skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>passes on all the value to employees and contractors...instead of extracting that value their employees create

I was surprised to read your analysis of the situation. I must say that you're just flatly wrong.

Amazon is not a good place to work if you value your life outside of its value for your employer. Everyone from warehouse employees to the knowledge workers are sweated for everything they are worth. Recall that Amazon runs their warehouses like prisons and they have the lawsuits to show for it[1].

[1] http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-amazon-integrity-wage-...
I'd suggest to look at the freebsd ports build system. It is essentially declarative being built on top of Make language, and allows easy integration of various open source components and dependencies.

If targeting multiple platforms is of an essence, NetBSD pkgsrc provides a great model also built on top of Make.
You might find OpenIntro Statistics helpful:

http://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php

It's a free online statistics textbook, also available in print. I haven't used it extensively, so I can't vouch for its quality -- actually, I complain about it a bit in Statistics Done Wrong. But I've never come across a very good conceptual introduction to statistics, so this is roughly the best I know.

There are also amusing variations, like the cartoon guide to statistics:

http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/...

If you find a useful resource, I'd like to hear what worked for you.
China's Coming Economic Slowdown
Heck, my wordpress site (with cache plugin) survived the front page served over my home cable modem (5Mbps upstream)! And that is old-school Apache prefork…
I have been an iPhone user for upwards of three years, and used an iPod touch for two years prior to that. I hate iOS 7. The aesthetic is too bare and feels excessively simplistic, and the new animations have totally stripped me of the ability to perform multiple operations in quick succession. The OS looks worse and performs worse. (Not to mention the sheer volume of bugs that Apple neglected to fix. I might be able to tolerate iOS 7 if it hadn't broken the built-in dictionary, my lock button, and myriad other things. Unfortunately, it's been weeks and Apple has not issued fixes for any of these bugs.)

I've polled a fairly large number of students at my high school, and not one has reflected favorably on the change from iOS 6 to iOS 7. I'm not sure how other demographics feel about iOS 7, but the opinion of my cohort seems to be overwhelmingly negative.

iOS 7 has caused a major regression in the functionality and enjoyability of Apple's mobile products, and I think a lot of people are unhappy with the changes Apple made.

I've been eagerly anticipating the Nexus 5 since the day of iOS 7's release. Nothing will make me happier than to never have to tolerate iOS 7 again.
iOS 7 is pretty universally loathed among people I know...
In the corporate world in the UK, most developers move onto more businesses roles anyway. Due to outsourcing, more respect and what not.
Well, but they were roughly equal in their power to do so and in how much they did it.

Currently, it's closer to "all-or-none" switch, where the majority see all ads, while many see nearly no ads at all - and it's a quite different situation.
> Like I mentioned in another comment, both the Moto X and the LG G2 are great upgrades on Verizon from the Galaxy Nexus.

Part of it is that I don't want to drop any more money on a phone that has a locked bootloader - partly for convenience, and partly because I don't want to support that.

> Make sure you take T-Mo for a test drive first, to make sure you actually get reception everywhere you frequent.

I've actually been doing that for the last month with a Nexus 4, and the signal is way better. (Part of that is the toro's awful reception issues). The speed is actually oftentimes better on the Nexus 4 on T-Mobile too - a portion of that is due to Verizon's NYC 4G networks getting overcrowded recently.

> Also, I've heard you can sell your unlimited data plan online for several hundred dollars.

Is there a marketplace for this? I'd love to cash out on that.
64,081 is really close to 65536 (2^16) -- I wonder if the 64,000 vulnerable TLS keys have anything to do with a bug similar to the 2008 Debian SSL key fiasco, where the only contributor to the key's entropy was the PID (2^15 combinations). It would be interesting to see data about the types of devices that have these weak keys, but then again if there is a correlation its release could be used maliciously in the wild.
Ugh. Howabout "let's not, and say we did."

Being a 5 year-old can be so wonderful. There's no need to clutter her or his tender young mind with the abstruse terminology of your industry-addled mind.

Try changing the subject, and getting him or her interested in something else instead. You know, something real. Photon entanglement, colony collapse, bitcoin, exoplanets... really, just about anything else, please.
There's massive incentives to build in and around london. Its just getting the land thats the problem.
All substances in e-cigaretes are harmless in dozes they are normally taken+. IMHO this is sufficient to claim that a mix of harmless substances is also harmless so the burden of proof is on somebody saying that such a mix suddenly became harmful.

+ I know that nicotine has LD50, so does water and even oxygen is dangerous at high pressure.
I think he meant on the bogus side not the accused side.
Prof. Srinivasan:

While I thought your talk was interesting (and I really dig all the great work Counsyl is doing), it sounded like a 13 year old who just discovered Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for the first time and thought they had everything figured out. Your Silicon Valley neoliberalism is nothing new.

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron predicted this back in 1995 in their essay, The Californian Ideology: "Their politics appear to be impeccably libertarian - they want information technologies to be used to create a new 'Jeffersonian democracy' in cyberspace where every individual would be able to express themselves freely. Implacable in its certainties, the Californian Ideology offers a fatalistic vision of the natural and inevitable triumph of the hi-tech free market - a vision which is blind to racism, poverty and environmental degradation and which has no time to debate alternatives."

The original California Ideology Essay published in 1995:
http://w7.ens-lyon.fr/amrieu/IMG/pdf/Californian_ideology_Mu...

Kevin Kelly on The California Ideology:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/07/the_californi...

"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture by Thomas Streeter
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html
Please elaborate, in what ways are the literally average majority of Americans like 50 Cent or Paris Hilton?
> What's important is the other "minor tobacco alkaloids" like anatabine, anabasine, myosimine, etc.

Interesting. Could you provide more info about this?
Gopher+ does in fact resolve your second point by adding in a length header. All of your other points, with the exception of the TCP sliding window gripe, could be addressed through Gopher+ attribute fields. The Gopher+ specification [1] actually specified a "Mod-Date" field as part of the "+ADMIN" attribute, which could be used for caching. Even checksums could be added as well, through something like a "+SHA1" field.

Both the Overbite clients [2] and the Bucktooth server [3] support Gopher+. Pygopherd [4] also implements Gopher+. Many other clients support it as well; see a partial list in Floodgap's guide on using web browsers to access Gopherspace [5].

[1] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/tech/gopherplus.txt

[2] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

[3] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck

[4] gopher://gopher.quux.org/0/devel/gopher/pygopherd/About%20Pygopherd.txt

[5] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/wbgopher
I suppose the NSA is in charge. Presidents change all the time. High NSA officials could stay for decades. What's more, when somebody becomes President, they probably have amassed enough confidential information on that person to make sure that the NSA institutional interests are protected. (Puts tin-foil-hat of again)
Good point. In fact, the better researched article [1] describes precisely this:

According to state mouthpiece Xinhua, the woman’s brother-in-law said: "In fact, we understand those onlookers. Who dares to help when encountering such a thing. Everyone is afraid of getting into trouble."

I personally find it unfortunate that when it comes to Asians, even highly educated people often fail to see how their viewpoint is influenced by exasperated stereotypes. In addition, there is the colonialist mindset that it only takes a few years to completely understand Asian culture, or that all Westerners living in Asia are privy to great insights that Asians lack.

[1] http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/328584-chinese-woman-brain-d...
Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) - add beautiful widgets to your website.

It's cool because you don't need to do any coding to add beautiful and custom galleries, video players, mp3 players, and any other types of widgets to your website. Just copy/paste an embed code and you're done.

This helps you a lot especially if you're an agency or freelancer, or if you're using a publishing tool such as Wix, SquareSpace, Weebly, etc - where you don't have access to a server to upload files.
I'm not quite sure what modern media you're comparing this to, since in pretty much every meaningful case, this is still true. You can turn off youtube, your tv, the internet (erm; your connection, but I like my original one better.).

Perhaps more meaningful would be to note that the media in which ads can be presented have become more and more necessary in some equivilent subset of daily and work functions between now and 20 years ago.
What do you need to have a Java plugin installed for these days? I uninstalled it ages ago.
Wrong. The guidelines aren't that clear on what hacker news is, but they're quite clear on what hacker news isn't. Just because people upvote something, that doesn't automatically make it hacker news. Having said that, rest in peace Lou Reed. Your music was a big part of my life.
Congrats on getting something out there!

One thing I'm always most cautious about this is what do we really know? I can give you some advice about what I think you could do better, but I don't run a restaurant, and those are the conversations that really count. Maybe they'd prefer this page be brown with a yellow comic-sans font. So take this with an enormous grain of salt.

1) The lede concerns me. Is that how restaurant owners talk? They want to forecast better? If so, great. I have a feeling though that there is a different language they use. I don't know what it is though. If you do, than great keep going. If you don't you need to figure out what this language is. Find a restaurant owner and figure out what he has typed into google. Is it "how to increase restaurant sales" might be a more common question on their mind that you could fit into.

2) You need to show some social proof. Some testimonials. Someone somewhere has said something nice about you and/or this project. If not, that is step 1. Get whatever this is in front of someone that will say, "this is great".

3) I'm nervous self-service SaaS for restaurants might not be the right business model. I've talked with some restaurant owners. Many seem like their top of mind problems are keeping their employees from stealing or their glassware from chipping or their produce getting delivered on time. They don't seem like they have a ton of time figuring out a software system to help them. (I believe Opentable started by basically holding these restaurants hands and giving them the computers systems and everything they needed)

I have a feeling you'd have more luck getting a quick meeting in a booth at the back of the restaurant between lunch and dinner than getting owners to this landing page.

4) There's a great program in Chicago, called Inspiration Kitchen, a non-profit to help homeless people with things like training to work a kitchen to help them get jobs. There's other programs like this in other cities where non-profits are running kitchens and restaurants. If there's something like that in your area, and you volunteered with them for 2 hours a week, I bet you'd get some really nice connections and insight on how you could help them with software like this.
The ultimate irony.
Not to mention people who are price-sensitive. The iPhone and leading Android phones are very expensive, especially considering that they are locked into an exorbitant contract with a carrier. The Nexus 5 allows people to get first-class hardware and software at half the market price of most other phones and frees them from the tyranny of contracts.

For context, if our family of three were to buy only Nexus 5's and switch to T-Mobile's $30-per-month, unlimited-everything plan, we would save almost $100 per month over our current situation.

Contracts are an atrocity, and the Nexus program is the best way to circumvent them while still using superior hardware.
NSA is part of the DOD
I could say the save for the reverse.

I don't get at all why people want phones with a small screen.

Typing get hard, I have to zoom & pan to see a website, watching videos/photos on a small screen is not nice at all...

It's all a matter of personal preference, and habit. After using a Nexus 7 as my only mobile device for a while, I've come to find small a Galaxy S4.

It just seems that the majority of people prefer big screens over small screens. It might also be a market strategy, as a phone with a >5" screen could be on a different market (and so doesn't compete) than an iPhone.

That said, a "Nexus 5 mini" would be nice to make everyone happy.
Apple's iPad 2 problem
It's too bad they can't issue a blanket denial. "The President did NOT have a conversation about this topic on this date in time with this specific person." Worst denial ever.

Reminds me of Bill Clinton trying to parse the word "is" to only mean present tense, not past tense.
By contrast, in Norway if a medically trained person like a doctor or nurse walks past someone who needs assistance they can be stripped of their right to practice. And I think they can be fined/charged also.

Did a Google search and found there are duty to rescue laws in many places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue

Edit: Changed Wiki link from mobile to desktop version.
Right. It is not a Ponzi scheme. Investors price stocks based on the expected future cashflows. And those expected cashflows by the very definition reflect the non-zero probability of failure. Now, investors as a whole may overvalue or undervalue those cashflows - but this has nothing to do with a Ponzi scheme
Combine that with GoPhone or T-Mobile for $50-$60 a month and you can save a _lot_ of money over 2 years.
NSA Says Hackers Didn't Take Down Its Website
Out of which perhaps only ex-pos gets it right when it comes to a landing page. Avero's headline is somewhat of a turn off ("Wait, what app? Why do I need this app?"), Euclid's page sounds like a MBA wrote it (Maximize your custom...done, I'm not reading that), and restaurantsciences comes off as way too much of a corporate braggard, no offense intended.
Although .... When I lived in London I stopped a guy from beating up his girlfriend (he was, simply put beating her along the street). I had the girlfriend start attacking me with her stiletto :(

I am also reminded of this http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/04/ukcrime.features11

With all that said, whilst I might wade into a crazy situation; ignoring a situation is not some that I think is specific to china or a specific culture, but rather a failing of our innate social skills. There is a long list of research into the bystander effect (e..g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5YwN4NW5o) where if it is out of the comfort zone for people the simply choose not to observe the event, why do you think that most emergency guides start with the line "Call 911, don't assume that someone else will because they assume you already have"
Let's assume Obama had no idea, nay, not even a clue that Merkel was being spied on. What should the actions of the US be?

Good Foreign Policy: Call for an investigation with a reputable committee, and actually change laws or procedures, that make this action, or the discovery of this action impossible to happen going forward.

Bad Foreign Policy: Apologize to the leader of the nation, offer no solutions, and attempt to sideline the dramatic news.

Now instead of what should be the actions of the US in this situation, what do you think they will actually do?
The issue I see here is the author of this article has marginal experience with federal contracting. "The people who wrote the code for these systems are long gone...they are prone to transaction timeouts" ... wrong, wrong and wrong. There are plenty of coders still around maintaining these systems, even with the obscure technologies like MUMPS and all and they are running on rather robust hardware in huge datacenters.

Second of all, the government should NEVER outsource integration - the systems integrator requires an authority to manage other contractors that only the government is capable of holding.
Swiping stuff you don't understand will land you in a world of pain.
I have changed that, but still I can't launch spyder, because of an error :(
Most Apple customers won't be switching as the customer satisfaction indicates. Apple is also more successful in pulling customers from Samsung than the reverse. Samsung is a better proxy for the market because they completely dominate Android sales. Nexus phones are only sold to "Android enthusiasts" and pretty much have no distribution.

>Among buyers who switched brands, Apple took three times as many from Samsung (33%) as Samsung took from Apple (11%)

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/19/apple-samsung-survey-...
Do you worry about the quality of code?
I have recently submitted our app to the app store after weeks of coding and hacking things to work. At this point I have realized that the quality of code has deteriorated considerably even though it works. The structure of the code is not lost, but in order to make it work, I have put a lot of hacks.

When I look back at the code, I can't believe I have written it and there are 1000 other ways to write it better. But I am hard pressed for time since my team has to ship it fast and validate a few points for our next round.

So I wanted to find out from HN members, how do you keep track of the quality of the code? Do you try to keep it well structured and re-factor your code often? What steps do you take to maintain the quality of the code. I mean, not just writing 'good' code, but what do you do to ensure that it is easily re-factorable?
He lived a very full life.
Facebook wanted to acquire Snapchat for more than $1 billion
I have been helped by passers-by more times than I can remember here in Minnesota. One memorable occasion, on my first winter here after living in Taiwan for three years, was using my forgotten skills in driving on a snowy road to go to a meeting with friends. On the way back home, my car spun off a freeway entrance, burying itself into a snowbank just off the side of the driving lane. Within less than a minute, a woman passing by stopped and asked if she could help. Within no more than a minute more, a man driving a pickup truck worked out how to push my car out of the snowbank and back on to the freeway ramp. I see people stopping to help strangers here all the time.

I was walking home from a research run to the local public library the other day when I had a chance to be the helpful bystander. A woman at the local gas station, who appeared to be a South Asian woman in her forties, asked me to go over to her car. She was trying to fill her tires with air, but couldn't get the stem cap off from one of her tires. After I fiddled with it for a while, I was able to remove it. I asked her if she needed any more help, and she said no. She apparently had a high enough degree of social trust to ask a stranger to approach her.

Most of the personal injury situations I observe in my American life are young people injured at soccer games--always with bystanders around who know the children, often including medical doctors or nurses--or children who have fallen off their bikes. Whenever I see something like that, I respond. Once when one of my children fell off his bike and broke his arm, he was with two siblings (on the way home from the same library I frequent) and they worked out to send one child home speedily by bike, while the other sibling walked the other bikes and my injured son in the direction of home. I was able to meet up with him halfway and drive him to the hospital. We live in a safe neighborhood here, and part of what makes it safe is that neighbors look out for one another.

Social trust is almost always lower in dictatorships than in well functioning democracies. (My two stays in Taiwan, one in the early 1980s under the dictatorship, and one around the turn of the century after democratization, provided vivid examples of that.) People in Taiwan have always been very kind to foreigners in low-danger encounters. But I recall more bystander neglect amid the frequent traffic crashes of motorcycles there under the dictatorship than over a similar time span under the freely elected government. China probably has to move in the direction of more political power to the people and less censorship of information channels to build up more social trust and more care for strangers.
That combined with T-Mobile's $30-per-month unlimited plan makes for a ridiculous value.

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2013/06/t-mobile-has-a-secret-pl...
Too bad it doesn't matter. As long as the US government can do what it does with forced silence, I'm not trusting any provider within the border.
Which is unfortunate, cause a site demo would be great to see when everyone has their interest piqued. Hopefully we'll see another Show HN when they actually launch.
Windows Defender did not have anti-virus until Win8.
Not in most cases as far as I know, unless it is specifically sandboxed.
Unfortunately, it's very common to give someone more responsibility without giving them more control, and that can make the person's life much worse than it was before. For example, if you make me a project leader and give me responsibility for the output of an entire team but you don't give me hire/fire authority or a budget to buy the equipment I need, then the only way I can ensure that we make our deadlines is to work ridiculous hours to tie up everyone else's loose ends.
Artist's rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VMcBCfJI8
At this point yes. 5 years from now no. They should have a special plug on those things and charge them for the electricity they use. Right now they are middle and upper class vehicles and we should deal with them at this point instead of allowing one of the easiest to pay and plan taxes go away.

These big charges are nothing but poor and low income killers. Low income have to drive more do to pricing of housing. Never mind the various articles on low-income people no longer having bank accounts.

> Name. Vehicle info. License plate tag. Credit card info. Charge monthly. Email receipt. Done.

Good for you and not for large chunks of the US.
Nov 1? Isn't this a PR faux-pax--a press event/release on a Friday? I thought it was best to make announcement earlier in the week to maximize media coverage.
Almost every human is capable of speech. We have a built in interpreter that can recognize and produce an infinite amount of understandable sentences.

By your logic. Everyone who can speak is Shakespeare.
Are you really sure about your first point? I have a state government counterexample here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622223

As for the second, whatever might be right, we've been told that only the Pentagon has retained that ability for "medium sized" weapons projects. Anyone know anything to the contrary?