skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other oppressive and authoritative thing about it -- completely aside from the whole surveillance and tracking aspect -- is that it obliterates the past. There was a time when, if you just met someone at a bar or some event or while traveling, there was still a bit of mystery to them. You had to interact with them a bit more until you found out about their family, their friends, and where they've been in life.

Now it's all "up there", but at a cost, in that although this information has become more available and transparent, it's also cheapened, somehow. It's like you suddenly "know" these people... but you don't know them, really. All you have are factoids about them... drowning in the sea of all the other factoids you're continually digesting about everyone else you've become "friends" with.

The sad part is, this "other" time -- before the intrusions not just of FB, but of the whole ecosystem of social media tools -- wasn't that long ago. But pretty soon no one is going to be able to remember a time when people had an entirely different sense of intimacy and space. They won't be able to intuitively and viscerally assess the tradeoffs of being "always" in reach, or at the very least, findable to anyone they've every come into contact with -- simply because they won't have any baseline to compare it to.
Thanks, just listening now
Well, I agree with you. To me it's a "Pot calling the kettle black" idiom.

You can't solve this problem through exclusion, the solution needs to be inclusive, like Lady's Learning Code and other such groups.
Most of my Baby Boom-era friends are on Facebook. Some of them are on it a LOT.
To many people, Facebook is the default communication channel. To delete your Facebook account is like to be offered a free iphone + unlimited contract and refuse it; the idea of removing your name from the social phonebook is beyond the comprehension of many people.

And subconsciously, you're removing value from other people's valued medium/experience. By not having account, you must have some opposition to something that they have, use, and like; I think it might be subconsciously insulting and snobby to many people. To most people, the service holds unquestionable value.

(These generalizations may or may not be true... merely speculation/extrapolation from my own experiences)
I'm not on FB, so it's not. But if I were... I'd say the first thing to be violated would be my freedom to be left alone. To not know what other people were doing, or have them know what I'm doing. To be able to quietly tune the world out and focus on things. Then, of course, my right to own images of myself, to keep my location private, to register genuine surprise, in person, when I find out one of my friends is engaged or pregnant or won the lottery. Most of all, the freedom to enjoy these freedoms without having to waste my time navigating a shit-ton of privacy settings and menus and ever-changing user agreements.

In short, the freedom to be a private adult and not spend the rest of my life in a high school locker room.
So am I the only person who thinks this characterization of facebook as a "parasite" or a "disease" is meaningless, useless hyperbole?

Facebook isn't any more of a "parasite" than email.
Facebook may have a million negatives but for many families FB has replaced email and other forms of communication. Remember, many families have members in Europe, China, California, Texas...Costa Rica...or college so FB is an excellent tool to share what happened (new baby born for example) in real time. They are other methods no doubt, but FB seems perfect for that.

I have an account to do just that, keep track of what's happening with my extended family and friends I lost touch with ages ago. A lot of the pictures, comments, likes and so on are designed to show off but so what? It mirrors real life ;)
Off topic: Why is he signing his mail with "Dr" Richard Stallman? His Wikipedia page only mentions a BA.
He didn't actually bring up an issue there. His message reduces to "I don't like Facebook and don't think you should use it because I think is harmful to your users in some unspecified way."

For those curious, here's what appear to be his views on Facebook:

http://stallman.org/facebook.html

That doesn't strike me as a serious set of issues either, more a collection of possibly-bad things put together by somebody who didn't like it from the start.

That's not to say that there isn't a good case to be made for staying away from Facebook. But I don't think Stallman is making one.
Twenty minutes ago. Here's a list of actual uses that I have personally done in the last week.

I have large (64 core, 256 gigs of ram) servers in a university data center, and a lab full of small atom machines.

I can run matlab without a gui, but still have graphs etc pop open when I need one.

Yesterday I ran a remote Firefox on a machine in the same room so that I could play sound on attached speakers, but still view the video locally, on my laptop.

Sometimes I need to run expensive applications on a big machine, but from the comfort of my home or office. X11 forwarding is pretty nice for that.

I run headless Linux VMs on my mac, and ssh to them, running them natively displayed on my laptop. Sure, I could use whatever VMware gives me to display apps, but X11 works better.

It's got plenty of valid use cases, and that's just ones for me.
I haven't done any rigorous benchmarking, but I suspect clojure-scheme introduces little overhead above what Gambit requires. I'm able to lean on native Gambit gambit constructs for quite a bit (i.e. Gambit records underpin Clojure deftypes).
I am somewhat surprised to find that apparently I am just about the only one who has nothing but complete ambivalence to Facebook.

I don't see it as the parasitic pariah Stallman makes it out to be, nor do I dote on every status update of a friend or family member that scrolls across my screen.

If you were to ask me if I hate Facebook, I might agree. But the truth is I hardly use it enough to muster up much of a reaction. I almost never post. The only thing I really use it for is to get invited to things or figure out when someone's birthday is. I'm secretly very lamely proud of my non-activity.

But it's a scourge against humanity? It's a parasite on our populace? It suckers unsuspecting people into a one-way relationship where they are wholesale taken advantage of with no gain?

I call bollocks.
Ask HN: How do reverse-auction sites keep consumers/businesses coming back?
Taking a site like shiply for example, how do they keep the interactions between suppliers and consumers on-site, what do they offer that stops consumers going direct to the supplier?
My main concern, if I were running a business, would be the ongoing severe fluctuations in BTC purchasing power.
> Not perfect, but it does make a pretty big disincentive to being caught issuing fraudulent takedown notices.

In theory, perhaps, but in practice I can find many false notices. The EFF even keeps a "Wall of Shame" with the worst notices: https://www.eff.org/takedowns

A tiny number have gone to court, but even then, damages are rare. Diebold is the only company I can find that has paid significant damages for false claims. While several courts have made rulings of bad faith, I was unable to find even one perjury conviction over a false DMCA notice.
It seems odd that on HN of all places sceptism would be shown as to why someone would want to delete their account when other sites such as Facebook or Reddit get criticised or congratulated on the users ability to control their account.
There are a variety of reasons why a user would want to delete their account and a good web service should allow them to

Edit: spelling, damn "smart"phones!
Someone should send this to the Facebook Mobile team.
Is Apple falling out of love with HTML5
I work with several who are at a separate office from the one I work at. They're a royal pain in the ass because, for all their questionable engineering decisions (a system that crashes - stack-trace to the server console - because of a single bad field in the database), they are remarkably politically astute. Much of our leadership thinks that brogrammers are what top-notch software developers are like, which makes their brogrammer mentality all the more irritating.
Given how many startups have received venture capital (especially recently), I was somewhat surprised when I read a comment from pg: "VCs will only invest in a startup if they think it has a chance of an IPO."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550238

If that's the case, it seems VCs have relaxed their criteria for what makes a startup a potential IPO candidate.
Here's what Google+ could have been
My question was a little vague. Many bookmarking sites you visit let user submit a headline that is then linked to an article. Let say you are reading the comments for a post and you come across a helpful comment that you want to share with the masses. You would visit "x.com" and submit the comment and link that to the article instead of a headline.

Does that make sense?
both python and ruby is easy to start and powerful, so just pick one you like.

As me, I learn python first as my scripting tool(web scraping, system automate task).

Then I switch to ruby,it have some suger for you to write less code to complete same task.
I can't see how this is different from mock.py. Mock can also do temporary patching:

with patch('path.to.object') as my_mock:
my_mock.method.return_value = ...

also you can patch a module/class with a function.
Have you seen Aisle411 for retail stores? They have some crowdsourced information (aisles in which products are located), which might be easier to maintain than more granular (exact Lat/Lon) location.

http://aisle411.com/
Does this conflict with the mantra, 'Hire people that are smarter than you.'?
Type Connection - A Typographic Dating Game
Atmel’s flexible touch sensors will revolutionize mobile device design
Maybe you're complicating this. It's just a basic principle of capitalism and freedom. Etsy can give away their money to anyone they choose to, if it helps them commercially (or in any other way).

We should consider this socially acceptable for our own good.
No longer just a theory! The Gambit iOS repl is quite happy to run the scheme files generated by clojure-scheme.

There has just recently been a port of the iOS Gambit repl to Android (using NDK and JNI I think)--I'm looking to try that out next.
I suppose you fail to see the irony in complaining about me writing "Google Go" because "Go" is an unsearchable name and then answering how to search for it with a custom search engine, needed because the name is unsearchable. Not to mention that ctrl-f doesn't support regular expressions so no ctrl-f "\<Go\>".

I only use that construction with ambiguous or unsearchable names (for instance I would also say Google Maps). I don't think I am along in using this form and I feel it is appropriate to refer to Google Go this way.

Frankly I fail to understand why this bothers you so much, as it clearly does. I would expect Google Go advocates to be delighted to have Google's good reputation for engineering imparted onto this language.
Planetary nomenclature
I'm not sure about now but pinterest was virtually unusable on an ipad for a really long time?
Why Perl, you lying sack of shit!!

C:\>perl -we "for(1..76){$sum += (int rand 6) + 1;} print $sum / 76
3.71052631578947

If that should have been 3.5, then 0.21 * 76 = 15.9 extra points over average.

Perl, you lying oaf, you owe me 159 shekels. pay up.

I guess I'm being ironic, but with n=76, it would be great if
"Those who were not under any time pressure reported a mean roll of 3.9. Both groups lied, then." came with a disclaimer about how confident we could be about that.
Which doesn't solve the problem at all. Unless you live in the US.

There's a startup niche for 'user friendly address entry in forms'.
You're right, but don't miss the bigger 'security picture' where we don't deal with absolutes, but probability and ease.

This wouldn't protect you from a CIA sponsored deep dive of your information, but it does give you a considerable advantage over your peers, scammers, and many levels of legal inquiry.
Wow, excellent link. I never saw it this way. Has it been posted on HN? It should be if not.
I'm not criticizing, I'm wondering what their returns are. We know YC has had some huge hits... has 500?
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I would consider the law unjust once it crosses the line into being a burden on society. That's obviously not a black and white transition, although I gave part of what I consider to be over that line in my last response. From my perspective, SOPA, as proposed, was (is?) an unjust law, in that it meets the criteria I specified for what I consider a burden.

It's worth making the distinction between legal rights and natural rights. Obviously, if a particular draconian and unjust law were passed that guaranteed the right to secure your 3kb of data, then you have the legal right to do so. That fact has mostly no bearing on your natural right to do so.

It's also worth noting that sharing between friends and someone making a large profit off of sharing are not the only options. It is not hard to envision a situation with a large amount of sharing and no one profiting directly the way kim dotcom did. It has the scale of the profiteers, but the intent and profitability of the between-friends sharing. I think it is a lot harder to find someone worthy of being called a criminal in such a situation.
Milk isn't next to the dishwasher detergent for practical reasons - refrigeration is one; contamination of milk by odors is another.

On the other hand, milk is invariably at the back of the store to require the shopper to pass areas containing impulse buy items.
Sounds rather contrived to me...

Why do you need X11-apps from multiple(?!) local linux VMs on your desktop?

What GUI-app other than matlab do you need to run remotely?
فاطمه غول الحلقه التاسعه والستون مترجمه عربي حصريا علي كوكب الشرق
Good design communicates trust. Whether this is justified or not is another matter, but I know most people tend to trust pretty things and pretty people, especially if they are eloquent.

TBH, anyone who tells you things about privacy policies and other opinions typical of privacy advocates are completely out of touch with the average user.

I'm a privacy advocate myself, but I'm not so out of touch with the world to think that people see things the way I do and that a site needs to speak to people like me to gain the trust of the average user. I am not the average user. HN users are not the average users.

If you want to answer your own question about how to gain trust you need to be able to answer the question "who is my primary user?". If privacy advocates are not among those that are your primary users or among the early adopters, you needn't worry about the issues others mentioned. Just make it pretty and make the wording friendly.

I'm not suggesting you be unethical. I'm just answering your question on how to communicate trust. Be pretty. Talk smoothly.
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Yes, he did a lot. 25-30 years ago. What's he done lately?
Yup, it was probably the blood sugar.

People can downvote me as much as they want, I just didn't feel mentally 100% and decided it was best to stop.

YMMV
I submitted four floors worth of plans for a building on our campus probably close to two months ago; they are still "pending review"

There is no way to get feedback about the process and no indication on where in the queue our submissions are.

There are probably 40 buildings on our campus that I was going to submit floor plans for. However, I was using this first building as a guinea pig of sorts. I can't imagine spending the time to get the other 39, multi-floor, buildings aligned in their system if there is little likelihood they will ever end up in the system for public consumption.
Hmmmmm, how about quadrupling DARPA's funds? They are miniscule compared to having a navy fleet that's larger than the rest of the world combined.

DARPA is a amazingly great idea, and a lot of their stuff makes their way to civilian applications. More DARPA, less 90,000 ton hardware.
Autumn Evening, a js1k demo
Grants and scholarships based on minority status are bigoted, yes, but not in a bad way.

Hear me out.

The negative reaction to bigotry arises from a perceived inequality: one group is getting favored over another, and that's unfair. Sure.

But that assumes that both groups started out equal in the first place. If one group were at a disadvantage then giving them a leg up merely equalizes what was already an unequal playing field. So, in this example, men have been and continue to dominate professionally by almost any metric we care to look at across the entire population (salary, job title, etc.). Helping out women in this regard is an attempt to level the playing field.

That said, in practice it is not that easy. Quotas are my favorite anti-pattern in this arena; they simply don't work and do more harm than good. In this case, I'm a little leery because Etsy has financial motivations behind wanting to be seen as women-friendly. A government offering this kind of scholarship as a social contract effort is more neutral to me; a business offering it as a marketing effort is more suspect. Maybe I'm too cynical, though.
More on the Philosophy of Isolated Environments (by Yehuda Katz re: Rails.app)
My ISP, Sonic.Net, provides a free VPN to all customers.

If you are in the Bay Area you owe it to yourself to use Sonic.net, they really are one of the best ISPs (along with Web-Pass) in the US.
Overcoming impostor syndrome! Woo!

Code culture measures how much you self-perceive to know about code. It's only after a bit of getting to know a person that you can get at their actual levels of competence. If you are in a situation that claims to be a meritocracy, but all claims of merit have to be evaluated in seconds, then it's not a meritocracy, it's a self-confidence-ocracy. Unfortunately, self-confidence can be negatively correlated with talent... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect )
I think it's generally accepted that monkey patching is a Really Bad Idea but sometimes it's the least bad option available.
Real-time GPU path tracing: Streets of Asia screens + video
Also ClojureScript only recently got PersistentVectors; IIUC maps are still copy-on-write.
what are you going to do, vote republican instead?
If you have a little bit of existing programming experience, my book Modern Perl may be of interest to you. Electronic versions are free and freely redistributable:

http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/
> connect in a deep and healthy way with some people that I'd fallen out of touch with

You must have had fallen out of touch for a reason, hadn't you?

I think this is the major reason why I am not using Facebook to find and connect with my old friends. If those connection would have been worth keeping up with, I am sure I wouldn't have lost them at the first place. Now, of course there are stories when some family members got lost at teen age and found each other through social network, I get it, but those are in minor, gems worth a short article on social blog.

After you re-connected with them again, after a while, most likely the same thing will happen. You will get out of regular touch and they will fall in the grey zone. Of course its harder to "loose" people nowaday because we living in much smaller world. And on the top of that, if you are a hard worker, if you have family, a bunch of close friends with whom you socialize, go to restaurants, movies, camping, etc, then do you really find time to socialize online? Isn't it enough that we forget about our spouses or parents birthdays sometimes, about anniversaries, other important events, don't always make on time to pick up son or daughter from school? I believe if you at least try to fullfill your daily obligations towards your job, families and friends, then you don't have time for social networking.
> Maybe you're complicating this. It's just a basic principle of capitalism and freedom. Etsy can give away their money to anyone they choose to, if it helps them commercially (or in any other way).

100% agreed.

I stand for the right for every firm to pass out scholarships, hire, fire, etc. based on all sorts of things: I support the RIGHT of bookstore owners to exclude on race, the RIGHT of golf courses to exclude on sex, etc.

...but once we turn from the topic of what people should be ALLOWED to do, and address what people SHOULD do, I will say that I dislike people who exclude on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.

Your uncle has the RIGHT to be racist (thought it makes him a jackass), and Etsy has the RIGHT to be sexist and judge people based on the accident of their birth instead of the content of their character.

...and it makes them jackasses.
Great post, yeah I overstated a little bit and actors are certainly valid for certain cases. I was just reacting to what I saw as an overstatement on the other side.
In the paper in question (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), it does. Chi-square test shows p<0.01 and p=0.02 for significance for the high and low time pressure groups, respectively.
Once again, "military bad" doesn't lead to any sort of useful discussion. Furthermore, complaining about it won't change anything. This is HN and I'd like to think people here solve problems rather they go off on political rants.

Consider that the US economy is $15 trillion. The US handbag market is bigger than DARPA's budget.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/handbags/leather_handbags/prwe...

How can we get more people to invest in science and engineering research? Hopefully, KickStarter and Petridish will eventualy lead to a boom in consumer funded science research.

http://www.petridish.org/

http://www.kickstarter.com/
How is this different from someone saying, I am offended you don't smoke weed, or I am offended, in this country of XYZ religion, you are not ?
He has a bunch of honorary doctorates. I guess those confer the right to sign Dr. (?)
The "clearing up ambiguity" thing is bullshit. Nobody is going to fail to use context clues to figure out what is meant by "Go" in this discussion. Where such disambiguation is actually needed, "Go (language)" or simply "go-lang"/"golang" is preferred. You know, since they are not incorrect.

"Frankly I fail to understand why this bothers you so much, as it clearly does."

It is annoying because it is incorrect, because you have been corrected multiple times, and because what you are attempting to do is transparent as hell. I, and I imagine many others, do not have a strong appreciation for botched attempts at subtlety.
Data access/usability vs. security/privacy is a worthy concern for building data. I think we will see a designation made based on level of detail. Blueprints (with details about structural features) should not be publicly available. However, simplified floor plans for public spaces are already publicly displayed, as required for fire evacuation purposes.

Where that "level of detail" line is drawn is an important discussion as the availability of indoor maps from Google, Bing, OSM, Micello, etc. continues to expand.
> But that assumes that both groups started out equal in the first place.

Women get more degrees.

Women live longer.

Women work less, yet collection social security longer.

Women get equal pay for the same experience in the same job.

If Etsy is doing this just as a purely cynical marketing stunt, playing to their female demographic, I could have some respect for them, in the same way that I respect a sleazy salesman, or an alligator.

...but if they think that they're "solving" a "problem" by discriminating against young men, then they're just fools.