skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they are probably going to miss the profound ah-ha many of us got when leaning a Lisp

I think I've at least had some sort of "aha" from learning Lisp; it just doesn't necessarily translate into something that's worth the extra investment of using Lisp for the practical programming projects I've encountered thus far. (To be fair, part of that is the relative paucity of good libraries for Lisp implementations, compared to, for example, Python, with its "batteries included" philosophy.) But even when I'm using, say, Python, I am still able to make use of the "aha" in some ways.
That must be the case. You should check account settings to see whether you have permitted such apps or sth rogue.

As it clearly says it does so and I confirm as my inbox is wiped clean too. There were just few "Welcome to xyzabc.com" mails.
Agree with OP on all three points. Please look into this.
Fictional Arpanet dialog
I like this! It would look REALLY good as an open source project, not sure if I would pay for something like this. Focus on finding power users of multiple web apps and see what they need and promote it from that app outwards.
Keep up the good work!
Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
I'm no fan of PHP, but building a template engine inside a template engine strikes me as particularly perverse.
You could refuse to work on such a project, but then the project development would just get outsourced. I don't like the concept of this service at all, and I think its a really shady business practice to use it, but I don't think theres really way short of passing laws to stop it.
"hustler founders" - every piece of shit which PG says is picked up and abused
I propose that we sail there in the Ship of Theseus.
End of Public Updates for Java SE 6
I guess it'd be remiss of me to not link to Refund Retriever, the company I've developed software for:

http://www.refund-retriever.com
It wouldn't be able to include what search terms were used to arrive at OP's site like the email seems to be showing.
In War of Smartphones, The Russians Are Coming
Dataium does this too, as covered by WSJ's recent article on the subject [1]

The article goes into depth about how much personal information is sent along to advertisers including a popular dating site's apparently anonymized information about drug use, and sexual orientation.

I think we need a non-profit service that defines a set of privacy licenses (akin to CreativeCommons' licenses) which companies can opt to label their websites/apps with. There would be no policing/auditing [2], but companies found to violate the privacy licenses would be obliged to donate a sum to an organization like the EFF.

That the privacy policies would be encompassed by one simple privacy licence badge would allow users to quickly and easily identify a company's privacy policies. I believe users would gravitate toward using services that display this license.

Edit: it appears such a service is in the works - http://privacycommons.org

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732478440457814...

[2] The auditing process would likely become complex, costly and corruptible
>Not really. That's a theory and it is one that is hard to disprove experimentally. It is a much stronger theory than evolution

This isn't right at all. The idea that our behaviors are shaped in ways that increase our fitness follows necessarily from the theory of evolution. If we believe that behaviors are influenced at all by our genes, then behaviors that are detrimental get weeded out. What's left over was more fit for that environment. There is mountains of evidence that our behavior is affected by our genes.

That is not to say that all behaviors are optimal at all times. For one, our environment has changed monumentally in just the last few hundred years. Behaviors that were optimal back then may not be now. Also, there are multiple levels when considering optimal behavior. Behavior that is suboptimal for the individual can still be optimal for the gene causing that behavior. Homosexuality for example. It may be true that the homosexuality gene is optimally propagated when its in 10% of the population (look up evolutionary stable strategy).

I recently read about a study that claimed the male homosexuality gene when in a woman greatly increased her sexual attractiveness and sexual aggressiveness. When it's in a man it makes him homosexual. I'm sure its too early to take this as fact, but this scenario would lead to a non-zero optimal distribution of that gene in the population.
That's awkward and unintuitive. One of the great things about the Downloads tab is it's the obvious place to go if you want to see any previous releases. Using a separate repo solves the bloat issue, but means I need to have a dedicated section of my README saying "if you want to see past releases go to [this repo](...)". Not to mention this now bloats my on repo listing on GitHub unnecessarily, making it harder to find my legitimate projects.

Basically, it's a lot more work just to get a worse result. Previously, GitHub was a one-stop shop for simple open source projects. Now, it's not. It's that simple.
Thank you for suggestion dude.
I guess near-infrared-opaque clothing manufacturers are really going to like that development.
As a boy I often read stories in the papers about space shuttle launches and was sad to read the payload was always classified missions. It turned out they were deploying the GPS satellites.
FedEx and UPS have been known to collude, and there's currently a lawsuit pending related to FedEx and UPS colluding to shut down third-party negotiators.
I don't think you really need to append "of the <time-interval>", but I agree. Maybe he can explore why Apple prefers a closed ecosystem to an open one, and write about that. Is it because it's better for their customers? Because if not then it fucking sucks and he should be ashamed of himself for being such a tireless defender of it.

Also, yeah, about "tax". It's used pretty loosely sometimes, John. Like when mobsters talk about protection money. Welcome to language.
Letter to TEDx India Licensees
Yes, I agree this is where the line passes, I don't see a big moral issue with ad retargeting as long as there is an opt out option and a privacy policy somewhere to read. We don't like it when we see ads we don't like (or worse when people looking behind our shoulders can know a lot about us just based on the ads we get on our laptop in the coffee house), but we all like it when we use it to promote our own projects, or when an actually relevant ad shows up
Looking at incredibly small screen-shots on this blog post (and having no way to resize) I guess I can safely say 'nothing much changed' at Yahoo it seems, as of now at least. Looks like the new Yahoo mail wants Flash. Tells me so.

Tabbed email is a very good start, btw.
Maybe this is their monetization strategy. Instead of incurring the high costs of supporting a large load of unpaid users and then trying to monetize the user base from there - maybe they want to get to revenue quickly.
Analytics Talk: Peter Skomoroch
>This kind of thing is what I've always seen as the potential end result of things like google analytics

Anyone know if GA's privacy policy firewalls the data collected by GA from AdSense and other parts of Google?

I know they modified the privacy policy a year or so ago to integrate data across all their products but does it include GA?
Guatemala judge orders McAfee released
I'm rather amazed that any company would put this on their website. What you may be doing, in fact, is likely identifying customers to your competitors. Cross-shopping is very common in most product categories - so it is quite possible that you're giving up your customer to a rival.
Show HN: TraceKit.js, cross-browser stack traces for javascript.
Just re-vamped TraceKit, rallying 14 forks from the past 2 years, adding jshint and TravisCL build status. You should start using this now: https://github.com/occ/TraceKit
I think it's up for debate as to whether you should test pricing in the MVP stage. In this case, I think it's in the best interest to leave pricing out of the question and first inquire as to whether people find it useful.

http://qr.ae/1ygLq - my answer on quora regarding testing pricing while in MVP stage.
Very cool - I absolutely love the interactive demo
Android Overtakes Apple in Australia
Villy Custom - From Shark Tank Success To Crowdfunding Success
The purpose of my comment was to point out that humans have a (sophisticated) brain, something critical that you had overlooked, and you still seem to have missed that.
Can I leave? Real-time weather report
This isn't what Hubspot does at all. While you are correct in that they, along with Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, etc all look up company/location via IP, none of these companies are getting information from another website to identify prospects.

In the case of marketing automation, all the data lives within the system and is used by the company - rather than giving that information out - a very different proposition.
When I tried to register I got a blank page with:

An error has occurred: {"code":"ECONNRESET"}
Isn't MoveableType in Perl?
Microsoft expanding Surface retail partners
I don't think that's a valid argument. You could say the same thing about the food industry - if you don't eat, you die. The food industry (notwithstanding the FDA) is relatively free from government regulation and is quite competitive. Strong competition in any industry inevitably drives prices down.

There can certainly be situations where time is of the essence, but that doesn't explain why an MRI costs thousands of dollars or why a visit to a specialist can cost hundreds for a 15 minute visit.
Christmas Big Discounts with Cash Back on IT Products
Christmas is around the corner. The annual discounts for almost all kinds of goods also come. But are you dazzled by so many special offers? It's right that you should cautious about spending money. If you want to spend the least money on buying top-notch statistical computing software, Raqsoft should be noticed by up to 50% off on its powerful esProc and esCalc.
Surely the paired announcements make it obvious? uuencode your binaries (okay, okay, base64, and get off my lawn) and put them in a gist.
Book Translates American Minutiae for Russians
Coming from a Latino culture it is funny to see that Russians look a lot like Latinos.
Reminds of Leftronic (https://www.leftronic.com/)
Mostly agree.

"You can figure out what they'll pay for it once you know they'll use it in the first place."

Seems a bit presumptive and opens the door for risk.
Hmmm, some of these are likely to prove to be correct (the last three).
Twitter Mobile Now Available In Arabic And Farsi
Identity matching algorithms use a fuzzy match to identify users because the only way to get an exact match is with by storing an identifier on the user's machine, or in memory for the duration of the browsing session. A lot of factors can change and it may not significantly alter the weight of the match.
Gist is our first entry into Better Search. With the amount of code we index (and the unique problems of searching source code as opposed to prose), it's not something we can change overnight.
Yeah.... it was a bug. Multiple bugs working in concert, actually.
I had thought HN was mostly free of that type of absurd Reddit paranoia.

The CIA could not care less about your genotype.
I think you don't really understand what Samba is for: OEMs. There are several very large companies selling rock solid enterprise NAS devices that need a rock solid implementation of CIFS on top of the seamless ability to join an AD domain. When large companies want to setup Windows file servers, they don't exactly want to stick a bunch of hard drives in a server and pray it doesn't go down - even clustered Windows file servers are extremely complex and have all kinds of failure modes that can cause hours or even days of downtime. Large companies simply want to buy a NetApp or some other enterprise class NAS storage device and have it integrate seamlessly with their Windows AD infrastructure. Samba now offers that. Storage companies that are experts at building highly redundant no single point of failure systems can now use open source software to deliver technology to the enterprise.
> In-order delivery is solved by adding a sequence number to the batch/payload packets.

And just as I let TCP do this for me at a lower layer, I'd personally be quite happy to farm this out to a queue library or service. That a problem has been solved in a well-known pattern, and that I could solve it with my own code, doesn't mean that I ought to spend time and effort doing so.

> security (encrypting a bitstream without requiring SSL). Because of this I wrote a library that I simply drop into every one of my mobile app projects.

I am wary of not using SSL. I mean it's a heavy protocol, but that's what you need to rebuff the many, many clever attacks against homegrown protocols.

Recently I filed a patent for a protocol involving cryptographic elements and it took me 11 goes-around with a Well-Known Expert to get a protocol that wasn't basically retarded beyond all comprehension. This after spending a year reading about crypto and security for my honours project. I tried, but really, it's one of those topics where soaking for a few years pays and being out of the loop for a month can cost.

Anyhow. I guess my question is, why not use SSL? Performance/battery life?
That made me thing of a tangent - could the incredible distances between stars and the relatively slow speed of light be intentional, a way of preventing the simulation from grinding to a halt if any of the intelligences ever learn how to travel in space?

Maybe there's not enough resources to completely model everything we see in the sky, so there needs to be some mechanism to throttle exploration.
I see a lot about Android having a high market share. I've seen numbers like 70-75%. But I think Apple buyers are more affluent and buy more apps even though their market share is only 20%. A lot of people who used to have feature phones or buy the cheapest pre paid phones they can get, now get android phones. Virgin Mobile has one for like $60 my in-laws have. So my point is, while the high android market share is there, as an app developer, the market share in relation to app usage and spend is still skewed towards Apple for now.
I think its quite close to behavior oriented programming, at least as defined by Brooks. Keep in mind his goal is robotics, which is very similar to games (or to say, a game is just a robotics simulation!).

I'm not really interested in the distinction between language-based vs. library-based extensibility: they are quite the same thing even if the syntax is different (and yes, language-supported extensions are definitely less flexible!). Also see adapter extension in Eclipse: every object supports the "HasAdapter, GetAdapter" interface, which allows for lots of dynamic extensibility.

Also, when you say "data," do you mean state? E.g., adding physics state to an object undergoing physics simulation. Any chance for data in the form of a lambda (basically, that would be virtual dispatch)?
Zynga’s Exclusivity Deal With Facebook Is Done
Is it all javascript based? So it would integrate with any codebase? Rails, Python, Java?

Very excited about this. Social is such a critical aspect of many systems these days, but it's another piece of the puzzle that doesn't actually distinguish one product from the competition.

The more great services like this that get built, the more great products are going to get built.

I am very excited to see what Hull can do for companies like mine that need this kind of functionality, but have been focused more on our unique value proposition.

Who can we bribe to get into the beta?
You might also be interested in following the progress of "Snap" [1], which is an extended version of Scratch implemented in JavaScript for web browsers. This from the group at UC Berkeley that did "BYOB" (Bring Your Own Blocks) [2], an extended version of Scratch.

I'm planning to use BYOB/Snap with my 6-year old. I think the custom blocks in BYOB will be useful for me to create relevant primitives so the programming will be less tedious for my son. Later, I can teach him about defining functions, recursion, etc. I'm also wondering if the JavaScript rewrite will allow him to hook into server-side APIs. That has some interesting possibilities...

[1]http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Build_Your_Own_Blocks_(Scra...
[2] http://byob.berkeley.edu/
The Mystery of Product Pricing
Gists does ship with a print stylesheet which strips most of the interface.
The way you have worded it makes it sound like you have put all the blame on women for having affairs ("women have affairs to..."). It takes two to tango, so to speak. In fact, according to wikipedia, men are significantly more likely to have an affair than women (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity).

The fact that men are often actively trying to get in women's pants likely has a greater effect on these statistics than women's genes' desire to reproduce.
More like laziness. They probably only allow something like:

^[a-z0-9_.]+@(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)+\.[a-z0-9]+$
Er, ok. It still happens though https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=segfaul...
After reading the indictment, including the citations to Schmitz's email, I find myself untroubled by the DoJ's actions in this case.
No way it's megabytes per second. WiFi G mode provides a theoretical cap of 6.75MByte/s, and we all know you'll never see that. Protocol overhead combined with interference and range, and you're lucky if you can keep it above 1MByte/s.

Yes, WiFi N is proliferating, but it still has a host of caveats. A single-channel N device with a 20MHz span, instead of 40MHz, still only gets 9MByte/s theoretical max.

Yes, I know, you can use a wired connection. You can have dual-channel N and you can use 40MHz span, but we're talking about average rates. Most folks I've seen don't use wired. Most N devices are single-channel, and I read again and again that most 2.4GHz networks will actually perform better in 20MHz mode (due to interference)
But engineers that build components for bombs and missiles should keep chuggin' along.
'Dexter' Directly Attacks Point-of-Sale Systems
People probably flagged it over the crappy title and the fact that much of the comments were meta discussion.
this is good ... but, frankly, i was hoping for the ability to tag gists + ability to get a feed from a tag
>Remember - music existed before money. Selling recorded performances is relatively new

You're conflating two different phenomenon here. Music may have existed before money, however, RECORDED distributable music did not. If you had to pay the opportunity cost associated with seeing a live performance every time you wanted to listen to music your argument would hold water.
George Orwell Talks To Us From The Future About a Free and Open Internet [video]
Any reason why this is on PasteBin and not... any kind of reliable source at all?
Would like to see HTML Geolocation API as default w/ manual fallback as well as F/mph (for us 'Muricans). If the purpose of the site is to get an instant message across, any sort of automation would be awesome.

Also Color-coded temp scale and weather would be nice visually!
The whole idea of curating my own collection, through either piracy or purchasing, seems outmoded to me.

Interesting perspective but personally that doesn't work for me. I am not hung up on owning a physical item like a record or CD but I am hung up on having a space where these records I love all live together. There are no un-inivted outsiders. Every record in the collection has a story. Collecting them together and presenting them in a beautiful way is exactly what I want. I do use other services for music discovery but anything new I find doesn't touch my library until it has proven itself to be worthy to sit next to my favorites. I'm very weary of digital overload these days. For the first time in many years I've actually gone through my library and started to remove records I don't actually love. I'm making the choice to segment my musical world into what I consider to be the essentials and to everything else that I may like but don't really care much about. If they could be nicely combined into one platform that would work for me too but the first time I couldn't find one of my favorite records on Spotify I realized it would never be an iTunes replacement for me. (also going forward it's not clear all existing music available on any of these services will always be there. That's very troubling to me)
I'd be worried about Github reinstating this feature and your solution becoming redundant.
I'm sick of seeing Nitin fucking Gupta at every conference I go to. I'm glad TED is finally taking a stand and blacklisting him.
This is a great move by Netflix. It will hopefully be visible enough that ISPs will try increasing their standing, which is ends up being good for customers.
Django 1.5 is in python 3. Soon it shall be so.

Though, MySQL-python, South, and Fabric are still red. South and Fabric make django projects so much easier to deal with, especially once deployed. It will be interesting to see what happens when 1.5 is released. I presume they'll be released along with 1.5, or follow right on the heals of it?
If we could just agree to use only one or the other, we'd be fine!
Because it would make for a terribly annoying history to be adding a build artifact along with every commit (and repo bloat)
Paper Towels v. Air Dryers
I find it interesting that this article should show up the very same day I found out about TAILS - The Amnesiac Incognito Live System ("https://tails.boum.org/), a live Linux distribution that uses TOR and other tools to enhance your online privacy. The more I read about online tracking efforts like this, the more I want to set up a wall around my computer.
This is mistitled, as far as I can see? TEDx Chennai's license has been canceled, not the whole of India's. The e-mail is a warning/threat to the rest of the India licensees, that's all.
Well, some pieces of information, it can be useful to provide to the server. But, yes, standardizing or even dropping certain fields seems like a nice first step.
Online Medical Cosultation
Yeah, seems kind of suspicious, especially given that it was posted from a guest account.
Any information on who he is? Specific mention of one speaker piqued my interest but a superficial Googling only gave me Nitin Gupta's in California
Twitter as a smart todo list
Google Voice numbers are great for this (and craigslist) if you don't already use Google Voice as your main number.
"Any reason why this is on PasteBin and not... any kind of reliable source at all?"

I don't know why it on Pastebin, but here is a (softball) interview in a mainstream newspaper with the fired "Ambassador"

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/tedx-...

The cancellation of the TEDx Chennai(== Madras) license, the firing of Kiruba, and the general tightening screws for all India TEDx events seems real enough. There have been rumors circulating locally about financial and other shenanigans for a while now (fwiw).
I think you're right. But what about the perceived value the beta testers have? Surely they won't be happy about paying for something that was free.
They can, but it means dealing with another service which is inconvenient, especially for OSS projects
Geolocation is being worked at the moment, tomorrow it'll be live. About the units, I'll add that too. I'm not really sure about the colors, but I have to agree that it gets kinda difficult to read or notice differences when you type another city.

Thank you for the feedback!
It had me for a while, and is still entertaining enough to keep reading, but just to be clear: this is fictional.

Oblique disclaimer: http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/

Interview with one author: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/04/so-reag...

Previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402649