skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many tyrants live amazing lives as incredibly powerful individuals and die heroes to their people. Unless you believe in some kind of after-death consciousness, it certainly seems a win for the tyrant.
I've had no trouble with Comcast in my area in service or support. My problem with them is that they're colluding with AT&T to keep internet prices high and upsell everyone onto bundled plans, when all I need is internet (not home phone and TV service). Thus they charge $20/mo for 3Mbps, $50 for 6Mbps and $65 for 25Mbps unbundled internet, and AT&T charges roughly the same.
It could poll GPS or cell tower location which wouldn't incur any data and wait until you are connected at home to upload.
This is different. What they mentioned is a load balancer, like F5,netscaler etc. HaProxy is a software based load balancer, but their does lot more.
If anything it makes the US look even worse. When you find a tightly oppressive regime to be preferable to the place you fled, what does that say about the US (other than the obvious fact that living there is no longer an option for fear of having an "accident").
Depending on your definitions of healthy and middle class, the middle class can't afford it either.
Sorry a contact point was not obvious. There is a link at the bottom of the mobile site (top of the desktop site) that says "Contact us". Or we appreciate Github issues as well.
Bringing RESTful Services to C++ Developers
Snowden's only other option was to go back to the U.S. If you think he was hypocritical for not choosing that, fine -- make that case, and don't neglect to point out how everyone with credibility as a whistleblower (Ellsberg, Drake) seems to disagree. But to end up in Russia as his only alternative was obviously not an endorsement of Russian policy. Calling that hypocritical is like criticizing someone for jumping out of a burning building. Did he revoke his own passport?

Your other objection has a simple answer too: as Westerners it behooves us to get our own house in order. Suppose I told you "Our house is a mess, let's clean it up," and you became indignant and said, "Where are all the pithy insights about the neighbor down the street? Their living room is a pig sty!" That would be an absurd misdirection.
After reading your comment, I went back to read the authors 2012 article and even that doesn't demonstrate that much scepticism. The title and sub heading reads as follows:

"A Big Jump in Battery Capacity

If Envia can overcome some key problems, its technology could cut the cost of electric-car batteries in half."

Which, to me, is just as hyped up as the other articles he's criticizing. In fact the most sceptical parts of that article were just him saying "it's not ready yet", which isn't so much scepticism but more anticipation.

I'm a little disappointed with the author for this. I don't like the way how the press always have to sensationalise everything, but I accept that it happens. However to post the kind of snide remark as he did regarding others hyping technology, yet to do the exact same thing yourself in the very article you're citing as evidence of your own scepticism, well it's just pathetic in my opinion.
Ask HN: What is the best way to track user fidelity?
Hi.

I develop a price comparison website, and we track user conversions (pay by click model).

What is the best way you guys suggest to track user fidelity? That is, if a given feature is making users use the website more? This could be interesting if used together with A/B testing.

Any ideas? Don't want to use any invasive user tracking stuff though.
It actually is, on the other pages on the site we hide it by default. The homepage is just an exception to the rule
CharityNavigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/) is a good resource for sorting out NPOs that manage their resources well from those that don't.
Yea, I agree and I noticed several other errors. As you could tell from the video I believe they are Russian along with other nationalities.
"If you have a portable surveillance and tracking device, please turn it off. They have already tracked you in here, they already know you are listening to me; so, there is no need for you to keep it on."

-Richard Stallman
From a purely practical point of view, isn't the "community at large" worried about the "rising" sea levels? If we took the fresh water from the aquifers, then refilled them with sea water, presumably that would put a dent in the rising sea levels? I know, I know...just trying to be pragmatic.
Reddit has content that is clearly, unambiguously, illegal in the UK.

There are apps to access Reddit in the app store.
There is no hypocrisy. For Snowden Russia is the lesser evil.
Well :) I like that more than something like this, in the spirit of Objective-C:

[a isNotEqualToIntegerWithSign:b]

(a parody of course)
People complain all the time about the subset of bikers who disobey road signs but the fact is that mistakes and negligence on the part of drivers are always far more dangerous than on the part of bikers. More so, the arrangement of "bike lanes" as well as the laws themselves typically make it very, very difficult for bikelrs to get from point A to point B without at some point either putting themselves in excessive danger or effectively violating the law.

Rule makers typically just assume that bikers can either safely blend themselves into normal vehicular traffic or teleport across gaps in properly laid out bike access areas (which tend to be rare and never fully connected with each other). It's a ridiculous and unsafe situation that we've become accostomed to existing merely because it's the status quo. And then we wonder why not so many people commute by bike in most cities.
Minor nitpick, you almost certainly don't pay 40% in taxes, that's not how tax brackets work: http://i.imgur.com/ZYWWn28.gif and http://i.imgur.com/gogxtbv.jpg

And I think the solution is raise the minimum wage and set a long term plan for a sort of guaranteed minimum income / negative income tax. Throwing money at the problem is literally the best way to solve it: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/how-to-c...
A pertinent Rob Ford quote:

“My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”

Sadly, it's a very common belief, hence why he managed to get himself elected.
A service company (i.e., a law firm) being acquired would almost exclusively depend on goodwill for the accounting of the transaction. There are few fixed assets beyond desks and chairs and possibly a property lease to include as assets. Accounts receivable and cash would of course play a role, but that is likely a fraction of the overall value paid. The difference between book value and the price paid is accounted for through book value.

Even in a steady-state in which Snapchat is earning serious money, were it to be acquired, the acquirer would likely need to account for it predominantly through goodwill. What tangible assets does snapchat have? Data center/infrastructure is likely the only area where a company like snapchat could invest in a way that would increase its book value... but snapchat is more likely to stay on the cloud...

The typical tech startup has few tangible assets, hence the necessity to account through book value.
Your phone didn't connect to a WiFi network, but it did scan for them. Then, when you got back on data, the scan information was connected with Google's database of WiFi networks and their locations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/android-map-reveals...
Powerful insights.
No it doesn't. I don't want to be mean, but this is really basic addition. If you need less sleep, you can get up earlier without going to sleep earlier.
"Access all data on your computer and the websites you visit."

Well, it is a dev tool after all, but darned if that isn't scaring me, somehow. vagrant up it is, then ..
If judges are in fact "immune to political pressure" then that's merely one less facet of the government that the public has any kind of oversight on. It's not really debatable that the current court is heavily pro-corporation/government power, though some blips against this trend can be observed, as you pointed out.

In terms of sources: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/elizabeth-warren-warn... ; the quoted remarks by Senator Warren indicate that judicial nominees are actually not easily confirmed, and are sometimes already "captured" by corporate interest. It's very feasible that lobbyists could lobby the legislature in order to promote confirmation of judicial candidates who fit their agenda.

Aside from lobbying the legislature to affect the judiciary's appointments, the judiciary can also be directly bought and sold: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/06/02/its-all-about-the-judge... ; most relevantly: “According to a recent investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, “conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense-paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2-year period.” About 185 federal judges participated in these “educational” events which were sponsored by multinational corporations such as ExxonMobil, Pfizer and BP."

I do not accept that the corruption that I outlined is a "conspiracy theory"-- it is a well-documented reality.
RE: #2

I can't find the relevant FCC directive at the moment (It may in fact be a state law for me, I can no longer remember), but it's illegal for them to sell '30mbit' service as "30mbit is the highest theoretical speed". Essentially a floating average of your max speed has to be at +/-5% of the sold bandwidth.
Revoking Trust in one ANSSI Certificate
The gender equalization in law happened through the 1980's and 1990's, at a time when salaries at large law firms were dramatically increasing due to the limited supply of graduates from which large law firms source their entry-level hires. The key difference is that law schools, being generally very progressive places, took aggressive steps to fill their classes with approximately equal numbers of men and women. And the field, being very progressive itself, embraced that trend.

It's also interesting to note that when it comes to LSAT scores, men outnumber women 2:1 in the top percentile. This is very similar to the gender gap in the top percentile of the Math SAT. Law schools tend to simply ignore that slight distinction, relying on the fact that women tend to have higher GPAs, so an index combining GPA and LSAT tends to result in roughly equal numbers of men and women. And in practice, it's a theoretical difference that has basically zero impact in the real world. Yet, people repeatedly hold up differentials in the Math SAT to justify gender gaps in STEM more extreme than the differentials in the Math SAT itself, as evidence that men are somehow more suited for STEM jobs.
What do you mean by "full Bitcoin wallets"?

There are several wallets on Android that do not rely on any servers except for the Bitcoin network servers.

Bitcoin Wallet by Andreas Schildbach: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....
Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet by Mycelium Developers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycelium.w...

They both do not store the full Blockchain.
Reform Government Surveillance hacked?
The simple answer would be that a greater supply of homes means more people can afford homes in the long run (assuming relatively low population growth). But that is hugely dependent on which states/cities/neighborhoods you're talking about. The section of the world that this article is discussing apparently never gentrified like some of the neighborhoods surrounding it. Things tend to be different in highly urbanized cities like NYC vs. relatively open areas like the Inland Empire.
Google+ Asked Why I Was Leaving
> will they fill it with saltwater instead?

Push CO2, get back carbonated water? Then it is $1/liter + carbon credits for what doesn't come back up. :)
Most of that 40% isn't going to pay for stuff like this. You should really have a new sentence starting after the word taxes. It makes it sound like you're implying that the money is all going toward paying for social services, when it isn't.
> I presume you say that because C-x and C-c don't act as cut and copy when there is no region, that there is no actual conflict? I use commands involving C-x and C-c with the region active fairly often; both because the command applies to the region, and also because I want to keep the region active while I do something else.

You can use C-x and C-c as prefixes even when there's a region, as long as you hit the subsequent key quickly; there's a brief timeout for exactly that purpose. You can also hit C-S-x or C-S-c.
The Wisdom Of The 20-Minute Startup
While this has good sentiment, I feel like a lot of nonprofits and charities would rather you volunteer your physical support rather than get rid of malware, which nowadays a lot of people are capable of doing, and they might be apprehensive to let you go and change stuff in their computers if they have it laid out in some idiosyncratic way. But I think the best option would be to ask the nonprofit themselves, what the best way you could be helping is.
Its been a long time since I wrote Ruby code, but if I recall correctly I believe the community is overwhelmingly in favour of 2 spaces as opposed to tabs.
What hypocrisy? Nobody is turning a blind eye to Russia's offences.

The issue is America's hypocrisy -- we claim to be a shining beacon of democracy and shout down from our ivory tower. We impose restrictions on Chinese exports across the world by advocating preemptive defense against state-sponsored cyber-attacks, and yet we have our own tendrils constricting the world in the same manner. We claim it's to fight terrorism, but it's the same manner of economic and political espionage that China is so guilty for.

The Russian government is upfront and honest about being despotic but our representatives spread calculated lies and half-truths, and play legal games with what "collect" and "spy" mean.

The US government even has the gall to engage/infiltrate security research organizations to manipulate and degrade the quality of security for their own benefit. We are maliciously undermining the information security of the world.

His presence in Russia may look like tacit complicity of Russian practices, but he hasn't expressed such a thing so it would be imprudent to make such assumptions. It's like choosing between living in a lion's cage or swimming in shark-infested waters -- would you risk swimming with the sharks to prove a point about how deadly the sharks are, especially when you just threw some chum at them?
I wonder if they're going to start using the M7 in the 5s for even more info that will help with this.
New York City has been that way for pretty much all of its modern history. My father, who was born and raised in the Bronx, told me once that NYC is a great place to be rich, and a great place to be poor, with not much room for anyone in between.

This is part of why the arts scene there is so vibrant: "starving artists" have always been able to get by in New York in a way that they couldn't elsewhere.

(Though even they've gotten squeezed in modern times: Roger Ebert quoted John Malkovich saying back in 1989 that "to have starving actors, you have to have a place for them to starve. New York is too expensive for that. You can't afford to starve there anymore." http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/slaves-of-new-york-1989)

Putting living there aside and just looking at visiting, though: if you never visit NYC, you're missing out on one of the great urban experiences the world has to offer. If you're at all interested in the things cities have to offer, it should be a bucket-list destination.
Protecting Your Data on The Cloud
It's a trap! WhoIS shows a private domain registration through GoDaddy, and the site now shows a Plesk default page. This was probably not the site for an official Silicon Valley Alliance.
Indeed. You can buy good on Amazon's iOS app to be delivered to your door without Apple getting a penny, but buying Kindle ebooks in your Kindle app is a different story. The difference is that in the Kindle case you're buying content for use in your app.
I'd sell this back to your old news company!
http://what-if.xkcd.com/33/ shows just how much the sea level would drop if all ships disappeared. That's probably more volume than you're likely to drink from an aquifer. There's a reason for the saying "a drop in the ocean".

Besides, once we had used that water, it would run back into the sea.
Is this supposed to show just information from a phone/device that publishes location data or does it use information from ISPs to estimate location based on IP as well?

Either way, it's completely blank for me.
I like this effect, but not because of changes to the perceived contrast. Often people turn off the lights during movies and this always bothered me because I lose my point of reference. It actually tends to give me nausea to have the only light coming from the TV. Having some sort of light whether its this, a nightlight, or a soft light from a different room tends to prevent this nausea.
Awesome article.

> One has since acknowledged that they were simply too late, and Higgs agrees, "I think so, yes." The other two were invited to Cern in July last year when the particle's discovery was announced, and complained about being ignored by the press, but although he does say they "naturally felt a bit left out", he doesn't look too troubled.

One of the saddest part of this article. We often forget that a lot of geniuses are left in the dark just because they were not here first. But they might have very interesting stories to tell as well.

> But his reluctance to embrace the technological developments taking place in everyday life had nothing to do with incompetence. My dad, I tell him, is of the view that the more gadgets we have, the less we can think, and Higgs smiles and agrees: "I have a bit of that, too." His son gave him a mobile phone two months ago, but he is yet to make a call, and no one outside his family knows the number. "I resent being disturbed in this way. Why should people be able to interrupt me like that?" Because they like to be in touch?

Damn true, the more gadgets we have, the less we can think. I feel overwhelmed by technology these last few years. The only moment I can feel really in control is when I only take a few math papers with me and go do my laundry. No phone, no internet, no tv, no nothing...

> It is true he has never liked the popular nickname for his particle – "the God particle" – but not, as has been reported, because he doesn't want to offend religious sensibilities. If anything, his objection is the opposite. "For a start, I'm not a believer. Some people get confused between the science and the theology. They claim that what happened at Cern proves the existence of God. The church in Spain has also been guilty of using that name as evidence for what they want to prove."

> People write to him claiming the God particle was predicted in the Torah, the Qur'an and the Buddhist scriptures, which only makes him regret the nickname more, "Because it reinforces confused thinking in the heads of people who are already thinking in a confused way." He doesn't bother trying to change their minds. "If they believe that story about creation in seven days," he muses, "are they being intelligent?"

That last sentence, that's tactless. I like it.
> Licensing out this technology

Foursquare is looking years ahead, it seems unlikely that they'd switch to a short term strategy. You have to assume that this technique will be adopted by Apple & Google at some point.
This is interesting. Why would a location data point created during testing show up in your location history? You should be logged in for google to make it a data point on your account.
And if CS programs set aside 50% of their slots for women as well, you might see similar results. There remains very little that employers can do about it though.
No More Ninjas
At an individual level, it's unfair if people are discouraged or denied the opportunity to peruse their interests because of their demographic characteristics.

If the simple existence of a statistic (men dominating tech) puts you away, then that's your own fault.

Med school is 50/50, great, that's an extremely difficult pursuit, clearly women are capable of handling it.

I really truly think it's because IT is not interesting. 90% of it is boring as fuck, working with legacy code at corporations.

How many tech jobs do you honestly think exist in this brand new javascript-scale-haskell everything small company fantasy wonder world? How many of those people, that even know this niche exists, are women? I casually talk about the scene to outside people and 99% of people have no idea what silicon valley is, or what a startup is. To them, computers are just a super boring corporate job, and they don't really know what's required.

This field really just isn't as intrinsically interesting as others. If you're interested in bits and bytes and numbers and problem solving and code and all the other great things that come with this field, good for you. None of this is lodged in the natural world, it's all virtual. Objectively, anything to do with the natural world (medicine, most sciences (life sci/bio/chem) are far more interesting). I think another part of the problem is schooling. In schools you get a PROPER science education, so it's easier to see the merits, versus being in a programming class taught by someone who really doesn't know the first thing about programming. What do you think the women will choose?

It takes a very special kind of person to get hooked on computers and programming.

Look at the field from an external point of view. You can't honestly tell me it looks like the most interesting thing in the world given peoples experience and exposition to it.

I'm really not surprised that there is a gender gap in this field because I really don't see anything that could draw a casual outside observer in unless they already have their foot in the door, which will probably be of their own accord anyways.
"Sorry, this media is not available in your territory." Is there a version that us yanks can view?
>> It makes me sick that I pay around 40% in state and federal taxes and social security (not that much lower than Western European countries) yet there is still so much poverty and poverty related issues in our country.

Dasani's story is sad and it happens far too often. For whatever reason there are plenty of people (like the parents in this article) who will fuck up every chance that you give them.

Being from a crime-ridden, poor city I have to see this every day.
Why We Deployed Zencoder on Google Cloud Platform
> Who is going to be able to afford to buy all their water like this?

The price of water can never really climb above the price of desalination.
It is a mixture of Java and Scala, though mostly Scala. GitHub mirror of the source: https://github.com/apache/kafka
Then why not allow the app in locations where Bitcoin is known to be legal? Like Germany? I guess there are some countries where the legality of Bitcoin is not disputed. The App Store allows to restrict the apps availability by country.

To me it is clear that Apple tries to stifle adoption and innovation in the Bitcoin area by disallowing those apps on their platform.
The article makes a point of the fact that the girl in question often makes peanut butter sandwiches for her siblings.

(re your last point, I don't see how this family is going to take advantage of incremental assistance like that)
From NYC and I use it almost everyday. Especially when traveling and looking for things to do and places to go, foursquare is quite useful. It replaces Yelp for me.
The domain should resolve to http://97.74.205.113/ but instead goes to http://97.74.205.82/ Since the addresses are near each other I would guess it's an innocent configuration issue and not a hack. According to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/reformgovernmentsurveillance.c... either address might show up depending which DNS server you ask.