skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read the actual suggestions proposed - none of them include any price fixing or meddling with the prices.

The report observes a market failure - undesireable monopolistic effects caused by current legal restrictions on import&resale of goods, and proposes to remove these barriers with the expectation that free market competition will cause the local software prices to fall to global market levels.
You need the if statements and nonlinear math to create the look-up tables.
I have no idea why people would shop these high street stores.

Warranty.
furthermore in the upcoming release we will complete the process by eliminating clutter such as punctuation and paragraphs we welcome comments on this but we will merely read them smilingly with a bag of popcorn
NASA just funded a Texas company to investigate feasibility of 3D printing food for space missions:

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home/feature_3d_f...
What a poor thief, because someone he doesn't know about has access to his Iphone he is now under total surveillance.

Now read that sentence again, replacing "thief" with "person".
The more things change, the more things stay the same. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/04/linux_desktop_failur...
Thanks. I was about to post the same remark, and then I would be the one passing off as grammar nazi.
> One solution is to write something really fucking great.

No, it isn't. I thought the logic was pretty clear:

In the time it takes one person to write a great article - assuming they're capable of it, which not all of us are - another person can submit 100's of low value links, some of which will get a lot of votes because they're about high-passion, high-profile topics.
Anybody remember the guy in Frederick, Maryland, whose life was pretty was all but destroyed by suspicion of involvement in the anthrax letters? Reddit wasn't part of that conversation; the mainstream press had a lot to do with it.
It's not price fixing; that is a specific term for a conspiracy between sellers. Adobe cannot conspire with themselves.

It's just pricing.
Show HN: I learned to code and launched my new startup (Please Give Feedback)
Overload? Hardly because HN is self moderating. If the community wasn't interested in those topics they wouldn't rise to the top.

I for myself really like to read what fellow hackers think about certain topics. And for that HN is great. Because I certainly won't get that from the washington post comment section or /r/politics.
I have a similar one, I don't buy a book with more than 200 pages, as I'm unlikely to read it.
A Pharmaceutical Company Trick: the Asacol-Delzicol Switch
I've been doing this for the last month and a half, to an extent.

I've got a spare laptop running a relatively minimal installation and it connects only to other Wifi networks (never any of my own). Thanks to iptables, I can restrict outgoing traffic to only that which is running over Tor. Yes, it's slow as molasses but for general web browsing I've gotten used to it (just don't try to create an HN account over Tor -- a nice little hellban will quickly follow).

I've got a new e-mail account that I registered while connected over some random hotspot several miles away using a Visa gift card I'd purchased a few months before. It's this account that I use (only over Tor, of course!) to participate in various public mailing lists.

My iPhone (which I hope to trade in fairly soon) is off more than it's on. I often simply leave it at home while I'm gone for the day. I haven't really missed it and, on the few occasions I've actually needed to get ahold of someone, it hasn't been difficult to find someone to let me borrow their phone for a moment or deliver a quick message for me. I barely even text anymore, who knows who is reading the messages I do send.

I work for an ISP and I have some things I want to do there too. I've pretty much got free reign to do whatever I want (as long as it doesn't cost my boss anything!) so I'll be bringing up a Tor exit node in the near future as well (I'm aware of the implications -- I don't care). I'm hoping to have a talk with my boss (who is 100% driven by the almighty dollar) about offering up anonymous VPN services and accepting Bitcoin to pay for that.

On the ISP network, I've now gotten ~1200 residential customers (to whom it doesn't make a difference) using private IP addresses and hope to add many, many more to that figure. A Cisco ASA5520 performs NAT but doesn't log NAT translations. If I get a "who had this IP at this time?" request, well, I don't know, sorry. Deal with it.

I "get a check" from Google every month for the ads on my blog (okay, technically it's a direct deposit). That was basically just a bit of extra money that sits in my business account. It's been going to the EFF recently.

I've stopped paying for things with debit/credit cards. If I pull up my account history, I can count the number of transactions in the last 45 days on one hand and nearly all of them are ATM withdrawals. Hell, I stopped using my "loyalty card" at the supermarket and had a random stranger get me a new one that isn't tied to anyone's identity.

These recent revelations, thanks to Snowden, have completely changed my behaviors. I'm not a "tinfoil hat" type or paranoid in the least, but I am completely pissed off. I may only be one person and there's only so much I can do but I will do everything I can to throw the smallest wrench possible into this unconstitutional surveillance that's going on.

It's already a slippery slope and the NSA has been doing the equivalent of pouring 55 gallon drums of Astroglide on a slip-and-slide that's laid out on a steep hill.

(Sorry for the rambling wall of text.)
I was waiting for the lesson, but there is none. Disappointing end.
Like the text-shadow on buttons. Yuck to remove.
Agreed, and it's a perfect example of what's wrong with the GNOME attitude. Capitals exist for a reason. People who can read at more than a snail's pace use them to scan for the start of each sentence as quickly as possible (milliseconds do count), but apparently Mr. Siegel isn't in that category himself so he considers the feature expendable. Then he even changes capitalization in quotes, which he should know is wrong according to every style guide ever written, but those guides were written by non-GNOME people so of course he treats them as inferior to his own "Must. Be. Different!" anti-aesthetic. There are some important lessons here about the use of "it's open source" as an excuse for developer laziness/intransigence, but that should probably be another essay.
If you have the cash and analytics aren't a real distinct business advantage just go Mixpanel.

If you decide to do it yourself this is what I've done:
Create a small web service that you can call to log data from the UI. Start with one server and if it starts to go over 60-80% usage consistently create a second.

The server should log every call to the service in a large flat file (csv is easiest). The file should be named by date and time down to the minute. As you scale up servers you just have a process pull down each file and aggregate them server side. Or just throw them into S3 and use Hive/EMR to report on the data.

It's a middle-class man's Mixpanel. I served tens of millions of logging events a day with this solution. At the time the cost was somewhere around $1,500 a month I believe. I was running 6 servers on Ruby/Sinatra though and never tried to optimize much.

EDIT: typo
You might not want to get involved in the todo-list space. there are tons of free alternatives -- and $20 a year is steep for something that notepad could do (the site is nice though, well done)
Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week
You don't need to stay up to date with this kind of frameworks. It isn't like every update has security fixes.

The company I work for uses several versions of Bootstrap 2 and we have no issue dealing with it. Newer projects will use BS3, but we don't need nor feel the need to update every project.
I used to live at Tasman and Fair Oaks, and it was always interesting to go on walks in the area and try to decipher the local area. It was pretty easy to tell where the former industrial was in that area, and it was fascinating. Heck, I was surprised to find out that Atari used to own most of the buildings in that area.

Since I'm also a railfan, I'll throw in this-the VTA light rail between Evelyn Station and Moffett Field used to be a spur that ran off the SP/Caltrain tracks to Moffett Field for the military (and some industrial customers). Going by on light rail near Middlefield, you can actually see tracks in the pavement branching off next to some of the office parks, where there used to be spurs.
All I'm asking for is a definition from as many readers as possible, because that's where a discussion is supposed to start. The (until this moment, at least) lack of a collection of definitions is actually horrifying, for me.

If we had a collection of definitions, you'd be surprised how different they all are (personally, I don't agree at all that "political post" can be defined by a list of words). Yet here we are, talking about something we haven't even clearly defined, yet.
That's not too far from the way things worked when I got my MRI. Type "medical imaging" and your town's name to find local storefront MRI shops.

The interpretation of the scan is still the cost bottleneck. It's a specialized skill, and is not something your doctor wants to do own their own.
Build your own log-based application performance SMS Alerts
Yeah great, you go stay over there with your dwindling band of Gnome 3 supplicants, I'll be over here with the people who've simply walked away. Ubuntu Studio, XFCE, no worries.
Gnome 2 was SO configurable that I couldn't get on with Gnome 3 at all. I haven't tried it in well over a year at this point.. so I can't speak to recent changes. There was a lot I actually liked about it--but way too many features were either missing or narrowly restricted for me to build a fast and comfortable workflow on. I went to KDE for a while and then went all out, had a much better time.. then I questioned the need for a DE at all and have been using xmonad by itself for most of the past year. So.. thank you Gnome developers for making my question the need for having a DE!

If I wanted a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all, company-approved UX.. I'd buy one in a pretty silver box.

This guy just comes across as incredibly smug. Does the ego-trip come free when you buy a ticket to chase the silver-box UX for your own product and its completely different userbase with entirely different needs and expectations?
Because my repo is clean whilst my working folder is messy.
When I started my PhD last year, my department head gave us a speech where he told us that college football players have better career prospects in the NFL than we will in academia. While that was probably a bit of hyperbole, it certainly made us realize how unrealistic most of our goals were.
A New Kind of Social Science
To protect your own national interests, not to promote world peace. Let's cut out this "we love freedom so much that we feel the need to share it with the rest of the world". I'm getting sick of the empty platitudes and the propaganda getting spouted like this. Just save it.

Now, before anyone says that Europeans have inflicted much more violence on the world over the course of history, I do agree with that. As a civilization, we've done some really atrocious things to various indigenous cultures, each other and even our own citizens at times. The thing is, most of us don't have a problem looking ourselves in the mirror and admitting this.

America has done wonderful things for the world and I'm sure everyone is thankful for that. But it doesn't change the fact that it has and still does act like a gang of murderous self serving international criminals. If you can take credit for the good things that you've done, you should also be able to take responsibility for the bad things. No one is perfect and I don't see why Americans get so freaking defensive every time someone points out a flaw with their country. You're not perfect, it's a part of the human condition and just learn to accept it.
In the American south where cost of living is known to be low, I can get store brand white bread for $0.99 (~$1.06 AUD). I can get fancy pants processed bread that is brown with lots of labels like "NATURAL" for $3.00. Store-fresh bread is $2 - $4 at grocery stores.

I can't imagine junk white costing $4. That's outrageous, but then again, maybe it's like that in some American regions with a crazy cost of living.
Other than the grid, it looks like all the classes and markup are the same.

I wish the examples used more semantically meaningful html5 elements where appropriate, but that's not too big of a deal.
Not to create the lookup table in the example.

And I love reading about applications of linear algebra like this. Makes me want to write my own image processing algorithms as practice.
Has anyone here studied under Dijkstra?

I only know of one programmer who did - one of the best hackers I've ever met, who eventually dropped out of UT to program full time. I never asked about his opinions of the professor, and anything I could write would be second hand.

I had a professor out of UT for my programming languages class. When asked, "How do you go about debugging interpreters?" he responded, "I don't debug. I prove every line of code correct before I type it."

Was Dijkstra inspiring? Or just a pedantic fuddy-duddy?
Yes, that is exactly what that means.

A little further down, there's examples: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid

They suggest that it doesn't end up awfully complicated. I could see how you could use it to make something complicated, but it seems to me that if you use it sparingly at the top-most level of markup, it shouldn't be too bad.
Exactly that. It's useful if you want that particular content to span the whole width on mobile, but only 60% of the width on desktop (and make room for a sidebar, for instance).

|----col1------| on mobile
|----col2------|

|--col1--||col2| on desktop

Handy.
Forgive me if I'm missing the point, but it looks like it's just a complicated description of tagging, with commenting on the tags instead of the individual articles.

That said, it could still be interesting. The problem is, unless you're commenting on specific articles, you'll just end up with extremely general, "cheap" comments filling up the tag, with no specific topics to produce genuinely interesting conversations instead of blathering pontification.

It would be interesting to see a system like that. I think it would require some very strong community norms to keep it in check, which is fundamentally unstable (e.g., HN today is very different than it was a couple years ago, when I started reading).
A Day in the Life of My iPhone
It's not his iPhone. (Also it's not total surveillance.)
In "Javascript Classes," is the public function self.setName supposed to be this.setName?
Nokia Planning To Release A New Bluetooth Accessory Called ‘Treasure Tag’
Even bigger props to them for handling graceful degradation gracefully.

Without javascript it loads super quick and it looks pretty good - some of the images are poorly sized and placed, but the article text is still well formatted and readable. Ir certainly could look better, but it also could look a whole lot worse.
No. When I cannot import your good from another supplier at a lower cost and undercut the price you will supply to me at due to importation, and licensing arrangements you have in place. That is in-essence price fixing.
Well, lets do some abstraction here and extract the behavioural and cognitive elements from the best teacher-student interaction. Then we dump the data and process it using some tweaked ML algorithm and test the models on hundreds of thousands learners (tens of thousands is normal for a Coursera MOOC). Then using monitoring of social media students and their work profiles we obtain data about their career changes. Voila, computer inspired someone to become someone new.
I agree with this. I don't think an observant hacker can just sit back and pretend it's 1995, and that what's going on isn't going on. A lot of freedom that was taken for granted is under rapid encroachment by the US Government and other foreign governments as well. That includes the vast intrusion upon privacy online by the NSA.

People that work in technology need to be very politically active right now (I'd say hackers, but it's so much more broad than that). Tech is one of the few segments of the US economy still doing very well, there's a lot of money there, and politicians listen to money; it buys influence (as sad as that may be). Let this opportunity to push back against the abuses going on slip, and it might be a generation or more before another good chance exists, as abuses today become accepted norms tomorrow.

That all having been said. I think HN needs a strong balance against junk political discussions. Leave all of that to HuffingtonPost or thehill or Politico and so on. That is, it's the difference between having discussions about Anthony Weiner, and the NSA issue/s.
"If you revoke a government, that's revolution"

In a democracy, its called an election. They happen regularly and you have a direct say on them. The directors of large companies however you have absolutely no say on.

Also, its not always possible to just "join or found a better" company for many, many reasons. Perhaps my comparative advantage isn't in building up companies against entrenched competition. Perhaps there isn't capital available to start a company in a particularly capital intensive or regulated industry. Perhaps the company tactics are awful enough to destroy me even if I tried (eg. mafia visits, suppliers refuse to deal, FUD campaigns).
In Japan $1 = 100 yen Is the Yen equivalent to the dollar though?(are there fractional yen cents and that kind of thing) I guess since the exchange rate has been around that for as long as I have been alive, I have always thought of it as 1 Yen = 1 penny.
The vast majority of everyone gets washed out of academia eventually. It's like being tortured or persuaded or bled to death: it will happen, the question is how long you can stay standing before it happens. The only way to avoid it ever happening is to bail out completely well before your breaking point.

So the question is: how much can you accomplish for yourself by staying in the Pain Game of Academia for how long, versus bailing out earlier to go do something else?
Is not a good reason. People will always vote themselves more bread & circuses.
"These days, algorithms are not a major part of most computer systems."

I disagree... While GUI developers don't worry about O(n^2) versus O(n log n) performance, sites like Google wouldn't respond in real time without a focus on the best underlying algorithms.

I agree with the rest of what you say.
I'm not sure I understand. What's odd about that statement? I got big into Bitcoins about two years ago, meeting a random stranger in a bar to buy $9,000 worth in cash, but the statement is true unless I've missed something (I haven't kept up with the state of Bitcoin so perhaps I am?).
Well, in EU&UK the online stores have all the same warranty requirements as high street and some extra; so that shouldn't be the reason.
There are several desktop applications for this. I like PhoneView for its other features, but you can dump full conversation history as text or cvs or PDF too:

http://ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

See also: http://flexibits.com/chatology
Case study: Getting 60FPS using Chrome devtools
"A year ago, I’d hardly heard of startups. Neither had just about anyone at Georgia Tech."

Well that was a big jump in assumption within two sentences.
Should UK sites go black for a day to protest censorship?
Feinstein was one of the supporters of the "Clipper" chip in the 1990s, a play to have all crypto keys in government hands.

It's not surprising. I'm amazed that anyone in Silicon Valley is willing to vote for her.
Great article. It seems like once you get beyond the hype of Big Data, you get to some old technologies whose primary use cases are finally coming to light. The more things change...
RCF011: Testing Market Signals - Filament.io
He owns a phone that is capable of unknowingly uploading every picture taken to a third party website. Take the heartbreaking story about a phone getting stolen away and you're left with some pretty nasty residue here.
How you store your logs depends on your server configuration. Analytic services like Google Analytics or Mixpanel will work for any type of config as they're initiated by the client. They both also have a nice UI so can see live user's, plot them on maps, etc.

If you want lower level detail such as data for each user's IP address you'll need something on the server side. I haven't used Mixpanel but Google Analytics doesn't give you raw IP addresses. Also, if a user has it blocked (ex: by Ghostery) then you don't see them in Google Analytics. To get around this we also log all requests server side.

The two options I know are either do it yourself (that's what we did, more below) or use something like Piwik (http://piwik.org/). The latter is kind of like your own Google Analytics that you run on your own infrastructure.

For our public cloud app (https://cloud.jackdb.com/) we run all the infrastructure so we aggregate the server access logs from each nginx instance and push them to an S3 bucket. It's pretty straightforward and really cheap (S3 costs peanuts and log data gzips well). Besides audit events (which do get logged to a database and can be queried) any funky research is done by good ol' awk/grep/sed.

Our public website (http://www.jackdb.com) is hosted on S3 so we don't even control the actual server. Instead we've got logging enabled on the S3 bucket sent to another S3 bucket[1]. S3 creates files there with 1-3 hour lag of all requests with full details (IP, useragent, etc). Only pain is that S3 creates a lot of files so we've got a cron job that runs regularly to combine them into daily files, gzip them, and put them in a different S3 bucket. Again ad hoc research is done via unix commands on either the latest log files or the archived files (we keep a local copy in addition to the ones in S3).

Regardless of how you get your logs onto S3. If you want to make the storage costs 10x cheaper in the long run (again this will only matter once you actually have a significant amount of data) then you push it from S3 to Glacier. Even better you can setup S3 to auto expire data to Glacier after X days[2]. Just remember that you can't access them directly from Glacier. It's just for "cold-storage".

[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ServerLogs.ht...

[2]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecy...
At Netflix, big data can affect even the littlest things
The woman who decided to meet all of her 325 Facebook friends over 1 year
There's a small startup community out here in the Athens area: http://www.fourathens.com/

I don't know the situation closer to Atlanta though.
As someone who hit the downvote threshold with a lot of help from well timed snark in the days of public comment scores and who used to rage inside at days of front page Apple fanboyism leading up to and following every Apple event, I am of the opinion that HN is, in many ways better than it was, not all that long ago.

This is not to say that I like the political stories. I am not shocked-shocked when I find gambling. Likewise, HN has always rewarded certain flavors of poor comments, but the floor keeps rising.
submit a bug report on github issues.
The start of skynet Terminator
Also replace 'someone' with government agency.