skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a black car service, the problem is privacy concerns - the players don't want management to be able to find out how late they were out and where they were.

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201304/nfl-players-worry...
Nothing? Why all the fuss around hiring good developers, then?
> It seems impossible to limit someone's exposure on Facebook,

I don't think anyone is forced to use it. I know several families who have account, yet, they don't share on it or use it for anything that could be embarrassing in the later years.

> especially when any 3rd party will happily post a photo of your family member online.

You should always explain to your friends what your expectation of privacy is. If they don't respect that, they are not your friends anyway.
This game (like everyone else is saying) is technically and visually impressive.

My advice for this game: drop the up-front PAY US LOL bullshit. Don't make people click through 18 menus to play the game. Drop the stupid achievements: "You clicked exactly where we told you to! Here's a diamond!" just isn't doing it for me. Let people start right away by building a town. No weapons, no build restrictions.

THEN once people have something to protect, start laying on the "That's a nice little town you've got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it." Town under attack? Need a new tower fast? One dollar won't kill you.

Not that I ever play any F2P games (ever), so take this with a grain of salt, but suck people in and give them a reason to pay you. Everyone likes games where they build stuff. Now make them pay to fight entropy... but you've got to get them building right away, because I lost interest pretty fast.
Shit. I am running the iOS 7 beta with automatic app updates, and I already have the new app.

I am considering wiping my phone and restoring it from a previous backup with the old copy of the app.

Edit: I was still logged in from my browser, and was able to activate the new version without entering a code from the deceased version of the app.

From this, it seems theft of your cookies could let an attacker completely take over your account and two-factor device if they know your account password and you have chosen to trust the victim computer.
Am I the only one who thinks that the repeated attacks on drugs and drug usage are really unnecessary (and not well informed on the topic)?
Ask HN: Looking for new books to read
I need new books to read, I feel like I can learn a lot about life and myself reading books.

Can anyone recommend life changing books? books that can transform me into a better person and build character.

1.) Successful
2.) Spiritual
3.) Happy
4.) Better person and a better citizen.

any book that has these end qualities is much appreciated. I feel like I'm not gaining as much knowledge as I should be so I want to read some good books. Thanks.
You'll also need to plug them in correctly, as they're one way: plug them in wrong and your video will play in reverse.
This approach is doomed to failure. From the moment their daughter starts spending time with people outside her immediate family, she will start showing up in others' photos and her face will be linked to those people. Given that there's some unknown person who repeatedly shows up with certain people, the second her name leaks somewhere it will be easy to reveal her history.

Even without face recognition, disparate 'anonymous' accounts on different sites can be linked to her, as long as a few associates can be linked to real-world people [1].

[1] http://www.academia.edu/1518346/Link_Prediction_in_Highly_Fr...
Yes it is, and I hope he can contribute to mathbin as it is more widely used - at least it's official pastebin in ##math channel on freenode.

I don't know if the author of mathbin is still working on it (the message on main page is old), but I think it's worth a shot ;)
I have these lines in my .Xresources file (which is sourced by .xinitrc with `xrdb -merge "${HOME}/.Xresources"`):

Shift<Key>Insert: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
<Key>Insert: insert-selection(PRIMARY) \n\
Shift<Btn2Up>: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Shift<Btn1Down>: select-start() \n\
Shift<Btn1Motion>: select-extend() \n\
Shift<Btn1Up>: select-end(CLIPBOARD)

This way, if I select something with the mouse while pressing shift it will go to the clipboard. I can shift-select text on the terminal and paste to Firefox using ctrl-V, for example. And I can copy something from Firefox using ctrl-C and paste it on vim using shift-insert.

Normal selection goes to the other clipboard, so I can paste it using middle button or just clicking insert.
>People who enjoy games at a competitive level don't just out grow it once they hit late 20s or 30s. I'm 33 by the way.

Well, statistically speaking, most of them do. They get a job, family, etc.
"Apple’s guidelines for iOS7 developers actually demand we avoid splash screens ‘or other startup experience.’"

This was an interesting line. I had a debate with my designer friend about this who pointed out that this wasn't new. Turns out, the line about no splash screens is part of the Human Interface Guidelines today. The splash screens seems to have been a community driven interface decision rather than an Apple one.
If you reach out to AWS people, you may get some of this information before it goes public. AWS likes to do private (NDA'd) beta tests of new products with AWS-heavy customers. They work off of the feedback while bigger customers get their needs satisfied.
I made up my mind when I bypassed the DNS restriction.
I work on a large piece of C++ software (millions of lines) and unfortunately this feature does not work well enough to be worth using. The first problem is that it takes far too long, much longer than the rename method and waiting to recompile. The other pretty serious problem is that it sometimes misses references so I just can't trust it.
Intel’s Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Yes, but I have observed multiple times that many engineers, including crypto and even infosec folks, don't really understand or even think about traffic analysis as a threat vector. I want to chalk this up to a lack of thinking about systems (in the classic sense, not in the jargon for "computer" sense), but I'm not entirely sure.
Ok, so say you see the tracklist on that site, then listen to the tracks in that order. Is that copyright infringement?
not only doesn't the NFL have farm team, sports that do, don't typically pay 80K

http://www.bucsdugout.com/2013/1/14/3874488/minor-league-bas...
> If you are doing linear regression with correlated variables. PLS is the correct choice.

False. PLS (Partial Least Squares) is an ad-hoc algorithm that was invented by people working in chemometrics. PLS was not based on any rigorous statistical theory, it is merely a heuristic. It might appear to work reasonably well on some data sets, but asserting that "PLS is the correct choice" is cargo cult science.
As a dev, completely get the need. Yes, most of my day-to-day job is making a small change or reproducing a bug locally, testing, and then deploying. Setting up that loop has been harder than I want to admit and is the reason I know maven, ant, chef AND puppet, Jenkins, and gradle as well as I do. In many ways I wish I didn't have to!

That said, my friendly advice would be to pick one framework and environment combination and solve this problem end to end. Node would be a perfect start. Show me how to use your project to make node dev shorter and easier. If I believe you I will use you and node for new projects. I'm not going to switch an existing project to jumpstart because I've already set up the flow. Maybe I'm weird, but I demand single-command builds and deploys. All my projects already have it. But I'm willing to learn new techs to avoid the pain.

I see your landing page and take away you have lofty goals and are trying to be all things to all people. Don't. Pick one. Focus. Be the best at it. Make a YouTube video that shows me how you get 1-second whatever. It's especially puzzling when you don't have a demo video but you have a produced ad on "flow." It's hard to believe your product has substance during this launch.

I'm willing to switch to angular and node (or hipster.js and kitkat.io -- whatever, it doesn't really matter) to get what you advertise. For new projects. I won't touch existing stuff. It means I have to test and am likely to break something by moving to your project in prod. Nobody ever changes their build scripts!
Yep, HDE OTP works great and looks nice. Thanks.
It's not you who uploads the pics, it's your friends and family, then they tag the faces. Then fb steals your friends address book info using the facebook app/email connections and builds out a network and ghost profile just for you.

You might never use facebook but you're on there. All of us are. Because your friends don't give a damn about privacy and screwed the pooch.

And Zuck knows. That's why he said on stage we'll all eventually have a profile, with his weird all-knowing nerd giggle (youtube 'zuckerburgs 10 evil seconds'), because even a ghost profile is still a profile, it's got data. It's verified. And you'll never delete it. Ever.

This ain't going back in.
I have been to a shop in China that was very up front about the fact that everything they sold was a qa reject. (mostly department store stuff, not electronics).

Clothing is a lot easier to judge, though.
Like the SM footprints, but I'm not sure I see the point of the resistor color code chart these days (If I do spec a through hole resistor, 99% of the time it'll be a 1%).
It's good PR for the NFL management, too. 22 year old millionaires will always have a DUI tendency, the management just needs to be seen as doing things about it.

I'd bet this project came out of their PR firms rather than the biz dev department.
The Dilemma of Complexity
Android has had "Sync Adapters" since the beginning, a very cool and powerful framework that allows apps to piggy back off each other's data connections, reducing the number of times the cell modem needs to be fired up for background fetches.

Not a new concept, I'm sure the patent battle lines are already well drawn.
There still are search engines besides Google. ;)
Their implementation is horrible and completely unnecessary. Pretty as it was, it's one of the worst UX I've seen all year.

It's possible, easy even, to achieve the same page scroll results (and even deep-linking fragments if that's a requirement) without taking over the browser history.

Kind of shameful, really.
Calling a cab in Miami is also a shitty experience. Incidentally cab "union" is fighting uber tooth and nail here.
If you do happen to update and lose your 2FA keys, the AWS people are turning around these lost login requests in <15 minutes. You fill the form out, they call you and verify, and life carries on.
It's quite likely that the content itself may well be mirrored to an archive as has happened with geocities. It's likely that any truly embarrassing or interesting picture will be pretty much immortal online.
Hey, it's your analogy. I merely concede that it's an excellent one.

To continue it, I observe that black America also has the freedoms they fought for; is racism over as well?
> I adore Kate’s parents, and they’re raising her to be an amazing young woman. But they’re essentially robbing her of a digital adulthood that’s free of bias and presupposition.

Oh god, these types of smug parents annoy the crap out of me. This is the digital version of the mom who lectures you for letting your kid watch Sesame Street or eats Frosted Flakes, because don't you know sugar/TV are going to destroy his mind and body.
Why Today's Start-Ups Are Choosing Urban Lofts Over Suburban Office Parks
CFL/AAFL are definitely farm team systems; despite not being 'formal' farm teams, that is basically what they are.
Nope, blog post was loaded with snark - her attitude offended me more than the poor code D:
I'm not sure the NSA can do a lot to restore trust, I think they just have to hope that most people forget about it.
Syria threatens to "World War III" in case of a strike
It says there's a free chapter but that just points back to the original url. Am I missing something?
As I understand it, it's not the same as Android though.

The app requests to wake up at intervals, and if the OS decides it's OK (based upon battery, network activity and how often you use the app) the app is granted that access.
What are you trying to build? If it's enterprisey I'd go with JSP and take a look at Spring MVC.
It's Android 4.4 after all. Makes sense.
I'll grant that it's logically possible.

But I don't really understand why people think it's disadvantageous if others can find out whether or not you were cute when you were two years old. I think it has more to do with fear of what's new than any logical argument.

Putting my money where my mouth is, here is my son:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7402/9525304181_8da5d48e22_b.j...

In what future dystopia will the presence of this photo on the public internet harm him? "Ooh, I see here that you once looked at the ocean as a child. You're fired."
Yeah, but let's be honest. It's not real productive time. It's Facebook, Twitter, and Candy Crush.
I post a lot of family pictures online but I never post anything that I'd consider embarrassing for my children. Nor do I post anything on Facebook that I wouldn't want a random stranger to overhear in a shopping line.
Bad developers do have that power. But best practice is to use a SyncAdapter, which works very similarly.

Actually, one of the biggest savings comes from apps all syncing at about the same time... firing up the cell modem is expensive, cheaper to do a bunch of transfers at once than spread out over time.
Platform Ecosystems in Big Data
Apple hosting second iPhone launch event in China on September 11
Android's View Holder Pattern
I suppose having the Player's Association set it up is meant to help the players trust the service. Still, mixing the players in with Uber's capacity – maybe even with customer pseudonyms? – could offer faster service and more anonymity than a previous program.
Live Feed Samsung Press Event
Bugcrowd Raises VC Funding
Thanks joe! Yeah, sadly through hole seems to be going away on the whole, but the color codes are still used often by some people, especially while breadboarding or prototyping. I actually referred to a prototype of the card myself while designing a board a few weeks ago:) so some people will likely find one side or the other more useful. Fortunately we've designed the card to be useful in a good variety engineering contexts!
I would argue it's easy to get a cab in Chicago from most parts of the city where people spend time at night. No, it's not easy to get a cab from the the West Side or Uptown at night, but that's because it doesn't need to be. The cabs follow the people.
Proposal for improving the SVG DOM
Meet Rasberry-Pi's big brother
upvoted for Stonehenge reference.
Check out this incredibly complex rfc822 regex in action: http://regex101.com/r/fZ6cD5
Yes, doing what everybody else is doing will lead to mediocre results by definition. But it will also minimize social friction (important!) and give you herd protection against certain kinds of downside risk.

There was an article recently that said that startups shouldn't innovate in non-core areas. This is precisely the advice of "do what everyone else is doing" at least for certain things.
I disagree about dollar sign. This is how embedding mathematical notation in LaTeX always worked, and I never had, nor heard of anyone having problems with that in practice.
This is the flip side of staying cash flow positive. Just as cash flow is more important than profits when it comes to surviving, undertaking a full rewrite of code, while theoretically long-term beneficial, could have the effect of causing you to run out of cash.
I wonder if marketing your encrypted p2p social network to paranoid parents would be a good way to get users.
Well, I would like to work with them in one office place.
I had freelancers working with me before and it worked fine most of the time but it's more about building something together here and learning from eachother. Maybe I should try looking on platforms like Couchsurfing for this matter, hm.
A buddy and I created http://bitcoinsimplified.org to try to solve that problem.
are there?
The barely-described prior program could be slower than calling a cab, if it's a national call-center that then picks a city-specific service, and doesn't draw on as many providers. Clearly there have been problems with it.

And if you're drunk and out past some contractual/implied curfew, talking to strangers is harder: there's some embarrassment involved. Pushing a button in an app depersonalizes the situation, helpfully so.
Japan Re-invented the Lighter and Revolutionized the Commercial
are there? :)
How Great User Experience Design Makes You More Productive
New York City has some impressive semi-useful structures. My two favorites are part of the subway system.

One of them is just this impressively massive railway arch going over the end of the N-line. It's kind of like the five-layer interchanges on highways. You've got a normal city street, and above it, an elevated subway line, and above it a freight train tracks going cross-ways. It's like one of those multi-layered highway interchanges, but you can just walk right in and see it up close at 0 mph.

The other one is something similar at I think the Smith & 9th street stop in Brooklyn. You've got a canal, with a drawbridge that lifts straight up to let ships through. And then above THAT is a subway station. You're standing on this subway platform, and it looks completely normal, like any other platform in the city. And then you look behind you and you're five stories up or so.

They're impressive engineering feats, and also a little bit extravagant. They could have moved the pieces around quite easily to avoid building such large and expensive and difficult structures, but for whatever reason (bureaucracy? union graft? the architect was a little cracked? because fuck you, that's why?) they decided to go out of their way and build something which would be a wonder if it weren't so mundane.
This is constructive feedback. Thank you for taking your time to do this.
What should I do to improve the letter's overall organization of ideas?
They had it in the '80s.

Helped that we were fighting an in your face existential threat, the Evil Empire AKA the Soviet Union with their 45,000 (sic) nuclear warhead inventory peak in 1988 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...). I in fact supplied a reference for a student acquaintance applying for a job at the NSA in that year.
You live life, you leave a trail, this hasn't changed in the digital world, only made more convenient. For your kids to live in the world of the future and interact with others, they will need an identity, it is unavoidable unless they want to live off-the-grid in bush country.

We can see grade school and high school pictures of famous celebrities because pictures were taken with analog film cameras once. We can see old baby pictures of people who are 65 years old today because photography has existed for over a century.

Maybe you're not taking pictures of your daughter, but someone else will, and they can tag her with metadata for their own purposes.

I don't post my kids pictures publicly (I do to close friends), not for hyperbolic fears that someone might profile them and show them a targeted ad (The Horrors!), but because honesty, I've seen enough weirdos doing stuff with people's pictures online that I don't want them showing up on some jackass's website, especially ones people fap off to. Especially true for young girls, as there are people who steal portraits from other sites and they end up in spammy popup ads or worse.

But even that is a losing battle, as again, photos are taken everywhere by everyone. As the cost of cameras goes to zero, they will be omnipresent, and as networking becomes more and more ubiquitous, a world where you are always being filmed and classified is inevitable. It won't even require centralized governments or corporations to scale, just ordinary people filming decentralized.
How can I structure my text here? This turned out a fluent mess :/
That's not actually true. Last estimates I saw said that the right of way was only costing a few (1-3 i think) billion of the total cost.
Looks great -- and I really appreciate that the demo site is not a cookie-cutter twitter clone like half the tutorials out there.
I wrote a program to quickly generate histograms from data. Seems like it would complement "st" nicely for quick command land stats calculations.

https://github.com/SamChill/hist
Lying to ourselves and other - Mixed Signals and Messed-Up Metrics
It might seem like the same page since the book cover is at the top of both pages. Just in case, here's the direct link: http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-shell-script-sample-chap...
Rest assured that while the person responsible for the legacy design flaw is perhaps long gone, I'll be right there...waiting, oblivious.
I agree with you, but I suppose the point is to make it the child's decision to share or not when they become mature enough to make that choice.

(Personally my wife and I have no information on our kids online, save a self-hosted blog with a password that only family know...).
Great work SendHub team!
If I could unilaterally make just one change to Go, I'd adopt C#-style nullable types, and change everything to be nonnullable without the extra sigil (or whatever, I have no passion about the syntax itself, just the feature). This would produce, say, map[string]string vs. map?[string]string. The first would not be permitted to be null, the second would.

It would be my choice because unlike a lot of other pet ideas which would radically change Go into a new language, I'm pretty sure this would have hardly any effect... excepting of course to remove the Billion Dollar Mistake from the next up-and-coming language.
Seriously. I have a two-year-old; I found myself wondering about how he would deal with Facebook, etc., until I realized that if he had been born in 1991 instead of 2011 I'd have been wondering how he'd deal with dial-up BBSs.
The background behavior in iOS 7 is a great improvement but can't really be described by those of us who are still under non disclosure agreement. Beyond that there are lots of goodies for developers that have been added to iOS APIs.
I did just about everything wrong by this author's lights--posted plenty of photos and updates, gave them their own e-mail and social media accounts, etc. It didn't even occur to me to weigh their poops or do any sort of qualitative analysis of their urine! Somehow... Somehow, I says, they managed to turn out all right.
I agree it depends on the wording but this particular website: http://court-records-management.com/ (just realized I forgot the add the link) the wording is clear you pay to remove a particular court record:
"Remove Record XXXXXXXX from the court-record-management.com website. The court record and all information pertaining to the case will be removed from court-record-management.com within 24 hours of payment clearing. See our Terms for our return policy and conditions. Court Record Management reserves the right to refuse a removal request. If this occurs, they payment will be refunded within 24 hours."

I didn't realize someone was already taking legal action against such website but it's an interesting grey area of the law.
> Average startup's code is small, narrowly focused, has a (relatively) short lifespan, so it can be rewritten from scratch by 1 or 2 people.

But the reason those startups can be narrowly focused is because they can leverage huge volumes of working code written by others. In that sense, Joel's advice still holds, if you think of "rewrite" less as "throwing out your own code and starting over" as "throwing out memcache and writing your own caching layer/throwing out Postgres and writing your own database/etc." Which is a temptation that lots of startups fall victim to, rarely with a happy ending.