skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that people are "over" them, it's just that we already know.

Everything you do online, on your phone, with your credit card, etc. is [possibly] being stored and analyzed.

The shock has warn off when we hear more.
Processing 6 billion records in 4 seconds on a home PC
To be fair it's never really clear what is cause and what is effect with gun laws in the USA -- places with high crime of certain kinds (urban/black, with liberal or anti-gun politicians) tend to go for anti-gun laws. Places with low crime and lots of anti-gun people also go for anti-gun laws. Places with high crime and a more pro-gun culture resist those laws. It's hard to say passing a law pro or anti gun changes crime; you'd really need something equivalent to a "twin study" in bio, where two otherwise-identical cities at the same time pass different laws.
While I agree with the people here saying that many apps are "worthless" due to the sheer number of free apps available, I can't help but compare this issue to starting a business (likely because that's what many app developers are trying to do). Most startups fail. That's just the way it goes. Starting and running a successful business requires success in a lot of areas: product dev, design, marketing, customer service, etc. I think the claim that apps are worth less than a cup of coffee is a bit narrow-minded. If you look at the (huge) number businesses that have incorporated over the last several years, and then compare that to the number of those same businesses that are currently "successful", those numbers will likely look a lot like the number of "successful" apps vs total apps. It's hard to create something that people love, whether that be a physical product or an app. I think there's still a market for well-designed, useful, paid apps. Just like it's still possible for a startup to be successful. It's just really damned difficult.
Take a look the portrait paintings here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_painting

Barely any smiles either. And paintings don't have the long exposure time of photographs. Sure, you would have to pose for an extended amount of time, but a talented painter could apply any facial expression he chooses from a quick sketch.
I think the key here is not to try to aim for anything like full coverage with capybara, just enough to be effective. Martin Fowler has some words on this here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html
er, isn't it good data guys who are creating the technology responsible for these abuses?
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. He had nothing but dismissive comments about the language. There was nothing to learn or ask questions about. it only finally slipped out of him almost by accident what he was actually trying to get at, and even that isn't much of a relevant point.

I don't buy your depiction of events at all.
Two ubiquitous technologies most techies know nothing about
The whole problem comes from Apple not allowing trial apps.

I agree with your analysis, but this one line seems flawed.

The customer looks at app purchases like a game-theory person might look at the prisoner's dilemma mixed with 3 card monty. When faced with this type of "brain damage" most potential consumers, shut down. That is, the market fails.

Apple is trying to protect the consumer, so that people don't just walk away. The search, selection, and evaluation costs of something that is modest in value by order of magnitude (say 5x$1.00=$5 or 30 minutes at min wage) are so un-economic they are not worth it.

The problem with trials is time-wasting. Apple is worried about the funnel. Ie, that to trial for 10 will people who download 100 aps and spend ~50 hours in seach costs. and 9/10 apps will be worthless, a wast of 45 hours. No consumer is willing to pay 45 hours of time (~$450 @10/hour) for a $1 dollar app x 10. Even at 10x this is worth $100. It is still an oder of magnitude off. $1000 value would be a 2x return on investment. Unless your time is worth $20/hr, and then it is still a waste/neutral at best.
Exactly. "Yeah, we designed something, just trust us and hand over all your data". They don't have to make it free, just open the source!
Luckily for me I have more than enough of that by the end of day nothing is going to stop me ;).

I take the 100mg dose.
Am I the only one who sees this and thinks, "Why are international borders so important on the Internet?" Maybe we need to be thinking in terms of protocols and designs that do not allow the government to violate privacy rights regardless of where particular computers happen to be located...
> A very close friend died. I knew she died, she died while she was on the phone to me. I had my cell phone (to her) in one hand and my landline (to the police) in the other. They were saying "ask her about landmarks! Ask her for her address!" and she was saying "oh ho ho! You won't get it out of me that easily".

As someone who has been in the same situation (though in my case my friend survived), I am very sorry for your loss. I still have nightmares sometimes about that experience - hearing the authorities bark orders into the phone on one end, hearing her scream at me, calling me a "traitor" when she realized I'd divulged her plans that she told me in confidence[0]. I even remember the exact song that I had been playing in the background (to give background noise, so she wouldn't realize I was on the other line) - I haven't been able to listen to it since.

Back to the topic, though: I'm in the opposite situation. This former friend and I haven't spoken in many years (for unrelated reasons), and it would cause a lot of problems in our social networks if we reconnected. Still, every now and then (perhaps once a year or so), I am reminded of her and have the inclination to check in on her. We're not Facebook friends, but thanks to Twitter, her public blog, etc., it's easy for me to see that she's alive and well[1].

I'm not sure how I would react if I checked one day and found that she had passed on, whether by taking her own life[2], or from "natural" reasons. It would certainly be very difficult emotionally to handle seeing remnants of her life all across the Internet, almost all of which have been generated after the last time we spoke in person.

[0] I pride myself on my integrity in general, but I don't regret my actions here. (She apologized later, for what it's worth).

[1] for some definition of "well".

[2] given the aforementioned history, there is a non-zero chance of this
Yes, but you don't run those all the time. It's the unit tests that have to be fast, and if they aren't, that's a problem.
Development is actually going fairly well. It's just that there's a whole bunch of changes that haven't been pulled to the main repository, but there's definite progress with streaming media and other aspects.
We also receive a phenomenal amount of noise due to browser extensions and so on. Switching to HTTPS helped, and so has filtering out errors from scripts on domains we don't expect (i.e. not our main domain or CDN's domain).

We also flag when we've received an error and silence reporting future errors until the page reloads, to avoid being overwhelmed.

I wish the tooling around this was better. Logging errors into an offline data store sounds sensible, and maybe something we should look at.
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> why not describe it as "artisanal"?

Because that's misleading, making you think a person was more involved in the creation of the bun than merely a machine operator pouring powder and water in one end and cranking buns out the other.
AFAIK every successful IM platform out there is successful because of this effect. Users push their peers to adopt the new IM because without their friends it's not very useful to them.

Of course there should be a good reason for the "seed" users to get on the new platform in the first place.
As you point out, having panic over getting no sleep is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So give yourself permission to not sleep. If your brain thinks that staying awake and thinking-through problems is more important than sleep, that's ok. Let it happen.
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It's sort of a deterrent from "herd immunity", but it's mainly so that if a crime escalates from property crime, you can defend yourself. I'd toss my wallet/cash/etc. in one direction and move to cover/flee/draw, depending on the circumstance. I'm fine with losing whatever cash/credit cards/etc.; I'm not fine with being under the control of an attacker and potentially moved elsewhere, taken to an ATM, kidnapped, shot, etc.

The bad thing about CCW is it turns any assault into a likely-to-end-in-someone-shot situation; if you're carrying and potentially will be knocked unconscious in an assault, or are being grappled, the attacker may grab your gun and shoot you; your correct course of action is to shoot him first.
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Part of me thinks that it's obvious that high-end bikes need a GPS-enabled anti-theft system, and is flabbergasted that there are still barely any options for that. (The only one I'd buy is Helios, but it requires new handlebars that wouldn't fit my bike.) That said, I've also wondered about the efficacy of such a system. If the bike was still moving, you'd have a decent chance of finding it, but if it was stashed in somebody's apartment waiting to be sold, how would you know where, precisely, to find it? It's a hard problem, especially considering housing is probably pretty dense in the places most thieves live.

Maybe a camera and/or an alarm would be helpful, but good thieves would learn where the cameras are and to cover them up. An alarm would give itself away before you'd have a chance to find it, and would probably entice the thief to destroy your bike. Maybe there's a way to echolocate the bike, using a frequency outside the range of human hearing:

- The owner goes to the rough location of the stolen item, as determined by GPS.

- The owner sends a signal to the anti-theft inside the stolen item to start emitting a signal that the thief can't hear.

- Using his phone (and maybe a friend's to aid in triangulation), the owner deduces where the signal is coming from, and is better able to recover his item.

The problem with bolt-on antitheft (like the BikeSpike) is that once thieves realize what a GPS beacon looks like, they'll destroy it ASAP after stealing the bike. Therefore, options like Helios where the GPS is hidden in the bicycle itself are the much preferred option, but even then, the thief can hide the stolen goods in a basement or a Faraday cage where any signals the device emits can't reach the outside world.

The more I think about this, the more I realize that if your bike is stolen, you are basically screwed.
We have already seen a much greater abuse of this data: cooperation between the NSA and law enforcement agencies, along with a conspiracy to lie to judges, defense attorneys, and even prosecutors about how evidence was collected. If this were limited to spying on former love interests, it would be creepy; "parallel construction" is dangerous.
I live in Northwest oakland (near san pablo and stanford/powell) and the amount of robberies/burglaries that have happened in the greater neighborhood is kind of crazy. It's rarely more than a couple of days between reports of a break in on our Nextdoor neighborhood group. It's quite shocking how frequent the crimes are.

What seems to be happening is what seems like a standard burglary scenario. Someone walks around the neighborhoods checking out places, identifies a few and candidates and takes a closer look, and then the burglary happens. The officer in the article caught a couple of people in the act after being notified about a casing incident, which is great, but it's a drop in the bucket.
This post seems very relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

Basically people with money don't become poor through extravagant spending. Most of the time it's through "investments" that turn out to be bad investments.
Words affect people deeply, but they don't affect everyone the same. Some people, myself included, hear certain words like this, and get an emotionally strong negative "that's bullshit, you added that word to manipulate me, and now I like you and your product less for it" reaction. For me it hits really hard when I see people use the word "beautiful" to describe a programming tool or API: some people eat that term up, nearly looking for it as a defining characteristic, whereas when I see it I generally no longer trust anything else you have to say about your product. If the target market for your product includes a lot of people who know they are being pandered to and generally dislike it, you have to be really careful to actively avoid these kinds of words.

I'd therefore feel a better statement to make (than waxing poetically about words like "artisanal", which I know turned off budget-conscious friends of mine as "probably too rich for my blood" despite meaning little in and of itself, due to associated genre effects) is more "don't underestimate the power of a wording change: test different adjectives and see what resonates best with your audience, whether via live A/B testing or using focus groups, and be prepared for the idea that you may have to split your message and target different sub-groups separately, potentially even splitting your brand entirely (something we tend to not see software companies do much, even though old school product companies like detergent or cereal do it constantly)".
I realize he wasn't an analyst. But his motivation for leaking the information that he did, was (granted according to his own testimony) because the agency was violating the civil rights of people it was supposed to be protecting.

I have watched large organizations attempt to re-cast the narrative about a series of events as being 'caused' by a rogue employee, without acknowledging the motivations of that employee.
I wrote this blog piece back in in 2006 when the social media trend was just starting to emerge about what to with the social profiles of the deceased. As well with my own experiences as a software designer.

What happens when your user is dead? are the kinds of special use cases we often fail to consider when rushing out the minimum viable product.

http://www.thomaspurves.com/2006/05/10/the-dead-sender-probl...
Unless you're planning on selling coupons in Japan for a startup that I worked with three years ago, then hell no. It should be designed like Instapaper.
This is unrealistic. Most sites I visit by following links without knowing in advance what their ads are like.
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I read the article and rejected its assertions as speculative horseshit, yes. What of it? The original document cites a figure (1862 petabytes) and two percentages (1.6% and 0.00004%) of that figure. The math is not hard.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467379

Other posts:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Atessel...
One thing might be fun to make (a little beyond me at the moment) is an app where you upload some Rspec (or other testing solution) test that will run every X hours, and you CANNOT shut it off. If the test fails it sends to your mobile phone and email address the test results. The only way to get the messaging to stop is to get the test to pass.

Thoughts?
I reject calling it metadata. It's actual data.
How long does it take to build an app vs brew a cup of coffee?
To be fair: charging for peer-to-peer software that is freely redistributable doesn't work as a business model. You make money in open source by selling related services (e.g. github, Android) or support (Red Hat). You can't do it by licensing the product.

That doesn't invalidate the point above though that in the modern world a tool like this can only be considered "secure" if the implementation(s) are completely open. It's just a poor product decision on the part of BitTorrent.
My greatest tech failure is building a distributed peer to peer product recommendation system. Basically bloggers you put a text box in their blogs, letting anyone ask them questions on which products to buy, and bloggers would answer them. It made $0.00.

After a year and a half I pivoted it to a content farm. Now it's making $300/month :)

After a year and a half, I pivoted to a content farm.
This article gave me a necessary adrenaline rush. I live in Oakland and was mugged a year or so by a group of young kids walking through my neighborhood. They stole my phone and made a bunch of phone calls. I traced the phone calls back to individuals who no doubt knew the perpetrators and compiled a spreadsheet that I sent to the Oakland Police Department. They never called me back.

In the small apartment complex where I live, at least three other people were mugged at some point.
This shows how complicated people can be... From an outsiders view (obviously influenced by the media) it does seem like he sold the stock to keep his personal fortune as the company went down the tubes. But yet he's the only major executive to stand up to the government's spying. (Granted this was on the advice of his lawyers) Sometimes we find heroes in the strangest of places.

I would like to see an investigative journalist dig into the record to see if he truly was guilty of insider trading. It certainly looks bad from the outside.
I had a friend die and I didn't find out for about 400 days. I was very upset, though I only knew this man via the internet...but we had been close friends for nearly a decade before having a falling out.

He had cystic fibrosis and went from perfectly healthy to dead in about four days.

His father and friends have taken up his various online presences--facebook, website, twitter. It's a neat little community that formed around him, even in his absence.
> There are very few which are free and very useful and just, apparently, made out of good will/for the fun of it.

You're not going to find any on a pay-to-play platform like iOS. Try Android, where there is no entry barrier and there are tons of useful free apps, such as Terminal IDE and Gidder.
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Correct. Those should be simply referred as "records of who electronically contacted whom and what, including when and how." Then it doesn't sound so unimportant.

"Metadata" is a real-life Newspeak word, just like Orwell writes, chosen so that "a thought diverging should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
Plus Disconnect.me is FOSS and (at least when I switched) blocks more than Ghostery.
My Grandma is still in my phone for that reason. I also couldn't wipe her laptop, so I just pulled the drive and replaced it. It's weird, the things that make death real.
I'm not sure I follow. What exactly would TDD advocates disagree on?
I must say, I have very limited knowledge on encryption, but, can't an observer possibly encrypt many possible and likely short messages (like, "hey!" or "lol") with the public keys of some users of value and sniff the network for matches? I mean it would take a while, maybe a week, to get some results but hey, I think it's a possibility.
I'm always cautious around claims of ADHD. My experiences have been that attention span works largely like muscle. If you practice focus and force yourself to get better at it, you notice improvements over time.

It has also been my observation that you can grow a tolerance to and dependence on ADHD medicine.

I support the author's goal of finding some other solution that motivates him to practice his focus.
Ive's comment about plastic reminded me of a conversation I had once with an architect. He said that one of his dreams was to have a client who wanted him to do an vinyl siding house. He normally did things in very tasteful wood. However, he wanted the chance to explore the possibilities of what you could do with vinyl.
It's always the job of the writer to make himself understood. If the writer chooses to use words that alienate his readers, such that they refuse to listen to any of his ideas, it's his failure, not theirs. This world is not populated with vulcans ("thought process failure"?) and logic alone will not carry the day.

That said, you have every right to write what you want to.

Best of luck.
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Does anyone else clearly see a cheeky smile on lincoln's face in 3/4 of those photos?
This is why Facebook/Social networks cannot replace real life interactions. Maybe they weren't as close of a friend as you thought? If you don't hear from someone for two years and never make a phone call to reach out/or spend them with them, it sounds like they were more of an acquaintance than a real friend. I quit facebook back in April, and I can say that my friendships with true friends have been getting stronger ever since.

passive relationships are not genuine.
My in-laws are definitely not American (they're East Asian) and grew up as young children at the tail end of a rather serious war which killed several million.

My Father-in-law is quite genial and smiles quite often in person, never in a photo. My mother-in-law usually doesn't smile in photos either (despite being an incredibly warm person who smiles and laughs quite a bit), but she smiles enough that there's a photographic record of her smiling exists.

But, I've never taken a photo of my father-in-law or even seen one where he is smiling. In family portraits everybody has a nice warm smile, except for him. He looks like he's attending a funeral.

It's funny because the photos of my mother-in-law, the ones where she's smiling, seem to capture her personality much better than the ones where she is not. And you'd never guess at the personality of my father-in-law from a photo at all.

About 2/3s of people of my wife's generation generally smiles. And pretty much 100% of the next generation smiles.
I've met a lot of people from a lot of different cultures, and all of them tend to smile in photographs. Can you list a few where smiling in photos is odd?
And explanation for X is not a justification of X, it is simply pointing out a cause.