skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: CR-48 - Is google going to abuse your information?
The privacy policy very clearly specifies that you are authorizing your information to be used for advertising etc. purposes. Considering you supplied your phone number and everything, imagine what you might have to put up with in coming future. Lol. (Yes, even if you do not get selected for the pilot program, they could still use this information very well, and maybe sneakily too, so you will just wonder why you are being bombarded by advertisers. Lol)

This thread is not meant to attack google, but let's come up with creative ways google could make your life a little harder by using that information.
70 percent of Americans think WikiLeaks does more harm than good
Interesting! I'm curious as to what the "VLC" referred to in the plan is.
Haha no :)

Something clicked inside me. I have been wanting to do this for a long time but always had some kind of lame excuse not to do it.
!cache url

If duckduckgo is your bag.
This is US only tracker - you think that they are shipping to US citizens only
There are two ways to use your phone-gadget-thingy: killing time or saving time. You seem to prefer the latter.
It think is even more true than you indicate. http://source.android.com/faqs.html says:

Devices that are properly compatible can seek approval to use the Android trademark.

...

Android Market is only licensed to handset manufacturers shipping devices.

...

The Google apps for Android, such as YouTube, Google Maps and Navigation, Gmail, and so on are Google properties that are not part of Android, and are licensed separately.

I cannot find proof of it, but I would guess neither of these are free.
Really? -1? Cool story guys.
Because its there.
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I truly believe that most people are intelligent enough to understand that Google cannot gift an unlimited number of laptops and that randomness is the determining factor in who gets one and who doesn’t. 60,000 laptops mean that 1 in 5000 Americans will get one. Is that not enough? I also don’t think that there is any way you can send out a few thousand free laptops without causing hype …
There's a huge difference between knowing that something is true and wanting to be reminded about it constantly in graphic detail.
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i filled out the short form and it doesn't look like mine shipped yet.
-1, Smart aleck?

So what if you don't like how I said it? Tell me I'm wrong about the original post, then tell me you're not lying to yourself. The link is cryptic, and to assume prerequisite knowledge of a non-headline event of the day is absurd.
What a false dichotomy. Is the attitude around here so poor that we have to be 100% work or else we look upon their smartphone usage? I suppose die-hard Android VS iOS is still popular. I mean, who can't understand that playing Brickbreaker, or GASP even Angry Birds while on a plane can be a decent way to kill 10 mins during taxiing?
Yes I will be Dhaka. That will be my base location. I have family there so I should be ok and I do speak the local language, not fluently but good enough to hold a conversation.
Intense article!

Franco is probably strong enough at math to realize that the more he immerses himself in the art world, the strongly the probability is that he will become truly iconic.

He also seems to be enjoying the ride. And he basically defines self-actuation. I'm sort of jealous.
Hacker News is for bad guys.
> I believe companies and people alike should be responsible without outside coercion.

The trouble is, in the absence of prior action, some people or organisations cause harm that can be undone, but some cause harm that cannot be undone and for which mere financial compensation is insufficient. The question is which is more damaging, a harm that cannot be undone or the consequences of preemptive regulation to prevent that harm from occurring.

Individual possession of weapons is a crude but effective example. In some jurisdictions, individual citizens are free to carry personal firearms. In some jurisdictions, they are not. There is a political difference of opinion on whether the damage caused by irresponsible individuals abusing that freedom is outweighed by the benefits. However, I know of no jurisdiction where an individual citizen may lawfully carry around a nuclear weapon that would allow them to unilaterally destroy an entire city. The consequences of abuse are just too severe.

In all such matters, there will be grey areas, but it seems very clear from the state of the world today that commercial incentives do not automatically coincide with guaranteeing the continued provision of essential services in the face of attacks that are relatively unlikely but would cause vast disruption if carried out successfully.
I think that most "lay" people would know about the exchange in Chicago by its old name. It's not like the name change of 2007 is decades ago. And I'm guessing that CME Group stands for Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group so referring to the institution as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is hardly a howling mistake. And presumably derivatives are a type of contract, and the derivatives are based on commodities, and oil is a commodity, thus the reporter seems to be largely right.

Instead of being pedantic and snarky why don't you enlighten us all instead of using acronyms for everything? CBOT appears to be the Chicago Board of Trade. But CDS? Is this the famous credit default swaps that helped bring about the current mess that we are in? And the banks are unwilling to have a light shone on these dealings.
? What a surprise. She doesn't imply it is a conspiracy - she actually shows that there appears to be collusion and monopolistic practices. There is no, "we think they are up to something but don't know what", it's "they are up to something and aren't playing ball".
redmine (the bitnami redmine stack version)

http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

and anything else by bitnami is also reputable for the simplicity in the installation process

even the iphone app is free:

https://github.com/wwk/iRedmine
How are things coupled? And how to we decouple them? Serious questions.
I applied for kdk access when it was first announced in January. Never a word. I think Amazon moved too slow here, because now I don't really care. I've moved on and enjoy building for the iPad.
Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
Why choose Tropo over Twilio
interesting. but not sure why you wouldn't just use google code since you're building the entire thing in GAE anyway?
i can listen to trance / electronic music and it actually opens a part of my mind that is otherwise more difficult to access. pop / rock / hip hop tends to distract me. einstein loved listening to music while he wondered about the mysteries of our universe. if it is good enough for einstein...
It seems it's the slickdeals people that are behind these: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2459200

The OP is just the last of the three batches sent out so far. The guy who made the addicted-gamer tracker hangs out there too http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=35270219&pos...
Yes, what a pity it's reserved to US citizens :/
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PLEASE NO.

eHow is Demand Media. It's a spam/scam - they generate millions of pages with almost zero content. Contributors are paid pennies to write the bare minimum to get a "PASS." Demand Media is a disease of the web.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/e-media-ti...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/demand_media_is_a_page_...

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/ehowcom-demand-med...
That "you're actually consuming the late adopters", You'll gulp through the late adopters, made me think of a different problem, that of fishing the oceans empty.
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I'm surprised no-one here has mentioned the excellent book "The Limits to Growth" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth). It's a book I can't recommend highly enough, even though the first edition was written almost 40 years ago (it was last updated in 2008).

The basic concept is a system of differential equations called "World3" that allows for the analysis and qualitative understanding of the multitude of interactions between the various bio-geo-chemo-physical systems that couple us to our planet.

While it doesn't strive to make actual concrete predictions, it does enumerate a bunch of different possible trajectories that are all consistent with the most current scientific models, and with policy choices we as a species might make over the next 50 years.

And the conclusion is pretty much that we are doomed. Sadly. It seems likely (especially with the failure of Copenhagen) that we just are not politically capable of the level of co-ordinated activity needed to prevent a massive 'overshoot' beyond sustainable human population and consumption levels.

Carl Sagan talked about the potential for the human race to snuff itself out. He might have been thinking about the Cold War at the time, but it seems the real war is the one we have we are waging on the very systems that support our continued existence on earth.
I wonder if any journalist has ever wandered to HN when googling for the "hacker" term and got confused about the startup-related discussion.
Implementing 1 hour * ceil(price in dollars) would be much harder since you would have to have a time value for each app. I imagine this might be a nightmare or at least a nontrivial thing to do.
For years, we've been aware that innovations in alternative energy have been bought up by oil companies and quietly, quickly disappeared.

I don't believe this is true. Do you have any citations to support it?
Not higher, otherwise they wouldn't try convert you to a paying customer. But it's extra money, and a user could easily click a few ads in a year before buying.
I agree about it being up to the developer to decide, and but most apps are $2 or so. If this change results in better apps because the devs make more money, I'm all for it, even if I lose $2 on some purchase at some point.
Um, the Commerce Clause didn't unilaterally impose ObamaCare on the country.

What? I never claimed that it did.

It simply (arguably) authorized Congress to pass legislation regulating health care.

Yes, key word arguably.

What we're arguing about is whether Congress should exercise its power under the Commerce Clause to give the executive branch more power over the Internet. The language of the statute determines how much, and what kinds, of power the executive branch would get.

You missed the point of my post and I apologize for expressing myself poorly. The act of passing legislation is irrelevant to whether the executive branch will exercise the powers in question. Even if we pass legislation with an explicit enumeration of powers, the executive branch will still step outside those enumerations and use the Commerce Clause as the legal basis. My point is that the only thing which will actually limit the powers the executive branch takes is legal precedence, which we don't have right now. We wont see true limits on what the executive branch can do until we see some Supreme Court rulings in this area.
Ya, they really need to take it out of beta and just let people use it.
The original blog entry was submitted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992804

For thos who are interested in this item, there's lots of discussion there already.
Just out of curiosity, as I've not started with Github (yet).

How many environments for languages/operating systems have most of their stuff in pre-github systems (CPAN and Perlmonks for Perl, kernels, etc)?
Let's see, you created your account 2 hours ago, and you've already created this post and a comment with the same message:

"My girlfriend is worried about how google is going to own her soul (with all the tracking) if she ends up getting one. Lol."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996746

Google is giving out free notebooks for testing. If you're lucky enough to get one, you agree to give them feedback on how it works.

If that sounds spooky to you, then don't sign up.
Good work for making this. I see a few hypotheses here on how behaviour will be changed...I'd like to see another post in a about a week or so on peoples' experiences using this extension.

One request: I'd like to hide my own karma.
When you download .crx rename it to .zip and open it.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995777
I think the main purpose of the return policy is to allow the user to see if the applications even works at all on the user's own android handset. 15 minutes is ample for that.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993537
Sorry but it seems I am talking to a bunch of stupid, here.

Here you bring two evidence that he is in fact a victim of 4chan.
1) a bunch of pastebins, ALL CREATED AFTER THE PRESS RELEASE, mocking the guy
2) a forum post, older than that date, where he mentions 4chan, using his alias t4pan.

The first one only proves 4channers are making fun of him
The latter, only shows he knows about 4chan - which he must if he wrote the press release.

Where is the evidence he didn't write. NOWHERE. And now start downvoting, then the next thread go bully this place is better than reddit.
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Is it technically possible to download my browser history as a text file?
Hey guys,

Is it technically possible to download my "browsing history" basically as a text file and upload it on the internet?

For example, to show people what I've been browsing?

Also, is there any way you can make exceptions to what I want to add to this "downloaded list" so I don't completely share everything I browse?

If so, what languages would I need to know? If you want to know more about it, feel free to contact me.

Thanks so much
Hmm, I don’t know, I think I see people tend to vote if they think a comment’s score should be higher or lower than it is. For example, unoffensive but unhelpful or off-topic comments never seem to make it to -10 — most people seem to make sure the comment ends up at 0 or -1. This isn’t because slightly less than 50% of those who read it disagree, it’s because everyone thought it needed to be at 0 or -1.

Right?
Pretty much everything except that which is rails related.

In more seriousness, what do you mean by stuff?

Many gems have their source in github, but really if github imploded tomorrow gem install rails would still work.

Do you mean, who doesn't host their source on github / have a clone of it on github, or do you mean what pieces of infrastructure would fail if github went down tomorrow.
Understanding banking system (and by extension the overall finance system) requires some study to say the least. You might start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation.

But considering we live in a complex, interdependent society, I'm skeptical that risk is going to be decoupled any time soon. I actually think regulating the most risky behavior is more practical than arranging for each person's risky behavior to only affects them.
There are many ways of earning money via internet, but realistically, it will take at least another year or so before you can realise any of those ambitions. (Any combination of: learning web technologies, getting GOOD ideas, programming an application, building up an online presence/reputation, etc...).

Teaching (especially science/mathematics/technology) is always in demand, so the most sensible option would be to find some way to continue with that while you develop your alternate business.

Since you have a young family, you can't afford to take many risks!
I've noticed that as soon as I submit a new post to posterous, it gets about 24 views. I'm quite sure those aren't people.
How does one save a story? I don't see a "Save" link in the menu bar and it's not mentioned in the guidelines or faq.
Hey Teddy, you'll need to put your email in the about section of your profile in order for people to email you. Have a good week man.
Yes I'm sure. from 100k to 140k operations per second in any new computer (not server or special hardware) you can buy today as a desktop everywhere.

Check the Redis benchmark page on google code to see this numbers, but I want to show you how Redis performs in an EEE PC 701:

PING: 7942.81 requests per second
PING (multi bulk): 7861.64 requests per second
MSET (10 keys, multi bulk): 6435.01 requests per second
SET: 5698.01 requests per second
GET: 8183.31 requests per second
INCR: 9074.41 requests per second
LPUSH: 8710.80 requests per second
LPOP: 8583.69 requests per second
SADD: 8396.31 requests per second
SPOP: 8123.48 requests per second

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model	: 13
model name	: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz
stepping	: 8
cpu MHz	: 630.029
cache size	: 512 KB

Note that it is clocked at 630 Mhz.

I don't know exactly but the PC you mention can not deliver less than 50k operations per second.
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For a site whose key value proposition is vanity - is it really? HotOrNot scales all ratings by (rating / 2 + 5.0), i.e. everybody's above average. According to the post by James Hong where he mentioned this, they seem to have found a notable increase in user satisfaction with the change.

Is it any different from Victoria Secret bras running a cup size or three higher than everyone else, or dress sizes continually shifting downwards, or SAT scores being recentered upwards by 100 points?
A few weeks ago we had some bugs in new batch processing code that caused some major errors there. These bugs have since been fixed. We are definitely not as far off as 9316 vs 14 in normal operation.

These numbers are far from meaningless. At the end of the day the numbers reflect what our servers see -- they track something different from Google Analytics but they are useful as a simple ballpark for how interesting or visited your blog post was. Also, they're realtime, which GA does not provide.
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Prompted by the discussion and submission here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994998

I've realised that most of the material there is already present in Raymond's essay, albeit more abrasively written. There's also a lot in common with Carnegie's "How To Win Friends ...", and several other older essays that I've seen.

There's a common theme - do the work first, only ask the question after you've demonstrated that you've put in the effort. This is very like the "Proof of Work" spam avoidance idea - make someone prove they're serious by dedicating some CPU for every recipient.

The same is true of CVs I receive. They claim all these wonderful skills and personality traits, but offer very little proof of their claims. They say "Work well in a team, or when self-directed." without showing any evidence.

Show me the money! Where's the beef?

Show me you're serious, and I'll take you seriously.
I heard that blackberry has completely separate teams that work on each OS subrelease, meaning that the 4.6 guys don't talk to the 4.7 guys, who didn't talk to the 5.0 guys. Developing anything for the blackberry over more than one OS release is a complete and utter nightmare. Even after that, you have to worry about carrier differences, BES vs. BIS devices, and a ton of other things.

In the App driven world, BB development cycles tend to run 1.5-2x longer than iOS and Android because of the inconsistencies, even for seasoned devs, at least at my last company.

BB will die because nobody will develop for it.
but if you shower and dump it in the harbour aren't you basically dumping chemicals straight into it (shampoo, soap, conditioner)?
Not that I think it's a big deal, I just thought rules were stricter.
Every time I ask, "Why don't you use Tropo?" I invariably hear "What's Tropo?"

It's a shame, because it is pretty great. I think the word is finally getting out now, though.
Site seems dead, Google Cache: http://goo.gl/a216o
EDIT: Apparently there are pictures of the cockpit with the error messages etc, text-only doesn't do this article justice.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#featuredarticle... states a way to allow a MDM server, "available from third-party solutions providers" to "ask the device to various queries". It also describes in detail what settings can be set (disable the camera, force VPN use, etc), but i cannot find what these queries can be.

If such an API existed I would say it is good that it has been removed, as asking a system 'hage you been compromised?' will not help you find out whether a system has been compromised.
But Apple is only about 35 years old. Maybe one time he borrowed $2.91 for a cup of coffee.
Beware that the only way to get your data out of Lighthouse is in JSON format. Basically you will get a ton of folders containing JSON files and attachments. You will have to write custom software to import that data into other bugtrackers, in case you want to switch. Its the same with their support app, tender.
This looks promising, do their VPS plans have full root access?
Policy is for when you don't trust your staff anymore
That's not for iPhone.
Thanks! I'm having a look at this right now.
I had the same exact problem when I built the URL shortener Cligs, and back then there was no way to implement a JS-based solution: the HTTP 301 redirect gave instructions to the browser before it would even get to executing any JS.

So I built a very simple bot detector based on IP adresses and user agents. With your volume of traffic you can do this too. Be sure to keep updating it (automatically!) and apply the detection retroactively.

The bot detector cut well over 90% of the hits reported in the real time analytics. Users complained that suddenly they were not as popular on twitter as they thought they were but accepted that the new numbers are more accurate. That's the key benefit you need to explain to your users: accuracy. They care about it a lot more than the vocal minority suggests.
Maybe its more practical in the next five minutes but I think less practical in the long run. Every time someone fails and the government assumes all the consequences, more people find it profitable to engage in the stupidity. And those who are prudent get taxed more to pay for it.

Long term its a game we can't win and it will collapse. And that collapse may ruin the US's ability to compete in the world, letting others win the next technology battle and leave us subject to their whims.

The whole mess can keep going, but ultimately it must compete with less stupid societies.
Why is this being downvoted?

The question is pretty legit; the long application asks a number of questions like how much you use desktop apps (Anything from MATLAB to Citrix), and also about your preference in Google products vs anything else (gmail, calendar, docs, etc).

Is there any indication to whether they are picking people with good fits (e.g. those who basically use all the Google products already) or are they just selecting people randomly, using the data provided just for stats and context to the person's inputs?
App developers can also post an youtube video to demo the app. they currently only have the option to add pictures to the purchase screen!
It's often discussed here, I think, because game development on constrained-but-not-too-constrained platforms like iOS and Android presents an interesting set of 'hacker' challenges: how much performance can you extract from the CPU and GPU? How does your UI convey the necessary information on a small screen? Can you fit the resources you need into the small amount of RAM?

As to your other point: a dollar or so for (potentially) hours of entertainment is an excellent value prospect for those of us who do enjoying playing games. Games of all forms have been popular since humans have been human; is it really that much of a leap that some developers are doing well off this ancient impulse? ;^)