skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article says,

"Before the advent of these new technologies, time and effort created effective barriers to surveillance abuse. But those barriers are now being removed. They must be rebuilt in the law."

Time and effort maintained privacy in the past, by default. However, as technology improves, privacy is no longer the default, so we need to request it, specifically.

I hear again and again that "no one cares about privacy", but I'm starting to think this is a relic of the past. Perhaps 10 years from now we will say "no one used to care about privacy, but that was before technology became sufficiently advanced."
Telepathy One: Think Google Glass with a Cool Factor
Simple GUI to manage SSH connections
Transaction Fraud Detection

http://www.fico.com/en/Products/DMApps/Pages/FICO-Falcon-Fra...
Hey mnutt, I agree--it's a nice model. Scalarium was building such a product, but Amazon bought them and made it OpsWorks :)
I never knew Steve Jobs or Richard Greenblatt
> "While this sort of technology may have benefits for law enforcement (recall that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were identified with help from camera footage), it also invites abuse."

1. Yes /without/ this technology, and

2. How would that have prevented the Boston tragedy if it were in use?

What exactly does NYT mean here.
This is basically Medium.
Nicely done, especially compared to the fits that HP went through trying to figure out how they could prove or disprove that all 11 digits of their calculation were correct.
Your Facebook profile picture may be going into a facial-recognition database
> I can't help but feel like your advice smacks of elitism. When I read your post I get a subtext of, "Everyone else is dumb if they don't get what I'm saying. At best, that is! Usually they're trying to shoot me down! I don't negotiate with terrorists."

I don't think it was meant to be elitist. I believe it was directed towards those who are going to find a problem with anything you say, regardless of what you say.
You are correct. Apple did indeed patent it. I don't remember the source but distinctly remember reading that Apple had gotten just such a patent.

Not that all manufacturers seem to care since I have a handful of Nokias that do the same thing...
Charter schools are public schools... and they actually get less money per student than the other public schools in their district. (Our charter school gets roughly $1200 less per student per year than the other schools in the district). The good ones still find ways to do more with less. (Ours has kept class sizes smaller than the rest. We still have music, art, foreign languages, etc... while other schools are cutting those programs.) A lot of charter schools require (well not require but strongly encourage) some level of parent participation (volunteering in the class, fundraising, etc). Since you are not just assigned a charter school based on your location (like traditional public schools) there is a certain amount of additional effort involved. I personally think this is the first filter that keeps "parents that really don't care" from sending their kids there. So I believe this gives you a higher concentration of students that come from homes that place a higher value on education. These kids are more likely to get additional support at home... which makes them more likely to do better in school.
I don't think even people can do it from just a single photo in a training set.
So you're looking for projects that are popular enough to be useful, but are lacking upkeep and attention from their maintainers?

You might appreciate looking at www.lookingforpullrequests.com which seems to be aimed at getting projects that are struggling some extra love.
I've been using Meteor.js lately, would love to see that on there!
In the Loop: CasinoRPG
Ask PG: Do you still own books?
I read "Stuff" recently. I've been steadily shedding possessions, and am happier for it.

Books were the notable exception in your essay. They're my exception too.

Since you wrote the essay, many have switched to e-books. Did you? If you did switch, why did you?

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Yep. I want:

- usb/bluetooth. (I really want to add bluetooth to a Model M so that I can use it
to control an iPad. or something even smaller. )
- trackpoint
- Comparable feel to a model M
- 10keyless
- more than just ctrl and alt keys down in the corner.
- in black

Then I'll sell my 2 M13s.

(edit - formatting)
Interesting - tweet is deleted.
Well, perhaps he ironically didn't make himself as clear as he could have. (Which happens in off-the-cuff interviews.) And that may demonstrate his point about communication.

And it is an unpleasant point. People "get their asses kicked by the world" (as he put it) for the way they speak or irrelevant aspects of their appearance. Says something about this world.

(I know when I mention certain viewpoints which maybe aren't commonly voiced or liked by the audience, some willfully misunderstand me, and it's my job to clarify.)
And people getting called racist, sexist or whateverist because they are giving those recommendations.
As a bit of a keyboard collector, I think the price for Atwood's keyboard is incredibly fair. It's actually priced pretty similarly to keyboards offering the same features and has some things that are really hard to get in an off-the-shelf keyboard (Cherry Clears).

The partnership with WASD Keyboards actually makes this board cheaper than it would have been otherwise.
You are suggesting that maybe poor people just have lower IQ, but this study doesn't support that.

It shows that cognitive performance between rich and poor is the same when they're asked questions which both groups consider easy and/or non-stressful.
If I could interject a brief modification— People who feel that they're at fault go beyond their means to defend themselves. And there isn't necessarily a correlation between someone who feels guilty and someone who is guilty.
> I would like to know: how can we resolve these two ideas and run ethical but viable/competitive businesses?

All other things being equal, you can't. If there are dark patterns that empirically do increase competitiveness in the market of interest at the cost of violating things you hold to be ethical principles, you aren't going to be competitive without employing them unless you have some other non-duplicated market-relevant advantage that compensates for the disadvantage of ethics, unless you can change the market context to eliminate the effectiveness of the dark patterns.
Actually, for me personally, the most egregious flaw of Code is the backlighting that illuminates not only the characters but also the tray underneath the keys.

I've used such a keyboard in the past and this ends up being very bothersome. The light source ends is large enough that you will constantly see it in your peripheral vision. Furthermore, experience suggests that after one week of working with them, such keyboards end up highlighting everything that falls on the tray.
To be fair, some people aren't great at noticing "accents". :)

Especially in the U.S., I find, especially when it comes to actors.
"Who's to say that speaking English with an American accent is the correct way?"

If you're trying to found a company and get venture funding from Americans, you need to be able to communicate well with Americans. No one is saying there's a correct way to speak anything, but it's obvious Paul Graham is talking about founders going for an American market.

"Also remember communication is 2 way. If you can't understand someone due to their accent most likely they cannot understand you due to your accent."

That's just straight out wrong, sorry to say. There are plenty of cases of one way unintelligibility in ALL parts of the world, in many languages. English is no exception, just consider the stereotype of American tourists being confounded by Australian or England-English.
The CIA has no police authority domestically, but their reconnaissance and espionage duties have no such restrictions.
>no better than existing models

He didn't really go into that though. He looked at features, not materials or build quality, which are both major factors in mechanical keyboards. I can tell you first-hand that the materials that Logitech, Cooler Master, and Corsair use on those particular keyboards don't compare to anything that WASD uses; the K60 isn't even completely mechanical! Those are all "budget" mechanical keyboards. The Filco is more comparable, but at the same price and without backlighting or MX Clears.
This is a good point. When e-mail was a new option, I assume there were articles discussing how it worked.

Now, people treat e-mail as a default. Most people my age and younger (28) never bother to inquire how it works. They just sign up.

Younger people may be fluent in the use of technology, but understanding is a much rarer beast.
Exactly. "I'm not interesting" as a statement of safety has to mean: "I'm going to be very careful to spend the rest of my life not being interesting, and to make sure my family doesn't become interesting either." Otherwise it's just being an ostrich.

Of course, that's one of the aims of a surveillance state: if any word or action could be used against you, then people mainly police themselves.
Alternatively, I could just not read Quora.
Carl Icahn Increases Nuance Stake, May Seek Board Seat
interesting. the anti-grammar of graphics.
I disagree. Simply phrasing it as a suggestion to fix problem communication skills is too general to really be helpful. Most people who speak English who are terrible communicators don't realize it so they won't think it applies to them. Meanwhile, foreign founders with strong accents won't understand that it is really them he is speaking to.

I think it is much more helpful to tell somebody plain as day: if you are bad at X you aren't likely to be successful until you fix it. These are facts. Ignore them if you choose but that doesn't change that they are supported by very strong evidence from somebody with loads of experience.

I do agree with the previous comment that he shouldn't have responded, though. It's a losing argument because those who are choosing to misinterpret a statement that is pretty much crystal clear are doing so because of inherent biases. You won't convince those people to consider logic so it doesn't pay to expend time and reputation having a public discussion with them. The people who agree will say so or say nothing and choose to take the advice and act accordingly.
"Last Year", in internet time maybe. Here's the original CVE:

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-17...
So you think that things should be based on their input costs, rather than the value that they provide?
I'm using Faye (http://faye.jcoglan.com/) for pub-sub to an Angular front end. It is simple to use, performs well, and doesn't require replacing your existing toolchain.
Include a signup gatherer! I had it as a plan to start learning Monday, and will def use the site. Do you have a "starting point" tutorial in mind (what books to read etc?)
AdBlock's pretty good at handling this stuff too.
Google Glass Is Not For You
Ask HN: PHP or JSP ?
Which Should I Learn?
I am from java background.
Yeah. If the OP had read the "mechanical keyboard guide" half of the complaints would have gone away.

The Filco is the only board in his entire list that's actually a fair comparison.

I wonder what he'd say to people like me who bought a KMAC for ~$440.
Connected UX
I imagine this could also be applied to startups running out of cash. Not only do you have the stress of all the implications of running out of cash, but getting more cash becomes the number one priority, over things that you would otherwise be doing if you were flush. You might have to take on cash from sources you would otherwise decline. You might have to start thinking about doing client work. Fun stuff.
> criminals and governments

You repeat yourself.
I have Kindle 3rd gen and it is awesome device (I think it blows away both kindle 4 and Paperwhite) but I am thinking about getting something with Nexus 7 2013 display if it kicks the bucket. The display in the nexus seems like it can give the kindle a run for the money for comfortable reading.
Teaching statistics is harder than most people give it credit for being. One problem in teaching statistics is that many people teach statistics after not studying much statistics, as discussed in the article "Advice to Mathematics Teachers on Evaluating Introductory Statistics Textbooks,"

http://statland.org/MyPapers/MAAFIXED.PDF

which leads to generations of teachers and learners who think they know more about statistics than they actually do.

Another thing that is hard to teach about statistics is valid inferences from what kind of data were gathered in the first place, as discussed in the article "The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?"

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz

It is easy to find examples of statistics courses and particular statistics lessons that are lousy. The harder task, as discussed by the authors I cite above, is building better statistics curricula for deeper understanding of the subject.

From the article kindly submitted here:

"I don’t like the Khan Academy videos about statistics. But I can see why some people do. Some are okay, though some are very bad. I’m rather sorry they exist though, as they perpetuate the idea of statistics as mathematics."

That's a very legitimate and cogent complaint, one worth taking to heart at Khan Academy.

I'd like to hear from HN readers who have taken up the article author's challenge of comparing videos about such topics as confidence intervals, which is a tricky concept I have to write about a lot for my work.
They do increases cost and failure rate, but not nearly enough to be an excuse for not having buttons.

Nokia makes incredibly cheap and incredibly durable phones with T9 and qwerty keypads. If I bought one, the 3G network it is designed for would be farmed for 5G before the keypad itself stopped working...
For some reason I thought this was an article about AngelFire and I got all nostalgic :\
Just FYI, pretty much every plane with multiple engines is able to safely fly and land with only one engine working, and all commercial pilots are trained to do so. If you were halfway through the flight already, it's entirely possible you were already in descent and didn't need the other prop at all to complete the flight.
Seeing these classics discussed at all is awesome.

Code Complete was (to me) revolutionary at the time. Though it may seem a bit dated now, it was a foundational work that much of what we take for granted was built on.

I don't hear enough talk about Steve McConnell's other book "Rapid Development". http://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sche...

I just looked at its Amazon page and it has 5 stars with 115 reviews. That doesn't surprise me at all - it's well deserved.

It came out well before the agile movement, and I would contend that it laid the foundation for it.

I'm so glad I read that at the beginning of my career. As a junior developer, it helped me immensely and even more so over the years.
The problem is the National Lawyers Guild was a notorious Communist front. If you have any doubt, this line in their Wikipedia entry is utterly damning:

"Following the Nazis' invasion of the Soviet Union, the Guild gave its support to President Roosevelt's wartime policies, including that of Japanese American internment."

Would people say the same if Ficher's "youthful indiscretion" if he'd worked for a Nazi front after, say, Kristallnacht? (See the above quote, they wouldn't have between 23 August 1939 and 22 June 1941.) Was it that difficult for Ficher avoid working for a cause dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government and the liquidation of its "capitalist" classes including the wealthier farmers?
I'm not sure I agree with the authors argument that you don't need to use computers to be a computer scientist. Computer science, to be a bit recursive, is the science of solving problems with a computer. Much in the way a hammer is the tool by which a carpenter builds a chair (I know it takes more than one tool) the skill of programming is the tool by which the scientist implements their solution. In both cases, it's not possible to separate the theoretical aspects of the profession from the implementation so easily.

A computer scientist is a computer scientist because he/she uses the computer - i.e. programs it or comes up with a recipie others can follow in programming it - to solve a particular problem. If you never use the computer you become something else - mathematician, philosopher, etc. In the same way a carpenter who never builds a chair is probably not really a carpenter. Lumberjack? Architect? Engineer? All of these are possible. But in both cases the implementation of the idea is an important part of the job description.

I think the real difficulty (and what I suspect is bothering the author) is that saying "I program computers" is a gross oversimplification of the task at hand. People, probably unfairly, tend to focus on the end product as the basis of your job description. In many skilled professions, like computer science, that model is often inaccurate. Saying "I program computers" or "I make chairs" is deeply unsatisfying becuase it no where near encompases what you actually do and that sucks.
It's unfortunate such an explanation is necessary. People with difficulty speaking have a harder time successfully communicating ideas. Not sure how that is misunderstood.

Anyone claiming racism or xenophobia is, ironically, only confirming their potential shortcomings.
This does feel like a bit of a troll review. However he does link to the Filco Majestouch 2, which aside from having an awful name, is a very fine keyboard. I'm using a UK layout version (http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-filco-majestouch-2-ten...) and I love it. It's really, really loud though, if that bothers you. I don't want a numpad, media keys, or anything else on a keyboard, so this suits me great. YMMV.
I would buy this in a second if it didn't have a numpad. Numpad is a deal breaker for me (I use Majestouch tenkeyless). Numpads should be on the left!

edit: oh shit, it has a numpadless version. Buying this as soon as there's stock again.
BDD: How to deal stories into features
It's why experts-exchange has all the content all the way at the bottom now if you scroll half a mile down. They used to show users and google different results until Google cracked down.
The fundamental property of the internet is connection. Everything else is in how we use it.

The fundamental property of land is spatial relation. Using that, you can build a town of little houses, where everybody has a modest and equal helping of privacy. You can build a giant open agora, where everybody can see everybody's business. Or you can build a panoptic prison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
s/elitism/defensiveness/g

Elitism is an overloaded word, but your sentiment here seems good.
I first read it as 'ACHOO!'
> If you read the original piece, it's perfectly clear what was meant, and there's absolutely no room for anybody to misunderstand it.

I'll give you an anecdotal example: myself. I did misunderstood him first, and the explanation makes sense. I don't need more "fix". pg won me over this issue. So, are you sure that it was a bad move?
Personally, I've been wanting years for someone to come out with (a) steady release caffeine patches and (b) [I don't know why I want it in this form factor] quick acting caffeine eye-drops.
Yeah. Backlit keys are a strong no for me. Besides, I much prefer PBT.

My two KBC Pokers have some lighting for special keys underneath (I have PBT caps on anyway) and that's about as much backlighting as I can stand.
If VR headsets like Oculus Rift take off, this problem can be mitigated. People will walk around with headsets to cover their entire face, defeating the cameras.

Surveillance is going to happen, if you ban government surveillance, the public will get this tech and drones and be doing it anyway. So the robust way to fight it is to plan your life knowing that you can always be monitored and someone will always know where you are, even at home.

This is a great opportunity for startups. Webapps that allow you to plan your security, kind of mini-fiefdoms with your family, friends, neighbors, associations that plan against attacks from rivals. Electronically activated weapon systems that shoot when a threat is detected. The Mad Max era is coming, and hackers will get many opportunities to earn a fortune.
Anyone who accuses PG/YC of being xenophobic is laughable. It's especially laughable coming from the press -- they've been at YC offices many times, and the sheer number of founders with accents is staggering. YC even got involved in the political process to make getting founder visas easier!

I have a really strong Russian accent that (hopefully) doesn't border too much on being not understandable, and I've never felt discriminated against at YC or elsewhere in SV, not for a millisecond. This is corroborated by dozens upon dozens of founders whose accents are even stronger than mine.

If you want to do business in a country and raise millions of dollars from people, you have to be understandable. If someone made this claim in France, or Germany, or Japan, nobody would even blink. The very fact that PG is getting criticized for it is almost indicative of how meritocratic Silicon Valley (and YC in particular) is.
> A few minutes of daily hand/wrist exercise will completely protect you from RSI, no matter how much typing or mousing you do

this is a completely false statement
As a parent who faces a choice between semi-bad public schools (Pasadena, CA, home of Caltech) or private schools, I find this debate amusing.

I think the authors of articles like these should declare, in the first paragraph of the story, the number and ages of their children, and where they go to school.

Three children, all teenagers, all in private school.

I'm not going to fuck up their lives with someone else's political agenda.
if you know java you should continue with JSP then
Balancing Chemical Equations (Syria + Economy)
Since your blog is mostly static you could switch to CloudFlare's DNS - very easy to set up plus they serve cached content when your servers are down.
If the conversation is about Americans moving to China, and appealing to Chinese investors, to build their startup, tips regarding proper Chinese manners and Mandarin speaking techniques are appropriate. When it is about startups trying to make it big in the US, it is about English and the American "accent".

What PG said is completely clear (it is...ahum...without accent), and those who purposefully try to argue this point, invent equivocacies, etc, add no value to the conversation.
This is a case where the founder has an American accent yet people did not understand what he tried to convey correctly. I think PG should have referred to founders' elocution, diction, communication skills, etc. instead of only their accents. As we've seen here one can have no foreign accent at all and you may still be misunderstood.
If only, but I just don't see companies like Google, Microsoft or Facebook implementing end-to-end encryption like OTR, ZRTP and PGP for their services, and even if they do, I'm not even sure I'd trust them not to implement a backdoor to get that data before it's encrypted somehow, at the behest of the government.

Unfortunately, the alternatives will have to come from elsewhere - from disruptive (in privacy) start-ups that will launch only services with security in mind from day one, as they try to steal customers away from those companies.