skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the other founder! Well of course we're going to track your Facebook account! And then we'll send a drone to thank you for subscribing. :-) Seriously, that is good feedback and appreciate the privacy concerns, I am really sensible to that too. We're storing a graph database of associations, so to be able to suggest you more interesting things to see in the future. That said, nothing in the business logic is tied to users/accounts, it's more like "a stack is related to a stack, because of their item relationships". Also, until we add collaborative stacks, it's all inherently private by default. Not going to track anything in forms or the like, just the stuff you decide to drag and drop.
Ironically, they could be the last ones standing if a disease sweeps the rest of the world.

On another note, it would be interesting to know what they eat, and to know the incidence of chronic disease in their culture. The results would likely be surprising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Price
Why is hour < day < week? I read the patio article where he said that, but since I've never been a contractor, I don't understand the difference that would make.

Also, since an hourly rate is standard and job postings say how much they pay by the hour, isn't it common to be rejected when you ask for a daily/weekly rate?
I think you've fallen victim to an anthropomorphic fallacy here. I see what you're trying to do; as someone who owns a lot of animals I spend a good amount of time observing their behavior patterns. But one could just as easily describe them with a 4 act structure or in terms of stimulus-response behavior.
the maintenance page has a new update just now saying this

We'll be back soon.
We apologize that maintenance is taking longer than expected.
If your program membership was set to expire during this period, it has been extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.
Secure ID token is a little much to ask for $3/month email.
Wow awesome feedback thank you. We are going to start spit testing our landing page text soon so I will certainly put that description I'm there as one of the alternatives.

In terms of tracking we I understand your concerns. Here is a list of the things we track.

1. We keep a database of all the content you add to stacks. This is so you will one day be able to access it from any device.

2. The data we store about the content you add varies depending on the type of content. But typically we store plain text, HTML and associated URI's representations for everything you add. This is so we can render content in a visually constitent manner and make it easy for users to retrieve from visual memory.

3. We do not track any browsing data or any page interactions. We only store data of the things you add to Latis.

Hope this clears things up for you. We would love it if you could give it a try and let us now what you think.
What makes a good story? Change.
It already has, it's called Delete Account
NSA is not inerently evil, these programs are - they are the cancer, because they have external funded interest. Private contractors that trade their directors to lead NSA and then get them back. Kind of incestious cycle don't you think? how is that someone who has hired your comany, suddenly runs your company ... maybe conflict of interest?
I think you're missing the idea (but I could be wrong, I've never consulted): You're not supposed to promise when a project will be finished, you just set your rate per days/weeks. You estimate when it will be finished, but you don't promise.
I think that StackExchange is a batter place for this kind of questions. But I don't know which one is the correct. I googled a little and I found that superuser has a Magicjack tag, perhaps you should submit it there. Good luck: http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/magicjack
Nope. I don't have the two monitors side by side - they're at an angle to each other, so that as I turn my head it's more likely that I'll be looking at the second one straight on, rather than at an angle. I tried having them making up (effectively) one large monitor and it was a worse experience for me.
Too many reasons to re-list. You can use the search bar on the bottom of the page to find me talking about this ad nauseam.

We've never been rejected for a client for not billing hourly.
for all we know, they view infant mortality as a perfectly acceptable form of birth control. this would be an example of culture shock.
Build a real time follow-me navigation system using Meteor.js
Great job nonetheless, but still, when you talk about top 25, everybody assumes you're referring to US top chart. Very different thing.
Do we know that a significant number of non-spam NSFW blogs were being flagged as "Adult" by Tumblr, or is it possible that people were enabling this flag themselves without realizing its implications?
I guess the difference I see is this: are the drones monitoring a person watching for them to commit a crime OR are they monitoring a road looking for anyone committing a crime? I think this distinction is important and you may not. That is fine.
First graf is an excellent summary.

Ran into the same logic fighting to protect the secret ballot.

Many jurisdictions tie ballots to voters thru unique barcodes. Excellent for ballot tracking, accountability. Terrible for voter privacy.

Government argued that although data is collected, it's never looked at, so no violation of privacy.

Ditto prescanning ballots before election day. It's not "tabulation" until they run the final report. All the draft reports beforehand don't count.

These Kipling "just so stories" logic makes me nuts.
I just realized this after seeing the referenced article title. Does make my response marginally off topic. I have never used Facebook or Snapchat so I had no idea they used read receipts.

Does iMessage have these too? [I don't use that either]
You don't actually have a problem with movies using formulas, you have a problem with them feeling formulaic. (Chances are.)

Formulas exist because, when followed properly, they work. For the casual movie viewer, I'm sure that 90% of your favorite movies adhere to this structure, more or less. That, alone, won't cause your movie to feel bad.

There are countless other variables that affect whether or not a movie feels formulaic but, very roughly, I'd suggest that it's when a writer/production team feels like the formula -alone- is enough, that it should work. The beats are just there, but there's still no pulse.

IMHO, this summer, Fast Six nailed the beats perfectly, and people walked away mostly satisfied. Man Of Steel didn't, people were unhappy. Most Pixar movies are lockstep with this structure. Few people gripe about the formulaic pixar movies.

You could probably convince me that movies, as an artform, are more or less built for this structure in the same way that sonnets have a particular rhyme scheme. Sure you can make other kinds of poems, but if the audience really likes sonnets, what's the point? I think the average movie-goer really likes Sonnets, so to speak. And there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone has seen enough movies to develop an appetite for The Tree of Life.

Note: I've read Save the Cat, have studied screenwriting at a graduate level, and have a (very humble) IMDB listing. So consider this my 2.1 cents worth.
>The government's legal position is that indiscriminately dumping large datasets of metadata into a database is not a search.

Okay, then let's start by challenging this legal position. Just because they interpret something a certain way doesn't mean we have to accept it.
If I could pay for just me, I'd be tempted.

But with a domain it's all or nothing, and I'm not paying for my brothers, parents, etc.
Every now and again an Apple person will pop up on the Xcode mailing list to tell people to submit a bug report on Radar. They sometimes also reassure all that, yes, despite all evidence to the contrary, bug reports DO get read - though I note that they are always extremely careful to promise no more than that.
Where did I ask for SecureID? I was hoping for a TOTP-based mechanism for 2-factor.
Remember, first I have to trust the untrusted BitTorrent® "node"...
It does, though they're at least optional. Several of my friends don't use them.
That's false.

The Supreme Court is, and has been since 1803, the final arbiter of the constitutionality of national security programs.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were never appealed to the Supreme Court because the power of judicial review wasn't established until 1803, but they have referenced the acts in modern opinions and said they would be found unconstitutional.

SCOTUS did in fact hear argument and issue a decision on Japanese internment, mostly famously in favor of the government in Korematsu v. United States, but they also struck down indefinite detention in Ex Parte Endo.

In Ex Parte Merryman, Chief Justice Taney ruled Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional. This almost precipitated a constitutional crisis, as Lincoln either threatened or actually ordered him to be arrested.

In modern times there were the Guantanamo cases: Boumediene, Rasul, Hamdi, Hamden.

And that's just working off your examples. The Supreme Court absolutely decides the constitutionality of national security cases.
Excellent point.

Is ~400 people a large enough population to support most diseases, or is it possible that they essentially (infectious) disease free by virtue of their tiny population?

I'm also curious what the genetics of a 400-person island look like. I always assumed that the minimum viable population was larger than that -- somewhere in the thousands -- but if the population estimate is correct, and has been for tens of thousands of years, then that's pretty concrete evidence that it's no more than 400.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/

As a sidenote, it is interesting that water issues underlie so much CA politics even now, many decades later, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
Globalization is a significant influence on screenwriting big films. Because blockbuster are now being produced for a global market they turn up the special effects and visual action and turn down the plot subtlety and complexity which might otherwise be confusing to a non-English speaking audience.
We sort of ran out of steam and the joke got old after the drive so we never added or edited the template.
"Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs. It is sometimes used as a term of derision to indicate a media system which does not serve the public interest in place of the mainstream media or "MSM," which tends to be used by both the political left and the right as a derisive term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_media
Ah, yes. That's the one.
Was doing something <quite> similar with a bookmarklet a while ago. Very cool. Installed.
Being famous does not excuse lacking citations.
It's consistent.

Gutting the founding principles of the country, both literally and figuratively, in response to the deaths of 3000 people is bad tradecraft, too.

It feels like the US is consciously making the most suboptimal decisions possible in response to terrorist attacks, terrorist threats, terrorists themselves, leaks uncovering the US's poor judgement, or those reporting on such leaks. But, of course, never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, right?

Everything from throwing people in Gitmo indefinitely with no trial, to surveilling the whole country, to throwing the US internet industry under a bus (with the whole "we only surveil foreign entities" nonsense), threatening individual journalists with prosecution, torturing people prior to trial for speaking up about war crimes, irradiating and sexually assaulting air passengers, assassinating citizens... all the way down to plastic silverware in airport restaurants.

We've executed, by the textbook, exactly the most destructive, demoralizing, wasteful, and ineffective responses to these threats that can possibly be conceived under the model. We've done exactly what hurts us most, inflicted MANY orders of magnitude more damage on the US voluntarily than any decade of sustained successfully executed terror attacks ever could or would.

Far more disheartening than the general public's apathy or the transgressions of our leadership is the gradual and stunning realization that This Is The Best America Can Do.

For fuck's sake.
Now explain to me why Wired doesn't fit that definition.
It is not Swartz, but certain (presumably lower case A) anonymous elements of the internet community who have phoned in multiple threats to MIT staff in the wake of his suicide. That is the subsequent violence that protection of information serves to prevent.

Swartz broke and entered MIT private property that is the crime I alluded to in my analogy. (See the matter in Massachusetts state court for details). MIT did not understand the nature of his actions on the wire before involving the Secret Service to assist in the investigation. At that point MIT has no more say in the prosecution. None. It is the United States Government's decision how to run the prosecution.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to plan & manage your online (ie: MOOC) study?
Of late I've gotten hooked on to coursera. Now although I've tried out both udacity and udemy, the 'real-time' schedule of coursera really makes it more useful for me than the others. I find that having a submission deadline and a grading system works better for me. Now, however, I feel the need for a tool that'll let me plan and manage my study time and give me some insight into things like would signing up to a new forthcoming course be feasible with my current workload.

What do people here use to plan and manage their study time ?
> but it can be disabled

If it could really be disabled (and the disabling was supported by Microsoft instead of in spite of them) I'd agree with you, but it actually can't. Or at least Microsoft has gone obnoxiously far out of their way to ensure you will continually invoke it by accident, even if you tried to turn it off.

For example even after installing classic shell, random videos and photos still open the metro UI - full screen in all its glory. I also often end up falsely triggering the multitasking gesture (swipe from left=>right across trackpad). And the wifi-control panel has been turned into a brain damaged metro simpleton. And in 8.1, searching my start menu is going to return Bing results even if I was only looking for a file on my computer. My documents are going up to SkyDrive by default even though that might violate my privacy, cause me to break the law in certain industries that are regulated, cost me bandwidth or just plain be against my wishes.

If I had one word for this Windows release it would be "disrespectful". Because Microsoft has put all their own needs ahead of my own. In their selfish desire to promote their own products they have essentially become the bloatware that infected all their PCs and used to be the fault of the OEMs.
One Billion Dollars (A lambo for you, and you, and you)
Fastmail has always been an Australian company. Then they were bought by the Norwegian company Opera, who seem to have left them largely to their own devices. I haven't really noticed any changes from the acquisition. And yes the servers are in the New York, probably for latency reasons.

Here's more of the text from

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_company_info.html

FastMail.FM's was started by Rob Mueller and Jeremy Howard in 1999. We are located in Melbourne Australia, we use IBM servers hosted by NYI in NYC US. FastMail.FM is now run by Opera Software Australia Pty Ltd, a whole owned subsidiary of Opera Software ASA of Norway.
I'm pretty inexperienced with stock prices, but I zoomed out a bunch and this drop doesn't look very noteworthy.
Well, congratulations on shipping.

We're storing a graph database of associations, so to be able to suggest you more interesting things to see in the future.

Can I opt out of that if I want? If I just want to store things and not get any suggestions or prompts or anything?
>inherit the estate of your dead wife

A well written will would solve that issue.
I've spent several hours playing Candy Crush. Interesting enough, it wasn't until I read the coercive monetary strategy document that I recognized that it was actually a cash-game masquerading as a skill game.

And, btw, I have no problem with InApp purchases properly done. Paper by FiftyThree (extra tools), Build-A-Lot (extra levels), and Pioneer Lands (Extra Levels + Extra Game Mechanics + Careful balancing) - are just three examples where this is done really, really well. I have 401 Apps purchased/downloaded, I've spent north of $2K on the AppStore, and I don't begrudge game developers (Indy or otherwise), making $200mm on their games - I just don't like to see them preying on vulnerable emotions to do so, or making money by resetting a "Just need 5 more moves" counter - that's just lame.
Unless I misunderstood, the article other I read said there was no way to search for the NSFW tumblrs (or however you'd say it) _within_ tumblr. That would be a much bigger deal than not being able to find it from google. If you can't find it within, that means it's nearly impossible to find it in the future.
but... where's the source? Those are all closed, proprietary programs. They might be fine in their own right, but they are not free software. Audacity is free software, as is Ardour.

The better answer to this question is probably that Mac OS X is not the best platform to run free software on, just like Microsoft Windows is suboptimal at best. Given that those platforms are closed and proprietary this is not that surprising. If you want to run free software, start at the bottom - the kernel. It is not like there is a dearth of choice when it comes to running free kernels after all.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/how-do-you-break-into-iphon...

To reach #25 in the U.K. AppStore, it takes only 21% of the of downloads that it takes to hit #25 in the U.S. AppStore.

Still, very impressive for an amateur developer in such an overcrowded channel.
There was an incidence of what I suppose we should term "unannounced maintenance" a few months ago.
REST (inc. HATEOAS) done right
What do you guys think of pay by milestone? Client and seller both agree to a milestone with a checklist that, when complete, signifies the milestone is complete. This provides clarity, transparency, and predictability. As a buyer, I prefer milestones.
It's like anything else - to create, it is first helpful to be able to deconstruct examples first and understand how they work.
> I think a lot of commenters have made the United States into a villain

The combined actions of many interests involved with the US government have made them into villains all by themselves. Transparency is meaningless unless it actually helps to stop the outrages committed by the government. As the government is still exercising powers that fewer citizens think they should have, the perception of villainy will only increase.
The best thing I added to my gruntfile this week
If you're going to read "The Elements of Style", you might as well get the "The Elements of Style Illustrated", with very pretty illustrations.

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Illustrated-William-Str...
Historically we tend to react badly in the initial phases of response to a new issue, then self-correct. What troubles me is that those mechanisms don't seem to be working this time around.

But I don't believe this is the best America can do. We lost our cool temporarily. It's time to get back on track.
New TCL smart TVs to run Linux-based Opera TV
I believe it is only true of a small number of featured tags: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/featured_tags
Security vs Privacy - a difficult and complicated balance
Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"
I wouldn't read this as criticizing the United States Gov't for being transparent (or not). The author may have been trying to be subtle, but I won't be. The press-release comes off ham-handed because it sounds like it came out of ineffectual petty vengeance. s_q_b is simply pointing out what others have said: that the U.S. has overplayed its hand at every turn, and found itself appearing more and more foolish.
But they're not, they're using binary packed protocols, /maybe/ BSON.

The thing is, the web is most valuable to me when there are stable parseable formats that I can push into my native infrastructure(voice and UNIX commands with clear, standalone graphics output), there isn't room for "apps" in my world, even if they're "webapps".

The reason I don't use webapps, is that using them for my essential tasks would cost me hours of time per week in waiting for buffer-bloated connections to deliver my miniscule control packets to finally update the view I'm looking at; One can spend several seconds waiting, where I could spend one framedraw waiting for the same result locally.
Is google making good money with its maps service? Why is another larger company (Apple) trying to compete? Is there really enough money in it to make it worth it to Apple?

I'd be interested to know if they are currently making money, and if so, how.
This article and the previous one on North Sentinel certainly makes Uncle John's 24-Karat Bathroom Reader seem like a pretty interesting book.
Agreed. The headline is misleading. The game only briefly broke the top 100 in 8 countries (out of 138), and the highest paid app rank it ever reached in the US was 216. Source: appannie.com
This is also true and perfectly reasonable.
No contest. I don't read Wired. Too corporate.
Isn't that worse though? Its seems that a partner breaching confidentiality is a good reason for large clients to walk away from the firm.
At the start, tech enthusiasts. We think this kind of people share the same pain with us: we love technology, but hate limited implementations. We're trying to build something that removes friction from the everyday use of Internet, which is permeating our lives nowadays.

That said, we're testing to find out if we're right or not on the user profile.
My corporate laptop was WinXP, scheduled for upgrade to Win7 in 2015, until I made a stink and got Win7. WinXP is dominant where I work, anecdote of one plus the corp.
The article says that being blocked from searches and search engines was a bug:

> As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.

> If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check "Flag this blog as NSFW" so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.
Use HAProxy with Meteor Projects
Wait I think your wrong - it says

"Flag this blog as NSFW" so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines."

...which implies you CAN search for NSFW tumblr blogs, with google?

Or am I wrong/confused?
I recognise your username as the one obsessed with bringing up the existence of native Java/.NET compilers! It seems a losing battle.
NSA denies my FOIA request
That's sort of difficult to compare, because you're paying by milestones, but you probably didn't get estimated by milestone, e.g. "if we make it to the 3rd milestone you owe us this much." Your vendor is probably assuming you want all milestones completed.