skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://nashx.com/FAQ

Q: Why don't we give destroyed funds to charity or miners?

A: It gives them a bad incentive to make fake accounts, get into fake deals with real people, and destroy risk funds. If destroyed risk funds are not really destroyed and given to anyone, then whoever gets that has bad incentive to do bad things to get more of it.
>> His website.

Running in my browser.

>> On the other hand demanding of publishers to not track you while you're on their property is unreasonable.

I'm not on their property.
I'm fairly happy for them to record what they can see at their end in terms of what pages I go to, but I find it very unreasonable to demand that I run whatever code the website operator asks me to run, to turn my computer into a machine that reports anything/everything about my site interaction to anyone the site owner feels like, and all on the basis of an implied social contract of some form.
I had no idea what they did (had never heard of them) but the domain is impressive. Probably worth half a million. Domain market isn't what it used to be.
WpTorrent Brings Torrent Downloads To Windows Phone 8
The problem is that newer generations of smartphones were a direct competitor to RIM's flagship product, but mobile platforms as a whole are not direct competitors to traditional PCs, and it's not clear at this point that they'll become competitors.

PCs and mobile devices have overlapping functionality, but the use cases and contexts in which that functionality is applied are very different.

By conflating the two markets together, and allowing (poorly-conceived, IMO) product strategies for mobile devices to spill over into their flagship PC software products, MS has made a very serious error.
I wonder how big a jump it would be to have some mandated service running on every machine, to sidestep increased encrypted Internet traffic? Still seems unlikely but I've been so surprised by the level of apathy by most to this that I can almost imagine it
You are very naive to believe this won't happen in most of the western world.

Currently with feminism all the rage, and sue happy people all the rage, there are lots of good reasons to avoid getting sued.

For example, I know a couple of taxi drivers that refuse to drive women, specially a single woman, because of repeated problems with false rape accusations. (likewise, there are lots of real rape cases with taxi drivers involved).

EDIT: I remembered when my dad worked at a church helping people, and kicked out of his office any women that asked him to lock the door, no matter the reason. Then he explained to me he has a personal rule of never locking himself alone with a woman in a room, unless it is my mom.
This is probably a discussion I would prefer us to have offline but the gist of it is that as a nascent industry, we have to make strides towards self-regulation very quickly. The NAI knows about the dangers lurking ahead. Overregulation is not a bogeyman. It is a real threat.

DNT is good for us. We don't want to track someone who explicitly does not want to be tracked (boo, Microsoft IE team!)
Shame, that sounds quite good.
If you don't like it, don't use it - simple as that.

The only thing I find reasonable is for users to be warned that they are tracked, precisely for enabling them to move to alternatives that better respect their wishes.

His website is running in your browser by your choice, not his ;-)
Anything that teaches developers about security is a good thing including his article. One minor nit - ASP.NET has been mostly shielded from these types of things for 6 or 7 years. He used ASP.NET in his examples which meant he purposely turned off several protections to get the examples to work.
He explicitly stated in the reddit AMA that he will let if fail.

EDIT Link - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...
I had an office with a window and door in my jobs in the US up until the open office plan boom. I assume that's what the OP was referring to. (And how I miss those tiny offices, sob)
#thank #you!
That does not seem apples to apples. Should I provide an "opt-out" of all advertising for people who just don't like looking at ads?
Not in the general usage of that word, no.
From TFA:
> The model used was a rather naive linear model: y \sim \beta_0 + \beta_1 x ^{1/2} + \beta_2 x^{1/3}

That is not a linear model. Also, note the dent at ~July 21, when it became possible again to buy phones in advance after the first "batch" had sold out.
Microsoft 10-k filing reveals 7 firms Steve Sinofsky is banned from working with
Compliments on the thing as a whole, but one thing stuck out to me (negatively).

When I read about 'tablets' and 'interaction' and saw the screenshot of how interfaces haven't changed much, I got rather excited about the idea of a word processor that truly tried to change the way we 'process words' on touch devices.

Instead, it seems you've mostly focused on the stuff surrounding word processing. Which is a noble goal, but not what I was hoping/wishing for.

I'd like to see someone reinvent the word processor, or update it for touch interfaces. In the same way that the mouse greatly changed the way we work on 'normal' computers, surely touch should give us similar new advantages.

I've been following a number of projects that try to do this, but they are hyper-focused on just that text-input part. I'd love to see the best ideas from those experiments find their way into Quip.

(This is just a general observation, not an attack on Quip. I can understand that you have chosen a specific focus that doesn't happen to be what I care about.)
>> If you don't like it, don't use it - simple as that.

>> His website is running in your browser by your choice, not his ;-)

Excellent, now how do I know ahead of time, or without digging through the source, which sites are going to try and run this stuff?

--edit-- Also, and here's the rub - again I just requested some data from his server, and it provided it to me. I made no promise to render or run it in the way he wants. If he has requirements about that sort of thing then maybe he needs to specify them.
I'd rather look up the ImageMagick flags and write a simple 5 line shell wrapper for my specific use case than learn an API and write Ruby.
> (for example if one of your NGinx instances goes down there's nothing to remove it from the pool)

My plan to solve this was to use Doozer with a small daemon in each agent server which would keep some kind of registry of the services running on the machine. I think that could be relatively lightweight and with the ability to broadcast via watches there could be some kind of action attached to a node being removed and added.
write a blog entry about your story, make it known to the public many ppl might volunteer to e-protest for you
Yes, I don't get it either. I guess that with the web now, this is what it looks like as people learn programming? I know for me my thrill in programming growing up was to write some dumb game that worked on console and then convince my parents and friends to use it. I guess this is the equivalent? The fun thing these days, you can get thousands of users and maybe do something with it other than immediately discard it. So, I see these as Hello Worlds to the next level.
The show-the-content-and-hide-the-chrome trend in UI design isn't as presumptively valid as a lot of people try to make it out to be.

When you've got a document loaded up in a word processor, you're not just trying to read static content; you're working on that content, and the application you're using is a tool for editing and manipulating it. Hiding the chrome in order to show more of the document emphasises the document content as it is in the immediate instant, rather than the potential things you can do with that content, and makes it harder to locate the tools and functions for manipulating the document.

Minimal chrome might make sense in a web browser or PDF reader (at least to the extent that there's a smaller set of functionality necessary for reading documents, but hiding searching/bookmarking/referencing tools is just as bad) but in a word processor, it's much more necessary to have the application's own functional interface exposed.
5 Social Media lessons that Logitech can learn from Razer
Except, if it is made in a factory you have:

• Transportation costs from factory to store
• Cost for additional space required to hold stock

If it is sold through a store
• Cost for display space in a store
• Cost of a sales person selling the item
• Cost for (neat) packaging
• Cost of your time picking up the item

etc.

So while the factory can logically create the product cheaper it could still end up costing more.
You may be right. Perhaps some restorative justice like this might be more fitting:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4837815/curtis-woo...
In the EU, the two situations I described are both legal obligations (regarding collection of personal data, the legal obligation is probably stronger than I described).

[I have understood that this is not the same in the US and the situation is therefore murky and EU law is not respected on the internet as a whole.]

What you described is not a legal obligation, although I personally think you should provide the option to opt-out of ads - I know of several sites that do and this makes a positive difference to me as a user.
Finding Beta Testers For Web Tv Station?
Who is interested in having an anticipated experience with Troxxo, the new live video content platform? http://www.troxxo.com
Show HN: a service to train tesseract ocr for you
You can mention that you used them in the app description.
#satire #tongue-in-cheek.

I imagine it's in response to the fact people are hashtagging everything.
I keep seeing articles like this and thinking "these people are thinking about this wrong".

3D printers aren't better at making mass produced injection moulded plastic objects than injection moulding. They can (more or less) replicate the sort of mass-produced thing you can buy on Amazon that's been sailed here in shipping container loads from China – but if you're going to make a few thousand of them (or better still, a few tens of millions), then "the industry" has got the efficiency of that manufacturing and supply chain down to a very fine art. (In the same way that it's very difficult to match McDonalds on a calorie-per-dollar metric.)

What I believe will really make 3D printers "go viral", is when enough people work out that there's different, new categories of objects we can produce.

Things where only 50 or 100 people in the world are ever going to want - maybe a mount to fit an iPhone 4S with an extended battery case to the handlebars of a 2012 Vespa 125 Sport, or a bracket to hold an Arduino and a 2x40char LCD to the side of a pre 2005 Rancilio Silva espresso machine. I wonder how many things/objects get thought up, but discarded because "it'll got $x,000 to make a set of moulds, and there's only 100 people in the world who'd even consider buying this"?

I think there are also objects that right now don't exist because existing manufacturing techniques don't allow them to be (mass) produced - one of the cheaper 3D printers comes with a sample file of a Chess Rook (the "castle piece) with an internal spiral staircase inside it - a geometry that's physically impossible to create a mould you could extract the part from (without destroying the mould). I wonder how many things/objects get thought up then "discarded" because "you can't make that"?

I see people trying to print 3D plastic guns using more or less "traditional" gun shapes and designs. That's just wrong (though I have some grudging admiration for the people doing it for largely political/anarchist motivations). What we need is for people to start developing the knowledge and experience with 3D printing materials – so they've got the same sort of "gut feel" for sizes/configurations/suitability of various options to design parts, as "old school" welders have about what size/shape/configuration of steel stock and gussets/bracing is "strong enough" for your boat-trailer/golf-buggy/go-kart. People who can go "that might work, but how about we over-engineer that section a bit more, 'cause it seems a little close to the material limits". People who can go "Lets 3D scan that metal bracket, then adjust the thickness of those planes and increase the gusset radius along that intersection, and add some webbing around those holes, then it'll be 'strong enough' to replace the original metal part".

I look forward to that – and I suspect it'll start happening in a fairly short timeframe.
Real offices are not that expensive in comparison to the gains to the company (increased productivity, less turnover) by having them.
Well, the "Do Not Track" option is too simplistic and probably needs improvements.

Ideally, the browser would start by making an OPTIONS request in which the server would reply with something like "yes, I'll track this user in spite of their preferences" (even with a link to their privacy policy) and then the browser could block the view with a warning, just like how Chrome and Firefox are giving warnings for insecure connections, giving users the option to add exceptions or to go somewhere else.

This would be fair to both users and publishers.
what's the elevator pitch for why users should look at this instead of iWork?
The Wikipedia article answers most if not all of your questions.
I remember when I worked into a large open plan office, people were obviously very "alt-tab jumpy" or were good in wasting time (ie: leave code on screen, and then do their best to not work while looking that they were working).

But soon one junior guy got tired of this, and decided to not even hide it, he just browsed comedic blogs and youtube at will...

Soon other people followed...

Soon the entire office was improductive with lots of people getting their attention drawn to other people youtube videos.

Then the firings started... and then the quittings started in retaliation to the firings. Yay, problem solved, because now there are so few employees that the empty computers are enough to block the vision of each other.

I wonder how they are doing now.
If you have experience with Asian ISPs, could you then maybe report on how common it is for them to have IPv6-only versus IPv6-plus-transition-mechanism?

This data would be better than my anecdotal story about an unnamed company, so please provide any you have.
Those are just implementation details. They're not really relevant to the way your program is constructed or the way you reason about it.
Still a bit pricy.
The commenter above has given some very good advice. I'm not a developer so I can't evaluate on the same level, not to mention i was replaying at 1am local time.

Also, do look into something like parse.com for your backend.

One thing I will say is, that if you still struggle even after breaking the development requirements down and narrowing the focus, do evalute whethere there are other factors affecting your ability to attract talent.

I've observed previously where Developers are afraid to join a start-up due to a lack of faith in the financial ability of the start-up. It's a very high risk decision to make.

Just something to consider. I'm not saying it is necessarily the case for your start-up.
Pike & Sutter: Concurrency vs. Concurrency
The "deadly trio" of open office plans for programmers:

1. We are very often judged by superficial appearance by others because they have no idea what we do or how we do it. This can include our own managers and influential others.

2. We can appear to be doing absolutely nothing (or worse if on the internet) when we are actually thinking. In this mode, we are often contributing much more value when it appears we are slacking off.

3. Conversely, we can appear to be very busy typing into an IDE when we are just spinning our wheels and getting nowhere. We don't know what to do but feel compelled to act instead of think because people are watching.
> Have YOU inspected your CPU/Firmware/OS/Applications for backdoors? Even with the full source code?

this is absolutely spot on, especially the firmware. nobody talks about it and the attack surface is huge.

just to be explicit, hardware backdoors exist as well :)
Actually, I can use your site and benefit from it, while simultaneously blocking your ability to track me. It's called Ghostery (and similar browser extensions).

I use Ad-Block Plus and Ghostery for all my web browsing, and have both Ad-Block Plus set to block _all_ ads and Ghostery set to block _all_ tracking scripts.

These extensions do not make 'polite requests'; they directly control the browsing experience to my benefit.

I (and my extensions) control my browsing experience, not you.

(You can argue that this is unfair, but in the long run I believe the outcome will be a better business model for sites to make money.)
If you do an image search on google you can actually find companies which are using them... for example:

http://sobytes.com/world-news-translate-piechart-news-option...

( Did the image search with this one: http://placeit.breezi.com/uploads/stage/stage_image/113/bree... )
I have a data point of 2. I knew two waitresses. They both took home their tips at the end of the night, without sharing with anyone. One of them was required to only report 15% of her sales to the IRS for taxing, but always took home way way more than that, so she made tons of tax free income. Also the United States is a large place, there is different customs different places.

It's pretty obvious what incentive the waitstaff has to provide good service, if they don't, they get fired. Tipping is arbitrary. I tip the person who pours my drink at the bar, but not the person who pour my drink at McDonald's.

Oh, by the way, when I was younger and in high school/college I worked three public facing customer service jobs where I didn't earn any tips. I worked my ass off at each job for standard wages. I always provided the best customer service I could. My incentive was I wanted to do my job effectively and not get fired or reprimanded. It is incredibly naive to think that if waitstaff earned a fair wage without tips they would all suddenly stop doing their job. Especially since they already know they are going to get a tip anyways, it is pretty much required to give a tip, no matter how bad the service was!
Mozilla uses Google Analytics Premium Service ($150k/year) which includes a contractual option to prevent secondary use of the visitor data. Therefore, they see it as legally in the spirit of Do-Not-Track -- Google is a contractor collecting the visitation data solely for the pleasure of Mozilla.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839#c21
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!search/m...

From the latter thread, Stacy Martin at Mozilla represents "Google Analytics will not correlate or report on any customer data with any other data, they will use Mozilla data only to provide and maintain the service for Mozilla, and they will not share or use it for any other purpose."

EDIT: The contractual arrangement is relevant. Section 9.3 item 2 of the IETF do-not-track draft draws has an exception for this very situation, "data obtained by a third party exclusively on behalf of and for the use of a first party".

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mayer-do-not-track-00#secti...
Very nice, except for the typesafe blue that crept in at the bottom. That site needs an overhaul.
My story is actually well-documented in the local media, and, although there are segments of supporters, these count for nothing in a Muslim country. Thanks for the idea though.
Unfortunately, he isn't. The world is that fucked up.
Med Prof uses Google Glass to demo patient exams to med students
Does this offer any real benefit over the official list on the sublime package control page?

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community

One suggestion to bring it to at least feature parity: It is useful to display the operating systems that each package supports.
Thank you for the useful insight! :)
He probably doesn't. He stays too much time not doing the machine work :)

The fact that you point "shipping" as a part of this discussion just shows how much he's right.
Whenever I see a minimal homepage with nothing but a glib sentence and a signup form I just assume this is a service that only cares about getting my data and bleeding me like a turnip.

I understand that it might work and why it might work and yes, a minimalist layout gets the clutter out of the way and comes straight to the point but personally it's not a model that inspires confidence.

How well would it work if I walked into a store, and they insisted on having me agree to a purchase before I even got to see what it is they sell? Much less a tiny store whose interior was nothing but a blank white room with a credit card machine inside, that just said "The Best Thing Ever" over the door, and nothing else?

... actually that would probably work and that's what annoys me.
Also, the kin was marketed well. I had a few total non-tech female friends ask me about it before it came out.
The backbone network is unlikely separated by hardware for IPv4 and IPv6. If one drains resources, the other gets effected.

They could start to charge differently for IPv4 traffic and IPv6. If peering Terms of IPv6 interconnection agreements was free/radically lower than ipv4 (by say, increasing ipv4 charge rate), ISPs would see a direct encouragement to move to ipv6. Its not a unique concept, as similar suggestion has been made in 2011 (http://www.canscouncil.net/presentations/CANS2011/china_ipv6...)
> x86 is the clear winner as far as commodity hardware is concerned, and serious infrastructure is all written in C.

Most of my computers now use ARM.

C is single-handedly responsible for 99% of all security problems on the Internet. It must die. Quick.

> CLOS is a disaster

BS

> As far as object systems go, nothing beats Java's factories.

WTF?

> I've hopefully provided some food for thought.

Not really.
You're making a false dichotomy - you imply the only choices are a) allowing tracking, or b) not using sites that track.

As I implied in my other comment, this is a false dichotomy; by using browser extensions, I can and do control my browsing experience to benefit from sites that track while preventing them from tracking.

The very concept that I should subject myself to the whims of web sites is completely counter to the history and culture of the net.
https://wri.pe will support to import from catch.com, it’s simple note note taking app.

wri.pe has less features than Catch.com. Probably wri.pe will import just texts.
Request political asylum?
Yo made me repeat myself. You are trolling or joking, right? Or where do you live?

I never heard of a single rape case where taxi driver was involved. Taxi driver, refusing to drive women, will loose the license here in 7 seconds.
Contact me at daniel dot boles at gmail dot com. Maybe we can work something out.
Instead of the useless EU cookie legislation, we should have had legislation that enshrined explicit privacy preferences in to data protection law.

When I signup to a website I'm expected to agree to their Privacy Policy. Both site owner and visitor expect that policy, provided that it's legal, to be somewhat enforceable in court. When I'm just visiting, why is there no such equivalent?

The problem with DNT isn't that it can be ignored, it's that it can be ignored without penalty. People who think purely technical solutions (including Ghostery, NoScript, Adblock etc.) are the answer are ignoring the reality of how easy it is to fingerprint and track users on the web.
What Startups Want from Mentors
You are equivocating over the word 'responsible'. His actions were the proximate cause of his death (a meaning for the word 'responsibility' which does not imply moral judgement), but others are culpable for his death (another meaning for the word 'responsibility' which does not imply proximate cause, but does imply moral judgement). So, it is perfectly meaningful to say that people who commit suicide are primarily responsible for their own deaths in the first sense, but primarily not responsible for their deaths in the second sense.