skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds great as described here, but I do have some doubts as to this being only good and awesome:

- If this was done with current prices, then I imagine people would rush to buy plans in the cheapest countries. Which sounds like big loss to telcoms. So, will they raise prices? If yes, this means problems for people in those cheap countries, who usually earn less too. Or will telcoms maybe lock-in prepaids to your personal ID, to enforce pricing-per-country? But then, anonymity is lost. So maybe, maybe they might introduce both as options, so you either pay more ("euroglobal price") for anonymity, or less and provide your ID? Any other ideas, anyone?

- "will mean greater competition, leading to alliances and eventual mergers" - I'm not economist, but isn't "greater competition" like exactly opposite to "alliances and mergers"?
Yeah, Snowden pointed this out in his QA today:

> More fundamentally, the "US Persons" protection in general is a distraction from the power and danger of this system. Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal."

It's insane that the president is openly declaring that they are more than willing to violate people's civil rights, just as long as they didn't happen to be born in the USA.

(And what about dual citizens? Or US citizens like me that live abroad? OR THE SIX AND A HALF BILLION OTHER HUMANS WHO DESERVE PRIVACY TOO)
Think that's it. I just looked at Yoleo Reader (https://yoleoreader.com/) and realized that the clean look of that is exactly what I want/need, and what I miss with NewsBlur.

I got a premium NewsBlur account primarily because it was the only non-google reader with good keyboard support. And I kind of like the attempt to add social and commenting features.

But I might move away if I can get a cleaner UI with full google reader-style keyboard support.

This problem could be solved with a 'minimal' skin, perhaps?
Is this a joke? I have Firefox with loads of tabs, Safari, Photoshop, Xcode, Mail, Playing a movie, BBEdit, and torrent all running at the same time, on my 2011 13-inch i5 with 4gb of ram. When I but the new machine this year, I might not even get the 8gb, it is really no necessary. I only want the new one for the battery.
Yeah. Simple single sentence from me which doesn't do your comment justice.

The connection between consciousness as an idea expressed by this declaration, and general extant environment is an interesting philosophical pursuit. I didn't think conscience so much, as an anterior attribute. But apologies if I appeared curt. I need practice.
It should be possible with current technology to create a robot, that would react positively to mirror test.
Hyperlinking to Commits on GitHub
There's "Hard" and there's "Megaman Hard". Today's "Hard" just doesn't even approach the brutality of games a few generations ago, with the exception of some games like Super Meat Boy and Dark Souls.

The big thing on most modern games is the frequent auto-checkpointing. This is done to prevent the player from becoming frustrated and walking away, but it saps a critial element of difficulty from the game in that you have to execute a series of hard maneuvers all in sequence, and screwing up anything puts you back at the beginning.

Modern games are very guilty of the overuse of checkpointing, which can frequently mean that you never lose more than a few seconds of progress. The frustration of doing 98% of a boss fight, flubbing one guard, and having to replay the whole level again is mirrored in the reward you feel when you overcome the challenge; modern games frequently minimize frustration via checkpointing, overly-verbose tutorials, "look here!" neon signs, and the like, all of which reduce both frustration and satisfaction.
Behind the scenes of "Doin' it Right"- Jack Conte + Robots remix [video]
Kobe beef jerky Kickstarter fraud nearly scammed backers out of $120,000
I completely thought this was a reference to http://incubatorincubator.com/ - one of their joke Incubators was "YNotCombinator".

On a more serious note, how is this different to something like http://www.nreduce.com/ ?
Blind Indian rejected by IITs will now study at Stanford
> Shooters have autoaim

Only on consoles, though.

> For example, Ryse: Son of Rome, that was revelaed for XBox One an E3, looks really great visually, but the gameplay seems more or less like Simon Says. You as the player are included in amazing set pieces, by letting you press one button at a time, as soon as the game tells you to; and see how the game character and the world reacts to that.

Worse, the QTEs are actually automatic :
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/why-ryse-is-the-most-frustr...
For those who want to understand a little bit more about the situation, this short video explains a little bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZApB...

NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/world/americas/thousands-g...

Also note that many other brazilians are organizing protests around the world this week[1, 2]. About 1k people in SF alone[3]

The current wave of protests does not seem to be an isolatted event[4].

[1] http://www.melhorquebacon.com/lista-de-cidades-que-terao-man...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/CQCBlogs/posts/623054044372345

[3] https://www.facebook.com/events/498561580217088/

[4] http://roarmag.org/2013/06/protests-brazil-turkey-bosnia-bul...
English subtitles are provided, as well.
Sure. Then you wait a few years, and suddenly the 90% have access to your technology, and you're worse off than before.
Introducing a New Linux Management API: OpenLMI
Here's a related articled that can be translated.

http://www.mactechnews.de/news/article/Schriftgestalter-Erik...
Companies don't keep promises. No company that buys another is going to be bound by something some developer said three years prior.

I wonder if small startups doing popular things for geeks are heading towards a similar backlash against "selling out" that the alternative music scene had in the 80's and 90's.
> But you see new games such as Demon's Souls/Dark Souls use similar negative-reinforcement techniques to create truly engaging experiences that some people find fun and addicting.

In fact, Dark Souls teaches you patience. You don't die a lot if you are sufficiently careful. There are a few unexpected traps but those are rare. Most of the time you will have to progress carefully, gauging the terrain, the aggro ranges of the monsters, carefully dodging and blocking their attacks until you understand their moveset enough to land counterattacks.

Dark Souls is a game of learning, but boy it is rewarding. You will find yourself storm easily through areas of the game that gave you a hard time once you have learned to take it slowly. But you could also die easily on very weak monster (like the torch Zombies when you return to the asylum) if you just think you can run and mash buttons without caution.

I have found it to be one of the most enjoyable gaming experience of these last years, and have poured much more hours into it that I would have liked to.
I think you haven't considered technology development/innovation cycles. Of course just looking at what is archievable today, we will have a lack of performance, features and tooling, but thats not how technology adoption and performance increases work. There are several factors that will enable web-technologies to outpace native solutions. These factors are not inevitable technologic. One thing that will drive technology adoption is market potential/volume: imagine developing a product once and being able to ship it to any device e.g. customer that has a browser. Well, thats a massive market compared to just one smartphone OS for example. Additionally: think about the time and cost that go into developing cross-platform engines - is this approach able to compete on a long run? Imagine having a release cycle that always instantly pushes out the newest version of your product to all users in realtime - no update processes on client-side. The entry barrier into web-based products comparatively vanishes: no downloads, no install, no plugins...

...not yet talking about new business models that might be/are possible in a web-ecosystem...
Prominent Humans Sign Declaration that They're Still Tasty
So apps should have a sort of ELO ranking where they fight with apps in the same category (possibly multiple categories simultaneously) for dominance and the fight is implemented as which app gets bought when displayed to a user at the same time as another similar app?
I am familiar with Jeremy Paxman's work. It's impressive.
Yes, homeless moving to centers where it's easier to find shelter and people to give you money while begging were my first example; of course 'the homeless' includes many subgroups like the schizophrenics who don't have the mental ability to live a 'stable' life, over the alcoholics and drug addicts whose sanity is affected by chemicals, to people who are just down on their luck (usually combination of illness, no job, no family, etc.)

But other drivers might be that certain demographics are more prone to living in cities as well as developing mental problems: immigrants who are under a lot of stress because of having to adapt to a new language and environment; people in high-pressure jobs like lawyers and people in finance; criminals; etc. (being a criminal is very stressful and most non-psychopath criminals who have been living such a lifestyle for several years or more develop stress-related physical (ulcers, ...) and mental problems because of it, potentially on top of the mental problems they had before).

Or maybe people with mental problems find it easier to be anonymous in a city, where they don't have to (or at least less) deal with the social pressures that outsiders in small communities are under.

Furthermore, while statistically there are more people with mental problems in cities, some classes of problems (like depression) happen more in more rural areas.

I'm not saying one or the other; we don't know. Every now and then there is a study in the popular press with a populist headline like 'cities cause mental problems', and it's also an idea that fits nicely with people's preconceptions about cities=bad, country life=good. The papers those articles are based on are not conclusive though, and the literature shows a much more nuanced image. I work in academia and peripherally work with social scientists who study cities and people living in studies, and they are much more uncertain about the health implications of cities. There are sometimes unexpected feedbacks in complex systems that can cause very unintuitive dynamics.
Now that is how you keep your eyes on the prize during an interview.
Oh I'd never do it unless they volunteered that info themselves.

They seemed to use that account for outreach so I figured they might show up again.
And in the middle you have those superstars JavaScript JIT engine developers that browser makers fight over.
It seems tacky to engage in such blatant logo use.

(I understand that parody is fair use— I don't believe in copyright anyway. I just think that it's lame that all you did was rotate it. You're capitalizing on a brand that you did not develop.)
Yes, yes, we had those, too. In the beginning, they were fierce opposites of progress, prisoners of the old mentality. It then became rather uncomfortable to label them as such, when a twenty-year old mentality was about as old as the regime itself, so we ended up with similar derogatory terms: fiercely anarchist, adversaries of order, hippies, and as the reality got more and more dire, mentally-troubled and drug users.
No, people that get flustered or that aren't practiced at speaking talk like that.

Basic speech trick is pausing for a second, thinking through your answer, and then giving it carefully. This gives you time to avoid null words and ums and false starts.

If you're the POTUS, I'd be more than happy to give you a little time to think over your answers about surveillance questions before you bumble through them.
Prague beats Berlin with its tech scene, could challenge London in the future
Berlin has got SoundCloud, 6Wunderkinder, Wooga, and a few others. Although Berlin companies are great, the hype around Berlin as a city is perhaps even bigger. I think it started with the Jamba brothers, I mean, Samwer brother copycats. Jamba was quite a big exit for them (although wrote-off by both its buyers Verisign and Fox Mobile. I was in the same business at the time, and selling ringtone subscriptions to small children on their or their parents phones for a few dollars a week is on the edge of good ethics (rip-off), or sometimes the law). One thing some Berlin tech companies have in common is, they are not run by German founders – thats not the case in Prague. What Berlin will quickly run into is a shortage of developer talent. Prague has a huge developer talent, with a potential to tap into towns around it and also Slovakia much easier than Berlin can. What is also great in Prague, lots of these developers still work at “boring” big companies, outsourcing companies, that could quickly move to start international start-ups.
One wonders how we score intermediate foreign mail servers or proxies for the purpose of determining tappability.
Isn't RC4 quite safe if you don't forget to skip the first kilobyte or so of the keystream?
Actually he's a nice guy and very legit. Just about everything said is spot on, the scene in LV is laughable.
I travel between Amsterdam and Berlin quite frequently and I've all but stopped flying. Yes, it's a bit faster, but it's much less comfortable.
These "dedicated malcontents", I presume?
Pirate Bay Founder Will be Extradited to Denmark
I just opted into the new design and I can attest that it is _very_ responsive and browsing code is noticeably quicker than before.
Is there any good example of a modern country transitioning from a high-corruption country to a low-corruption country?

Call me cynical, but I haven't seen a mass protest movement do a whole lot of good lately. The arab spring seems to have provided an opening for a lot of radical Islamic movements and hasn't improved the quality of life for anybody. Egyptians are suffering economically.

The Brave New Day never comes
Probably just websense being rubbish, but:

Security risk blocked for your protection

Reason: This Websense category is filtered: Potentially Damaging Content. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.

URL: http://www.mynsarecords.com/blog/2013-06-17-want-to-file-a-m... urt/
The Prism: Privacy in the Age of Publicity
Qt 5.1 Release Candidate Available
Not just high acceptance rate, but 100% acceptance rate(or close to it).

Why fucking bother about courts at all? Just let them obtain the information they want without any hassle: they are professional and know the law.
Yes - always good advice for Project Managers as well. Never put yourself on the critical path.
Hello! Love the tool. Dropped ghostery for it a while ago.

One criticism: It's not clear from the popup what the numbers mean. Are they counting scripts loaded, or scripts blocked? The same for the colouring. Are coloured icons blocked, and greyed ones allowed through, or vice-versa? And of course the tickboxes.
I have no doubt that IOS7 will change before it is finally released as Apple will be listening to reactions very carefully, but there is one thing that all these purist designers forget. IOS isn't designed for their approval, it is designed to appeal to IOS users en-masse and to distinguish IOS7 from previous versions.

For example, whether these people think Helevetica light is inappropriate for this kind of usage is irrelevant. Now if the objections were on the grounds of reduced accessibility, that would be very different but it seems to me that lots of designers (and Spiekermann is very eminent) are just unhappy that their established rules are being ignored. So be it, that is change. Whether the change is successful remains to be seen.
Choon: A pebble watchapp to control iTunes
Add it to Pocket.
(By the way, FPGA = Field Programmable Gate Array)
Lessons from my graduate job hunt
No offence taken. Sometimes someone (me) is just wrong, and it shouldn't be unacceptable to point that out in so many words. Conscience and consciousness, despite the common root, just doesn't mean the same thing.
Exactly.

It's 2013 and the USA needs a Glasnost movement. It's ironic but here we go.

Secret courts, secret court orders, rubber stamped approvals. Gag orders on anybody coming in contact with said secret court orders. Where are we? Khmer Rouge Cambodia? Because it sure does not sound like the Land Of The Free.
Brazilian citizen here too.

While there are programs for income redistribution, and they do make an enormous difference on the lives of most of the poor people that receive it, it is far from enough.

The Bolsa Família program pays from USD$ 16.00 to a maximum of USD$ 153.00 (few people get the max amount) per month to a family. This benefit is payed to some 12 million families.

Just to give a more general view of the context. Brazil has the concept of a minimum monthly salary, that currently amounts to USD$ 334.15. But many people (even if employed) don't get a minimum wage per month.

On the other hand, while Brazil has the world's 7th biggest economy (already adjusted by purchasing power parity), the bottom half of the population (~85 million people) only get 13 per cent of all household income.
This was significant for Michael Howard, and it helped to absolutely kill any chance he had of becoming PM. Jeremy Paxman can be a bit of a dick at times, especially when he's up against someone who has done their research, but he's a fantastic person to put against politicians.
Happy customers are repeat customers. Apple understand that perfectly.
I'm sure your girlfriend is capable of searching for apps on her own.
My first reaction upon seeing your username and remembering previous HN discussions related to your actions was "oh, it's you!".

Keep up the good work. :)
Apple is most definitely shy of squeezing the bucks out of customers and they've proven that they have been willing to go to bat for customers to get a reasonable price. Not the lowest, not the best, but reasonable enough to keep things within reach of as many people as possible. They've even fought tooth and nail to create whole new economies that might not have existed at all even if it means kicking the doors open for competitors. Not just for you and me, not just because there's competition, but because their strategy as a whole demands it and I think it's proven very effective for them. If they really wanted to bleed customers to maximize their profits you can bet that we would have seen SIGNIFICANTLY higher prices for things like music and iPods etc. They work hard to keep prices as low as they can without sacrificing quality.

It's not like it's some nefarious plot to create lock in either. It's simply a long term business strategy that I don't think the industry as a whole ever truly understood or appreciated until things really got tight. Apple's not the only one playing the satisfied customer game either, nor is it some novel concept, which is why it's always baffled me that folks who are interested in the long game don't bother to do the same thing on a consistent basis. Looking out for and providing customers with the best/most cost effective solutions you can offer to solve their problems creates a virtuous cycle. Sure, you may never see them again, but treat a person well and chances are very good, especially in a market like hardware and software, that you will and/or you'll see their friends.
I enjoyed Kafka much more when it was fiction.
That's already been implemented. With the shift to CPC, there are people who write that kind of software and sell to sleazy publishers. On the other side, ad servers have a fraud detection module that looks for those random clicks.
Please, tell me why stores should get in the business of working against their best interest.
"What's with the widespread fixation against attributing any positive security attributes to Network Address Translation"

It probably has something to do with NAT being a huge obstacle later, when needs change. For example, while it might make sense at one point to have multiple hosts appear as one, it is at the expense of direct addressability, and the workaround - having a unique address+port combination - makes less sense than having a unique directly-routable address.

"What would you call it when a router at the edge of a private network presents a single IP to the world no matter how many devices are behind it, for privacy reasons?"

The wrong tool for the job. :)

The privacy is gained not by translation but by blocking direct connections (which is a feature of a firewall - not of NAT). While there is some value in NAT's ability to falsify the origin of data - ie, to take credit for non-local flows - but if those applications ever grow they will be fighting to escape the single address of NAT and are thus only suitable in the short term. Ideally, NAT would go unused because every element is uniquely addressable and fully independent... Most people would not consider someone else who continually takes credit for their or someone else's work to be a feature, and so it is with NAT.
Fascinating. :) Sent them an e-mail asking for an unblock. You may wish to try over HTTPS, which can give a different result sometimes.

Did you see the article the other day about Google working to create a filter "to eliminate child pornography" that can be shared by every search engine, photo host, etc.? Can't wait to see what they expand that to... "photos promoting violence," "photos that hurt people's feelings," and of course, "oops that one accidentally got blocked, I don't know how that happened! ;)" All coming soon if we blink for a second.
The experiment should be blind, which would be quite hard to design. At least, the robot designers wouldn't know that the mirror test would be the test, but ideally they would never have heard of the mirror test, indeed, they should have no good grasp of what a mirror even is.
Fun with MessagePack and Couchbase Views
Thank you! I have trouble resisting doing more work when the government keeps making my previous causes look like minor constitutional transgressions in comparison. ;)
and i would say that Doublethink was the real main point of 1984. Big Brother and surveilance...that was filler compared to the theme of Doublethink. Go ahead and watch what I do, I'm not ashamed, but DO NOT fuck with my thoughts and my words for expressing those thoughts.

ministry of love, ministry of truth, ministry of peace...2+2=5. it was such a bigger part of 1984 than the surveilance bit.

In the US, political correctness is the slippery slope to Doublespeak.
I am tired of yet another GUI change which introduces nothing but loss of time for getting accustomed to the new "features"!