skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Research on aging is making significant progress. We will know things in 20 years that we can't imagine now. Therefore, a 58 should expect to live past 100 if he or she is in good health now.
MONOLITH VIEW, Silicone Valley, Thursday (NTN) — We’re in a new world of computing. You need “personal”, “social” and “on the go”. So “search” will “join the social” on Google Plus.

We know Search has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Plus^W^WSearch has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better — and more sociable — user experience.

It’s been a long time since we’ve had this rate of change — it probably hasn’t happened since the birth of social media in July 2011, with our superior social media platform, Google Plus. So today we’re officially folding a number of other products into Google Plus:

* YouTube will become Google Plus Video. Your YouTube will be just the same, you’ll just need a username you have government ID for. Don’t worry — you can trust us with it.

* Google Maps API will become Google Plus Maps. You’ll need to add your house, your workplace, your favourite retail experiences and your credit card number to your “circles”, then you can look up any place you want. You can opt out to Apple Maps any time you like.

* Google Docs got absorbed by Google Drive, which will become Google SUM(). Imagine the “social” of your spreadsheets being rated by all your friends! Once again, users who opt out are free to revel in the joys of Office 365.

* Google Voice App for BlackBerry will be discontinued once we’ve found both remaining BlackBerry users and notified them.

* Orkut, of course, is being kept.

We know you’ll be delighted with the Google Plus experience, with hundreds of millions of people every month delighted to be using Google Plus! Or products that require a profile on it. It’s like Facebook without all the annoying people on it. Or any people. But the people on it love it with huge enthusiasm, just like the ones who loved Google Buzz before we shot that through the head too. Come onto Plus, or Vic will cry. You don’t want to see Vic crying, do you? Asshole. You probably hurt puppies, too.

To ensure a smooth transition, we’re providing a three-month sunset period so you have sufficient time to find an alternate web-searching solution. Good luck on that one. Because, and you know it in your heart, Google Plus as a search engine still sucks less than Bing.

http://newstechnica.com/2013/03/14/spring-clean-google-searc...
While I can't give any meaningful advice I can say that I relate a lot with the following "People that should not make any decision with regards to how we develop and deliver the software have all the say."
At my workplace I feel the same, what I have been doing is just keep up with the orders and tasks assigned, just enough to stay employed.
I must say that I have been considering leaving for a long time now.
And if you're failing to come up with any unique ideas for an app on your own, as a learning experience there's no shame in copying something else. It seems like many web developers try their hand at building their own blogging platform. Such an exercise should introduce you to a lot of the fundamentals of how a web application is put together. Or, pick a popular web app (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr), and try to replicate some of its features. Your app won't even come close to nailing down the whole set, and the things you implement will likely be buggy and inefficient versions of their professional counterparts, but if the point is just to learn I don't see why copying is a bad way to start. Many beginning artists learn technique by copying too. [citation needed (:]
> "The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being"

Wait, are we talking about /r/programming or HN? ;)

Seriously though, I see a lot of that here, it's frustrating. Lots of rude, condescending ad hominem shit. Lots of Alpha Geek posturing and (to borrow pg's term) middlebrow dismissals to seem smarter.
> You could probably also use those desks to reload the OV-Chipkaart with cash, but I've never tried that.

You should be able to, especially the older generation has trouble with modern payment systems and (perhaps rightfully so) mistrust paying stuff by card.
I'd like one too. Email is in my profile. Thanks!
Largest WebRTC public implementation:  open beta
The internet is dead folks the only way it will ever be free is if we find a way of transmission of data that cannot be modified mid transit or blocked.
Otherwise you will eventually only be able to read what other people want you to read.
Yeah, it's gone through changes over the past year, and it's pretty much all but dead. There used to be a decent blend of development/designer articles, but it's completely dominated by design articles now.
"The specific project I work on is way behind. It was supposed to be delivered before I joined. There's an insurmountable amount of technical debt that nobody wants to acknowledge. Bad decisions were made with regards to developer software, tools, source control, software design, database management, environments etc."

Welcome to the wonderful world of IT :-)

My advice: You're going to be looking for a new job very soon and during the interview you're going to be asked about your last job. You'll tell them how bad it is and they'll ask you what you did about it. At this time you need to think about how you'd like to be able to answer that question, and act accordingly.
Vinecrawler - search humanity
Google funds Raspberry Pi schools scheme
I also find it strange that he only follows journalists on twitter.

[Edit] Link to twitter
https://twitter.com/uncondamne/following
The comment is indeed funny but I don't come on HN to get my daily dose of humour just like I don't go out to a bar to debate the latest HTML5 specs. Yes, I do enjoy humour, drinking and debating HTML5 specs but each has its own time and place.
Except that is a false assumption.

Have you ever done multiplaform C development across using OS vendor specific C compilers?

There are lots of nice bugs to be found, just check the available bug databases of any C compiler.

So this does not make it any better.
Named by Mechanical Turkeys
Definitely agree with this -- the cost of living in NYC/SF is absurd, and there's not really much of a market elsewhere. A few choice cities (Austin, Chicago, maybe Atlanta?), but the entire market everywhere else is dead in the water by comparison. There are certainly jobs in those places, but it's going to be very scary if this bubble bursts again because a lot of people are going to be out of work, and I don't know if the smaller markets are going to grow enough to compensate for everyone going back home.
See-Saw of Building Emotional Products
They talk about your attitude when you were talking to them. Are they convinced by your eye contact and shoes? If you don't take care of your appearance, you won't meticulously consider the niceties required to face customers and leading on gently around your products.
EU documents are written in twenty-seven flavors of bureaucratese though, don't know how useful that is for a corpus.
Why Google's Moto X Better Be a Winner
Really? A 13 year old is still a child, would you still insist they can't use any computer device without somebody watching over their shoulder?
A comic book for the blind
Yeah, but even in poorer countries there's always a demand for programmers, because there's a global market for software. A lot of my friends in other professions have been jobless or taking shitty part-time jobs. Even the ones that have a job are scared of losing it. Me? I had the audacity to quit my job just because I didn't like it enough. Other people in my country can only dream about it. And every month now I get one or two job offers, usually when a friend or former colleague recommends me.
If you're going that route, you should allow the contributor to pick from a selection of charities.
Second, they get in the news once, minor uproar (particularly on the internet), then... nothing. Maybe in cases like the The Pirate Bay blockade, which gets through to certain news sites from time to time whenever they get a new domain name or host, where they remind the audience that for that single web page, ISP's have been made to censor it by court order (and need to update their blocked domain names / IP addresses)
So how long would it take to remotely crack or brute force or otherwise gain access to a brand new BMW? I'm interested in the cost on AWS compute or GPU compute.
"Google Now‘s approach is to leverage artificial intelligence techniques to learn your tastes and habits so it can deliver headline news you’ll want to read, when you want to read it. "

Google, Facebook et. al spend so much energy using artificial intelligence to infer what we want, and yet when they have a service that actually allows us to tell them what we want, they shut it down.

We know what we want better than you, so just allow us to tell you what we want!
Yes. It happened with a friend of mine few weeks back and that's what made me ask this here.
A while back I tried brainstorming a bunch of revision control for <x>'s. I figured there were plenty of industries outside of programming that could use a tailor-made versioning system. Later on, I ran across one of them at https://layervault.com/ which is for graphic designers, which seemed (to me at least) to prove that the more general concept has legs.
Latest Prison Architect build adds Linux support
> highly classified court order

Boy does that sound like a concept which needs to die. Justice does not tend to occur behind closed doors.
My APN is set to three.co.uk and I still have the filter on.
None of this is actually true. The state governments didn't trust the national governments, but the Constitution does nothing to limit the power of government in general (the nearly unlimited power of the state governments, inherited from their status as successors to the British Parliament). The structure of the Constitution is much more about the politics between the states than it is about a blanket mistrust of government.
Danish police/government system hacked
The problem isn't really with Obama, it's that the American people haven't done much against the government's attempts at power grabs. There are a variety of reasons for why not, ignorance being high on the list, but perhaps the most prominent reason is that we expect our government to keep us safe, for better or worse.

If Americans are just now getting upset about this, it's ultimately our own fault, as this was the fairly logically expected result of the Patriot Act, and we haven't really done enough to get rid of it. The 'right' response would have been to vote out every single Senator and House Representative that voted for such an egregious overstep on our liberties, but in reality, that ignores a whole slew of other interests those politicians may have supported.

If, for example, I am gun-toting civil rights advocate, a Senator that votes against an assault weapons ban comes out slightly ahead, even if that same Senator also voted for the Patriot Act.

If I'm a gay man, looking for federal recognition of marriage, I'm in the same boat. Someone who votes for gay marriage, but also against privacy, comes out ahead.

The net, basically, is that privacy is nobody's 'hot-button' issue because even while somebody can espouse the inherent ignorance of the "If you have nothing to hide..." argument, we, for the most part, don't have anything to hide. So while we don't acquiesce to these intrusions of privacy, we let them fall by the wayside in the wake of more important issues.

The real bitch of the matter, of course, is that Republicans are almost certainly going to scream 'outrage' to this new knowledge, even though it was Bush's policies that implemented their capability. Meanwhile, democrats will likely 'defend Obama' because it would otherwise reflect negatively on the party to not do so. In sort, it's political ammunition. The outrage we see won't even be universal. You'll probably see exceptions on either side (Lindsay Graham, Republican from South Carolina has already said this information "doesn't bother" him), and ultimately, if the 'blame' can be assigned in such a way that it advances someone's political agenda, that's what'll happen.
Umm.. that is precisely what it is! TCP/IP maybe directionally agnostic, but application layer protocols vary. HTTP for example is very much a broadcast protocol.
Is Amazon becoming the Microsoft of cloud? Hold that thought
My Code Fellows project: fun with Stripe
In post scarcity society things would be completely different, as the market value pretty much loses its meaning when everything you want to buy is free.
Million of Danish Personal Identification numbers and driver license data was downloaded. 10.000 police email accounts "hacked" - as well as access to SIS data (Schengen registers).
I think any 2 argument function will work? At least in clojure.

> (defn chicken [x y] 1)
#'sandbox5403/chicken
> (chicken chicken (chicken chicken chicken))
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I thought there would be some real information there when I saw the title and the web site. But what the heck is this
PHP Weekly News - June 6th, 2013
Flooding in Europe - The Big Picture
I stopped reading about 1/2 way into the article. Brace yourself, the rant is coming...

<rant>
Too many red flags springing from a delusional, narrow-minded view which looked no further than the bloated world of Valley startups. Hope mr. Author could cast his eye to some other corners of the world (no, even other parts of the States) and witness the bleak reality of a career called web development. Startups are just a small part, albeit the highlighted part of the system. What would you then call those developers who do back-breaking work, with a fraction of your starting salary, in a dead-end career path surrounded by an equally depressing environment? Low-class web developers? They are just like any other programmers out side, people who chose coding as a profession. Before all the perks, freedom and fun, this is a job. You work for your pay, period. I am sick and tired off seeing another article with a viewpoint through rose-tinted glass about values of coders. Enough is enough. </rant>

<conclusion>
There are overpaid programmers and there are underpaid programmers, everywhere in the world. I probably fall into the underpaid camp, that's why I feel annoyed seeing way too many articles with BS about the cool $100k IT jobs for fresh graduates. Where I stay, it probably takes an above average fresh grad 5-6 years of doing good jobs while hopping around (startup/MNC/whatever) to come somewhere close to $100. The media just does not ever cover the average Joe programmer's career path, but this is the reality.
</conclusion>
Obama administration defends massive phone record collection
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were meant to define the boundary of power between the state and federal governments. All powers not expressly granted to the federal government remained with the states, who had nearly unlimited police powers constrained only by their own constitutions.

What has happened in the meantime is that the civil war and the reconstruction amendments redefined the power boundary between the state and federal governments, but the federal government has not usurped any powers that were originally outside the province of "government" (because there was scarcely such a thing!)
Yes, it's not like it's absent here, but there's more of a presumption against it, and the guidelines do ask that the tone is one of talking in person.
Getting that first startup internship
I would appreciate an invite. Thanks!

mengkuan [at] gmail.com
Sharing is at the heart of the open source way
I also thought it could be canadian, but there's no other sign of French-canadian expression in the text.
The french term would be "retraite", or "retraite complémentaire" and there's few companies that give pension packages except for top executives. Seems at lost with the experience of a true white collar.
Upvoted.

After some thought I felt that it'd be nice to not let any 'Show HN posts' pass through without some sort of criticism and/or value assessment. Give it a domain-ban, if the post deserves it... but don't let it get away without the Mordor's eye.

Quite often we see some really nice pieces of work dropping off the new-page with just 1/2 votes. Later the same page pops up to the front with better timing or sort. And also sometimes not so great pieces of work pop up on the front page simply because of timing, clout and other factors - call it kismet, not karma.

I personally try to vote projects off the new page, to support ones which are good, but probably not many HN'ers waylay (I could be totally wrong on this assumption though) the new submissions page.

Here is what I think that could be done:

All show HN: posts be given a round of review/criticism. Let there be some extra weight, extra time and also heavier penalty during the charged life of such a post. A separate tab like Ask HN: perhaps?
I'm a French native and I read the original 3 posts. If this is fake, which is a possibility, it still reads beautifully. Clearly the person who is writing this put a lot of thought into the idea he's expressing and for the record he does sound like a reasonably smart mid-to-upper management type he states he is.
/boyfriends/husbands
This is a big difference from established law enforcement practice in that regard. Normally a prosecutor needs to issue a subpoena to the phone company to get your individual records, regarding a specific investigation. In this case, the government gets every record from all Verizon customers for the period in question. No, you would not expect that privacy would protect your records if you are specifically under investigation. But you might (certainly before the PATRIOT Act, if not before this revelation, unless you were a conspiracy nut) expect that government agencies don't have free reign to browse your records for no predefined purpose whatsoever. The potential for abuse is too huge and obvious.

We seem to be well past all that now.
The Stock Android 4.2 Keyboard in Google Play
Oracle's Java security improvements don't quite satisfy
The US gov't has always engaged in the practices you mention against the people, although this has expanded since 9/11. The point is that this behavior isn't fundamentally different from past policies and doesn't represent a major change in the how the US operates (obviously this is a problem).
I think the greatest problem facing AirBnb is that the "special cases" of people renting their properties out professionally is increasing.

Just like how eBay started as a place for people to get rid of old crap, and then evolved into a marketplace dominated by professional sellers.

In the early days AirBnb can rely on some populist good will - they're helping vacationers fill apartments, they're helping the broke college student crash in a spare room, etc. But as the professional listings increase this story becomes less and less relevant, and the more parallels can be drawn between them and traditional lodging, which makes legal and PR liabilities more and more pressing.

I've stayed in 3 AirBnbs in the last year or so, and every one of them are "professionals" - i.e., they rent the space out full time as a substantial portion of their income.
This is going to be revealed as a "public art piece" in about 45 days, with commentary on the morbidity of the media outlets that picked up on the story.
If a pilot weighs 180 pounds, can you carry another 50 pounds of baggage? Or does weight distribution limit baggage to 30 pounds for everyone?
Ask HN: What is the best fiction book you've ever read? 
I've been suffering from burnout lately and one of the things I read was that reading books unrelated to work/productivity is supposed to help. I'm headed in vacation in a couple of weeks and I'm curious what the best fiction book you ever read was? If your book is already in the comments below please just upvote it.
Top 5 Airbnb Home-Rental Horror Stories
I've seen options like those at more than one occasion. Flats rented out by room or bed, with the owner? (operator?) seemingly running it as a business.

Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily consider that wrong. After all it's likely a little more like a youth hostel and gives you the option to maybe meet with a pre-screened[1] set of occupants? Making an option to meet people with similar interests, whether that's something you'd want to go for or not.

For me Airbnb always seemed covered that middle ground between Couchsurfing and Ho(s)tels.

[1]: what ever screening the host would really do is a completely different question. But having to be approved by the host gives the host a little option to screen those who come and go.
You completely missed the point.

When you give so much power to the government, it doesn't matter what your individual opinion is on abortion or any other noise issue.

You have given your opponent a checkmate because you allowed that opponent to take your queen earlier thinking that he was somehow your friend.
Just installed it via pip and gave it a try. I like it! I think I can already find some interesting uses for it. A couple of suggestions:

The website says:

colout -r will give you the lists of available colors,
colormaps, themes and supported programming languages.

But I think that's a typo and should be 'colout -h'.

Also, a handy alias list of common use cases would be great.
'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications
> Taking the fuzziest, least precise view of what "more intelligent" or "less intelligent" means, I think yes.

No argument there.

> In general a single "IQ" figure is merely a statistical index of the subtests.

Which is why I point out that any weighing between subtests are relatively problematic in generating that number.

> The sub-category indices are much more revealing.

100% agreed there.

> The closest we can come is to compare the test scores statistically to other outcomes, or to other tests.

But the problem is, the ability to accurately sample these components may not be the same for each component. For example, if you want to measure coordination of multiple pieces of information short term memory, the problems are very different than if looking at pattern recognition. So I would caution against a single answer. However if we don't understand which subtests are particularly problematic and what the epistemological problems look for each subtest, then many of the really interesting questions about these tests (for example why do Asians score higher than whites) are forever out of reach.

> Welcome to psychometrics, where there is no outside world available for objective instrumentation.

Yep.
The title of this link sounds like a bug report.
Oh, right... of course. And let's not forget it's closely related cousin, "Who Cares If We Lose Money On Every Transaction, We'll Make Up For It In Volume". Not as nice an acronym though: WCIWLMOETWMUFIIV.
I don't find the Internet tamer now than in the past. Maybe the ratio of non-porn sites to porn sites has increased, but it's trivially easy to find really hardcore porn in video form now with all of the 'tube sites.

I've also heard there have been increased expectations of anal sex from teen girls due to its increased prevalence in porn.
Scientists Side With Google in Oracle Appeal
Today in Philippine History, June 7, 1907, Arturo Belleza Rotor was born
Seems that they use "pension" more than we french, but still the expression seems "plan de pension"
http://www.fonds127.be/index.php?id=25&L=1
Makes more sens than french canadian though.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Show HN: Metacritic for choosing a smartphone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev#Death_and_lega...
Capability to do so has been present for a long time. I remember working on CALEA implementation in 1998.