skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That incident was a Jimbo Classic. First, he clearly asks other users to feed him any information they have about Snowden editing Wikipedia. Then, he's told that could be a violation of Wikipedia's long-standing policies against "outing" users who haven't self-identified. Then, the back-pedaling begins. Ultimately, Jimbo ends up at this fake position that he "strongly" supports Snowden's privacy, and how Wales was asking "only" for publicly-acknowledged information, etc. Jimmy Wales must wake up each day and ask, "What shall I lie about today?"
'Sufficiently' is meaningless without a qualifier. Sufficiently for what purpose?

There is a value proposition involved - you can run your own source code hosting and anything else, but it costs money and time to do it. Especially if you need six nines of uptime.
Very cool idea Mert! I purchased without hesitating. Would you consider adding Instapaper integration for save list?
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Oh awesome! Are you just wrapping the mobile site and utilizing iOS APIs or are you doing anything more? with this version?
It may be this one you're talking about:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/07/a-very-special-episode-tv-t...
Someone make exactly the same, for android.
San Francisco, New York, Boston, Seattle, maybe Chicago. This list is not exhaustive.
Just curious about how you'd validate the hash thing, especially with the rise in single-page apps with routing information in the fragment.
KPCB launches Engineering and new Product Fellows Program
Show HN: CodeBot (Terminal Interface for Project Euler)
I just downloaded it, I really like the look and feel. Please add a search feature as well and you have the perfect HN reader ;-)
Facebook Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices
Videos from Privacy & Surveillance Congress: Appelbaum, Schneier, Binney et al.
Google Is Abusing Its Monopoly Power
I remember Dasher. It's amazing the first few times you try it. I wish I could use it on my phone.

Edit: apparently they have an Android version now.
StudentIDeals, new Eagle Rock StartUp Needs Developer
Seeking an experienced web developer to help us with the national launch of studentideals.com). As the name says, we are a service targeted to students that highlights merchants offering student discounts around college campuses. ShopKick + Foursquare + Waze aimed at students.

We are based in Eagle Rock, and started pilots last month. Our co-founders are Patrick Fish, a student at Occidental College, Ed Fish, who was an SVP at AOL and previously ran AOL instant messenger & ICQ, and Jay Budzik, CS PhD from Northwestern and formerly CTO at Perfect Market (an Idealab company).

If you have an entrepreneurial streak this is a great opportunity!

You should be fluent in php, python, and familiar with one or more of MySQL, HTML, CSS and jQuery. It's preferable to have experience with Ruby on Rails (or a similar web framework). Objective C/ iOS development a plus.

Look forward to hearing from you! email at patrick@studentideals.com
Shameless plug XD

My app MiniHack dose all.

Nested comments, collapsible comment thread, login to upvote, reply to comment, one tap to open story or comments. Share to Pocket, Instapaper, Pinboard, Evernote, etc.
Search hacker news, view the best of pages, ask, new, jobs. Instapaper and Readability mobilizer support, and more.

And I am working on the new iOS 7 update right now, including UI redesign, a new slick dark theme, better sharing (pinboard tags, evernote auto complete), and more.

https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...
Nice! What data source are you guys using for song years?
> Tell lots of people

Sure, that works for making websites. In fact, I'd argue that website-building is one of the most easily-publicizable things on the Internet, which is mostly composed of websites.

But what about niche things? I'd greatly enjoy "180 traditional Scottish dance tunes in 180 days", but there's not an HN-ish outlet for that. I'd also enjoy "180 reflections on philosophical readings from the Enlightenment in 180 days", but any philosophers I have easy access to aren't going to be interested—they're beyond that. Similarly for topics I don't actually care about. 180 new meals? Only a few people can eat them. 180 poems? Deliver us.

Dewalt's feat became famous for two reasons: a) It's a common task done in an uncommon way (everyone knows what website-building is, very few think it's reasonable to pop one out every day for six months) and b) The demographic who would be most supportive of it is very easily-accessible in large numbers.
Major props goes out to Jennifer. I agree. The best way to learn is to JFDI. Good stuff!
I don't disagree with this sentiment, but I don't think it is correct to say that Mechanical Turk itself is abusive. Mechanical Turk certainly CAN be abused, but it also CAN be used ethically. For example, we regularly use MT to complete tasks that pay workers effective hourly wages in the range of $8-20 per hour, and I know several other requesters who pay similarly.

It is probably most accurate to say that the lack of worker safeguards on MT attracts many users who pay rates that are (IMHO correctly) classified as abusive. Part of the issue with MT is that traditional worker protections like a minimum wage no longer make sense when you have compensation that is paid on a per-task rather than per-hour basis. Under a per-task compensatory system, faster workers will always earn more money (on an hourly basis) than slower workers. For the tasks we do, it is not uncommon for subsets of workers to earn effective hourly rates almost three times as high as others. In many ways this is good - incenting workers to spend their time on tasks that they can complete most effeciently (and away from tasks that they are less suited for) helps promote the most efficient allocation of labor resources.

But how do you ensure that all workers will always be treated fairly when a minimum wage no longer makes sense? What do you replace it with? Its not clear that there is a simple replacement that works in the micro-tasking context.

Our platform (http://houdiniapp.com) helps businesses complete projects on MTurk. One of the things we realized is that many requesters pay low wages simply because they are really bad at estimating how long tasks actually take to complete. We’ve been able to solve this (somewhat) by providing tools that provide real-time feedback on average completion times in order to provide direct visibility into real hourly wages. However we allow users to set their own compensation and some users still end up paying effective wages in the $2-3 (which we do not encourage, but don't have any simple way to prevent).
Mozilla Summit 2013
I've been using 1Password for a couple of years.

I will probably switch soon given the current state of their Android app, but maybe this OSX update is a hint at a visual refresh for all of their products?
I have been using the beta since they started. This is good upgrade that brings a much more polished UI from 1password 3.

The auto-fill functionality seems greatly improved: there are many JS based lightbox or hidden-until-you-click logins that 1pass3 couldnt autofill. 1pass4 just works.
Just make sure you don't live in those cities proper :P
> How is that not a blank check to the medical industry ?

For one thing, because 100% coverage for medically-necessary care doesn't mean that everything that the provider would like to get paid for is medically necessary, and insurance companies are very enthusiastic (to say the least) about pursuing and denying and even clawing-back-payments-after-the-fact for unnecessary charges, even when they are only on the hook for some portion less than 100%; with 100% coverage, they are 100% motivated.
Thanks for buying the app! We've got Instapaper support planned and hopefully coming soon!
Thanks man! Really appreciate the feedback :) Glad you're digging it!
I just love http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on the iPhone.
Interesting that the Haskell version is the most concise and also has as much or more typing than the rest!
Certain patterns would certainly not be able to be checked; most notably, any #! links would be blacklisted from checking. It'll be a learning process, improved over time. Hopefully it'll get to the stage where adding machine learning to it will be worth the effort. But for the rest of cases, it's quite straightforward: for any hash, check that an element of that ID exists in the document. Certainly there will be false errors reported with this, but there will be a very significant number of genuine problems found by it.
Exactly. The NSA is allowed to listen in when traffic is unencrypted because there is inherently no expectation of privacy in unencrypted traffic. The FBI has probable cause to receive all keys to everyone's encrypted traffic because you're obviously hiding something criminal.

The question I'd love to ask the heads of these various agencies. In what circumstance does the 4th amendment apply? Seems like we always ask 'is this current procedure justified' with some inevitable pretext found.
The IRS is Shut-Down With Only a 5-Day Plan - We're On Day 3
No government has an infinite amount of cash and there are better things (NHS, Infrastructure, Sovereign Wealth funds) to spend it on rather than a vast tax break for high net worth individuals.
Last one reminded me how awful JS is once again. There are 5 different ways to check if an object is an array, some are implementation dependent, and the obvious one doesn't work (typeof x == "array").
All of those places have prohibitively high cost of living to make saving six months of salary very much not trivial. It's possible, but it isn't anywhere close to trivial.
A good start with lots of promise. I hope this eventually ends up with a full faceted filter system so I can dive down on any category in any order and combination I want and have it offer me a couple options.
I was under the (perhaps false) impression that living costs were so much higher in these places as to make saving just as tough as working anywhere else on a lower salary?

If I'm wrong about that I really need to go get an American Visa from somewhere...
You can do it there too. I'd guess the average entry-level programmer in SF makes 80k a year. 2000/mo on rent (which is honestly a pretty nice place if you're sharing) leaves you with 20k to play with while still saving netting about 20k after taxes.

Of course, if you live in the valley, you could save more, but the point is to illustrate that many (single, no dependents) tech workers can live in SF and still save.
I too have went a similar journey - I went from my first programming job as a junior frontend dev to senior frontend dev (with full stack capabilities) in ~10 months. I'm pretty happy to see that someone else has taken the initiative to learn & grow.

Does it matter that she had help? No, the end goal is what matters. Some public acknowledgement would probably be good as a thanks to those who have helped her, but I don't view it as a huge deal - that is between her and them, and they are probably savvy enough to come forward if they want to.
Handing someone a hard drive does not allow them to monitor continuing activity.
What keeps people from entering someone else's number here?
The last one was used and I've taken the second to last. Thanks!

You wouldn't have got me otherwise - I'll be honest, my thought pattern lies in the _davidsmith camp, and when I saw your app was £1.49 (more than £0), I moved my attention on.
Interesting way of doing use of the knowledge about cognitive dissonance. Ill reserve my spot and check if op is full of fluffy or not.

If it leads to at least one good insight, the money will pay itself many times over.
She is dating Aaron O'Connell, one of the technical co-founders of 42Floors. So, she may have been fortunate enough to have someone coach her along the way and unblock her when needed. Irrespective of that, I still think this is an impressive accomplishment in its own right. How many seasoned developers do we know that can execute at this pace for so long?
Excellent post. Really loved the last line-

"This includes, of course, a check for the researchers at High-Tech Bridge who didn’t like my t-shirt."
There's definite and obvious demand for making the car shopping (and purchasing, especially) experience less painful. It's a sad state of affairs when getting a loan was the easiest part of the experience.

I don't think you've fully decided on the problem you're trying to solve though. Is it comparing my new car options across manufacturers? What are the key deciding factors for someone getting a new car? Who are your customers? Who _aren't_ your customers?

At this point, what you've built is providing no insight into any of those questions for you, except that what you've got so far is not the product for the HN market. :)

I'd focus on those before going further down this road, but that's just one man's unsolicited opinion. I am fairly involved in the automotive industry, however, so I've got some insight.
Israeli Health Ministry issues nutritional advice for vegetarian, vegan babies
Speaking of beagleboard -- why does beagleboard have a banner saying:

(image of beagle) + arduino = (image of new arduino board)
Nothing apparently, I put my moms phone number in set at 4:20 PM. I'm so edgy.
Public service announcement - now updated for iOS 7! I stopped using it when I upgraded (moved to hn.premii.com) as it felt... "jarring".
this reminds me of a quote attributed to Henry Ford: "Men become successful in the time other men wittle away."
I'm guessing there might be advertising along with your call.

"Good morning! And be sure to check out new McDonald's value meal..."
It will, thanks!
Decent description in the readme, but could not find the part that explains "what does this buy me?"

Finally, it came down to:

"This gives the applications the impression of running exclusively on a machine."

OK but as an outsider that still doesn't tell me what it buys me (or what it buys you, or Google).

(By outsider, I mean I have reasonable ability to administer my own Linux system, but wouldn't trust myself to do so in a production environment... so I'm not up on the latest practices in system administration or especially Google-scale system administration.)

Setting aside whether I need it (I'm pretty sure I don't, so no need to tell me that) I'm really curious what this is good for. Can someone explain it in more lay person's terms? Sounds like applications can still stomp on each others files, and consume memory that then takes away from what's available for other applications, so what is the benefit?

I'm not questioning that there's a benefit, just wondering what it is, and how this is used.
Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.
Amazon smartphone 3D UI with Kinect like gestures detailed in patent apps
It's crowdsourced by our users, and vetted/edited by our moderators (also part of the community).
Kind of an obnoxious popup. Close button said "No thanks, I don't want to grow my business".
My karma level has no relation to his behavior. And Spongle, if you really aren't new to HN, then you should know which types of comments are useful and informative and which ones are not.
Nice! Can you change the name as it appears on the home screen too? It's currently "hackerNews4"
The government doesn't have to consider it a currency if they consider it an asset.
Also, plains undergo near-constant diagnostics and preventative maintenance work.
Instead of sorting by name, you need to find a better way to order the cars in each category (and allow several sorts, price, mpg, popularity, etc)

There is very little value in showing me 300k Bentleys next to 30k BMWs. It makes navigating the site a real chore, unless I know exactly the model I'm looking for, but then why would I use showroom.is in the first place, right?
Taxpayer Subsidies Helped Tesla Motors, So Why Does Elon Musk Slam Them?
Blog posts about other blog posts. It's a pattern that many here seem to follow. It really makes you aware of the real ratios of content to fluff and creation to recycling in today's tech community.
Yeah this mysterious "typed haskell" thing seems to imply that the other version doesn't have types, while of course they are inferred.
So how about a DarcsHub?
mertdumenci: what's the typeface, and were you influenced in choosing it by anything (Vesper?)
> We will give "checksums" with our agents in our upcoming releases.

Checksums are useless if your install script is compromised, as well as if the server hosting the checksums is compromised. Signing everything while using an installer that verifies signatures (like yum, rpm and apt) is more secure, and just relies on you not losing control of your private key, instead of entire servers.

> Whenever you install SeaLion Agent, the most latest binary is installed. The agents in other servers are also updated, hence making them identical always.

Assuming your upgrade location is not compromised. Does your auto-updater check checksums or signatures, or does it rely on your servers always serving up the correct files? What if you push an auto-update that breaks servers?

curl -s https://agent.sealion.com | bash /dev/stdin $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

> SeaLion agents are released after rigorous testing, to ensure we do not leave any security holes and features

No offense, but when I'm responsible for what happens on multiple servers I would like to ensure that myself, by checking the tcp payloads, endpoints connected to, files opened, etc. I'm certainly not alone in this.

> SeaLion agent requires Internet access to send data to its server. Hence internet access is mandatory.

Sending data can be accomplished individual firewall rules to whitelisted IPs. s3 is too broad of a target to allow unlimited access to.

> SeaLion agent works fine with SELinux in enforcing mode without any specific configuration.

Great!

> sudo /usr/local/sealion-agent/uninstall.sh

Not the best, but it seems to be clean.
I know the cost of living at least in SF, and it is my contention that most entry level engineers should be able to save six months expenses per year trivially. Of course, if you eat out every night and blow all your money on booze, partying, and the most upscale apartment you can find, it would be harder. But a person who is making any real effort would not find it difficult.
When does the next post come out? I really enjoyed this one too http://www.groovehq.com/blog/death-of-the-mvp. Good stuff!
If Galileo is priced competitively to the BeagleBone we've got a whole new game on our hands.

Intel had released the Minnowboard (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/199-4-...) which seemed like a competitor to the Raspberry Pi, but at 200USD it wouldn't see nearly the uptake the more affordable systems have seen.

This reminds me of the Netbook arms race except the end product is infinitely more useful.
It seems the Galileo board controls GPIOs indirectly trough an I2C expander on a bus running @100kHz, so it'll be hard to do very precise control of the IOs even at the millisecond scale.
NASA's Futuristic Drone Research Lab
You're right, it could have been for any reason. Anyway, it didn't work at the time for me but now it does.
Sounds like you already have a job in development. I wouldn't worry too much if that's the case. :)
Instapaper would definitely be good
While I don't think you're trying to discredit her, I definitely think there was someone helping her and coaching her. I don't think that makes her effort any less important, but I think it'd make sense to at the very least acknowledge it.
If the OP started integrating more data sources for some of that information, things could get interesting: http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60times.ht...

The downside is whether or not the enthusiast market would really want something like this - I know that review after review told me the new CTS was whooping on the german sport sedans, but after actually test driving all of them, there was an obvious winner on feel alone. I used a ton of online comparison tools, read through dozens of reviews, and still wound up buying against all their advice.
Iran's Cyberwarfare Commander Assassinated
Love this. I had a similar idea a few months ago except I wanted to map the number of times certain popular phrases were mentioned in different rap songs. For example, how many rap songs have the lyric

"if it don't make dollars it don't make sense (or cents)"
I believe "Hard Real-Time Reference Counting without External Fragmentation" By T Ritzau[1] solves the problem of unbounded reference counting times.

[1]Google has pdf. BTW, how do i extract a long living pdf link from a google link ?
It's not so much entitlement as that there is a real and active marketplace for security vulnerabilities. If Yahoo isn't going to pay, someone else is going to pay for vulnerabilities and that would be a lot worse.
haha, we thought that was kind of funny actually :) all in good humour
In praise of micromanagement
Corporations and Regulators: The Game of Influence in Regulatory Capture
Pretty much everyone is guilty of using outside resources. She explains in her blog post that she used a lot of Google, SO, etc. Maybe she doesn't give exact citations for every piece of code she uses/takes inspiration from, but no one really does.

I don't think it's helpful to speculate as to whether she had someone in particular helping her throughout the lifetime of her project.

I suspect that if a similar project were done by a male, no one would question if it was a solo venture or not. I think the fact that Jennifer is a woman makes people suspicious enough to inspect the code and say things like, "it just seems like there was some outside help".

Maybe there was, maybe there wasn't. It's as disprovable as it would be if Jennifer was a man instead of a woman, yet only a woman would get called out on it.
Awesome, someone needs to make 180 Android apps within 180 days now. :)
I'd say the same for the 'government' here in the colonies, but it's not like they show up for work these days, anyway.
Advice for CS Students Considering a Startup
Another thing that is happening is that some insurers are realizing that the individual plans they offered prior to the ACA (which they have to do all the work of acquisition/marketing, and whose potential client pools are limited compared to exchange-listed plans because no one is eligible for a subsidy to purchase them) are no longer competitive in the marketplace given ACA exchanges where:
1) A substantial part of the cost of marketing is subsidized by the public who provides a discovery portal, and
2) Lots of potential clients will be eligible for premium subsidies.

The net effect is that exchange-listed plans -- because of the two forms of subsidy -- have lower per member acquisition costs than traditional individual plans, meaning that for any given premium level, they can provide more profit and/or more coverage. These plans can expect to lose lots of their existing customers to exchange plans in the short-term, and its not really worth the effort to replace them -- so, for the insurer, it makes sense (especially since if they are also offering exchange listed plans) to just cancel the no-longer-viable non-exchange individual plans rather than continue to bear the fixed overhead of operating them when their sales prospects aren't good.
To anyone looking for a summer internship in software engineering or design, I highly recommend applying to KPCB Fellows. The benefits are much more than what you would get at a standard internship.
The source he posted on Github calls it 'annotated'[1]. I'm guessing it was just a poor choice of word.

[1] https://github.com/logaan/typed-game-of-life/blob/master/src...
You think it's a massive jump? I'm pretty sure a novice programmer could go from one to the other spending a full day on it, especially with the help of SO or tutorials. 8 hours is a lot of time if you are focused.