skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling you over analyzed what I wrote. I wasn't saying UX isn't important - my job title is literally a UX engineer. The company I work with prides itself on the user experience coming first. So while it may be something I defend first, its something on everyone's mind - and when it isn't it can become a problem.

Steve Jobs for example cared about every little detail that impacted the user experience. He also wanted everyone in his company to care in the same way.

My point is just that while UX designers may be leading the charge, they largely need to get off any "high horse" they're on, and understand an entire team is responsible for a good experience, even if they are the driving force.
I didn't realize this was satire until I saw the Google logo, and I thought it was an awesome idea. "Oh, just like Gmail, but they're really open and honest about it."

I guess the reason Google and the like have to conceal their intentions is because there seem to be few people (three out of an audience in the example) who are willing to go into it knowing the terms (or admit to be willing). A lot more people are happy with signing up for the service not stopping to consider why a corporations would be so charitable, then finding out and joining the outrage bandwagon [while continuing to use the service].

This pattern seems insincere or dishonest (for the most part, always exceptions, etc), and I'm hoping it's a fad that dies out, as opposed to the value proposition getting bashed to death. Every other week there's a great tutorial on how to switch to duck duck go and roll your own everything, those are the honest sincere solutions for the truly interested.
I know it's so hard, even in the UK people get upset 'Why does this inner city youth club get X benefit' 'Why are we sending X troubled child to X holiday camp for the summer'

'Why doesn't my child get these things?' is often the question, but the answer that these things are put in place to try and reduce future potential crime and other societal damage are not things that a lot of people want to consider - I'm spending money now to negate possible risk in the future?

I can't find the report now, but there was an interesting experiment in London. In the UK the average homeless person costs the state around £26,000 (http://homeless.org.uk/costs-homelessness#.UgTa1Y3qlNQ) or even more in London.

A charity was able to get £5000 per homeless person from a corporate donation, and offered this money directly to 100 homeless people, with the only previsions being that they did not get to handle the cash directly and that everything they spent money on helping them get off the street.

Obviously this was a self selecting group (people that wanted to leave rough sleeping), but the following year a stunning proportion of those who had taken part had been able to turn their lives around.

Should there be a buffer to help people turn their lives around and stop them costing the state money? I'm all for it, but I have no idea how we could stop abuse of the system. We could start by trialling the idea out though, with money saved by stopping people and companies avoiding paying their taxes (some £16billion lost each year in the UK: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/500000Final.pdf )
Selecting and setting up an iPad for the elderly
Ask HN: in light of the leaks...
...and given the recent secure mail service shut downs, what is the feeling amongst American hackers?
Is there some groundswell that may lead to decisive action in terms of defending your constitution and the privacy of netizens across the globe?
Sure, you are allowed to redistribute it now too! http://blog.cartodb.com/post/57786792357/pluto-is-back
Yeah, I'm not making that argument at all. It's only a problem with antifreeze because it's something very harmful to consume, yet it has a somewhat attractive, food-like odor and taste.

Dangerous things to eat should taste bad to indicate you shouldn't eat them, but that's not always practical and this isn't a perfect world.
It would be interesting to speculate the consequence of Godel's Incompleteness deductions on the quest for Grand Unified Field Theorems in theoretical physics
Awesome - I never new about process substitution. I wanted to convince myself I knew what it was doing, so I started kicking this around a bit. I expected the first command to output "test." I'm not sure I can explain these results:

$ echo <(echo test)
/dev/fd/63
$ cat <(echo test)
test
This page abort on Chrome/WinXP. It works on firefox. Checking the page source code the only thing strange I see is a font hosted on googleapis.com
UK programming spend in decline, says Ofcom
The button was removed a few hours ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsole...
Have you considered running your own Mumble server? AES crypted voice and text chat on your own server.
I've never had anyone ask about the gaps in my CV. Never. I've been unemployed after the dotcom crash. Nobody cares. Last year I messed about on some of my own stuff. Everybody thinks it's fine. They just want to hire me.

Admittedly it's possible that my CV looks a lot more attractive than the average CV, but personally I wouldn't know why. It's possible the job market in Netherland is better than in the US, though.
It surprised me that Slovakia is among 10 most cyclist friendly countries. There's almost no infrastructure like bike lanes or bike stands and the country itself is mostly mountainous. Strange.
Like you said, you represent an outside case. Those bytes matter when you are dealing with the userbase GMail has.
Here’s what could go wrong with Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post
Lavabit was a tiny private operation. If you think that a publicly traded multi billion dollar company with millions of users and customers can just shut down to avoid complying with government requests then you are a deluded moron.
Treatin.gs - platform for face-to-face conversations with local professionals
They needed to ditch Groovy for Play 2.

Seems the Android guys are facing the same problems with Groovy in their Gradle based build system, and the Gradle team are considering switching to Scala for Gradle 2 to keep Android on board.
Great post. Really enjoyed and empathized with you.
Btw, 12 start-ups in 12 months? That's pretty impressive. However how about building one start-up per month, then if one takes off focusing on the project that as the most momentum?
That may be a better winning formula, don't you think so?
I'd also like to know how you fit the running, parenting, etc. in your schedule! You must be scarily efficient...
Google could offer a $20/month no-ads no-tracking email service. How many privacy conscious people are willing to pay that? Its not Google deciding to do this, its just ourselves.
How the FBI used a baby-faced WikiLeaks volunteer to spy on Julian Assange
Only replying partially as I don't want to repeat myself.

Ok, then let's just ignore continuations as they are somehow available in both languages although the Scala one feels a bit more officially endorsed to me.

> def upcase(s: String): UppercasedString

Even with that type signature of course the compiler can not check that for input "a" the output will be "A". Your code could have a bug and upcase "a" to "B" (Off-by-one errors are quite common) and your compiler would be perfectly happy. That is the whole point why unit test are more valuable than compiler type checks: checking specific code behavior and not only static types.
Woody Allen: What I've learned
If the Director of the CIA can't keep his email secure, what makes anyone think that their email is more secure than his?
Good read, DDNS attacks just keep seeming to increase.
>how PHP evolved

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php

http://laravel.com/
Boycott websites which don't tackle abuse, says Cameron
Amazing! This is hands down this year's most important development in the Web technologies field!
Type 1337 not with the numlock keys. And check comments.
We need an NRA for privacy
A software company shuts its secure email service pre-emptively so that they wouldn't be forced to comply with government orders to ... what? insert back doors? hand over encryption keys?

What country did this happen in? Soviet Russia? Cuba? Iran?

No the United States of America. Truly chilling.

I'm talking about Silent Circle. see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183059

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183352

If this had been about a gun-making/selling company shutting down its operation because they were afraid the government come to them and force them to violate the privacy of their customers, or for example insert, surreptitiously, some sort of tracking device into the guns themselves, the country (and the mainstream media, by the way) would be UP IN ARMS.

What we need is a "National Privacy Association" like the "National Rifle Association". Celebrity spokespeople, tons of money, lobbying congress, etc.
"First rule of government spending: why buy one when you can have two for twice the price?"
Probably the 'Geek Week' change. Only noticed after the 'Geek Week' started.
From various discussions I've had with physicists on the matter I found the answer is yes.

My thoughts were summed up by having a device here on earth that is entangled with a device just above the surface of the sun. Now imagine the sun vanishes and the devices communicate this information over the entanglement, thus (to my mind) breaking the "light barrier" as we receive an 8 minute warning that the lights have gone out. I don't fully remember (or understand!) the answer I got, but it most definitely had a reliance upon a relativistic communication channel.

[also: what H3g3m0n said - entanglement is not about the transfer of information]
> Is SO mostly compensation for crappy docs and badly constructed APIs?

Yes. And no.

There are a lot of interesting libraries and tools out there I have access to and can use. In the 90s and early 00s I bought a compiler and maybe some libraries and used it year after year, project after project. If something wasn't readily available, I'd to build it myself. Nowadays, chances are there are a number of alternative I can use. Chances are, the next project I want to use something similar there will be better alternatives. I don't use these tools and libraries much, so I don't get that much experience with them. If I want to use them for some problem, looking through the docs takes time, while SO probably has a good answer I can adapt to my situation.

Similarly, the way I use documentation has changed over the years. Where I'd get a printed version of the reference manual that I used until I'd to buy a new one, nowadays I enter a search query into a search engine to find the documentation I am looking for. Chances are, there's a SO reference as one of the first couple of hits. And sure, most projects are badly documented, if at all. Looking at the documentation isn't the same as it was before, or as it is with good documented stuff.

On the other hand, one would like the programming profession to be more than DIY-programming. Should building yet another simple CRUD application or a simple database front-end belong to the realm of professional programming? Should we want to train more people to do DIY-programming and preserve the interesting / hard problems to well-trained and experienced programmers? Similar to DIY home-improvement versus construction companies building a whole new city-center
Looking for Democracy’s Algorithm
So Ann doesn't know she's really talking to Bob? Ann just has some key that she hopes is Bob's, and isn't Eve doing MITM? Isn't that why web-of-trust is important?
But given that my keepass file is encrypted and has a secure password - as I said, no issues.
HN for Android is FOSS and it's awesome.

As for iOS, it doesn't matter whether you get the source code because you have no way to make sure that what you see is what you get (from the App store).
A Responsive Web Design Process
> I don't understand this. Presumably there's nothing stopping Website X sending both: a) my email address; and b) Website X's URL.

Yes, but there's nothing stopping them from doing that today. Persona doesn't help you if the site you sign into can't be trusted with the identity you give them. But nothing requires you to give them your normal e-mail address - you could just use throwaway if you find that a concern.

This is not what Persona tries to fix.

Persona is single sign-on where the identity provider does not know which site you sign in to, unlike current solutions where e.g. Google, Twitter or Facebook knows where you sign in whether or not the site you sign into is trustworthy or not.
I'd actually love to hear more about your fixes, your suspicions and your feelings about blink's removal. The anthropology of the internet is fascinating to me and it sounds like you would have a pretty unique perspective on this. Either here or a blog or whatever, I'd love to know more.
They've done it in the past, to the auditing firm involved in the Enron scandal. They actually indicted and convicted them of destroying audit records according to their standard procedures prior to them being investigated by the SEC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen_LLP_v._United_S...
Regarding your fourth hack, how do you keep yourself on the task at hand? I tell myself that if I don't know it now, I'll have to do it later anyway, but I still find myself "wandering through the Internet".
As I said, cool title. I just expected an actual tie-in to hex.
it's not number 1 though, which is hard for US to imagine ...

-http://www.4-traders.com/TESCO-PLC-4000540/news/Tesco-Market...
Job Scheduling in Spring Application using JDK Timer
Does The Times Care About Mobile Users?
it's called the EFF.. DONATE!
Exactly zero privacy conscious people would trust Google for that service.
wonderful explanation
I was able to open app.io and run the demo inside the demo on app.io when it asked me to tweet (which got to me to Safari). It actually ran really nicely.
The reputational damage of non responsiveness
Reminds me of the plot in the game Mirror's Edge, where couriers would physically deliver data instead of electronically, since there is no way to be sure that it isn't being intercepted. Such a thing might already be in practice already.
Business School Rankings Need a “Start-up Upgrade”
Why is encryption so hard?
So I see a lot of posts on HN that alude to difficulties when developing apps with encrypted comms. Do most languages not already have encrypt/decrypt libraries to leverage. E.g I would expect to be able to find a public-private (RSA) implementation in most languages, where I could do somthing like:

String encryptedMessage = RSAEncryptor.encrypt(publicKey, message)

Is this not the case? Do such libs have bugs?
Haha, so awesome
YouTube's Geeky Easter Eggs
Remembering my childhood, the Third Hack seems challenging.
To actually get to the site you need to go to http://www.koding.com, there didn't seem to be any link in the docs.

The fact they publicly say its free does not strike me as a strength, how are they going to pay the bills to store all of my data?

It looks like it started life as an online php editor (kodingen.com) but now has broadened out to supporting vms with 'social' stuff.

Some of the main competitors are:
- https://c9.io/
- http://compilr.com
- https://codenvy.com

The general experience after playing with it for a few minutes is quite nice, robust file tree, good editor (ace), interesting news feed.
C++ is widely used by the Apple OS teams, but they don't expose C++ APIs directly.

A lot of the plain-C APIs with a CoreFoundation style interface are actually C++ underneath. (No insider information necessary, this is easy to see in stack traces and process call stack samples.)
https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-vfl3T8iJA/www_watch_easter...
The title of this post is more informative than the Koding homepage or even the docs themselves. A clearer message about why I should sign up is critical.

After watching the video, I did understand what Koding was solving and was excited by it's potential. But, that message needs to be communicated more clearly when visiting the Koding homepage.

From the docs:

"Koding offers nearly unlimited possibilities; so many in fact, that people often misunderstand what Koding is being designed for. "

This seems aloof. I feel that this is more explanatory of what Koding offers:

"Koding provides free hosted VMs for development to anyone. The Koding VMs provide you with a real Ubuntu OS, with a real Terminal, and allow you to work on real code. Python, PHP, C++, C, it doesn't matter. Even better, they are online. Accessible from anywhere in the world. Even sharable with teams."

On a side note, would it be possible to offer offline capability? Perhaps allowing users to download/upload Vagrant VMs configured with Puppet.
There's an easy canary in this cases.

I don't know how FBI/NSA notifications are received in the US. But you can communicate to your uses any FBI/NSA/LE notification before reading the content. Of course, the notification should be posted to a medium where you don't have further control over, so there's no way for you to remove the notification.
> The problem is, that it seems like eavesdropping is not enough for some certain governments and now they require physical access / backdoors to companies' servers in order to bypass encryption and/or other security means. What I, and few others have suggested is to move services away from such countries so their governments would have harder times to obtain physical access.

Many governments are much worse than the US; they not only snoop on data but they imprison or kill people as a result of the things they find.

I'd be interested to hear about countries who will i) stand up against the US & ii) not be at large risk of corrupt employees.

(http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/egypt) etc.
Go back to the stone age. Hand written notes with couriers.
But only after the password store was decrypted after providing the master password, or not? And that is good enough for me. If I let someone to use my computer, of course I will close the browser before. So he can use my computer, launch the browser, but will not be able to access my passwords, since he doesn't know the master password.
you think the usg is actively pursuing these types of prosecutions?
I would pay for that.

Although I don't trust Google on privacy, this deal would benefit me - I get to take away the worst aspects of Gmail while keeping the better aspects.

However, I wonder if offering this service as an option would generally drive people away from free-Gmail: it would serve as an direct admission and reminder that ads and tracking are not really desirable.
Snowden: Lavabit's stand "inspiring"
Something similar happened to me. I'm graduating in Law, but coding was always my passion - I did not want to go to university and study IT, because I always loose interest in something if I'm forced to study/do it. So I started coding five years ago as a for of relaxation. I loved it and learned all day and night. But had somehow to pay for my university, so first started freelancing. Two years ago I started part-time work for small webdesign agency. At first it was challenging, then more and more trivial tasks, almost none work... I become unproductive. Literally they were WEEKS I had nothing to do. So about two weeks ago, I quit. The first night I was thinking about how I'm going to pay for my textbooks, my rent, how I'm gonna live. Then I felt something I've almost forgotten - passion. I think passion and inspiration come in most critical moments, and especially when you got aim and you can decide yourself how to reach your goal. So an hour later, I started diving deep into NodeJS, Backbone, go over some tutorials I've been holding for months. Started writing new tutorial for my blog. Answered questions in GSAP forums. Helped people. Now I feel alive. As Max Payne said "I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives man wings"
Awesome time tracking tool - Everhour
The news stream on http://www.koding.com is broken as new content is simply inserted at the top and whatever you're trying to read is jumping around randomly.
He thinks Microsoft is in trouble and Amazon is strong ... so you suggest he should short Amazon to buy Microsoft?
If you could dig up that link to the study I would love to read it.
Which is probably true but I can't tell if that says more about paranoia or Google.
"The information is there" on all e-mail providers. There is nothing (short of end-to-end encryption) stopping a real person at any e-mail provider from looking at your email.

The interesting distinction (for me, and I have been a happy GMail "customer" for close to a decade soon) isn't the profile, it's the human. I have strong faith that Google can be successful in keeping humans from reading my e-mail (or a computer-generated digest of it, which is what the profile amounts to), and so I don't worry about the existence of the profile.
Godaddy caves to UK Porn hysteria
Any plans to release the source code?
The NRA is a powerhouse because millions of Americans (and manufacturers) care enough about guns and the 2nd amendment to be willing to donate and pay fees to the NRA.

Privacy? Not so much. But we do have the EFF. So donate!
This is a far better mockery/attack on Google's strategy than Microsoft's Scroogle campaign ever was. They should learn from this. I especially loved the cute & funny one-liners.

(Not that I support Scroogle, it's a cheap shot. I hate negative marketing. It's setting a bad example in tech, which has mostly kept the negative marketing away.)
OS X Ivericks - iOS 7 design meets OS X
I never suggested that it was feasible for Google to shut down, but that doesn't mean that I have to just accept what they are complicit in. I no longer choose to do business with them. That hardly makes me a deluded moron.
Nice URL.
Haven't read this yet - it's a bit of a long one. But I just thought I'd leave a comment for anyone wondering if this is worth reading. I can categorically say YES, yes, a thousand times yes. Adam Curtis is a master artist of a documentary film maker and everything he has produced is worth combing over in fine detail when alone and feeling introspective or with friends who are curious and open to new and exciting ideas. He will quite simply intrigue the ever loving bejesus out of you and I think the HN crowd (if not already) should be much better acquainted with his work.

If you need further convincing (and a shorter read), just check out this interview: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/looking-beneath-the-waves-v10...
One of the most sad and most important lessons of business is that you should never trust anyone with financial matters without a hard contract.

Yes. This is correct. People will do some crazy shit when there's a lot of money on the line.
I'm not familiar with either CQRS and OT. Google fails me completely on the latter, but does CQRS mean "Command Query Responsibility Segregation"?
Give me Adblock for Reality and I might think about it.

http://chromeadblock.com/freedom/
Yeah, I forgot to write that I was looking for something web-based. I'm not really into apps that could just be a website.
I think it's because it's 'Geek', not Geek.

Folks who play video games, and have seen the new Star Trek movie. Not targeted at those who have an opinion on Haskell and have an opinion on Torvalds.
Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
Google does offer a $5/month no-ads email service called Google Apps.

According to their homepage, 5 million businesses have chosen that.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/

No tracking is trickier, who would believe Google (or any business) if they claimed they didn't track their customers? The lack of ads you can verify for yourself.
Secondly, I'm making a subtle point - when I started with the company he lied about his name and called himself "John Snow".

Bastard.
Android Camera API: Creating an app to access device camera
Computing Speeds Are A Billion Times Faster, Will Moore’s Law Continue?