skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, government, Hollywood, Big music, Facebook, (arguably) Google, Craigslist, and any other enterprise which is large and makes a bunch of money, are clear and present dangers to the mostly free internet we have today. Which, considering my job, and considering the average startup, is the biggest threat to their existence.

If this bothers you, good. It should.
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
Google indexes wikipedia so I haven't seen the front page in years.
I accept that the world is already a biologically menacing place however it isn't yet full of all the virus that are currently being conceived in my head.

For example I might decide I really don't like the Jews (hypothetical). I could probably find out what DNA is common to most Jews, design a virus to target this commonality and couple it with something nasty that already exists, or that I just invented and release it into the population perhaps by infecting my gentile self and booking a flight to Jerusalem.

Your tone suggests that you're a bit bored by this conversation. Are you yourself satisfied that the risk of disaster is acceptably low?
It's technology related, is it not?
That sounds like the same attitude of 2600 or /. It is hardly new in this sub-culture, and has been around for decades.

Innovative technologies are disruptive, and those behind the disruption generally look down on monopolies with antiquated products. Given the pace of change, sometimes we as the disruptive become the disrupted.
you are totally right, I didn't look at it well enough.
Does racket have real threading? Will it use multiple cores?
Agreed. I think the people who put this page together didn't realize that you can already customize the theme of Wikipedia. For example, here is the custom CSS theme I use to surf wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gee_totes/modern.css

(it's not very custom, more of a PoC)
That's just the sort of element change that looks distinctive, and makes a redesign appear appealing, but almost certainly tests horribly under actual use.

As another response notes, G+ is absolutely horrible at its content-to-navigation space allocation. The more so as most of the navigation elements are styled as "fixed", and won't move.

I pretty much always view the site with an editor open to pick off the most annoying of these features. I'm working on a Stylish script.
For some reason, your nickname strikes me as hilarious. I hereby present: "joshu investigates"

---

A surfing editor named Anderson asked the moot the URL to his imageboard, a place popularly supposed to give insight into humanity's character. The old moot said, "Go straight to /b/." After he typed several characters, the moot said to himself, 'He also is a common b-tard.'

This incident was told to joshu who said, 'Wait until I investigate.' The next day he went and asked moot the same question, and moot gave the same reply.

joshu remarked, 'I have investigated that moot.'
Okay there have been so many comments in here the echo this and I'm just fascinated by this point. I think somebody should write a "before you look for a technical co-founder, make sure you're not planning on making any of the following amateur mistakes."

Would anybody want to help contribute if I do a post on that?
You're assuming sites like experts-exchange, which use SEO to lure in users with hidden answers to questions, will actually provide this data?
That's rather simplistic, not to mention completely wrong. US markets are highly visible (you just saw a free visualization of HFT activity since 2007), very tightly regulated and well controlled. Things go wrong, as they do in all complex systems, but rarely do they go wrong to the extent that ordinary investors are harmed.

Read this, before jerking your knee any further. Think of it as turning on the bedroom light, showing the monster in the corner to be nothing more than a pile of clothes:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

Financial markets have been moving towards zero latency trading since their inception. First, men gathered under trees or in coffee houses, within shouting distance of each other. They fought over the best spots. Then, traders became some of the earliest adopters of telegraph technology, running private lines from remote cities to the exchanges. Ticker tapes appeared in distant offices. Computerized price dissemination followed, together with electronic trading connections to the exchanges themselves. All in the name of getting information and acting on it before the next guy. It's the reason you, as an individual, can trade global markets cheaply and instantly. It helps you take control over your retirement and savings, rather than paying through the nose for some managed scheme where only a privileged few can access the markets.

Where is your arbitrary line where progress stops?
MakeGamesWithUs (YCW12) is looking for a game producer
MakeGamesWith.Us is an iOS game publisher with a twist - we help high school and college students learn how to make iOS games, provide art and music for their games, and help publish and promote their games.

We have a lot of games in the pipeline and are looking for someone to join our game production team. As a producer, you will be responsible for interfacing between our developers, typically high school or college students, and our remote art team. Your job is to ensure that art gets produced in a cost effective and timely manner while providing non technical support and game design mentorship to our developers.

Our current producer is managing 20+ games simultaneously - the nature of our business model leads to a large number of games being produced and published by us at any given point in time. This is a job for someone who is highly organized, passionate about games, game design, and game development, and who is excited about having a stake in many games at once.

We are looking for someone in the SF Bay Area - we are located in Palo Alto. No prior qualifications necessary, bonus points if you can code.

Check us out at www.makegameswith.us and contact jeremy@makegameswith.us if interested.
It won't be consumers who drive the adoption of robot cars, it will be the logistics companies. This will all start with factory-to-doorstep supply chain integration.

First, Amazon and Wal-Mart and Fed-Ex will have giant fleets - then consumers and mid-sized businesses will follow. Small local governments and developed Asian nations like South Korea and Japan will also drive adoption.

Having a fully-automated supply chain will break the competition who doesn't have the capital to get there fast enough. The big companies already automate the factories, and once delivery is automated, the circle is complete.
Honestly, this is a big turn off if you compare with Cassandra. While Cassandra has commercial options, all the functionality is at least built in.
And yet they were so happy that someone off of craigslist was willing to accept a check.

(private browsing, throwaway email, tor, check cashing place, etc.)
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on it and you will see a more personalized theme on the website in the next 3 weeks.
Similar to crash-oriented computing - design your app to be crash ready, automatic recovery at the next startup.

Undo is nice and all that but some operations cannot be undone, e.g. emails sent. Compensation transaction is as important as roll back transaction.
When I was in high school, my math teacher instilled me with the value of always labeling axes when plotting graphs. This GIF provides us with exactly no information on anything, but it sure seems scary enough. The line is getting higher and more erratic! This can’t be good!

Let’s piece apart some of the language here:

* “High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk” — doesn’t mean anything, they’re processes, they’re just following their algorithm.

* “…unnerving the financial markets.” — doesn’t mean anything, ‘markets’ don’t have nerves. In fact, I once wrote about the dangers of reification:
http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2012/03/31/reification/

* “activity becomes much, much more frenetic and erratic” — to a human observer. These algorithms don’t have concepts of ‘frenetic’ or ‘erratic’; neither does the universe.

* “…so complex that its potential systemic repercussions are literally unknowable” — suggests that systemic repercussions of anything were ever ‘knowable’. If they were, we wouldn’t have markets. c.f.: http://mises.org/daily/2608/

Don’t just read. Think. Thanks.
I wasn't alone when I called Florian Mueller an Oracle shill way back when.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014814

Now things are getting really exciting.
Interestingly enough, it looks like his assignment was probably related to this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/nyregion/for-women-in-stre...

stop-and-frisk is a significant issue in NYC. Ostensibly the authority is granted as part of a larger effort to eliminate firearms on the street. It resulted in nearly 700K stops in 2011. That got 800 some-odd guns off the streets of the city at an unknown cost to goodwill (given most people stopped-and-frisked are Black or Latino).

On the flip side there is no doubt that stop-and-frisk has contributed to one of the highest rates of marijuana arrests in the country for NYC. Odd, given New York state effectively decriminalized small amounts of weed in the 70's. It's only through a loophole that states publicly displaying the drug makes possession an arrestable offense and it's been reported that the NYPD consistently instructs people in stop-and-frisk situations to remove any drugs from their pocket and present it for inspection prior to frisking, making it publicly displayed.

Gov. Cuomo called on NY state legislature this year to eliminate the public display issue, but nothing happened before the end of the January-June session.

edit: added "small amounts"
The sub section branding with the small w and the large first letter looks really awkward. Wiktionary is represented by a wT, but having a T represent a dictionary makes no sense, and there is a similar problem with wikiversity. They also tried clarifying the Species and Source by adding more letters on the latter which is isn't very visually appealing and shows the limitations of this scheme.

I also think that they add too much focus on the site wide navigation stuff at the top, which takes away the focus on the data.
http://thenounproject.com
Radiolab is incredibly compelling, I agree. I listen to every episode. I can't think of a more entertaining science radio show, but we need to define "better" if you want me to name a better one. There are certainly more scientifically accurate and informative shows, like Science Friday and Car Talk, and The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

Radiolab is so entertaining because it's willing to compromise accuracy - and sometimes any tie to reality as with the whale-thanking-the-diver episode - for the sake of a good story. And because of this, it's hard to call it a science show, just like it's hard to call Armageddon a science movie.
I love it! Some tabs would be awesome, as would multiple background images (just saying that because I'm having trouble with them today, I doubt many people use multiple images)
Honestly I think it is a combination of where your awareness is focused, and jerk. Long windy roads put varying lateral forces on passengers which probably become an issue if their focus is in the car.
That's not a good reason for demolishing its UX.
Reddit also has /r/programming, so why don't we just move all the technical discussions there too, while we're at it?

The reason HN is interesting is not that it has unique submissions--it mostly doesn't--but that it has consistently insightful commentary. It makes sense to bring up topics like this here rather than Reddit simply because of the resulting discussions.

Also, my impression is that HN has always been disproportionately libertarianish. In fact, in my experience, this is true of the tech and startup communities in general. So I don't think this is a particularly new development.
They're sucking a few pennies out of every transaction on these exchanges, the long-term effect is that of a parasite in a larger host. Sure they may have some small benefit of improving liquidity to the market, but overall they're causing harm by reducing the returns of legitimate traders.
Webhooks for when people perform certain file-related actions, like click their filepicker link.
Very relevant. I was listening on Mixergy about how BrandStack shut down because of credit card fraud. For anyone contemplating building a marketplace, for heaven's sake, outsource this.

For digital sites like BinPress, an automated capture of a photo via a web cam might be sufficient to deter fraudsters. Anyone care to build something like this?
Define ‘legitimate’.
File Menu > Generate All HTML/CSS
Why do you say that? It makes sense to me.

Apple just isn't into changing stuff like that for changes' sake. Here, there is very little downside. You get more screen space for lists and pages in portrait, proper 16:9 in landscape, your thumb doesn't have do do more work or travelling, and UI elements aren't blown up or shrunk, all while satisfying the public's demand for a bigger screen.

Seems pretty perfect to me, and moreover it is already set in stone. We've seen the iPhone 5, it's the two tone metal casing design that's floating around. It'll be longer, the glass parts make that clear.

Assuming otherwise is just hoping blindly against the evidence. Every time there has been a big leak like this regarding Apple, it ends up proving to be the final design. Happened with the fat Nano, happened with the iPhone 4 and it has happened again with the 5.
You'd probably want any redesign of Wikipedia to start with the understanding that the front page of the English Wikipedia isn't WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG, it's EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG, and that that page is dominated by content --- most notably the WP Featured Articles, which are a core part of the Wikipedia community.

Draw the pretty colored lines after you grok the concept.

It goes downhill for me as they try to get more technical, redefining the way the encyclopedia is edited and organized. Drag and drop reformatting of article layouts? Really? Don't the best Wikipedia articles tend to be conformant to template layouts?

Wikipedia is not Digg. It does not have, as its primary goal, the delight of random web users. They are doing something bigger than that.

I'm also not a fan of the branding idea. First, they've confused Wikipedia with The Wikimedia Foundation. The two aren't the same thing. The branding they propose makes sense only for the latter. Second, they're trying to do that organic living logo thing that has become ultra-trendy lately (just read Brand New Blog to see it done well); "as Wikimedia evolves, the little lines in the logo will change". Well, maybe, but the relationship between Wikimedia top-level properties doesn't change all that regularly, nor does it meaningfully change depending on the context. Nor does the aggregate set of lines between properties draw an appealing or meaningful picture.

Also the capital "I" in the font they're using is killing me.
Meta: there's a delay between when a comment is posted, and when the reply link becomes active. That delay is larger for deeper comment threads. I've never heard an official explanation, but one can imagine a few reasonable ones, e.g. to encourage people to stop and think in heated back-and-forth exchanges.
If you do add it, make it optional (maybe I don't care that much about my data in your web app). And choose duo, they rock!
Show HN: An android brainteaser app
Spent the past few months working on this Android brainteaser. It is inspired by Messi and Chess:) Play with it and let me know. Hope you find it addictive. goo.gl/HzPC8
Mueller outed himself 4 months ago so it seems a bit unlikely that he'd be the target of an order now. It does make a nice hook for the tech rags though.
YouTube app vanishes from iOS 6
This was my android phone I'm talking about. It's clearly a bug in something on the phone. This isn't some "google tool".

I used 2-factor auth before on my phone (a much earlier version of android) and didn't have this problem. It's the typical thing with google: being on the bleed edge is just that, a pretty unsatisfying experience. I think next time a new android version comes out, I may wait a few months before I update.
random gripe: if you use a different email on gravatar than on github, your gravatar wont show up on github.

it's becoming pretty standard, especially among techies, to have a unique email per site, so you can easily tell if a site is selling your address (or is a victim of a hack, like dropbox was).

I emailed them about it -- too bad!
This is how I was taught cursive writing in school:

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:La-ges.jpg

I am German (as is the name of the font) and I could read the article without being distracted.
Every civil liberties story ever posted to HN has been accompanied by that justification, and, were it to be taken seriously, there would be nothing but social justice stories on HN, there being no dearth of important social justice stories to find on any given day.
Ah, "MVP", a new term to add to my repertoire, haha. Your advice is very valuable sir, thank you.

I'm well aware of the concept of sitting down with a piece of paper and a pen and trying to come up with ideas for projects. Unfortunately I'm struggling with the right balance of "reading to learn" and "doing to learn". I know that doing things, implementing ideas, etc., is probably the most productive and beneficial thing I can do for myself, but I get into this "I most read about this and that" loop that is not efficient.

The little amount of time I've spent trying to come up with projects have been unsuccessful but only because I do not spend considerable amount of time brainstorming. Your advice on how to approach this is excellent. As I wrote in my updated YC profile, I think we need more music apps for Android, but real music apps, not toys, so this is something I should put my attention on.
You need to have your stuff backed up to the cloud (in case your house burns down) and to a USB drive (in case your account is compromised). Neither is adequate by itself.
But you have to make sure to ask the right questions[1]! For examble, asking feel-good questions (questions that give positive answers and make you feel good about your idea, rather than questions that give you actionable feedback) doesn't add any value and at worst could even be harmful.

[1] http://hackfwd.tumblr.com/post/23669383330/rob-fitzpatrick-h...
The sad lives of smartphone slaves
The title of this article is completely misleading. It really is astonishing how the author is primarily targeting Apple to be at fault here. While protecting customer information is a top priority for reputable companies such as Apple, you cannot equate one non-diligent AppleCare employee to the entire organization. Clearly, the AppleCare employee that was easily socially-engineered did not follow standard operating procedures. For the record, the "hackers" who destroyed Honan's digital life should be prosecuted. Its sad that Honan is letting these young punks get away with their malicious and unethical acts.
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To date, all Google autonomous cars have had two occupants - a driver (who is strictly hands-off - she's only there in case something goes wrong) and a tech who monitors the data to make sure things are proceeding as expected.
Typical "creative agency" - not proofing their own copy. I've seen this kind of thing so many times, and it baffles me that it's allowed to slip through to production sites.
If they're adding a lot of liquidity, I'm happy with them reducing my returns a little. If they add a little liquidity, I'm not happy with them reducing my returns a lot. There are questions to be answered that we can't get at from an armchair (at least, the metaphorical armchair).
First off, thanks to all of you for breathing new life into something I wrote a couple weeks back.

Netflix doesn't have a perfect interface, but it's leagues better than anything else that's out there, particularly the UIs provided by the cable.telco and satellite pay-TV providers (collectively known as MVPDs these days - Multichannel Video Platform Distributors)
Seriously, if I set out to design a bad UI, I would not be able to surpass them in awfulness.

I hear some of you are frustrated by the search and discovery functions. My company is in this space and we debate the best way to solve the 3 main use case scenarios:
1. I want to watch another 5 episodes of "Breaking Bad"
2. I want to watch a comedy movie, maybe something with Tom Hanks
3. I have no idea what I want to watch

There's a lot of grey between those three areas and that's why Netflix quirky genre categories are so popular.

In terms of search, there are a lot of 3rd party apps, both web-based and otherwise. I personally like Clicker, which is web-based and can also show you which of the services (Netfkix, Hulu, Amazon) you have can serve up the movie you want to watch.

"Rights issues" is a TV/Movie industry term that refers to the battle over which of the various distribution companies has the right to broadcast TV and movie content, on what platform (e.g. If Comcast is paying NBC for the right to broadcast their shows on TV, do they have to pay more to also be able stream them to your iPad or is that covered by the original agreement) Because so much of this is new and because the industry is very profit-oriented, the lawyers are having a field day.

Final point, which I noticed a few people picked up on, is that the Netflix all-you-can-eat menu lets you experiment without consequences: you don't like a movie, it's not like you've just wasted any money paying for it.

And for the XBox remote dropper - if it's really become a problem, maybe you want to find another place to keep it? Just a suggestion.
I wonder if somewhere, out there, is a blog with the exact opposite comment: "Finally, Pamela Jones will be shown to be the pack of IBM lawyers she really is..." I assume that for every opinion one can have, there's someone out there who disagrees with it.
No reason they couldn't be electric. One of the big barriers for electric cars is a short running length and long recharge cycle. Neither is an issue if your 'car' is just an (autonomous) taxi service that runs off to recharge itself when you're done.

Obviously that doesn't mean it isn't using a fossil fuel somewhere along the power chain, but I imagine the efficiency isn't much worse than bus routes - and it's not like they need to target the exact same use case, either.
What's with the cynicism here? I've worked at at least two companies with a great train & promote from within culture, and heard of several more from my friends.
1. Understand that this loaded question will yield a lot of opinions and recommendations base on what others perceive is best rather than what is best for you. Like most things in life, everybody is different and the best tool for you may not be the right tool for someone else.

2. Having said that, I would recommend checking out Sublime Text 2 if you want a starting point recommendation.
The parent poster is probably referring to CNC milling machines. AFAIK, gun parts made on them are subject to the same regulation/registration as if they were purchased in a store or made in a machine shop. Also, using CNC machines takes skill -- they're not "set and forget" -- and I would imagine that the kind of people with said skill are smart enough not to tempt fate and make illegal gun parts.
Criagslist needs their help more than wikipedia!