skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The invitation flow is very roundabout (even if you sheepishly admit it :-)), and the group account invitation doesn't seem to work at first. I tried to authorize a third-party account (inside of an anonymous tab) three times and the invitation didn't seem to be redeemed when I was redirected from Twitter to Echelon.

At first I thought something was wrong because, perhaps, you didn't set a "return to" URL to complete the invitation acceptance (which you should do if it's at all possible, to prevent your users from having to repeat an action). That was the behavior I expected since the invitation URL's log in prompt said "Sign in to accept".

What really happened is that the Twitter authorize call doesn't — in fact — trigger the acceptance of the invitation, it simply creates an Echelon account. I had to hunt down the "Notifications" section through the Menu while there was no sign where I had landed after the OAuth trip that there were any notifications waiting for me.

You should find a way to surface these notifications where you users are going to land after the Twitter authorize call, otherwise the experience is going to be as frustrating for them as it was for me — that is until they do the work your application should be doing for them: letting them know what actions they need to proceed with next in order to have a fully functioning account.

Now I have to say this is a cool app, I especially like the fact that individual user accounts are used and therefore everything can be logged so the whole team can be aware of the outgoing Twitter activity for each "group account".
Same for me. I spend most of my time on Linux these days but I have a Lumia (720). Great phone. Just works and can get through 3 days without a charge!

The only thing that sucks is it doesn't have a decent ssh client but that is remedied by the fact it works as a tether and I can use my laptop with it. I don't like running root on a touch screen device either due to the massive danger mistyping as root and shooting something.
I don't think the Amazon TOS let you use their API on mobile devices. That's why we don't have Delicious Library on our mobile devices.
> This is a far cry from pervasive Big Brother in the sky.

Do you remember the day they said that drones would never be used against the population, but only for military targets?

I certainly do. And I see a pattern here:

a) it's an evolution, and

b) they are doing all this behind our backs (without the promised transparency)

If we had a website where every such incident would be published and precisely detailed and justified, the situation would already be slightly different, b/c then, we would have an eye on it, every single day.
Provide money for thoughtful, convincing research and advocacy.
Oh no, not adoration?!! Ando those poor customers, being forced to buy those apple devices!
Maybe we should organize a hacker news charity poker tournament. Nothing big, ins are $100, winner gets $200, 2nd place gets money back, and everything left goes to Watsi.
> Note that most countries do not provide tax breaks to homeowners, this is a uniquely US phenomenon.

I was certainly aware it wasn't universal - I should probably have called that out more clearly.

> There are many cases where renting makes more sense, but the factors are multiple: taxes, interest rates, up front equity, property values, closing costs, rental market, etc.

Right, that's pretty much exactly my position.
Huh? Instead of "fund" perhaps I should have said "account". I was just thinking of IRAs (as they're named in the U.S.) and the like.
Great, can I get a job as a teacher, too, please? Since apparently I can say and do what I want in that job, it sounds perfect. Can I play video games with the kids all day and be paid for it? I've heard it improves reaction times in kids brains.
Of Epic scale, more individual frames than all the xkcd comics to date.

A grand and world-changing story for a people. Not spanning years, which a traditional Epic would require, but still containing acts of heroism and tales of adventure.
"Believe me when I say I wish I would've rented. I'd have about $200,000 more in my bank account"

Because you had a bad outcome.

So first w/o getting into the math numbers which I will assume are correct I will say the following.

Looking at any decision strictly by the numbers may make you come to the wrong conclusion and is a reason why it sometimes can be a mistake to look at only one angle (financial or, say, engineering) when making a decision.

For example the housing stock when renting tends to be more transient and less stable than with buying (people coming and going). Now even if you can rent a house in a stable neighborhood (rather than an apartment building) that is primarily owned and occupied by owners (as opposed to renters) you still end up with the issue of a) having to rely on someone else (the landlord) to fix things. b) not being able to make improvements to the property (because you need approval or because why put in a new kitchen to something you don't own?) and c) The neighbors may treat you differently if you are a renter (may or may not happen may or may not matter simply pointing out). You are of course also susceptible to the whims of the landlord rent wise and have the costs of moving if you need to do so.

Owning (as does owning a business rather than being an employee) also comes with certain "psychic" benefits that are hard to quantify and, most importantly, have different value to different people.

Personally (and I've rented obviously) I prefer to own because that way I can do what I want when I want even recognizing that it might cost me more to live that way. I also buy cars I never lease. I like to sell when I want to sell and not have to wait for the term to end. Other people are looking for another type of certainty (that isn't important to me) or perhaps don't have the cash flow or need the cash flow for something else. Everybody is different.

As far as your situation you bought in 2005 and in hindsight you are not happy with the decision. I've had ups and downs with real estate as well (more ups though over time).

"I paid $567,000 for it and it's worth $540,000 based on my most recent appraisal."

Doesn't mean anything until you decide to sell it though.

I have a property (investment) that I bought for about 50k, could have sold at the top for, say, 180k, is worth now perhaps 125k. Unless I want to sell none of that really matters (don't need to finance it or anything) only thing that really changes is the property tax.

"Notice I didn't mention routine maintenance and fixing things"

Once again some people may prefer to take care of this in something they own and not be bothered by it (just like some people don't want to wait for the "tech guy" to come and get the PC running). Personally there are pros and cons to each thing. If the A/C breaks in my house I would rather not have to wait for a management company to scramble a repairman to fix it. Everyone is different.
Apple doesn't have to get better at service. They just have to make sure that they don't lock other services out (especially when the other vendor is much better than Apple). Google doesn't care if iOS or Android wins - they just want lots of Google services on as many phones as possible. It's in Apple's interests to avoid sinking their platform simply to give their own in-house offerings a leg-up.

I think that's one of the reasons Scott Forstall was forced out. It seems he was backing a lot of Apple's Data / AI / Cloud products, and may have wanted to keep Google out of iOS, in order to give his products an advantage. But Apple doesn't make money on Maps, it makes money selling the phone (and OS, and App store), and it's silly to hamstring your platform simply to give a few second-rate Apps an unfair advantage. (And they were second-rate - anyone who competes with Google's killer apps is taking a crazy risk).
Depends on your perspective. A consumption tax charges people in proportion to the benefit they receive from society. An income tax charges people in proportion to the value they create for society. A wealth tax charges people in proportion to how much they save for the future.

So the question is what do we want to discourage? Consumption, value creation or savings?
Interesting, but I'm not sure how much sense it makes to redefine wealth as a length of time. If your goal is to sustain a lifestyle without working, I can certainly see the appeal of that, but to me the standard definition of wealth is fine -- something along the lines of abundance of resources.
who gets to decide what is 'thoughtful and convincing'? How can I be that person, so that I can decide my friends and family are thoughtful and convincing?
I've always found having to deal with background workers a pain in the butt. Not only do you have to set up additional servers (queue and worker servers), but also you run into problems as a result of your own naivety--such as not using a connection pool for workers so the startup time is too slow, or using a library that doesn't handle timeouts. Also, I find that I have little visibility into the queuing throughput, or if I chain jobs for workers (result of one worker goes to another worker), I have no idea if the data made it all the way through.

Does anyone else find it a pain, or just me?

Also, has anyone ever tried workers as a service, like iron.io? Are there others, and was it worth it?
Nothing in the json spec requires that numbers are limited to those internally representable in a javascript runtime. With the right tooling, you can encode/decode very accurate numeric values. I'm not familiar with the go libraries, but python's simplejson has a use_decimal flag that interprets floats using python's Decimal module.

That said, I can't think of any reason a web server needs super accurate numbers. All the config options I can think of require nice round ints. Maybe specifying weights to individual backends to proxy to (so all the weights sum up to 1.0)?
Yes, Unity is fine if you use it for a few weeks on the desktop/laptop. I really enjoyed Ubuntu 12.04 with huge repositories of applications and an interface that used the 'extra' width of a cheap 1080p monitor.

I have not yet had the opportunity to explore other form factors, although fat fingering most GTK3+ apps would not be fun I imagine.

I am currently 'on the bench' regarding Unity after 12.04 until bug 739184 [1] is addressed. This makes keyboard oriented use of LibreOffice impossible, ironic given the keyboard orientation of Unity.

I hope 14.04 addresses this issue and also supports nvidia proprietary drivers (or runs nouveau at a reasonable speed) [2].

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/7...

[2] http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/mir-plans-in-13-10/
What about HornetQ[1]? Qpid[2]? OpenMQ[3]? OpenJMS[4]? JORAM[5]?

[1]: http://www.jboss.org/hornetq

[2]: http://qpid.apache.org/

[3]: http://mq.java.net/

[4]: http://openjms.sourceforge.net

[5]: http://joram.ow2.org/
Thanks. I'll look the sites over and see which one will work best. I'm sure I'll have more questions, but I'm glad to know that 'slack' is available.
That's great news if it's true. Happen to have a link or citation backing that up??
What exactly is Cython? I've not had a reason to use it yet; are the speed improvements worth it?
For a wealth tax on smallish amounts of wealth, I agree those are problems. But a wealth tax is usually contemplated as being on large fortunes. That removes the need to worry about the valuations of small stuff. And it also makes encouraging spending rather than accumulation a feature rather than a bug: one purpose of a wealth tax on large fortunes is to prevent large fortunes from accumulating and being maintained indefinitely, i.e. to prevent the emergence of a kind of aristocracy.

Thomas Paine proposed an early version of a wealth tax for that reason. His version was something of a hybrid between an inheritance tax and a wealth tax: it was an annual assessment on the current value of inherited estates. That has some conceptual advantages: unlike a straight wealth tax it exempts self-made fortunes for the lifetime of their maker, and unlike a straight inheritance tax it doesn't happen all at once as a single lump sum (which can be problematic for inheritance of hard-to-divide things as well as easier to dodge with instruments like generation-skipping trust funds). But in a modern context it has some administrative disadvantages, because it requires long-term tracking which portion of one's net worth is inherited vs. not.
Just two nitpicks: You can sign email with GPG even if others aren’t using it (of course it will be of little value to them until they, possibly at a later date, verified your key), and it is supported on Android by K-9, I believe.
Apologies on this, and thanks for your patience. This is something we work on in our spare time, and we've got a bit of a backlog at the moment. I'm going to try to find time to power through most of this over the weekend.

As you say: persistence is key. We get a lot of emails. If you feel like you've slipped through the cracks, don't hesitate to ping us again!
Bay Area-Silicon Valley seed fundings poised to smash record
Science isn't democracy, things are not true or untrue depending on how many people beliieve them. You can't vote gravity away, for example.
Google offers three geocoders:

The first[1] converts ip to location, and allows 100 free queries per day.

The second[2] converts physical addresses to location as part of it maps JavaScript api, and is part of its 25,000 free requests/day.

The third[3] is its http version of geocoding, which also converts physical addresses to locations or visa-versa. This api has the 2,500 req/day limit.

[1]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge...

[2]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

[3]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
I don't see where that assumption comes into play.

The reform mentioned above need not increase government revenue.
There are hundreds of EWDs and I haven't seen a single one where Dijkstra would talk about making programming languages simple to make comprehension straightforward...

If that's the case then you need to read more closely. This discussion is sparked by http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW.... I'll focus on just two statements from this one which demonstrates the theme that I said was there:

Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention PL/1, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. Using PL/1 must be like flying a plane with 7000 buttons, switches and handles to manipulate in the cockpit. I absolutely fail to see how we can keep our growing programs firmly within our intellectual grip when by its sheer baroqueness the programming language —our basic tool, mind you!— already escapes our intellectual control.

It would be hard to find a clearer advocation of simplicity in programming languages.

But a clearer statement of his priorities - and why they are priorities - can be found here:

A study of program structure had revealed that programs —even alternative programs for the same task and with the same mathematical content— can differ tremendously in their intellectual manageability. A number of rules have been discovered, violation of which will either seriously impair or totally destroy the intellectual manageability of the program. These rules are of two kinds. Those of the first kind are easily imposed mechanically, viz. by a suitably chosen programming language. Examples are the exclusion of goto-statements and of procedures with more than one output parameter. For those of the second kind I at least —but that may be due to lack of competence on my side— see no way of imposing them mechanically, as it seems to need some sort of automatic theorem prover for which I have no existence proof. Therefore, for the time being and perhaps forever, the rules of the second kind present themselves as elements of discipline required from the programmer...

Your complaint is essentially that I focused on rules of the first kind described, when Dijkstra did a lot of work on rules of the second kind. If I were truly doing that then I'd be failing to understand him exactly as badly as you are in saying he was only interested in rules of the second kind while ignoring the fact that his largest concrete impact came from http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T....

I recognize and value his work in both areas. However the question that was asked was about his impact on current programming practice. And there is no question that his ideas on structured programming have had more impact than his ideas on provably correct software.
Huge Plesk Calamity
My server was hacked, it uses plesk to administer domain.
Last week I couldn't access plesk, so I "ssh" to my server, and used "top" command, I saw some weird processes, consuming all my cpu time !
I use "ps auxww" to detect the process and I met Medusa.
What the heck is Medusa ?
Why is installed in my server ?
Who is using my server ?
I'm part of that statistic 360,001 websites hacked!
Why plesk doesn't warning me ?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/more-than-360000-apache-websites-imperiled-by-crticial-vulnerability/
I think it would be appropriate if someone just made a short video clip out of that.
Evolution is a scientific theory; that means that

1. It's based on facts, like:

1. Mutation, that you can see mutations everyday, from
a microrganism to a whale.

2. The natural selection, that can you also can see
everyday.

2. Its predictions can be tested.

1. For example with help of genetics.

3. It's falsifiable, that means you can try to build a test
to refute the theory, but this test must be fact based.

Creationism isn't a scientific theory because you can't bring the facts. Show reproducible facts and then we can discuss.
I hope this doesn't sound like preaching.

In almost every discussion about charities and non-profits the main discussion seems to revolve around the money we donate and how efficiently charities use these donations. One thing that I find people forgetting is how valuable their time can be to non-profits and how that often is way more valuable than donations. Each one of you on HN certainly has a skill that would be valuable to charities (especially small ones) whether that be technical help or in taking your skills in finding customers for your startup and applying those skills to fundraising for the non-profits. You would be surprised at how limited many non-profits are in these areas and how even an hour here and there each month can make a huge impact.

I realize many of you just don't have the time and I am not suggesting this is for everyone. However, if you do, try sending a quick email to the director of a non-profit you find interesting and you might be surprised at how happy they are to hear from you.
> They need to do better, but they have little reason to pack it in.

http://allthingsd.com/20130705/htc-profit-misses-expectation...

They're still profitable, but for how long? If they don't engineer a turnaround, they'll be solidly in the red a year from now.

At that point, they have plenty of reasons to pack it in.
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There's another element in there. The one about relative skill. Let's say that you're a much better player than the other person, and that you would win 90% of the time heads up (one on one, which we are going to assume at this point for simplicity). If this were the case, you would need to have a greater than 90% chance to win the hand all in for it to be a correct move.

This is also easy to understand if you, a novice, are heads up against one of the pros. It's a much better move for you to go all in on any decent hand and just try to get lucky to win, since if you try to play their game, you're going to lose.
People think government is better at it, because that's what the evidence overwhelmingly points to.

The U.S. routinely top's the list of the world's most charitable nations (private charity): http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/20/144035063/sur...

While we also top the list of OECD countries for child poverty http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/CO2.2%20Child%20poverty%20-%20up...

Now compare those poverty rates with the amount of public and private social spending: http://www.oecd.org/media/oecdorg/directorates/directoratefo...

More public social spending has a higher effect on poverty than more private social spending.
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The lack of advancement in antibiotics is a stark contrast to the recent improvements in treatments for so many chronic diseases.

Whatever the reason the free-market pressures here are so weak, antibiotic development should consequently be a priority in government grants. I wonder if there could even be intergovernmental cooperation here?
Anyone want to re-design by professional blog?
I'm looking for someone who wants to do a design project for fun. My Wordpress customer service blog, http://winthecustomer.com could use a re-design. I'm looking for someone who wants to play around with it and put on their creative spin.

Design credit will be given on the site.

You get creative control. Logos, colors, etc. are all for you to decide. Since many people build Web sites for fun, I thought I'd throw this out there as a fun project that can be knocked out in a couple of hours.
Many of those with underwater mortgages who treated their house as a investment came out nicely. Like a business would, they defaulted on their loan, then a few years later put their saved payments toward a house down the street at half price. Even got another loan too. Of course this is more difficult to do if you need to move for work.
Why the hell would you limit this to only Apple machines, when literally every smartphone, and most laptops have an integrated camera?

Also, because you've already not managed to impress me with competence: What exactly is your user password storage algorithm?
You seem to forget that you got a place to live for those years, even if your investment didn't turn a profit. I don't know what the rental market is like where you are, but a ~$200k "loss" seems comparable to what you would've paid to rent a modest house-sized space in a major metropolitan area over those 8 years. That works out to 2k/month cost to live in a house, which seems like a pretty great deal to me after paying ~$1500/month for crappy 1bdrm or studio apartments.
http://css-tricks.com/do-we-need-box-shadow-prefixes/
One persons restriction on what developers can do is another persons "Never able to access the source to devices I own"

I'm sure you have your reasons for disliking the GPL. Many of us love it for those very same reasons, and for the freedom it grants to everyone, not just the immediate recipient.