skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe http://temper.io is in the same space.

Disclaimer: the temper.io founder is a buddy of mine.
So there's a law that states "exclusively for social welfare" and there's a law that says its okay to participate in non-social welfare activities? The laws sound contradictory to me and it seems like the IRS has a pretty good justification for their interpretation. Either way, whatever they rules are they should apply equally to all people/organizations.

As an aside, I wonder if you could make the legal argument that political donations are considered social welfare? If planned parenthood can call giving out birth control social welfare, then why can't it call advocating for the availability of free birth control social welfare? If advocating for the availability of free birth control is social welfare and political donations are covered by free speech, then why isn't giving political donations to candidates that support the availability of free birth control considered social welfare?
Yeah, well. I didn't appreciate the spam marketing they did to me today. I got an email stating that I seemed heavily involved in CocoaPods and I might enjoy their software with a link using a campaign URL. They even used my real name, which nothing uses that unless I have paid them as I always go by a nickname. So, I am not sure how they got my info and why they would come up with some BS about CocoaPods.

Here is the email, who sold me out?

Hi <my name>

I noticed you're petty active in the online CocoaPods community. I'm a big believer that online contributions rarely go unrewarded, so I thought it'd be cool to share with you this awesome SDK called ShowKit.

It lets you add Audio+Video Conferencing to your iOS apps as well as Screen Sharing. I think it's cool since users won't have to leave my app anymore to make calls or share documents.

You can also check it our for free with my promo code (some_code) if you'd like here

Thxs for your time <my name> . Look forward to learning more in the forums from you :)
I can't get into Young's Double Chocolate Stout. I like Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout and Rogue Chocolate Stout, but those two are more pronounced in flavor. Samuel Smith's Chocolate Stout is like they melted a whole Hershey's bar in it or something, wasn't my thing, haha.
Whiteness, NSA Spying and the Irony of Racial Privilege
Your app idea is a method I have used in the past. I started a note in Evernote and when I tried a new bottle of wine, I would take a picture of the bottle, write a comment of it's quality [Avoid, Okay, Pretty Good, Fantastic], write down it's basic characteristics, and then write what food I thought it would pair well with.

One thing I have noticed about wine though is that even with a bottle of wine that I really like, the next bottle I get of the same vintage might be terrible. What the article does not mention is how important environmental conditions are for storing wine and how a case of wine can sometimes get ruined in shipping, sitting on a store shelf or not allowed to breathe properly.

Because of the amount of variation in wine quality I have adopted the habit of just buying $6 - $15 bottles and when I find something I like, I stick with it until I stop liking it. If it's a special occasion, I will put my faith in a nicer brand that I have tried and liked before that I believe will pair well with whatever food is being served but for the most part, buying expensive wines is too much of a gamble for me. Especially considering that my wine palate is not much more complex than your 3-star system.
I think that's an uncharitable assessment.

We constantly filter out a lot of noise - auditory and visual. Our memories of events lack that noise. Naive recordings - such as what complete amateurs using smart phones will produce - will have all of that noise. So the recording of the event will not match our memory, partially because it will record things that were not important.

In order for the recording to match our memory, it would need to filter out all of the auditory and visual noise. But that's just the start. There's also the fact that amateur videos tend to not do a good job of showing what a viewer may want to pay attention to. As a participant, you can, without thinking, look around to see exactly what you want to see. This ease of knowing your surroundings will be a part of your memory, and the video will likely not capture it.

A professionally made video could alleviate most of these problems. That's why editing movies is hard, and considered an art. Showing viewers the right shots for the right length of time to give them certain understandings of a scene is crucial to making the viewer feel like they are there.

My point: you're assuming that the video recording is somehow an "objective" view of reality, and your memory is "subjective." Your memory certainly is subjective, but I say the video is, too. Raw videos are not how we experience life, nor are they "reality", so I think it's uncharitable to conclude the author only wants fantasy recordings.
Yes, what you're describing is niching. See, e.g., http://architects.dzone.com/articles/algorithm-week-niching-...
The rubber seal is a better audio seal though, which is more important.
Btw, I have never contributed (sadly) to CocoaPods. I do use it heavily though.
"Who cares if rare birds are becoming extinct? We've got plenty of pigeons."

I need to act on the plan to go to the symphony more, while I still have the chance. Symphony orchestras would be in trouble even without the internet; they're very expensive, since they're collections of dozens of trained professionals who have ever-fewer daytime gigs.

Alas, recordings are nice but don't really do an orchestra full justice. Real instruments have real timbre. And, of course, even the recording would be lousy were it not for highly trained and rather expensive studio and mixing engineers.
KYEN is certainly an interesting station. It's not uncommon for it to go off the air for days at a time. I assume that's because it's completely un-manned (there are no DJs), so occasionally someone has to find time to go into the building and reboot a piece of equipment.
Greenwald's partner's laptop was stolen from their Rio home. Nothing else taken.
> At the same time we were contacted by AngelList. They wondered if we were interested in being featured on AL.

What I'm getting the more I read is getting featured is the tipping point in AngelList fundraising. I haven't seen too many success stories from companies who weren't featured.
How to get advice from powerful people
They need to support these newer browsers on older operating systems. If the OS is still being actively patched, new browsers should be made backwards compatible to work on it otherwise we'll have exact same problem with IE8 on XP and IE9 on Vista. And soon to be IE10 on Windows 7.
Well not really in that they never ended up featuring us this time around. It all happened very quickly with emerge whom we connected with via AngelList. I do see your point though and suspect in general that would be true.
Not all paradigms are equally useful. Mutable state pretends that change happens instantaneously, which isn't how the real world works.

Let's say you observe the state of a lightbulb. You might say "The lightbulb is on," but the lightbulb could be turned off, rendering your statement technically invalid. So instead you might say, "The lightbulb is on, now", but even that's not necessarily true, as in the time it took the light to reach your eyes, the lightbulb could have been turned off. So the most accurate description you could give would be "The lightbulb was on, 10 nanoseconds ago."

Systems with mutable state have no explicit time element. So "x = 1" is analogous to saying "The lightbulb is on." Systems with immutable state have to be more specific about time, so they might say "x[when t=0] = 1". Can you see how this is a more accurate representation?

Mutability is really only useful under the following circumstances:

1. You need performance.
2. You have only one thread.
3. You are performing no I/O.
Ghost: http://www.tryghost.org

It's not released yet but looks quite neat.
$ dig www.cryptolaw.org @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> +nocomments www.cryptolaw.org @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;www.cryptolaw.org.	IN	A
www.cryptolaw.org.	1801	IN	A	77.74.54.129
;; Query time: 45 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 25 19:27:38 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51
That's it--thanks!
Please don't ever joke about firing people.

Would you say: "I have a gun in my desk, I'll shoot you if you don't..."? I hope you wouldn't.
And yet they're supporting SPDY instead of their own S+M proposal.
Why would it confirm it? "Correlation does not imply causation".

He may be pulled in by the same rumours as everyone else and being overly cautious. Just because he does this doesn't indicate he has confirmed or denied the existence of a slave microphone bug.

Just that he believes strongly enough in the possibility to be cautious.
Is this the public key for Edward Snowden?
I'm just going to leave this here:

“When I was in Hong Kong, I spoke to my partner in [Rio de Janeiro] via Skype and told him I would send an electronic encrypted copy of the documents,” Greenwald noted. “I did not end up doing it. Two days later his laptop was stolen from our house and nothing else was taken. Nothing like that has happened before. I am not saying it’s connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.”
Your description of what defines a startup is myopic and one dimensional. Would you consider a SpaceX competitor to be a startup? They would certainly not be about 5% week over week growth.

I bet the race to reach the "hockey-stick" kills more companies than it helps. In many cases, there is no reason why you can't end up at the same place in 5 years if you let the business growth organically, rather than force-feed it in the beginning in search of that 1-2 year pop. But how many VC's want to see their investment wandering through the wilderness for 2-3 years before things start to "click"?
How the top 25 YouTube channels earned 144B views, 520M comments, and 1B likes
Rails Tutorial 2.3 not only taught me how to do Rails, but how to do web development. I had never made a non-static website before in my life or touched a line of Ruby code and I had no problem working through Hartl's tutorial. That really says something about the quality, most other framework books require years of web-dev knowledge and exposure to the language.
It would be funny if he said HE wouldn't be paid... or HE would be fired...
jQuery will stay around (or something similar to jQuery) for the very simple reason of: it's quicker to write. jQuery will change with the times, just like in 2.0 where old browsers aren't supported, jQuery might become just a simple API to beautify `querySelectorAll('.fruit .banana')` to `$('.fruit .banana')`. It accomplishes the same thing in a cleaner syntax.

Also the plugin system ensures that there is one system to work with. I pretty much know how a jQ plugin is going to work before I even read the documentation.
The article linked to above, plus several other sources I've come across suggest you are incorrect. I don't pretend to understand it, but there is some technique that makes your phone into a remote listening device even when off. The article above says "[US District Judge Lewis] Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique 'functioned whether the phone was powered on or off.'"

Also -- that's the whole point -- otherwise Snowden would just say "Please turn your phones off".
Those are significant items that need to be worked on, but the main thing Yoleo does for me is feel good using it like Google Reader felt good several years ago. I haven't come across an RSS reader in awhile that didn't make reading feel like work.

I do wish the doubles would disappear, though.
As of today, you'd probably see a great difference between amazing candid pictures versus videos but I wouldn't be surprised when the day comes and people can modify scenes and effects on instagram videos.
Here as well. sam [at] habosa [dot] com.
Headline should be CIA burgles house in Brazil?

“When I was in Hong Kong, I spoke to my partner in [Rio de Janeiro] via Skype and told him I would send an electronic encrypted copy of the documents,” Greenwald noted. “I did not end up doing it. Two days later his laptop was stolen from our house and nothing else was taken. Nothing like that has happened before. I am not saying it’s connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.”
Observation: The cars tend to optimize to get over a challenging hurdle (while it's being worked on, the cars converge to a single solution: which works well), but then are no longer general enough to get over later hurdles.
Would have upvoted if seen sooner. In-fucking-sane.
Awesome news! And the Xbox One is already available in 3D display with WebGL! https://sketchfab.com/show/qsRPEw7hTKC4E02XMop9DUpu2wb
I opened a 2007 with a synthetic cork a couple nights ago. It was great. I can't say if they hold up well for decades, but I've encountered no problems with them in the <10 year time scale.
I am not ashamed to say I was adding dragster sounds, squealing tires, grinding metal, crash sounds, and little driver sounds in my head. Those guys were striving soooo hard to get up that hill. "Ooh ooh ooh, I can make it, I can make it!"

There really is something to this that needs exploration as a multiplayer game. The aleatoric quality makes it infinitely watchable for me. GenetExcitebike.
Functional API Tests (Django)
I've alerted firms that missed payroll of the law violation via a couriered legal notice from a labor lawyer. I got my money when nobody else did.
Software is Eating the World, APIs are Eating Software
Georgia Tech?
And one more thing: Don't wait for the 30th day. Do it tomorrow.
Since Windows 8, MS has reversed it's stance on Silverlight and browser plugins in general.

I don't disagree with Microsoft's point in this article.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons...

I assume that they've decided to work towards solving the security issues instead of simply staying away from the issue.

Long term I hope this means more stable and reliable video drivers :)
Identified the exact same statements... that's not a joke.
+1 for the word "aleatoric"
Good question. The mesh size of the Faraday cage should be less than 1/2 the wave length of the RF radiation. At 2.4 GHz, the wavelength is ~125mm, and the mesh size of your typical microwave is a few mm. With the lower frequency of the cellular bands, you'd expect the microwave to work pretty well.
I just spent an hour trying to set up Rails. Failed when running rails server on some sqlite error. Mi googled the error but none of the suggestions have worked.
Actually I thought the article put him in a better light than most of the other pieces about him. It makes him out to be more in tune with the ways the gov could track him. If they wanted to smear him then NYT could just come out with a short piece saying "Snowden made his Lawyers put their Phones in the Fridge", and then just spend the rest of the article speculating about his growing paranoia and questioning the decision.

Instead they explained the logic behind the seemingly unreasonable request. How is that being malicious?
Is there already some decent crowd sourcing text analysis software out there?

Some simplified version of Nvivo with a wiki-like user management would do wonders for something like that.

1. Button "I commit to analyze 2 / 12 /22 pages".
2. You get a very short tutorial on how to do it.
3. User is assigned relevant pages, starts tagging the documents for specific content and highlights + comments lines worth a closer look.

I would be definitely up for that. With enough traction one could just compare inter-coder reliability and establishing a high quality analyzing process (i.e. getting the same document analyzed by multiple users).
The rules for NYC taxis are known to everyone that has lived in their for a non trivial amount of time. Tourists might not be familiar with them but any red blooded New Yorker would definitely remind the cabbie they have to go to the final destination.

A more commonly abused rule is that cabbies cannot refuse a destination but many will do so if it's in the outer boroughs (imagine Manhattan to Queens or Brooklyn) as they're not guaranteed a fare on the return. At night many will ask you where you're going before you get in to weed this out specifically (illegal). Again, anybody who's lived in the city long enough knows to just ignore the driver and get inside before instructing him where you're going.

I've heard stories that there are undercover folks working for the city that test out the cabbies and fine them if they refuse a legit fare.
Someone once came to us and asked us to design a wireless thermometer for a freezer. We told them it wouldn't work, because the freezer would act like a Faraday cage. Then they showed us a similar device that worked just fine. Embarrassing.

We test a production device here that makes a LOT of noise, and we put it inside a mini-fridge to dampen the noise so it doesn't drive the testers crazy. Works quite well. I doubt you'd pick up any outside conversation if you were trying to eavesdrop (especially if the freezer was humming).
> I wouldn't consider crash bugs in general security issues

You should, until proven otherwise. If it crashes because it's reading an invalid memory location (for instance), it's a matter of time before someone figures out how to place executable code there.

I have no problem with MS's original position. WebGL forces your hardware drivers to run random code downloaded from the internet. I'm frankly surprised that the other browser vendors ran ahead with it so quickly and that we haven't heard about any exploits caused by it.
Ask HN: Compensation for a "growth hacker/marketer" as first four hire?
In your opinion/experience and without you knowing anything about the company, what's a fair offer for a first employee of an angel-funded (between $500k-$1mil) startup for a "growth marketing" position. I know you might need more details, but from the above what are your insights?
Somewhat related, some great tips for contacting busy people. http://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/
I'm starting to think the freakout we've seen in the media up to now is for much more than the Prism disclosure. This guy is the real thing, he's got serious insurance to bargain for his life & he's taken all precautions to safeguard it. No wonder they're scared shitless.
It says at the bottom: "Create new world with seed: The same seed always creates the same track, so you can agree on a seed with your friends and compete. :) "

Sadly, that is pretty much the only bit I understood, ish...
From https://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-ssl-not-secure-enough#28469... :

> We're aware and are planning accordingly. Thanks for the heads up, though.
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You don't have to consider the government as the outright owner of public property. You can think of the government as holding public property in trust. Trustees are empowered to exercise the rights of property ownership as long as they do so consistently with their fiduciary duties. So a municipality could still exclude Uber from the public roads based on its right to exclude others from property it holds in trust.
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Yeah? Case in point, you see anyone still bitching about that in front page posts to HN?
The "freakout" in the "media" outside of the HN/reddit/internet bubble is mostly obsessed with "Where in the World is Carmen, I mean Edward, Snowden?" and not so much in the whole PRISM, constant universal wiretapping scandal.
It is fair to say that there were some security concerns, but those have been addressed, and actually Microsoft - which controls the OS and the browser, and is heavily involved in driver quality - is in an excellent position to create a safe implementation of WebGL.

It's fine that it took them time and they wanted to do it properly. It is however annoying that they did not give any forward notice of their intention to implement WebGL and have not been active in the standards bodies at all. For example, Microsoft input on the safety aspects could have been very useful.
better late than never i guess.
I've been really impressed with what I've seen so far from Marquee (http://marquee.by/). Be sure to read the 2 posts on their blog: (http://team.marquee.by/) and then add ?format=jsonp to the URL of one of the posts to blow your mind - They've put a lot of thought in to storing content in a semantic and re-usable way. I can see it being a bit more complicated to work with but the benefits over traditional markup far outweigh the cons for me.

Example post JSON: http://team.marquee.by/introducing-marquee/?format=jsonp (helps if you've got something to pretty-print JSON, I use a chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhf...)

I'm not affiliated with these guys, just a topic I've been thinking about for a while.. eagerly awaiting a beta invite so I can try their editor!

edit: Their platform also powers http://narrative.ly/
I found this pretty awesome explanation for why a microwave oven doesn't block cell phone reception:
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/5410

Clearly, this whole "cell phone in a fridge" thing is a clever attempt to make Snowden lose his nerd cred.
Considering how much trouble microwave ovens have given me with wifi in the past, I would not place much confidence with them.
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Didn't Voltaire say something like that?
Correlation may not boolean-logically imply causation, but it's evidence of causation. http://oyhus.no/CorrelationAndCausation.html

The actual cases I've seen (some linked on this page) are of specifically targeted individuals having their phone receive a command to turn into a bugged phone. I don't think all phones are bugged by default. This fits with Snowden wanting people around him to sound-proof their phones as they might be targeted.
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I suspect the OP is claiming that Carrier IQ tracking could still be active, in low-power/sleep modes, that still could represent a privacy risk if the battery is removed. When the battery is re-inserted and/or the phone is turned on, then the data is transmitted to the cell tower, then Carrier IQ servers.
I'm presupposing a point of baddox's hypothetical, which posits a mechanism for enforcing the right to exclude others from property independent of the government's monopoly on force.
Why don't we discuss the leaks instead of stalking Snowden?
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Android-controlled exercycle excites Kickstarter fans
A pox upon you for asking me a question but not making this a poll!

But yes, this is a fairly widely known fact. I expect that most heavy users probably know this, but it still surprises a lot of people (can't count the number of times I've heard people say "TOR? Oh, the government will shut that down if it ever gets popular."
I'm looking for that role. We should talk :)
I have a bad habit of linking to HN posts and assuming that people understand I mean "look at the comments." The Cloudflare instructions break chrome? That is my bad, I have not verified them myself recently. I usually use the cloudflare settings or jacob's duraconf[1]. Thanks to joeyh's mr I usually have duraconf checked out on any machine that I use.

[1] https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf
How is this a legend? Didn't the FBI admit in at least two cases that this was the very technique they used to gather intel on the suspects?
What engineering did they do to reduce the security risk? As much as I like WebGL as a dev, Microsoft's arguments against feeding arbitrary machine code to buggy graphics cards that have kernel-level memory access privileges... seemed a bit convincing.