skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If some people expect phone calls to be kept private, they are wrong. Their expectation doesn't change reality.

The phone call itself is private. GSM Cell phone calls are encrypted (is that still unbroken for most people??) Recording is governed by laws that specify for each state how private it is. The police need to get warrants to record.

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?

I am looking at the bin, and I will not let anyone pick up the phone. A cop seeing a phone on a coffee table blinking away with a message on the face of it seems very different to me than what you have described. (I am speculating about several aspects of that vis a vis the actual case.)
> But I agree that the plot and characters are shallow. The book was designed to showcase her philosophy and it does it well.

Which is what I said.

And I lose a bit of respect because her philosophy is terrible, she's basically a sociopath; the book and her philosophy entirely lack empathy.

> What I get out of the book is a different look on self-worth and self-sacrifice than all the rest of society gives.

Because society doesn't normally promote sociopathy.

If you took something good from it and didn't come out admiring the objectivist view, good for you, you're the rare exception, but the fact is nearly everyone I've ever met who likes that book likes it because they like the objectivist view and all think they're the John Gaults of the word. Rand makes them feel good about their complete lack of empathy and this book is an excellent thermometer for me to quickly avoid wasting time getting to know people I'm very likely not going to get along with anyway.
Feds probe alleged hacking theft of Romney's tax returns
False flag is a kind of hoax, and my point is that the goal is for it to benefit Romney.
They are, but every app adds 3-4 widgets to that draw. There are so many in there, in variations like small, medium and large size, that I never ever look in it.
How to not handle hiring.
>> 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).

Might not want to open your mail then. Some of it is irradiated to kill bacteria and viruses, based on origin and destination. Probably don't want to use bandaids, either, since they are irradiated to steralize them.

> 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.

Whose sewage? Human is dangerous, due to the fact that human pathogens can carry over from one incarnation to the next. Livestock, not so much; and is commonly used in "organic" fertilizers.
I think you're mistaken to think there's not a lot of science in organic farming. Maintaining biodiversity, keeping soils healthy, figuring out what grows best in the various soil types, finding bugs that eat the plants and other bugs you don't want while not harming the ones you do want, ... I think there's probably quite a lot of science in it. (I'm not an expert on it, but this accords with things I've read.) It's just that most of that science doesn't involve the petrochemical industry. If that makes it "retro and primitive", well, I don't know what to tell you except that I think you have a screwy idea of what progress is.
Can you give me some advice on this new video for my Startup.
Hey HN, hows it going. If you got a sec, I wanted to show you the teaser video for our new startup. Hit up http://www.Tugboat.io and click play.

DETAILS -
We shot, edited, and chose music for this in just a few hours last night. We were able to use natural light. (the studio was actually setup outside with a projector screen behind me)

The music is from www.Istockphoto.com. It cost like $40 for that one track!

LAUNCH PAGE -
Also feel free to give us some suggestions and our launch page that we built by hand at www.Tugboat.io . We looked at a number of other launching page options like LaunchRock but we wanted to have control over the page and do things slightly differently. (like the cool facebook and twitter pop ups once you add you email)

FEEDBACK-
Thanks for taking the time to check out the video and page. And feel free to drop some feedback here on ways we can continue to improve.

Thanks!
I think pretty accurate. Isn't this how it works with the National Security letters as well? You can't even tell a lawyer if the Government is coming after you. One by one the law enforcement agencies are lobbying for laws that strip down the Constitution of all its worth.

It might be time for Americans to pass a system where every new law has to be reviewed by the Supreme Court, like it happens in other countries.
I am growing out 50 chickens this year for meat and eggs. I got a few of the super-hybrid Cornish Cross birds in addition to Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and others breeds. I am growing them on locally produced organic chicken feed and pasture grasses and weeds (free roaming on acres of land).

I have harvested a few birds so far and they taste so amazingly deep and rich that it was almost too much on the first bird. It's all about what the animal eats, IMO. I've had farm raised chickens from all over before we settled here and I've never had them taste this good.

The fat layer is a deep golden/mustard/yellow color and there is LOTS of it. None of my Cornish Crosses exhibited any leg issues or anything and one Rooster has lived to be about 4 months old. He's in the fridge on a salt cure waiting to be roasted this weekend!

FWIW. :-)
All these additives and processes seem to be reasonably safe given what we currently believe to know, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any yet unknown side effects. Centuries ago we used to line tin cans with lead, used mercury to cure leather and tried to treat various illnesses with mega doses of radiation. All those things seemed perfectly safe at the time, but today they are unthinkable.
Do dishonest creative people make worse design decisions than honest creative people?
Ubisoft backtracks on PC DRM, citing customer feedback
FCC to measure the true speed of mobile networks
No, Bitcoin is not the perfect extortion currency. The transactions are public, so the value is traceable. Even if it is moved into one billion accounts which are split into another billion accounts, if any of the money ends up being spent to the accounts of known actors then it can be seized and the purchases can potentially be traced.

I have no doubt that the Secret Service would monitor that account and the transitive closure of the transaction graph involved for the next 50 years if a payment was made to it. Hell, if there is any value currently assigned to that account it is effectively pinned.

The owner of the account would have to work very hard to launder it.
Given how dreadful Apple's own cables were (or at least they were in my experience back when I had an iPod Touch 2G), this is likely to be expensive for many iOS device owners.

Weren't they meant to be allowing microUSB chargers in the EU though? Even if they do it with an adapter that plugs into their own connector, that provides a way to avoid their costly cables.
I use xargs a lot for refactoring work when I cannot simply use sed, e.g.

vim $(grep -lr foo | xargs)

and doing what I need to do on a file by file basis. Otherwise, for renaming functions and the like, I do a lot of:

find . -name foo_fn exec sed -i s/foo_fn/bar_fn/g '{}' \;

I generally love abusing bash. Just today I was asked about how to rename a bunch of files, specifically containing spaces, and came up with either of these two options:

find -name foo_bar -exec cp "'{}'"{,.bak} \;

and

for file in $(find -name foo_bar); do cp "$file"{,.bak}; done

Ultimately, the great thing is, if you learn CTRL-R, you can always search for these types of commands and modify them as necessary for the particular task at hand and not necessarily remember them. One I use all the time, to push git branches upstream is the following:

CTRL-R --set-

which gives me:

git push -f --set-upstream origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`

This is entirely unique in my history, a common part of my workflow, and trivially searchable.

I also enjoy being able to perform something along the lines of:

vim $(bundle show foo-gem)
For me, one of the most helpful things I've read in a long time!
If the suspect had a screen lock, would that create a reasonable expectation of privacy?

Yes, I think so. If the message was just displayed there, and the phone is not in the person's pocket, I don't see any more privacy for that than a post-it note on a refrigerator.

Re: the envelope, if the cop is pressing buttons to access an unlocked phone, as I said, I think that's problematical without a warrant.

We don't require warrants to violate your de facto privacy - we require them to violate your legal expectation of privacy.

But I am not sure we should require warrants to protect privacy that doesn't actually exist in any manner in normal de facto space.

One reason I definitely want to see Android n+1 have multiple user accounts is because of the terror that strikes in all of our hearts when we hand our phones to a friend to borrow.
Because licensing them means they miss out on their $39.95 per cable.
Really glad you think so :)
Perhaps my absolute favorite (and one of the most awesome examples of Skeumorphism ever) is Propellerhead's Reason Software

(take a look)

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/

Its an extremely powerful and complex piece of software that mimics the pieces of gear in a sound recording studio. This includes the ability to turn the gear around and patch it via cables etc.

I've never sat down at a piece of recording software (this complex) and "just got it" off the bat as well as I did with this. A lot of it was understanding how everything worked in a regular studio translated right into the software, seriously amazing. It actually made me more comfortable in a real live studio as well since it allowed me to play with tools and effects "Virtually" that I'd never have at home.

Anyway YMMV but anytime someone tells me that skeumorphism is the easy way out and useless I look at Reason and shake my head.
find ./ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Fixes that issue and xargs is far more efficient, it doesn't launch a new process for each line like exec does, but far more importantly, xargs is generalizable to all commands so you only have to learn it once; exec is just an ugly hack on find, you can't generalize it across all commands; xargs is much more unixy.
Image Preloading Through CSS3 Caching - Ajax Era
Isn't it similar for pre-iphone 3 users, who also frequently get left out in the cold?
I would like a taller iPhone because my only compliant about the size is how cramped the screen gets when I have the keyboard open or use apps that happen to have both a toolbar and a nav bar. Otherwise I think the physical size of the device is about perfect.

I disagree about the width/height. 640 on the iPhone vs. 720 on many newer Android phones. Not a huge difference there. Enough to notice certainly but it's the height that is far more dramatic. 960 on the iPhone vs. 1280 on many newer Android phones.
Why is this being voted up? There is no content on the page besides a vague overview of what the book is about.

Where is the appeal to authority? Who is bengl? Is he an author or contributor of vim and that is why it's being upvoted?
"I'm amazed by how smart decisions Github make. They dare to focus on things that are not obvious important, but make a huge different for the employees. The employees in return make a world class product."
It's run by great developers, that's why. They understand the psychology of a great developer.
Here is a recent video of DHH, discussing some of the techniques and issues mentioned in this article, such as backbone vs rails, pjax, Russian doll caching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLVl3gpJP4
Wow that's incredibly unfortunate. Hopefully this is the exception and not the rule.
This works really well with the suggested --color=always, because it highlights the line number, the filename and the separators in different colours.
The interesting thing is, this startup is from Pakistan. That's a pretty rare occurrence.
> Apple will also be selling its own USB cables for charging and syncing the new iPhone for $19 each.
Why More Experienced CEOs Will Stay At the Forefront of Tech Innovation
Lame. And I'm betting that Apple has eliminated the audio line out from the dock, ruining the iPhone for playing music through an amp.
Wow, you would instantly fire somebody for raising the question?

My goodness.
An alternative explanation (as they could raise their licensing fees instead, and the costs of managing licensing fees is much lower than constructing and distributing cables; when you look at their profit report these cables are just not a major part of their business) is that they found that third party cables often had minor aberrations that damaged the contacts on the device, leading to increased warranty repair and replacement costs under programs like AppleCare (which is much more likely to be a major cost, given how almost all of their money at this point comes from selling mobile hardware: if even 1% of users end up getting a new iPhone for free because of some shoddy cable, the result would be tremendous and should easily swamp any money they might make selling cables).
Will you include examples for configuring VIM as a language specific IDE, e.g. for Python or Clojure?
I reeeeally hope this is true - fucking Apple squeezing the blood from this rock of a market...
In a quest to heal my wife's life-long bouts with Fibromyalgia and other chronic pain disorders, we have had to try a number of things over the years. Food has been our biggest change to date.

We had to switch to buying organic foods because anything artificial sets her body off. Anything with pesticides does it too. This rules out pretty much all conventional produce entirely.

We also had to stop shopping from the center of the food store too. We cut out all the processed stuff and started cooking whole meals. We are extremely picky about what type of meat and dairy products we purchase because of GMO-containing animal feeds (not to mention anti-biotics, other things which are like anti-biotics but not called that; really insidious stuff, growth hormones, bad water, pathogens from neighboring operations, etc).

We started buying only pasture-raised animals and this year I'm learning to hunt since we moved to a place conducive to that activity. We're also getting dairy goats to help offset our $3500+ per year un-pasteurized dairy/cheese/butter costs. I mentioned in another comment that I'm raising 50 chickens for meat and eggs and have already learned to butcher them. They taste AMAZING!

We follow the GAPS Diet and Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions cookbook, and also the Weston A Price foundation. We take lots of High-Vitamin Butter Oil and Fermented Cod Liver Oil. We infuse a variety of herbs. We take pharmaceutical grade Pro-biotics when necessary.

There is a shit-ton more to food than just saying "Eat Organic" or not. We have to understand nutrition from an old-world view as well as a new-world understanding and blend the two together. The very soil that the food is grown in and the animals are raised on contains so much life that has a lot to do with how nutritious the food ends up being.

I could go on and on but I'll stop. I will say it's been a huge odyssey for us, on the quest to stop chronic illness. It is definitely working and worth it, however.

Oh, I treat my ADHD this way too.
Recurly suffers hardware failure, doesn’t know how much data will be retrievable
Ask HN: Recommend a simple MMO for my retired mother?
Our family dog just died, leaving my retired mother alone at home with lots of time on her hands. She doesn't use Facebook (and doesn't have a lot of friends who do either), and she's never played video games before. I could make her a Facebook account, but I'm concerned Zynga-type games won't be fun if she doesn't have Facebook friends to play with.

She likes fantasy and science fiction, so I'm hoping to get her started on some kind of MMO as a way to interact with real people and keep herself busy. But something like WoW would be way too complicated and intimidating.

Surprisingly, simple Googling didn't turn up anything helpful.

Can anyone recommend a game that:

1) Is very, very simple to learn.
2) Is social, but more geared toward playing with strangers than existing friends.

Thanks!
Freelancing 101: How to Freelance for Big Companies
Shouldn't be too hard. Just integrate common sense to beat the glaring design defects in the iPhone. Here's one: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
I wonder why companies like apple keep so much goodwill at stake with "get every penny from customer" moves. I can understand why BestBuy would do it (They are already dying with high cost low margin items), but apple?
don't reinvent the wheel. shopify is good enough and it's an incremental cost on each of her sales. how do you feel about maintaining this code if you guys break up?

yeah... your caution is well founded. she's a client (who isn't paying you, in this case). And, you don't want to get this client upset if you are too busy with a paying client to solve her problem. that's not going to be good for your relationship... is it?

I think your analysis is good, but it needs to go one step further. is your desire to dive into Django the best option for her long term interest? if she is your first client for a jewelry designer web-shop product, then cool. but if not ask yourself what is in her best interest.

And take her out some where nice and romantic after she gets the shopify website set up as congratulations. and surprise her with flowers, a clean kitchen, and a make out session so she feels better when she's frustrated that she can't get shopify to work right.
Geek Poll: Full-screen Apps
Really good read. I'm thinking of moving away from the Apple app store/Google Play since it is a pretty brutal/compettive market. I'm taking a similar approach to you before I dig in. Even reading the same books. Thanks for posting this since I aim in taking a similar approach.
Did you consider using the approach taken by http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/? In that case each chapter was put online as soon as it was written, and then rewritten after taking account of comments. Only when it was finished was the hard copy published.

In the end it made for a far better book, and I believe the author made as much money, possibly even more than if he had followed a more traditional process. In any case I don't suppose you were planning to retire on the proceeds of a book on Vim.

Best of luck, however you choose to write it. I look forward to reading it.
>>All these additives and processes seem to be reasonably safe given what we currently believe to know, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any yet unknown side effects.

Should we also avoid ice cream because for all we know, it may have unintended side effects?
No.

It is pretty much just a matter of principle.
Thanks, appreciate the comment. You really should do it, it's a lot of fun.
Ever since the Raspberry pi shipped, credit-card sized computers have been coming out the woodwork. As expected, now there are projects on vWorker (ex RentACoder) asking for engineers to design such computers with state of the art specs with a maximum bid of $499. I can't make this shit up! $499! At least toss us a bone and add a zero so we don't laugh quite so hard!

[citation needed]

I'm thinking it would cost at least $150-$200 to prototype, per PCB revision. If it was design only, I wouldn't trust a random freelance designer to get it working first go.

I remember one weird case where bunch of EEG units acted weird, well noisy. The highly experienced MSEE couldn't explain it, because it wasn't the high sensitivity input amp or anything on the board. I eventually figured out it was the off-board battery, and it turned out to be the impedance would climb causing a noisy EEG, as the battery was wearing out in fairly short time from abuse (excess low discharge in SLAs will damage them). Perhaps a few extra capacitors might have help.

It would be the same for these A10/A13 clones, weird glitches can crop up, and even with an experienced engineer, the design could require a PCB revision and a new prototype.
Thank you MS Research for a dose of sanity. "Big data" seems very potent as far as marketing buzzwords go. It plays on people's ignorance and the general sentiment of "too much information".

I'll be keeping this pdf in my "rebuttals to idiocy" folder.

There are some industries that certainly have do have "big data" (Wikipedia has some definitions for "big data" that include size ranges for whatever that's worth) but it does not seem like companies with "big data" are the only targets of "big data" marketing. And from what I know about available solutions, if I really had a "big data" problem (e.g., 100 terabytes not 100 gigabytes) then I would not be choosing Hadoop. I also would not choose SQL or "NoSQL". But that's just me. Some of the best solutions I've found have nearly zero marketing. Go figure.
However, unlike xargs, GNU Parallel gives you a guarantee on the order of the output. From the man page:

GNU parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as
you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it
possible to use output from GNU parallel as input for other programs.
There are cameras on most suburban and rural mailboxes in the states? Here in Australia there are plenty of mailboxes where you likely wouldn't even be witnessed at all placing mail into.
The question is just when we officially start treating iOS as the minority OS, the one we develop for last.

About 55% of iOS devices are iPhones. The other 45% are iPads and iPod Touches. On Android I don't think anyone knows the exact number but it's believed the vast majority of Android devices are SmartPhones. So in the end it evens about pretty close.
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Hi,

I'm an engineer on Facebook's product security team, fighting malware trying to infect Facebook users or abuse our products. I'm one of the folks that's been battling the recent rise in malicious browser extensions and I'm happy to talk about our fight against them. Many extensions provide users with a way to augment their web experience. However, there are some built solely to steal a person's personal information, spam, or inject ads to the webpages they visit.

As part of our response to this threat, we built a Javascript library that tries to load the manifest file from extensions we've seen exhibit malicious behavior. Based on the results of those attempts, we can provide the user with the means to remove the threat, including free anti-virus software to clean the infection.

We built this feature to fight the recent spate of malicious browser extensions focused on Facebook. We take the trust Facebook users put in our product seriously and are always innovating new products and features to protect their information.
I'm a big fan of doing one tiny thing each day to get the ball rolling. Set that typeface you've been meaning to set or make that form submit to the database. You can't just commit your code and stop there, you've gotta keep going. Hopefully you get into a flow and do some good work from there out. Works for me.