skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a Nexus S loaded down with crapware I couldn't even use (since it was all in Chinese), but which drained the battery like you wouldn't believe.

Within a couple days, I had removed whatever godawful contrivance was on there when I bought it in favor of CyanogenMod. Truly, the OEM (NB: the OEM here didn't even install the crapware) has all the power.
Need and use are VERY different. I work for a major sports site. I certainly don't need it, and I really don't even care about sports, but I do use it every day because it's nice to kinda know what's going on sometimes.
I love Google. Change my view.
Innoz Founders Return Money to Seedfund & Raise $500k
What I find strange is that the same people who are against the federal government issued ID cards are also often completely ok, and in fact, very much in favor of what the NSA is doing. This is an observations for personal conversations, not some statistical fact, but I think many would agree with it. I find it very hard to wrap my head around that contradiction.
Universal income would be nice but meanwhile unions work passably.
rfnslyr, it looks like you're hellbanned. better get in touch with pvnick through some other route.
Should you wish to bring down capitalism, your plan should have the feature of being immensely profitable in the short term. Then the transnational investment arm of a major banking conglomerate will steal your idea and go off and do it for you and you can put your feet up.
Its ok to be humble, but I am not sure the argument about size holds merit. Surely, the costs are at most linear per person: the bigger state might have a higher cost, but the cost per person is unlikely to be higher. I would rather expect the opposite: some of the cost would be amortized effectively, and even more so by the fact that a preexisting system means less reinvention is needed.

The problems are thus not scale, but things specific to the nation itself. The USA, for example, is unlikely to follow a similar path any time soon due to a distrust of public works and preference for private enterprise, a (currently very well motivated) suspicion on grounds of privacy, endless political impasse, problems with procurement, bureaucratic momentum, and so on.
Two severe "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect
It doesn't take input from the user, but it does use untrusted input in a way that allows XSS. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7128442 .
Every day, but only for parts of the year. (Do I take the average and say "at least once a week?")

It's interactive teaching software (in-class and online) that we've used in the course when it runs, but the course only runs for part of the year.

http://github.com/impressory/impressory

"Supercollaborative" teaching of software engineering is my main project; this was written because I found existing teaching systems didn't support collaborative classes online, and live-interaction in-class, particularly well.
>Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.

A lot of the singularity people think that superhuman AI in inevitable whether they work on it or not, but if the first AI isn't a friendly one (as opposed to a paperclip-optimizer that happily turns the planet in paperclips) then you don't get a second chance.
It's being manipulated, not by dark forces, but by sovereign nations in the open market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_War_of_2009%E2%80%932...
Number grades aren't really numbers
What Estonia has done is quite amazing. I remember visiting in the early 2000s, internet in many places and incredibly reasonable. Estonia is small, became independent while I was in college, and entered the EU about ten years ago. I don't know how much of a clean slate the govt had in building things out, but they did something right.

Building a website or an app for US healthcare is just lipstick on top of the messy pig known as legacy, non-connected legacy systems. This is complicated and will take a great deal of knowledge to understand and get right. Layering the existing bloated approach to govt contracts just exacerbated the issue. Unfortunately, we don't have as clean of a slate.
Or fake anti-dogecoin propaganda. ... I can't believe we're even still talking about dogecoin, this is insane.
Wiki has several examples from the Bible, casting lots to see what God chooses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
C++ metaprogramming shells
Hmm -- I watched "Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightmare of Files and Directories" (which I won't bother linking to, because frankly I can't recommend watching it), since file and storage systems are a topic of some interest to me.

It was similarly cranky, and littered with statements that were either poor descriptions of the concepts they aimed to explain, highly misleading, or just flat-out incorrect (if he has any idea how filesystems actually work, he's doing a damn good job hiding it).
I confirm about the pain. They should be transparent and you shouldn't need to care about them but that's absolutely not the case. Also, it's the responsibility of the pypi maintener to push wheels on it, but none do this, so you end up building your own wheels while this should have already been done on pypi and it's stupid. And one last thing: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/426700148409135104 "It turns out, Python binary wheels on Python 2 are rejected by PyPI, I suppose because of the lack of UCS tag in the filename."

Apart from all of this pain, I'm very happy to be able to use them.

I'm really waiting for someone to build a "wheel on demand" website that would be a proxy to pypi. Or to turn pypi into a wheel farm (I don't know how realist this idea is).
The person who created that acronym would get many Dogecoins from me.
Consent is a complicated issue. Inmates in a prison can fully consent, but to determine if they are consenting is beyond even a simple psychological evaluation, and certainly beyond the judgement of a horny guard.

On the other hand, in Aljazeera's home country "sexual assault" is punishable for the victim, and if anything about conservative sharia based marriages holds true in Qatar, most sexual assailants are actually husbands. (Minors can't consent, and having sex with non-consenting minors even if she is married to her assailant is technically called a sexual assault)

To be clear: I'm not overly judging, not calling for action or hatred against the people of Quatar, just pointing out a perspective for Al Jazeera accusing the US. I do think the US needs to get its penal system in shape though, for the benefit of all concerned...
If they're long term enough thinkers, maybe they realize this trend doesn't have a happy ending.
HN Kansai: Next Meetup in Kobe, Japan, 31/1/2014
Free secure email with unlimited space
Counterexample: parents aren't in general held liable for the murder of their children.
CVT's in automobiles rely primarily upon metal chains for drive, not rubber bands.
But inefficiencies scale up super-linearly. The USA, for instance, has less cultural cohesion and sense of national identity than Estonia (the Russian minority in Estonia being the exception that perhaps proves the rule). Additionally, larger countries necessarily have more layers of bureaucracy, which make national programs more difficult to implement (the USA still does not have a national identification card, though I think RealID is still going forward, largely because of resistance on the part of states).
Just go and copy bundler or even npm.

This is a solved problem with a really bad case of "Not-Invented-here" in the python community.

What's funny is I'm pretty sure gems/bundler and npm/packages were heavily influenced by pythons plethora of crappy attempts (eggs, distutils...etc) at package management.
I saw the article for a brief moment, then it redirected to a blank page. Don't really care anymore.

edit: Really, no comment on why a story about _friggin space_ would be dis-interesting to a consumer due to NYTimes-like article handling that can fail on edge cases?

Consider the Apollo missions if a CJ[0] portal failed in delivering promised content, what the user clicks a link for. Maybe I care too bloody much about every nation's space program than to give time to a probable advertising redirect.

In the end the search engine content shell game really annoys users, don't expect positive results from it.

[0] http://www.cj.com/
Hugely surprised to see Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on the list.

Gurdjieff is the modern father of mindfulness. Of course he borrowed it from the Buddha but in his time the Buddha wasn't much in vogue in the west. Shocked to see such an obscure yet such a marvelous thinker/doer on the list.

Absolutely fascinating human.
that's exactly my argument. These are all consequences of policies, not economics.... And, while research science may be a odd case, I am definitely making less than my dad did at my age.
I'm being pedantic but encrypted != secure, of course.
I agree, but to my knowledge it's fully legal in most areas. I'm thankful I caught them putting my office on the same circuit and fixed it. One of my printers alone draws 13 amps while printing. I just wish I would've looked into the rest of the house when I found the office wiring.
Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site.

Risky click!
Here, go nuts, looks like you're way off:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...
They use 256-bit with TLS 1.0 and support IMAPS, POP3S and SMTP which you can use with Thunderbird and also RoundCube web mail. Tested it my self works very well ^_^ In fact I found it better working for me then some premium services like HushMail.com or free service like Safe-Mail.net I'm very happy to find something that finaly just work without too many registration questions or phone activation.
The 1 Week Startup Validation
I started down the route of phone-interviews (two) before being told that I'd need to relocate to either Ireland or Switzerland, and that I'd need several in-person interviews to proceed further.

(I'm a system administrator, rather than a developer, although I'm a competent programmer in my own right.)
Oh, I hadn't thought about the potential for confusion! Curious to know if that's how most people will parse it…
That's where my thought was going too. If profits are high while unemployment is also high, then it can't be that employers are far less socially responsible than they used to be. They were never that charitable about hiring workers to begin with. It must just be that they don't really need the workers.
At this point, I'm not really sure I can trust the "free" services, as there's always a "catch" or changes in TOS down the road when they want/need to make money.

I'm moving my main email to fastmail [1]. It's worth $10/year to not get ads shoved in my face or wonder who owns my data.

[1] http://fastmail.fm
And this is by, at least implicit, intent. Prison in the US fits into a punitive, even retributional model. If you hurt society you get hurt in return. If you do something bad you get punished. Fear and rememberance of punishment is what keeps people in line. In such a model it's undesirable for prison conditions to be mild or tolerable, the more intolerable and brutal the better, because that makes them a more effective punishment.

It's a model that has continued to be used in the American justice system for centuries, but it's not a system based on any scientific principles. Worse, it doesn't actually work. As often as not prison breeds worse criminals rather than keeping people on the straight and narrow.
I have always been a fan of trashy pop (too busy still listening to "As Long as You Love Me" 10 years later to have any shame). I remember when I was 13 and used to read all the pocket leaflets from audio tapes I would buy. And reading the entirety of the fine print/credits for all my favourite songs after I'd memorized the lyrics (backwards too).

I remember coming across Max Martin and Denniz Pop prominently figuring in just about every single one of my favourite songs. I would be amazed to find a song I liked that didn't mention at least Max Martin. I was amused to find this consistent across BSB, NSync and Britney Spears (and I didn't like very many of her songs). I always thought to myself "This man, whoever he is, whatever he does, is a genius, because he seems to be the only real common factor across all my favourite trashy pop songs. Why isn't he the most important man in pop music?"

I got over my obsession over the backgrounds of pop musicians shortly. But I still find my favourite songs (within my understandably terrible taste according to those with a finer appreciation for the arts) to often be Max Martin produced.

He deserves a lot of respect and credit for not only dominating his field and picking the right talent to work with, but moreso for keeping up with the trends and times (or defining them?), entertaining teenagers and youngsters for multiple generations even as he grew older. That is definitely no easy feat, in music, movies, social media (hi Facebook) or any other industry.

As a game designer, I hope I can develop that talent to cater to the most important demographics in my industry even as I outgrow it.
You really believe Bitcoin will survive decades?
Quote From Linus Torvalds on Microsoft
http://dnd.meetup.com
To be fair, he posted his experience. Discussion starts when someone questions what somebody said.

Blaming memes is just lame. No good viral meme starts without a reason. Poor memes without any real reason dies way before getting popular.

What's the difference if someone is starting or ending with YMMV? It looks like nitpicking for the sake of writing bigger blob of text.
It is how I parsed too.
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming is taught by John Guttag which led me to believe that Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python would be the standard course text, however the OCW resources only give links to Amazon and MIT Press for purchase. Makes sense considering that the book has only been out for 1 year exactly, yet MIT Press designates it 'out of print'. The free texts linked then from the course resources are the usual Learn Python the Hard Way, A Byte of Python, Dive into Python, Code Like a Pythonista, and The Python Programming Wikibook. IIRC Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python was a recommended textbook for the MOOC on EdX but was not offered for free there either (even in web view only, which was started in the first MITx MOOC, 6.002x Circuits and Electronics). If I've missed something and this text is in fact freely available now that would be great to know.

Of the others I've checked most do link directly to the text, either as HTML or PDFs with the exception of some of the Chinese and Japanese courses which provide links to purchase texts but free aids/study guides. It's still a very helpful list, as OCW has grown so large that it can be overwhelming just going through the catalog– a huge achievement on its own, really– before you even get to the content. So much to learn, so many possible routes to take...
It's got a lot of false matches.
no, its both :P
That's probably a lot more intimate. It will probably seem more like unicellular to multi.
missing specifier in homepage: how is this better than <a million other SRS software> ?
A Scrooge McDuck-like pool of money made from Swiss 5-cent coins …
I read it exactly the same.
No, they are vertical. An horizontal layout was not an option in this case. Not a bad idea to include labels – thanks for that!
Pune techie held after FBI alert on hacking racket
How our money system works (common myths dispelled)
For some reason I read it as "Mediterranean" first, but by the time I got the visual buffet of Mediterranean dishes and trying to cope with one hacking such a thing, I also began to see it as MITM hacks.
Then, of course, there is Catcher in the Rye, the most damaging book ever written. Completely ruined two generations at the least. Made effete and cynical cool and we've yet to recover the hard nosed optimism that infused us with greatness for a too short a while.

I sincerely wish we'd lost Salinger in the war.
To better picture the severity of that normalisation, just reverse the genders and imagine a TV show where a male inspector threatens a female suspect with prison rape...
FEMALE (senior node.js developer) for a scalable platform

Fixed the title for you
When you cut the pie into different size pieces and one gets more than before and one gets less, causality is trivial.
Well forbes just pulled the article, so that should speak for itself whether or not people were burned by using ZH for trading tips or anything beyond intellectual masturbation/infotainment.

Though this "maintenance period" coinciding with liquidity drying up in chinese markets naturally has people wondering if this can be the straw that brakes the camels back. But if it is, with all the tongue-in-cheek tones floating around on this, do people really think an event like that will be contained to just chinese markets?

I can only think of the people behind the all cash real estate purchases in us markets thinking they need to now flip their recently acquired properties in order to cover a shortfall only to see that everyone else will be trying to do the same…
I don't think any currency is a good store of wealth for decades or generations.

Bitcoin doesn't have enough of a track record to make predictions about how long it will last.

I bought Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies not as a long-term store of wealth, but for their other valuable qualities.
Tough criticism.

It was designed for a few months. On its 10-year anniversary, I think it's worthy of a news article.

Sure... not much to say, but then the article wasn't very long, either. A couple facts, and the rest was filled with pride and other light reporting, like the feature article that it is. I don't know much about journalism, but it wouldn't seem out of place next to a feature about a successful restauranteur or a dog that saved someone from drowning.

Is hard-hitting and just-the-facts the only acceptable form of journalism or something?

To me, this was at least worth the bits it was printed with. I'm glad to know that people still care enough to do something so well that they can launch it on a rocket, land it on another planet, and keep it running and sending data back to Earth for 10 years straight.
Ted Nelson did change the world, actually, but by his evangelism, not by implementing.

There's a reason that he is famous, and it's not because his Xanadu project failed in many senses.
Would be nice if there were one packaging tool all those languages were using instead of each one reinventing it.
Pulling up the drawbridge.
Tip Doge via Text message.
This isn't a big deal, but the assignment in `featured = featured.delete_if...` isn't necessary since delete_if mutates the array.
I'm sorry, but are you really implying that HTTP doesn't scale?
dnd.meetup.com
Because, to use an oft-quoted phrase on HN: "If you're not the customer, you're the product."

If I'm not giving them money, what am I giving them? Eyeballs? Data in my emails to mine?
They are virus-scanning and spam-filtering my email. So they at least have the ability to read all my email. Doesn't sound secure to me.
Same. I got super excited to learn about some fresh MITM goodness. Middleman looks interesting as well, though. :)
No, the mantra is actually "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

And yes, one usually installs easy_install to install pip, but I don't see how that can create a "very long dependency chain". Even when both tools are installed, you can use either to install packages.
Also called "a self-fulfilling prophecy"; you make something happen by the simple statement "it will happen".

It's also a smart move for your career: You can create your own job and attract lots of funding for your research, or sell your business for a lot.
Its all about trust. Do you trust Google, Apple, Fastmail, the NSA? Do you trust them to not mine and market your data or metadata? Do you trust them to act responsibly in case of a catastrophic data leak? Do you trust them to not change their minds down the road?

Personally, I too have more faith in payed-for services than free ones. At least, they have some motivation to do the right thing.
An email address is for most people their single point of recovery for almost all of their online accounts, including services like Paypal. If you choose to trust an email provider, you are trusting them with access to your entire digital life, including finances. If you can't trust a service to responsibly manage your payment information (in the case of fastmail) how can they be trusted as an email provider? Someone could do far more damage to me with control over my email address than they could with access to my credit card details.
Not even a little bit close -- nor can you pick up what his vision has been from that video.
I'm a software developer, and I (like many) prefer not to work in VIM. If that's not damning to the idea that people would embrace abstract interfaces -- that is, a computer professional preferring a more familiar metaphor -- then I don't know what is.
Apparently Facebook also tried to acquire DeepMind. https://www.theinformation.com/Google-beat-Facebook-For-Deep...
Physical address points at a virtual office company. No About page, want personal details, offer a free deal that too good... Sold!
I'm working in a recent building with no lightswitches. Since writing code doesn't involve a lot of movement, I have to wave at the sensor every so often when it goes dark. And the whole building was built to host IT companies, so it's a problem for nearly everyone.

There are few things as annoying as that.
Rough Patch for Uber’s Challenge to Taxis
My host machine was MSDOS and this was before I was aware of things like VCS'. I still have the ROM and board so I could possibly disassemble it.

The actual loss was caused by a disk failure and an untested backup system (my bad)
"whether or not people were burned by using ZH for trading tips"

I never said anything about "trading tips," just that ZH has proven itself to be built upon a pile of rumor mill excrete.
If you work at EyeEm then probably not
Google ∩ Nest ∩ Boston Dynamics ∩ Ray Kurzweil ∩ Andrew Ng ∩ DeepMind = Domestic Robot?
This is why you never use signle email for everything, this could end in chain-hacking. Also you should seperate your accounts as much as possible one email for banking/paypal another for shopping etc... But you can use email such as ZoHo for this if you don't trust XFSmail.
Moins de frais bancaires cette année
Une bonne nouvelle vient atténuer le marasme des augmentations. Grâce au plafonnement des commissions d'intervention, les consommateurs paieront moins de frais bancaires.
And is this actually realised as a savings to the consumer? I'd imagine it works more like selling advertising space. The bloatware is another source of revenue. Not a means to lower prices.

If they were really concerned about maximising consumer value, they wouldn't keep picking dumb prices that end in '9.99'.
> The article provides such reasons, but those reasons do not apply to every project. I have been very happily been using software, such as ncurses, that hardly ever sees a new version released, for many many years.

The article doesn't say it applies to everything, but if you read the title as a thesis statement and not simply a title, the title implies it. Article titles are short and don't capture everything.

> I am pretty certain you are the one being needlessly insulting here, not mattgreenrocks.

OK fine, you have more karma on HN than me, so you're right. Are you happy now?