skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took your recommendation and looked through Google+ for communities that interested me, and didn't see anything promising, but the idea does have some potential - I do follow Linus and a few authors, and would probably check Google+ more often if I could find more interesting content, but I haven't found a killer feed to make it part of my daily routine yet.

I suppose different people use these sites in different ways, though, and I might check back periodically, but for now Google+ is just a Skype replacement for me.
Cute concept. I liked the CTF game from Stripe[1], it progressed more quickly and there were no ads. It felt like a more genuine challenge.

Some interesting Google results show for hackerskills.com [2].

[1] Stripe CTF 2.0: https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-20

[2] Skip ahead?: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.hackerskills.com
I'm sorry I couldn't be the one to tell you what you're supposed to think creates morality. Maybe you can go find someone else's philosophy to unthinkingly latch onto?
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Just came here to say this. I think the issue is with this (seen in the console):

[blocked] The page at https://neocities.org/new ran insecure content from http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/challenge?k=6Lfa6eISAAAA....

[blocked] The page at https://neocities.org/new ran insecure content from http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,900,400i....

[blocked] The page at https://neocities.org/new ran insecure content from http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/challenge?k=6Lfa6eISAAAA....
Mobileye, a Maker of Automated Driving Systems, Raises $400 Million
I wish I could trust the cloud because it would be a lot more convenient to not have to worry about storing photos, which involves a lot of effort once you advance beyond a casual hobby and you get into storing Terrabytes of large RAW files and maintaining adequate backups.

But the idea of storing any files in the cloud is very distasteful to me ever since the NSA Snowden story broke. Even something as innocent as a photographer taking pictures of a skyline or some beautiful architecture could land him in hot water if the government is looking at metadata and figuring out that he took lots of photos of a government building or a bridge or a power plant and randomly throwing him on some watch lists or no-fly lists. People have been hassled by the feds for a lot less.

My preference would be for all of these cloud storage providers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Dropbox, Amazon, etc to unambiguously and fiercely challenge the government on this and somehow unambiguously prove to people that they're respecting peoples' privacy and not complying with this stuff. Their denials so far have been obvious non-denials that are very carefully worded around "no direct access" when that's enough wiggle room to do just about anything.

Using some kind of cloud photo storage is a bad idea IMO until this gets sorted out.
I assume Skype is successful - it's everywhere. Do people like it? I find it very very clunky and unreliable. Is this just me?
I've just bought this for iOS, looks very interesting.
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No rss feed for the blog?
A Game That Deals in Personal Data
The whole point of dart is to have a dynamic language for the web that is type-safe and super fast by default. If Dartium never gets into Chrome, then that would make Dart kind of useless. The plan is to implement Dartium into Chromium once Darts stabilizes.
Agreed - and yet thats half the problem; is people aren't using EC2 for just a few hours... they use it all month, and then complain about it being expensive.
Very cool. The page to sign up is here:

http://dribbble.com/teams/soon
How exactly is it ironic?
Quipper - Quantum computer programming language based on Haskell
Yes, in my experience -- but thats just with one-off servers.

I'm not sure how things work if you're a larger client with needs in the dozens of servers.
The current system isn't entirely broken, but it needs works, and the work needs to come from both sides. Candidates need to do a better job of how they market themselves to employers, and employers need to improve how they select and evaluate talent both on paper and in interviews.

The news a couple weeks ago about Google and their alleged use of trick questions and such hopefully raised awareness of the problems surrounding tech interviews, the value of GPAs and majors, etc., for all the other companies. Google is one of a handful of shops that shape how others think they should do things.

As I mentioned in another comment, managers today are more keen on seeing code. A resume can make whatever unverified claims you want to make. I mentioned a project I'm working on (http://geekrez.com) that is hoping to change how talent represents themselves to hiring entities and somewhat trying to replace the resume submission process with items managers want to see.

A Stack Overflow reputation score is not a self-assessed expertise in a specific technology, but rather something that is assessed by others. Saying you write good code is one thing, but let's see what you have in your GitHub or Bitbucket to prove what you are saying. These are the types of things that will get devs hired in the years to come.

Personal references are a whole other story. If someone can't find 3 people to say something nice about their work, they shouldn't be in the industry. The only thing that is valuable about references is when a handful (3-5 usually) of people provide very consistent information - to be more specific, consistent with both positive and negative items. I know when I hear a few people share the same strengths and weaknesses about a candidate that I'm probably getting a pretty good and honest assessment (or they have all been superbly prepped).
Given that the standard is well-locked down on those bits of CSS3, why not support the un-prefixed version? I'm not saying you have to stop supporting the prefixed version - I know that would cause all manner of compat issues.
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I also think that their name is part of the reason for their success. It's different from 'google' or 'bing' or 'yahoo' and it yet it is specific for what it does and I think lends people a partial understanding as to what the benefits are, right out of the box.

I've been getting the DDG newsletters since day 1, but I can't seem to fully adapt to duck duck go. I guess I just am addicted to using google.

=EDIT=
For those commenting that they aren't familiar with the name, its interesting that you still understand its a search engine. Thus for you, understanding the context of the name is irrelevant. But for those not familiar with search engines, but do know duck duck goose, I think its pretty logical to explain 'duck duck go' as a search engine.
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At hospitals in the US, every payer is charged a different price. Large insurers and HMO's negotiate large discounts which shifts costs onto smaller insurers who get smaller discounts and thus pay part of the costs of their larger competitors. The non-poor uninsured, who often can least afford to pay, are charged the most -- often 5X, 10X or more than what Medicare or a large insurer would pay. In all states other than Maryland, which has state-wide "all-payer" pricing, what you are charged depends more on who you are and how much negotiating power you have than what was done for you.

The solution is to let the "free market" work. Of course, that means we need to regulate the market to fix the existing "market failure." Free markets are regulated markets. (Although not all regulated markets are free.)

All states should pass laws saying that hospitals are free to charge what they want but that their prices must be posted and apply to "all-payers" without discounting. Additionally, states should develop all-payer databases like those advocated by: http://www.apcdcouncil.org/

Much has been said about Medicare in the comments here that isn't quite accurate. The reality is that Medicare ignores hospital charges (except in Maryland) and pays according to their own calculations of hospitals' costs. In most cases, that means they pay much less than they are charged. However, in some cases, it means that they pay more.

For some additional background on this issue, from a New York perspective, see my PDF on the subject linked to at: http://bobwyman.blogspot.com/2013/04/RFC-FRAND.html
Under the law, you cannot discuss prices with ANYONE you are competing against. Once you do this, regardless of your reasoning, you are in violation of anti trust laws.
I don't see hatred for him being a conservative - I see a dislike for him spending lots of money to keep a minority from having rights.

His version of intolerance towards homosexuals was spending money to prevent them from having rights.

Their version of intolerance is to attempt to convince people not to see his movie or buy his book.

I don't think the second qualifies as intolerance. I also think it is completely within someones interest to speak out against supporting those who oppress them. There are plenty of interesting and great science fiction books or movies written by decent, reasonable people that could be supported instead.

Also I the links in this thread show a side of the books that is far from "apolitical", although they were moving and profound for me.
Well put. What a treat to find such great writing on HN. Here's one more thought on why Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace feel so much more natural than Google+: perhaps it has to do with the fact that large, functioning communities cannot be master-planned. The must grow naturally and organically out of small communities, in ways unforeseen and unplanned. Facebook did. Google+ was master-planned as the next full-scale social network. I have the sinking feeling it will suffer the fate of California City:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California#Tow...
Can anyone who uses duckduckgo tell me whether it does anything to hide your identity when you tell it to drop to google using !g ?
Think of the kittens! lol.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, mostly because you're bringing sexism to the table, where nobody else in comments or article (as far as I can see) has.

The cake didn't have icing on. Or it had different icing. I dunno anymore because you put that sexism icing on and now I can't see the other icing.
There's pressure being put on Gazelle right now because Waffles and AnimeBytes are writing a replacement called Batter[1] using Django. I've also been working on a tracker in Go called Chihaya[2] that will replace Ocelot. I'm glad they finally opening things up more, but it might be a bit too late. If you're interested in working on a more modern rewrite of Gazelle's software stack that has actual software development practices (continuous integration, tests, style guidelines), check out the projects. Both projects are BSD 2 Clause, btw.

[1] https://github.com/wafflesfm/batter

[2] https://github.com/pushrax/chihaya
I'm not opposed to unions in general, but there are definitely some specific ones our labor relations dept. could point out that would correlate very well with your point.
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I'm really glad that DDG has been able to capitalize on the NSA fallout. I remember checking the site out awhile ago but defaulted to expecting failure (hey, I'm not a VC).

The only real reason I haven't switched is that I'm VERY wired into the Google ecosystem. I use Google Apps heavily and have a Nexus phone. Search results on DDG aren't always great but that was never really a problem for me.
Well I'd like to believe correlation is causation and that the Bloomberg TV appearance made it skyrocket :)
hemlis looks better though.
Dude, I thought you kept everything on a single "big iron" server? Why are you using AWS?
Ender hated that side of himself, the destructive side. No one ever said that the "adults" aka the military in that book were good people. It's not directly stated, but to me it had an implied tone of wrongness, that they thought they were acting as they must to strike first. In later books the Hive Queen confirms that they were never going to come back and that makes an obvious statement that the xenocide was unnecessary.

As for Ender's treatment of Bean, I think that's pretty much identical to how coaches and military leaders behave. Ender even privately scolds himself for the way he mirrored Graffs treatment of him in Bean's treatment. After that I believe he makes an effort to treat his subordinates as friends, but it's too late (because they still act coldly toward him).

I think Ender hated and regretted what he was forced into unwittingly doing, hence his writing of the Hive Queen & Hegemon as well as the years of hearing himself referred to as "Ender the Xenocide" without ever defending his actions once.

I think that maybe you're too excited to be upset by this. Card is a twat, but I hold that his books are a closet outlet for his rational mind.
How the Pentagon’s payroll quagmire traps soldiers
Well, the best we can do is assume they lied.

However unlikely, it's still possible the NSA had moles or secret legal proceedings against certain employees that directed them to provide the NSA with a direct connection to the servers.

The reason why I say 'unlikely' is that such a setup would also involve data connectivity out of those data centers and additionally would probably trip all sorts of intrusion monitoring systems (if the big companies are doing their jobs right).

There's still a little wiggle room here, just not much very realistically.
I'm not sure how making nontrivial cognitive leaps is called problem solving. It seems like black magic.

Winning at chess or poker seems more like problem solving to me.
The "club" would have to have at least $5 million in assets, according to current SEC guidance: http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm .
I soft-switched a month or two ago and in the beginning was adding !g to pretty much every query out of habit. Over the last week however I decided to poke around more (checking out the other ! tags, understanding what sorts of special queries would get answers) and have only asked for Google results once since to compare with DDG. Google's presentation is still much better (i.e. if I type in Yankees on Google I get a fully styled box score and schedule... with DDG I get some Wikipedia suggestions and a small blurb from MLB/ESPN news underneath.) but for web results I haven't been too disappointed. It's far less frustrating than I remember it being for regular use, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if recent events have prompted more casual users to commit to it.

Edit: For a good example of its biases, search "hacker news" on ddg, bing, then google.
Paying more for eBooks because Apple didn't want to compete on price is not in the consumer's best interest.

The fundamental import of Apple's actions was that it significantly increased prices for eBooks without fundmentally altering the value proposition (i.e., eBooks before Apple's price-fixing are no different than eBooks post-price-fixing). The difference in price is the "harm" that consumers have suffered--it represents the increased prices they have to pay over the prices they would have paid had Apple not colluded to artificially increase prices in a way the market did not support.
Sounds like a terrible place to work. I work at a big corp and one of my jobs is to find people doing silly things like this and eliminate (the tasks) through automation.

My advice - quit and find another job at a more enlightened place.
> "Here's a video of a Thinkpad drinking a full glass of water while playing a video"

I'm a fan of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ujtrHvOTk

Two guys (doing a promo spot for Lenovo) jumping on a trampoline with thinkpads and water balloons, then pouring water into one, all in glorious slow motion.
I would split the hair even finer and say if you're researching how to accomplish a particular task and you serendipitously find an article on HN then you're doing work, but that's pure luck since normally you would be Googling rather than surfing HN. Reading HN "for the [tech] articles" is at best like going to university—you may be preparing for future work, but all this abstract preparation and self-betterment is not the same thing as real work and we would be wise not to fool ourselves.
Thanks for the feedback. The portfolio wasn't meant to be solely accessed through the carousel - there's a dedicated page for it, and the carousel was just a "look at all these things I've worked on" statement. I guess I didn't clearly communicate that. You aren't really meant to navigate it, rather just to look at it's breadth and click on one if it caught you eye.

The width is indeed because of the carousel - I meant for it to go of the page. Is that causing weird scrolling problems? It's supposed to be overflow-x: hidden. Is that causing weird tablet scrolling issues? You're not supposed to be able to scroll horizontally.

I'll have to look into the character encoding issue - thanks for that report.
I wonder if the Guardian redactions are due to D-Notices.
The Tax Impact of Same-Sex Marriage
huh. ok, can someone explain the name, please? i think it must be specific to some (american?) culture.
He needs to change the assets URLs to ://
It's not really about nationality

In my experience nationality (or, to put it another way, the culture that you share with the people in your region) does matter. I'm certainly not saying that a nation's work ethic is shared by every single citizen - generalizations naturally don't apply to everyone. I'm also not saying that all companies in a country behave the same - there are going to be variations. But overall, the way you look at work varies greatly from country to country.
They didn't lie - they just made the truth dance with help from legal advisers. I think we already knew that, but the slide just confirms that they knew exactly what they were doing.

EDIT: to clarify, GIVING someone access directly to a server and allowing/knowing about access to the data going in and out of a server are not technically the same thing.

When I saw the Google/Facebook responses, it was obvious that the posts had a lot in common. Both used the phrase "direct access to our servers".

When you see a phrase repeated like that, one of two things has happened. Either one copied the other's phrasing, or someone told them what to say. In either case, the legal department would definitely weigh in on a huge issue like this.

A smart lawyer would never let the company lie outright. They would advise everyone to speak the truth, but "the truth they speak may not be the truth you think you hear." No direct access to servers. Sure. They just had access to the data going in and out of the server. To someone used to reading political and legal documents, "no direct access to servers" almost screams "some form of access to something." Otherwise the denial would have been more

Zuck and Page didn't lie, but they were less than forthcoming. Myers didn't even bother addressing the claim directly.

I suspect a government lawyer fed them phrases they could use that sound like denials without actually lying.
T Mobile introduce JUMP (Just Upgrade My Phone)
Not exactly the Balkans, but can anybody tell me what web/software development is like in Romania these days?
it's still called signal vs. noise, but they use the name as heavily any more. From the page header:

You’re reading Signal vs. Noise, a publication about the web by 37signals since 1999.
Looking into it now- I'm definitely not seeing 2-5 minute responses, though 10 seconds is common. What URLs have you tried?
(like they're going to start doing with books)

Yeah, like we've heard for years, this is coming real soon, just around the corner, here before we know it, any day now...
I like that, you frequently hear "You just need to work hard", never "First thing you do is drop out of school".

May Bill need to work harder because he dropped out? Without any context the "work harder" does automatically mean that you'll succeed, nor that it's worth the effort.

David Heinemeier had a beautiful talk about being happy with a million dollars, rather aiming for the billion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
>average sophisticated investor

I'm not sure what this means. Are you saying that the average investor is now more sophisticated, or that the average sophisticated investor now is more sophisticated than the average sophisticated investor then?

If the former, if the average invested amount drops to $1-2K and the number of investors booms, wouldn't that have an effect on the average sophistication?

IMO the average investor is only investing in the house that they live in, and judging by the last 10 years doesn't seem to have the math skills to defend against a charming salesman.

edit: just noticed that this doesn't open up investment to unaccredited investors, it's just about solicitation. "Average sophisticated" makes sense now:)
"I almost always shoot in small (5.5MP) or medium (11MP) on my 22.3MP Canon 5D Mark III3."

Sorry but what? I actually had to read that a couple of times.
> Personally, I would like to see an additional censure on Obama and all other executive, legislative, and judicial officials who abrogated their duty to protect the Constitution of the United States of America. It needs to be our harshest censure, to send a message to future administrations that secret coups will not be tolerated.

But, who will keep us safe!

If you want to see reform, you've got to start winning the hearts and minds of the American public and convince them the surveillance state is a bad thing. I think that is going to be a challenge. I know a lot of people who still say "I've got nothing to hide", etc. Truth is it takes very little to scare them into thinking the government needs to do everything in its power to protect them. Case in point, the Boston bombing, which was horrible (I'm not discounting it). But, have we seen any increase in regulatory pressure on fertilizer plants? I'm far more "worried" (=rationally aware of the risk) about the anhydrous ammonia plant on the other side of town.

There are approximately 10,000 federal statutes, many of which never get enforced because they are either too difficult or so completely asinine that nobody cares (http://tjshome.com/dumblaws.php). Just wait until the infrastructure gets to the point where it allows total information awareness on the general population and everything gets enforced. That is a bureaucrat's wet dream.
It's a play on the name of a popular children's game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose
Hey, few questions that I'm asking in earnest.

1. When did UPS revolutionize package shipping? 5 years ago, 10 years ago, or longer?
2. Couldn't someone who ran a delivery service (i.e. UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc) have been in place to do this sort of thing 10 years ago or even longer? I mean sure, it's easier and more accessible than ever now, but it doesn't look like a showstopper to me. The convenience of having someone else do your groceries for you is so convenient for most people. It's on the level of convenience of paying the neighbor's kid to mow your lawn.
I've been curious about the temperature, does it got as hot as a laptop, or is it cooler?
Well, no. The point was that Amazon was willing to make the investment (the loss per sale) to increase the market for eBooks (and its share of said market), but Apple was not. Apple never even tried to compete at the retail model, and instead attempted from the beginning to impose the agency model.

Important here is that the agency model would only have gone into effect if the publishers jointly succeeded in changing their Amazon contracts. They were able to do so because their joint Apple negotiations geave them the leverage to jointly renegotiate their Amazon contracts.

Joint negotiations aren't always an antitrust issue. But when the result is to increase prices or otherwise burden the market, it's usually (as here) indicative of antitrust activity.
how different it is from TonidoPlug? TonidoPlug also provides personal cloud sync.