skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chip Yates wants to cross the Atlantic with an electric plane
wrote one up for ya! http://songz.quora.com/Deploying-your-app-on-Nitrous-using-N...

I dont work at Nitrous, just happy with them so far.
I would suggest finding ANY employment opportunity. You can always leave if your resume later. Your resume isn't a chronological list of everything you've done. It's a narrative about your greatest hits.
You have to know about it to request removal. That doesn't fix the issue of user's not understanding that you're changing the expected behavior. I'd assume you meant it would be posted online and then removed shortly after.

You know exactly what you're being called out on.
The Senators' letter had a classified attachment describing specifics (which, of course, was not publicly released --- but the NSA certainly has it).
Maybe this shows a generational gap...but I don't think I could ever consider downloading at 600k/sec pitiful.
It is if your Costco wooden table suddenly decides it doesn't want to work with your Sears cutlery ^.^
My kneejerk opinion is roughly similar.

"That's great! Wait, what happens if I'm in a country where being gay is illegal? Do I really want some searches to be highlighted so visibly?"

But I still think it's great they've done it.
I only have a HackerNews cred of (10), does it make a difference to have more?
I've submitted a few links and comments on HackerNews but like more users, I don't ever make it to the front page. Actually, most of my stuff usually gets 2, maybe 3, total ^ on HN.

So, here's my question. Does it really matter? Is my (10) cred number with HackerNews just a vanity metric or does HackerNews actually improve my experience or sharing ability as I get a higher cred number?

Thoughts?
Has anyone considered that maybe Obama felt that he was actually able to tamp down the excesses he railed against, and was able to be convinced of the use of the NSA once he took office and was able to be briefed on what they actually do?

America wouldn't have lasted very long if a minority group set the cities on fire each and every single time an unpopular decision was made public.

P.S. the democratic options involve letting your representatives and elected officials know that you are pissed, whether that's through letters, complaining to the media, peaceful protests, or all of the above.

Sometimes the people don't naturally do what jbooth personally feels is right for the entire nation. Welcome to Democracy.
It's probably worth noting that Google already attempted a V8-like transformation for Python with Unladen Swallow, and that that attempt mostly failed. Perhaps it was just prioritized differently, and that's why V8 was successful and Unladen Swallow wasn't.
Society (at least in the US) shames the use of porn if you're male (loser, pervert, can't get laid) an praises the use of porn by women (independent, empowered, sexy).

As for the concept of porn itself, it's relegated to other bedroom topics and just doesn't come up in "polite" conversation.
What stops someone from creating a legal business entity in another country with excellent tax laws and simply managing all business transactions for that entity in Bitcoin. At that point the Bitcoin is not an asset of yours, but an asset of that legal entity. Obviously, when you repatriate that money or that entity buys something for you (because you control it), then you would have to pay taxes on the cash value of what was purchased for you. However for every other traditionally tax intermediate transaction, what can the government really do?

The fact that bitcoin is extranational must open up a lot of completely legal loopholes for avoiding taxes on everything except when you repatriate money in one form or another.
"Pandora advertised my product to 1 Million people and only paid me $1300 for it!"
This crucially depends on merchants being comfortable sharing data. Data coops sometimes work and sometimes don't. I'd read the contract very carefully. And even if everything is on the up-and-up now, as the purchase of ghostery by evideon shows, it doesn't necessarily remain that way. For starters (and I haven't read sift's contracts), people tend to purchase things in spurts. Knowing someone just bought something on a merchant is incredibly valuable data. Plus this is amazing data for retargeting; amazon has built an ad business that is speculated to be well on the way to a $1B run rate [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/06/05/amazons-ad-...
Benefits of using Autodesk Revit
I don't know anything about Microsoft's AdCenter, but Google Analytics does not do fraud prediction of any form as far as I know.

Assuming you're putting all of the relevant data into Google Analytics, how would you query GA with a pending transaction and figure out the probability that it is fraudulent? This is the sort of thing very few (or no) general analytics products do, but is the domain of fraud prediction software.
It's easy to use Git in exactly the same way you would use SVN with a single central repository.
If anything I believe it would go the other way around; there are people who feel the surveillance is bad and still feel Snowden should be held to the same law that the rest of us are bound to.
How does highlighting Chavez (the American farm worker advocate, not the Venezuelan ex-president) slight Christians? Heck, Cesar Chavez himself was Catholic.

Insofar as it matters, Google did have an Easter doodle back in 2000:
http://www.google.com/doodles/happy-easter-2000

So you can't even say they've ignored the holiday, just that they prefer to highlight different ones from year to year (with exceptions presumably due to internal popularity or artists' personal predilections).

(Sorry for wasting thread space on this old, off-topic, manufactured controversy.)
Do you expect them to stop innovating just to avoid stepping on someone else? This development actually makes a lot of sense for Hangouts, and I'm glad they did it.

There is still room for others, especially in the spheres where using Google products is not an option.
> Christian and most probably observe or note Easter.

This was already on HN at the time: There is no agreement on a date for Easter.
I think it's an open question if there will be enough online merchants that aren't {amazon, newegg, zappos} -- assuming that zappos has access to amazon anti-fraud tech -- to build a business on. They're not the only ones gambling there will be a large ecommerce ecosystem, but prime in particular has moved my online purchasing nearly exclusively to amazon.
Why do entertainers feel so entitled to high payment? Why is this even a story?
If they show a expenditure of $40M in MArketing for pandora ads, they are probably adding that $40M to their revenue
We need some nice speed simulators so people can see what it's like downloading text over 300 baud; 1200 / 75 bps; 9,600 bps and 14,400 bps.

You can read the text as it downloads. You use interlaced jpegs so that people can see something while the rest of the image downloads.
Gigabit Seattle priced at $80 per month
Good on Adobe... but what does this get them?

I spent a lot of time working on JGit:
http://eclipse.org/jgit/

This is going to take folks a long time to do in pure JS... before even work has to be done to tweak performance... the great thing about JGit is that it's under EDL (BSD) so JS-Git should be able to steal some ideas
But then you told them that the suppliers used a cartel model to prevent true competition in the marketplace......
I think it makes sense in the larger open data, open government world: there are a ton of people using GIS data who would like the ability to version control, branching or forks but do not benefit from the massive overhead and expense of commercial GIS systems and do not have significant development skills available to build something complicated.

Databases make the most sense when your data changes frequently but if you have something like congressional districts, census information, etc. where the data changes infrequently but is likely to be shared widely the DVCS workflow and simplicity are really appealing. Right now you could do quite a lot with e.g. a gh-pages branch which contains GeoJSON and a simple LeafletJS viewer to combine files into layers; being able to quickly preview data files just makes that easier and it seems unlikely that they won't be adding some sort of diff comparison feature in the future.
The $20 million relates to PRISM, which is probably "just" the interface/analysis system for the FISA/NSL data that comes directly from the cloud providers.

The PRISM slide that mentiones splitting probably references the other program(s) that collect raw data.

Occam's Razor, people.
Is this a marketing post?
How is hangouts minimal ?
In old gchat you have lines of text - very efficient and natural. In new hangouts you have a lot of empty space, graphics and overall about 4x less text in the same amount of space. It's huge UI fail in my opinion.
Fortunately there is still an option to switch back.
>Nevertheless, this book convinced me to consider starting a company.
Extortion Letters
The language in this is awfully disturbing.
Right. A security system that relies on someone not lying to you is not so hot.
well to be honest this line usually gets 1200-1500k/sec but it just rained which knackers it for a day at average. The joys of ADSL.

Agree in a way though. I still remember being utterly jaw droppingly surprised when I got a 128k ISDN instead of my lowly 28.8k Hayes+POTS setup.
Your arguments are all against reverse-engineering/code modification being illegal - which I think most people would agree on - not on free software.

Allowing reverse engineering is a matter of allowing people freedom.

Trying to force people to provide source code for everything is the opposite.
I too would love to see a write up of some sort. Now that, that sounds like flattery.
Can anyone confirm whether or not this includes ReFS support? That's probably more important to me than any other feature 8.1 could possibly offer, having encountered silent data corruption just a few months ago (thanks, WD).
Building a flight system for a rocket ship is probably not something you're going to find as a job on elance or craigslist.
"Breathing is the most natural action for humans and other living creatures."

here's an article on how to do it.
So before people were writing about it on the internet no one was doing drugs in a stupid way? As anecdotal evidence, I know a variety of people using cold water extraction of APAP on tehir opiates that would never have done so without reading about it online, perhaps saving their livers. I think communities like bluelight and erowid are indispensible resources for people to educate themselves about the positives and negatives of various substances, especially so given that the abstinence-only campaigns around substances in many countries (think DARE in the US) are full of so much misinformation and encourage the irresponsible use of drugs by basically declaring them all the same, as "bad".
I would be embarrassed to spend that time writing that blog post when both sites look like templates.
Some moderator-type abilities are tied to your points. I have 50-60ish credit, so I can flag posts, but I can't downvote anything.

That's all from comments, if it matters, I don't post. I don't think HN keeps track of the two separately, though.
It's a pervasive cultural meme. How many times have you heard people talk or joke about "getting caught" or "walking in on someone" viewing porn? Have you ever been working on a friend's computer and joked about accidentally stumbling onto something embarrassing? Have you seen any of a myriad of comedy films which feature porn-related mishaps involving embarrassment? And then of course there's religion: as far as I know, all the major world religions condemn pornography.
> I wonder how much of that marketing costs are from their own interstitial ads between songs?

Zero.

Marketing and Sales is primarily the cost of selling advertisements, including all the required employees. Selling $100M worth of ads isn't easy, (unless you are google).
Greenwald: Media complicit in NSA scandal
Textcook – Amazingly simple tool to find recipes
it will be interesting to see how soundslice and riffup solve the collaboration thing. that's where these tools can differentiate themselves from desktop apps such as transcribe!.
online crowdsourcing tool for reverse engineering of music. nice!
What I think is missing from this whole discussion is the ability to make a living. Sure the industry is opaque to outsiders, and some of the established practices are weird (radio paying only songwriters, not performers), and now it's all being disrupted.

But forget about the numbers for one song. Let's say a guy like the OP of the other article works full time as a singer song-writer. He writes a few songs, performs some of them, has others (more popular artists) perform some of them, and maybe he plays a few gigs himself (either as a musician in someone's band, or good enough to do his own shows). Let's say he's median successful. One or two of his songs (either recorded by him or someone else) is close to charting. People are listening to it online and radios are playing it. Other songs are getting played but not getting the same traction. He works 50-60 hours a week on music, either writing, recording, or performing. What kind of living can he make?

a) 20K and lives off of another job?
b) 40K and struggles to pay rent?
c) 60K and can survive?
d) 80K and considered successful?
e) 100K and lives comfortably doing what he loves?
f) More and can live in expensive parts of the country (NY-SF-LA)?

How was it in the old system of labels and DJs? How has it changed with Pandora and iTunes?
TBL himself is also hypocritical: British people read other people's mail at CERN without their (even posterior) knowledge. I would be surprised indeed, if he wouldn't know a thing about it -- yet he kept shut about it too.
They have done the Easter Bunny before, Easter egg hunts and suchlike. They just didn't do it this year. They don't mark gay pride every year either, that I'm aware of.
Except this very issue about metadata was already deliberated in the courts decades ago when it first came up that phone companies maintained these metadata records, with the conclusion that they are phone company records, not your records, and that therefore the government could subpoena them if they wished, as long as they didn't individually identify people (which would require something more substantive).
My suggestion seeing as you have webdev experience...what is your passion? Follow that. I'm hoping you have a site in mind, or a project that has been sitting on the back burner...code like crazy and shoot for the stars!

Realize one thing, you are your biggest investor, if you don't invest in your self (the time in your own passion), then no one else will.

Not to appear overly optimistic, but there is alot of money and opportunity out there...put your name on it.
Show HN: Android app to keep track of movies you want to watch
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I loved the book. This quote by Carmack sums up it up for me:

>In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

He's making a larger point about low barriers to entry, but honestly there's something romantic about the image of all day cowboy coding sessions fueled by junk food.
Good point. Hadn't really though of it this way before. I guess as a mobile web dev I'm going to be always behind the curve here. Something interesting to think about.
The literal answer is, because there are too many college graduates. The US educational system, and society's view of education, is still rigged for a mid-20th-century rose-tinted view of the future that never came to pass, and was never going to.
The rainbow (though still used in pride events here) has retained a non-cultural symbolism here in Hawaii due primarily to the prevalence of them on a daily basis. It's not uncommon to see people walking around with a rainbow motif on their clothing.

The University of Hawaii has several names for its sports teams, some of which are The 'Bows, Rainbow Warriors, and Rainbow Wahine.
I don't think the medical argument is sufficient. They also break your ribs to do heart surgery.
I thought this was a discussion about "free software" in the context of how FSF/GNU defines "free software":

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
I don't think using your personal phone as a presentation device is the best idea, you can avoid most of those issues by simply having another device to present your app on, a used iPhone, or even iPod will be very cheap to get, no one will see that hardware anyway.

This way you'll avoid the wallpaper, calls, browser history, airplane mode, etc.. it'll be basically always configured for presentation mode, and you can also use it for development and as a backup phone !, fuck me right ?! :D
Another interressing articles on cloudless map on mapbox:
* http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/
* http://www.mapbox.com/blog/improving-mapbox-satellite-by-mak...
We're talking about phone metadata in this thread, not emails. None of your points seem to pertain to that.

It's hard enough to figure out the truth of an issue as it is, without switching the issue in the middle of the discussion.
Did you read the first line of my comment where I said I wasn't in favor of actual violent rioting? It's right up there.

I've knocked on probably 1,000 doors and made probably 5,000 phone calls for democrats over the last 10 years. I'm not some slacktivist, and I'm not saying that the whole world needs to agree with me, although the accusation of arrogance is well taken.

We've seen no evidence that Obama changed anything about NSA wiretapping and a fair amount of circumstantial evidence that he probably didn't (how those drone strikes coming, and the medicinal marijuana crackdown)?

When someone runs and is elected by a majority as being "the opposite of Bush", it'd be nice if he actually did something different.
Two guys walk into a bar. The first guy says "I'll have H2O." The second guy says "I'll have H2O too." The second guy dies.
For any who have already been set up on this service (assuming anyone has), what are you doing with your Pi and how have you found the connectivity to be?

I know you can't expect much for "free", but I am definitely curious.
Ok here we go.

Feminism as taken from an encyclopedia is basically equated with the equal rights movement for women. I am in 100% support of this side of feminism and the idea that all people regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation and so many other dimensions should live as equals.

The feminism I am against is that which seems to have strongly influenced gender politics in recent years in such areas as domestic violence convictions, accusations of rape, how divorces are perceived and handled and so many other important issues. This is the feminism that says men are inherently sexist and that the whole system of life and governance (the "patriarchy") is designed for the systematic rape, enslavement and degradation of women.

However, this isn't the point you've raised in this most recent comment so I'll try to address that instead. You say that the fact that the blogger is a feminist doesn't matter, and you're completely correct. However, seeing some self-professed "dirty old man" make a comment about how Marissa Mayer looks attractive and jumping straight onto "he's being sexist!" is a classic feminist move and is what's being criticised here. Sure, the comment was inappropriate in a professional environment, but it's not like the guy was saying "how do you expect us to take you seriously, you're a woman". The fact of the matter is men are physiologically built to recognise and look for beauty in women, and there's nothing sexist about that. Mislabelling everything as being sexist against women is how said feminists seem to be able to hide blatant sexism against men as if it were a perfectly normal belief to hold, and I will happily attempt to neutralise any such statement if only to try to minimise some of the extreme views that can grow from it.

Anyway, I'm reading too deeply into this now so all I can do is suggest you watch some videos and read some posts by Karen Straughan aka girlwriteswhat. She very succintly covers the issues with modern (some would say radical) feminism while at the same time advocating for equal rights, and hopefully from taking in some of her points you'll be able to understand why I've reacted so strongly to your suggestion that feminism is "a no-brainer".
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I think this is a neat idea. Looking forward to more! It's creative website scraping, which is what developers did before APIs were mainstream (in case you were living in a cave). The posters here are just butt hurt they didn't think of this idea first. Haters gonna hate.
List of Changes in Windows 8.1
Performance Tuning at Airbnb - How we cut our site load time by 25%
Coversant Active/Active clustering SOA 2.0 solution for the Internet of Things.
Code size is pretty big currently indeed. The highest priority is to make sure that we get all required patches to support GHCJS merged into GHC, before 7.8.1 is out. GHCJS is a standalone, cabal installable compiler (it uses the GHC API), but some features, like the "foreign import javascript" FFI need some minor changes in GHC itself.

We haven't really spent much time optimizing for code size yet, and there's still lots of low hanging fruit. We will never reach 3kB minified though, for example the JSBN library (that we use to implement Integer) alone is a lot bigger than that.

The GHCJS linker does tree shaking: Only functions that are reachable from main are included in the result. We have some plans to extend this a bit, an old version already had incremental loading, but that has not yet been implemented for the new code generator.
I'll admit it on that one.

Maybe "coding" with Swing all day got me a bit mad. é_è
I'm checking out the new Google Maps beta, and if you zoom all the way out in Earth mode, it actually puts the clouds back-in -- based on real-time satellite data.

Pretty cool. Now if there were just a time slider...

But it's also very cool that Google Maps no longers looks like a big patchwork of images from totally different satellites and sources. It actually looks seamless now, no matter where you're zooming. That's pretty incredible. EDIT: the more I've been playing with it, the cooler it is. You can actually get a sense of how the colors of houses, roads, lawns, fields, etc. merge as you gradually zoom out, seamlessly. I've never seen anything like this -- wow.
XE is a private company. So is Lockheed Martin and Haliburton. Clearly, I've struck a nerve in you (that was not the intent), but it's your choice to believe whatever you want about the intentions of the state (or any private company). I'll just say, I'm sure glad I don't live there, and I'm glad I don't live in the US... I'll stick to living in a hostile tax haven in the Caribbean, watching the rest of the world give up their rights and their gold, bit by bit :)
Poll: How do you feel about the impact of AdWords on Google Search?
It's terrible: AdWords is a injection of bid-ranked marketing content into what should be a purely relevance-ranked page
It's a little annoying: it clutters up the page, but I just try to ignore it
Neutral: Don't really care
It's not bad: Ads can occasionally provide useful info beyond what you would get from the search results
It's great: The ads provide highly-targeted content that helps me find what I'm really looking for