skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting article. I would add one more, important, thing that is specific to current situation:

11 Always talk and demand for transparency and open society.

Ofc this is not true because they demand only civil sector to be open while at the same time they are closed and even secret (ffs secret laws???). You can't demand open society with one or more parts of that society closed. Let me rephrase this, when facebook/google calls for open society -> they should open their database first, not demanding people to give them more data and lock that data down.

Little bit radical idea, but don't demand something you are not willing to make yourself.
That is very cool, I'm reading it right now, thanks for the link
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Will a floating point operation always evaluate to the same result?
Horseshit.

Setting up a password for an Android device only needs to be done once for each device->network pairing. The reuse of Wifi passwords across devices is an edge case given the predominate ownership pattern of Android devices - i.e. most people have a phone that runs Android and no other Android device.

Google's scheme allows them to harvest the passwords to a vast number of wireless networks.

Google has harvested the location, name and signal strength of many millions of wireless networks across the world - an act which can be in no way cast as user convenience.

The very best possible light for this nexus is that it only appears to be a very very bad thing.
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What common use case is backing up wifi passwords or any passwords, for that matter? Yeah, there are difficulties here, but I don't want or need you to backup my wifi password. Its none of your business.
Thumb, and incidentally, mine is remapped to Alt/Meta for better Emacs support. I'm not a big fan of the Apple key layout either, but the reason I use an Apple keyboard with Emacs in Cygwin is that it just feels right. Maybe it's because I've been using laptops for such a long time, but something about the pitch and the tactile feedback just seems to hit a sweet spot. Plus, I guess compared with the other HP, Dell and Logitech crap we have around the lab, it's probably the best option (at least for me).
Do you find it puzzling that people favored black-and-white TVs to cinema screens?

I think historians will be able to figure this one out. Especially when people are aware of it at the time it's happening.
I think this is a great idea. I really don't want to advertise that I'm looking for work by putting the little suitcase next to my name on linkedin, my employer would know immediately if they ever looked.

Interesting take on a real problem.
FOIA Machine: "Free" information is not always free
What happened to the b&w-sunreadable screen?
If it's a public kiosk-like environment, especially if Google Play and related apps are not important, I would suggest using an inexpensive Android compatible "dev" board and spec'ing the display separately. You need to be careful about driver support. If 2" is really acceptable, you should be able to find stuff that will be fist-proof.
This seems really interesting but what kind of user-data is it mapping?
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A friend's daughter has a Kurio Android tablet, which seems very similar to this.

http://www.kurioworld.com/us/features.php#techspecs

I'd really like to see any technical specs on this, but can't seem to find any on http://www.xotablet.com/ or http://www.vivitar.com/
How Involved Are The Parents In Their Child’s Education?
You need to look at your copy again - missing words, and missing spaces galore on this page: http://www.apparly.com/providers. Even in the title! - Are you [a] provider.
The challenge to all these cases is standing. Its not enough that someone breaks the law; to launch a successful civil lawsuit you have to show that breaking the law caused you actual injury, generally economic injury. So, the telecom and internet companies have to play a role in this. Unlike nearly anybody else, their injuries aren't theoretical. Google and Facebook, etc, can show concrete and particularized economic injury through lost customer business.
I would encourage you to spend a bit of time with the new user manual for LPX. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what they've done: there's really nothing missing, concealed, or watered down; even the environment is still there. There are just some new ways to access that power.

Arguing about this stuff is all fun, but ultimately we're all musicians (among other things). Snarkiness doesn't help anyone, so I apologize if I caused any offense to you personally. I do stand by what I said about your comment though.
Specifications(http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-tablet):

1.6 GHz Dual-Core Processor
1 GB RAM
8 GB Storage
7" 1024x600 screen
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity
1.3 MP Front & 2.0 MP Rear cameras
Headset, MicroSD, Micro USB, and Mini HDMI I/O ports
Android 4.1 operating system
Built-in parental controls
The corruption originated in gaming, specifically Warcraft modding I believe. Regardless of how it originated or is used it's still rather trashy in a headline.
I agree, it's quirky but poor Columbus Torphy is probably getting called into his bosses office today ;)
context: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/n...
In the contact form the name is: Hidden McRedacted
Network Solutions' DNS was down
IJKL doesn't move you off the home keys though.
What was the bug you submitted?

The thing about AOSP is exactly what JBQ said: It's meant for reports about open source parts of Android, not reports about Samsung's skin on top of it, etc.

Most of the bugs submitted are not AOSP bugs (I know it's hard to believe, but i've done triage on it). They are bugs in some vendor's patches or changes to AOSP, which, for the most part, Google can do nothing about.

It would be worse if these bugs were left open, giving people the false hope that Google can solve their problem, or that the bug got to the right place.

If this bug/feature is somewhere in the AOSP code, great, reopen the bug and point it out.
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Yet another place where I feel a tinge of anger that VPNs utterly failed to deliver on the potential of private secure connectivity to personal data storage from anywhere. Several of us here at HN set up and manage home networks to which we connect over an encrypted channel. To us--well, to me at least--it seems plain as day that my device should allow me to backup its sensitive data to a file that I store on a file system of my choosing. I would store it on my encrypted disk array at home (which is then backed up to a data center disk array).

But to a layperson, the lack of a secure private channel to personal data storage remains an infeasibility. So laypeople embrace third-party "cloud" storage offerings, this one included. These services offer omnipresence of data. They don't offer personal control, but many people are willing to concede control because omnipresence is such a convenience.

Putting all of that aside, however, and accepting the world as it is, with VPNs the tragedy of user experience that they are... An open question remains: why not ask the user to create a passphrase for use in encrypting the device's data before storing it at the GoogleCloud + NSACloud?

The seemingly obvious answer to the rhetorical question is a worry about user experience pain ("woe is me, I need to remember another passphrase now"). So perhaps the user would be instructed to provide a passphrase if and only if they are concerned about their backup being stored on the NSACloud. If they are not concerned, they can leave the field empty.
A properly configured ConEmu is pretty much the same as Linux terminals. It has tabs, transparency, background images, colors, proper copy paste, path autocompletion. What's missing ?

Here's mine in action http://i.imgur.com/S5mkXq6.png
It is these problems that make me think the QuickCheck family of testing frameworks will be a better approach in the long run.

One for JS: http://www.yellosoft.us/quickcheck
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I'm expecting some kind of law that gives them and the companies involved immunity over this, any day now.

Btw it seems the US government doesn't care much about the 1st amendment anymore, either, and seems very comfortable with the idea that Snowden shouldn't be allowed to speak anymore, just because he's been "accused" with 3 felonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GDFI...
If anyone hasn't downloaded [cloud to butt](https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt)

Let [this](http://cl.ly/image/1X0o212T3B0Y) be your reminder to do so.
Try East Coast (US) VC's and angels. "Risk averse" doesn't even start to describe some of these folks. We have angel investors who want you to have paying customers and then still want to do 6 months of "due diligence" before making a seed investment.
Because P2P is terrible for audio and video? The quality of call I'd get on skype would be random because you never know if the system will route you through some kid's oversaturated DSL line or 1gbs fiber.

On top of it, p2p apps like the old skype and spotify aren't very nice. I've seen them make 3-5mbps DSL borderline unusable. This is unacceptable in a business setting and home users may not be aware that they are hitting a cap with their ISP when running these apps.
NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com) has been doing this automatically since 2006.

Disclaimer: I was one of the co-founders.
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"Sign in with twitter". Don't have an account, don't need one right now. Thanks and bye.
Does conemu work right with applications like python? One common problem with layers over the console subsystem is that it's not possible for an application to detect that it is being manipulated by an interactive console anymore, because the layer over it (console2, mintty, etc) looks like a pipe.

To be fair, I haven't tested this out in a while, so maybe they fixed it. But last time I tried, python would see that pipe and assume you were piping a .py file into it instead of launching the interpreter. IIRC the problem is related to how 'isatty' works on win32.
His rants and trolls on comp.lang.lisp in the heyday of that group were epic... and annoying. He does seem to have matured somewhat.
Kreatify: An evaluation
I still have my issues with this approach. This only works in my opinion for reproducible tasks that are easy to explain. If have tried working with VAs numerous times. You need to calculate the time it takes to write a detailed brief on exactly what you want and usually have still to go through the project. Even with mindless tasks such as adjusting power point slides - if it is really important it makes sense to do it yourself. By the time you are done with it you know that you have exactly the product you had in mind free of any screw ups - except your very own. Unless of cause you have found the 'perfect' VA.
Bootstrapping to an A round isn’t all roses
Drowning, huh? That some kind of legal term, or are we really just the kind of website that'll gobble up any kind of tripe nowadays?
I was under the belief that it looked for nodes with things like high bandwidth, low latency and no problems with firewalls and such. And even then, it's not like they didn't have a clump of machines 'always on' as supernodes anyway.

Because of all of that, I find it hard to believe that Skype would choose mobile devices as supernodes...
Not really, they might remove it if they get a lot of complaints.
Fair enough, it was some time ago and I wouldn't really order either (what a waste of vodka), so I stand corrected.
It's a hangover from a previous iteration of the design - we were generating names with ffaker and then doing a strikethrough, but in reality it was confusing users rather than being a funny aesthetic touch.

In the interests of getting this thing shipped we decided to hide the text with CSS, but replacing it with an SVG is at the top of our priority list :)
Yep too much hours to learn that to be him!
Just today I bought 7 inch android tablet Prestigio with dual core cpu @ 1.5GHz and 1024x600 resolution for 120$ ... with 20% VAT and 5% customs tax included in that price. I bought it for my girlfriend's kid. So 150 looks steep indeed.

On a side note - does anyone knows of a good educational suite for 6yo - basic math, basic english, etc?
Really? Google has the knowledge of where the network is, who has access to it, and what the password is. Remember also that WiFi networks are a shared resource and often provide access to internal corporate data.

From a governmental law enforcement perspective, that's an incredibly valuable trove of data. Instant network backdoors, likely with no physical entry required.

Even if you're not using the data to sniff networks, you can use it to build detailed relationship graphs between people and places.
From what I can tell, JBQ is right and the maps folks are not understanding the issue you have. :)

The Location Services API is not part of AOSP (or at least, this implementation isn't) IIRC

You should rephrase the bug report to make clear you are talking about the google play services location API.

As for the complaint on that bug report that google should file and track these issues for folks, AOSP is an open source project, and like most open source projects, prefers folks file upstream/downstream issues directly.
If you had a kid, you might very well give them a $150 Android device! I've seen days where I would've given my kids $150 in cash just to keep them busy/quiet for an hour or two, if I thought that would work. There is already the fairly popular Nabi (~ $150), which is customized for kids. We've definitely handed over the $400-ish phones, and readers.
I recommend using interfaces instead of forward declarations.

Interfaces are a concrete contract and provide the functionality you're looking for, plus it's just a cleaner implementation.

If you can't use interfaces, use virtual and pure virtual declarations in your classes to provide a standardized forward declaration. Here's a link to an example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318064/how-do-you-declare...
Chrome extension for 1 click WebRTC video meetings directly from Gmail
Hesitant with good cause, is it really worth the risk? Add up the time you're spending shopping around, reading reviews, the thousands of dollars in electronics you could burnt up, the pain of trying to use your warrantee when you violated it, and losing those files you forgot to back up; all to save what $20.
On the Mac, the Ctrl key can be used for Home and End using the Emacs/bash keys (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E).

I'm also a thumber.
Doesn't this mean you can do any kind of cross-site scripting? Like redirect to goatse.cx?
Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday
Oh crap. Today is going to be a bad day for me.
> I thought this project was supposed to be all open source.

Ancient history.
The much simpler idea is to stop using bloated, general purpose frameworks, and just use tiny, functional-style hooks when needed, the way people used JS in days before the framework madness.)
Reference: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/22/google-street-view-fine-g...

(for others like myself who had not heard of this)
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Their mail server appears to be online.
Bravo. jashkenas's reticence to fully support pushState is really frustrating.
How do you know I wasn't referring to one of the scientists she interviewed for the article, more than one of whom suggested that we could live without mosquitoes?
Most likely too busy and already writing his next book on "how to own 5% of the next Google by writing a 5 min blog post".
Beaten by the buzzer! Congratulations to your friend; if you feel like kicking the tires and looking for a new job we'd love to have you sign up!
Interesting. Did you raise capital for the company? So what would you have done differently, or asked another way, how do you approach a new business idea now. Do you start with consumer research? Just focus on a light weight MVP to look for market validation?
Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding
If you don't strictly need multi-touch, maybe you could forgo capacitive for a hardier resistive screen? Or for a IR-based touchscreen (such as on e-readers)?
You have a button you can push (#3 in your list above). So this means you are well on your way. You would need to create(or have created for you) a password app, that would open on startup, and prompt you for your password. Of course entering a password using a keyboard isn't so great, but since you have a button, you can ask for a certain set of button pushes, in a certain order. (Whatever works well for you).

i.e. you spell 'cat' in morse code with your one button. Or whatever. The important thing is that it's something YOU can do, and is likely not anymore easily guessed/caught than someone shoulder surfing someone typing the password on the keyboard.

That said.. I want to point out, you mention this is because you are worried about your PA's that are helping you with things maybe taking liberties you don't want them to. If you don't trust your PA's I think you should work on getting their trust (and vice versa), or look into replacing them with people you trust. If you need help with advocacy around this, reach out to your local Independent Living Center.

Good Luck!
It would be nice if you could tell me what I got wrong instead of just saying I'm not "qualified" to comment. Maybe we just have different ideas of what the word "need" means. I've managed to go three decades and change without this, and don't see any obstacles to continuing. To me, that means I don't "need" it. I don't need to work for a big company to see that.

I have no idea who Mr. Shah is and don't really care. I am criticizing the article, not the author.
That really is awesome. I just shared it on my Facebook page, and there were people talking about downloading it within minutes. Seems like marketing this thing should be relatively easy.
Very David Langford.
C: AKA "portable assembler" :-)
If the mail server goes down again it'll be a bad day for us too.
All three major Russian carriers dump iPhone
God bless this next generation. My girlfriend is black (I'm white) and my parents are fairly fundamentalist, conservative evangelical Christians. My stepfather, as much as I love him, still comments when he can on how disgusting white people dating black people are (he doesn't know I'm dating a black woman.)

We are going places as a society. This current batch of human beings is the greatest generation to have ever lived. Though we'll make _nearly_ all the same mistakes, we won't make ALL of them. We should be all proud that we're moving-on-up.
RussiaToday (rt.com) is widely criticized as an explicitly federally funded Russian propaganda outlet. I do not believe it is a proper or reliable source of information for HN. It would be more appropriate to link to another less biased source of news.
> It was also extremely liberating when I realized [...]

I was expecting something much different here. Something to do with the lack of a requirement for someone at the photography lab to view the photos while developing the prints. I know I found that liberating, ifyouknowwhatImean.
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This cannot happen fast enough. I don't want to buy Yet Another Proprietary Lack-Luster Service such as the one available in my 2012 Ford Focus when I have a smart phone that would make Ford Prefect green with envy.

Let me Bluetooth (or even USB) into the car and pass through my Sync Voice Command button with Siri or Google Now.

Is that too much to ask?
You're subsidizing the ones that get distributed at low or no cost in other countries.
Seeing this as well, appears to be DNS only at this point.
So...?

They laughed at Einstein. The also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Pointing out that a similar opinion about a completely different thing turned out wrong has no bearing, at all.
Cost is irrelevant, the size is the key determinant. But your point is well made.
I rarely use the CTRL key in vim and unfortunately my CAPSLOCK key is bound to SUPER for easy tag switching in awesome-wm. I think I am missing on some of vim's core features because of that. I already saw huge improvements when switching to US-International layout and it smoothed things in vim too.

Free tip:

~ $ echo 'imap jj <ESC>' >> .vimrc

jj being a rare combination in insert mode it makes a nice pinky-safe ESC move.
Thanks, I know, working on it, just uploaded this version yesterday, but some texts are not showing what they are supposed to (the initial texts were just giberish and meant to be replaced).
Don’t Ask a Best Friend to be Your Startup Mentor
I find it interesting he states "No enterprise software".
We seem to once again be visiting a weird alternate universe, where the only way to succeed is to either work for a big company directly, or work for a small company that works for a big company.
We run our own mail server, but the MX records come from network solutions :(
SSH Tunnels and Stuff
Put your ring finger in the gap between your I and K keys. To press one or the other, you don't have to relocate it, you just roll it in one direction or the other. It's similar to the technique of hitting any of the XABY buttons on an Xbox controller with the side of your right thumb while keeping the end of your thumb on the analog stick.

And in any case, when was the last time you moved up and down at the same time?
Brogrammer?
This article about "Javascript web applications" quickly turns into an article about how Backbone's URL handling is bad. The content is really interesting but it feels kind of passive-aggressive.
Eclipse Quick Search
It's close (from http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...):

We’ve heard that other companies have people allocate a
percentage of their time to self-directed projects. At
Valve, that percentage is 100.

I definitely don't claim any originality in the concept. The pithy, perhaps eye-roll-worthy phrasing, maybe. ;-)
I never said there were no benefits, I just said that the word "need" is wrong, and that the listed benefits are ridiculous.

I don't see how you can decide open-mindedness based on a point-by-point refutation of what are some pretty blatantly silly points.
Thanks for reply. So it sounds like in your experience there is a lot of chance, or randomness, at play, but what you can control is your expectations (don't buy hype). Is that right? What were your take-aways about timing and picking partners? Curious how you do things differently now.
Your link talks about the thermic effect of food. The TEF of apples vs apple juice is definitely different. But maybe that's what your are saying -- calories aren't the important piece?
I like some of Jeremy Ashkenas work (in fact I use some of it daily), but he has jumped the shark with this one.

Another bad sign is that he also removed lo-dash (a better underscore.js clone, that fixes several issues, is faster, passes all the same tests AND also strives to support Backbone.js) from the backbone docs.
They need to look at every page, even the home page:

What is Apparly?
[We are] an Appstore that lets you choose how to pay.[space]Download Apparly, [and subscribe, buy the license or 'Pay per use' the program you need] needs rephrasing.

Our application list
Browse the list of Apps available for subscription, pay per use or sale.[space]Let us know if you don´t find what you are looking for.

Good luck though, looks like a good start and you just need to do some final polishing
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You're right. Title updated.
I agree there are probably interesting and good bits about working at a big company, and I'd love to talk about them. This article, however, does not, and it doesn't even get the conversation started.
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