skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$50 bucks cheaper...but yes if you are completely in Apple ecosystem then probably not great device for you. The only thing you mention above that Amazon won't play is iTunes content (Apples fault not Amazons...no way Apple will ever make an Android iTunes app).
> I'm not entirely sure I understood what being fully alive even really meant until after they crossed my path

I don't want to pry, but what makes you say this?
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Fake likes may be randomly distributed, but real likes are not, so evenly distributed fake likes will be more detrimental to businesses with fewer real likes.
I've completed the course as well - have you used any of the knowledge from it on anything in particular after you completed the course?
So lets say at tick one 1 see that only 50% of the buy orders were filled.

At tick 2 I want to buy 100 shares. But maybe I'll guess that only 50% will be filled this tick too, so maybe I should submit a buy order for 200 shares instead? This kind of game playing can lead to highly unstable outcomes.
Ask HN: iOS 9 is out with its ad-blocker support. How do you feel about that?
I find it weird that an app like Crystal doesn't have whitelist support. I still am not comfortable giving someone money for an ad-blocker app either. I got Crystal while it was free, though - but it's annoying that something as basic - and minimally ethical? - as a whitelist was not included at launch.

I'd hoped to install an ad-blocker on my mom's iPad 3G, but apparently ad-blockers aren't supported by it for some reason.

Ad-blocking feels a lot like the piracy discussion. I like to think of it in terms of "honest downloading" vs "dishonest downloading". Sometimes, people just come up with excuses posing as arguments to cover for their laziness and selfishness - but there are also perfectly valid arguments to be made. But those arguments may not have anything to do with some people's actual motivation.

Thoughts? Experiences? Practical as well as ethical. I have a pretty good idea of how the general opinion will sway, but it'd be interesting to see some people think out loud about it - especially when they don't have an ... unfortunate ... conflict of interest like a Marco Arment.

Will you be installing ad-blockers on your folks' devices, when you visit them for Thanksgiving? Why?
Throw this on iOS/Android and you will make a lot of money.
> I'm sure if a future Congress sees this as a procedural issue pressing enough to bring up as an amendment

I think you are probably much more optimistic than I am about the current level of legislative deadlock in Congress. From where I'm sitting, I see a body so polarized in its politics that it has trouble passing budgets, much less dealing with modernizing federal election procedure.

The whole point of the Interstate Compact being a compact is that the advocates for it acknowledge that it couldn't be passed via the amendment mechanism because it would never be tabled in Congress -- but they do think they can convince enough states to go for it, which is the other half of the amendment process (although admittedly the mathematics are different, because they just need a majority of Electoral College votes, not 2/3 of states).
Public transport in iOS 9 has seemed decent, at least in my limited usage. So that's trending upward at least.
So saying nothing at all about the administrations and police, not even mentioning that they exist, is "vilifying the school/policeman/whatever"?
We did a Facebook page for an university project, and created a small campaign for it (we were trying to do landing-page style validation).

It got a lot of "likes" which looked a lot like fake accounts trying to look less suspicious, and none of them converted to the landing page, they were just clicking "like".
To hack an Android phone, just type in a really long password
good luck requiring a backdoor on chinese made chips, or trying to ban their import
Agreed. Telling all my friends why they should stop using AVG. I wonder if any other antivirus companies are doing this too?
So they currently serve New York and New Jersey, and adding California and Texas soon. Are there any other startups focusing on the health insurance space? I'm not from any of those states but would really like to use a service like Oscar Health.
Great point. If they won't actively police their sellers at least they could let visitors volunteer to do so through such a feature.
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There is the option to "leak" a portion of the users' salted hashes, so that the users can be verified upon reboot. This leaked information harms overall security but, even with this option, the scheme is still better than regular salted-hashes.
Contract to perm is a good idea, but in the UK at least, the contract rates are significantly higher than permanent salaries so unless you offer them a salary that is way above the market rates for permanent staff and perhaps a role and responsibility level that'd truly stretch them it's quite likely they're going to decline your offer.
The Workspace of FilterGrade Founder Mike Moloney
This puts most corporate marketing departments to shame.
Never Ending Language Learner (NELL)
What would it fix about the world?
Look up their fees vs their competitor fees and their volume share of the equity market, and you'll have your answer.
I recently started running an ad blocker again, after a number of years without one. Why? Because an advert was using so much CPU that it was interfering with my browsing in other tabs and running down my laptop battery.

This is a problem across web design. Web developers seem to have forgotten (or have slowly been forgetting for years) that huge amounts of javascript has a noticeable impact on the users computer. If I don't intentionally stop javascript executing on some pages the resulting CPU usage will drain my battery in half the normal time.
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I'm looking for an intership position as a node.js developer, I'm from Malaysia and my goal is only one thing and that is to learn from passionate developers. If you guys have any opening It would be really an honor for me.
OK, what are the relevant statistics, research, and scientific data? What is the scientifically-determined probability at the time that this kid actually built a bomb, or was at least trying to scare people with a lookalike?

"I'd love watch the video of him checking into whitehouse security with his suitcase clock..."

It will probably be quite boring, because unlike paranoid local Texas policemen, the Secret Service knows what a bomb actually looks like.
Does the Game Controller support http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/InputDev... ?

Could be cool as a dev platform for games. I take it all you do is compile to Android and it should work out of the box? Granted, resolution issues are dealt with.
Because Obama likes to kill bad guys.
The original Wii shows that yes, they do. The Wii was SD when HD was the hot thing and yet still sold like hotcakes (at the time) because it was casual (non gamer) friendly.
this hinges on good faith and ignorance of the law. you can legitimately arrest suspects under the auspices of 'suspiscion' of a crime (eg, murder). Whereas false arrest is an arrest contary to known fact.

In cases of bomb threats and security breaches, qualified immunity is going to provide significant leeway when dealing with IEDs. Since most high-schools have strict anti-weapons rules, you can get arrested for a swiss army knife. Again, this is not the same thing as an apologia for a perp walk of a 14 year old. But if you want to see a "false arrest" look at what happened to the Blake last week in NYC. That was an unreasonable takedown of a private citizen with no effort made to establish identity; and a violent arrest for a non-fleeing suspect in a non-violent crime, etc.

In this case you are dealing with an "IED" vs an "Improvised Timekeeping Device", and since the former often includes the latter as a component part, its not completely baseless. This is why you cannot fly with liquid water on an airplane--the security forces cannot distinguish (on-sight) "legitimate water" in a clear bottle from several chemicals (aslo clear) than can be combined into an explosive IED that will puncture a pressure hull of an airliner. If you insist on taking your water through security you will get it removed or be arrested.
When it comes to Twitter, these services are necessary, if a business is to EVER get any followers.

There's a fact that not many people talk about, that real (actual human) Twitter users are following less and less people. Joe Mande is a comedian who has been on Twitter since 2009, and his follower count went up to 80,000 steadily, but then it stalled at some point. In 2013, he did a funny project where he VERY publicly bought 920,000 followers (if I recall, he paid $500 to a Moldovan guy who added the followers over a matter of months).

It was partly comedy (or perhaps performance art??), but he gave an interview at the time saying that there was a point where it just became very tough to get (legitimate) new followers, and it's true.

I myself have a follower count that's been at around 7000 for years now, and even when I have someone huge retweet something I said, I get maybe 3 new followers for every 500 retweets. I have discussed this with friends in similar positions, and I think the problem is that everyone already just follows too damn many people,and nobody wants to add more.

So to me, this is why Fiverr is important for new businesses - go ahead and launch a brand new business and see how long it takes to get to even 100 followers, much less the multiple thousands that make you look "legitimate" to many users, it will take you years. For a local business in meatspace, even 100 REAL customers following you is a herculean task. Fiverr is the only way to make it look like you are not just some random fly by night company that nobody uses.

Adding to this trouble is the fact that Twitter is incentivized NOT to remove all the old fake followers that they KNOW are there. Every Twitter user has a lot of fake followers, just because Twitter used to be completely apathetic and terrible at removing them. All the old bots goosed Twitter's numbers GREATLY, so why would they have removed them? So now, they can't go back and take hundreds of followers away from random people who only have 300 followers, because those people will go CRAZY and hate Twitter.

But when you look around Twitter now, SO many people have 500 followers, if you're a new restaurant with 7 followers, you look PATHETIC.

Note: Joe Mande still has his 1 Million bots and it's worth googling "joe mande bots" to find funny articles about his quest.
Paper aside, I don't see how it would be viable for UK to try to enforce back doors all electronics, ban the import of non-back doored electronics, or enforce a ban on encryption software.

You can make it illegal but it won't stop people from using it
@patio11's starfighter project could help this...
It certainly can't output a quality signal 2160p@60Hz as that's out of specification for HDMI1.
Why War Reporter C.J. Chivers Had to Suddenly Stop
This comment is the best thing I've read on HN
If you look at the rent, Paris is actually much cheaper than London, NYC and SF. You could go to Berlin of course.

Frankly, if you are an early stage startup with young people Paris is not the cheapest, but you have access to everything: public transportation is free if you are officially unemployed and living with roommates can make everything much cheaper!
That's exactly the idea of Hacker Menu. You could check the news anytime by just clicking it, but it's not distracting
It won't break the Internet. Users are telling Publishers what is acceptable. Now it's up to Publishers to change models or serve ads that are not pervasively tracking us, malvertising us and already breaking the Internet.
Also if I were employed at a good company but was possibly interested in leaving, I would never leave it for a contract-to-perm position.
There have been several worthy recommendations in this string. Keep in mind, the more you read-- the more data you compile and master the subject. Here are a couple not already mentioned--

The best book I've read in ages on prospecting and business development, New Sales, Simplified by Mike Weinberg. If you read nothing else, Chapter 14: Planning & Executing the Attack is pure protein! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863998-new-sales-simpli...

Here's a video presentation by Matt Dixon on The Challenger Sale. It's a bit long, just over an hour. But give it 15 minutes-- you'll see it's solid material. Good insights on how marketing supports & equips sales. Read the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfE8zZUoMc
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> The new Ellen Pao his here, suing an employer over sex discrimination..

Surely it's some kind of record to have a typo five words into the article.
Ahmed Mohamed's lesson from his arrest: “People will always have your back”
An C unit framework with some memory leak detection (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows)
If they were to recompile all of it on a standard desktop PC how long would it take? A week?
I agree. Write a prequel GP! :)
I just finished New Sales Simplified:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Sales-Simplified-Prospecting-Devel...

If you are responsible for getting new business, it is probably the best sales book I have read. Walks through defining your target customers, creating appropriate messaging to reach out to those customers and how to structure discovery and presentation calls.
Bitcoin Payment Processor BitPay Loses $1.8M in Phishing Hack
It does not. People typically just use an iTunes gift card in order to limit possible damage.
Likely HDMI 1.4, 24fps @ 4k, 30fps @ UHD. Interestingly the new Apple TVs hardware is capable of 4k even though it does not currently "support it" (HDMI 1.4, and A8 with can play 4k)
Could you elaborate?

Because I see this: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/01/blablacar-raises-a-massive-...

And this: http://1000startups.fr/?lang=en

And I see Paris being startup-heaven in a couple of years. And things are already pretty nice!
Sounds like an explanation designed to make Buddhism palatable to secular audiences to me. Also seems like a stretch to me calling yourself a Buddhist if all you do is meditate to try to find yourself.

There have been plenty of religions in history without a "god". Many people believe in nature spirits or even in personal spirits; the latter is the kind of spiritualism that a great many Buddhists believe in. And Buddhism does have many concepts that have to be taken as an article of faith: Samsara, Karma, and Nirvana. Faith in a spirit that transcends death and lifetimes is not scientific, and if a so-called Buddhist does not believe these things, I have to wonder what kind of Buddhism they are following.
Cell phone class hardware. Probably an ARM SOC with very little I/O bandwidth. The SD card as a main store . . .

Ugh.
The HTTP/2 implementation
Correct, and this is the business concept behind technology that is intended to block spam while still permitting the reputable mail passage to the user. One of the commonly argued reason to use gmail has been its spam blocking features.
Why Your Startup Needs a Cross-Functional Team to Be Successful
Inventing the Future with Syd Mead (interview)
An analytics company's take on content blockers in iOS 9
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208792 (101 points, 4 days ago, 164 comments)
Hi Ge here the developer. As of now you can

- collaborate at real-time with others

- search full text

- all past versions are saved, down to one or two key strokes.

In order to use this, you need to have your own jupyter server. The setup guide is here:

https://github.com/escherpad/help-desk
To be fair, comparing vista to anything is hugely irrelevant at this point.
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This is what I do.
Good call! We fixed it at https://github.com/jingweno/hacker-menu/pull/15.
But you also could do an extra effort to impress a small number of customers and ask for reviews personally. Buy fake reviews is not the only option here.
If you "need a developer to port the Java code to Go", you need a contractor. Once the Java code is ported to Go, they're done, and there will be no more Java code to port to Go, so... why would you hire a permanent employee on the basis of their ability to port Java code to Go?

The point of a permanent software development teammember is to add to the capabilities of your engineering staff. What is it you want them to add?

What I think she means by 'hiring with intent' is this - identify what you need to add to the team to create the kind of team you need. That could mean someone with more follow-through, or someone who will explore and innovate more. Someone with big-picture systemic thinking skills, or someone detail-oriented who will sweat the little things.
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As a non-CS graduate looking for my first full-time job as a Junior Developer I can only ask one thing of prospective employers. Please give clear feedback that will help give direction to the candidate if you reject them.

I have done a number of code challenges and while I don't mind doing the challenges (I look at them as training) and I can always create a working solution there is nothing worse than receiving a simple 'we won't be continuing with your application' email with no other feedback. If you are going to take up a candidates time with a code challenge the least you can do is help the candidate become a better developer by providing constructive feedback. You owe it to the applicant and also to the community at large.

I have had about a 50/50 experience in this regard. Of all the companies that reject me with good feedback I am left feeling content that I have improved as a candidate throughout the process. The others who don't provide feedback leave me feeling like I've wasted some time that would be better spent reading about best practices and techniques or developing my own software.
I'm glad to see an expert come to the same conclusion that my amateur study of this subject has. The predicate in the first sentence in the article ("The Founders misread history") really rubbed me the wrong way, as I've heard so many people criticize the founders when they haven't even done a tenth of the study and research that the founders had. Perhaps they did misread history, but at least they read history, and lots of it. Hero/idol worship is not a good thing, but claiming the founders were ignorant and backwards is, quite frankly, ignorant and backwards. IMHO, anyone that wants to criticize them should be held to the same high standard that the founders held themselves to, ie, study history, lots of it.
Assembly code then has to be compiled into machine code to create the executable.
The great thing about multi-paradigm languages is that you and I can write very functional code one day and lend a hand in a heavily OOP codebase the next.

Even "Enterprise JavaScript" is a step up from the hodge podge "no paradigm" JS that has classically littered the web. It's nice seeing actual architecture and planning in JS codebases these days, with and without the big rigid frameworks. Sure, a lot of it is more verbose than it needs to be and over-architecture is an easy over correction to make, but typically I'll take over-architecture over no-architecture any day of the week. (Even if most of the joy I get from over-architecture is taking sledge hammers to it and reducing it down to a tighter core. Net negative lines of code refactors are a wonderful thing.)
Which is a work of fiction. So it doesn't serve as evidence for actual events.
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What we learned on the way to 1M users
I think some of your ideas are very thought-provoking, especially the idea that most communication should start with more humility. It seems like a good idea that people should strive to start by laying out a landscape of where their ideas fit in, how speculative they are, potential biases, alternative ideas, etc., because then people can get some perspective.

Self-reflecting based on this: I should have started by saying that I probably have a bias for humility because it seems that the more I learn, the more I feel I was poorly prepared when I was younger by adults with their often grandiose, myopic, and uncomprehensive explanations about life, and I think this did me great damage. Alternatively, it's difficult to summarize many different viewpoints or give much context without too much detail. Nevertheless, it seems worth trying.
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This is like saying there's little difference between McDonalds and legitimate governance. They're a business. There are parallels between the mafia and government but it's still apples and oranges.

Governance in modern societies is implemented by a party which holds power over the state. The mafia have a business model which is similar, but largely limits itself to a few select types of business strategies and markets, much like many other businesses. Their use of a threat of force is unique in terms of business models, sure, but the mafia has nothing to do with governance in general.
Defendants have a presumption of innocence, but accusers do not have a burden of mathematical proof. The closest you get to "innocent until proven guilty" in US law is common law's Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, and the Latin word "probatio" does a lot more work than just "mathematical proof".

There's a good 30 minute Google jag you can have about this if you go search for [legal standards of proof].
Just refresh a few times, the sites probably getting hammered with HN users
I can't tell if you're trolling or not but I'll bite.

You're perverting the definition of "speech". Creation/dissemination of child pornography is not a statement of opinion (and its malicious too, which would exempt it from protection); creation/dissemination of child pornography is an act that directly and tangibly harms others. Same goes for pirated content. I know there's lots of HN readers who believe that libertarianism and meritocracy will solve the world's ills but cmon man, you really think child pornography should be protected speech????

American jurisprudence has taken a troubling tack on free speech, choosing to take it in a very libertarian direction. In fact the biggest loser of such libertarian free speech ideals is the American political system: shameless attack ads that cheapen political discourse, the fusion of money and political favour (PACs), and the rise of populist rightwing hate-mongers who routinely attack minorities and inspire intolerance. Funny, a piece of legislation originally created to protect the citizens from their government is now being used by citizens (politicians) to destroy the government....

I'm a firm believer in free speech but it made a lot more sense 300 years ago when the government could easily control your speech. In 2015, with the internet and mobile phones, the government would have an incredibly difficult time preventing people from expressing their unfavourable opinions. Maybe it's time to stop living in the past and instead create legislation that reflects the world we live in today.
> this author and his band of acolytes.

I'm just keeping you distracted while my minions and I complete construction of my doomsday device. Mwahaha, etc.
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What would you say are the costs to compare to the benefits?

In my opinion, it would have be extremely difficult to bootstrap our company anywhere else. As everyone knows, getting out of cash is what kills early stage companies. We go access to "free cash" (0% loans and more than 100k€ in grants) and some of our employees got paid on unemployment benefits .. I mean, how much further could you go? We survived thank to this benefits.