skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "The average Internet user seems unconcerned about participatory surveillance. He is prepared to give up his privacy to get valuable service for free. As a result there is little or no organized resistance to automated mass surveillance."

This is true and quite depressing, but I also think it's because people aren't fully aware of just how much tracking takes place and how often. It's clearly not in the interests of Google, Facebook and others to reveal what they track and record (hence why their privacy policies are so vaguely worded).

Would people care more about privacy if they were better informed? Maybe (or maybe not).

Consider the following scenario. You buy a Chromebook and use it exclusively for a year as your main computer. You have to be signed in to use ChromeOS, so Google potentially tracks everything you do online. We don't know exactly what Google captures because they don't actually say. But let's assume that after one year of Chromebook use, Google have records of the following:

- Every single website you visited (and the duration and time of day).

- A detailed picture of your online shopping habits, including what you shopped for and maybe even purchased online.

- Every document you printed included number of pages, time of day you printed, number of copies, the printer you sent the print job to. Whether it was colour or B&W.

- Every Google app you use, when you use it and how often etc.

- Details about the order in which you do things on your computer. Always check your email as the first thing when you switch on? Google will undoubtedly know this from analysing your activity.

And let's not forget that Google will stitch together what you though were disparate journeys. Browsing a shopping site for a particular product? Later you go to YouTube to search for a review of the product. Google joins up the connection. (A reminder that this is all speculation on my part but I think it's fairly realistic speculation.)

Now imagine if all this data was presented to you at the end of the year. You might think it's incredibly cool to see so much about yourself - if it was only yourself who saw this data. How would you feel if you knew it was Google that was seeing and keeping this data? You might think it perfectly benign and necessary for the personalisation features you enjoy. Or maybe you might decide that Chromebooks are the biggest privacy hole imaginable and vow to stop using them.
> Everything does fall apart when there are strong external stressors that cannot be remedied with even your own hard work, but that's a separate issue I think.

For me that's exactly it. I have yet to find something that works. I don't know. Not giving a fuck does not work for me.
It's a bit unreasonable to take the title literally in this case, since it would just be an absolutely horrendous way to use the money.
I think the fact that it opens too easily is the elephant in the room. It may stay closed when stacked neatly, but I would like to see what happens when you toss a box, or when a box with a heavy object inside is upside down on uneven flooring.

Because of that, I don't think this will be an universal replacement for all cardboard boxes. It may see application in some niche corners of the market, though, and that may make it a success.
I used to read r/programming a lot, but eventually ended up reading hacker news for this kind of news. I would not be surprised if you could match r/programming decline in popularity with a rise in popularity of HN.
In practical terms, that would require having medical insurance from a company that supported that kind of thing. No idea when/how that will happen.
Good lord, what happened in mid 2009?! The reddit.com blue area spikes up for a month.

Edit: the original blogpost by Randy Olson says he doesn't know either.
So far we're proving the %'s wrong with all of these INTJ's (2% worldwide or something)!
A lot of those recruiters are agency recruiters working on contingency. Meaning they don't actually work for the company they're recruiting for, they just get paid for successfully referring engineers to that company. The reason they're so vague is because they don't want you skipping over them and contacting the company directly, which would save you/the company a lot of money (and cause them to lose their recruiting fee).
> Their foresight is in saving it instead of spending it immediately

Not only that, but also in establishing a national oil company instead of privatizing everything to funnel profits to some large corporations.

I'd like to know how they manage to prevent corruption in these areas, in Austria (where I live) it's quite common to rob the taxpayer blind and line politicians' pockets while privatizing assets.
Amazon launches redesigned developer portal
Even though I don't know the specifics, I take issue with the very idea that merely contacting someone can constitute harassment. At the very least, the content of the message should be taken into account. Intent, more than raw actions taken out of context, is what determines wrongdoing.

Note that I'm not suggesting that the actual law is being misinterpreted. I'm merely stating my personal views about the existence of such a law.
Here's another document on the topic: http://www.bitcointax.info/
I hate to be the bad guy, but they earn that money from the people who pay the price of the high oil prices. A real act of altruism is to actually do something to reduce those prices.
Imagination and talent under a hellish sun
Probably. Would you refuse to hire a chinese programmer who speaks fluent russian (or even just really good russian)? (if you say "there's no such thing" that is racist fyi). The cultural differences mean communication difficulties is a bit of a strawman. There are lots of cultural differences your statement ignores: country folk vs city folk within russia probably have differences (they do most places), those born pre and post communism probably have cultural differences, etc.

(Warning - attempts at trying to draw me down a semantic rabbit hole about what culture is are very much distracting from this conversation and will be ignored, and probably should be ignored by others as they are pretty blatantly strawmen).

Pretending differences don't appear amongst different groups of people is ignorant. However using this to justify all groupings is also ignorant. For one thing there are different types of groupings, some valid, some not. Some reflect inherently true things, some statistically probable things, and some that are not inherently true but the result of various other factors combined with an arbitrary and otherwise insignificant grouping. For another, a lot of groupings don't lend themselves to generalizations - for instance in the US in California especially, being ethnically Chinese doesn't imply being an immigrant, or having recently immigrated family, so assuming that a person who is ethnically Chinese speaks Mandarin is a bad assumption based on a bad generalization from a grouping that probably doesn't even matter.
There is an old saying in computer security that the only secure program is one that is in a computer that is turned off, locked inside a safe, located in a bunker.

So maybe tamper-proof is not the best term, but at least physical security add something more than just a digital signature. The device owner has a much better chance to see if someone took apart the device, decapped the chip and then put it together. If I as the consumer want a tamper-proof device, I would go with physical security every time.
Show HN: HIPAA compliant file storage
We (TrueVault), released our HIPAA compliant file storage today. Our BLOB Store is not a cloud file backup service like Box or Dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. During our beta period in December, early adopters are using the BLOB Store to store X-Rays, CT Scans, MRIs, PDFs, scanned medical records, images, and videos.

You can upload, update, delete, and download any binary file via our REST API.

We are also beta testing a browser-to-TrueVault direct file upload and download web form. If you would like to join the beta, please email us at beta@truevault.com

API: https://www.truevault.com/rest-api.html

Blob post about its release: https://www.truevault.com/blog/hipaa-compliant-file-storage.html

Love to get your feedback.
Neat, it's like an updated version of Tandems 5-minute rule for the cloud era.
Given that it apparently was (is?) being used as an HR screening tool, I'm afraid it's not always harmless conversation fodder.
Those cows and other types of food are also well-protected through insane customs fees. Thus summer, Danish cheese exported to Norway has a 277% import fee. Lamb 429%. Supposedly the new government toned things down. Norway (and Switzerland) are one of the few countries not part of EU.
While I don't agree with the science behind these test, I would assume that INTJ's would have similar interest and likely gather at a place such as Hacker News.
We are just proving that a lot of INTJ's visit hacker news.
@dkersten What happens in the scenario where you have other Python distributions on your system? Does Anaconda keep things nicely compartmentalized like a virtualenv?
We use django-assets. http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/
Sponsored Data: AT&T will let companies buy out data charges for specific apps
Leaving aside the issues of whether or not there is such a thing as intrinsic value (I would argue there isn't), any industrial/jewelry/etc uses of Gold would put a floor on it's price of something in the low double digits per ounce, if that.

This just means for Gold, you effectively have a Put option for a very small percentage of what it's currently trading at, instead of 0% of what it's trading at.
Animated 3D earth wind model
A few years ago, I heard the same thing, then went and checked out the archive and it was about the furthest thing from the truth.

Screenshot from 2005 of the home page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050804002153/http://www.reddit...
Per the article, she might have been notified because he was still in her contacts -- something he cannot help.
I've taken this test 4 times or so over the past 5 years, each time with a different result. Not quite science in my book, but definitely something to reflect upon.
Landing a job in the tech industry in norway is no problem - especially if you are a software developer, IT-consultant, or have any kind of engineering-deegree. Currently there's a huge demand for engineers, esp. in the larger cities. Not knowing the language is not a problem at all, english is well understood and spoken.
Source: Working in a multicultural software company in Oslo.
For my own work, maybe help integrate it with IPython as an alternative front-end. I don't have a cloud project, I just do my own data analysis/learning with IPython and IHaskell, and think a multi-pane approach would be much more powerful. (I applied for an account with Sense, looking forward to playing with it and providing feedback).
Whether or not the driver was carrying a fare at the time of the accident is pretty much irrelevant. The key question is was the driver carrying fares that night, i.e. relatively recently before the accident. I'd tend to believe he was, being NYE, but I guess we don't know. I'd also tend to believe if he wasn't working at all that night, if he was "off," Uber would have probably pointed that out in their statement. "The guy hadn't even been working for us at all that day!!!"

So it really makes no difference if he had a fare in his car. If he was working that night, he was working, he was just in between fares. And the whole independent contractor thing means nothing. If I were the family's lawyer I'd have no problem arguing that driving a cab in the city is an "inherently dangerous activity." [1]

But hey, I expect nothing less than Uber's "not our problem" response given their Objectivist CEO.

[1] http://www.williamskastner.com/employers-may-face-vicarious-...
S3mper: Consistency in the Cloud
>All other pools in the past have purposefully gimped their hashrate in these situations.

This has even occurred with altcoins (which are often widely believed to be pump-and-dump schemes) where a pool gets too close to 51% and voluntarily makes an effort to reduce their hashrate (either by blocking new signups, issuing fewer work units, etc.)
Or just forcing yourself to keep an open mind about pain points for others. Make notes of the "quirks" when you notice them immediately, similarly any work around should be filed as a bug. That way even if you get used to it, you know it wasn't always the case.
Not really a parallel; you'll never meet a long-time cigarette smoker who doesn't know how awful a habit it is, although you'll probably meet some who will lie about it.

On the other hand -- and I say this as a smoker, albeit as one who's cut back his habit to almost nothing over the last couple years -- smoking is an awful habit, which is both severely addictive and without meaningful benefit for the person with the habit or for anyone else. So I suppose I'm not all that inclined to quibble about the not-quite-perfect parallel, after all. :)
Overstock.com Partners With Coinbase And Starts Accepting Bitcoins As Payment
Advice On How To Stay Relevant From Musician St. Vincent
Rust 0.9 Released
Isn't that basically what many Middle-Eastern countries do, though?
The first phone company to publish a transparency report isn’t AT&T or Verizon
Last I heard, browser vendors are waiting to be able to drop XSLT.

XSLT is a functional language with a very weird syntax, and a very domain specific default mode - transforming XML trees in streaming mode. XSLT was the translation of SGML's DSSSL [1] into an XML syntax, DSSSL is (was?) a subset of Scheme.

XSLT is actually a pretty good tool for streaming "push" templating - writing a stylesheet that generically specifies how to handle certain kinds of elements. It really sucks at "pull" templating, i.e. writing the result and indicating where data from the input should go, how most templating languages work.

It turns out "pull" templating matches the mental model of most people much better, is easier to understand, and is in particular useful for ye olde typical website. On top of that, it inherited XML with all its baggage, and is forever coupled to that one particular data model.

I'd still use XSLT if I had to format something like a book, or a massive manual. Put for formatting programmatic results in a web app, I never would.

[1] http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/
What I found most fascinating was the degree to which detail increases when the entropy of human constructs increases without intervention. Eventually this aspect will reverse and it will all become homogeneous. What actually is this thing that first increases and then decreases when a highly ordered system progresses into disorder?
Not at all. I'd wager a guess that when you're a startup founder, it greatly helps to be an E.
Wave of jumbo squids hits California
That's no silver bullet, Pemex being the obvious counter-example. They might have done equally well (or better) with competing companies that were taxed to pay into this fund.
I think the my result will change depending on the mood I am in when taking the test. Describing yourself accurately, not just truthfully, (even in the constraint of the test) is very hard to do.
Or even if your buzzword-based experience is relevant. Last time I tried Dice, I got a deluge of recruiter emails for contract Django positions because I mentioned that I used Python for analyzing radar data.
Typical ESFP response....
>Understanding Ricardian/comparative advantage, recognising that dairy is not a matter of national security, and importing it.

A country can do without uranium, it can't do without dairy. As another example of food security being a matter of national security - look what happened to Egypt 2+ years ago once wheat prices rose - for years before that Egypt was geared ("international specialization") toward fruits/strawberries/etc... production for export while becoming world's biggest wheat importer.
I agree, but I'm also not surprised to see INTJ as the most up-voted type.
Engineer-to-engineer recruiting works to some extent, but only as long as your engineers are willing to tolerate it.

Airbnb, for example, has (had?) an "Always Be Recruiting" dogma: Get your engineers so psyched about the company that they go forth and witness to every engineer they know. It seems to work–at least, until you dig deeper. The nigh-unto weekly "most recruiting recommendations" statistics single out the few who are willing to share the Kool-Aid, and–more importantly–the many hundred who are not. If your engineers are made to look bad because they're not proliferating their trade at every tech talk, it's a bad sign.

As an aside to my aside, this article seems to ignore the glaringly-obvious "Have the CEO do the recruiting" conclusion.
There is actually a way to do streaming over HTTP without doing WebSockets. It's called "Server Sent Events" and is implemented in the EventSource API in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

It's quite easy to fall back to long polling in older browsers and it's a very simple and straight forward format.
Are you, by extension, raising the taxes for everybody else by ideologically supporting the current system?

Do you feel responsible for all negative consequences caused by your tax dollars?
Scientific Computing with Lua: http://www.scilua.org/

Scientific libraries for Lua: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388172/scientific-librari...

"A Primer of Scientific Computing in Lua" (book chapter in "Lua Gems" book), source code: http://code.google.com/p/luagems-numeric/downloads/list

LuaTex, an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language: http://www.luatex.org/
Wow, man. That's a lot of boilerplate.
You get subreddit suggestions ("people also added:") when creating multireddits.
Yup, see for example: http://science.tumblr.com/post/13853183116/the-big-five-pers...

Take note that the Big five, the other major personality typology, though more empirical, is not without problems either. http://differentialclub.wdfiles.com/local--files/personality...
The new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete
I think you are missing the point. Meme/image site is precisely what got reddit so big in the first place. Number of users allowed for a striking amount of highly sophisticated communities to develop (as science, workouts, etc.).
Bravo to transparency. Isn't this expensive though?
Dear moderators: Can you update this link to https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/79def2ca698db18da81288c...? It's pointing at master/RELEASES.txt, which is obviously not a good permalink for this content.
I consistently rate as an I, yet most people I meet would consider me an extrovert/E. Part of this is because when I'm meeting with people, I can be E, but it's not necessarily my default behavior (or what I'm most comfortable with, to be honest).
I'm sorry if this is stated somewhere but I have not seen it anywhere. How are these thresholds calculated? Is this per store/merchant account or for the whole marketplace?
Are they giving away most of it to the citizens? (I have heard that some countries, maybe Saudi, have things like free petrol for everyone.) And is it in one big sum, like on the order of something like 200,000USD? I can't see how the latter would work out. I can't imagine how giving most of it to the citizens would work out in the first place, but clearly I'm missing something.
Notable omission of South ( http://south.aeracode.org/ )
As a fully decentralized service, bitcoin won't take off until people put central layers on top of it.

Sure, anybody can run a web server and host their own site, but in reality millions of teenagers just use tumblr instead. Same with email.

The commoners will never be "decentralized." You'll always have Powerful Central Thing in the middle.
Don't underestimate the number of people who place no value whatsoever on principals and ideals, like privacy and self-autonomy. They will overlook, dismiss, and excuse practically any type of observation and invasion, because they "don't have anything to hide". That is the limit to the thought they put into the subject. Abstract concepts are beyond them, either in capacity to think or, at least, in interest.

As long as there is an abundance of these people undermining fundamental values that benefit all of society, we are profoundly doomed.
The main problem with the gold standard is that the amount of gold becomes a real constraint on production, even though gold is not actually used in production.
It's the same pricing as all their competitors if I recall correctly.
Exactly. If this kind of thing seems like your cup of tea check out component[1].

[1]: https://github.com/component/component
I've also submitted a link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7033234) to the actual release announcement: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/007...

Let's see which one the karma gods will favor!
Why would you reduce prices on finite resource?
Show HN: US-Canada border wait times
The real act of altruism is to do something to avoid burning oil at all. This way you get to be altruistic towards your posterity as well.

The interesting question is, do high oil prices help this cause or not?
The answer to the third question is great:

"A legacy from the communalist movement that I think is pernicious is a turning away from politics, a turning toward the self as the basis of political change, of social action. I think that’s something you see all through the Valley. The information technology industry feeds off it because information technologies can so easily be aimed at satisfying individual needs. You see that rhetoric leveraged when Google and other firms say, 'Don’t regulate us. We need to be creative. We need to be free to pursue our satisfaction because that’s ultimately what will provide a satisfying society.'

That’s all a way of ignoring the systems that make the world possible. One example from the ‘60s that I think is pretty telling is all the road trips. The road trips are always about the heroic actions of people like Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady and their amazing automobiles, right? Never, never did it get told that those road trips were only made possible by Eisenhower’s completion of the highway system. The highway system is never in the story. It’s boring. What’s in the story is the heroic actions of bootstrapped individuals pursuing conscious change. What we see out here now is, again, those heroic stories. And there are real heroes. But the real heroes are operating with automobiles and roads and whole systems of support without which they couldn’t be heroic."

I find the individualist rhetoric in Silicon Valley to be puzzling. There is a huge emphasis on the wonderkid with the genius idea, not the team of dozens or hundreds that took a half-assed idea and turned it into a product. To steal some terminology from 'pg (without imputing to him any political leaning): Silicon Valley culture right now glorifies the hacker/painter designing organisms in Lisp over the pyramid builder building pyramids in Pascal. This is an elevation of the individual, the creative genius, over the institution, the organized team. But the internet is the product of an era when America was all about institutions, not individuals. The military-industrial complex built the internet. The federal government built the highways. NASA put a man on the moon. That era was all about the power of pyramid builders working in structured, hierarchical organizations.

So I find the "road trip" analogy particularly apropos. You have these guys going on heroic, individualist road trips, but they're riding on this infrastructure created by big institutions, infrastructure that only big institutions have the scale to create.

EDIT: My comment was really more about individualism versus institutions than libertarians, and has been edited accordingly.
Doesn't one wallet control something like 40% of all issuance so far? Sure, that's completely stable.
thats so intj