skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The idea that the best way to promote economic advancement in the Northern Territory is to post six of the loneliest security guards in the country to guard against people tampering with radioactive waste for the next three centuries absolutely beggars belief. They waved around a $12 million cheque in the community, north of Tennant Creek, which wanted a decent road and some community education support for their kids. That $12 million cheque was dangled in their faces in exchange for hosting what they thought was going to be a rubbish dump."

http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/speeches/aborig...
First thing in the morning, I wake up to see this. Made my day :). Awesome job.
Prius has the best tire wear - bested the ferrari.

I am not looking to optimize energy usage with a browser; I am looking to optimize speed and security.

Complete straw man .
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
TechCrunch Returns To China, For Keeps
message clear - hacker news: NOT the place for idle joking
http://www.blendercookie.com

Lots of free stuff there. The membership is ridiculously worth it.
They're in the entertainment-as-news business, not news. I'm surprised this hasn't become apparent to everybody yet. I haven't bothered to check them for for news in years now. It like expecting the Food Channel to cover hurricanes.
Not Puzzles, but Scenes: Cinematic Gameplay Interactions
I'm one of the people in the article. I'm really interested to learn that you were thinking along the same lines (assuming this was a while ago, if $36k was a lot?) I had heard of one reference to the idea from 1996, but otherwise I had only heard of it in the 2010s: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-09-18

I'd love to talk to you about how you and your friends got interested in this idea and what successes and failures you saw. I imagine there's a lot we can learn from your experience. juliawise07 at gmail
Kinda, but not really.
Please. Make it a paid service and charge $9/month, not year.
Not using an app is an easy opt out for people.
Report: NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls
I'd respectfully disagree. User testing generally shows a pretty strong aversion to and misunderstanding of Facebook Connect. Here's one such study: http://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/papers/chi13a.pdf

More pragmatically:

1. Do you mind that your users may get locked out of your product for violating Facebook's real name or one-account-only policies?

2. Do you really want to phone home to a publicly-traded advertising company every time someone logs into your site?

3. Social auth asks users to make a significant trust decision before they can even begin to engage with your product. Are you OK with that friction?

Passwords are a pain in the ass, but there are alternatives without the downsides and centralization of social auth. I personally work on Mozilla Persona (https://persona.org), and I'm more than happy to personally help out anyone interested in exploring it for their project. My contact info is in my profile.
SEEKING FULL-TIME DEV - NYC - Remote not OK

We are a lab that makes awesome web and mobile software to solve problems in the developing world. Generally by creating better information systems. The point is to improve access to basic needs such as health, education, clean water, electricity.

We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer and a Front End Engineer, both NYC based.
See https://github.com/modilabs/jobs for more.
I loathe that behaviour, it was one of the things that bugged me about Chrome. If I close a tab, I want the focus to go back to the previously viewed tab, not the previous tab in the z-stack.
I'm interested how this is user hostile? What is the purpose of collecting such data? I think it's to improve whatever is being measured, to make it more useful. I don't call that hostile.
Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thrives on Facebook
Yeah, I think the average person underestimates how broadly humanity's interests range, and so vastly overestimates the chance that a random stranger will have something in common with him. When you're used to making friends through the organizations you're part of - school, work, clubs, activities - you get a biased sample because you have the organization in common. Try online dating or chatting up random strangers and you'll quickly find that most people are pretty different in their hobbies & interests.
US casinos ban gamblers from wearing Google Glass
Thank you. And now i can feel like an idiot. That's ok. I was on my iphone3G on IOS 3.0 until 6 months ago, so i was on an ancient OS before this. That was the last IOS version that let you upload a carrier file to unlock tethering (even if it had the SMS exploit).
Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat Linux gives coders claws for thought
I'm pretty sure the title would belong to something like Lynx.
> Curate your feed for content

Why in the world would I want to do this? I eventually gave up on Facebook because I spent more time "curating" it than using it, and the end result was awkward conversations with friends who assumed I had seen something when in fact I was no longer subscribed to their baby pictures.

> What other place can you ...

Mostly email, iMessage/SMS/BBM/WhatsApp, and Twitter.
For me, from Minnesota, they're all the same: vowel like in "made" [eɪ]. I think the others have vowels like in "bed" [ɛ] and "bad" [æ]. These vowels aren't allowed before r in my dialect.
Apple’s New Product Strategy
You're already not the kind of user this is meant for.

Also, chances are anyone who uses it is going to get bored with it in a week and ignore it anyway.
Come on.. import already!
I am excited.
Delete the garbage, but leave the trivial. I hate deletionists.
Oracle reveals plans for Java security improvements
I have noticed the following often is an issue for people, which may or may not apply to you.

People starting out are afraid to start and get things wrong, pick the wrong way or whatever, so they don't start. Every person who wants to know whether their first language should be python or ruby, java or c++, etc instead of picking one and trying it may have this issue.

It's not about the right language, it's the fear of making the wrong choice.

(note: this has effected me too).

So for you, the way to write your first line of php is to write it. Break your idea down into parts, and implement them.

Have a goal. Find something that might get you there. Don't spend too much time avoiding failures. Instead, learn as you go from your mistakes. Pick something that might work and try it. Don't try to pick the perfect thing without having worked on your problem... That is a paralyzing impossibility.

If my advice is not applicable, ignore it.
In order to find this attractive, one has to really want an e-ink display.

There are many fairly decent 10" Android tablets for less than US$299.

Like someone else said, they must have found a lost pallet at the warehouse and decided to sell them.
Nothing is too hard to solve. Many things are too fast.
Concur. I had to switch away from Chrome because of its heavy heavy use of cache that slows the entire browser down when you have several dozen tabs open.
I reject your anecdote and substitute my own!
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This is where I got the original, raw green screen video:
http://okgo.net/2010/01/20/wtf-video-remix-project/

I kinda wish it was at a higher bit-rate. There are some jaggies at the edges of the hair and stuff that I had to cover up by tinting the color of the video.
So is AMDOCS, largely construed as an intelligence conduit for Mossad.
Your comment is perfectly in line with my second paragraph.

I got sloppy with wording in my third paragraph, but meant the same thing again. (We want a better dating site. We think that FB is a good tool to use for that. Etc.)
Airbnb Cancels Reservation Because You Don’t Want To Post A Video Of Yourself
I didn't know "hoagie" was quite that localized to my area.
I was kind of surprised that they left out yinz. I was going to mention it, but I figured someone else already did. There was a show on regional accents on PBS and they compared western PA to the Galapagos Islands of regional accents. I mean get aht!
Yup. You can see a live video demo with a sample of some of the effects:
http://brianchirls.github.io/Seriously.js/

Although, both Firefox and Chrome have been a bit buggy for me with getUserMedia.

Try the Ascii Text effect.
Great, I've been looking for something similar as well. Thanks for sharing
I think something like this, a "compact" view, makes a lot of sense. Perhaps something called "Headline Mode", which may be in the books :)
I don't think this is an invasion of privacy at all. Heap hooks into single apps, it's not like it hooks into the OS to monitor user interaction with everything a user does in every app. I would sympathise with your reaction if this was the case.

I think it's perfectly good enough for a vendor to declare what data they are collecting in their ToS e.g. "we collect information on how you use the app" and why, e.g. "to consider for future versions so that we release the best possible, most useful software for our users". It's absurd to mandate that this be communicated in "large block letters" as this makes it into a bigger deal than it is.

Let's take off the tin foil hats and be pragmatic. I fully expect analytics to collected on everything I use and I understand the motivation behind it too, i.e. it's to improve whatever it is I am using to make it more useful, and therefore valuable to me.
Sorrrrry, there are SO many people in line. It's chugging away fast now. I've made some performance improvements to the importer.
Most definitely :) Soon!
You could check out RedPhone @ https://whispersystems.org/#encrypted_voice

Unfortunately right now if you use something like that you simply stick out immediately as interesting traffic to target...
Too bad windows isn't that energy efficient...
This was the first post in the thread. I guess I was trying to explain to myself why this was in the front page.
Yep, I'm using a backend I've written for the application. An API will be released soon, as well. Orange circle empty == read, filled in == unread.
Every prime is within 388,284 numbers of another prime number, effectively, I believe.
I agree with this. PLEASE make a paid version, otherwise your project will end in the same place where all those other free RSS readers ended: in archive.org

The problem with these kind of services is that if they are free, a lot of people won't pay for them and might use so many resources that the money paid by the few people who donated or paid will not be enough to sustain the service.

Sorry for the tone, but I am so tired of seeing lots of mini-web services turned off because they were free... Nowadays I downloaded Vizzy for Mac: although it is not the most pretty RSS reader, I know it will be working forever.
Yes. HN is skewed with an audience that encompasses all the 'early adopter' characteristics that Bitcoin appeals to. Any data gathered here about Bitcoin wouldn't be a fair representation of a broader, more mainstream audience.
Good questions.

It's called Seriously for two reasons:
1) At some point, I had this idea that I would make all my Javascript libraries references to Homestar Runner. http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Seriously

2) "You can do that in a browser? Seriously?!"

As for the file size, yeah you're right it's too big. I'm working on a grunt.js build script, and when that's done, I'll break the main file into smaller pieces so you can pick and choose which utilities and things you need to load. Right now, it has the color lookup table and noise shaders, among other things, which are not necessary for everybody.
I bought a desktop from Eight Virtues and wasn't disappointed. Though I wasn't all that comfortable with a preset password, so I did an OS re-install, but that install was "just works" easy. Powerful/fast computer, good price.

http://sales.eightvirtues.com/
I think that was actually his point.

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

Do I smell a challenge? :)

Nobody has perfect knowledge, and many people are motivated in bad ways. But "everyone has a bias" is, I think, a subtle attack on the idea that anyone can actually know anything. Most philosophy of science courses would endorse some version of that view, but I don't.

I know that 2+2 is 4, and that's not biased. I know a lot of other things, too, that aren't biased.

There are people who will claim that, say, 2+2=4 is just a way for Western imperialists to get their way over others, or even that math is a figment of the imagination without correspondence to the real world (many math professors would defend this), and those people are wrong.

Hell, some people would claim that assuming there is a "real world" is biased, but they are wrong, too. I'm not going to prove it here in the comments, though.
End-to-end while useful won't help this problem.

They are keeping track of meta-data, so they are amassing a huge database of who every American associates with over the phone. This "meta data" is a huge part of Signals Intelligence and is very useful even if you can't hear the call itself (which is not to say they are not recording those as well).

The only way around it would be a TOR like system (or a system running on TOR) to obfuscate who everyone talks to.
Since everyone is pointing out that he actually resides in Brazil most of the time: that is not by choice, but because the U.S. won't permit his significant other to enter the country. His reporting focus is always the US. He was a US constitutional lawyer before becoming a journalist.
Python and Matlab are not interchangeable.

Matlab is unique in its expressiveness for numerical and matrix computation, and value semantics.

Value semantics matter a lot because they result in functional programming without even having to think about it, while copy-on-write means that you can pass big objects into pure functions and they never get copied if you don't modify them.

e.g. in Matlab, the following function is pure (and never makes a copy of big_matrix)

function y = my_pure_function(x, big_matrix)
x = x + big_matrix(i, j);
y = x ^ 2;
end
This is about recent work on a longstanding and famous open question in number theory, called the 'twin prime conjecture'. The conjecture states: there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers just two apart (e.g., 17 and 19 are twin primes, as 19 - 17 = 2). For a few centuries there has not been great (direct) progress on this problem, but in April, Zitang Zhang proved there are infinitely many pairs of primes at most 70 million apart. This breakthrough got everyone really excited, and the linked page shows the assault now being made by the mathematical community on the 70 million limit, using all kinds of techniques based on Zhang's argument, trying to drive the limit downwards, closer and closer to the dream of two.
Sorry, I am afraid the expression of agreement couched in sarcastic opposition didn't come across very well.

We are in agreement here.

The only possible disagreement is whether focusing on what people "want" is a useful metric. People may think things are cool. The better view in my sense is to focus on what people find useful.
Seems like a great service but what about privacy??
Because they see no real market effect for 'real personal security'. People do care about privacy & security, but they don't physically understand how something like OTR works. Things like banking & tax apps putting in fake progress bars to make the app feel like it's 'more secure'. Or apps like snapchat that remove access for the standard user, but still leaves them on the phone after they are seen. Or your standard home lock.
Yeah, I run Chrome on Ubuntu on a pretty powerful Lenovo T-something with an NVIDIA whatever optimus pain in the neck. The only way I can get it to work is to add --ignore-gpu-blacklist to the Chrome command line.

Check:
/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
(or something like that)
You should see some lines that start with "Exec" where you can add that parameter to the end.
I had the same thing happen when I moved, after I racked up around 800MB of data on my tethering (easier than you think). I didn't get a text, but I'd get redirected to an "upgrade now!" page. I spoofed my user agent on my laptop for the next couple days (because, shit, I'm paying for it, I'm going to use it), and had to do the same when I tethered for about a month or it'd redirect me. Since then, nothing.
I believe it's part of Riak 1.4, which is our next release; no date yet.

The number of entries in a 2i isn't going to bog down querying it any more than lots of objects bog down LevelDB. Make sure your indexes have the right content with the right cardinalities and it shouldn't be a problem.

If you want to drop in to #riak on freenode tomorrow (I'm in the America/New_York time zone) I'm brycek in there.
I do not agree that having to hide friends so you get a curated News Feed really works. For me, this is a lot of work just to get Facebook back as a fun product again - and FB doesn't really provide great, painless tools for curating your feed. (I'd love a dashboard and power-user shortcuts)

But even if your News Feed looks great, the other side of controlling your FB experience is How You Share. Sure, we can all create lists for our families and faraway friends and acquaintances — but trust and relationships evolve, and pretty soon you're fiddling with "+Family -AuntJenny +HighSchool -Amanda" just for one little post about your relationship status.

You can deal with this by unfriending or self-censoring yourself, but it's really not fun to hold your tongue, and there's a social cost to unfriending.

The author is probably right that "Facebook is fine", if you put enough work into it. But depending on your comfort level, this can mean a lot of work. So the questions are 1) is this really a user error, or a problem with the product? and 2) how can Facebook improve this area? and 3) is it even in Facebook's interest to go down this path?
The most important handbook for understanding Wikipedia's self-governing mechanisms is The Trial by Franz Kafka.
Wait--there is a debate here? I'm wholly unfamiliar with js -- which is better, and what is the debate?
I was just reading another thread and remarked to myself how negative people can be on this site, yet here I go. Sorry - Absolutely terrible logo, guys. Completely awful.
Am I the only one annoyed by the implication of "iPhones are very complex devices with a very complex OS."?
It is actually slightly more complicated. The existing effects work in GLSL and are just transforming single frames of video. For that effect to work, you need the previous buffer states; this means that seeking will cause the image to be different, and you need to feed the previous render state back as a texture.
Nope. That would be too slow. I tried that a couple years ago before writing Seriously.js, and the big problem was copying around the memory. You have to first draw the video to a canvas, then you have to extract the pixel array from the canvas, loop through all the pixels and then draw the pixels back to the canvas. Now, for a high-definition video at 4 bytes per pixel (RGBA), you're looking at about 3.5MB of memory for each copy. And on top of that, it has to allocate and garbage collect that 3.5M pixel array for every frame, because it doesn't let you copy into an existing array. If you look at the first video-processing canvas demos, they tend to be pretty small, and this is why.

Instead, this uses WebGL/OpenGL. So the pixels are copied once from the video directly into the GPU memory, and they are processed in parallel there before going straight to your screen. Much, MUCH faster.
Do you own a dog?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but their's a clear case for a class-action suit, isn't their?
That just fills up space with no useful content. Imagine if everybody on HN did this.
Is there a console error?
Assuming you trust the certificate chains to the root certs to be fully trustable and not to have been compromised via secret court order as well...
Then ask the user first. I'm sure that if you can elucidate the value of tracking their every interaction, they'll be happy to agree.

I'll say no, because don't want my battery wasted, my bandwidth consume, my IP logged, my address book mined, etc, just because a PM can't decode where to spend development and design dollars without fudging almost uselessly ambiguous numbers.
I don't think this has anything to do with net neutrality. For example, it's perfectly legal for Comcast to throttle your home cable connection.
chrome://flags

override software rendering list
> I don't think this is an invasion of privacy at all.

I vehemently disagree. Most companies will just hide the fact they are collecting (and often selling) user data within slimy legalese.

Consumer protection includes niceties such as warranties, and protection against false advertising, and clear display of nutritional information and safety warnings.

Privacy also deserves the same treatment so users can make an informed decision, without having to wade through a hefty licence agreement.

Edit: updated reply context
>> I know that 2+2 is 4, and that's not biased. I know a lot of other things, too, that aren't biased.

2+2 is actually ... 11. Your bias to the base 10 system has been exposed.
Personally I have joined a startup and it depends what actually you want from your job. I mean if you want to be financially strong job then joining start might not be a good idea but if you want your growth and enhance knowledge there is no better option than start-ups. Start-ups sometimes also turn in to huge money if they investors or fund raising.
Finally, I don't have to see this "pg" guy everywhere ;-)
I think it is pretty clear that not everyone is equally biased or that every bias is equally bad or good. It does not seem like a useful question unless you plan on engaging in a lengthy exercise it justifying Wikipedia from first-principles or something.

I would ask this question instead: Is the editorial environment of Wikipedia specifically a place where the worst biases can flourish? Subtle edits over a long period of time from a malicious actor are one thing, but the same from someone who is simply oblivious to their bias on a set of topics is quite another. If the answer is yes, how in the heck can it be fixed?
I misread that. Thanks!
I agree their front page is overloaded with silly human interest stories and other fluff.

However, this is an update to an older story that was apparently broken on May 11th 2006 by USA today. It was covered by CNN tv on that day:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/05/11/despite-bipartis...
They also have Highrise, a CRM, and Campfire, a team chat.

I understand that Highrise has been their fastest growing product for some time.
Which made me think of this from My Cousin Vinny: "It is possible that the two yutes..."
Depending on where you live in LA you'll run into these problems with all carriers due to the topography.

I also found it quite annoying with AT&T even though there was a tower six blocks from my apartment.
The essay was full of I's and me's. It was a subjective opinion, not something that required a journal abstract to back up the claim.
ZRTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP

As others have said, end-to-end encryption this not solve the problem of calculating a persons social networks and the strength of those connections by correlating calling frequency and duration (as the information in the leaked court order could be used to do). For that you would need a Tor-like network. The Guardian Project have attempted to do some work in this area, sending VOIP over Tor, but the latency is quite high at the moment: so it requires using some of the old radio protocols when there was a possibility of interference and to make it clear when you had stopped talking "over and out", "roger" etc.
do you have porfolio on http://dribbble.com/
Nice work, until the annoying scream. Thanks we have ctrl + w