skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he nailed the issue right here:

Facebook Home isn’t an iPhone idea. It’s just a bad idea. Facebook is an app, not a platform. A good home screen interface is one that accommodates any app or service, not just one.

Facebook is a service- a single service- that lots of people use. But those people use a lot of other services too. Facebook isn't as important to people as Facebook obviously likes to believe. Lots of people using Facebook != Lots of people using Facebook lots of time, especially on mobile devices whose entire purpose is to provide information in a portable fashion. They make calls, send texts, and sometimes, yes, make status updates and view images. But they also get directions, play music, display weather notifications, and store reminders.

Facebook handles a couple of these things fairly well at best. Between the fact that it is a single service and that most people I have to imagine are irked by having a social sharing service in between them and every task they want to accomplish on the device is enough to say "the app is good enough for me."
They should definitely generate a vanity onion address.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118194.0
Not if they then continue to apply that code to other people after not adhering to it themselves. Experience suggests that this is most likely what they will do.

If this is taken as a voyage of personal discovery and they change their ways, then we can applaud their critical thinking ans self inspection. Otherwise we can justifiably cry hypercrit (for all the difference it will make...).
Hehe, fair enough. Sorry if you thought my tone was a bit off! I don't know who the author is or what he does, I'm just getting increasingly frustrated with the content that's upvoted on this site.

as did many others, clearly

I, like many longstanding active members here, care about the community and I don't see the relevance. It has nothing to do with hacking, entrepreneurship, or is generally all that interesting. But the author got my click, my eyeballs and my response, so he wins.

ps - Didn't take the tube in, I work from home :) I think the tube is very well maintained actually.
> He confirmed that the price was the same.

Hm. Unless this is a master's course that requires that you already have a different master degree, it should only cost about 500 euros for Belgian students.
Week 2 Review: Life Experiment, 48 Laws of Power
I think it's funny that the lawyer includes "racial discrimination" ... but is there really anything wrong with discriminating against criminals, illogical lawyers (or anyone really) or even just stupid people?

Just because I don't want to associate with someone or a class of people, doesn't mean I discriminate against them. You won't generally see me in a bar full of drunk people or a movie theatre full of people watching a chick-flick either - shouldn't we call this "preference" instead?
I begin to wonder, whats the impetus to put america back in this stead
Simulate basic ESI using NGINX and SSI
@pg -- You're still listed as a fwd.us supporter. Care to explain yourself?

http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters
Yes, and this is hardly a new observation.

Governments have been debasing their currency for millennia, because it's an easier way to raise revenue than actually going out and taxing people for it.
Energia was an amazing heavy lifter, it's a great shame the capability was lost after just two flights.
Just yesterday I was talking with several people who head organ donor foundations (seeking to aid those who require an organ donation). One of the things they mentioned was how hard it was for both donation recipients to find a job after their respective medical procedures.

It appears they have to follow strict medical checkups after the operation and thus have to leave work to attend these appointments. As such, many are denied jobs or are conveniently fired from their positions. And even though the law protects them from some of this discrimination it's hard and expensive to prove the discrimination.
In fact, I was looking into something like this, so I could theoretically do Python or Javascript with Bootstrap: http://bellite.io/docs/quickstart/
Google I/O 2013 Live
Ignoring all of the text past the block quote:

These are not new ideas; this was all previously thought of by The Big 3 Sci-fi writers (Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov), with Isaac Asimov making most of the robotics predictions. Paul Krugman (one of the articles linked to) chose economics because it was the closest available field to Asimov's Psychohistory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_krugman#Personal_life

[Asimov spoilers after the quote, with non-spoiler links after]

" What’s going to happen is massive income transfers to flesh and blood human beings. These income transfers will come to be seen as a right-of-birth. This will make complete social sense once you realize that most of the beings on earth will be robots and therefore not-of-birth.

Birth is something that happens to a minority of beings who are special, flesh and blood humans.

The concern, as I see it, is over accepting the dual truth that robots will in all likelihood be sentient beings with an inner life just as ourselves, and they will live in grinding inescapable poverty."

[Begin Asimov spoilers]

Asimov envisioned that 50 Spacer colonies would eventually leave the solar system and colonize other systems. Their societies would develop according to the group psychosis and phobias the original floating colonies possessed, adjusted to fit their new environments. (The 50 colonies resembled a spectrum of psychosis where the social phobia of the most extreme Spacer worlds progressed to the point they only managed physical contact for sexual reproduction, which they eventually phased out in favor of asexual reproduction, I digress). Earthlings feared robots and relegated them to agricultural and infrastructure tasks while shunning them from their agoraphobic society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaria is the last and most extreme of these Spacer worlds. The decision to become social isolationists with a heavy dependency on robotic labor resulted in the demise of their society, and was the type of social decay that Asimov feared might occur in humanity following the adoption of robots.

[End Asimov spoilers]

I highly recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_asimov for anyone interested in this topic. There are some online sources for his work, and there is a large availability at http://www.abebooks.com/

Other Links:

http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_home_page.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_bibliography
http://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34221A/Isaac_Asimov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_series_%28Asimov%29
Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3: The 1st killer app retires
That's seriously genius. I can't believe how creative people are honestly. Can't wait to use this app.
I wish i could do math
> Then again, maybe I'm just a paranoid coward. I'm so glad I don't have access to information anybody would be interested in.

I agree with everything else you're saying, but I should just point out one thing:

It doesn't matter whether or not anybody is interested in your information - especially in this era of en-masse passive data collection, you have the right to your own data, which includes the right not to be snooped on by third parties (governmental or otherwise).

It doesn't matter whether or not you "have anything to hide", only whether you have anything you want [voluntarily] to show.

</rant>
> How can you be sure that the data you are submitting is not intercepted? How can I be sure that all my traffic is not running through one government network (because all tor nodes still left are compromised)? How can I be sure that I'm actually submitting my information to the New Yorker in this case as opposed to a government server posing as them?

even if this were the case, how could you be personally identified? worst case is the government gets the document you meant for the new yorker, but you still wouldn't be identifiable (unless your name was on the document etc.). Unless you're saying the government runs the majority of tor nodes so they could track back to your ip?
The problem I had with starting out with something like Stripe was that especially for my site just starting, I wasn't sure how willing people would be to enter their credit card information, even through something like Stripe. I'm certainly looking to move away from PayPal as soon as I feel I've gained enough trust though.
You don't have to use crossover, you can just make small mutations. That's much more likely to result in interesting offspring.
Because it isn't safer and the rule doesn't make sense. I don't like to follow arbitrary rules created by uninformed people, especially when they don't make sense and are inconvenient.
I'm less concerned for the encryption. In principle, Tor guarantees anonymity - my question is really, "How guaranteed is that anonymity, assuming Tor's implementation is correct?"

I concur that, if anyone has been able to break Tor, they haven't made use of it in any public way. You can only really do that once.

Put another way: Suppose I want to know who is sending messages to the New Yorker's strongbox, but I don't have physical access to their isolated system. Can I figure it out? How many Tor nodes would I need to compromise to have a ~5% shot at discovering interesting information about the sender?
That doesn't help if you're talking securely to the wrong address.
Works for me, what browser?
The title is better than the article.

Humans and robots are merging more than they are competing. Its a symbiotic relationship.
Facebook is becoming a social search engine. Everything will be tied up to the ability to be able to find anything about anything/anybody.
Thanks! It sounds like we share the same hopes! :)
Pardon my ignorance but what is this dome you speak of?
I thought this was the case, and bought an electronic subscription a year or so ago. As you say, good International coverage, but the writing was shockingly bad in many cases - technically incorrect and sloppy. I cancelled.
The parent was saying that the onion address could be changed. Did you even read what they wrote?

[edit] because the original poster deleted their post, it said something like: that's pointless, because tor ensures that communication is secure [/edit]
If they disagree with what they do, when it could be applied to themselves, how is their position fair at all either?

I made no statement as to whether I agree with what they expect of others - I simply suggested they should do what they would expect others to do, lest they be classified hypercrits.
I understand the situation but wanted to be brief. The important point that there was a time when the movie was in public domain and was shown quite a bit. Given the costs of licensing, assuming that is coincidence is suspect.

Since number of views affect popularity, it is possible that a classic is a classic because it became public domain. By extension, would more public domain improve things for everyone?
There's plenty of concurrency and parallelism out there but there's not a single piece of important software that is written in a functional language. Many people claim many things but when it comes to empirical evidence. it turns out that imperative, stateful programming is still the best choice.
Erlang has some limited and very niche uses in telecom, bua it was replaced even at Ericsson to good degree with c++.
Why does the IRS have medical records?
Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge
Completely copy and paste blog spam. Original story: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-thi...

EDIT: Yes, downvote me to oblivion because I pointed out this post is in blatant violation of HN rules:

Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

The content is exactly the same as The Atlantic article. The Atlantic is not where the incident was first reported, but it is the source of all the legal analysis and commentary on the issue.
Not really.

A programmer earning around $100k could easily accrue that kind of tax liability over a few years, even after deducting payment of foreign taxes. (But not penalties and interest for the delayed payments)
> There is a 3rd party that keeps track of how much money banks have.

My understanding of the reserve system, which is entirely limited, is that the Federal Reserve relies on what the bank reports?

If the bank doesn't know it's been hacked, it'll simply report the wrong figures and that will be that?
I have one of those drones -- and I also live in Seattle. I mostly just fly it in public parks where most people think it's pretty cool. I can completely understand why people think it's creepy though, and definitely foresee municipal law challenging airspace rights.

People in the area are pretty sensitive to the concept especially considering the local police department's recent effort to use patrol drones (the program was recently cancelled).
Thank you for you feedback!
1. Making it like a pure web app is not possible, at the moment. BTW We have some ideas about collaboration we are working on.
2. You are right
3. You are still right
4. Definitely right

All these stuff are already on the way.

Sincerely thanks you for your feedback!
I wonder though, would anybody actually use evidence gathered from Tor in that manner? That would mean revealing that they can feasibly do it and they'd lose a huge intelligence asset.

They'd get to see the information, but they wouldn't be able to action it without showing their hand.
Do we want our tools to have sentience? I work with a lot of sentient humans and it is not always fun, organized, or productive.

The problem with sentient beings is that they have their own ideas about what should happen next. I don't want to have to have a ton of meetings with my computer to convince it to run a new piece of code.
The piece of paper isn't to validate your self worth, its to validate to your prospective employers that you are worth more money.

My quick Google search pegs the increase in starting salary going from BS to MS at $18,200 a year [1]. Being able to make that leap for $7k seems like a pretty good deal to me.

[1] http://www.naceweb.org/Press/Releases/Payoff_for_Master_s_De...
Watch Google I/O 2013 (Keynote)
Could be useful for us Marketing majors who now wish we got a CS degree in undergrad, and the best option is to get a CS Master's now
"How does having a place to work help you work?"
Cheap VPS's for data storage
Drone Startup Airware (W2013) Lands $10.7 Million Series A
Millennium dome.

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

Now privately owned as the O2 Arena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O2_Arena
New Prenda letter threatens to tell neighbors about porn accusations
One recommendation I've been given already is - http://www.yelp.com/biz/akikos-sushi-bar-san-francisco
This has been around for yes, but new features were announced yesterday:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-apps-scr...
As you said, inflation occurs when the money supply goes up, and dangerously so if it happens for no good reason (in your example). I suppose it is not in the interest of banks to have hyperinflation either?
Well if we're playing that game; a local Seattle blog reported it first: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2013/05/chs-x-files-capito...
That was the whole point of introducing Open Graph years ago. Their business model is still advertising, but more narrowly targeted than Google.

I honestly think Facebook has peaked as a social hub. I know more people abandoning it now than I ever have before.
Flagged. The title on HN has been specifically changed from that on the original article "Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion" to make it seem like it's about open access when it's actually about vanity publishing.

That's exactly the kind of change the "no editorializing in titles" rule is meant to cover.
I've had a few "brief" takeoffs lasting more than 2 hours. I'm sure other people here have as well.
It would be TFL (Transport for London) not DVLA who deal with the congestion charge, surely?
it makes me question whether or not there is even a 'TechStars' culture

Does there need to be? They're so widespread at this point that there is little incentive for me to apply for TechStars Austin- I'm in New York, so I'd just apply for TechStars NYC. If the two have different cultures it isn't going to affect me.
If airlines really believed that use of electronics could bring down an aircraft then they would ban passengers from using them entirely. Allowing passengers to take them on the plane and simultaneously claiming they are extremely dangerous is simply confusing. The passengers guess that the risk is being exaggerated as a way to control them so they resist on principle rather than because they care very much about using the devices.
I think the question was less,

Isn't this in the public domain (b/c it's GPL'd)?

and more along the lines of,

Why does the owner matter since it's GPL licensed
(and can therefore be forked, and used even if
the new owner changes the license)?
That's a great point. Facebook Home was simply a bad idea. I don't want Facebook taking over my phone, although I'm sure they would like nothing better.
Reminds me of the entry plokta in the jargon file so it must go back to the beginnings of time:

http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/P/plokta.html
Thanks for the link to the original. That said, the content of the articles are not the same. I wouldn't consider this to be blog spam.
I believe there is an how it works link on the homepage.
Well, I wouldn't call that "concurrency" just because there's a queue in it - I'd call it "parallel but not concurrent"; or we can call it differently - I really don't claim to use the terms in "the right way" - but that's what I was referring to as "parallel, not concurrent", anyway.

"Insure that the results are deterministic" - how? Race detectors deterministically insure that results are deterministic :) which I always found nice... "No special tools" - you mean you just run the thing several times and check the results don't change, or "just" write the code correctly? How do you know it's yielding deterministic results except that it's supposed to do so by design without any tools?
I am having the same issue as well. Firefox 21 on Windows 7.
AFAIK it is not possible.
the IRS is going to be managing a vast majority of American healthcare records anyway

For those interested, I found more info in the following links. Though, it still does not appear that the IRS would be privy to the exact details of medical care.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100711119

http://www.irs.gov/PUP/newsroom/REG-148500-12%20FR.pdf

it's "theft" until you get someone to pass a law requiring people to voluntarily give you what you want

While this is very true, it is rarely applied retroactively.
Glad you are back, hope you'll do what it takes to avoid another data loss;)
Good luck.
(disclaimer: I know the founders; and I wrote the python / django client libraries)

When we started YunoJuno we hooked up Sentry, as we are a django app, and it's the default option for error management (oh, and it had an Heroku add-on available). It's a great product, but I got frustrated early on with how it was aggregating errors - and ended up in a public StackOverflow confessional during which I unpicked the source and tried to work out what was going on (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13331973/how-does-sentry-...).

I started using Errordite when it became available (I had to write the python client first!) and ran both in parallel for a couple of months. Both do a great job of helping manage exceptions, but the killer for us (and the reason we dropped Sentry recently) is that Errordite allowed us to determine the rules around grouping exceptions ourselves.

I won't say any more for fear of sounding like a plant, but in answer to those who have posted 'what's the difference' - it's (IMO) the ability to set custom rules around how errors are handled.
It would be nice if some of the companies who control a lot of bandwidth would dedicate even a few Gbps to the cause. Google comes to mind, it's in their interest for Tor to be fast and secure so that users in countries with internet restrictions can use Google (China/Iran/Syria all come to mind).
Is escaping to the wilderness the best cure for digital distraction?
I have a different take on that.

Some PhD students meet their advisors once a week. Some see them once a year. What's different about a PhD vs MS is the expectation of a unique, individual contribution to the field: something that's never been done before.

Many people can learn existing material on their own, but very few people can get to the frontier and deliver something the field considers important (noting that what's considered important is often subject to fads and political trends that one needs social access to know where things stand) on their own.

It will be interesting (and exciting) to see whether we can democratize education up to the MS level.

Here's the real question, though: once we train people up to be strong computer scientists, what are they going to do in a world where priorities are set and work is defined by mediocrities? Is just knowing more going to give us the power to outperform them, or is it just one of many steps?
Google Announces It Has Reached 900M Android Activations
You have to fail a bit in order to succeed. There are very few people who hit a walk-off grand slam in their first major league at bat.
Hell, for $25,000 I'd let anyone take a look at my medical records!

On a serious note, it's been a bad week for the IRS, but that agency is seriously struggling right now with a slashed budget and increased responsibilities. As David Cay Johnston, puts it "The IRS is drowning." http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/the_other_irs_scand...
it is working on Chrome. Very nice tutorial, including video.
the point is, no software can prevent hardware failure , not even mongodb ;)
Police can legally do this without a warrant.

In Florida v. Riley, from the US Supreme court, it was ruled that police did not need a warrant to hover over someone's house with a helicopter to peer into the roof of a greenhouse to check for marijuana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley
and, according to about TOR [0], it is still used by the US Navy for intelligence gathering. Which is probably the best protection for the project, since those guys really care about anonymity.

[0]: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
My point is that there is a big difference between using a competitor of one of your ancillary products and using a competitor of your core product.

And there's also a big difference from using a competitor to a product that you yourself work on. I'm betting if you go to the ChromeOS division you'll see fewer Macs than elsewhere in the company.
No, hacking one bank doesn't really impact the wider money supply. The Federal Reserve serves as the bank's bank. It knows how much each bank has, and the individual banks are limited as to how much new money they can create in relation to their credit at the Fed.

But if you hacked the Fed itself, yes, you'd be creating new money.
F*ck yeah, that's right on the money.