skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blame the short-sighted greed of Verizon and AT&T, for jacking up the price of wireless data beyond reason after Steve Jobs died. My iPhone is essential while my iPad is "nice to have" because my iPhone is always connected and always has a high speed, unlimited data connection to the Internet. I pay full price for iPhone upgrades to keep my unlimited data plan (although each time it reminds me how dearly I'd love to ditch Verizon forever). My iPhone goes everywhere with me, but my iPad typically stays at home because of its lack of wireless. I will never buy a metered data plan, nor does it seem reasonable to me to pay separately for an extra device, which is functionally for me just a bigger screen. If my iPad had always on, unlimited wireless broadband, I'd take it with me almost everywhere, too.
Also is well known that segmented sleep was the norm before electricity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Honestly, there should have been a loop there. The author introduced un-necessary complexity and a bug appeared. Not that Javascript is a great language.
You don't need the full blockchain to become a miner, you just need a database of all unspent transaction outputs. The last time I checked said database was only a couple hundred MB.

As for people who do need the full blockchain in the future scenario you describe, they could always pay someone to sneakernet it to them.
It's like the difference between trying to work with your kids running around and working in an office. Theoretically they're both just places. In practice, one is much more conducive to certain activities.
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> Quite perfect for many uses, and the popularity of web apps is almost evidence in itself.

Mobile and micro-services will change that.

> why don't you think it makes sense?

Because I went through the evolution of using text based GUIs, Amiga, Atari and PC GUI toolkits, drawing UIs with the likes of Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C++ Builder. To the modern ones of XAML, Cocoa, QML and so on.

The list is just a bit long to post here. Most of them provided a saner developer experience than HTML/CSS/JavaScript will ever do. Unless we throw DOM away and replace it by something more tailored to applications instead of rendering documents.

Even if the DOM gets replaced, the browser can hardly provide an integrated experience in terms of what any native desktop/mobile environment offers to its users in terms of immersion and interactivity between applications.

It is just no different than using Java with AWT 1.0 in the early years without native widgets and integration to the respective desktop APIs.
The arguments I've heard supporting this are usually weaker than their proponents think because they simply don't understand the alternative. Even if this is true though, "banking" is much too broad a category to make such general statements. Consider:

> Here are some specifics – our new code is going to be an order of magnitude less in volume than the old and this is being conservative.

Java's static typing would help catch mistakes but it's not magic. And by moving this piece of their system to Clojure, they've managed to simplify it so much that there's much less room for mistakes to hide.
Why? That's a 15" laptop with a massive touchscreen.
Here's the scenario they're trying to prevent:

1. Bob often views videos on YouTube, so he grants youtube.com permanent access to the fullscreen API.

2. Eve runs an open wifi AP near a coffee shop. The AP includes a proxy server that redirects youtube.com requests to Eve's own server.

3. Bob connects to Eve's AP. When he goes to youtube.com, he instead gets a response from Eve's server, which is designed to imitate a full desktop environment. Since Bob has already given youtube.com access to the fullscreen API, the browser grants Eve's site fullscreen rights without notifying Bob.
I'll frequently run the searches from within DDG as !g or !scholar searches (my most frequent variants).

Lack of date-bounded search is a frequent reason to resort to Google. Special collections (Scholar, Books, News) others.

I'm actually relying far more on DDG image search than even a few months ago -- the results are getting good. Also the instant answers, which are getting good.

There have been a few times in recent past where DDG searches have turned up empty (or unsatisfactory results) while Google's nailed it. Actually went hunting for an example and got lost which is why this comment is so late. Couldn't find the example though I'll try to remember to submit it when I do.
Free certificate revocations. StartSSL was crucified for charging $25 for revocations, and not waiving the fee during Heartbleed.
Memories of receiving tons of full-screen popup and popunder ads (and without any close buttons, address bars, or any other browser controls... thankfully I knew what Alt+F4 did at the time!) may have biased me a bit... but I think the fullscreen API is a bad idea in general - the browser should not allow scripts to do things that modify the UI outside of the content area of the page. If the user wants to resize the content area, he/she should do that through the facilities the OS window manager already provides.

Besides, a similar attack could be carried out even without the fullscreen API - just replace the page contents when the link is clicked, and the same people who don't notice the changes in UI will probably not notice the address bar either (it also doesn't help that browsers are attempting to deemphasise/hide the URL...)

If they wanted "tighter controls", they should just remove the fullscreen API. I guess a lot of web developers won't like it, but the user has always had the ability to fullscreen the browser if he/she wanted to.
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The 2013 N7 was pretty ideal. It won't fit in my shirt pocket, but it fits in my pants pocket. Or jacket. There aren't that many times when I really need something that fits into stylish clothing pockets (I made a conscious effort to notice).

The N7 is easier to type on, and the one arcade game I play (emulator called Pinball Arcade) works so much better on the slightly larger device. So now I just play pinball a lot less.

VoIP isn't a real option. For instance, yesterday I had to reactivate one SIM at the airport, and could only do it by making a real phone call on the SIM. Google intentionally disabled this on the N7, and even people that hacked up the ROM couldn't get it working. And many times when I want a phone/SMS, for "emergencies", I don't want to hope my data is working well enough.
This is brilliant.

Almost like google+ actually.

I might start actually enjoying twitter because of you.

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Twitter: painting itself into the spam distibution tool corner since its creation, yet getting away with calling it a feature (R)
Go here and click on the link to BoA website in the side bar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America

Anyone in the middle between you and Wikipedia servers can apply the phishing attack.

If you go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America

Only Wikipedia editors/admins can perform the attack.
glad you asked ;-)
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.55910&lon=-8...

http://forecast.weather.gov/afm/PointClick.php?lat=33.9321&l...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=all&textField1...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Sharon&sta...
Or that people tend to form very strong, often incorrect opinions based entirely on crappy data.
Sorry, you lost me at:

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Is that a guest or a host? If it's a guest, there shouldn't be a need for reboot, only suspend/resume... (note that a reboot can be a good idea from time to time, just to make sure the current configuration (eg: post kernel upgrades, before reboot) -- actually boots).
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I guess that's why it's just a proof of concept. Also, those three points you raise would certainly deter you and me from being caught, but e.g. my father (in his early 50s), who uses Word, Internet Banking, Email, pretty much the same way for 20 years and does not understand, for example, the concept of a "folder", he would assume the computer is displaying normal behaviour, because he doesn't have the knowledge to assume otherwise.

"Fake UI" or "user-specific browser settings", "font rendering", are things that don't even (make sense/matter/seem odd) to him.

Ironically, my great-aunt, who's almost 90 but was always somewhat of a "techie", would notice something weird and call me or her son.

But I guess my point still stands.
I do think we should have a way of signing content without mandating encryption for these use cases

SSL has it, it's just usually disabled by default - null encryption with non-null MAC.
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If that were true, then other countries might see more use, as they seem to have more sane options. But even in the US, you can walk into a grocery store and get a SIM with "unlimited" (3GB at real speed) for $50 a month. Maybe less for data only. I'm trying NET10 now and they seem fine. And I see adverts everywhere talking about shared plans. Maybe your problem is looking at Verizon, which is notoriously hostile.
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If you only hate Javascript sometimes, you are definitely new to the language. That said even in a proper language like Ruby this particular bug can happen, that's why communities around these languages strongly encourage proper discipline, enforced by tools.

This bug most definitely should've made your tests go red, your linter give a warning and your code metrics suite should have a thing or two to about the huge expressions and 10+ line function they are in.
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For me on iPhone, the page would be fine if only the entire almost-full-screen-size navigation didn't switch to fixed positioning and block most of the page once I scroll past it.
Hmm, interesting. I've used a few GUI toolkits, written bindings for GTK+, worked with Java and Swing, etc. Modern web development, especially using React, is in many ways the sanest thing I've come across.

It reminds me of stuff like Emacs, Lisp systems, Smalltalk, etc. Inspectable environments using dynamic languages... But React's model for components and DOM elements seems to me in many ways easier and better than Emacs buffers or Smalltalk widgets.

I use browser developer tools a lot for changing scripts and styles interactively, and while it's nowhere near perfect, it's often extremely useful and convenient, and I think the model has lots of potential.
I am the same, I cant see either white/gold or blue/black, and I am surprised that the options for most people seem to be white/gold or blue/black.

light blue/gold barely gets a mention in most articles.
I might suppose that web browser developers might be of the view that if someone has been able to run a web server on your computer (even under a different user account) and done so with malicious intentions, your security problems are beyond the control of a web browser. With that sort of access, the attacker might as well have made off with all of your HTTPS-only cookies and browser history, changed your DNS settings, etc.
Clearly, Verizon and AT&T (I've had both) are the problem. For various reasons, alternative carriers are not yet competitive at scale.

I have zero interest in a metered, shared data plan. Throttled to 3GB monthly for me is not unmetered.
This, 100%. They also plan to adopt Certificate Transparency, I believe. And it'll hopefully be trivial to set up, once the scripting is all finished.

No excuses, people. Give it a few years and we'll be seriously talking about turning http: off, or at least putting security warnings on it, denying cookies and scripting, etc.

You don't still use telnet, do you?
Yes, and I am very glad I came to read the comments. I could see both as I moved the slider and was wondering what was generating so many comments. Otherwise I would have entirely missed the fact others did not see the white/gold or blue/black.
> and you were all about that no-syntax highlighting

He is. He usually does not use syntax highlighting: https://twitter.com/enneff/status/571067872291594240
Whenever you can't find the bug in javascript, I beg you to run the code through jslint. It would have caught this right away.
By the looks of the Github account, Let's Encrypt will let me programmatically get a certificate for free when I run non start in my node app, or easily set up HTTPS on my Apache web server, among other things. All for free with minimal work.
The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were allies only in the weakest sense, non-aggression. Each were buying time, and ultimately considered the other its enemy and knew a war would be fought sooner or later.

Claiming that the Soviet Union was a major force in the re-arming and preparation of Nazi Germany is counterfactual at best. There are hundreds of studies on how and why Nazism rose in Germany, and none seriously posits that it was with the help of the Soviet Union (the aftermath of WWI, the treaty of Versailles, rising discontent and anti-semitism, are all part of the real motives). Because of the tenets of Nazism, the war in Europe would have been fought no matter what ("living space", "superiority of the Aryan race", "final solution of the Jewish question" and all that stuff). Without the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany wouldn't have had a major front in which their soldiers fought and died by the thousands, and it would have made the job of the Western Allies incredibly harder, if at all possible.

If you want to assign blame to other countries, many businessmen in the Western world actually saw Hitler in a positive light, at least initially, since he was against unions and workers rights.
I did the same thing. The strange thing is this puts you in a third camp nobody is mentioning: blue/gold(brown). Maybe some of our eyes just take it for what it is and don't do background compensation??
> both Apples and Googles ecosystem are so tightly coupled with the owner of the device, it's hard to use them in an shared environment

I don't know about Google's devices but Apple's Configurator allows businesses to manage devices that are shared between multiple users. The iPad can be put into "kiosk mode" in which it boots to a single application. In this mode it's not possible for the user to exit the application or run any other application.

I work on a point-of-sale iPad application for agents in stores and it's working out very well for our customers.
Climategate is not a real scandal and your mention of it just proves that you have bought in to the GOP's anti-science narrative. Your further accusation that I let the GOP get to me is just insults without basis. You have proved that you have no idea what you're talking about and have no interest in a rational discussion.
Check www.vultr.com it's cheep and you can spin your own ISO for OS install. Best I found so far.
Thankfully the bug DID make my tests go red.
Why would they need the fullscreen access? I could see the interest for cookies or local storage, but fullscreen?
There are other tools that work for this, though. For example, Fiddler.
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I'm the same as your update. I tend to enjoy these sorts of illusions and normally can see them "both ways" for some specific illusion. Not so on this one. The rest of the image (i.e. beyond the dress) leads me to also perceive the light being yellow-ish, in which case a white dress would certainly not appear blue.
Loving this so far. Great job
depends on the sharpe ratio.

You can flip a coin every year. Heads; double your money, tails; lose your bet. You can easily win 3 years in a row (12.5% chance), but getting 800% return on that risk is literally worthless in the long run, as the chance of winning or losing is equal.
See also: Clojure at a Newspaper! [1] This guy should write a Clojure: War Stories book.

[1] http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=1018
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the people who build the "robots" (Algorithms, or trading systems are a more applicable name) do.
The UK did not set up a similar policy. They built the phone network with government money, then when they privatize BT, they gave Openreach a monopoly with high rates to ensure profitability. Consequently, BT has twice the profit margin of your typical American utility, and actually about the same as TWC. It's EBITDA on revenue for Openreach is almost 50%. It's a sanctioned monopoly that enjoys monopoly profits.
My first text editor was usable on a machine 300,000 times slower with a million times less RAM. It bothers me that text editor performance is ever considered challenging at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Timelin...
Ok, then use Prismatic Schema & core.typed. Not to mention other tactics to help correctness, like simulation testing with Simulant. (Or what don't you like about them?)
What languages will be supported for extensions?

Any chance of C# ?
You'd have to find the key used, which would be hidden inside of the browser's memory (and possibly hard to get out). Wireshark will do that for you, but it's not ideal.

A more usable way is: Set up a proxy on your system that decrypts and re-encrypts all SSL traffic - effectively acting as the browser. It re-encrypts with its own (auto generated) key, but you've put it's signing key in your truststore so your browser doesn't care. In the middle, you can see what's going on using Wireshark.

It's what most corporate firewalls do, as well as that Lenovo software etc.
Ha! I just had a moment where I could perceive it as white/gold: It was a cropped version showing only the belly portion of the dress with no background, displayed in isolation as a thumbnail on a news site. When cropped like that it made perfect sense. :)
Users could use SPV clients in case of resource constraints, on the other hand there are incentives in place, that till now, have kept miners from shutting down their nodes.

Bitcoin core latest version (0.10.0) have reduced significantly the bootstrap time of a node (e.g. through "header-first" mechanism).

Future releases will introduce other improvements that will lead to a reduction in terms of network bandwidth/latency (O(1) block propagation, IBLT) and IO space (e.g. pruning)

That said it's true there's no economic incentives in place to "just" run a full node. Person that run full nodes does that for a lot of reasons modulo the economic one.

Hence the number of full nodes is steadily declining http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/#/chart/bitnodes/num_nodes

There are proposals (1) floating around to fix the situation through, guess what... economic incentives, but we are for from getting some sort of agreement, worse than that I dare say that in this case we're still struggling with problem awareness.

(1) https://bitcoinism.liberty.me/2015/02/09/economic-fallacies-...
The DOM's main advantage is supposed to be accessibility and portability to different form factors; otherwise, just roll your own UI using Canvas (like I do using WPF canvas anyways for my editor work). It's not clear to me how accessibility could be preserved while allowing for more flexibility.
What took so long? Rajesh, Leonard and Howard had it done in 2011 already :-)
I use scriptblock

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptblock/hcdjkn...

I have youtube and google allowed for javascript.

Reddit browses very fast, ImgUr is kind of a headache because it doesnt load all images, but both are usable.

Bonus point, the extension doesnt work on incognito,so if you want to see certain website, launch it in an incognito window to browse it quickly.

The only major problem with reddit, is that I can not comment... but I can live with that, and when I feel the need to make a comment, I just allow the site temporaly.
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While in this case it could be going a little too far since I see how some of these APIs could be used to gather quite sensitive information, it might be a sort of knee-jerk reaction against the trend of "it's for your security" restrictionism that is becoming very common today; and it's a reaction that I think is long overdue... "more secure for everyone" is the same reason often used to justify mass surveillance.
But the original doesn't have a dark background, so it still doesn't explain how people see it, in that picture's context, as white and gold.
Quite a few of my sites are hosted with EUKHost, in terms of support they've always been near perfect and I've never had to wait for help. Servers are reliable too, can't think of any major downtime in the last 5 or so years.

Tried AWS and preferred Digital Ocean instead, the $5 servers are quick and it's easy to spin one up to use for various needs.
I've worked in one company which gave a spontaneous raise after ~1 year, and another that declined to give any raise after years. I know which one has more motivated employees.
Strategy or not? Netflix gives life membership to Brazilian TV Program host
I think there is a fundamental difference between the internet and Radio.

Radio represents a hard-limited amount of spectrum. There is literally a maximum amount of broadcasts that are possible before you have to start overlapping on the same frequencies. Those pieces of spectrum can be owned or rented just like public address space on the internet.

The internet has no such limit, adding to the internet just makes the internet bigger, it doesn't push someone else off the internet.

The real corollary to pirate radio would be someone hijacking google.coms DNS records to point to their own website instead. And tthat is and should remain illegal.
Silvio Santos is a famous Brazilian TV Host (and owner of a TV Channel). While presenting LIVE he said he loves to watch Netflix, that he "hates" television and that Netflix should give him a free month.

After becoming a viral topic, Reed Hastings from Netflix decided to answer Silvio giving him not only a month, but a lifetime membership.

Do you think this could possible be all setup and just a Netflix strategy the day they release the new season of "House of Cards"?
Seems fine on my >500Go aggregated log file. Scroll line by line with no issues. Sed and matching is near instant.

What's the issue ?
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Pretty much every modern DB is capable of thousands of transactions per second on moderate hardware.
> Since when is Quartz unsupported?

I think he was referring to X11.app — aka XQuartz — which has not been supported or included in OS X since 10.6 (Mountain Lion).
90% of Hacker News probably thinks they are night owls. Most (but definitely not all) of you are wrong -- you're just young, over-caffeinated, over-exposed to artificial light and / or adjusting because the fun stuff in life happens in the evenings and at night.

I thought I was a night owl. I got fired once for showing up to start work at closing time after being warned several times.

10 years later, I'm one of those people that wakes up at 5AM so they can go to the gym before work.

What changed? I hit my forties, I cut out caffeine, I stopped using the computer after 9PM, I got married & had kids, and I go out dancing 6 times a year rather than 6 times a week.

Want to know if you're really a night owl without radical experiments like cutting out caffeine? Ask your Mom if you slept in on Saturdays when you were 7 years old.
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This is why you shouldn't lie about your salary. They'll find out your current salary. If they can prove you lied at interview, you could be fired at any time.
How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb؟?