skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: if this is the case, why does my phone's battery last significantly longer when sitting idle and not making calls vs. when I'm talking to people on it? Surely the energy cost of constantly transmitting audio would make the battery drain very quickly.

Then there's the issue with the towers/lines being jammed by every phone constantly transmitting.
"They" don't need to pull in the account details; they already have them.
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Georgia has a similar thing going on. Looks like a pretty large radius around Atlanta thinks Atlanta is "the City".
Obligatory "Dota 2 had it first": http://fantasy.dota-academy.com/

Unrelated - I'm surprised this is on HN.

edit: nevermind, looks like it got flag-killed as soon as it hit the front page.
Serious question, would you read the citations? I'd be curious to read them too, and it is concerning that they don't have citations.
The primary appeal of the Myo, in my opinion, is the fact that you don't need to be within a 20 ft, perfectly unobstructed, line of sight vision cone of any sensors. You just put it on your arm and start using it anywhere.
Seems like 37S really are a one-hit wonder. Love the guys and the team, but seems they can't get anything launched that stays launched, and since they waited far too long to redo Basecamp, I'm positive they lost some business in the past 3-5. I'm curious to see what's next.

Didn't Chalk get a longer run than this one?
Wouldn't the inclusion of a simple phone number still be enough to identify the caller/recipient?
I'm not saying they are, I'm only saying they can.
Interesting. Thanks, we'll try to explain that better up front.
Encryption wouldn't do you any good in this case. They're looking for who you are contacting, not what you're saying. You'd need to move all telephony onto something like Tor to get around this (and your ISP could still tell what end points you were connecting to, when you were connecting to them, etc).
Loving it. Thanks.
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Seriously. When the first executive to say 'no' to the government has his entire life put under a microscope and ends up going to prison for something 'unrelated' that they managed to dredge up -- yeah, people are going to draw the obvious conclusions.
I don't know. For a nation of people that supposedly treasure their privacy, I don't know why we aren't taking to the streets and protesting all of this. There should be ongoing online protests as well, like with SOPA. The SOPA protest was kind of a fluke, though, it seemed like. It hasn't been successfully repeated since then.
Recording all US telephone calls costs only 2 million dollars for hard drives per year. Of course plus bandwidth costs, electricity and so on, but it is far less than at least I would have expect. Analyzing all the calls is of course a whole different story but I am not convinced it is not feasible or will become feasible in a not to distant future.
"Depression, for example, in my experience, and from what I've seen..."

Your anecdotal observations shouldn't drive your understanding. Go read up on it. Suffering from mental illness myself I find your post quite offensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs

The human condition also necessitates expression, realization, aspiration, etc. In many cases, sitting on a couch will bring the most instantaneous pleasure, but it is ultimately empty and ephemeral. Things that are difficult, though instantaneously distressing, are more likely to be fulfilling in the long term.
I understand that you're being facetious, but I don't think I'm being obtuse when I ask for evidence for X when someone says "I think X."
Can I get set up with Dan the matchmaker? He got that Clark Kent thing going on.
At work MotionBuilder is the king, while Maya is for modelling.
If the OP said, "Facebook _helps_ keep me connected to folks I care deeply about who aren’t nearby," would that address your concerns? Because I think you're over-reading this specific sentence and assuming that it means that it's the primary means of communication. I don't think that's what the OP said or meant -- on the very next line he makes it clear that he means in the context of online, "It’s one of my very few “emotive” online experiences.

Even with my closest friends that I see every week, I don't run down the week's minutiae when we see each other, even though we might see/share it on FB. Tough commute to the office? Find an interesting article worth sharing? Bragging about the cocktail you're about to drink down? None of this stuff comes up every week, but I'm happy to Like or comment on them when I see them, and, yes, it does help keep me connected. And they're in the same city. I don't think any of this should be surprising.

Also, I contend that "semi-creeping" on friends of friends is not what "most" people use Facebook for. That may be what you and your friends use it for, but I think this all goes to the underlying crux of the OP's argument -- Facebook is a personalized experience that is very different for each person, depending on who they are, how they use it, and who their connections are, and he's happy with it.
Actually, I think that the ambient information provided by facebook is incredibly important to maintaining a close relationship. I live 18 hours away from all of my family by timezone and almost never use any realtime form of communication with them. Sure I contact my parents mostly by email because they're not big facebook users, but I connect with my siblings mostly through facebook where I can see that my sister is trying a new recipe for dinner, my brother is posting photos of his kids at the park or their latest school project, my other sister is complaining about her first day at a new job, jump in on a conversation between two of them about whether that outfit he wore last night should ever be seen again, etc, as well as emailing them when I want to have a specific conversation. This is what he refers to as "there’s a lessening of perceived distance from that connection. Those six months don’t feel quite as long. And you have a shared déjà vu of general knowledge of what’s happened between you both."

If you're looking for serious evidence for this effect, I find support for this theory from the field of remote work and the invisible water cooler effect (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/jobcenter/workplace/bru...) as well as some papers I've read about increased connection through lightweight sharing methods (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6931...).
Um, I'm looking at the charts on that page, and:

• 'active editors' are stagnant to slightly declining globally for the last 3 years – and definitely down in EN and DE (largest) Wikipedias

• 'pageviews' growth has been slowing for a while, and since the start of 2013, total pageviews are down for 'all', EN, and DE

• 'edits per month' (on the secondary page) seems stagnant-to-very-slightly-improving globally, but definitely on the downtrend in EN

Sure, the the original article is an opinionated, possibly premature diagnosis of crisis... but your confident assertion of 'more activity than ever' isn't supported by those graphs!
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I'm from South Louisiana. My grandma has told me this from the time I was a young child and it still comes to mind. Went through my head just today, in fact, during an afternoon shower.
At least in Georgia, "Christian" usually implies you're non-denominational as opposed to Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, etc. It would be interesting to see a regional map of religious terms similar to the linguistic maps that are on the front page right now.
what is the backend stack for this? looking at your github, I assume it's using rails?
Everyone should see this relevant NYT short about William Binney, a 30 year veteran crypto-mathematician for the NSA who designed the program that is now being used by the NSA to spy on us all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...

His story was corroborated by Mark Klein, a former ATT employee who amassed evidence that the NSA was, with ATT's complicity, running a data-gathering node in room 641A of ATT's San Francisco building:

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

This is not some conspiracy theory. It's happening, and no one seems to care.
Indeed. People often succumb to irrationality when dealing with their pets, and are certainly inclined towards purchasing superfluous things for them. This is an excellent market from which these guys can probably extract a lot of profit.
@michaelmior you can use this to help identify your browser:

https://aboutmybrowser.com/
But not safely faster. Tires on most cars are not rated above those speeds.
Agreed with the last point here - I would be very surprised to find that 'most' people use facebook for that creeping the grandparent mentions. Perhaps most people in their personal social demographic? Perhaps just the poster?
SuperFeedr is awesome and Julien is great to work with as a user of the service. I wish they had this feature when I was working on my multi-medium client (now defunct) a year and a half ago.

The only downside—and why I stopped using it—is that the pricing model is per-item, so if you have frequently updating feeds it can get very expensive. Although I never tried to use it, the pricing page does say they they'll meet whatever it costs you to run your own feed system since their cost should be lower than yours.
Dell XPS13:

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The link is from Canada's store, but you will get an idea what I'm talking about.
Interesting, I would have thought that the unidirectional, read-only nature of the publisher-subscriber relationship would have made this simple for a traditional SQL database with read replicas and a very basic partitioning scheme. You assign workers to monitor feeds for updates, they update the DB, and.. done.

Looks like they may have added some complexity with their feed parser implementation, what they refer to as "supernoders". Looks like they don't lock ownership of feeds during parsing, thus allowing concurrent supernoders to get into race conditions while parsing the same feed.

And so it turns into another NoSQL example of employing conflict resolution to fix things.

I wonder if they could just use a simple locking scheme to prevent more than 1 parser from parsing the same feed at the same time. This sounds simpler than conflict resolution, to me.
Science is the search for the best theory as such it's hard to rank something as better or worse than we don't know. Thus the default theory is "There is no relationship between X and Y".

For the purposes of this discussion, that's a distinction without a difference. (BTW I edited my comment before your reply showed up, and had deleted the bit you quoted.)

More significantly, your suggestion of comparing SSRIs to placebos with side effects strikes me as an excellent idea; it is what Kirsch's study would naturally seem to suggest. I wonder if such studies will ever be undertaken.

Edit: I did find at least one such study:

http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/CriticalThinkRxCites/...

Authors' conclusions:

The more conservative estimates from the present analysis found that differences between antidepressants and active placebos were small. This suggests that unblinding effects may inﬂate the efﬁcacy of antidepressants in trials using inert placebos. Further research into unblinding is warranted.
We have customers who prefer paper invoicing. We're more B2B-ey. We could do their net30 payment terms all electronically, which would be a big plus for them.
Wow - that really is quite impressive. And I think it is "plenty technical" for Hacker News. After all - hacking isn't just about computers per se. This is some pretty solid hardware hacking.

Your "story" is so amazing - half the price of Cessna's attempt at the same thing?!

However, Cessna's variant does have a second seat and a fair bit more load capacity.

Q1) Could one sacrifice some pounds of baggage for a bigger pilot? I'm currently (sadly) ~240lbs.

Q2) Is there a single factor which dominates the huge difference in price? It appears the Cessnas were produced in the US, until they moved production to China - making (apparently) a ~$71k difference in labor cost! But they still are selling for $150k instead of the original target $110k. So is it labor? Materials? Design? Engine? I'm very (hacker) curious!

Q3) You mention the market being uninterested in "bare-bones" planes without radios, lights, navigation, iPod jacks etc. But while the "top tier" of those items are certain to be expensive, the "non-aviation grade" version of most of the sensors, GPS, radios etc have plummeted in cost in the years since the LSA category was created. An in-car GPS unit used to be $500+ minimum - now it is < $100 - with a bigger, brighter, higher resolution display, more CPU and map storage memory and fancy 3D navigation stuff to boot! Altimeter sensors are now basically "freebies" integrated into all sorts of consumer electronics. I find it disappointing (though unsurprising) that the aviation market hasn't pushed harder such that these systems are not such a major cost driver. Do you have any insight into why this is? Or have they really dropped in price, and a system which would have formerly added say, $50,000 to an aircraft now adds "merely $10,000?"
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in any event it's not a very sensible way of dividing that group. afaict there are three genera that you could use as the intension of the individuals in the sublists. you have (american)(people)who wrote(novels). taking an attribute of the (people) as the differentia makes as much sense as dividing the list by american state. dividing them by the kinds of novels they wrote would make more sense, because the writing novels thing is certainly more what the list is about than the writer's genitals.

but i'm not a wikipedian.
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There is a line somewhere on the time horizon -- and I am pretty sure we have already crossed it -- where everything you say on any telephonic connection (phone, Skype, LINE, whatever) has to be presumed to be not only recorded and archived, but ultimately usable in court in the future (after they make the special court for retroactive wiretap warrants). Unencrypted email, chat, etc also.

We (some would say "they" but as an American I think we citizens still bear the responsibility for what our government does -- the democracy is still mostly functional) already have the capability to record and store it all[1].

The US government doesn't admit to doing it, but I think it would be hopelessly naive to think they are not doing it (even where it isn't legal -- ever since G.W. Bush cemented the "torture first, ask permission later" doctrine after 9/11, this is how the USA rolls).

I also feel the outrage fatigue supercanuck mentions, but I think there is a more pragmatic takeaway -- don't say anything on the phones anymore, don't write things in chats or insecure emails anymore, unless you are comfortable with those things being made public and/or used against you in court in the year 2025.

I think that is probably already the reality -- and if not, it will be very soon.

I used to feel this way when I went to China (as in, oh ha ha, those emails you sent me at my Chinese hotel about "Did you get my FedEx of material for the underground pro-democracy freedom fighters to expose the Tiananman Square massacre?" were really fucking funny, asshole), but I didn't in the USA. Now I do.

[1]: the data center GoodIntentions points out in this thread is fascinating, and yet only one of the facilities for this kind of thing
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Atlantan here. This was my first thought as well. Pretty much anyone in Georgia and a little bit into the surrounding states think that too. People on the coast of Georgia usually refer to Savannah though.
On a desktop it has a decent experience, but on my phone (S3 in 'tablet mode') it's unusable. Any chance for a mobile friendly version?
Hey, I felt like an idiot for not finding it sooner when I discovered this. So maybe it helps you or someone : if you double tap the home button, then scroll the app dock left, there's a button to disable auto-rotation on your iPhone.
Also, most of the cohort of SF residents fit into the most important category, "people with more money that they know what to do with."
Doesn't work at all for me in Firefox 21.0 on amd64 Linux. Works in Chromium 25 on the same box. This is particularly disappointing because there's a Mozilla logo on the page.
Do you own a dog? If you do, have you watched your dog while it is asleep?

Just as humans, dogs go through sleep phases and even though humans have longer sleep phases; dogs have a REM phase. Once dogs get to the REM phase they're in a deep stage of sleep and the sound of an ambulance or foot traffic will not wake them up as easily as you think.

I've seen it hundreds of times throughout different breeds of dogs. I used to work part time for a vet when I was a teenager.
Ada ain't functional. A soft introduction is John English's Craft of Object-oriented programming. It's online, free, very intuitive and very well written. I usually tell folks to skip over the basics if they know them and work the first half. You're welcome to swing by #ada on Freenode for exceptionally friendly Ada talk. See what you think! I hope to see you on Freenode. :)
There is a lot of evidence to support this[1][2] (both scientific and anecdotal):

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/nearly-90-percent-o...

[2] http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/04/26/how-people-use-faceb...
That could be done as:
(defn function "doc" [a b & rest] "body")

However, matching by arity at the front really helps make simple functions clean. I really like the multiple body approach, as in my code there's typically one "standard" case, and the rest are special cases that just call the standard one with new params. Having to deal with a rest arg with potentially multiple possible lengths just doesn't look as clear in practice.

It's all tradeoffs. I can see why you'd like the arglist first -- I have some Haskell background, and I do miss it's types in Clojure, just for the documentation they provide.
>This is a not for profit organization that is strictly mandated by government procedures. It has a large budget. It has been around several decades. It serves tens of thousands users a year and enjoys monopoly on the services it's users require.

I'm familiar with that situation.

Two things:

1.) You're in no danger, there's likely no accountability at any level and you don't have to be in a hurry to quit. As a relative newcomer, what you see as a death spiral is likely status quo for the organization - it's a zombie.

2.) You never had a chance at effecting any real change, so don't feel guilty about bailing.
I could fit in a disgruntled mutter or two next Tuesday morning between 9 and 11. Would that help?
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To what extent do we know whether the same thing is happening in other countries? Do modern democracies tend to have laws that protect the public from this sort of indiscriminate surveillance?
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Yeah, been doing it that way for the signup form on Webpop for a while now (albeit with a different animation).
Or have its contents encrypted with a password that you don't have in your possession.
Could you clarify what you mean by “moderator”, please?

- an ordinary HN user who happens to have enough karma to flag stories; or

- a superuser who can kill links [dead] unaided

I'm not sure the latter exists.
I remember my father saying he updated some win16 code to win32 bit code which did this while working for AT&T. (Copy meta data for every call) At the time he said nobody would say what the code was supposed to do just that that they needed it to be updated. As such I suspect this type of "Passive spying" has probably been going on for a long time.

As a side note there are plenty of legitimate reasons to have this metadata for some phone numbers over the past X days. I suspect the original choice was simptly to give them everything vs trying to support these types of lookups after the fact.

PS: AT&T was for a while providing a lot of government services for free simply because they could not get billing correct and it was nobody's job to fix it. Which is why I think this could have easily stared as a hack to solve a technical problem vs. the sort of big brother spying that pops up.
Yeah and this comment on another thread is probably spot on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078276

I don't really find Go compelling, but I can understand the background some folks might be coming from that might make it compelling for them.
Have you all considered other methods of dealing with those issues?

Its incredibly easy to make fake FB accounts these days and just based on many Disqus comment sections I have seen across the internet, I don't know that a lack of anonymity really cures bad behavior.

A more intrusive, but verifiable method may get fewer signups, but the higher intent shown by someone giving real info may mean you can avoid FB pitfalls and actually charge lower prices, while getting a richer community for matches and thus a better product.
I developed that skill. Took a few months. Would hang out at my local coffee shop and strike up conversation with random people. You know what I found out? Most people are seriously boring. I would not recommend this option for the GP's use case. Sure you could find your next D&D group that way. But you'd be far better served searching Yahoo! groups. (Do they even have those anymore? Been so long since I played.) If you're looking for random connections, sure, by all means, talk to random people. Anything else, you may want to find something a little more targeted.
Thats hardly surprising, it is widely known or at least suspected that the NSA collects and stores all telephone communications, and not just metadata but the actual content as well. The capabilities of known and unknown US intelligence agencies are a state secret and the public will never know anything for sure.

This gives you an insight over what the public thinks to know so far: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephon...
Can't really call them a one hit wonder, the new Basecamp has taken off and IMO is better than the original Basecamp.
Yeah, I genuinely had no idea about that one. I know "trainers" is the British thing, but I thought everyone in the US called them sneakers.

That's the term used by zappos.com and rockport.com, for example. "Tennis shoes" is not a category.

I'm also slightly terrified that the vast majority of the country cannot distinguish Mary/merry/marry.
Google might have to license Microsoft's "avoid ghetto" patent and then just blacklist certain areas. No grocery deliveries for Gotham City!
I don't think sdoowpilihp said anything about supporting marginalization. It was just simply pointed out that the chosen hierarchy of the Wikipedia page could be seen as a cultural artifact of centuries of sexism.
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From the perspective of a mechanical engineer, this is amazing. You're squeezing unbelievable performance from such a small engine.

Also, a slightly-larger two-seater would be wonderful for transporting girlfriends/wives. Is that anywhere on the horizon?