skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe (2) at all. Journalists are careerist and media outlets are bottom-line focused.

Name three.

Seymour Hersh, Greg Palast, the crew at Democracy Now! (Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales). Who else? It's a pretty short list.

I can't think of any remaining "mainstream" (corporate) journalists. They've all gotten the Dan Rather treatment.

Some bloggers have managed to swim upstream, eg Paul Krugman and Matthew Yglesias. But most muckraking work (eg Fire Dog Lake) is not corporate funded. Thom Hartmann is kinda unique. And lefties like Rachel Maddow are commentators, not doing original reporting.
How does one make $22k a month doing consulting work? The most I ever got doing side consulting was $80/hr, and that was just a 2 week gig.
Ask HN: Do you have any questions about Turkey protests?
I know that HN is technology-startup oriented but i saw that Prism and other world-related issues are attracts our community too.

So, i'm a Turkish citizen who is actively taking part in protests, i can currently hear sounds of gunshots from my window, if you have anything to ask, ask me.
And I understand you don't feel any culpability for evil done by others in your name and for your benefit. I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.
Bristol geeks and their remarkable spec keyboards
Or if Facebook have handed over their private key, etc.
I'd just like to point out that when he said "trashing other people's work," he was likely referring to people overwriting others' pages, not your comment.
I still think we should have pointed out that the same thing that makes feistel ciphers invertable is what makes integer lifting invertable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoI3O2HE9qg

Reminds me of this comedian. In one of his clips he talks about how he hates people recording his gigs on mobile phones etc, etc because then they are free to selectively show parts of a skit: http://youtu.be/Z3fZutYufGE?t=26m15s

Context means everything.
U.S. Privacy & Civil Liberties Board as mysterious as the agencies it oversees
Apple Hiring Team of Former AMD Engineers for New 'Orlando' Graphics Project
Sure, that could be possible. However there are some issues:

1) Obesity isn't a disease of the rich. So the "cheapness" doesn't seem to be an obvious factor. This is in contrast to the 1600s and 1700s when obesity and gout were diseases of the rich in Europe.

2) In poor areas, especially the third world, we are starting to see a pattern obese mothers and malnourished children. This is bizarre. The usual pattern is to see malnourished mothers and malnourished children.

3) We can simulate the syndrome with insulin injections, which seems to suggest at least one hormonal pathway driving overeating (rather than simple psychology).

4) Women get fat after menopause (hence the estrogen supplementation industry, which turned out to be giving them cancer). Everybody starts to put on pounds at middle age. Kids seem to start eating a lot at puberty, but generally grow up rather than around. It seems like the whole system is much more complicated than "cheap, tasty food."
My impression is that he revealed the most inflammatory documents first: the ones that implicated companies and services we use every day as complicit in a mass spying program. It made for great headlines that the average joe could digest. That might have created false implications, or at least an incomplete picture, but it also might lead to people paying attention to revelations that are actually in fact more damaging.
Technically the NSA is a part of the DOD. They assist the ODNI which is civilian, although its leadership role is limited.
Opera 15 gets Mozilla PDF.js support
It has been discussed over and over on hackernews recently so just tldr version.
Let’s consider two scenarios.
1)	NSA forces CA to issues a certificate for google.com and decide to man-in-the-middle you.
In that case there is a mechanism call certificate pinning. To put it simply certificates of Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. are hard coded into Firefox and Google Chrome. (Microsoft provides this ability in IE using latest EMET 4.0). So if someone tries to send you cert for google, which doesn’t match the one hardcoded your browser would get crazy and issue a big red warning :)
2)	NSA records your encrypted communication with Google and later obtains Google private key (either by factoring Google public key or using some secret court order or whatever). In this case they CAN’T decrypt your communication with Google because Google uses version of Diffi- Hellman protocol with so called ephemeral keys. More here http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/11/protecting-.... Ephermal DH is not implement by many sites (hackernews does it, facebook doesn’t)

SSL can be broken in myriad of different ways but at least in these two scenarios you are to certain degree safe
I think the dealership cartel sucks, but that doesn't mean anything in opposition to it is an unreserved good.
How are you paying the bills? I just left Berlin after a short stay and wouldn't mind turning that into a longer one.
As someone who has a 1gb/s flat rate at home, I have thought about doing something similar. It really isn't that expensive to have a bit of network and a server that gives out static content.
Hey, thanks for posting :) The two of us were sitting here staring at our Google Analytics & hoping you would comment too!

"There isn't much point to casually browsing the site right now" - Correct, we just came out of private beta, so the amount of data we have and what we have done to visualize it is quite nascent.

Deeper insight - This is our biggest focus right now. People do have a way to comment via the 'Add Update' button on their posts. But most of our testers right now do this via the API so they aren't doing more than maintaining their lists.

Face - Fun! I can share some conversion numbers on this. It almost doubled. Especially the silly ones like the bird and the ManBat :P kinda help to lighten the tone.

Login/Register - There's a big bold button to register once you post your first symptom. And there's a less prominent login/register icon before you post.

Design - Thank you, but even as you saw there's so much more to do especially in the way of onboarding.

Best for Last - Problem -> Solution or Solution -> Problem. There are 3 use cases this makes a ton of sense for. And we have to work hard to demo them as soon as you come in! One of them is that when you and your girlfriend are busy, how can you track each other's issues and get the casual help you may need without taking a break from work or leaving the comfort of your couch.

Thank you for giving it a whirl and very useful feedback!
You're trying to shift the burden here. Consent is not opt-out it's opt-in.
Google Mine wants you to track all your stuff
I don't like X, therefore I won't consider X's arguments.

That strategy seems like a great way to never learn anything except whatever confirms your own biases.
Really, that's what all startups are doing. At least he's being honest about it.
Didn't realize there was an actual standard being used here that simply wasn't supported by the other browsers.
What If You Could "Date" Companies?
Yes, they're only relevant in situations when other parties are called upon to resolve a conflict that started in a private setting.
Well it certainly isn't a pipe.
I read it just fine, no special tricks on my part.
Hi ck, we take care of the whole insurance process from purchasing it to dealing with claims.

You'd buy your shipping labels and insurance through the EasyPost API; and if you ever need to make a claim you just email us the details and we take care of the rest!
I wonder how that compares to these results:

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/selecting-tal...

My gut reaction is that there is sample restriction going on: that there is a minimum intelligence create a large volume of coherent software. Additionally, there are a number of practices that are illegal in the US (not sure about other countries) like structured interviews, so the list of things that companies can use is somewhat limited.
I think the other situation is more common: smart people with swirling unique thoughts keep them hidden because they don't consider themselves creative.
One exchange rate is BTC - USD. That does not make the currency itself USD denominated. Bitcoin is almost always denominated in BTC these days. There are other bitcoin denominations, like the Satoshi [1], but these are rarely used as BTC has not appreciated enough in value for them to be useful. You seem to be confused about what denomination means in the context of currency, see [2].

1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_(currency)
http://www.textfiles.com/thoughts/advertising.html
I wonder how long it'll take for Yahoo to send a C&D...
Breakdown of 500px’s photo tagging flow
Godwins Law was necessary in the early-mid 90s on Usenet where every conversation would degenerate into people calling each other Nazis. Now, not so much.
You really attributed the duplication/overwrite bug to malice?
Goodbye, G.P.A.’s and test scores.
I didn't say he wasn't right about this. Just regret that I provided traffic to his site.
I'm on his side in this issue, but Musk definitely isn't Joe Shirtsleeve. He knows exactly who to talk to for SpaceX contracts or Tesla loan guarantees.
NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Avoiding Shiny Object Syndrome And My[Robert Dempsey's] Toolset
If I leave my house, I might get struck by lightning. I’d better not leave my house ever again.
Incognito window + Google search the text for the article title
> Ask 100 women if they find it romantic to be kissed without being asked or if they want to be asked first. I'm pretty sure the answer is: being kissed, don't ask.

That depends on the man. I don't want someone I don't want to kiss me without asking. I don't want them to kiss me at all, but I'd prefer that they ask than just try it.

Do you think that women just want men to randomly walk up to them in the street and kiss them? If you don't, then there's obviously some communication that's meant to be going on.

The guide puts the onus for that on the woman. If she doesn't want it, then she has to MAKE you stop:

'Don't ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.'

Which is just a really disgusting mindset. Do you think anyone wants to have to make you leave them alone? And you have to acknowledge that some people are going to be too shy to make you stop.

It's an oversimplification to ask whether women would like someone to ask before kissing them. Not all communication is so blatantly verbal.

These sorts of guides don't help the fact that a lot of the boys reading them are poorly socialised to begin with, and are essentially being set up to rape some shy girl who may not feel confident enough to stop you doing something she's not really interested in. And that does a disservice to him and her - because I don't feel like, unless he's a total psycho, he wants to rape someone.

The book's attitude essentially seems to be that the author feels it acceptable to make people very uncomfortable, and risk raping someone, just because he doesn't want to take the chance that he'll turn off a potential date.
This is awesome, and would be even more awesome if you supported other countries.
"he is a New York Times bestselling author, and his detractors are not."

Then again, his book makes not being a bestselling author seem like an accomplishment.
Without looking, I'm going to say it's a pretty safe bet that New York has taxes that take effect when you transfer a car in-state.
This is 100% true. I am constantly frustrated by incomplete code examples in documentation. The one thing in particular that bothers me the most are when Python snippets don't show the import statements.

do_magic(param, other_param)

Where do I import do_magic from?!?!
I get the feeling that the people who code it make good product decision such as: is the investment in engineering resource worth the payoff?

If traffic trends are any indication people are perfectly happy with HN just the way it is.
Newly developed micro robot bird able to perform reconnaissance
what he is saying, in Singaporean, is that all countries around Singapore are highly dangerous and that Singapore should buy more F-16s and conscript more young people into the army.

Because of the foreign countries, not in case of a uprising at home, mind you.
I'm not saying any of this is good, I'm saying it's not surprising.
Til someone puts something copyright or worse on it.
> I feel that I also have a responsibility to publicize such a glaring security hole in your site.

It's a static web site hosting, exactly what "security holes" could we be talking about? Not theoretical holes, that you could technically exploit on the 45th blue moon of the century, things that might actually happen.
The next question then is how you construct the power and communication structures within an organization to make it trustworthy.
So you automatically assume any allegation leveled against the government to be true until someone in the government spends effort disproving it?

Is it really so much to ask that we criticize the government for things that we know it actually did?
On the issue of security, any possibility for HTTPS in the future?
"violent penis-in-vagina" rape is not the only kind. Most people completely forget that more men are raped every day in the US than women.
The Rise of the Surveillance State (As Predicted in 1967)
Consider it a high-level overview of how good email integration should work within a web app (specifically CRMs). Some interesting technical details here: http://hack.close.io/posts/building_better_email_integration...
I suspect the number is inflated - it's unlikely (but not impossible) that anyone counted all the bees. Estimating that number by eye could be off by an order of magnitude.

Probably the tree and surrounding vegetation were flowering abundantly, attracting many insects from the area. I would say thousands of insects on a large tree is not unfeasible at all, perhaps even tens of thousands. Whether they were all bees, and whether the bees were really all bumble bees, is not clear.

You're right that 25,000 bumble bees in one place does sound logistically difficult to arrange. We can back-of-the-envelope it...

(edit: increased foraging distance with data from reference, which slightly changes the conclusion)

It would be ~150 colonies within a several kilometer radius. If we assume mean foraging distance of 10km [1], thats (a rather beautiful) 314km^2 of source area. We should probably also assume that the vast majority of bees in the area are not visiting those two trees, as there are likely other good sources in the area too. If we assume 1-5% of the local bees might be visiting the trees, there would have to be a colony density of ~10-50 colonies per km^2. That is high, but not impossible. Previous measurements of bumble bee colony density have estimated in the region of 0.5 to 20 per km^2 [1].

So, one of the following is probable: the number of bumble bees is exaggerated in the story, or they weren't all bumble bees, or some of my estimates are wrong. I would arrogantly assert the first two are more likely :)

1. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/35082
That's because the Canadian government employs 3.6 Million government employees out of 17 Million of your total labor force. WOW! talk about big government! That's almost 25% of your total labor force!

% of gov't employees in the US is only 15% of our labor force. Considering the size of our country, military, etc. that figure is small compared to Canada's labor force-gov't employee ratio.

NICE TRY ;)

I get it that you're proud of your universal healthcare system. I honestly wish we have one but the issue is COST. if you can think of a way to implement universal healthcare without bankrupting our country i want to hear it.
Wasn't this entire thing started by "corporate funded" journalists at the Guardian and Washington Post?
There are times when it feels good to be european and at least have the realistic choice between more than two equally bad choices.
>It has been shown that some pesticides do affect bees. But it has also been shown that various diseases as well as beekeeping practices have large effects.

There is no direct link demonstrated between neonicotinoids and the honey bee syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). However, as the most likely candidate, that is why a story like this is important, because it is a case study likely to link the two. Is this story determinative? Absolutely not, otherwise that would be the headline, "Neonicotinoids Proved to be the Smoking Gun in CCD."

However, as to the diseases you refer to, recent research suggests that neonicotinoids may make honey bees more susceptible to parasites and pathogens, including the intestinal parasite Nosema, which has been implicated as one causative factor in CCD. (http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Are-Neonico...)

As to the keepers theory, sure transport and handling may be blamed, but bee keepers have been around since at least the time of the building of the pyramids - in fact many tombs were uncovered with 2,000+ year old honey that was eaten by the discoverers (not a bad shelf life). Nevertheless, significantly well traveled bees tend to die at greater rates, of course this can not account for CCD in wild colonies.

I imagine neonicotinoids will prove to be the smoking gun, but more along the lines of nicotine and "third hand smoke" (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-hand_smoke). To complicate matters even further, the neonicotinoids are likely to not directly cause death, but to make bees more susceptible to diseases or parasites (as referenced in the study above), making the diseases and parasites more palatable candidates for the cause rather than an effect of the cause.
Fighting Fire With Fire: Doctors Use HIV Virus To Cure Girl of Leukemia
Sounds like you're criticizing him for not solving a problem that you fail to even understand. No, he cannot fix this by himself, it requires the cooperation of congress as well as either other countries or other prisons willing to take those who can't be released and he's gotten no cooperation in attempting to close it. The "commander in chief" is not as powerful as you seem to think he is.
Provable limited suppy backs Bitcoin. Its intrinsic value comes from its ability to move at the speed of light.
Live Chat Saas Solutions
Have you heard of HeyBubble? Its a live chat saas for SMB's. No downloads or coding. I love it and use it for my business--any thoughts??
I worked as a lifeguard in high school and had to save a kid once.

I didn't even think he was having trouble until one of the counselors yelled, "DIMINOTEN!" He was taking a swim test and looked just like all the other kids, except he wasn't going anywhere.

Being a lifeguard is a silly job. 99.999% of the time you're doing nothing but sitting in a chair, trying not to fall asleep. It's that ONE time when you need to be paying attention that's critical and matters absolutely.
On the other side of the fence: a lot of the time clients will actually send stuff they've seen online to their ad agencies and ask for it to be 'repurposed'. It happens both ways.
Not so; The author committed some more entries just a couple hours ago:

Consequently,
Accordingly,
For this reason,
Is there any sort of guarantee that my claim will be accepted? Or, do you have some trade secrets that increase the likelihood of a claim being accepted?

Many years ago, I had to file a claim on a damaged package and it was denied. Photographic evidence of a moderately crushed box with several open holes was not convincing enough. That day, I swore that I would never buy shipping insurance again.

I would love to insure packages again if I knew that a legitimate claim would be accepted.
Whatever works for you. Your scenario actually seems somewhat atypical to me, but it helps me understand why you come off as "white knight" to everyone.

EDIT: which is to say, it's not wrong that this works for you, this isn't a criticism of that. I think you may be mistaking a local optimum for a global [in the sense of math - so the country/dating pool] optimum because it works so well for you; i.e. the false-consensus effect.

Also, I don't value "having way more sex" over "having extremely hot sex", but this is also just me.

Your advice would not work in my relationship. In fact, it is decidedly unhot to ask a "yes/no" question and I would probably get rolled eyes. It would still work and bluntly convey my intentions, but it would come off as completely un-suave. For us, the language of the body is far more rich, intimate, and revealing to one's true desires. In fact, rarely when we have sex does it start with both parties reaching the same conclusion at the same time. Sometimes, something as simple as a good-bye kiss can turn into a 20-minute delay -- and I wouldn't have it any other way.
The iPhone app sends off the ID of a missing device into the cloud.

Other devices download a list of "stolen" IDs, and send back a report w/ GPS info if it ever gets a hit.

I love the concept.

It just needs such a huge infrastructure to become useful.

Maybe an API that other apps could insert, with a way to monetize, such as a reward system?
I don't think you can split it like that. To me opt-in would mean you have to go and ask, whereas opt-in would be being asked, but you seem to me to prefer being asked in a verbal manner, whereas I would also accept a non-verbal manner.

Obviously just jamming your dick into her isn't acceptable.
If you are violating their boundaries, then yes. I don't know if you are aware of this, but people who have been assaulted may have a problem with people violating their physical space and you doing something that you consider harmless may actually be a big deal. The point is get consent and default to doing no harm, which is basic human decency.
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Maybe the prospect of someday burning gigawatts to decipher my elliptic-curved peanut-butter-cookie recipes will alert them to what a charade they're part of.

We must create boogeymen from a vacuum so that we can burn taxpayer dollars to further enrich the right people. Unlike biochemicals, encryption, storage and analysis are benevolent forms of collateral damage as they lead to increases in computing power and mathematical insights.
Except in the HP it all goes inside, which is where I need it so it can be locked and powered from one supply, every part is replaceable, the GPU can be upgraded, it has a hot swap enclosure built in and guaranteed support for 5 years.

Plus some kit I use won't go on the end of a thunderbolt bus...
Those I know were getting around 1000 a month. All 5 of them.
I'm not against time credit (babies need their parents, sick people need help) but some abuse the system.
I read the "trashing other people's work" comment as referencing smashing someone's site by registering an account over theirs, not publishing the bug on hacker news.
> Well, it sounds like a logistical pain in the ass. You are required to come back and get your original battery pack back or pay the difference in cost for the new one.

I imagine they'll get rid of the "come back for your battery" functionality eventually. It's just kind of goofy and unnecessary.

Credit me if I get a slightly older/more worn battery than the one I was driving with, bill me if I get a slightly newer battery, and use this system as a way to pretty much eliminate the whole panic surrounding electric cars and what happens when the battery gets old and decrepit.

If the system demands a shorter lifecycle for batteries before they're reconditioned (as you'd really want to avoid DRASTIC differences in cost and performance between batteries of the same class when people pull into a station) it might add some cost to the overall system. I don't believe it will represent a profound increase in cost.
I didn't say touching someone's shoulder was rape, but you don't have the right to touch someone if they don't want you to or have affirmed that you may.
Byte-sized graphic guide to data storage