skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Apple vision of the world is about consumer products. I think this is exactly the wrong direction for all of society (producer products are the future),

I think iMovie and the iMac DV phase was a period where Apple actually aspired to this, though. They obsessed over making the best possible computers and software for people to make great home movies, just as they were obsessing over Final Cut and the Power Mac for the professional market. The Mac used to have a reputation as the platform for creative people in all fields, and the "think different" campaign was an effort to reinforce that.

Unfortunately, most people don't want to be creative and Apple had an opportunity to pursue the consumer market. They still try, with Garageband and iPhoto and iMovie, but it's less of a focus.
This makes me wonder what a world without jobs will look like. Will a good quality life, food, shelter, money, etc just be human rights?
Hi everyone, Ozan here. I wrote queen and thrill, I just found out about this thread, looks like Hirvesh beat me to it :). Going to lunch right now, but I'll be able to answer questions after I'm back.
Do the ads in print or broadcast radio/TV pay much more than that?

Seems that a Super Bowl spot goes for about 4 million USD, reaching 100+ million viewers [1] - that comes out as about 40 bucks per thousand impressions, but this "impression" is an interstitial one for 30 seconds. This is apparently the highest USA TV price ever.

And, for print, most anything that is not paid research has a cover price mostly to pay for distribution (in particular, to get news stands paid for carrying it).

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/business/despite-4-million-price-tag-...
Good point! There is an option to attach additional information (description, notes, link to website/app store) when uploading an individual build. We do ask for a little bit of information about the app in general when the first build is uploaded so that we have some context.
Once people start to realize that "liking" something is a fundamentally public act, this should be less of a problem. There's a huge difference between being a person "who likes Ashley Madison" (which I am not) and being a person "who has made a public declaration of liking Ashley Madison" (which I am also not).

Or, to be even more reductive: public declarations are public.
Morality is a science, tasked with answering the question: what ought I do in order to live the longest, best life I can live, given the facts of reality?
What rules does Google use to make a button gray, blue, or red on their sites?
It is quite different. AirBNB rentals compete with hotels on price, not long-term leases.
I'm in agreement here. I wonder how many solid and experienced devs are put off applying for these jobs by this current fad. I consider myself a fairly good dev with a broad range of skills in development and devops, but as soon as I see "Super Ninja Rockstar" etc I roll my eye's and skip to the next job listing.

I wonder how many companies miss out on actual "Super Ninja Rockstar" devs, who are in reality modest individuals, because of this type of wording?

Or maybe I'm just a boring old mid-40's fart.
we won't be able to repair these various cancers until we can do whole cell emulation on the offending cell and contrast/compare it to a healthy equivalent.

We need to understand the mechanics of cells down to the molecular level. Then maybe we can think of a fix. At this stage in society, we know just enough about cancers to do more harm than good in the remaining years of life for the worst forms of cancer.
Depends on what you want to retain. Fundamentally, enforcement of any license comes down to the legal weight you're willing to put into enforcing it.

If you want the copyleft style license, the GPLv2 is fairly acceptable, whereas some companies don't like the GPLv3's changes (Apple, for one). LGPLv2 with a linking exception for static binaries is another option, especially if your code component will be included in other products that require solid binaries (various App stores).

If copyleft isn't required, the MIT/BSD/Apache licenses have differing levels of advertising requirements/bans, and legal/patent protections.

If you really just want to get it out there in the open, declaring it public domain or no license is probably the easiest way.
No, but I'm assuming that as most CC licenses (CC0 being the exception according to the GNU site [1]) aren't GPL compatible, the attitude would be the same. However, I have no real domain expertise here, so I could be very wrong.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleL...
I enjoyed OpenSignal 1 on Android, but I also found that it was running in the background (and using up the very limited RAM on my Nexus S) even when I had not opened the app. So I uninstalled it. Are you able to explain why it was doing this, or was I somehow mistaken? Thank you!
Terrible UI.
I did change the readme to point to the new mainline development. I still think there might be some utility in having the code as I left it around, so I didn't delete the repo.
How Britain could fall out of the European Union, and what it would mean
I'm not a libertarian, but I would think that anti-solicitation and non-competes are contractual matters. If you contractually agree to them, that's not coersion.

In practice, every jurisdiction is different in terms of enforcing non-competes. It's all about government intervention to prevent collusion among business owners.
In choosing a tablet, first try it on for size
The DoJ did not share your perspective, nor I think do most people.
To the best of my knowledge, this does not exist. Ensure that you are at least familiar with http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders, http://www.hnsearch.com/api, http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#api and the rest of that document, be ready to be asked to stop, and enjoy!

(This doesn't look like a trivial application of any of the APIs above, by the way.)
I highly agree with everything you said above. Well, well put.
AMD Richland APU Lineup Leaked
Why doesn't the button on the top right have a function?
Whilst I have serious concerns over MIT policy, it is not unreasonable that that "several cogs in the system" acted according policy, leading to an extremely flawed result.

In an aircraft mishap investigation, they regularly conclude that it was a series of minor issues/deficiencies causes a crash, not a single pilot/crew/person making a single huge error.
What were the sorts of issues you faced with iframes? One major issue I found so far was alerts blocking the ui thread, which was easy enough to fix by disabling them. The other major issue was around CORS, which is resolved by proxying requests.
Lack of IPv4 addresses in Europe? ISPs use opportunity to raise prices
Oh my. And suddenly, github gave grep to the web. Thanks for that great work.
> Is it advisable to be known as someone who will jump ship and join the enemy for a few more pieces of silver? Is loyalty of so little value? In my opinion, there's great value in loyalty to one's company. If you must jump ship, at least spend a year elsewhere before joining the competition. It's a professional courtesy thing.

No. But what if say... you hate your boss? You disagree with the coding (for example) style imposed on you? What if more money is just a (small) part of the story? Its not as though Jobs is arguing "Hey, you can take my employees, as long as you don't pay them more ". There are many reasons to leave a job, and any good interviewer will ask you why if you are jumping ship.

> If you must jump ship, at least spend a year elsewhere before joining the competition. It's a professional courtesy thing.

IMHO, not a reasonable expectation. Going to a competitor, you are presumably taking your experience with you. By not going to one, you are presumably throwing it away - why is that a good thing (for innovation or personal success)?

It would be great if we all worked for companies that really cared about us. Those companies are few and far between, and my guess is they don't fear employee attrition as much as the bad employers. Or, perhaps that fear of attrition is why they are good to their employees at all. Either way, I don't think the issue is nearly as simplistic as you're making it out to be.
Yeah, my understanding is that doing that became difficult even on the higher end 83+/84+ series calculators as the clockrate went up, though I haven't actually put that to the test.
Ask HN Freelancers: Upfront payments
A prospective client says that it is against their company policy to pay up front for anything and that they "always pay on time". Given that they haven't been particularly responsive in our email back and forths, does this strike any of the more experienced freelancers out there as a red light? What are your policies for upfront payments on hourly contracts? If you require them, what kind of percentage?
Crypto Analysis and Recommendations for Mega
anxious to read the next one. Always. Save. Raw. Event. Data
I think this is something you've studied and have entirely lost perspective. The way it is explained on the test actually does not make sense.

For example, does the triangle already exist or are we generating it/calculating it? Are we to iterate over the table? And if so then how? What data format is it in?

Let's also discuss this line:

> Each element in Pascal’s Triangle is found by adding the two numbers to the right and left of it on the row above it; where these don’t exist, they are assumed to be zero.

The way it is worded is just horrible. Try this one:

"At the tip of Pascal's Triangle is the number 1, which makes up the zeroth row. The first row (1 & 1) contains two 1's, both formed by adding the two numbers above them to the left and the right, in this case 1 and 0 (all numbers outside the Triangle are 0's). Do the same to create the 2nd row: 0+1=1; 1+1=2; 1+0=1. And the third: 0+1=1; 1+2=3; 2+1=3; 1+0=1. In this way, the rows of the triangle go on infinitly. A number in the triangle can also be found by nCr (n Choose r) where n is the number of the row and r is the element in that row. For example, in row 3, 1 is the zeroth element, 3 is element number 1, the next three is the 2nd element, and the last 1 is the 3rd element. "

With this diagram: http://www.mathsisfun.com/images/pascals-triangle-1.gif
Really, well where is the publicly available code for Genesis then? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, just that I can't find it in Google. Isn't the most basic premise of the GPL that source code should be publicly available? I don't see anywhere on the StudioPress site where this code is posted. This whole argument by WP is bringing up a lot of questions about whether or not I want to continue to use WP as a development platform in the future.
My only gripe with lean methodologies is just that, that it seems like a soul-less reactionary process at times. At its extreme anyway, I know that't not the way it always works.
Still works well even with almost all permissions denied using LBE Privacy Guard. Want my Phone ID? Too bad!
Not always. Subscriptions for the Wall Street Journal are an foundation revenue source. I think this is also the case for the FT and the Economist.

I don't think it coincidental that these are financial papers. Information is valuable and businesspeople will pay for it. That has implications for their reporting, too. Their stories are under pressure for accuracy, because the readers are paying for information and will go elsewhere if they don't get good stuff.

I think ad-first news models are more prone to some bias to generate an audience. People generally don't like hearing things they disagree with, so anyone requiring a large audience finds themselves pressured to adopt particular attitudes to get and hold that audience.

Why don't business people assert the similar biases? They do. But the ones paying up for information -- e.g. WSJ subscribers -- are almost by definition more interested in information than people who aren't. That particular crowd is also alert to the potential in contrarian opinion, they know people can get _paid_ for knowing something unexpected. So they've incentive to overcome their own cognitive dissonance.

I read recently that the NY Times was moving to more dependence on subscription revenue. I think that would be great, the more a reader pays, the higher the demand for accuracy.
It seems better than usable. It's quite good.
@RyanZAG That's the idea :)
but a few things to note:
1. All data is anonymized
2. You can turn data-sharing off in the settings (as pointed out when you start the app)
3. Providing data to the networks is not only a funding source for our efforts to build coverage maps online (which will always be free and independent at opensignal.com) but it allows the networks to improve their service - showing them where their service is weak, or where they should focus their marketing.
I assume you're basing that on your direct experience with twenty-five year veterans who have used their complete mastery of a popular toolchain to ship a couple of dozen production systems to customers who were in turn delighted by the quality of the work and the high level of professionalism.
Patent versus Copyright
Ask HN: do cofounders get more equity by putting money after company setup
If a company has been setup with an equity of $1000 for example, but later on it needs more money to run the business and the founders themselves put their own money into the business, do they create more shares? How does it usually get handled if the founders put money not in proportion with their shares? What would happen to thier shares?
As preposterous as it may sound, HN is actually my idea of fun. I love reading what potatolicious, rayiner, etc. have to say about things... I genuinely enjoy reading HN comments. I play the guitar and piano for fun, but that's about it -- I do not have much of a social life. I have friends from HS/college I exchange e-mails with (once or twice a week) and meet (once or twice after few months), but not much beyond that.

I think I would call myself a well-adjusted and happy individual, by the way. :)
Fascinating - thanks for the update.
Why You're Not A Leader?
Sure you can do it. I did it with 40K salary even though a decade ago. If you are single, one possible scenario

- Housing cost: $800-$1200 for shared housing/apartment in queens etc.

- Subway: $110/mo

- Grocery: $400/mo (100/wk average)

- No car (this is huge)

- cell phone/internet: $200/mo

- Entertainment: $200/mo ($50/week)

Total: $1700-$2100 /mo

On a 65K salary, you are looking at income of:
$5416/mo gross.
$3791/mo net.(30% tax roughly.)

cashflow in = $3791

cashflow out = $2100

You are in good shape.
Thank you very much! Lovely feedback!

First of all I really respect what Peldi and Balsamiq did. Balsamiq is a decent (to say the least) wireframing tool with an amazing marketing. They deserve the number of customers they've got.

UXPin is a different tool. We're a young company established by UX Designers and backed up with VC money, aiming at one goal: creation of The UX Design App.

UX Design is much more than mere wireframing and we're here to provide full, well designed, solution for any web, mobile and software team, that cares for stunning user experience.

If you feel that you match this description, I'm sure, pretty soon, you'll find no excuses not to join UXPin :).

We're improving our tool every day and step by step we're getting closer to the ultimate goal.

The trial time is extendable to 30 days (click on 'extend trial' on the top of your dashboard). What's more you can always ping us and we'll be glad to give you further time to work with UXPin.

Cheers!
I guess my hangup here is that it seems like a <10W (with a raspberry pi's GPIO and no amp, we are probably talking <1W in reality, but throw on a factor of 10 for safety) RF circuit with an antenna a few cm long seems really easy to make by accident, let alone on purpose.

It is illegal sure, and these people shouldn't be doing it intentionally, but I have a hard time seeing it causing damage measurable in actual dollars.
"If you don't like it, then quit"

My former boss said this in a morale speech. At the time I thought was being an a-hole. There had been some complaints on safety and usefulness of an exercise and that was his response to it.

Then I realized he was right, and that's why he's a former boss of mine.

Also, bjust silently quitting facebook and sinking back to real life
given that "Ruby Programmer" >= "PHP Programmer" (not necessarily true, but be honest PHP is considered pretty low on the food chain around here :)), and given that I have no CS or Math background, I whipped up an answer to this in about 5 mins:

https://gist.github.com/4611869

Even taking into account the effect of 'nerves' in an interview setting, on the face of things the 10% mentioned seems a bit depressing.

I do wonder how relevant or helpful this particular exercise/test is with regard to accurately gauging a candidate's potential efficacy within [a|your] development team. My instinct suggests to me that being able to write an algorithm under scrutiny and/or pressure is actually a fairly low priority skill (in most development shops) when compared to the other many other skills that are required to be a successful senior developer.
Any stats on how much documents or GB is in the index, how big the cluster is, and how long this took to build?
Making Transparency Reports Standard Operating Procedure
A live MMORPG online game? Kart racing anyone?
> $1,062,921.12	PANASONIC TB19/2GB/TOUGHB

The prisons department needs a lot of toughbooks. How many toughbooks do you get for a million dollars?
In sentences like that, I tend to ignore everything before the 'but'.

To my admittedly uneducated eye, nothing in the rest of that article indicates any kind of remorse or regret over the author's actions.

The clause before the 'but' is how the author gives themselves permission to say what's after the 'but'. This does not necessarily impart any emotional (or even semantic) meaning onto the first clause.
Twitter CEO's tweet demonstrates upcoming Vine video integration
How do you handle UUID signing? Do you tell me the UUID's I need to add? Just upload seems to not work with iOS apps, right?
I'd prefer it to be that they were doing something very improper and not just that they are the easiest target... But that's also what I suspect.
The employer-employee relationship is a contractual agreement regarding the exchange of money for labor. Are you going to argue that that is similar to dating? Hopefully not. The day I have to pay my girlfriend to be with me is the day I won't be offended if someone tries to "steal" her away.

Employer-employee relationships are asymmetrical and purely business oriented. There is no "trust" on their side, I can guarantee you that - that is why they have you sign NDA's when you work on secret things (I have yet to find a company that just trusts you to keep it all secret). That is why it is so beneficial for them to rely on you believing in precisely these sorts of analogies: they have lawyers and contracts on their side, you are left with believing in "loyalty" and "trust".

The fact that you equate contractual work between a corporation and a person to a loving relationship between two equals is quite demonstrative of my original point.
A 7" 16:9 tablet has less than half the area of a 10" 16:9 tablet. http://www.displaywars.com/7-inch-16x9-vs-10-inch-16x9 This is a big difference in portability and visibility.
Its user configurable. In the settings we allow users to choose how frequently the app will take signal readings and whether or not it will do so in the background. We also allow users to turn off data sharing completely if they are so inclined.
This is an excellent idea and the instructions almost worked as is even on an old windows vista machine (with the exception I had to download PuTTY, but the messages were very intuitive. What is missing is perhaps a comments page, if nothing else to thank the author.
Um, where has the DOJ tried to lock up executives for preventing poaching?

Your understanding of "most people" may be limited. Keep in mind you live in a politically polarized country.
I'm not an expert on this but my gut tells me that Microsoft/Sony/whoever, when specing the device will make a bulk contract purchase for their equipment. So although retail market for cpu/gpu/ram may be so much right now they'll be able to get better hardware at a cheaper rate than any consumer wishing to build at the cheapest price avaiable. I would hope at least that next-gen aren't building at 660ti grade GPU.
Delorean – datetime conversions in Python
Moving target: Apple's next move is more important than its last
"If you don't like it, then quit"

My former boss said this in a morale speech. At the time I thought was being an a-hole. There had been some complaints on safety and usefulness of an exercise and that was his response to it.

Then I realized he was right, and that's why he's a former boss of mine.

Just silently quitting facebook was something I did recently. It's not the end of the world. Quite the opposite really.
> As someone who gets what they are doing

Are you serious?
Cool, you might be interested in Testacular also, a similar project to yours. The main differentiator for Thrill/Queen will be that Queen acts as a central server which anyone in the network can execute tests on. So if you have many developers, they don't each have to setup their own browser pool.
Working in a large downtown building, it would be great to have 3D view of what walls to be by to make a call. My brain sort of has a map like this, just from the punishment of a hanging browser session or dropped call.
Github no longer blocked in China
Github is no longer blocked in China. Perhaps other HNers in China can confirm.
They didn't use condoms back in those days...
Tell HN: We'll write your lifecycle emails for you if you sign up for Userfox
Just search for '"foo_bar"' rather than 'foo_bar'.
Congrats on launching. The site looks great.

Some feedback:

* On the browse page, you should remove the ninja after the person's expertise. It makes it easier for the expertise to stand out when scanning the experts.

* It wasn't immediately obvious to me that the green circle meant that the ninja was available now--maybe something more obvious if you want people to start a session in an ad hoc fashion vs scheduling a future session.

* It might be useful to show the people an onboarding page with the type of help you could get from these ninjas.
> You just can't do that with anything these days

You can fake it - https://github.com/jamii/mechanical-sympathiser
One of the points not mentioned in the article is that this analysis is useful even if (like me, tptacek, and many others) you don't trust Javascript crypto.

That's because Mega is designed as simply an API that any client (including one distributed as a desktop application) could implement. However, another client implementing this same spec would have the same weaknesses. It's important that we get the design improved now. Then we can go on to build open source clients outside of the perils of the JS runtime.

Edited to add: If anyone is interested in building such a open source desktop client in Python, I could help by making our (SpiderOak's) toolchains, packagers, and installers available.

Edited again to add: Assuming a solid design and implementation is eventually produced in Javascript, you could probably re-use most of the code and avoid the JS runtime dangers by repackaging it as a desktop app with something like http://appjs.org/ Remember that of course your privacy is based not just on you using a secure client, but everyone you share data with doing likewise.
The first Open Whisper Systems Spring Break Of Code
Did I say the DOJ thought they were to be locked up? Are you being deliberately obtuse?
Ah, interesting business model, thanks!
Hehe good to hear. We use a hashed version of phone IMEI as a unique identifier for proper weighting and cleaning of the data. You can also stop this without LBE by turning off data-sharing in the app, but then you won't be contributing to the world' largest and most open coverage maps.