skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, let's say you don't have control of your phone (or similar computer-like device) that's designed to run only one software application. If you discover that your phone is spying on you, or contains another defect, you have no way to repair it. You can only throw it away - that is the highest level of ownership/control you can exercise... That's your only reset button. You cannot reuse the general platform within. I would call that a waste, and certainly a reason to expect better. (Reset buttons are highly under-rated.)

Different people are happy with different levels of control that largely depend on their level of expertise and resources. For example, to someone with a flash programmer, many devices are already very open. To someone with an SD card or a USB port, a bootloader is more empowering.

Again, while I can see the case for single-purpose software, there could be a hardware override. For example, important/necessary firmware for the primary use-case could ship on an SD card with a write-protect switch, but be replaceable. Most desktop owners never replace their own hard drive, but that feature comes in quite handy to the computer techs who are expected to, or if the included software eventually fails and needs to be reset.
I've said this before and I'll say it again -- why the complaints now, when Google has been doing this for years? Essentially, they can collect your information from emails, purchasing habits & financial information from Google Wallet, income, and combine that with Google+ social data, files you put into Google drive, and you have a complete profile that's ripe for advertising.
When the Firefox extension was released ( I remember it was released as a Chrome only solution at first ), I tried and all the famous tech blogs used all possible social buttons and TC had just started with Facebook comments, so for most sites, half the page loaded and other half was stuck.

The new UI looks great, defintely would give it a try. I actually have no problem with Ghostery but I like how Disconnect categories all the tracking.
It is mildly funny how it got corrected afer my post and someone downvoted it. Ha.
Why would the other guy buy it from you at a hefty profit instead of getting a subsidized unit from the carrier? They have the same issue - if they're on a mobile plan with a US carrier, the price of the plan won't change for them.
Good insight but exaggerated.
A Startup Employee's Checklist for Tough Times
> You can disable specific trackers on specific sites

Either you are incorrect, or this functionality is non-obvious. Based on recent experience, I'm leaning toward the former.

When I go to edit my blocking options when a site doesn't play nice with Ghostery, I'm given options either to disable certain tracker-blocking or to disable Ghostery entirely on a given domain. There doesn't seem to be an option to stop blocking a given tracker only when its loaded from a certain site.

There is one tracker I've unblocked because it breaks functionality on one site, and I'm fairly certain I've seen its effects on a different site recently as well. It doesn't seem to have unblocked that tracker only for the one site I need it disabled to use.
While I have switched to Android because I don't like the way Apple locks down their platform to the user, this article kind of validates the way Apple has treated the carriers - disallowing branding and the installation of crapware from the start.

I just wish Google would be more forthcoming with their security releases for older platforms (notably 2.3) or had struck a better deal with device manufacturers so that they could directly provide 4.x for smartphones from the Nexus S era.
CL is Common Lisp.

The go-to for Clojure is Luminus, which is less of a framework and more of a "web best practices" project template.
And that's why you only buy human-grade dog food if you care about your dog. (Yes, I read the article)

I disagree with the article and think this is one of the best ways of actually understanding your product and how well it works in the real world. Don't test it like a developer. Use it like a consumer.
Because there already exists a perfectly fine name for them: green threads (as opposed to operating system threads), using M:N threading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#M:N_.28Hybri...

They are just a subclass of threads.
Yeah, because there's very little oversight on Wikipedia and just anyone can edit any page from an anonymous IP address without getting reverted in five minutes flat.

Seriously, there's no army of anonymous trolls out on the Internet capable of a sustained edit campaign on a single page that just about manages to stay within Wikipedia's rules. It's editors and their sock puppets.

More generally, I'm getting tired of people acting like anonymous trolls are a completely separate set of people from normal members of the community. Like it or not, they're the same people. We don't log onto a different account and suddenly become a 14-year-old boy that's scared of girls, we channel our inner 14-year-old boy. Sooner we accept that, sooner we can grow up.
THE Haruki? If so, I read your book on running yesterday! What a wonderful coincidence. I was also very inspired (inspirational ripple going on here..) and decided to run every day instead of just every other day. Great read!

Edit: went to your website and found out, no, you're not Haruki Murakami. Sorry for confusing you with him!
> Most proportional fonts have monospaced numbers.

Most fonts that are worth their money come with monospaced and proportional numbers in both lining and old-style forms. Those can be chosen via OpenType features but I fear most code editors don't allow choice in that matter.
Chrome 26.0.1410.65 for OSX when I mouse over the text in the crapcha I get the I-cursor.
Bitcoin ad site closed for fraud activity
> Use it like a consumer.

I think the point of the article was that that is impossible. Your real consumers have issues you yourself simply cannot have. Whenever something about the product is bugging you, you fix it. The customer is depending on you for everything.
Yes, we would all be richer if everything was free, financial services included. If Vanguard can provide cheaper options, so be it, but in that case, they shouldn't need fallacious claims feeding on the public's current hatred of the financial industry to sell them.
"The" "quotation" "marks" "are" "driving" "me" "insane" "!!!!"

A lot of the things he points out are not specific to Japan. For example, American schools have the same requirement to show work and not just the answer for a math problem. The other examples can also be chocked up to the specific teacher or environment, or basic tenants of modern education systems (ex. making students obedient to authority)
But the industry hates her.
Sentence enhancement for hate crimes is essentially a form of thought crime, since "proving" you had certain thoughts in your head changes your sentence. There are interesting arguments both ways on hate crime sentencing, but make no mistake, it is sentencing you to (more) prison for your thoughts, not your actions.
This mistake seems to be getting more and more common.

I use the example of sea turtles - the average lifespan across a clutch of eggs is maybe 1 year - because one out of 100 survives. But the one that survives usually lives for 100+ years. The fact that the life expectancy at hatching is only one year tells you nothing about the distribution.
oops, I meant CLojure :D not very fluent in the Lisp department. tx for the tips.
It wouldn't work if a volume manufacturer had to sequentially make chips (especially if each one took a week, or longer, to fabricate). It would work for an individual though. Same way a 5ppm laser printer isn't good enough for a newspaper manufacturer, but is adequate at home.
> A direct neural connection could be more like 5-15ms [2]

That's not what EEG is. It's vastly more disappointing.

> The best physical reaction time is about 160ms [1]

Yes, but you (probably) have 10 fingers, and you can get the gaps between keypresses down to <100ms. That really helps with typing.

Suppose you type 200 wpm, average word length 5 characters, maybe 980-1000 characters/minute or about 15-18 characters/second. When typed at a steady pace, you can reliably do 63ms between keystrokes. This isn't reaction time.

With EEG, you get like 1 character every 4,800 milliseconds. (Although I admit I don't know if this is using dasher, or some other typing scheme, or what. Do you get just a binary character, or any UTF-8 character in those thousands of milliseconds?)
From the talk page[1] it looks like it wasn't random anonymous strangers but an established editor who's taken offence to her having, "the gall to complain about her articles"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amanda_Filipacchi
Coinurl is a banner ad service that pays in Bitcoins.
I had Coinurl ads display in my site but unfortunately I can not log in anymore because the site says "Account locked for fraud activity.". So I guess that I lost my recent bitcoins earned..
Australian christianist lolcats
Earth's cooling ended in 1900
imho the overpopulation needs to be adressed the chinese way. I don't think that throwing tech at it will solve the problem.
I remember vaguely, that one indian gov. wanted to sterilize slum inhabitants and wasn't reelected.
A startup employee, right? Not a founder?

1. How long am I willing to work without pay?

zero days.

2. How long can I work without pay?

doesn't matter. see answer to #1.

3. What concessions do I need to make working
without pay feasible?

You shouldn't be making any concessions. Assuming you're merely an employee, the founder or cofounders should be talking about increasing your stake in the company by at least an order of magnitude.

7. If my employer raises additional
funding, how and when am I likely to be
compensated for my working without pay?

See answer to 3.

edit: thanks to greenyoda and wtn for shedding some more light on the legal aspects of this. I hadn't even considered them.
I think it was Eclipse that switched to a Monospace font when entering column selection mode. While having a mode and not a quasi-mode for that operation is highly questionable to me, the automatic switch is a very nice touch. Especially to those who usually use a proportional font.
The best part about bug reports for hostile features is the workaround is always, "Because fuck you, that's why!"
I never asked them, but plenty of people certainly do (you can check eBay to verify this, but I've experienced it numerous times in person). I can speculate a few reasons: someone on contract broke or lost their phone and needs another, someone simply wants the newest best phone but isn't eligible for a device upgrade (AT&T's upgrades come every 18 months, which is too long to even stay on the latest iPhone, much less Android flagships), or someone actually wants to use the device without a contract (I think some carriers have prepaid plans that will work with their locked phones).
Robots Will Do Everything You Do Now Only Better—What Then?
View the Universe in different wavelengths
Indeed. And not only has that company's relationship with their main chip supplier deteriorated, said supplier is hitting capacity constraints while attempting to satisfy their own demand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-24/chip-shortage-looms...
> I wonder if the service provider could be a bit more clever or industrious

That takes time and effort, something which is often in short supply. Easier to just slap any old captcha on there, even a mostly ineffective one will stop the drive-by scripts.

I had to implement a non-CAPTCHA method of stopping spammer signups to our forums, and after a day of work I had something that still let through 2-3 spammers a day. A CAPTCHA would have taken under an hour (plugins available) and probably have stopped more.
Thoughts on GitHub Giving Free Private Repos to Women
True. I think Wikipedia needs more advanced searching tools in general. For example basically every page on a city has its population and area. I should be able to narrow down cities with a certain population density (essentially creating my own temporary category) and then intersect with other categories or search those pages for a certain term in the article. The wealth of information is all there, it's a shame it's not easily filtered.
"American Men Novelists" didn't exist until Thursday, after Amanda Filipacchi wrote the first op-ed. "American Women Novelists" has existed since October.
If the period of time that humans have been around was drawn to scale, it wouldn't really be visible.

If we assume that the width of the bar for the life of the earth is 1500 pixels (the width changes depending on the window size), then the period we have been around will be around 0.06 pixels wide (1500/23000 = 0.065). Much closer to zero pixels than one pixel.
Clearly they would. See Singapore - far more poverty there than here.
U.S has had the benefit of favorable geopolitics(a good read:http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-p...). A large living space and a fairly sturdy inland waterways.Historically, the pressure on natural resources has been mitigated by easier transport of goods and people(unlike India which doesn't have inland waterways). In last few decades U.S has also closed gates on immigrants for good. Though that has slowed down the process of ghettoization, eventually large swathes of U.S will convert into American-Hispanic and other similar sub-cultures. And then it's just "my tribe vs. your tribe". The U.S is at the beginning of the road, and in time when there is a greater pressure on resources, you are looking at yet another India within the next 100-150 years.

Let's just hope that it doesn't happen too soon and that human social mechanics today is advanced enough to handle another great civilization falling into chaos due to clash of cultures. The good news is that this time we have the Internet.
That all applies to appliances, right? If your microwave is spying on you, all you can do is crack open the case on your own (analogous to hardware hacks or jailbreaking) or throw it out. My point is that, for some people (even some technology enthusiasts), configurability/extensibility is a low priority for certain devices. And as for the people for whom configurability/extensibility is a top priority, I would just recommend they not buy the locked down devices unless they're hoping to find or invent a way to circumvent the locks.
The ones I've used have just been called coroutines, though I suppose I haven't used any that function as drop-in replacements for threads like Pth
TSMC Spent 9.3 billion on one of their plants back in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication_plant

Though the numbers I've typically heard are around 3-4 Instagrams.
Man, you are a legend  I laugh eveytime i see this...
what if it was a baby shower gift? What if they managed to connect enough dots to know that this is what you want, and thus, make the sale via this channel?
I think this article makes a good point, but the way it's worded makes it easy to disagree with. Using your own product is better than nothing, but alone it's not enough to understand the relationship customers will have with it.

Dog food is not dangerous, you just have to include other foods in your diet to complement it.
In my language “grafician” is a word and I assume it is in others too. It's common for people to assume their words have a direct mapping to another language. It's more embarrassing when the word exists, but has a different meaning.
I was actually hoping that, with the release of documentation on AMD's graphics cards, we'd see demos coded "on the metal", without passing through the standard graphics stack. That won't be possible on windows, since you can't just boot to console and then bang the pci bus yourself, but would be possible on linux. It could even be written as a kernel module for maximum effect.
Oh yeah, our original Firefox add-on was outsourced ... and I think kind of sucked. I learned not to do that (even though the devs were and are great).

Thanks a lot for the feedback on the new UI.
Rightclick and inspect, copy paste the text into the captcha.

That would have been the "workaround".
Writing a JSON parser in Python
You seem like someone who would benefit from trying to learn design in addition to coding, since you don't seem to understand what design is. It's a classic case of "you don't know what you don't know."

As someone who both designs and codes, your premise is uninformed and inaccurate.
Whoa amazing!
Do you really want your computer carrying out your every impulse thought?
KernelNewbies site is down but here is a good tour of new features in Linux 3.9:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-...
And now for something completely different:

Could the strange and miraculous have been... Dennis Moore?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkhx0eqK5w
Also, if you're an employee, the company is probably violating federal and/or state labor laws by allowing you to work without pay.
Aaron is correct.

NB: In the US, federal minimum wage standards apply to any employee with less than 20% equity stake.
Put your smartphone down
Great article. Does convey some of the harsh realities. However, I didn't understand why outline such a well written article with a meaningless sensational headline. "Drowning in its own excreta", really?
Yeah I was thinking mostly from an individual standpoint (something that could be sold to more individuals rather than businesses). The market is still pretty new for this kind of tech, but if people can envision a future of what people could do with something like this, in 10 to 20 years it could be pretty big.

Could even have military applications (com gear is fried on an intel sensitive mission, and exfil is not for another week or two)…
Aren't there groups out there doing one-off chips using ion implantation?

One could envisage a machine that takes a silicon blank and blasts it with a steerable beam of dopant ions, similar to a small scale Cathode Ray Tube, with the silicon in place of the phosphor. A CRT is feasible to DIY [1,2]. What about an ion implantation device? Okay, it won't do 14nm features first up, but could it make a working transistor??

[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Electron-Accelerator-A-C...

[2] http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/crt/crt6.htm
Most countries I care to live in don't have issues of open defecation and water sources contaminated with shit.

Generally, people care about basic hygiene issues before they look at the other stuff. If a country's hygiene is so bad it has a 100x larger chance that it might kill you, the rest is irrelevant.

Between that and the corruption, India is one country I'm not setting foot in for the foreseeable future. It's a shame, because it is also a cradle of humanity with much history, but I guess that doesn't stop it from turning into a shithole... (Quite literally)
Since Gmail's account name semantics are well known, the top data collecting agencies have no doubt adapted by now.

Also, frustratingly, a lot of sites will break, often silently, if you give them an e-mail address with a plus symbol (e.g. it might end up in a GET request to an internal API without proper escaping, and be interpreted as a space).
It's about the mentality of keeping your house clean by dumping your filth in the streets. "It's not my problem", is the common refrain here. And when citizen's don't care, the government is just going to be the reflection of that. We are about to reach the tipping point within this decade though. I see citizen watch groups forming every day. Protest becoming more violent and widespread vigilante justice in some far-fetched areas.
I'm not disagreeing with that. As I said, "even more hyperbolic what-if". Call it the same kind of science fiction that people were writing about smartphones in the 60's: a kind of general direction that far overshoots reality in many ways but which is hopefully not entirely wrong.

As for intentionality, your brain already handles that for you. I mean, I'm almost certain that you can imagine walking out the front door of your home without actually doing it. Same thing applies.

I don't know the exact details of the mechanisms, but I have an overview. One technique is to have the user associate some rare signal, like thinking the word "chair" repeatedly, with an action, and let the user learn to use that signal quickly in the same way that you've learned to use command-tab. This is mostly done by tracking changes in blood oxygenation using infrared sensors or fMRI. Another technique is to tap into the user's motor cortex completely blindly, show the user the output, and let neuroplasticity[1] take care of the rest; this works astonishingly well, with monkeys being able to "quickly learn to voluntarily control the firing rates of individual and multiple neurons" and directly control robotic arms [2].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain–computer_interface#Early_...
Awesome SQL diagramming tool
10 Real Life Fairytale Islands
My favorite part was the (i) link went to a new tab with the site.
Captcha remind me of inkblot tests [1]. I wonder if there are any that actually use those cards.

My favorite captcha experience: it only checked the first 3 characters matched (as in only enter the first 3 of a two word captcha). I supposed maybe I misunderstand how they work but I would have thought they checked against at least one full word.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
If MBAs are useless, we’re all in big trouble
Yes, I am also recommending to people to not buy devices that they do not feel come with enough control. Phones are at the forefront of the convergence, but I will invariably want to be able to override (and audit) the software in my microwave too if I have any reason to believe it could harm me. For example, if microwaves started coming with voice interaction, requiring a microphone and an Internet connection, I would want to control the whole stack to be confident that it was not being used to invade my privacy (or overcook my meal), and to feel in control.

Edit: I should also note that adding the possibility of control doesn't cost anything extra from the perspective of those who wouldn't use the higher levels of control. The same simple interface would only have a "more control" (aka settings) button, as usual, and as platforms converge the low-level support pretty much comes for free (for example, if phones used x86_64 instead of ARM, USB boot would be implied). The desktop is a pretty good model actually.
I consider myself there in the center of design and development. Zooming in, I see a low-level programmer on the one end and a painter on the other.

Being in the center to me means to have good comprehension of the back-end, being comfortable with frameworks like Rails, having great front-end skills and on the design side having a good feel for user behaviour (UX facets).

Abstracting this, it depends where your rational comfort zone is (logic -> irrational). I have a good feel for user behaviour and can use my analytic skills on UX challenges, but also foresee and implement these on UX – dev challenges.

The biggest benefit of these center positions, is the ability to converse with both departments and to voice new insights and concepts which are often outside the scope of these departments.

Unfortunately the job market has little understanding of this profile. Department stake holders (CD or senior devs) are protective of their area and recruiters have a hard time profiling you. This might be anecdotal though, being from Europe, which is not so innovative as some areas in the US.
This was my experience interviewing at Facebook. I spent one interview solving a problem in a way that was more efficient than the default, recursive solution. My interviewer was obviously disappointed, and wondered why I wasted so much time when a less efficient solution would have sufficed.

That was the exact opposite of my experience interviewing at Google, and when I got an offer from Google I took it.