skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed re feature detection. This could lead to an uncomfortable world for devs where the UA becomes completely unreliable - may force a migration to feature detection.
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For a long time being a system administrator meant a lot
Really? Why would they release tools to aid modification, then? Like the midi2mus mentioned in the article.
I agree with you point but Petraeus was different b/c he gave classified information to his mistress. What a sucker.
I've tried it, and used it to test primality. Then I thought I might be biased.

http://pizzaforthought.blogspot.in/2015/07/prime.html
I'll just simply say the opposite. History will show Obama as one of the worst US presidents in the entire history of the United States. Sure, he did a few things well, his "Beer Summit" comes to mind, but he is just about as good a president can be in the United States, when propped-up by awe-struck media.
Brave UX is hiring a front end developer in DC
Why not just use http://www.geekisp.com which is an all BSD shop? I've been a satisfied customer for probably around 10 years now.
I think VS 2015 (released today) should handle tsconfig in the IDE.
Great rhetoric with no action is still way better than terrible rhetoric backed up by force. Bush's foreign policy was a complete disaster. Accomplishing nothing would be a tremendous improvement by comparison.
YCF offers office hours for 8 weeks, two events with the partners and the alumni network. And the $12k and €42k are not mutually exclusive.

How many €10M+ companies got started with ACCRE money? Probably not even as many as there are $1B+ YC companies.
One of the problems with doing things that way is that you'll still develop locale-specific conventions. You might go somewhere and say "electric brain," but they call it a "fast counting beans." And then you'll be speaking different languages anyway.
Let's be mainstream – user focused design in Elm
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Does being Irish/Scot earn me a little leeway? That is probably the minimum amount of swearing I'm allowed per sentence.
"Leudesdorf has proved that for a positive integer n coprime to 6"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme%27s_theorem#Gener...
Beme Is a Social App That Aims to Replace Illusions with Reality
Ask HN: GPL side-effects of aliasing GCC to LLVM
Does the fact that the 'gcc' command aliases to clang on my mac laptop make clang a derivative work of GCC?
>The claim is that police are so prideful that minor emotional provocations will turn them strongly against us.

At no point did I say that. Hacker News doesn't lend itself to discussion very well, and if you want to stuff words in my mouth, I will refuse to partake in the discussion.

> For the example of the Baltimore shooting, no need to fire the whole department, but every officer who was on duty and refused to respond should be fired instantaneously.

You clearly have awesome leadership skills. You should run for Police Sheriff, clearly you know more about running a police department than everyone else.
Hey Kat, thanks for being available for questions!

I'm currently on F-1 (student) visa, and I'll be graduating soon. And I think this may represent some other people's situation as well.

In order to maintain the visa status after graduation while working, I'll need an OPT (Optional Practical Training). OPT is supported by the school AND a company that hires the person full-time, and is commonly used before the employee gets an H1-B. Clearly if I work on an idea full-time, I won't be working for a established company in full-time. Will YCF be a able to help in this case if accepted? For example, by hiring the team as YC employee in paperworks for the 8 weeks, but allowing the team to work on their own ideas?
I think you have the most fun job in Silicon Valley.
$30 Remix Mini aims to be the first serious Android PC
"Count-Min and Count Sketches" section at http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs166/ provides good explanations of this topic as well.
Being able to have the client (which knows the password it offered) do this computation isn't something super special though-- it's something that could be done fine with pbkdf2-- for example.

If fancy client support is really an option it would usually be better to use a zero-knoweldge authentication protocol (like SRP), though one of these KDFs could be used as a preprocessing step.
Do you really want to be a googler or an entrepreneur? Visualize yourself one year from now, have you made progress towards what you really want to be?
> K, so you're suggesting that we not enable a "usability feature" because Apple's guidelines suggest that there are alternative ways to specify the correct viewport?

No that's the opposite of what I'm saying. Apple has created a usability feature called 'User Scaling' and enabled it by default for usability purposes. Apple also added the <meta> tags that control the viewport, including disabling User Scaling, and strongly urges designers & developers to do two things:

1) Design your site with iOS users and hardware in mind

2) Use the correct viewport tag that gives the best experience

> On responsive sites, the idea behind them is that the site does its best guess of being responsive based on the size of the viewport.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. There's not much guessing going on here, you are either able to define the viewport, or it will render the page at the widths specified in the page styles. If you have defined the viewport there is no guessing involved and it will render the same way from device to device.

> sometimes the websites behavior isn't as intended, sometimes the designer didn't test with my exact device, size, eyesight, etc.

Chances are I didn't test with your exact device, but when I style things I have a set of rules and tools that help ensure that the same content renders the same way anywhere. If I tested only against released hardware then my sites wouldn't be future-proof. I design my stuff to work on all screen sizes smaller and larger than would be in use today so it not only shows up the same everywhere, but will continue to show up the same on devices released years from today.

I also regularly test on quirky hardware like PS Vita, and anything else with a browser that I can get my hands on just to make sure there aren't any weird bugs or edge cases.

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/a_pixel_is_n...

Here's a real-world case study: a friend had a sign up funnel and was tracking 900 different mobile devices on his site. On my main gig we have 1,300+ different devices a month! I put my responsive and mobile polish on top of his existing site and we moved the needle on signups 2% since then, and that change has lasted. Clearly, whatever I'm doing it making it easier for mobile users to get in the door with their dollars, and I have the numbers to vouch for that!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917996 and marked it off topic. The comment about sanctions isn't bad, but this thread should be about Cuba, not Iran. Let's keep our slow normalizations after decades of hostility distinct here.
Ugh :( ... He was one of our favorite customers, and an insanely nice guy. Every time we got new company schwag, we'd swap! We were all a bit floored upon hearing this. My condolences to his family and friends.
Poll: should I disable zoom on mobile?
Should I disable zoom on mobile?

(If I disable zoom I might get some extra responsiveness in tap detection on some OSs).
No. Never disable zoom.
No. Almost never disable zoom.
Maybe. It depends on the website and the target users.
Yes. But sometimes you need to enable zoom.
Yes. Always disable zoom.
The argument over the purpose of downvotes usually devolves into "it's OK to downvote to express disagreement" vs. "downvotes should only be used for bad (dumb, abusive, or inciteful) content". But I think there's a third option, and it's the way that HN actually behaves:

Voting is used to bubble good content up and bad content down.

That is to say, your comments don't fall under the umbrellas of "dumb", "abusive", or "inciteful", but they might be a distraction from the main thread, or they might not be carefully enough considered -- it's not just that voters disagree, but also that they don't think the comments belong near the top of the threads.

It doesn't look like the score went below maybe -2 ... that's really not that severe, and usually indicates a gentle "this isn't a good quality comment" signal.
When did I say we have an exception? You should just word things that jives well with the Police Force. Otherwise, you turn it into us vs them politics, and that never goes well.
My favorite part: Through most of his IPRA tenure, Davis’s performance evaluations showered him with praise. They called him an “effective leader” and “excellent team player.” The final evaluation, issued June 26, said he “is clearly not a team player.”
Would you care to share a bit more on how you pulled that off?

Pretty simple, actually:

1. Do the right thing, even if it's not popular.

2. Tell the truth.

3. Be nice.

Most importantly:

4. Be the best you can be. (You'll probably end up better than anyone else.)

I have never been unemployable because I have always added much more value than I've taken. Maybe I got this way because I never put up with too much shit.
Ask HN: I have an idea – who can I trust?
Specifically an app idea, but I'm not sure who I can trust with my idea.
Hey HN! XiaoSong here (cofounder/CTO at Call9). Would love to answer any questions people might have about the product.
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Microsoft releases emergency patch for all versions of Windows
My average may have been skewed by one job that lasted 90 minutes. It was so fucked up there, I took my break and never went back.
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That's a perfectly fine position. However, if the record companies are so abhorrent, isn't Step 0 to stop listening to their music at all? Plus a Step 2 being some form of action to attempt to change the situation. Without that Step 0, it's a bit like saying "I hate Big Theater" while sneaking in the back door to enjoy the movies.
Taking the time to write a slightly more thoughtful "thank you" comment usually does the job just fine.

"Thank you."

vs.

"Thank you for taking the time to write this, this topic has been on my mind recently and you really helped me figure this out."

The latter doesn't usually get downvoted, and sometimes even gets promoted a bit.
Stephen Hawking announces $100M hunt for alien life
Not everyone uses the standard libraries for lots of complicated reasons.
They have very little. The CPD is managed by the city which is under Democratic machine politics rule.
I understand it's mostly volume of requests vs available lab techs.
You're talking about yourself.
If you had the opportunity to actually read HN for some time, you'd know there is no "average" here.
None of us can be an expert in every field, but the level of knowledge you can find on HN is something I've never seen before
No working language has that few words. All that happens if you try, is you get a whole lot of "words" that have spaces in them (or if you're German, no spaces).
You can still do the fellowship: the h1b rules say you're not allowed to take other paid employment, but the fellowship will not be employment. Think of it as working for free on your project + winning a (very small) lottery :)
It really doesn't matter who said it, it's just good to cite the source. But there is nothing which makes Michio Kaku infallible. Arguments can't be reliably evaluated according to who made them.
A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn
Automatic disambiguation of English puns [pdf]
Prismatic's Feeds API and Interest Graph Explorer
/r/churning isn't a great resource, to be frank. Flyertalk is far and away superior.
It's just a name. "Data science" still requires statistics and anyone who calls themselves a data scientist were (hopefully) trained in statistics at one point or another, whether formally or not. For those who don't use statistics properly, well, they aren't doing data science properly either. It's all statistics.
Unfortunately we don't have the bandwidth to get involved with visas before or during the program :( If you can't do it from the Bay Area though, you can still apply to do it remotely--we want to try working with remote teams!
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I realize that, but why not just learn another established language? OK, it will take longer because you'll have to master a more complex grammar, vocabulary, and idiom, but on the plus side you'll be able to communicate with millions of people, in many cases. The notion that speaking more than one language improves your overall cognitive ability is already widely accepted.
Excellent blog post by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero on how the ATMFD DLL vulnerability was discovered and how an exploit POC was developed is here - http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=2520

Especially read the linked PDF if you love pain and misery but enjoy understanding complex stuff :)
It also allows client-independent strengthening of the hashes, so you don't have to wait for users to login again to be able to increase the strength of all existing hashes.
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That's a great point - I forgot to include the negative value part of the equation.
Sonja might say that toki pona was designed to make texts like this difficult to express, but an extra challenge is that there are so few words that could be repurposed as technical terms. For example, the existing term wawa means 'force, power, strength, energy' (which are of course all different technical terms in physics, so if we wanted to say "change in energy is the integral of power with respect to time" or "change in energy is the integral of force with respect to distance", we're already kind of out of luck, even ignoring how toki pona doesn't clearly have a way to refer to integration or multiplication).

We might try to describe the dag in this way.

mi mute li lukin e ijo mute e linja mute. linja ale li kama tan ijo wan li tawa ijo ante. sike ala li lon.

('we see many objects and lines. all lines come from one object and go to another object. no round thing is present.')

However, it is still ambiguous whether "wan" refers to an arbitrary node or a specific node (because toki pona has no term for "each" vs. "any"). We could try to get around this with a process-oriented approach ("choose an object"), but I've never found a clear way to say "choose". And of course a reader might interpret "sike ala li lon" as saying that the nodes aren't circular or that the edges aren't curved, as opposed to that no cycles are present in the graph structure.
I find this an interesting point to bring up. My family were also on income support when I was younger, and I also applied for the Youth Opportunity Funding grant in the UK and was awarded £1,250.

Similar to drsim I intended to start my own media business using the money, so I purchased a cheap PC, a camera, business cards, etc

In order to apply for the money I had to go through what was quite a lengthy process, which overall took three months to complete. I had to choose every item in advance with photocopies of the catalogue; this was to prevent people cheating the funding and spending it on other things. This also made it difficult to include consumables such as an internet subscription and transportation costs.

Does YC plan to background check and make sure the $12,000 would actually be spent on what it's intended for?

Also, does YC still consider applicants based in Asia, or is it US-based for the time being?
Well, it's masked. Computer = something/someone who computes. And compute itself is from to set together. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compute#English

For car, an older word was automobile.

When it comes to adaptivity, instead of glueing words together (like German or Chinese).

The strength of English (well, excluding political/economic consequences) is the easiness of borrowing words from other languages.
Auth0 has a nice article about the differences here:
https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-w...

And you can play around with it using their interactive tool:
http://jwt.io
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Cortana for Android released early by accident
This would be the perfect use case for SIRI (or alternatives), but we're still a little far from that.

"I want to fly from X to Y in the first week of september"
No disrespect toward OP but shit do I hate titles like this.

I feel like the media collectively gathered in 2012 and decided they needed to get more clicks, no matter what. At this meeting someone complainied about a recent facebook post they read that drove them crazy. It said "I hate all horses and NO i dont want to talk about it". This individual was driven mad wondering why someone would hate horses with such passion.

A lightbulb appeared over the gathering. "That's it! We'll use shitpost titles from now on, nobody will be able to resist". And so it was.
If it's good enough for someone to replicate just by hearing the idea, then it's good enough for someone to come up with on their own.

If the idea is so bizarre that people aren't interested, even after you explain it all to them, then you might be onto something big.

Either way, being secretive about it only holds you back.
Because their pricing doesn't match the current pricing situation of going as cheap as possible
I had a really long reply written, but before posting I went to try and find the source of the Elon Musk paraphrased belief, and I can't find it. I don't know where sixQuarks got it from, but without knowing what the source is, it's hard to second-guess what Elon Musk was actually trying to say (or whether he even said it at all).

That said, ignoring the Elon Musk bit, even if a superintelligent A.I. figures out how to communicate in some other dimension, surely there's plenty of work it will do that fits within the bounds of the physics we know, and we can observe what it does that we do understand, and we can observe what it does that we don't understand. And given time we can figure out how to understand that which we can observe. And more generally, even if it manages to jump straight to communicating in some other dimension without letting us see its intermediate work, it seems very likely that whatever it is doing will have observable effects within the realm of the physics we understand and can observe (even if it's just EM radiation). At the very least, we can tell that it's there and that it's doing something and start figuring out what it is doing.

This is in contrast to the ants of Michio Kaku, who don't even know anything is going on. The point isn't that the ants don't understand how to build their own 10-lane superhighway, it's that they don't even know that this is a thing built by another species or for what purpose it was built. sixQuarks's point (regardless of whether what he said about Elon Musk is true), summed up in his analogy about complex mathematics, is that we should still be able to observe aliens and comprehend that they're doing something, even if we don't necessarily understand how to do that thing ourselves.
You're right, of course. I should have said "scientific ancient".
If you have poor eyesight, are you aware that you have the option of increasing the font-size device-wide in your device settings?
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Part 1: building a traffic simulator with d3+angular
1900s me had a fabric binder full of MSDN CDs - dozens upon dozens it seemed - with the same software footprint and a harder "download" process.
Yeah. Deaths from undiagnosed heart conditions make the news every so often when it happens to young athletes. Sometimes very young. I believe just in the past few years, defibrillators have become standard equipment at football grounds in Spain and England.
Pretty cool.

I'm interested in knowing which component failed? did the second card fail in the same way? or was that remedied in the revision?

Did the display and button still work?

Hopefully the issue was with the coil, flex PCBs and displays are more or less a solved problem, batteries not so much.

With the Nordic 51822 they're lined up well to roll out NFC after the mandated phase out of mag-strip in the US (p.s how are they still a thing?).

It'll be interesting to see if they'll survive if a chip-and-pin foothold overshadows NFC.
Google getting into plumbing and home cleaning?
Find supported SSL ciphers
I'm surprised these guys haven't gone to the next level and started up their own credit card company. That might allow them to buy frequent flyer miles at the dirt-cheap levels and offer ridiculous signup bonuses for their card. For example, if 100K miles costs them $X, have an annual membership fee of $1.25X and you get 100K miles a year bonus. Or for $12.5X, get 1M miles a year bonus. The use of this as an actual credit card is purely optional. Or is this only financially viable due to the transaction fees the credit card companies get?
No. The concept of "derivative work" is based on copyright law, which requires some sort of creativity. A name is not protected by copyright law.
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I spend more time than I should in the churning/FF communities (all of which are centered around FlyerTalk). It's fun. Ben's blog is one of the few I follow, most aren't that great. Frequent Miler is a solid resource, as is Wandering Aramean, but nothing beats being active on FlyerTalk itself.

In the last five years I've managed to earn and spend about 1.5 million miles and points, with maybe 50k airline miles from actual flying and ~400k points from actual Hilton stays. Between churning, manufactured spend and promotions I'm able to do 1-2 international trips a year in first class, staying at good hotels. I mostly travel to Asia and get great value out of free flights on Singapore, Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines.

It's an awesome hobby if you: a) have time to kill b) are single and c) have an insanely flexible schedule.

I used US and BA miles earlier this year to fly to Malaysia and Thailand for free (well, plus taxes) in first class, spending five weeks between Hong Kong, Penang, Koh Lanta, Beijing and Tokyo.

Drinking $300 champagne at 35,000 feet on a flight you didn't pay for is a rather fun feeling...
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I'm surprised that font exploits aren't more common. A few years ago I wrote a font fuzzer that would periodically crash the kernel, but I didn't do as much research as I would have liked.
The correct way to set up BackupPC to run full disk backups against a remote system is to create a backuppc user on that system and then add an entry to your sudoers file for the most restrictive possible backuppc command. Here's an example from one of my servers:

backuppc ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender ?*

This primarily is to help limit the amount of damage that backuppc can do if something very strange happens and it decides to try to eat the filesystem.
A couple of the English-sounding terms were borrowed indirectly through Tok Pisin.
Code complexity metrics suck – use them anyway
I had the pleasure of talking with Josh on more than one occasion - what a great guy. This is real sad news.
Having heard neither phrase before, I'm pretty sure I know what you meant by them. It's not a perfect system but it's better than talking extra-loud English and adding hand signals.
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I would still be concerned that a 'trivial' exploit in another browser, that would normally not lead to exploitation could cause a problem. For example user tricks chrome in to saving a file in a non-standard place, Explorer reads file and executes payload while displaying preview.