skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one big cause of that is that in the early days, ios was just plain better than android. Everything worked better, looked nicer, etc.

I don't believe that's true anymore, so we might see some shifts.
How does a computer chip work?
9% drop in work might result in no drop in GDP, increase in work efficiency or even raise in GDP because this 9% goes somewhere, pesonal development, smarter consumption better care for the children or often long overdue maintenance of belongins.

In recent recession US industry shed a lot of workers with no intention of hiring them back and yet production and revenue already exceeded prerecession levels.

Work does not create wealth. Tools create wealth. There's always plenty of hands wanting to grab the tool and brains eager to learn how to swing it and modern tools require less and less of both.
"You can't publish it if we don't like it"; is editorial control. "Change this or we will take it down"; is editorial control.

They asked for a specific change: the removal of the name. That seems like editorial control to me. They took the view that anything embarrassing (even if not private) about someone who is not a public figure cannot be hosted on their servers. That is an editorial policy and they are asserting editorial control.

It isn't completely clear to me that he was breaching the terms. The closest part of the quoted terms is "harrass and embarrass". If it was an "or" then he would have breached them as an "and" I don't think he has unless there is further unrevealed harassment.

Regardless of whether it qualifies I would have expected the clause mostly to be used for serious harassment and/or posting nude images of people rather than accurately quoting statements that they have made recently.
Mozilla partners with Panasonic to bring Firefox OS to the TV
"..the sort of kids this law has been designed to target - the ones who walk around a council estate causing trouble, because there's nowhere for them to go but home, where they can look forward to crowded houses and parents who are high."

I've long been of the opinion that poor parenting (and/or an abdication of responsibility on the part of the parents) is a major contributing factor to teenage delinquency.

What are your thoughts, based on your experience of working with these kids?
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On the other hand: with the digital edition, they are able to track _each_ and _every_ thing you do on their site, and sell that data to advertisers. Try doing that with the paper version.
Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (2014)
Burrito Vending Machine launches in LA
Yes, absolutely, but it takes hard work and a good idea. Or rare luck.
OpenSSL 1.0.1f - 3 CVE issues fixed
Top 118 Fundamental Elements of Software Engineering
> Guess what - if you have that kind of discipline, you can do the same in C++.

Well, ironically, C++ already has non-nullable pointers. They're called references and they work extremely well.
I'm wondering how feasible it would be to extract useful information from cell phone GPS data. Given a bird's eye view heat map of the ground, would it be possible to approximate road curvature?

This, of course, wouldn't correlate street names with paths taken by people; that would have to be done elsewhere.
Well, I'm not in the US. I'm Dutch, and from my perspective, you've got 3 conservative parties. Blair killed what used to be Labour.
OpenStreetMap is unique. It is the only global and free source of cartographic data. My circular hiking route generator (walks.io) would not exist without it.

Although I believe it has the same problem Ubuntu has - it is geek driven and utterly unsexy for others. It has been acknowledged by OSM-ers themselves and a substantial amount of work is being done currently in direction of democratisation of OSM (although I don't know how successful it is going to be)

Mapbox is putting a lot of effort into it currently and I hope the situation will change within the next year.

I personally think the best thing you can do in popularisation of OSM is creating projects based on it.
The rule is, if you have a question about moderation, then email info@ycombinator.com. Don't make an HN post about it. Therefore, it's not really surprising that someone was banned for disobeying the rules. There doesn't seem to be anything especially worrisome here.

Jacques, you could try sending an apology to info@ycombinator.com and ask if it'd be possible to restore your account.

EDIT: It's beside the point whether he originally emailed them. Also, it's important to email info@ycombinator.com, not pg; you'll get a response that way, among other reasons.
Orthorexia nervosa
> Many (most?) of those androids are the new feature phones

Redefining words doesn't help the case. By that logic all ipod touches, ipad minis and iphones older than 4s are now 'feature devices'.
I don't think the law was as much of a concern as prominent people's reputations.
A similar issue came up when 24 was popular:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/06/scalia...

---

"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.

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Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby
Zappos gets rid of all its managers
You might like this:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-gps-layer/
He canceled the book over it, in fact.
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There are four lights!

It is a long time since I saw that TNG episode, but I remember it as a respectful treatment of the subject.

Any television series in a modern setting in which characters that are portrayed as "good guys" use torture to achieve their goals is despicable propaganda.

There has been more of that lately.
This has been a recent phenomenon, that as of yesterday started gaining public acknowledgment.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-a...
These are more issues with how Javascript is handled on the web. I'd imagine that js sanitizers have gotten more sophisticated so the callback (first) example may be a bit weak; if you're accepting code from an unknown source, even if you're filtering it first, you're gonna have a bad time.
> Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash.

The more you know!
That has fuck-all to do with Apple.

Quora uses shitty UI dark patterns on the desktop, too.
Weapons get used. Power gets used.

Until 2013 it was possible to think that the NSA spying wasn't really pervasive, wasn't really against all Americans. Now we know better, but we still think that NSA blackmailing of politicians and others is just too out there, conspiracy theory.

But the government has already done exactly that, and probably more. And they'll do it again. Dick Cheney's office outed a covert CIA spy for political revenge.

Every overly powerful organization, whether government, corporate or just personal wealth, will be corrupted eventually, because they will inevitably attract corrupt people.
Race the One game created for Ludum Dare 28 "You only get one"
Wife/kids.
I can't help but think of Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs when I read this post. It's also one of the best uses I've seen of that Heinlein quote!
Valve is working on game streaming, which will hopefully solve this problem. While not the best solution, though, it will certainly help.

See:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream
> The IRTF and IETF have always welcomed participation by all, […]

As I wrote previously¹: “We have a tacit assumption that all participants have realized that better standards (and strong crypto, more secure systems) will lead to the betterment of all. This is the default assumption.

However, now that the U.S. government, and the NSA and its collaborators in particular, have been shown to explicitly not have this goal – in fact, their goal has been to strive for less secure systems and more difficult standards ­– what should be done? The logical thing to do is to exclude any person or organization revealed to have an agenda explicitly contrary to the group.”

Having an all-inclusionist policy is “Geek Social Fallacy #1”². This case illustrates why you cannot let an inclusionist policy be all-overriding. Toxic people and representatives of explicitly adversarial organizations cannot be allowed to participate in, and thereby sabotage, both the work and goodwill of a committee.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945314

2) http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz

http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz.asc

https://www.openssl.org/docs/misc/fingerprints.txt

https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz.sha1
Mocking in Python: How to Test Without Testing Your Patience
A lot was gained. Proof. And continued exposure of what government's really do with all that power: they protect it. That knowledge is always there, all you have to do is read. Not everyone does, but it's enough that it's there.
For the sake of comparison, it seems worth mentioning a hosting provider that takes an explicit stance in their policies against things like this happening, to the extent that they actually named their company around the idea: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse

Unfortunately, NFSN's technology stack is so far behind the times that it's hard to use them for much of anything these days. I'm not affiliated with them, just a long time customer.
And Trevor Perrin's response: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.irtf.cfrg/2337

I concur: Kevin Igoe should resign, if nothing else then to remove the cloud of suspicion, given the revelations of NSA sabotage.
Cyanogen Partners With OnePlus For Custom CyanogenMod Phones
If you say it in public, it's quotable
Steam Controller impressions: A case of love-and-hate-at-first-sight
This is great, Jacques! If I'm within your 1000KM radius, I would send an offer in a heartbeat. Though I don't think there's any project I have that would interest you, but would be really awesome to learn house building.
Why Software is Important
There was a whole popular culture movement back then. I don't see that now, sadly.
One thing about America that a lot of folks don't understand is that - even if you have paid off your property debts - you don't actually own that property until the title has been cleared and transferred to you.

EVEN IF you have paid your mortgage in full, in many cases, there will not be clear title to the property - and thus, you cannot legally own the property.

Title Insurance companies know this, as do most banks. This is why there is a ~$70 "Title Clearance and/or Reconveyance Fee" that has to be paid at the end of the mortgage - by the borrower - to the Title Insurance company.

America has a huge backlog of uncleared title. In some counties, there are 2 or 3 or even up to 12 generations of title to get cleared - from the earliest title transfer, to the very latest - before someone can have clear title to their property.

So, like the original author of this article, I suspect that there was some Title Lineage evidence in all that stack of documents, which someone didn't want to have discovered .. for some reason.

The lesson learned: ALWAYS CLEAR TITLE ON PROPERTY YOU INTEND TO PURCHASE.
On the phone to my lawyer discussing whom to sue for emotional distress and whether the $Million figure should be in double or triple digits.
Well they do support Go on App Engine.
HN is probably one of the more unreliable sites on the internet.
Headlines Against Humanity
I guarantee that anyone who puts in their proverbial 10,000 hours will be able to play the violin. For certain values of "play", of course. As with beating the world record holder of any sports discipline, the real top performers have a combination of the right genes, and the dedication to perform at the highest level. And while you probably won't be able to beat the world record, given enough practice/exercise, any able bodied person can become a decent jumper.
But it's a very valid reason for enacting laws that reduce poverty. But nobody is doing that, for some reason.
Pastafarian Sworn Into Office Wearing A Colander
Since Steam Machines == Linux Machines, I'm going to celebrate this as a list of companies that are now fully supporting Linux OOB. I expect similarly configured boxes showing up in their retail channels sans a Microsoft OS.
What should you expect from CES 2014?
NYC Subway Annunciator Signs: Good Start, Needs Work
And C++11 itself was implemented awfully quickly compared to C++03, exactly because this time around the Committee was much stricter about having reference (or at the very least prototype) implementations available before accepting anything into the Standard. As you mentioned, C++14 actually seems to be proceeding like it optimally should, so the Committee has certainly learned its lessons regarding this.
A couple questions around this idea.

Are there any liability issues? Could a company who suffers damage from a Journeyman's work hold them liable.

Would there need to be contracts ion place. The wayward traveller arriving and working for lodging and sustenance may not be as easy as it sounds. Especially if there are IP issues etc.

I like this as opposed to the current scholastic intern system which in some cases seems to create a division between those students who can afford the work experience and those who cannot.

Does the German practise have some form of legal or legislative backing behind it? It would be interesting to understand how this operates in these European countries.
And you know he didn't because ... ?

Having watched jacquesm over the years, I would expect he would have email PG before posting the "Ask HN". I have no proof of this, and it's possibly he didn't, but personally, I would've emailed, and if I got no reply, then I would've posted here as a backup in case PG was away.

We can't know, and I'm not in a position of privilege, but it's consistent.
Enlarging the US House of Representatives
Nixon wasn't ugly, he was creepy-looking. If he hadn't been creepy, he wouldn't have been creepy-looking - it wasn't a problem with his actual looks.
Stronger: Is there a reason you haven't tried to get a proper diagnosis from a medical professional, but you're accepting advice from random people on the internet? (It is HN, but still...)
Seems like more than a nitpick; the whole premise of the article is that journeymen weren't paid, other than room and board, and you're saying they were, in fact, paid a daily rate after all.
Dell Delivers 4K for less than $1K Dell’s 28" Ultra HD $699
Self-Study Plan for Becoming a Quantitative Trader - Part II
People who coined the term enhanced interrogation should be subjected to the said interrogation. Joking aside, I agree with the overall point the author is making. There is a torture creep in the culture and people are getting insensitive to what it means. Because it feels good to catch the bad guy and do unspeakable things unto him and get the location of the ticking time bomb. What most people don't realize is that torture doesn't work. The person being tortured will give what ever information the torturer is looking for to stop the pain. However, that is an inconvenient fact that people tend to ignore.
> At what point am I "allowed" to feel uncomfortable?

You're allowed to feel uncomfortable whenever you like. But that feeling is no basis to prosecute people.
Driverless in Texas: Why?
Giving money to 13 people proves nothing, it cannot even be considered as an experiment, while giving money to a substantial percentage of population will result in a commodities price hikes or inflation.
That's the spirit :)
On the other hand Burn Notice is pretty good with torture.
2014 is Going to Be an Interesting Year for ... SimpleTuition
Very interesting! I would look at the depiction of torture in Fringe in another light though. X-Files was a cult show that ran on Friday nights (first few seasons) with low expectations. Fringe had high-expectations from the start, had J.J Abrams named attached and (this part is a guess) a more expensive cast. It never did very well in the ratings and was on cancellation watch for most of its existence. It actually did follow the "Monster of the Week" formula more often the first couple of seasons but then started emphasizing the overarching plot more often in the later seasons. The threat of cancellation, I think, explains the use of eye-catching tactics like torture, and how they seemed to retcon the previous season, each season and start an entirely different plot. They never expected to keep going and didn't plan very far in advance.

X-Files had very different constraints which were only relaxed as the years went on and their budget increased. You can actually see the point in season 2 where the show is beginning to become popular enough that they start having better make-up and effects.
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Run Run Shaw, movie mogul dies at 106
The problem is that you're missing a huge swath of deep (as in, learned over decades of practical work) knowledge that exists within the community of engineers -- not just programmers, but all types of engineers -- in the 40+ age range, who have been working and learning and applying in industry since before the social/online boom, and may well be uncomfortable participating in the same way as the current generation tend to. Generally speaking, and I know this is an unfair generalization, that generation tended to have an approach to problems of "let's reduce this to it's core pieces and see what we know, then experiment until we understand it well enough to solve the macro- problem" In other words, the scientific method. My experience with folks who've entered the market in the past 5-10 years is that, when they first receive a problem, their inclination is to search the web for possible solutions and then hack other people's code to address the 80% easy part of the issue, while often completely ignoring or potentially just misunderstanding the more difficult 20%. This kind of behavior is one of the reasons company culture is critical, and employing senior, experienced engineers & technical managers who have at least a partial focus on engendering critical thinking and problem solving skills in their younger team mates.

Point of reference: I manage a team of about 100 programmers, analysts and DBAs in India, Mexico, Brazil, Scotland, and the US.
> I would expect he would have email PG before posting the "Ask HN".

Spot on.
What Corning’s Curved Glass May Mean for Apple
Why do they split out the pricing for smartphone and tablet? I think the digital should be one flat fee, so I can switch between my devices (#firstworldproblem) .
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This article is written by Gareth Heyes. He has a blog about JavaScript weirdness and hacking:

http://www.thespanner.co.uk/
Maybe Go is a small and simple language now because it's still missing some features that potentially make it a complicated language. :)
I seem to recall in X-Files people just disappeared. The same occurs in many police dramas and even movies with similar settings.

Whats worse, showing torture or off screen killing people? These are not shows about bunnies and unicorns, they are about dangerous, exaggerated or fictional at best, subjects, and will not necessarily portray characters in the best of light.
There's a way to make significant money with free apps. You just need a decent idea.
Tivo moves storage to TV shows to cloud
Apple Working on "Big Sized" 5.7-Inch iOS Phablet
The capitalization seems like a really minor issue, easily fixed, and ultimately not that big a deal, but that's Hacker News for you. That said, if you want to be the ee cummings of novelists, go for it. Novel writing is an artform, not a programming language. Cormac McCarthy doesn't use quotation marks, so what. Big deal.

Being a fan of both Adams and Stephenson I want to read this when I get an opportunity, did you write it during NaNoWriMo by any chance?
The happy thing these days is it's easy for everyone to make photographic copies for themselves.

Even if they don't legally stand up, the photos would cause plenty of publicity issues.
That's great. the book looks pretty interesting and the cover is kinda awesome. Did you do that within the same time frame too?
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> I mean that if a woman walks into a Google mixer with long pretty hair and a skirt, people assume she works in sales. If she walks in with a ponytail and a t-shirt and jeans, people are much more likely to believe she’s a programmer.

I am yet to meet a programmer that voluntarily wears a suit. So unless it's a wedding, funeral or HR hoop jumping, when I see a men in a suit I assume he is rather some kind of a salesperson not a programmer. That heuristic served me well in bizarre world of social interactions this far.
If I don't get a response, I will write a letter! I know how this works.
Inside a YouTube Empire Built on Kitsch and Kimchi
Linksys WRT Revolutionizes Wireless Networking With Next Generation Router
An Image Encryption Algorithm Utilizing Julia Sets and Hilbert Curves
As of November, Android developer revenue/dollar was $.19 to the dollar compared to Apple.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-differen...

Facebook ad revenue on iPhones yields a 1,800% ROI over Android. And Facebook ads on Android offer a negative ROI overall.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/16/facebook-ad-profit-a-stagg...

So the Android ecosystem still looks very bad.
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As history repeatedly told us, such laws will result in strong oppositions and extremism. Even Russians finally got it.)
Without going into the actual issue of destroying the documents, I find the preservation process slightly disappointing. From the timeline:

* Late May, early June, 2013 – Work began, using a few volunteers,...

* August 5, 2013 ... A request was made to The United Way to supply the Society with computers and Steve Trubilla donated a scanner/copier.

They had months while they could (even just to make the reviews easier) simply scan everything. Page by page while going through the boxes. They didn't have to retype, OCR, describe or do anything else to the documents. Just copy and preserve.

Now they're caught in a disaster situation without a backup. (I'm not disappointed with people doing this, I'm sure they did what they could / thought was important at the time. Just the whole situation is depressing. It's like almost every single "we lost all our data" story out there.)
I never wear round face watches, they tend to look worse on me than rectangular ones. Either way I don't think the shape of the pebble face will have a huge bearing on its success.
The difference in UX from iOS to Huawei Android was huge. I don't consider the two systems to be comparable at any level. That said, it's 100% certain that Android would one day dominate, but in order to have a clear view on what's going on you have to take many more statistics into consideration.
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Lock Screen Bypass Flaw Found in Samsung Androids
People, Not Data
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