skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember there was an article on HN not so long back about why poor people dont trust banks. Well, without bank accounts how do you process billions of dollars of micro-cash payments ?

Actually, this is the biggest reason for the build out of the Aadhaar project or the Indian biometric ID project. It is less for reasons of trying to track the common citizen (although I dont doubt for a moment, it will come to be used like that), but to ensure credible, direct debit of cash to the poor.
Less verbose syntax.
Show HN: My Sunday Morning Project Encrypts Plaintext On Your iPhone 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/text-locker/id706492969

This is my first iOS app. It only took me few hours to complete (and about an hour the next Sunday to fix 2 bugs).

My participation in some cryptography-related research this summer inspired me. After investigating options for ciphering text on iOS, I thought this App needs to exist.

The algorithm used is AES128+CBC mode followed by base64.
Until they get big enough to put them in. I've run through this cycle before with ISPs here in New Zealand - they're great while they're small, then once they hit a double digit percentage of the market, they shit all over you - raise fees, cut service centres (or outsource them), and add fixed term contracts and other bollocks.
Why not, indeed? Jon Carroll publishes an article in the SF Chronicle most Decembers asking his readers to do just that.

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-Untied-Way-e...
Does Ruby have traits ?

http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/LanguageAndLibraries/Tr...
> 2. You can trade on the information in the capital markets. The information was disclosed to you inadvertently.

Be careful of acting on that idea; just because something is morally reasonable doesn't make it legal. I heard of a case once where someone sold shares based on happening to see a factory on fire through an airplane window, and a court found it to be insider trading. Sure, maybe that case wasn't representative; I'm not a lawyer - but consult someone who is, before assuming that sort of thing is legal.
I had the impression that many Seaside projects got rewritten in something else after some time. Last time I checked the site and the success stories.
I like the interdisciplinary focus and the commitment to reading science at the source. It seems many people have lost touch with science because it is "too hard to understand," they will "feel stupid," or because science has become a closed community behind pay walls. It would really benefit everyone to have more scientific literacy.

I am striving for something similar with a club, the Academic Journal Club, at my university. I hope to move much of the discussion online so others can benefit from our learning. This is our forum http://ajcutk.com/forum/
If it's avoidable (and on very static type pages like this, it should be) then yah. Keep in mind that what seems easy to you may be wildly new territory for others. Just because you're technical doesn't mean you know the ins and outs of running a server.
I don't know. How healthy should your diet be as an entrepreneur? These questions are silly.
Right. Perhaps I'm thinking of reddit. There, you're told more than 10% of your submissions being self promotion is considered spam.
Barely. OpenDarwin is dead. WebKit was stolen from KHTML. CUPS has barely any development anymore. Apart from LLVM, what have they really contributed to OSS? Okay, it's more than Microsoft, but net contribution is still nothing compared to Google or Sun (when they were still alive).
Exactly.

In Croatia, T-Mobile is absolutely the worst carrier. Highest fees, worst customer support. They can get away with it because they have the most customers and it's just too much of a hassle to change providers.

At least that's how it was around 3 years ago. I don't live there anymore so maybe something changed (I doubt it).
So why exactly are you advised not to do your own taxes or represent yourself in court even if qualified? (Not a rhetorical question; I'm curious about the answer.)
The failure rate of condoms you cite is referring to unplanned pregnancies, 18% of unplanned pregnancies are caused by condoms. That doesn't mean that everytime you have sex with a condom, you have a 18% chance of making a baby
I love T-mobile whenever I am in the US. Coupled with Google Voice and Nexus 4 (LTE works!), I pay way less than an AT&T contract + phone. The only time I was unhappy with their coverage was in my apartment in Mountain View this fall. Apart from that, I've never had to call their customer service. Every time I come back to US, I simply recharge my account online and get going in minutes.

I am curious to try out the Walmart plan (refer comments) next time and cut my costs by half.
Your bill won't go down much?

5GB of 4g internet with 3g speeds after that, unlimited texting, and 100 minutes of non-wifi talk (unlimited on wifi) per month is only $30 flat on T-Mobile if you buy the start-up kit at Walmart.

If you need more minutes than that you can either call over wifi, pay $0.10/minute or talk all you want for free over Wifi/3g/4g using a VoIP app like GrooveIP.
Why T-Mobile made the change is unimportant to me. I care that they made the change, and that they committed to it via zero lock-in contracts. If I feel that I'm not getting sufficient value at some point in the future, I can simply walk away from T-Mobile without spending $325/line in termination fees.

And as for the network, I'm fortunate that it's not a trade-off for me. T-Mobile's coverage has proven superior to AT&T's for my precise work/home/travel combination.
I've read that elsewhere, but that doesn't match my experience in the New England area on TMO. I had my connection completely croak after my phone read 2GB of data usage. Maybe the behavior is different in different geographic areas?

(The last time I went over 2GB was a year ago on TMO when my home internet wasn't yet installed, so for me it's basically academic.)
2000 dollars per month? is this reality in the us? :/
On a related note, there's a good in-depth answer to the question "What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?" here:

http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-it-like-to-understa...

I'm not a mathematician, but was a theoretical physicist for more than a decade, and the Quora article accords well with my experience in understanding mathematics.

(Fairly) readable examples of some of the points made in the above article may be found in Terry Tao and Scott Aaronson's comments about how to think intuitively in high dimensions:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25983/intuitive-crutches-f...
You're not accounting for those that have given up looking for jobs. Additionally, the report mentions that children are also included in the 46.2 million people below the poverty level.

I certainly am accounting for those who've given up. They are "not looking for work", i.e. not unemployed. Accounting for children does change the fact that the poor choose not to work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130441 .

The fraction of the poor who choose not to work was low before the recession as well. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2006.pdf

As for your assertions that paying $30 for a drug test prevented people from applying for welfare, that doesn't pass the smell test. Anyone who passed was reimbursed, and welfare pays well over $30 anyway. If you want to hang your hat on the fact that I haven't found a source proving that welfare costs more than $425/person, be my guest.
Yeah, I've seen that. I don't really care, though - my real number is on Google Voice, so if I get tossed I'll just put my TMO SIM back in my phone. In the meantime, I get way better coverage.
> terror groups like the KKK, that WERE about terror

With all those silly titles, meetings, garments, and weird rituals that most often didn't involve black people... doesn't it sound like they were also about socializing?

They were a violent masonic lodge. Let's call ourself grand dragons, and burn a cross in the evening.
Though T-Mobile seems to have adopted an interesting strategy in the US - as a European customer I find their proposition not to be notably better than that of other carriers. Here, it takes European commissioners to lower international roaming charges. T-Mobile doesn't rock across the globe.
Condoms when used correctly are very safe. The problem is that a lot of people don't use them correctly.

A lot of pregnancies result from incorrect usage ranging from things like not putting it on right (and so risking tears, or having it fall off), to ignorant ideas like putting it on first close to ejaculation.
I have not yet created a sustainable business, but I know for sure that if I had tried without reading HN, articles and books every day for 2 years I would have had to learn those things "on the job", by creating failed start-ups.

In particular, what I think I have gained most from reading is developing my ability to search for good problems and solutions in the idea space, while in the past I was just adept at developing technical solutions without thinking enough about what else I could be doing. It took a while to change the mind set from "I want to build cool technology and hope it can make money somehow" to "I want to build something useful that people are willing to pay for, that is perhaps also interesting technology wise".
Forth has an academic sister called Joy [0] and under the term "concatenative programming" a niche paradigm has evolved.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
200, not 2000. for a family plan (reads like 4 or 5 people, so that's around $50 a month per person)
The "Open Data" movement is in fact underway. But adaption will be even slower there. When you look at the mess of formats and proprietary tools trying to lock you in in science, it becomes clear why that is. And there's a tendency in science to come up with ridiculously complex incompatible data models. First because Of the academic virtue of understanding it and second because nobody wants to fit a study to a data model but rather the other way around.
Then you move to the "next" T-mobile. The point is to encourage this behavior, and punish the bad one by leaving as soon as it happens (same goes for Verizon/AT&T) now.
>I'm glad that T-Mobile has become a customer focused company in recent months

I was a T-Mobile customer until the first iPhone came out, and they were fantastic back then. I'd switch back now if it weren't for the fact that they have lousy coverage in Vermont.
They should stop selling the Daily Mail - that's far more insidiously evil than any pornography.
What is this site? I only kept seeing a partial picture of Snowden and of a Wikipedia page as I tried to zoom...
I like the idea floated here- cypherpunks won, and that there are new futures to be seized.

Overall, the most cypherpunk thing I can suggest to people who want to move things forwards- ignore cypherpunk. Figure out how to get people orchestrating and controlling their own host of devices among them and their friends. Break down the walls between local devices, string up some lines, and get people experimenting with managing, sharing and pooling their local resources.

We need whetted appetites for human control of the wider systems. We need people who want to harness their many systems (as opposed to be harnessed to your applications, subject to it's designed fancy), we need people interested in repurposing/reconnecting things as their environment changes. We need whetted appetites for sovereign control over all of one's devices. Empower and more so interest people in seizing the device and put it in it's role among the person's world, and cryptography will be just a facet of that great manifest will we've reawoken.

If you want to be a cypherpunk, be a cypherpunk tomorrow. Today, be a ubiquitous computer systems liberator.
Such a cross-journal database that allows scientists to share ratings and reviews is Epistemio (http://www.epistemio.com/).
From Edward Frankel also comes this wonderful excerpt on antisemitism in Russian higher education (that doesn't sound exciting now, but you'll like the article):

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...
What you did not like about Aida-Web ? I am no web dev ( I prefer GUIs , graphics and sound) myself just curious.
John Legere is... interesting. Check out the original 'uncarrier' press event from this summer: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148836/stop-bullshit-says...

"Carriers are really nice to you... once every 23 months.
This is the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard in my
entire life. Do you have any idea how much you're paying?"

This is not a quote from an angry blog commenter. This the CEO of the United States' fourth largest mobile service provider speaking at a press conference.

Refreshingly bizarre.
If you are going back and forth often and end up spending more time than half the time south of the border, it might just work for you :)

Here is a quote from their fine print

> Not for extended international use; you must reside in the U.S. and primary usage must occur on our U.S. network. Device must register on our U.S. network before international use. Service may be terminated or restricted for excessive roaming or misuse.
New multicore fibers could signal the Petabit age
Ok, I think I'm lost in UX nirvana. I only see the first slide (I assume it's a slide show?) and neither clicking it nor pressing space/left/right keys advances the slide show.

Anyone a hint how to use this page?
How so many weird stock images get made
Really? I did the same, my bill went down 50% (this is on top of a sweet discount I had on AT&T). But I see your point, I'd switch even if the savings weren't as good, they treat you like real customers, not sheep.
I'm not so sure about that. My highest scoring comment was a piece of humor. I think, like with all the comments on HN, people want something which is well thought out.
T-Mobile is shaking up the industry like Apple should have (and could have) done with the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
I haven't but I've checked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(philosophy)

Apparently the times of legalism were around 3rd century BCE, and then "In later dynasties, Legalism was discredited and ceased to be an independent school of thought."

I don't claim that it was all rosy afterwards, but let's also not forget that it were the British that were literally drug dealers to the Chinese, that even started the war once the Chinese weren't ready to accept it anymore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Wi-Fi Pineapple Mark V with Jagsager - now released
I think the key here is to not take time away from more important things to read. When you are sitting in front of a computer there are a million things you could be doing to push your startup forward.

What I've done a lot of recently is play the audio of articles (using Apple text-to-speech) while exercising, stuck in traffic, etc. Allows me to "read" a ton while not taking any time away from normal work time.

I almost never read articles sitting in front of my computer anymore.
Ask HN: What platform should I use to create an online bookstore?
I sure hope you guys can help.

I have been tasked with creating an online bookstore and was wondering if anyone could recommend which shopping cart software I should start customizing with.

The last I worked on shopping card software was about 10 years ago with OSCommerce. I am happy to use it again, but was just wondering if there were better alternatives today based on new technologies and design concepts.

I am considering options like Magento, Zen Cart, Open Cart, etc... There are so many now.

Preference would be for something:

- open sourced

- built on PHP + MySQL

- has many free responsive templates

- has a one-click feature to install modules/add-ons/extensions

- has features like voucher and rebate/loyalty management systems

I am also open to recommendations on SAAS systems, especially if you created it.

Many thanks in advance.
a company that looks like it has a good, lively culture is way more attractive than one that does not. this seems obvious, no? clearly there was more to the interview than just pointing to a ping pong game and a bar-- the visible (albeit, staged) culture was just icing on the cake.
KHTML was not stolen - it was used as the basis for Webkit in compliance with its licence, which is exactly how Open Source is supposed to work.

Have a look at http://www.apple.com/opensource/ - which outlines the Open Source components that Apple use and contribute to. You're right - it might not be as much as some other companies (though I don't know if it's practically less than Google or Sun) but they are consistently among the largest participants in Open Source among large tech companies.
Yes

Too bad they turned down the iPhone when it was offered to them.
Seems you have to hit the spacebar or right arrow key. No idea how we were meant to guess that, or why it's a bad idea to also progress on clicking...

EDIT: following update by parent post - Spacebar and right arrow key definitely work for me (also down arrow key). Backspace, up and left arrow keys move back. I'm using Chrome on a mac.
FWIW, I don't often encounter diff output in my day-to-day computer usage, but when I do, I do not find them very intuitive to understand. A bit of UI magic would help here, it's not the concept that is hard (for me) to grasp, just all those lines with +'s and -'s and figuring out the contexts in which they apply. It's always a bit of a puzzle, especially if, for some reason, it's not highlighted with colours.
We all seem to deliberately ignore an obvious part of all this creativity "science":

Creativity is the product of *well rested* minds!

We all know this, but we do our best over-work ourselves and other, over-train/educate ourselves and others and "fill up" any free time we have in the sake of "efficiency" and "not falling behind".

And I don't even agree with the OP's assumptions that innovation is "slowed to a crawl", it's probably faster than ever before, but nothing nears as fast as it should be with all the new communication and connectivity enhancements (imho they act like a wonder-drug that is so good it unfortunately masks the symptoms of a serious illness - like a really good antiinflammatory + painkiller that can mask the symptoms of one's cancer until it's too late).

As a few examples:

- in medical research we've built complicated regulations, approval and funding processes and uber-complicated career paths that basically suck away 90% of the time and energy of medical-researchers and doctors, and we wonder why progress is so slow and so many grave errors committed

- in software we've gone so deep down the "worse is better" hole that we have all sorts of tools and programming languages that create more problems than they solve, and whole industries dedicated to solving tooling problems that should be trivial if OSs and languages were design with just a bit more hindsight (that we know is possible: take ta re-re-...-re-invention of Lisp and Smalltalk features), and have more time and energy for building cool software that actually does interesting things

- in hardware we have over-engineered designs and tools and concepts that are only understandable by a few very smart, well trained, but over worked professionals

- when it comes to our children we are so afraid that they will not be "good enough" or that they will be left behind that we try to fill all their time with "useful" activities, as schools fill it with homework

...we basically generate so much needless complexity in everything that we do that most of can never have "well rested minds". And this complexity grows like a freakin cancer and it will also be inherited by our children and their children and will keep their minds busy and tired for all their lives too.
t-mobile isn't own by the same entity in Croatia
> Yet looking back the track record doesn't quite match.

Well it does, kind of. I mean, during the space race itself and the cold war the US's space program had no in flight fatalities. The first NASA flight fatality wasn't until '86, a good 14 years after the Apollo program had ended.

For what it's worth the Soviet's response to the Shuttle program was a failure. NASA remains the only one to get a partially re-usable orbiter into use.

> But you know, that is also perhaps thing that should have factored in -- "If we launch 8 people at once, we will probably kill all of them if an accident happens".

The Space Shuttle program already had a good 24 successful flights, 6 of which were in the Challenger, before the first fatal flight. It wasn't like they crammed in a bunch of people in an experimental ship for shits and giggles. The first set of shuttle flights only had a crew of 2.
Well, not really. I've interviewed at a bunch of places with different cultures; however, what I see on that day is not what I think will happen in the future.

I've worked and interviewed at plenty of companies that put on the best front. Just like that ping-pong thing and similar equivalents. But as soon as I started working at these places, I realized that it's not like that and I've learned to ignore it over the years.

The "lively" culture is most likely a product of the upswing that justified the hiring. Meaning that a week later, everyone will be just as shut off as at any other company.
Is this rhetorical or are you begging for this question to be torn apart?
All carriers are shit, T-Mobile is no exception.
I think the "10X engineer" is the new word for "Rockstar Developer".
And the food is bulked up with cheap ingredients, reducing its nutritional value :-/
Hmm, OK with Chrome it works.

I use firefox in vimperator mode on OS X. I guess vimperator borked the slide show for me :)
Text to speech? I wish Apple would allow me to do that with my ebooks.
Apparently it "is a person so talented that he or she does the work of 10 merely competent engineers."
So, I guess this guy is a 100x engineer, based on his income.
Legal and funded does not mean acceptable in the culture. It's legal to go about naked in many places, but it's not often done, because it's not acceptable in the culture.

Welfare already exists and while the lazy scrounger stereotype definitely exists, I feel it's worth that overhead to take care of vulnerable people and those in hard times.
Somewhat related but tangential:

What would happen if we had a "double blind" system where people could receive insider trading information based on karma points? The idea is that a system would anonymously give out insider trading information to one or more people with the highest amount of karma. The granter of the stock tip would get a corresponding boost (or drop) in karma based on the value of the knowledge but couldn't benefit from the insider information directly with the exception in the future they would have a greater likely hood of getting anonymous insider information based on their karma point count.

example:
1) Alice creates an anomymous tip that Apple stock is likely to drop due to an unexpected sales decrease of the iphone 6.
2) The system establishes an initial weight for the stock tip based on company valuation and reliability of Alice.
3) The system identifies a user or set of users with the highest current karma points. Bob is one of these users. Bob's karma point total is reduced by the value of the recommendation.
4) Later on after banking a large number of points Alice is given a tip that Tesla stock is expected to rise. Alice is able to profit on this insider knowledge without... really having insider knowledge

This is somewhat akin to profiting off of documents in the back seat of a taxi. Since this seems like somewhat of an obvious system I wonder if it is practiced in real life and what law enforcement does to counter it....
There were similar complaints when this was posted on /r/linux[1].

The only change that seems to have been made since then was in fixing his completely wrong description of the history of Linux.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nx0qf/why_i_moved_fr...