skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, klochner and jmillikin, for setting us straight on this!

We're taking both your suggestions: username is returned along with
the token as part of the oauthing, and also you can just use "me" in
place of the username for any endpoint, and it's essentially
macro-expanded.

No more lame-o dummy resource just for getting the username! (Well
we're leaving it there in case anyone has already written code that
uses it but it can now be undocumented.)

Thanks again for the help!
>If some people expect text messages to be kept private, they are wrong. Their expectation doesn't change reality.

Let's try it this way: If some people expect phone calls to be kept private, they are wrong. Their expectation doesn't change reality.

The presence of surveillance doesn't negate the expectation of privacy.

>In this case the phone was not being kept on the person, and yet the judge writes that phones are expected to be kept on the person contra reality.

So when you put your phone in the bin to go through a metal detector, your phone records, text messages, email accounts, Dropbox account, social media accounts, and anything else accessible from your smartphone is fair game for the state?

No.
Could you explain "WP layout is just boring"? How so? What does this mean?

I used a loaner WP7 phone for a month when abroad and when I came back to my iPhone I actually felt a longing for the WP. It was like iOS felt bulky, old and cluttered in comparison.
I'd agree that the address book skeumorphism is a pretty terrible option - seems to be more about design bling than addressing usabiblity.
OTOH the "head-shaking" of the OSX login window when you enter a bad password is some of the best skeumorphism I've seen, and yet there are no visual design elements (like putting ears on the window or something.)
I think icons can be arbitrary. That's because I've seen some that are so obviously idiosyncratic to the developer; they bear no relation to the function that I can decipher. Some of them I can't even tell what the heck they are. "WTF is that supposed to be?" It's like your example of the floppy. It's a rectangle. It means save. Does it matter if no one even knows what the heck the icon is supposed to represent? If it's not intuitive? For the first few minutes perhaps until I figure out what the program it represents actually does it matters. Maybe it gives me a clue maybe not. From then on, once I figure it out, it's irrelevant.

This is one of the 1001 reasons I think GUI's are a waste of time. I can just as easily tell a user to hit a particular key (i.e. a tactile button) or type "save". Goodbye ambiguity.

Are icons metaphors? Or are they just symbols?

I am not a linguist but I think that you may be stretching the definition of metapahor if you are thinking of icons as themselves being metaphors.

What is an icon? A button with a superimposed symbol?

Now, if you are saying buttons on a computer screen (which do not necessarily need any symbol superimposed on them to work) are metaphors for physical buttons, e.g. like your example of radio buttons, then that seems a little more reasonable.

I've seen early TV remote controls, 8-tracks and various other old things having push-in buttons just like car radios. I'm not sure car radios were the first to have these. Maybe early radios, before TV, were the first to have push-in buttons (or whatever the proper name for them is)?
I totally mean skewed right. The big part of the curve is on the left.
A nice article, but I believe it should be mentioned that the main difference of game AIs vs traditional ones is, that the game mechanics are known. This means for machine learning algorithms there are a lot of low hanging fruits like perfect shooting (or more generally exploiting that a AI can usually control the game better than a human since it does not need to use a interface device). And because of this, it is actually necessary to tweak the AI such that the player does not feel cheated himself.
> no synthetic fertilizers, irradiation, sewage sludge or genetic engineering was used

Never mind that each of those things have greatly different effects on the safety of the food and other things:

> no synthetic fertilizers

A valid environmental concern, depending on how the fertilizers are used and where the runoff goes.

> irradiation

Fear-mongering nonsense. Irradiation doesn't make food radioactive. It just kills what's growing on the food without noxious chemicals.

> sewage sludge

A slam. Nobody literally uses sewage sludge to grow food, unless you're talking about nightsoil (human excrement used as fertilizer), which is entirely organic.

> genetic engineering

More fear-mongering nonsense when applied to food safety, but a valid concern as regards patent law and similar legal battles.

Also, citing to Natural News is bad. They're the ones who claim Bill Gates wants to depopulate the world using vaccines, which they also believe are evil.
I love the simplicity in the design. I'm sure the underlying code is high quality like everything I've seen from Stripe. Consider this your first request for the source!
If the suspect had a screen lock, would that create a reasonable expectation of privacy?

Would you have a problem with an officer opening a suspect's mail at the scene of an incident? Ripping paper is just as little effort as hitting buttons on a phone.

De facto privacy is very different from this legal concept of "expectation of privacy". Obviously a man with a gun can violate your de facto privacy easily. The question is, what boundary are you going to put on the legitimacy of that activity?

We don't require warrants to violate your de facto privacy - we require them to violate your legal expectation of privacy.
Instacart Eliminates Your Trips To The Grocery Store
it doesnt matter for a file of size 1kb. For a file of size 10Gb, every process matters.

For the downvoters: please time how long it takes to do something like `cat $file | awk '{print $1}' ` and `awk <$file '{print $1}'`
Paraphrasing: Depending on the specific type of corn, Monsanto would disagree with you.
Elsewhere in the comments here, moot said, "We'll have indexes and a catalog view soon." So for now, you need the thread id.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-30-2012/rnc-201...
Lessons Learned Launching A Minimum Viable Product
Flatiron School Launches in NYC to Deliver Fully Immersive Coding Education
It's quite popular in countries where buying SMS credits is not always an afforded cost, but public wifi is everywhere. Basic Android phones are fairly popular and inexpensive given that they double as a web browser and communication device for many.
shell input redirection doesn't work inside eshell, the only way I know to pipe into stdin from eshell is to use cat
http://i.imgur.com/HK4mp.jpg

334K health insurance deduction? WTF?
Only if you're a California resident. If I reside in Oregon, purchase a car, and change my residence to California, it's an $18 non-resident fee plus the $100 registration. No sales tax paid.
Corn is a grain, not a fruit or a vegetable.
>Has either of them actually good (foss) drivers?

I have to ask, what is the preoccupation with FOSS GPU drivers? Not just with boards like this, but even standard desktop hardware. Does anyone seriously think a firm like NVidia is going to illicitly slip spyware or something into their binaries?
Did you miss the class-action lawsuit and incredible flamefests over the removal of OtherOS from the PS3?
Based on context, I think it's clear that stinkytaco was talking about things like high-fructose corn syrup and corn chips and corn-based cereals, as "corn byproducts," opposed to unprocessed vegetables and fruits.

If we're being pedantic, though, corn is a grain, not a vegetable (probably).[1] But that's clearly not what you meant, so it's not really worth digging into.

[1]http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/corn-vegetabl...
I think the intent is for the candidate to show that he/she has not been involved in illegal/suspicious activity. Back in the 70's a sitting VP had to leave office due to charges of extortion, bribery, and others (see Wikipedia on Spiro Agnew). It was Mitt's father, George, who began the voluntary practice of disclosing tax records.
I think it is more about the aggressiveness if their loophole exploitation than mere thickness.
> Ecause them Romney would be sweating bullets wondering who had the money to make him look so stupid.

"Liberal criminals paid $1M for these boring old tax returns of mine. I believe in an individual's right privacy, in personal freedom, and in the rule of law."

The data is tainted by the means of its acquisition, and (rightly or wrongly) that taint would spread through the "liberal media" to Obama's campaign itself.
> And because of this, it is actually necessary to tweak the AI such that the player does not feel cheated himself.

Unless you don't, in which case you end up with a Perfect Play AI, as happened in Mortal Kombat:

> Mortal Kombat is famous for this, this is why the trope used to be called MK Walker; an AI opponent on this mode would simply block or dodge any attack thrown by the player with inhumane frame precision and beat the player mercilessly, giving the impression that the AI was walking over the player.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerfectPlayAI?fro...

Or the AI could just actually cheat:

> "Cheat wherever you can. A.I.s are handicapped. They need to cheat from time to time if they're going to close the gap... Never get caught cheating. Nothing ruins the illusion of a good A.I. like seeing how they're cheating."

-- Jonny Ebert, lead designer of Dawn of War 2 on video game A.I. http://kotaku.com/5271733/the-three-or-more-or-less-laws-of-...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsAChe...
Dot-Com Bubble's Equity Swaps Are Back
Michelle Obama DNC speech (text, video) - Politico Staff - POLITICO.com
Show HN: Jumpshare - A new, faster way to share your files online.
Jumpshare is a bootstrapped file sharing startup with a staff of 6, including me, the sole founder. I started Jumpshare back in June, 2011 and launched it today after countless iterations.

The goal is to make sure files shared can be viewed online on any device anywhere in the world.

I am looking for feedback on how I can improve the product. You can visit Jumpshare at http://www.jumpshare.com/

You can read the blog post here - http://blog.jumpshare.com/2012/09/05/welcome-to-jumpshare/

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You do know that 4chan has a pretty large gay population right? In fact I would say roughly 70% of that site's viewers are bisexual.
Heck, even driving to any sufficiently large city rand(10,50) miles from where you live and putting the enveloppe in any random mailbox is pretty much guaranteed anonymity.
My number one used command:
grep -Hnri <text> <file or *>
There's so much great, cheap hardware based on the Allwinner A10 out there right now!

I just ordered a Mk802 II for $65. It has a 1GHz Cortex-A8 single core processor, Mali 400 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage, a microSDHC card slot, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 1 full-sized USB port (usable for power), 2 micro USB ports, and a full-sized HDMI connector so you cna just plug it in to your TV.

It ships with Android 4.0 on the internal storage (with access to the Google Play Store) or you can run the linx dustro of your choise from a microsd card.

http://liliputing.com/2012/08/mk802-ii-android-4-0-mini-pc-n...
http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=305
That's understandable, but my question was about creating WhatsApp vs making a regular conformant XMPP/Jingle client which also simply works through TCP and UDP. The later gives free choice of what XMPP server to use and allows communicating with users of other federated servers. WhatsApp allows communicating only with WhatsApp if I understand correctly.
(Not really interested in whether 4chan's use of "fag" reflects homophobia. I am responding to your next sentence.)

>Do you think that people posting gore do it because they enjoy the content?

I think there are those who post gore because they get pleasure from grossing people out, outraging people or otherwise eliciting a strong emotional reaction (which is probably what you mean by "shock value") but I do not think that is all of it.

I think a significant fraction of the people posting gore do it because it will induce others to post gory pictures that the OP has not seen yet. And I think that they want that because they derive pleasure from seeing people and animals being harmed.

One of the reason I believe that is a book I read called Among the Thugs, in which a reporter spent some time hanging out with British football hooligans. He reported that after running with the hooligans a while, engaging in violence and contemplating engaging in violence became pleasurable. This and other things suggest to me that many people are capable of deriving pleasure from seeing people get fucked up once they've acquired a taste for it.

The main reservation I have about 4chan is that it seems to be enabling many to acquire a taste for it (and for other things like harassing people on Facebook).
You can do "head -n 0" on Linux to mean "all lines".

No you can't.
Even from a purely self-interested perspective ignoring the illegality and immorality of breaking into someone's private information, the Democratic campaign most definitely doesn't want any release of tax returns tainted. What would be ideal for them is if Romney overreacted and released them on his own to pre-empt their release. As a second best alternative, if everyone just forgot about this anonymous criminal and someone plausibly unrelated released them later on.

Any release by this guy would result in a conversation centered around the release itself, not the tax documents.
>be bug free

I think that would be a first in the annals of the industry :) I assume you really mean 'no obvious/glaring bugs'. Of course that could also be satisfied by Hoare's famouse quote [1], or by simply being so trivial as to not allow the oppurtunity for a bug.

[1] There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
> Fear-mongering nonsense. Irradiation doesn't make food radioactive. It just kills what's growing on the food without noxious chemicals.

Is that all they're doing? They said something similar about dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT).

> A slam. Nobody literally uses sewage sludge to grow food, unless you're talking about nightsoil (human excrement used as fertilizer), which is entirely organic.

Some farms do use untreated sewage sludge to grow food. As for human excrement, the chemical and bacterial content is very different depending on the diet of the humans in question.

> genetic engineering

We don't yet know all the side effects of genetic engineering. We also don't know what has been hidden or destroyed by corporations that want to hide the 2% mutant plant that ate the research team. I'm being funny and exaggerative, but we really don't know.
4chan releases an API
s/affect/effect/
Proof-reading fail.
Commercial version of Harmony that can be integrated with third-party apps would be great. I guess you could use simillar licensing model to Potrace: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/#dual
Because that's not at all what entrapment is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
Yes, the purpose of the Bitcoin block chain is to disseminate transaction information to prevent double-spending.
Here is a direct link to Jumpshare - http://jumpshare.com
Avoid chicken from Walmart unless you like chicken that's been soaked in salt water.
Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow
I think many people are confused about what "big data" means.

I work for an analytics consulting company, and many of our clients want us to use Hadoop with their data. They've heard that Hadoop is the standard for big data, and they associate with "big data" with machine learning.

But the data they want us to put in Hadoop is usually small enough to work with in RAM on my laptop.
That is almost certainly a fake. Lines 7-21 don't sum to line 22. The zip code is the zip for the Romney campaign, not Romney's home.
while switching to organic foods can be good for you insofar as doing so helps you avoid nasty things

Not true at all. The list of chemicals and additives that the USDA has approved for use in organic food is enormous.

And there's no reason to believe that the ones that are approved are safer, either. Because the primary criterion for determining whether an agrichemical is suitable for use in organic agriculture is how "natural" it is considered to be. And "natural" is not a good proxy for "safe", on account of the two being orthogonal characteristics.

It's not a good proxy for "green", either. Your local watershed doesn't really care that the excess phosphorus that's being dumped into it comes from certified organic bone meal.
Wow. How accurate is this evaluation of the challenge? I'm not a lawyer, but this would appear brazen if accurate.
find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm

Only do that if you know exactly what '*.log' will expand to (i.e. don't use it in scripts and avoid using it on the command line). This is because the delimiter for xargs is a newline character, but filenames can have a newline character in them. This can lead to unexpected results.

Almost everywhere I see xargs used, find ...-exec {} ; will work as well and find ...-exec {} + may work even better.
I would be wary of surveillance cams - they would know the thing was dropped in a box between x and y times, check the cameras and have a list of potentials. They could then go back and follow you after the fact to see where you went.

If you recall this is how they caught the guy who had a car bomb in his car near times square in NYC.

Much safer to either place in someone else's outbound mail in a deep and foreign-to-you residential neighborhood or, ideally drop into a mailmans box in his vehicle when he isn't looking.

For example, when a mailman parks in front of a multi-tennent mailbox on the street and he is standing within feet of his vehicle - they typically leave the rear door open, you could place it in at that time without being seen.
And that's how we know the comment on reddit is trolling.

During tax season, i.e., right now (for extended deadline returns due Sept 15/17th, as Romney's are), accountants (especially Big 4 accountants like PWC) frequently work past midnight on returns. A security system which locked files after hours would be functionally useless in a firm the size of PWC.

Moreover, Locklizard is a DRM solution intended for use with distributed files (i.e., videos, presentations, etc.). It is not an internal solution...
I welcome metaphors but your use was...well, shit. You basically dropped the word cancer in there then moved on without fleshing out the thought. And just because you've lost someone doesn't make it less offensive. You're comparing your first world problems to a crippling illness. I might be bigoted but you're a petty child in my eyes.
Well, it certainly will further damage Bitcoin's reputation.
You're correct in that Nokia's limitation of design is in the hardware. The vast majority of the interaction is the software.

That leaves primary the touchscreen, shape of the phone and maybe a button. Also, the camera. I'd say thats about ~20% of the experience of using the phone, likely less.
Strange, Github is blazing fast in my experience.

Bitbucket on the other hand is insanely slow, especially in the source browser. That said, I gladly tolerate it due to unlimited free private repos and a decent feature set.
Well, that's silly. A password required to print a document is defeated by a person with the password required to open a document who has a smartphone with a camera.
Well now it would certainly be on of Romney's top priorities if he ever gets to become president.
There is a line for bribe income. You include it as "other income" and must provide an attached statement describing each of the income items that are included in "other income".
Dems have control of the executive branch which includes the IRS and DOJ(if Mitt took amnesty in 2009). They probably have a good "sense" of what is on his tax returns. Previous administration knew and leaked info about "Valerie Plame". CIA covert agent's identity are little more secure than someones tax returns.
I experienced the opposite... I had some mild RSI in the past and tried switching to Dvorak to relieve it. Almost immediately my pain increased greatly. I powered through for a month before switching back to Qwerty. I'm sure it helps lots of people but for me it was even more painful and almost impossible to rewire decades of muscle memory.
Scientists Unveil 'Google Maps' for Human Genome
Jumpshare launched
35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars
Just did a little Googling and found this HTML5 comparison: http://html5test.com/compare/browser/wp80/wp75/ios60.html

WP 7.5 is current devices, WP 8 is the upcoming devices (to be launched late October) and obviously iOS 6 is coming out soon'ish. So, though the WP 8 browser has plenty to catchup on vs iOS 6 for some features, it's still much much better than WP 7.5.

And apparently they announced today that there's going to be a Windows Phone 8 preview SDK out on Sept 12th. So if you're running Windows, you can download and try it out yourself.
My anti-RSI measures:

* I started using a nice keyboard - MS4K - and my hands started to feel far less 'stressed' after working on a keyboard for a long time. I don't plan to switch from this.

* I use a thumb-based trackball at work, but I'm not wholly satisfied, it makes my thumb tight.

* I spent a lot of quality time reworking emacs keyboard bindings for maximum finger-ease and happiness. This way I don't stretch my hands in funny ways when coding. This actually is something that has to be iteratively examined as your hands and typing habits change.

* I've found that laptops are really really crappy for ergonomic typing. Serious work should be done with a keyboard if at all possible.

I also find that doing other things with my hands - guitar for instance - will help relax them.
> Second, I think the WP8 UI very divisive

On the desktop this is the case. But on phones and tablets it has been universally praised, except by Android fanboys.
"Shipping Cost"
"Smaller market"
"Australians are use to getting ripped off so it makes it easy"
Hilarious, go read this now!
Yes they will. Problem solved.
Openness and transparency makes corruption more difficult.
This couldn't be more wrong if you tried to be wrong. Apple actually spent relatively little on marketing, and it's basically impossible to argue that the iPhone's success, for instance, was because of marketing. It wasn't. It was because of superior design, superior functionality and overwhelmingly good word-of-mouth advertising.

You don't have to hire a bunch of marketing suits if your product is obviously better.
Based on that episode, me too. It would take a decade of reading about their excellent customer service before I'd trust them.
Episode? Did you mean "essay"? This one, in particular: http://cryptome.org/jdb/ap.htm

Side note: the story of the author of that essay in an interesting one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell