skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He isn't saying CISPA should be opposed, but rather, additional specific legislation to protect individual's data from being retrieved by the government without due process.
Will you pay for Google Reader each month?
from the kickstarter: "The most common donation amount on Kickstarter is $25. Surely, 80,000 of our three million viewers would find that price-point viable!"

I assume those viewers are predominantly US.
> it starts with people like me who got to ask themselves honestly "why do I keep relying on these guys?".

Boy, you really summed up my own personal feelings on this. I'm beginning to rethink my own Gmail usage now.
> closed as not constructive by Mark Trapp Sep 26 '11 at 8:16

I previously commented here on this in a slightly snarky fashion. I deleted that, but almost simultaneously, an upvote came through. (Sorry about that, whomever...)

So, I'm recommenting, but hopefully without the snark. For me, this aspect of "Programming" was a serious, career-level question at times. This comment is now OT with respect to the OP, I guess, but... then again, maybe it's not. Because... isn't this a serious, career level question for many programmers?

And, if so, where else would one discuss such things?

In some ways, the out and out coding can be easier. It's the "career", and the politics, that can be the biggest pain in the ass with regard to the job. Depending upon circumstances. (Healthy hive, or smoked, as it were.)
So the submodule version information can now be decoupled from the superproject?
Other previous discussion. This one is 120 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776844

Personally I don't see why this resonates so much with the HN community. Its a great example of the worst attitude to take to work every day.
DOM issue: if your window is shorter than the page height, the bottom border overlaps the content in chrome

http://imgur.com/HAy5DRI
Two words: check cashing.

Poor people don't get bank accounts, so they have to give these places a slice of every paycheck.
I thought the first season was brilliant, but it couldn't keep it up.
A Kickstarter campaign wouldn't come close to covering it.

Your average cable TV drama costs upwards of $2M/episode, with Game of Thrones costing $4-$10 million/episode. Harry Potter has a big following, so it might make $10M all up - enough for a set and a pilot, maybe.
I signed something there and got a ton of emails about unrelated crap I didn't ask for or care about. That was not recently so things may have changed but I will never use the site again.
Time to kill the email sign-off
There was a discussion recently about technical literacy (everyone should be taught code).

I think this highlights one of the reasons why people should at least be technically literate. Being able to understand complex models for allocation and argue what should be weighted more than others will be a requirement.

I see more, not less, systems being built on complex models.
Nice Laundry Wants to Help Men Love Their Sock Drawers
The Whole Foods Effect
"No groceries, dishes, deciding what to eat, no endless conversations weighing the relative merits of gluten-free, keto, paleo or vegan."

Is this a predominantly American thing? I've never even heard of these things used to describe food before I came to the USA.
Given that Warner Brothers is behind this and still owns the property (per what I read, elsewhere), I'm not particularly in favor of this.

They have plenty of money to "risk" and invest, and presumably will see the lion's share of any positive outcome of this initiative.

If and as such, I'm not favorably inclined towards their using the mechanism to... mitigate risk (yet further), I guess. It takes away from projects that don't have a "sugar daddy" sitting in the wings.

P.S. Or, even if it doesn't "take away" from other projects seeking funding, I'm... somehow still offended. Especially in light how how these same "big name" studios use severely restricted distribution options and other controls to screw over not only fans/customers but the shows that depend upon them.

Warner Brothers using Kickstarter -- or, "forcing" their property to do so? It just stinks, to me.
Read this: http://ycuniverse.com/yc-applying-interviewees
I had no idea this was limited to chrome, but having run into it two days ago, changing the user-agent string fixes it completely. I specifically used Android 4.0.2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.2; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/ICL53F) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30).
Looks interesting. Do you have an Android app?
What I wonder about is if there are any SAG rules about paying for a role. Charging an audition fee is strictly verboten, for example.
So what does this mean for those of us who have made the jump to Distribute? Do we now jump back to Setuptools in a year or something?
The original sentence makes more sense if spoken aloud, because you can foreshadow the last part of the sentence with your tone.
I'm curious what your plans are to support yourself once you're done traveling? Most people don't have the luxury of taking these kind of lengthy trips, because having a lengthy resume gap in this kind of job market will kill you. Do you have some kind of safety net, either in the form of liquid wealth, family support, lifestyle business, or professional/personal network for when you're finished seeing the world?
METEOR GOES HAM
Ask HN: What do you want to see built?
I'd really like a service that allowed me to pay my recurring bills (rent, utilities, etc.) with my credit card. What about you guys?
This guy lost 27lbs on a balanced diet of nothing but junk food snack cakes, cookies, and Doritos.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
That's a helluvu lot of abstraction for writing to a database.
This is certainly different. " bob* " refers to all files that start with "bob". " bob * " refers to a file named bob as well as all files.
RSS bypasses ads on websites. Google makes money on those ads. It was strange that they supported RSS for so long.
What are the pros and cons, obvious and less so, of including pip as well?
Based on your must-have list, a good low-tech solution might be an RSS to email gateway.

Then your mail client becomes your RSS client. Gmail has j/k key bindings, is relatively unadorned, and facilitates your skim / skip workflow. Excerpts might require some work, but perhaps you could coerce them into the subject line.

Aaron Swartz wrote a nice RSS to email gateway btw: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

I have a crappier one that delivers directly into a Maildir, and I use it to read news in mutt: http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop
Google Pulls Ad-Blocking Apps From Play Store
Well Star Wars is now a cultural icon, so that's a decision I'd obviously make in hindsight. However we have no idea what this movie will be like or even if it will satisfy the fans.

Also I wasn't surprised so much by the transaction of a speaking role for $10k as I was surprised that someone dropped that kind of money on Kickstarter and made the decision to do so within hours of the campaign's beginning. That's an intense impulse purchase.
PayPal acquires Duff Research
There's no evidence organic food is healthier than conventional food

Isn't it well known that chemical fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, heavy metals and other nasties do affect foods supplies through the conventional food chain? I think people who enjoy naturally grown food do so with the knowledge that they are avoiding all of this. Sure, it's not going to make a great difference over a few meals, but if you spend your life eating well rounded meals grown naturally your body is certainly going to benefit.

Secondly, I am currently under the impression that evidence of bioavailability for many supplements is pathetic to zero.

Finally, the damage that extracting, packing, shipping, storing, ordering and measuring these artificial food replacements causes to the environment (ie. the real ecosystems they are ultimately sourced from) is vastly greater than that of simply plucking a fresh tomato from the vine.
I'm mixed on it. I'd rather see micro-equity crowdfunding, but my understanding is the SEC still hasn't issued rules for that yet.

Outside of that, making movies using other people's money is what studios do. It's the core of their very model. Isn't it better if it's from the fans than some ROI obsessed hedge fund?
Fair. It's definitely in the eye of the beholder.
Be careful running commands that you don't understand! I've been bitten by that before...
Can't they Taft-Hartley the speaking roles (paying a fine for using non-SAG performers, as is routinely done with commercials)?

When I saw the $10k thing I was wondering if it included a SAG background performer voucher.
Something like this will happen, eventually. It'll start with a very high-profile pilot, though.
Currently not, but I am planning to work on native mobile apps soon!

I have tried to make the current website mobile-friendly, though it may be slower on older phones since it uses javascript to position the tiles.
Brian Shih's answer to 'Why is Google killing Google Reader?'
Parallelizing the Python Interpreter: An alternate approach to async
I've certainly thought "Wouldn't it be nice to not have to eat anymore?"

A possible solution arises.
Greed is Groupon
And he's also part of the Long Now Foundation and did volunteer coding for MediaWiki (Don't know the guy, just googled around).

No need to be mean to a nice guy. :-\
Until you brought it up, I didn't realize that those are really the only two products of theirs I use outside of search as well...

sigh
Show HN: I rewrote the Backbone.js Todo example
Google, destroyer of ecosystems
I can't even really disagree with anything you said. I guess to me the rub is - can this service disruption be enough to grab enough of the existing marketshare to be relevant? Another way to think about it is, it still can't be valued at more than a national maid service francise with slightly better margins and lower buy-in.
There were apps and services. They starting shutting down. Never actually mattered. Not to me at least. Until a few were killed, like Google Reader, and I started understanding the frustration and sometimes disappointment shown by some of the users and fans. I feel the same now. This is one of the few services other than Gmail that I use(used) from Google's shop. Will have to settle for a good alternative now.

I guess I would rather to go a paid solution. It's for the same reason that I am thinking of this move that I went to Pinboard from Delicious for - advertisements were not my worry, it was the chance being shut down.

Was Google Reader bringing any revenue to Google? I mean I never saw any ads in there, so I doubt it but some of you might be knowing better.

Not sure they have killed for just being out there not bringing any money home or they will be focussing on Google Currents now?

But stuff like this http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/the-end-of-feeddemon.ht... is more sad than the news itself :(
The naturalistic fallacy is only relevant when dealing with ethics.
What if a person or company committed a significant investment to such a project, contingent on a crowdfunding push hitting certain thresholds?
There is a male cashier at my local McDonalds, so it can't be a universal rule today.

I think it sounds more like a dumb quirk of one store than corporate policy.
9 persuasion lessons from a 4 year old
But that is already unlawful.
I pray that Joss doesn't do something like this for firefly, because I'm worried about how in debt I would go to assist in funding a reunion of that series...
Not sure if this counts but I drink carrot juice religiously. As well as a multi vitamin and omega 3 capsules daily.
Blog owners who get most of their traffic via Reader ought to repost this. It's already got a 100:1 like:dislike ratio.
There's been a UK version of this around for a while now: http://www.mysinglefriend.com.

I know this because it has been advertised quite a lot in the popbitch newsletter but today is the only time I have visited the site (via a google, before posting this comment, to check I didn't imagine the whole thing). I find this process interesting. I might have thought the adverts were useless on me, as I never clicked them, but lo and behold the company stuck in my brain somewhere and here I am sharing the information on an internet forum (to appear knowledgable? for karma? why?). Takeaway: advertising is more powerful than I thought.
> I read a compelling article recently (I can't for the life of me remember where) that makes precisely the opposite argument, which is that misconduct arises from a breakdown of stratification and the subjection of everything to competitive market pressures.

Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University has done research on stress in baboons, and notes that during times of turmoil it's the top-tier males which have the highest levels of stress (normally it's the lower-ranking males). Because when order is in question, the ones at the top have to fight it out.
Why? They can just join SAG.

"All new members pay a one-time-only initiation fee, plus the first semiannual dues at the time of joining. The national initiation fee rate is currently $3000.00 (initiation fees may be lower in some states). Annual Base dues are $198.00. In addition, work dues are calculated at 1.575 percent of covered earnings up to $500,000."
Stores use smartphones to track customer behavior
Non-Programmer Here
I've been a lurker in Hacker News for a long time now and never had the courage to post here because I'm not a programmer nor am I working for a start-up. I am however, an avid traveler and I know my passion lies within the tourism industry. I have an idea to improve the way one can research travel information and also help plan trips. I've been sketching out what I want the website to look like, what features it would have and how people would interact. I am constantly researching for websites that are currently available that facilitate this, and to be honest I wasn't able to find any. I know I want to make this, BUT the problem is, I don't have the money to pay someone to do it and coming from an accounting background I don't even know what I need to do to build this. So far my research has lead me to conclude that I need to learn python and use Django to build a web application of this scale.

so my question is, would an incubator accept a non-programmer with a decent idea?
The problem with creative content that is funded primarily by ad-revenue is that you break a key part of the feedback mechanism between creators and fans. Revenue becomes a matter of the intersection of lucrative demographics with eyeball counts. And because it's cheaper and easier to make content which merely titillates and draws attention such content tends to be what dominates. In a way it's surprising that anything of quality has been made under that system. Fortunately crowd funding helps reforge the link between fans and creators but it'll be a long, uphill battle before that sort of connection is the norm.
I think I know what you mean. I would, regardless of my comment and the circumstances I describe, probably kick in (or, have kicked in, were it then an option) for another season of "Firefly".

I might be more in favor if the restrictions on the resulting product were loosened. As it is... I guess I kind of feel like the players you name are getting the fans to directly fund production, while still walking off with all the profit.

And, regarding restrictions on the finished product... We'll see. But, I'm not optimistic.

Prove me wrong, VM! :-)
Is there a question in here somewhere?
I would really stress the importance of having an open one-on-one conversation with her and resolve these issues. Seems like you already tried that and it turned into a heated discussion, here is some advice on how to approach it.

1. Have the conversation in a public place where professionals meet. For example, coffee shops. If you in the bay area, it would be best to have it in coffee shops known for startup discussions, such as Coupa Coffee in Palo Alto. Just choosing the right place for the conversation will make sure that the discussion does not go out of hand.
2. Come to the discussion with an open frame of mind. There may be some issues that she is feeling - you should be willing to listen.
3. Alert her in advance about the general topic you want to talk about. So that she is not surprised and is mentally prepared.
4. During the discussion, make sure to lay out specific behaviors/situations/examples that you find objectionable, and listen to what she has to say. Again, be open - perhaps there is another piece of the puzzle here that you have thought about fully, and she explains it to you.
Example: "I put in 60-70 hours per week" is a very general statement. A specific statement would be "Last week, we launched feature F. I did X, Y, Z tasks over night to make the launch successful. However, you contribution over that week was only implementing a simple bug fix B. I would like to listen to you to know how can I help you contribute more to the project."
5. You may have some counterpoints to the arguments she makes. Be specific and encourage her to be specific. Hopefully after some time you'll sort it out amicably and you both have a good understanding of how each other works.
6. Contrary to what others have said, I would not bring a third-party to the discussion. You need to own resolving this problem. Getting third-party involved too quickly can be detrimental - they don't know the situation as much as both of you do. Most problems like these can be solved by honest and open communication.

Good luck!
That's not how I read it. This just lets you more easily update submodules to their upstreams. You still need to commit the updated submodules in the super project. e.g.:

$ cd /path/to/superproject
$ git submodule update --remote [path/to/submodule]
$ git add path/to/submodule
$ git commit -m "update submodule to latest upstream"
A word of support...

About 18 months ago I gave the Four Hour Body diet a whirl, primarily to lose weight. I was very surprised to notice that my psoriasis improved. A lot. While I was eating well. Took a stressful contract gig, resumed eating poorly, psoriasis came back with a vengeance. So I tried harder to stick the diet and my skin's health improved.

Maybe 9 months ago I saw Dr Terry Wahls TEDx talk. I thought "Aha!" I'm a software guy, not a nutritionist. And I really just want to know what I'm supposed to do, the bullet points, not really needing the details.

Since then I've tried very hard to eat like Wahls suggests. My psoriasis is now about 2/3rd gone. From bleeding breaking skin plagues back to normal skin mixed with flakiness.

I see my dermatologist next week for my yearly. I'm quite eager to see if he notices the improvement. I've been dealing with this stuff for 10+ years and have gone to great lengths to treat it. I'm a bit chagrinned (grumpy) that all I had to do is eat more vegetables.

So I believe, but cannot prove, that I lacked the proper nutrition and now that I'm eating a very diverse diet my health has improved.

It's pretty uncontroversial. I'm impressed by the commenters who take great exception to your points. Like my scientist cousin is fond of asking skeptics (e.g. creationists, climate change, economics) "What level of proof do you require?"
lol, sorry I rambled on too much.

Would an incubator accept a start-up idea coming from a non-programmer?
Not "define" as in changing some words. If they actually made an OS that was almost entirely IE, then sure, it would be pointless to ask for other browsers to run on it - because running another browser would mean replacing the OS with something else, just like with Firefox OS.

The only OSes like that are Chrome OS and Firefox OS (edit: and WebOS). Windows, Android, iOS, etc. are not browser based, so it make sense to ask for other browsers to run on them.
its too bad. i can see why they cancelled it but it was an essential part of how i process information
Hmmm I was going to investigate. So that seems to point to T-Mobile doing some sort of spying on one's HTTP requests? If that's the case why not block other non-mobile user-agents?
Why wouldn't it come close?

38 K people just raised $2 MM in 12 hours.

I think you're thinking about this all wrong.

I'd pay $10 to watch a new episode of Sherlock right now. Even if I have to wait 6 months for production. They can have $100, if I get 10 episodes. And if you can ONLY get episodes by paying for it, I think it'd scale.
I linked to our research page, right?

http://www.trailofbits.com/resources/mobile_eip_2.pdf

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2013/1/8/Conferenc...

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/7/14/Conferen...

If you think that Android has a "deeply secure design", than then you probably want to start at the top. Android sits somewhere between "gift to hackers" and "Windows XP". Phil Schiller's tweet was pointing out the consequences of this and how it shows up in successful attacks performed against the Android platform. F-Secure, even though they're an AV firm, does good work once in a while :-).

http://www.f-secure.com/static/doc/labs_global/Research/Mobi...

EDIT: I'll give you a few hints.

First, Android hasn't solved the updating problem. It's getting better but at far too slow a rate. Every day, hundreds of thousands more devices that takes month to years to patch are entering the market. Furthermore, poor patch management by OEMs and carriers mean that sometimes they think they've patched when they've really rolled back updates. They do this unknowingly because their software deployment processes are abysmal. See http://www.xray.io for more info.

Second, Android exploit mitigations are very, very weak. It lacks code-signing, one of the strongest mitigations available (just go ask an iOS jailbreaker). Apps have access to a shell. The Linux kernel is full of infoleaks that make kernel ASLR nearly useless. App Permissions, though many people think they help with this problem, actually have nearly no effect whatsoever on the ability to root/jailbreak/privilege escalate on Android. This is what I meant by "blaming users" for security problems, since so many people fall back on "educating" people not to allow apps with certain permissions even though, ironically, it does nothing. End effect: even if Android could patch, rooters will write new exploits when they need them, as they need them. It's getting harder, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be and we're on version 4 now.

Third, Bouncer has a severely limited ability to impact this problem. Due to the lack of code signing and the overall architecture of Android, Bouncer can't ensure that the app that it scans is the app that runs on the phone. Apps can dynamically update their own code at runtime. Bouncer appears to rely principally on dynamic, rather than static, verification leading to tricks you can play with timers and environment detection (these attacks have been proven). Further, what about third party appstores? There are dozens out there and you can't just say that they're all second-class (third?) citizens that deserve to get 0wned. 3rd-party appstores are supposed to be a key feature for Android, but they're unsupported entirely by these controls.

If you wanted to develop a mobile/embedded platform to bring a new generation of users onto the web and into your customer base, you should have spent about 5 minutes figuring out how to do it without opening them up to harm. Android is the way it is because it wasn't believed these design features (aka safety) couldn't be included in the beginning.
Sorry for the off-topic/ pedantic, but since when has VM stood for Veronica Mars, and cons stood for conferences?

To me VM == virtual machine, and cons==convicts. I realize context changes that, but I like browsing from the https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments section of HN, and I find it rude that many HNers feel the need to use common Reddit acronyms not found anywhere else. For people that find Vim shortcuts so simple, one cannot easily fathom the time savings is worth the confusion (however temporary).