skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same case as the AP spying scandal, where Holder wiretapped the offices of the AP:

"A year later, it became known that the Justice Department had secretly subpoenaed phone companies for calling records for 20 phone lines of Associated Press offices and reporters, without providing advance notice to the organization so they could negotiate over the scope of the effort or ask a judge to quash the subpoena."

(Previous HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701265)

Bizarre coincidence (?) they've also convicted the journalists' source for child porn:

"In a twist, Mr. Sachtleben, 55, of Carmel, Ind., was already the subject of a separate F.B.I. investigation for distributing child pornography, and has separately agreed to plead guilty in that matter and serve 97 months. His total sentence for both sets of offenses, should the plea deal be accepted by a judge, is 140 months."
Can you elaborate on why Frasier would have been a far worse show without the laugh track?

One show which benefited from a laugh track was Married With Children, because it was an unapologetically trashy show about trashy people, and the audience hoots and jeers contributed to its low-brow atmosphere.

But the Big Bang Theory suffers horribly for its laugh track. It's not just the disproportionate reaction to jokes, it's the laughter at things that aren't jokes at all. See for example this egregious example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3qn92R0SE , in which the audience starts cracking up after "My new computer came with Windows 7."
Popular people -- and popular rights -- can be defined as "the ones that don't need defending."
No, your meaning was clear. That guy was either trolling by deliberately misinterpreting you, or needs English lessons himself.
Why Doesn't The iPhone 5S Have NFC?
Exactly. And why not put the players and developers on the same platform? It's a match made in heaven!

Moving toward an upstreaming, open-source, GNU/Linux platform means that not only do they have more fine-tuned control of everything, but also that there are _many_ more sets of eyes and hands to find/fix problems and to help contribute to the gaming and Linux ecosystem as a whole.

After seeing nVidia's CEO making his keynote for a new line of video cards on a Ubuntu powered laptop[1], I have no doubt that there are many companies other than Valve that see the great potential in this.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIQWWJs_po
Its not a bad place to be right now.
I've heard it expressed as "The Big Bang theory is a dumb person's idea of what a show for smart people would be like."
Agree. I don't want touch on a laptop. I see no need to mar the screen of my computer with debris and fingerprints.
Online video channels for every sport, team and athlete.
The closeness of the SteamOS experience to that of a typical desktop Linux distro is irrelevant. If it runs on the Steam Box, it will run on a Linux desktop of compatible architecture.

Considering there is already Steam for Linux, its probable that Valve will ensure Linux games run on both platforms equally well.

In any case, if there is no need for "all the trimmings", if Valve just wants to make an entertainment pipeline, then that's fine by me. It's the same kernel; this is a huge win for Linux by any measure.
Also, even for games that do have a Windows release, it's hard enough getting a Mac release most days... Linux is an even tougher sell in the current market, but perhaps that'll change if Valve can start showing some serious SteamOS install numbers?
I do not know what that sentence means.
Heathrow Airport recreates departure day 4x a year for young man with autism
Rural/urban is a function of density, not quantity. In a lot of places, the distribution of people that live in urban and rural areas has been about 50/50. If the distribution tips more towards urban, than that might be an argument.
When the analogy is a worse thing than what is being likened, it is not trivialized. The thing being likened is moved to the level of the analogy and compared to see if the analogy is apt.

For example, "my teacher is a Nazi" does not make anyone think Nazis are only as bad as teachers, only that the student is overreacting (comparing the teacher to something that is on another level, i.e., worse.) The inverse, "Nazis were basically strict teachers," is a horrible thing to say as it brings Nazis down to the level of something benign.

To say The Big Bang Theory is blackface does not make a person wonder if blacks were actually only mistreated as much as nerds. It makes a person wonder if nerds are systemically exploited and mocked by social superiors. The answer is that in a very limited way, this happens, but it happens in an extremely irrelevant part of life (school) and nerds go on to run the world and are unquestionably full equals, possibly superiors, of more athletic people socially and politically. At no point here do we think blacks are only as mistreated as nerds.

On the other hand, saying something like "being black before the Civil Rights movement was like being the nerd in high school" is obviously offensive because we are bringing the black experience to the level of the analogy, being a nerd, and then making the comparison, and it's not even close.
That's not what "investment" means.
The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot
I don't have a problem with the JOBS Act, but I would also point out that you cannot look at the JOBS Act in a vacuum:

1. "Accommodative" monetary policy has created an ultra low yield environment that has punished savers and made life incredibly challenging for many investors.

2. The environment has "encouraged" (others might use the word "forced") savers and investors to reach for yield and returns.

3. This reach has resulted in capital misallocation and malinvestment and has artificially inflated numerous asset classes from real estate to publicly-traded equities.

4. A good number of investors who have significant exposure to these asset classes have significant gains (realized and unrealized), which influences their investment decisions.

5. Risk is dramatically being underpriced. You don't even need to look at, say, the corporate debt market. Just look at the terms being offered on some of the Wefunder deals and you can see that risk is being underpriced in the angel market.

Making it easier for companies to publicly solicit investment at the same time monetary policy has pushed significant amounts of money into riskier and riskier asset classes may, in hindsight, prove to be a bad combination for investors who are less sophisticated and/or greedy.
LinkedIn also sets some very annoying traps for its users.

A few days ago, I received an email from LinkedIn displaying an old friend who wanted to connect. I was excited to see an old familiar face, so I logged in and eventually found a way to connect with him. Today, I received an email again for the same person, saying my invitation to connect was still standing. I clicked through the links in the email this time, and was walked through a multi-step tutorial, that tricked me into sending 16 invites to random people I have never met before. They had a list of potential connections, only one of which I wanted to make, so I took the time to uncheck all the other boxes beside strangers. When I hit their continue button, it told me I had sent 16 invitations ... apparently the list I had just seen was actually scrollable, but by design, it was very difficult to tell that there were 16 hidden users I had to scroll down to see. Very frustrating.
Showcase, discover, sell & buy side projects
This actually isn't a terrible idea. It's been a _long_ time since I've gamed on Linux, but I remember playing Tribes 2 in aeons past, and had to patch a decent chunk of the libraries in my distro to get it working. Using something like Docker/LXC to define the runtime environment of a game would probably help to make life a lot easier.
It would be interesting to hear first hand what your process looks like, and why you might find Linkedin to be a better fit as opposed to something like SO (which obviously I'm not sure you do).
Guys,

I would love your feedback on this product. This is the very first public release.

Any advise/feedback on the product will be appreciated
Off topic: How is it that such a rad concept never made it to P/M fit and is now a, albeit a highly analytical and well written, blog?
The ubuntu docs are pretty good: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html

And also the lxc-user mailing list is a great resource: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
Yes but big dumb money on average is smarter than small dumb money. Also I'm guessing in aggregate there is a lot more small dumb money. I find this scary.
No, not on screen clarity (though color accuracy competitiveness is still uncertain). I would personally prefer a 250+ DPI display. But retiring the abomination known as "1366x768" is long overdue. So as you say, the progression is definitely better.

All considered, I'd much prefer to sink R&D into a 250+ DPI large form-factor desktop display than cram even more pixels into my Surface. The monitors I stare at for hours on end each day are 3x 30" LCDs and their pixel density, and the resulting relative clarity (or lack thereof), leave a great deal to be desired.
That sounds really cool you should provide me (us) link.

For niche blogs that do well like yours;

What year did you start? How was growth? Posting frequency?

Thanks for any insights. I'm really curious because I'm slowly starting to realize I can maybe earn some beer money by being an active part of the community for a hobby of mine. Your case is a perfect example, as you do adsense, have a similar niche (newish tech) and seem like you started our of fun/love of your hobby. Cheers
Hmm, I suppose it depends on how you defined "urban," and the particular area (etc), but a quick google generates a lot of results that show the U.S. generally passing the 50%-urban threshold around 1910-1920...

E.g. the graph here seems typical: http://blogs.census.gov/2012/04/04/how-do-we-measure-urban-a...
I modified this to show the current song, and made it my screensaver with WebViewScreenSaver (https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver). Image: http://imgur.com/woYztL8
So wefunder is actually a new type of fund? Maybe an "on-demand fund?"
So long as this box will play hl2 engine games, most notably DOTA2 it's going to be fine. DOTA2 in 2014 is going to skyrocket it's going to be the next WOW and it will secure valves revenue. This box is really just gabe saying fuck you to Microsoft and Sony - let me keep my TV open!
Hiring: NSA Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer
I love the use of analogy to describe the situation to those who may not understand exactly what Weev did. But can we decide law simply on analogy? Which analogy is a more accurate tale of what Weev did? What I like about this article is it explains what Weev did and how incredibly common his techniques were, without too much analogy. Analogies may be much more effective, but a direct explanation feels a lot more genuine.
This is why we have managed hosting. You can pay someone else to do all that, on a real, physical server, on a network they manage, and have it still come out as much cheaper than AWS. Yes, the turnaround time might be more than 5 minutes. Or, depending on who you go to, it might be less.
Does anyone offer the equivalent of AWS Security Groups? Anyone offer free intrusion detection scanning? For me security groups is a killer feature.
I know people in their early 30's who shouldn't be considered adults. They're perpetual students, have never held a real job (meaning, one that would actually support their lifestyle), have rich parents who bail them out of everything. Basically, they are overgrown teenagers.
I hadn't thought about the indexing problem. So I moved all my pages to github.io, which google does index. Thanks.
"A wasted opportunity" - completely. I wasn't actually aware there was already a full ARM .net runtime, that just makes it even more stupid.

Remove that signature check and I would probably have brought an RT for every member of my family, confident that the apps would appear fairly quickly as they got ported to ARM.

As it is the RT is irrelevant with little prospect of the number of useful apps increasing, and the pro is too pricey to justify. I keep considering it, but always end up sticking with a laptop at half the price.

I say all this as a Microsoft fan in the main. The surface concept is so close to my ideal device. It's so so close to being exactly what I've been waiting for, but yet somehow manages to entirely miss the mark just through the presences of a little software lock.
I always get downvoted for saying stuff like this, but here it is: TouchID is not easy to hack at all. It isn't a hack at all. That's how the damn scanner works. You give an input and the scanner will verify. Just think about encryption which does not solve confidentiality, authenticity and integrity at once. The scanner itself was never meant to do all three things. Such article is misleading the average consumers.
Misses the part where University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and others have no-loan financial policies and need-blind admissions.
I think it's more like walking onto your neighbor's private land when they don't have fences or a "keep-out" sign, but also don't have any obvious sign allowing people in either. Still a crime, but not particularly severe or abhorrent; whether it merits serious punishment probably depends on particular details.
But thats contradictory. If internships are a form of charity, or public good, then companies shouldn't have to pay interns at all. Its ridiculous that interns get _paid_ $10 and provide almost nothing to the company in return.
Brendan Eich wrote javascript in about a week. Could you write javascript in 10 weeks?

Fabrice Bellard wrote (among many things) a linux emulator in javascript. (http://bellard.org/jslinux/)

I don't know how long it took him to write, but knowing he's also doing other things (http://bellard.org/) including FFMPEG, I don't think he spent his entire career on it.
It will have the kernel and should have the same glibc userspace. It might use Wayland rather than X.

The rest is irrelevant; if a game runs on the SteamOS, it will run on my Linux desktop.
Google software engineer here. These gripes are legitimate. We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can't do that, we're letting you down.

But I would beg for a bit more patience and understanding on this one point: it's not like we have one server that all our users connect to. When new features roll out, it's inevitable that some users will see the new features before others do. Also, there are often complex legal issues affecting how products are released in different countries. Okay, that's two points. :-)
Great feedback, and agreed on both fronts! I added Redis to the mix because it has support for a really nice rate limiter pattern that's simple to implement, but its probably overkill for what people want when they deploy locally for experimentation or to contribute to ConcussionJS. I should probably have a production fork of concussionjs-proxy for the short term with the rate limiter, and a master fork built exclusively on mongo.

RE the built in dependencies to the $HOME directory, I agree that it's a weakness of the install scripts. I'll add this as an issue at https://github.com/concussionjs/concussionjs-core/issues.

BTW, there is a command-line tool that I've yet to document that you might find handy. It supports:

$ cjs app --create YOUR_APP_NAME
$ cjs app --start YOUR_APP_NAME
$ cjs app --stop YOUR_APP_NAME
$ cjs app --restart YOUR_APP_NAME

You can see the documentation by typing: $ cjs

--create also supports a --template argument (e.g., cjs app --create YOUR_APP_NAME --template YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME) which copies the contents of the specified folder with the matching name in concussionjs-core/app_template.

Behind the scenes the command line uses a cool util called mon (https://github.com/visionmedia/mon), a super lightweight version of Monit, to keep the nodejs process running for the app specified (e.g., monitoring the process and restarting as necessary).
Here's a question, based on an experience. Two scenarios:

A) A company posts fake reviews about itself, through whatever means. Consumers get a false representation of the business. The company and its associates are the bad guys, Yelp is the good guy.

B) Yelp's filters hide most positive reviews about a company, leaving only negative reviews. All reviews are legitimate. Consumers get an equally false impression of the business. Yelp is the bad guy.

Why is A) illegal and deserving of state interference, but B) is totally legal and continues today?
i am pondering opening linkedin account. the idea of networking and possible job prospects are intriguing, but displaying my profile publicly creeps me out. also it seems better fitted for people with a straight career path. when applying for jobs i tend to target job postings with each resume, not sure how would that work with linkedin.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment.

I should have said more about the context in which I'm an advocate for pure capitalism.

Specifically, I'm assuming a context where a strong government is genuinely effective in protecting the rights of individuals. Like you, I reject the idea that might, or wealth, ever makes right.

In my view, abolishing slavery was an example of the government ultimately acting as it should act, as a protector of the rights of individuals.

We might have different definitions of cronyism. I'm most concerned with people in positions of power buying government officials who will ultimately write laws that restrict my freedom of choice. I am not overly concerned about corporations colluding in one way or another, as long as they cannot initiate force or fraud. Again, a strong government that succeeds in protecting individual rights seems critical here.
NirCmd - Windows command line tool for useful stuff
According to The Verge, SteamOS will boot straight into Steam with Big Picture mode, and you wont see linux at all "unless you want to" [1]. So... for whatever that's worth.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/6/3958162/valve-steam-box-cak...
Apple Gives Security The Finger

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/security-the-finger/652da9...
BBC + Quora, Announces New Content Partnership
would like to find out more
Apple Gives Security The Finger, by David Sirota

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/security-the-finger/652da9...
Any article that takes a body of peer reviewed scientific research, points out some procedural problems, and then--without any supporting evidence--claims that their competing perspective is correct is bullshit. Scientific claims demand scientific refutals, not the agglomerated opinions of the twitter-sphere. This is exactly the same tactic used by climate deniers.
There's a great big whopping difference between when your consultant says "change what's written on that board in the background" and "change the whole plot of the episode, that's not how the world works".

I'm sure he told them, I'm sure they know; but the whole plot turned on it.

Sometimes when you realize that superman flying around in space is impossible from a thermodynamic perspective no matter how "super" he is, you just gotta shrug and say "dude, he's superman".
"Don’t be too well known outside the field." reminds me of Dr. Michio Kaku (he's actually our professor at CCNY). I suppose he did a lot of great work in the past. He was with CCNY since (I think?) late 80s... there are always exceptions.
"nor does it take into account that the fact we can't afford so many Historians is directly because each generation since the boomers is experiencing a worse standard of living than their parents."

(Just ignoring the dubious nature of the assertion about declining standard of living, particularly for people other than white males...)

Alternatively it is because all the Baby Boomers are sending all of their kids off to college, pushing it as the only legitimate career path, reducing the relative value of merely having a college degree, and ultimately forcing kids to specialize something actually useful to remain competitive. Improved standards of living (in this case, near universal access to universities) is to blame, but who can really fault an improved standard of living?

If you only have a few lucky people going to college, then a classical or "liberal arts" education is worth something. If these sorts of educations are a dime a dozen, then you need a more specialized degree to compete. A specialized degree in something relevant to whatever you are competing for. It turns out that a history degree isn't something that is valued in that sort of system.

tl;dr: More kids go to college -> Each kid in college has more people to compete with -> More kids focus on classes that will help them compete -> Fewer kids load up on History classes -> Fewer history professors are needed.
I suspect many others feel the same way.. I'll add this as an issue on https://github.com/concussionjs/concussionjs-core/issues
It's worth reading the criminal complaint and indictment (https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-auernheimer) to get some background. In particular: the discussions of using the email addresses for a phishing scheme, using them for spam, shorting AT&T stock and profiting off the data release, setting up WiFi routers so they can blame it on a third party, discussing how this was a federal crime, and how to spin themselves as a legitimate security organization. These things make it really hard to view weev as a genuine security researcher who was prosecuted for no good reason.
If you want to play any non-linux games, you have to have a capable-enough PC to stream the games from, it sounds like. But other than that, yeah.
its like walking into someone's home, that had signs up over a bunch of open doors along a wall saying 'come in, all visitors welcome'.
After wandering around a bit, you notice another door in the same wall has been left open, but there is no sign.
Curious - you look in.

BANG. Jail Time.
> Start by removing the artificial restriction on desktop apps.

I would say the desktop is the biggest problem with Surface RT. It's clear they wanted an iPad, but ended up tacking on the desktop because Windows 8 couldn't operate in Metro-only mode (some settings, etc not available) and Office wasn't ready.

Fix that. Drop the desktop so there is no more confusion on the RT. You want the desktop? You want the pro. You want simple, reliable, easy to use? You want the RT. You had the vision, you knew what you were going for, complete it. I think the market might reward you. Either way at least you don't have the desktop sitting around reminding your users they bought a 'fake' computer.

I'll also say that making the RT tablet a different color is a serious plus. The fact that Microsoft was selling two totally different tablets aimed at different markets with different price points using the same name, marketing, and look was crazy. If customers can't tell which product is which, how you do expect them to choose?
There's a huge gap between unpopular speech and harassment, which is illegal, and in many cases criminal. I agree he should not be in jail for the crime he was convicted of, but he almost certainly deserves to be there otherwise.
Woah, I am still against his prosecution but I don't really feel sorry for him now. Some people are just sick, why would he do that to a person for no reason?

FTA: "His rise as a folk hero is a sign of how desensitized to the abuse of women online people have become," Sierra said. "I get so angry at the tech press, the way they try to spin him as a trickster, a prankster. It’s like they feel they have to at least say he’s a jerk. Openly admitting you enjoy ‘ruining lives for lulz’ is way past being a ‘jerk’. And it wasn’t just my life. He included my kids in his work. I think he does belong in prison for crimes he has committed, but what he’s in for now is not one of those crimes. I hate supporting the Free Weev movement, but I do."

She is so much better person than I am.