skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think personal emails are a nice touch, but I wonder what happens if a venture is acquired, sold or even passed on. I remember a friend who worked for a popular publication in town going through a legal battle over her Twitter account. At the time, companies did not have the naming conventions they do now (@NPRxxxx or @CNNxxxx) that drew the line between personal and professional accounts. When she left the publication, her Twitter account went with her and the publication felt that, since those followers came from her work at the publication, they were owned by them. Now, if your venture fails, absolutely that personal email connection is incredibly invaluable. I just wonder if in other instances it would end up biting you in the ass.
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I watched that episode last night. It wasn't propaganda. It was meant to be chilling. The difference between the way Peter and Olivia handled the death of their child is supposed to be stark. What's even more critical is that the 'torture' fails.

The final act, him cutting open and killing the observer is still shocking, and it isn't glorified or seen as right. It's clearly the first steps down a darker path.
They also have a torture page (edit: oops, I see now that it is just a redirect to Interrogation):

http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Torture

And an amputation page:

http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Amputation

(but a couple of those incidents don't involve torture; I remember being extremely put off by the scene in day 8 (I guess I switched it off before the scene was complete).

Now I wonder how mainstream 24 really is, given how over the top it seems.
News report from 1981 about the internet.
Canned responses work wonders. For me, most of these appeals ended with "Sorry, don't carry cash."
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who makes that decision? It seems it would always be better to repay.
For what it's worth: that's what he already does. For example, Bernstein is one of the coordinators for CAESAR, the competition for new authenticated bulk ciphers.

http://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-committee.html
Could you recommend agood, cheap book on this part of CE? A dover book or an older edition would be best for us dilletantes...
Show HN: Boxpx.com - Simple photo albums for Dropbox
See Asparagirl's great comments about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017891

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7018441
At present i have almost 25 books in my kindle collection called 'To Read". Impulse Book buying is so easy with Kindle i buy every time some book is mentioned in a blog post or an article.
Why Startups Need Design Students
PostgreSQL + WAL-E + Cloudfiles = Awesome
I believe that the George Bush Senior was the one who said that him, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl, etc. represent the last generation that remembered the horrors of WW2 and that's why there have been peace. All the politicians after them just didn't experience terrors of war, they all think it is like comics book… hence there will be more wars in the future.
I'm really disturbed by the idea that "add torture" is a formula for "pleasing the audience". That gets into the chicken-and-egg question of where culture comes from. Granted, if you ignore the either-or question and just accept that both the chicken and the egg are causative...

It makes me think of something I recently read:

http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=11663

No torture in this one, but... well.
Except people will still need to figure those things out to decide which of the many different Steam Boxes to buy....

Oth3erwise, the PC and gaming industry strategies are completely different. With consoles, the hardware is more or less fixed, but later developments (eg die shrinks) are used to reduce the price. With PCs, the price is maintained fairly constant over the short term but later developments are used to increase the performance or whatever is fashionable (eg maintain or reduce the performance but make it thinner).
ouch, GitHub has just announced Traffic Analytics

https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-anal...
I've heard good things about self-hosted, open source Piwik: http://piwik.org/
You're right about the second statement, and quite wrong about the first.

Poverty is tied to race because race is tied to subculture. Work ethic is no more a racial quality than is the propensity to dance like a fool (edit: by this, I mean white people dancing like fools) or to enjoy eating burritos. But it is well known that the so-called 'Protestant work ethic' is a strong component of white American subculture, whereas it exists less strongly in the black subculture. Other races (such as Asians and Jews) have similar cultural values which encourage a strong work ethic. The American black subculture, on the other hand, does not seem to instill nearly as high a value on hard work in its children as do the others. On the contrary, the system is perceived as being a white construct, and black children who are perceived as trying to join that system are often shunned for 'acting white.' That is not a racial issue, it's a cultural issue, but its genesis has no bearing on the final result where basic income is concerned, at least not in the short run. I do think that the black subculture is beginning to appreciate the value of hard work more, but according to the data, it still has a ways to go.

Latino subculture as it exists in the USA is similar, but perhaps to a lesser extent.

If you think that's a racist statement, I suggest you look up the definition of racist, remove your emotions and preconceived biases from the issue, google some things ('acting white', 'black work ethic', etc) focus on what I actually said rather than reading between the lines, so to speak, and reevaluate accordingly.
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> Yeah, but you won't always be right - do you like being wrong some of the time because you jump to conclusions?

Yeah. But it takes literally 5 seconds to readjust as new information comes in. If a guy in a suit turns out to be plumber I won't hesitate to ask his card if I am in need of some plumbing service at the moment.
On the other hand if I'm right I'm better prepared to spot and fend off attempt to sell me something.

> How about deferring judgement until you interact verbally with the person?

It's impossible to do that without closing your eyes. You use all your senses to figure out environment around you. People are large part of it. How somebody looks, smells or sounds is an information that can allow you to predict things. If I smell alcohol from someone I don't have to wait till he speaks something coherent to decide what actions should I take.

> I am a straight(ish, ahem) guy who from time to time paints his nails. Q: What would you infer from that?

If I saw you in public with nails painted I'd just think you are daring individual. It might be positive, it might be negative. I'd be more curious but also more cautioned if I ever were to enter verbal contact with you.
I built something very similar earlier this year (http://thingsy.co), but pushed the idea even further by posting items to Craigslist/Kijiji/Backpage (using mechanical turk for item recognition).

Unfortunately, this couldn't scale because of classified ad websites limitations.

To this day, I don't know of any classified ad website that allows massive item listing through an open API. This would seal the deal.
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Thanks for turning me on Grab and Drag. Firefox is one of the few things I want to touch scroll on Linux.
Precisely. If it is a workable system, the experiment will be a success, a community will have benefited, and you will have your political ammunition to have it scaled up.

If it is a failure, well, it would be much preferable to know this before implementing it on a large scale, for obvious reasons.

Let's not politicize something which can be easily and cheaply tested with scientific rigor. If it works, it works. If not, then okay.
The FBI drops 'law enforcement' from its mission statement
GitHub just announced built in analytics today: https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-anal...
Very cool site. would like to see more projects that ones of the front page.
There isn't a sole Grandmaster, it's a title that represents the top players. In Dec 2008 there was 1,192 Grandmasters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_%28chess%29

The requirements for becoming a Grandmaster are somewhat complex. A player must have attained an Elo rating of at least 2500 (although they need not maintain this level to obtain or keep the title). In addition, at least two favorable results (called norms) from a total of at least 27 games in tournaments involving other Grandmasters, including some from countries other than the applicant's, are usually required before FIDE will confer the title on a player. There are other milestones a player can achieve to get the title, such as winning the Women's World Championship, the World Junior Championship, or the World Senior Championship. Current regulations can be found in the FIDE Handbook.

What's the point of just learning how to play Chess? That's not much of an accomplishment for most people. On the other hand, not everyone has the skills/ability to be a Grandmaster. Plenty of very serious people compete and spend a LOT of time trying to obtain Grandmaster status. Some people devote their entire lives to chess, but only a little over a thousand get it. Do you think the others just weren't trying hard enough? Or is it just possible that some people can do things that other people can't!?

Not to mention the parent mentioned "sound mind" as a prereq, I find this as a mostly insulting term, since it can mean anything you want and it "others" many people in society. It also can become a tautology, you can't do that, you must have not met my prereqs.

I'll attack the concept anyways. "(non) sound mind" is a (mostly) legal term (Non compos mentis) which means (not) competent [to stand trial, to make medial decisions, etc...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_compos_mentis
Look forward to checking this out. The biggest win regarding Sidekiq for me wasn't so much performance (which is was definitely better than Resque) but it's retry logic, error reporting, batch handling (granted, that's paid), ease of plugging into an existing app's security model, and more.

Without having looked at it yet, how does the pre-built UI compare? From an initial glance, it looks like anything that's missing is available via the DSL, but Sidekiq gave me so much of what I needed out of the box (having come from a custom-made solution using SQS + open source CFML) it made my head explode.
Interesting attack vector ...
Skobbler uses OpenStreetMap data for some time in their offline map and navigation apps [1]. They charge a small amount per region download for offline use. I haven't used it for some time but recommended it to a friend who likes it.

A bug tracker for OSM data also exists [2].

[1]: http://www.skobbler.us/info-contact/company-team
[2]: http://www.skobbler.us/mapdust
I'm not that sure it's a new trope: '70s British cop shows (The Sweeney, et al) tended to show information being extracted by force, too.

However, it may say some things about the society where it's popular - '70s Britain wasn't a very happy place in some ways.
assuming that you can repay it. usually you've spent it and therefore you're doing that next priced round. I'm not sure who decides whether it gets repaid or converted.. I recommend you to read up a bit on that. However, if you're not going to convert it into equity it may not be interesting for a seed investor to invest. In that case you should just borrow money from a lender and don't bother with seed investors at all.
YC has recently introduced Safe, an alternative to convertible debt: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/06/yc-safe/
It's convertible debt except it never gets repaid, always converts into equity at some point.
A new Spark Web UI for submitting jobs
The treatment of torture on TV is important for the reasons OP states. I disagree that torture is becoming more prevalent on TV, though perhaps because I watch less of it. Here are the scenes I can remember from childhood onward.

1. Knight Rider - not exactly torture but Michael was in a contest with someone else to tolerate pain, afterwards it was revealed the other person was not connected to the machine.

2. Star Trek - I can remember Kirk in a reclined chair on the Enterprise, looking up at something that was causing great pain.

2. ST:TNG - The Picard scene is memorable because it affected so many people due to the show's popularity.

3. Firefly - This was particularly well done / graphic because I think Nathan Fillion is very good physical actor.

One of the ways torture affects the lives of ordinary americans is through the Taser. Youtube has some eye-opening examples of tasers being used for the wrong reasons. Its a near impossible line to walk between non-lethal force and pain as coercion.
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In the 5th season, Peter tortures an observer. But this is displayed in a dark light, and the torture fails. It's not glorified. It's in fact the dark side, a counter-balance to Olivia's mourning.

Basically, it's portrayed as a horrific, shocking action, made all the more horrible because of who's doing it. It's the first steps down a darker road for Peter.

So, yeah, not at all propaganda supporting torture.
I'm not suggesting the necessity of small-scale experimentation solely for the purpose of convincing the public that this is a good idea, I'm also suggesting it for the purpose of convincing myself that this is a good idea.

As I said, I'm skeptical that this idea will work. It would however be fairly trivial (and cheap!) to carry out an experiment which could convince me otherwise.

Frankly, anyone who objects to the notion that we should spend $50 million or so to test the idea before implementing it on a large scale is a complete fool.
There's a trade-off to be made. On the one hand browser users would like every page to "just work". On the other hand they want secure connections to actually be secure.

If those .9% of websites break in the latest versions of firefox, chrome, and IE they are more likely to be fixed than if they are coddled through some workaround or even worse by holding back general progress. The former is better for web security. On the other hand, people who want to go to those websites in the meantime will be inconvenienced.

Perhaps a compromise is to build the workaround, but put in an interstitial scare screen. That might generate the desirable social pressure on the website owner without making it impossible to visit.
I had a stroke. I’m a healthy 30-year old woman and I had a stroke. It was wild.
That's a great point. I couldn't agree more. I should have given some more intro, however if you follow the link at the top of the post, it provides much more context.

http://brandontreb.com/what-i-learned-in-my-first-month-bein...

On my iphone right now, but if I get a chance I'm happy to post more backstory here in the comments later today.

Thanks for the feedback!
It's not very good propaganda if the audience doesn't enjoy it.
Personal (alt)coins. What needs to happen for mainstream use.
I suspect these records had something to do with the HN server outage and PG ordered them destroyed.

Prove me wrong. You can't. They destroyed the documents.
So they are right in assuming that people are searching more and more for answers to questions rather than looking up documents containing keywords. They are wrong in assuming that all of these questions inquire about what some physical object/location/etc is. But I think having something like this is useful in other ways. One application that comes to mind is that they could gather all submitted answers to build an automatic object/scene recognizer. Probably in a few years, Jelly could automatically tag objects in the photo you just took.
You say that as if you're not helping Google with anything else. Every search, every plus, every rating, every interaction helps Google with its business. And in majority of cases, users reap the benefits too and house numbers is one of those—better geographical knowledge is always good. Whether it can be abused is irrelevant to this specific matter. Every piece of information about anything can be abused.
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Can you please explain why? Is there some evidence you have that shows that Windows is less secure than any other OS? Please take into account the huge market share which means that malware writers will spend a disproportionate amount of time developing for Microsoft systems.
Also, people who run other Operating Systems tend to be more technically skilled than people using Windows.

This is not to excuse Microsoft, they could certainly do better. But so could Apple and Debian.
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The thing to remember here is that people are changing USD > BTC, paying with BTC, and then that BTC is going back to USD. What's the point? This accomplishes nothing other than allowing Bitcoin exchanges to collect tx fees between customers and Zynga. It's non-conducive to adoption.

On the other hand, if Zynga were holding BTC, paying employees in BTC, and those employees started consuming with BTC, then they would actually be "using" it. Otherwise it's the same exact thing as punching in your credit card details.
That's awesome! I always figured that there had to be a better way of selling things than Craigslist currently offers. The issue is building an audience. I thought I would try and piggy back on instagram to maybe push me ahead.
My feed array to the LTO-5 drive is 4 2TB (Hitachi) in RAID-10. Backup strategies, much like build systems are some constant factor harder than they appear.

I'd like to migrate to ZFS but have yet to. Still just running EXT4.

HN should be on a replicated data store like Riak. Losing a node or two shouldn't take the system down, or should at least run in a degraded state (read only) until hardware is restored.
Hardware-wise, the main differences are a better display (that is, more dense), and a slower SSD (non PCIe) and slower graphic card (HD4200 vs HD5000). Trackpad is probably worse as well, but I would suppose you can't see much of a difference under Linux where the experience is suboptimal even with the Apple one. You also don't have Thunderbolt connectors, though I doubt is a problem for most people.
Why I am switching to promises
Ask HN: What is a good use-case for Node?
This is an honest question here.

First, I love Node / JavaScript. That very clear C-like syntax makes everything very readable (also interested in Go, C, etc) and as long as you use named functions for callbacks you can rather easily avoid callback hell. It is an amazing tool for quick prototypes and toying around with things (TCP, UDP, etc). I also realize it has some flaws that can't be ignored. It isn't very fast. I have no evidence that it isn't riddled with security issues. With enough requests you can crash hard.

While some of these things can be mitigated to some degree I'm seriously wondering what a great use-case is?

I use it for simple websites and APIs mostly and then some IRC utilities / bots as well but what does HN think?
>The hosting provider should err on the side of its customers as opposed to random third parties.

Maybe they do. This is a fairly clear case of online harassment. The guy acted like bully and it shows in his post. All they wanted from him was to remove references to his name. This is fairly standard - for example, Reddit frowns upon identifying people in certain stories because they had issues with vigilante mobs forming.
Google Glass, The Corporate Gaze and Mine
Show HN: Story Writing Game (IOS) - Been working on it for a few months
Academia in general sticks surprisingly close to the guild model. You have professors as masters, postdocs as journeymen, grad students as apprentices, and undergraduates as initiates.
Ask HN: Do you practice Test Driven Development?
Martin Fowler:  Branch By Abstraction
Sidekiq's retry and robust handling of jobs (at least with reliable queuing in pro) was the big win indeed. I had a app I tried switching over to it though and it did not go well. In my case I'm running background jobs that take 4-5 minutes to complete and are pretty cpu intensive, and I suspect because sidekiq is threaded it's only using one CPU core and completely thrashing the machine. I can run about twice as many workers with resque as I can with sidekiq, so I had to switch back. Sadly now I've lost the reliable queuing and automatic retries (the latter at least is not too hard to implement in an ensure block).

I do wonder how this one would work out though, will have to give it a try at some point.
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In this case, the title from HN is merely a symptom of the underlying issue with the blog title, etc.

I'm sure you're referring to this guideline:
"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

I think that if the title is so minimal as it begs you to click to have a clue what it might be, that could be construed as linkbait.
>There are at least two assholes involved in this story.

Whose the other asshole?
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The problem with the new T440p, and the entire Lenovo line in general, is the awful keyboard and trackpad.

They moved to a chiclet style keyboard in the previous generation, removed the top row of keys, and have now inverted the function keys so they perform media functions first. In order to get an F4 you have to press Fn+F4. Ridiculous!

Also they have removed the physical buttons surrounding the trackpad. Previously, one of the nice things about the trackpoint was the ability to have your finger moving the trackpoint while your thumb took a rest on the middle button. Being able to feel the physical buttons you always knew exactly which button you were going to click. Now with the Apple style trackpad, you get no textual feedback at all.
Like most people on craigslist would think of that.
> How come Google plays a good part of Go's popularity [...] ?

Because it is the perception. It is enough for people to think Google is sponsoring Go to choose Go. They expect continued support and upgrades not a dead forgotten project 3 years down the road. Now how much does Google pay for and support Go, I don't have figures for you, but in this case perception is what matters most.

Also, doesn't it pay full time salaries for people who work on Go? Or primary creators work on Go on the weekends and holidays and/or most are not even affiliated with Google?
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You misunderstand, I think. The gyro detects movement, and the machine becomes locked until the manufacturer decides to unlock it for you. When deciding whether to re-enable the machine, the manufacturer can verify its new location using whatever means they want.