skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still using python 2.7 because many of my libraries require it, such as wxwidgets and pygame.
Riding Amtrak, ex-NSA chief spills secrets
Sure, but does this give any insight? Examining one factor out of the thousands that could potentially affect this does not strike me as in any way useful, especially since it happens to be a factor that's certain to generate lots of emotion and very little rational discussion.

For example, it strikes me as unlikely that these factors are actually caused by race directly. I don't buy into the PC idea that everybody is exactly, precisely the same, but the differences simply aren't all that large.

What seems much more likely is that it's related to poverty. Poverty and race are highly correlated in the US for various historical reasons, and I'd wager that the charts would show just as much, if not more, link between poverty and scores as between race and scores.

But we can't say for certain without a proper analysis of all potential confounding factors. Picking a single one and pretending it's automatically important is the wrong way to do it.
Agreed. Here's a great podcast talking about resume formatting from both sides: http://5by5.tv/quit/40
Not everyone. And to be fair it was only twice, and it was a long time ago, and it's not like Germany was the only country to try.
Don't they supposedly use 8 million A/B tests for every little design tweak?
Your analogy is nonsense and speaks of the pomposity someone earlier mentioned:

Microsoft presented only a summary level of revenue statement for a quarter indicating both GAAP and non-GAAP adjusted figures and you are telling us you need time to research to make a contribution here even though you've already said others are not qualified to contribute?

By your analogy I will be surprised if I show a 15-line Java Class to a Java programmer and he tells me he needs to research it to make sense of it.

By comparison, Microsoft presented a single Java Class [revenue statement] not a codebase[Financial Report]

by the way: so far you haven't made any contribution to the discussion even though others have asked you nicely to.
Fair enough, assuming that Intro breaks the S/MIME support (which I'm guessing that it does) then it adds the risk that users using S/MIME can't verify the integrity of mail in the app. So that's something else that S/MIME users should evaluate when judging the risks.
An interactive map of IPv4 owners.
Wow, that's absolute shit. Horrible, horrible, brain-dead move by Google. It won't happen overnight, but this will inevitably wind up pushing people to seek out a better search engine (read: one that doesn't display huge honkin' banner ads like this) and sooner or later, somebody will come along and offer equal (or better!) search results, nix the banner ad, and eat Google's lunch.

Google are so big and powerful that it's easy and tempting to think of them as invulnerable and immortal, but remember... people have thought that about many companies in the past, more than a few of whom are no longer with us.

Edit: OK, IF this really is only for brand names and doesn't show up for more general searches ("cheap airline tickets", etc.) then maybe it won't be received so badly. That said, I still believe that, in general, "big honkin' banner ads" are NOT going to be well received on Google search result pages. I guess time will tell.
Not sure if this was intentional but http://www.dougkoellmer.com/ throws a "Error: NOT_FOUND"
Perhaps you could better contribute by pointing to specific examples where us unwashed, uninformed, unworthy hordes have demonstrated our ignorance of your obvious expertise. (And no, "I don't follow that stock" is a cop out when you're already telling everyone they're wrong)
I remember this post being made here on HN around when the revelations first started coming out and we were still trying to collect ourselves and adjust to the new realities of omnipresent surveillance. It was on the front page and had a ton of upvotes. I really hope that Snowden has evidence of this. Whether he does or not is just about make-it-or-break-it for whether we'll see any real reform.
You're right. Perhaps the US should be held to a higher standard than it's allies who are next door to their enemies. After all, the US is bordered on no sides by anyone other than cooperative, friendly countries, or countries that are less cooperative but have a US presence.

As for countries like Norway and the Netherlands being independent because the US defended them against Germans and Soviets, that's not strictly true. It was a team effort on all sides, and the team America eventually joined won, with great thanks and a great debt to the US effort, which as I understand was paid off.
Onerous for business, wonderful for the (informed) consumer.
So how does it work with a PIN / pattern lock?

The problem with most lock screen enhancements is that anything you put there is outside your phone security "firewall" and available to anybody who picks up your phone. The 4.2 lock screen widgets work fairly well with this (eg: you can open the camera app without unlocking the phone, but attempting to swipe over the gallery forces you to unlock). However they are (I assume) using the core framework APIs to do that and I presume support for it is coded into the apps, while this seems to be doing it for any app.
The Virtual Expatriates and Exurbanites of Silicon Valley
Is it just me or does it seem like everytime Twitter announces something about the IPO instagram writes a blog post about ads?
I'm not sure if it is possible to conclude that America is "declining" by looking at three simple charts.

Regardless of the fact that American students are lagging in literacy, numeracy and problem-solving, America has a huge landmass with a vast amount of (still) untapped resources. Not only that, it is also geographically isolated from the so-called "Old World," which gives it significant advantages in terms of physical safety and security.

Does this mean America will continue to remain the #1 world-power? Not necessarily. In fact, it probably won't, as all empires inevitably recede in power and collapse. But if it happens, it probably won't be due to simple differences on a few graphs.
NSA Spied 125,000,000,000 Phone Calls in a Month
Whether I agree or not is not the point. It was a "me too" comment, and I made sure to point it out.

Could I have done a better job at it? Probably.
Hey Imran (chatted to you in IRC a few times),

I do realise that lead information is sold, and I've had enough offers to sell my own users (which I've declined) to realise just how prevalent the practise is.

LinkedIn sell a fairly complete business dataset. My point is that a lot of people might imagine they could do this, but probably don't really believe that they are doing this.

Then when you add in Intro's almost constant tracking (vs occasionally accessing one of the sites that sells your data - or LinkedIn on the web) it is easy to see just how complete one would be making that dataset.

I'd say that most people don't really understand believe that this happens and how good (if that's the word) that dataset already is.
> As pointed out below, these images aren't "pushing" anything down anything. They are about the same height as the stuff they replaced.

Doesn't matter. Users are going to see this, and their mind is going to register "huge fucking banner ad". They aren't going to go find old screenshots, break out a ruler and do pixel by pixel comparisons.
Azure is OS agnostic; Linux runs great on it.
Kudos for effort.
I think even Marco says that kind of thing tongue in cheek. At least, I hope so.
>but is it correct to spy on your own people and partner countries?

It's rude, but I think to a degree it is acceptable, and probably expected. Friendly countries spy on each other all the time. For one thing, friendly countries might not remain friendly forever.
The 4K Panel Asus use for their monitor is a Sharp part, not a Samsung part; Sharp is, indeed, apparently the only company making these at the moment. Which may be part of why we don't see an Apple one; they tend to go with at least two suppliers for LCDs (possibly three) and Sharp's volume is likely very low for now.
I think the Guardian is just trying to ride the NSA gravy train at this point.
What a bad interface can do
Sure, but that doesn't mean that new money can't be created with a Bitcoin-based fractional reserve banking system, it just means they wouldn't have a central bank acting as a lender of last resort - though they could still get loans from other banks.
I was most productive--when I was unemployed
I absolutely love Tweetbot. I've paid for it on all my devices and use it every day.

That being said, I'm rapidly tiring of Paul's attitude toward his customers. It's like he takes everything negative said personally.

His Twitter bio says "Please don't contact me for tech support, I won't answer."

He often tweets things that annoy him about his customers like "But but but why do I have to pay again."

Paul, if you're reading this, I love your work but your public attitude is so often negative that it makes me not want to continue to support you.
Citation need. Google is on fact doing the opposite. If a chrome user types a URL into the omnibox, they do NOT get a search. Whereas typing a URL into a form field IS a search.
Ultimately, all humans are pretty different, and there is likely no one size fits all.

My younger brother always had a really hard time with the constraints my parent set - he would watch TV and play video games in secret, and even sneakily used their credit cards to pay for the MMO he played (he was in his early teens, and my parents didn't give us any allowance- they'd just give us some money if we wanted to go out with friends, or if we wanted a book they'd buy it for us. That worked for me, but not him). At some point my parents did try to not set any limits on his TV watching habits etc., thinking he would learn to self-moderate, as you described; for those few years, he basically spent his life in front of the TV and video games, doing literally nothing else. He's in his early 20s now, and still having a hard time with such matters.

What worked for you may or may not have worked for me, and definitely didn't work on my brother; what worked for me would have probably not worked for you, and definitely did not work for my brother.

Humans are interesting creatures, aren't they :)

I had one or two good friends whose parents were more like yours, and I loved going to their house because we would play video games until 4am and eat pizza and drink unlimited Coca Cola. Doing this once or twice a month was like heaven for me, and my parents were aware of it but were fine with it happening- I guess they thought "as long as it's not in my house and not too often, it's fine". However, one of those friends did not do immensely well later in college/life, to which my parents respond "I'm not surprised".

How I wish those questions had clear cut black/white answers :P
> It's important to treat the wider non-technical community with respect and as adults capable of making their own judgements and not as kids who need to be scared into safety.

I think the technical community gets particularly worked up over email security for the same reason that many scientifically literate people get violently angry at the anti-vaccination crowd. Being lax about vaccination requirements can compromise herd immunity, just as allowing other people to hand over their email credentials can potentially compromise my email security if I ever have to communicate with them.

In this case, I think the technical crowd is largely justified in their outrage. Even though any adult should be able to exercise their own judgement, they're not making their decision in a vacuum. Their decision affects others, so those who care have a vested interest in encouraging them to choose wisely. There's a negative externality at play here.
It's not about the dollar amount, which I tried to emphasize. It's about not giving updates for free, which for non-game apps is overwhelming the norm. As for the API key limit, I don't see why that makes a difference for this, unless Twitter has some specific rule that they allow new API keys if you release a new major version or something like that.
Business 101: Whenever you see a ridiculously huge growth figure like 103%, it's usually measured against a tiny base. See http://xkcd.com/1102/

Improving growth does mean either Microsoft's doing something right and/or the size of this market is increasing. But seeing a growth number this high means you should be very skeptical that cloud products will be able to carry the rest of Microsoft on their back going forward, or successfully challenge market leaders.
The whole thing is silly because browsing is clearly a reflection of installed base while "market share" is (usually) talking about the current rate of sales, which are fluctuating year by year on an exponential scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by
instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to
perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest
arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being
bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable
of leading in a heretical direction.

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous
thought presented itself. The process should be automatic,
instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He
presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the
earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than
water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not
understanding the arguments that contradicted them.
> I guess the more alarming trend is how a lot of tech companies and governments are picking up LTS Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows XP workstations they have had for 10+ years.

I have friends who work in the systems integration space and from their experience they don't see an evidence of this. Was there a number reported anywhere that makes you say this?
> it strikes me as unlikely that these factors are actually caused by race directly ... but the differences simply aren't all that large.

These are things you want to believe, but they are not true. The reality is that race plays a huge role in intelligence. It's totally unfair, but it is what it is. Ignoring it, and believing otherwise does not make it go away, or make it better. It makes it worse.

> Poverty and race are highly correlated in the US for various historical reasons

Poverty is also highly correlated with intelligence. More correlated than it is to race.

> link between poverty and scores as between race and scores.

Of course, because poverty is a proxy to intelligence.

> Picking a single one and pretending it's automatically important is the wrong way to do it.

Pretending that the main one is automatically not-important because it's unfair, and/or huts your world view, is also the wrong way to do it.
> Note: you’ll need to open a new Terminal window for changes in ~/.bash_profile to take place.

Alternatively, you can just do '. ~/.bash_profile' or 'source ~./bash_profile'.
If a competitors ad ever showed above a perfectly relevant organic result, THAT would be pitchfork time. Until then, if advertisers want to throw money at Google at as a show of "legitimacy" for brand development, bully for Google.
"that you will probably sound as uninformed"

I agree.

But only uninformed to those that are informed.

The rest might believe what is being said and not know the difference. That is actually the "danger". Especially in a topic that the majority of the crowd has little knowledge about. I run into this with a few topics that I know quite a bit about and am amazed at the back and forth blind leading the blind. [1]

[1] Add: Which doesn't bother me. What bothers me is exactly what you are talking about people making comments that I don't have a clue at all on.
But what about the GDP? Haha, it counts for nothing if you dont get paid. Kind of like it was worth nothing when I cleaned my own toilet, but now that I pay someone $20 to do it, the economy is so much more productive :P
Demonstrate, don't declare. So please, leverage some of that CFA knowledge and give us your take on Microsoft's quarterly report.

Otherwise, your comment sounds suspiciously like conversational terrorism, specifically the first item on this list:

http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
1,000s of PCs... So you work in a small Enterprise shop?
Also it is generally really cheap to buy that ad, so even if the incremental value is small it is still worth it. It also keeps you on top of anyone else bidding on your brand, if you brand is generic enough for them to get away with it.
> I don't know why this is on HN.

Because despite the fact that he is a wild-eyed Apple fan with hugely distorted opinions and is horrifically wrong much of the time, he has connections and insights into the Apple ecosystem that nobody else does. Just hold your nose and scan for the actual information in between lines of rubbish.
>The fabled year of the Linux desktop never happened.

Maybe history will prove me wrong, but I've got a feeling that Valve isn't quite ready to stop batting 1000.
From what I understand theoretical improvements in factoring algorithms go hand in hand with theoretical improvements in discrete logarithm algorithms, and for both there are algorithms which improve slightly over the trivial approach. ECC is considered better because of the believed constant factor slowdown in arithmetic operations on elliptic curves, not because discrete logarithm is considered harder than factoring. This article implies the opposite quite directly.
As someone who teaches mathematics (set theory, combinatorics, logic, algebra, etc.) to grade school children, I'd have to say you're way off base. Many first and second grade kids have impressive abstract reasoning skills, though they often lack the vocabulary to express their thoughts. If you want proof, just find an eight year old that's into a complex game (as many of them are) and ask them to discuss the strategy with you.
Not an accounting major so a genuine question: Why is non-GAAP operating income a better indicator than net profits?
I agree with lots of the replies here; Something else to consider is your product itself and how it's distributed. For example, releasing a Mobile Web App would probably make the domain name more important than releasing a Native Mobile App. In the case of a Mobile Web App, the domain becomes the distribution channel, and in some ways could be considered a part of the Product. In the case of a Native Mobile App, the domain becomes more of an information source and marketing tool while the Product itself is distributed via App Stores. Right now I'm working on a Native Mobile App for both iOS and Android, so an .io domain was fine with me (bought the .co anyway, the .com is being squatted). On another project, the Product is a Mobile Web App, so having the .com was important.

Ironically, I've found the availability of a domain name to be one of the leading deciding factors in naming a Product. Logically, I would think that the Trademark Status is more important, but 99% of the time the Trademark is Available while the .com is being squatted. Sucks.

I should also note that ICANN is about to roll out the new gTLD's. You can read more about it here: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/ I would expect that over time, the release of new gTLD's will change the perception of a .com being "better" than other domains.
I loved the last one. The huge thing that's missing for me on this one is the ability to make the text smaller. You get way fewer tweets on any screen. Probably going to downgrade
What are the three businesses you think Google has "locked up"?
> but what I cannot understand is why so many companies buy the topmost Google text ad even though their websites are already #1 organically?

Google's organic search takes lots of things into account, some of them personalization; a company that is usually #1 organically won't always be, and buying an ad makes it more likely that people will see your page first.
You can do yours checks and compare with the author's! It's a very fast thing to do for the checks you mention. The more people repeat it, the better.
But wouldn't older customers who just updated keep the same token, so it would only use new ones as new users bought the app? Losing tokens shouldn't have been a huge problem if this was the case.

That said, I still support them charging for the update.
The US public expects the NSA to devote its resources to protecting it from foreign threats, like terrorists, not its allies.
Does MSSQL run on Wine?
The only people that are going to use this new feature are people who already use LinkedIn a lot. In which case, they already know your IP addresses, since you're likely using LinkedIn from work, home, and mobile anyway. So if they're mining IP addresses, I'm not sure that this is providing something new.
Well, I can't speak to what's on the roadmaps of our competitors -- they don't share them with us! ;)

Speaking personally, I hadn't heard of kutsuplus, but we have tossed around ideas of doing some kind of "share a taxi" service (as distinct from "ride sharing.") It's an attractive concept, particularly as a way of attacking the basic problem of the taxi (writ broadly) industry: inflexible supply.

(As a digression: the demand for taxis is very spiky, both in a cyclical way (Friday nights are much bigger than Tuesday mid-day) and in special event ways (New Year's Eve and Your Music Festival Here will increase demand by multiples of the usual amount). But it's generally not economically worthwhile to hold a bunch of taxis sitting around in a parking lot only to roll them out a couple of times per year. So if you can find a way to get supply to your customers during high-demand periods, that's super-great).

The thing is, for useful taxi sharing, you need two things:

1. You need to know that person A and person B are fairly near each other and want a taxi at the same time.

2. You need to know that person A and person B want to go someplace fairly near each other.

#1 is pretty easy to know. Though it's not totally trivial. If person A tries to hail, you don't know yet that person B will try to hail 5 minutes later, and if your app is functioning well, it will probably have already dispatched a taxi to person A. Still, in high-demand times, perhaps you haven't yet gotten a taxi to person A by the time person B wants to hail.

#2 is much harder. Passengers do not like typing their destinations into a smartphone keyboard. In general, on every app I'm familiar with, most of the time you're blind to the destination of the passenger. The driver just rolls up and asks them about it.

Even if you solve #2, there are some timing, privacy, and interface issues to be concerned with. For example, imagine you're the second passenger to be picked up. Say you're someone who feels a little physically threatened by some people. Now a taxi rolls up, and the person you're to be sharing the back seat with is a large man who seems inebriated. Obviously, we don't want to share the exact location (pick up or drop off) of our passengers with other passengers -- but how do we inform a passenger of the potential ride share while keeping the other party private? Probably the answer is something like, "There's another passenger within 1/2 mile of you who would like to share a ride -- are you okay with doing it? You'll be dropped off first."

None of these are reasons not to do taxi sharing. I think they can be solved, and I think that the reward for sharing is big, especially in situations like a music festival, where at least one endpoint of the trip is shared. They're tricky enough that our app won't be rolling them out next week or anything, though.
We were ever that great, or is everyone else just finally catching up?