skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Of course, it would be quite different if those pictures were taken when I was an adult.

The crux of the issue is that I'm not who I was. Baby chad_oliver was a different person.
It's an interesting idea and kudos for making it open source. But ... what need does it serve? Is there any killer app?

A startup usually has a dashboard to keep track of metrics, which show if it's on track for it's goals. Is that the idea here? Keeping track of goals?
They are different types of pollutants. Wood fire creates a lot of carcinogens while (carburated) exhaust fumes are basically safe to inhale, although they do contribute to global warming it seems.
Valley living is very expensive. I remember meeting someone from Portland and he said with 80k he could still afford to buy a house but he wouldn't be able to do that if he were going to stay in the Valley.

I was an intern this summer and was looking around the price for an apartment (I want to return to MV at some point after college). It's at least 2k at that time. Most of them were gone and only 3000k, 4000k left. I was looking for just a single bedroom. That was hella expensive.

I used to complain about chinese dinner at Castro street cost $9. I am now back to NY and I can feed myself around $5 (well for $9 in MV I get roughly double size, so more food to eat). But then again, do I really need that much a night?

It's expensive.
Really glad to see Sussex getting recognition for their work.

The fantastic thing about Sussex is that they are passionate and enthusiastic about teaching non-scientist students about quantum physics - and talented teachers as well.
Yes, I think it's arguable that MS won the console war.

Could you tell me what you are measuring to reach that conclusion? Last I looked, the only category where the Xbox was ahead is US sales, and even there, they were only marginally ahead of the PS3.
Erm.. What's the connection between 'no photos online' and 'no photos'? I guess no one is arguing that parents shouldn't take pictures/videos of their kids.

Keep them, just like parents for our generation did (I assume 79 is your year of birth) in a private place. If the kids want to have those later: Sure, these pictures are theirs to begin with.

Take pictures, if you want. Store them locally or .. print them out.

Your personal lack of pictures is a different thing and not connected to the point here - although I guess it helps understanding your 'pro sharing' comments.
The End of The library
> A great way to fund it: allow those foreigners seeking investments to fund them and rent them out.

Your missing the point of this post, and the point of a lot of these comments. People don't want the foreigner investors funding these things as they then own the property stopping people who actually want to live there owning them. That's why people are moving out of London, that's why property is so expensive. Rich foreigners are buying the property for investments, making other properties more expensive.
Wow. Medium.com is really going wild about publishing badly written, uninteresting pieces.
I've built and have been using something very similar internally but it's not nearly as visually polished. Thanks for this!
This is in the Ruby On Rails Security Guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-fixation

The author isn't telling people anything new, so it shouldn't take the form of an announcement.
There seems to be a chunk missing in the third paragraph: Or it can compress its body and stretch out its [???] these two beasts because they happen to belong to the same order as the gazelle
Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
$ date -d @1381744359
Mon Oct 14 10:52:39 BST 2013
I couldn't agree more. Dude, I am going through the same. Here is my solution.
Flat := I am not buying one. Life-long-renting rocks.
Marriage := No marriage till my business settles.
Family := My parents understand what I am doing. And I don't give a shit about anyone else.
It's Home & Student, and a lot of students use it at home, as distinct from in the classroom. Also, it's not just WP. Plenty of people do stuff that benefits from using Office. They have hobbies or are members of local groups that produce fliers or newsletters (church, youth, etc).

By the way, Windows includes a free word processor, WordPad, that does what most home users need without them having to buy Office. There are also free viewers for Office docs...
This suffers from lack of priors. The purpose of fiction, is to get those priors. meditation is ultimately narcisistic (ie, self-referential), whereas fiction is highly scalable (you get a bunch of external characters and their internal motivations provided for you). So in this sense, the purpose of fiction is providing something akin to genetic diversity.
A bit immature, shall I say? Everybody finds their own mojo in life, for some it is entrepreneurship. You will not be successful just by being in a profession, you have to be outstanding in that profession. Understand and appreciate other's choices. Entrepreneurship needs some wisdom too.
Looks like it's missing a "c":

http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep08244259.pdf
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Banksy Sold Art Yesterday In Manhattan And No One Knew
If you are in the US, any boss would be avoiding any such knowledge like the plague. They don't want to be sued.
> The phone giant has proved that benchmarking apps are vulnerable

The only thing they have proved is their willingness to game benchmarks. ATI and NVidia were gaming 3DMark 10 years ago.

Also interesting to note, though Samsung is definitely more than willing to game benchmark despite their protests (and looks like the worst offender by a pretty long shot), Anandtech found out they're far from the only company doing so: http://anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-...

Edit: turns out this was mentioned in the article, but the way it's presented, what the fuck Guardian?

> Anandtech, a site where you could get the (wrong) impression that benchmarks are the only reason to own a gadget
My krugerrands disagree mightily.
> As the boss you are still the one with the power, no?

That depends on whether people want to work for you more than you want them to work for you.
This really is the future. As coders and hackers we need to strive for software that produces the best possible welfare of maximum number of humanity in all possible aspects such as social, economic, cultural, optimizations in governance thus shifting political power away from filthy politicians and to people who actually care and have the brains to execute and implement and bring about change in society.
Mathematical Embarrassments
1) Are known solutions always performant (which is a broad topic)?

2) "I would like to see any benchmarks comparing this to..." != "I only care about performance and nothing else matters"
reportr.io is empty on firefox.

Console http://pastebin.com/XtACx3AR
Neither can be ignored if you're predicting an outcome on this issue.
take a simple piece of functionality, decide what you expect it to do, and write a test to check that it does it. It isn't complex - start with the simplest thing that works - minitest is integrated into Ruby, so use that. Write a single test to test a method on one of your models. Build it up from there.
Any photo you have on facebook, no matter how private you think it is, eventually they will tweak the rules again to where it is publicly exposed by default until you opt out.

You may never learn about the change and never know to opt-out until it is too late. The moving target is by design, not accident.

If you use facebook for anything other than a throwaway account, you are exposed.
If we went back to pre-civilization where people lived in bands of 200 people and lived sustainably on the food that each area provided, then that would require massive population reduction. At the level of population the planet can naturally support the pollution from fires wouldn't matter. It only matters when you scale it up to 9 billion of us, which is only possible because of technology.
It helps you visualize your activity online and offline: activity on twitter, running, coding activity, ...

It's not a startup, just a tool, I built for myself, it's for people, not for startup.
tl;dr - rich guy saw Ghandi and tries to become one because he always has the option to give it up unlike the billions out there who really doesn't have quite that.
Money has value when another party will exchange it for items of value. Banks issued money not all that long ago, people fool with private currencies in the present day, etc.

Government backing can certainly be a valuable feature of a currency.
This is an amazing project, thanks for building this, I'm going to try this out. Naveen, cofounder of Foursquare, has been tracking his life - http://api.naveen.com/ in a similar way.
The session data should always be on the server side usually store on memcached or redis. The cookie should just be an id used as a handle to the session on the server side. The server side data should always be deleted on logout.

Nowadays most services work only on HTTPS. In that case is not possible stealing the cookies observing the traffic but there is always malware able to grab the cookies. A mechanism to invalidate the session should always be available.

If you moving data back and forward on HTTP and you are using the cookie to store the variable in the session, there is always the risk to expose sensitive data stored in the session to the outside world.
> What's the connection between 'no photos online' and 'no photos'?

If I have no photos, then none can be posted online - event better guarantee that they won't ever be posted online without my consent.

But you are not asking, rather saying that those are not the same thing. Yes. They are not. I used it as just an analogy. 10 years from now might be as weird to be kid with no early childhood photos online as today it is to be the kid with no photos at all.
D-link back door by joel
Ask HN: a better couchsurfing platform?
I moved recently in Belgium from Germany. I started using cousurfing (couchsurfing.com) to host people and meet couchsurfers because I live in a small town and it is refreshing to meet with this type of people.

Now, the good:

1. The community is amazing. I just love meeting and talking with these people

2. It gives you the opportunity to find buddies for your trips/visits

3. You build a worldwide net of friends

The bad:

1. The website experience is horrible. The site is down at least daily and it is non responsive most of the time

2. The tools given to screen people are good, but they should be improved. For example, I hosted a guy that left me no reference, this shouldn't happen

3. The community is very young (22-23 ish). Which I think is due to how the community is managed more than "couchsurfing is for young people only".

I start to think that some of this destroying is being done on purpose and that couchsurfing.com will die a slow death. This is a shame, it's a 5M people community. With amazing goals and values, I can't believe we are letting this go to waste.

I propose:

To start the discussion on a better platform (starting from which framework/language/DB to use). This is truly now just a need, a strong need, I have and I see. I am not planning on money, the first driver is really making the world slightly better. But, if you prefer money, I believe these users WANT to pay something for such a service (like ~USD 10 per year), so make your numbers.

My email is in my profile. If you are interested, just drop me a message.

#Edits below (based on comments)

1. Why not Airbnb?

I will tell you why I don't use Airbnb. First, I am hosting people because I enjoy it, because we go out for a drink or, if I am too busy, we have a talk about travelling/world/dreams. Second, because I only offer a bed on the floor, nothing else. With Airbnb the burden for the hosts is bigger (like offering towels, sheets, etc.). Finally, Airbnb is no community: you don't always meet your host; you can't post in their website to find people for a beer; etc.
You're right. Math error. Fixed. Using Shares*EPS from Google Finance, I get $4B and $1B, respectively.
Competition and cost of living are both very high. They're not inflating the price, it's that that's what the market has demanded, for various reasons.
I'm not sure that this is specific to India - I think there's an obvious incompatibility between taking on financial responsibility for others and the level of risk inherent in start-ups.

The difference may just be that Indian's marry younger so it kicks in earlier.
Bootstrap v3: What Has Changed in the New Version
exit is a great film, i think it paints banksy as an ass, the five minutes of 'life, remote control' was mind blowing, even despite the derision with which it is presented, and to think banksy watched that and thought, 'i have make my own movie because this is trash and i can make a good movie' seems like a narcissistic dick move,

plus the anonymity made sense when it was illegal... but now it plays like a gimmick when people tear down walls of buildings to sell of work attributed to banksy, or the banksy collective,

i agree, though for me, without his west bank work i would completely write the guy off

this bbc doc is a nice companion piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2IU1aIe5c

it is called, Graffiti Wars, and is about Robbo the UKs original tag celebrity, also has a segment about blek le rat who, depending on your loyalties, banksy is an inferior derivative of or who is banksy's muse or mentor or inspiration
Perfectly correct. The only way to produce real benchmarks is to run useful software that are identical on two different hardware setups. Sadly because of to DRM, this is impossible to do on lock down devices.

You could run two similar applications (say angry avialaes), but the only thing you would test is that device implementation of said game.
This looks cool and I want to contribute. I look forward to messing around with this at lunchtime :)
> Then why add even more fuel to the fire?

To find where the fire comes from and squash the source.

> But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere?

I'd argue that chances of being significantly harmed are pretty much the same as being significantly enriched. Both extremely low.
I don't see how she concluded that gender was the issue from what actually happened.
I've been thinking about building something like this for ages but never got around to it.

I'm working on a book about deploying rails applications and was hacking together a script at the weekend to extract words written per day from the git diffs. Will link it up to a version of this so can easily chart it and see when I'm slipping.

Looks like a great tool, good work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00-c-bk4U0
Who wouldn't love to do this?! Louis C.K. ^_^
Anandtech's Article:

Cheaters: Samsung, LG, Asus, HTC

non-cheaters: Motorola, Google, Nvidia, Apple

See any patterns?
I lived through severe economical crisis in 1980s in communistic Poland that included food shortages and hyperinflation. Also read a lot about hyperinflation in Weimar Germany and role of gold during WW2. I think you are right. Toilet paper, cigarettes, alcohol, even toothpaste are luxuries and can function as money during hardship. For the poor. Rich at that time buy production assets on the cheap using gold. Did you know that the only way out of Aushwitz was to bribe guards with gold? That was the only thing so valuable that they let someone go. At the peak of hyperinflationary period in Weimar Germany gold price went down tremendously. True. Still the price of all the Mercedes-Benz equity was just about 600 ounces of gold. It's not that gold gets expensive. No, you're right. Toilet paper, food, guns, will be relatively much more expensive. The point is that production assets will get so cheap that you can get them easily for few ounces. You could probably trade them for food too. The thing is the food goes bad, and isn't practical for trade. Gold, you can shove up your ass and run away leaving your whole life behind.

So, I'd say, it's more like poor will be using cigarettes, alcohol, etc. to trade just to survive while wealthy will use gold and silver as the currency. Because if you're this guard in Aushwitz, how do you know if Germnay wins the war. Or the US? You don't. That's why you'll prefer currency gold to national currencies.
C++ for C Programmers
Dissecting our landing page design
Might use this in future! I wrote a script to generate mine when they are provisioned: https://github.com/andyhmltn/frosty-meadow
Host it on Clever Cloud so no more "application error" ;)
I wonder how true that is if the xml wasn't compressed.
Thanks for linking these :)
In reality, that generally is how it works... In the companies I've been involved with, the VP of eng typically was a coder who possessed all the qualities the commenter above mentioned. They eventually moved up to that role because that were great as seeing the big picture, making intelligent decisions on how to delegate time and engineers into prioritizing bug fixes, new features, and maintenance/improvements that work the best for the company, and managing those people/decisions. They end up spending more time managing and less time coding, but it's generally for the best.
Anyone know who Joel is?
> Their currently mediocre strategy has delivered some success in Europe, so imagine what a good strategy could deliver.

I would argue that this "success" is Microsoft's achievement. It happened just because Windows Phone was made by Nokia, which has (had) a good name and market share in Europe. And we know how it turned out for them..
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The Fight for Digital Sovereignty
Facebook employees shouldn't count as "people close to you", though.
> B) API limits.

i second that. i whish they would make a policy that everything that can be clicked can also be accomplished by using the API. we're currently working around quite a few things that the UI facilitates, but the API does not.
Set of pre-defined AngularJS animations for v1.1.5 and v1.2.0
Facebook Acquires Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo
Couldn't find writups about the mesh networking in Serval. How scalable is this? Last time I did some digging around mesh networks, they didn't scale too much. Every message has to be broadcasted to every node (and every client had to maintain a list of all nodes and their routes), or something along those lines.
It's probably best not to cite Johann Hari* given there are probably other sources able to establish the same point.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Journalistic_contr...
Hello, NSA? we've got a live one here ^^

:)
I think differently to you pedalpete, how fantastic that this guy can live by his beliefs. Although my beliefs about economics are different I can still respect his right to pursue them and it challenges me to more strongly stick to my own.
I'm not so sure about the user base being 16, but this story does seem to make the rounds quite a bit. Perhaps so much so that I cringe when I hear Cargo Cult misused in the popular jargon. It's a shame because Feynman does have so much to say.
Being Overconfident gives better results
I don't know, this also strikes me as "will break the phone in two if you mistakenly put something on top of it", e.g. phone hidden a cloth or some paper.
Concerning that Samsung operates like this even though they are the dominant market leader - with a plurality of the market share for mobile devices, 30.4% of the global market Q2, 2013 [1].
1 http://bgr.com/2013/07/26/smartphone-market-share-q2-2013-sa...
The only way for that not to be the case is if the sender encrypted it before sending it, at which point you don't need Lavabit anyways.
The only reason you see that human civilization doesn't gain anything from this is because you use knowledge/science to define progress.

What if you tie progress to overall happiness? Living a simpler life, without the stress of i.e. too much choice or needing to have at least the same material wealth as your neighbour will be way more fulfilling than working your assoff all day, doing a job you don't like to be able to pay the loans with which you have acquired things you don't need :)

We have nothing to gain from more knowledge, it only gives us more questions, more possibilities, and with that more areas to specialize in, so more jobs, to just keep us all working on finding more questions and creating more of those jobs. Endless cycle that will make life more complex every day, adding up to more stress every day and slowly making us drift away from ourselves and each other.

Nice example: nowadays, in my country smart phones are used by all ages, even young children. Everywhere they are, and mostly in the train, people are not talking to each other anymore, instead they are all looking at their phones. Need to wait on something for 5 minutes? There comes the phone again. Result: nobody takes time to reflect anymore, patience is getting scarce, people are bored quickly, while the occasional case of boredom is very important.

Not that I'm against scientific progress, we invented some really cool stuff, but I don't agree that numbing out our skills would achieve unnecessary independence. In a society/community where everyone is able to take care of themselves, everybody knows how tough it can be and everybody will be willing to help one another out when something goes wrong. That's not independence, that is cooperation.
Facebook to liquid cool servers in order to aid overclocking
> Inflation does not reduce wealth.

Inflation (a jargon word that basically means printing money) transfers money from savers to debtors. This is destructive.

It's destructive because the amount of money the government will print is not fully predictable, so it creates financial risks for people who plan ahead.

It's destructive because the new money enters the economy unevenly -- and basically unpredictably and unfairly, not efficiently.

It's also destructive because it discourages savings and capital accumulation, which are important to wealth creation.

So inflation does reduce wealth, overall.
I prefer using http://unixtimesta.mp
I actually regard this as a framework bug. Rails has been promoting the Cookie-Storage for at least two major releases. There's a couple of upsides to cookie storage that make it appealing, but the downside is the given lack of control. Some of those points you mention could be tackled even with cookie storage, but not all of them:

2) in the case of a compromise you can change the app secret. That's a pretty big sledgehammer and will log out all users from the app, but it will reliable smash that fly.

1) could be tackled the way gitbub proposed: just include the expiry date in the signed cookie. Discard any cookie that's past expiry.

3) could be tackled by using some sort of per-user cookie secret. That however would require a storage again and then you could as well store the whole session in said storage. Not much to win here.
I'm not trying to offend/attack here, but I still miss the point.

IF in ten years everyone has pictures online and due to some weird shift of culture and perception that is normal, everyone else is weird: Let your kids post their pictures. When they're old enough to decide that for themselves.

That's why I argued that you certainly can have pictures of your kids and arguably should. For yourself and your mature/adult kids.
Also getting the right kind of response out of a back end server may be hard, eg getting certain kinds of error or unusual responses, so mocking is the only way to get them reliably.

They are not a substitute for end to end tests though, as you cannot tell if some other assumption is broken.