skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, well, since I have your attention, I'll give you the other side of the coin. The key to getting good stuff from people is how you make them feel about giving it to you.

Most people think thrift stores sell the stuff people drop off there. That's far from true. They get their product from a lot of places -- retail seconds, charities, sometimes even new.

Direct donations are the worst. It's still positive expected value after you collect, sort, and label it all, but sometimes only just barely. Ever notice thrift shop donation centers sometimes have terrible hours? They don't want the stuff that bad!

In direct donation, people give you things they think you're going to sell. They think they're doing you a favor, they think everything has to have some value and anyway, you guys are the experts and at worst you'll just throw it away, right? You get lots of garbage.

One of the things I think people don't understand is the "where it came from" factor. My tennis shoes have some value to me, even though they're pretty beat up. I know where they've been. They've always been mine. I'd cheerfully spend $40 to get them back if they'd disappeared tomorrow.

But to a stranger they're stinky, dirty, beat up, and they don't know where they've been. Zero value. Negative value, even.

Anyway, when people are assessing their own stuff for resale value, they do a pretty terrible job, and it's my private theory that the above is responsible.

Anyway.

The boxes we got with the highest value were from charities. Those signs that say, "Donate your quality used goods to the center for (cancer|mental retardation|war veterans)" . . . those goods eventually end up being sold to thrift stores, and the typical quality is amazing compared to what people drop off. Five times better. Ten times better. More. Depends on the source.

Psychology is weird, and in the thrift business, it can be the difference between a (very) positive and (very) negative profit margin. Just what people choose to give you. I certainly can't begin to explain it, and would never have expected that the difference in the quality of donations to different causes would be so wide.

Just be careful, is all. In my (limited, unscientific, yet still statistically significant) experience as a junk sorter, stuff coming from the "we'll take your junk and resell it" message performs the worst. The very worst. "For the children" seemed to be about the best.

I have absolutely no idea how "purify your life" will do. Could be awesome. Could be terrible. I'm not optimistic, but who knows. People are weird.

If it does poorly, though, seriously considering donating the $10 to a (specific!) charity. That should help a lot.
Elegance and speed optimization is inconsequential for any non-real time, sub-TB? sub-GB file size. Or, what am I missing?
In my mind Clojure is an easy win unless you're writing short running things that need to boot fast (though you could consider clojurescript + node for that).

Both languages have good support for concurrency, but for me Clojure has much more going for it:

- It's fast, and has all the tooling and libraries from the JVM
- it has immutable datastructures with literals for all of them) by default, this is huge, they're probably the thing I miss most when I have to use other languages.
- It encourages functional programming very strongly, but has excellent support for managing mutable state when you need it.
- It's very simple (it's a lisp) and has a very small number of primitives, with much of the standard library coming from macros rather than actually being baked into the language.
- The community is amazing, #clojure on freenode is incredibly helpful and friendly towards noobs.

I probably don't sell it well, but I'd highly recommend watching some of Rich Hickey's talks to sort of understand the philosphy that goes into Clojure:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...

Don't go for Go just because it's familiar ;)
Same strategy they use for everything else. Think about how they enforce taxes on cash.
Now using Kato.im a lot and loving it. Have used Google, Campfire, HipChat, Flowdock in the past.
You had me until your twitter and I read "I wear a fake mustache."
I think the point was that it defeats the common purpose of using anonymity software if you are submitting identifying information (your car registration information) through it. It doesn't necessarily have long term consequences—you can generate a new identity—but it nullifies that session's anonymity.

However, that doesn't mean there isn't a good reason to use it anyway to make a statement and promote legitimate usage of Tor.
if you are writing yet another TODO/agile trello/twitter clone, the hard parts isn't in the programming, and ASM.js (and compiling in general) doesnt concern you at all.

The beauty of this form of programming is in being able to port large, existing code bases to new platforms with "relative" ease. This doesn't only apply to games (which in large part is the main reason for such things), but to things like a torrent implementation in the browser for example. Or, peer to peer chat ala skype in the browser, all without having to use a centralized server. Applications such as those is difficult write from scratch, but if a porting mechanism exists, it could be a boon to the amount of things you can do online now.
I thought you were supposed to pay profits on foreign currency only when you "cash out" to dollars. Guess I was wrong. Was I just confusing the tax rules for foreign currency, and commodities? Is that the rule for commodities?
These high end products just make me hope so much that Lenovo launches a great new set of ThinkPads this year. Something with the specs of a W530 in a 12" or 13" or so frame. Sadly, none of Lenovo current offers have a high-resolution screen.
Every competitive company is salivating at the idea of getting access to business plans, ideas, investments, etc from someone in the NSA about their competitors (corporate espionage - not directly mind you). How many people would it take to pay off to get access to some of this information? This is bad bad business and dangerous keeping this much info with no oversight really (well Congress and a couple people at the NSA if that is considered oversight -- a Congress that doesn't even have time to read bills anymore and apparently haven't read the 4th).
The Outrageous House Farm Bill
Could just not say you own BitCoins, unless you have a couple thousand I doubt you'll even be a blip on their radar. If you have that many, you could just spread them around wallets too... Really I can't see them picking up on it if you do it right.
> Even many of our liberals see "globalization" as a code term for "child labor" and "sweatshops".

Right. Globalization can be used as a powerful force to subvert or bypass democracy, and to create a worldwide "race to the bottom."
It's a taste thing. My day job is working on a big android distro, and it's too hard to manage dealing with multiple build boxes with remote work. So I bought a quad-core laptop (Vaio Z, sadly just recently discontinued) and love it. The box itself is ultrabook-sized, but Sony makes an extra batter that clips right on the bottom, adding some weight but getting back the battery life you lose with the bigger CPU. I find I actually prefer the laptop with the extra battery attached.
No. Air rights extend only as high as the land owner reasonably uses. A landowner with a 3-story house has a rightful claim to higher airspace than a neighbor with a single story house. The specific height has not been determined in a courtroom, but it's likely to be a short distance (~10ft) above any structures on the property.
> yet US politicians try to legitimize everything by saying it's only non-US citizens they spy on, and say it like then it's suddenly okay.

Not so much that it makes things "okay" but that it makes things "legal." The NSA isn't supposed to spy on U.S. citizens, that's outside its scope of operation.
I think you'll find this response by @gayle to be spot on. SORRY, FOLKS: GOOGLE HASN’T CHANGED THEIR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS BY GAYLE MCDOWELL, EX-GOOGLE ENGINEER & HIRING COMMITTEE MEMBER http://blog.geekli.st/post/53477786490/sorry-folks-google-ha...
Market Research for Startups [Slideshow]
It's called a D-notice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DA-Notice
Scroogle was a similar and quite popular site, but Google blocked it.
One thing that I think might be an interesting gamechanger is Mozilla's HTML5 approach to apps. It would be stupendous if FFxOS enabled a much better mobile app world.
What's insane to me is that your options are a 3200x1800 screen or 1366x768. I have a 14" with a 1600x900 panel, and that's at the bare minimum of passable for me.

The ubiquity of 1366 panels -- even in 15.6 notebooks! -- is beyond frustrating to me.
I agree 999999999999% with the discoverability problem. Seems like if you were first on the app-stores you just made money because there wasn't much around you... but these days they are incredibly saturated (with good stuff and with crap), so we definitely need a new way to discover stuff.

The stores themselves are really the gate-keepers to installs/sales. Right now it's just about paying to get to the top of the chart (with a product that can stay there I guess).

There has got to be another way other than top ranks, and maybe that lies in a community-driven model of some sorts. Who knows ><
Don't forget this bastion of the dot com crash ... f##ked company's hall of fame - http://web.archive.org/web/20011217223423/http://fuckedcompa...
Unless of course you claim you made enough BitCoins to buy a house that year, but perhaps not so many as to furnish it (even though you did) Still avoided $20,000 in taxes and pretty much impossible to get caught unless you invite the IRS to your home.
Does anyone know why altavista.com and altavista.digital.com were different? I just remember preferring the digital.com version for some reason.

I wish I could go back in time to 1996... everything on the internet seemed so much more meaningful, not to mention textual (because images took so long to download).
Pretty impressive specs and battery life, but every time I see the power connector for a non-Apple notebook, it makes me kind of mad, MagSafe is really exceptional and Apple's power adapters are generally tiny and unobtrusive, pretty important since you use one at least once a day.
The point of the design, which is intended for microcontrollers, not your desktop.
So location anonymity is not a common purpose of anonymity software?
I'm interested to see reference to a failed assassination attempt on Churchill, using a pistol - I've not heard of this before, and can't immediately find it referenced anywhere else. Anyone?
At the very bottom of the document (complete with diagrams, no less).
The "renew my car registration" example was intended to imply that'd I've chosen to "give them some connected dots" - dots which are operationally useless (or worse - preferably adding noise to make the job harder and evidence that the job is sometimes wasted effort).

I'm assuming "they" have access to government servers and networks, and that they'll easily be able to connect me - as a real and (at least mostly) law abiding citizen - to a clean-slate browser using SSL over TOR - logging in to a government web server with real world credentials and doing some mundane and law abiding everyday task.
NSA contractor hired Snowden despite concerns about resume discrepancies
Oh no, he exaggerated on his resume... Totally misses the point.
Smoke Engulfs Singapore
Self-Loathing Twitter Employee Chronicles Doom and Decadence
What about the Razer Edge?
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade
> It is amazing how many requests the guardian wants to make to third party sites.

Maybe they're just trying to make sure every social site knows you're there so that NSA can figure it out later with PRISM? ;)
Dunno, I tried loading a YouTube page and capturing packets. Only ports in use were 443 and 80, even to the cdn-like hostnames (bla.c.youtube.com). First packet shows "GET /videoplayback?...."
But what is the actual amount for "more"? If it's 20% success instead of 10% it's still not a good chance of success for the individual company.
I think your github oauth request is a bit broad:

The app Upboat will be able to:

* Read your public information.
* Read your private email addresses.
* Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc).

I'd like to register myself as a dev, but I'm not going to agree to those terms. No offense, but you need to do a lot more to justify why you want write access to my github account.
http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/
Like this approach
Try doodling your mails off the iPad instead... send text in binary form instead of HTML.
I'm sorry, but the core of the sun is 150 times as dense as a reptile's brain and far far hotter. Thus you would need far more than the equivalent volume of brains to create the same effect. I see what you mean about the energy of escaping radiation, however.
I agree. I think the old way was about content now it's about a apps. One of those, if good, solves a problem.
I just need enough permissions to know that you have > 0 repos, public or private. I didn't see anything between just-email and all-the-things in their oauth docs, but I might've missed something while rushing through. Do you know otherwise?
As do I, a great project!
> Second, you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't have an unusually open access system in place, one that allows any and all visitors to come on with any email they wish, but then think that blocking an IP means you can call it a day, authorization over.

When it's their private property, they can have their cake and eat it too. I can let everyone in town into my living room but capriciously disallow you one day because I realize you have attached earlobes. That's just how license works.

The only consideration is notice. Does blocking a MAC address reasonably signal to the user that their consent was revoked, either objectively or in actual fact? I think you'd have a hard time arguing that Aaron, being very technically savvy, didn't realize that MIT was trying to kick him off its network.
What is a size 14? That's the size of a woman's dress in the United States, but certainly not anything for man (maybe very large shoes). What standard are you going by?

Also, sizes in the US are pretty much all over the map. Pants sizes in the US are measured in inches, and they can easily be 4 inches different than what a tailor will measure with a tape measure.
Mostly because I'm more familiar with the larger versions. Physics really hurts the capabilities of the small platforms. There's just not enough energy in current batteries to carry useful sensors and fly long enough. Not trying to say they aren't useful, just that their applications are limited due to limited flight times.
GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: 'Make More Awesome'
Tesla announces 90 sec battery swap
Now I'm thinking of a patched SMTP server, that queues all outgoing mail - and sends mail every hour on the hour to each of my GPG enabled recipients, with a queued "real mail" if there is one or a random encrypted NSA RickRoll if there's no real mail to send.

(I suspect that'd last about 121 minutes before most of my friends spam filtered me forever)
In the case of the Mississippi outflow I'm with you to an extent. There's no doubt in my mind that agriculture runoff is the biggest contributor. Unfortunately removing agriculture subsidies won't fix the problem.

A number of people in the Chesapeake basin point the finger at chicken and pig farms in the region due to their controversial use of manure lagoons [1]. To the best of my knowledge these industries aren't heavily subsidized like corn and soy.

Then there's the whole issue of baselining. What's normal for the Mississippi river outflow? We've been observing the impacts to the fisheries there and the Chesapeake for hundreds of years, but we've only been measuring DO for a few decades and DO is far from the only thing that impacts fisheries. Further, the Mississippi dumps a ton of relatively still water that's full of tannins directly into the relatively still and warm gulf. I'm nowhere near qualified to say this conclusively, but I'd bet there have been yearly cycles of hypoxia there for millennia. Does this multiply or dampen our impacts?

This is a crazy complex multi-headed monster that looks completely different in every region it inhabits. For every one of these massive hypoxic regions there's a ton of other smaller ones. Next time you're bored take a look at the waterways in your area on Google maps, especially where small local canals or drainage ditches empty into larger bodies of water. Then go look at the topography of the area and try to back-of-the-envelope account for what all is pouring out of there. Then go do that for a completely different region. The diversity if nutrient inputs is insane.

The only reliable long-term way I can see to fix the problem is to get people to understand the impacts of their actions, and to associate those impacts with the things that they buy, consume, and produce. When you flush the toilet your poop goes somewhere. The same is true with your lawn clippings, farm waste, fertilizers, antibiotics, birth control, etc.

1: http://nc.water.usgs.gov/flood/floods99/photos/IMG003.html
I don't get what you mean. You think that once you connect to https://site.gov/ they can easily match the traffic entering the tor network with the traffic that exited tor and initiated the web connection?
A University of Waterloo coop's account
I wonder what it takes to host a full search engine for the Internet now, if an organization wanted genuinely private search. Presumably you can buy crawls from somewhere, but does anyone sell a self-hostable general web search engine?
You want to really be concerned: I have read some things that indicate "vanity sizing" means what used to be a 14 (say 20 years ago) is now labeled a 10.
OutputSocket: Beautiful website for $300 within 7 days
They've put out a lot of hardware that's sold well, but I've been pretty underwhelmed by the build quality of the Galaxy line, personally.

I really had high hopes for Vizio breaking into the PC market. I've had one of their thin and lights for about a year now, and have been very, very happy with it, but I'm not sure they've sold well enough to have an actual impact on the market.

It's easily the best-built PC I've ever owned; in fact, in terms of build quality, I'd rank it above the pre-unibody Macbook Pro I used to have. Only knock I have against it is the mediocre touchpad they used in the first run of machines, but it's my understanding that they're using Synaptic now.
Same here. Been a looking time Thinkpad used. I was planning to get one of them Retina MBPs when they are updated and released later this year. I am still waiting too see what Lenovo will offer that can replace my aging Thinkpad W500.
I wouldn't expect to actually use that resolution, and Windows most likely doesn't support it very well either. The way it's used is probably just like the Macbook Retina. The effective resolution will be 1600x900, but the screen will be much sharper.
And this is why we should (and we should encourage everybody we can to) regularly do the most mundane of browsing using TOR.

And that's why I encourage everybody I can to run a tor node

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
Thanks for reminding me of Asana. I was really impressed by a demo video I saw while they were in beta. I applied for the beta on behalf of the small company I was working for at the time. I never heard anything back.

Even after it came out of invite only I never heard anything.... strange.
That wasn't very convincing.

Basically, 'family sharing' is nothing but letting someone use a demo, hurray.

Whenever I buy a used game I wouldn't even consider buying at full retail. So there is no market share being lost in my case.
When the Supreme Court declares a law
unconstitutional, that ends the issue
until the Supreme Court decides to
address the issue again.

When anyone else or any other organization
declares a law unconstitutional, then that's
nice, nice to have their opinion, but
mostly that's just their opinion. As I
recall, the president is sworn to uphold
the laws. If there is some law the president
refuses to enforce, then there might be
a law suit that goes to the Supreme Court.
Or there might be an impeachment proceeding
in the Congress.

Really, in practice there is a lot of
discretion on what laws get enforced,
and part of the role of the Attorney
General (AG) is to decide, as a political
matter as the AG serves at the pleasure
of the president, what laws will be
enforced. Still, likely (I'm not a
lawyer) if I am suffering because
some law was not enforced, then I
can bring suit against the people
supposed to enforce that law.
Little nugget:

the FAST Search guys sold alltheweb.com to yahoo.com and focused on enterprise search (i.e. they sell/license their software to companies) with customers such as newspaper companies, yellow pages companies and government agencies. They were then acquired by Microsoft a few years ago and rolled into their Sharepoint offerings.
Ask HN: What to do on weekends in the Bay Area
I am a 17 year old high school student interning at a web startup this summer. I am from the East Coast, so I am not totally familiar with SF yet. My goal this summer is to meet developers and learn. I am unsure what to do on the weekends. I have searched meetup.com, but nothing has caught my attention yet. I would really like to attend a meetup or hackathon just to meet others and learn. Thanks.
> That interviewer told me I was the only person who asked clarifying questions before blurting out an answer or walk through.

I once got negative feedback from an interviewer: I'd asked too many questions about the questions.
Who in their right mind would eat a sandwich without mayo, or a salad without dressing? Come on. Mayo and salad dressing predate big evil corporations, you know.
How much of their revenue comes from the initial purchase, versus in-app purchases? 0.99 is great if you can do it over and over again, and get the customer LTV much higher.
Route 53 finally providing internal DNS for vpses would just be incredibly awesome.
I'm not sure if that is good or bad for people like me who just want to be a one man "company", build stuff on their own without all the overhead and friction. If I can pick up a few $1000/months long tail crumbs that are being ignored by the big players, I'll be happy.

Of course if the mobile economics are so bad that the big players will invent vacuum cleaners to suck up all those crumbs, I'm toast...
That's assuming they've got compromised tor nodes that they're able to watch both my entrance and exit node.

Which may well be true.

(But I'm still hoping my new 2048bit GPG key and a significant portion of tor nodes are _not_ NSA bugged...)
It's a false premise that App Store approval = 6 month deployment cycle. Sure you can move faster on the web, but not that much faster.
Reactionary to what?
Not just a trend, it's a requirement for anything marketed as an Ultrabook™.
Brilliant. Thank YOU for the simplicity. The best things in life are always the most simple..
That's what you call a first look, not a review.
The author of this article is obviously someone who doesn't see the bigger picture of mobile apps.
The problem is inexperienced developers who drop out (programmers) think they can 1. Write an Instagram clone or some one hit wonder app and expect it to help them build a business without any science behind what they do, obviously those will tank, its a not an app that supports a company, its shown time and time again that it is the web back end that supports a company and all those services. btw I am not a web developer, I am an native developer.