skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only person on Hacker News who doesn't care that Google collects data and uses it to build targeting models?

Because I really could not care less.

Suppose there was a coffee shop where, after you leave, they dust your mug for fingerprints and record what they know of your visit. And suppose they aggregate this data day after day.

Is that creepy? Yes. If I looked over my shoulder and saw the guy carefully dusting my left dishes, it would be creepy. And I'd have some choices to make. Do I boycott? Do I wear gloves for added privacy? Do I freak out about my "privacy" every time somebody mentions the coffee shop?

Or do I keep coming back, because they have products that nobody else does, and they give me a great service at no fee.

I care about my privacy. I care how it affects my life. And these things just don't. They don't. I couldn't care less about them.
Thanks for the correction, I should've known that but missed it in my brief check.
Illuminated Macros in Clojure
Oracle to issue huge security patch addressing 36 Java vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Touch support discontinued for several Nexus devices | PhoneDog
Whoah! Thank you for linking to this video series. Another video from this Strange Loop 2013[0] conference is on Symmetry in Programming Language Design[1]. I am finding it to be way more up my alley.

[0]: http://www.infoq.com/strange-loop-2013/

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/noether

Edit: Posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054815
Honestly, my Twitter feed, Facebook, and SMS records could all disappear tomorrow, and I would be OK with it. Maybe there's value in my accumulated Facebook connections and history, but most of the value today comes from current content.

Now email, that I value for archival.
Honestly, HVAC is a fantastic industry with plenty of room for innovation. This being said, there's far more accurate automation in industrial applications than around the home. A good example of this work is within airports and casinos. The new Vancouver Convention Centre is something worth reading up on too.

For technically-inclined individuals, understanding how water, air and gas move is the ticket to a proper disruption. This goes beyond the bandaid fix of a good, intuitive thermostat, and into the circulation of fresh air and overall design of the home.

I will say though, that smoke detector is awesome. Here's hoping that Google doesn't just shut down the good work that's been done.
You can almost certainly do this... until you annoy them, and they pull some "real name TOS" BS on you and disable your thermostat until you send them a scan of your driver's license.
Sturgeon's law is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
The unit of performance in these studies is reaction time, which isn't a useful measure in a field like programming or design.
Weibo has about 60m daily, twitter has around 100m daily users

Source: random & recent google result titles
I take it using pagers would be considered cheating, under the categorisation of "text editors"?
Home control hub offers Siri-like voice assistant
It's obvious what it should be... "Blackjack"
Or, "Drunk" ... Blackjack Alcoholic...
So it will run in the the browser? Or node.js, if you like.
Unemployed - because we haven't got X years experience in Y

Unemployed - because resume writing is dull an uninspiring, while the infinite universe of possibilities awaits our exploration

Unemployed - because the world no longer has the right kind of "patronage" to support the freewheeling efforts of these kind of people

TL;DR; Unemployed
Agree , I generally look forward to vimeo as an alternative
One possible heuristic: the better ones manage to keep their photos out of Wired Magazine.
With its Obvious roots, Branch and Facebook make strange bedfellows
Google+ is Google's social layer. Commenting is an inherently social activity and it makes sense to have a common layer i.e. G+ here to handle them. Changing the temperature is not a social activity.

So no the jokes are not real concerns and are mostly silly intellectually lazy exaggerations.
ah, the neoliberal media once again glorifying their weapons of economic doom, the debt collectors. These demons should be demonized instead.
I found this issue when using all kinds of programs, so here's a little trick using AppleScript. Put the following into a file in your home directory (I call mine .f12Keys)

tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
tell application process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
end tell

Then, put the following line into your .bash_profile.

alias f12="osascript .f12Keys"

Now whenever you need to switch the default behavior of function keys, simply open a new terminal window and type "f12". It takes my computer about half a second to execute. That's kind of the brilliance of Apple products and Cocoa. If there's something you do frequently, if it's in a GUI or otherwise, so long as it's written in Cocoa you can automate it. Yeah, most Apple users have never heard of AppleScript, but for those who use it for the little things every day, it's quite helpful.
Are the executables listed in https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list sufficient for use with this?
Subpoenas are irrelevant when they are siphoning all the data they can get their hands on through programs like PRISM enabled by Patriot act.

And yes, while it doesn't matter what they can and cannot do with your data now (unless you're a criminal not much, obviously), if the government ever becomes excessively authoritarian and dictatorial, keep in mind they can retroactively go through all the data they ever gathered on you and find something to string you up with.
Grand Central's acquisition was great for Americans and the few of us Canadians who were grandfathered in, but outside of the US (and Alberta for some reason), we lost a great service.
Exactly why I still use their services. They provide some great services for free just to show you some targeted advertising. Plus, much of the data collection they do on you can be opted out of.
Symmetry in Programming Language Design
Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure”
I tend to keep the line I'm reading at the top of the page. It's annoying if I want to reread something because I missed comprehension, but it makes me faster than needing to figure out where the next line begins while performing a visual carriage return and line feed.

Personally, I love infinite scrolling when I'm consuming content. The problem I face is when it is online content and I've followed a link. This isn't a problem for websites I view in a computer, because I usually just open a new tab and when I close it, I'm right back where I left off. If the site or application stopped after only 20 items, perhaps it was that 21st item I would have really been interested in reading.

For the past several years I've mostly switched to devices like my phone and tablets. Applications don't often feature the same approach and can't as easily return to the view I was looking at. This really limits the usefulness of infinite scrolling. If the application unloaded in the background, when I return to it, the view has reset itself at the top of the list. If I'm a hundred "pages" into the stream, I need to start over with new content that has arrived since I started reading, scroll for a few minutes until I start to recognize content that was close to where I left off, and then actually find where I went off on a tangent.

One solution to fix this problem would be a user enabled filter that hides content that I've scrolled past and only shows "fresh" content. Pagination usually solves this problem for you by having a view that includes where you are in the list. Of course that is invalidated when the whole stream is reset, but if only 10 new items have been added, it wouldn't take that long to resume where I left off.

Finally, sites that weight the ranking, like Reddit or Hacker News, cause both systems to foul up. Since the content resorts it is practically impossible to determine "where you left off." Implementing a mechanism to hide headlines for posts I've already scrolled past, would go a long way to resolving this last problem. In a best case scenario, I'd be more productive. In a worst case scenario, I'd be no better off than I am today, but it is difficult to think of situations where this design wouldn't be beneficial to the end user.
One thing I'd highly recommend is looking at is:
1 what are* your secrets
2 is there a way you can make it so you have fewer of them

secrets are incredibly parasitic and ultimately stressful.
There was a recent post on HN about this (though 90% of the comments missed the point he was making)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891311
>who finds their legal pursuit of farmers who have (frequently accidentally) had their crops cross pollinate with Monsanto patented breeds

This is mostly a myth. All of the lawsuits have been about people who have intentionally used Monsanto breeds (mostly just one court case about one farmer in particular). The rest of their lawsuits, which are a relatively small number, have been against people who broke their contracts with Monsanto, not people who have experienced accidental cross pollination. There are no cases of Monsanto going after farmers for inadvertent contamination and the company has even explicitly stated that it will not sue farmers for it.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#As_plaintiff
There was a "release" of Arch Linux referred to as Don't Panic. I think that was the best.
Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules
That is incorrect. There are also metrics regarding "microevents", which are points in time during which brainwaves momentarily exhibit the characteristics of the first stages of sleep. This is effectively a measure of how often the subject is starting to "nod off". The napping group showed far fewer of these events.
"hey we found a way to make YT comments even worse"

Could they get any worse? Seriously does any normal thinking person really participate and contribute comments in that quagmire? I sometimes I thank Google and Yahoo for creating those honey pots for the internet brain-dead to vent their steam and vitriol, keeping them well away from stuff I like to constructively participate in.
How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health
> There are parallels to the Internet Explorer/Netscape issue. Google provided a free service to everyone, killing any good paid services/products (which didn't integrate with Google Reader), except instead of taking advantage of their monopoly they just threw it away.

"except instead of taking advantage of their monopoly". Woww way to telegraph the fact that you completely misunderstood the Internet Explorer/Netscape issue. Parallels with IE/Netscape are meaningless if the monopoly _gets thrown away_.
Yep, I was just able to do it only with cat, grep, sed, and head.
Totally off topic, but the I can read the site fine, but if I switch back to white color site (like HN, or just staring at a wall), my eyes still see the lines of the site for awhile.

It physically affects my vision for a few minutes, albeit just a little bit. Is this normal?
It runs in the browser, because you wrote it in JavaScript, so that it will run in the browser...?

I was curious as to why you would target the browser at all, but whatever roasts your toast, man. Enjoy game development!
Well not exactly: the one(?) form of sarcasm that works very well is when the facts being stated are clearly false. Though obviously this does rely on the audience knowing the factual background...
Yeah, if you're on the cynical side of the whole "Google is co-opted by the government to help track and control the populace" idea, which you have no reason not to be after the NSA leaks, it is absolutely terrifying.
Just DO IT
This is what I was wondering as well. If someone that understands what's going on could better inform me, I'd appreciate it. Was he last seen going hiking or something? Has he just not been on the internet in a while?

Are we supposed to call the police if we see him in Starbucks?
I found it frustrating that gur vagraqrq fbyhgvba cngu qbrfa'g gryy lbh qverpgyl jura lbh'er qbar naq lbh unir gb vasre gung sbe lbhefrys.

It's a really neat idea and a cool way to give people some command-line practice.
Your reply reminds me of the fact that people often confound loneliness and boredom. When your life isn't very engaging you start to feel like you don't have enough people in your life, and you need people to vent your frustrations to.

I think if you look at people that have very full busy lives they are not the sort of people that will often complain about loneliness.

If you look at the top comment for this thread - the suggestion of getting a significant other is actually about fighting boredom. It's about filling in all the gaps in your life with what he characterizes as trivial conversations and concerns.
> Straightforward C is slow;

Would you care to elaborate? I typed "man straightforward" into terminal and nothing was thrown back at me.
You wouldn't right now (Kevin doesn't recommend it). But in the end it you'll want to use it if JSON serialization is a performance bottleneck for you.
Citation needed for the "frequently accidentally" bit--I've found that this is essentially an urban legend. Dig a bit deeper and things probably weren't so "accidental."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
I think that the beauty of Snapchat is that it frees you from this ridiculous notion that a text, IM, Facebook message, etc, has any value.

In my opinion, it doesn't. Also, in my opinion, I believe that feeling the need to save every single conversation you have fuels an over-inflated sense of self-worth, and that everything you say has value and needs to be saved.

I never, ever peruse through my messages, to reminisce over an old conversation. It's too much navel-gazing to suit my sense of pride. What actually matters is the actual relationship you have with a person, which is built on the BODY of IMs, messages, conversations, visits, dinners, parties, etc, that you shared with that person. Sometimes, it's best to leave good conversations in the blurry past, and just remember that a certain person is funny, a great conversationalist, etc.

I'm doing the same sort of thing with Google now. I will disallow anyone I'm in a conversation with to google facts with their phone. When we talk, it's about whatever resides in our own brains, be it good, bad or ugly. The entertaining part of any conversation is the actual conversation, the passion, the humor, etc. If all we wanted to do was pass around facts, then we can forward each other URLs and be done with it. When I'm talking with someone over dinner, we're not hammering out a contract that requires precision, we're having a conversation over ideas, and as funny as it sounds, facts aren't as important as the spirit of the conversation. Unless of course you're in an argument with someone, and then that isn't very much fun so why even bother starting the conversation in the first place.
CSS Vertical Centering...again
I didn't mean they didn't provide a DNS resolver. I just meant that they weren't capable.
In that article, jwz wrote:

That third drive? Do a backup onto it the same way, then take that to your office and lock it in a desk. Every few months, bring it home, do a backup, and immediately take it away again. This is your "my house burned down" backup.

If you work for someone other than yourself, it might be safer to keep that drive at the home of a trusted friend or relative (or a safe-deposit box) rather than at your office. One day you might suddenly get fired and escorted out of your office, at which point your employer might want to inspect that hard drive to confirm that it doesn't contain proprietary corporate information. However, it may contain sensitive personal information that you don't want anyone else to see. Treating your office space as your personal space (or your work e-mail as personal e-mail) can backfire badly.
> when brought down to the census tract level in large cities

Which is exactly the same with any population heat map when you go down to the census tract level in large cities.

In other words, it is completely applicable.
1.5 to 2 million viewers, 56% male, 45% college-educated, 37% making over $75k, almost completely aged 18-49.
I agree that hijacking 127.0.0.1 is not a good idea, but don't see any issues with picking something else in 127.0.0.0/8? In fact it seems like a perfect use-case for that
> Somebody sits down, puts pen to paper and writes a letter? Folds it, puts it in an envelope, adds postage, and mails it?

------------------

I do. Largely because people use so few of the things. It doesn't get mixed in as a contact from some email address you've never seen before with 15-100 other emails that someone might get in a day.

If it's someone I know and correspond with regularly, then email, sure. Convenience takes precedence over distinctiveness in that case. But when I get a non-personal contact, for instance from a business or a friend of a friend asking about something, I still take the time to put the response on paper.
The founders ran out of Ketracel-White to give to their troops...
The Bankruptcy of the American Dream
Please note that the only way to exploit these vulnerabilities is you've already got your code executing on the machine you intend to break. The only thing this allows you to do is to break out of the java sandbox, and keep in mind that most languages don't even pretend that sandbox isolates code (e.g. python/perl/go/... all openly say you can easily break out of the sandbox). So they're trying to solve a really hard problem.
$3.2 BILLION?! Was Nest Labs making a profit? Seemed to me like they made cool devices that no one bought.
See, I'd love to do that but I don't think the documentation ever bothers to explain it.
> Reproducibility and uniformity of environment (...)

Shouldn't the unikernel approach actually improve reproducibility greatly? You build your application and all it's dependencies together, that should run exactly the same locally or on your Xen cloud.
If you have gmail setup on the domain google supports a naked domain forward: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2518373
"Magic seeds" only get you so far. Farming is a production optimization problem like anything else, it just takes place outside and is subject to many more variables than your garden variety manufacturing line.

Currently the way farmers know what's happening in their fields is they send guys (called scouts) to go and check. This may seem like a good idea until you think about how long it would take to cover 1000 acres on a four wheeler (or even on foot). So yes, despite "magic seeds" farmers need more information to make better decisions. Evil or not, Monsanto's acquisition of Climate Corp absolutely makes business sense.
I find the learning functionality to be a nuisance. What makes it awesome is the design, the remote control, and the scheduling interface.
From the tasvideos link:

> This run uses two multitaps in port 1 and port 2 which allows for 8 controllers (1-1, 1-2 ,1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4) of which 4 are used (1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2) for the last input.
Since he was on Top 10 lists for defrauding the Government I imagine he doesn't expect much privacy for his data.
At some point I read that Edison used to hold a spoon in his hand and have a platter on the floor. When going into deeper the hand relaxes, dropping the spoon, hitting the platter, creating noise to wake him up.

I did this once, but I don't really have a problem with sleep inertia, so I just set an alarm, usually for 15 minutes.

From this perspective the device on kickstarter seems problematic: the goal should be to avoid deep sleep rather than just focus on a gentle wakeup.

I am sure the device will help some people out though and their approach is a lot easier than sleep monitoring.
Just a heads up: AMA has now ended. Patrick was gracious enough to extend his time from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. There's some real gems in those Q&A's. Definitely recommend checking it out.

(Disclosure: I'm the founder of BetaList)
Interesting to stand this up next to the Nest news from today. Is it the market size that makes Nest worth 3x more than the Climate Corporation?
Belief in an opposition between sciences and arts is pure foolishness.

"In our ongoing studies of scientists and engineers we have found that significant arts and crafts experience is highly correlated with professional success in science and engineering as measured by outcomes such as major prizes and honors, patents, or the founding of new high tech companies."

http://seadnetwork.wordpress.com/white-paper-abstracts/final...

"Nobel laureates are at least as likely (and as much as a factor of 8 more likely) to be photographers than the average scientist; at least a factor of 2 (and as much as 18) more likely to be a practicing musician, composer, or conductor; at least a factor of 7 more likely to be a visual artist, sculptor, or printmaker; at least a factor of 7.5 more likely to be a craftsperson engaged in woodwork, mechanics, electronics, glassblowing, and so on; at least a factor of 12 more likely to write poetry, short stories, plays, essays, novels, or popular books; and at least a factor of 22 more likely to be an amateur actor, dancer, magician, or other performer. These differences are highly statistically significant [...]"

http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Arts-Foster-S...
Rio de Janeiro (approx. prices)
Cappucino: $3
1L Petrol: $1.36
2 Movie Tickets: $20
iPod nano 16GB: $330
Monthly Rent: $2000

I'd say things are pretty expensive for no reason around here..
Everpix decision to depend on a subscription model with a service that is surrounded by (inferior) free alternatives made sense economically, but it didn't make sense financially.

I can't say if they would have had more success with a free model. But in any case start ups are never a safe investment, and blocking adoption rates with a subscription fee certainly limits the appeal to a fund that has to see a potential for extremely high returns.
Nope, not just you. I consider it digital hoarding in a lot of ways. I keep a lot of emails around as they're actually useful to reference at later times and easily searched and archived. But IM, Twitter, IRC, Facebook, SMS, etc I treat as passing and never look at messages further than a few weeks back.
The SMS backup tool for iPhone doesn't seem to work for me. I have encrypted backups turned on for my iPhone, will this not work because of that?
The types of coding work hired out through job boards, and the types of coding work Haskell is good for, are not intersecting sets.
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Top 3 best Windows video converters, including Total Video Converter, Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate and WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe, for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP etc.
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Sounds like he was using that for a long time, maybe a decade. He was just ahead of the curve...
PayPal on GitHub
Please note that the only way to exploit these vulnerabilities is you've already got your code executing on the machine you intend to break

I can't reconcile this with the article.

...34 that are bugs that can be exploited remotely by an attacker without requiring authentication

By "your code" do you mean "Java-based application"? Honest question.
Around 200 addresses own 40% of all doge:

http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-dogecoin-addresses....

Somebody is making a lot of money on this.
Hah, I had a similar idea a few months back [0]. Of course, being the lazy person that I am, I tweeted about it, wrote about it in my ideas notebook, and never implemented anything.

Checking this out right now!

[0] https://twitter.com/gardaud/status/402608968029057027