skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to be the buzz-kill, but that's simply not true.
Its amazing to think that HN is still someone's "side project"
I pay for the travel (at 1 liter per 15 km that's manageable for a two week stint), also I want to be within driving distance of my other responsibilities in case something bad happens (you never know...).
Well my $50 of this was blown on my wife and kids' 3 iPads buying in app upgrades for apps that were supposedly free but weren't and paying cash for apps that supposedly block ads but don't and apps that transfer files that don't work. Oh and games that crash all the time.

I suspect this is the case for a chunk of that $10B.

Really not impressed with the whole ecosystem and will not be investing further in it.

Edit: to clarify. They didn't buy the apps, I did. No in app purchases were made at all by anyone. The reviews are hopeless - unlike amazon for example there are no reviews or ratings of the reviews so you cant determine the difference between idiot reviewers and idiot developers until you've paid for it. Ad blocking is to stop the piles of malicious and idiotic pages forcing popups and apps down on you like its 1998 again. User alexpenny found a reference to this below - thanks: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-a...

Edit 2: it appears HN has limited my efforts to defend myself in replies...

Edit 3: this is happening only on iOS devices. I don't have any android devices. This does not happen on any of my desktop machines running Firefox + AdBlock Edge. In fact I get no popups or install attempts at all and never have done.
freedom of speech much
This comment is sufficiently interesting that I want to grab a coffee with you and talk about it IRL, but you don't have any contact information in your profile so I don't know where in the world you are.

The next time you roll through Austin make sure to look me up.
Why we Are Bullish On BlackBerry
It wasn't necessarily bad for me. I would say more unpleasant than bad. I'm not at the point where I spend too much time on HN but I usually take a quick look when I am on a break.
They were also challenged by the courts so parliament is basically remaking them in their original form again.

Given that criminal barristers are protesting poor working conditions right now I think the government might want to think about making enemies in the legal profession.

Ha, who am I kidding. This government thinks they're above everything.
Golang Structs in JavaScript
It's linked, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman
I still go to freenode, but being a protocol doesn't mean it can't die, i.e. gopher is practically dead.
law always win of course, the TOS are always full of stuff that is unenforceable in the eyes of the law.
That being said you do need to hire a lawyer to check if thats the case every time and thats spendy.
Thanks for the update. I don't think all that much was lost, and a day to restore from a disk failure ain't bad. Please thank Nick and whoever else worked overtime to get things back up and running!
Isn't that what the article itself speculates?
Ask HN: What payment system do you use?
Hey HN readers,

I would like to know which payment system are you currently using if you're selling products / SaaS subscriptions / eBooks / anything which can be bought online.

Thank you :)
How Jennifer Dewalt Built 180 Websites in 180 Days
ConvNetJS: Deep Learning in your browser
"My suspicion is that in and amongst all those now destroyed records, was a paper trail associated with one or more now-prominent, politically connected NC families that found its wealth and success through theft, intimidation, and outrageous corruption."
Show HN: Get Emails Notifications When Your Online Business's Reputation Changes
There are plenty of sensible parental controls you can put in place. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
You can get internet and mobile access for $3.75 a week.

http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp5558.htm...

All of that content, written, designed and published by some of the best news producers in the world.

It's instantly accessible, from anywhere you are. Updated all the time.

I simply cannot understand how you could argue all of that is worth no more than $1. Even $5 a week for an Internet/mobile subscription is reasonable considering the volume of edited and proofed material you get.

It's unfortunate that the mashables and reddits of the world have so soundly devalued the expectation of quality in news reporting.
I love go, but my personal gripe with the type system is that there is no way to pass type information around without using a zero valued (or fully populated, it makes no difference) instance. For example, I have a factory struct with a New method that returns interface{MySignatures()}, but I cannot inform the factory of the concrete type I want it to produce without passing in something like new(ConcreteStructWithMySignatures). Some have suggested I pass in a string, but what is the point of a type system if I have to use strings to reason about my types?
All DigitalOcean asked him to do was to give them editorial control over his blog. That isn't a small thing to me.

At a quick glance it looks like a public forum (which has a bearing on how I view the ethics of the situation although even if it was private I don't think DO should act). When you are asked a question about your employer in public you are speaking for them and if you say something dumb that your company doesn't like that is your action and responsibility not someone who reports it. When I worked for a large company I used to speak (and particularly write online) very carefully except when truly in private. I also don't see any reference to anything being "off the record" so I don't see why you assume it wasn't "on the record".

Would I write that article like that? No. Do I think DO should claim editorial control over it? Hell no.

Maybe DO could request the blog owner provide contact details (I can't see any on the current site) so that legal action could be brought directly against them as the publisher rather than against DO. Not offering such may be reasonable grounds to have DO demand editorial changes or cease service.
They'd have just gone to Facebook or Twitter instead. If you see what I mean.

Up-time for those type of sites is probably important for retention. But not for significant world events. But then again, Twitter kinda proved that even for retention that's not very important given how flaky that used to be.
Well I like being able to accurately view an address in street view, so you are helping me, too. Thanks?
Would you, fellow HNers, use a service like this? I searched the web, and could not find anything similar...

Thanks for all your answer/suggestions.
One CAPTCHA to rule them all!
What the Quantified Self needs now is context
The Cloudlet: Two Potential Personal Clouds
If you have resources you would like to suggest or to be added to the website, please feel free to do it :)
Or...

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm
Find me another service that praises you for violation of their TOS. I'd be really pleased to find at least one.
It saddens me to see this petty bullshit on the front page of Hacker News.
Wasteland 2: 25 years in the making (Interview)
slander implies the quoted information was false. The argument isn't that the information presented was false. It was that it was presented at all.

You are generally free to speak with someone and report it.
Organized civil disobedience was ineffective.
On them, not by them.
The App Store states that an app "Offers In App Purchases".

Parental controls are there. It's your own fault.
Google announces partnerships to drive Android-connected cars
The message is easier to read it on Gmane:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.irtf.cfrg/2337
"Emails Notifications" should be: "Email Notifications"
Gotta' read reviews before you buy anything on the app store.
I don't enforce parental controls (restrictions). They are too old for that crap.

However I don't want adverts in web pages that have detected an iPad forever redirecting to the app store. Then when you switch back to safari they reload and back to the app store app again unless you are quick.

It's like the bad old days of the Internet again playing banner whack a mole.
Save a bookmark to the cloud via a URL
Selecting the Best Backlink Prospect: Evaluation Framework
I don't enforce parental controls. This is about banner ads and web sites forcing you to download apps from the app store.
The Nano Brain
That is one tough PDF. It's loading in Firefox (UX) here but is balky.
You have nobody to blame but yourself.

Which is why Apple settled their class action on this subject, and as a direct result altered the appstore to mark free apps with IAP as such.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've been looking for this exact thing. Go Map is ok, but PushPin really does have the "I'm here now and want to add the location easily" use case nailed.

Side note: This illustrates how crappy the App Store is for discovery. I've searched for all variations on "OSM editor" and never found this one.
i was... working. such a shame.
Correlation attack on a simple toy stream cipher
Get this off of HN. This blog doesn't deserve the publicity.
درجات الحرارة وحالة الطقس يوم الاربعاء 8/1/2014 ..
> whether or not the blog post actually is slander or not is debatable

Yes it is, it's relative to the laws of a given country what is considered slander and what is not.

> I am saying that they are perfectly within their right to enforce their TOS how they see fit

There are laws around slander and DO has no right to enforce them, because last time I checked vigilantism was illegal.

> If the OP doesn't agree with them, there is nothing that says he can't move his content to another provider that may not make the same decision DO has.

How easy or hard to move his content is irrelevant, the fact is he paid for a service which the provider terminated citing unproven(innocent until proven guilty) claims based on a one liner email from some random person on the internet.
That's a small minded way to look at this. Consider for a moment that now Digital Ocean has just signaled that you can't reliably host anything on DO for more than just technical reasons. Post something someone doesn't like, despite it being true? It can be removed.

Let that sink in, because your comment is calling out the OP for being a jerk. You are making claims, legal claims, such as "he harassed a guy" as if they he was already guilty of the crime of harassment.
> DigitalOcean can cancel the contract once others found the blog post to be defamatory.

Well ... that's what's happening. It's not "policing content", it's holding up their side of the contract.
Or some documents about alien first contacts.
My theory was that they shouldn't be allowed to have such TOS and be given immunity from lawsuits about the way their services are used.

So basicly the only reasons a hosting provider should have grounds to terminate/interfere with service are - court order/stopped payment/the way service is used actively disrupts other customers.

We should have service "first sale doctrine" equivalent - once you have sold the access service etc you have no say in how it is used.
It's best not to speculate on defamation matters, because defamation laws vary from place to place. Quite a lot, sometimes.
I think you misunderstood the OP. The problem is not that his kids bought things behind his back.
Who was the last unattractive US president?
Recurly. Simple API and they handle everything on the credit-card side of things.
The web is circling the drain. Get off while you can. On the other hand, no one really listened to the W3C, as evidenced by the misspellings of "color" on most web pages.

/sarcasm
I changed that headline so many times, I've missed this. thanks for the heads up.
A Startup with a Stupid Rap Video
Seeing more and more of these extreme perspective mockups on dribble and elsewhere. Definitely makes mockups look "cooler" but it makes it so hard to read / see what is going on.

Just a little perspective goes a long way!
The key to any defamation claim is that it is a false statement. Truth is an affirmative defense.
There are frequently enough people complaining about their submissions being auto killed, you aren't the only one under a submission ban.
Quick reference doesn't matter in this case, they don't compare...

The average income in Norway is $6909 (USD), monthly and the average income in the United States (which is kinda a useless stat since cost of living is significantly different in different places) is $2678 (USD) monthly.

I used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Norway

for quick stats.
Isn't this the guy who squats on domain names? http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/
This attitude is a disease in our culture. I challenge you to name a single task an able-bodied human with a sound mind cannot be taught to do and explain why.
I will suggest to use #tor-dev IRC channel @ OFTC for more info.
> All DigitalOcean asked him to do was to give them editorial control over his blog. That isn't a small thing to me.

A nitpick. They didn't ask for editorial control; they asked for observance of the Terms of Service, with the option on their side to discontinue service. Nothing in the ToS gives DigitalOcean any right to editorial control and nothing in their communications says "give us control".

It's a binary proposition. Stick to the agreement, or the agreement is off.
The science behind failed New Year's resolutions
I completely agree.

I know it's easier for the gov to publish new laws than it is to actually figure out what the underlying problem is and tackle that.

I think it's quite rare that the underlying problem is "not enough laws"
COINTELPRO: Stealing J. Edgar Hoover’s Secrets
As someone who already has a gaming computer as an HTPC, I really just want to buy the steam controller. It looks like it isnt for sale yet, however =(
China Confronts the Online Rumor Mill
The Four Stages of Disruption
Maybe not the tag itself but a Google Analytics UA code.
Maybe this law is so far along because the only challenges it receives are unanswered tweets.

Try calling his office instead. It is a thousand times more effective.
The message is clear : do not trust the governement (or the state)
Does your search page display a list of results, or does it redirect to the best result? If the former, I'd say that a list of zero is still a valid search results 'document', and should therefore return a 200. But the latter could certainly return a 404, although I doubt that's how your search actually works :)
> Truth is an affirmative defense.

This varies by jurisdiction.
I love this "no results" page

http://niice.co/?search=cookieless
I don't think this trivial algorithmic example even does a good job at being the straw man in this argument.

Yeh, he's right in that its another means to an end, but where's the comparison to other means? This just seems like a bash on FP, rather than an intelligent discussion on what can give us a better answer.
By the way, HN still says it is down at this url

https://news.ycombinator.com/
The area of Darlington behind the stadium.

(Darlo itself has many perfectly nice neighborhoods, but where we were, in a new estate mind, was really not nice)
A thousand times, this. But in addition, we need to get politicians to wait for the experiment to finish and look at results before pushing policies. For example, basically no states have changed their plans to expand Medicaid as a result of the Oregon Medicaid Experiment, in spite of the fact that the results surprised everyone.

A truly depressing fact - the best experiment in public health policy since 1974 was an accident, caused solely by the fact that Oregon didn't have enough money to expand Medicaid for everyone. Depressing, no?
It's also very readable by displaying the source code of the page.
Marketing is a Multi Interaction Game; Strategize Accordingly
A New Method to Measure Consciousness Discovered
More information about the 'incident' would allow readers to make an informed judgement about whether this was reasonable behavior or not.
The title says taste, but the search bar actually instructs to search for inspiration.
Try searching by colour http://niice.co/?search=%23f00+%23000
>Our users deserve beautiful, clear, and comprehensive graphics to allow everyone to quickly understand Tor better.

Personally I think every OSS project needs this. I think a lot of users might consider switching to OSS alternatives if they were a little more polished.
"Person does something stupid, blames tools" ><

In general: commit before you start doing major tree/history manipulation stuff like merging; committing is what makes your data really secure! This is not a subtle point, it's merely common sense, and because of git's "commits are lightweight, local, and amendable" model, there's little excuse not to commit.

[It seems somewhat likely this person was used to subversion, which has much more heavyweight commits and a more limited model, and thus requires doing more stuff while in an uncommitted state. But "like subversion" is not synonymous with "good practice."]
This seems wrong to me, and fairly obviously wrong.

If you take a group X, a certain percentage Y hang out in newsgroups and blog. He himself was part of that Y for Forth.

Why would the percentage Y be significantly different for any given language?

The number of bloggers/newsgroup users is like a survey, it's not complete, but it's a very good indicator of how popular a language is. The popularity of a language increases its ease of use by a considerable factor (libraries, help, documentation, etc.).

Hence Forth being a language no-one uses today, which actually contradicts his point, rather than illustrating it as he seems to think. Elizabeth Rather was right, there were people doing interesting things with Forth, but there weren't many.

And for most of us, that's an important thing to consider when using any tool.

That there is a huge number of bloggers looking down their nose at Perl & C++ simply shows there's something wrong with both those languages. It doesn't mean that they're not still useful though, nor does it mean something else solved the problem until a lot of 'I used Go/Rust/Haskell/Whatever to make non-trivial program' posts appear.
It was also down for much longer than a lot of services (e.g. status checkers) thought, since their only sensible method of working is to inspect the HTTP status. The result being that HN uptime looks better than it really is; of course, this isn't a paid service or something mission-critical, so exaggerating uptime doesn't really make much difference.
The down pages had long cache times, you just need to refresh.
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
> In this case, DO is enforcing _their_ own TOS, on content that is served from _their_ servers.

And they are terminating a service that the OP paid with it's _own_ money. There are consumer protection laws.

> Is there a law stating that they don't have a right to do this?

They don't have the right to enforce the law, they are not the police, and as it turns out there are laws against slander.
Sounds like there's a mysterious issue wrt your situation, because all of those things are obvious even to near tech-illiterate people.

Apps can offer in app purchases (that's a feature), and they prompt you for your approval and password when you install something that costs. There are also parental controls to further restrict this. To complaint about this is like letting your 6 year old drive your car and complain that he wrecked it like it's the car company's fault.

Also, why you'd even attempt to find "apps that supposedly block ads" is beyond me. Have you even read anywhere that those work with iOS? Apps are in frigging sandboxes.

Plus, those apps CHOSE to be offered for free WITH ads. It wouldn't be ethical to the developer to take ads off of those apps in the first place, even if you could. Sounds like a totally cheapskate-y move.

As for "games that crash all the time" you do know that there are tons of quality titles for iOS right, even for huge companies like EA? You don't have to download every el cheapo (or "free with ads" you'll then try to block) game and then complaint. If one cannot trust oneself to access an app before buying, there are review sites. Thousands of those. Plus user ratings on the app store itself and lists of top and recommended apps.

>I suspect this is the case for a chunk of that $10B.

A very small chunk, and I doubt a chunk that has anything to do with any hacker proper.
There are many sites online where you can exchange work for lodging.

http://www.helpx.net/

Here was a nice article on spendin a Christmas working in beautiful locations rather than stuck home.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/aug/12/working-holiday...
No web site "forces" you to download apps from the app store.
This may work for some aspects of their company, but there are still traditional roles at a company like Zappos that are going to require structure.

I can't imagine that their order fulfillment chain is going to just let the pickers and packers decide what circle they want to be in today.
The article appears to be flamebait.

The main point is trivial because it applies to nearly every single technique/tool/language/framework: "X is not perfect. X can/should not be applied in all situations. X must be augmented by Y. X is a means to an end, not an end unto itself." etc.

It mixes the trivial, obviously true ("Every technique has to be measured on its own, independent of weather or not it’s 'functional'") with
that sure to offend ("The Religion of FP").

I don't see any real insight. What does it have to say that we didn't already know?
This is basically again an instance of the ages-old problem of symptoms being easier to treat than the disease. And that's assuming the disease is even identified correctly in the first place.
* Why do you think GDP is the most significant stat? I suggest that GDP primarily represents the status of the wealthy, and that working people may not be sensitive to GDP. Why is GDP your KPI, rather than, the status of the poorest in society?

* Why do you think a drop in working hours would cause a drop in GDP at all? I would assume the working hours lost would be at least below average productivity, and could be negative productivity, as the false incentive for people to create 'work' for themselves is reduced.
I'm seeing a bit of confusion between correlation and causation, but the full paper seems to make a different point to the article anyway. I only skimmed so I'm not informed enough to summarise.

Full study here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2357756&d...
Java vs. Native Agents (and how it affects your code)
IRC was the go-to before social networking. It's where I got up to the minute updates as the events of 9/11 unfolded, despite being 800+ miles away. That's also when I realized TV news is obsolete.
I haven't really thought this through, but I'd like to shamelessly take the opportunity to piggy back onto swombat's #1 post:

Barring disasters, in early 2014 I will be leaving the precariat and can stop being the money-grubbing mercenary I've been for the last few years. I don't exactly have fuck you money, but I should be able to get by on less than £~10kGBP / $~15kUSD a year. I'm currently based in London, UK.

Some things I like the idea of working on are Free Software, encrypted / federated communications, Linux audio, C and embedded software. I've dabbled in all of the above but am not particularly accomplished at any of them. My core skills are python / web development, but I've done plenty of other stuff and am willing and able to learn. Hopefully a look at https://github.com/Joeboy will indicate that I am basically able to do computers.

If anybody has a job (or part of a job) for me, please get in touch via my website, which is on my HN user page.