skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Vipassana Meditation I recommend "Mindfulness in Plain English". You can find it online. It's an incredibly good book to begin meditation at all.
Ugh. I hope not, I don't need Facebook getting more datapoints about my life.
So the scenario is that a company in NZ distributes software using NZ servers to users in the US? I can imagine some problems. What happens if they sue the users in the US? What happens if they go to ICE and have the domain you're distributing from seized? What happens if one of the company's officers goes to the US on vacation and gets served?

I guess there's one way to find out. But it seems like the better plan is to fight to eliminate software patents everywhere instead of pretending the internet is going to respect every nation's borders or vice versa.
Both previous cases of Facebook buyouts in Israel (Snaptu, face.com) resulted in closing of R&D centers.

Waze is probably expecting the same outlook if this deal goes through.
The trailer is interesting but the IMDb rating (4.8) and the top comment on YouTube make it look unimpressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybd5rbQ5rU
I agree he seems to be completely proving the parent poster's point along with the one from michaelochurch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5678332).
Outside "manipulation" has always been a force in markets. Perhaps HFT is making the system faster to recover to false information?

Or maybe it's just another zero-sum scheme for moving money from the rich to the very rich. Heck I dunno.
It'd be fun to put this beside a bird cage, and see if the bird could learn to control its environment. If so, I imagine quite a number of doting bird owners would be prepared to pay money to give their pet "the gift of independence".
Great. Another one of those dismissal comments as the first in the thread. Let's see:

"Linkedin is a Facebook for recruiter spam. The article raises some valid points, you can't advertise you're looking for a new job because your boss will see or if not, one of your colleagues will and they'll most likely report you to get brownie points with the boss or even take your job."

- You don't need to advertise that you are looking for a new job on LinkedIn. You can always passively look. Are your employers reading your inbox too? If that's the case, maybe you should look elsewhere.

"Half of my connections are recruiters, I get daily emails offering me Wordpress development and SEO services (even though I am a front-end developer and can do that stuff myself), people add me I've never met before who don't even live in the same country as me. Linkedin is a giant mess, it's kind of like the professional equivalent of Myspace circa 2007 when that scantily clad girl wanting to add you was some low-life in a basement trying to spam affiliate links at you, only that scantily clad girl is a guy in a suit trying to get a recruiting commission from spamming your inbox."

- People don't add you. People request to add you. There is a difference. I don't accept requests from people who I either A) don't know B) don't care to network with. I don't see how this is different than any other social network.

"Don't get me started on the skill endorsements feature. I get tonnes of emails everyday saying "Joe X has endorsed you for Java" even though Joe knows nothing about Java nor do I. People are endorsing me for skills that I don't even posses or have, what a joke."

- Joke or not I'll know the difference between someone's actual skills if I was a recruiter/hiring manager after asking them about said skill. I interview many candidates who I see write lots of languages on their resume. I'm not going to go through the list and ask about each one, but the skills endorsements are useful in that I know what I should focus on when I interview them to see if they actually know it. Anyone can lie about anything on any social network.

"Want to network? Get someone's business card and their phone number, store it into your phone and don't rely on a website comprised of spam to build up a network."

- Please. Especially for people in the technical industry. Waste of trees for the person receiving the card and waste of money for the person buying the card. I don't think I've ever called someone after meeting them for the first time at some sort of event, then again I'm not in sales; I prefer more passive introductions.
> The point of non-mandatory tipping though is that it feels good for both the sender and the receiver. It gives the sender the warm fuzzies for giving even a trivial amount, and the receiver gets a concrete demonstration that their efforts are appreciated.

Note, though, that for tipping systems where the tip is not cash or something reasonably equivalent to cash, the receiver might find the tip annoying.

For instance, I would overall be unhappy if someone on Reddit gave me Reddit Gold. Sure, I'd be flattered that they liked my comment enough to want to reward me, but I've looked at Gold and did not really see anything in it that I was interested in. I'd certainly get much less out of Gold than the giver thought I'd get, and I'd end up feeling that I had just wasted their gift, and I'd feel bad. I actually wish Reddit had an option one could set to disable the ability of one's account to be given Gold.
There Are Two Distinct Justifications of Copyright. Please Choose Just One.
> A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.

You're right! I've just tried and found the same. (9xx,000,000 for Or vs 7x,000,000 for Er).

Any Googlers reading? I'm curious about these results.

I enter [advisor] into one Google.co.uk search (I'm signed into chrome if that makes any difference to my 'bubble') and I enter [adviser] into another. Because I'm not using ["advisor"] or ["adviser"] I expect Google to use the words interchangably - the words are alternate spellings of each other.

But it doesn't seem like Google does substitute the words for each other. All my results for adviser only have adviser, and all my hits for advisor only have advisor.

I've criticised Google in the past for substituting words when it's not wanted. But here's an example where I think they're not subbing words that they should!

EDIT: For example, if I type [spectacles cases] Google will return and highlight [glasses cases].
Yeah, I'm not sure if the threat--justified or not--of a sort of mob outrage and harassment is really a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

It's one thing to promote a culture where people help each other, another to promote one where people are cautioned about bad actors, and another still to seek to defame "bad actors".

I'm not sure, especially in an industry whose demographics tend to the young and aggressive, that we want to be encouraging this sort of gang mentality.

We've got shit to build and code to ship--who has time to beat their chest?
Odd that they tested against consumer hardware, not a supercomputer, given that is what this is really competing against.
I hope it doesn't happen. Really. Every area of my life is becoming more and more exposed.
Thanks, that was a good explaination. If you look carefully, the timing between exchanges is identical, so hopefully they at least chose some representative latency between exchanges.
"The Psychopath Test" doesn't represent psychology.

Hare's commentary on the book is very enlightening: http://www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%2...

"This depiction of events ... and my reported reactions to them ... are complete fabrications. The same can be said of many of his other reports of our conversations. I can’t help but wonder if some of Ronson’s accounts of his experiences with others in his book are equally fictionalized."
Anyone know if it's legal to upload it to the USA?

If everyone who wanted it ran a little FTP (or similar) server on their machine, people in Australia could upload it to you, and therefore side-step any laws relating to downloading.

Does that work? If so, lets re-write the specs for some protocols to say that what is currently known as a download is actually a "request activated upload"!
If the law firm had been trying to screw you over, they wouldn't have told you about the trademark conflict. But they told you. Are you blaming them that you ignored the advice?

Do your homework. Choose deliberately the VCs you pitch, review their portfolio. Check if a name is already trademarked.

VCs are likely to share information learned, although they usually "anonymize" the facts. They're more likely to share market insights than product features. And when they do it, they _feel_ like they are sharing their general learnings, not sharing your secrets. Factor that into your planning.

But, startups are usually too busy to use suggestions that come in from VCs. I've never heard of a startup taking a new business strategy from a law firm. Nor have I ever had a law firm share sensitive information about another client with me, and I've spent thousands of hours working with different Silicon Valley lawyers over the last 20 years.
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Actually, the Israeli system does sort-of stop people from dying yet still lets market forces do some magic. It is single payer (gov) through taxes, every person chooses their HMO. The HMOs get paid per member (so they compete for the members) and they are also allowed to offer extra services to their members (which they also compete on). And finally - and I think this is also crucial - the government has a special fund for expensive life saving treatments that the HMOs tap into when needed - so they do not have an incentive to avoid those treatments.
You are replying to the wrong points.The question is not are these things illegal, or does everyone do them.

question is, do they benefit the market as a whole? Traders do not have a right to perform HFT, and if it destabilise markets, we can take steps to reduce it (of course, there is then the issue of how to take steps without causing different problems)
Exactly. And the confusion compounds...
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What caused that huge 80 point gain in feb?
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Wow, the comments on that blog make YouTube look like TED. Judging from them, you'd think the vast majority of the population were delusional conspiracy theorists and/or racists.
Memory Debugging on Android
Yeh, because that's worked so well in the US for gun control and health cover! (Referring to the quote)
Wrigley halts production of Caffeinated gum
if you are a DFW fan, this is gem. I recall reading IJ in 1997--absolutely like nothing i had ever read, and not just because it was a novel with footnotes and some of those footnotes had footnotes. Extraordinary work of art. Realizing that no more is to come from DFW is deeply sad.
Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous
Isn't the, "one" in the title redundant?

Would you say two half seconds rather than just a second?
Well, at least you have the stones to own your pettiness.

And in so far as they are aiming at different market segments, the two companies aren't direct competitors.

If you're looking for an in town runabout that's all electric and that you can eel in and out of the parking lot at Whole Foods on your way home from work... you probably don't want a Tesla.

Tesla's are for people who want to signal their wealth and power, for whom the transportation is a secondary consideration. They're cool, better than a Boxster; but they aren't exactly practical. They're for movie stars and banksters not people who build things.

Here's the thing though, I could see fabbing up a custom skin for an Arcimoto as weekend(s) project. Whereas with a Tesla, you'd feel like a jerk for touching Elon Musk's Work Of ART™ and that means the Arcimoto wins on hackability.
> "The Psychopath Test" doesn't represent psychology.

I'm not claiming that it does. I only mentioned it because that's where I first read about the Rosenhan experiment. That experiment is not fictionalized (see the Wikipedia link), regardless of whether or not the rest of the book is.

EDIT: Thanks for the link to Hare's commentary; I haven't read that before.
All the Symbian UIQ smartphones were touchscreen, as mentioned, outside the US, smartphones were much more common. iPhone changed the game with its UI and because you could use your finger making touch easier. But the biggest factor that changed the game were the concessions AT&T made to Apple.
Syncing all devices is fundamentally wrong and broken. Apple won't get it right until they drop the concept.

Try controlling what music from your vast library is currently on your tiny iphone. It's a god damned nightmare. Apple wants to "sync" which is just the wrong paradigm.

My phone is not synced with my itunes library. It's just contains a very small subset of it. If I were to draw a Venn diagram of "all the things" it would contain my iphone5, iphone4, ipad3, macbook, other icloud data, plus data on Apple's servers about what apps and TV shows I own but currently do not exist on any device in my possession. Each circle in the diagram has varying degrees of overlap with all the other circles. Not a single one is fully contained in any other. To proclaim that all of these devices are "fully synced" is just plain wrong.
I got bit by your site recently too. The way that flow is designed feels like it was designed to be deceptive. I was embarassed when I found out that you'd spammed a bunch of my contacts.

It's too bad because your business seems really valuable and would have been something I would have considered using if it wasn't for this terrible experience.

I hope you take my feedback as constructive and you use it as fodder to justify for changing this UX. Good luck.

- Sef (http://sef.kloninger.com)
Why Am I Making Games?
Looking at the hardware he's got there, 10-15 mW max.
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> A notional profit of $500 million in 24 hours isn't too shabby.

It's not a 24 hours profit. He didn't buy that stock yesterday, nor could he have without making the price go a lot higher than 70$. You can't judge his profit on the short term.
In Japan as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#Japan
Not much I'd think. It is based on a microcontroller [1] that runs on 50MHz frequency. If my calculations are right then maximum consumption for it is 0.0486 Watt.

[1] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?co...
Finding Spiritual Rebirth In a Valley of Male Ennui (1999)
I don't think his point was that firearm ownership by Americans of Japanese descent during WW2 would have been effective. I think his claim was that injustices have happened in America of the sort for which armed resistance is proportional and potentially warranted from the perspective of those whose rights were infringed.

> Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
yeah linkedin has tons of useless stuff.. i just keep my cv updated, trying to avoid reading news, or subscribing to groups. i've actually have found few jobs through linkedin posted job offers. Most of recruiters sending automated messages with invitations which I always decline. there's no way to communicate with your connected person.. no chat, no email provided.. it's easier to grab name and surname, and write PM through facebook. in my country linkedin is not so popular and recruiters actually writing nice messages with a good suggestions, that's how i've found a job in barclays. After living 2 years in netherlands.. i still get lot's of spam from there. Sometimes it's seems for me that only my country has a culture of recruiting, all others just spamming to get your attension.
SF finally drops junk science based cellphone warning law
You possibly didn't fool them - they may have suspected you were faking the symptoms, but when a patient shows up to a psychologist/psychiatrist on their own volition it suggests they're in distress. It could be considered malpractice to turn someone away who's seeking treatment.

A friend of mine spent two weeks in a hospital psych ward (in Sydney), and requested his records after he was discharged. It was surprising how much detail the doctors noted in the records, and how often they (correctly) picked up on avoidance and lying (yet they didn't give this impression in person). Based on this experience, it's possible the psychs your class visited gave you the diagnosis you wanted, but privately noted something very different you weren't aware of.

There has been a lot of progress in objective diagnostic tools recently - e.g there's a clinic in Sydney that diagnoses ADHD using EEGs, and selects medication based on response to the med (also measured using an EEG). And I read a paper last year that described a machine learning model trained on MRI images that could diagnose some of the organic psych diseases (bipolar, schizophrenia, depression etc.) with very high accuracy (70s/80s from memory), and distinguish between the diseases in borderline cases.

Psychiatry won't rely on symptoms alone forever, and don't think psychiatrists aren't already aware of the problems. But every psychiatrist who looked after my friend used whatever tools they had at the time to try and help. It's far from perfect, but they did their best and they really did help. And I'm really glad they did because he's finally a genuinely happy person.
Stephen Hawking Boycotts Israel Academic Conference
On May 1, "IT for change" had drafted a letter and requested AICTE to cancel agreement with Microsoft and replace it with FOSS alternatives [0].

The primary concern of a regulatory body should be commitment to welfare without prejudices. Such decisions should be proactively taken without need for repeated requests/jibes by the entities of the regulatory body.

In this case, AICTE has failed to live up to it's responsibilities. AICTE failed to see the points written in the letter by FSF/IT for change and even if it did it overlooked it. It behaved in the typical babudom mode where they tried to "push" till they could not and based the decision on reasons apart from merit

[0] http://www.gnu.org.in/news/it-for-change-requests-aicte-the-...
What the hell? $1B? Who comes up with these valuations?
For the hardware (storage) part, there is the storage pod from Backblaze:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...
Name.com Security Breach
Just received this:

Dear xxxxx,

We are writing to inform you of a security measure we have taken to protect the integrity of the domain names and information associated with your account.

Name.com recently discovered a security breach where customer account information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card account information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. It appears that the security breach was motivated by an attempt to gain information on a single, large commercial account at Name.com.

Name.com stores your credit card information using strong encryption and the private keys required to access that information are stored physically in a separate remote location that was not compromised. Therefore, we don't believe that your credit card information was accessed in a usable format. Additionally, your EPP codes (required for domain transfers) were unaffected as they are also stored separately. We have no evidence to suggest that your data has been used for fraudulent activities.

As a response to these developments, and as a precautionary measure, we are requiring that all customers reset their passwords before logging in. If you use your previous Name.com password in other online systems, we also strongly recommend that you change your password in each of those systems as well.

We take this matter very seriously. We've already implemented additional security measures and will continue to work diligently to protect the safety and security of your personal information.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. If you need any additional assistance or have any questions please email customercare@name.com. We'll continue to be as open and honest with you as possible as additional important information becomes available, so keep your eye out for a blog post or additional emails.

Thanks,
The Name.com Team
Thrift - a GitHub repo/idea thrift store (made with Meteor.js)
It's not the same, if you don't sync the folder then you can't easily add to it or view the contents? On mobile you can add and view files in unsynced folders easily - they just download on demand.
I am happy that the voice of the public was heard. AICTE needs to be reorganized into a more transparent and accountable organization.
Just the thought of being able to use that color in design. The depth is moving.

When I do lighting installations, I always insist on RGBA fixtures so you can get true warm colors – another thing you can't do with RGB displays.
Not the entire rest of the world - or at least, not completely.

> The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training, including weapons training. The personal weapons of the militia are kept at home as part of the military obligations; Switzerland thus has one of the highest militia gun ownership rates in the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
As an SF native, these sorts of laws and "causes" just make me angry. I'm all for paying attention to potential issues, but this law is not based on facts, its based on histeria and is ridiculous. I spent an hour explaining the facts to my neighborhood association, and they eventually got it, but sheesh.

The other problem is that the "progressive" leadership in the city picks up on these causes and attempts to "lead" on them. It does nothing but make us look bad, yet it happens time and time again. They need to go just as bad as the babbling tin-foil hat wearing people.
Yeah. Have you ever heard of peer to peer assistance? you know, that thing called charity that used to exist before governments started to take care of it themselves?

How about Mother Theresa? How about the Red Cross? About about the religious associations who live on donations only?

In your little world everything comes from the government, as well as your ideology it seems.
I use http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ — it's also web app but it is the best looking HN readear out there and I've tried a dozen of them.
I'd love to have a native app with this look, and was even going to do one myself, but I guess that will never happen — there are already to many apps for HN :)
Yes! This looks so much nicer than HackerNode. Thank you, however there is one thing I really miss and that's Pocket integration.
No clue if this will fall through like the talks with Apple, but it would be awesome if this app became more widely used here in the US. I've heard there are enough users in Israel that drivers can get up to the minute details on traffic, road hazards, cops, etc. on any major road. If Facebook integrated traffic crowdsourcing into everyone's phone, many places would get enough users for this to become viable practically overnight.
The front looks like the original iPhone.
Could be good. I really enjoyed 'Deception Point' by Dan Brown and it seems this could be something of the sort...
> I am happy that the voice of the public was heard

It was inconsistent with the open standards norm as specified in the National Information Technology Policy, 2012. Not a strong case of public voice being hard.