skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, everything on FB is as public as the poster decides to make it. If you put in a tiny amount of effort, you can separate your friends into groups and have your posts by default only visible by a selected group of friends. (Funny thing is that when Google came out with circles for G+, the people who raved about it never realized the same feature was available at FB for ages. Granted, the circle metaphor and UI made the feature easier to use in G+, but the functionality was always there at FB). Really, the only privacy issue with FB is controlling what other people post about you (i.e., your friend takes a picture of you and posts it to their friends).

Secondly, I don't think anyone has claimed that they maintain a deep relationship using FB only. Like I mention in a nearby reply, having the constant superficial connection through FB strengthens the actual time spent together.
How would you even define such a rule ? - I doubt you could get a common consensus on where the ethical line is.
What kind of person sees buttons and doesn't click them? You monster ;)
Taxonomy is hard, especially if you don't want it to be a collection of poorly-aging cultural biases. Even professional librarians have problems creating and maintaining future-proof ones.

Why does the Dewey Decimal System still have 10x as much space for Unitarianism as it does for all of Buddhism? [1] Well, think about what it would take to fix Dewey's initial biases post-hoc... either you have to get it exactly right the first time, or have a system that is designed to evolve.

It's unsurprising the wikipedia hive mind hasn't gotten it right. It's orthogonal to everything Wikipedia has generally done well. Seems like the best solution would be to have a separate taxonomy project that is overlaid on top of core wikipedia data by a set of flexible rules and not hardcoded in articles themselves.

[1] http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-sep03-04.html#dewey
My point was that everyone around San Francisco calls it "the City" (even those in more populous San José), so they would have done well to add it to their set. In contrast, people around, say, Los Angeles don't typically call it "the City", so leaving out LA is not a relevant omission.
What the heck is is he talking about?

This is facebook, 28 of 29 posts are about pages I liked or pages talking about pages I like (yeap, like I care about Lakers Nation talking about LeBron James).

I can't share anything there either because some of my friends and family get offended by my views (atheist, anarchist, pro-drugs).

I could create lists, but who has time for that? I rather just use leaser known social networks like Vine and Snapchat where the people are more open minded.
Chris Travers from the LedgerSMB project has done a lot of thinking about this topic on his blog.

http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/

They use PL/pgSQL to provide a bunch of service interfaces, then have Perl that provides automatic service discovery and object generation. Basically ORM from the inside out.
> What is an "MG"?

Probably a typo. G is near B on QWERTY keyboards.
While reading the not-very-interesting featured article, I saw a link that ultimately led me to this, which HN might find more interesting:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barobo/linkbot-create-wi...

Modular robots for education, only $140! (I think they might have a pricing problem)
I made prototype apps in both Ember and Angular for my project. The Ember experience was more pleasant for me, but the team decided for Angular. I can see that either will work for our (CRUD/REST) app. And additionally, using tools like Sublime Text + jhint and test suites will ease out some of the rough edges of Angular.
> Do you think there are limits to what young people will do in front of a webcam?

You misunderstand; by borderline I mean that the observed age of the participant is subjective. And it relates back to the age old issue; at 17 years 364 days it's illegal, the next it's legal.

As an expert analyst you have to give it some degree of leeway because it's very hard to judge the difference.

> Or do you believe only older teens perform such acts?

Well, yes, to a certain extent. It's getting worse because younger generations are more sexualised, but for younger teens on-webcam activities are more often related to coercion (MSN is still a favourite avenue for grooming).

> As you admitted to yourself, there have been plenty of cases in which teens using webcams have been convicted for producing and distributing child porn.

Plenty amongst.. millions (by your count). I never saw a case (out of the hundreds I worked on and many more I saw) of that sort, but when they happen they make the media (because, rightfully, it is ridiculous).

The guidance may have changed in recent months, as I am not 100% current, but not very long ago CPS feedback was that prosecutions were targeted at those seeking younger pornography, particularly of the "commercial" variety, or those actively grooming youngsters.
I'm glad there are news organizations outside the USA.
There are two schools of thought out there. And I think it boils down to your specific dog. My dog used to get enough of a workout that I could leave her with a free feeding bowl. She was at a GREAT weight. Then she had a knee injury and she started gaining weight. Since then I've switched to timed feedings.

Also from their site... http://www.whistle.com/support/

"Whistle is supported by veterinary research around activity and behavior as a measure of pet health from leading academic institutions such as the University of California at Davis, North Carolina State University, and the University of Pennsylvania. We work closely with the veterinary community to bring new data to this research across a much broader population of dogs."
Make Money Online. Choosing a Home Business That Work
Build it for the love of programming not for the money.
I agree 100% in theory -- but it's still a nice essay to have on HN given the million of other blog posts about the complete opposite reaction to Facebook that get upvoted to obilivion when they're also all pretty much annecdotal.

Essentially I upvoted the article because it's nice to know that HN isn't completely a sound-proof echo chamber =)
> being bumped with a bit of polystyrene

Seven dead astronauts taught me to distrust intuition about foam.
I hereby christen this extension, "Weenie Ware."

Why?

Only a true weenie would feel the need to block someone on a global scale.

More reasonable users simply ignore what they don't wish to read.
Wikipedia doesn't have an emergency. Jimbo Wales had large ideological axes from the beginning, including topics such as who started Wikipedia. As Wales once said that conservative "[Friedrich von] Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project". Wales went from running an Ayn Rand mailing list to running Wikipedia...but he's totally neutral of course.

As an example of this bias, Wales appointed the rabid editor JayJG to the highest authority, the ArbCom in mid-2005. He was voted out in early 2006 - but Wales used his power to reappoint him any how. Most of Wales's political position pushing has been behind the scenes, but here it was blatantly obvious.

I got tired of this sort of thing and pulled back from Wikipedia around that time. I'm very skeptical of the idea that everything has changed since Wales has less power now though. It's kind of like when the military takes over in a coup, kills off or exiles the opposition, and then holds an election. Once you have sculpted the infrastructure enough to your advantage, you don't need to be as heavy-handed any more. I guess I would be one of the exiles (and some excellent editors threw in the towel over this sort of thing - very educated people who could write well).
awesome. Yes, this is the same kind of setup that lead me to start Shyp.

Looks like you have a great system but there is still room for improvement. Our new pricing is actually free pickup if you send 2+ packages.

In v2 or v3 we will have a super easy way to import orders directly into Shyp. Just export and choose your pickup time, thats it. We will come, separate all items (providing they have a UPC or serial) and verify.

We will ship each item the best way possible (speed or price). Our goal for high volume shippers is to actually save them money from current processes. We make our margins from the discount we have negotiated will all the providers. Everybody is happy at the end of the day.
Now that we know that every call is being slurped up by the surveillance-monster, people can no longer bury their heads in the "but they're only snooping on the 'bad guys'" sand. Maybe — though doubtfully — that will finally raise some broader public ire.

EDIT: phrasing.
I love my DX. Normal sized kindles (non-DX) simply don't cut it for me. DX's are very comfortable on the eyes.
What's the risk factor with large transactions ? Is it that they can be reversed or challenged ? I am not too familiar with the ACH system, but isn't it the case that once a transaction clears and a transfer completes, then that's it - there is no reversal process.

The money is a bank account is real money after all, and once it's spent, it's gone for good. This is one reason I (and I suspect a few others) feel very uneasy connecting bank account(s) with a third party web service.
> The subject of Mohammed's child bride is frequently used to justify hate against muslims, and has a social context of islamophobia. If there weren't that social context it would be fine to bring it up randomly, but since there is, bringing it up is offensive. It's part of the discriminatory pattern muslims experience.

Is there any criticism of Islam that can be made that wouldn't be offensive? Or is it offensive to even hypothesize that someone might criticize Islam?

Let alone the fact that he wasn't even criticizing Islam, but using it to talk about a friend that was inconsistent in his beliefs. He never once said that Mohammed having sex with a minor was wrong. In fact he said exactly the opposite a few different times:

> never understood why all the paranoia with pedo...

> my grandmother married when she was 14...I have a hard time believing that a 14 year old girl is so dumb to the point of needing heavy-handed state protection in deciding her relationships.

So, how exactly is he criticizing Islam when he agrees with the example of Islam he used?
Mac Pro running Mountain Lion with an ATI 5870 graphics card. Color me not terribly impressed.
Nothing like good 'ol homegrown reporting to ensure a free society.

Assuming that the document is real: Thank you Guardian.
Flat rate is rarely the best option unless your item is very heavy.

Check out Ordoro for printing labels. I think they integrate into shopify. Not our business.
I know next to nothing about graphics programming but how does this work? I don't suppose there is a Javascript loop that goes through all the pixels on each frame...
The order in a nutshell:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, the Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency (NSA) upon service of this Order, and continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this Order, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, an electronic copy of the following tangible things: all call detail records or "telephony metadata" created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.

-http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/veri...

It was approved (reapproved?) on April 25, and valid until mid July, and scheduled for declassification in (oops!) 2038. Interesting to note that this order was directed at Verizon, but presumably other carriers have received similar ones?
Ah, their movements and actions in the video make a lot more sense after seeing the original.
We inspect every item at our warehouse. If it was damaged during transport to us, we cover 100%. If it is damaged from us to the destination, it will be up to the shipping company. We offer insurance through USPS.

We are looking to cover round trip but still seeing if that is economical for us.
Rock Health version 5 features Google Glass for doctors
Just don't make everybody give up scrolling (though I hate "infinite" scrolling that dynamically loads new comment and makes the page taller). I grew up with scrolling and prefer it over pagination for most types of content.
I implemented time-lock encryption
Academic publications. The tool stack is significantly better targeting PDF or PS (especially from LaTeX). I've tried a bunch of the random tools for either converting, directly generating, or rendering PDFs in HTML, and they aren't pixel-perfect.
Countries Seek Entrepreneurs From Silicon Valley
As will many. There's many powerful apps on the AppStores that are outshined by their prettier (and less capable) cousins.
We don’t edit Wikipedia anymore. We don’t consult it for things that matter. It’s merely a good resource for finding odd facts no one cares much about.

Snort. Explain this then: Wikipedia's getting more views than ever, more edits than ever, and more editors than ever.

http://reportcard.wmflabs.org

There are plenty of things broken in Wikipedia alright, but none of them fatal, least of all some misguided categorization (oh, the humanity!) by some two-bit hack with an axe to grind. Everybody on Wikipedia has their own point of view, and while some people manage to game the system for a while, Wikipedia's core strength is precisely that it's self-correcting in the long run.
Yeah, I just used a COBOL app at work about an hour ago, but as far as I know only a mysterious, nearly extinct secret society of wizards known as COBOL Developers have access to see or touch the eldritch horror that is the source code of this application, which is in fact older than I am.

COBOL didn't go anywhere. COBOL developers, on the other hand...
If you haven't tried it, I used the "3M Natural View Fingerprint Fading Screen Protector with Back Skin" on my retina iPad and it made a world of difference. It doesn't change the quality of the screen, but it dramatically reduces glare and fingerprints. That said, putting it on requires some time and patience to get it just right and the bubbles out.
It won't. If it does, it will last a week or two and then people will move on and forget about it.
I'm actually surprised that it's only metadata and not a complete capture of the contents.

Or will we learn later that there's another more secret order for that?
Quantified self wasn't enough. Behold ... the quantified dog!
It's ridiculously hard to launch a new marketplace. I think it's awesome that we have more API choices.

My next big problem is taxes. I wish one of these two could make it a no-brainer for the same market-place scenario (eg. selling a work from a South African gallery to a customer in France via a U.S. based marketplace).

As a footnote, I am a very happy Balanced customer @ http://artsy.net.
I agree that Grouper's approach of six people is much better. To the founders of this project, I recommend you move the bit explaining the price to the top. It's this piece:

> We charge $75 up front because people who are serious about going out are willing to pay this (so it acts as a filter for our matchmakers).

It's a very good explanation and it needs to be said upfront because otherwise people who have seen Grouper will be outraged.
Shame you were downvoted for rational discourse. I always hate that :\

I get what you're saying, but I think we disagree on just how much utility even that limited data provides. The market will decide, but I think pet owners are just crazy enough to care about this simplistic data.
The worst part is that this is almost completely unsurprising.
I mostly learned Blender myself (3 years ago...good times). I remember using this:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

It also recommends this book:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Blending_Into_Pytho...

for scripting (though it's still a WIP).

Back then it had far less chapters, and so I had to mostly rely on the documentation/experience, but it seems like it's got much more stuff now, so you should really check it out! Happy Blendering.
Also, these skills are probably best developed without the cyborg-camera sitting on your face.
So the more reasonable thing is to block mentally instead of letting the computer do it?
Then the designer did a shitty job. They should be throttling at the towers if and when doing so is necessary. They shouldn't have devices (which by definition they cannot trust to do the right thing) do the throttling for them -- especially when they don't even have all devices (e.g. Android) set up to do throttling.
To add to that, I recommend this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a....

Not only does it give you collapsable comments, but it also ads the ability to mark comments and submissions as "read," so you can easily see what's new.
> The duty solicitor should be perfectly fine for most situations unless you really actually are guilty

But should you choose to use your own solicitor, it may adversely harm your defense, because innocent people use the duty solicitor...
United States vs. PFC Bradley E. Manning, Vol. 1
I live in Los Angeles and I've just switched from T-Mobile to Verizon. An S2 to IPhone 5. My service has got so so so much better. The T-Mobile network is so bad that I never used up my 100MB/month allowance at 3G speeds in spite of the fact that I tried to use data on my phone all the time.
Ridiculous in such a large metropolitan area. So don't all go rushing to T-Mobile!
They should do it at the network level depending on congestion instead of at the device level. Why should they throttle someone streaming 1080p video at 3am just because they're using an iPhone?
Manning trial: looking up serial numbers
I have a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile which I occasionally use to tether my laptop and I have never gotten a warning like that. I have the unlimited voice/data/text plan but don't pay for tethering (which stock Android supports natively of course).
Huh. Despite having grown up in California, I tend to fall into Northeastern patterns for a lot of these things. Possibly an issue with the data, or possibly I'm a weird case - immigrant parents, and grew up in neighborhood that's heavily American Jewish (which I assume correlates with Northeastern dialects).
The NSA stopped caring about your privacy after 9/11 — just read about the demise of project ThinThread [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread
The NSA collecting call-detail records en masse is not news, and goes back to at least 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database

The news is that the Guardian has got a copy of an actual court order, so we can see the exact language used with the phone companies.
>doing anything economical with the analytics is very rare.

That is a very bold claim and I'm interested if you have any sources to back it up. I'm hard pressed to believe that all of Facebook's design decisions hinge on whatever side of the bed Zuckerberg woke up on.
Congratulations!

There's a race on now — who will ship pre-orders first, Myo or Leap Motion?
Existing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829442
Hasn't this been done for years now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database
Disabling Javascript is an easy opt out for websites.

This service is designed to produce user specific data. judging from what they record on websites (see docs, tldr everything) I'd be surprised if the iPhone version doesn't record GPS locations or what other apps you use.

I'm also not sure how commonly websites record data in this detail that also maps to specific users, but if it's common on websites its definitely news to me - and all the more reason to use stuff like Ghostery/Disconnect/Noscript. Do these have iPhone equivalents yet?
Can you explain why I as a citizen have to work 40 hours a week with overtime sometimes just so someone can receive a paycheck for free?

What is my benefit for such a compromise?
Assuming you are using Riak's default configuration each range query hits 1/3 of the cluster, which could get pretty hairy on large clusters that have lots of requests. Also, there is no pagination, so if an index has a million objects you'll have to be prepared to wait even if you only want the first part of the query.

You could solve this by putting a sort value in the key and using a range query, but this wouldn't work if you want the most recent items keyed with time, because the items could be unevenly spaced back in time.

Pagination is coming soon; it's in riak_kv master already, but in buyer-beware #yolo territory.

LevelDB is also supposedly slower than Bitcask, the default backend, but I'm not sure if this is still true.

Bitcask is faster when all the keys fit in memory: it's designed to load any value with a single disk seek. LevelDB can't make that guarantee, but neither can Bitcask with too many keys for available memory.

I've been trying to think of ways around these problems. A simple thought I had was to simply cache the response as pages in Riak. Although this introduces new problems like how to know how often to reset the cache, too often and I may as well not have this cache, too infrequently and users get stale data.

Caching is one of the two hard problems in software engineering (along with "naming things" and "off-by-one errors"), so good luck :) If you're not opposed to running a separate service, Memcache is what I'd use.
Hahaha I guess some people noticed what happened to Joe Nacchio.
Please have one free internets on me.
Very nice. Wish he would have changed the 0.1 fps though
I assume that the cost and complexity of doing analysis on the millions (billions?) of phone calls daily limits even the government to metadata analysis, from which they likely issue orders for the contents of specific conversations based on statistical anomalies that may indicate whatever they're looking for.
I don't see how this line of argument can be productive at all. Basically what you are saying is this person should go into detail about the specifics of individual interactions with their friends and family on Facebook, and use that as some type of "evidence" that those relationships are "deep."

The result of this, of course, will be skeptics conjuring up their own litmus tests for what constitutes a "deep" relationship in a way that the author's examples fall outside of that definition. Or, they will reframe the author's examples in other media or means and explain how those interactions would somehow be more meaningful than if they were happening on Facebook. This objectification of human relationships will, of course, be incredibly shallow and offensive to many people.

When you are dealing with people's personal lives and how they value relationships, it's pretty hard to come up with some objective measure of value beyond the self-evaluation of the people in the relationships themselves. Since otherwise, you are by definition being judgmental.
PROTIP: the guy who wrote the article is a US-based journalist.
Auto-rotate is not a feature. I hate auto-rotate on my iphone.

Also, the lack of the backlight is crazy. Reading in bed is amazing with the Paperwhite.
Completely agree. I saw the price and thought "WTF?", but that explanation does, surprisingly, convince me a bit.
Wikipedia, for better or worse, serves an indispensable role for millions of people. So even if you disagree with its leadership and its editors with biased agendas and would like to see its demise, a more realistic solution seems, to me, to be to put on your writing cap and become an editor yourself. In this case, it is actually very possible to live according to the saying, "Become the change you wish to see in the world." A bunch of new contributors focused on fixing things might help.

Although I do remember reading stories at one point about new contributors' edits getting frequently rolled back by Wikipedians with more permissions. That could be a barrier to entry, but it's unclear to me how much of a problem this really is.