skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accept the reality of the author's experience, but I have to wonder why internet access isn't making more of a difference in equalizing the access to information about choices.
Would you have paid $1500 to have an iPhone a year earlier than anyone else in the world?
use @example.com for emails. see http://www.iana.org/domains/example for more info.
I only saw this on their website:

> The goal of Nightweb is to be a "killer app"
> for anonymous networking
The best assistive app for writing and spelling, on iPad [iTunes Preview]
To be fair, Google made it pretty clear that winners still had to purchase the device.
Yes, but can a small time musician make a fortune giving their album away? Timberlake had prior fame and considerable marketing resources (including dollars) at his disposal to get the business model right. That makes a world of difference.

I've found that the most vocal proponents of copyright crackdowns and DRM are small-time musicians, authors, etc. Piracy won't affect Lady Gaga's sales, but for that indie band from JP you love so much, it could mean the difference between being able to feed their families with their music, and having to work a shit job and therefore play less, perhaps not playing at all, to make ends meet.
They're just giving free reign to their creativity, man. Don't be like a king trying to rein on their parade.

Seriously, it is extremely depressing how low editorial standards have fallen.
I checked (had a friend who can't afford it but won)... it's non-transferable and you need to show up with a credit card and matching id. Sure I could have them pick up the glasses then use them myself, but Google owns the right to everything you do with them and can take them back at any time evidently.
had the same idea a while back and was pondering how I would get past NAT if you are on a mobile network. does it work there as well? I'm assuming it will continue to work as long as your carrier doesnt block the respective ports.

also, don't take this personally - but if you're looking at targeting a broader crowd, you might have to update the UI to make it look more like traditional social apps.
> and being a transfer doesn't make you ineligible for financial aid!

That isn't necessarily the case. A close friend of mine attended a school (Bradley University, admittedly not ivy league) that gave a full ride to national merit scholars and finalists, but only if they had never enrolled anywhere else. She was a finalist, but she attended a state school for her freshman year. Bradley gave her nothing, but she still enrolled because money wasn't her biggest concern. She got her degree, but has said on numerous occasions that she'll never give a dime to any of their alumni fund-raisers since she paid the full load up front.
Let's look back at [Ruby] 2.0.0 release so that we can do better next time.
Thanks for the many interesting comments. Some of the comments asked why anyone should care if the most elite colleges cast a wide net in seeking students. (Christopher Avery of Harvard, and his colleague Caroline Hoxby, once of Harvard but now at Stanford, have done research on how the most elite colleges can find more one-off students from rare backgrounds that other colleges miss.)

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/cavery/

http://ideas.repec.org/e/pho46.html

My answer about why someone looking in from the outside might care about what kinds of students are admitted by elite colleges is the observation that elite colleges can be highly influential on public policy (as several other comments have already pointed out). If we are to have the graduates of Harvard and the other seven Ivy League colleges, along with graduates of Stanford and the other several "Ivy plus" colleges, making many of the policy decisions for our country, I hope they are informed by direct knowledge about the life of the rural and urban poor, the life of students with a disabled parent, the life of first-generation college students, the life of students who attended especially lousy high schools, and so on. I'm sure every graduate of an elite college knows how to take care of "his people," but it might be better for all of us if those graduates, in the aggregate, include most of the subgroups of people that include those of us who never attended such a college. That, to me, is a possible broad social benefit of genuine diversity in college admission.
I don't think "Dick in a Box", "Motherlover" and "Three way" were part of his marketing strategy. I think he's just a cool guy.
Harvard's endowment is $32 billion. They can fund many students at $50,000 a year from the interest without touching the principle, and it's a major goal of theirs to do so. Yale, Princeton, and Columbia also have multi-billion dollar endowments and are aiming to do the same. They can afford it.

This is how the University of Chicago does it (from their website):

Thanks to an extremely generous gift of $100 million from an anonymous alumnus, we are now able to offer an even more competitive financial aid package to many of our students. The Odyssey program has allowed more students from modest backgrounds the ability to pursue all that the University has to offer without the worries of working to pay off loan debt. For students with family incomes below $75,000 a year, all expected federal student loans are replaced with Odyssey Scholarships. For students with family incomes between $75,000 and $90,000, half of their expected federal student loan obligation is replaced with Odyssey Scholarships. You must apply for need based financial aid in order to be considered for this need-based University funded scholarship.
"They would have a huge advantage over iOS by lowering the entry thresholds for developers."

Low entry thresholds for developers is nothing but poison for a platform.
The only thing I use my car radio for anymore is to play audio from my iPhone. I'll use the phone to play streams of local radio stations, even, because it's just more convenient, even though the radio can pick them up directly.

The article takes a bizarrely alarmist tone at the end. Yes, I'm sure there are people out there who will still want a radio in their cars, whether it's people who want to be prepared for disasters, or live in areas with terrible cell coverage, or whatever. Those people can easily buy a standalone radio that plugs into their car's auxiliary input port. The author appears to think that a car which ships without a radio can never be altered to have one, which is just bizarre.
Another analogy is with those bluetooth "Uhuru" cell phone ear pieces. For the first 5 years of their existence they were so un-hip no one under 35 (45?) would be caught wearing one. They were relegated to businessmen and some businesswomen whose hair was long enough to cover them. Now their use is much more widespread with those under 35. The rest of us an teens are waiting for the implants.
It's currently April 1st for 1/12 of the earth's surface (approx).
8 choose 3 = 56

Even sniffing just one login gives a completely practical attack to gain access to your account, even though the attacker doesn't have the full password. They might not be able to do everything the full password would let them do, but its still not exactly acceptable.
Sometimes there is one or just a couple of threads made which say "post aprils fools here", which keeps the rest of the homepage clean.
The word "decentralized" is a pretty loaded term unfortunately. I think tent.io and other similar projects are decentralized in the sense of who controls the servers, but they are still fundamentally client-server protocols. Nightweb (and I2P specifically, which it uses) is fully peer-to-peer, so there is no distinction between clients and servers. I think that's the most important difference.

Sorry about the non-responsive loading, I will work on that in the future.
...it's April 1 for a decent chunk of the world right now, time zones and all...
I was confused when I saw the article as I had originally read the title as 'A cold, Harsh Reality for Rdio'. Sums up the problem pretty well.
I personally like the radio setup sometimes, where the playlist is determined by someone with their own tastes and with a reasonably broad audience. However, even wanting that, I'd still just pull up a stream on my phone rather than use traditional radio to hear it.
Why wouldn't an order form be copyrightable? It's just that it would be hard to show any damages from a violation of that copyright.
The main advantage of the application running on phones is that everybody has one (hyperbole intended) and that phones are always on.

For a web version to be fully distributed it would need to be run on a server, so people would have to hook up a RaspberryPi at home, rent a VPS or trust some big Nightweb farm (the diaspora model).
It's infinitely easier for most users to just install an app on their phone.

A Desktop version would probably not be "always on", which would limit the usability as a social platform seriously.
I really enjoyed reading this paper.

We shouldn't live in the lap of luxury all the time, since that tends to make us lethargic. The art of tackling miniproblems with all our energy will sharpen our talents for the real problems, and the experience will help us to get more pleasure from our accomplishments on less restricted equipment.
Yeah, me too. I was like 'but Rdio is great!'
This even has a name. It's called a "smudge attack"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudge_attack
Hmm. So what is it that you are buying for $1500 then?
Death of the Brogrammer
I didn't even bother reading the article once I saw the attribution "This article originally appeared on AlterNet."
I agree on your points.
But Bitcoin seems like going back on Gold Standard(when considering costs of it).
I know the idea that conservatives are persecuted by liberal academics is a popular one. But isn't it more likely that what the article is talking about is due to rural vs urban or academic vs non-academic backgrounds and experiences rather than liberal vs conservative ideology?

I agree that regional and ideological diversity might be a problem for elite schools (or any school, for that matter). But I don't think the issues are necessarily political ones. In other words, are Harvard admissions people rejecting 4-H club members because they assume they're Sarah Palin loving conservatives, or because the Harvard admissions people didn't participate in 4-H clubs and don't know much about them?
"The Amazon finance card doesn’t interest me and I’m not going to buy a camera today—or one from Amazon, because of they charge sales tax and most online retailers don’t. But I’m simultaneously impressed and creeped out by the company’s nudge e-mails."

I'm guessing this is part of the reason why Amazon is pushing on an online sales tax at the federal level.
But would my project Chocolate interest you if its source code was written directly in javascript?
Ivies added essays to the applications in the 1930s to deal with the "Jewish problem" - a significant influx of jewish students being admitted based on numerical admissions standards to what were traditionally WASP dominated campuses. Written essays provided the admissions process with a subjective element that allowed applications to be consciously or unconsciously sorted based on linguistic and social cues.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ha...
Well, the case isn't about the use of the API - it's about a non-interoperable reimplementation of the API (from Oracle's perspective, at least).
The money Google spends on bad April fools jokes could have been spent to keep Google Reader up another year.
Newspapers, Delivered by Drone
And as soon as a bunch of other states follow suit so will the Wall Street-ers and then we'll all be in trouble again. The bank works not because it's state owned, but because it's small enough that none of the rape-and-pillage bankers work there. If California did something like that it'd be big enough to get on their radar and it'd blow up just like LTCM or the 2008 bubble pop.
There seems to be some confusion about this project, so I'll try to explain: PaperCoin creates paper Bitcoin gift cards. You put money on the address, then you give the private key to whoever, and now they own the wallet. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not the author.)

It all happens client-side using jsPDF, and you can run it locally by downloading the .zip in the footer.

It's really not meant to replace any financial infrastructure. It's just a novelty thing. Don't use this to store your life's savings, or anything unless you understand the risks. Who knows, maybe it will inspire the next person build something cool in a further direction.

I like it. The design is pretty swell too. Good job.
I think you missed a word. "Strict systems punish you now to prevent POTENTIAL future punishment". and that makes a big difference.
I'm going to be contrary here, not for its own sake but because I think this is kind of an important issue. What purpose does the animation serve? In what specific way is it better for these icons to be animated than to sit still? This is the question we should ask ourselves before putting motion on any user interface.

Tech-wise this is neat though, and thanks for open sourcing it.
Absolutely not. It'll still be there next year.
To be fair, they didn't conclude this magically: they went to a consulting firm and they told GM that radio was unpopular.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that the consulting firm had a financial interest in spotify or rdio
With the way most schools treat their students as cattle they need to get through the mill as quickly as possible, it amazes me that anyone donates to alumni organizations.
Clicking on "Load Recipe" gives "No LocalStorage support detected. Please upgrade your browser to enable." on both Firefox 19.0.2 and Chrome 25.0.1364.172 on my Mac. I presume that's a bug because a web site that I wrote which uses HTML5 local storage works fine in those same browsers.

Edit: I ought to have said, cool idea, and I like being able to save and load recipes. It would be neat to be able to share recipes on this, like you can do with web pages on JsFiddle.
I think it's considered bad practice to define your own URI scheme for your app, though it is very common on iOS since you have no other choice. I thought using HTTP links would be nice since (a) they are much more likely to be linkified when pasted in emails and on websites, and (b) clicking them from non-Android devices will take you to the website where you can learn about it.
Yeah, I love the web and webapps, but generating paper wallets is still something I prefer to do with a native app running in Tails or something similarly secure to avoid eavesdropping or other leakage of the private key.
We don't do standups.

Trello does all the communicating.

1) It tells me whats done and what is not, through the checkboxes

2) On larger projects, the guys leave updates in the activity section every couple of hours or when they hit a milestone or a are stuck with a problem or are unsure of something. Think of these as like facebook style updates but for large projects.

These updates are delivered to me in real time. We can then discuss any problems etc at a suitable time at their convenience or I can pre-emptively direct them to someone who can help. Unless the problem is urgent in which case we discuss it then and there.

This way I know what's what and the guys have an open channel to me.
There's also http://www.upgradingtorails4.com/
I've also been waiting for something like this. Glad to see it's finally here.

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=aibbyarsuvbdttxc...
it's literally chocolate
Some of these are kind of funny:

"I would feel a lot safer walking around at night knowing I could get directions or a cab without pulling out my phone"

Putting aside the fact that it isn't really any kind of proactive suggestion, the idea that you're less likely to be mugged wearing a $1500 pair of glasses on your face is patently ridiculous. And:

"Life is pretty beautiful, isn't it? >> http://t.co/yWCDnsvIJ6 #ifihadglass"

I'm assuming that a certain number were just selected at random...
It is already April 1st in some places.

(I'm trying to avoid all the April Fool's stuff, yes.)
>> > for anonymous networking

It suggests me to share my profile and posts with others(with rest of sharing apps like Twitter). How am I anonymous then?

Besides, after installing the app and creating a profile - I just had to enter a name, how do I make first contact? I searched and it didn't work.

Looks like there's sth that I am not doing right.. ?
> "rump kernels"

> compile and use large swathes

Can someone elaborate in plain speak?
I suggested it to Zed back when he wrote this, and I still suggest it today: just use mutt and an rss to email gateway.

(Loved this essay though, thanks for bringing it back!)
I'm a huge fan of Sirius/XM. Occasionally I flip to fm. I never touch am.

It's nice to allow omakase for music. I can't always spend time tuning a playlist.
Technical Co-founders
It stopped being fun when the volume of them reached the kind of proportions that you can't avoid them anywhere. To me, this is the signal to not visit any "news" site for the following 24 hours.
goes to short Google's stock just in case anyone believes it
Heh, I always find it amusing how Americans go berserk at the word "socialism". Marx would be proud :)

Yet at any rate, socialist policies are virtually non-existent in the U.S (well, except the oldies like 8-hour workday or paid vacations). The fear of it is so strong that people prefer to slave themselves out to the Wall Street overlords rather than allow a hint of social in the sacred capitalism.
Your project is interesting, and you put a great deal of work into it and it is pretty much amazing. I generally don't care about what language an app I use was written in. What has gotten under my skin is the naming of things that are not JavaScript yet still get a .js extension.

I'm actually sorry that all of your hard work is buried under a discussion about the .js extension. I just felt the need to vent as it keeps happening. Your demo is very impressive.
It has been amazing watching what people have done with the Model B. I'm actually considering picking one up just to play around with web development and all these mysterious languages I hadn't heard of before reading Hacker News, ie the *.js languages, and a personal trial of Django vs Rails.
I see, that motivation makes more sense to me :-)

I guess it should be possible to write a wrapper that executed at isolation level "single".
> Use the Julian calendar in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and the Gregorian in the West?

Why would google assign insignificance to those who think the Julian calendar is correct in the West and Gregorian in the East?
> In many places, a woman cannot get promoted from entry level, and THAT'S the problem. They go to interview for a leadership role and get turned down because 'they just can't see her lead a team of all or mostly men.'

Easily solved -- let women start their own software companies. Once that phase is complete, once it is men who can't rise above the entry level in a company run by women, things will sort themselves out.

I say this because most of what's being said on this issue lacks any kind of vision. We hear claims that women can't do this, women can't do that -- but none of it is objectively true when examined. In fact, women can do anything they set their minds to. The only remaining question is ... will they?

My one objection is the regularity with which I hear it said that these problems result from something that men are not doing for women. In fact, it is something that women are not doing for women and for themselves.

The day women stop asking men to do it for them, will be the first day of the biggest tech revolution ever seen.
Cool!

how is this comparable with avogadro?

http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Main_Page
"This e-mail and post are also useful reminders: virtually everything you do online can be tracked, if someone wants to track you. Amazon does, for reasons that presently seem benign. Nonetheless, next time I move I might delete this account (if that’s possible) and start another one, which won’t have a purchase history going back to 2002."

I'm sorry, but who cares? And did the OP really not know that? I don't browse Amazon while logged in and not expect them to be using every bit of my history for marketing. This just seems like a really ridiculous criticism.

Seriously, there's a middle-ground here. If you're doing something remotely private, take a few steps to make sure you can't be tracked as easily. Don't want your viewing history tracked? Clear your cookies or enter private browsing mode. Afraid that your IP address will give something away? Use a VPN.

This isn't new. People have been tracking you for decades using as many techniques at their disposal as possible. Sure, it's easier now, but let's be honest, the quality of information you're giving away here isn't that sensitive. Unless you're particularly embarrassed about buying high-end cameras, I don't see where the worry is.
Not yet indexed by Play Store, but can be found by going to the http url.
Oops, the problem is: My 2 T-Mobile HTC 4G phones are not compatible with this app. Neither T-Mobile Samsung SGH-T679, and Vodaphone Samsung GT-I9000. Only works on Asus Nexus 7.
Well, he is going to delete his HN account on of these days. Everybody seems to get off the commode and fire a question to PG.

BTW, @pg: is possible to delete a HN a/c (by the user I mean)?
Thank you for posting that, it helped me iron out some connection failure related issues!
An American Quilt of Privacy Laws, Incomplete
"...this case..."

Sure, I'm just addressing your fair use comment with my own input.

"...non-interoperable reimplementation of the API"

I do not understand this phrase. If you implement an API that's exactly the same as the API in a library that I publish, the underlying implementation is irrelevant to your clients because your software is now an interoperable replacement for mine. If you implement some API that's not the same as my API (and thus not an interoperable replacement), you can't have infringed on my theoretical API copyright.
I wonder if the .js extension should be dropped from names. 'Chocolate' would probably be a better name than 'chocolatejs'
+1000. Well said.
True, but it's a double edged sword.
Before the internet and napster, were small-time musicians any better off? I still remember the market being dominated by big players with loads of commercial backing.

The tech makes music production much easier/cheaper and publicity/distribution trivial. The flipside of that technology is that it makes mass piracy much easier.

There are probably a lot of people willing to listen to obscure small time musicians for free, but how many of them would be willing to stump out $15 for a cd?
> Since you are a manager, I might suggest that the Agile and Scrum the daily stand-up isn't for you

I definitely agree with this. Standups/scrums have become much more productive since management stopped attending. It's hardly a "status" meeting any more -- sure, we talk about what we're working on, but there's a lot of jumping in by other team members with suggestions, help, or "I was going to do something similar, let's coordinate after the meeting".
Redis is consistent, it's just less durable than Postgres. A query cache is a very good usage for it. It's also likely to be faster than Postgres for the simple operations it is capable of.

The only downside is that (for now at least) it is single node, with optional replica slave(s).
You have to find people externally, such as through the links people shared on this page. There is a bug preventing links in a browser from being openable in the app, but I just released an update that fixes this. There is no way to discovered people internally right now, though I did make it auto-add my user so you can at least see some content after it runs for a little while.
Dilbert: Move navigation button to top of page?
I'm glad that you saw it!
And it melts from time to time... ;-)