skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free shipping creates an arbitrage opportunity: buy 20 tags for 0.5 GBP/each. Mail them to the shipper, for a little bit extra (0.3GBP maybe? don't know what postage is in the UK.)

You can now have items shipped for $0.8GBP/each.
A list on big data +law. Help yourself and add some links.
I think it's pretty clear when you read things like

http://googleblog.blogspot.fi/2011/08/when-patents-attack-an...
use the akismet plugin to block majority of spam comments / attacks
Why does Sweden have so many billionaires?
I dont see the problem all that was filled in was my name. The other fields were left blank. Even when I reentered it after the other fields popped up.
You ever see the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets (great show, and largely based on actual incidents, at least for the first two seasons) where a guy confesses he accidentally shot some guy, but it's OK because he meant to kill someone else? I think you and he want to live in the same country.
Likewise. I have some reservations about the ACLU (but nonetheless support many areas of their work) but wholeheartedly support the ACLU.

Because I know folks will ask me, I think that antidiscrimination law and things like first amendment rights so frequently conflict that I think there is a real conflict of interest when an organization takes on both. The ACLU does take on both, or they claim to, but this usually means pushing antidiscrimination law over first amendment issues, which I think is a real problem.
This is true, and actually a pretty smart feature, but you have to take the time to double-check (which I suspect most users won't).
They need to subpoena those external gps records and give them a ticket and suspend their license for every state they went through over 100mph.

Think about how many lives they endangered.
Enjoy that while you're young ... I once spent a month sleeping every other night to complete a project (note: not everyone loses focus after x hours and I did take Edison style 20 minute naps a few times a day).

Now that I'm older, I find it hard to stay awake when it's approaching midnight, but I'm often back up by 0330 to 0430 in the morning. I probably sleep less in total than I used to.
Stop worrying about oversharing
This looks really pretty good. I think I would miss things like ng-each, but I guess not that's not -too- hard to re-implement using $.data('each'). Maybe.
I will consider using this for a site I'm building right now, see what happens.
That's the source code he wants you to believe he is running :P
One count(*) query per request is not expensive at all. Suppose you cache the count and someone else adds rows to the collection. Your cached count is not getting updated and the whole reactivity concept breaks down since your app now thinks the row count is different from what it really is.
It does show the importance of choosing a good title to attract enough attention to get to the front page. This is textbook copy writing.
Depends. Music helps me to focus or block outside focus. My favorite is Hans Zimmer station on Pandora.
On HN (or another startup / business-oriented board), I'd agree it's a bit confusing.

In terms of UI development, the Model-View-Presenter pattern has been around (and fairly mainstream) for a couple of decades now, so the target audience will probably assume correctly.
Then full circle to GMail.
Hehehe cheerful :D
There's quite a bit of discussion about the driving cultures of the US vs. Germany. In particular, Germans appear to think that you should pay attention when driving. The US attitude to driving is best exemplified by the fact that most family cars now have 2-3 cup holders per seat and two or more video screens.
Ask HN: What do I need to do to be able to 'flag' posts
I lost that ability a few months ago, and still waiting to get it back. I don't think I ever abused the power.
It's not. This use case is pretty niche, and generally not recommended for most apps.
Meh, I wasn't confused 'cuz it said "framework," but I guess I'm more of a hacker than a startup junky. ^_^
I love the refreshingly minimal approach, although jQuery dependency ruins some of the excitement, but still, great work guys!
It's an issue for me with the Lastpass addon in Firefox, if I use the Lastpass autofill. That doesn't make it a Firefox issue, of course.
How do flies do it? They don't have protective cages. Why doesn't a fly's wings break when it crashes? Why can't we replicate it mechanically?
I read "Why does Snowden..." lol :)
> Apparently, you shouldn't use Google Chrome. (And Google software in general.)

Fixed that for you.
Everyone drives a little illegally ;-)
So what happens if someone (a loseproof member) finds the items but decides not to return it ?.
It can help muggers too , why the need to mug someone directly, become a loseproof member and you will get to know the approximate location of the item.
And then he looks for it for a day , finds it and sells it .
I only pipe in-house projects I host myself and know exactly what will be the result, piping from the web seems rather naive.
I'm using Chrome version 30.0.1599.101 m on Vista. The form did what the post said it would - all those extra fields got filled in.
"The fact that one of them is slightly better than the other in one regard doesn't change the fact that neither of them are really that worthy of your support"

Retaining them defensively isn't "slightly better". Using them offensively is significantly worse.

"You're right that Google haven't been patent aggressors up until now but if recent behaviour teaches us anything it's that Google have been very willing to change what they've stood for historically. If you believe that they'd never change that position if they felt it suited them then you have more faith in them than I do."

That just sounds like weak speculation to me. Patent fee extortion is the sort of thing you do if you have a gradually declining (Apple) or minimal (MS) market share.
I'm unhappy with Apple and Microsoft too, but the real enemy is a broken patent system that creates the perverse incentives that motivate companies to launch lawsuits like this one, to the detriment of society.

Regardless of who wins, we have already lost, because we have a patent system that discourages innovation and competition in software!

Maybe the prospect of patent Armageddon will finally force lawmakers to address the issue head on. I'm hopeful. As Winston Churchill supposedly said, "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else."

--

PS. I highly recommend Gary Reback's 2002 article, "Patently Absurd," which accurately depicts how patents are used by large corporations: http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044_print.html

--

Edits: grammar and style; also, added PS and qualified quote with "supposedly," because it's unclear if Churchill ever actually said those words (thanks icebraining and drabiega for pointing that out).
How can someone just beat Resig's or Jashkenas' code performance "that easily"?
How an epic blunder by Adobe could strengthen hand of password crackers
That's the Non Aggression Principle at work, or at least a pretty common and equally stupid interpretation thereof:

They clearly did not initiate violence against anyone, therefore, any intervention limiting their freedom to recklessly drive at insane speeds for nearly 29 hours with basically no sleep would be immoral.
>>how many people take advantage of it?

The Chinese do.
Funny, my profile is still using the old one and it doesn't seem like I can update to the new one. Oh well, I wasn't going to use it anyway I guess.

I mainly used it for reading news and I now use feedly.com for that.
> There is no longer competition about the best user experience or the best technical solution to an engineering problem but competition about who can file the best vague, yet court approved patent and secure the most destructive intellectual properties. I don't understand why we are still only talking about reforming the patent system.

Seriously?

iOS7 and Android Kit Kat both move user experience forward both in terms of the UI and the functionality offered. The latest iPhones, Android phones and Lumias are clearly better than what went before. I suspect if you asked average engineers at Apple, Google or Microsoft how much of their time and energy is taken up addressing problems caused by patents the number would be pretty small and if you look at how much those companies spend on patents, lawyers and settlements it's dwarfed by what they spend on product development.

To put the giant $4.5bn spent on the patents in question in context (and remember that's was shared between several companies), it's about what Samsung spend on marketing in a year or half of Apple's 5C/5S iPhone sales for the first weekend they were on sale.

Yes patents are impacting the industry but that's not to say that competition about things users care about has stopped, it's just slowing things up a bit.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

there is an account of an NSA employee thinking through the morality of his work
I added the word "apparently", coz I don't know if what the article claims is true or not...
By doing less.
> Prosecutors may not need to prove motive or intent, for example.

This is true but even for strict liability crimes there may be vagueness problems unless you can show some degree of at least a very general intent.

For example consider rape. You can't imprison someone because of a totally reasonable misunderstanding of this sort, so typically you are going to have to construct consent from the view of the accused. This leads to all sorts of things like (in many/most/all? states) the nature of the relationship is relevant. If you wake a woman up with sex and she's your wife and you normally share a bed, no prosecutor anywhere is going to consider that rape, but if you move into the bed of a friend-of-a-friend you let sleep in your guest room and wake her up with sex, that will be.

These things get really complicated. My reading of the cases in the US which have ordered compelled encryption have held that there was already full testimony that the documents existed and were of a certain nature, and were decryptable by the defendant that it was solely a matter of demonstrating what was already testified to.
The PDF written offer seems to request that you send e-mail to mobile@huawei.com. Have you tried sending a request to that e-mail?

Note that the GPL does not require that the source code be made available on-line. If the binaries were distributed to you, the entity which distributed the binaries is obligated to send you the sources on request, but they can come on a CD, DVD, or potentially even 9-track tape.
This can only be good :)
An attacker that can make use of an auto-completing password field has got enough access to mean that the game is over anyway - they can get that password from a variety of other sources on the machine.

Turning off autocomplete on login fields doesn't make that form more secure, and it does annoy users.

As kalleboo says, it probably reduces security as your users change to easy to type passwords, or keep needing password resets.
The Nexus 5 is also a high-end phone that's spec-comparable to the iPhone 5S. For me, and I think a lot of other people, the Nexus brand has come to mean high specs, stock software, future upgrades and low price. Those asking for an iPhone-size Nexus are asking for a device under $400.
As an engineer, I'm repulsed by the whole deal, to the point of feeling sick about it.

I'm going to get a lot of negative posts about hyperbole, but no, I legitimately get red in the face and get a headache whenever I think too hard about the patent wars. It is our fucking JOB to build things, to move technology forward, that is at least, my entire reason for being what I am.

so in my eyes at least; fuck the patent system; fuck the american built system for repressing innovation for "corporate protections." We all argue about whether it's a "better or worse" solution but at this point, when I spend 99% of my time hearing about the billions spent on suppressing innovation rather than supporting it, it makes me realize I want little to no part in the system that motivates this.

I will have no part of it. My code will be open. I will build things that I care about, and give them to the world, and hopefully work at a place that repays me for that (as I have found now.) Consider this my very ill-placed manifesto to in my own endeavors, support innovation, not the ill-gotten-gains of the future holder of my patents.

(I'm not sure if I put this here to get it out there; or for comments; or for thoughts; I think mostly I just feel that it needs to be said, although perhaps unnecessarily alongside an ocean of similar replies :P)
Why 83% of Teams Are Agile and Why You Should Be Too
Personally I started investigating and using a production system[1] which introduced a bunch of basic concepts and I read a few papers such as the Dynamo paper[2]. Then I went deeper into riak_core[3] and Erlang/OTP. At this point I have a context in which to read and understand more papers (such as those OP linked) and I've studied concepts such as Eventual Consistency, Vector Clocks, Map Reduce, Gossip Protocols, etc.

I'm not an expert by any means but I found this route to be a fun one and the riak/erlang related irc channels are awesome (and helpful) to hang around in.

[1] Riak: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/downloads/
[2] http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/dec...
[3] https://github.com/basho/riak_core
[4] http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf
Usually I agree that people will blindly click through, but I don't see people clicking through this[1]. Especially if Safari said it would auto-fill your credit card number and you weren't buying anything?

[1] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s356/sh/dcf7867e-eb16-4e0e-83...
> The mark? Alex Roy and David Maher's cross-country record of 31 hours and 4 minutes, which they set in a modified BMW M5 in 2006.

If you want to read more on Roy/Maher's record race that beat the previous record by an hour and three minutes, put this well-writen piece in Wired on your weekend reading list:

http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_canno...
Day 4 : PredictionIO : How to Build Blog Recommender
Yes the quoted replies are from that email.

Seems to be that the source codes can come on a CD 2.9 years later after I receive the binaries.
We know for an absolute fact that if the Federal system is off-line, as happened when Verizon recently goofed, the state exchanges can't function.

In addition to who knows what else, the Federal system is the only one allowed to do subsidy calculations, which makes sense because if a policy is bought with them, that results in a draw on the Federal fisc. So the state exchanges use it for that purpose, and in theory someday insurers will be able to use it so you can buy directly from them and take advantage of any subsidy due you (that's obviously a very low priority for the Federal site).
A teespring for the banksyny t-shirt design
I made a teespring campaign for the t-shirt design banksy posted on his final day in NY. If you're too lazy to make your own or just want to contribute, I'll be donating all proceeds to 5 pointz.
Exactly this. They're both fine, just not at the same time. Don't mix them.
key feature of many frameworks is that they break if you don't follow them carefully, limiting damage from 10x developer's hacked together code. does riot provide similar functionality?
> I can easily stay up for 30 hours with little to no side effects.

You think you can stay up for 30 hours with little to no side effects. Maybe you can when you're not driving, but being behind the wheel adds a bunch of stuff that causes tiredness. It's boring, there's a monotonous sound from road surface, the road is hypnotic.

Try it - get a game console and some driving game (like Forza or Gran Turismo) and do the very long races for 30 hours.
Thanks. jQuery dependency is intentional since the library promotes the use of jQuery on the presenter layer.
Too bad it doesn't support xlsx and the older BIFF5 xls format..
Would be nice to have Angular, Backbone and Knockout included in the speed graph.
The current crop of frameworks do feel like they're trying to abstract away the browser a little bit. They have the feel of something like JSF1 (java), they get the job done but the abstraction is so thick that it's difficult to integrate things like jquery without jumping through a few hoops. A lighter framework that achieves the same things without all the fuss would be very welcome. The danger is that the abstraction is too thin and you end up writing half a framework yourself to plug the gaps but maybe riotjs has managed to get closer to the sweet spot.
Lord of the Startups - Interview with PG
[Retracted.]

... but, if you're going to test Underscore templates for speed, you need to use the `variable` setting to avoid the `with` block.
List of Blogs & Resources on Ghost - Blogging Platform?
Can anyone list blogs, websites or any resources on Ghost Blogging platform?
http://blog.ghost.org is the official blog.
> Perhaps enough for a C&C channel be not really enough to exfiltrate data.

I really really really hate to say "APT," but if you had a gapped, infected PC sitting next to an internet PC; and both were powered up 24x7 for months with the infection undiscovered, you could grab a significant amount of data.
What Kanye West's new logo should look like
I found this pretty good -

http://discoverghost.com/
Sind Probekapitel vorhanden?
Your Coffee Sucks RayWilliamJohnson Parody.
Developing with Riot is completely different from other frameworks. It's just 3 functions and after 1.0 the API will be hardened. It's more of a design pattern than a framework. The application developer is the biggest culprit for breaking things.
> "piping to a shell" is _impossible_ to inspect

Absolutely not. The author points out 1 way in which stupid inspecting could be beaten, however you can always do

$ curl https://coolscript.com/script > tmp.sh
$ cat tmp.sh
echo "I'm safe!"
$ ./tmp.sh
if the article is too difficult to follow, there is always

Adventures in Synthetic Biology

http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/

That is the comic I read a Synthetic Biology REU at Princeton. At that point, Drew Endy was at MIT and our leader Ron Weiss was at Princeton.

People have shuffled around a bit in 7 years
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Endy:Lab
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/synbio/
Launch soon could be nice, maybe do a partnership with some themeforest designers to cross promote.
I'd go so far as to say that Windows RT is more open than iOS-with Windows RT you have built in Windows Explorer, and command line access. And a non crippled browser (desktop IE 11 vs mobile Safari).
Orly, seriously? Find me the study that proves that for a group that is larger than a few million! Please just prove this point. It is sooo naive to just assume, "hey I saw 5 chick sand a hen, the hen ruled them, I think hundreds of millions of americans must be ruled by one hen too". Clever, clever... I am writing a scientific paper and just believe me (as you seem to believe easily, without proof) that Hierarchy is natural in small groups only, remember small groups. Absolutely NOT scalable!

I am sorry for my tone, sir. I didn't want to educate you or spray my opinion in your face. But please understand me, it drives me mad when people still believe that it's natural that the World, the Country, or the Cities must be ruled by one leader. To me it's as if somebody is truly believing that the earth is flat and want's to convince everybody else about that.
It's compiling once before the loop.
Hey Mikko; I'm a sysadmin at a research university, and I'd be very curious in at least "picking your brain" about your tool. I can't make any promises about actual usage, but I always love to see a novel approaches to relevant problems.

Do you have any sort of github/project page?
I got an Auria, and I think I got a dud based on what my friends say. :( I can see colors shifting on the screen even when clicking different "inbox" tabs inside of Gmail. The text isn't very sharp, it's fuzzy. At first I thought it was because of the AD coating...but now not sure. I'm going to go talk to the place I bought it from, hoping they'll exchange it or something (even though it's been a few months since I purchased).
just bought it and now it says:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/aee8a9f9-e438-4b6d-9051...
> Buying whatever Nexus is out there when I needed a new phone has always been a no-brainer. Not so anymore.

Interesting, I would not have expected so much importance to be placed on unspecified rolling updates.

My current phone is the only Nexus device I've ever had, but it was easily my best unlocked option at $250-300 US. I think that holds whether it's running 4.2 or the latest.
What's changing in next major version of KDE Plasma desktop
Reading the alt-text of that one is particularly depressing.

I want 60fps movies damnit.
I really like this outlook.

Most developers don't bother about the presentation layer and they think that jQuery is a pain but most front-end designer and developers rely on it.

Great step.
Tomorrow on HN: IaaS (Insults as a Service).
Thought I have a newer monitor (see below), I'm still using a really good Dell 24" (2408) that I bought many, many years ago. I've gone through several computers since, but this monitor's been awesome.

Money spent on good external monitors is well spent, and it actually amazes me more isn't happing on this front on desktop monitors.
Show HN: chefdash - realtime DevOps dashboard
https://github.com/moot/riotjs/blob/master/riot.js#L12-L21

By only supporting simple single property accesses. All that this can do is print values from an object — no loops, conditionals, filters, methods, or anything else — like the others support. Think string interpolation, not templates.
It looks to me that it is really a wrong system when you can buy patents only to sue someone in the future. And it rarely benefits people who create stuff
If you could buy patents only to use them (but the ownership of a patent would not be transferable) there would be no patent trolls
Java EE 7 and IntelliJ IDEA 13: RESTful Web Services Made Easy
Feinstein Releases Fake NSA Reform Bill, Legalizing NSA Bulk Data Collection
Hello, i fixed that. Please try again. Sorry for the issue!
Letter of Edward Snowden to the German government
I would agree, but the wealth gap exists here too and it's growing bigger. There are only a handful people who have earn a big percentage of what's earned in total in the country. Sorry, but had to make this clear. I am from Europe.

Countries with most Billionaires:
1) USA – 409
2) China – 317
3) Russia – 88
4) Germany – 61
5) England – 56
6) India – 53
7) Switzerland – 41
8) Brazil – 33
9) Taiwan – 32
10) France – 31
10) Turkey – 31

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germans_by_net_worth

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_500_reichsten_Deutsch...
Microsoft earns $10 per android handset

No they don't. This is one of those factoids that gains truth through repeated assertion, but it simply isn't true.
Probier das:
http://www.zenprogrammer.org/en/the10rulesofazenprogrammer.h...
(das Buch wird noch in Deutsch übersetzt, dauert aber noch etwas bis das fertig ist)
click Oh look, it's a paywall or something. Alt+Left arrow

Sorry, exactly why should I be registering, without even a glance of what's inside? I've seen enough closed Q&A gardens - e.g. ExpertSexChange and Quora - for such sight to drive me off, instantly.

How is this different from the other Q&A solutions out there? And more specifically, how is this not broken? For me as a casual bystander, the paywall (or login wall, whatever; duck test passed) is one of the signs of a broken Q&A site.
For me it looks like he's just using Haskell conventions. People in Haskell land use such short variable names for abstract variables. (I.e. when you don't really know much about their type.)
@tipirai Could you please put up more posts on usage and the documentation?
I think you'll fine nowinsult.me redirects to nowcheerup.me ;-)