skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add to this. This isn't creepy because its illegal or provides something that was impossible before---actually dorm address information at my uni was available online to students. It comes off as creepy because of the way it is setup: charging men for access to women.

It basically circumvents all of our accepted social protocol without any rationale beyond personal profit.
As I writer I know well the devaluation of our trade, especially with online content farms. It used to be that all texts were paid based on quality and intended use, such as for a print magazine and so on. Now, everyone pays by the word, and most people now expect to get content for $2 or less for a full article, because regardless how low they pay, someone out there will accept to write. I guess on the case of Medium, make the site look nice enough and people write for free.
I love stuff like this. Do you have a job where you need to pry stuff a lot, or are you able to find lots of day-to-day uses for it?
Lumi – A new way to find things that interest you
Russia is treading gently to preserve amicable relations with the US. (E.g., Putin: "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners, no matter how strange it may sound coming from my lips.") The leaks embarrass a lot of countries that Russia does not mind seeing embarrassed, but they don't want to be seen as sponsoring it. The public relations would be messy if evidence of Russia interrogating him leaked while they were publicly insisting that they had no contact. If interrogation occurred, it would be great for the US government to see that information leak (because it would make Russia look bad and make Snowden and WikiLeak's decision to route through Russia look bad). Relative to someone like Gordievsky, I think the likelihood of evidence of an interrogation leaking eventually (via Snowden and people near him or by an internal leak) would be uncomfortably high. Meanwhile, we know that there are double agents in the intelligence agencies of both countries, so it's likely that Russia already has most of this information.

Edit: Meanwhile, it's entirely possible that Snowden has encrypted everything important on those laptops using a key that he is not carrying with him. Additionally, the narrative of Russia interrogating Snowden or otherwise stealing his data is so attractive to the US government that I would not be surprised if they would take steps to manufacture that story. The political motivations here should make journalists doubly cautious about accepting anonymous tips.
Yea, we wanted to keep the display simple. The biggest difference would probably be the ease of creating these guides (along with media such as inline videos, images, maps and more) and publishing them.
You can insert a morality clause into your code. However, a broad one ("do no evil" essentially) will make your code unusable unless you define, in exact detail and in legalese, your own moral code. You could prohibit individual activities, but then you run the risk of having your code used for undesirable activities that you previously could not have foreseen.
A friend just launched Lumi, "A new and easy way to find things that interest you", and thought it would be nice to send some HN traffic/ feedback. Any and all ideas welcome!
This is just scaremongering. Installing the command line LDAP tools (which is a horrendous binary protocol) is no harder than installing netcat or tcpdunp.
Never Sell "No"
So what are we suppose to buy?
> It's recurring income that requires zero effort once it's running.

It doesn't seem to be very recurring.
Ask HN: Why do you hate SQL?
Background: I've used SQL for 100% of my programming career. I find it to have quirks in a similar way that Java, Ruby, C, and any language you love have. SQL is not in any stretch of the word good for programming complex things, but it appears to be amazing at asking a computer to give you data in a way that you would find useful. At times I was even able to make an oracle database perform really well on really poorly structured or awkward data.

So the question: Why do people hate SQL? And I am not talking about (kind of I am) the NoSQL movement. I totally get that these NoSQL databases have advantages in scaling or performance in exchange for a guarantee that ACID compliant databases have.

I ask because whenever I mention SQL to ruby developers, I get a sense of aversion.
how about https://www.uber.com/
Understood, but not being able to "legally" use my code is not the same thing as not being able to use my code. Public domain is an important enough principle that I don't think we should be ceding so readily, just so we can appease the dysfunctional copyright regimes around the world.
If you are using telnet on your smartphone at 0400 on vacation you should probably have access to an SSH client that you can use to get on a real system to run curl on.
Facebook hashtags unveiled - do they improve brand communication on Facebook?
Unmanned drone makes first landing on US Navy aircraft carrier
Thank you for this! It's about time someone disrupted the microwave.
Wiretapping was possible even before MS has re-engineered Skype. The main reason behind using central servers is to increase reliability and decrease power usage on mobile devices (as they do not need to serve as supernodes anymore).
IFTTT available for iPhone
Along with that a way to shut the door quietly. Maybe newer ones are better but all the microwaves I've used sound like they are being slammed no matter how you shut the door.
I thought rails took care of the sql for you. create object get database access with out sql. why write crud code if you don't need to?
>How the hell does it end up 50% wins all the time?

Because that's what the system was designed to do. If you're winning more than 50% it means that some percentage of the time, the game can't find 5 people who are better than you to put in a game. You'd have to compete at a semi-pro level to get this to happen.
Your point being?

If the (potential) customer doesn't feel it's a big enough win for the price being asked, they can used their expenditure budget elsewhere to what they perceive to be a bigger gain.

If the price being asked is greater than the cost they are willing to bear, it's up to the (potential) consumers to reassess their priorities within their means.
> criminal tendencies are a genetic trait?

What?! No, I believe criminal tendencies are produced from your environment. Kids in bad homes tend to grow into bad people.

Link: http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-wh...
Seems likely to me (as submitter of 2) that it's just a matter of HN having some contingent of readers on the East Coast who read the Daily Kos in the morning and thought the article interesting enough to post. While I agree that the Nate Silver post was more interesting and informative, HN provides no mechanism for direct comparisons - everyone who upvoted/submitted this article may agree, and just never saw the other.

Thank's for the shout out, though, and more importantly for providing a link to the more thorough analysis!
So why the fuck are you on Medium then?
Linden Labs buys Desura
Well perhaps some people get into the hype of NoSQL and then it seems it's a silver bullet. I think NoSQL has its use cases and SQL has its use cases. NoSQL doesn't promise ACID, so any application which requires ACID will probably benefit from SQL. Key-value stores have its benefits in other situations. There are also niche databases, like graph databases, document databases, etc.
Yes. If you didn't glean that, you didn't read the article.
http://www.savagexr.com

It's a RTSS Real Time Strategy Shooter sort of thing. It's an FPS game that is sort of like a strategy. Not really any of those, but sort of close.
I hope they compete on price. $600 phones are ridiculous.
Yep.

Symlink'ing a ssh config file with Dropbox was the best decision I've made in a long time.

Same config file no matter which PC I am using, and you can always look up the IP/Hostname and which key it uses (don't store keys on dropbox for "critical" systems) through the dropbox web interface.
This is what I'm currently doing.

* Alfred for '>' command
* an alias for each server.
* Autologin using ssh keys.
What happened when 200 people went 4 days without apps?
I love this more than for just ssh. I added a few other common commands into the menu for easy access.
Because something something twitter developers something pretty? I honestly have no idea about Medium hype. It's like Wordpress, but invite only, with one shitty theme. How awesome.

I'm working on something like Medium meets Flattr. Invite only . I want quality writers. Users that register can attach a "wallet" of sorts that they could put money into. The money they have put into their wallet will be divided by the number of posts they read and shipped off to authors.

Example: I have $20 in my wallet/month because I love reading and I believe in supporting indie writers. I read 90 articles that month. 20/90 = 0.22 per writer. I feel like if the service gets enough users, people can make a real living off it.
As detailed on D.J. Bernstein's page at http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html, a lot of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about public domain software can be traced back to Lawrence Rosen's influential 2002 Linux Journal article "Why the Public Domain Isn't a License".

(For those who may not know, Rosen is the former general counsel and secretary of OSI.)

However, that article was incorrect on a number of issues, as Bernstein points out. And indeed, Rosen has last year at long last recanted his previous views on public domain software:

> I have already voted +1 to approve the CC0 public domain dedication
> and fallback license as OSD compliant. I admit that I have argued for
> years against the "public domain" as an open source license, but in
> retrospect, considering the minimal risk to developers and users
> relying on such software and the evident popularity of that "license",
> I changed my mind. One can't stand in the way of a fire hose of free
> public domain software, even if it doesn't come with a better FOSS
> license that I trust more.

Source: http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012...

The "fire hose" Rosen mentions can be witnessed in action at e.g. GitHub, with volumes of code now being put into the public domain on an everyday basis:
https://github.com/search?q=%22public+domain%22&type=Code&s=...
I agree, this would make a lot more sense...
It is a small world in the end high 3d space. I have collaborated in the past with the founder of Lagoa. But the main thing to remember is that Max, Maya and Softimage are all developed in Toronto and Montreal. Thus there is already an ecosystem around 3D tools here.

There is a difference of approach between Lagoa and Clara.io the main one is the Lagoa is mostly a renderer where as Clara.io is a more general tool, more ambitious in terms of functionality.
I think that is to confuse the form of something with the meaning of something.

Anonymous sources for reports that are at odds with the powerful are anonymous for fear of retaliation if found out. Anonymous sources for reports that validate the powerful are anonymous for fear of discrediting "the message" if found out.
Clara.io is an digital content creation tool focused on animation & rendering, like Maya, 3DSMax, SoftImage or Blender. It makes no guarantee of solidity or that its exports are watertight. That's certainly something that could be done in a post-process step, but Clara.io does not yet support it.
You have many of the same issues with HTTP/1.1 pipelining.
Some sites are auto-flagged (like anyhing from The Onion). Maybe it's the issue with Nate Silver too.
There is actually a pretty decent amount of work going into better building materials and alternatives to wood-pulp paper. The science involved in growing trees is pretty well established. Since there were trees, in fact. :) Getting more trees is a social problem.
Diapers Collect Big Data
I don't think you could fit enough transistors into a CPU die to do any form of monitoring - you would need to basically have an incredibly complex software package do it (which you could store on a ROM on the die). The only problem with that is you would need to translate a set of machine code instructions into an intent in real-time: we can't even do this offline (the best we have is IDA, but that needs crazy amounts of human intervention). So as far as the physical chip goes it's irrationally paranoid to worry about it.

However, Realtek, as a good example, love to home-grow their own [shitty] protocols and hence always require drivers - so if you want to realistically question whether or not your hardware could monitor you, looks at its inseparable twin: drivers. They run in the kernel and have access to pretty-much everything else on your system: no amount of UAC, sudo or whatever else not will keep your data safe from it - and most users won't think twice when installing them.
It is more art oriented than solid modelling. Thus it is best for video game art, rendering animations, etc. But it can do modelling to a degree but we do not make solidity guarantees at this point.
Or from being used by your usual evil scientist.
Fourth, actually. Indeed, this eases my opinion :) Since I was reading diagonally I think my eye moved away to Cauchy's Integral Formula, since I have worked a little in the complex field. Thanks for pointing this out ;)
This is why I hate sales people.

They sell shit, which doesn't exist, because they don't have to carry the can for realizing it...
The first commercial dedicated bitcoin paper wallet printing device
Ask HN: Advice on Business Cards
Do the freelancers on here use business cards? What information do you include/not include? Are they plain or fancy or clever? Can you post links to images of examples? Any advice on creating business cards would be helpful.
The HESSLA is the most popular license along those lines AFAIK. (Note that, as other replies have said, it's not open source).
The author compares PD with MIT/BSD type licences, but does not explain why he/she wants to give everyone the relatively full set of rights that these alternatives represent.

My code, outside the day job, is GPL. Why should I let others commercialize it without giving anything back? But I want to allow noncommercial use for everyone, and commercial use for those who will contribute their changes.

I'm not saying everyone should have these preferences - in fact I admire the generosity of anyone who donates valuable IP to the public domain. It's just that the title is "Why your next project should be public domain", yet the author does not explain the motive for this type of licence over others.
I most likely going to get down voted for this, but am I the only one who sees the irony in that this is a conference dedicated to breaking into systems and they don't want the people who are arguably better at it than anyone else?
The article (and it's associated links) simply keep restating the fact that app sales, like most things in and out of this category are a power law distribution. If you want to get into the top of the curve, you need exponentially greater quality / marketing.

Was there ever a time, even in the early days of the store, when making a shitty app would automatically bring in primary income?
> And no, that didn't work out. There was a prerelease development environment, but they never managed to get this mainstream.

This was due to internal Apple politics, as Dylan was planed to be the system language for Newton, I don't remember any longer the full story but other group ended up getting the project.
Seems a bit overkill. Is this a phone with a camera or a camera with a phone?
Human Motion Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers
I think much of J. Random Public that fancies themselves The Next Great Artist/Writer/Creator also want it to be so turnkey and dead simple that they also include "free" in that equation.

To make "free" sustainable and offer writers the chance to make money on their creations, I can only come up with the one solution: allow the site to make money however it can (using writers' content) and then divvy up the authors' cut based on popularity/views. This has many pitfalls, not the least of which is that authors will claim they're being fleeced (much like recording artists complain about record companies.)

Regardless, a blanket copyright assignment without compensation is unconscionable. I really hope those writers expecting to be professionals know to read the terms where they submit content.
Nokia N9 camera quality already killed any reason to buy compact cameras if you also carry smartphone (unless you need zoom with compact but nobody seems to need it). It had already image quality that matched all but the best compact cameras. Lumia 930 and iPhone5 both have better quality than N9.

I know some people who travel around the world who own that earlier 41 megapixel Nokia 1808 PureView monster because its handy when doing inspections and documenting stuff and gives really good pictures. They could have bought any compact, SLR or phone combo they wanted but it hit the spot.

Lumia 1020 will have better image and video quality than 1808 and with optical stabilization it will choice for many professions where you need camera all the time, like Jorunalists without acameraman. I'm not just sure that people in general care about image quality so much that it will be a hit. On the other hand YouTube with all those stupid videos will be incredible marketing channel.
Trippin Mobile Through the Social Media Networks: How We Connect eSocially
http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/01/22/what-do-declining-abo...

The original argument is in the book. The idea is that children from disadvantaged families are more likely to be aborted, while at the same time, children from disadvantaged families are also more likely to be crime prone. So, logically, abortion reduces crime with a twenty year delay. Personally, I like the lead theory[1] better, but it doesn't matter. It's not about eugenics or genes.

1 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
So here's the ironic thing:

If the US had provided a safe way for him to expose the wrongdoing of his employers, such that he could do so without fear of being persecuted, he could have stayed on US soil the whole time.

Now, because he knows he's going to end up in jail (or worse) if & when he returns to the US, he ends up having to spend time in countries which are likely to want to interrogate him for all the information he has.

Nice move, US.
Treating people less favourable based on gender is illegal in many places. This is an illegal business model.
NSA seeking new business for in-house CMOS wafer fab
No i dont go to phishing sites
The problem about the Air France beyond the objective troubles of night, tropical thunderstorm, turbulence, etc..
is that in fact the pilot reacted exactly as he was instructed at the simulator. He reacted to a thunderstorm as if they had a windshear.

Windshear are huge changes in directions and speed of wind when flying close to the ground (not at 35000´), but is one of the more trained maneuver as it is a very dangerous situation. If you analize the actions of the pilot flying, you´ll see that he reacts as it´s supposed to react to a windshear advice, full throttle and the sidestick full back, he stayed like that for almost 2 minutes.
When you are close to the ground the engines have the power to make you climb fast and the flight envelope protections keep the plane from entering in to a stall.
That´s why he didn´t understand what was happening, in his point of view he was making the right think to get out of the thunderstorm.
The problem is that he had a totally different situation, a instrument failure. When you have those you only have to keep your thrust and attitude constant and check a specific table that we have for this situation. In that table it´s specified the thurst position and attitude (degrees of nose up seen on the artificial horizont) that you must maintain to keep a cruise speed at a given level.
If he had managed to do just that, staying as they were, they wouldn´t had any problem.

Once they where in a stall, the normal reaction is to pitch down and increase slowly the thrust, once you have enough speed you recover the horizontal attitude. Another problem is that they couldn´t understand that they were in a stall, in normal mode the Airbus can not get in a stall, but as the instrument failed they were able to get below the protections and once they were there the computer didn´t have the possibility to react, it sensed the situation as a data failure and didn´t give alarms some of the times.

There has been too much training involving the automatic safety measures (they are indeed great, but they are not all that it takes to fly) and too little involving normal and abnormal manual flight maneuvers. We have lost the touch of how to flight a plane.
Put the iPhone to work for you
Doesn't the NSA do all of that too though? They standardized Suite B crypto, invented SHA-1 (and -0), developed SELinux, etc. etc.
Another consumer tech suggestion culled from reddit: my TV should have a button on the side which causes the remote to emit some kind of noise so I can find it.
Family network. We all run servers in our houses that are connected and each keep backups of eachothers backups. Backups at my parents, grandparents, cousins in colorado, family in Poland. All encrypted, all silently running in the basement of each house. All updated every week.
I witnessed a fraud where someone ended their career over a couple grand in expenses. I couldn't believe it. My takeaway was they thought they wouldn't be caught, or they could talk their way out of it if they were.

Unless this is a case of someone saying, "Wouldn't this be cool?" it's probably the tip of the iceberg. The bitcoins could be fueling a drug or gambling habit, or something else. The story is rarely as simple as one mistake - there's usually a history of poor judgment.
WebApps written in QML: Not far from Reality anymore
Those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it. Back in the day of the OSI stack, the telecom guys were huge fans of binary protocols. The arguments were exactly those described here on HN: they're easier to implement; with the right tooling, they're just as readable; they're more efficient.

The fact is, on the application layer, text based protocols wiped the floor with binary protocols. The answer is in the little details, which everyone knows is where the devil spends its time. They are not easier to implement, because they're more difficult to debug (and because text parsers are, let's be honest, a solved problem); they are not as readable, because debug tooling is never perfectly implemented and never ever present in every system; they are more efficient, but at this layer the efficiency does not pay off (i.e. the size of the HTTP header leading that 5MB image does not really matter).

One of the comments here pulled a comparison I did not remember any more: SS7 vs SIP. Go and have a look at both protocols. They are both mature, so you don't really need to wait for the fantastic debug tooling to appear. Study both ecosystems and then form your opinion on binary vs text application protocols.
I'd gladly pay 1k for decent battery (2 days actual use) and a keyboard. No &$@#+=! Soft touch "buttons" for back, etc.
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Yes. It's the oversampling with the 1/1.2” size of the sensor that makes image quality in low light really good.

Other feature is the ability to have usable digital zoom in camera without immediately having low resolution shitty image quality.
Lernstift: Linux-based pen that vibrates when you make a mistake
Red Hat will switch from Oracle MySQL to MariaDB, reports