skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could really do with some better naming/choice of words; I read the title as "Use sex to improve your singing"
At first I thought this was a new teledildonics app. I was let down when I found out it wasn't, although I guess this could be useful too.
Intercourse, brilliant name. There are so many funny ways to market it, particularly in the US. In fact it doesn't matter what this app does, the name itself has a lot of potential (it is a cool app by the way).

-At the end of a pitch when users are asked to rate it: Was it good for you?

-Make it social: Intercourse with friends / Intercourse with strangers

-Make it spread: Viral marketing campaign called STD.

-Make it practical: Marketing campaign about using phone/apps safely: Practice safe intercourse.

-Best practices: Never drink before Intercourse or you may not rise to the occasion.

-Have rankings: Let people brag about how good they are at Intercourse.

-Voyeur mode: The feature that lets people watch other people 'Intercoursing' should be called voyeur mode.

-Inactive user message: It's been too long since last Intercourse. Use it to make sure it still works. Call inactive user mode 'High School Band'

-Too short of a pitch: Really dude? Done already?

-At events: Intercourse in public.

-Multiple participants: Group Intercourse.

-Call the intro video: The Talk

-Help/Info section: Learn more about the birds and the bees...

Ok, I'll stop now.
I've never been a jailbreak user - it simply wasn't worth the trouble.

However there is one reason I would want to jailbreak - f.lux.

Interestingly, this seems to be a common thread among jailbreakers. One of these two reasons almost always applies:

- libertarian hackers who want to do stuff most people don't care about

OR

- installing f.lux

Seems Apple should notice this and integrate f.lux-like behavior or APIs allowing such behavior. Unfortunately, given that the display looks less attractive when f.lux is enabled, they probably never will. That's a shame.
> Debit cards have a reputation for having less protection than credit cards. At least at Chase, this is no longer true. Chase has zero-liability for unauthorized debit card purchases

Yes, but it may be a couple of very stress filled weeks until you get your money back. It'll be even worse if you don't have cash elsewhere, or credit cards you can use for everything in the meantime. If you're one of the people who only have a debit card, well, you're screwed.
> it seems that the most immediate effect would be a higher availability of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

This study goes way over my head, but if the goal is to boost ATP isn't creatine monohydrate supplementation a cheap and effective way to do so currently?
Just because the more specific requests for individual records were not complied with, and the government resorted to broader mechanisms in its subpoena to get the data it wanted, does not make it illegal.
It's pretty simple. My preference goes:

Jailbroken iPhone > regular iPhone > Android phone

Jailbreaking is not a critical factor for me, but it's nice to have.
Roberts is actually the one Supreme Court Justice heavily involved in the FISA court, as he is responsible for appointing the Federal judges that sit on its bench.

See how this represents a Mexican standoff where every branch of the US government is complicit? I think the American people are going to have to offer Amnesty to one of the 3 branches to get them to roll over on the other two ;)
Sounds unnatural.
So, I did some more detailed calculations on a $500,000 home with closing costs included. I left out property taxes because I assumed anybody renting would recoup property taxes through increased rent. So, assuming rent + taxes == mortgage + taxes on a $500,000 property with $100,000 down payment where the value of the property stays the same over the life of the mortgage:

$500,000 30yrs at 4.25%

20% down $100,000

$1967.76 monthly payment

$22,644 closing costs

By year four you are in the black compared to renting by $6132 You'd need an investment on your $100,000 that returns 1.49% compounded annually to make up the difference if you rented and invested the $100K that would have been spent on the down payment.

By year five you are in the black by 14,122 You'd need 2.645%

By year six you are in the black by 22459 You'd need 3.382%

7 31157 3.881%

8 40233 4.234%

9 49701 4.5%

10 4.683%

30 5.222%

Here is the amortization chart: http://www.myamortizationchart.com/30-year/400000-dollars/4_....

Here is the closing costs calculator I used: http://michaelbluejay.com/house/closingcosts.html

In short, you have a pretty good shot at breaking even between renting and buying if you invest the down payment. If you have less than a 20% down payment (3% I think is what you need for a FHA loan) then you reach covering the closing costs faster with accumulated principal payments but your monthly payment can be significantly more (up to 20% more a month).
IOW a huge amount depends on what you can rent the same house for. If rent == mortgage + tax these calculations hold. If rent is less than it is almost always going to be better to rent. If rent is more you are looking at a better situation buying if you are staying more than a few years. Also, interest rates would play a huge part.
Running Netflix on openSUSE with Pipelight
It depends on what the 'Internet' means to customers. The man in the street considers being able to get Email, Facebook and Google as being connected to the Internet, and doesn't understand that the provider doesn't even have the right to obstruct or interfere with their connectivity for any reason, whilst a tech guy considers it to be the ability to connect to a port on an IP address.

They are morally in breach if you are inclined to see it that way, based on promoting a restricted concept of what an Internet is.
Google Play Catching Up To Apple's App Store
>researchers confident that side-effects will be minimal due to the fact the compound is naturally occurring.

There are a lot of naturally occurring poisons too. I'm curious, how does the substance being naturally occurring have anything to do with the side-effects?
JS Developer
Some seriously interesting comments here, on a very interesting piece of research!

If any of you wanted your comments to be a part of the post-publication review record for the paper (either as reviews or as discussion points), you can head over to the Publons website at https://publons.com/p/3318/ to leave them!

Disclaimer - yep, I currently help out at Publons :)
Journal of Failure - Help us collect common failures in scientific experiments.
Fascinating to hear, would love to discuss further if possible. info@intercourse.io if you have a spare moment :-)
Bitcoin has always been a popular choice with black marketplaces far before Bitcoin was popular (think SR and the like), and only became more popular as LibertyReserve fell over.

However it isn't really used as a currency, and more as a transport mechanism for cash (seeing how Bitcoin isn't anonymous at all, I'd imagine the strongest reason for these guys to use bitcoin is you can't chargeback with bitcoin)
Don't blame Microsoft for the death of Silverlight, blame Apple. After the iPhone's release it didn't have a future. Is there a company that better supports its old technologies than Microsoft?
Current homepage requires JavaScript. This will be fixed shortly, but if you have noscript or similar installed it might explain it.
The Agile Labour Union
Me too. I believe somewhere between 2003-2005. I have even browsed the archived match reports from cups on ClanBase a few months ago to see what I have been up to in the past :) Good times.
What is the "it" you are referring to? The requests/subpoena?

Those can't be illegal, although they can result in illegal actions being taken.
I completely disagree. 'Funny ways to market it' will instead be 'Offensive and inappropriate' in many settings. The average person on the street doesn't give presentations, so immediately you're trying to target an education or business market. Is that the audience that will respond best to a name that can be taken out of context or isn't easy to grasp? Simply choosing that name already gives you a steep hill to climb. Not every company can take a name like this and turn it into a viable brand. There aren't that many opportunities to be a Virgin Records and make it work.
More than half of families with incomes below the median family income in the US buy. Meanwhile, rental is the dominant form of residency in the most expensive areas of the US; for instance, fewer than a third of Manhattanites own.

How does one reconcile this with the idea that rental is disparaged as a practice of the lower income classes?
I live in the midwest and have been to SV many times but never heard of any of these places. I'll definitely check them out the next time I'm out there -- especially Unix Surplus which looks like it's just a few miles up the 101 from where I usually stay. Very cool, thanks!
No man, this name is awesome. See my other comments in this thread to take advantage of it.
How much does one need to understand how a car's engine works to drive a car?

I believe there is some relevance to a deep understanding of algorithms, that relevance being a function of the job. But in situations where the relevance is CLEARLY low for the job, they serve as nothing more than projections of the egos of CS grads, and reduce the value of their company.
The Ghetto Christmas List
There's outside of what the Average Joe can do and then there's needing a JTAG
If one spent enough time, they could even find "Ruby on Rails" offensive, in some misconstrued way as the word "rails" can be derived as conformist and against free thinking as one is confined to "rails." I don't think it's any of that, but just alluding that spend enough time dissecting anything and someone is bound to find issue with it.

I think the overall gist is that we developers are not always marketing people, so we spend more time on making whatever it is and less on the name. Naming things is a hassle, especially when you have no intention on making it a marketable product.
The TrackMania series has strong support for designing your own tracks.
The non-technical iOS users I know would never change a setting in Settings they do not understand (unless someone they trust, namely me, tells them to do it).

If that is not enough, the unlocking process can be as complicated as needed to discourage careless unlocking. Most people, when asked, e.g., to convert a decimal to a hexadecimal or to engage their frontal lobes in some other way, stop being careless.

Remember that the only point I'm trying to make is that it is not strictly necessary for Apple to do their best to keep motivated technical users from escaping their "jail" to prevent kids and grandmothers from harming themselves.

And does anyone actually believe that protecting naive users is the only reason Apple makes it as hard as possible to jailbreak iOS?
Sure, but at the end of the day its service that is so convenient and useful at a price that is so low I'm happy to pay for it.
Never ran into any problems with vanilla zsh on Arch, Debian, or OSX -- just pacman -Ss zsh || apt-get install zsh || brew install zsh. What kind of problems did you run into?
That misses the point completely.

You can trivially create a race track by following a route of a certain height in a perlin noise map. No algorithm needed at all. All you need is 2d perlin noise and a single if block:

for x, y in range():
if lower < perlin[x][y] < higher:
map[x][y] = brown
else:
map[x][y] = green

The author just decided to take a different approach.
http://atompub.org

http://www.odata.org
The actual study, which you have buried in that list of links, is actually quite nice.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

They achieved about .3 bits per second.

Components needed to replicate:

* DuroBlast Electronic Spray

* Arduino: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11021

Alcohol Sensors:

* MQ-303a : http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/alcohol-sensor-mq303a-p-549...

* MQ-3 : https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8880

* MR513 : http://www.cooking-hacks.com/mr513-alcohol-high-accuracy

So their setup is probably about $100
Hey, have you tried intercourse?
Oculus Rift review: The virtual reality headset will change everything
Even the top-level domain was chosen carefully: IO often means input/output
Some quick thoughts:

Your terms of service is off-putting. It contains provisions whose intent is probably to prevent people from copying the website or its interface ("copying ... to any other server or location for publication, reproduction or distribution is expressly prohibited", "Users may not use this Website, or any of the material appearing on the Website from time to time to further any commercial purpose") which do not make sense for a service which includes invoice generation.

Your privacy policy is confusing. It does not define what it means by "personal information." The "Purposes for which Personal Information may be used" section suggests that it includes "statistics about users", which might be disclosed in aggregate form. That conflicts with the policy's next sentence "We will not pass any of your personal information to any third party without your consent", which also seems contradicted by the use of Google Analytics and Usabilla. The use of these two services are not disclosed at all.

The website does not make it clear why I should use Zip over my current time-tracking/invoicing solution. Frankly, nothing about the site (including its design, the fact that it is free, and even your use of social media [1]) screams professionalism.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ZipTimeTracker/status/408696123227111424
> The majority of iOS users have no use for the freedom jailbreakers desire and Apple is creating software for the majority of its customers.

That's not quite true.

There's a bunch of minor tweaks that many people would really like that they can only get if they jail break. Since most people are scared of jailbreaking they don't do it.

It's hard to understand how different keyboards[1] is inappropriate degree of software freedom.

[1] to pick one example of a simple, minor, tweak that many people want.
> I have two applications left: the terminal and the browser.

Or, to put it another way: all your applications now use either a CLI metaphor, or a hypertext-document metaphor, with none of them left that use a native-GUI metaphor. So you boot into a native-GUI application manager, just so you can run emulators for the other two metaphors.
2014 regulations: F1's engine revolution
Definitely reconsider the name. Intercourse would work great if it was an app targeted to the general public, but definitely not in the education/business market.
A cryptographically secure currency network is infinitely more valuable than a warm hotdog.

Conversely, a global food distribution network is infinitely more valuable than a single dollar. You're conflating two radically unrelated things: the utility of the existence of a monetary system, with the concrete value of a specific instance of currency. The value of USD doesn't derive from the abstract utility of money. 1920's German hyperinflation didn't reflect people deciding that money systems, in general, are worthless.

Understanding that we're talking over each other:

* I have no doubt that cryptocurrency's utility is "enabled" by the effort spent in cryptographic validation;

* I'm saying it's value does not derive from that cost; it is not causally linked
Can you say anything about how radiation detection occurs?

I'm specifically interested in the idea that the carrier was in irradiated water for a long time.

Do the radiation sensors in the ship really need to be 'turned on' in a long process? Would there be any geiger counter or something that automatically detects whether the water the ship takes in is tainted?

It seems crazy to me that there wouldn't be an always-on, cheap, sanity check.
I think Americans will cope. There are towns in the US called Intercourse.
pg. 92 - confirmation that the encryption at least partially foiled the govt attempts to trap/trace at the ISP level (the ISP of Lavabit)
Include elevation! How fun would that be :)

http://www.oocities.org/ds_map/map_data/myogi.gif
It's better than that. I find WPF to be the most flexible/powerful UI toolkit I've ever worked with (disclaimer: I work for Microsoft). If you ignore anything more complex than Canvas, Label, Rectangle, Image, you can cook up anything you want fairly easily (e.g. a tablet-based programming environment, a live programming editor), and actually have it look nice.
Linux. I think the most recent example (by which I mean about two years ago; I don't use Perl much) was trying to get the XML Signature modules to build. I gave up in the end.

The documentation for those was poor. I remember the documentation for Moose being poor, as well as the documentation for Catalyst being especially bad.
For the record, I agree. There's a lot of older code where `mappend` is used commonly. More accurately, I should have said that (<>) has taken modern coding style by storm.
That's was what I meant, sorry if I didn't express it clearly. Ditching hunting and gathering for permanent settlements and agriculture was hygienically a terrible idea.
They would have to repair us so heavily and so frequently that they would basically just be growing new humans, one piece at a time. I'd put my money on maturation tanks. Humans are finite and fragile, and will always lose to thermodynamics, eventually :-P
Why is no-one mentioning that the Amiga (at least basic models up until the 1200) was an 16bit computer? Something esoteric with audio chips??
I was disappointed this wasn't something that would help me sing in tune.
We're all aware that seems feasible to a non-expert. Right now we're looking for someone who knows how to calculate possible radiation levels of snow.
Plugging in a USB Connector
All congress could do is hold back funds; several groups have volunteered to cover all costs and been ignored.
The more likely reason is intercourse.com is taken and .io is the new, favorite non-standard TLD in the tech and startup world. Just like .me was a few years ago.
pg. 94 - it seems somewhat dishonest of the govt to insist that Levison has not come up with a solution to reveal the information authorized considering Levison offered to build it and requested IMO reasonable compensation to his system to do so
Already pre-ordered mine! :D cant wait!
Here's the most important sentence:

China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile
services provider by network scale and
subscriber base, serving over 760 million
customers.

The NYT has some more context, too: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/technology/apple-and-china...
"In Australia and NZ, if the grid goes down then your solar inverters turn off"

Yes... and that's precisely the issues here. How do you know when the grid is down? You'd see a drop across your grid connection? Makes sense. But what if the grid went down, but because all the local houses were supplying greater than 100% of the local load requirements, it never looked like the grid was down?

That's the challenge. As I understand it, power utilities are considering "smart grid" as a distributed control mechanism to kill PV interconnects in such instances. However traditional grid control is normally built very stringently to allow fast detection of issues and fast isolation/resolution with redudant lines. If you have one rogue smart control point, you could end up electrocuting the engineer.
Samsung paid people to contribute to Enlightenment and I think some of the libraries might have ended up in Bada.

Rasterman loved demoing Enlightenment mobile and I think you could run it on some old-school OSS distributions like OpenEmbedded on Treo and on the Freerunner, but I don't think it ever shipped with a device.
It's a high end phone that isn't 26" diagonally so it fits in my hand and I can type with one thumb.

And Apple's after sales support is excellent. iPhone doesn't work properly? Factory reset. Still doesn't work? They'll swap the iPhone, in-store.
> Damn it i want two way verification on any purchase over X amount! Meaning anytime a charge over X amount (an amount i set) tries to go thru I get a text message asking for me to approve or deny it

I generally agree, but it would suck if I'm travelling and my phone isn't roaming.
This isn't a 'presentation' app, it's not PowerPoint. It's a 'pitch' app. In this context, who gives pitches? That's right, a younger, more casual audience, not 50+ execs.

Besides, contrary to popular belief most people have a sense of humor. It's OK to laugh at sex jokes, it really is. I know there's been a wave of political correctness around here lately, but this is a bit much. It just makes me picture a bunch of boring people with zero personality too afraid to laugh at anything, and thus too afraid to connect with their audience because they just might offend someone's sensibilities.

This is realistic way to make Intercourse go viral (teehee). You need to take advantage of opportunities like this. This was serendipitous, but great marketers sometimes can't even create opportunities like this on purpose.
Absolutely! Its a relic of a 90s skeuomorph! And the thing is Winamp didn't look so tiny when your screen resolution is 800x600, so mp3 players didn't catch-up (and a):

http://rustythinkpads.info/photos/380ED.jpg

http://www.crasseux.com/images/gnome2.png

(winamp clone for unix xmms)
If there's any government agency that will obfuscate, stonewall, evade responsibility and generally bullshit their way out of helping the people who get hurt on their watch, it's the DoD.

When people sperg out over specific radiation claims being floated in the NY Post (of all places) they ought to keep in mind that if these people are anywhere near as sick as they're described to be they need help, and they're up against a nasty brick wall when it comes to getting that help. Picking a side here ought to be pretty damn easy unless this turns out to be some kind of outright fraud.
> we're talking about pushing back retirement until 90 or maybe 95 right?

This is the first thing I thought about when reading the article. It sounds like the dream of countries like Japan where retirement is costing a lot of money.

I'd love to read the comment of an economist (or a sociologist) on this.
And the chinese app store people that they sold out to supposedly mysteriously appears if you change your language to Chinese. Sure you can remove but it just doesn't seem right, especially after it was found they were selling pirated apps.
I read their letter and understand that ppl need to make a living but it just seems wrong. Very wrong!

I used to jb because I needed the unlock.

Then when I saw all the amazing functionality that could be had, I was a big fan.

Since unlocking is no longer relevant, I wish to JB simply for all of the quality Cydia tweaks.

Without a properly functioning version and with some mysterious chinese crap installed, I am not interested.
pg. 98 - Govt says "just go buy a new $100 SSL cert from GoDaddy when we're done!"

LOL
Well I think there is a significant amount of room between having no problems at all and being "probably no worse than anyone else", but even the second option is a point worth making in these kinds of discussions because the implication always seems to be that America is especially bad from both a historical and global perspective (something I don't think is very accurate). We have room for improvement, but such improvement seems more likely if we're realistic about our problems.