skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given this is totally dependant on a million different backend coders, none of whom will read this document, can I suggest:

HTML 5 gets a password "field" that is an obligatory two fields INPUT and TEXTFIELD. iNPUT stays the same as now for backwards compatibility and the larger field is where I / Firefox pastes my public key.

At this point we are starting everyone on the sensible path to client certificates and yet have a fall back position of the curren bork'ed password setup.

For the simplest next step web servers can just do simple challenge response over SSL to ensure I hold my "certificates" private key.

The best cannot prevent good enough coming through
Thank you for this! I NEVER knew this was something that could/would be different too. But I will have to keep that in mind if I ever store a wday value; or i guess even present a calendar! wow.
This is great! In a bigger team and/or with an old application, I tend to do these changes manually, all the time, for every piece of code I touch. And while in the long run things get better, it's inevitably a losing battle if the others don't care. Thank you for putting your time into this project!
"Also, do you have anything quantitative to back your statement about being out of touch? That hasn't been my experience generally and I work quite hard to ensure I don't lose touch. That's obviously only data on my experiences - but I didn't make the assertion (I genuinely interested though)."

How do you know you haven't already lost touch? :p I joke, but the first time I switched into full time "architect" mode I did lose touch without even realising it.

I guess the key measure would be: could you jump into a senior developer role on your current project and be as productive as the other senior devs on the team? In my experience most team leads can, but very few managers can.

I doubt there is much in the way of hard data either way. I've personally met less than a handful of architects/managers that were clued in over my 15+ year career.

It's like looking at code written by a python developer who, a couple of years ago, used to be a c developer. The developer still understands memory management, but it's no longer forced to the front of their minds. And it shows in the code they write. Likewise because as a a manager you aren't forced to deal with the code your brain quickly abstracts it away. Your "atomic operations" when you think about a problem become a lot larger.
Utter cluelessness is so funny. MSDOS was going to be like Unix with subdirs and redirection and shit. But goddammerung, it had to be like CP/M too, and CP/M used "/" as an option switch, so MSDOS directories were indicated with "\". This was so very depressing that many fixes were available, but nothing worked totally and everywhere.
This protocol has no forward security; so, poorly by comparison.
Grunt-contrib-compress – zip/ar/gzip your project files and folders
TD-Linux means they discontinued the ability for sites to prevent usage of the password manager, not that you can't disable it yourself.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906
Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X
I think Apple would likely reject such a design as being a "demo" version, which is explicitly forbidden--unfortunately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9670994
Businesses essentially do this now, because there's no real downside to hiring undocumented workers.
This got me thinking about something.

What's to stop an unscrupulous developer selling an app for, say, $1.99 with the (implied) promise that the app will work forever and then, once people have bought it, turning off the backend so it no longer works?

Is this illegal? Would Apple shut down the developer's account?
FrontEnd: Welcome to the Future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524988
This is a really nice overview of the status quo.

It's also great to see a statement on JS lib proliferation which lays out a concise, balanced and pragmatic argument.
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Damn, that's really impressive. Especially considering that he wrote it at every layer of abstraction. It's been interesting watching this undertaking progress.
His article on the Norwegian Wikipedia existed already before 2009, although it didn't have many details back then, and still doesn't.
See http://motls.blogspot.co.il/2015/05/relaxion-new-paradigm-ex... - the ratio between Plank mass and Higgs mass has to come from somewhere, and Motl isn't convinced that the source in this model is particularly more natural.
>Because people are irrational, and will give wildly different answers to fundamentally the same question, depending on the phrasing.

That doesn't make it ok to do terrible things using the phrasing people will react best to. These companies need to grow some ethics.
KDnuggets Poll -Is Rapid Miner 3 Times More Used as SAS
This is a bit weird. Why not use an AEAD construction? Libsodium provides ChaCha20Poly1305, conform to RFC 7539.

The code is also confusing. "box" is actually the "secretbox_easy" operation, but rewritten using "secretbox". Which intentionally doesn't exist in libsodium.js because it only makes sense in C code.
South Korea to track mobile phones to enforce Mers virus quarantine rules
It gets very weird. Some models say that going outside of the observable bubble is the same as passing the event horizon of a black hole. When you are in a spaceship and you pass the event horizon of a black hole, nothing happens to you yet. The event horizon is not some kind of physical barrier; you can pass it without even noticing that you passed it, though of course when you are past it there is no turning back. From the outside perspective however, there is a problem because information is conserved. According to some theories that information will be radiated out. So from the outside perspective the spaceship has been completely destroyed and radiated out. From the inside perspective the spaceship is happily orbiting. Something similar may happen when a spaceship leaves our bubble. Of course these models may be wrong, but it shows that the question of whether the spaceship still exists is not very clear, and may depend on who you ask. So is it ethical or not? I'd say yes because from their perspective nothing happens, well, from their perspective we die and burn. Note that in QM it's clearer: if you are the one that sees the dead cat, then for all practical purposes it's truly irrelevant whether the one that sees the alive cat exists -- there is no information being radiated back or something else that indicates that that version exists or not. The predictions of MW and copenhagen are identical, whereas with black holes we could observe whether something is being radiated out or not, and we could drop ourselves into a black hole to see what happens.
Although it looks clunky, the visualization and edition of the included sprites and 3D models right in the code editor is impressive. It does not even look like Vim as a plugin for this!
> e.g. MOBAs, tactical wargames, tower defense games

None are RTS. I prefer the idea of Real Time Tactics for these games, if that makes more sense. Smaller scale individual battles vs large scale building out of armies and large battles.

People like MOBA's because they are too dumb for RTS? Sounds plausible. /s
I just check my copy of GTD. It's just 250 pages, which can be read in a few hours.
I'd recommend to read it. I'll be worth it.
> You quite obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the wikipedia link.

People interested in how penmanship has changed over the 20th century might be interested in this (weirdly expensive book)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handwriting-Twentieth-Century-Rosema...
I noticed a key metric was missing from your article. What was the average number of transfers per day per user with the original version? The explanation for the drop in sales could be as simple as most of the existing users were doing 1-2 per day...
LeoCAD software to build Lego models
Please keep comments substantive.
Their response will probably just be to ignore any future communications from the author
I was just pointing out something for you to consider.

Alleging that men in tech (all of us?) need "to document the proof that women are liars and tricksters" and that the implicit draw of these stories, at the heart, is "she thought she was a victim and she was wrong" is simply misandrist stereotyping.

You cited the attention given to these issues as evidence; I think you should consider that this attention is not unique to women in tech, and is also exactly what feminist activists want. The coverage (and the jury decisions) aren't always in their favor because people are diverse.

Beyond your prejudices I think you'll find that there are men who feel the way you describe, and men who are staunchly feminist, and a lot of men who realize women are diverse: heroes, victims, productive workers, and yes, sometimes, "money-grubbing exploiters of worthy causes."
I think UI really shines using the Web stack because it was built using async tools from the very beginning. UI development should be async from the get go. In other non-webby systems you do UI using async but you're still using blocking tools (for example by using Java's mixture of async for UI but blocking for other stuff). JavaScript on the other hand, and all of its libraries, are entirely async which makes it a pleasure to work with - it's a much more natural environment to be doing UI in (single thread and everything is there to be used without multi-threading complicated stuff).

This is a big insight that JS and other webby-tools have given to the UI world, and I strongly believe something entirely async needs to exist for the desktop/mobile world as well - fortunately there is in the form of node.js/electron/nw.js.

Now in terms of how that's handled behind the scenes, I don't really care (use a nice VM, use a whatever mixture of whatever you want). Just give me a fully-async toolset to build my app in a single thread and I'm happy.
13 and 15 Yrs Old, Nigerian Brothers Built Mobile Browser Alternative to Chrome
With Omniscient there is a syntactic sugar on top of React class factories, which encourages to think of components as pure and smaller/more focused functions. This tries to lead more to simpler and composable components.
Australian and Singapore Airline use WeiBo and WeChat to educating chinese travelers
Nice. I've used ractive for nearly two years now. It's backed by the Guardian and you can learn it by reading this comment:

var binding = new Ractive{
el: '.where-to-put-it',
data: {some: data},
template: '<p>Put {{ some }} thing here</p>'
}

Bang, two way binding, virtual DOM, and ridiculously fast when using the same benchmarks that ember and react use to test their performance.
EPIC’s Unreal Engine Open World: Behind the Scenes
No I haven't. Is this a big issue? I guess it would be nice if watch could take a filter. Since cljs uses incremental compilation it shouldn't do anything if non-cljs files changed.
There are a few apps that are making a lot of money from the freemium model. As long as that continues other developers will chase that dream.
What about Mithril? It's tiny, efficient and predates React. Here is a good overview of it: https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html
I seriously wonder why there are no pictures with human models.
Actually I've found working with cljsbuild and figwheel pretty good. What do you think is lacking?

The point of my post was not that Leiningen is bad and Boot is good. I simply wanted to learn more about Boot and the pros and cons.
You mean pathologically dishonest?

Apple bashing has been going on for 30 years, and they aren't changing-- this could have been written in the 1990s, and if you did the research you can find dozens like it written then.
Yes, and it need to be 2 physical visits to the bank.
This sounds like it could be useful if you want to have a bunch of IoT devices (possibly on the same network) which interact with each other directly without going through a central server.

In most cases though, your IoT devices do need to interact with a central authority (not just with each other). For example, if you have a web-based dashboard which displays the devices' state, it means that the devices will need to send that state to a central authority from time to time (in order to keep the web-based dashboard updated). Also, if you want users to interact with these devices from that dashboard, then the devices will need to receive commands from that central authority too.

What I'm getting at here is that in many cases, it's more practical to make all your IoT devices talk to each other through remote servers than directly with each other because usually there is an element of 'monitoring and coordination' which means that you need one or more remote servers to act as a central authority for the IoT network.

It may be more efficient to just make all the devices talk to each other through pub/sub hosted by a central authority than directly with each other... Unless your IoT devices are fully autonomous and that data doesn't need to be aggregated (which, to be fair, may cover some use cases).

Or maybe also this could be useful if this network of devices works in isolation - For example, the dashboard connects directly with your devices without needing to coordinate with external data from devices owned by other users.
Has apple ever given a reason why they dont allow demo/trial apps?

A time limited trial seems like the perfect fit for productivity apps, not sure entertainment based apps would want this model. You have a day/week/month to use the app in its entirety, if after the trial you value the product you purchase it, otherwise it no longer works.
I ran a free system and while it is small it easy but as soon as you get tens of thousands of users you are on the hook for all of the background costs while your userbase grows exponentially because they are so happy. Better to have 10 customers then 10,000 free users. I was never able to get free people to pay anything. I bragged about my free users and I felt self-important while taking away my ability to use my time more wisely.
Okay, take 2.

What does the US overlayed over Europe have to do with the topic of rail travel in Europe?
Personal experience with handwriting change:

My writing became stylised in my teens, as I'm sure is true with many others. It sloped backwards, and I used a Greek style e and d, purely out of aesthetic reasons.

In my adult life I noticed this made my writing really slow. This became a problem when I sat some exams in adulthood: my hand cramped as I tried to scrawl as fast as possible in the time limit.

I deliberately investigated faster, more comfortable writing styles. Internet consensus, which I note agree with, indicated that joined-up, forward-leaning (italic) cursive was the way to go. The saw-tooth shape that underpins most letters is easy and feels natural -- if you're right handed.

It took me about 6 months of deliberate effort before the transition was fully embedded, and I'm still very pleased that I made the change.
You are referring to the Eisenhower Method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_...
Each bank has a weekly limit, but they are all around $2000. Swedbank is 1500, nordea is 2000 and SEB is 2400. Some is based on 7 days, others 4 days period.

The law that prompt the bank to do this is in theory money laundering laws, where they are required to have "enough" procedures to prevent.
Where is MeteorJS ?
or to be more specific MeteorJS Tracker Lib ?
Media LIT: Overcoming Information Overload
Not really. Many apps have a one-off "premium features" IAP. Certainly more than 1%.
So let me get this straight:

1. Corporation collects user data.
2. Government wants access to that data, in secret.
3. Corporation lets people know when the government accesses data about them.
4. Hurrah, the government is more transparent.

If the corporation didn't collect the data in the first place, there would be nothing for the government to request access to, transparently or not.
College's should have a complaint review system that goes through diversified student and faculty boards before being deemed legitimate.
This protocol assumes there's already a shared secret. So you need another one for the key exchange. Which can provide forward security. Or not.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Mob with pitchforks is not something to worry about. No mob. That's what you need to worry about.
Show HN: MindSwap – Experience doing your job in a different work environment
"Weird" is in the eye of the beholder. As someone who grew up with Sunday always being considered the first day of the week, I find it weird to see places where day one is Monday.
I'm not afraid of someone stealing it, and I am speaking about it. Just not publicly. It's too difficult to discuss such things in a forum like this. Too much emphasis on voting and threads and it doesn't lend itself to a good technical discussion. Especially about a concept that is still being developed.
I'll try that the next time I go; this time around I had no control over the reservations.
>> Type 3 often works out better for the natives, because the existing regime had to be pretty backward and corrupt in order to fall to a small band of foreigners. The foreigners install themselves as competent stationary bandits and the country at least enjoys some stability and rule of law.

Occupying a country is actually making them a favour!
I did find out that the location of the final IP address is in San Jose. I didn't know you could use that dig command, thanks.

The linode link says that ping, traceroute and mtr commands use ICMP packets to test and if I'm not wrong Apple's servers don't respond to that (I can't check for this because the VPN blocks ICMP packets too).

I don't know of anything to try. I've just tried ping and traceroute and will try mtr.
Thanks for doing the math. The results are what I expected them to be, but it's cool to know the approximate number :).
Natalie Tran's error reporting video: http://youtu.be/nK0OWAXTSdM
I also think it's also well-meaning people without science understanding, or that didn't do the math. Intuition for those things is hard. While the result for this calculation is roughly where I expected it to be, I know that my intuition fails me wrt. houses - I just can't believe, without doing the math, that a typical solar installation people put up is sufficient to actually power a household, with washing machine, fridge and computer equipment.
I don't think they ever gave a reason. Personally I like how it has forced developers to come up with more creative product offerings than time limited demos. While convenient for developers, time limited demos suck as a user experience IMO. The whole "trial expired! buy now!" experience is very grating.
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Sounds like a problem with the organisation and engineers. Unless of course the externally facing APIs had to change regularly because of requirements changing, in which case welcome to software development, you were probably lucky that those external APIs weren't an opaque box for six months like they may have been without an agile methodology.
The alchemist - Paulo Coelho

I've read it several times and each time I found something interesting that I didn't notice.
I have visions of David Allen writing Getting Things Done and then the next year thinking "I really should revise this". 13 years later a second edition is published.
the manager's salary becomes a ceiling for the staff they manage, if managers are always paid more than the staff they manage (and I've heard some managers seriously suggest that they would not be able to manage people who got paid more than them).

It becomes a problem when tech salaries are on the rise, because at some point the company either has to start paying coders more than managers, or has to implement pay rises throughout the management hierarchy in order to retain good technical staff.

At this point its really tempting to promote good coders into management to keep them.
Is there an equivalent of udev on Mac OS so I don't have to run a cronjob to check the battery percentage all the time? I know how to get the percentage from ioreg but i'd be nice to be able to just listen for that api call like udev does.
For people interested in redesigning how web site authentication is performed, I would encourage a look at the FIDO Alliance specifications for "Passwordless UX" and "Second Factor UX":

https://fidoalliance.org/specifications/overview/

The problem with redesigning how web site authentication is performed is always that it requires support (or at least extensions) in the browser the user is using, as well as in the websites the user is logging into.

Both Microsoft and Google are members of the FIDO Alliance, so maybe these specifications may actually go somewhere. (Sadly, Apple is absent from the member list.)
Hey, this is off-topic, but I'm working on an app that's in the same market as yours. (MIDI-based DAW-ish thing with an emphasis on ease-of-use. I don't think my app would be competing with any of yours.) If you're willing to share your thoughts, how easy was it get the number of users for, say, Sythe as it has now? Did you do any marketing? Was the relatively high price point ever a problem? Are you considering freemium for that one, too?

I was hoping that I could mostly wing it and just make a nice video and send out some review copies to people who might be interested. The music app market seems small enough where this might be possible. But this is just me guessing, and it would be great to hear from someone who's actually had some success in the space.

Anyway, loving your design aesthetic! Will give Sythe a download as soon as I charge up my phone.

(And, obviously, if this is information you're not willing to share, then no hard feelings! Just thought I'd ask.)
I noticed that too. Very handy.

I get very nostalgic reading about your work Terry, I haven't done anything low-level since I started playing with the C64.

Skip to 11:30, it's amazing; the editor includes binary data - in this case 3d models - which are rendered within the editor in real time.
Immortality by Milan Kundera

It made me think about mortality, love and sexuality in ways I'd never thought of before
The Reader (Der Vorleser)
Disclosure: I am the maintainer of https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt

You are correct, cascaded cyphers don't increase security except in exceptional circumstances, and can decrease security if wrongly implemented. But LibreCrypt doesn’t actually support cascaded cyphers, so the point is moot.
Autobiography of a Yogi by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda
They should hook this up to a SETI signal!!!
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
by John Ralston Saul
Disclosure: I am the maintainer of https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt

The advantage is that if a flaw is discovered in an algorithm, then it is possible to switch to another without changing tools.
Nice idea! But why go all the way with the python venv etc? Just using curl + GCM would seem quite sufficient.

(oh, and: don't you need some app installed either way for receiving the notifications on your phone?
Walden by Thoreau

Not mind blowing in that there was any startling revelations in it, rather that reading and absorbing it changed my outlook on many things.
where's the proof that his reasoning is correct?