to a topic" and stuff like that.

Do you guys think there is a way to make a living like this? Are there any examples of profitable websites, created by one guy that have some informative value but not so much that people would pay for it?
€10M funding and 6 years later: the story of an unbreakable team on a mission
Splunk Competitors Expanding Log Management, Anomaly Detection Services
The accuracy of travel times in Google Maps?
New Java Version – it's not JDK 1.9
Engine bearing temperature trending the wrong way.
I'd nominate this guy. (Saturn V launch high speed video with commentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
I would love to see NASA's PR people get their heads out of their arse and actually stream on Twitch, also won't mind CERN doing it. And yes while it might not get as many view's as the latest goat simulator bench play presented by an ex-porn star in a bikini it surely can expose tons of people to things that actually matter.
> bit-accurate single-pass high-speed rips

"military-grade encryption"