skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw lots of cognitive dissonance when I worked for a company that was something of an advertising firm. Everyone hates pop-ups and spam... but it's probably OK if we do it.

We can turn off the user's pop-up blocker right? What do you mean we can't get around it? How are we supposed to get them to see our side offers if we can't do pop-ups?

And the constant discussions about how to keep our emails from landing in spam folders. Since we weren't running a scam, there had to be a way to get our emails in the inbox right? Even though we don't know the person... bought their address from someone (who bought it from someone)... sent them 3 emails this week already...

I'm glad to not be involved in some of that any more.
That's a stretch. I don't expect privacy when I shout on the street corner; that's broadcasting. I do expect privacy when I send email, because that's totally bounded.

The postal system is a public utility. Should it be filtered? What we're arguing now is why one envelope is special. I put my communications in paper envelope and I'm protected, but when I put it in an SMTP envelope, I'm not. I'd like someone to rationalize that.

As far as I'm concerned, let's do it one way or another. Either protect email or start OCRing the post.
Two of the Top Ten Hardware Startups Are Canadian
Depends on what you do...

Straight wetlab postdocs are usually around the NIH levels (~40K). For computational postdocs (especially if you have a good biology background), 50-60K isn't out of the norm.
White House unable to confirm if Congress briefed on NSA spy program
Advertising wasn't always the norm, and I would personally love to return to the days where people published because they actually had something to say. How many search results these days are from those extremely valuable sites with one person geeking out on everything they know about a topic, versus the sheer number of content farms regurgitating the same simplistic crap just to get page views and ultimately waste your time?

In fact, I'd been waiting until the next DuckDuckGo thread came up to throw out the idea that DDG could further differentiate itself by having an option to only return results from sites without advertisements. I would love such a feature, even using Adblock, because I think the quality of the results would go up immensely.
So you wouldn't be happy unless they provide internet EVERYWHERE at the SAME TIME? Seems like a ridiculous request.
Australia has significantly worse Internet regulation than the US.
For just wet-lab people, this is still a little low, but not by much.
Interesting tool, but using tools like HTTPS everywhere, Syncdocs to encipher Google, or Truecrypt or EncFS for local volumes might just attract attention from the NSA.

It is better not to stand out from the crowd and be targeted.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/from-encryption-to-d...
What do you mean by query? Are talking about using the 'keys' command to figure out what data you need? Because that's completely discouraged for everything except maintenance tasks, and for those I think it makes sense to keep an extra slave instance that is not used by any apps that connect to redis (i.e., keep it out of the pool they can use).

If on the other hand by 'query' you mean, for example, using operations like diff, intersect, and union on sets that store keys (for the purpose of knowing what data to pull) -- I actually haven't ran into performance problems yet. If what you're saying is "it's important to spend time to think about HOW you're going to be determining what data to access", then yeah, I'll completely agree that this is crucial. However, I will also point out that this will be true even if you're using a relational database -- though those are expected to be "queried" so perhaps designing a feasible solution is a bit less demanding.
I don't think reading great writing can be stressed enough. It helps you find a tone that you like and can take the pressure off of trying to find 'your own style'.

For a good variety of nonfiction, try longform.org.

If you are able to get interested in a wide range of topics, longform is a treasure trove.
Ask HN: Where are all the HN designers?
Seriously. I know you're out there. How come if I want to hire a developer from HN, there are multiple threads full of candidates? But if I want to find a designer, what do I do?
> It seems pretty clear to me that Google wants to brand itself with the word 'fast'.

And it's rather peculiar that we all associate AT&T with 'mediocre' thanks to their Starbucks wifi sponsorship.
oy. Okay, I'll see what I can do. Thanks.
Okay, I tried it based on this. Ideally one could opt into this step, but I think if it either said 1) "view your contacts" or 2) you simply wrote "We never change your contacts or save them on our servers" or similar -- that'd do it, I think.

BTW, once in, I really like it! Simple, elegant, but not too simple (e.g., it supports basic tables).
SFO's "legitimate concerns" are that they can control activity on their property. If they want to charge rental car companies extra, that's their right. This isn't society-wide regulation, it's a business entity (one that happens to be owned by a government) deciding what to do with their own property.
Reminds me a lot of the X10 ads that used to be everywhere in late-90s/early 2000s.
Interesting! I tried mint with black tea and wasn't a fan. To me, they were two great tastes that did not go great together. But I love mint with green tea or yerba mate. I'm surprised it mixes with coffee.
I remember when they pivoted - i sat right next to them in our shared office space...
Navy Seal Leak: _No_Easy_Day_ available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/No-Easy-Day-Firsthand-ebook/dp/B008MG1... (Notice how he makes no mention of ISA even being there, or doing any SSE).

I don't recall the source of the Executive comment. It was kind of buried in a news piece with a broad focus that I read. I'll look for it. Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact language to do a good search and find it. Sorry.

But, here they are saying they have it, it's encrypted, and they can get it in "weeks or months" (despite the large number of drives/filesystems with presumably different keys):
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20059825-10391695.html

The Executive and Legislature couldn't keep something secret to save their lives. And, JSOC leaks like a fucking sieve. If I can't find that particular leak on the web, I'm sure there will be another one soon with the same info. Every guy likes to talk to pretty news reporters and seem important.

Claimed 75%+ success rate attacking Chinese systems: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-sn...

Asrar al-Mujahideen (the Jihadi PGP fork w/ 2048bit RSA):
http://www.rbijou.com/2013/03/18/an-overview-of-jihadist-enc...

The news coverage sucks something awful. The thing is having enough knowledge of mil/ir/tech/math to put all the leaks together.
You've hit the nail on the head. Tethering is somewhat of a black art in the US, as carriers have started clamping down on tethering users in order to charge them $20 or more to access the same bits via another device.

Most Android users don't even have the standard tethering options here, as carriers mandate that be removed and replaced with their own tethering apps that enforce this restriction and protect their revenue stream.

And besides that, most users aren't technical enough to understand that you can access the Internet from your laptop through your smartphone.

And besides that, most carriers have limited data plans, so getting lots of work done over a tethered connection is not exactly feasible.
Ask HN: Organizing business notes and thoughts?
I'm struggling to manage and keep track of various ideas/methods to implement in my day to day to work. I get flashes of inspiration, read marketing blogs online, etc and say "Oh yes, I should try this" to myself. From there I email myself and figure I'll get around to it eventually. I don't and I'm struggling to manage my ideas and find time to implement. Has anyone faced similar issues?
"Marketers hate him"
Uber will never have the user base unless their pricing matches the price for a normal cab ride.
It's likely going to get much, much worse. Try to sign in to Starbucks wifi in Italy & much of continental Europe.

That's the future, sadly - Italy for one requires you to register with your passport or other ID in order to access free wiki. It's an anti terrorism measure. Every hotel you stay at requires you to sign on individually, in a manner connected to you personally, every single time.
The efficiency argument actually has very little to do with the story. I doubt anyone (including the airport) disputes the benefit of increased ride sharing.

The point is that FlightCar is offering the same or competing services as an Airport rental car agency without paying the same use fees as a rental car agency. This has less to do with efficiency and more to do with them exploiting loopholes to avoid paying the same costs as more established rental companies. They benefit from the increased rental demand, cab stands, and private roads produced by the airport, but don't pay for it.

If their entire business model is dependent on not paying the airport fees, it's probably not as disruptive as they claim.
And if the rental company is doing their job at all properly, the info they collect gives you a giant flashing arrow pointed straight at a prime suspect. It's going to take a fair bit of work to be able to pull off such a scheme without getting caught, and there are probably easier ways to make money with that much effort.
Like other indie developers, Blizzard is cutting the middleman and selling the game directly to their fans. In this case Blizzard accomplished this by merging with games publisher Activision.
Yelp inches slowly toward profitability, losing just $878,000 in one quarter
Presumably statements about what is and isn't being "collected" are based on a twisted and non-intuitive definition of the word.
GitHub hosted blogs I presume.
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> I don't use many metaphors, and I know my writing comes off as very dry. So I'd like to get better at whatever skill or mindset that lets me spice up my writing, rather than my writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course without any flair in presentation.

You realize talking about "writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course" was a metaphor, right? Writing doesn't really plod down courses, only animate actors do that. And you, the writer, weren't _actually_ plodding down any tracks either (unless you were writing on your iphone while plodding down some course somewhere). METAPHOR, MAN!

Might be a bit of a mixed metaphor when you switch to "flair in presentation."

Oh, and talking about 'spicing up' writing is another metaphor, although maybe a kind of tired trite one.
Hmm, I didn't even notice the first ad, because I subconsciously scanned over it as an ad. The second one looked liked content to me, so I saw that one, and even felt an impulse to click and see what kinda game someone built with such a campy art style
A couple of excellent points there! You're right, so much of the value is in the comments. I guess it comes down to scale. There is a minimum threshold required to justify producing the summaries. The more subs, the more features can be justified.

To your point on hoarding links, a comment came through from the form that they would like to see tagging functionality. I wonder if there's something there?
Lots of fans disagree!
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Like most people, when you write "practical", or "real-world", you actually mean "short term".

I agree with the denotation of your comment, but I disagree with its connotation. We need more long term, and less "practicality".
Why Android, The #1 Mobile Platform, Won’t Get Great Music Apps
Here's an Idea:
See how many people show interest in paying for it, and how many do not want to pay for it.
If it's worth it, let the people not wanting to pay for it summarize it for "free" access to your service, now you don't have to write the summaries, you just approve others' summaries.

Just an idea, also sounds like a fun project :)
I can never get pro-manning people to answer one simple question: what was he blowing the whistle on?
One weird trick that an advertising company found to filter out low quality ads. Click here!
An ex-president told us that won't work. Maybe we should listen and realize the problem is very serious.
How do they afford to make it cheaper than a cab?
Classical logic doesn't work in a legal context. You need at least to use fuzzy logic to model the domain.
Batarang[0] is chrome plugin that vastly helps with debugging angular. I also highly recommend approaching it from a TDD standpoint. The seed[1] project comes with a baked-in testrunner. This also helps you move away from direct dom manipulation unless absolutely necessary: treat it like the definition of an html DSL specific to your app.

0. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/angularjs-batarang...

1. https://github.com/angular/angular-seed
To sum it up I would say:

People who manage game developers don't necessarily need to be good at developing games- they need to be good at managing people who develop games, which is related but not the same.
I made this! Please see the slides, they are more "up to date" than the respective papers.
The point at the beginning of the press release is that gigantic database doesn't exist. According to the government, they only collect data that has been authorized by a court, which includes large scale metadata collection like call logs or email headers passing through international cable landing sites in the US (collection that stopped in 2011 according to the leaked documents) together with full data with realtime monitoring from certain US-based internet companies for specific users under a surveillance court order.

Access to that data is severely restricted and audited according to this document.
If you have strong machine-learning experience and a few good publications in the current market, getting a postdoc at a top institution is nowhere near NBA odds. I don't know what the odds are specifically for Stanford, but if you apply to whoever has openings among top schools, there are many each year. If you know something about biology and a lot about machine learning, labs might even recruit you rather than vice versa.
Yes, but the cost far outweighs the benefits. The world (and the economy) is not a zero-sum game. People usually say that when they want to state that value can be created, but it cuts both ways. The fact that it's not a zero-sum game means that value can be destroyed.

We blew a trillion bucks on nothing useful. That's destroyed value. That somebody is benefitting in some small way from the side effects of this doesn't change that fact overall.

To reduce it to more comprehensible terms, imagine that I take out a $10,000 loan to buy a car, then crush that car into a cube. That's one less car in the world than before. That's a waste of $10,000 in value. That my creditors benefitted because they got interest off the loan doesn't change that fact.
Since you can already get full ITX atom boards for around $60 on ebay, this makes little sense to me.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=atom+motherboar...
Fine, great, terrific, sounds good,
like we can trust the NSA.

Reading this about all the protections,
now that we know at least some of
what Snowden did, we're talking
high comedy.

While all those internal checks,
balances, controls, ethics, assurances, etc.
sound good, they are all
too easily just self serving
BS.

We need to keep our eyes on
the point, the main point, the
crucial point which is:
If they grab data on US citizens
without a proper warrant, then lots of
US citizens
will conclude that the NSA is
in violation of the Fourth Amendment,
with all the NSA assurances irrelevant.
Stop. Period. Guilty. Done.

I as one US citizen greatly prefer
the Fourth Amendment to any contributions
to my safety that might be provided by
the NSA and however proper the NSA makes
their activities sound. Did I mention I like the
Fourth Amendment?
> Not every analyst can perform every function, and no analyst can operate freely. Every search by an NSA analyst is fully auditable, to ensure that they are proper and within the law.

Didn't Snowden specifically deny that this is true?
Just FYI in Chrome, my 'transactions' page is about twenty miles long.
With respect, only someone who hasn't studied law could say this.

Law is complicated and filled with ambiguity because the world is complicated and filled with ambiguity.

Unlike lawyers, we can simply will some of that away. We can make an enum which smooshes together disparate phenomena, that feeds a dropdown list and require the customers to use it. We can ignore very rare corner cases and include a comments field. We can do a lot of things to simply make essential complexity go away while we bicker amongst ourselves about accidental complexity.

Law can't do that. Law must treat all cases, all combinations, as they arise. Every single day a configuration of people, motives and circumstances emerges that has never before emerged, could not have been foreseen and which may never occur again. The law must still apply.

Law is hard because the problem domain is everything humans do.

Let me know how many story points you think that scope is worth.
Earlz, I don't think that people aren't willing to pay for a well written article. Take a look at self-published Amazon Kindle e-books. Some of them are as short as 20 pages and as cheap as 99 cents. And many have been insanely successful.

But that's besides the point. In general, you're right. A lot of screencasts out there suck. And as you clearly exemplify, a lot of people learn better from text than video. Which is precisely why screencasts need their own platform independent from a pure video hosting service like YouTube.

We support full Github-style markdown and code syntax highlighting, and we encourage all content producers to pair their videos with annotations that are sufficient enough to stand alone (similar to what Ryan Bates does with Railscasts/AsciiCasts). And we think that a unified platform which sets that standard will help make it the norm rather than an exception.
Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second
definitely agree. What's stopping some upstart kids with a mobile app and a ton of VC funding from undercutting everyone. What if they didn't take any cut at all and made money on upselling on other services or ads on the app?
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But the most 'just' laws aren't always the ones least open to interpretation. Also, let's not conflate Aaron Swartz's suicide into an example of the law working as designed and intended, rather than being the result of heavy-handed interpretation intersecting with his own fragile state.

The way I look at it, making laws more and more complex and attempting to codify every possible instance is a bit like adding massive bloat to a software project for the sake of maximum backwards compatibility. Just as more lines of code introduce more bugs and increase the possible attack surface of an application, so more complex laws introduce more opportunities to manipulate and undermine those laws through legalistic means (while giving the people who have to interpret those laws on their face little leeway for context-specific interpretation.)

In Florida, to use an obvious example, the law as intended makes it legal in a certain context to kill an unarmed teenager without any ramifications, whereas firing a gun into the air can get you 40 years in prison. This is what the people of Florida wanted, and this is what their legislators gave them. America's prisons are stuffed with minor drug offenders for whom the sentencing laws were absolutely unambiguous. How complex is the tax code and how many ways are there to dance around it? Most of those holes are there on purpose.
My personal favourite is "Cruel Intentions", rebranded in France as "Sexe Intentions" - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexe_Intentions
See http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Perl&l=San+Francisco%2C+CA...

When I worked in online education in the .com 1.0 days, a lot of the big tools were built on Perl (both Blackboard and WebCT I think). I'm sure some of them still use it.
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I always preferred Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Please note I say this lovingly, as a former Perl programmer.
Indeed. I was about to make a similar comment. I think this comes from the hype that surrounds Go, that it is a "systems" language. In reality, it is no more a "systems" language than Java. These days, it seems that Go lays somewhere between the Perl/Python/Ruby bunch, and Java. It is not a replacement for C and C++ in their domains (OS; kernels; file systems; embedded; high performance games; etc.). Rust is attempting to take on C++ in those segments, as you pointed out.
> The law should be written as "it's a crime to kill someone" (although, that may be too specific, and a more appropriate wording may be "it's a crime to rob someone of their life and livelihood")

Either of your examples would involve me still technically breaking the law if I kill someone while trying to save myself from being murdered by that person, even if I do eventually receive a lenient sentence.
Yes, all of the summaries will be hand-written. At first it will be me with my significant other as backup, however I would be trialling writers with the aim of outsourcing so long as the quality/reliability was there.
I'm sorry that is the most important thing you got from my comment, Avar. My spelling of Perl is certainly inconsistent. I've spelt it Perl, PERL and perl at various times. I was on my phone and being somewhat lazy and clumsy with my spelling. In that sense, I'm definitely not an insider. But I have been programming in Perl for 15ish years. I've built some fairly sizable projects in perl and I love using it. I'm also sad that it's in decline, and I think it's fairly obvious that it is.

The comments you've made about its usage do not address the comment from the article that I highlighted. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find senior engineers with a lot of Perl experience. I think it's unquestionable that there is a stronger desire in the market for Python and Ruby. Just consider Ycombinator. In my batch of 66, there were only 2 companies (mine included) which used Perl in any way. The vast majority used Python or Ruby. Does this not strike you as an important trend? This is not a rhetorical question, I mean it sincerely, since you also seem to be familiar with the language and love it too.
> I believe we'd see a lot simpler laws.

Only if you model the domain with fuzzy logic. Otherwise you have a combinatorial explosion of specific definitions.

And guess what? That's already how the law works:

"Reasonable person similarly circumstanced".

"Beyond reasonable doubt".

"Balance of probabilities".
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I'm not an expert with either redis or Memcached, but in my personal usage, Memcached is functionally at least equal to redis for the things that it does well like LRU caching.

I find myself continuing to use it for those things just to keep my redis config cleaner and optimized for the things redis is (seemingly) better for like persistent storage and message queues.
I don't know how all VPN systems work, but if you are using ssh -D I believe that your first connection creates keys for your computer pair in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and then future connections are fairly secure regardless of who is eavesdropping.
Lua gets this, as well, except in Lua's case, it never even had an acronym associated with it.

People who type LUA insta-brand themselves as outsiders.
OH WELL THEN. Everything's fine. Carry on!

eyeroll
"I need to reduce your freedom to keep you safe", no one can argue with that.
Apple Seeds OS X 10.8.5 Build 12F30 to Developers
Awesome, awesome idea. Love it! Maybe they get a bio link out of it or similar.