skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Can the paranoid not just put a piece of tape over the lens,or point it at a wall?

- Yes one could tape it. Don't apply the tape directly since repeated application and removal of tape can impair camera functionality due to residual adhesive accumulation and the depositing of dust etc on the residual adhesive. Use Microfiber based cloth material between the tape and camera.

- But having said that, I find it painful to even think of repeatedly taping and 'untaping' cameras. Having to remember to point them the other way too is not good - one can forget to do so at times. And then lose sleep over it after having say, watched a romantic movie with one's girlfriend. And so on.

Physically connect when required is a more comfortable model, at least for me. I've seen some unbelievable shit being pulled by hackers, including changing camera firmware to achieve their objective. So making it easier for users to feel absolutely comfortable with their devices is important.
If recruiters bother you so much, why do offer them bait? Just remove your CV and replace it with a link to your personal site.
Because they allow HTTP, which for any sensitive site is a very bad idea. Their setup enables MITM attacks even against users that are careful to always use HTTPS for visiting LinkedIn.
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There is a big difference between customer loyalty on a desktop vs a smart phone. Most people rely on specific software they like and use on their laptop/desktop PC to do their job, in the case of Apple DTP back in the 90's was a huge advantage for them. If I am forced to swap my smartphone, far less of a big deal.
Just use Groucho Glasses? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses

https://www.google.com/search?q=Groucho+glasses&prmdo=1&gbv=...
Hz is just 1/sec. If you want to be technically correct, don't add any implicit meaning to it. Frequency is the rate of something happening per unit of time. That "something" can be "number of data transfers" or "number of clock cycles" or "number of times a ball hits the floor". The frequency of all of those can be measured in Hz. You should be clear about what quantity you're measuring, but the unit is Hertz nevertheless.

(And MT/sec is really "some unit-less quantity/sec", so it can be accurately called MHz.)
I'd love to see a Nokia Nexus phone!
Seriously? Most people seem to think that physical design and build quality is the only thing that Nokia still does really well.

The colorful Lumia range is certainly very different from the generic black rectangles that other smartphone manufacturers put out.
I think that's not a valid analogy. First, the last time I checked, Apple is still a niche player in the global computer market. Their current success is not because of their position in the computer market, but because of their current position in the MP3-Player (iPod) and smartphone markets.

And second, because Nokia is not betting on their own OS (as Apple did), but in someone else's OS. That means a different kind of pressure from their investors, and a real submission to another company. And they put all their eggs in the same basket. They did that in order to have something really different to offer (they were afraid to compete without a real differentiating element, and not just a different launcher). But that strategy is not working and Microsoft is trying really hard to get other brands to use their OS.

So, if MS is not putting all their eggs in the same basket, why should Nokia do it anyway? Just staying on the same road, knowing that there's a cliff ahead, in hopes that something will happen... may not be the best strategy. Even if they really believe that Windows Phone is the future, they could use another line of smartphones, with a different OS (even using stock Android could be considered a differentiating element...) just to get some cash that gives them some air (especially from their investors).
I can conceivably see the case where someone'd just like to argue "this, very much yes, but not this" - the whole idea that one thing should just then be a "deal-breaker" is more a reflection of the fact that the only substantial way we can then make the argument is through a binary buy-or-don't-buy.

So I don't mind the rhetoric - someone shouldn't have to claim ultimate and eternal loyalty to a product (lest they risk being attacked with a perceived inconsistency pointed out) to argue with and about a product. Of course it makes it no more effective - but it's slightly more truthful.
The German Pirate party wants a similar model.
Inhabitants of a city have to pay a yearly fee and then can ride for free.
This should encourage people to leave their car at home (or not even buy one) and take public transport instead.

Another advantage that I did not see mentioned: The pricing systems are often complicated (how long you can ride, how far, are you allowed to change etc.). With a flat fee more people would be encouraged to just take public transport without needing to comprehend a complicated pricing system.
I find DownForEveryoneOrJustMe (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) to be an invaluable tool for this kind of question.
I don't know, those may constitute a mask.
Its up for me, but I don't use their player so that could be part of it.
You have me listening. What would be the correct course of action while not lazy and knowing what you're doing? I know that "knowing what you're doing" and this question doesn't go together, but still anything better than a check/redirect?
Agent provocateur's often wear masks.
I agree, but giving people something and later taking their money when they are hooked is a proven strategy.
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Awesome effect..

However, I was really disappointed to see that the code had been minified. Doesn't that kind of go against the point of codepen et al?
The plan you suggest is beyond ridiculous. Nokia has a totally decent net cash balance compared to their revenue. Their actual operations range from slightly non-profitable to slightly profitable. No company in a position like that would (could?) declare bankruptcy just to escape a relatively minor contractual liability.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852911
An excellent post by Schneier.

> The problem isn't just that such a system is wrong, it's that the mathematics of testing makes this sort of thing pretty ineffective in practice. It's called the "base rate fallacy." Suppose you have a test that's 90% accurate in identifying both sociopaths and non-sociopaths. If you assume that 4% of people are sociopaths, then the chance of someone who tests positive actually being a sociopath is 26%. (For every thousand people tested, 90% of the 40 sociopaths will test positive, but so will 10% of the 960 non-sociopaths.) You have postulate a test with an amazing 99% accuracy -- only a 1% false positive rate -- even to have an 80% chance of someone testing positive actually being a sociopath.

Interestingly here he uses percentages to describe base rates and risk. Gerd Gigerenzer has a nice book, Reckoning with Risk, where he explains with many examples the problems of this approach. Gerd asks people to use real numbers instead, which are much easier to understand for most people.

Thus, Schneier's example becomes:

> Out of 1,000 people about 40 of will be sociopaths. You have a test that will tell you if someone is, or is not, a sociopath. The test will be correct 9 times out of 10. Bob has taken the test, and has been identified as a possible sociopath. The chance that Bob is actually a sociopath are actually about 1 in 4. This is because the test will tell you that 36 of the 40 sociopaths are sociopaths, but it will also incorrectly tell you that 96 non-sociopaths are sociopaths.

My writing is lousy, and other people will be able to clean this up, but even with my poor writing style it's easier for most people to follow and understand than the percentages.

This is alarmingly important when you're making a health decision - "Should I remove my breasts to reduce my risk of breast cancer?" for example.

(http://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Risk-Learning-Live-Uncertain...)

EDIT: I use "sociopath" because it's in the source article. I agree with NNQ that it's very troubling to bandy around diagnostic labels like this, and deem people to be dangerous, just because of a tentative probabilistic diagnosis.
Yeah, but Ruby is famous for being really, really, slow. Almost everything is faster than Ruby, and many things—including other typeless dynamic bytecode-interpreted languages—are crazy faster.

Being described as "much faster than that really super slow thing" is... well... I suppose it's not exactly a negative, but I wouldn't put it on my resume...
The same is true in Denmark, although I don't recall anyone being charged for doing so.
Ah, cool. Thank you. I actually saw that at the event. Excellent demo.
Woops! Looks like I was overcomplicating things. You don't actually need to create anything on the server at all. That's pretty sweet
Google, Facebook, others pay ISPs to speed downloads, Netflix resists
Anyone with relevant knowledge care to comment on what constitutes an "unlawful assembly" in Canada? Are assemblies of people lawful or unlawful by default?
So if the police are wearing masks at a protest, are they too committing the crime?
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Dude is so metal.
Or it means they are confident that Nokia will do well without being bought out.

Or it means that they think Nokia are a lost cause and that buying them out wouldn't improve anything.

Or they don't know how Nokia will turn out, but think it has a better chance without being MS-owned.
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There are various levels of abstraction when accessing the input stream. The lowest level is by inspecting the input (line) buffer. Just realized how that allows one to write a three-word quine [1] in ANS-compliant Forth:

SOURCE TYPE BYE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
Perhaps the NSA could create an API and sell licenses to other countries? ;-)
Apathy and the commercialization of our technological dreams
Sailfish!
Being "positive on a sociopathic personality test" does now equal being "a potentially dangerous pathological sociopath"!

Even if you get a system good enough to overcome the base rate problem, you'll only end up labeling a bunch of mostly harmless people. Think a about a hypothetical uber-villain that would want to recruit children or teenagers, brainwash them and turn them into assassins or other kind of agents. He may find out that people with some sociopathic traits are better candidates for this, so he will target them. Now think the uber-villain is, uhm... (working for) your government :)

...not to mention the mislabeling of people with atypical social interaction patterns, like ones with mild/pseudo aspies which combined with the base rate fallacy brings serious mislabeling.

I'm sure this kind of electronic-psycho-profiling is already in use, and I even think it may have interesting side-benefits, like cool work being done in AI research for use in this (no better way to start "humanizing" and AI than to have it model human personalities and predict their actions), but there's tons of things that can go south with it for lots of innocent people that just happen to be "different" (like most people who end up making breakthrough discoveries or world changing inventions, you know...).
Does being the language police make you feel more grown up?
How is it different than Steam, other than speculating that Microsoft would never aggressively discount games as much as Steam does now (even though it took them several years for their store to be well-liked by gamers)?

On Steam I can play my games while being offline, I can play my games on multiple computers (the games are bound to the account, not the computer), I have good prices, I can install and deinstall games as much as I want, the amount of choice is incredible and last but not least if I don't use my account for one year and log in again, all my games and savegames are there.
Doesn't this article completely miss the actual glaring privacy issue that there is a database of name-address-phones out there that is complete enough to only have a few duplicates that a simple zip takes care of?

Giving out your zip shouldn't be that big of a deal, the reason it is is because your name and address is listed on whitepages ;)
Let's not forget the financial side of the decision. MS were desparate to get a decent hardware partner, willing to pay handsomely and Nokia was bleeding red ink. Google already had all of the Asian manufacturers in their pocket plus Motorola so they didn't need to compete.

So if you're Elop - needing time and cash to turn the ship around and getting the best offer from your former colleagues - what are you going to do?

I agree in hindsight Android still may have been the right call, but we'll probably never know. So far it hasn't been a saviour for anyone other than Samsung.

I think given the time he got there and the choices he had your description of Elop is a bit harsh, but I suspect it will also become the conventional wisdom.
I left this open in a tab on the background with the intention to check it out later. It froze my machine.
Maybe there's an argument for making masks illegal at protests (even though it doesn't feel right) - but 10 years in prison just for showing up at a protest with a mask?! What's the penalty for actually vandalizing a store with a mask during a protest then? 30 years?

This penalty makes me think that it's just the government really not wanting people to protest, and trying to restrict protests as much as possible. The "western" governments are seeing what's happening in other countries and how easily revolutions could start now, so they are working on ways to limit protests and drastically punish protesters as soon as they show up for one, to try and prevent future such protests in their countries, too.

Too bad they don't realize that this will only make people increasingly angrier with their governments over time, and they're just asking for a violent revolution if they do that. The more they deny their citizens peaceful protests, and the more they back them into a corner, the more the citizens will feel like they have no choice but respond with violence at a mass protest (especially if there's police brutality). They're asking for it. Good democracies allow protests for a reason, but I think when certain politicians get to power, they forget why.
It's still way too slow to tap in as people fumble for cards and the general latency between the tap and acceptance.
You're assuming the only energy in reforming a glass bottle comes from melting the glass and that industrial sterilisation submerges a bottle into fresh hot water, neither of which is true.

As far as I know, industrial sterilisation uses very high pressure, high temperature steam or UV light for smaller operations.
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Can I ask you why use graphite over SaaS based monitoring like scout, etc.? I'm genuinely curious. Is it just because it's free?
linked-in's value is also linked somewhat to your curiosity to check who has viewed your profile.
Strangely, this kind of thing is what happens to most of Microsoft's business partners.

Also strangely, businesses never seem to learn and keep making the same mistake.
Nokia is near bankrupt and Microsoft doesn't want to buy them out anymore.

It's a very strange kind of success.
I remember struggling with this idea, I think my conclusion was that in brave new world people are given happiness but deprived of choice, understanding and meaning.
It will have a bunch exclusives but not as many as PS4 and X1.

Architecture has nothing to do with this - vast majority of exclusives comes from the first party studios (studios owned by the respective console manufacturer) and second parties (independent studio titles, published by the console manufacturer). There are some random third party (publishers like EA,Activision,Ubi etc) exclusives but from what I can tell Nintendo's are just shovel-ware (such as Carnival Games, variously branded "fitness" games, cartoon licensed titles etc.) while both Sony and MS enjoyed some AAA third party exclusives. There is no reason to believe the situation is going to change in the future - if anything it's going to be less of those since the major producer of Nintendo exclusive shovel-ware, THQ Inc, went bankrupt recently.

Out of the three console majors, Nintendo has the least first party studios - 7 (at least 3 of which are working on handhelds exclusively). Microsoft has the most. And Sony has the most first parties that actually ship games regularly.

So the only chance for Wii U to get more exclusives than PS4 is for Nintendo to contract a bunch of 2nd parties and/or sign a lot of exclusive contracts with the 3d parties. If this ever going to happen it's far from "likely" since it has not happened for the last 3 generations of consoles (Nintendo beating Sony on the exclusives).
That doesn't work for the use case where I go on holiday for a week and want to catch up when I get back.
You can only spin the "DRM is good for you" message so much. Most people are smarter than to fall for it.
The bus is already paid for and needed at rush hour; the driver needs a full-time job not two three-hour shifts at opposite ends of the day. It's probably better to run the bus.

Longer-term what we need is more flexible working to spread out the rush hours, but for some reason that's a hard sell to american businesses.
So what makes the Mac Pro a mid-range computer? Bear in mind that it's not a consumer product, it's squarely aimed at audio/video/graphics professionals, even though it'll blow any current gaming rig out of the water with those specs.
Try to solve with them a problem you currently have. If the candidate is adding value, it's a good sign.

It doesn't mean you shouldn't assess the candidate's technical skills.
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Something for #Git devotees in the Deveo blog today
Incredible. I have not seen anything like this since Macromedia Flash came out about 12 years ago... Sigh

There is good reason why we don't use flash today though right? It is resource intensive (looks at task manager and realizes that browser with hair page open is eating up 12% of i7 processor).
There's a fine line between bold and idiotic. The MS deal was probably one of the worst business deals in recent history. Giving up all your choices for a one time cash payment?! Putting all eggs in one basket, and at that, a basket that never seemed very promising at all?

I sure hope Nokia is working on Android phones right now, and please for the love of God kick out this idiot Elop, how much damage is he allowed to do?

Microsoft is the Titanic and Nokia has tied itself to it. Cut the ropes before it's too late!
I've built some real time front end stuff with knockout (due to starting off with backbone and still wanting to use the models and collections via knockback) so I'm not a complete beginner. I'm struggling with which reactive UI library to go with, but I think I'm basically down to ember and angular. Here's how I want to build my next app:

Haskell on the backend. Probably with data in postgres, but using an event sourcing kind of pattern for the bits of state which are edited.

Communication between the browser, other systems and the back end should allow separation of query and command (so updates are pushed to the backend state via one channel and pubslished back out via another). However it should be essentially realtime - websockets.

Operational transform for edits to the state. I'm on the fence with this one as I'm not sure what the overlap is between event sourcing and OT. Anyone who's implemented either care to comment? This seems to equate to using sharejs on the front end to marshal changes in the model to the back end and vice versa?

I'd consider using one of the haskell -> js libraries, but I'd also go with coffeescript here happily. I've played with Fay a bit and sunroof looks good too. Anyone using these?

The stuff above has been percolating for a while based on my experiences building the infrastructure for a hedge fund recently, and the gradual evolution from a mostly traditional restful app to a much more realtime system. Does anyone have any thoughts (not necessarily just on the specific technology mentioned but on how it all might fit together)?
Surprised to hear that they can live for 30 years. Must be the tuberous diet!

See also:

http://www.nature.com/news/simple-molecule-prevents-mole-rat...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22961694

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-mole-rat-prophecies/
My account was hacked .please help me
how about this:
before A can lend a digital copy to B, A must turn on his internet connection and tell MS's server that he is now lending to B.

B can now download A's game to play.

A cannot play his physical copy until B returns the copy back to the server (some state must be kept in A's console to remember this).

if B's connection goes down for more than some period (could less or more than 24hr, configurable by A), his copy is automatically relinquished.

does this solve the "only single active copy" issue?
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For example, if Apple had listened to prevailing wisdom in 2007, the iPhone would have had a physical keyboard.

If. Fucking. Only.
It does, I know. That's why I said "sorry" :). However - Since I wrote it in AMD I didn't want to put up with concatenating and renaming. If you are interested in the code, check out the git repo. But you are right, I'm not happy to see compiled code on codepen either. I'm such a hypocrite I guess ...
Ask HN: Sites to supplement Lanyrd.com?
Lanyrd is great, but it doesn't list many events around me, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot more going on.

I know of meetup.com (with its variable quality) - are there any other sites to watch for tech-related events/conferences/unconferences/hack days/etc?
I suspect codepen may have a size limit on how much code can be in a pen. Source is here: https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair
There is a notice at the top with a GitHub link.

https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair
Now the price is a little bit to high I think... But the service is so cool!
They are working on changing some internals of Blink project (code name oilpan) so that both Dart and V8 can work better with it.
My understanding is that they will ship Dart VM with Chrome once it is ready regardless of other browsers decision. This will probably be post 1.0 tough.
Anthony Eden, founder of DNSimple here. I'm happy to take questions or comments here or directly through our support address (support@dnsimple.com), regardless if you are a customer or not.

Our goal is to be transparent about what we're doing and why we're doing it.
At the moment drug addicts buy groceries and then sell them for drug money. Experiment suggests that on average the poor do better when given cash than more complex/restricted handouts like food stamps.
Quite the glorified symlink maker!

It is my experience from years of administration that `ln` and `rm` (or perhaps `mv`) are the only commands necessary to work with the directories without the scripts.
I'm no fanboy; I'm just telling you what I see. I'm not the one in charge fixing all this stuff at my office, but our Windows printer setups end up being redone every few weeks when things inevitably stop working. System restore is hardly ever used by our IT guys, and machines are often sent back to be re-imaged. Maybe they're just doing it wrong, but I'm definitely not imagining the problems.

It's great to hear that you've had better luck, really. You would hate to see how many things I've seen gone wrong!