skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Facebook and Google+ gain in politesse, they lose in depth and honesty. I can't assume I'll be held "accountable" in a just way by every prospective employer, apartment manager, or lover I'll ever meet, so these venues get empty pleasantries from me, certainly nothing controversial in any way.
In other words, you're claiming that some few skilled
cryptographers will produce a safe, high-level API
(eventually) and the low-level API is already useful to many
web developers. The implication is that many web
developers can do something that is both useful and safe
with only the low-level API.

I was not trying to suggest that only the low-level API is sufficient. I think there's no question that for some segment of potential use cases, they would be unquestionably better served if their hand was held all the way through, that that the crypto protocol and exchange was fully dictated for them. I think that's true for just about any use of crypto.

However, if we only provide a so-called high-level API (what I've been terming as box/unbox, and which is conceptually similar to what Keyczar, Nacl, or even JOSE offer), then I think there's even an larger number of known and possible use cases that simply cannot be implemented. That's why I believe it's more useful to provide a low-level API.

I think perhaps there are unrealistic expectations on what this is trying to do or who this is trying to serve. It's not trying to save the world from bad crypto. It's attempting to bring to the web platform what has existed in native code for 3+ decades - pitfalls and all.

I'd also be concerned about the argument going the other way - if we only provided a high-level protocol & API, then developers would need to implement whatever protocol specified atop the existing low-level primitives (OpenSSL, PKCS#11, CNG, etc). There, just as well, the risk is that people will get it wrong - or that 'others' will write libraries to do it right. You can't escape from the fact that crypto is hard, and that there is always going to be a segment of developers who will simply not get it right.
Reiser murder
I think reiser And sturgeon were both involbed in ninas death both are smart but looney bins upstairs sturgeon deliberately started,acting strange Just so he would not be called To testify both need To rot ir go.to death row brains sure dont equal common sense Or compassion
The whitepages case is exactly the one EFF's attorney Kurt Opsahl referred to when I spoke to him about copyright law and facts.
Actually having two (or more) market makers benefits the market. Because a single market maker can pause or quit at any moment in time.
Kind of amusing that a lot of what people want from jailbreaking is available now in stock Android.

Apple's hardware is top notch but the fact that people have to hack their OS to get these features says a lot about the inertia in Cupertino.
The "homework" line is referring to people blaming unrelated events on Twitter's API changes.
> your tone is a bit argumentative.

Are your feelings hurt because people are arguing? People use different tones in different contexts. Sometimes people need real pushback and not precious little snowflake coddling.
Hey folks - I work on the Site Integrity team at Facebook. We work to keep people safe from scams, spam, fake accounts, and having their account taken over.

We're always looking for ways to better understand how people represent themselves online and improve the design of our service. We look at the results of this kind of experiment in aggregate - the responses doesn't have any impact on the user account or that of their friends.
Well, that's a very simplistic view, but I'm not up for the challenge presently. If all Facebook users were legal adults, you'd be on less shaky ground.

However, I was thinking more about private messages and chats, tracking cookies, etc. Also pernicious: being tagged in other people's content.

Tying a real name to private data can have repercussions, even for responsible law abiding adults -- especially when the data is archived indefinitely, in one convenient central location.
Do not go through land crossings in Washington State. Just don't do it. Your friends were right.
I disagree with this for several reasons.

First, I find that having more different ways to look at a problem, the better I am able to deal with it. I can look at an equation algebraically, or as a graph, e.g. I can use rectangular coordinates or polar coordinates. I can look at complex numbers as abstract entities or as points in a plane.

Second, if you look at the history of complex numbers, mathematicians were just not sure what to make of them, and had no way to have confidence that what they were doing was even consistent. Being able to interpret them as point in a plane with intuitive geometric operations gave them a huge boost.

Third, thinking of them this way led to the search for generalizations. Gauss and Hamilton tried to find a way to do arithmetic in three dimensions, or prove that it couldn't be done. Hamilton eventually found the four-dimensional quaternions. And the (ac-bd,bc+ad) definition was generalized to the Cayley-Dickson construction.
And what about the trees that made way for Endeavour?
The methodology of this report is a joke. For example, to come up with the $600 million figure, they say:

"We simulated an increase in productivity growth in the exceptions using industries of just one one-hundredth of its otherwise experienced growth in the three years from 2007 through 2010 – a very conservative estimate of
additional growth."

i.e., they pulled 1% (net) increase in growth out of the air, and then simply calculate the economic benefits of that hypothetical increased growth.

(Per http://www.digital.org.au/media/166)
I agree. If anything, what this shows me is how much better the 5DIII is. This is pretty much the ideal scenario for a camera phone (i.e. tons of light coming from a reasonably attractive angle), and still the iPhone camera looks really rough compared to the 5D (which, to be fair, it should given the price gap). In the iPhone image, I see tons of noise reduction, tons of noise (strangely), no sharpness (that "no stopping" sign looks pretty rough), and a bunch of glare (gobs of blue glare from the bottom left and numerous white "stripes" that make it seem kind of like this was shot through a fish bowl).

I wouldn't say the iPhone "stacks up" in any meaningful measure here. It's a good camera phone. It might even "stack up" against a point-and-shoot. It doesn't stack up against a modern high-end DSLR, though.
Thanks for the advice! So far, I've talked to several people based upon Jason Cohen's advice on getting at least 10 people to say they would pay for it. So far, I have about 6 but maybe I'm missing something here.

I'll attempt to answer your questions :) I just checked out your rent management software. It looks great - had a similar idea but didn't work on it. Good luck!
Not some, the entire second generation.
The Indomitable Mary Meeker
> Far more often, the person slinging the word "fanboy" is the person who refuses to accept new ideas, to accept that other people's differing opinions may be just as valid as their own.

Go read an Apple enthusiast forum. Or an Android enthusiast forum. You want to pretend fanboys don't exist, go ahead. But there are people who have no interest in evaluating how they have formed their own opinions and will spout anything they are told is the "party line."

These people exist in politics, they exist in technology, and they are the ones who need to be filtered out, because they add zero value to discussions. Call them "fanboy," call them a "party hack," but suck it up and admit that THEY EXIST and giving them any time is a detriment to people who actually think.
In the past, I gripped about how their 3D printers becoming unaffordable. Never mind the fact that it cost 2K dollars. Now it's no longer open source.

I can't point to makerbot industry and say "business don't have to be closed source in order to make money". I want to be able to say "they make a shitload of money, while defying the Chinese!"
The Writing Revolution
I'm not entirely sure how it works inside, I just know the reason my brother-in-law has a modified name on Facebook. As for the inmates, they obviously all have numbers but any prison guard can look them up in the computer.

Fun fact: Portions of the numbers on an inmate's chest refers to things like the year they entered the prison, what number they are for the year that they entered, what they're in for and either how long or when they get released.
Watch Apple’s First iPhone 5 TV Ads: “Physics”, “Cheese”, “Thumb” and “Ears”
Setting the aperture on a DSLR to match the aperture of the iPhone won't make the depths of field equal. In fact, the iPhone was at f/2.4, while the DSLR was at f/2.8, which would give the iPhone the shallower depth of field if aperture were the only factor. (The biggest other factor here is sensor size.)
I couldn’t care less. That is one aspect I do not even consider when making a purchase decision. Sorry, I hope that doesn’t offend you :-)

But that wasn’t really what I was talking about, now was it? Your ideology might be showing if you make completely off-topic comments and free associate once something comes up your ideology tells you you should care deeply about.
That seems overly simplistic. Anybody could have used a different browser/OS (there were several available in the 90s), yet MS was still found to be violating antitrust laws.

The real question is whether Craigslist is using its market dominance in a way that hurts consumers. It's a far more nuanced question and one that will be fascinating to watch get answered. Craigslist did some awesome things for consumers once upon a time. Now? I'm not so sure it's all positive.
The distinction 3taps makes is that it doesn't scrape content from Craigslist but from search results from google and bing.
Another option is if you need time to build your product, you can launch another "something"... like the legendary mvp video from Dropbox or the finance blog from Mint.com they used to draw in signups several months before launching.
I went from knowing nothing about CI to setting up a full build job that deploys our various projects to multiple servers in a span of a few hours. What is the use case for hosted CI?
Craiglist might be an example of a self-funded growth model that was able to scale. Maybe rare, but possible.
It's a race to the bottom if everyone in the mobile space just tries to maximize feature checklists. I think it's great that Apple tries to be an arbiter of good taste and user experience, even if they fall down sometimes.
Is there also a team that sits around and thinks up ways to make Facebook even creepier? They're doing a good job.
Yes. Every startup guy must save and invest in traditional stocks to mitigate risk.

One other investment that a startup guy should consider is investing time into building good a freelancing business as a side business from their startup.
The Next Panic
I've always wanted to learn a language and make a game out of it, but procrastination always gets the better of me (5 years later, I still haven't learnt anything). Congratulations, good luck and keep it up!
One thing that jailbroken device allows is jitting - for example luajit can run at full speed there, and possibly v8 and others.
Intuit Partner Platform to Open Financial Data Service APIs to Developers
So is facebook meant to be a service for your close friends and family or a broader social network that promotes businesses, news, celebrities; a wider discussion? If it wants to be both, there are only cons. You can't conflate personal relationships with media discussions and advertising. This is why facebook is ultimately a doomed prospect (either socially and/or financially). It's either successful as a true social network, or it's an ad/personal information scam.
I agree with your priorities on how long term concerns trump up-front discomfort when learning a language. But to me it would be of long term benefit to never see parens that could be otherwise indicated by sig whitespace patterns like the empty/foo/bar indented block we have above.

The elegance seems to come from having a simpler parser, and one less thing to explain to people when they're learning the lanuage. As a user of a language and not a developer of a parser, the first doesn't concern me and the second should be trumped by long-term concerns. Using significant whitespace to eliminate syntax is elegant in its own way as well.

Again, maybe this is just because I'm not a lisper, but keeping implicit parens that follow a well-established pattern should be a trivial mental task for a developer. Could you provide a piece of lisp code as a contra example?
I agree with a lot of what you say, but I think it is important to point out that algorithms can invest too. They don't only trade. Anytime you use software to buy or sell securities, people assume it is technical trading, or worse, high-frequency trading. The truth is there aren't enough people working on making algorithms that invest rather than trade, because the ROI for trading is more apparent.

I work at Quantopian, and our goal is to make it possible for more people to explore algorithmic investing. I agree the social utility of from increasing liquidity from current levels is at best diminishing returns, but algorithms could bring the same drop in costs and increase in quality for money management that it brought to trading. That's a benefit to individuals, pension funds, charitable endowments, and anyone else that has to save and plan for the future. Financial professions couldn't have a worse rap these days, much of it deserved, but there are real social problems that require financial solutions. People need to save for retirement, plan for the kids' college tuition, and take on mortgages.

I think it is really good for society to have smart people work on investment management. Especially if they are automating, collaborating, and discussing their work openly - the opposite of today's Wall Street. I like that QuantBlock did something original, and I love that they are striving for really broad access.

We think the key to advancing algorithmic investment is to create more access so smart hackers can tinker with investment strategies. Those folks should be able to explore and test ideas/algos without spending a few years building a backtester, or a few years' of salary on data. That's why our backtester is free to use at quantopian.com, and why the source code will be released at PyData NYC (http://blog.quantopian.com/pydatanyc-here-we-come/).

I wrote more about where we want Quantopian to go, and where I think finance needs to go on our blog: http://blog.quantopian.com/quantopian-manifesto/
> There are more complicated reasons for child morality than lack of soap

The most important one being a lack of information. Except in the poorest slums, where people can't afford soap.

If fact, they may be wasting their money on stuff which increases infant mortality. Infant formula may be marketed as being healthier than mother's milk, but without proper sanitation it's much worse.

> Children die because, almost universally, someone has strangled the market that would otherwise be allocating soap towards their rooms.

It's ridiculous to say that, unless you know of some place in the world where soap is insanely expensive. They'll die because their families were poor. The ultimate causes of poverty are complex, and probably relate to dysfunctional states which (among other things) don't create functional markets. But to say that the ultimate problem is "not enough markets" is silly. Would public education help? Does their government need to enforce anti-corruption laws?

You can't look at a government which does everything wrong, and say "the big problem is, they don't allow markets to flourish".

But some things (like immunization) can be done cheaply (if somewhat inefficiently) by something that's not a market.
1) The idea of people giving out information about their friends to an anonymous entity such as Facebook is going to result in a considerable increase in paranoia no matter what you say.

2) The claim that real identities result in either greater safety or greater civility has been debunked here quite a number of times here. After all, probably the largest number of people who are using pseudonyms are doing so out of a desire for safety.
Then why the other three options? Why not just "I don't know this person" or "Ignore this message"?
Question about measuring weekly growth rate: A lot of YC startups are centered around an iPhone app. If it rides up the charts, it will likely get a huge bump in whatever metric you are trying to measure. But the bump's very often temporary, since more than likely the app will slide back down the charts in a week. How do you measure growth when this happens?
For whatever reason, this counts prefixed whitespace as a single word.
more blah, blah on what made google, fb, etc. great,

what's the point?
Congratulations. You've finally convinced me that an ignore list would be a good feature on HN.

Listening to you rail against single-mindedness and groupthink when you're probably the single most self-righteous and closeminded and ideologically intolerant frequent poster on HN is surreal. It's really not easy to find people that are so reliably certain they have the answers to everything. You're certainly the first self-professed anarchist I've met that's a staunch proponent of patent and contract law.
That doesn't mean what you're doing is not inherently sociopathic.
Isn't the reCommerce-Model fundamentally flawed?
Sure there's a balance to be struck here but clearly a lot of people think Apple has swung too far to the conservative side.
I sure hope your response is authentic. You might not use that information now, but you may potentially at a later date, i.e., warn a user to use their real name and if not you're account is suspended until doing so. Facebook's in the information business and now that you're a publicly traded company, the higher ups want to look good on the balance sheet and search is your organizations next step. This seems like a slippery slope to me.
Isolation from friends and family. Like not being able to go to your moms house because her neighbor might try to kill you and her if he discovers she is your mom.
> it means that given the size, price, and multifunction nature of the iPhone 5, its camera performance is worthy when compared to the SLR compared along the same metrics.

Worthy of what? And what metrics? You just listed a ton of caveats and then said that it's "worthy" based on unnamed metrics.

No, the iPhone doesn't "stack up", nor should it. It's a camera phone compared to a very high-end DSLR. It falls far short of the DSLR in image quality metrics. The images are noisy. They aren't sharp. There's glare galore. And that's okay, because it's a camera phone, and the primary use case is snapping photos of friends to upload to Facebook or show other friends at the bar.

The fact that it meets your needs doesn't mean it "stacks up", though, any more than a Honda Civic "stacks up" against a Ferrari. Yeah, it gets you to/from work, but in terms of performance, it falls way short (again, as it should).
Or you could unfriend people you don't like to hang out with on Facebook.
Lots of people manage to set up their routers, right?

Because they have to. Don't set up a router? Don't get an internet connection. It's like how people manage to put their tax in.

The barrier for entry needs to be much, much lower than setting up a router, otherwise it'll just be passed over in favour of something else, like Facebook.

(This, though, like the internet, changes when you reach critical mass. Then barrier for entry can be higher without impacting uptake much.)
>For those who find the above so-called Grothendieck construction somewhat puzzling, here's a little motivation and background. It is the group completion of a monoid. The simplest case is the group completion of the free monoid on one generator

Yes, that clears it up totally...
> Infant mortality, for example, isn't well served by market mechanisms; babies have no money.

Stop and think about why this sentence is extremely silly.

Who is really the customer?
CRIME
I thought Avengers was a joke. Wouldn't ever watch it again.
(Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829)
One of my favorite pg essays of all time. Loved this

QTF. Reading this article made me smile.
I don't see how the lack of (IMO) optional parens would prevent tools from working - they'd just have to be adjusted. Assuming this example from the ParEdit page is well-formed lisp:

(defun paredit-barf-all-the-way-forward ()
(interactive)
(paredit-split-sexp)
(paredit-forward-down)
(paredit-splice-sexp)
(if (eolp) (delete-horizontal-space)))

It doesn't seem that hard to rework a tool to use sig whitespace as indicating parens to have it operate the same over this code:

defun paredit-barf-all-the-way-forward ()
interactive
paredit-split-sexp
paredit-forward-down
paredit-splice-sexp
if (eolp) (delete-horizontal-space)
I got 3 TN visas on Buffalo border , if your papers are decent there should be no issue and I was applying under Management Consultant category (arguably hardest type of TN to get)
Why would you risk wasting your airplane ticket in case visa is denied ?
1. salt
2. don't allow unlimited password attempts
The main benefit of Clipper, though, is one stored-value card that works throughout the region: BART (commuter rail, peninsula and east bay), CalTrain (commuter rail, peninsuala/south-bay), MUNI (SF buses and rail), AC Transit (east bay buses), SamTrans (peninsula buses), GGTransit (north bay buses/ferries), etc.

A tap-in card that's locked to certain prepurchased trips wouldn't be Clipper and might not be of much interest to either commuters or CalTrain operators. A ticket-book works fine for that predictable travel.
I'd rather have Facebook fix the problem.
That may well be true. My concerns are primarily pedagogical.

I took a quick look at the work you mentioned and most of it seems to be considerably higher-level than the GoF patterns. Somewhat counterintuitively, that makes it less abstract. (Example chosen at random: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/lf.pdf) That's a good thing. It means there's more meat on the bones. The kind of patterns I'm critiquing are the one-level-up-from-language-constructs kind, which (I guess we agree) are different.

There seem to be some good papers in that collection. I might even forgive them the UML!
Is both a free trade and a human rights issue. The desire to migrate and live and work in different places around the world should need no greater justification than mere idle curiousity and I believe that the current approach to state borders does nothing but stoke xenophobia and mistrust around the world.

Also, I come from the UK, which has more UK citizens working abroad than foreign citizens working here, all while some sections of the press runs stories about how foreign workers are crowding people out of jobs. I keep trying to ask people who support banning all foreign labour, what they think will happen when everywhere else bans UK labour from their countries in return and all those UK expat workers, with their wealth of experience, come flooding back in greater numbers than the foreign workers that have just been kicked out, so leading to even greater unemployment, while at the same time guaranteeing that nobody would really want to trade with us anymore. These kind of conversations often end somewhat badly for some reason.

Perhaps it might be because I tend to also mention the view that it is a bit rich for the UK to be complaining too loudly about immigration considering how big the empire grew from us going around and rudely sticking flags in other people's stuff.
The thing is that if you sold your patent to a shell corporation, then sued someone, the person can counter-sue saying, "You're not a real corporation, you lose, I get your assets." And now you no longer have that patent to sue with.

This would make shell corporations utterly useless for patent trolls.