skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...because giving them access to the addressbook would imply my consent for them to do anything technically possible with it.

Well, from a technical perspective that is indeed the case. Once they physically have your contact info they may do as they please.

You, as the iOS or Android user, are not giving them permission to use your contacts "properly" or "nicely"--you're giving permission to access them, the raw data of all of them, and once that's done all bets are off. If the app is untrustworthy it is free to go crazy (one of the reasons I always say "no" to that question).

I don't see how Apple or Google can stop this in a technical way without making the permissions more fine grained which in turn makes it more confusing to users (who probably mostly click "OK" anyway).

Apple could, however, make better app policies so that they can pull apps when they attempt this kind of shady crap. I'm not familiar with the Android app store policy, so I won't speculate there.
Northeastern still uses Scheme, but I'm not sure who else does. A real shame.
Once Facebook acquired Gowalla and Glancee, the writing was always on the wall for Foursquare. They need revenue as their business model is still shaky at best and seeing Facebook cannibalize this opportunity must have been a deciding factor. The irony is that they should probably should have sold to Facebook (who reportedly offered them $120M). Facebook would probably have done a better job monetizing check-ins with their current advertising clients than Foursquare will ever be able to. Too little too late IMHO.

As for the user, if people don't realize by now that they are the product, by receiving a service for free, then they probably deserve to be taken advantage of.

There's no such thing as a free lunch if you check-in ;-)
Dear moderator, why did you change the title? I worked hard to abbreviate it to 80 characters without changing the wording or editorializing. And it's not the fact that I found interesting, it was the picture. Thanks.

For the record I had GOOG Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB/sec.What it "sees" making L turn [pic]
Rich Hickey's previous projects to clojure were all about Lisp<->JVM interop (see http://foil.sourceforge.net/, but there is at least one other) -- so I think he found limitations to what you can do.
Let’s not forget that 16 weeks is still way below what employers in other countries are obligated to offer, on average. Have a look at this graph, linked to by the article: http://childrenschances.org/global-maps/parents-and-children...

Paid leave from work for mothers of infants: Canada 50 weeks, Mexico 12 weeks, USA zero.

Paid leave from work for fathers of infants: Canada 35 weeks, Cuba 40 weeks, USA zero.

In Eastern European countries like Belarus, Ukraine, and Slovakia, mothers get 3 years paid leave – that’s 10 times more than what Yahoo is offering.
If you gave birth, 16 weeks.
If you didn't, 8.

Now there is an equal metric regardless of the sex. Happy?
You don't know how happy it makes me to see former annoyance-kings classmates.com referred to as a "high school alumni site." Ah, the pre-FB days.
it certainly is on android. one of the reasons why i only install "social" apps on iOS..
Just an FYI, if by clients you mean for consulting work, Freshbooks has an arrangement w/ Paypal (yeah, I know) where payments are a flat $.50 (yes, 50 cents) for all invoices up to $10,000. You will still have to put up with a wait to get that money in your bank account (3-4 business days if payment is immediate), but it can all be handled online. I've had all my payments over the past year go thru Freshbooks and the lifecycle of invoices/payments is tracked in their system.
If you need any help with that, don't be shy to jump on #rust on irc.mozilla.org. The team would be happy to answer any questions you may have along the way.
Elance has verified contractors, they even call you (they did for me, and I'm in Uruguay).
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This sounds to me like there was a fuckup in one of the pieces of software that sends these messages causing a lag. The guy probably hit "yes" somewhere without realizing it and then 12 hours later shit hit the fan. Could have been client, could have been Path server, could have been cell provider, whatever.

The thing is it doesn't matter.

When you're dancing on the line of ethical behavior, you are one bug, one mistake, one oversight from crossing it. When you cross it, it might not be "your fault", but generally it never is: your fault was to be so close that such a thing could happen in the first place.
Thanks Zach, much appreciated.
Right... I've been working with the BitInstant guys to bring back Dwolla support, and make it better than before :)
Thanks for the link.

> Unfortunately this is a very misunderstood area of medicine because doctors (and patients) like to pigeonhole illnesses as either physical or psychological, and psychiatric/psychosomatic illness has a very bad negative stereotype.

That is, in fact, what I was trying to do. I actually said that to one of the doctors (something along the lines of 'I want to rule out physical issues first').

Thanks again. I'll write about it and submit to HN once I have finished climbing out of the hole :)
This sounds patronizing. As adults, you make your choice and face the consequences. That you may have dependents does not reduce your moral responsibility one bit.
You're saying I need to apologize. That shows me you're offended.

I don't have the quote on me, but it's online. Google more if you care to see it.

If you don't want me to speak for you, that's fine. I'm just saying most women in general would be offended to be represented by Adria and I'm saying most of us (all the dev women I know so far) are not interested in being made to look stupid through her self-proclaimed representation. I'm just trying to defend that and I'm sorry you were offended in the process. Your voice definitely counts too. I just don't understand it (I'm honestly trying).
Why You Should Develop with Node.js and Monitor Your Product with NodeFly
I think this is the same for all roles and isn't related to programmers or programming (IMHO). If you want your pay to rise at a faster rate you move.

If you do it too often then your CV looks bad, if you don't do it enough then your pay tends to rise slower than you would like.

3-4 years is that middle ground.
Using GitHub as a first-level defense against spammers is genius. I'd like to see it used for other things too (registration for hackathons, etc.)

Any alternatives considered?
Got a minor in optical engineering minor back in the day. I think it is theoretically possible to create a waveform with those LED's that would converge to an image at a distance. It's a similar problem to the recent deep field cameras on the market today that look at the waveform across the thousands of lenslets and reconstruct the image at multiple virtual focal planes.

That said, those calculations are wicked complicated and take computational power, so hopefully some genius PhD comes up with an algorithm to generate those wavelet images in O(n).
They pled down, effectively. They were charged with more widely-ranging violations.
I like your home page design and color scheme, but:

- the centering is broken: your information source sites are a bit to the right compared with the 3 steps

- you give me a search box and hint a location, but I don't really know for what... I guessed it should be a destination for a travel but was pretty unsure

- I read P2P as "peer to peer", and I can bet others will too

When I searched for Lisbon, Portugal, I got a ton of results about people that are planning on going there from Madrid, Spain, and offering rides. Clicking on them sends me off from Lisbon to Madrid and got me lost for a while. You should remove the rides from the searches and rework them completely, otherwise they'll provide too much noise and confusion.

Searching for things with spaces presents a lot of labels with the space encoded as "%20".

Overall I like the idea, good work.
"If that's all purely emergent from known physical laws, we should be able to determine whether a particular object possesses/produces the illusion, right?"

Lets talk about if a computer program, given some pretty simple physical and logical rules, halts, and is there any easier way to prove if all programs halt and what it's answer will be, other than pretty much letting it run and see what happens?

So if I wrote an AI and asked it if it would end, it would not really have much to say beyond the mundane (when you yank the power cord or whatever). You can probably twist that into a free will argument somehow. Will asking it if it can prove it has free will (or consciousness) ever complete that program? It doesn't look like that program ever halts with biological processors and there seems to be no good answer.
> I would be curious to know how you typically offer to help others.

The guy hasn't asked for help. He's come very close to outright threatening you. His question's not about him or his company, it's about you:

> "Why did you decide to take another offer?"

He's asking us to justify our decision; asking why we decided the way we did. And, in doing so, he's basically made the only choice how badly you're going to risk insulting him.

The tone of the conversation is basically 'Back down or go to war.'

They could have been enthusiastic and asked me about the other job I accepted - and the things I enthused about would probably be the reasons I accepted it. Could have tried to have a real conversation in other words. Would have got more information out of me that way.

I think it's probably a no win situation by the time someone's phrasing it as 'Why did you X?' It's such an aggressive question to ask. Oh maybe someone here and there's got a small enough ego that you're not going to insult them if you're honest - people who would bear you absolutely no ill will over the essential statement that their company is inferior in some way - but I think such people are rare and in that environment the trick is to say as little of worth as possible. Whatever I say, someone's going to find a way to hold it against me.

So, what would I say? I don't know, it would depend on the companies in question. I'd probably pick the least insulting difference I could think of between the two companies that couldn't be reconciled and enthuse about that. Even if the person on the other end of the line would honestly correct a difference in offer and hope to bid for me that way, it's not worth giving someone like that a handle on me - letting them have something I want that they can manipulate me with.
This looks really awesome; looks like Hotswap for the JVM.

I wonder how they handle updating anonymous function references--in the JVM, everything ends up being a class name (e.g. Foo$1 whatever), so even "anonymous" classes technically have an identifier to say "here's the new code". I wonder what that is for Light Table/the V8 VM.

I'd love to see this hotswap behavior built into all JS wire/debugger protocols. Maybe a W3C spec?

Light table is really awesome, and really driving the bleeding edge, but debugging/inspecting/hotswapping seems like something other editors could do as well.
Does anyone know what happens with this data? Obviously it is analyzed in realtime for driving but is it also stored for machine learning purposes? Is that data shared so that other cars can take advantage of it?
Could Body Armor Have Saved Millions in World War I?
Why on earth are people still using Path after it has become so very obvious a long time ago how unethical this company is?

This kind of behavior doesn't just go away after a bit of bad publicity or a few fines. It's part of the DNA of a company. Such a lack of ethics permeates everything from strategic decisions to technical choices to hiring.

Expect more of the same.
I've been using Acuvue Oasys (IIRC) for a while now. I'm on the 4-week disposables but my optometrist is getting worried about increased blood vessel growth in my cornea. I think my eyes may just be particularly sensitive - this is happening despite me wearing lenses for a max of 12 hours a day and not exceeding the recommended 4 weeks of wear per lens.
My grandfather told me a lock only keeps an honest man honest.

If someone wants something of yours, the only way to keep it out of their possession is to either bank on their honesty or laziness, or to guard it.
I really dislike the mods here changing titles to bend to personal views. I've had a few submissions that gained good traction and got heavy upvotes until a mod changed the title to something meaningless and unrelated.
Android's permission system also doesn't require apps to ask for permission before they access your phonebook - it requires you to give permission to install the app, and it tells you the app can view your phonebook, but you have to either trust the app not to abuse that ability or not install it at all. There's no way of telling the difference between an app that can use your phonebook to provide useful optional functionality and one that'll upload the entire thing to the mothership the moment you start it.
A number I've found useful is that 1080p60 raw video is roughly 1Gb/s (using YUV). So the car has the equivalent of 8 such cameras. Doesn't seem unreasonable.
Elaborate Hack robs Hospital of $1.03 Million
To be honest, this is exactly why I do not plan on starting a family in the Bay Area, and instead, will return back to Toronto.

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/pregnancy....
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/types/maternity_parent...

Basically, in Ontario, mothers are eligible for 17 weeks of pregnancy leave. After giving birth, both parents are eligible for up to 37 weeks of parental leave.

This time is unpaid, but has no impact on your benefits, length of employment, seniority, etc. Many companies do pay for this time off, especially since the government employment insurance program will help if your weekly income drops below 40%.

The money helps significantly, but for me, it's more about the time. These are important and formative weeks during your child and family's development. A couple of my friends just had a baby, and I can see how much they cherish every moment they spend with him.

I won't be worrying about these kinds of benefits for a few more years, but it's still something that I view as important.
> 99% of all Xbox 360's here in Uruguay are hacked

as in they flashed the disc reader's firmware to have it say 'yes, this is a legit disc', which does not invalidate the fact that the code on the disc is signed.

> What do you mean by bulletproof?

bulletproof as in even partial access to the hardware to execute random, sideloaded, unsigned code on the CPU is extremely involved, if at all possible.
For reference, the raw RGB data for 1080p video at 30 fps works out to 178 MB/s.
Really? That's great to here. I'm a student at UT and do some research at Oak Ridge. I've always been interested in startups and would like to start my own at some point or join a small team.

Banyan looks great. I've been mentioning Github to my advisor, but I think this is much more suitable.
What of the UI? It's the most customizable UI in a browser. You have skins, themes, any element can be placed anywhere/hidden. What's the problem?
The average job in general lasts 4.4 years at this point, so this isn't just an issue for programmers. That's just the nature of things. At most jobs, you hit a ceiling pretty quickly, or you get grunt work that doesn't help your career, or you get laid off, or the people you like move away, something else happens that makes it a good idea to roll the dice again.

Typically, I can figure out in 6 months whether a job is going to lead to real membership in the effort and, if not, then I look for something else. Why shouldn't I? It's my life. Why am I some sociopathic "job hopper" for leaving?

Also, this guy seems pretty solid in general, but this...

There's always someone willing to pay you more than you're worth. After several years with a company it's likely that they're going to pay you what you're worth, but not what some other company thinks you're worth.

is total loser thinking. No, actually. The company you're with is going to pay you less than you're worth, knowing that most people are averse to change. That's also why landlords almost always raise rent in the first year.

To get anything even close to what you're worth (a half-decent programmer is worth $500k+ easily) you need to job hop to a degree that (a) most people can't stand, and (b) those who can stand it are unusual enough that regular society thinks there is something wrong with them.

Actually, the only way workers could get what they are actually worth would be for society to implement a basic income-- then no one would need to work, and companies would pay something resembling the actual value of the work furnished to them-- but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.
They seem to mostly change the titles to what the title of the actual article was. This is of course a terrible policy when the blog in question [edit: does not] use descriptive titles, or titles that only make sense if you are coming from the perspective of already being on the blog.
Global carbon dioxide levels near 400ppm
Would an accurate analogy be an old fashioned magazine article, where as far as I know the advertiser does not get a copy of the entire subscription list personal details, but they do get proof that each subscriber got one copy of their ad?

Maybe the old fashioned yellow pages paper phone book is an even better example. All I know for certain is everyone in zip code abcde just got a copy of the ad. That doesn't mean they have a list of everyone in zipcode abcde.
Truth Will Out – Why Authenticity is the Key to Growing Your Business
Typical disinfo from the so-called "Scientific" American </sarcasm>

Actually, this article touches on something key to understanding these sub-cultures (as well as the appeal of right-wing radio):

Since a number of studies have shown that belief in conspiracy theories is associated with feelings of powerlessness, uncertainty and a general lack of agency and control, a likely purpose of this bias is to help people “make sense of the world” by providing simple explanations for complex societal events — restoring a sense of control and predictability.

Does anyone have more resources (sudies, books, etc) along the lines of the take-away above? I am very interested in this phenomena.
It's 1 GB/sec of data from sensors. Likely processed, but not stored.

To get 1 GB/sec write throughput in a moving car you would need to be using some form of solid state storage, which would be pretty darn pricey over an hour test drive.
I get it, no jokes on HN. This was a quote from the developer, who has, I suppose, a better sense of humor than y'all.
bluthru's more important point is that by offering different amounts of time off for men and women you're disincentivizing managers from hiring women.

The simplest way of removing this "hidden tax" on hiring women is to make the tax the same for men.

A proper policy would give equal maternal/paternal time off for both parents for either birth or adoption, and also have some sort of paid medical leave program in place for complicated pregnancies (and of course, all other medical problems).
What are things city planners can do from an infrastructure perspective so that we can drop the amount of data that needs to analyzed in real time? For example, can we use special paint for road lines in order to make the cost of detection of road lanes lower?
I am using OSX 10.8.3, and when I open the lighttable app, i see the lighttable logo/text and then it closes/crashes. Anyone had any similar issue? any know fix?

EDIT:
Fix - sudo rm -Rf ~/.lighttable/
Me1000, you should mention to the folks here that you actually worked on the address book stealing code during your time working at Path so you are particularly aware that the statements in your post there are both untrue and self-serving.
Engine Yard announces lower pricing
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Cheezburger cuts 35% of staff to make transition from desktop to mobile
I know that, and I said so in the comment, I have used it myself in some projects. I just meant that this is not necessarily "proof positive": there are other ways they could have sent those texts without uploading the user's address book to their server.
How is Dwolla better than bitcoin? It seems like it has the same drawbacks of credit cards (chargebacks), without very much benefit.

Maybe I'm missing a killer feature, but Dwolla doesn't seem all that interesting, just another paypal competitor.
Small Arms and Ammunition Trade Data Visualization
Google Glass review (Engadget)
A good example would be the post I made about a third party audit of CloudFlare's security and how they failed to block any of the most basic widely known attacks. The mods change to the academic title of the PDF paper failed to provide any sort of enlightenment about why it was interesting at all to HN readers.
IPhone 5 Screen Protector from Nanoveu Lets Users View 3-D Content
> Am I the only one here who's frustrated by this entire discussion? I've a very strong underbelly feeling that we should simply build tooling that make these entire discussions unnecessary.

This feeling lasted about five minutes. Then I moved on doing real work.

PS: you won't be able to pry rebase -i and --onto from my cold, dead hands because I'll be clinging on them all the way into whatever form of afterlife.
Yeah, I haven't seen the realtime eval work in Coffeescript - I have to save the file and refresh the browser. That said--the awareness of the workspace environment really blew me away and pays off in tab completion.
Oh. That's why I didn't notice, because I don't use BitInstant. TY.
How is it, if compared to IPython Notebook? Anyone familiar with both Light Table and IPython tried it yet?

[I'm Light Table backer, just want to know, if it is time yet to try it out... ;) ]
I'm surprised that more companies don't pay (the employees they want to keep) what their "flawless market value" would be

The only company I'm aware of that does this (paying "flawless market value") is Netflix.
It’s All Relative: STEM Workers are in High Demand
"Our first target was initially bioinformatics"

Have you ever heard of the AAVSO? American Association of Variable Star Observers? It strikes me that you need a critical mass in the field you target and a small group to roll out. Bioinformatics sounds a little large. AAVSO sounds just about the right size. Of course your more detailed research will unsurprisingly have a different conclusion than mine, etc.

"I believe that open science hasnt taken off because there is no platform for it"

Well, the AAVSO has been around a lot longer than the web. Even if they're not eventually users, their experiences over the last century or so would make an interesting case study for you, one way or another.
Some stories would drop off the front page fast if the original title was used initially. By the time the moderator changes it, usually there is enough weight that people read them because of the # of upvotes.
Hired celebrity tweets Galaxy S4 praise… from his iPhone
I did consider Calagator[1], which is both the defacto tech calendar in Portland and an open source project[2].

However, I realized that using this tool was going to require me to a) install it b) host it and c) moderate it.

I had recently started using Github Pages + Jekyll to host my own blog, so it was really just a question of whether I could re-purpose Jekyll to generate a useful event calendar. Thanks to custom YAML metadata[3] and a JSON feed, the answer was yes.

[1]: http://calagator.org

[2]: https://github.com/calagator/calagator

[3]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter