skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine many would say recent events demonstrate that it shouldn't continue in its current incarnation as it's doing more harm than good to national interests. Like the TSA, it doesn't need to exist, certainly not in its current form. In the UK for example, the equivalent hasn't always existed, (and going by Adam Curtis recently, may as well not have). That didn't prevent them from building an empire and dominating world trade.
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Chaos in consumer productivity
want to throw out a few links to what you consider to be the best of "a lot of interesting lectures out there about how to be better speaking publicly"?

the beginner/"I suck at this" vantage point might be more relevent to a paticular reader as the expert one
…was a bit stirred to see the thing creep even in an unrelated post

It's good to get it out sometimes ;)

Maybe there should be a internet law about how anything being discussed on the internet dealing with technology will eventually delve into something on/about surveillance :P
I would love for the code to be released, something similar and selfhosted with a simple static backend (or my favorite: Kirby) would live on any low end box. Please consider selling the design and assets on Themeforest.
on Android, yes
That article doesn't even seem to compare people in similar jobs, only people with comparable education. Women often choose different jobs, for example because they allow them more flexibility (yes, to take care of family, and also possibly because they are under less pressure to make a lot of money).

A common example you see in that kind of articles is comparing physicians to physicians. Seems only fair, right? But it makes a big difference whether you are a surgeon or a pediatrician. You can not step out in the middle of a 12h heart surgery to pick up your kids from school.

Just to give one example, there are lots of other factors (for example type of business/research, willingness to relocate).

I am too lazy to Google for the 97% quote right now, came across it only yesterday. Perhaps later. (OK: just duckduckgoed, the first link that came up was this: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22058 - June O'Neill, "The Disappearing Gender Wage Gap," National Center for Policy Analysis, June 22, 2012). That article also claims that single, childless women earn 8% more than their male counterparts. So children really are the big issue.

As for Judith Butler, I tried to read her stuff, but it seems extremely convoluted. To be honest I suspect their confusion starts somewhere before the gender issue. If you have a recommendation for something readable, I'd welcome it.
I skipped college (dropped out of a community college to be precise, took exactly on CS course). I'm a well paid dev, and I have no trouble getting work. I worked my ass off, studied a CS curriculum on my own (before coursera and general assembly, I just bought books and read articles), and I've never had more debt than cash in my life. Of course, missing out on the college experience sucked, but we don't all take the same path in life.

Of course, I'm good at self-promotion and I'm good at networking. Now, I'm the one interviewing college grads, and I gotta tell ya, it's amazing how many can barely write a for loop.
It is true that app quality has a lot to do with the experiment. I was surprised by how many of the problems could be solved if the apps upped their game. Hardware limitations were secondary only to the software experience.
No Sign of the FCC’s Mobile Broadband Test App
The drama at friending time sounds only perhaps a hundredth as dramatic as I've seen on the other end, the unfriend event. "What, you unfriended me because I posted a bible verse last year, what is wrong with you?" "If you unfriend me, I'm telling my mom, your aunt, to yell at your mom to get her to yell at you! (bonus points for hilarity if mom doesn't even use FB)" Even more hilarious is workplace warfare about one coworker unfriending the another where one of them happens to be a (more or less) protected class, like race or religion or orientation or political activism, probably 2/3 the population fit in here somehow, and they play that card in the ensuing battle which inevitably rolls management into it ("He unfriended me and I'm XYZ so he must have unfriended me because I'm XYZ so you need to fire him for creating an unfriendly workplace for XYZ or I'll go to your bosses boss who happens to be a XYZ") And I'm not making ANY of this up.
Most of the consumer prefer branding as an indicator to make the purchasing decision. FMCG and Electronic goods are brands-driven. F&B's review are dominated by a lots of food apps and Foursquare. Books, Music Albums, DVD, Software and Video Gaming are also dominated by review portal.

sourc3, you need to find a very niche market for the product review.
Wrong. What we're dealing with is a serious market-failure in a truly good system to keep in touch with the guy you just met at the meetup who you truly want to connect with. He just goes and uses Facebook, and you use nothing. Neither is good. And that's the problem, not the rudeness issue.
IANAL, but this looks like a good lawyer.
I imagine that the names for for/list and its counterpart came from the scheme let and let*, which are parallel and sequential respectively.
This is just another technology connected with Microsoft that we should lament - right along with C#, Mono, Knockout, and TypeScript. Microsoft earned the ire of geeks everywhere in the 90s and it's a grudge many can't let go. Meanwhile you let Apple and Google steamroll you all by showing you what a real closed ecosystem monopoly really looks like. And you swallow it down because they do it all under the banner of 'open source.'
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To learn spying software, NSA analysts “unlock achievements” to win “skilz”
> and (I believe) also make the conversation more relevant for other participants.

I believe this is a crapshoot. Many times audience participation is more accurately described as "audience interruption and diversion". If you let them, a single audience member can easily derail a presentation in ways that all of the other audience members are not interested in.
"In fact, I’d contend that the friend and follower models can be elegantly replaced by a frequency and engagement model."

Quite honestly, I think FB (as an example) tries to do this already. When I "Like" friend A's feeds more often than friend B's feeds, I see more of friend A's feeds. As far as "engagement" goes, I assume the author means "quality of engagement". How do you begin to come up with a way of quantifying the quality of an engagement for one person versus another? Time of engagement? Number of words spoken/written?

"Based on current smartphone technology, social networks can and should leverage location, time, frequency of interaction, and behavioral similarities."

Smartphone, laptop, whatever, they're just data collection vehicles. The difficulty is developing a model that maps values to people. Someone optimizing a social network for behavioral similarities, for example, fails if the individuals in the network thrive on behavioral differences.

There is plenty of room for improvement with social networks. I don't think the way forward is for social networks to improve on network building optimizations.
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He believes that Islamist terrorists are trying to institute Sharia law and establish a Caliphate in the Middle East, and that terrorists live among us, and he's absolutely correct.

You are wrong to suggest that he believes that there is an imminent threat to American government itself from Islamists living in the USA. Some people do believe this, but he is not one of them, based on his own words.
> Next experiment: To consume content primarily on a non-tablet non-phone for a week. (It will fail a comparable way.)

Isn't that what most people do? Browsing share of smartphones/tablets is still not very large compared to laptops and desktops. And about 30-40% of the internet-using population in the U.S., at least, doesn't even own a smartphone or tablet.
I don't understand the point of "experiments" such as these. The developers and promoters of the iPad have never suggested nor pretended that the iPad is a viable replacement for a laptop -- any more than it's a viable replacement for a smart phone. It's indeed a "third device" -- just as it was designed to be.

If you have a laptop and smartphone, chances are you don't "need" an iPad -- but once you figure out exactly what you CAN use it best for, it quickly becomes your "go to" device for certain tasks. I have all three within easy reach, but when I need ebooks, Facebook, Reddit or other leisurely entertainment, the iPad experience is far superior to that available on either of the other two devices. Meanwhile, my wife, who couldn't care less about Reddit or ebooks, finds it's the best platform for recipes, Pinterest, etc.
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I'm curious about the business features listed on the site -- what exactly do they mean by Remote Device Management? MDM, or app-level management from devices?
From Google's perspective, true. Does google actually sell the aggregated data though?
> but if we look only at what has happened, people aren't being snatched up off the streets because of the NSA's monitoring programs.

They are being assassinated by drones overseas.
There is evidence of US citizens being blown off the streets by drones.
When governments came knocking, RIM didn't even put up a fight; before Snowden, they were largely considered the last vendor you'd ever choose, if you cared about your privacy from governments. They had the same excruciating soul-search for a new OS as Nokia, once Apple and Google leapfrogged their early-2000s shitty UIs, and then settled for a good platform when it was way too late. So I'd take the tinfoil off...
Are you seriously trying to defend child pornography?
Chrome bug reveals your passwords
No, that's how modern privacy invasion works.

After Facebook scanned Jane's phonebook, and made the invites Jane asked, Facebook should have deleted your phone number.
Still looks overly complex. As far as I can tell, the true purpose of the thing isn't even put down on paper. "A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery" Could be mDNS! The reliability can in a way be provided by CurveCP. So again, i'm a little mystified as to why you need to implement Raft or produce this tool to accomplish what's been in use for over 10 years. It does seem more complicated to use, so if that was your goal then kudos :)
A simple Todo app - My first Android App
I stand corrected. Anyone at Bell labs, could host a tarfile and call it plan9.
Stay tune for our <Gone Mobile> updates =)
Scroll behavior across the web
This sounds awesome. I've done a little digging (probably 6 months of probing worht) into technology tools for lawyers (mainly in the UK) and the it's a massively underserved and a big mess.

> Joanna Huey attended Harvard Law School, where she was president of the Harvard Law Review, and Jacob Heller attended Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review. They later served together as clerks for Judge Michael Boudin at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, and worked at law firms.

Joanna/Jacob - I'm sure you know this already, but get some old school, grey-haired advisors for you company. Trust me. You need to understand how these people eat, breathe, and sleep. If there's one thing I've learned about lawyers (especially ones who have been in the business for 20+ years) they are very picky about how they do business. These guys happen to be the guys with all of the money as well.
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> Blame is useful in more elaborate context but... comments are instant

Blame is instant too, if you have a good and modern IDE. Can't always be relied upon, but once such a beast exists, just assume it's being used. Writing erlang? Sorry, inline comments. Writing JS/PHP? Leave it in git.
Using Stripe Connect?
Histomap - cultural history of the world
And I can't abide by folks who take pictures of children for the sake of their own sexual gratification. But at no time did I say a surveillance state was okay for this reason. Don't put words in my mouth.
The way I've interpreted Ubiquitous Computing is that you walk into a room, and there is a computer. You pick it up and use it as casually as you would a magazine or a pad of paper.

You've done a valid experiment, but I think it illustrates why "if I only had one" is a wrong interpretation of Ubiquity. You don't just have one. If you are like most tech people you have a few, and maybe a lot, of functioning and current hardware. You probably have desktops and notebooks you can use.

And so in that environment a tablet should be good for the things you want to do when you just grab a tablet, in a room or an environment which isn't intended for serious work. And part of grabbing a tablet should be good integration with the other elements of your ubiquitous computing network.
Uh...that's kinda missing the point of the discussion. Or proving my point exactly, depending on how you squint at it.

TFA lamented a tablet's shortcomings when used as a "computer": direct file manipulation, rapid voluminous text input, instant viewing of bulky data, vast local storage, raw CPU power, etc. My counter-challenge/observation as intended was that using a non-tablet (a "phone" in context being little different from a tiny tablet) would not perform particularly well at doing what a "mobile device" excels at: right-here right-now anytime anywhere calling, texting, emailing, photography, GPS, location-critical web-surfing, etc.

You proved my point by not even coming close to suggesting doing "real work" with a phone (no matter its IQ), other than to transition to a complementary (and decidedly stationary) computer when mobility-related capabilities are not needed.

The take-away from all this is there isn't a convergence point.
I'm not convinced a Computer Science degree would be fully utilized in a career in web and android development.

Right now, you can build what you know. School will show you how to build things you don't know.
And I admire the fun way in which you handle criticism.
> The performance improvements you'll see will be very
> noticeable.

What makes you tink so?
They are losing users now. People are more interested in privacy issues than before, and Google and FB were always weak on privacy by design. There isn't much they can do. It's their inherent deficiency.
wow that's great one.. i like workflowy for same simplistic reason.. will surely give try..

P.S. - you may wanna showcase it here - http://www.appsurfer.com ;-)
The US government is on the same side as the US citizenry. I realize how unpopular that statement is on this website, but it's demonstrably true in hundreds of thousands, millions, of examples.
On several occasions, I've used my iPad as the primary device, mainly since I had no other choice since I had forgotten my laptop at work, but what I realized was that the limitation wasn't the apps, but the lack of real multitasking.

I was watching Netflix and an iMessage comes in. Do I click on the iMessage to reply and interrupt my flow or do I ignore it. Hey, look an mail notification came in, looks semi-urgent, should I interrupt my movie to respond? I ended up using my phone as a mail / chat client and my iPad as solely a movie player. At the end of the day, I still love my iPad despite it's shortcomings.
Technology can't stop them threatening your children. But those tactics don't scale up and they invite a harder response.
Do you mind if the UK, Russian, or Chinese security agencies spy on you? After all that's their job? And by spy I do mean trojan your personal machine and keep you in a database?
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People wanted XNA 5, not yet another WebGL framework.
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I'll be getting my phone(s) when I get back from vacation in about one week (imported from Spain).

Can't wait to get a look this thing! Finally something new and refreshing in the mobile-sector.
The hardware business is dead and dusted. Amazon needs a platform to sell you things, not a difficult hardware business. Blackberry's only useful assets are their enterprise software and sales teams; everything else is noise.
Using Python’s AST parser to translate text queries to regular expressions
The theory about IQ is not that the averages are higher, but that the distribution is different. Supposedly there are more very intelligent and more very stupid men than women. So the average IQs will be roughly the same, but there are more high IQ men. Of course high IQ women do exist, just apparently less frequent. One article that explains that is http://triggeralert.blogspot.de/2010/10/is-there-anything-go...

The article you linked to only addresses averages.

As for not all feminists thinking the same way: yes, they keep claiming that, but I have yet to see an exception. My impression is that all feminism ultimately tries to portray women as victims (of the "patriarchy", a conveniently nebulous concept), and in turn want to claim special rights for women as a compensation. If you can provide exceptions to that, I'd welcome it. Certainly this pamphlet about Cecilia Payne was a prime example of that pattern.
I'm sure there are shades of gray here, but he was an adviser to the Austrofascists and wrote in support of Mussolini. He certainly actively supported fascism in his lifetime.

Mises: "It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history."
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I'd like to see what you've read that makes you think the majority of US citizens think the NSA shouldn't continue in its current incarnation.

Furthermore, I'd like to see what you've read that shows the TSA doesn't need to exist.

Also, what makes you think the UK hasn't had a global intelligence network since its inception?
Whoa, slow down there - where do I mention convicting the government of thought-crimes? My point is that granting the federal government powers (because, under the constitution, they have no power that isn't explicitly granted to them) under the umbrella of counter-terrorism initiatives is inevitably going to expand in scope and usage, and will still be labelled as "counter-terrorism".
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A Documentary About Hacktivists
Pexpect: the power of TCL's expect in python
Magic + Generosity = the brand crush
What unit / integration test frameworks are widely used for mobile? A testing service for mobile devices makes sense, but only if app developers know how to write tests. That doesn't seem as common to me as say, unit testing in traditional web applications.
Check this http://www.vedantaadvaita.org/AdvaitaVedanta_2.htm#heading_t...

The keyword is "Advaita" = non duality
HN has always had stories not directly related to tech and startups. NYC is a thriving city for entrepreneurs; it hosts 10gen (MongoDB developers), Tumblr, Etsy, AppNexus, Gilt, Makerbot, Kickstarter, and FourSquare. A major news story centering around government abuse for that city should be on the front page along with the random science articles and "look what I made in a weekend! (but really it took me two years)" posts, especially when the abuse is far more outrageous than the NSA scanning international mail.

I'm just pointing out how polarized and hypocritical this community has become. You just have to mention the NSA[0] (and bring absolutely no new information to the discussion) and it hits the top 5, but post about how an abusive program was ruled unconstitutional? Don't care.[1]

Realize that if this keeps up, HN will go from "industry and startup news" to "/r/politics-lite" as it drives away the people who are here to talk tech and tire of the NSA/Snowden rehashing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197546

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200193
Even better, it updates your contact book email addresses to facebook domain ones.
Did you just ignore my example hero? Staying and fighting might make sense, but there are also times where it means you are less likely to get your story out. Getting locked in solitary confinement with no access to the outside media is probably the stupidest way for him to get his message out.
The direct competitor here is apache zookeeper, which this is probably simpler than.

If you care, you should do some research, because there are smart people excited about this. I'd start by looking at which software uses zookeeper and why. You may also find the following wiki articles useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serializability
Glad you're excited! We agree that there's a ton of room for innovation in the area. And thanks for the advice -- definitely a great idea to better understand the market and add to our first-hand experience.
So instead of a 5 MB Go binary ("5 MB? Ye gods! Unacceptable!"), you get a 200 MB Python distribution, because you need the correct Python version plus all the correct libraries.
I don't purposefully release software with bugs. Bugs are inevitable no matter how good of a programmer you are. Like I said, would you rather your browser crash on every javascript bug? Because that's how a lot of client side software operates.
Yes, it bothers me that so much of the outrage is about spying on Americans, and concerns me that a "political solution" is fairly likely to maintain our second class status.
I don't know the details of what they do with it. But for instance, someone can purchase ads targeting a specific type of user and google probably uses this browsing data to decide if the user should be targeted for a specific kind of ad or not. That advertiser is in turn getting better ad targeting due to you using google analytics on your website.
The thing is, Firefox for desktop and Firefox for Android could implement those APIs and then implement 'installing' apps from the web that use those APIs, making them cross-platform. And, since the APIs and all code is open source, other browser makers would be free to implement it.

Note that it won't be available on iOS, of course, as Apple won't let alternative browsers be installed, just skins for Mobile Safari like Dolphin and Google Chrome.
First they came for people that were doing big things, and I didn't speak out because I live a small life and hope to keep it that way so as to never be noticed by the Eye of Sauron...
One thing that hurts functionality discoverability a bit is that methods are hidden within traits. If it can be done without too much cluttering, it would be nice for the module overview to list the functions within the traits (without any details, e.g. type).

For example, if I am looking for the `insert` method for a vector, I sort of have to understand something about the inner workings of `std::vec` to know that I need to look within `std​::vec::OwnedVector` rather than, say, `std​::vec::MutableVector`.
More proof: http://btcgeek.com/bitcoin-ticker-arrives-on-bloomberg/
I bought a .se domain for a project of mine. In Google Webmaster tools the geographic target is set to Sweden with no way (that I saw) to change it. I got very limited traffic from natural search.

I recently bought a .com domain for the same project and I am already seeing an increase in natural search.