skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that scientists should expose randomly selected subjects to UV light for their whole lives to see which ones get more skin cancer?
hmm yeah indeed.everyone piloting those (this very kind of big helis that is - small quads in comparison are relatively harmless) know itll chop various parts of your body clean off.

then everyone piloting at that level know failures always happen. its not about if you crash, but when you crash. thats like the first rule of rc flying and its even more true when ot comes to helis.
Maybe. In practice, however, even in the US there are and there have been censorship instruments, from the FCC all the way to Sen. McCarthy and Hoover. Today, US military personnel and civil servants are "protected" from wikileaks material by blocks at the network level. Federal pornography filters have been proposed several times, and on occasions it looked like they would become a reality. The US Constitution might be more benevolent than average on freedom of expression, but it doesn't mention TCP/IP anywhere.
Not to mention that the second the big telcos (read: Telstra) got wind of someone trying to compete, they'd use regulatory capture and other dirty tricks to ensure that the newcomer had a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
> The only alternative, however, is to use IndieGogo's own credit card processor, which charges 3%, but it might be worth it because ...

Nota Bene: PayPal also charges roundabout 3%. So the financial loss you're alleging doesn't exist, at least not in that magnitude.
Getting cancer is like winning the lottery, and every time you go out in the sun, use a cleaning product, get an X-Ray, take an intercontinental flight, eat a banana, etc. you get a varying number of tickets. Unlike a lottery, once you finally "win" it's virtually impossible to figure out which ticket was "lucky".

To do a controlled study on humans you'd need those humans to record an impractical amount of information about their day-to-day actions over their entire lives. This isn't going to happen anytime soon. To make matters worse, humans also use sunlight to synthesize Vitamin D, and low levels of Vitamin D are also correlated with cancer. So... Too much UV gives you cancer and too little can give you cancer if you don't get enough Vitamin D in your diet, which might also give you cancer. Okay... So use mice. Do mice respond exactly the same way to everything as humans? No... Probably not...

Medical science is a bit like trying to figure out how to build the ultimate F1 car on a budget that only lets you work with Lada's.
The costs of continuous integration
note that similarly high performance rc cars sometimec shop feet off too, sadely - anything that relatively heavy and powerfull can hurt pretty bad.
Insecure home webcam crackdown
Just saw one of his videos. And while he was a very skilled pilot, I wouldn't get within meters of those things while they were airborne and spinning at those speeds. Geez! What a waste for someone to have such skill and yet lack the simplest common sense.
As far as I know, a work permission is quite easy to get for Singapore. So could you please explain why you can't sponsor relocation costs? If you mean that you can't afford to buy an airplane ticket, then things aren't really going good in your company.
Logging hand histories from real players is pretty much how consistently successful poker bots work. The first major lesson you learn when trying to program one is that a rule-based bot is virtually impossible to write. Finding holes or weaknesses in the inconsistent play of humans? Much easier.
WeChat is also super popular in SEA. So we have Line from Japan, WeChat from China, KakaoTalk from Korea as the leading contenders in Asia. You see TV commercials of the apps endorsed by celebrities. They are evolving from simple chat app to a full social platform with own apps and games. You can say they compete with Facebook. I overheard a teen asking his friend why he is still using Facebook. Social apps to the teens might not be utility, more like clubs. And they want to be associated with cool clubs of the day.
The problem is that the average user is really bad at choosing a password. If the system requires a four-word passphrase then the user will choose easy-to-crack passphrases such as "use the force luke" or "john paul george ringo".

If the system randomly chooses the four words then you force the user to exchange convenience for security.
I deleted my LinkedIn account a few months ago and since have had a massive reduction in recruiter spam. Previously they would ring me at work, telling reception they were Fedex or "Steve Smith from <client>", now I get none of that.
That may very well be true - if he wants the company sold, why not, especially if he wants to avoid getting tied into working for an acquiring company for years.

That said, I've also been involved in a company (as co-founder) where finding C-level execs to parade around to state that the CEO (one of my co-founders) left voluntarily would be easy enough.

Most of them wouldn't know differently either, not having been privy to the conference calls where the investors made it clear they'd find an excuse to fire him for cause and tie him up in court over his shares for the next few years if he didn't "volunteer" to take 6 months pay, put on a brave face and leave. What most of them saw was the show my co-founder put on to get the best deal possible and leave gracefully.

I'll hasten to add that I don't know this guy, so for what I know he was in the room for every conversation Bryan Johnson had with the investors at Braintree or otherwise actually did have the inside track. Just pointing out that it's also easy to think you have the inside track on these types of things without having a clue about what actually went on.
From an information theorist's perspective, bankers don't create anything, they just skim a percentage off of other people's transactions – they're a drain on the system.

STEM workers create assets from nothing – the best STEM workers create billion dollar (or more) industries from nothing. Bankers just move existing assets around – they're fat that needs to be trimmed.
A normal banker doesn't take any risk himself, he risks money belonging to others. Back in the old days, Goldman Sachs (for example) was owned by the partners, who were risking their own capital in every transaction. That setup is very rare these days. An investment banker should be paid like an accountant or a lawyer, well enough by most anyone's standards, but in line with what the work actually is.
Hmmm. I really like your ideas, but unfortunately I don't think the system you describe is the system Harvard is at the top of. I think it is at the top of the system where the goal is to have strong qualifications and get many incredible opportunities throughout life (not just a first job). It may also be a good place to become a better person, but ranking that seems much murkier to me. I can think of lots of things that could arguably be higher in the become-a-better-person rankings than going to Harvard or, indeed, any university.
> I know it must be a pain as a developer, but the best way to stop people cracking your demo is literally to have two binaries

I have done that but I'm not sure it's really the best way. My stats are very far from being statistically significant but I'd say this type of protection has increased the fraudulent (stolen credit card) orders about tenfold for me. Which means that if I don't catch it on time I'm hit with $15 chargeback fee. It's really frustrating because I've deliberately made the trial version very easy to crack. I have no problems with cracked copies floating around, I just didn't want serial codes being freely available.
> Delivering education at scale is not in itself hard. Coursera, Udacity, Khan, edX...lots of people are making a very good go at it. Delivering the personal and social development that comes with a college education - that's the hard part.

This is spot-on. The university I went to was good in terms of education; I learned a lot while I was there and it's definitely a cornerstone of my intellectual development. However, in terms of personal and social development, it was a dead end.

There are some institutions that manage to build thriving communities which encourage growth beyond the mere knowledge you gain there. That's something which you cannot replicate easily -- and a phenomenon that was long known. The wise men of the Lyceum or the Academia didn't spend their time there just for the lectures.

I don't know if Harvard is such a place, but if it is, that's a great asset for them.
While default industry practice is to have case insensitive username (which is obvious), django's bug is still there, not fixed for last seven years.
Interesting. Line skipping is by far the most annoying problem that I face when I have to read after a long day; especially on a screen.
You know this is on the front page because they most certainly did?
I would say "severely" instead of "potentially".
If the goal is to increase the average level of health in the world, an easy way of decreasing obesity would be a godsend. Does this bother you? If so, why?
Flat UI Pro 1.2 Released (Bootstrap 3 Support)
The main feature of this release is its support of Bootstrap 3.0, officially issued a few weeks ago.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a notification system?
First of all, I don't if this has been discussed previously or not. If it has been discussed please direct me to that thread.

I often lose track of a discussion I was interested in because I simply don't get notified about any new activity in that thread (replies to my comments, new comments on thread etc.). I feel like a notification system would be a major improvement to HN.
Agreed - many of the comments (naturally, given the location) focus on the tech part of the pie. From experience in both science and technology industries, I'd say there's definitely some difference between the two in terms of starting and average salaries, and most certainly in the potential for top salaries.
That morning coffee ain't gonna make itself.
I passed the last course and cannot recommend it enough.

I'd love to know the answer to the last week's programming problems, though. I only got part of it.
Bootstrap 3.0 + 50 Flat icons. - very useful addition.
How Big Data Enables The Golden Age Of Humanity - Video
Freelance Programmer: the story of Dame Stephanie Shirley [video]
Hahaha keep telling yourself that.
French Bees Produce Blue Honey
Yeah but IS THAT A SENTENCE.

Hint:(nope)
One guy calls the web a language, now someone calls Go a mobile application development framework. Come on, guys, we're programmers, let's call things by their right names. Go is a programming language, and technicalities like goroutines aside, you'd want it pretty much for the same reason why you'd want Java, Objective-C, JavaScript or, Heaven deliver us from the Symbian days, C++: some people think it's a nice language.

Frankly, I'd trade Java for Go any day.
That chip is about $80 in quantity pricing if the early price leaks are to be believed.

That is not much leeway for the rest of the device.
Ubuntu Laptops Arrive in Over 1,000 Chinese Stores
that's fine. the email needs to be unique to be inserted into the db. :) simple is best in this case.
How to generate icon classes from sprite using SASS
> As one of the few who have actually used it, can you give us your perspective on the highlights and limitations of the packaged apps API?

Considering we're a game there is actually very few things that we need to consider from the APIs. We have our own UI and the integration with the OS is quite limited.

The reason we were interested in the Chrome version is that we're essentially a play by mail game in multiplayer so the push notifications are crucial. Unfortunately the way the push works on Chrome is a bit iffy, way less polished than it works on Android and iOS but it's not too bad.

Since we're free to play there are some optional in app microtransactions to monetize the game. These all use the new Google wallet API for packaged apps and they work reasonably well. Since we allow cross play between iOS and Chrome we need to be careful with how we set the prizes and making prize matching between iOS and Chrome is hard due to differences in how tax is handled.

There is on way to query the final prize for an in-app purchase through the API which makes things like "-50%" badges hard to implement. The way the game gets around it is by guessing what the final prize will be. I wish there was a nicer way but I can see why it's done that way.
Sedentary lifestyle is a probably a worse offender than obesity. Being obese with active habits is probably better than slim with sedentary lifestyle.
The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future
Probably a commercial arrangement. Clicking within [scribd] takes you to a version hosted by scribd.com. Is probably quite useful, as tiny servers which would handle an academic's papers very nicely thank you can become easily flooded by something hitting the HN front page.
Do you think Boxcryptor is more useful/easier than putting a truecrypt volume inside your dropbox folder?
I totally agree and have made similar points here on HN in past threads.

It is nice that you can fairly easily make $85k or higher in some regions as an entry level developer, but it sucks that outside of a few exceptions that prove the rule you're unlikely to ever make more than about $150,000 (and I'm talking Bay Area, CA dollars here) without moving into a pure manager role or playing the lottery ticket of starting your own company.

Granted, $150,000 is a lot of money relative to the average income globally, even when you factor in cost of living adjustments, but to have bankers(!) and politicians(!) saying it is too much is a fucking slap in the face.
There are officially too many ideas
Surprisingly good writing.
I'm going to start reading the Baffler because of this article. The guy displays empathy off the charts.
3 Crazy ideas for giving everyone in the world access to the Internet
Ever notice how you only receive one email about deposited
funds? I wonder how many people forget they have funds in Paypal? And how much interest they make off the deposited
funds?

Plus, why doesn't Paypal give you the interest if they "need"to put a hold on your funds. The last time I used Paypal, I had to wait--21 days in order to withdraw?
(I vaguely remember they claim to hold the money in a non-interest account, but my point is I'm still out 21 days
interest(interest will matter again), and use of the money. Simple answer; Don't
use Paypal, and stop complaining. Answer--I try not too,
along with Ebay. (While I'm on the box--I've noticed too
many people paying close to retail on Ebay--especially
on laptops.)
My mother's uncle was kicked out of the ACLU in the 50's for defending the rights of Communists to peaceably assemble....
I probably wouldn't switch from Java but lots of people want to use Go to make Android apps.
East Asian or "Big in Japan" software rarely ports to the United States because the software flourishes under corporate nepotism. While installed on 72% of Japanese iPhones, Line's Android app is vastly more popular, mostly because it comes preinstalled on so many devices.

Not that coercive software installs are limited to Android. Baidu, Tencent and AliBaba live and die by shipping their own stores on iOS[0], where according to old estimates nearly 1/3 of iOS devices in China are jailbroken by carriers.

By these standards, Minesweeper is an enormously popular game. But we all understand its success as a creative product is owed largely to shipping with Windows.

Software in East Asia would export better if it grew in a more meritocratic environment. Say what you will about the top charts of iOS and how they got there, but the teams behind the top charts deliver great stuff in short time better than their competitors. No corruption.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/business/global/baidu-deal...
Yes, but they suck.
Onion for sale on Groupon India (sold out)
There are feeds and a lot of people who have built an api for HN maybe you could use one of these sources for the data and build your own concept ?

Please it is the weekend.
I noticed that number as well and don't recall seeing it before, but I do seem to recall reading something about "multiple laptops" of Snowden's. Obviously, one can store a helluva lot of documents on three or four laptops.
I use local extension addresses when giving out stuff these days i.e. harry.tuttle+ab97fd5@domain.com. My extensionless email address is not used publicly anywhere.

This allows me to find out which nefarious bastard is spamming me.

One kind recruiter agreed to settle a handling fee for £220 for 220 emails sent to me over a year.

(I don't use recruiters these days but they have a habit of trying to use me still)
I was really surprised to find myself enjoying using this. Great work! Taking the test really emphasised that it's not only faster, it's also "easier" to read. I used the Dark colour scheme, as it was less distracting than the bright default one for me.
shell.sl? Is this a dialect of Smalltalk?
If a different gut flora makes a substantial difference in obesity levels, is it then not reasonable to consider obesity at least partially a treatable medical condition?

It is also not very helpful to anyone who struggles with obesity to be told the "proper solution is in the psyche of the afflicted" unless you also have a way of fixing that (if you you do have a way of fixing that, market a diet and you'll become a billionaire). Absent a way of giving everyone willpower to stick to strict enough diets, we should welcome other alternatives too.
It's a good time for streaming processing infrastructure. Twitter has just released Summingbird, and LinkedIn has released Samza:

- https://blog.twitter.com/2013/streaming-mapreduce-with-summi...

- http://samza.incubator.apache.org/

Of the three I'm most interested in Summingbird. Unlike Google's system I can actually download it, and it seems to provide a better query abstraction than Samza. I haven't spent much time investigating any of these systems, so I might be incorrect in this assessment.
Can your computer still be infected if you have an antivirus installed?
Sorry - you are saying that there is no answer? Or that there is but it is not openBSD (and why not openBsD?)
Capture Technology
It already makes their homepage very slow on my Surface RT. Colors appear only after several seconds and IE 11 is asking if it should continue or stop the long-running script all the time.

I like the effect, though. I hope they can optimize it technically.
That triggered my bullshit detector. This also made me laugh " unzip tool uses a sophisticated algorithm based on LZ77 and Huffman coding."
and https://gemnasium.com (which supports npm as well)
The guy whose name is Ann?
That's not a bad idea. Unfortunately, I don't have any free time this weekend, but I'll keep this in mind.

Anyway, if I implement it myself, it would have to be a Chrome/Firefox extension and I don't know if that would be a feasible solution.
Interesting, I live in Japan too and use Line often, but have never received any requests of this sort. Sounds really annoying, but luckily it seems that no one I know actually plays those games.
With a username like yours, this must be the finest "think of the children" satire.
Why the Bible above all?
Ah, carburetors - how I hated those things. Simple in theory, yet so complicated and fickle in practice...

I do love old diesel engines with mechanical belt-driven high pressure pumps and mechanical injectors - those things were easy to fix and built to last...
I noticed this as well.

A big single public voice with a public reputation profile is not trustworthy if you ask me.
Whatever works for you is great. But it brings to mind Kate Losse's words, on who's supposed to "break things" in our society:

"What Stanford does not teach young white men like Midas, in the course of teaching them about startups, is that everything they are being taught—about breaking rules, taking risks, and not asking for permission—works especially well for them, and often only for them, because of who they are, what they look like, and all the associations their appearance does and does not carry. On University Avenue, white men who break things look, in Midas’ words, “cute”, not delinquent or scary, and this is why privileged young men are brought to Palo Alto in droves to learn and practice the business of what Facebook calls “breaking things”. At every turn this breaking of things is celebrated and encouraged. If you’re not breaking things in Palo Alto, you’re not doing your job.

"…unless you’re not a young white man.

"If you happen to live two more miles down University Avenue from where Midas trespassed camp boundaries, you are living in East Palo Alto, which is the economic and racial counterpoint to blond-boy-celebrating, millionaire-laden Palo Alto. And if you live in East Palo Alto and you decided to walk across the 101 freeway to University Avenue, to the same cafe that Midas walked to from the other side, you’d be taking a risk, but not one likely to be rewarded." (https://medium.com/on-startups/521cb394fda2)
This is the type of thing that come up every time a post-university world is mentioned. College is so much more than...

It's true but not true in a way that invalidates the arguments that college will become less important/desired. People spend 1-2 years trying to get into college programs and then 4 years of their life at college. Parents save for decades. Students go into debt for it. Governments give it priority in their budgets. The costs are huge.

The only reason so many people will put so much emphasis on anything is that it eventually impacts their socio-economic status. Some people take a year off to travel. This can be good for character development too. It costs far less in time and money. The reason its not an institution like college is because it doesn't directly impact socio-economic in the same way.

Especially with old, elite schools this is as much about impacting students' social identity & skills as it is about their intellectual and technical skills. Its often best to approach the socio-economic status thing from an angle. All these things can't be decoupled. If college stops becoming the path to getting high paying, high status jobs, it will not be worth the cost.

I think the erosion will start farther down the food chain than Harvard though.
Is Microsoft in talks for a Groupon takeover? Seems like a Ballmeresque quirk.
It has become customary when a LinkedIn-related article pops up for people on HN to complain about the endorsements, the spam or to declare that they've deleted their accounts with no remorse.

This article isn't about the spam or the endorsements, but rather about its network effects, with its roots lying in the "positive-thinking industry", a pyramid of salesmen for snake-oil following the model of Dale Carnegie, a man who never influenced anybody until he wrote his famous book.

It is a rather interesting perspective of which I never thought about before.
UK Prisoner Home Tagging "Unreliable, shambolic"
Because it's a lazy get out for lazy people.

Perhaps if the face stuffers ate less and exercised more, there might be more food to go round. But no, carry on being greedy, cost money and resources, then use more money and resources for some sort of lazy, likely over priced, medical solution. Such a scheme is a disgusting indictment of modern humanity. Too damn lazy to do the obvious, while many people cant get enough food to survive, and pop a pill, or whatever.

Bothered? No, it makes me very damn angry.

Que the usual excuses..........