skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great that someone so attentive to teens is candidly exploring this subject on film. Unfortunate that it seems to be focussed primarily on negatives.

Yes I spend a lot of time on the net: unlike the TV which consumed thousands of passive, scripted hours in my youth, the net is interactive, the outcome within my control. For most of my life, the many things I couldn't learn more about for lack of time or helpful resources were out of reach; the amplification is awesome. For most of my life, I had to imagine being connected with communities of shared interests, never imagining having the focussing luxury of needing to choose from among them.

Those changes in my life are all positives. So while teens are doing teenish things with this tech, they are learning - just as we adults are. And when they become parents, they'll know from experience (just as in the middle ages and in the 1800s and 1950s) the impact of these new things.

The social impact of emergent technologies has always been unpredictable. Luckily humans adapt. And so far, ever since the first piece of flint changed lives, we've muddled on somehow. Not that worry-warting is worthless; reflection is in fact the mother of adaptation.
Not OP, but from a quick glance at the source it doesn't appear to. It downloads the pages and uses beautiful soup (python html parsing library).
In 1999, Chechnya was its own republic. It was in 1999 that Russia launched a military campaign known as the Second Chechen War and took Chechnya back as a Russian state. Civillian casualty estimates during that war range from 25,000 to 50,000. It's all very complicated, of course.
Actually in 1999 Chechnya was an independent republic
One word for you: encoding.
> Then, in a flash, hundreds perish in explosions at the Watergate, or at an apartment complex on Manhattan's West Side. Thousands are injured, some horribly disfigured. Panic engulfs a neighborhood, then a nation.

It's remarkable that he is arguing for strong military action as a result of terrorist attacks using this hypothetical scenario, which is eerily similar to 9/11. In retrospect, he was right - we took strong military action as a result as well.
All ideas that were the seeds for multi-billion dollar companies.

They sounded stupid^W bound to fail at first, especially before seeing the implementation / impact:

Better search engine with no sponsored listings, seamless sync and backups, short status updates blasted to your followers, better social network, animated movies that target adults, online book store (without a book store experience), $4 lattes ...

Some ideas that sounded awesome and turned out to be awesome:

Open source and breakfast bars.

To be fair, many considered open source to be blindingly stupid -- "Anyone can edit the source? That would be madness! And why would anyone just contribute hours and hours of their time? Why do you think Microsoft pays their programmers so much."

But then, "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -Carl Sagan"
> 1. It doesn’t do any speech recognition (speech -> text), so not sure why they put Siri in the title. It is also not clear how they can ‘hijack’ the text from Siri to do this analysis. The ASR engines they talk about (CMU, OpenEars) have pretty horrible accuracy (compared to Siri or google voice).

Currently most Wit users use Google or Nuance with great success. You can even use Android's offline speech rec.

That being said, CMU and OpenEars work well, as long as you provide them with good language models (which you can't do if you hack a quick project). Our plan is for Wit to automatically generate the right language models from your instance configuration.

> 2. Looks like they do some form of text normalization/correction, again not clear how they do it.
3. The actual service they provide is a form of named entity recognition (confusing named intent which clashes with the android intent mechanism in their examples).

We abstract the full NLP stack for the developer. How we do it is not really what matters to our developers, as long as it works :) Actually we use a combination of many different NLP and machine learning techniques.

> 4. Also they let you define your own entities to match. You can train them using a drop –down menu. Not sure how you can train hundreds of examples using point and click.

You don't need to train hundreds of examples. Plus, our users are not NLP/ML experts and they prefer a graphical UI. But that's true it could be still more efficient, we have good features in the roadmap for that :)

> This different from alchemy (or many others) because this is open source(?) http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/features/entity-extractio....

Alchemy is great as a set of NLP tools, some of them quite academical, but it's not designed from scratch to solve the problem we're trying to solve: enable the masses of developers to easily add a natural language interface to their app.
It's not about time, we all have time, rich, poor, American, non-american. It's about how you choose to fill your time that matters, or should define success.

You can't fill your time with objects, no matter how expensive. But you can use objects to help you use your time in different, more enjoyable ways. That's where money comes in. Sometimes really fun things cost a lot of money, like riding in a helicopter or a hot air balloon, or travelling to the Bahamas, or Africa, or Space! Alternatively, you could buy a warehouse and invent something.

Life is about how you spend your time, and money creates opportunities to spend it in different (typically more rewarding) ways.
Just the premise is smug.
If you think you're smart now, and lymes has made you dumb, you really are dumb.

We're all dumb.
Lymes just made you dumber.
>It is very rude to sit at the dinner table with people and be interacting with your mobile device rather than your real life companions.

1) Not a teenager-specific problem. I'll quickly and unobtrusively answer texts only if they're related to plans for later in the evening. If my mom gets a call from her mother or sister, she'll take it at the dinner table and talk for over an hour while expecting the rest of the family to immediately cease our conversations so she can hear clearly. But it's me who shouldn't be allowed to have a phone?

2) That's pretty easily addressed by parents setting expectations for dinner as a sacred time. Don't want to put your phone down, don't eat. This is not a reason for regulation, changes on the part of manufacturers, or for teenagers not to have phones at all.
Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage
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This kind of stuff is actually why I come to HN. I'm not really interesting in reading Blogger-25981875's take on <insert scandal>, and definitely not "I became an entrepreneur and if you do exactly what I did you can be successful too".
Venture for America Brings a Socially-Conscious Entrepreneur Home
that's brilliant. i reckon that could do well :)
It's conceptually simple and produced great results. I agree that it might not be the most effective solution there is, but it seems like it was the most effective at the time (which is why they were used).
Why I released a Public Alpha of my latest project
Good job. I always find something useful in this newsletter!
Thank you
You are right about the arrogance and I apologize.
>I'll probably buy this because it is the best feed reader app out there, but not very pleased with being charged again

You can always use the online Google Reader, which has a great free of charge model just as you like it -- oh, wait, actually you can't. Because they closed it down for not making them any money!

>which I assume will also be done to the mac app

Why, did the Mac app appeared magically complete from the heavens? As I understand it, it too took time, effort and money from the developer, which needs to be compensated separately from the time and effort that went into the iOS app.

Seriously, are the people making these comments professional developers, or 16 year old kids?
Not sure this adds much to the story, but I think it's noteworthy that this was covered in a mainstream news program. I heard it on the radio yesterday.
Once again, nice roundup of articles!
Good work and great articles.
Reeder developer(s): Please, PLEASE get the desktop app working again. I used it EVERY SINGLE DAY from the day it was released to the day it was shut down. Reeder was by far the best RSS workflow there is. (And we'll be needing NewsBlur support!)
Both thoughts came to my mind as well. As aside, I really enjoyed the article
Some guy wanted to save the whole internet on his computer and index it.
Would you be explaining the joke if you were to note that no non-trivial solutions exist for n?
Nice breakown of the enterpise app developer tool space
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Vodafone also does DSL and other business (and actually tracks me as two different customers for DSL and mobile stuff). It's quite likely that they've got a seperate id system.
Parent makes the same point as you.
I was hoping for coffee based :P
Oh come on. Hacking punishments should not be that severe, only proportional to the damage caused. Where has anyone demonstrated the property damage in this case? They have only estimated a number.
Hackers get disproportionate sentences to what they have done, compared to for e.g. bankers who commit crimes.

EDIT: After reading the comments below, I guess I need to clarify what I said. I put it badly to say the least; I should have said "property damage" instead of financial damage.
Heard:

<existing social network> for <pet>
> I doubt having a line drawn that says you're not an adult until you're 18 years old, and until then you're still a child will keep working in this century. It worked when social dynamics between teenagers and adults were different.

I'm not sure it ever really "worked", and seems to be an idea that is less than 100 years old. If it's failing already, I'm not sure we can count the couple generations it happened to it "working".
Think Of LinkedIn As Your Security Badge
How does this compare and contrast to http://www.ask-ziggy.com/ ?
Are you a health insurance agent?
Just under 20 years ago when I got started in this racket, 30G was consider a huge database, cutting edge stuff, requiring experts and special techniques. Nowadays a serious DBA doesn't blink at 30T.
Senior managers are the worst when it comes to security. "I'm exempted because I'm too busy/important."

I suppose you could argue it matters less above a certain level. Because the CEO is often surrounded by an entourage. And instead of the device being left behind in a taxi or airline, it's a private limo or private jet. Even so, the danger zone is when the CEO spends some time living like a normal person.
The robots.txt file doesn't seem to disallow scraping.
https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt
In Beijing, the New iPhone Gets a Resounding 'Meh'
And for all those interested in the blog post, I recommend you read David Murray's reason and suggestion.
Twiggy Mac - Macintosh creators rekindle the 'Twiggy Mac' (pictures)
I suspect that's true. I recently had invisalign and when I lost one they got one printed locally. the material was thicker and less precise than the original.

also, of interest, my dentist said they couldn't number the trays 1,2,3,4... because that was patented. the numbers were like 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b.
Considering the amount of stupidity on Twitter, I'd say you weren't too far off the mark.
It's not about hard work, it's about how much of who you are must be devoted to the career. I work very hard at a 400 person company. but I get to go home after about 42-48 hours a week and enjoy being me. That involves chess, guitar, politics, and billiards. Founders and ground floor engineers ARE the business, the code, and the company.
It's silly to use BeautifulSoup to parse the page when you could use a simple RegEx:

<td class=\"title\"><a href=\"(.?)\"(.?)>(.?)</a>(.?)</td>
Oh, I understand what you are saying perfectly. You are going about it in an obtuse manner.
Rather than being sent to the server, it might be okay in the first case if the UA was just exposed through the DOM as a property of the window.renderer; that way, the page, after delivery, could actively decide to apply a shim, but the initial content would be the same for everyone.

For the second case, you can at least do JS feature detection and send back the results with AJAX. That seems like the "public API" way of getting to know your users' capabilities, rather than trying to infer them from their UA strings.
Facebook Needs Developers?
Exactly. BBC wrote an article about that today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23510961. Reality is you either have to be well off or kind of crazy.
The article says it has been fixed in 3.6.1.
> If Vodafone is anything like US carriers then your phone number is basically your account number

Although to the customer it may appear that your phone number is your account number, that normally isn't the case. This is for a number of reasons:

* Phone numbers can change either through porting or by choice (i.e, due to nuisance/harassment, etc)

* Single 'accounts' can have multiple phone numbers (i.e, a family plan)

* Some plans may have phone numbers that are opaque to the user (i.e, 3G dongles, etc)

In the carrier systems I've seen / worked on there has normally been a unique account identifier that isn't the MSISDN.
Brainfuck is fairly simple & regular. Malbolge is not; that would make it far more difficult.
Arg, there should be asterisks after every period.
Thank you CSS, another way to keep ads and "social buttons" always in front of me. I want a browser addon that hides all position:fixed and position:sticky elements unconditionally, never seen a site that wouldn't be improved by that.
Life is infinitely easier when you know, at the end of the day, no matter how bad you fuck up you still have your parents to fall back on versus if you fuck up, you're on the street. It adds a whole new layer of privilege.
Yes, but purity generates a lot more blog posts than practicality. Or so it seems.
Advanced mobile prototyping in Axure RP Pro: tips and examples
I don't know kyro at all, but his profile links to a Twitter profile, which says he's a "Medical Student, Designer".

Blog here:
http://kyrobeshay.com
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Mine: It's based on a Seinfeld episode where George makes up a fake charity and gives cards to people "A donation has been made in your name to Human Fund".

Say you want to gift someone but you don't know what they want / don't want to buy more stuff / etc. So you buy a card that has a message ("Happy Birthday!" or whatever) and a number of credits associated with it and you give it to someone. The person, then, can use the credits to give things to non-profits, like a shirt for the homeless, or some food for a orphanage.
I am on aligner 11/15, so I am almost done with Invisalign. And before anyone thinks they can do this at home, there are two points to consider. Invisalign needs attachments to help move your teeth along. Just this Monday, my dentist had to redo the attachment on #10. Also, if your teeth need a little more room, your dentist will sand your teeth down as well. Attachments are temporary, but sanding your teeth down is permanent!
I don't think they're all that bad either... I mean if you're using IE then sure you can say they are terrible. But in the other browsers - they're actually pretty good. There is room for improvement - but for what we get it's pretty incredible. And you can implement headers that follow you in a table - it just requires writing some code, which you can say is bad.. but then if you go off and write in a native application I"m sure you'll be writing a lot more code than I will in my web app... the issues usually boil down to the client e.g. IE or the lack of native extensions in WebCore preventing the web app from performing better... yeah.. that's my two cents...
Crowdsourcing vigilantism (or random violent assault) - whoneedsabeating.com - snap a photo with your phone, location is tagged and timestamped, optional tweet with why the subject needs a beating.

For free subscriber's beat-down requests are published only with city, photo and reason. Paid subscribers get street address published with beat-down request.
A fairly arbitrary sampling of studies (there are many on more specific subjects, if you're interested in researching more specific aspects of the question):

* A general literature survey as of 1995, of the evidence on whether increasing the incomes of everyone (with no change in relative incomes) improves overall happiness: http://ibe.eller.arizona.edu/docs/2010/Martinsson/easterlin9...

* Income inequality and happiness 1972-2008 in the U.S. and causal hypotheses: http://inside.bard.edu/~luka/documents/Oishi-Kesebir-Diener-...

* Relationship between regional inequality, happiness, and confounding factors in Japan: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953610...

* Empirical alignment of utilitarian happiness-maximization and other desiderata often seen as opposed: http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22129/JHS_11_2010_605.pdf
Xiaomi Joins Mobile OS Field
I recently discovered that the technology has developed to the extent that I can inexpensively purchase the materials needed for a variety of useful items to self-assemble in my backyard.

Despite the ability to grow peppers and cucumbers myself, I still buy them at the store because it is only worthwhile as an entertaining hobby and practitioners skilled in the art can produce the same items more efficiently.
you should check out / meet with the team at Blueprint Health here in NYC: http://www.blueprinthealth.org/

i could imagine they'd be interested in getting this off the ground with you
Infidel!
Looks cool, lets just hope they don't allow planes and helicopters in Seoul
He most definitely does not have depression. Saying that depression is simply apathy and 'feeling dumb' spits in the face of those who have to deal with actual depression everyday.
Seeing_is_believing : Rails Gem shows output of each line in script
How do you think now?
Back in the dotcom day, yachts.com
I've interviewed for a few startups recently. They mentioned "startup hours". When I drilled deeper into their hours, it basically meant you're on call 24/7.

I asked them to compensate me 400% of my wage to work hours which I'm not supposed to and they scoffed at me. I told them to take a hike.

Do not ever put a job on a pedestal simply because OMG JOB! You are worth more than you think, and nobody is worth sacrificing personal health for someone elses business that may or may not become profitable.

They need you more than you need them.
Michael Dell is back: Dell shareholders approve $24.9B buyout
Blitz Game Studios to close, 175 jobs threatened
"Make a web page where all the students of our college can post their pictures and talk to each other!" (proposed to me by a classmate in May of 2000)
+1000 thanks for the comment man.
Is Learning Vim Worth It
Java Mission Control (Finally) Released
Naughtiness is key
I'm not so sure your vantage point is that different. The issue here is risk. The bank engineer may love the idea of doing a startup, but if they're like me, it's vitally important that one's spouse and children get to eat every day. More important than having meaningful work. In reality the decision isn't that stark, but it does serve to highlight the thought process.
Looking for some "ideas that seem bad" here? ;) http://paulgraham.com/swan.html
Sipgate.com is shutting down
One of the things we talk about a lot is how overtime and working more than 40-50 hours a week is always a management failure. We didn't raise enough money, or plan well enough, or get enough people, or understand what we were doing, etc. We work really really hard, but we make sure it's within those parameters, except in some really rare emergency scenarios.

During interviews, people always look at me like I have two heads when I try to actively talk them out of doing startup. It's not romantic, it's not horrible, it's just different. At different times people will be amenable to that lifestyle, but not always.

I get so tired of everyone talking about "startup life" and I think a lot of it is just tagalong marketing. We can't figure out ways of pumping up our businesses or what we're doing so we just tag onto this shiny intangible lifestyle that's already marketed by movies or other blogs.

Startup life has always been bullshit. Making cool things with great people has always been cool. No matter what stage you're doing that in.
Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks!
Fish Tank Analyzer:

1) Train fish to swim towards some chemical/compound whatever you want to detect

2) Put valves at different places in the tank, where you can put in the diluted sample

3) Detect the "swarm opinion" via webcam and computer vision

I never found a good application for this...
It is if you're making huge amounts of them and you're in the 19th century.
Standards cheap replaceable parts brought the PC to dominate their very expensive IBM counterpart.

See the problem, is that this idea, with today's technology would be more expensive to build than the device it is competing against. (if it was possible at all)

And if you need to go against the network too, it means competing against $200 iPhone5s and the like.
At some point I had the idea for an RFID bracelet. Ideally, it would be targeted to trade shows. I went to one previously the best tech they had was these cards that you had to go and manually scan at each booth.

Anyhow, the idea was that each bracelet would have an RFID card, and an RFID reader. When you shook hands with someone, it would read their ID #. So, you're not only physically meeting someone, but logging them as someone you met. When you got back to your hotel that night, you plug it into your computer and it pulls up everyone's bio (picture, name, company, email address, etc).
Would it have been okay for your parents to wiretap your phone? No? Then why is it okay to demand to read your children's private conversations?

I am terrified we're going to have a generation of kids who have no concept of private. Who've never been allowed to speak or be curious about anything their parents wouldn't approve of. Who are used to having to explain conversations and reading to people who were never supposed to be part of them. Parental Thought Police are orders of magnitude more terrifying than state Thought Police.

Can you imagine an adult who has never had a private experience as a child? Maybe to a collectivist culture, that isn't so scary, but to me it's dystopian.