skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's pretty naive to think that editorialization hasn't happened in some flavor throughout the history of the encyclopedia, as far back as Diderot.

Everyone has a bias. That much is taken for granted, right?

Now, the questions:

Is everyone equally biased?

Can anyone overcome bias?

Are all biases equally severe?

Are all biases bad?

Is it futile to attempt to overcome bias?

How you answer these questions will determine whether you think encyclopedias are even a valid enterprise, let alone your ideas on how to construct one. The point remains, however, that none of these questions are new, and bringing all of them up at once, implicitly or explicitly, every time the topic is discussed does nothing to move anything forwards.

It seems fundamental and exactly the kind of thing we need to get hammered out before anything else can begin, but it's really a pointless waste of time, like arguing about whether the physical world really exists every time you want to decide what to eat.
This news makes me happy. Not that much, because I'm still using my DX from 2010, but it shows Amazon still cares about it.
My kindle is my favorite device. I've probably read at least 50 books on it, mostly for free. I'm getting into Dostoevsky. It reads fine. Most of them are the size of a normal piece of paper, and it's great for that as it's nearly the same size.

I used my friend's iPad for a couple months last year, and it was completely different. I used the iPad to read HN, watch tv, or read blogs. The kindle remained king of my book reading.
this is AWESOME!
+1 times 100 at least.

The time and effort that goes into making something simple and easy is enormous. Very nice product!
Can you explain it to me? All I see is a really whiny post attempting to mock the extension for not being useful enough. What is 'spot on and great'?
Dan's awesome. If you're serious about this, shoot an e-mail to me -> jared at wednesdaynight.me and I'll introduce you to him.
I started in wikipedia in february of 2002. I was an admin, did over 3000 edits, most typos and grammar...

I gave up eventually. Last year they revoked my adminship for non-use, but I don't care, because I don't use it.

I was active for quite a while, but gave up eventually, under the crushing mind-numbness of endless layers of rules and procedures.
Deletionism is the only reason Wikipedia remains using. Without deletions, it would have sunk into the world of spam-trap and personal blog platform long ago.
T-Mobile is great in Chicago. The network goes to shit as soon as you try to go downstate, though.
> If editing is "free", so too is slander and misinformation.

Edrogan said much the same thing about Twitter.
Yes, lets keep using a play written in 1590 in this discussion.
Funny, I have been thinking about this just today. I'm currently paying $200+ a month for my iPhone on AT&T. How does T-Mobile compare, and how good are they in Southern California?
What about transgendered authors? What about authors who write with a nom-de-plume of a different gender?
Ask HN: Any Aussie Startups looking for an intern?
Hi HN,

I'm a second year Computer Science student studying at RMIT in Melbourne, Aus and lately I've been longing to get my hands dirty with some code and get a back to the real reason I started Comp Sci.

Before I started Comp Sci, I was a self taught programmer, absolutely loved working on personal projects and had so many ideas I never knew which one to follow. But now I feel university has really drained me and I'm beginning to lose the drive to build apps and code. Which is why I really feel I need to get my head back into coding and take a break from heavy computing theory, so I can get my mind right and get the drive I once had back.

My university has great ties with industry and I'm getting emails all the time, I however applied for an internship at Fujitsu Germany but the idea of working at a big company doesn't really appeal to me. I like the intimacy of startups and the impact a person can make there.

I'm based in Melbourne, Australia.

Please shoot me an email at william@wporter.com or post your interest and I'll gladly reach out so we can discuss things further.

Cheers
William
According to Binney, the NSA's been mining data illegally since shortly before 9/11.
I don't think those links are strong support for your point, which I understood to be that 'most people' use facebook for 'randomly clicking on that "cute girl that's a friend of a friend of a friend [but which I do not actually know]". The psych central article says that most people use facebook to look at specific people, as opposed to randomly clicking on unknown people. HuffPo also says that they are looking up people they already know.

I guess if your point was that most people use facebook to look at details of other people...well, I guess that's true, but it feels like saying the sky is blue, so I'm assuming you are trying to make a more specific argument?
MIDI music visualizer in WebGL
Surgeons develop app to practise surgery
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx/ Looks pretty good to me
Nice to see someone from Toronto. Good luck with the project!
Another downside to your app is that it's on the iPhone platform, and I use Blackberry.

If you had a way for me to use a normal digital camera with my PC it would help get me on board.

There was some other new service here on HN recently that was called 'Sold' for selling stuff but it only worked on a certain platform I didn't have a device for, too- so I guess its not uncommon for startups to exclude whole market segments by device ownership.
A million times this. Curate your feed for content ('like' good pages) and hide those 'friends' you're not interested in.

What other place can you chat easily with friends far away, find a last minute ticket for a concert from someone who has an online identity without paying scalper prices, find out an old friend moved to your area, keep in touch with the masses who connect with you for other reasons (e.g. I run a music community and chat with users on Facebook sometimes), and the list goes on. Show me more ads, I don't care! They're not horrible popups and the News Feed ones are only somewhat intrusive.
But it wasn't a unanimous decision to ban the malicious user! Someone had a different opinion! The Horror!
As a heads up, designed by @mustefaj
Why do you want to intern?

You're young and at university still, this is the perfect time to start up your own company. Its nearly winter in Melbourne too, perfect for locking yourself away and working for yourself rather than others.
I think cell phones are fairly easy to replicate (prepaid), but they'd be a moderately decent proxy for identity.

It'd be very difficult to get a fake FB account through our matchmakers. You not only need to trick Facebook (the company) into believing you're real, but our matchmakers will look at your photos, interests, likes, etc. when putting together your profile for internal use. Not to say it can't be done, but it'd require a lot of work.

One friend suggested we verify some form of identification. That's not a bad alternative. There would still be a lot of manual work required from both sides on things like "what are your interests" or "send us some photos of yourself" which we then use for the matchmakers, who will throw out a majority of it that's not relevant or interesting in the context of dating.
Determining when nobody is home is already not that hard. Just ping the devices registered with DHCP, over a few days. Should be fairly easy to identify which devices are phones and alert you when none of the phones are responding.
And counting how many edits are being made is akin to saying that you corrected 1000 loc because you found a spelling mistake in each. There is not an obvious connection to "contributing content" "meaningful content" or even "long form content".
The site really allows you to draw hardly any conclusions regarding this article's statements.
Google Backtracks On Its CalDAV API “Spring Cleaning” And Launches CardDAV API
Program to Convert Numbers into Words (and Back) in 5 Languages
It's still the same product, just a redesign. Basecamp is great, and it set the standard for many in the industry, but I was much more excited about their future when they had a diverse product offering.
Yet, no mention on front page of CNN. However there is "What breast-milk lollipops taste like" and "Before and after: Child stars"
I just said you painted with too broad a brush. There is a range of mission profiles, and (by design) some are more risk tolerant than others.

A starting point is http://nmp.nasa.gov/ which is a series of missions that specifically accept risk to develop selected new technologies. There are also opportunities for higher-risk science-investigations (http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/smd-programs/earth-system-s...). There is also a pathway through airborne systems, to develop new mission concepts (e.g., http://lidar.jpl.nasa.gov/co2las.html)

It's a long road to space-qualify a new technology, and because system failure is a logical OR of subsystem failures, you can't put too much new tech or new science into a mission. You'll try a bunch of stuff and one thing will fail, and you won't learn much.

Multiple launches of unreliable systems are not a particularly good way to reduce risk. That's not doing engineering, that's throwing darts.
Fired OMGPOP dev: "People were ripping up Zynga hoodies and T-shirts"
l i n k b a i t
So do we get any say in what our government is allowed to do?
There are a few serious advantages to party rounds that this post doesn't mention:

1) Party rounds generally lead to greater founder control and more founder-friendly valuations

2) In party rounds, founders get to date VCs before they settle down. Choosing a long term VC partner / board member is hard. Party rounds allow you to experience working with many investors before deciding who you want to partner with for the long haul.

3) Taking a lead investor in a seed round creates a serious negative signaling risk that party rounds don't -- if you have a lead and they pass on your Series A, raising will be much harder.

4) You can often close a party round much faster than a round with a lead because the diligence processes are faster. This means you can get back to doing what matters -- building your business.

I don't think there is a clear optimal choice here -- there are plusses and minuses for the entrepreneurs both ways.
Its nice to finally see a glenn greenwald article on the front page for once. I have been reading him every day for years and i would highly recommend his entire body of work to anyone who is not familiar with it.
I'm a little skeptical. Not because of the spying--that I fully believe. But I have a hard time believing that AT&T, the inventors of UNIX, would write large-scale software on pre-NT Windows. Maybe something got crossed in the retelling.
Dell’s Mathematical Argument Against Plan From Icahn and Southeastern
Am I the only one that notices the strange paradox of the valley's (speaking loosely) celebration of failure, and the often intensely negative reactions people have to a service being shut down? Doesn't one go with the other?
That's true, but I've coded away in my bedroom before and it can get quite lonely. If I can't find anything I'll definitely be doing that though.

I'll also be graduating next year and would really appreciate the experience of working with a team.
How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time
I found a list [1]:

a. sunshower (34.29%)
b. the wolf is giving birth (0.04%)
c. the devil is beating his wife (6.43%)
d. monkey's wedding (0.16%)
e. fox's wedding (0.15%)
f. pineapple rain (0.03%)
g. liquid sun (0.74%)
h. I have no term or expression for this (55.15%)
i. other (3.02%)

[1] http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_80....
Well, of course it's a menace to (their) society. They've created a society that depends upon people not organizing themselves and being completely dependent upon their leadership.

Not to say there is any country which isn't to some degree.
Are you seeing more traction with in city deliver (so basically courier on demand for individuals) vs. people who want to eliminate the hassle of shipping out of the city?
Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser
Someone needs to find a way to make end to end encryption of phone calls a reality.

I can think of technical solutions but it's another matter to get adoption. Also it can't only be an app. The phone can not be trusted. I think you'd need a small device that connects via wifi to your phone and then run some encryption over the top of that. It could be very small with only speaker and mic capabilities. Then you'd have an app on your phone to initial calls and display incoming calls.
It works fine in FF 24 on a mac.
New Relic now supports Play 2.x instrumentation
It's adequate in their mapped service coverage areas - but if you go into any kind of sizable building, expect reception to go way down.

There are plenty of businesses nearby where I'll have a full signal outside, but once I'm indoors it drops off to Edge network.

There are also blank spots of little to no data coverage that have no reasonable explanation.

That said, I'm aware of this and think it's worth the trade-off. I'm not going to another network anytime soon.
thanks. but i have a 18-year history of
signing every post i make on the internet
-- owning up to the words that i write --
and i don't wanna break my perfect record. :+)

-bowerbird
>Is anyone NOT using Bitcoin here?

FTFY. Seriously, this is Hacker News ;)
I don't think it's a matter of them choosing to not work with Blackberry users, it's a matter of trade offs between time and resources. As a startup, you may only have time to build one great app for one platform and iOS was the chosen one.

To come to that decision, it was probably a factor of what you know and also some insight into the customer base. For example, maybe iOS users tend to be more likely to pay a premium for convenience or that in San Francisco, iOS penetration is higher than Android, etc etc.

If the product picks up traction, I will bet that their next move is to port to Android, then web, then maybe ... maybe windows phone and blackberry.
Mobile Is Eating The World
It gives you financial security if you decide to tell your employer to go fuck themselves if they want you to work too much overtime. Since you no longer absolutely need a job to live, you have a stronger negotiating position with employers.
Mourn The Loss Of Odwalla, Mourn The Loss Of Your Job
I would probably skim the citations to see if there was anything interesting in them and or any insight into optimal use of the data. But mainly the big thing with the citations is that the citations would back up the claim that the product was supported by research. Right now its just ad copy...
Bought a DXG refurb in early 2012 for $207. I use it every day. I would be hard pressed to justify buying these for family members for $300.

The fact that they "brought it back" from a significant hiatus without making any improvement to it whatsoever suggests to me that this is a "last hurrah".
I'm having a hard time trying to pronounce one or more of Mary/merry/marry in any different way... how would one do that?
More than 360,000 Apache websites imperiled by critical Plesk vulnerability
Just a couple of days ago I managed to get my unlocked iPhone 5 on T-Mobile with a great plan: 30/mo with unlimited web and text, 100 minutes. I don't talk much on the phone so this is great for me.

It was kind of hard to set up at first, but now I would easily be able to do it again.
The problem is that if everybody decides to tell their employers to go fuck themselves, nothing gets done, and then there are no goods and services to buy.
Well working in an already established start up will certainly give you experience.

You should also consider liasoning with your peers in the student union. I havent been to RMIT in many moons but i remember they had a pretty good comsci community. In fact I think theres a python club and a startup club that actually meets at RMIT fortnightly, maybe you can hunt them down? Networking is worth gold.
The dance moves were 1920s-style Charleston and Susie-Q followed by the Bees Knees (sometimes called breeze-in-the-knees). Interestingly, back in the Savoy Ballroom days, true Lindy Hoppers could tell if someone really knew their stuff by whether or not they raised their foot during a Susie-Q. From 1:02 to 1:05, the character's right foot appears slightly raised. Obviously not a true Lindy Hopper. ;-)

Lifted foot aside, the body motion for the vernacular jazz dance moves is quite authentic. Nice work.
So, what are we looking at here?
The avant-garde art of book stacking in stores of Japan
I was mostly strengthening my first point ("seeing what X or Y is up to") -- to show that most people do not specifically foster the deep relationships OP was mentioning, but rather just see what random people (you may tangentially know) are up to.
The problem with that is that "fully developed" is a meaningless phrase.

There is no fully developed - as I wrote in my earlier comment, it keeps developing for a persons entire life. There is no point where it stops.

Another problem is that this type of development is more influenced by environment than it is by age. So using age as a cutoff because of "developed" is silly - that's not the thing that matters the most.
Alright thanks, I'll look into them.
You must have missed the whole point of the article - hide people or pages who post content you don't care about (or never subscribe).
Software Patent Trolls: Obama's Got You in His Sights
Microsoft shows off Windows 8.1 Start button, other upgrades in video
what's your point? people do get old and sick.
the fact that radiation exists naturally in the environment doesn't mean its good for you, and doesnt mean that more won't pose an increased health hazard
Are you talking about press to unlock fobs, or proximity keys?

I was under the assumption that we are talking about proximity keys. Old ignition keys use RFID, but a broken encryption system. They are still secure because the range is a few inches. Newer cars with unlock from the pocket / push to start, use challenge based auth and strong encryption.

Click to unlock fobs use secure PRNGs. That is a separate discussion, and they are generally secure. Maybe this is what the reporter was talking about, but I assumed these cars had proximity keys. Even if this is what the reporter was talking about, they were not way off base, as this still falls in the "should be impossible" category.
I think the iPhone does support it.
Google’s Matt Cutts: Web Spam Benefits From Using Rel=”Author”
I use y'all, but my favorite is "you'ins". (said by a guy from West Virginia)
I tend to hide people whose updates are annoying yet I don't want to unfriend as well, but one thing that strikes me as weird about this arrangement is that I have essentially set up a one-way sharing relationship with this person - this person whom I've probably forgot about can see whatever I post, but I'm ignoring all signs of their existence on the news feed.

To me, that's why this strategy doesn't really seem scalable.
I would like to say that there's a chance of salvaging the project but there probably isn't and its not your fault. I haven't been in your situation before but I would suggest that your course of action depends on you core morals.

Do your job, find a better place switch. if the money is good, consider one more lap at accepting the state of affairs and stay clear of the guillotine that will eventually make an appearance.

It sounds like you did more than your part.
Real-time synchronous communication ( like phone calls ) is pretty hard to hide, it uses bandwidth and takes up space on switches and needs low latency to work at all ( make a voip call to someplace that only has satellite internet to see how bad it can get ). If you're serious about hiding your communications; either build physical networks that you control and limit the amount of traffic visible to the public network ( i.e. trunking calls ) or send messages steganographically encrypted in pictures of your cat you post on Facebook.
"Facebook keeps me connected to folks I care deeply about who aren’t nearby."

He goes on to explain the way in which it works for him, but that's the point. I, for example, don't do anything but see my stream without much hiding and I love it. I love seeing why my friends having going on, I love the weird swath of reactions and conversations, I love it. Hell, I love that my aunt bothers me on Facebook all the time, I would never talk to her otherwise! It's not everything to everyone, but it's a REALLY important thing to a REALLY huge amount of people.

It could die. Mobile (or other things) could kill it, I don't deny that, but it's great. Long live Facebook, until something does what it does better.
I hope that anyone in the US who is outraged realizes that the only real chance for change on this topic is in electing like-minded representatives to Congress, and getting everyone you know to vote the same way. Your current senator or representative likely supports this sort of action already, and it's not a violation of current law.

It's not a party issue but rather a power issue, institutions that have it won't give it up on their own.
I met the guy in behind giggedin.com at CeBIT Sydney a few days ago. He's looking for a PHP developer for anyone who's into music and passionate about code.

Interested?
ITT: a lot of people with a salary below $200k responding to a question about people with salaries above $200k. Also a lot of contractors who barely pull $200k total with no benefits and extra taxes to pay.

There's a big difference between having a total comp of $200k, including stocks, bonuses, and golden handcuffs, and having a base salary of $200k. I assume this thread is wanting the latter, since

* it is common at Google, Facebook, etc., for any senior dev to get $200k total, including all forms of compensation;

* the OP states "$200,000 per year in salary".
Microsoft, FBI take aim at global cyber crime ring
Any thoughts on when the pagination goes live? I can't find any information on it online. Memcache would be a good choice, but I am wondering, if I have a few secondary indexes with over a million indexes each, wouldn't continually recreating this cache irreparably bog down the cluster?
For indie game developers, bundles are one way to find recognition
Design for the Crest; Build for the Swell
Agreed, he's been the only political writer I've followed for years. His articles makes me depressed a lot of the time, but it's more because nobody seems to pay attention to him...
Those are exactly the same here (ignoring that ahhhhhhhhh is longer).

Edit: Looking at a couple other comments apparently some people pronounce 'ahh' with the same a as 'ann'? I certainly don't.
Building Your Own Web Site, Free
This exists already, but you have to do some work to find it. LiveJournal used to be particularly good at making friends with random strangers; I'm still in touch with some that I made a decade ago in the Harry Potter fandom, even though I've never met them in person. Also, all the niche forums on the Internet - whether your interest is Game of Thrones, Starcraft, startups, JQuery, Apple products, Linux, gymnastics, food, Harry Potter, Star Trek, or NaNoWriMo, there are communities out there for you. You just have to do some Googling and link-following to find them.
Should I just peak at their posts individually in case each one might have useful content as well?
I like the Hyde Park approach, see a crazy dude? Keep on walking, and sometimes, as you walk by, you will hear something enchanting and then you have a happy hour in front of you.

That's why I have showdead on, and frankly I almost never regret it.