skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems ripe for abuse. So I just need to flag someone's account as abusive (and god knows there's always a way to frame something as abusive) a few times and they can never register with that email and/or phone number?

Didn't we already have an article here about a woman who posted a somewhat tasteless joke which cost her her entire career? Would the people that piled on her be considered abusers or not? Would she be considered abusive or not? (In that case, I think the answer is both - her joke was abusive and she suffered abuse in return)

I do like that people at twitter are at least trying to think of something.
Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?
I'm looking for Web hosting (either shared or VPS) for a personal owncloud setup.
All the reviews I've seen online say different things or are obviously sponsored by a particular company so don't give a proper representation of the quality of the services.

Any thoughts or recommendations?
What d'yall think of godaddy, hostgator and bluehost compared to AWS for value for money?
Impressive to see the difference between browsers there, though. IE is unusable with ~420 MiB of memory for that tab. Chrome is unusable as long as the page loads; after that only slowed down slightly, with ~540 MiB of memory for that tab. Firefox is snappy, fast and takes only 180 MiB of memory for that tab.
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If you want to be pessimistic about it, anyone who doesn't adopt will get an SEO drop
Do we know why HVM/hw-virt has had more security issues than PV/sw-virt?
LOOK.in – First Smart Home System Fully Supports Apple HomeKit
Sure, this is annoying, but the reality is that this type of stuff is very easily avoided through the use of linters. IMO, you should never work on a dynamic scripted language like JavaScript without constantly running a linter in the background to pick up stuff like this.
I started alone and worked alone for 1+ year, but after that Sparsh came onboard and joined me as my business partner and our CTO.
iOS, Android, MacOS.
If you haven't found any "serious response", maybe it's because you haven't searched enough.

Here is a "clear, detailed, not demeaning, and constructive" answer of Ian Lance Taylor that addresses your concerns:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/smT_0BhHfBs/MWwG...

I would guess his answer will not suit you, but you can hardly argue the Go team ignores the issue or refuses to talk about it.
Jolla's tablet has 18,000 funders.

If we assume that there are at least 2 million Linux enthusiasts in the world, 10% of them have heard of Jolla, and 10% of those are willing to spend disposable income on a new kind of Linux device... That gives you a market of 20k people.

So I'm not convinced that Jolla really offers anything compelling to anyone else except a subset of Linux fans.
I'm not sure the authors understands what the NIH syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here) is about. It is about writing everything yourself. IMHO the following paragraphe is highly symptomatic for that:

A great mass of libraries, modules, code, and other
software products, available on the net are either
crappy in their own right, or simply not suitable to our
project. Forcing things to work together can be costlier
than simply writing the required code on our own.

In the context of software development, NIH syndrome doesn't mean that you use libraries not invented here but that you re-implement everything on your own.
I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me.

My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to measure any benefit of styled newsletters over text. So I usually use just text.
Engineering ethics
Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (2012)
Microsoft Fires Another 9,000 Ex-Nokia Employees
Jetlag on the way west is the best. Suddenly I'm actually awake early in the mornings. Too bad it wears off after a few days.
Hmm. Rereading the code I believe you are correct. I'm not strong in Ruby and had misunderstood what this was doing:

Reflector = Hash[*('A'..'Z').to_a.shuffle]
Reflector.merge!(Reflector.invert)
This is a good image with adobecolor picks
http://i.imgur.com/8XRB3QY.jpg
no black in sight.
The "bluish" most people's brains "correct" to white.
Well executed troll.
Would read again. A+++
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This post would be a lot less spammy if you actually added some content, like how you do things differently, or what stack you use, whatever. Anything except "look at us, we are great at this"
I wrote a novel using Word on a Thinkpad Tablet 2. It's a 10-inch Windows 8 tablet with an Intel Atom CPU.

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't mind writing long texts on a touchscreen. For me, the Windows 8 keyboard worked much better than the iPad keyboard though -- I'm not exactly sure why, but the layout and visual style were more suitable for my habits.
Personally, the Twitter policy is good from an Indian perspective. The number of political trolls are countless and one would be literally hounded if you have an alternate opinion.
If you want to go real deep on TheDress
two MOOCs about vision, light, the brain:
https://www.coursebuffet.com/tag/Vision
Are you serious, there are developing nations with better internet than America. This isn't about how great 'murica is, it's about how because of a lack of competition, American internet is about to become a liability. My first modem was 600 baud, so cut the old man crap.
I completely agree that's what's going on. But what's fascinating here (to me at least) is how individual our interpretations are.

Can you see what assumptions the gold/white crowd is making in their interpretation? Even with the slider in the OP I can't see it. :) And even worse: I can't understand what assumption I need to make (about the color of objects in the background or shadows or something) to be able to see a gold/white dress.

Phrased differently: I can't imagine how I would construct a scene with a gold/white dress and then take a picture that looks like the one in the OP (regardless of the position of the slider). Scary! :)
Perhaps they can cooperate with a company like Wacom to allow the screen to be used as a drawing canvas for styluses with pressure/angle sensitivity etc.
well build something for yourself and aspiring actors like you, that help scheduling auditions on film sets easier.
It looks based on this repo: https://github.com/nrox/q-learning.js and this example: http://nrox.github.io/q-learning.js/test2.html
Anyone else just getting a "Loading . . ." splash screen?
move a Robot and learn how to code in Swift
The eInk is a technical problem. I'd be sluggish in replacing a tablet, and might not ever; I haven't powered mine on in months. I'd replace my kindle immediately.
If these walls could talk
How does this relate to what the team at hypothes.is (http://hypothes.is/) are trying to achieve?

Textus are targeting text, hypothes.is are "building an open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge" -- i.e. annotating the web.
But do the robots get bonuses...? I think not.
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do you really see "black" here ?

https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3452082/n...

Objectively, there's only "yellow-brown" (gold) and "light blue" which most people "mentally" correct to "white"
Can you touch type? If not, then I could maybe understand writing novel on tablet.
It's simple: when looping either make stuff quick to collect or make it never collect.
WhatsApp banned by Brazilian Judge
None that I can quickly share right now, but suffice it to say that if a company gets one invoice that says "Powered By MakeLeaps", it's a coincidence.

But if they get two or three, they start looking into this new service that everyone seems to be using now.
that makes me proud :) do you have suggestions to improve this library ?
A recent comment by Rufus Pollock, https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-humanities/2015-Februa...

"Re other Open Annotation, we obviously are very excited about annotatorjs (which we created) and hypothes.is. I would reiterate that for static texts in the Textus structure, the whole point is you can do annotation in a much easier and nicer way (you don't need to run off addressing into the DOM) and that's what Textus' viewer takes advantage of. "
Uhm, I strongly disagree with making fullscreen https only feature.

For WebGL and WebVR community this would be a big step backwards, making browser applications again second class citizen vs native apps.

And it's not like there aren't already strong enough protections in place. Try for example visiting this mock attack site:

http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

In every browser I tried it was already obviously fake. It doesn't work already with current security tech:

1) browsers ask for fullscreen permission (with big unmissable dialogs)

2) emulated fake layout is very different from real layout (missing all per-user specific browser settings, e.g. bookmarks or extension buttons or any theme customizations, also font rendering looks different)

3) emulated fake browser UI doesn't respond to interactions in the same way as native UI
I was referring to something which Brad mentioned at the start of the video. About making this client reuse an underlying connection for multiple requests.
My First Night Homeless
A Down Payment Lowers Down the Subprime Car Loan Interest Rates
A question from someone who is not a front-end developer: Would it be possible (and faster) to avoid the DOM and use Canvas to make a text editor (assuming we are happy with one font and basic syntax highlighting)?
ISIS fighters destroy ancient artefacts at Mosul museum
Yeh you can better measure stats like open rate, CTR and deliverability. It's especially good for marketers and entrepreneurs that want an easy to use interface to manage their email marketing campaigns.
Could it be that some people have "absolute" colour vision, while others have not? Just like, in music, some people have absolute pitch?
Maybe change domain to xxxxxx-awards.com :)
Of course I can, I'm a professional programmer :)

I think part of the reason why I like to write fiction on a tablet is that it's a different typing experience from my day job. It switches off the code-typing habit and forces me to write differently.
This article was a waste of time, it only tells us that the robots will take our jobs just like numerous times before. Technology have always changed the labour landscape and old professions vanish and new one show up.

Petition of the Candle Makers

Ironically, French economist Frederic Bastiat lampooned protectionism back in 1845 when he penned 'Petition of the Candle Makers', mocking the sun's "unfair trade advantage" over candle-makers.

We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.”

Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/11/too-big-t...

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.no/2014/11/too-big-to...
I did some basic color analysis here.

http://shahidchohan.com/resolving-the-dress-color-debate/
I said nothing about iOS users. I said: Most people don't use iOS.
Nice job mate. Makes Twitter much more readable for me. You got some bugs with the rounded corners though.
This just reminds me a bit of how programmers could fiddle with memory in the Cell Processor for the PS3. IIRC memory was managed by the programmer and it only made it harder to program for.
Same here

TypeError: $S.global_conf is undefined blog_editor-8c9dc8f38e8dff53f0a4430e9075aaca.js:35040

"Invalid App Id: Must be a number or numeric string representing the application id." all.js:61

"FB.getLoginStatus() called before calling FB.init().

http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is looking better by the day

edit: wow I'm counting over 50k lines of JS in this page.. I think it's this: https://github.com/craigcollie/Bobcat

This makes me feel sad
So will internet prices go up now, just like with cable, where the FCC initially got involved to keep prices down?
I think tablets would be great for specific tasks. Police could make reports in the field, picking and checking off orders in a warehouse or a waiter could take orders on it. But as it is now, 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.

And also as they function as multipurpose devices, the user have so many ways of screwing things up.

There should be a manufacturer of generic tablets that are made to boot right into a single purpose application. There would be countless appliances for such a device!
Building Microservices the Lean Way, part 2
One thing I'll definitely miss is being able to look at traffic with wireshark. I've used it to great effect when I had to debug a failing service and wanted to see exactly what the browser was sending that was tripping it.
I got an email from linode yesterday telling me they need to do the same. Not sure if they had any public communication yet.
I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75.

So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit

Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/

SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/

Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
Craigslist is pretty effective at stopping those types of evasion. They ban VOIP phone numbers, for instance.
Google buys the .app TLD for $25mn
Maybe I'm dense but I don't see how requiring HTTPS would solve phishing attacks. To me it falls in the social engineering realm, people clicking link in their mail thay really should not. Having an extra 's' in the URL will not change that. Am I missing the point ?
Deliverability is going to be substantially better. IPs from commercial providers are trusted among ISPs and have a better chance not being flagged as spam.
As far as I know, there is no good way to measure open rate. You can see if images in your html email are loaded. But that could also happen automatically or in a preview pane that is displayed by default.

The reason why I shy away from measuring CTR is that I then cannot give people the real url. I like to directly give them the final url instead of some intermediate page. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer that.

How do you measure deliverability?
Thank you very much for that.

I've read quite a few stories on quite a few sites, and none have done as good a job of explaining what is happening as your simulation does.
Might be worth mentioning that the P45 form with previous salary only comes into play once a company has hired you and are doing salary tax paperwork.

So declining to state current salary before receiving an offer is still very much a possibility.
The point of that article was that people don't notice subtle changes, especially when their not tech savvy/tired after a long day of work/whatever. Also someone pointed out in the comments that some people tend to ignore changes and click on whatever to get to their destination.
What would be a good way to measure that?
What an incredible abuse from Paypal, yet again (and of course from Visa, Mastercard and Leahy). Why would any of these companies do anything a single politician says? For crying out loud it's not a court order. This seems like a repeat of the Wikileaks case. With just a phone call all three of these companies and also Amazon, shut down Wikileaks.

It almost seems like revenge from the MPAA. Even if Mega is perfectly legal now (a storage service), it wants the company gone forever. And what is MPAA saying about the encryption. That they should be able to look at all private files the users share? Really? Should I make it available to them what files I share through Bittorrent Sync, too?
Ahhh yeh you're right...we were looking at MailChimp "Pay As You Go" plans.
It doesn't merely reference GitHub.

I followed a link from HN that said "Discover your ranking on GitHub" - on GitHub usually means on GitHub's site. Using GitHub in this way is using a trademark that is supposed to be reserved for indicating origin. On arriving at the site one sees the GitHub logo (or at least a facsimile portion) and references to GitHub usernames and use of the [non-distinctive] GitHub livery [many sites use that same scheme though]. Checking the domain name one sees use of GitHub's trademark again. This is better than most phishing sites I've seen - next step for me is usually to do a whois if I care to find if it's an official site.

Up to this point it's either a phishing site or from GitHub. Without further investigation then IMO it's normal to assume non-infringing trademark use.

Presumably you've never come across a company that uses different domain prefix/suffixes with a trademark like, oh I don't know, http://Googlemail.com ?

github-awards.com with copy saying "we use GitHub's API to gather info and present an unofficial award" then I can see that any infringement might be incidental. With "on GitHub", with the livery, the logo and the domain; it's passing off.
Python api stability: Another day in the life of a poor developer
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Was a thread about this a couple of days ago also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154 . Looks like they changed their name since then.
Just wait for Comcast et al to tell us that implementing NN requires metered billing.
Why shutting down our startup gives us reason to celebrate
Are you asking if you should get paid double what you do now?

? No.
Their top feature being promoted is "privacy". That's a property of their business model rather than technology, one which could be of interest to more than a subset of Linux fans. Time will tell if Jolla can keep Linux invisible to users.
I've been using Linode for about 18 months, never had any problems. There's been two hardware upgrades during that time. I'm on the $20/month plan.. I use it to host several domains. I've also used AWS EC2 but found it was probably overkill for my own personal needs, as I don't have the need to spin up and down instances or scale or anything like that.
Comments on the Node Foundation
It immediately made me think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Is http://localhost / 127.0.0.1 considered secure?
My 20 most-used apps:

7 by Google - Chrome, Gmail, Hangouts, Maps, Calendar, Translate

4 by Facebook - WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram

4 by start-ups - Netflix, Dropbox, Skyscanner, Meetup

3 utilities - Camera, Jota text editor, Avia

3 Netherlands essentials - 9292, nu.nl, NPO

In case of Facebook, nu.nl (News site) and Translate, I actually prefer the mobile site, because their apps are too restrictive and suck at text. I think that's typical for text content apps.

Interestingly, it appears most apps that I use regularly started out as websites that became an app when they were successful, stable products.
Try filling an issue with Google or Apple some time. If you think a month is a long time to wait for a response, you're going to have a bad time.
I kinda agree about the e-ink, but I've turned off every possible notification on my tablet. My least favorite thing about phones and tablets is how insistent they can be. Facebook chat heads make me wanna burn facebook to the ground so they can do no more harm to the world. So, on the distraction front my tablet is only slightly more difficult to focus with than the Kindle. And, I find it handles books with images much better (travel books, books with maps, art and design books, etc.), tech books with screen shots, etc.

I have actually delegated my Kindle and my Nexus 7 to specific roles. The Kindle is for reading literature, exclusively. The Nexus is for everything else. It even helps me distinguish between leisure time and work/study time (kinda like that rule for addressing insomnia of "don't do anything in bed other than sleep and sex").
TL;DR: Sending both `Host` and `:authority` headers is apparently against the spec.

Some discussion on /r/golang : https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/2x626t/hacking_with...
>If you get your ass out of bed before dawn, that shows you have self-discipline, a valued trait.

That just tells me you are desperate to please people with meaningless signals rather than showing useful skills.
What about HTTPS for local testing, though?
But that attack works just as well if feross.org uses SSL, doesn't it? I'm not sure what MITM+fullscreen gets an attacker that they don't get from either by itself.

Which isn't to say there's no reason to only allow fullscreen over SSL, but I can't offhand think of one.
Except that not everybody will do it since day 1
My two personal cases when I may have doubts about things covered by "science" label:

Imagine a scenario with an imminent public risk that can cause social disorder. A science related risk. The people in power can order the scientists to withhold parts of the true in order to prevent panic. The scientists themselves may not only agree with this, but recommend it, because it is easier to deal with the problem at hand having the masses calm and relatively rational than having a mob of angry animals. We may safely presume that not everything is told to us. (One must need to be in a restricted circle to know something and then caring the responsibility of being in that circle prevents disclosure.)

The ideal scientific doctrine is taught to be open to anything the universe has to offer, but in reality we have to admit that the science we actually have is open only about things that it can explain within a reasonable accuracy. When it cannot, it is very similar to an ordinary religion, deeming the reports or observation of unexplainable things as doubtful or outrightly denying them. There is a procedure similar to religious excommunication for the courageous souls that dare to leap and study things that ca not yet be thoroughly explained in the conservative way using an increasing amount of evidence. (The mantra is "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".) I cannot therefore make a distinction between a scientist that chooses to just deny something out of fear for tarnishing his name and a politician who shirks from something that's right but unpopular.