skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the f.lux EULA, which I'm fairly certain no one has ever read through (evidently, because there hasn't been a backlash over it):

You may not (and agree not to, and not authorize or enable others to), directly or indirectly:
(a) copy, distribute, redistribute, rent, lease, mirror, timeshare, operate a service bureau, or otherwise use for the benefit of a third party, the Software;
(b) disassemble, decompile, attempt to discover the source code or structure, sequence and organization of, or otherwise reverse engineer, the Software (except to the extent applicable law prohibits restrictions on reverse engineering);
(c) remove any proprietary notices from the Software; or
(d) bundle the Software with any third party software, product or service.
You understand that Company may modify or discontinue offering the Software at any time.
For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing restrictions apply to any company or corporate entity (or its affiliates or agents acting on its behalf) (each, an “Entity”) and
no Entity shall download or install the Software for the purposes of mirroring or distributing it to its employees or otherwise.

They also write at the bottom of their homepage that "f.lux is patent pending." Next to an offer of collaboration with cell phone, display, and lighting system manufacturers. Which is code for "We want money for this."

Why do people support this software? Especially on HN, which should know better. This is the kind of software that wants to be free, and could be made better through open source.

If you think this is ridiculous (as I do), Redshift[1] is a free, open-source alternative for at least Linux. On Android, ChainFire's CF.lumen[2] at least does not make a patent claim on filtering your display, and allows you to use "Pro Mode" without paying (you simply have to enable "Freeloading" from the main menu).

1: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.l...
Not two-based? https://github.com/simonster/TwoBasedIndexing.jl
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This. There's a reason many reactiontime experiments in e.g. neuroscience use a photo sensor on the screen to figure out when exactly the stimulus comes, and then compare that with reactions like keypresses by sampling both signals on the same AD card.
Super strange for me to read that.

I'm freelancing web-dev in Berlin and I was always thinking that you work 24/7 in US for the same amount of money.

Here I enjoy a heart-of-the-city-center apartment for 800 Euro ( ~60 sq.m. ), beer for one euro, cheap health insurance and yes of course higher taxes.

On the same hand :D I'm working around 5-7 hours per day ( RescueTime tracked ) and definitely don't pick up my phone when it's saturday or sunday ( anyway nobody calls at that time for work ).
With Apple, one gets (more) freedom from harassment.

My partner is switching back from Android to iPhone. Her latest software update embedded ads everywhere and borked the contacts. It's too much.

Some of us are older, tired of doing tech supp, and just want stuff to work.
Using wireless mouse I'm between 28-33. Using keyboard I'm a machine. What can I say? I used to play a lot of COD.
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Yes, it was definitely Wenzel Jakob's work. Do you know if he has that demo available online? I couldn't find it on his webpage.
Exactly. There's a linux version too, but I won't use this because it's closed, not because it isn't free as in beer. I don't like breaking my OS with crappy vendor packages that only work on half the versions of half the distros.

Also, the monetization strategy suggests an ulterior motive that makes it hard for me to accept the idea that this is important for my health, or public health, at face value.
I doubt it will happen. Zerothly, zero-based isn't as good as 1-based indexing for mathematics and science. And firstly, nobody want to change it.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558
What is it that they want?

"What ISIS Really Wants" (The Atlantic, March 2015) [0]:

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...
This comment would be better if you'd say what the inaccuracies are. Then we'd learn something by reading the thread, which makes for the best kind of thread.
Because the APIs they need are not approved by the platform owner.
Determined professional terrorists (like the ones who perpetrated the recent attacks apparently were) can always find a way around surveillance. For example, if two people communicated by having face to face conversations in random public places, the NSA would never detect them even if they had access to 100% of all electronic communications. During the Cold War, spies from both sides managed to operate for long periods of time in enemy territory using these kinds of low-tech communications channels.
Not sure if I'm flattered by the fact that it said it wasn't sure whether I was human 10 times in a row :(
while technically correct, jailbreaking is not something that apple supports, and in fact it is something they actively try to prevent.
How is this different from a standard closed-source EULA?
And you can get stuff that works without supporting closed ecosystems. Age is a bad excuse to not take a moment to check what you're buying.
What the Kurds ever did to provoke them ? The Yezidi ? The Shi'a ? The Iranians ? Iraqi Christians ? Assyrians ? Alawites ? Druze ? The Lebanese ? Even if I can sort-of understand that Israel, Turkey and Jordan did do a few attacks, it did not justify the response at all.
If you build your app around things like Amazon's databases, lambda, etc., then you can't run it (easily) anywhere but on Amazon EC2. It's basically a giant mainframe that runs a proprietary mainframe OS.

Of course you can use a-la-carte VMs in EC2 and do it that way and avoid platform lock-in, but Amazon is increasingly steering users away from that toward managed systems. These managed systems do have short term benefits (just like iOS does), but the long term bargain is similar.
The writer seems to express the worry that one type of mind is more efficient when the going gets tough (i.e. initial description of the two characters). This is an entirely different question. The assumption that so-called "neurotic" minds, wondering or whatever, will have less adaptive reactions to the circumstances is false. It is regularly contradicted by reality (e.g. history). There is just no reliable prediction to be made about how someone is going to behave based on the criterion presented.
Yes I can see France doing it. They've done similar things in the not so distant past. We have a story in our heads that we are somehow better than <insert name here> but really there is a ton of evidence to the contrary. Have a read of this: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/06/french-sp...
Strong opinion, weakly held. If you have any evidence to counter AWS cloud dominance please do share. Sources: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/05/28/gartn..., http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/194876/5-things-we-learned-a...
I mean, if your laptop or phone have Miracast support you don't have to install anything or buy the Apple TV or remote thing. Maybe just a dongle if the tv itself doesn't support it.
By its nature, the functionality of their app breaks the app sandbox, currently via unsupported APIs. It is unclear whether Apple wants to ever support the functionality required to make f.lux run. My guess would be no, because it would be difficult/impossible to design without also allowing malicious behavior, and Apple is understandably keen to keep the App Store's reputation as a trusted and harm-free source of software.

In addition, I imagine other app developers might not be happy with a sanctioned means to mess with the running of their app: more interactions means more to test and less control over the user experience.

More likely is that this functionality will be incorporated into iOS itself in a future update. But it still runs the risk of Apple considering it aesthetically distastefuland thus never doing it.
I completely agree that not interfering with the middle east would have been the way to go. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed, and there is no undo button.

> The most effective way to get rid of terrorists is to take away their recruitment base, by not giving people more reasons to attack.

Yes, but this is not an option in this case because their demands are simply not reasonable. What are we to do? Convert to islam or kill ourselves? They have no single reasonable demand or space for compromise. Are we to enact laws that go against the very principles of our civilization, purely out of fear? There is no simple way out of this.
To myself, a good start would be to ask what the social and economic costs of allowing 5 million Muslims into France has been?

As far as I've been able to uncover, when you put all the politically-correct rederick away, the driver of this has been the fact that Europeans have not been having enough children to economically replace and support all the people that are now retiring... Basically, there needs to be more tax-payers to cover everything and to balance the books.

So is this working out?

Are Muslims as a group embracing European values and becoming individuals / or are they maintaining their group and forming a parallel society, which is largely unskilled, xenophobic, closed-minded, and predominantly seeks welfare from the state?

Considering that the Muslim population in France (and other European countries) overall negatively impacts every single metric of social-ills, and with a grim European economic outlook (manual labor is no longer needed, gainful employment requires skills, those jobs are few, etc), I think that whatever this is, it has failed.

The first step to the solution is to drop the white-guilt act and call a spade a spade. This will open the door to actual debate instead of shutting it down with words like "racist" and "bigot" for simply not being politically-correct.

The second step is to stop importing "other cultures" into Europe. The human race has been based on groups/collectives since its inception, with each group producing, collecting, and evolving individuals of similar attributes and behaviors. Put two groups together that are too different, you'll likely get violence.

The third step is trying out a program similar to Sweden's to try to integrate the existing Muslim population with special targeted resources. But only to a point - not ongoing forever. And designed to grow European values, not to preserve or maintain a parallel society.

The forth step is likely some type of a guaranteed minimum income based on negative income tax across the entire EU system (as proposed by Milton Friedman).
1 based indexing is very common in many math and statistics oriented languages and frameworks. Since that's the primary target audience for Julia, it makes sense they'd stick with it.
I am not convinced ISIS is really the problem in Paris. It sure is the problem in the regions under its control in the middle east. But re Paris, it appears that all the terrorists identified so far were French (or from Belgium). In fact all the previous terrorist attempts in France were made by French nationals or residents. I hear people claiming it is still ISIS because they have been trained and armed by ISIS in Syria. That may be the case but they haven't gone to Syria to do some innocent tourism and came back terrorists. We are talking about home grown radicalised activists here. If there wouldn't be ISIS there would probably be another cause.
> block hosted analytics solutions like Google Analytics

That's the goal. The pattern-of-life[1] analysis that GA enables is an incredible long-term risk.

Allowing one entity to log almost all of your internet activities into one aggregated database creates a massive amount of potential-social-power. Even if Google isn't currently converting that potential-power into an abusive form, the very existence of that data in one location creates a huge temptation for thieves and governments with national security letters.

> roll their own analytics

Server logs only give you a view of the traffic to one website. There is a huge difference between one business knowing you use their service and a 3rd party carefully logging your entire daily schedule.

[1] I highly recommend reading http://labs.rs/en/metadata/ which unfortunately didn't get much attention when it was recently posted to HN. I suspect most people are still thinking way too small when judging what is possible from "just metadata".
It said I was nine years younger than I truly am. I say it's doing a fine job. Let's not trouble the man too much.
I think you're exactly right and I wish people wouldn't downmod. I've been downmodded to hell for bringing up the same point on several occasions.

Open platforms have crummy UX, especially for people who are not computer experts. This explains why people are willing to make the bargain I outlined above. If open systems advocates are ever to offer a compelling alternative, they need to find alternative non-dictatorial ways to respond to these rather severe security and usability problems.

The first step to fixing a problem isn't to pretend it doesn't exist.
Me too -- after reading your comment, I found that I effectively halved my age in a dozen trials or so with a smaller window.
Wonderful, thanks.
What's wrong with that? It's commercial software, and they are nice enough to let you use a copy for free. They aren't (AFAIK) doing anything remotely malicious, like grabbing user data or bundling malware. It doesn't add advertising to your computer.

(I'm not sure if f.lux does any update checking, which some people might count as unacceptable)
Can you please give one reason to name the project "Kashmir"?
> If men, armed with guns and explosives, kill scores of civilians and injure hundreds more in the name of a particular ideology what are we supposed to actually do?

Like an invading army?

Reminds of the Iraqi expat I met, who made a burger for me. He asked where I came from; I'm from the US. He clenched as he quietly strangled out how Bush crushed Iraq.

Always bizarre to see how oblivious "my people" and our sympathizers are, like the racist, cartoonish "Islamist" in our heads. We're fundamentalists indoctrinated in state ideologies like capitalism and imperialism. I mean, what do people think it'd be like if the reigning global superpower (let's pretend China) sent legions of uniformed killers, bombs and drones across the world at us?

(Come to think of it, a common theme in literature where catastrophe ends the US government, is fascist militias carving up the country... No surprise where ISIS came from.)
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f.lux wants to modify how the screen appears when other apps are running.

In general, this is not the sort of thing you want sandboxed applications to be doing. You can imagine the problems that a bad actor could create with this capability.
Well If I write my code in a decent way, I wouldn't need to use that middleware.

Another thing that pops up in my mind is scaling. What happens if I have 200 request to my front page for 1 second?
It doesn't, unless you provide services that consist of installing WordPress and a premium theme and playing with available options, or switching to a new one if a color settings isn't available.

It's like calling yourself a doctor after watching Grey's Anatomy and House, while the majority of the people study for 10 years and do real work.
Lessons from the PC video game industry
This just proves my point, though. Gumbo is an HTML parser, not a scraper. The AWS library "will" support EC2 and S3. Again, this is all perfectly normal and it'd be absurd to expect such a young project to have a rich ecosystem. I think the Moore foundation grant is awesome and hope to use Julia someday. It's just that (1) as a scientist, you really just want to get shit done and (2) because it's marketed solely to scientists, I'm concerned Julia might never develop an ecosystem of general-purpose tools. R certainly hasn't.
Interesting, I get a decade younger with each try...
Doubt there is much behind the conversion between reaction time and age, but it's a nice setting to test your reaction time :-)
f.lux needs to be able to control the screen at a very low level while other applications are running, which isn't possible using just the public iOS API. The sideloaded version of f.lux used some internal APIs to do that, which wouldn't fly if they submitted it to the App Store.
Bad bicycle science
Yes, most is awesome. I recommend that too.
Is the "compare across clouds" part coming soon? The ffmpeg report for example only had AWS shapes (I was hoping to see a nice head-to-head of AWS, GCE and maybe SoftLayer).

On a more direct note, it seems like your reports should also filter based on input size / memory requirement. The t2.micro (and GCE's f1-micro) is good value if you can fit in its memory and you only need to process for a short burst, but if either of those things doesn't hold you're probably not going to be happy.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
Actually I'm waiting for 3 based....
Because it's not like attacks like this weren't committed by muslims before ? In reality they've been at it since the early middle ages.
Love for Led Zeppelin?
I tried three times and got 37, 26, 35 years-old playing it at full screen in a browser window; I'm 46.
Pure guess: its beautiful? (in case its about the place in India)
I got radically different results on keyboard vs mouse, with keyboard being massively quicker.

It might be a good idea to standardise just on keyboard or mouse.
It's the "patent pending" part that sucks. They're trying to patent the idea of changing your video card's CLUT (color look-up table) to reduce eye strain, which is a fairly obvious and trivial thing to do once you know that blue light affects melatonin production.
>I think it is a little unfair to expect that PG should have acted 17 years ago in a way that he might do today. Today he has 17 years worth of extra experience to call upon.

But t's not just "today" -- he's been advocating that for over a decade -- so the change was much less than 17 years ago.

>Besides, there are more reasons for selling your company than simply maximising the financial return. Maybe his partners wanted to sell, maybe he was exhausted, maybe he lost his passion for the project, maybe he valued never having to work again by selling for a certain payoff now.

Sure. So why do PG (and others alike) piss on that model that worked for him?
http://jonls.dk/redshift/ is a good open source alternative to f.lux
Confidence ain't the problem here; it is polluting the market with broken extensions, underpricing services that have been estimated by Lego builders first, and being unable to find an actual developer in the wide pool of people with no skills. The bigger picture is that bothers me, as stated in the bullet list with problems in the post.
The other thing is to destroy their power base by finding a way to turn Iraqi Sunni tribes against them.
Right. Yet again mention that old fact of history.

And IIRC, it wasn't just
natural uranium that was
"missing".

And what happened to that material? Three guesses, and the first two don't count. If you have to ask, you won't really understand it!

Maybe this time mention that history to update ISIS. No doubt Assad and the Iranians know, and so did Saddam.
People will still choose something free over something paid.
560 milliseconds, 48-year-old... really? Care for a friendly match of Quake Live? :-)

update: when you actually know what will happen it skews in other direction. I got 312 ms (20-year-old) after several tries.
People will choose something free over something paid anyway.
Sure. Perfect heroes doesn't exist. Grab what you can learn and keep moving.
The key thing to understand is that ISIS is first and foremost a criminal and terrorist organization, not a religious group. They use religion (or rather a perverted interpretation of it) to construct a unifying framework, a story for its members, something that they use to silence their members' potential critical thinking.

Don't think for one second that the higher-ups in ISIS and the ones who planned this recent attack are religious people or drink their own ideology kool-aid. ISIS leaders are criminals and do whatever it takes to advance their "careers".
With respect to my comment, it leaves them in a completely different position from the one I referred to, as they were before Harper's term.

I was clarifying that the OP did not appear to be defending the sale of "credentialed" opinions on political issues. The intent behind the "muzzling" matters. There are situations where a contracting party has a legitimate interest in enlisting a scientist to investigate a truth while maintaining confidentiality. Harper's suppression of scientific evidence was not one of these, but my comment addressed the notion that there are no such circumstances.
I am not against the art of coding. I think its a beautiful thing to type a bunch of lines to create something cool. But, its meant for certain kind of people with certain mindsets and thought-process.
This is weird. I have a 3rd gen Apple TV and have been able to use screen sharing to have my Mac screen show up on my projector. The siri remote control integration is interesting, but when you're normally using a wireless keyboard and mouse with a mac anyway, it seems a bit odd to reinvent the wheel.
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This is why consumers need root access to their phones. These are more than just phones, they are pocket sized computers. We have root/admin access on our laptops and desktops, we should have it here.
Why do you feel faster using Atom with atom-vim than native vim?
I don't think he ever released it. It would definitely be very cool to play around with though.
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I managed to get 283 milliseconds, which is off their chart. It speculated I wasn't a human.

I was 57 the first time though.
Correct - 500 interviews for developers including requirements for a GitHub/Bitbucket repo, X years of programming experience etc and 400 of them haven't seen code in their lifetime. The fact that people are so assured that what they do is programming is making it close to impossible to find or grow talent to a certain set of skills (which is fairly well defined in other dev communities)
This is definitely the case. I went from it guessing I'm 35+ with a reaction time of 450+ms to alternating "We're not even sure if you're human" and a 19 year old, averaging near 250ms.

I sure hope I remember to turn down graphics settings next time I'm out for a drive.
Why do you prefer Atom over Sublime Text (except when you need to open a big file)?
Yep. They care so much about public helath that no one is allowed to be healthier with paying them. Classy move.
Syria would not be a war zone if we hadn't used much more "effective" measurements in Iraq before. I do not know what to say to people, who at this point still think, that our military can somehow bring peace to the middle-east after decades of war, thinking "this time is different".

Why don't we invade Saudi Arabia, who practices a cruel form of Islam with death-sentences and so on, too? Why don't we abolish them in China or the US? Why don't we focus on Africa or - as a European - Eastern Europe? I am not saying, that ISIS is not bad, I just find the obsession with the Middle East strange, if it is really about their actions that are so horrible, let's stop doing them ourselves first. If you really want to make the world a better place, that should be a much easier goal to achieve.