skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Best android development phone?
I am going to be upgrading to a smartphone on AT&T. I am torn between the Moto X, the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and the Samsung Galaxy S3. I am also thinking of buying a Google Nexus 4 on ebay.

I have an app in mind that would make heavy use of the accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, and possibly the barometer. Are any of these phones known for having great sensors? What does HN recommend?
I don't know much about liabilities, what what will you do if you see child pornography being uploaded to your server (which will undoubtedly happen)? How will you filter / handle that?
Twitter Panic over EBT Shutdown this weekend
Google & NASA's quantum computing lab
Don't amoral people have passion, too?
I can understand why two political parties arguing might be difficult for China to understand.

And the UN has no moral authority at all.
This bothered me too, so I

1. Rebound control to the command key
2. Changed the terminal shortcuts to control-c, etc. (from control-shift-).
3. Set the terminal to use control-j instead of control-c for sigint:
$ stty intr ^j

(I'm slowly transitioning from OS X to Linux.)
Quite often, but much less thoroughly.
I would like to see Obama start to feel out the possible response in the international financial community to unilaterally raising the debt ceiling so this idiocy could be done for good. Just knowing he was doing it would probably cause Republicans to cave so they don't have to admit not authorizing their own expenditures is devoid of all logic.

I hate politics.
NSA reportedly collecting millions of email address books and IM contact lists
You can. I've done this using a different web editor based on CodeMirror: https://github.com/rascalmicro/red

I do suspect that Xylakant may be right elsewhere in this thread when she points out that it's not possible on Heroku, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I would love to see Ghost use a pile of static Markdown files rather than a database for posts. Then, in a couple of years, when I want to use something else, I can take my pile of Markdown files and move along.
Unity is great. Wish someone would port it to Redhat (and clones) since my work deals mostly with those.
Sure, there must be some situations where DDG wins.

But look at what you have said; in the last couple of days you have only one example of google failing you. Presumably for the rest of that time google was perfectly fine or better. Only once in that time did you have a better result from DDG.

Some would call that damning with faint praise. With that ratio, the only sane conclusion is to use google.

Currently DDG is my default search. But most of the time I do the DDG search, give up and repeat with google. As I say, Im trying but its not productive for me.
The third-party doctrine (in the US) means that their customers have no expectation of privacy anyway, so any promises they make can be thought of as little more than window dressing: customers will have no real avenues for redress when the data does in fact leak. I can't find any information about whether they are bound by HIPAA, so my guess there is "no," or else it would be trumpeted a bit more.
I saw this on the new page.
Although an open email relay would probably be some other violation of the AUP, methinks.

(warning: haven't actually read AUP.)
It can be the other way around too. What if you feel so strongly about your company's role in society that you rationalize socially destructive practices in pursuit of attaining/maintaining that role?

I doubt passion for business has much to do with morality. Simply being mature and having a bit of empathy is enough.
Sabato’s JFK book takes aim at House conspiracy theory
Nexus. It's cheap and requires no contract.
I use Ubuntu (with Unity) on a 15 Samsung Series 9. Wish they'd come out with the higher resolution version of the 15".
It would also be interesting, if this actually makes it to the front page to see the reasons why people don't go to the new page. Is it because they are only looking for the "best", or a quick flash of trends, or because they are bored and flick between hn and facebook?

EDIT: And would a better system be to interlace new posts with top posts on a single news page?
RSS Owl http://www.rssowl.org.
Their "solution" is also pretty blunt. Basically replacing the whole thing with a construct that looks a lot like AES-GCM (basically using a field multiply to mix in new random state)... which they show is strong for their particular complaint, but would abandon all the existing reasons to have any confidence in the current approach. (and also appears(?) to substantial shrink the random pool size)
In Australia, an Honours degree is technically an undergraduate degree, but a dissertation will nevertheless be "published" and kept in a university library.
Another Year, Another Electronic Privacy Veto for California Governor Brown
Ask HN: Best Bootstrap Resources?
Looking to use Bootstrap on a new project and I was wondering what the best resources out there are? Any great ebooks or websites?
20-Minute Neighbourhoods
Why should the debt ceiling be raised?

The debt ceiling has nothing to do with meeting ones obligations to creditors.

If the debt ceiling isn't raised, simply prioritize what the country's money is going to be spent on.
9 Ways to Restrain the NSA
I wonder how much internet policy is decided by internet organisations. Or how much war stuff is decided by war people. Or medical policy by medical people.

I could tediously go on...
I find it hilarious that Australia has just 4 digits in its post code. The US has 5 digits with 4 optional digits. Taiwan (a much smaller place) has 3 digits with 2 optional specifiers.

Singapore has 6.
The level of entitlement in the comments is incredible. People are actually getting angry that United is not honoring the exploit.
Obama met with the large banks on 2 October, telling them it might be worse than they expected [1].

Wall Street was pretty chill through the middle of last week [2]. Once it started calling it became apparent that there was little it could do [3].

The expectation appears to be that Obama will prioritise payments after 17 October to avoid a default. Once a critical point is reached he will use "creative accounting," in the IMF's words, to come up with a solution. Him failing at that, the expectation is the Federal Reserve will find a way to credit the U.S. Treasury's account. All these options, it should be noted, involve the selective suspension of the rule of law - the lesser of the evils.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-usa-fiscal-obam...

[2] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/complacency-on-wall-s...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/business/economy/business-...
IIRC, Ruby builds an s-expression tree under the hood (disclaimer: this is going by what I've read and I can't find the article right now, please take with several grains of salt). I do know this, however: In Ruby, everything is an expression. So that's why code like..

foo = if bar?
:bar
else
foo_proxy || :foo
end

..can be expected to work. One thing I love about Ruby is that I feel as though it works "like a Lisp" under the hood, but doesn't look like one at all. The one thing I could never get over with Lisp-like languages was how difficult the syntax was for me to read. Ruby, OTOH, is a very familiar syntax and includes familiar concepts like various OOP encapsulation features, but it's all built around this expression-driven language that's both syntactically powerful and very easy to read.

edit: I still wouldn't consider it part of the Lisp family, only heavily influenced by that kind of programming...
> But we do it every day

Wait, how long has this been going on? Do most people really take showers every day? Most people I know (myself included) only do it when they get smelly/sweaty, which is roughly every day in the summer, every 1.5-2 days in the winter. Is this a US thing?
Good piece. I'd add that reforming FISC would be another bullet item in of itself, from appointing adversarial representatives, to shedding light on the judicial underpinnings of justified mass metadata collection (the rulings that have come out have been very dubious on this point.)
Can't recreate it on my Australian HTC One with 4.2.2
ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor?
Hello HN!

I am here to pick your brains and ask if any of you has experience programming a quad rotor. We(a team of undergraduate students) want to make our own autopilot and we would like people to tell us how to get off the ground. The resources on the internet are not in one place(or even two) and it would save us a lot of time if someone could pinpoint us to some sites to read.

Thanks a lot!
"If the debt ceiling isn't raised, simply prioritize what the country's money is going to be spent on."

1. That could be a form of default. Not on the U.S. debt, but on its contracts.

2. Cash flows are lumpy - that's part of why we have government debt. Even reducing all non-debt payments to zero, the U.S. Treasury will have to default at some point before mid-November. There simply isn't enough money in the U.S. Treasury's account at the Federal Reserve to keep its cheques from bouncing.
The NSA's Data Problem
What I want to know and be disclosed is a) if they have my DNA fingerprint and if b) they or a third-party is using the data to filter and direct certain information (or eliminate certain information from coming) at me - e.g. ads or otherwise. If you know I have a higher risk of X type of cancer, and you know I know - are you going to pull the fear card to sell me something? What about relating to diabetes or intelligence or ADD or depression or how I'm likely to vote or or or or or ... The amount of manipulation and control that can result from this - realized as power - is immense, the nuanced value of the information gives insight never before possible on a person. Could this lead to highly accurate priming patterns to lead a person to a certain decision - consciously impossible to realize? This could be used for very bad purposes, and usually it's people with profit or looking to gain more profit and control - who will put the most money towards such purposes, meaning the highest bidder for targeted ads - meaning for-profit businesses, Google et al, will be okay with it, and where government needs to regulate and actively monitor - though I'm not sure you can detect such patterns, meaning the only real option is ability to opt-out. Services like DuckDuckGo are feeling more important as time goes by - though how shielded are we if Google becomes the main internet provider - and where government / society can't even compete, or at a higher cost as Google or others will be have more value they can extract to compete.. ugh.
In rare moments of digital altruism.
If anyone in Adelaide, South Australia wants to check out the rift, I have a dev kit I'm willing to lend out.
The second example is a stretch. My brain, being used to seeing and interpreting perspective, has no trouble realizing that the Apple segment is nowhere near as large as the largest segment. I suspect most people with a field of view larger than their retinas will have no trouble seeing this. The author might have a point if the perspective was much more exaggerated, or if there weren't clear numerical labels on each segment.
Who said he's the defendant?
This is why I can't stand libertarians. FREEDOM MUST BE PROTECTED WITH LAWS. It's a precedent that has been set in stone since the Bill of Rights!

ljlolel here is, with a straight face, DEFENDING the ability for AT&T to siphon bandwidth off of Google's residential fiber service in order to resell it. Does that really sound reasonable to anyone?

Same deal with the GPL. "OMG I hate the GPL because it doesn't let me take free software and make it proprietary then add all kinds of DRM and shit and subjugate users." Boo fucking hoo!

The intent has always been USER freedom, not freedom for commercial entities are making a living attempting to peddle knockoff products at hiked-up prices.
Depending on the time of day (and the degree of my idleness that day) I find that the main page sometimes gets a bit stale, in these cases I click on new.

Another reason to go to the new page would be to try to get the first commenter's advantage on a story.
> I pretty much reject the entire premise of any sort of quantitative "statistical generalization", when it comes to "terror", because terror is an arbitrary qualitative generalization to begin with.

I don't think it is. While there are differences about edge cases, you'll find an awful lot of agreement among people about 9/11 or a random suicide bomber blowing himself up in a cafe. Terrorism can be reasonably defined, classified, and statistically treated.

> I don't buy into the idea that a heterogeneous mixture of non-state, civilian-killing groups can be boiled down to bald numbers. I think it's a mistake to even try.

If they really are heterogenous then they can be analyzed in more meaningful subgroups!
Yes, it really depends on the person. By and large, though, I've observed that your post's parent is correct - lousy home life, want to cheat, that sort of thing. Living in a hotel is dreadful (IMO, of course), having none of your own resources (I like playing guitar, woodworking, playing with my dogs, and so on, none of which are particularly possible in a hotel) is draining, and I don't really like endless rounds of bars and restaurants. So, a terrible life from my point of view. The pluses - new cities, new people, etc., don't compensate. I have a friend that travels all the time, and I'll get plaintive emails about being in some hotel in some great city, such as Hong Kong, and he has been working 15 hour days and crashing in his hotel room, while his wife and kids and home and dog are half a planet away. I do not envy him.

To answer the OP: any kind of service/support role in the technical side can give you lots of travel. Install this new server, or help clients get up to speed, or debug this thingy onsite. But, be sure to figure out what this entails: are you working 5 hours and then carousing in NYC (the vision), or working 17 hour days in some dingy facility in the middle of Iowa? To make all that plane flight + hotel + expenses + salary pay off, it's likely to lean towards the latter.

I made a joke that is no joke to my gf from my hotel room a few weeks ago: "you know those bar/restaurant/hotel travel scenes in 'House of Lies'? My trip is exactly not like that"

Which is not to dissuade you; plenty of people have great travel for work experiences. It is just a suggestion to figure out exactly what you will be getting, and to look inside yourself to figure out if it appeals to you.
I have 1BTC that I got from selling an album of music I made, back when a bitcoin was worth $4.
I post fairly regularly, and it's become pretty clear that not enough people do. The same content will not get a single vote when posted once, then on it's second posting be on the frontpage for eighteen hours. As it stands, the best content is not winning out.
This sounds like great advice, but seems to contradict his (past?) use of, to quote him, "...something called affirmations, where you write your goals daily." (see http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/dilbert_20/)

Obviously his system oriented approach has room for overall goals, but the WSJ article comes across as totally anti-goal.
To be totally honest, I only look at it when it shows up automatically after I post something new.

At that time, I tend to look at and vote up stories that seem interesting.
for #1 I was wondering if you could build a messaging system where the sending system didn't know the location of the recipient. It also would mask the connection between sender and recipient. Basically you would send a message to a key to several servers in the network. Each server would look at the key, and if it matched their address they would store the message. They would also forward the message along so an outside observer wouldn't know that that server held that inbox. Basically 10 messages would come in and the same 10 would come out and maybe one would be stored, but you couldn't tell that. You would have to age out the messages, and I'm not sure if you could guarantee delivery. By observing the network you could tell where messages were originating, but not where they were terminating. That is the extent of the though I put into it, it's fun to think about but I'm sure there are many holes in the idea.

for #3 the post runs the stories they publish past the government to make sure they do not publish anything that would be truly damaging. After consulting with the government I assume they decide what to redact and what is ok to publish. I think this was the crux of the government case against Manning in regards to responsible v. reckless disclosure.
Why exactly is an RFC 2822 parser wrong? It is by definition the right way to validate an email address.

The RFC specs emails as a CF grammar, not a regular grammar, which is why validating all possible emails with regexes is so hard. Use a parser and call it done.

If your goal is "don't prevent a user from signing up" then why validate emails at all? Why not just accept anything, and whinge at them after you've already captured them in your system?
Because if it's unilaterally raised it ceases to be a weapon.
They can always sell off some assets. Welcome to reality.
I was planning on doing this as well. If you do it, where might it appear on Github?
This was a really good read.

I think his "have a system" is really better explained as keeping your goals dynamic, like "make my repeating income grow" or "always look for a better job." . I loved the piece, but was confused by the choice of "have a system" like some other comments have pointed out.

I think this mindset is akin to Taleb's antifragile concept. If your goals are always trying to better yourself in some way or another, than any random events that cause your situation to get worse will increase your motivation to succeed. benefit from randomness, good or bad.
My understanding is that we're basically built to be walking ~8 hours most days. So yes, a long walk... but longer than most of us can fit in.
For the price of one roadside jump you can pick up a portable jump starter, compressor and inverter at Amazon/Pep Boys. Something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-J5C09-500-Amp-Built-In-Compres...

You'll never be stranded with a dead battery again, can inflate flat tires wherever you are, and can charge your cell phone if your battery can't be revived. I bought one years ago after dealing with a bad alternator and keep it in the trunk of my car; so much peace of mind. You even get to be a hero, jumping other peoples' stranded cars without needing cables or risking your own car.
When valuable employees quit or resign
Yeah if I had a Lavabit account I'd just stay far far away from the data. Who knows who's watching, and what puzzle pieces they can now put together..
I'm reading this while I wait for a 10MB upload to crawl to completion on my 768Kbps up connection that costs $40/month. Which is especially sad because I live less than two miles from the dead center of Denver. So yeah, I'm just a bit jealous.
I'm really happy to hear that entropy collection on other interrupts is being brought back. After struggling with "entropy exhaustion" on servers (non virtual ones!) that were only getting 50 bits per second or whatever from the timing interrupt this should remove some unfortunate sources of annoyance.
It could be that people are claiming to own $5M+ worth of bitcoins.
If he cannot talk with a lawyer, how can he even be sure that he isn't a defendant? Is he suppose to learn law himself? How can he even know if such a restriction is even legal and enforceable, if he cannot talk with a lawyer? How can he challenge their questionable interpretation of whatever laws may make this legal, if he cannot talk with a lawyer? How can he be sure that, by complying with whatever requests they make, he isn't inadvertently committing crimes that he can later be charged for?

Nobody should ever be forbidden from consulting a lawyer, particularly when dealing with other lawyers. These gag orders are a minefields designed to dismember anyone who finds themselves in them; they have absolutely no place in a free society.
I agree 100% with you about the schools problem (and I'm facing it myself.) I've lived in a number of cities and SF has stunned me at the near total lack of school-age children. It's stunning - especially in my neighborhood (SOMA) you just never see kids walking to school in the morning. This has to be the largest drawback to living in SF, and one of the biggest reason middle-income to upper-middle-income families move out of town.
You don't buy the furniture out of a burning house. A fire sale of a country's public assets in the midst of a political and financial meltdown isn't going to find much real demand.
> The debt ceiling has nothing to do with meeting ones obligations to creditors.

yes, it completely does. the US does not have the cash on hand to continue paying out to its creditors. to continue to pay its creditors, it must borrow more money.
Perhaps more to the point, Obama doesn't have the legal authority to prioritize certain payments. If he doesn't pay something, then he would be in violation of the law. He can't just unilaterally not pay bills. This isn't some little technical problem, it's a real constraint. If the debt ceiling isn't raised, Obama is both (1) required by law to spend certain monies and (2) not allowed to borrow to spend that money. This could provoke a very real constitutional/legal crisis with no clear resolution.
I don't read the "new" page or the front page since I interact with HN primarily through my RSS reader (I use NewsBlur).

(HN's RSS URL can be found at the bottom of the front page.)
Hmmm. Not a lot, but I would not call it rarely.

Occasionally?
Android and Linux? ;)
I was a 23andme.com customer from the very beginning; didn't know they had an exome beta. Thanks for the info, signed up waiting to be in the next batch!
Technology Has Filled the Void of Meaning Left by the Decline of Religion
A conversation with Dylan Tweney from VentureBeat