skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't see a difference because you don't seem to have a strong feeling about the ethics of these kinds of jobs. I don't say this to attack you or to judge you.

To understand what others are saying here, you need to substitute some other ethical question that you do have strong feelings about.

Regarding your game-theory comments -- you're implicitly assuming that "winning" involves maximizing your income. For me, how I feel about myself is part of assessing any potential win or loss.

Fundamentally, you can't really answer ethical or moral questions using market or game-theoretic thinking, without considering how you feel about what you're doing as part of the win/loss metric. If you don't care about an issue, you don't care about it.

So, "how will my caring about this make a difference" isn't really the right question. Instead, ask "why should I care about this?"
Emory Bubble v3 Interface Walkthrough
Would greatly appreciate your feedback and thoughts as we leverage an exclusive license from the university.
Tell HN: Tone down praising of the RSS-aggregators
Last few months I've used Feedly almost daily as the experience has been generally good, but this morning I decided to try other RSS-aggregators like Google Currents, News360, Flipboard, News Republic etc. (on my Android tablet). I felt that I was missing something and I realized that it was the mood that gets generated, while you browse the actual websites or when you are using an official -- well made -- mobile application for some website (like USA Today).

I'm quite sure that I can separate, if I'm reading Ars Technica or ReadWrite, even when not explicitely being told so, but while reading textual content of an article (with a possibility of seeing a photo, if it was included in the RSS-feed) different sources don't _feel_ different.

When I see the name of a source like "TechCrunch" I become aware of the attributes I've attached to it in my mind and thus I partially know what to expect from it. However, that is not enough to separate jokes made by Business Insider's article writers from TechCrunch's article writers. My mind wants more hints about the context (sensory cues, usually visual).

I'm not very keen to install tens and tens of different applications just to "be more in it", but I don't like vanilla RSS-feeds either (even with special effects).

It is virtually impossible to not ruin the experience of using a RSS-aggregator, if the subscribed feed doesn't contain any photos. I just subscribed to Phys.Org's RSS-feed through Google Currents and it was horribly boring to read the text snippets (full articles available on the actual website only).
I would appreciate any feedback. We just finished designing this: www.emorybubble.com/preview
In general I agree. What would be more interesting is an in-depth look at past cases that have lead to the creation of this legislation.
It's been mentioned here before but worth pointing out again. The UK government has an official github account:
https://github.com/alphagov
When Teachers Go Viral
It'd be better, if there were enough differentiating contextual cues (like on light mobile versions of websites), while reading an article in a news aggregator. It's a matter of layout and UI design skills (from both parties).

Yes, it is probable that when multiple parties (anyone with a website) do their own graphics design without consulting and coordinating with others, it can not be expected that the results fit nicely together. But the issue still stands.. there isn't enough mood to perceive, while using a RSS-aggregator.
I am Turkish, so I might be able to offer some commentary. What is said is essentially correct, but I'm more reluctant to assume this is the reason why. Turkey has a long way to go and many other problems to solve before it can become an EU member, and Europe has its own problems too. Cyprus is too unimportant for both sides to care about right now. When Turkey's time comes for the full membership and agreed by both parties and if the Cyprus remains the only roadblock, the heat from Turkey and EU can sink the entire island in one day so it is likely that they will cede. In the meanwhile, it's a convenient excuse. However the other issues facing EU membership of Turkey are pretty serious, so they'll be able to play this game for a while. The problem facing Turkey is, essentially, when or if the country joins the European Union, it's going to take around 1/4 of the chairs in the European Parliament (it's based on population, Turkey is about the same size as Germany population-wise), effectively becoming an instant major player in EU decisions alongside UK, France and Germany. This upends the power balance in Brussels. While on paper Turkey looks like an another regular Eastern European acquisition for EU, it is in effect a larger process than the entire history of acquisitions combined because of political, cultural and populace implications.

Even then, Turkish population has largely soured by the 30-year-long waiting at the gates game, and they are not as likely to accept then shown the financial implications of an EU membership. Considering Turkey has largely been impervious to financial perils of the EU (chugging along with a fine 5% growth rate through it all) and also considering GDP wise it is now one of the Top 20 economies in the world, with the second largest army of NATO after the United States, an EU membership, once a dream, is starting to look like not that good of a deal.

Turkey is essentially the thing that stands between perpetual war and dictatorships of Middle East and "civilised" Europe.
I thought this was going to be a modern fuckedcompany replacement. Have to admit, I was little disappointed.
What if you just want to use it as a reader and are happy with pasting in feed urls manually?
A bit more direct but not so different from what savers in the US and UK have suffered from quantitive easing in recent years.
It's theft from your family, plain and simple.

I feel very sorry for the parent poster. But, no, it's not that simple. We as Europeans have been spending too much, we have added countries to the Eurozone that were not healthy enough financially so that France's finances would seem relatively ok. For years we the ignored tax evasion and corruption. We as voters and citizens were all part of the problem, and now everyone is going to pay.

If the EU didn't bail out Cyprus, his/her savings would be worthless, since their economy would've collapsed. If Cyprus' population is not going to pay heavily, the next bail-out may not be possible, because the populations of the countries lending the money might revolt. I live in The Netherlands, and there's not much solidarity left (which I think is stupid, but anyway).

Obviously, it is not a very good manner to seize funds, because the citizens of the next country that needs to be bailed out, will withdraw their savings beforehand.
This is awesome! What's the backstory / stack?
The URL shortener doesn't kick in universally for API protocols, so sometimes you are left with it only half-working.

The major point here is readability, however. I understand there's a lot of points that can be levied against it, but it's fairly true that one is more organized than the other.
Perhaps not, he might have been involved in a similar plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy_the...

The evidence is not as iron-clad, but certainly in the realm of possibility.
With which private technology are they trying to switch to ? I believe they are dropping RSS not replacing it.
Small and incremental improvements over a current iteration can kick a product from "meh" to "must have". Remember the iPod?

You solve one minor annoyance in an existing product and you might just have the next Big Thing® on your hands.
We also built something very similar, but targeting mobile users only.
We started working on this app as an experiment on html5/cross platform apps; as well as to get server side experience supporting mobile apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keyboard-shortcuts!/id489432...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenlife....

The traction has been low till now, highlighting the fact that we need to seek a lot of feedback and iterate on it.

(edited for formatting; first time poster)
The Matrix in JavaScript in less than 600 bytes
An Interview with A. Stepanov (OLD)
We still have to report our worldwide accounts every year to the treasury department, and not doing do is considered very bad.
I agree that changing titles is sometimes necessary and most of the time it is reasonably done, but would it hurt to bring a little more transparency into the process? A small comment by the mod indicating (and possibly explaining) the change would go a long way...
You're missing the point. Social conditioning and shame are very powerful.

It's likely that designing land-mines involves many interesting technical problems. Regardless of whether there are still engineers who will work on land-mines, there's a social good to shaming them (assuming you think land-mines are bad).

If you don't have strong feelings about land-mines, or you don't think they're all that bad, then this argument won't make any sense to you.

People can choose to do or to not do things regardless of their effectiveness.

Do you realize that you're implicitly adopting an amoral viewpoint when you raise pragmatism above ethics or morality? That's a choice -- not a given. This is why you're getting the strong negative reaction, here. History is littered with examples of how this leads to bad outcomes and evil systems.
Many people are interested in Glass as a heads-up display or wearable computer, not as a camera. "Many" may end up being a very small number, but it stands to reason that it's larger than the number of people that actively desire to record strangers.

Unfortunately, the current model requires both a microphone (to hear you) and a camera (to see gestures), so even well-intentioned users will still be brandishing recording devices in ways that make others uncomfortable.
Come on, quantitative easing didn't lead to that much extra inflation, at least in the states.
laggy as hell for me here.
Ochysbliss - OMEGALOADED
Convert your money to gold and store it under a mattress. Libertarians are funny that way :)
This is why political articles like this, even though they are interesting, current, and sensible, are probably best avoided on HN.

I subscribe to the Economist, and think it's great, but politics is politics, and tends to spiral downhill pretty quickly.
Standards are the way that little players compete against near monopolies. They help the small companies and the consumers.

That's why it can't be too surprising that when a little player turns into the main player, they suddenly lose enthusiasm for standards.
Mike's classmate here. It was a pretty awesome presentation he gave on Friday and it was great seeing how quickly everyone's work came together during out personal projects sprint.

Some of us worked on meteor, one did a meteor package, several worked on node, one or two were on rails, mine was coffee and backbone on parse. I love being at Hack Reactor! Building cooler and cooler stuff every week is downright addictive.

If anybody's coming to the next Meteor devshop event, come by and say hi!

http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-SFBay/events/106842372/
Bringing the Hacking culture to India
My wife made a baby too, but we never launched either.

Congrats bud! atleast you did.
I'm sure they will come out with a premium version or some such eventually. If you were Feedly would you really turn down the opportunity provided here just because you can't immediately monetize the new users?
But when not supporting these open technologies very obviously benefits your proprietary social network, it is.
I wonder whether they do "buy 2, get 1 for free" kinda deals.
A blog almost never grabs me immediately. Usually, if I get sent back there a time or two, I subscribe. If I can't subscribe, you have to have some extraordinary content for me to return. As in "man I've got to read as much as I have time for". Usually even for my favorite stuff, that's not the case. For even my favorite blogs, I rarely read more than 1/2. Most of the stuff I sub to is more like 1/10.

Basically, for users like me (which I'm guessing a lot of HN users are), you're killing your blog in the cradle. Especially given that there isn't a lot of likelihood that your blog is entirely unique, I'll likely just go with an alternative that I can subscribe to, and click through when I want to read something.

Anyway, my two cents. I also recognize that I am definitely not the average user. But if you're catering to a technical crowd...
Oh, eli, you never disappoint.

Ok, apparently I really do need to shut up.

This guy has Protestant work ethic brain damage.

The thing being that the Protestant work-ethic comes off as completely ridiculous to anyone who's not a Calvinist or a secular raised on Calvinist values.

I mean, I pulled some truly long working hours just last week-and-a-half. Project had to get done, and I had realized I needed to rebuild it shortly before it was due in. So it got done, and more than just that got done too.

Doesn't mean I liked it, for Heaven's sake, nor that I would recommend continual 12-hour workdays and all-nighters as the Right Way. It's entirely unsustainable over the long term, and, as I deserved, I crashed hard on the weekend.
"Estimated weight in pounds of debris left on the moon by NASA : 36,600"

Are those Earth pounds or Moon pounds?
I'm certainly no enemy of GM foods and I generally find Food Democracy Now to be so, so lame, but I'm going to push back a bit here:

> I'm pretty sure the point of judges is to uphold the law, not to do what they think is protecting consumer rights or the environment.

That's almost the point. There are a bunch of laws that regulate the treatment consumers and the environment which judges are expected to apply in court. The snippet is complaining that judges will, under this act, have limited power to enforce those laws on Monsanto's products were they to be found guilty of breaking them. That's not an unreasonable complaint.
Five researchers deal SSL/TLS a biggish blow
I had no idea this existed, goodbye any productivity I was previously enjoying.
regarding Cyprus being let into the EU you got it all wrong. Cyprus is used as an excuse by Germany and France who don't want to allow Turkey in the EU. If Cyprus wasn't there to veto Turkey's accession then Merkel would have to come up with some other creative excuse for not letting a Muslim state into a Christian Club.
"White noise" is just the title/label of the blog post. No doubt chosen for poetic purposes. Note the OTHER blog entry titles, listed on the right hand column.
Introducing Office World, A Smartphone Attendance Application
Hey guys,
I've finished my final year project, which lets you to track your time. it is free and contains absolutely no ads.

There are certainly many apps on the market to do this, but most of that was complicated and require more task just to track your time. my application was designed with Holo design in mind, you guys should love the interface.

If you are interested in trying it out, here is a more detailed description with a screenshot, and links to google play http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rheza.officeworld and the website http://www.officeworld.my/

Showcase :
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Office-World-Smartphone-Attendance-System/6522635

Let me know what you think!
How could one not?
It would be pedantic, I think, if I were to say, "you shouldn't say that because it doesn't make sense." But I genuinely hope that it does make sense and that someone will explain it to me.
Fact 1: Deposits are loans from depositor to bank.
Fact 2: Deposits are accounted for as liabilities on the banks' balance sheets.
Fact 3: Banks write multiple loans against each dollar deposit; it has a fancy name: fractional reserve banking.
Fact 4: Most countries are now on zero reserve banking and only manage their loan portfolio size by the amount of capital they have on their balance sheets.
You're my favorite HN poster and I've read all your comments going back tens of pages.

Marry me?
The part I don't understand is why you would lose access to his Gmail/Dropbox accounts after getting your laptop stolen. Did you rely on automatic logins for all your accounts or something?

Also, why would you backup anything on the same hard drive. That's not a backup, its wasting space.

In this day and age, who doesn't sync their contacts to the cloud. All of the most popular services (Google for sure) do it automatically unless you turn it off (in which case, you should have known what you were doing).
This is the problem with the permission systems on most newer platforms. It's either all or nothing; Run or don't run. If i find a good app for android where only a minimal feature requires some privacy intruding permission i can't install it at all even though i never want to use that feature. Same on Windows, either it's admin or it's not, there is no middle ground. Most installers ask for full super mega admin permission just to get write permisson in %programfiles%, what if i don't even want to install it there.

I think .NET and Java programs can be run until they encounter permission requirements and then prompt but i have rarely seen this feature used.

Obviously it's a usability tradeoff and the programmers of the app would also have to handle the permission rejection gracefully while running but i don't think that's too much to ask for.
> But that doesn't mean it's actually a possibility in your specific case.

We're not discussing whether a particular person -- or any person -- is cured. We're discussing whether we can know this -- you know, like in science? If I say Bigfoot is out there hiding, you may reply, "There's no evidence" and for a scientist with a scientific outlook, that ends the conversation. Only a nonscientist would argue about something that isn't a matter of evidence, of empirical observation.

> That's why I say this is semantics.

It is not semantics, unless you think the fact that Bigfoot's existence cannot be disproven constitutes evidence that it exists.

> I'm talking about what is, even if we don't know it.

Ah -- my apologies -- I didn't realize we were discussion religion. Thanks for the heads-up.

Oncologists don't operate on the basis of faith and belief. That's why (s)he (at least, a professional oncologist) will never say that someone is cured of cancer. Neither will a scientist.
They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.
Trolling SXSW: Behind the Scenes of Drunkspotting
Is there a subscription list you use to increase privacy or are these custom filters?
This seems highly unlikely to be practical, given chaos. If this system shows high sensitivity to initial conditions, then we probably can't know the various inputs to enough precision to get any results.

Consider that a 2 link pendulum is chaotic. The tiniest difference in your estimate of the initial kinematics results in divergent predictions.
hm the other one is wordpress too.
this one most definitely is a lua program though
http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Lua
You can do authenticated feeds (RSS feeds are over http), but most readers don't support it for some reason....again its just not as convenient.
How exactly is Twitter the exact same thing as RSS? I don't really see how someone tweeting about a new blog post being the same as what RSS does in any way other than being notified that a blog post has been written and possibly a title. I agree it is pubsub but that's pretty shaky. If the implication is that because we have Twitter then we do not need RSS .. I just think that's sort of ridiculous; is 140 characters the end of the road now? If not then Twitter is not a great solution to replace RSS. You can argue that RSS feeds have become like unread email but I think that is a different issue.
Just the other day, I spent a good couple hours looking for good Linux web development tools. Something that mocked Brackets - this is exactly that. Only thing missing is a quick edit CSS feature, that would drop down the styling for a selected tag.
VIM Table Mode
Then I would assume you are rather young.

I have been using Linux distributions since the kernel 1.0.9 days, on those days there were not much higher level languages being used and just mentioning C++ would be the start of an endless flamewar.

There were developers avoiding KDE and everything else that they knew was coded in C++.

For a while I did participate in gtkmm (C++ bindings for GNOME) and it was hard to get ourselves heard by the GNOME guys. Funny enough after a few years they came up with Vala and now are even proposing JavaScript!

If it wasn't for FOSS projects, the use of C would probably be much less than it is today.
I could be wrong but I'm not sure people would like the answer. If the reasoning is that Larry Page should write a statement to appease the tech intelligentsia; I'm afraid their actual motivations would be probably be more uncomfortable than the current situation. In other words, I don't think it is necessarily a long term statement about the technical viability of RSS (probably something more to do with protecting advertising revenue, but I don't know).
Or perhaps they could create designer glasses, and use the two face recognition companies (Viewdle, Neven Vision) they have bought since 2006 to keep track of population behaviour, then sell relevant feeds to panicked (0.25 9/11s) or eagerly demanding (1.0 9/11s) governments.
Try http://rssident.com

It does none of the things you mention but you might like it anyway.
Testing subdomains in Rails with xip.io
> well-fed farm animals

So you think that just paying a young grad $100k a year (which is a shitload of money by most European standards, but adjusting to your SV environment not that much) will just turn him into a well-fed far animal? will just put off their need to "break outside the matrix"? If you want most of your engineers to be mostly motivated by "hunger", you're doing something very wrong at one level or another!
Cool hack. It'd be nice if this was interoperable with the real api, in case you wanted to turn your side project into something legit.
> The incompleteness theorems don't falsify the idea that mathematics is logically consistent; they do falsify the idea that any reasonable mathematical theory could prove its own logical consistency.

Yes, true, but I think that amounts to the same thing. Our inability to prove the thesis casts in doubt our right to assert it at all. That's certainly true for any other mathematical idea. No one was willing to say that Fermat's Last Theorem, or the Four-Color Map Theorem, were proven, until they were.

Nevertheless, I shouldn't have said that the Theorems "falsify" the logical consistency of mathematics. They prevent the notion from being demonstrated, but doesn't invalidate its existence as a hypothesis.

> They also don't remove the possibility that there is some metamathematical justification for ...

Yes, but that's not a positive claim, it's the assertion that it can't be ruled out. And such an effort might fall afoul of the "sufficiently complex" criterion of Godel's Theorems, which brings us full circle.
Try http://rssident.com

The search features were built specifically for searching Craigslist.

Example: http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=telecommute

The UI is not the most intuitive or user friendly yet but we are working on it.
That sounds really interesting. Can you provide a link to an example or source of additional info.

Thanks
op, you're using Gmail to send emails to new users. Bad idea. Google will catch on soon and ban you. I'd switch to another provider asap.
I think you forgot to include your email.
I probably would have picked a different country in that regard.

That being said, it's not all that simple to open up shop in a Chinese banking office. Though I guess if you have the kind of money you would want to do this with, it becomes easy enough.