skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with the hiding strategy is that nobody in my network of friends and family is producing 100% signal and nobody is producing 100% noise. If I hide all users that ever produce noise I end up with an empty feed. I need a better way of cutting through the noise - preferably an algorithm that does it for me.

The other problem I have is that I don't feel comfortable posting all of my thoughts to all of my friends and family. I could create lists but that really is a pain.
>The money that banks lend isn't their own, its investors.

The money that banks lend doesn't actually exist.

When Alice takes out a mortgage in order to buy a house from Bob, the bank doesn't go into its vault and find a bundle of cash and pull it out to give it to Bob. They just fiddle some bits in their computers so that it says they now owe Bob $500,000 (i.e. Bob now has $500,000 in his checking account) and Alice owes them $500,000 (i.e. they own Alice's mortgage for $500,000), and the two numbers cancel out which makes the accountants happy.

The bank is not required to actually have the $500,000, all they have to have is enough cash to satisfy the depositors who actually want to withdraw their funds as physical money, which is hardly anybody. (In reality there are a bunch of complicated rules about how much money banks have to have possession of in comparison to how many deposits they hold, but suffice it to say the amount is a small fraction of the total.)

And if Alice and Bob have different banks then the same thing happens except that now two banks fiddle bits in their computers so that the computers also record that one bank owes the other bank money in much the same way, which generally gets canceled out almost immediately when some other Alice and Bob engage in a different real estate transaction where the seller's bank and the buyer's bank are reversed.

>Sure they get a cut through interest rate differentials and origination fees, but most mortgages get purchased by investors.

Now you're talking about entirely different investors who invest in mortgage derivatives. But it isn't clear that they benefit from the interest rate subsidy. There is no obvious reason why the originating bank couldn't just increase the price of the mortgage by the value of the interest rate subsidy when selling it. Moreover, the purchasers of mortgages are often just other banks anyway.
Im confused as to what your point is - could you clarify?
Well, there are two reasons for government employees to harass anyone. The first is, to combat boredom. The other reason is that it is a way for the impotent losers to feel powerful and important. Whenever you give anyone unchecked power it usually doesn't work out well.
5. How risky is it to forego the LLC and just be a sole proprietor?

Do you have people who depend on you? Do you own a house, car, or other nice things? If so then incorporate. If not, wait until you are making money then do it.

One plus of CA is you don't have to pay quarterly taxes the first year.

Use accounting software: http://gnucash.org/
Ask HN: What money management tool do you use? 
And what are its advantages and disadvantages? I am looking for a tool that keep things simple, while doing what it does best.
"IE9/IE10 also led the way in terms of fast, pervasive hardware acceleration for browser rendering - while Firefox and Chrome had HW accel first in certain scenarios, IE was early to the game when it comes to using hardware to render entire pages."

That would explain why the power draw for other browsers was fluctuating depending upon websites surfed and IE seemed kind of consistent.
That's actually a great analogy, because Microsoft and an onion share a lot of similarities: layers and layers of bureaucracy, products that taste sour and marketing that makes your eyes sting.
I think that is why Firefox is ditching the title bar. It just seems weird now (but I've been using Chrome for way too long).

But configurability is not on many consumer wish lists. Ya, power users love to have it there way, but most consumers just want a good experience out of the box.
Not to mention, it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to create a realistic fake of a photo, so this fails the basic common sense test - child pornographers would simply not waste the time creating fakes which were indistinguishable from real photos under any kind of serious inspection.
Show HN: Quickly Start Your Morning with Top of the Morning iPhone App
What 3D design/animation package was that done in? It's too blurry for me to tell. Looks a little like Blender but I haven't played with it in years now.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Image Processing For Digital Glass
Phishing in Facebook’s Pond
Here are a few (low budget!) vine videos demonstrating the app :)

https://vine.co/v/bYA2KHiFdLm
https://vine.co/v/bYA2Lv6hmhp
https://vine.co/v/bYA0PrlD5JE
https://vine.co/v/bYAPOwDV7lt
Will the NSA surveillance scandal be a wake-up call about the power of data?
I wonder how much more efficient text-based browsers are?

Unfortunately Lynx doesn't support html5 video.
Oh I thought it already had OT -- I'm currently developing a system that desperately needs it, and considered switching the entire stack to nodejs because of it -- but at this point, I have to ship so I couldn't...
Momentum? An organization as large as MS, a project can go on indefinitely because there is a ton of money to back it up. Something as big as IE would probably take the CEO to cancel it.

I think it would be more likely they would use one of the OSS engines out there and rebuild IE on top of a fork.
All communications are recorded and stored for later analysis by the NSA.

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

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/r2e-nsas-power-an...
In Australia (at least where I grew up), we call "water fountains" bubblers.

I can't speak for the rest of Australia though, since in Newcastle we use the phrase "ripping off" which means "making fun of" in addition to "charging too much".

In cities as close as Sydney, the phrase is "ripping into", whereas the Novacastrian[1] version makes no sense to them.

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Novacastrian
With $3000, I'd probably go for 2 machines, a desktop and a laptop...
Didn't really know what was I was looking at. Clicked a button. wtf-in-js-mind-blown

Great job!
Have you seen this website? http://www.jointruffle.com

Seems doing similar things but targeting different group of people.
I hear that U. of Phoenix also offers some great degrees at reasonable prices!
This would make for an interesting performance metric to track over time in lots of software.
I noticed that as I sit here reading the comments in Chrome that has 4gb of memory consumed and 2 cores almost pegged.

IE10 is a great step forward, now if they would render with WebKit...
looks good but is slow and not very friendly to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLN_(TV_channel)

"HLN, formerly known as CNN Headline News (often abbreviated as HN) and CNN2, is a cable television news channel...Since 2005, however, its format has increasingly shifted to long-form tabloid-, opinion-, crime-, and entertainment news-related programming."
Crashes my browser in seconds. Nice exploit.
As soon as microsoft tries to release an IEbook to compete with the Chomebook, this metric will have a greater impact on battery life.
The fact that he parroted this opinion without reading further to ascertain the truth, is the entire problem that this article highlights.

Once tarred with that brush, it's very difficult to remove the stain.
There is too big a need for talented developers for you to stay there. Call a head-hunter.

I’ve been in such clusterfucks, probably a dozen times (that's a very large number no matter how long your career is) and, as much as I need to tell me that, I never really learned from staying. All I learnt from trying to point out how brocken the situation was (the three first times) was that people do not like to be pointed out their mistakes, and some might actually commit suicide for that. The fourth time, my desk-mate wrote a book on how bad the situation was; the book was really good, actually, in a lucidly desperate and unwillingly helpful way. It ended up selling a dozen million copies (US Ed.: ISBN 0-375-42373-7.)
After that, I’ve learnt more than I want to, and more than I can actually use about too-big-to-fail, harrasment, corporate fraud and covering one’s ass. The only useful tidbit: I’m not happy in larger organisations (something anyone who met me for ten minutes can figure out).

Chiph is right: you will learn something, and be able to avoid patterns, but that's actually not very useful: you can tell a mess without experienced it before (you just did) and two messes never really look alike.
Staying would just make a part of your CV uncomfortable (mine is a minefield); one is probably easy to avoid or explain, and a great source of jokes for dinner-parties.

I make very funny presentations listing fuck-ups; none of them has ever actually helped anyone around me to not find a creative way to get something deeply wrong.
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I signed up last night and checked again this morning. Still importing. Are you sure the backend processes are crashing under the HN load?
My facebook feed is mostly spam. Mostly app ads and very lame things that distant acquaintances have liked.

Facebook ignores the people who I tend to "like". It ignores the profiles I look at periodically. It ignores the people who I message with.

Facebook forgets which setting I prefer (most recent vs most popular) again and again.

Facebook shows me the same annoying ads again and again even though I don't click on them and spend no time hovering over them in the mobile app.

Facebook knows that I continue to log in at least twice a day and that rarely is there any new information for me, since my friends have all drastically curtailed their facebook usage.

I think it's too late. Soon the habit of checking facebook will disappear.

My advice. Remove the ads immediately, create different experiences for people with 100 friends vs 300 vs 500 vs 1000 vs 3000. Don't ever show the same spammy stuff twice unless the recipient likes it. The fact that my distant high school acquaintance likes Samsung is of ZERO value to me and frankly it's incredibly annoying to be told about the major corporations that distant acquaintances have clicked the like button about again and again and again.

Today I got an email with stuff I "missed" on Facebook. This makes me think that Facebook is dying. Just take the advice in the above paragraph and restore it to its previously useful state.
Brian Eno, Of All People, Explains The True Beauty Of Retro Games
Well no, because each frame builds on all the frames before it. Either way, seeking is still broken unless you run through all the frames up to that point.
It's been 90/10 shipping out of city.
Lynx will get the title as soon as Adobe releases a flash plugin for it.
I haven't. But I have a tendency to support anyone fighting against a bully.
Apple Stores Perform 17 Times Better Than Average Retailers
We have a solution! We are launching with both a web and iPhone app. Our initial users demanded a way to access from the web. Usually from their office or when they are putting together their ecommerce orders.
Author here: out of curiosity, what is the first and last letter of the city you think this org is in ?
Imagine you just took office as President, you could technically order this to stop. Would you really?

If you do it, you'll piss off everyone in charge of homeland security. The second something bad happens, you know these people will do everything to undermine your authority. US elections are already about who's tough enough to protect the USA, imagine after that! Damn if you do, damn if you don't.

Reality is the people's desire for safety and security is the reason surveillance like this exists. Unless the USA stops doing things that make other people want to kill innocent americans, homeland spying, as unacceptable as it may be, is probably the only way to provide that security.

Not sure what the solution to shit like this is but I doubt it's like-minded representatives in Congress.
Only down over browser for me. Wii and mobile streams fine.
Demand personal privacy protection legislation from your Congressional representatives. The only things preventing them from siphoning everything are some guideline-quality laws and PR kerfuffles.
Please don't slight me by implicitly putting me in the class of "sleazy people" whom send "spam". It's been nice discussing this with you, but since you're resorting to ad hominem I'll wish you well and bow out of this discussion. Thanks.
... which suggests to me that facebook's sustained block of the legitimate news source
westpapuamedia.info
- despite ongoing attempts by the publishers and their readers to have it reviewed -
is precisely what supporters of the site claim it to be:
active submission to pressure from the murderous TNI
Sorry but, historically speaking, Asians are by far the most hated people in the US.

Our first laws restricting who can immigrate were designed to prohibit Asians.

In Plessy v. Ferguson (the Supreme court case which upheld racial segragation on trains), the dissent for that case made the arguement:
"There is a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race. But, by the statute in question, a Chinaman can ride in the same passenger coach with white citizens of the United States, while citizens of the black race in Louisiana, many of whom, perhaps, risked their lives for the preservation of the Union, who are entitled, by law, to participate in the political control of the State and nation, who are not excluded, by law or by reason of their race, from public stations of any kind, and who have all the legal rights that belong to white citizens, are yet declared to be criminals, liable to imprisonment, if they ride in a public coach occupied by citizens of the white race."[1]

During WWII, the only people we locked up in concentration camps were the Japanese, despite the fact that many other countries were clearly hostile to us, and the fact that many of the Japanese clearly had no loyalties to Japan (they often didn't even speak Japanese).

So sorry, but Asians do have a special place in this country for being discriminated against.

[1] http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/case.html
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Now if he would just update his headshot.
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Orthodoxy vs Pragmatism
Unless the USA stops doing things that make other people want to kill innocent americans

Evil people, or people with evil intentions, exist. Period. Full stop. There will always be people who want to kill innocent Americans. Period. Full stop. Just as there will always be people who want to kill innocent $CITIZENS_OF_COUNTRY_NAME.

Blaming an entire country for the evil actions and intentions of people who kill innocents is a copout of fantastic proportions. The existence of evil (killing innocents) does not excuse more evil (the government of the United States committing unmitigated mass-scale Orwellian spying on the citizens of the United States).
You don't even have to change the laws. Just because a law authorizes the collection of this information doesn't mean that the executive branch has to do it. All we'd need to do is elect a president who would order the NSA to stop doing this.
Look for character attacks on the UN Real Soon Now. There is a strong undercurrent among certain schools of thought that the UN is an aspiring New World Order that seeks to give foreigners control over its constituent governments.
I agree thst predictions by themselves are noise. However, predictions that are based on analogy are fascinating. Mark Twain said, "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." We see this all the time in the technology sector alone. For example, back in the 80s companies used to buy IBM servers because the thought was that nobody would be fired for buying the safe product. As a result, IBM stagnated in the very area in which it was most competitive. These days, we see Oracle in the exact same spot. Their salespeople use the exact same "fear, uncertainty and doubt" strategy and therefore it is safe to predict that they will end up just like IBM in many ways, just like Facebook will end up like AOL.
> One person had just acquired the exam results for the whole country. Not only was this a violation of any and all forms of privacy associated with something as personal as your examination marks, but a mass divulsion of all sorts of personal information - names, date of birth and school.

There is no privacy to begin with, so this is a sensationalist argument at its best.

In India, there is no notion of keeping your grades confidential from others. Your entire neighborhood knows how you fared in your exams, because the notion of privacy and to keep grades as a secret as is in the western countries is not there.

What the author has done is nothing new, except that he got hold of them "technically". I checked my result for the same exam when I was in USA. Not only that, I got the result for the entire school through email, it is that easy.

Case in point:

http://schoolcoderesults.nic.in/cbse-2013/result.php

So if you did give the exam, you have access to all the grades and they will send them to you through email, no questions asked at all. Let me repeat: you get all the grades for everyone in the school just through this one click. Should I call this a flaw in the system when the system presents this interface to me?

Even if you did not give the exam, you can get the "School Code" and "Authorization Code", again from the CBSE (the Central Board of Secondary Education). So I can get the grades for anyone from any school in India.

This is not a "cyberflaw". It is a flaw in our culture, if you can call it that.
That's why I think the outrage over these things unfortunately doesn't last - a majority of Americans want the government to have this power to fight terrorism even if they won't admit it.

The problem with a President who chooses to set aside enforcement or use of a law is that it's temporary and the next President is not bound by that decision. This isn't true of legislation.
Oh no I have enraged the politically correct everythings-awesome hipsters. I bet you both "fed the troll" on your ipads in some coffee shop. Keep on making HN suck!
Comcast exec insists Americans don't really need Google Fiber-like speeds
Can't believe that no one has mentioned the chart yet -- a non-zero baseline is highly misleading.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/browser_...
well, this is obviously the VA.
Not a lot of customers know to disable JS either.
And then when the next President comes along and supports these type of laws, he or she will use them again.

I think American voters blame too much on the President and let Congress off the hook constantly. If we want to change the laws we should motivate the people who wrote laws, not the person who executes them for 4 years at a time.
I'm not saying that I assume you're a child molester. What I'm saying is that you're taking a risk every time you interact with children (especially if they're not yours), because there's a disturbingly large amount of people that will assume you're a child molester.

It's more like not doing your own electrical work because you're not an electrician. You need to evaluate the risk and decide for yourself, but if you're a male in the US and it's not your child, you should be aware that you are in fact taking a risk.

For the record, I also find it offensive that people will assume you're a child molester, but obviously (from the article) these kind of assumptions do happen, and IMO you should proceed with caution.
Thank you. I'm an Aggie, and I'm glad to hear that's been your experience with others from my school. Most of us try to be that way.
I put my number in to be notified about when this becomes available. I also looked at your vine video demonstrations.

A few questions:

1. Do reminders sync with your reminders app, or are they submitted by the user into this (separate) app? It specifically says it syncs the calendar, but it doesn't say this for the reminder.

2. Does the RSS feed reader aggregate multiple sources, ala Feedly or Flipboard?

3. I couldn't really see, but how much detail does the weather section give? And does it use the same source as the Apple app or does it have its own weather source it scrapes information from?

What I like:

Great website design, if a bit hacker oriented, but that's okay. It's very easy and not exhausting to scroll through slides of each design facet for the app. The mockup is excellent and very sleek, it makes me want to use this app.

Great concept, it cuts time out of the morning jumping from one app to another. I would pay $2.99 for this at the highest, and I would expect this to at least cost me $0.99. However, I'm not indicative of all users, I don't mind paying a premium for apps.

Did you do the development and design work yourself? Are you an individual or a team?

Good job!
I was hoping to see a newer model when I read the title. Even though it's the same old model, it gives me hope that Amazon is still thinking about developing newer, large screen Kindles. Perhaps this is some kind of test to see how many people find the page, click on it, interact with the page, etc. They might use these metrics to help determine if they should develop a newer DX.

I love my DX. Before, I was using a Kindle Keyboard 3G. I missed the $279 sale last summer, but e-mailed Jeff Bezos a few days later, asking if he would honor the offer. One of his assistants tracked down my phone number, called me a few hours later, and helped me process the order.

Pro: The Large e-Ink screen.

Cons (personal): Page-turn buttons on only one side, no highlighting in PDFs.

Cons (general): No wi-fi, lower ppi compared to newer competitors.
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I'd like to see setup, automated deployment, and maybe going through some basic troubleshooting when you can't just search for it.
AT&T didn't invent Unix. A bunch of smart guys in a department owned AT&T invented the earliest versions of Unix. Unix of those days by any measure won't be much useful to do anything.

Unix is a ecosystem developed over decades.

Coming to using Windows NT, its likely some 'real manager' is running the show there. Whose only criteria for using a technology is having the ability to hire the cheapest resource on the market. If you were to go ask the person, he won't be able to list 5 differences between Windows and Unix.
Yeah, we just launched our Bitcoin payment platform, Yumcoin.

https://yumcoin.com
The video shows Autodesk Maya 2013 (as you can see in the window's titlebar and the task manager). It seems fair to assume that the video itself was made using it, too.