skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every day I have a list of ~500k images hosted on CraigsList that I want copied to Amazon S3. Once a day my service would send IWouldPayForThat the list of urls, and IWouldPayForThat would download then upload all of the images to my S3 bucket as well as delete the images from the day before. If CraigsList banned the IP range used by IWouldPayForThat, moving to a new IP would not be a problem thus continuous service could be counted upon.

I would pay $40/day for that.
To start with, you could look up the scientist mentioned, read their work and then cross reference it against other published research.
I use(d) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105.
He was essentially pulled out of the retirement to stay on for a while so this is not that surprising.
It's the case, historically, that civil liberties restrict during time of war and expand again in peacetime. Lincoln suspending habeas corpus during the Civil War, Espionage Act of 1917, Japanese American internment camps during WWII, Smith Act, Subversive  Activities  Control  Act, McCarthyism, etc.

Recent re-expansion has included the New York Times' successful defense of the publication of The Pentagon Papers. I think we're seeing another example of this here. 9/11-like attacks have not reoccured, and the public pendulum is shifting back.

If no more significant terrorist attacks occur, eventually I predict that significant portions of the Patriot Act will not be renewed. This is somewhat like firing your gardner as unnecessary because you don't see any weeds in your garden, but, even so, I suspect the Patriot Act is overkill.
So agree with this article.

I'd love to give developers some money for the games they put a lot of time into making. Plants vs Zombies 2... I'll probably buy a plant to make them receive some of that.

I quit Clash of Clans after I realised there is no way it's even remotely possible to get better at the game by skill. It's purely down to how much money you're willing to throw at it.
Try Fruux (https://fruux.com). Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks syncing, from a European based company. Works seamlessly with native apps, though I don't think they have a web ui.

Some info about their team: http://web.appstorm.net/general/interviews/interview-meet-th...
We keep meaning to do a writeup on the build process, but so far have been way too busy to get to it. :)
You should try to stream live content from twitch.tv. Pretty much everyone complains about how bad their service is, and twitch has been very clear that they're doing everything they can but that it mostly comes down to these deals with the big Internet infrastructure guys.
I don't see the scraper (the BeautifulSoup script) at that repo. Did I miss it or is it not committed?
Just curious, how do you actually see this? Maybe:

A self-driving car pulls up and double-parks in front of your building. It texts you to come outside and gives a four-digit pin. You go to the car, type the pin in, and a small door opens with your package sitting there. I guess the car has some weird conveyor system for moving packages into the pickup area.

Is this what you are thinking? I'm not sure how well double-parking by a self-driving car would work (delivery people do it, but they also can use their judgement). The conveyor system also seems like it would create problems.
> Fundamentally, it does not matter to me if a paper did demonstrate differences, even in a perfectly equal society. It would still be optimal under my value function to no further accentuate them.

Isn't the use of "optimal" here a contradiction, if in fact, we don't nurture certain innate differentiating factors in people to their full potential? For example, lets say we find evidence that developing perfect pitch is indeed something you have to be born with, and that you have a son/daughter born with it. Would you not want a bit more musical exposure for them than usual? Not 'pushing' them necessarily, but certainly emphasizing the difference enough to maybe intrigue them about the possibility of developing their full potential in that area?

We already know that people are born with certain 'limitations' (for the lack of a better word) in terms of IQ, so the idea of dealing with biological differences is nothing new in the realm of cognitive science, and sex/gender is but one of many variables that could affect personality/cognitive performance in an array of areas. So really, it would almost seem like denying this probability is the more conservative viewpoint, no?

Either way, this whole area is much too complicated to be simplifying it in such terms, and neuroscience is still much too young to help guide us thoroughly, but dismissing it outright seems like a mistake to me. After all, culture[1] is an emergent property of our individual personalities coming together, which are themselves emergent properties of our brains/genetics...

[1] As an interesting side-note, there have apparently been some attempts at converging neurology with anthropology recently, so hopefully this will help more research come along about any links between biological and cultural differences: https://brainsciencepodcast.squarespace.com/bsp/2013/neuroan...
> It is little surprise then that Western liberals no longer breed above replacement rates.

The implication here seems to be that politics is a major independent predictor of fertility rates, i.e. liberal views on gender depress fertility rates, independently of, say, socioeconomic status. Is that true? If we look across countries, the lowest birth rates aren't in places particularly famed for the dominance of their feminist movements: South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Don't you get it, this is our way of keeping the wealth to fewer and fewe people. That 1% will be turned into .5% soon, and we will all be twice as rich.
Thanks for the link, I didn't realize that Safeway offered a 1-hour delivery window. One note is that a $49 minimum order is required for delivery service and a $12.95 shipping fee on purchases under $150.

Google Shopping has no minimum order amount and for this 6-month trial period has no delivery fees. Though, their site eludes to a $5 delivery fee per store you order items from once the trial period ends.

Of course, Safeway offers delivery of perishable foods, while Google shopping does not.
I don't get that mindset. If you avoid a free app because you might later choose to pay for something inside the app, then why not avoid the app store altogether, since you might also choose to buy a non-free app from there?
Freelancers, How Many Years of Experience Before You Started Off On Your Own?
0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, 20+?
If you're willing to pay, then Microsoft Office 365's Hosted Exchange ($3/month for email only) is a good alternate with a similar (yet more powerful) web app (assuming you're wanting to stay in the same ecosystem — otherwise, just move away from Hotmail/Outlook).
Just because there are no laws does not mean there is not a lot of pressure from family and society. There is no law saying women can't wear bikinis in the street, yet you don't see it very often.
AK-47 Underwater at 27,450 frames per second
>Fortunately, self-referential propositions
do not seem to have any important practical applications.

yawn.
I'd rather deal with some shitty ISPs and some good ones than be forced to use a single shitty government ISP for the rest of my life.
It would be a bait and switch if it were a bait and switch, but in this case it's not.

You can't say that the title of every single type of article should just be an objective summary of what's in the article. That's like criticising Steinbeck for calling it "The Grapes of Wrath" instead of "Dirt Farming Oakies Do California".
>It would be great if there was a fixed colo fee for caching servers.

Great for whom? Legally mandated fixed fee services are generally not the highest in customer satisfaction.
It seems like one of the foundations of this article is that customers tend to regret their in-app purchases. I don't doubt that this could be the case, but I'd love to see studies done on this topic. I would think that, even if you assume game devs are greedy or motivated primarily by profit, at least some of them would think that the best long-term play would be to not make users regret their purchases.
You're probably better off googling how VC works, but AFAIK all of the equity would be effectively owned by the limited partners so the VC can't really take it. The VC's profit comes from carried interest.
If you want data on public research and don't go looking for it yourself, then you are just lazy. You know the name of the scientist and the project from the article which is all you need if you then want to look deeper. Stop winging.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCe9NKtP90
The Fuzzwah theory sounds like a variation (perhaps corollary) of the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
> C++ functionality like references and smart pointers make pointer nullability and memory safety irrelevant, or at least much, much less of an issue than in C or older C++ code.

This is dangerously incorrect. Having spent much of my career finding new and exciting ways to break modern idiomatic C++'s memory safety, I can confidently say that no reasonable subset of C++ is memory safe.

Try to solve iterator invalidation, for example.
Not if the message (and all the graphics) reaches people who will understand that our climate undergoes significant changes. Having a couple of buckets of ice melted today is OK, if it will contribute to fewer melted buckets of ice tomorrow.
I've been doing the same thing with micropurchases. I have no hesitation in thinking "Oh, I could use one of those..." and having it show up later that night or the next day.

But, it looks like they are planning on charging a yearly/monthly whatever subscription fee, plus $4.99 per delivery per store. Whenever I order, I have my $4.99 (or $9.98 if it's from 2 stores) waived, and I'm currently on the 6 month free trial that claims to be waiving my subscription fee.

My behavior will definitely change if this is the structure they go with. I sure won't be paying $4.99 for each impulse buy I make.
Its a headline that is interesting at the expense of not being an accurate reflection of the content of the article for which it serves as a headline

Well, that's your definition of Link Bait but as far as I can see it's not the generally accepted definition of Link Bait (outside of the hyper critical anti-marketing world of certain elements of the HN readership).

Perhaps you should refer to that type of article as "Link Bait and Switch".

I would contend, however, that in the case of this article it's neither. It's just a strong headline attached to a well written article about the Super Game Boy.
Other languages went through a lot of change too. They just did it behind closed doors. We could have done our development behind closed doors too so you wouldn't see all the churn, but that's not the way we work at Mozilla.

Furthermore, Rust is quite ambitious. Getting lifetimes and the borrow check to work right is hard and involved research in all senses of the word; read the borrow check source code sometime. We did not just change things because we felt like it.
It's good for job searching. I had a friend trying to move to Brazil to get a job as an architect and she used it to perform the following searches I recommended to connect with people there:

(1) Friends of friends who live in Brazil
(2) Friends of friends who live in São Paulo
(3) Friends of friends who live in Rio de Janeiro
(4) People who live in Brazil the are Architects
(5) People who live in Brazil that like Architecture
etc.

With this she found a bunch of people she could reach out to that she has some degree of connection. At the end of the day, many people are likely to help someone that reaches out to them if there is a connection or common interest.
Pretty much, milking a stupid cliche. Most Americans' only exposure to France is stereotypes they've seen, or if they're more well traveled, exposure to Parisians. Which is like if I came from another country, visited NYC, and concluded that Americans were generally pretentious, almost never made eye contact, and paid obscene amounts for rent.
Okay, does anyone have a Chrome plugin to bypass the NYT paywall? It's annoying to have to open a Incognito window every damn time.
This 'study' reaks of bias and hand waved conclusions...the list would be so long, perhaps the extensive use of 'Americans' as a short hand for US citizens in an international opinion survey is the most blatant give away ?

It comes from the Pew Reasearch Center, an US think tank chaired by former Bill Clinton's secretary of States, funded by a very wealthy conservative entity, and scanning the other surveys I get the same feeling of being very transparent on the methodology while strongly aiming for a given output. Like this one the NSA for instance: http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-ph...

PS: even for a selected target, what does questions like 'Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others' point to ? They surveyed that short of half of the Christinans think themself as Christian first and citizen of a country second. For these people, what does 'our culture' even point to ?
The "public" doesn't own anything. You can demonstrate that by trying to sell your share of the thing you supposedly own.
Empress: Simple blogging with EmberJS and GitHub
That's what's they've started to do here in Australia. Government owns the new lines (FTTH), wholesale to ISPs who then compete with services.
This guy's home page (http://www.carlhewitt.info) takes an interesting approach to web design. It looks like he also has some others (http://www.irobust.org/, http://www.ir14.org/)
The executive branch/defense establishment blatantly lying to Congress without repercussion would amount to a coup of sorts in the precedent it sets.

I think most representatives could give two shits about the American people and their privacy, but threaten their turf and their power and it's game on.
I'm a game developer. I want to make one thing clear:

The people who make these sorts of games aren't gamedevs. They are social engineers.

It's unfortunate that the distinction hasn't been very clearly defined. It's not true that just because they've created an interactive loop that they've made a game.
"we did actually triple the visit to paid conversion rate."

Well...maybe. What are the numbers? If you converted 4 people on 1000, the 95% confidence interval runs from 0.2% to 1%. The difference between 1 conversion in 1000 and 4 in 1000 isn't significant.

But if you converted 40 on 10,000 (vs. 10/10,000), that is significant. So if you've got big numbers to back up your tiny conversion rate, you should just write that into the blog post to silence these sorts of critiques. You don't even need to be specific -- saying that your N is of a certain order of magnitude would be enough to make most reasonable people take you seriously.
> While it's good to see the language evolving and improving, this type of churn also means it isn't very practical to use.

That's right. We never claimed otherwise.

> I keep hoping that it'll start to stabilize, even just on a feature set and standard library that may not be perfect, but will at least be usable for longer than a few months. Yet this doesn't seem to be happening. This lack of stability will start to significantly hurt its adoption at some point.

It is absolutely our intention to create a backwards-compatible version of Rust soon. We've created a milestone to tag issues related to this: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues?milestone=13&state=op...

> Go has taken a better approach, in my opinion. It isn't perfect, and it's lacking some important functionality, but at least there's a version that's usable, well-supported, and usable well into the future, even if the language does continue to evolve in incompatible ways.

Go also started earlier and is less ambitious of a language (and I think everyone on the Go team would agree with that statement). It has nothing like the borrow check that has required delicate care in design, and research in every sense of the word, to create something usable. Earlier versions of Rust were not really usable for what we want to use it for—Servo—and there is no point sticking to a language that isn't the language we need. Even current Rust is not ideal for Servo (lack of custom smart pointers, most notably) and that's why we continue to evolve it. Nevertheless, we have a good idea of the feature set we want and the language is stabilizing.
Carl Hewitt is an interesting character [1] and I'm not really sure what to make of it. There are signs of a bright mind gone completely bonkers, and there are signs of someone being rejected for purely political (and not academic) reasons. Both have happened numerous times in the past which is why it's hard to tell.
If someone more enlightened on the topic cared to comment about the nature of things, that'd be greatly appreciated :)

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/09/wikipedia.i...
Here I was cursing my ISP for ridiculous connection but I should have been cursing them for entirely different reasons! What is the use of taking costly high speed plans when the sites that require high speed (youtube, other video streaming) are still going to be slow?
Plants vs Zombies 2 is atrocious. There's not a single "fun" attribute, it's all just various ways of making money from the users.

• "power ups"

• "plant food"

• the plants themselves

• keys

• stars

All are just methods of juicing money out of the user, and are generally quite time consuming to gain organically. It's a nasty experience given how good the original one was to play while traveling.
Researchers exploit Google Chromecast
> you cannot fully load a video anymore, it will only load a portion as you continue watching

I noticed that they introduced this feature around the same time they removed the right-click option to stop downloading the video.
> In C++, it's mostly just a matter of understanding the language features you're using, and then avoiding ones that can be harmful in some cases, often in favor of much safer alternative approaches.

The number of security bugs that every large C++ codebase sees suggests otherwise. C++ is neither safe in practice nor in theory. (I can come up with many ways in which modern idiomatic C++ can be broken, often in an exploitable manner.)
> permitting special interests, cronyism, and incompetence to flourish.

Apt description of Enterprise class business's. or any large organization of humans.

Also, this system (as most things people blame gov for) was made not by a government but by private sector capitalist companies. Maybe who've should quit outsourcing so much to these fuckups.
In shop operations most compressors, in turn, run off electricity.
Nerds I know don't like shallow things, they like straight information and not double talk. So your definition of linkbait is exactly what nerds I know, and myself, hate.
I use 'ghost incognito' https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghost-incognito/ge...
Link was in the README: https://github.com/sloria/datasources/blob/master/scripts/ru...
There are a lot of graphs on the topic here[1]. Income isn't explicitly controlled for, but correlated characteristics like education level and IQ are. IQ appears to be strongly anti-fertile for liberal men and slightly pro-fertile for conservative men. 53% of the smartest group of liberal men age 35-44 had no children in the GSS data from 1995-2012[2a] compared to just 21% of conservatives[2b]. The differences with women are smaller but similar.

It should be noted that regardless of one's political beliefs, our modern culture can broadly be considered "liberal" and it is an extreme conservative indeed that doesn't guzzle down liberal books, movies, and television. Thus, while conservatism increases your fertility at the margin, white Americans of all political persuasions are having fewer kids than they used to[3].

[1] http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/whos-having-the-babi...

[2a] http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/whos-having-the-babi...

[2b] http://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/conserv-by-iq-kid...

[3] http://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/lib-cons-cohorte....
Outside Hacks - Outside Lands First Hackathon
> The idea that a single ISP is in a position to charge both YouTube and its customers is bizarre.

why is this bizarre?
Where Public High School Costs $600, Including A Mandatory Chromebook
Imagine if the government showed you cumulative tax paid. Or the energy/water companies.

Or ISP's.
How to utilize D3.js with Rails partials? 
Hi HN,

I'm building a Rails app that needs some visualizations, but I have a problem. In the app, users have folders which contain entries that they create. When you visit the site (logged in), you are shown a list of all your folders, and clicking on one loads up a partial with all the submissions contained inside.

What I'd like to do is something different: When the user opens the folder, I'd like to load a partial with all the <svg> and <circle> HTML for D3, and size them based on the character count of each submission. However, I'm lost on how to do it and have been trying to get it working all day.

I have placed all the D3 code inside my show.html.erb file for the folder, which injects the partial into the body of the site. It doesn't work, and my D3 code needs to know which folder has been opened to load the correct JSON data; I'm using a d3.json call to get the JSON for the folder, which contains a sub-array for submissions.

Is my approach wrong? I'm sort of a Rails newbie, so I'm not sure how else to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Or, like the point I believe the author was trying to make, it's not ridiculous if it aids in your long term business goals.

The quality of Apple's App Store is one of the key differentiators in the smartphone/tablet market. In-app purchase based software can reasonably be seen to reduce the quality of an app-store for a couple reasons.

1) The low barrier to entry puts f2p software at an initial advantage. This hurts the market for complete software.

2) Competition for profits then becomes based on extracting the most money from users in hard to quantify ways, leading to insidious tricks.

3) Consumers become disenfranchised with the idea of an app, after they become burned a couple times, and trying to look for quality complete software, but finding that it has failed to thrive in the face of free+ alternatives.

Remember that old Columbia Records CD-by-mail thing? It made money because it offered a low initial cost that a kid could sign up for. Then CDs were sent monthly, and eventually a big bill would follow. Can you imagine a quality music discovery service competing with the free one that spammed kids and then left their parents to foot the bill? I suggest no. First, the up-front, honest service would require a reasoned commitment, while Columbia's appealed directly to people's instincts. Second, Columbia poisoned the water. No one could trust the technology of the day (catalogues and mail) to be beneficial after they were hit with a huge surprise bill from the big name in the industry.

I'm not saying that is a perfect analogy, but I think it reasonably fits. The difference here is that Apple is in full control of their destiny- and they can't afford to let things go to shit.
And while this "momentum" builds, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) engages in further character assassination of Snowden: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07...
The Beginning of the Bomb
This is very true and the reason that outrage and reform efforts need to focus as intensely on the idea of secret courts and secret law (especially secret law) as on the surveillance itself.

Say what you want about the "balance of security and civil liberties". Secret law and democracy are plainly 100% incompatible and a third grader can understand why. Secret law all but guarantees an eventual transition to outright totalitarian fascism.
Can anyone confirm whether the physics behind this makes sense?