skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was much more cynical about new technology products before I tried to build and market one myself. That shit is hard, and most of the peanut gallery here one HN has no idea what it takes.
Is it really a problem? There is no Constitutional violation and it's within the scope of a law duly passed by Congress. The people know it's happening (when the wiretapping thing came out under Bush), and have decided they don't care. Finally, the government isn't getting any information about you that you're not sharing with AT&T already.

So what's the beef?
I don't have the time to write a complete explanation about that, but if you point out a specific instance that interests you particularly, I can try to give an explanation.
Simple tiny Solution for jailbreak users- JailbreAkMe 4.0
A long time ago I had a dispute with my stock broker (e-trade). On one day I created an IRA account for myself and my wife and it turned out they zapped her account because I created two on the same day. It's my fault that I got close to the wire of April 15.

I wound up in the situation that what I reported to the IRS didn't match reality and I was a bit worried. I called them up and said "I work in IT and I know there is a layer that's deeper than what you can see. I'm not going to threaten to leave if you don't get this fixed, but I'll be loyal to you if you can get this investigated"

And you know what?

Two weeks later they contacted me, explained the situation, and they backdated the transaction.

Fast forward and I had a really bad conversation with my boss. He chose to play Russian Roulette with our project and said something that was (1) full of IT and (2) hazardous to my mental health.

I could have bailed there, but I had enough sense to see my doc and get a prescription for Paxil. I decided to stick with the project until we got it into the hands of the salespeople. A week later I went out to my (unlit) wood shed and stepped in a big pile of dog crap. The funny thing was I didn't get mad at all, I just accepted it and when I got back in I found that none of the crap stuck on my sneakers because at the first moment I felt the squish I took the weight off that foot.

I could bring up more examples, like all of the times that I've emotionally connected with judges and cops and got away without a ticket, but the fact is that you can be happier and effective if you don't sweat the small stuff.

So yeah, giving you a refund would have been a good move on their part (you've certainly cost them more than $2) but you'd be better off if you let this slide. You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
From the study:

"In addition, at the request of Microsoft we set the JavaScript timer frequency to “conserve power” in
the Windows power options. We found, however, that the default Javascript time frequency for all
computers tested was set to “maximum performance.” We did not investigate the impact of this setting
upon browser power draw."

So yeah, IE got some optimization applied, and unfairly so, since the other browsers were run with default settings.
I agree, the market is saturated and more and more of these type of apps are coming out. For version 1.0, I am going to keep the focus on keeping the app as minimal as possible and analyze users feedback to help guide the direction of future versions.
Are we even trying to pretend like we care about the constitution anymore or do we really think that "terrorists" must be caught at any price whatsoever?

(serious question)
What if you run an international businesss?
That's because almost everyone is a total moron and almost everything is utter shit.

Fuck you, by the way.
Anyone want to take a stab at overlaying youtube vids with this?
As I said earlier in a related post "email clients are stuck in the 90s. The way they look and organized hasn't changed in 20 years. You need to throw out all you think an email client should be and make your own. That is my sincerest suggestion. If you do not believe me go look for yourself. Outlook,Yahoo Mail,Gmail,etc all look the same as the did 20 years ago. I use Thunderbird but I hate how it looks and works." Plus it is still insecure but Mozilla may fix that with Persona.
I use Ledger CLI[1] along with a bunch of custom reporting tools. Ledger uses a simple-to-use plain text format and runs queries with a command line program. I've been keeping my finances with it for six years, it's the only system I've ever been able to use consistently.

[1]: http://www.ledger-cli.org
I live outside the United States. India, to be more specific. I tried to key in my number with my country code (+91).
I got error-ed out. Is there a way I can add an Indian number?
I have them and live in Los Angeles. Coverage is pretty fantastic, except for in brick buildings. On a good day I get 25mbps down on their HSDPA+ network.
I'd say there are probably quite a few people that post to Show HN just for peer validation. Sure the constructive criticism is helpful to improve the project, but comments like:

Change the colors, my eyes are bleeding.

Or:

Ugh, another Bootstrap site?

could be worded in a more positive fashion while still delivering the same content. Even examples like:

Doesn't work in Firefox

aren't useful, because there's no mention of the Firefox version and/or the operating system.
I got more views, comments, and backlash on Reddit than on HN for my project. The HN community is analytical; they will always find a problem with your solution--sometimes people will offer answers and that's where this community shines.
As you were talking about crime, Randomdata and I were assuming you were referring to acts concerning persons under 18. Pedophilia is not a legal term, it’s a psychological term. It’s not a crime to be a pedophile. Rape, child abuse, etc are.
While you are spot on, and I agree with you, I don't think that Apple will ever do anything like that.

There are various problems with defining "ethical". Lot of people are paying for these games, so it is completely ethical for us. As far as I know, all this does not matter to anyone except us. We are already at higher end of tech spectrum and know how stuff works. For children or old people, that is normal.

So I don't think Apple will ever do that. Not to forget that it is quite profitable as well.
The Y-axis should've started at 0 watts, not at (a rather arbitrary) 18 watts.

Look at the "Flash Video" and "HTML5 Video" bars in the original chart. The blue IE bars are roughly half the size of the green Chrome bars, which might lead you to believe that IE only consumes roughly half of the energy that Chrome consumes in those tests. But as the numbers show, the difference isn't nearly that great.

Starting the Y-axis at 18 watts only serves to make IE's advantage over the other browsers look greater than it actually is.
Hah!
Great find. When I took a technical communication course, we explicitly talked about the ethical implications of misleading the audience by manipulating information and the perception of information.

Needless to say, the authors did a poor job of following standard ethical practices when presenting information to support their claim.
CIA Releases Analyst's Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
What data are you using to come to this conclusion? I would love to see an analysis on this.
Same for me (China here)... Are we to believe that this will only be available in the US store?
Although it adds color to the situation, not all non-profits are clueless about technology. There are many that are run as well as (or better than!) many tech startups.

If you're based in the Washington DC area, drop me a line. I'd love to connect and help you find a better position. (I'm not a headhunter or recruiter - just a non-profit developer who doesn't want to let one clueless NGO tarnish your impression of all non-profit tech for life.)
Sure. It's called voting. But you don't get to pretend that you have no say in what the government is allowed to do just because the majority of voters don't care about your pet issues.

My mom doesn't care about electronic surveillance. Neither does my dad, or my wife. The vast majority of my friends (mostly non-techies), don't care. Just look at the success of Facebook and Google. People don't care about electronic privacy in general, and most don't try to draw strained distinctions between data they freely share with big corporations and data they think is okay for the government to have. A lot of them do care about preventing terrorism, however. So how can you sit there and pretend the will of the people isn't being served?
Whats better when an earthquake strikes?
imagine you work in a high rise (more than 10 stories) and you feel earthquake tremors
1. wait for the tremors to stop
2. run for the escalator (quickest escape route)
3. follow the protocol - take evacuation route (generally stairs) and (possibly) die of stampede
4. tweet/facebook/scrap the experience and get as many likes as possible
5. create a video and upload on youtube
6. PROPOSE BETTER ALTERNATIVES
Until you find a new gig, go to work, do what you're told, and collect your paycheck. Don't invest any emotion in it or try to go above and beyond to help, it will just leave you bitter when it goes nowhere. Get out quickly though, because it could easily become a blemish on your resume.
Get out of the house and do a bit of co-working, check out inspire9.org and Melbourne Jelly for a start.
I doubt that text-based browsers have been very good about incorporating the latest advancements in JavaScript engines, so they could easily lose there.
Windows 7 w/ 4 core & 16gb, Chrome will spawn processes like rabbits breeding if I leave it running too long (>4 days).

I have started threads here before about this and I'm not alone, I use it because the dev tools are awesome.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. I'm not discrediting FB as a social network (as a matter of fact, I'm not even criticizing FB directly!).

All I'm saying is that the claim that FB fosters deep relationships is unfounded.
> It's a mess operationally, and there's a near zero chance of winning the dispute

To be clear, does this refers to the business accounts / users ? The consumers with personal accounts who dispute the charges have their way and the charging entity is left to deal with the results?
Is Maya a good starting point for someone who wants to get into 3D animation and modelling?
Be careful with T-Mobile. I live in a fairly small town (about 12,000 people) that is practically a suburb of a bigger town (over 200,000). I have 18 MBps Internet from AT&T Uverse, and the local cable company just started offering a much faster connection. T-Mobile? I can't even get a signal at my home. No signal.
If all of the common procedures like peer review and QA are absent, you've got some sweet freedom. The real problem is that you're trying to change it, try to live with it instead. This kind of workplace could be a lot of fun ;)
It looks like she's using http://intercom.io for the notifications. We use them at http://circleci.com and they've been hugely valuable for getting feedback.
Define vs attach
I think the "hiding" process is a bit too heavy handed, what I'd like to see is a dislike button that only affects your feed. So a person would never actually see that you disliked their post, but facebook could use that data privately to help you curate you feed. If you keep disliking someone's posts (and possibly even comments) facebook would show you less and less of them until they were completely gone from your news feed ...

Not sure it would work so well in light of a recent article on here (I think) that showed that people in social networks like/upvote things and order of magnitude more than they dislike/flag things, but I think it would be interesting to try.
There have been a few analyses. Here [1] is one of them.

1 = http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...
I have been doing this for past two years for my paper on social privilege and reservation. Thanks to this guy my job might just become harder.
Find a company you'd want to work in, contact them. If you don't find one, build it.

You're passionate enough to have written this. Most people do not. Don't let this situation destroy it.

My co-founder lived in that kind of company for 2 years. He learned a lot of what not to do but it took its toll.

Sidenote. We're looking for passionate people.
This is an awesome idea. There is room for other shipping companies for sure. I hate using ups, always late over priced. Bring on A new company and lool forward to trying it out!
Is there any additional content here that wasn't at their old getmyo.com domain? If not, why was it reposted?
It's blindingly obvious that there is extraordinary negativity on HN.

- I don't think it's fair to call people out publicly (or necessary). Especially as they are unlikely to see my comment and have the opportunity to defend themselves.

- I don't tell myself anything of the sort.
upvoted for educational value
Uhm, OK.
The guy is playing the press, and enjoying the limelight on him by terming his data mining process as hacking in the opening paragraphs complete with juicy quotes, and this is why this article does not even mention the anomalies in the testing but rather concentrates on the cyber attacks.

On his results: http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7563466e4810af140bb712b...

Now this data distribution looks suspect to tampering. I will not pass judgements though without knowing the format of the papers. Besides, we do not know if indeed he actually fetched data for all the students and did not miss anybody, since he is relying upon his manual boundaries while scraping data. How informed are those boundaries is not known. ICSE schools are not normal run of the mill schools, they are populated by rich kids who can afford extra help and are kind of smart. Their English curriculum is reputed to be strong, hence the strong distribution towards high end. I am also making assumptions, but I do not have full data to make informed inferences.
How will they ever start to exists in a new neighborhood?
> There's a unique sort of mental stress that comes from grinding through soul-sucking boring bullshit, tedious meetings, and inane bullshit day after day after day after day...

So true.
Ok, I did. I actually read the whole series, including the postgres 2-phase commit I/O error case.

I don't see where it draws that conclusion at all.

The postgres post shows that even ACID databases have network error cases which can leave your client in an indeterminate state. Fair enough. However the solution for this is... to restart your client once the network's back up. All it needs to do is requery the DB to determine the truth.

Compare that to writing conflict resolution logic for all your data because there is no single source of truth. This is considerably more complicated.

The series actually ends up recommending "the right design for the right problem space." I am not making a general SQL vs. NoSQL argument here, but I think in this case they may have taken a more complicated approach than necessary.
That account says 7-8 AM EST is the easiest to get on the front page, whereas in the evening will stay on the front page the longest (notably mostly during the middle of the night). (tl;dr 9-10 AM is the overall best)
> Are you implying

No. To the best of my knowledge, I am copying verbatim or summarizing the FISA order.
I have one. Me, 5 years ago :)

The fact is, building something is hard. Criticizing something is easy. There's no special skill involved in picking apart somebody's project, making a big deal out of what is otherwise a minor flaw, and using that to dismiss that guy's work. That was a great way to make myself feel better about the fact that someone else built something, and I didn't.
"...what snow scene isn’t improved by massive metal walking machines spitting lasers from their eyes? Way more interesting than some environmental disaster story about snow or a local economy tanked because there was too much or too little goddam ice.

I mean, c’mon.

It’s various forms of cold water versus massive metal fuck off robots of death."

lemmee see...I need to retool my flat-lined site with `massive metal fuck off robots of death'?

Anyways, your scroll-ie page was well done.
Geezus I was joking to whoever downvoted me. "I SEE YOU" is what Sauron says from "lord of the rings" and the "AND USUALLY IT IS NOT GOOD" was what the HN Sauron would say thank you very much. Damn, I thought everyone had seen LOTR...
Not sure what exactly you mean by money management, but to have an overview of my finances, i.e. see all credit card, brokerage and checking accounts at once, and to track spending, mint.com is awesome. It saved me a fair amount of money once when I caught a credit card fee I was unaware of and missed on my statement, and I could call and cancel that service in time to get a full refund.

It's a bit unsettling to give all your financial account logins to a third party website, but I trust that a company like Intuit has decent security...
You are postulating a group that is willing to hijack an unmanned truck in order to steal the goods being delivered and doesn't mind the risk of being seen because they "have a bandana and shades on". Question: What is so special about an unmanned truck given that circumstance? Wouldn't it be at least as easy for a group like that to hijack a manned truck? Why don't the same gangs pull a gun on the UPS guy and take all his stuff? That would be in some ways easier than taking stuff from an unmanned delivery van. The unmanned van can go into lockdown mode and doesn't have a driver who can be threatened to make him give up the key to the back.

The cost for any private party to send up their own monitor drones is coming down very quickly and will likely be insignificant by the time unmanned delivery vehicles are common. If one unmanned delivery car sends out a distress signal, other unmanned delivery cars in the area could release drones monitored by a local security firm to go see what's happening, follow the bad guys, and tell the cops exactly where they went.

The sort of drones I'm talking about might look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4

(You can already get copters of that sort with at least a 10 minute battery range for a mere few hundred bucks.)
When this first hit HN, wasn't it set for a Fall 2013 release as well? I'm not surprised if it's been pushed back (maybe it hasn't) but I agree that waiting for it to land makes a lot more sense especially since Leap Motion is a very similar interaction and coming out sooner.
The document included applies to "MCI Communications, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business Network Services,"

My Verizon iPhone is with "Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless," a separate legal entity.

Do we know that this order actually applies to individuals' phone calls? It seems the document would only apply to enterprise customers.
Deal with it, you're not in pre-school anymore and nobody will give you a medal for participation. If you're unable to handle criticism and take out some value from people's opinions, you'll have a hard time in technology and in business.

The problem is that people such as yourself make the world a worse place to live in and to experience. There's more to life than technology and business.
"Uncaught Unknown source type seriously.js:2727"

Soon as I turn Ghostery off it works fine. This is in Chrome 27.0.1453.110
I have to add my vote to the "quit sooner rather than later" column. Several years ago I worked in a similarly dysfunctional environment (also in a monopoly position in their industry): terrible code, terrible development processes, you name it. I was tempted to quit after a month but gritted my teeth and tried to change things as best I could. I quit after nine months there because I realized that I was a) getting nowhere with higher mismanagement b) waking up angry because I was having dreams about the technical arguments I'd have the next day. Leaving that place was I think one of the best career decisions I have ever made. Epilogue: I nearly doubled my salary at my next gig, which also was nicer to work at. Life is too short to endure a shitty job. Good luck!
Sounds pretty normal for a big org. If that's not your cup of tea, quit and move on to something that fits you better and do it quickly. You've got nothing to lose and they really won't miss you so why prolong the agony?
The y-axis should have kept the baselines that the study authors used in their graphs (14.7W for laptops, 37.8W for desktops), since those starting points are what gives you the power draw due to the browser. What the Microsoft blog did by moving the baselines up from there was unethical, but having the chart show power consumption relative to idle instead of powered down is perfectly reasonable.
Big Data Is Booming but Big Results Are Lacking
That's for maximizing your likelihood of hitting the front page.

If you continue reading, it also states that to maximize time on the front page, submitting between 8-9 PM EST is optimal.

It concludes with an overall optimal posting time of 9-10 AM EST, or 7AM - noon more generally.
They deleted the page? I'm getting a 'Page not found' error.

Edit: Google Cache.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
It is interesting that there's a human in the loop. It's sort of a Mechanical Turk approach to web dating, and notable because it's the opposite of sites like E-Harmony that trump the superiority of their algorithm.
Few years ago I too "mined data" ( this word sounds ethical ) the data from MTNL site. I got the record of every single person who have landline number in delhi. ( Actually I just wanted to see the bill amount ) but they showed me everthing. ;) Though I didn't made such graphs.

Whats's more in one of the site I was able to clear my bill by paying as much I like. That means if my bill was 1000/- then by just paying 100/- I would get the confirmation of 1000/- bill pay. :)
I am working on fixing this right now. I used an API that validates and formats the numbers. Apparently some mobile numbers outside the United States are not returning as being valid.

EDIT: Should work now!
But if you're young enough, you may be able to quickly recover from this situation. Better than if you ended up in a similar situation towards the middle / end of your career. One thing that a similar situation in my early twenties helps me with now, is no matter what, I can always say "At least it isn't near as bad as that company". Or, I can properly assess my current situation and know if it is getting just as bad / worse.