skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It becomes much easier over time. I'm at a point where I could certainly accomplish this, especially now with great projects like CocoaPods. Experienced web developers can create a simple CMS lightyears faster than I can, its all relative.

Now what I find most interesting is that the author doesn't seem to have a large portfolio of apps. The "More by this Developer" link only shows this app, while his website only points to Discovr (http://discovr.info/) which I can't imagine he's the only developer for. I'd be curious to learn more about his expertise.
I have an SEO business of my own and I'm well aware that people use keyword stuffing for SEO. Explain to me how using the name Julian Assange two times in this article of probably 500+ words is keyword stuffing?
By that logic, every business where the founder is still in charge should be on the front page. This is Hacker News, not startup news. The focus is on startups where tech is a fundamental part of the business model. Brick and mortar stores are about as far as you can get from a tech startup.
I like this point, but I have some questions.

1. What information would the newspaper keep that isn't published? Would they file all the envelopes of regular correspondence?

2. How deep and old would Western Union's records be?
Looks like they're unveiling some of their new "in-house" Tumblrs:

http://yahoosearch.tumblr.com/

http://yahoomessenger.tumblr.com/

http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/

http://yahoosports.tumblr.com/

http://yahooanswers.tumblr.com/

http://flickr.tumblr.com/

If these are used as "corporate blogs" for the various services, it seems like an appropriate use of Tumblr.

However, I worry that it'll turn into a misguided attempt at "synergizing" their properties, and that it might just be a cringe-fest.
HN is open source. Do you want to know how posts rise to the top? Go read the code. Do you want to know how Facebook determines what content you see? You could be a criminal, a felon, if you try to find out their algorithms (how do you do that, hack their servers?).

I'm not the OP, but that might be the direction the original logic was going.
Giant pet peeves: I cant bookmark an individual user's page and I cant jump from a user's page to their profile page on HN.
Much of the blog (and the accompanying book) appear to be constructed as a counter to intelligent design and religiously-influenced arguments. Which is all well and good, although not knowing this while reading it, I found the periodic call-outs surprising.
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Not when you use it with Power Pivot.
Thank you for writing this. I felt it warranted more than an up vote.
With friends like these, we don't need enemies.

An online colleague once coined Japhy's Law. It says: "The facts you really want to be true are those you should be most skeptical of." It should be written on every blog.
My free app is seeing about 500 downloads/day. When it was featured in the "New & Noteworthy" it was about 1500/day. However my IAP conversion is holding at about 2% which, to me, is quite bad.

Another thing to point out is that the author has about 4k Twitter followers, so he does have an existing network of people to expose this app to. It's not much, but its a (free) start.
Why taking the battery out? Are you talking about a smartphone or a laptop?
One from Falkvinge (first hit on google), responding about as you'd expect [1], and a link to the actual law [2]. It doesn't make encryption illegal, it just makes it illegal to not produce the key on demand. You can decide which is worse.

1. http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/12/in-the-uk-you-will-go-to-jai...

2. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/53
Ah, okay. I suppose I mis-read what he meant by that statement. I see what the OP might mean now when you bring up the Facebook logic on what content you see, and that side of things. I was thinking more in terms of "Upvotes/Likes".
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Godwin's "law" is nothing but an Internet meme at this point. "Invoking Godwin's Law" or referencing it does nothing to promote the conversation at hand, and we'd all be better off it it just disappeared into the dustbin of history.
I'm still a student and like to interview at a lot of places, shop around, and keep practicing my interviewing skills.

I STILL go to interviews where I am ONLY asked these kinds of questions...It's embarrassing. If you ask me these questions for a 2 hour long interview then I'm not going to work for you...it's that simple
a CP system should, in case of a partition, wait until the partition is resolved, potentially forever

Not always. In the presence of up to N/2-1 failures (or alternatively, so long as a connected majority exists), many CP systems can continue to operate fully on some nodes. Other nodes may not be able to service requests, though.

This is not useful in practice, where almost always some timeout is used.

Exactly--if you broaden your time horizons for a request so that messages always arrive, you'll be OK. As far as I can tell, this is NuoDB's approach. On the other hand, it means the database blocks some or all requests, potentially forever. This is essentially unavailability, with the added fun that all those requests might suddenly complete well after the client thinks they failed. When your clients need to hand a response back in a matter of seconds, you need to provide for timeouts--which brings you back to the problem of dropped messages again. :)

Postgres running on a single node can claim to be CP.

The Postgres node proper is (assuming you're using the right transaction isolation level) linearizable. The client and the server, considered together, may not be CP--depends on how you interpret network failures. I don't think there's any real way around this--to the best of my limited knowledge, it's a consequence of the FLP impossibility result.
My guess would be the common factor is likely a person's general cumulative state of health (e.g. obesity level, presence of chronic injury, respiratory efficiency, etc). Would be fascinating to study this more.
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I didn't see this response when I replied to the parent. Power Pivot is pretty great when you can use it.
The problem with that argument is it's pretty much the same one used by the prisoner's rights movement in the 60s. Their success in improving conditions for prisoners happened at the same time crime rate exploded. Since then politicians then vowed to "get tough on criminals" eventually in the 90s it "worked".

It's not really clear that being nicer to criminals was the cause of the crime boom nor that getting tough on crime stopped it, but I think the majority of people who lived through this era see it that way. And right now they are also the majority of people who vote (older people tend to vote more often). I suspect that arguments like these won't work for another 20 to 30 years.
Your career path is a series of individual choices.
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This is my thought as well. Even at his previous $20-30/day seems quite reasonable. If the author could keep that sustainable, that's adding nearly $10k/year in passive income, definitely not a figure to shy away from. If adding a $.99 IAP with a 2% conversion works as well, that would be even more.

As an app developer, overall I feel these posts only encourage the current app store ecosystem of free or freemium.
Hmm. I think it's a really well written article. But to each his own... I also think the cartoon is really good. If you're confused by it, maybe you don't understand SEO and what's going on with Google. Maybe you should refrain from judging the quality of an article about SEO when you have no idea what's going on.
Oh come on, that's hogwash. I asked a question about the book, I didn't urge anyone to stay away from it. For all I know, it's a view held by a character in the book, that doesn't mean it's a prevalent sentiment of the text in general, or of the author. I did however speculate on what it would mean if it were, and I still think that would make it likely to be less than useful as compelling, lasting speculative fiction. Even then that doesn't mean it can't still be an interesting historical artifact though (keeping the focus on this one element, e.g. on gender attitudes of its time, or in the history of its genre). Of course we should be reading historic works, examine their context, and the path from there to here.
I have contributed patches to the PHP core, but I am not a core developer.
That's pretty much what I had in mind with this comment, I should have expanded it a bit. What grates on my nerves when writing PHP is indeed the awfully inconsistent standard library.
Though some syntax choices (namespaces for instance) are also pretty weird.
From reading the description if you need this functionality you should move to something else as the functionality you mentioned is out of it's scope.
Probably compiled from some other language? Like Dart or CoffeeScript?
I agree. I'd read this statement as: none of our partner banks will do USD withdrawals for us anymore. We think we might be able to find a new bank within two weeks.
Cyprus has a population of about 1 Million, the EU bailout is about $13 Billion (with likely much more to come, just yesterday president Nikos Anastasiades asked for a topup), that's about > $10K per person. According to the ECB study's of median net wealth, Cyprus stood at €267000 per household, compared to just €51000 for Germany. See Table 4.1 on Page 76 of [1].

Somebody is getting an extremely good deal here.

[1] http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/ecbsp2en.pdf
I'm familiar with Monopoly and I didn't think of Monopoly when I read the question.
I guess it starts with how we define the problem. Edward Snowden whistle-blowing to the press is a problem, for the NSA. The government using the NSA to spy on us is a problem, for us. The lack of qualified candidates running for office who won't spy on us is a problem, for us.

Technology makes our lives better by solving problems. Defining this as a political problem is only limits the solutions we can come up with. Obviously the U.S. Government doesn't have any problem using technology for political purposes. As citizens, why shouldn't we?

I'm not anymore sure than you if my suggestion is feasible, but my point is to at least throw some ideas out there.
You must not question the data. The phone book is data, and is therefore perfect. Imagine if people started questioning data...
I think it is useful to learn from. And hey it is fun. :)
Last night I was talking to a friend.

Instead of using Skype we used mumble hosted on a server he controls, over SSL.

The repercussions of this will be huge. It is an international mess. I'm Canadian, and now I find myself concerned and wondering how I can, if I can, secure my communications.
I'm pretty sure an eavesdropper can simply watch for outgoing transactions which you never recieved and deduce that they originated from you. No fancy network analysis needed.
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A programmatic search for potential censorship in Apple's App Store.
Pretty much exclusively metric - the only thing I use the imperial system for in Australia is clothing (34") and height (6'4")
Exactly. If someone's "faith" needs proof, then it's hardly faith anymore, is it?

You can't really frame conflicts with these people in terms of "science vs. religion". It's more like blocking trolls who have failed at both, stopping them from taking violent swings at civilization.
I'm surprised the author isn't putting ads on the free version.
Congrats! Would you be willing to post anything about your success post launch? I'm an app developer as well and I love reading about other people's strategies such as this.
DDoS as a legitimate form of protest?
Hands-free texting is more distracting than a voice call
It's linked to in the udemy page, but the book is available for free as HTML here : http://c.learncodethehardway.org/
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This is what I meant when I complimented Blizzard -- they updated WC3 and the expansion to Intel, and the intel installers can also be downloaded from battle.net now.
Yes, Hitler and Stalin spied a lot on their own populations for "national security" purposes, but we should be able to oppose surveillance on it's own merits with out resorting to the painting a (fallacious) slippery slope picture where the next frame is a KZ/Gulag camp.

Agreed, but consider this: a slippery slope fallacy is more like "If we do A, then B will inevitably follow". Lacking evidence to support it, that is a fallacy. But it's not a fallacy to point out "B" as warning of what might follow from "A".

And in the "reasoning by analogy" sense, it's not wrong to point out that "Group C did A and then B followed, so we might want to be careful about doing A" (assuming "B" is something undesirable).

Sometimes it is a valid point of discussion to point out these potential "slippery slopes"; it's just important to distinguish between the assertion that the following part happens as an inevitable consequence or not, and if that is asserted, to demand evidence.
In this case at least the meaning it's drifting towards still actually means something rather than just a meaningless buzzword.
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Searching around with HN Search after seeing this thread reminded me of this comment by tptacek about Wikipedia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3272720

which is very, very good.

P.S. I will always be behind one person who has the same join date I have, namely patio11, in both daily karma accumulation over time and total accumulated karma. And very deservedly so. I go looking for patio11's comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

just in case I missed a few while browsing threads from the front page and the new page.
Was that a joke?

What does public WiFi have to do with anything? We're talking about the NSA wiretapping Internet backbones and forging SSL certificates.
The supernodes are an orthogonal issue. If Skype is end-to-end secure then the location of the supernodes doesn't matter. And if Skype is not end-to-end secure (e.g. imagine if their CA issues MITM certs) then having supernodes in US university dorm rooms doesn't help you either.

BTW, if anybody wants a refresher, here's what Skype says their architecture is: http://www.skype.com/en/security/#encryption http://download.skype.com/share/security/2005-031%20security... It could have changed since 2005, although I've heard that really old versions of Skype can still connect to the network.
Thanks, Quartz is literally unusable on my phone.
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>If you're counting imaginary points on the Internet you'll always be disheartened.

Bitcoin is also imaginary points on the Internet. I hope I don't end up disheartened.
I had a professor who used to say: a great engineer should be able to answer any question in 30 minutes, at some level of precision. Her example was deriving the equations for the dynamics of the space shuttle. You should be able to do it in 30 minutes, even if it's an extreme approximation.
Shitty article. They weren't trying to build a car, they were trying to get the horse to pull a car. They were still selling physical media, just hamstringing it so it would be less useful than it is today. Want to build a "Steam for XBox", go right ahead. Want to make buying from "Steam for XBox" the only way to get games, go right ahead. But that's not what they did. They Said, buy games like today, oh, and here are a bunch of extra value-reducing "features" that go with it.
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You can buy a Jack Daniels T-shirt with the label printed on it. Presumably, no one thinks they can drink a T-shirt, but the product is produced by (or at least licensed by) Jack Daniels.
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I don't know about US law, but in Europe if you're a financial institution and you suspect a customer transaction is involved in money laundering or a similar it's a criminal offence to inform the customer without first clearing it with the relevant legal authorities.

If there is some kind of investigation going on MtGox might be completely unaware of it, saying "there's a backlog" is a pretty common way to provide cover while such an investigation is on-going.

One of the reasons you get fully licensed as a financial institution by regulators is that you get some level of legal protection/ring-fencing from the activities of your own customers.

(IANAL but I used to work on real-world forex trading desk in a previous life, hence had to undergo the mandatory FSA training)
Agree. This just make writing simple apps that much easier. Great idea!
A lot of the ideas come from - http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1451686579
I can't say I agree with this analysis. In the first instance, the fact that both parents' obesity is a factor could be argued to point towards a stronger correlation. In a broad sense, it's also important to note that chronic diseases always have some behavioural and lifestyle component. For example, physical malformations can be caught early and given therapeutic redress -- Scoliosis correction might be a good example.

You're not condemned to be obese if your genetics give you the propensity for it, but it's also fair to say that the genetics mean that disease-like interventions are necessary. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesit...
Personally, I know I am not too interested in this. I have seen somewhere upwards of 100 posts up voted on snowden to the front page, yet only about 5 with new content. Point being, although you can get a lot of up votes by posting "hot" topics, I know for a fact there are interesting (many times more interesting) posts that never make it near the top posts.
Maybe, maybe not. One thing we can both be positive about though is that comments complaining about other comments create more noise than signal.

In any case - was the original/root comment here really that bad? Honestly...
If only it were tea time in Australia. Blast, foiled again.
I believe some or all of these features that were removed will be included eventually. People have a hard time changing so quickly. Processes can become confusing and people may have a hard time transitioning to all digital at first. PSN and Xbox Live allow for downloaded versions of almost all games now. A persistent push away from physical discs to digital games is something that can clearly still be implemented.

So I do not believe they have abandoned their new features but instead put them on hold and saved them for a later date. Eventually, we will all be on digital media and it will be for the better.
>The problem is that anything that can be wiretapped, will be wiretapped. The solution to this problem is technological.

I was against you the whole time until the point where you said

>The laws around it need to simply state two things: (1) you cannot use anything you obtain without a proper warrant against the suspect and (2) you cannot prevent someone from using encryption.

I wholeheartedly agree with (2). (1) needs further elaboration. Can you use what you've collected to get a "proper" warrant? Can you go on a fishing expedition to assassinate someone's public image? What protection will we have against that?

I do not think this is a technological problem. I find it very scary how much leeway prosecution has in whether or not to press charges.

It is also very sad to see the people who I'd consider on my side to cheer for the IRS to go after tea party groups.
I could see this becoming an interesting metric for targeted health care or health advertising, given the relative ease to determine gait speed from live video feeds. "IF gait speed < X, change display ad to 'see an orthopedist'"
The weird thing is that MtGox made a deal to (effectively) sell themselves to Coinlab which would have either fixed these problems or at least made them not Gox's problems. But then they went back on the deal.
Someone who doesn't like PHP... maybe there's a cave that these people can huddle inside ranting about it, because no one gives a shit.
If mtgox crashes bitcoin crashes, at least temporarily. You'll end up with your bitcoins safe, but they won't be worth $100+ anymore (if ever again).
^^^^^^
This is the attitude I am talking about. Clearly since it's popular then there is nothing wrong with it. Thats total BS. There are tons of things wrong with it. Yes people do really cool things with the language and the run time, but just because someone using it doesn't make it _good_.
Why does this have to be framed as people being ignorant? Could it be they don't want to have to give up the limited rights they still have left?

Microsoft wasn't forced to do anything here. They overestimated the value of their product, plain and simple.
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>I get a burst of endorphins when I receive many Facebook "likes" or upvotes on HackerNews. When I am ignored or downvoted, I feel as if I've been voted out of a digital democracy.

Same here, I laugh at myself because of it and usually try very hard to avoid pandering to it. Is it a form of narcissism? It causes me to question my personal autonomy.
> The worrying thing for me is that we've been here before.

No, that's exactly the problem. Other nations has at radically different time been in a vaguely similar situation.

Looking at Hitler doesn't tell you anything about the surveillance state that it doesn't also tell you about vegetarians and boy scouts. The reason we're not opposed to vegetarians and boy scouts (at least not based on their relation to nazism) is that we're approaching those cases on the merits. It's ludicrous to suggest a causal bond between those and Auschwitz.

Also, pure tactics: Anyone who's studied WWII civil oppression can spend hours detailing just how radical the differences between the Gestapo and the NSA are. You're basically handing your opponent the rhetorical petard he will hoist you by.
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@joshdance 100% .. Jonas Berger is a genius. Also need to give credit to Ryan Holiday https://clarity.fm/ryanholiday / one of the best out there re: media manipulation to amplify WOM.
I had this argument last night. Ultimately I probably won't care if people say it wrong relative to author intention. Some people will know, others won't. I just want to at least document the intended pronunciation, which is the way the actual word is said in Japanese. Which, btw, means "dock" ... the closest I could get to Docker and just happens to sound like Heroku.
This is all quite true, and very much how I feel. I am finding maintaining my weight much harder than losing. I have not lost my appetite, or my habit of bingeing when triggered. It's a life-long struggle.
On my iPhone, Chrome hides the browser location and other buttons when you start scrolling down. Scrolling up brings them back into view.

On that article, I was completely unable to bring the location/page-controls back into view -- I was stuck on that page, trying to figure out how to escape -- until I clicked a link - then the controls showed up while it was loading the new content.
Yep. I'd bet real money on that being the root cause. I'm not so sure about the new bank thing though.
No problem.

It seemed like a topic on which I could weigh in (if you'll pardon the pun).
It's good to hear that even people familiar with this can easily get confused about it. I think it's a sign perhaps you should comment your code more :P

Seriously though it's the writing part that I couldn't do - I'd be happy to come back and not understand something if I could even write it in the first place!
I think you should have made it clear in this comment that you work for Quartz.
I guess it's a natural reaction to people wanting to jump on that "big data" bandwagon. Kind of like size envy I guess? So sad...