skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any company, person or organization has the potential to be evil. That's a truism that doesn't bring any value to the conversation.
Why monopolies make spying easier
Internet monitoring must have proper limits, Merkel tells Obama
NAD would be an example, or, if you're in California, NAC (state tax free, but geographically concentrated in CA).

There are other bargains out there now too, because of fears of the Fed tapering down QE, anything that yields >5% got hit hard in the recent weeks. Even foreign, emerging market bonds. ESD for example trades at a 7% discount and yields 7.5% at the moment.

For research, Morningstar is a good starting point: http://cef.morningstar.com/quote?t=esd
Great feedback guys - we'll look this over and probably change it in the article : )

The reason it's as such is because of what @timroman said in his reply, but if this method is no different and scales better no reason not to use it instead.
One More Baby Step
Steve Jobs might not be right about this. Apple's latest and greatest operating systems still implement quite a bit of functionality from Unix, which is much more than 10 years old. They still implement and use ASCII, JPG, TCP/IP, etc.

Most mathematical papers, paintings, and churches don't inspire awe 200 years later. The vast majority are lost to time. Only the most original, revolutionary, or useful cultural artifacts last a long time. I think software is probably not very different. We're still using Unix and TCP/IP today, and probably will be for many decades to come. Angry Birds, maybe not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainer_%28games%29

> programs made to modify behaviour of a computer game
You know we provide a mountain of free beer & pizza at the event right? Get in early though.
I can't imagine there are many connections to worry about if you're configuring a new server.
Transit subsidies are actually what the generated toll money is supposed to be used for. The point of congestion pricing is to induce a portion of the population to switch transportation modes by making public transit a more attractive option in terms of price and quality. When London implemented the its congestion charge, there were transit improvements in place on day one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge#Public...

In the US, the toll money often goes toward expensive, politically-motivated capital improvements, not operation expenses. In the worse case scenario, the money is used to build more toll lanes, which isn't going to encourage mode shift.
I have no idea what Candy Crush Saga is - though I've heard it referenced a lot the past few weeks..
It doesn't have to be every POS. Just do scanning first at the federal reserve banks, then at merchant banks and cash in transit companies, then at certain big chain stores (and in loading ARMs). Use insurance discounts to incent adding it.
Out of interest, where are you conditioned to look? I prefer an in-window find bar to a dialog getting in my way, and I use programs with the find bar at the bottom (Firefox, Libreoffice) more often than ones with it at the top (Chrome, gedit). For me, the position isn't an issue, as I notice the movement wherever it occurs on my screen.
Was in that exact same spot a couple months ago and did the same thing. I was eyeing DO for a while and one day folded and paid the (really no brainer) $5. I've learned a ton since then and it has been absolutely worth it for me.

I actually transitioned all my apps off any other PAAS platforms (mostly nodejitsu, timed nicely with their 3x price increase) and am now hosting everything I run off a single $5 digital ocean box, which actually is saving me a bit of money, and deploys are a lot smoother. The company I work at, Carrot, is also hosting all of carrot.is on a $5 DO box, including this article, which has had no issues coping with the 600+ people on site at a time that have come with this HN blitz.
This guy is good. Living the life his way. But wasn't he supposed to be in a jail[0] or sth and didn't he lose all his money[1] in the bubble burst?

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_problems

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=8462247 and http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fcc5bdda-3f36-11e2-a095-00144feabd...
These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind
You can change the search engine if you liberate/jailbreak your device.
I think he was referring to old, as in the video has been seen before, and been available to the public for quite some time.
Google also customizes content for individuals, according to their location and search history at least. DuckDuckGo doesn't.
About the SHTC1: The temperature chip in the Galaxy S4
I think this post and most posts on the topic are missing a major advantage of A/B testing. Sure, one of its uses is to experiment and try to keep optimizing everything. The other use of A/B testing is to prevent regressions in a statistically rigorous way.

Basically, if you can afford it, every change to the website could be A/B tested, and you'd know that the change doesn't negatively impact the conversion rate. Sometime's its really useful to know that you can safely change the button from red to a colour that matches your palette better, and "no change" is a great result.
Really wanted to like DDG, and went as far as changing default SE for Chrome this week, but I couldn't hack it for more than a few days. The results page is very difficult on the eyes, and the design hierarchy is very rough. Google is just light years ahead. I'm going back to Google with Incognito and AdBlock for now.
> "It's sort of like a sentiment of rocks.

You meant 'sediment of rocks'?

> Steve Jobs had such a way with words.

Oh absolutely. There are so many classy lines from him. And some of these lines are going to impact our industry for years to come.

Take for example: The 'Post-PC era'?

Damn just those three words. They paint an altogether new story that is going to be written all over again! It gives an excitement and pumps blood back into what our industry does best - wow the users.
>Because even if they were abuses before, they were clearly illegal

Not the case. Some of the examples I give were in fact codified into law. Examples: slavery; Jim Crow Laws; Vietnam.

Try telling those people affected by separate but equal, that we have it so much worse today, because they could make a case, and that they had law protecting them. Long before Brown v. Board and Brown v. Board II the Supreme Court heard cases on separate but equal/Jim Crow laws and found them constitutional.

You are correct that some of my examples were not codified into law, but we have those examples today such as the IRS having directives to target certain groups for additional scrutiny, it does not make it any better that such behavior is a directive only and not codified into law. I believe there is no answer that fits every situation, but in theory at least there is a mechanism to challenge Unconstitutional laws, but good luck challenging a secret directive that violates Constitutional rights.
You don't need to live in a city to have access to a city. Got a CS degree from a liberal arts collage in a nice small town near DC. So while it was easy enough to go to DC my rent was 1/4 of what it cost to live there.
Standard Silicon Valley business model - get as many people on the platform as possible, and then monetize later (probably as a marketing channel, but they also have some other monetization strategies in the works). They batch their transactions, and they are themselves a broker dealer, so their internal per-trade cost is extremely low.
That was my strategy for the past years, except the muni bonds are just one egg in the basket. I also hold business development companies, REITs, a high dividend stock ETF, corporate junk bonds (US and international). Right now I'm earning around $1,200 per month from $200k principal.
Been thinking about nginx for some time. If I could get an easy Mono/F# implementation working with it, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.
I don't see how it's good for consumers as prices will rise
You're completely right on the tor thing, but I think this MySQL one is different. I don't think this would have been considered a bug if there hadn't been negative backlash- if it had gone unnoticed or if no one had created a stink about it, then I don't think Oracle would have been nearly as eager to revert the change. Claiming it was just a build bug (that rearranged, and rewrote, their copyright and licensing info) seems more like a good way to back down from a bad change than anything else.
Can you elaborate on why OpenGL 4.3 will be supported on Kepler GPUS only?
Then why do millions of people flock to the Mona Lisa or Shakespeare?

I do see TCP/IP as an art form, but it's not one that ever gets examined. It gets used. There's a bit of a difference in my opinion.
It's interesting that in order to avoid the guy's head leaning over at exactly the same angle in every picture, they flipped the image on the left horizontally.
> The default port for the internet is 80, so if there’s no port in a url, that means it’s 80.

The Internet has no default port; 80 is for HTTP. If the port is omitted, then the default for the scheme[1] is assumed.

</pedant>

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
FBI Surveilling U.S. With Drones
I was referring to both, Megaupload and their customers. The customers could have read the ToS that contained no garantees whatsoever that their data would be "safe" in any wax. And for Megaupload using a 3rd party to provide most of their business, it's the same more or less.
> The government is a paid service of the tax payer

Government (including, inter alia, the provision of public transit) is a paid service to the tax payer, but that's not the service we are talking about. We're talking about delivering transit rides to commuters, which is currently also in most places a paid service to the commuter, and the suggestion is to change it to a free service to the commuter. (Largely on the basis that making transit rides a paid service to the commuter is undermining the goal of government provision of public transit as a paid service to the taxpayer by discouraging utilization.)
Only the rich can afford solid state school options. The rest of us have to make do with traditional spinning-magnetized-rust schools.
Will Microsoft's Servers Be Able to Handle the Xbox One Load?
I'm referring to the source code that is used to build and generate the documentation available in that link. The MySQL documentation is written using the DocBook XML format.

Here is a link to an older version of the page where the documentation was available: http://web.archive.org/web/20121030130559/http://dev.mysql.c...

See "Documentation Repositories".
I would assume that people complain about Hulu because the media companies have a large ownership stake in the company if I remember correctly while this is not the case with Amazon.
This is why Ritchie and McCarthy deserve a special place in computing heaven.
idk. I feel like we're more likely to see the cable companies become more digital than collapse.

What's more likely to happen first? Some Microsoft, Google or Apple is able to offer a bunch of TV over IP channels as an tangential part of their business, or some cable company like Comcast or Time Warner will get the rights to run all its channels, or even individual streaming shows to a roku or iPad.

I think it'll be much easier in this circumstance for Comcast or Time Warner will be able to adopt their business (not their prices) before a tech companies will be able to license the content deals for cheap
Am I missing something here but how does this help? Its still based in the US.
I'm afraid it's not that easy. The aluminum used in the battery is oxidized and must renter the cryolite process to be electrolysed; it's no ordinary recycling. There isn't enough scrap aluminum in the world to power 1000 cars, let alone 10000000!
Analyzing FizzBuzz Performance on Java and Scala
Recently, I attended a technical interview for a Java developer role. The first problem that was given to me was to solve the FizzBuzz test.

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
The prison industrial complex comes up once in awhile on HN.
Its hard to think of a startup topic. Mostly because prisons (including private ones) have been around so long.

Maybe a startup designed solely to imprison IP violators, or solely to hold patent violators or people who break private website terms of service or something like that.

Maybe a robot guard (or guard tower) to be teleoperated from cheap labor in India, or not operated at all, just pattern match and shoot people who look like they are violating the rules.

Something like the MOOC "movement" but dedicated to selling to private prison administrators for their prisoners?

Implementing something like "a scanner darkly" is going to happen anyway, startup or not.

Maybe a more advanced higher tech house arrest ankle bracelet system?
Pretty funny, although still crazy.

McAfee bought Dr. Solomon's AV in 1997.

If you don't want to have issues with AV, just don't use any and don't click on anything and sit behind a firewalled router.

If you have MFE installed:
1) disable OAS (On Access Scan) if it's slowing you down, re-enable it if your kids/family members that click attachments get on your computer
2) Set full scans only to be done in the middle of the night, or never (manually update), but don't expect the AV to protect you if you forget.
3) Set updates to only run only in the middle of the night or never (manually update), but see above about forgetting.

Now you ask yourself, why in the F would someone's AV (any vendor) crank up in the middle of the day and screw me? If and when new important virus's are found (like Flame), the signature for that virus may be pushed out immediately, triggering a full scan. In the case of Flame the signer(Microsoft) was revoked, triggering a new full scan.

Why is AV so slow? Most AV vendors have a huge signature of virii, and have to search each file for matching patterns (often having to match different sections of the file). Each new virus adds a new pattern, and adds just that little bit more overhead. There are some projects to do a predictive engine, but that requires overhead itself, and ends up really needing a lot more resources (block on every action while your predictive engine determines if the process doing the action is behaving or not, like having a Big Brother hanging out in your OS).

I use both MFE and Windows on different computers, and remember, even if you install another AV, Windows Defender is still partially enabled on Win8+, probably because Windows is taking security more seriously.
haha fair enough, if I changed "the internet" to "http" would that satisfy you?
let's be honest here: they've released this in an attempt to stop/muddle DNSSEC adoption, as DNSSEC represents an existential threat to their business: messing with the answers to DNS requests
Best scheme implementation ever!
I think it might be the time to buy CDS backed by securities on student loans[0]...

Time for me to find some investors and pull my own Kyle Bass :P

[0]: http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sallie-mae-to-s...
Congrats guys! I've been a huge fan of Intercom and the team behind it since, well, back before they started charging.

Most products are going to need some sort of custom dashboard, will also eventually need a way to do in-app feature / maintenance notifications, sending and tracking lifecycle emails, etc. Intercom saves tons of time by distilling all of this into a simple JS include.
I've been using this thinking recently to great advantage.

My basic strategy has been to make the design more beautiful, and if the conversion rate stays the same or improves, I've succeeded.

This way, I've been able to significantly improve the aesthetic appeal of many of my sites without risking the bottom line.
But all other things being equal, would they choose a speedy repayment or a slower, more expensive schedule?

I think one good reason for government participation in the student loan market is that it helps reduce exploitation of the borrowers, who are mostly just-turned-18 adults so eager to attend a college they'll sign anything.
You are speaking out of your ass, and it's really damn irritating to see the rest of you upvote this trash given people who've actually studied there responding in disagreement.

My younger brother just graduated from NYU Stern undergraduate and he says the experiences he's had were invaluable. School was not easy by any means, he was encouraged to travel and experience business in other parts of the world, was heavily involved in student government and the community, and is going to start a job here in NYC. He might not have been able to have such a rewarding 4 years had he gone elsewhere.

He pulled loans and will be paying them back, too. And he thinks it's still worth it. And I agree.
With "del m" you're asking python to delete the whole "m", including "Movie.rating.data" (as "rating.data" is an attribute of "m" that you've just asked to be deleted).

But your question isn't 100% clear to me...
I've done exactly one project in Scala, so I'm by no means a Scala expert. My objection to the implicit conversions is mostly when they're used with DSLs. Our project used several libraries that each implemented their own DSLs that of course made use of implicit conversions.

There were two things struck me as questionable about the extensive DSL support in Scala. First, Scala source files that used one library's DSL ended up looking like they were written in a different language than Scala source files using another library's DSL. That, to me at least, makes it harder to read the source quickly and understand whats going on. This wasn't a horrible problem, but I found it somewhat burdensome to reorient myself when switching between DSLs, so I feel like it's an overall negative feature of the language. Sort of the opposite of the benefit that more consistant looking languages like Python and Go provide.

It also means, at least for me, that and IDE is necessary in order to understand what's going on in source files using certain DSLs. I'm an Emacs user and this is the first time I've felt like I really should have been using an IDE, which was irritating.

My second objection was that because of ambiguities between implicit conversions in different DSLs, source files that used more than one DSL had to fall back on explicit conversions and therefore not really use the DSLs. That made some source files using a given library look very different from other source files using the same library, since one was written using the DSL and the other wasn't.

This is really my major objection to the language. In many other ways I really enjoyed Scala and wish I could use it more. Yet I wish DSLs and implicit conversions were used much more sparingly in Scala libraries.
If you are interested in running NGINX on Heroku, checkout my buildpack: https://github.com/ryandotsmith/nginx-buildpack
I don't see what's insightful or "brilliant" about this. Quite common sense about working with technology, really, just packed in metaphors.
It sounds like your city would be a great candidate for decent bike lanes.
cough :)
That is not a solution. Democracy itself is broken when the government spends a black budget attempting to spy on its own citizens. Making it more difficult for them to do this, calling that a 'solution' and leaving the politics aside is a massive mistake. Internet services already offer secure email. This is not a problem that can be solved by encryption.
I think you're missing his point. None of what you listed is what Steve Jobs made. He made Apple I, Apple II, MacIntosh, etc. He was talking about his legacy. And he was right about it.

I think if you had asked him specifically about software engineers working on underlying technology, he probably would have recognized that. After all, he was working on NeXT there, which was using that same technology.

This clip actually made me respect his intelligence more than I had prior.
The Case Against Reason
Primarily a side effect of the war on drugs.
As someone from the USA, you clearly haven't encountered America's homelessness culture. I'd call it a problem, but that would imply that there's a solution - What we actually have is a large population that chooses to be homeless, actively avoiding the social programs that exist. Homelessness isn't an affliction, it is a way of life for them.
The Photo Sticker Ad Network: Monetizing Instagram
You don't have to be a hobo to want to get on the bus before the technical end of the line, just ride it there and back, to avoid waiting in cold or wet weather for the very same bus to arrive at the top on the other side of the street.

Plus, people would just get off, and get right back on again.

Some bus lines also have no defined end, they just go in a circle, making this impractical to enforce. Others have such a long run, taking hours, that it doesn't matter if there's an end or not.

The better thing is to try and shunt the people on the bus to proper shelters, including those that can handle the more difficult variety of homeless person.
I agree, and there are some already out there: check out Nimrod (http://nimrod-code.org) which compiles to C.
I think if you take a site off the internet for a week, in the minds of most people, it's a non-factor, since they didn't even notice.
MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O
A better (but still not perfect) analogy would have been that the police cordoned off a section of the store and no one was allowed to take anything from or put anything on the shelves. The store is still open and people can shop but can't buy any of the items in the 'special' area.

Without a court order to keep the servers accessible and running they had every right to delete them (since they own the machines). One would think the prosecution would have had that order in place just so the defendant couldn't say there was no way to prove his innocence
It's a "fast followed" freemium version of Bejeweled. Has a few different style game modes, but the core game is exactly the same.

Basically, it's the latest Farmville making the rounds on Facebook, iOS and Android.
Measure All the Things Introducing the New Relic Platform
I think he is talking about implementations, not protocols and interfaces.

These can last a long time, but look where PCX is now...
KYAnonymous in LEO 
LEO Weekly recently traveled to Winchester to meet with Lostutter, who admits that while he made mistakes and currently faces the possibility of serious jail time, he has no regrets.
Steve Jobs Talks About His Legacy In This Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video
While it is dramatic, these kinds of issues are often used by people who want to deny any scientific subject. They can claim that all research is worthless.
How many servers? How many HDDs? How much of Leaseweb's "digital floorspace" were they unable to use because of this case?
Absolutely love Intercom. Started using it after I met the founders at LessConf (Thanks for the T-Shirt guys!) back when it was free.

As a fellow founder, I'm very happy for them.

As a user, I'm afraid I'm going to have to find a replacement. We made the transition from free to $50, and they were nice enough to provide a 50% discount on that, which is great.

But the new pricing means we'll have to pay $149/month to get the same value we're getting now. I haven't complained about the email garbling or the lack of a spam feature, but if they're going to want $149/month, they'll need to improve the service.

Perhaps they will reconsider and reward early adopters by grandfathering them instead of punching them in the face with a price increase.
I like this article because it reaffirms the demand for competent devops who've taken an afternoon to read all of http://wiki.nginx.org/DirectiveIndex.