skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They want real personal information from real human."

I don't understand why they would want that. The kind of analytics data you can get from a Google profile is much more useful to advertisers than vague demographic categories like age or location (I mean, you can guess at these categories from Google's data, but if you know that someone acts like a 23 year old woman from Austin, that's more useful for marketing purposes than knowing that they actually are a 23 year old woman from Austin).
American lost my bag on the way back from Italy a few years back, wouldn't answer the phone, called security when I went back to the baggage claim at the airport to ask them what was going on, and when they found the bag, they sent it to San Jose Costa Rica on a boat, instead of San Jose California. Of course I never saw that bag again.

I learned that baggage losses are balanced against the cost of paying for more reliable and trustworthy baggage handlers, and customer service is subject to a similar balancing act.

I also started travelling lighter, and keeping an extra day's clothing in my carry-on bag. It's much more difficult to be prepared for baggage loss with a kid, but it was worth it. Try running out of diapers because planes are delayed. When was the last time you saw diapers for sale in an airport?
Did not know I was so (in)famous :))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reamde
> it in no way contradicts when you can and can't travel on account of there being zombies everywhere

I was meaning the bits when they are walking along the DLR tracks.
It will harm the bottom line. When user experience isn't taken seriously, the effects will be felt - yes at the bottom line. Facebook is now admitting it has a problem in the "cool" teen department. Because of Facebook's privacy blunders, it has put itself in the spotlight whenever a change is needed to the ToS, DUP, or Privacy Policy. Does anyone really think that it costs Facebook less to deal with these issues (dollars and time)? Google will not be an exception. Someone, will come along and fill in the gap to make their marketing costs even more interesting.
> "what's the hardest thing you have ever done?"

There is a good chance they meant what project stretched your abilities the most. Or which project did you have to grow the most to complete.

Learning and stretching ones self varies in difficulty from person to person. For many people it is considered hard to extremely hard so ability stretching/growing project is synonymous with a hard project.

> Also one of their interviewers called my code "shaky" after pairing, which could be true, but it's not very constructive or specific is it?

No that is not very specific, which is unfortunate. A founder's comment in this thread mentioned that they think their time is best spent reviewing more application rather then going in depth with fewer. So not giving in depth, specific responses is complementary to their strategy of interviewing more people.

They might be better off giving less or no feedback rather then anything off the cuff. Hard to balance that against an applicants frustration at getting no feedback however.
We really need phone numbers v6 so we can give each entity we interact with a unique phone number.
Yes. Americans keep complaining about their government, yet every election they keep on voting for the same party they voted for last time, the same one that already did what the didn't like - or they don't bother. Where I live, people complain that they can't influence politics, they can't even complain about the government online without getting arrested. They don't have voting rights to do anything about it. Americans do! No amount of lobbying can force you to vote for someone you don't want.
If I remember correctly, one of the many stores in Changi Airport’s transit area carries diapers.
For example France doesn't rely on GPS for military purpose, mostly using inertial positioning systems that drift and require re-calibration. (sometimes with dramatic effects like when 2 soldiers got killed in the wrong country in Africa because they had drifted)

There is a giant network of ground stations around the world so that french submarine can re-calibrate their positioning system periodically. It's a unique solution that only works when you have territories all over the world, since you don't want to position your nuclear power with a foreign system.
The data's not scary, what's scary is how people use it. Credit scores are designed to quantify the risk of loaning someone money. If you use them for anything else (like screening job applicants), you're going to get bad results.

At that point, you might as well go back to measuring the distance between facial features.
A similar experiment was done in Paris a few weeks ago: http://vimeo.com/74857458
For me the simplest solution is keeping different accounts active in different browsers. I've not cheked all the options with youtube and such, so maybe it doesnt work for youtube alias, but it seems to behave correctly so far to have several accounts open at the same time but not merged.
I can't help but feel that if someone deletes their comment, its polite to respect their wishes and keep the comment deleted.
Only a year? Unfortunately, you were lucky.
Since when was a social security number not meant to be an identifier?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I presumed that was its one stated purpose?
Nothing new afaik. I thought telephone numbers have been used all the time as one part of assessing reputation. As well as when you order cabs or pizza (or what ever), if 100% of hundreds of the calls you have made this far have been pranks, I'm quite sure they won't send more pizza or cabs. Or if you're making 10th bomb threat today, and you'll keep doing that on daily basis as local village idiot.
Same applies to telephone marketing companies, I haven't ever bought anything, and they're not trying to sell me anything anymore.
previous discussion thread (3 weeks ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656419
Looking at Amazon and the internet, it looks like its FAR more than xbox360 fail rate.
Thank you for the details. I appreciate the approach you are taking.
You are vastly overgeneralizing. Have you ever digged into the heavily moderated subreddits? The front page is not particularly representative of the positive parts of anonymity that spenvo is talking about. I am a very active reddit user and respectfully, you have no clue what you are talking about.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that reddit as a whole is representative of the younger (<30) parts of American society, not just a particular demographic or political group. Reddit has > 50 million users and is a very heterogenuous community. It is not just some hangout exclusive to nerds any longer. So you will see every political opinion and every positive and negative personal characteristic. As usual, the front page will show the lowest common denominator. There is by definition no way this could be any different, which you can see even if you look at the comments under any national newspaper article.
I think you are kind of been unfair. How do you know that there is not any market for something like this? Have you gone out there and tried to market a smiler product? Also you state that AWS is cheaper. Can you give us some numbers? Could you explain why AWS is cheaper, than Crowdprocess? On the Ethical issue I think they require an opt in.
How can you object to this? The original post asked why Google engaged in certain behavior. The person who replied was not the one who made the policy, so he explained the reasoning of management.

If you are complaining about the fact that this phrasing suggests that jmilikin does not agree with management's stated reasoning then again I don't understand where you are coming from. I have seen some startups where every employee always agreed with all corporate decisions, but those were single-person startups that had not yet made their first hire. Disagreement is normal. Handling disagreement well is a sign of maturity. Being open about the reasons for the disagreement while still going along with it (and avoiding personal criticism) is a sign of maturity.

If anything, this reply reassures me. I think that the insistence on the use of "real names" with G+ and the use of G+ with all their offerings (even in the face of vocal and well-reasoned opposition by their userbase) is a sign that Google may have lost it. Hearing the reasons is (slightly) reassuring. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding which will eventually be corrected, rather than a conscious intention to screw over their users.
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Wow! Terrific. We've needed a resource like this for a long time in the R community, and Hadley is the one to write it!
Changi also has a regularly stocked 7-11, something every airport should have.
Also, it looks - at a glance - like more of the 5* reviews are from verified purchasers than the 1* reviews. Presumably a bunch of people who didn't buy from Amazon and had a DOA PS4 went onto Amazon and posted an angry review, but people who got a working one had no reason to.
Small claims court. Take them for the maximum allowed in your state.
I mean, this guy is the biggest bitch there is, really. He acts as if this is the first time a bag has been lost/stolen. Welcome to earth, first time travelling?

Instead of wearing the same clothes for five days, i don't know, how about going to buy some new clothes at some shop; you did just land in London, yeah? You do have a little spare cash to spend, right?

And the best part is that he blames American Airlines, London. American Airlines didn't steal your bag, genius, some scum-bag did, from where you departed. CALL THEM.

and how does this even belong on HN?
You're of course right (with a few exceptions), but I thought that was what made the web so great?! Granted, this are changing as we speak.
Exactly.

There are four types of meeting: mouse 1 entered -> mouse 2 entered -> mouse 2 left -> mouse 1 left; mouse 1 entered -> mouse 2 entered -> mouse 1 left -> mouse 2 left; mouse 2 entered -> mouse 1 entered -> mouse 1 left -> mouse 2 left; mouse 2 entered -> mouse 1 entered -> mouse 2 left -> mouse 1 left.

Then the meeting record contains the times the two were together and the duration of this.

The dumb approach is very slow. Would it be a good idea to read all stay results in Scala (or whatever) and try to do the searching in memory, completely eliminating th db? But then the comparisons would be more expensive...
Well, here's Stallman as a shell 1-liner

curl -s "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" |grep "<li>" | grep -v -E "(Chapter|href|Source:)" | perl -MList::Util -e 'print List::Util::shuffle <>' | head -n1 | sed -E -e "s#</?(li|i|b)>##g"
Well a cynic would say that in the case of the student assignment it was more about forcing everyone to put in the same number of hours than it was about efficient knowledge transfer.
Growth of 3,000%? Meet Britain's top tech startups
I think Google will do what Google wants to do and that there are other agendas in play.

The reasonable thing would be to give people the option of uniting their different accounts for purposes of convenience, or not as they so choose.
Tech journalists can't write original content
The fact that the original article wasn't even that original and was poorly written just makes this sad. Perhaps journalists just want to jump on anything that goes viral for no reason.
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What Nibbol Means for Your Pet’s Healthcare
The baggage policy you agree to and pay for is basically, "if we lose your bag or smash it into very small pieces, we will pay you $20." Then when they lose your bag or smash it into small pieces, people want more than $20, and write angry blog posts when they don't get more than $20. I don't get it. Have these people never heard of FedEx or UPS? They will transport your bag on an aircraft and sell you insurance against loss or damage. Why choose the inferior product if you don't want inferior results? (I do know why: cost. Everyone wants a free lunch.)

Ultimately, I have to say that I'm a fan of the brave new world of air travel. I used to hate all the nickle-and-diming, but while doing all that hating, I didn't realize how cheaply one can move around the country. JFK-SFO is like $300 round-trip now. 5000 miles in a FLYING MACHINE for $300! But instead, people complain that their bags are not insured for $10,000 each, or that they have to pay $100 for more leg room. Well, yeah. If it was "free", then someone else would book their ticket earlier than you and you wouldn't even have the option of getting more leg room.

(Also, am I the only person that likes American Airlines? 400,000 miles, and I only have one experience that really made me mad.)
It is not simultaneous. I use the Gillespie technique for stochastic simulation. I select a mouse at random to change boxes, depending on its transition rate compared to the transition rate of the system as a whole.
Steam is very in your face.

But it provides huge amounts of value and minimal pain. The biggest problem I have with steam now is that the app can be pretty laggy and I can't move it to my second screen for some reason. Neither of those things hurts my gaming experience. I get a friend system, integrated store, automatic updates, game distribution, achievements, in game browser overlay, steam cloud, etc...

But I still can't play my games without steam. I still can't sell them. I still can't loan them to a friend. It's just that I don't really care.
Interesting, what are some example queries that we can try on the Bing vs Google challenge that will highlight this? (http://www.bingiton.com)
Web-of-trust rather then CA-rooted, with more attention placed on who the signers are.

i.e. if I'm using my bank, then what matters to me is whether the bank is certified by my government, not VeriSign or whoever. If it's a foreign bank, then it matters whether their government trusts them, and it matters to me whether MY government trusts them.

If it's NOT a bank, then maybe my trust requirements are different. But the UI for all this and details are everything - but I think we've definitely stuck way too much import on that little green padlock icon without doing enough to educate users moment to moment about what it means.
On Wikipedia, we tend to not use indefinite IP blocks (there are some, but not many).

For business and organisation IPs, if we get vandalism from that IP, we'll stick it on a long-term block (usually a year) and renew that block if there's recurring vandalism when the block expires.
Final Fantasy VII NES restoration sees release
The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama...

See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking".

The problem seems to be that the community is growing quickly and as a consequence the upvoted articles are those who cater to the lowest common denominator and it keeps getting lower. It's a problem all successful communities face.

The usual solution might be to migrate towards a smaller community as you propose, but the problem then is that you have to rebuild everything from scratch over and over again.

IMO a simpler solution would be to make a "meta-HN" which would just add an other layer of moderation on top of the existing HN:

- Remove all "drama/politics" entries

- Merge entries about the same topic under a single item.

Then just link to the usual HN comment threads. I find the quality of comments usually reflects the quality of the article so I think it would work well for me. No need to rebuild everything from scratch and rebuild the community.

The HN you once liked is still there, it's just getting increasingly buried it low-relevance contents.
i don't think that is the case otherwise google+ would only be used for authentication without making this connection public.
And of course:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
My solution: I never check a bag. I started this practice 6 or 7 years ago, and it's great. I have a fantastic carry-on bag that fits everything I need, plus usually a small laptop bag, and I never let them out of my sight. I've gone on trips 2 weeks long with no trouble, and could easily go longer. The one possible annoyance is staying below the carry-on liquid requirements, but I haven't had a problem with that yet. (You can always purchase things like toothpaste and shampoo at your destination if the travel-size containers aren't enough.)

Fringe benefits: since I'm not checking a bag, I can get to the airport a little later. And I also get to leave the airport earlier at my destination since I don't have to wait at baggage claim.

Of course, those of you traveling with kids have it a bit harder, but given the passenger mix on most planes I've flown on, most people could likely follow this advice.
They forgot the classic:

> Why we should have an honest discussion about sexism in tech [dead]
> How did you go around to finding him?

If you're going to shop around for a change agent, I recommend reading Jerry Weinberg's "Secrets of Consulting"; although this is targeted at consultants rather than their clients, it can provide useful insight into how to create an effective working partnership with one.

Technical know-how doesn't by itself qualify someone to help you implement changes towards becoming more effective. It can be detrimental, in fact.

But someone with a solid grasp of the fundamentals AND a productive attitude to coaching/mentoring/consulting can be a great asset. One I recommend wholeheartedly is JB: http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/ (and if you can't get him, try to find someone like him).
Java 8, lambda and the psychology of the masters of the universe (devoxx style)
Reading from the SD card permissions at least was more subtle. IIRC the File you got back was simply null, no Exception or anything at all. This isn't what you would expect from the API call or documentation.

Perhaps that's the hardest part to test about the Cyanogen-style permissions disabling: that there's no uniform way Android handles a missing permission. Sometimes the API will throw an exception, while other times it returns a null Object.
>> buyers market (employers purchasing wage labour)
>
> That's not what 'buyer's market' means.

That parentheses explain what I mean by market (the labour market) -- was that unclear? The rest of that sentence tried to highlight what "A situation in which supply exceeds demand, giving purchasers an advantage over sellers in negotiations" generally means in the labour market.

If one side might loose a few days of productivity by holding out for a better deal, and the other side will loose their home and starve -- that's a pretty uneven balance of power.
It seems a large part of the previous discussion surrounded sandboxing Python; anyone know where the author is with that? I find it hard to believe it would be very hard if you just embed the players game in a C++ engine.
> Women are the majority, so "minority status" => "diversity status"

Surely, by that reasoning "diversity status" is just as inappropriate a term? If a group is over 50% female, adding one more female will make it less diverse.
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The thing I hate most American is they decline all non-US issued cards or non-US PayPal accounts for ticketing, but do so silently in the background while appearing to have gone through. When you get to the airport you find your booking wasn't ticketed, the flight has gone up and have to pay a fee for paying at the airport. To get around this I try to book AA tickets with another OneWorld carrier.

To their credit I took SFO->JFK->LHR this summer. The first flight was insanely delayed (in my experience many AA flights out of SFO are ridiculously delayed), and I had to sprint through JFK to make the connection. I knew my checked bag wouldn't have made it, so I didn't waste time waiting for it. I went straight to the counter and asked them if my bag was in London, it wasn't, it was still at JFK. They apologised profusely and a courier delivered it to my apartment the next day.

If you're wondering why I tolerate AA, it's because I have frequent flier status on BA, and get insane air miles (base plus 100% bonus, minimum) for flying on OneWorld carriers.
Towards Optimization-Safe Systems: Analyzing the Impact of Undefined Behavior
This purchase certainly makes one wonder what Apple is up to. Kinnect has been, for the most part, a party-game interface, and that's not really in Apple's bailiwick. Capri is not really small enough or appropriate for phones, since you tend to gesture with your phone rather than at it. It is small enough that it could be included in laptops and tablets though. There are obvious gimmicks Apple is likely to go for, like gesturing at your laptop to make it unlock or summoning Siri with a dance move. It might also be a decent couch-interface for Apple TV, if Apple hasn't completely given up on that yet.

Here's hoping Apple has something interesting under wraps to put Primesense to work on and isn't just filling up their patent war-chest.
"since when?"

You've been to 4chan before, right? I just took at look. I could point to a half dozen deeply disturbing threads happening as we speak. They are conversations being held predominantly by young white males about even younger girls, some of whom have had their real identity revealed by the creepy stalking that 4chan is so well known for.

"Most people who get ousted are narcissistic 16 year old's."

So, all 16 year olds, then. Every teenager is self-involved. Their brain isn't finished yet. That's no excuse for a bunch of grown men to wage war on them.

"Adria and Anita being two fantastic examples of such."

So, you believe what happened in those cases was a sane, rational, and fair response to someone saying something that 4channers disagreed with? You call them "narcissists", one because she wanted to make some videos about sexism in video games and she asked some people to voluntarily give her a few bucks to do it, and the other because she thought it was inappropriate to make stupid dick jokes at a conference attended by women and young girls.

See, here's the thing...you could convince me that Adria Richards could have handled that situation with more subtlety. But, the response of 4chan? You believe that was justified? I honestly have a hard time wrapping my head around that kind of mindset.

And, Anita literally did nothing to anyone. She wanted to make some videos. Don't like the concept of videos about sexism in video games? Don't contribute, don't watch them. That's what I did, and the videos never bothered me one bit because I never saw them (didn't need to, as I already knew video games were sexist as hell). Huh. How hard was that? In what world is it OK to wage war on someone for expressing their opinion? In that world, anonymous forums become the only place one can express an opinion without fear, because their are vigilante gangs standing at the ready to try to destroy you at the first sign that they might disagree with you.

That it's considered justified by so many within that community because of, I guess, how strongly someone disagrees with the opinions being stated, is disturbing.

If 4chan only went after people with power, I would cheer them on. Politicians? Hell, yeah, go for it. Tom Cruise? Fuck, yeah. Bankers? Why not? Abusive cops? I'm OK with that too. But, they often don't. They go after easy targets; they're often bullies (while absurdly wearing the badge of "standing up for the little guy"). One of the easiest targets is young girls, and 4channers go after young girls daily.