skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people said they returned it because of the family photo in it. That seems to confirm something I heard years ago: that wallets with photos of children were more likely to be returned.

So if you don't have kids, put a photo of a niece or nephew, or even a complete stranger's kid in there.
Ask HN: Anyone want to code up a badge for sites with no tracking?
With all the talk lately about a lack of privacy, and the tracking from social networking buttons, Google Analytics, and similar services, does anyone want to setup a site that generates a this site respects your privacy badge?

The site could simply provide a list of different size badges you can paste into your code. It also provides a list of guidelines that should be followed in order to use the badge. Of course, this is all on good faith of the webmaster, but I imagine popular sites will adhere to the rules, otherwise their community will quickly discover the discrepancies. You could try coding some javascript in the badge code to check for no tracking scripts, but it's probably unnecessary since it could be cheated a million different ways.

I run a few sites with a million+ page views a day, and I'd make the necessary changes to display an attractive little badge in my footer. It would obviously link to this site, explaining the badge, and how my site does not track users. I find a lot of my success is from respecting my community, and if I can do something along these lines, it gives me another leg up over the competition and their social spam, helping to show I value my users.

In short, the little icon or badge needs to be recognizable, and professional. The site it links to also needs to be well written, highlighting the importance of no tracking. It's basically a one or two page site, but it needs to be done right, and not gimmicky.

Thoughts?
Sure. Other parties such as the NSA may well have a copy.
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And what about that is racist in your opinion?
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/settings - Enable/Disable your Location history.

I had no location history when I visited this page, since I usually do not grant location access to most apps, unless absolutely necessary. However, when I visited the settings page, the location history was shown as enabled.

My only guess is that viewing your Location history automatically sets it to enabled if it was previously disabled. Or, the default radio button selected on the page is the "Enabled" radio button. Either way, it is friggin' suspicious...
I'm surprised Zurich did so much worse than Moscow. I need to adjust my prejudices.
Wow. I wasn't even aware I was sharing my location but up until April 2013 (I had a temporary android phone) I've apparently logged everywhere I've been.
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You can't get entangled without a wormhole
I really like this tool. The panel is just great for seeing what exactly is being blocked and what not (which is not the case in some other addons).

I think it is pretty solid right now, if you keep working on it, it could soon become the new Adblocker.
Completly empty. As far as I know I live on Earth.
Me too, but I had always figured it as survivorship bias. That is, there are many such things that I newly hear of, but most of them don't get repeated mentions right way. The few of them that do catch my attention, and it seems like it happens a lot. But it actually happens only for a few of the many, many new things I hear about all the time. Similar to my friend who thought that every time he looked at a dead street lamp, it would turn on. :)

Another possible factor is that I find I pay more attention to things I've recently learned about more closely when I come across them, but ignore them when I either know them very well or don't know them at all. I don't know if this is true for anyone else.
OT but boy do I have a lot of distrust for domain names like this. I saw the domain and immediately though blogspam.
In a funny way (funny because we're usually seeing strictly the opposite happen) corporations can represent public interests in a way that none of those other groups do. Corporations are, after all, nothing more than solutions to the Collective Action Problem.

You take a disenfranchised minority, pull it all together to collaborate, give it some money... and now you've got an enfranchised minority (usually called a Political Action Committee.) Make that source of money self-sustaining, though, and you've got the definition of a (perhaps not-for-profit) corporation.
Question: Best licence for open source but stop commercial usage?
Hi.<p>We believe strongly that our mobile physical securitu tool for human rights defenders, journalists and NGOs should be free and open source. (Sign up at www.secfirst.org - sorry for the blatant plug :). However we want to avoid organisations from making a commercial profit from or publishing their versions of software under our name. Basically to reduce people who might want to stick a back door into the software and then upload it elsewhere and/or build the source into their own for profit software. Of course, if they were using some of the source for nonprofit software then thats great :)<p>Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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>> Why would the same rule not apply to you? In other words, you can't just "occupy" land, you'll have to use it, just like everyone else.

Who's saying I wouldn't use it? It's pretty radical for a hard-property-rights libertarian to concede I could just go up and take someone's land if I judge it's not in proper use!
Point 4 (in particular, the part about allowing data transfer overseas) could be construed to mean letting big companies work around the privacy laws of one country by copying private data to another country with weaker privacy laws.

I think that sneaking points like this in weakens the effect of the whole thing.
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I agree - The weird thing is I have a google account that I use for work, but I'm not comfortable using it to sign up to other services. Where as I have no issues signing up for things with GitHub.
> Not quite the same, but RequestPolicy allows you to use the effective TLD, full domain, or scheme + full domain + port for your rules (it's under preferences.) By default it uses the effective TLD.

The trouble is that the setting is global. If you chose "full domain", the UI doesn't allow you to whilelist a TLD anymore, which is annoying for some CDNs (some sites change the subdomain of their CDN for each page load).
The first "Computer Bug"
Companies aren't people. They can't tell anyone anything.
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Hello HN,

This is my first "public" week-end project.

Its main features are :
- Version parsing & comparison
- Version constraint parsing & comparison
- Fully tested
- Documented: http://versions.rtfd.org/

Hope it will be useful for some of you.

Have a good day !

Philippe
Not just an assumption, I’ve had sysadmins that did that.
>> But actually, no we don't. Not if you're sane and not a sociopath.

Ah yes, "if you disagree with my interpretation of morality you must be a sociopath" is a classic avoidance technique for a libertarian that refuses to accept reality.

>> We've both got a conscience, and it usually warns us when we're doing something even somewhat wrong.

Not everyone's conscience tells them the same thing, neither does everyone's conscience tell them that the NAP is the root rule of the universe. Even yours doesn't as you've admitted in a variety of places.
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ONLY because of sales. That's the point of companies! Revenue!

But yeah it's interesting. It seems to go back and forth over the decades. Evil corporations, good government, good corporations, evil government.. if a god exists I'm sure he has a big bowl of popcorn.
Ubuntu + RetroShare. Both are very simple to use.
"I want the code to be open source so that people can poke through and learn from it, but I want to keep any draft blog posts private until they are ready to go live." - the problem seems mixing code and content. I would recommend decoupling on repo-/ NuGet-package level.
I like how they put AOL first on the list. Like, if there's flak coming, they'll take it first or something.
> Or, more bluntly, "if C and C++ are so dumb then why isn't your browser written in Python?"

Because Python's standard implementation, CPython is an interpreter?
My radio button setting was "disable" even after I visited the location history. I think enabling location access and enabling location history are two different things, in that you can enable the detection of your current location to have better instructions from the application, but at the same time disable history.
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I use this to keep track of how much time I spend at $consulting_job. It's quite handy. I don't share it with anyone, though.
Nope, I also had no location history, and when I went to the history settings mine was still disabled.
I'm going to take it as a testament to the idea that you'd really like to sign up that you've left such strongly worded comment.

There had been the option to sign up with twitter too, but I dropped everything but Google because that gave everything I needed very simply (dates, avatar, email), in a single step.

Part of the problem I felt was consolidating different auth mechanisms into a single account - which I decided not to deal with by leaving out.
What's the point of making a "rational decision tree" when your first decision point is based on awesomeness level of the founder. That's a useless tree if I ever saw one.
I always stick to GPL-like stuff for any software and release the same software with paid-licences for commercial customers.
Today's Google Doodle: Grace Hopper
As someone from Lisbon, ouch. But it doesn't surprise me, there have always been plenty of pickpockets in the city, particularly in the more touristy areas. The cops have identified more than a 1000 in the last five years.

That said, as far as I know we fare much better on violent crimes, and in general I've rarely felt unsafe on the city, even walking alone at 3am and later.
The Witcher 2 for the XBox 360 has a GC on their engine, although they did face some issues.

http://www.makinggames.de/index.php/magazin/2155_porting_the...
I don't know, but "Disabled" is still selected when I visit that page after viewing my location history.

When I visit the dashboard, there's a notice at the bottom stating as much, as well... "Google Location History is not yet enabled for your Google Account."
Mine shows no location history on any date. Which is exactly how I'd want it.

No surprise anyway, since Google's shitty iOS version of Maps doesn't even store your previous searches.

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You guessed right.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867638 (mit.edu)

Other sources of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771435 (aps.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843048 (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843958 (sciencemag.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6855635 (phys.org)
Oilpan: GC for Google Blink
iOS never got the GC, only the desktop version got it, and afaik it was deprecated rather than removed entirely.
Hmm, I got the same message on the dashboard but I can swear that the Enabled radio button was selected when I visited the settings.

No harm, no foul, I guess?
Leading %20 is redundant here.
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I'm sure those tips work, but it would be great if the author added some explanation as to why they were included in his post and what they do at a high level (eg filesystem and memory tweaks).

Yes I know I can Google an answer but as a newbie to mysql database tuning I was hoping for a bit more detail when I clicked through.
Interesting. How would these failures manifest themselves for a user?
This seems to be the best explanation so far.

Having said that, I am still wondering why I had no location history even if the enable radio button was selected. Still, no harm no foul, I guess?

Another thing worth noting is that the dropdown shows only the last 30 days of your location history - does that mean Google shows only the last 30 days or that we get to see only the last 30 days?
From one of my personal machines:

[14865975.000023] Machine check events logged

MCE 0

CPU 0 BANK 2

ADDR 1438280

TIME 1384859595 Wed Nov 20 00:13:15 2013

STATUS d40040000000011a MCGSTATUS 0

MCGCAP 104 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0

CPUID Vendor AMD Family 6 Model 8

This will, of course, be getting replaced shortly, preferably before it does any real damage. Given it's a 2002-era chip, 11 years of service isn't exactly terrible.

I've seen quite a few UltraSPARC chips (especially IIIs) go over the years at work, and often had a shit of a time trying to get Sun to accept them as faulty and replace them.
Two of them didn't exist ten years ago, and half of them would have been entirely unaware of the surveillance problem because they were too small to be targets. It's looking increasingly like Google didn't know until Snowden told them - they were just straight-up compromised by a hostile attacker breaking into their networks. So I can't blame most of them for not doing anything sooner.
I don't really follow... For the donor, we deduct your giving from your taxable income, so by definition it must be pretax. For the donee, they are exempt from taxes so there is no concept of pretax.

shrugs did I miss something?
Producers vs. consumers. I think this segregation exists everywhere. As you described, it is so accentuated in the context of indie game scene, it's absurd. But it's not a specific situation to this scene.

I have programmer friends who don't ever use a computer outside of work, who haven't learned a new language (outside of work) in the last 10 years for instance. Learning new languages is not necessarily a creative endeavor. But what happens then is cargo culting and bike shedding much like the way gamers get so demanding about something they don't know how to make.
Both are good recommendations. Building ML systems isn't really about building ML systems, it's more about introductory machine learning techniques using Python libraries, and covers much of the same ground. I found Programming Collective Intelligence more practical, and the copy of Building Machine Learning Systems I have does have quite a few errors in it, which I suppose makes for more interesting experimentation (fixing example code certainly helps you understand it, no?).
I'm surprised CUA mode isn't in the list.
German Usenet was and still is (in)famous for demanding real names.

In the late nineties and early 00s there ware huge wars between those who campaigned for pseudonyms (usually labelled "net terrorists", although honestly most of them really were trolls) and those who insisted on real names (labelled as "Blockwart": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockleiter).

Of course it's immaterial now. Most of the "net terrorists" left, many of the "blockwarts" mellowed, and in the end Usenet is dead and both sides tolerate much more than they used to, just happy to see a few more postings.
Ah. That is pretty obscure though! I can't even see how to get to the tour from the main page... Oh I see now, the Wiki link on the side.

It's a good project and I love your UI. I'm not trying to criticise negatively, just point out that I was surprised by one of the major features, and perhaps others would be too.
Agree entirely but that would go against the state's current policy of limiting press freedom. They're already issuing warnings and roughing up editors. One step forward and we're there. To be honest we won't know if we're there when we are, if we're not already. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we don't see but probably should.

Our government plainly works on the principle of: better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Inquiries are all lead by alumni of the same organisations as the politicians so it's hardly worth it. Plus they'll probably seal the verdicts.

Best option we have is to take the information from the government and publish it without the politicians or the paper's involvement.

Rather an honest criminal than a politician or a newsman.
George is getting upset.
For what it's worth, take a quick spin through the top voted commenters here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Notice that the entire top 10 are using their real name or a trivial abbreviation thereof (apart from 3 accounts that got there through story submission and have essentially no comment history).

Notice the top 30 or so, where real names clearly dominate, with a few well-known strong pseudonyms in there.

Smart, interesting people with nothing to hide, offering good advice and participating in good discussions. That's what this site is best at. And that's the sort of thing one doesn't generally need to hide behind a fake screen name to participate in.

At least, that's why I only have this one real-name account here.
I'm also curious what inputs they use to evaluate the founder. Surely there's some objectivity to that element of the decision tree beyond "great guy, articulate, firm handshake" --- I'm thinking probably quality of undergraduate / graduate schools, past exits, years in industry, etc.
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Meeting a sysadmin of your mail provider at some real-life net gathering, wearing the "I read your mail" shirt really was a bit unsettling...
Check on Craigslist too here: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sub/
How about this one?

http://discrete.gr/complexity/

And if you don't like it, you can edit it too:

https://github.com/dionyziz/complexity-article
Emacs 24 loaded with -Q (so no customizations are loaded) and linum enabled on a large file makes Emacs sluggish. Other line numbering modes also suffer; it appears to be an issue with the gutter itself.
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> There is nothing more reviled by people who were born during the cold war than a criminal who defects first to china and then to russia. No amount of tech industry pr can facilitate a comeback from that. Almost half of the people in this country will always see Snowden as a traitor.

Let's break this down. You'd have to:

not know the difference between Russia and the Soviet Union

not know that Russia wasn't where Snowden was trying to end up

not understand the difference between a political defector (defecting to a political system that doesn't exist anymore!) and a guy trying to evade prosecution

I don't say this very often but I don't think people are as dumb as you think they are. People who think Snowden is a traitor would feel the same if he were in Iceland or something right now.
There's an article in Computer Graphics World about the procedural terrain and foliage generation in Pixar's Brave which apparently Inigo Quilez was behind:

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Issue-4-J...

It's a bit light on technical details, but pretty cool to read about.
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Line numbering is the way you communicate when you're pair programming, and it's also the way tools tell you about errors - and not all of those tools are integrated, or necessarily work best when integrated, with mode-aware buffers.

For example, I use pry and associated debugger stuff when working with Ruby. Want to set a breakpoint more precisely than a method? Need line numbers. Why would I not want that inside an emacs buffer? Because pry's symbolic completion is integrated with readline.
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What's wrong with the grammar in the sentence you quoted?
Ideological optimism on edge.org?
In a tangential note, if P=NP, a sufficiently carefully crafted algorithm very much like that suffices to solve any NP complete problem in polynomial time! (Of course the constants are ridiculously, absurdly large)

http://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/on-the-necessit...
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You would be surprised. Thousands(I mean it) of statues over the country, streets to the name of Marx, Lenin and other humanity offenders in almost every major and minor city. It's time to move on from this ominous nonsense. (Note: it's much worse in Belarus and Russia)
The wiki page has a map of where the city is located: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleion
Yeah, let's help people track me wherever I go... ;(
In those cases, doesn't querying by location sharing your location?
In case you didn't know there is also coders news http://codersnews.com/

I think it's better than hackersnews and reddit.
Interesting.

How long did it work for before it died?

There is still some variance in silicon, so yours may have had a defect that manifested itself after some time, I'm not sure they evaluate returned defective chips to see what happened (and if this is public info)

Also, the packaging is extremely complex and prone to the same kind of defects as other PCBs in the system.
I can't remember enabling it. That isn't to say that I didn't enable it, but I can't remember actively saying "yes, please track my every move". I don't think that I would have said yes to that if I was aware of exactly what I was agreeing to. It appears that the complete tracking of my life started when I bought a nexus 4 - I'd imagine that I clicked through a box without really understanding what it was saying.

I will categorically say that I've never been reminded that this is enabled. Until today, when I realised that a complete log of every movement I made in the last 8 months was available, I had no idea that this level of information was viewable to anyone logged into my google account (I'd imagine that something similar has always been available to law enforcement regardless of opt-in status).

I'm not arguing that it shouldn't exist (I now understand why google now always uses my exact route when estimating commute times, and I did have a nice nostalgic trawl through this year's activities) but I do think that transparency that it does exist could be greater.
Indeed. In the UK, we're wrestling with a rightwing _news_ junta with its own surveillace abuses, intertwined with the police.

The power to dig up every detail about someone's life then publish it for the adverse judgement of millions of people is capable of great destructiveness if abused.
Coming from a finance background, calling this measure of startup investor performance "portfolio momentum" is very confusing.
I don't use full CUA unless I'm having other people type, but I do have this in my ~/.emacs:

(when (fboundp 'cua-selection-mode)
(setq cua-toggle-set-mark nil) ; o/w C-SPC doesn't set the mark if region-active-p
(cua-selection-mode 1))

See
http://trey-jackson.blogspot.no/2008/10/emacs-tip-26-cua-mod... for why cua-selection is awesome.
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