skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one raped a 19-yo girl while on duty, and he did it before:

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=21010823

http://rt.com/usa/taxas-cop-rap-arrest-281/

Also, the NM woman billed $5k for cavity searches:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/20/n-m-woman-billed-5000-...
I dislike the way scientists and "objective thinkers" (for want of a better phrase) usually dismiss the placebo effect as something to be ignored.

If the placebo effect can be demonstrated to having positive effects in pain killing, and healing, it should be studied with enthusiasm.

We all know how stress can have negative effects on health. Why should the placebo effect and "positive thinking" not be able to have positive effects on health?
There are a lot of before/after studies of meditation. This book covers a lot of them from a pro-meditation point of view and includes brain scans comparing monks to people beginning meditation to people who have practiced meditation for a few weeks to a few months: http://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Mind-Neuroscience-Tells-Scien...
Have you considered the reasons behind self-promotion?

All good questions. I don't know for sure what it's rooted in and what it serves. I've lived abroad, and modesty is the norm for the most part, rather than selling oneself, and there's something refreshing in that. (But self-promotion isn't just an American thing, so one can't overgeneralize here.)

A corporate environment in which self-promotion was no longer necessary would look very different. For one, people with responsibility for decisions about promotions would be more observant.
What about looking at long term? Android 4.4 (KitKat) uses Chromium engine for WebView. On Moto G 200$ device it works like a charm. In 2 years everyone will have Chromium on their phone.
Investing that somewhere at the end of the month would definitely add up to something over a few years. (I can't figure out why everyone seems to like Chipotle so much, so I think investing might be more worthwhile)
I think people - foreigners and valley outsiders for the most part - are often genuinely clueless about the workings of the valley.

They are quite apprehensive of the degree of even-handedness that is at play in the valley. They suspect an air of nuanced in-group favoritism, within startups here, that help propel some and sink others.[1]

Hopefully these kind of actions (on behalf of Google) help dispel such notions.

[1]
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/13/silicon_v...
Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley
Also, nobody seems to mention the fact that this story was created out of an HN thread... I imagine that has a lot to do with everyone's interest in it.
Truth is that Unix has a very good design for an operating system, that gained large popularity, and will be in widespread use throughout the foreseeable future, because of the superiority of its machine model and design.

No matter how many blog posts there will be to try to diminish it into an operating system for some religious cult, and weirdos. It is still the best platform. I hope that many more users will benefit from it in the future, as the philosphy behind it is so much more user friendly, and practical than most other Operating Systems. Read me right, I am talking about having Unix in the core of the OS here, not just to present a user with a shell.
Steve Jobs Danced To My Song
I'm attempting to write shoddy, lazy code that creates a working prototype. I have a stack of ideas that are really quite small applications, however I keep trying to build them 'properly', as an API-first client-side application, which ends up with these projects never getting finished.

Just finished the first prototype - a don't-break-the-chain app in a single PHP file (embedded HTML, the horror). It's liberating!
> GitHub definitely has changed the meaning of 'project'

How so? The search results page you linked says:

> We've found 12,757 repository results
Facebook just seems broken to me. Out of my 170 friends the news feed only shows me 4-5 posts per day, and only going back 4-5 days for a boring total of about 20 posts. I'm pretty sure there's more content, but Facebook doesn't seem to want me to see it.
Very good advice. People are more willing to have a 30 minute conversation about how to improve their business rather than a 30 minute conversation figuring out why to not hire someone.

The idea of creating leads is a very fine line. For someone to head up business development, why not? What's the worst thing that can happen?
Help fund this 17yr old's amazing startup
Typical DRM/crypto problem. As soon as one party is out of your control (e.g. client on end-user device) you already lost. Even on the iPhone you could do a jailbreak. You could only make things more difficult, in worst case you would have to open the device and directly access the RAM or something.

Indeed you could personalizes the keys for every user. So you could detect a leaked private key that is widely used and proceed against. Still that wouldn't hinder personal further use of that private key, e.g. for exporting data (similar to breaking DRM).
McWhoops! It doesn't seem that strange. If you have an open forum for a company that has PR issues, people will complain. The crazy thing is that management is in a bubble that thinks this won't happen.

I recall a class in junior high where they brought a McDonalds manager in for career day. All the students were incredulous as he popped out the party line about the world's best burgers. I think you have to believe it to make it to the top there.
When Non-Technical People Suddenly Discover Web Developer Tools
Show HN: Scroll web pages handsfree by tilting your head [video]
I'll give you a hint: the other SEO scammers aren't YC companies...
I agree that a Turing machine is imperative...when I refer to machines I am generally referring to an inflexible approach to solving problems, not so much how computers execute instructions.

As humans I think we need the ability to be messy and imprecise in order to be creative.

>The reason we tend to think in imperative terms is one of familiarity

That's debatable given that both approaches have been around for about the same length of time with different outcomes in terms of adoption.
It has been a long time since a site has denied me service based on my choice of web browser.
The most striking thing about this article is probably the main image. It almost perfectly captures implicitly all of the outrage of the tech community over the NSA dragnet. All the hypocrisy in one neat picture.
>>Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives.

This is absolutely the case for me. I was born and raised in Turkey and I currently live in LA. I attempted to quit Facebook several times, only to come back when my mom insisted that she felt disconnected from me when my status updates stopped.
-Wordpress plugin to display stuff from Github

-Threaded outbound link aggregator

-Brochure site for somebody

-Lots and lots of "Hello World" tutorials for Android
Nothing. My keyboard keeps playing up. Responding to HN posts is frustrating enough.
SD Times submissions are becoming a little spammy. To maintain HN's discussion quality, please submit original articles and try to link directly to the original.
While it is totally fine to submit your own (or your company's) articles, the point of HN is to have great discussions.
I just assume that a lot of the gamers who would consider dropping $1300 for a monitor are the same ones who are using two, rather than just one, GPU. So there's always that.

> But I still generally don't enable anti-aliasing over 2x unless it's a very old game, because it still costs too much.

You probably won't need it at all with this monitor, so you'll hypothetically be able to get some performance back that way.
Why do you use Pandas instead of SQL? 
Reddit link - I find it to be a very interesting question.
How does Debian not make the story, but dpkg and Ubuntu do?
"...but that doesn't mean the Twitter-clone will be profitable."

Especially considering that Twitter isn't either :-).
Fused Location Provider
sure, will be in touch!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...
I don't see what bickering over words is going to accomplish. Your post is typical of the far left: do everything you can to appear smarter than your interlocutor, short of actually engaging the issue.
I disagree somewhat. Yes, I think that if people are creating value then their own personal behaviors should have little to no bearing on how that work is translated.

I think their affects do set a bad standard for tech founders, and just how people behave in general and those attitudes spread into how they run their business.

I can envision other future founders looking at these guys as successful and thinking, "yea that is how I have to act to make it big." In a similar way that The Game and all that has influenced dating, I think these guys applied some of that to the startup/hip/rap thing which in my opinion is detrimental and smacks of trying too hard, especially when they are all very well placed, affluent people.

Add to that the fact that they genuinely did shady things (regardless of whatever anyone else did) and the bullshit wears off even more. So maybe someone who is coming up will think twice about behaving similarly in all aspects.
What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Like How Computers Stay Sane
Rietdijk–Putnam argument
Constructing a DFA from Morse code with Clojure
Ask HN: Is there a vulnerability diff stealing encrypted PINs v. Passwords
In the wake of the suspicion that encrypted customer PINs were stolen from Target, I am curious to the differences in best practices, if any, between encrypting PINs v. passwords. Naively, PINs are 4[1-9] numbers, which makes any type of rainbow table approach based-on a simple hash, much smaller than 8-16[52+] given caps sensitivity and special chars. However, the nature of PINs is such that you would have to try and fail / succeed in a store. So, even with a single hashed + salt, you might need an impractical number of people / attempts to test for cracking the encryption.<p>Does anyone with insight into PIN / password security have any thoughts?
Seems like Uruguay exports a lot of IT services kinda like India does. Any Uruguayan here that would like to comment about this firsthand?
yes thinking abotu it a bit more the unix schisms remind me of the emo philips sketch about religion..

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
This is a great comment!

> I remember how hard I laughed when I noticed that LC's false function is the same as the Church-encoded numeral for zero.

Those sort-of "eureka" moments when a bit of programming language enlightenment materializes through ones own investigation are a joy.
hahaha hope its not after my suggestion to google on there facebook page
In 2 years there'll be a ton of Android users still not on KitKat.
You call it a "SEO tactic" here but I'm sure you'd not bat an eyelid if it were referred to as "growth hacking" elsewhere.

The problem is how much power Google holds over most of the web. You game the results and they turn their attention on you? Congrats, you're wiped out.

Essentially, there's a very blurry line between 'growth hacking' and 'being annihilated by Google' and no-one's really sure where it is. That's what's interesting here.
I don't think this is a bad thing (not saying you were implying that). We probably wouldn't criticize a Black trade union activist for not being well read.

Mr Johnson deserves credit for putting his ideas into practice, which is just as important, if not more important, than theory.
CRIU, a checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux apps
We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of
massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
On 3, I wonder if they think being cool is the most important part, or the reality is that they are executing on everything AND ALSO trying to be cool to differentiate themselves AMD get noticed, but the critics only see the PR front and ignore the rest.
Not sure how comparing different versions of rails shows if its 'fast' yet. I'd think setting up some request target and seeing how far RoR is from that target with each version would be better. Or comparing RoR to other platforms is also a good bet, eg http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

I just don't really see how this answers the question other than 'ehh I think it looks a bit faster than it was awhile ago?'

EDIT: Also interestingly, JRuby seems to be slightly better on the small instance EC2 test at techempower than regular Ruby (small instance should be similar to a laptop?). Yet in these graphs it's much slower. Anybody know the reason?
so presumably we due for a schism in the apple faithful with IOS 9 being iconoclasts - trashing apple stores and defacing icons of the late steve jobs.
Bear in mind that Appcelerator is really targeting the Enterprise market, and Enterprise folk are used to sluggish, ugly, non-native applications (and cough sluggish, buggy development tools).
The columns should probably break down and resize to 100% for mobile devices - your 420px container.

I'm not sure what will fit in a the one, two, and three width columns... possibly an image. But the wrapping text in each column for the 420px container is going to look a bit off.
Wouldn't it make more sense to test various features of Ruby for comparison rather than comparing an entire web framework? Given that, the URL should be israilsfastyet.com, or more appropriately howdoesrailsbehaveonvariousrubyversions.com
>there's a very blurry line between 'growth hacking' and 'being annihilated by Google' and no-one's really sure where it is. That's what's interesting here.

Except in the cases where the line isn't blurry, i.e. the well-defined set of rules about which G has repeatedly said "we'll penalize you for ignoring these!" Unfortunately the tactic RG used wasn't a blurry-line grey-area tactic, it was one G clearly said don't use.
The trick is to be subtle and nice while doing it, especially around important people. You're not coming off as bossy but over-helpful. You're not being critical to be mean, but you're sharing your expertise and giving advice about the right way to do things. You always pick a level where you're aggressive enough that people move around you as you wish, but not so much as to cause issues.

OP's advice (and if you get to the end, he points out that this will not work except in a dysfunctional environment) is great for people who are looking to inject themselves into power vacuums. If the boss is never there and you start asking for status reports, people start treating you as if you were the boss-- and being passively deferential in the hope that you'll go away and let them get back to work-- and soon enough you've made yourself #2. Then you just need to get the real boss promoted or demoted or fired or disinterested enough to vacate.
70mm Apollo Images
70mm Hasselblad Image Catalog, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Google penalty for Life? Any hope for reconsideration? Rap Genius next step?
Google's latest punishment for Rap Genius SEO (bad tactics) has been getting lot of attention in the tech news world. Everyone is discussing about the punishment and the bad tactics but it would be great if we could talk on this topic with a new perspective. Is Google's SEO penalty is for Life? Any hope left for Rap Genius (or any organisation affected for that matter) reconsideration? So what do you need to do when this happens to you? I think this topic is worthy of discussion.
Actually, way easier. You go back to the end of the auto-corrected word, and you choose your original spelling from the popup.
It is kind of funny how people think that only white rap-fans/rappers came from non-poverty backgrounds. Rap industry markets itself slickly.
IANAL but I know plenty:

US jurisprudence has a primary flaw when comes to privacy: individuals have no rights to most of their own data. Once it is "out there," it's available to be bought and sold without much limitation. A friend is working on a paper in this area to find a way out of this quagmire, but I think it will take a great outrage (ie a heinous crime) to make any progress.
I'm wondering if I don't play games, would 30Hz @ 4K be sufficient for web browsing, coding, and movies?
From my experience. Fairly accurate.
5 of the Biggest Bitcoin Startup Investments of 2013
Great example of resourcefulness and creating a path to success where no path existed before!
tl;dr: no.
>Can someone explain why this is a topic worthy of discussion?

I find it incredibly interesting to know just how hard they got hit. I find it interesting that maybe someone from rap genius will be in these comments providing some extra context and insight.

Can you explain why you care if other people discuss a topic you don't think is "worthy" of discussion? You know you can ignore the story and look at the entire rest of the front page, right?
When even the main domain is on page 6 or whatever, it will drop more. Quantcast requires site owners to implement a tracker, so I guess it's pretty accurate.

Here is some drastic example I found recently (thin/spammy content penalty I guess):

http://extremetracking.com/free?login=fm3u91
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freemp3us.com

From 14,000,000 uniques a month down to ~80 a day :D But obviously Google still has work to do, since that site made a lot of money within that 1-2 months period.
Barroso is far from a neutral observer in all this. Personally I think it is extremely disengeneous of him to say Europe wasn't a problem for Ireland (and indeed there were major efforts to row back on the above comments subsequently). While there's no doubt lax regulation of the banking sector was the major cause of Ireland's problems initially, it is now widely accepted that the Irish Government was told in no uncertain terms by the ECB that it must bail out the banks on its own and that private bondholders were not to be touched, so as to prevent further contagion in the wider European banking sector. Thus an Icelandic style solution to Ireland's problems was ruled out, on pain of withdrawal of all short term funding. Whatever the effects of burning private bondholders for Ireland's future reputation in the markets, it would have been a much more just solution (as well as being popular politically in Ireland). To completely ignore the hit Ireland was forced to take is thus a bit rich IMHO.
Indeed. People are forgetting that the only reason RG came to G's attention is because Matt Cutts stumbled across the HN thread and took action.
I was expecting the web page to just consist of "No."
you're looking at christmas day. it'll be more interesting in a week.
Amazon Prime tops 20M members as company touts its best holiday season ever
Javascript will be the only language we talk about in this board in less than 2 years. Mark my words HN.

I love it!
Maybe it's because web apps perform so badly on ARM: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
Fast Growing DigitalOcean Is Fueled By Customer Love
It's a summary of a Quora thread. Direct link:

http://www.quora.com/Prisons-and-Prison-Life/What-is-it-like...
This is 'directedly measured data' from RapGenius (notice the icon / message in the upper right hand corner). RapGenius voluntarily added tracking code to their website to enable Quantcast to do this.

In this case, then, the numbers are likely to be quite accurate.
The FIDO Alliance is working to change the nature of online authentication
Ireland, which had been pillaged by Britain for hundreds of years, was starting from a much lower base after independence than Scotland will be.
Happy and sticking with my 27" LG IPS for 1/5th the price. Honestly my vision is too poor for 4k 24" screens.
what's the guest login?
Ubuntu HTML5 SDK
2013 Year in Review: Selfies, the cloud, Big Data, DevOps and mobile
I can't think you really believe that to be true.

Your description says you are a neuro-scientist. So science is just something you say? If you say it, it is true? Or do you usually try to provide supporting documentation? Show statistical evidence and provide the parameters under which such figures were gathered? Encourage others to reproduce such results rather than merely relying on 'stuff you said'?

In this age research fraud run amok I think "its science cuz scientists said it" is a particularly dangerous viewpoint.
High rents, opportunity thinning supply of cooks for San Francisco restaurants
5s startup time for a web framework seems rather high. I wonder how well it compares to similar frameworks in other languages (Django? ASP.NET MVC?)
I guess something like this won't work for a developer profile though!
It is isn't just shadowing.

f1 = let x = 1 in x
f2 = let x = 2 in x

It would be insane to ban that in the name of "equational reasoning".
Infantilizing not infantile. Loss of potential given the strong potential of many Googlers. His insight into opportunity costs is bright if slightly imperfect, as always, I'd say.

This is more a complaint against people not solving hard problems enough (a la Steve Yegge) than a complaint against bean bags - those are just metaphors.
yes yes yesss. the biggest headache in tech america is that the recruiters and hiring managers dont know who or what they are hiring.

there are so many people at my job who i look at and think "why were they exempt from a rigorous tech interview... because of seniority? they're completely in over their head"

yet those people are valued above actual competent employees!! because they run their mouths 24/7.

the BEST thing that could ever happen to the tech sector is for recruiters and hiring managers to actually develop metrics for judging candidates that equate to success -- some mix of syntax knowledge, creativity, ideas about efficiency in terms of work processes/philosophy

the reason so many of these goobers are out there is because the tech world is largely just "how many buzzwords do you know" and "can you fake your way through a tech exam" (which, as i've mentioned, a lot of the older folks are exempt from for some reason anyway). odd. very odd.
It's a good idea and apparently a slick package, but useless due to the restrictive license and binary-only distribution.

I certainly won't build and distribute mobile apps with whatever obscure (and non-removable according to ToS) "security features" Intel has decided to bundle with the runtime e.g. to comply with arbitrary requests by various rogue government agencies.

If they want us to build HTML5 apps for their own sake (Intel's, they want to fight back against native ARM binaries), they'll have to try harder. Make it Open Source and ask a lawyer who hasn't been stuck in corporate litigation and patenting stuff for several decades to write a modern license (or use the LGPL/BSD/MIT license...).