skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see the issue here, isn't all of that stated in the privacy policy of the extension ?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloa...

Ant.com collects non-personally-identifying information when you are visiting our site or using our software applications, this infomation made available typically from web browsers and servers. Some of the infomation type is: the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the web page from wich you came, the date and the time for each page you view, settings such as browser languages, etc.

Ant.com also collects infomation made public to us that can be considered personally identifyable, such as your internet protocol (IP) address. Ant.com does not use such information to identify its visitors and does not disclose such information.
bliss (http://www.blisshq.com) hovers in the $1k - $1.5k bracket at the moment. It still is under active development though.

The main sales channel is SEO, but I have also had success by trying to integrate, both technically and marketing-wise, with other products and services. Referrals from blog reviews and forum posts also help a little. Adwords is very low, and is something I'm trying to improve all the time (thanks patio11 for the blog posts).
I am interested to know why they have the problem only this year? They are not using the same algorithm before? Or they just discovered the problem now but can't do anything to the previous lottery winners?
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Thanks. The iphone-gui-psd-v4 license says it can only be used for mockup and not as a theme to sell on the app store. A bummer. Not sure why.
I find amusing your certainty that any competent large company should know exactly what's running on their production network. Exactly how are they supposed to do that? Security is a cost center; headcount is minimized across the board; no business process is gated on "knowing exactly what's out there"†. There are meanwhile hundreds or thousands of servers, many running multiple applications.

Most large companies do not, at any given moment, know exactly what's running on their network.

† Unlike for instance app security audits, which gate deployment of new versions of code, and are thus straightforward to integrate into business process.
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What compounds this is that 'healthy' is a particularly ill-defined catchall term.

Thanks for asking an important follow-up question implicitly by commenting on what the term "healthy" (used in my first post here) might mean. To make that explicit, when I refer to "healthy" people in the context of a human nutrition study, I refer to people who have longer lifespan (less mortality) and fewer documented diseases and disabilities (less morbidity) than the general than the general population baseline. (By symmetry, unhealthy people have more mortality and more morbidity than the population baseline.) Ideally, a hypothesis on nutrition and its relationship to health would be backed up by EXPERIMENTALLY OBTAINED data on both the central tendencies of groups given one treatment or another, and by similarly obtained data on individual outcomes before and after differing treatments. We have a long way to go to get data of this quality. And it may be that eventually (although this promised future seems farther away now than it did a decade ago) individuals will be able to obtain testing to allow them to receive individualized advice on diet, adapted to their individual peculiarities. Right now we are still trying to figure out very general patterns of advice, which surely won't fit all individuals equally well.
Definitely a selection bias--I mentioned that previously in a post down below.

I'm not saying everyone is sick though. I'm saying I've seen thousands of windows machines with malware and a lot of the time it wasn't just an uneducated user problem.

My first store was also about an hour away from the nearest mac store so I also saw a pretty fair amount of macs while working there. They came in all the time for hardware issues so obviously they aren't perfect--But I never once saw one with malware--not in 5 years.

I don't think that they are magically immune to malware and some of it can be explained by smaller market share, but whatever the reason from my experience dealing with thousands of windows pcs and hundreds of macs--malware on macs is so insignificant that it doesn't exist.

5 years ago people were saying that malware for macs was coming (In fact Best Buy was pushing AV installs for macs when we first started carrying them), but it didn't materialize.

For the average user--if you buy a windows machine you will probably have to deal with malware, but if you go with a mac the chance is so low that is virutally nonexistent.
I love this. A hacker approach to getting the points back :)
Then scan that photocopy in and OCR it. We've come full circle.
Gee, maybe the degree of control matters. The US still has free and fair elections, with orderly transfers of power and in general a lot of freedom and civil rights. Syria sends the army out killing unarmed people for daring to protest a crappy clan-based inherited dictatorship spanning back to the 60's, which has proven absolutely brutal in maintaining control and creates a thick atmosphere of oppression. Are you afraid for your family's physical safety if you say the wrong thing in private conversation in the US?

I do still disagree with maintaining the Patriot Act though.
What makes you think there isn't any peer-reviewed material on the skeptic side? There's some. Not as much as there could be, perhaps...

For instance, there's this paper explaining the weakness of tree rings in temperature reconstructions:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Loehle_Divergence_CC.pdf
They list all the advantages here: https://banksimple.com/#vision

In short, no surprise fee's and simple online banking (with extensive mobile support).
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We have multiple people involved, but I'm the only one working on it regularly. We aren't paying any dividends yet, so the majority of that goes to pay my salary. At some point, we'll begin paying dividends to everyone. That's a long way of saying there are multiple people involved, but I'm the only person getting anything out of it at this point.

I own about 70% of the company and have done the majority of the work by myself thus far. (That's beginning to change.) My investor/business partner put up a small amount of money to get us off the ground, and he helps handle more of the business side of things so that I can focus on design/development. However, I'm still pretty involved in every aspect of the business.
On my machine with chrome, I had to open it up in 4 separate tabs in order to peg all of my cores. It got pretty warm pretty quickly.
Thanks alex_c. This links takes you straight to the iPhone template version: http://www.tapptics.com/design-templates-for-iphone-iphone-4...

It looks good. $99 or $199 per year so have to think it over.
Why, because they have whois privacy? That's not so unusual.
If any industry was waiting for a startup to come along and revolutionize it, it's the banking industry.
The version available via git from savannah.gnu.org has the old vertical split patch plus a number of more recent scrolling performance fixes. Thanks for your list of non-ideological reasons, better notifications sound pretty compelling. I've been meaning to hack growl support into the OSX screen for a while now...
Make about $40/mo on a couple iPhone apps (one paid, one free with a pay what you want in-app purchase). Mechanical engineer but taught myself iOS programming in my spare time for fun.

For those curious, the apps are "US Tax Receipt" (free) and "Candy Counter - The Candy Jar Estimator" ($0.99)
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Source (German): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,763939,00....
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A common way for an attacker to get root access after exploiting a service and getting accesses on that service's user account is to download some additional tools to tmp. Since no one should be running programs from tmp, turning exec off hopefully gives an attacker with a compromised daemon account no place to download code that they can then execute.
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Yeah, having got past the initial "ooh, this is cool" phase, I do actually think HN was better off with the comment scores.

For example, I was looking at a popular submission the other day and someone had said "Hey is there a PHP port of this?". Back in the day, I'd be able to see how many points it had as a rough indicator of how many other people would have found a PHP port useful. Now I can't tell if that was just one guy, or if 50 people thought the same.

Please, PG, bring the points back? (and while you're at it, stop new users being shown in green?)
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Where's the problem? This is something I do tell people into their faces (because it's true) and it's not the start of a flamewar but my educated observation (being in politics for more than 16 years).

All my points mentioned are relevant to see where these fellas are coming from and why they won't succeed. And these are only the obvious points. It gets worse with the fact that most of them are politically naive. They are morons because (political) hackers would consume the existing literature on the social domain first before making stupid proposals that won't work. (Most of their proposals won't work either because they get the incentives wrong or they don't scale.)

Not everything you don't like reading is against the guidelines.
The use of the phrase leaning into it is highly appreciated.
Here's the URL: http://wordcampraleigh.com/location/
I'm a little confused by your question. Are you looking to spend $100K or to generate $100K annually? If the latter, the company is probably "worth" 2 to 5 times $100K.
From where I'm sitting all I see is a steady erosion of personal freedoms and an ever-increasing number of behavioral mandates we have to adhere to. I invite you to point out these new found freedoms we've traded up for.
BankSimple sound interesting but they will have to be offering something really awesome for me to even remotely consider doing business with a commercial bank ever again. (There days, I only deal with credit unions.)
That's already happened you didn't notice (yet), it's called bitcoin.
You may also try feedbooks. Lots of interesting stuff there (lots ported from Project Gutenberg).
I am surprised that so many people are willing to open a bank account with someone you've never heard of.
I couldn't even find if they are FDIC insured.

I know several friends who wouldn't use mint.com.
For them, it is a single point of failure. You can explain all the technical details you want but there is no way to get past their fears.

When shit hits the fan, you can expect the US govt. to bail out Bank Of America. SimpleBank? I am not so sure.
I've always wondered why after winning something (or in this case, getting 50k sign ups), people say "I'm humbled." I think the truth would be the opposite: "Wow, looks like I'm pretty awesome after all."
Yeah, I'm surprised if no hacker just wants to penetrate the Mac to be able to claim victory, like "Steve Jobs, you thought macs couldn't get viruses. Let me prove you wrong"... or something like that?
If we're going to open a new dialog on this:

Has anybody noticed the drastic decline in quality of links and comments in the last month or so? I think one of the problems is that, without comment scores, new users don't have feedback from the community on how they're supposed to act. There's no way for them to learn the culture.

So it's September, but with no way to tell the new students to mind their manners.
It's also more expensive to provide quality fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Compare the cost of a big mac to a free-range organic chicken breast and some fresh vegetables.
If only... Facebook uses a Flash LSO, which is of course shared between browsers.
It's hard for anyone, governments included, to give up power. Or any advantages indeed. A small example: I remember that the Dutch government (led by a socialist PM back then) imposed a 'temporary' extra tax on gasoline: fl.0.25 extra per liter [1]. This was sold to the people as a temporary measure. Guess what? The tax was never abolished. Don't expect governments to ever give back that they take from you. This goes for freedom and civilian rights, too.

[1] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwartje_van_Kok (Dutch)
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Also, Facebook uses a Flash LSO. You have to clear that to really be logged out.
When it comes to proposed US laws, the simple way to tell if the law is good or bad is as follows. If the name makes it sound like it is good for you, then it is definitely bad for you and should be voted against.
I really hope we can get to a new generation of filesystems soon. Something closer to what ZFS is now. It frustrates me that I have an 80GB disk and I have to allocate portions of it to each of these tasks and try to correctly estimate in advance what each one will use. Eventually it will turn out I mis-estimated and it will be a pain to juggle already-filled partitions.

With a system like ZFS, you create logical filesystems essentially at a folder level. So you can say that /tmp is noexec and has a quota of 20GB but a reserved space of 2 GB. You can also make sure that your root drive has at least 10GB reserved, so even if /var fills up, you still have at least 10GB for your root space.

And this is without heavyweight partitioning, things are easily modifiable on the fly, and you still get constant-time snapshots.

Fortunately, logical volume managers exist and do help.
I agree entirely, and I like your spectrum, however...

"A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons, zips, and other notions" [1]

A hatmaker is a "milliner".

I know that these two ancient and noble professions are frequently confused in modern English speech, but it's rather like saying "designer" when you mean "developer"...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haberdasher
Even bits on physical media are slowly being made un-lendable.

EA's "Project Ten Dollar" is an attack at the used games market, and a side affect of this is that you can't lend the whole game to a friend.

All Steam games require you to have steam installed, and the physical CD is just a convenience. Once you've installed the game, you might as well throw the CD away.

people seem more willing to lend out physical possessions - where they still have them

Doesn't that bolster the original claim "many people would now accept that it seems reasonable that you can't lend your books to someone else."? As more and more media moves to digital distribution, the concept of lending is entirely foreign.
In a couple decades it will be plugged by neural implants. ;-)
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How about throwing the code[1] up on github?

[1] The XPI is a slim greasmonkey-compiled script which just loads http://hnpoints.com/hnpoints.js into the page
Yes, but surely the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act applies. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act_of_2010
Bad comments are still grey.

People can see their own comment scores.

HN is still in decline, but I don't think it's worse than when it had public scores.

Meanwhile, not having up-to-the-minute scores makes the site more pleasant to participate in; one isn't prodded to make statements in reaction to ludicrous (and likely ephemeral) voting swings.
I'd completely forgotten that they use that log-in / registration thing.
https://banksimple.com/faq/ gives their USP
This is hacker logic, and specifically, hacker-who-is-committed-to-piracy-being-noncriminal logic. The actual legal system will look at this like printing fraudulent checks on authentic check paper. The illegality of this is about as controversial a proposition as "Javascript is a programming language."

If a lawyer told you Javascript was not a programming language, you'd immediately think "Cripes, he's a bozo."
They themselves aren't a bank. They partner up with banks that provide FDIC insured products. They just provide the customer service and the user interface.
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A question for you. I have a technical articles site, but I write something fresh around once a month, and my articles are massively long; would you recommend breaking them up and releasing parts more often?
It's right on their page. Under 'Find a new alternative:'

"However, BankSimple is not a "bank." We partner with chartered banks who provide FDIC-insured products, leaving us free to concentrate on designing the complete consumer banking experience, via the web and your smartphone."
I just had a moment of confusion and bafflement. I didn't know how to process this information. I've always thought of the US and UK as sorta, kinda, similar...and imagined that the UK would have libraries like the US. But given this fundamental difference, it seems obvious that our libraries would be vastly different (and vastly better) than those in the UK, all other things being equal. Of course, all other things are not equal, but I do recall a couple of visitors from other countries being amazed at my local library...perhaps this is part of the reason why. At some point in US history, public good was deemed more important than the ability of rights holders to receive recurring revenue from books in libraries; or maybe the question never came up because the majority of rights holders were overseas in the beginning when our libraries were being created and had no feasible way to fight for more rights. Whatever the reason, as a published author, I wouldn't take that trade...I'd rather have an amazing library, where resources go to acquiring new books rather than maintaining payments on old ones.

I often think RMS is a bit of an extremist...but, when I really think things through, I often end up agreeing with him, at least on the core issues.
I don't think I've noticed a decline in quality (yet), but I know for a fact that I comment less frequently (especially with root comments on a submission) and almost never up- or downvote comments any more.

I'd be interested to know if the votes per pageview have plummeted since the removal of comment numbers.
Obviously different banks have different issues but Chase (third largest US by deposits) already does everything in that vision. I really don't get Bank Simple. Integrating planning in a way that looks like Mint is nice, but Mint brings in your other accounts - and if they are trying to out Mint Mint, that is a pretty tall challenge. I can't speak for other banks but I don't see anything special here.

- The plain simple language bullet admits that of course there will always be legalese

- Real support. I've never had trouble at any hour getting a human being on the phone, empowered to deal with my issues. Facetiming or Skyping with my bank? I really don't see the point.

- Mobile from the ground up - Chase has great mobile apps that allow you to deposit checks by taking a photo. I believe other banks do as well and it seems like this will probably be pretty standard going forward.

- No fees. In four years I've been hit with a surprise fee once. It has been resolved.

"We provide access to the largest fee-free nationwide ATM network and our mobile app will locate an ATM closest to your current location." Not sure what that network is but is it more ATMs than Chase or BofA or Wells Fargo have?
With such a vast shift away from desktop downloadable applications, I'm curious to see what you've done from a marketing standpoint to get those numbers. How did you promote your application and drive sales?
In traditional banking, UX is an afterthought but from what I see, for BankSimple, banking takes the backseat but UX rules. I say this coz there's no details on FDIC, interest rates, etc.
IMO, instead of doing Banking; they can sell their product to banks
I'm planning on doing that, but wanted to fix up any bugs that crop up first. In the meantime, as you noted, the un-obfuscated JS file is up on the server for all to see. It's used in the bookmarklet and Firefox plugin directly, and the Chrome, Opera, and Safari extensions use the same file bundled up with minor or no changes.
Super-injunctions are granted on a case-by-case basis, and I believe British privacy law is pretty weak compared to some other EU states', such as France's.

UK papers certainly seem to get away with printing a lot of prurient irrelevancies that have no genuine public interest but are obviously damaging to the families of those reported on.
"BankSimple account plus BankSimple debit card replaces your existing personal bank account. Make deposits, withdraw cash, pay bills, earn interest, and more.

However, BankSimple is not a "bank." We partner with chartered banks who provide FDIC-insured products, leaving us free to concentrate on designing the complete consumer banking experience, via the web and your smartphone.
"
Another web design software
what do you think of this software that i found in google?
it's called enerwings. I think it's a good one.
you can get it at their site, enerwings.com
>one isn't prodded to make statements in reaction to ludicrous (and likely ephemeral) voting swings.

You can see your own score, so I'm not sure why you think that's true?

It does mean that hivemind voting is negated, but I've not really seen that as a problem on HN. Some analysis of voting patterns etc before and after the change would be great to see from PG.
agreed, someone needs to start a 'creditunionsimple' (and figure out a better name).
I liked it for 2 weeks, but, as a data driven person, i would like to be able to see the scores . What was the incentive to hide them again?
Yeah, but there's no context for the new users. I know that a +20 comment score is really good, but I only know this because I've been around for longer than the removal of the scores.

New users wouldn't have this feedback. They might think they're making good contributions at +2-3.

People talk about "group think", but when you've got an intelligent group (like HN), a bit of group think can be a good thing.
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Thanks for your support! Yep, just trying to make something people want. :)
Actually I've thought the quality of comments has improved since points went away.

With too much gamification, everything becomes a game. Writing a comment should be about sharing experience or insight, not making a move to try to score points.
Experiment with 10x the license fee just for one month. This is clearly targeting bigger teams / enterprises / SMEs rather than home users. $19 -- what were u thinking?!
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"In decline" suggests it can go any lower.

Bring comment scores back, HN is getting even worse than before (which is really saying something) without them.
Man, that's great. I'm guessing the big clients would be news organizations. I would aggressive argue that this should be on their homepage as their updated news feed and then have the timeline move by the hour.
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