skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes me wonder where all those sold windows phones are. Android and iPhone is what I see around here in Bangkok.
Just say no. Please, Marissa. Just. Say. No.
Of course their top 3 cellphone providers had no knowledge of this... (our American companies said the same thing). They probably got the cellphone data from the NSA. (For a small fee of course, added to our black budget.)

This is interesting though and something I think we should consider if we Americans ever get the courage to stand up to our government for it's abuses of power. It semi-happened with Occupy but they were barking up the wrong tree. You can only force a private bank/companies hand with the power of government. They can stand out their all day and do whatever, but it would be easier if a law or resolution were passed.

How do you know if someone at a protest is a 'plant' whose job is too incite violence so as to show the protest as negative regardless of their stated goals.

I was thinking of a system maybe, that would definitely be reputation based, but one where you could verify someones identity while still maintaining a certain level of privacy. Maybe something similar to how bitcoin works. Everybody could have a public key that anyone at the protest could scan if needed and say 'ya this person's legit, they have XXX amount of reputation, we are connected by XX people, etc' or 'woah, who are you? you have -XXX reputation and no one here knows you'... but this idea needs to be developed further...

When i put my 'evil' cap on and think how I would use the data if I had all the data in the world and I wanted to stop people protesting me, I would use those kinds of cellphone SMS messages to intimidate people in the area and I would want them to be divided by those who want to achieve revolution nonviolently and those who would easily engage in violence if given the opportunity. Taking it a step further, I would use that system the NSA made that tracks internet browsing history especially for porn, to threaten people that their data might be 'leaked' if they continue to protest. Or perhaps sent messages and calls can be 'rerouted' to different people to cause confusion in their communications. Or perhaps I'd use a few 'if-then' simulations to put the right police officer in front of the right protestor so that violence would be most likely to occur. evil cap off.

The rest of the world seems to be taking the lead in standing up to corruption, but when America catches up, I want us to lead by example of how it should efficiently and safely be done.
How so? Currencies are only an abstraction layer on top of goods and services. Instead of directly trading my goods and services for yours, we use a currency--a common "interface" for doing so. The currency doesn't have intrinsic value; the reason it has value at all is because you can exchange it for a wide variety of goods and services. That's why people want dollars, but not Monopoly money.
> Palo Alto, San Mateo, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz come to mind.

Palo Alto is a horrible example IMHO. All of the good stuff is on University Ave and maybe California, the rest of it is just residential and not within walking distance. If you don't live close to University, you definitely need a car.
Shouldn't he be eligible for a refund of the cinema ticket, an apology by everyone involved, and maybe even civil damages?

Start biting the MAFIAA where it hurts.
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Putting aside the tangential issues of housing and gentrification, the real problem that needs to be addressed is street space. The Mission (where most of these buses are stopping) is a densely-populated urban environment, and yet residents often expect available on-street parking so they can use their basements as storage. Making bus stops and loading zones longer would go a long way towards reducing traffic problems in the area.
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In addition to the funding, we have bet on a Linux-style development model where the project is not just open source but open design: ownership is federated across key individuals with strong ownership over particular subsystems, with very low barriers to entry and a diversity of employers.

This is one of the reasons Red Hat felt comfortable betting on it so quickly - and you should expect other major industry players to folluw suit this year :)
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Paul Krugman is a great friend of Argentina[1] but he lives in US.

[1] Paul Krugman's Very Strange Ideas About Argentina's Economy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/04/paul-krug...
His method did get him on 88 dates. At his previous dating rate that would have taken 6 years.
It's the same job. The way that transactions are processed is that they are included in the block that is mined. At the moment there is an extra 25 BTC reward for mining a block in addition to the transaction fees of those transactions you have included but over time this extra reward will diminish to 0.
Ok we're really going on a tangent now...

So the proposed solution is to:

a) create a crypto currency for south americans only

b) ask other countries who want to buy your resources to pay in south american coin

c) convert south america coin to bitcoin (how?) once you have transacted with the rest of the world to re-enter the world-currency market

Good luck with that idea. It's never going to work.
> On top of that, it is horribly inefficient to have people commute 40 miles (~64 km) to their office. There is certainly some animosity towards these kinds of commuters who often spend very little time actually in San Francisco, pay little to no city taxes, but want to live here.

This is arguable. Those people probably live in SF because they want to spend their evenings and weekends in the city, therefore spending all their money there (including on basic living expenses, like groceries). Most people don't really spend any money during work hours (except maybe for lunch, but that's a moot point when talking about Google/Apple/Facebook).

Also, the two city taxes I can think of are property taxes (which are rolled into rents anyway) and sales taxes (which are paid whenever they buy something inside the city). I don't see how commuters don't pay city taxes.
AFIAK it's not possible to get an A+ with Amazon's ELB, but it's sometimes hard to parse Amazon's abridged cipher names.

It also doesn't help that Amazon gives you a TON of junk ciphers (like the anon ones) but is missing some stronger ones.
On the East Coast, it is not unusual to have private bus systems that share street stops and bus terminals with public buses. More public transit is a public good, and it's smart to keep fees low to keep people out of cars.
What country are you talking about? In Argentina the issue happens in the whole country not in some specific places.
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$50 Android smartphones are coming this year. They've actually existed for quite some time, but this year they will be more "mainstream", and you'll see a lot more models (in poor countries). The combination of the Cortex A7 CPU plus KitKat which is optimized for low-end will ensure they work pretty well, too, relative to other phones in that range with much fewer features and less functionality.

So I doubt Microsoft will have any chance at that market either. Android pours 1.5 million new units into the market every day, or about 500 million per year, and that's before these mainstream "good enough" $50 smartphones arrive, which I think will help Android double its unit grow rate within 12-18 months. Everything else will get drowned out.
We already have a negative income tax. The bottom 40% of earners pay -9% in taxes ... meaning, the top 60% pay 109% of taxes (this is entirely independent of other entitlements, welfare, etc ... this is just the income tax money moving to and fro)

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/cbotop-40-...
r Read the foreword to his book. Something I should have done before buying the book. It is not about the statistical methods he used and how he collected the web data. It's more of an online dating manual. If Christopher is on HN, an article on your site about your methodology would be great.m
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A data storage company losing data isn't confined to the realms of Magic.

It's incompetence, and lack of backups on their part.

The company that suggests you take backups of your data on their servers does not keep backups of their data. How humorous.

The company that prides itself on profiting by the skin of it's teeth ($5/mo for unlimited data storage and transfer), and there are issues that arise from that severe cost cutting. Surprise, surprise.
I think it's a nice way to claim allegiance to zsh.
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The liberal mentality was that everyone is in it together and if not make it so. The libertarian mentality is to get what you want and if not change things so you do. It's a clash of us vs them and two philosophies advocating change. The Bay Area was traditionally liberal but many prominent techies are heavily pushing a libertarian agenda. They are backing the Democrats in power and are slowly shifting the agenda toward libertarian ideals.

The liberal mentality would be for the companies to back improvements to public transportation. The libertarian approach is private buses.
This is weird, besides the great odds straight up. It's extremely vulnerable to match fixing.
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Can anyone share similar things for other environments/languages/OSes?
Would love to play with something similar but I'm not on OSX/iOS.
In other words... the locals are pissed because there is a vehicle on the road that they don't like.
I was thinking of things like sexcrime or thoughtcrime, though I don't think it is called a war in 1984. In a broader sense though, this sort of War on x is very Orwellian I think because it's directing the public to scapegoat segments of the population (drug users, muslims as potential terrorists) and blame them for their ills, and see themselves as perpetually at war with members of their own society, in the same way that in 1984 those guilty of vague, abstract crimes became the enemy and worthy of hate, simply by virtue of a government pronouncement.

War has become normalised and part of everyday life, with the implication that as we are at war special rules apply and the enemy, as designated by the government, deserves no mercy because we are engaged in an existential struggle.
Which is precisely why the thing this article is pointing out is extremely terrible - Apple should have made it a rule a long time ago that no 3rd party app can ask for Apple ID credentials.

But they dug themselves in a ditch by unifying extremely sensitive things (App Store access) & very sensitive things (email, calendar) under a single account.

A few ways to get out of that ditch:

- not allowing any iOS/Mac app store 3rd party app to ask for iCloud credentials. This will suck but at least protects the average Joe.

- forcing users to have a different password for the app store/anything that can take money from a credit card.

- using something like OAuth.

- use two step verification for app store purchases (of course, the mobile app store being on a phone makes it harder)
The alleged manipulation by China is the reverse: China has been accused, by western politicians, of keeping the value of its currency lower than it would be if freely floated. This, if true, would effectively be a subsidy for exporters: they receive dollars for exports, whilst paying (cheap) local currency for labour and rent.
Probability is 1/2^63 (each match eliminates 1 team, 63 matches to leave one champ). Or 1/(9.22 x 10^18)
Well, 15M gives investors control, and (even out over several investments) reasonable likelihood of profit. But, then again, you point out a great idea: to somehow tie large investments and open source projets. I'm not sure entrepreneurs who struggle getting funding would want to had one more stone to their neck, but it would be great PR to have either a repeated entrepreneur, or an accelerator, lock x% of the funds they raise to donation.
It's pretty crazy that you need to use the same credentials to "buy" a $0 app as you have to remotely lock and wipe your iphone and mac.
They can probably get it insured for $2m, then.
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>Brackets will be made available on Selection Sunday, March 16, 2014, and will initially be limited to 10 million entrants, but only one per household.

Expected loss by Buffet, assuming all 10 million brackets are different:

5x10^8 x 10,000,000/4,294,967,296 = 5x10^8 x 0.0023 = $1,164,153.22

He can make this up by offering a lunch [1]

[1] http://gawker.com/5917080/the-cost-of-private-lunch-with-war...

edit: whoops looks like Confluence updated his post with this number too. :)
if you're a young 20-something with a job, state housing is certainly not 'cool'.

I'm pretty sure in the USA, state housing would be very cool in the right groups, because you are getting free housing and also "sticking it to the man". Shit, I could totally see a future where only people with state housing are "hip".
OAuth only makes sense if they provide an API for iCloud calendar, which isn't the case as far as I know.
People don't complain ... they just don't buy the app. It is astounding the level of quality & support expected from low-cost apps.
I feel similarly. Docker's founders deserve only congratulations, they're doing a cool thing and asking for money for it. And Linux's terrible and primitive containerization technologies are finally growing up to be able to match Solaris and FreeBSD. But I don't find "funny" strong enough a word when OpenBSD, which is IMHO a far more fundamental and important technology than containerization and should be easier to monetize than Docker, is struggling to survive.

I think it comes down to the personalities of the leadership, and where they want to take the projects. But it's a crying shame that OpenBSD is struggling. Not related at all to Docker, but a shame none the less.
the gentrifiers got gentrified out of williamsburg, and most of BKs western neighborhoods, years ago. average 1 bedroom prices are already at about $3400/month in williamsburg[1].

[1]http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report
How many teams out of the 64 does someone realistically have to bribe in order to have a good shot at getting the $1B?
Is food given to people in NYC/East Coast for free, or do the people there purchase it?
Speaking as someone whose high school was located in "downtown" Santa Cruz and who went to college at UCSC, I'm very curious how you think Santa Cruz qualifies as a "dense urban area". I'd hesitate to call it "urban".
To call torture 'enhanced interrogation' avoids the use of the word torture because it has negative connotations, and tries to normalise torture by association with an accepted practice (interrogation), after all interrogation is what you do to prisoners isn't it?

It's a clear distortion of language to hide the truth; it has everything to do with language and the use of it, as it deliberately twists meaning in order to limit the thoughts of people who accept this term to describe certain actions. As Wittgenstein put it:

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world
> [...] is counting on a patently unsustainable level of resource use to create a massive risk.

Can you please elaborate? We sit on a giant ball of matter, and there's enough energy coming in from the sun (or via nuclear power) to last us a few billion years.
I'm sure the contest contract has a clause making it void if match fixing is detected. I'm sure if there was a pay out, an investigation would occur to make sure it was legit, and if it wasn't, the feds would be brought in.
Mines a real "pet" project. I installed a bluetooth signal/sensor in my dogs harness, put an infrared sensor strip on backdoor and hacked together something like twillo for notifications. When I let him outside, I know when he is back at the door because his motion gets picked up by the sensor and a text message gets fired off to say "Woof. Let me in. Love Simon." This didn't take me long to build and it gets the job done. Still refining. It's all good fun... COST: under $19 for all electronics.
Could you elaborate on how the investors would lose if they run it as a lifestyle business? Would they make more money back by liquidating their assets?
Someone with a tattoo didn't consider things fully beforehand? I don't believe it.
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This is a good project maybe with support and a Linux backing we can open-source HD video from the moon.
You don't need to at all. I use two separate Apple IDs on my iOS devices.

Apple ID accounts are individually configurable for most, if not all iCloud/App Store services.
What's the point? If Buffet wins, no need to pay insurance premiums. If he loses, his insurance would cover 0.2% of his loss.
For species where there's an asymmetry in the parental investment, one of the sexes --the one with the smallest investment-- competes, while the other sex chooses. Thanks a lot Darwin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_choice#Male_mate_choice.2F...
I'd love to know when they do manage to produce them for say $1000 rather than $10000 - they should have a waiting list so that they can inform people who're interested if they ever do manage to produce them.
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They can't win, can they? I'm sure if they did exactly what he suggests a long, long time ago we'd be hearing how evil they are for not allowing calendar apps to work properly on the store.
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It's a bog-standard CalDAV server, which isn't an API, of course, but at the same time, it sorta is.
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I worked at a consumer finance startup for over 3 years with the hope that I could help direct people to bank accounts with lower fees.

Read an article like this http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazine/09nix-t.html?page... and you could see how this service from T-Mobile could be hugely helpful for millions of people who pay tremendous percentages of their paychecks to have the money available to them immediately. This is, potentially, very exciting. And the fact that T-Mobile is using this service as a lock-in measure rather than an additional revenue stream is big--sounds like they're in it for the long haul rather than the quick payoff.

We'll see--T-Mobile could mess this up in a million ways, but for the first time in awhile, I'm excited about the banking services for the "unbanked." If the only 'catch' is that people would have to go back to the check cashing companies, ah, this could (COULD) be huge.
eob is correct, more or less.

The anger isn't about the buses; it's about the evictions. The buses are just a symbol that attracts the activists' attention. (The activists are mostly transplants too, living out some fantasy that they're fighting capitalism, but whatever.) Nevertheless, here's why it's so vivid:

San Francisco is a city of extreme wealth contrasts in a nation of extreme wealth contrasts.

And many young tech workers want to live in places like the Mission, which are gentrifying but traditionally working class, ethnic neighborhoods, with a strong tradition of bohemia too.

So, picture this: a line of zillionaire white kids in geek t-shirts and laptop backpacks, waiting on a street corner that is caked with human filth and stinking in the sunshine. They are surrounded by ethnic (often undocumented) immigrants, and homeless people limping by, sometimes with untreated open wounds. Then a giant black monolith of a bus swoops down on the corner, releasing a whiff of air-conditioned comfort as the doors open, and whisks all those kids far, far away, to their playground offices.

True story: in the early days of the Google Bus, the contracting company sometimes ran out of buses. So they would have to dispatch other large vehicles instead.

You cannot imagine the burning looks I got stepping into a stretch limousine on 16th and Mission.
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For me the difference between economic and ecological self-sufficiency is that the economic system is a societal output and is malleable to a greater degree than the ecological.
On a related note, when did it become OK for an App to ask for your credit card number to do in-app purchase? I thought that wasn't allowed.
>of your professors, how many of them would you say were male-exclusionary feminists?

Not one. Most were totally reasonable people, interested in furthering a gender-egalitarian version of feminism that seemed eminently fair. When I say I critically engaged with the issues, I don't mean I was out to destroy feminist arguments and advocate for the abolition of feminism. I agree with much of what (many) feminisms fight for. But there is always room to introduce nuance, and I found that most faculty really appreciated that kind of critical engagement.

However.

The student politics at my school -- and at many other campuses in my country -- were shockingly totalitarian. To give you an idea, the majority of student associations across the country are unionized, and are all locals of a national student federation. Every single student in each university pays mandatory fees (read: union dues) to these locals as part of tuition.

The national union was infamous for stifling even discussion of men's issues on campuses. See [1] for an example:

"This spring, the Canadian Federation of Students passed a motion encouraging all student unions to reject men’s rights groups, because they promote “hateful views toward women” and justify physical and sexual assault."

One student's union under the CFS umbrella became relatively well-known for cancelling a charity fundraising campaign for cystic fibrosis, Shinerama, because cystic fibrosis "disproportionally affects white males" [1.5].

We've got freedom of speech enshrined in our Charter up here, yet our campuses constantly rate abysmally in free speech indexes largely because of the student unions I'm talking about [2]. Groups that all students, including men, are forced to pay money to under the theory that these groups represent all students.

Feminist groups repeatedly [3][4] tried to block public lectures on men's issues from happening. In one case, even pulling a fire alarm in an attempt to force an end to the discussion. There is an extremely famous video of an anti-men's-rights protestor screaming at her 'debate partners' to "shut the fuck up" while she explains that feminism fights for men's rights, too, so men don't need men's rights groups [5]. This happened at a few other universities other than UoT, too.

So that is the environment in which I came up, and certainly it colored my views. Hence when I hear people saying that extremist lines like "every other group is a men's group" are emblematic of feminism in general, I find it disconcerting, and feel a need to argue against.

[1] - http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/08/01/angry-young-men/

[1.5] - http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/carleton-student-group-votes-to-end...

[2] - http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/campus-freedom-inde...

[3] - http://thevarsity.ca/2012/11/17/arrest-assaults-overshadow-m...

[4] - http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/we-went-to-a-mens-rights-lect...

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYyGTmcP80
I think we'll just have to wait and see how it goes. I don't see many people becoming homeless just to get a free house, and there are ways to prevent housing projects turning into ghettos. I'd be more concerned about whether they have knowledge/skills/motivation to live in a home. I suppose case workers will help with that.