skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

More anecdotal nonsense: I think almost everybody starts smoking (apart from the social factors) for the stimulant bit- for the 'kick'. It gets you more buzzy when you take shorter, quicker drags. It relaxes you when you take long, slow drags.

I think the net effect of smoking over an extended period of time has a "net depressant effect" (using term loosely), punctuated by the daily/regular stimulation. Very loosely, the opposite effect of exercising and eating healthily over an extended period of time.

That's just my experience, no science involved there. Curious if others relate to this.
Yes but going down to the 7/11 to pick up your groceries defeats the point of delivering groceries. People need lockers at their house or at the very least the nearest street corner.
I am probably missing large chunks of tracking even with this list.

Enormous amounts of things have some connection into Google. Other connections into Google's equipment potentially include Voice, Talk, Hangouts, embedded Google Plus +1 buttons, embedded YouTube, Blogspot sites, embedded Picasa images.

Google runs ReCAPTCHA. ( http://www.google.com/recaptcha/ )

If you email someone with a GMail account your email address is in Google's servers with the email header containing your IP address.

Google's SafeBrowsing URL check built into FireFox which normally works by hashed URLs but could still track that you are using it, but has a simple version of the API so applications could send plain text URLs to it without you knowing ( https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/ ).

Sites hosted on Google AppEngine ( https://developers.google.com/appengine/ ).

If you have IOS, Safari defaults to Google suggestions - i.e. sending everything you type in the address/search bar to Google.

Google Maps, built into other websites and services. Google Geolocation API built into other software ( https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge... ).

Google DNS (last time I read the privacy policy, it said queries are not combined with other data Google collects).

Sites loading popular JavaScript from Google's hosted libraries ( https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide ).

Sites embedding Google Sparklines ( https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery... )

Links going via Google's URL shortening service Goo.gl

Not counting things you choose to use (Chromecast, music, docs, drive, Now, voice search, News, Groups, Finance, Toolbar, Android sat nav, Chrome's open tab sync between your devices via Google Cloud, etc.).

That's not to say they are good or bad, or they are or are not tracked. Just that it's way to late to "avoid Google" just by switching away from GMail and blocking Google Analytics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
I think it would be very helpful to prevent twisting my wrist as QWERTY standard keyboard.
For non-smokers, less is more... nicotine is a pretty powerful stimulant, you don't necessarily want strong hits. My 2¢.

(I am a non-smoker; have tried 2mg and 4mg gum, and find 4mg similar in some ways to having a 'bad trip'. (Light-headedness, freaking out, nausea, time-dilation.))
Red Bulls are a nasty filthy habit...

But I find a good espresso or americano to be useful for helping the mind stay alert.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cigar-smoking/AN01515
NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
Anyone have experience with getting consecutive J1-visas (different companies)?
Just FYI, If it was a free-market enterprise, you would have reasonable prices and services. As proof I submit certain areas of Europe where companies are required by law to lease the last mile of wires to competitors at reasonable rates.

As it stands, if, say a city tries to band together and make low-cost high-performance municipal internet, the existing companies will sue to maintain their monopoly.
no longer hotlink'd!
This kind of spying should not be allowed, period.
It all exists on a spectrum: saying "Politicians shouldn't support $SOMETHING because it increases the chances they might be assassinated" or "Maybe gay people should just stop having so much gay sex if they want to stop being victimized by society" is on the other end, but the same logic seems to apply. It displaces the focus from the perpetrator to the victim.

Asking people to choose a complicated password [1] is a pain, but it's nowhere near as much an encroachment on meaningful freedom than asking them to not have political opinions, or to modify their sexual practices.

[1] I'd argue that our password situation is terribly broken right now, actually, and the fact that so much crime revolves around stolen passwords is as much an indictment of the technical systems we have as the criminals who exploit it.
This is a great idea to offload the high prices to the last mile. Now there just need to be a major push on news about Bitcoin and it be a perfect slaughterhouse.
I don't think I'm wrong :) If they were really in the game of competing with consoles, they would have had a very different strategy and not adopted a "anyone can make our box" kind of mode of operation. They are following the PC model, which means that they are not targeting mainstream consumers. Consumers who want to buy Steam Machines will have to be knowledgeable on what to buy, they will have to look at specs and understand that that box is more powerful that the other one, and get what that means for their games. It's very different from providing a single box and telling consumers " as long as you buy a PS4, you can play all PS4 Sony games". So, please tell me how they will solve that problem for the mainstream, because their strategy does not address it at all.

To me, they are still targeting PC gamers (and Gabe clearly said so, too) and they want to expand that segment from the top, not from the bottom. Maybe they will attract some PC gamers who did the switch to consoles a couple of years back, by providing something better than consoles while still "living-room" centric.

I think their strategy is however the following:
- a Steam gamer currently is usually a guy in front of the PC in his room.
- By putting a Steam machine in the living room, it offers the opportunity to open up Steam to family members.
- Oh, by the way the family games management feature was introduced about the same time as the SteamOS release this year... what a coincidence huh ?
- So they plan to expand through immediate social environment first, not necessarily targeting hardcore console users. That way they will create awareness progressively. That's why I am saying they are in for the long run.

Just like Steam was not made to replace from Day1 the box retail business, SteamOS's strategy will not replace consoles from Day1 either. Maybe it will be a big player in 10 years from now, but I don't expect any significant market share any time soon.
When the poster said pilots, I think he was referring to military pilots. The use of stimulants in combat situations is apparently quite common for pilots.
It sounds like you're saying that the ends justify the means.
Usually the best way to get quality responses from posts like this is to include why they would want to be your cofounder. Programmers aren't short of offers from their uncle, old friends or co-workers to work on the next Facebook.

Let them know how/why you're going to make an awesome cofounder! :)

Best of luck!
Which is why I think the moral panic about ADHD overdiagnosis in the USA is nonsense. The US is a country founded on stimulants; I hypothesize that behavioral norms and benchmarks for success in the United States have been influenced by heavy nicotine use from upward of 40% of adult Americans prior to the tobacco control movement, and that the increased diagnosis of ADHD in teens and young adults now may be due to lower nicotine use.

I've been looking for a while for any scholarly (peer reviewed) papers that explore this idea; if anyone knows of any, I'd love to read them!
Computer Program That Can Tell If You’re a Hipster
Compared to e-cigs, sure. Compared to food, or conventional cigarettes ... they're really really cheap. 96 x2mg gums for $22 comes out to 45¢/mg. I use maybe 0-2 (edit: gums (90¢-$1.80)) a day (I probably save at least that much by making sandwiches for lunch / not eating out -- I work from home).
I think the headline is a fair cop, especially because the first question right out of the gate is, is $61K for a year of Cornell too expensive? Ariely says "It's too cheap," and goes on from there about the value of in-person education vs online education. He conducted an experiment on his students and found that the more in-person one of his lectures was, the better their subjective experience was.

That said, he is in a very interesting position to explore both sides of the question. It's not too hard to project out into the future and believe university education could finally change in your lifetime. But the people who are in the trenches actually gathering data have the most to say right now.
In this interview Hunter Moore, another revenge porn site runner, argues that the photos are intended for someone (why else would you take the photo?) so the copyright is shared.

While that's not how copyright works and many of the photos on his sites were stolen it seems to be enough to hold up DMCA's.

The interview is interesting, I don't think I've ever heard an NPR interviewer speak with such derision towards their interviewer.

[1] http://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/335039
I used to use the Microsoft Natural keyboard Elite, from probably around 1998 until late 2011, when the one I had at work broke and I couldn't find a suitable replacement. I tried one of the other Microsoft ergonomic keyboards, and found it to be lacking. I've since switched to the Kinesis; after a lot of consideration as I was worried I would spend a lot on a keyboard and not like it, but I am incredibly satisfied with it. I have one at home and one at work, and now prefer typing on it to anything else. It is also assembled in the USA, which I count as a plus.
Finnish Computer Security Company F-Secure Confirms "Sharking" Attacks
Your solution isn't a business idea that needs to be created. There's already a system in place to take action against issues like these. The solution is political.

These companies, especially cable and land-line, use public resources that can be regulated and expanded. There are politicians and lobbying groups that are trying to reform the system. If you had the time, you could join one of their causes. If you don't have the time, you could donate money to their campaigns and groups.

Think nothing could get done? You're wrong. It's a slow process but, if enough people support the cause, it can get done.

I'm sure people can point out mayors who ran on the platform of reform and lost. That doesn't mean you give up or become cynical. Major fights against entrenched organizations take time but it's possible to change the system. A mayor lost an election? Help him/her run again. Keep at it.
If you are going to spend this much time on ergo keyboards, please just learn Dvorak. The comfort improvement alone is one reason (of many) to switch.
Card sharks infect professional poker player’s laptop with a dirty RAT
Glad you made this!

A couple of feature requests that would make this more useful to me:

1) The "Friends" avatars link back to their Github account, but the avatars under "Organizations" (results of a search) do not.

2) I'd like a "show more" button so I can easily see the full results of my actions before pulling the "Follow everyone" trigger.
This is not the problem with open society in itself. The same problem happen in private society. Anybody motivated enough can hack through your secret given enough effort.
> And seriously, this is your entire project list?

I wish my list would grow past 0 items.

I honestly have no itches to scratch.
It isn't now. It has been edited from the original.
> "I think most people would rather do than be"
I'm not too sure about this. I think it varies from culture to culture. There are some schools of thought where "being" is most exalted of all.
Pretty funny. Nice jabs at Amazon.
"How would an unemployed person find out such a thing?"

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're stupid or illiterate. They can find things out by searching the web, just as we would. If they can't afford their own internet access, they can get it for free at the local library.
Can we spam our reps emails, until they do something? If they get 1k emails a day and can't find read any other email, I say thats a good start.
Really? I thought adderall (contains 1/4 dextro-) or vyvense (don't know which amphetamines it contains) were pretty common.
> Lots of awful laws were "the law of the land" for much longer.

I don't think it's as awful as you make it out to be. I think the situation before it was passed into law was far, far worse for the prosperity of individuals than it has ever been after. But, that's just, you know, my opinion.

> You implied irrationality among non-accredited investors, with your question, "how can you make a rational decision...?" Well, non-millionaires can be just as rational as millionaires, within these domains.

No, I didn't, as I assume you're familiar with securities law, I would presume that you could see that I was contrasting registered securities with required disclosures, and unregistered securities with little or no disclosure. Perhaps I should've phrased the question instead as "How can you make a good decision when the other party is intentionally hiding relevant information from you?"

> If compromise is required, I'd replace the means test with a means-oblivious competence-evaluation:

That sounds awfully complex to codify. Who gets to write the questions? What happens when the subject is not previously coded up into a test? Endless questions.

What this all really boils down, what I'm getting from this, is that you feel that you're smarter than the average bear, and you feel that the rules are holding you back from really succeeding, so let's make some rules that you'll pass. That's not intended as a personal insult, that's just how it comes across.

> If even more compromise to paternalism is required, private-security investments could be subject to a proportion-of-net-worth test. For example, perhaps only 1/2 to 1/3 of net-worth could be placed in such securities. Or, only an amount that's less that that already saved in tax-advantaged retirement accounts (IRAs/501ks/etc).

Actually, that makes a lot more sense than anything else you've come up with, and more akin to my reading of the reasoning behind the means test. It has nothing to do with any one individual, but instead to avoid massive culling of the fortunes of the middle class at once and causing social unrest. If its more difficult for the masses to invest primarily in high risk investments that more often fail than succeed, then they will likely invest in lower-risk, or at least more well codified risk, which is more likely to achieve a more stable economy and reduce the risk of public upheaval. We have a lot of history in the unregulated investment markets to draw from in painting a picture of the potential future. Your assumption that people have more information now, readily available to them about the quality of investments with little or no disclosure is one I'd call into question. People in the 'teens certainly felt they had a lot more information about the quality of investments with little or no disclosure than they did in the early 1800's.

But, we have a stark difference of opinion. I never felt that the accredited investor test was holding me back from succeeding and making good investments. In fact, I've never found a rule that was really holding me back from succeeding, but that's just me, I guess.
Anyone else bothered that Chrome displays an advert on the Google homepage?
http://imgur.com/tmKdmZw
The filter could be smart enough to allow traffic on that port only to Apple.
Show HN : Multiple user roles gem for Rails apps
Not necessarily a trade-off with non-tobacco nicotine.
> Business Idea: Make it easy for Joe Schmoe's like myself to take action against issues like this.

I do believe that's called a PAC. Lets be frank though - how much money are you going to get if you put together an anti-telecom PAC? I'm gonna take a guess and say it'll be an order of magnitude less than what AT&T and Comcast are willing to spend purely in campaign donations, in addition to lobbyists etc.

What's more - AT&T and Comcast will continue to do this year after year. Much like we've seen no lack of SOPA-lookalikes cropping up every few months in the house or senate, this isn't going to be some "donate $20 now and all these problems will go away!" thing. It's going to be a battle of attrition, unless you do something on the very drastic side (I hear some Scandinavian countries have government controlled/deployed fiber and the ISPs all compete to provide service over it; if there's better alternatives I'm all ears).
In Canada we have winter weather 6-8 months of the year. We LOVE going out in the cold. We play in the cold. We drink in the cold. We go out naked in the cold (after a hot tub session).
I also definitely don't recommend you moonlight flipping burgers while your employer is paying you sick leave.
In general, when talking about pre-Islamic India to an Indian audience the word Hindu is not always used explicitly since Hindu culture was the dominant culture in that period and there is no need to distinguish it from any competing culture except in special circumstances. The claims of greatness of culture spread though out the site refer to a period such as this.
That sounds awesome. Can you post some example scripts? It outputs pngs or just loads up vim3d reading commands from stdin or something?
Fuck you airlines!! You charge us more for tickets, you take away services and now you're nickel and dimeing us.
Looks good dude! Keep up the good work!
The problem is with cryptocoins, the window of opportunity is always small, short, and never comes again- you have to find an entirely new window.

Much like with most forms of arbitrage, and exploitable patterns in the stock market. You discovery the opportunity, you make a little $$, and the hole quickly closes as everyone else capitalizes on it too.
Their gluster server offering also uses XFS, so probably for support reasons, they saw XFS had better long term support for both sets of users.
California is getting serious with efforts to end the scourge known as "revenge porn," in which men who want to hurt women (usually as "revenge" for dumping them) post naked photos of the women online and then encourage their community of fellow misogynists to harass them.

Revenge porn is definitely not just a male vs female thing. IIRC IsAnyoneUp had a large portion of male victims.
Free god damn wifi, its fucking 2013 and tickets cost like $300!!
Thanks man! it was an issue we had at the company
Cool! I've never tried the ErgoDox though I've been halfway wanting one for a year or so. I think if I didn't have to jump through geekhack groupbuy's and assemble it myself I may have made the jump. I noticed that the Mark2 was closer to a HHKB or 60% layout and it does look quite a bit smaller than the next iterations - is that just the pictures or is that true? Do you find the split ErgoDox-like layout is better than a more compact keyboard, even if you don't suffer from wrist pain?
RESTFul services under 6 mintues(by downloading code, and copy paste ;))
I doubt it, but you're talking about outliers now when the parent was including all college attendees.
Only on the g2 instances though, I believe.
My interpretation of Derek's point: "A lot of us keep things secret for the sake of keeping them secret without particularly evaluating whether the secrecy serves any purpose. On average, this means that there are things that are secret that shouldn't necessarily be. We might all be better off if we were a little more willing to share things that might not actually need to be secret."

Not everything needs to be secret != everything should be public

His post is written to describe his personal journey about his personal attitude towards his own work. I think a lot of people are misinterpreting him to be saying something broader and blunter than he actually is.
Adderall is a mix of d- and l-amphetamine.

Vyvanse is d-amphetmine bound to lysine, turning it into a prodrug (which means your gut chemically cleaves off the lysine and, conveniently, you're left with d-amp sitting in your gut).
I really wish Datahands were available for purchase. No one gets rid of them, and they aren't produced anymore (I tried emailing them numerous times before their site disappeared -- nothing). If anyone wants to sell a set, I'm buying!
Find a local who'd get you some time? If you're in either Toronto or San Francisco, drop me a line.
I'm not sure I'd like the Kinesis bowls; perhaps I'll try it eventually

I got a review copy of the Kinesis Advantage, tried the keyboard for a while, wrote a review (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage/), sent back the review copy, and, a couple weeks later, bought the Advantage.

YMMV, but I think they have a somewhat long return period in part to assuage people in your situation.
Freshers are not allowed to change skillset by employer
The more you know. Thanks :).
I just bought 3 290x cards for this purpose. Right now they pay for themselves in 2 months.
For people that have rational minds. What about people who are irrational or have some sort of mental illness? I guess that's just a "too bad" for the person who is now dead?
What if we lost 50% of the world's population?

We would be knocked back to the ... 1970s!?!?

In the 1970s the world's population was about 3.5 billion and today it is double that. Sure it would be very disruptive, but there would still be plenty of creative people around to pick up the pieces.
Like bikes? Live in SF? This is a good way to help bridge social divide
It's like that yes except that you don't know whether bitcoins are like Amazon or Pets.com. Investing in anything as volatile as bitcoins is straight up gambling
A bit reductionist in its claims I would say
Fake sign-language interpreter at Mandela funeral
Thats interesting, I'm from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and I think everyone is on these superboxes and have been for a very long time. I didn't even realize delivery to the house was a thing until I moved south.
Okay, I reread the article b/c I was starting to feel like I read something completely different.

At no point does the author mention the government and at no point does he mention making every aspect of your life public.

Seems like most of the people replying either didn't read the article and they just want to vent. There are legitimate reason to have secrets, and there are reasons that are stressors and actually serve no purpose.

Completely different topic:

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

I didn't think anyone actually believe that literally till now. You want everyone to picks and chooses what laws to abide by?

The reality is that punishment goes into the cost benefit analysis everyone does. For example: Say I believe I should have the right to hire a prostitute. Should I do it out of principle? How about if I don't want to risk going to jail? Is that not a valid reason?

In this case I'm okay with having my right infringed, because I realize that it's not just my world to live in, and we as a society agree on some rules - some of which I don't like.
Makes sense. Though IMO it's not the tobacco you should be trying to avoid, but the cancer and the coughing.
I think 'wasting' it is good. Once you find something useful for it, it perverts the incentives. A sick cow should be considered a complete waste with no benefit.