skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you are correct when the U.S. was founded it had almost no regulations, no taxes (aside from tariffs), and federalism hadn't quite been worked out yet so the U.S. government was as small as it could have been. I would argue that that's about as close to a truly "Free Market" as America ever got.

...and the result was enslavement, genocide, and subjugation. Yay! I don't know what you mean by saying I'm not arguing out of principle. I'm citing specific events and facts while you sit there and say "but history!" while not responding to any of the evidence I'm providing or providing any of your own.

You offered to buy me a ticket, not promise to reimburse me if I stayed for a year. If you're already trying to back out of your verbal (written?) contract you must be a pretty shitty libertarian. How about this, I'll draw up a contract in which I agree to stay for a year on the condition that you pay for my ticket with the requirement that if I fail to prove residency after one year I will reimburse you for the ticket. A ticket from where I live to Key West (an hour boat ride away) is less than 200$. What do you say? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?

And hey maybe when (if) I come back in a year the U.S. might have a functional education system and get that healthcare thingy figured out. I mean it's kind embarrassing we're doing worse than a country that doesn't have computers. Except they do have computers despite the efforts of the U.S. embargo.
1) all organizations have a certain minimum amount of deadwood, as a function of their size; 2) once an organization approaches its natural level of deadwood, stack ranking hurts more than it helps.

Like fingernails. You never cut the fingernail right up to the quick, you always leave a little bit behind...
I don't think this means what the title might imply. Photo Stream will still only store photos for 30 days, so it still doesn't replace Everpix or Loom.
> If there's a root CA that's handing out certs for malware extensions then sure, pull the plug, but if the root CA is handing out certs for ad blockers and Google pulls the plug then it'll be plain as day what they're doing.

Pulling a root CA is no more public than blocking an extension from the Chrome Web Store. In both cases it is clear that Google has taken the action, and whoever has gotten blocked can protest it publicly (just like people do now for Apple App Store rejections). The Chrome Web Store doesn't give Google any kind of "cover" or "shield."

Additionally, revoking an entire root CA that was letting malware through (intentionally or unintentionally) would be far more intrusive than pulling a single extension from the Web Store, because every extension that the CA had approved would be affected, even if they were not malware.

What annoys me about this entire thread is that the OP (which was voted to the top of the story's comments) presumes that you can sprinkle some crypto fairy dust and get just as much security against malware without having to give up any control. And it goes so far as to assume bad intentions on Google's part for not doing it. But it's not that easy; crypto isn't a magic wand that lets you have your cake and eat it too.

> (OP:) if security is all they cared about, a signed certificate is all that's necessary.

Um no. It's not that simple.
Google's decision is stupid: they make one person happy and a gazillion others with the same name - pissed off. I'm not sure if any business wants to be in this position. I'm boycotting it as I have the proper username with Twitte, Facebook, LinkedIn - you name it. Why would I want to be something that doesn't represent me on Google+? Sorry, but we have choices and only a small portion of my friends use Google+ anyway. Poor choice, Google - if you started in the beginning, it would have been a good choice, but it's a bit too late for such nonsense. I still have not been offered a vanity name anyway and a bunch of people with a couple of friends were. You either do at for all at once or you don't at all. People take it as fair if somebody was first to register it. People think it's unfair when Google decides.
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Would it not be the same if I visited your country and was rude or insulting regarding some very basic and obvious part of your culture?

People may differ about what is "obvious." Something that doesn't exist in my country and that I've never heard of ... is not going to be "obvious" to me.
>So because there are some corrupt people in Silicon Valley

So because there are some corrupt bankers, one is simply best served to dismiss an entire occupation as "proven to not be trustworthy"?

Your lessons in logic are laughable.
This was my immediate thought as well.
There's one silly difference I noticed. Timestamps in mariadb dumps have their size appended. Mysql doesn't like that, so you need to filter them out. Otherwise pretty much a drop-in.
Difference being that the ending to Titanic was 'spoiled' for me before the screenplay was ever written.
That may be a risk they are willing to take

Yup. They are in kind of a "bet-the-company" stage right now. They've got a problem, they've got no perfect solutions, and if they sit about just twiddling their thumbs they will go under.
Problem is that number of comments can be a negative signal too, i.e. flame wars.
Not reading it currently, but I can't let a thread like this go by without suggesting the Silo Saga by Hugh Howey. The first book in the series is "Wool: Part 1", which (last I looked) was a free Kindle book on Amazon, and I'd graduated to purchasing the rest of the series before finishing the second chapter.

It's a phenomenal series, and I'm a little embarrassed that it took me so long to find it.

Aside from that, I had started (before his passing) an Elmore Leonard marathon with the goal of completing every single novel that Leonard has ever written. If you're ordinarily a sci-fi reader, perhaps this isn't the best suggestion, but I find the wit, terseness and change of pace extremely refreshing.
Gogo unveils in-flight text, talk service at 30,000 feet
Like the article says, the $578M is just the prepayment. The total amount may be much greater. The facility itself was acquired from First Solar, who sold it at a loss, and it seems like Apple will be fronting the capital for the factory's construction. The deal also requires a minimum amount of capacity for Apple and also exclusivity for some unknown amount of time (perhaps the same 5 years), so it's unlikely that they'll be supplying anyone besides Apple. And this is just for one component, Apple likely makes these deals with all their suppliers.
Dad Calls Cops on Son to Teach Him a Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead
"I guess the most direct answer would be, since it was a problem that I could have resolved with tech, I didn't see a reason why they couldn't resolve it with tech."

That really captures how engineers think. I think I often think the same way but my gut feeling is that there might be a fallacy in that way of thinking. I can't think of it right now but your statement does give me a bit to think about. I'm not saying you're wrong. In fact, I think the same way and that worries me :-)
as I can tell the PUA community endorses manipulative and dishonest behavior

I haven't seen anything "manipulative and dishonest" on Tynan's blog, nor in his books. Well, at some level everything we do to influence another person is "manipulative," but that's such a broad definition as to be useless.
I don't think the point is so much around what the CEO says about the engineering team publicly. It's one thing to proclaim that your engineers are the smartest in the world/industry/space; it's a completely different thing to expect them to work miracles.

The toplevel post is a warning to not drink your own kool-aid when making executive decisions about what your team can and should accomplish; e.g. your team may be extremely smart and talented, but so are the teams of everyone else, therefore don't think your team will be able to accomplish miracles.

Pretty sound advice.
The New York Review of Books turns 50
Could it also be that _Zooey_ was simply read at a different time in your life? I first read _Catcher_ when I was the disgruntled youth that you expect to read it, and found it brilliant. I've re-read it a couple times since then and now find it far less so.

I acknowledge that the writing is still really great, but I'm just not able to connect to it the same way I do other books that I read from the same era.
Nice...good execution and I like that instead of forcing the user to create an account, you give them an optional account to use in the future, as well as the ready-to-send image.

I don't know if this is meant to be just a hobby project or a MVP...but if it's the latter, I wouldn't position it as "better at making beautiful photos via filters". It's not just because that's a subjective argument between Instagram/Flickr/etc, but because the appeal of Instagram, in particular, is that it is so seamlessly tied to people's most frequently-used photo device and one with a large user network. People like the filters, but it's the casualness and the addictiveness of acquiring "Likes" that is Instagram's main draw, and that's more of a UI/UX thing than aesthetic appeal.
The concept seems pretty interesting, but it turned me off when it required Twitter permissions to even do anything. So I still don't know what it does.
Conclusion: Interesting, but not interesting enough for me to give permissions without first offering me more details.
I love Crichton's stories more than any other author. Pirate is the one that was finished posthumously, right? I've been meaning to pick that one up.
I was one of those who was laid-off, or fired, or whatever you want to call it. I've been really confused over the last week because the reasons for my termination were pretty vague. But wow, after reading that, so many things make sense now.

One of the areas this type of a bell-curve system falls apart is for highly specialized and well-qualified teams, such as the one I was working on. Who knows, maybe I was a poor employee, but after all the raises, accolades, and the promotion I received (by my firing manager), I'd like to think that wasn't the case and it was just a manager put in a tough spot.

Regardless, it was a nice run and the job market is great. I'm taking a bit of time off, but if you are a company in SF and looking for someone with lots of JavaScript, Node.js, and frontend experience at startups and (of course) big companies, links are in my profile.
So uh, pause it and delete the existing history?
Generalizing about groups can be problematic. However, not so when you're generalizing based on what the group has in common.

The whole PUA thing is about manipulating vulnerable people so you can have sex with them. It's definitionally assholish. Assuming that a given PUA is an asshole is like assuming an Englishman speaks English. It's not a perfect correlation, but it's certainly the way to bet.
I've been writing accelerometer coordinate system rotation code for the whole day. Almost melted my brain; trying to imagine 3D rotation is hard, especially when you lack the proper tools and have very little experience with it. Finally got the thing working; decided to have one last look at HN before going to bed. It was then when I saw "Rotate the world" and thought to myself: "well this better not be about Euler angles!"

Yup. Thanks pjan, you made my day brighter :)
Having run a similar setup (self-configured) on a Raspberry Pi I see one major issue - the Pi has an ability to damage your file system after prolonged use. I've had this consistently happen every 60-90 days of use. There are hundreds of reports of it in the forums. (Search for Raspberry Pi corrupt filesystem on Google)

My question is - how do you plan to account for this?
FWIW, Everpix is shutting down on December 15th.
Thanks! And, that javascript canvas demo is relevant to my interest - thanks for the link!

You're right in your suspicion that depth map generation in Sprite Lamp is not a silver bullet for stuff like that. Images with big discontinuities in depth (especially open scenes, like the one you linked) will likely get you some pretty dubious results in Sprite Lamp. On the other hand, if you look closely at the self-shadowing on the brick gif from the website, I think you'll agree that the results are pretty accurate (note that the little notches and scrapes in the surface of some bricks get picked up accurately too) - while you could paint that map by hand, I suspect that getting the results that nice would take some time, and Sprite Lamp does it in a second or two (pre-optimisation). Stuff like character artwork (like the zombie or the plague doctor) fall somewhere in between - you get results that are good enough for self-shadowing, and with some tweaking you can generate a nice stereogram, but it's not necessarily 'physically accurate' (which in this case is another way of saying "I can't guarantee the results are what the artist pictured").

I'm reluctant to promise features that I haven't tried yet, but I'm planning on some experimentation with a combination of painting depth values and using Sprite Lamp - this will take the form of some tools for messing with the depth map from within Sprite Lamp after it's been generated, with an eye to intelligently detecting potential edges and letting you move whole bits of the scene around at once (and then an integrated means of actually looking at the depth map you've created - wigglegifs might be a good option there, actually).
Thanks for sharing bugcrowd. Interesting.
The link in the article sums up the "what happened to Sourceforge" pretty well: http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourc...

The OSS project I maintained for several years was always in the top 10 downloaded lists on Sourceforge, but I got frustrated with how things were going and eventually moved the code to Github and hosted a simple website on my own.

Honestly, I can't think of a reason why an OSS project would choose Sourceforge in this day and age.
>In case you didn't get the news, the NSA already does not bother to approach Google...

I got the news. They approach Google AND they plug into private lines. The latter case is what I referred to when I mentioned "backbone" providers. Again, I want any private entity to have legal standing to refuse NSA requests.

>The NSA is a rogue agency that does not respect laws (or reinterprets them as they see fit)

I agree that if an agency goes rogue, then laws are only retroactive. That is, laws provide a penalty that is triggered only after an offense has occurred. But, clear (i.e. not ambiguous) laws with clear penalties can be a powerful deterrent. Whistle-blowers like Snowden are then empowered to stop abuses and illegal activity. They are automatically branded as heroes instead of traitors who must flee the country or worry for their safety. As it is, the good guys like Snowden are being put on the wrong side of the law and vice-versa. This must change.

>However, the reality is that a rogue agency can evolve in the dark corners of the government, and that therefore it is likely that it will happen again.

That's true and always has been. But, we don't just say "well, laws will be broken, so let's not bother having them". It's really the entire point: to prescribe what is acceptable behavior and provide penalties for violations.

>A strong technological solution that makes large-scale snooping impractical is a sine-qua-non no matter what happens on the legal side.

We actually agree to some extent. I don't advocate that we not implement technical measures. Where we depart is on priority. The wording of your last sentence signals this departure. I would flip "technical solution" with "legal side".

Ultimately, if the emphasis is on technical solutions, then we will all be pwned with impunity. Period. Are you going to write your own firmware? Manufacture your own chips? Are you going to personally write all of the security and other endpoint software in your stack, including the OS? Even if you did, would you be able to guarantee zero vulnerabilities in your own code?

Checking rogue agencies, providing more oversight and enforcing clear laws are the only way out. Technological solutions are but a backstop that we hope will provide us with some defense in the event that a rogue agency goes undetected for some period.
If only there were some way people going to new countries could learn the basics about where they're going. I was thinking maybe an app, but connectivity is hard when traveling, so I'm thinking maybe a book. Sort of like a FAQ or a new user's guide. Maybe we could call it a guide-book?
Keep in mind it's not actually a "tweet" box. The textarea is shown as a courtesy. You are authorizing their app to access your account.
"All models are wrong...but some are useful"
It just seems odd that you prefer some conspiracy theory over the simpler explanation that Model S has an unforeseen flaw involving battery fires, which are a decades-known risk of lithium batteries anyway.
> They proposed that instead of the Van der Waals forces that normally draw water molecules gently together, polywater was composed of molecules locked in place by stronger chemical bonds, somehow catalyzed by the quartz capillary tubes.

Aren't water molecules held together by relatively strong Hydrogen bonds? And if there are stronger bonds in polywater, what are they, then, covalent bonds?
Several ways - arkOS already has a tool (https://github.com/jacook/logrunner) for buffering logs in RAM before they are written to disk, thus reducing probably the top cause for SD card wear on webserver Pis. Its RAM footprint is lightweight, and it makes a huge difference over time. Secondly, with a successful crowdfund campaign the project will be able to install both to SD card AND to a USB-connected drive. Meaning that boot gets written to SD and data is stored on an external device, something more hardy than a cheap SD card. :) Finally, backup services (plural because there will be a couple different options for people to choose from) will be made a part of the core framework, making regular backups easy and data loss less of a nightmare.
> If you don't have convincing reasons why people should buy your product, then that's a product problem, not a marketing one.

"Marketing" is an ambiguous term in comparison to "programming". I believe finding product-market fit is a marketing problem.
This is a pretty great idea. I'm trying to travel and work on a few projects right now, and my average is turning out to be around $75-$100 per day for the US. $50 per day sounds like a fun, cheap way to get some work done, assuming you can get access to the internet at least in some capacity.
Often, it's difficult to perceive options outside of the ones that are given to you. We're conditioned socially to acquiesce in situations like this.

Your idea is brilliant. I hope to recall it if I'm ever in this situation.
https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow <disclaimer: co-founder>
If you are building apps for people other than yourself, then having a banner to notify them it won't work is better than a blank page.

A typical banner that I make includes the following things:

- Positioned at the top via CSS and sticks there

- Includes a link to http://www.enable-javascript.com

- Includes a tracking image so I can see how many people are coming without JS enabled

If you have a white page like this blog does, people will think your site is broken and bounce... and may never come back.
As far as I am concerned, Evernote's core competency is their scanned document handling. Extracting meaningful information from bitmaps is not exactly an easy problem, but Evernote does it very well. Far better than a lot of other solutions I have looked at. Ultimately you need some CRUD to get the documents into that processing pipeline, but that doesn't mean it is just a CRUD app.

Now, we're maybe not talking cutting edge computer science research here, but I'm skeptical that the average programmer could put the same thing together in reasonable time. The algorithms involved are fairly complex and who knows what they had to discover on their own to achieve the desired results?
No, I only read Catcher a couple weeks ago. It's on an altogether other level than F&Z, even though it's no longer shockingly original like it must have been in 1951. I found it brilliant stylistically; only a voice, but what a voice. The emotional impact was different for me than it would have been when I was that age, but I remember very well how all that feels, so I was cheering on behalf of my younger self.

But what are the books that you do still find brilliant? :)
So you don't have two factor authentication set for your Google account(s)?
You don't even have to go to a fictional account to look at how "the system" will seek to discredit people who could harm it. Take a look at Adrian Schoolcraft [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft], who was in the NYPD and tried to show investigators about corruption within the force.

"After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was reportedly harassed and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, a swat unit illegally entered his apartment, physically abducted him and forcibly admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days."
Probably about the same cost, according to snopes - http://www.snopes.com/travel/trap/retire.asp
When ever I read articles like this, as well as they are written, I always feel like cutting to the chase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
Lans.py: capture usernames, passwords, messages and inject arbitrary HTML
So far as I know, sapphire is also used as a substrate for growing some kinds of semiconductors. Here, the optical clarity isn't as important as the chemical purity, but clarity and purity go hand in hand for sapphire.
IMHO - By generalist - he also means closing customers, finding new clients, and crafting value props.
Thanks -- we are checking it out and definitely considering working it into our implementation
More than I could remember all of, but certainly Python, Java, C, TCL, Javascript, C++, ML, Perl, 6502 assembler. I've stuck my head around the door of Haskell, so to speak, but not written anything substantial in it; I haven't tried Clojure (I've never heard a reason to use it over Scala, and I've become very attached to powerful type systems).
Don't you have to be incredibly skilled to draw lighting from different directions? I'm thinking "yes" - but artists are incredibly skilled.

The free version will do everything the hobbyist version can do, but without the
ability to export assets [...] needed for game use – however, the user will be able
to export (watermarked) animated gifs showing off their artwork.

Great pricing scheme! I hope it works because I'd like to use this scheme too.
Until you scale. I've met too many developers who say this until they're in a high growth environment.
Looks like a bunch of off the shelf hardware (Raspberry Pi, small monitor, keyboard etc.) put into a nice box and offered for a reasonable price? Not a bad idea, I was thinking about doing the same for my 23 month old now that he's mastered his iPad. He's really interested in my desktop and like to move the mouse and click on stuff :) anyway looks cool if I did not already have most of the components I would buy one. (still might)
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They were also using the Facebook name to describe their own product. Fix Ubuntu is not (yet) the name of a separate product. When they start hosting a downloadable UbuntuFixer package, expect more trouble.
They are also similarly priced, there was a discussion of this earlier this year on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5806006
Why the negative rating? I ask a question, state (multiple, verifiable) facts, and make a reasonable argument.

Ah, the mystery of HN ratings...
It would be interesting if a website like hackernews hides the number of upvotes and then see how people will vote. I'm suspecting some kind of herd mentality when it comes to upvotes in general to be honest.