skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is anonymity online so important?

We have never had the amount of anonymity we do today. Being able to communicate to large numbers of people while remaining anonymous was something that was just not that practical before the internet. Society functioned just fine then. So why is it so important now?

Not that I support what this troll is doing of course. But I fail to see why a start of affairs that basically only existed for a small group of people from 1970-2000 is so crucial to civilization now that the internet is just an extension of real life and not a playground for the technological elite.
If you find that interesting, check out 'Locked up Abroad' on Netflix.
Do you really think a personality vector (space) basis is close to two-dimensional, or was that a drastically simplified example? I don't think [IQ EQ] comes close to accurately describing personality.

Plenty of people who have poor inter-personal skills and "emotional intelligence" would still not be caught dead transporting someone else's luggage in that situation.
Under Armour Unveils Wearable Athletic Monitoring Device
Not that I'm interested in the political process as an EU citizen (because it makes my blood boil), but how credible do you think this is? It's probably been blown out of proportion three times before even reaching the so called journalists at cnet...

Not going to happen.
Good question.

Apache, myqql and PHP comes in a single install package, so you download, click to install and find your home directory where you can start writing code. No configuration necessary. That's important to me, because configuration isn't what I'm interested in. Wordpress, PHPBB and a host of other stuff is the same: Place it in a folder, and run through the HTML based setup. Done. Deploying on a hosted solution is equally easy; copy the PHP files from yuor localhost directory to the host, copy the DB using the webbased mysql manager and you're done.

Also, I like the fact that there's a direct and obvious link between the files you create and the pages you see. Create something.php in your home directory and it will appear as something.php in localhost. I checked out a few other languages, and there appeared to be a non-trivial link between files and HTML.

Also, the PHP community is very helpful for beginners. Asking what an array is, or how to display the time in a snippet of HTML isn't frowned upon, but respectfully answered.

I'm fully aware of the drawbacks of this simplistic approach such as spaghetti code, security concerns, scalability and probably much more. But that isn't really the point, if I'm making a microsite for a friend, or a mockup to see if something will work I don't really care.
Ah. Well sure, people complain about big changes, every time they happen, mostly because they don't like having to relearn things.

When FB introduced the newsfeed, people thought it was supremely creepy and they complained. Now they probably don't remember what it was like without it. When the timeline was introduced, it was the same thing. People complained about business accounts, apps, searching, photo tagging...every major change gets loads of complaints. And yet most people accept or even love those things within a couple months, and FB has continued to grow monumentally.

I see no reason to imagine this visual redesign or even the upcoming graph search will be any different.
Yeah, I'm surprised the Torment KS didn't appear on HN after it ended up being the fastest KS to hit 1 million (8 hours).
Microsoft, Google refuse to disclose U.K. female employee counts
Power and a laptop only. Any material on the laptop has to be loaded prior to leaving.
If you are interested in a game that holds similar mechanics, take a look at Darkfall(http://www.darkfallonline.com/), while it is shutting down, the 'sequel' is being released. It offers the same full looting, full PvP experience. The only area where time-sinking customers benefit is from the fact you can build your own strongholds to store things if your toon gets killed.
How would you explain planes then? We have had autopilot for awhile but there is no law that planes be autonomous.

Anyway, the question is who is liable. If we take the plane industry as an example, then if the autopilot is at fault the seller is liable. It is not reasonable for an autonomous vehicle to say 'I give up, have the controls back' whenever it is about to crash. Especially not if the would be driver cannot drive (blind, elderly, young children, etc...)

The only issue is that Google and other autonomous car manufacturers don't want to be liable because the potential liability will be enormous but they want autonomous cars.

The prediction is that those companies will try/are trying to get legislation to shift liability to the owners of the cars possibly as part of their insurance (autonomous car coverage).

Another question is if a machine kills a human even if by accident, is the entity who created the machine at fault? Again, it will be a matter of politics and power rather than right and wrong. If it was otherwise, corporate officeholders would have long been in jail.
Crowd Computing and The Synaptic Web
I think that's too broad of a generalization. I happen to walk the line between designer and developer and I know a lot of my fellow designers are very open about their process and work. Designers often share their tools and techniques openly. See the multitude of CSS frameworks, free fonts, PSDs, etc. I think the notion that they're more secretive less open comes from these cases where a designer does make a stink about "theft", "copying", or whatever the terms they use may be. The thing about that is, well, first design is a very personal thing. Yes, there are rules and best practices, tools, and techniques that apply universally but at the same time good design also carries with it a piece of the designer. We take our designs personally. It's very hard to release an open source piece of design work because you need to make it in such a way that it can be effectively customized or used in such a way that the larger context makes it a unique work unless of course it's a rare case of the designer not caring if everyone in the world uses the design verbatim (see: Wordpress themes).

I know for me, personally, I've put many design projects on GitHub - from the mockups to assets to the code to put a site together - knowing there's a chance someone will use it verbatim but hoping it gets used as a jumping off point or customized to make it someone else's.

With design, you can see when someone has ripped you off very obviously most of the time. You can't own design elements of course but its a very subjective thing that you just know when you see it. Developers and designers also think very differently in some areas. With developers everything is logical and black and white. With designers, much of their work is vague, fluid, and incredibly subjective. Emotion plays a role in the success of design often times whereas a developer's code will be just as useful and functional no matter how anyone feels about it. As a developer, when I open source something, I know that I can't own the concept of a loop or a database query or whatever. What makes my code unique is the way in which I solve my problem and how it solves a problem that other code has not solved. I'd be happy if someone forked my code, made it better, and started a new project from it that became popular. However I'd be upset if someone took my design, added on to it, and passed it off as their own. The difference? On the surface there shouldn't be one. But beyond the surface it's all about the piece of yourself you put into design work.

Hopefully this makes sense and doesn't just sound like rambling. I'm sure I may need to clarify a few things I said so please ask if I said something vague.
Because buying a company and shut it down for strategy purposes is exactly why people were so mad of Microsoft on 90's.

One has the hope that when a failing business is acquired the new owner will try to rescue it.
It's there to deter fake counternotices by giving the original issuer time to seek an injunction / file a lawsuit I think.
So they want to prevent advertisements for pornographic products? That's "nothing"?

How is this well meaning?
Yep, designers sell their designs whereas developers sell their expertise. It's this way because that's what the market wants right now. When companies start to hire designers because their good and not because their portfolio contains stuff they've never seen before, designers will become more open.
I think this data speaks about the most popular languages for users of that service, I'd be curious about how many people are in their sample size. Percentages just aren't very descriptive in that sense :) Cool information though, I'm still always shocked when I see how popular Java is. Glad to see Python is slightly more popular though!
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Not just with the best of intentions.

Valve have always treated their customers pretty well. They're not viewed like EA or Activision for a good reason, they've garnered a great deal of good will by behaving in an exemplary way. You're envisioning a hypothetical of the all the worst possible outcomes. At the moment we have no reason to imagine anything other than them keeping their word. I do agree that it's not ideal having no solution we can implement ourselves.

My criteria for price is actually mainly dependent on how many hours of enjoyment I get out of something. I'm not willing to spend the cost of a triple A game for 10-12 hours gameplay. If it's got something upwards of 40+ hours then I'm quite happy to spend money on it.
That's a really good example. A neuro-prosthetic to treat prosopagnosia.

A friend of mine who is colorblind wants to see Google Glass help distinguish colors, which is more trivial, but similar.
Why bother with s3? Just setup cloudflare directly with heroku (or GAE). Then setup HTML caching with page rules. Its relatively new. Works great!
So the other Chrome hacks were managed through Windows/Mac OS exploits?
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Fair point. I focused a bit too much on the framework itself, but I was really trying to address the 'intimidating' nature of objective-c (as it relates to getting things done in iOS). Certainly I can appreciate the verbosity in comparison and I know where RubyMotion has it's place. Just saying for the folks that are intimidated by objective-c (and have yet to give it a shot): try not to be!
The story here is not the 'porn ban' but that MEPs are not listening much less responding to their electorates.

In fact they are actively organising to not be bothered by their constituents.
I wonder what the best course of action would be in such a situation?

pay attention to reality how it is, not how you wish it was. i.e. don't believe models are chasing 60 yr old physics professors.
Iceland has banned strip clubs and has an existing law against porn that isn't enforced; they are discussing enforcing it, including on the internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/25/iceland-seeks-in...

I remain under the impression that this is somewhat unusual and unique to Iceland and America's puritan status isn't really threatened.
This is so great. I'm such a damn UO fan I can't even put it into words. I'm not a "gamer", but UO was the __best__ game I've ever played. No game, as far as I can tell, has even come close to replicating the brilliance of UO around 1998-1999. It probably gave me some of my best childhood memories, and it was also the first time I was ever called a "fuking n00b" on the internet.
Wow, just reading through how the European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament work, I'm struck by the near total lack of direct accountability to voters there is.
Tabletop Bitcoin ATM Is Huge for Payment Privacy
> It's almost a little hard to sympathize with these people that preorder the games.

Why almost? EA as publisher is a big warning sign and in combination with the DRM what's happening now is exactly the expected outcome.
Game designer Warren Spector worked on both the Ultima series and Deus Ex which might explain the similar philosophy.
I understand that it isn't on boxes.

My point is that 'works forever' isn't a battle you are going to win, so aim low and succeed.

My wording doesn't have to be what ends up on boxes. The point is that it should be possible to clearly communicate connection requirements to the purchaser. Do that and they have all the information they need to make (or not make!) the purchase. I'm not terribly sympathetic to the 'the consumer is a moron so you can't try to inform him' line of reasoning.

The fact that companies go out of business isn't that big a deal, if you are concerned EA is going bankrupt, don't believe their promise to provide servers for 18 months and spend your dollars elsewhere.
Is it possible for a manufacturer to just provide a statement upfront when you buy the car that they can't guarantee that the car is 100% accident-proof, and you use the car at your own risk? That might put people off initially, but as people get more exposure and realize the cars are more or less safe, they'd be willing to use them and just get insurance like they currently do.
I've been using Finder since 7.5.3. The Finder hasn't changed all that much in that time has it? Comparative to the rest of the OS? What's so different?
Having read the whole story, I can't help but think that he knew he was transporting drugs, but was duped into thinking he was doing it for the real Milani. Like all the best movie cons, you make the mark believe they're on the inside, but they're really not.

Getting back to the egotism: This is speculation, but I think his thought process on the drug smuggling probably went like this: "I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met, of COURSE I will get away with it, especially with my airtight excuse if I am caught." This kind of reminds me of Hans Reiser, whose egotism and belief in his own superiority was also his downfall.
They don't like emails from constituents? What do they prefer, burning cars and brick through their windows?
But I don't think we're living in that world where MMOs/Zynga social games are this hot new thing that every single game has to move towards.
Of course, every rational and honest person was trying to undermine the Soviet government, because it was a repressive dictatorship. Sure everyone will brag about it nowadays much more than they really did back then - few really had balls to deal with KGB. Jews are no exception here.

Antisemitism was of the same nature and origin in Russia as everywhere else - 'evil' Jews were a good excuse for the rulers' own failure and incompetence.
While I started with iOS development through the traditional route of those Stanford courses, I learned the bulk of my more in-depth knowledge after focusing on RubyMotion.

"You'll still have to learn the iOS API" is true, but I think it's a red herring. Because RubyMotion isn't just swapping ObjC with Ruby, and there are more compelling reasons for trying out RubyMotion than "you get to use Ruby".

RubyMotion is a vast simplification of the development environment (rake + vim), a set of wrappers that vastly simplify Cocoa Touch objects/libs, and a small helpful community that makes it easy to filter out signal from the noise when you hit an obstacle.

And those are the reasons why RubyMotion helped me become a better iOS developer as a newbie.

By wrapping Cocoa Touch in some painful areas, it helped me focus on learning the iOS framework at a higher level instead of wrestling with ceremony.
Chicago Morgue Now Publishing Photos of the Unidentified Dead Online
Yes, Handlebars is explicitly designed for logicless templating. If you need real logic in your View (which I might add is often a good time to step back and possibly refactor your solution), you can always fall back on Underscore's templating.

I frequently do this in my apps - I use Handlebars by default, but fall back on _.template() any time my view's absolutely have to have logic in them.

Since Backbone already depends on Underscore, it's harmless in terms of introduced dependencies.
You missed a biggy, which is "Receive bitcoins as payment".

You could set up a bitcoin gambling website, sell some sort of SaaS for bitcoins or, perhaps the most popular and profitable route right now, sell some drugs for bitcoins. Hypothetically, depending on your state/country, you could acquire weed legally and then (illegally) send the weed through the post in exchange for bitcoins.
That's what they're trying to do here - they're trying to push out the product pipeline they inherited from Motorola, cutting their losses, and preparing for a more "unified" future with fewer, but better devices (nexii?)
This is the only thing I've found on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2484047
> Good Design will and always strives to be universal

Good Design doesn't sell. Great Design does. Great design will achieve exclusivity by iteratively attempting (and failing) to become universal.

> It's funny that the recent Flat-design trend was triggered by Microsoft's Metro UI, which is inspired by Modern Cities' signage

Which was probably inspired by Mondrian's experiments in exclusivity.
How the Times writes about men and women
I'm not calling you a liar, but it's helpful in these situations if you can link to something that supports your claims.
are you certain about needing a business plan, it looks to me that pro for $20/month also supports SSL? perhaps I'm missing an important bullet?

[update]: i am guessing from the language on the "SSL encryption type" bullet:

"CloudFlare-issued"
vs
"CloudFlare-issued or custom"

or custom must be what's required to host your own domain ssl cert?
Google has explicitly stated that they do not intend to, and will not use Glass for advertising. This feature is similar to "Find My Friends" and is clearly opt-in (as it requires prior training) -- have you even read the article?
There's a significant difference between busting people for dropping acid or growing some weed in their backyard and busting people for trafficking large amounts of cocaine on behalf of an international drug cartel.
Google Maps was made available about a week after the iOS 6 update.

It's better than the one that was native to iOS 5.
You read that page wrong. It's only the Pro plan that you need for custom SSL, which is $20/month. I use it with 5 different HTTPS-enabled domains on CloudFlare.
True words.

- From another Cocoa devs, who loves Ruby.
Have you used rails ORM (activerecord) or sqlalchemy ? (I haven't used the latter much but people rave about it). Hibernate is an ORM taken to the extremes
Gettimeofday for Windows
Vote yes to permanent death [1] in MMOs!

Richard Bartle: "[without permanent death] Newbies (and not-so-newbies) feel they can never catch up. The people in front will always be in front, and there's no way to overtake them. The horizon advances at the speed you approach it." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_death
[2] Designing Virtual Worlds, 2003
Deep C [pdf]
The hidden cost of stuff
It is a fallacy to say that you cannot say that just because a woman wrote a book about women that it is inherently going to be incorrect. What about every other class at the university? Books written by men for men examined in classes about men. Historically, every other subject has been that one-sided.

Personally, I know just as many male feminists as I do female feminists, and several of the former are Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) majors or minors.

I'd love it if all students were required to take a GWS class. I'd love it if more male voices were engaged in the feminist discourse. We need more male voices in the feminist discourse. But frankly, it is easier to stick with the straw man argument "feminism is about hating men, going against nature, or being a lesbian!" rather than reading a wide range of literature that discusses its true goal: ending sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Should be something we can all get behind...
Just post subsequent parts online and submit to HN. They'll get voted up just like this one and that's how the rest of us will be notified.

Nice post btw.
Usually the developers creating open source libraries benefit from the popularity of their projects. The more people using their code, the more well known they are. If nothing else, they feel proud when their software is downloaded N thousands times. In this case, Layervault can expect hundreds of sites to show up around the web looking just like their own.

Regarding the comment in the HTML, you are right, it won't make them feel better, because the design really is meant to look at. It doesn't matter how clever the source code is. That's the disadvantage the designers have, I was just saying I can understand them.
Frankly, I'm irritated at them for dragging their heals on getting the PECL4Win back up and running (and the lack of updates to http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ doesn't help matters.)

Since I've moved to the camp of "You developing PHP and use Windows? Let me show you how to setup Vagrant" I've become less concerned about the state of PHP & Windows. I just won't tolerate when people say PHP dropping XP support is a good thing (which the OP wasn't saying, but some have.)
If they forced to change the domain name, a hexy alternative might be: BADC0FFEE
Have you wondered how the accelerometer chip in your iPhone works?
Yes, the official propaganda was all about gender equality, there were movies, posters and newspaper stories about "a working-class woman" (one popular character from "40-latek" series even was called that - her most common line "I'm a working-class woman, I do not fear any job", and in each episode she was doing sth different).

At the same time 99% of the party leaders, managers, directors etc were male, even at regional level. There were still trades where woman were rare (woman on tractor was rare, casue not many woman wanted to do that for a living, woman as a bank director were rare just because). But no problems with getting to the university (incidentaly - you had much better chance to get to university if you were child of industrial worker of farmer, than if your parents were "inteligencja").

Stereotypes about math, programming and gender are also different between countries. Being good at math is cool in Poland, for example, even in primary school. There are some stereotypes about woman similar to that in USA, but nothing on such scale. From my experience around 10% programmers are female here.
And this is what happens when Yahoo employees don't work from home
I suspect every non white male tech worker in the US has experienced this at some point
The big difference as I see it is that the primary hassle with plugins in Vim, the fact that plugins normally all get dropped into a single directory and mixed around in such a way that they are nearly impossible to remove, doesn't really exist for zsh. You just source files wherever you happen to put them.

The features Vundle has that surpass Pathogen are also the features that I don't really consider that valuable.
I've given up trying to keep OSX java up to date. I can still use Libreoffice. I just keep the plugins disabled in the browsers. Oracle has made it, or rather left it, unusable.
Agreed, this is the best thing I've read on a newspaper site in as long as I can remember. What a story. True journalism at work.