skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got rejected, but I _do_ show ads. My guess is Apple is targeting particular SDKs/libraries, and so that even apps that are showing ads are getting flagged. Not sure what the resolution is going to be - still waiting on an Apple response.

I've got a whole bunch of libs included, several of which use AdSupport. Arg.
You can't really fault them for following the restrictions set by past deals
Profiting from ludopathy is ethical if the other person is rich?
It makes sense to try to get what benefit you can out of all criticism, but I think Jeff is still right that critics should try to keep it constructive.
The problem with this is he's assuming the US government is the same as his. It's not. If the government emailed you a sexy picture with threats, how long before you show it to the press and the police? Remember, local police are not under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Neither is the press. Nor are state and local government officials. It's not the same. Any comparison is naive.
I'm sorry I didn't specify. I know how to check my usage, but my "next bill estimate" is only 11 cents. My total ends up somewhere between $1-3.
How many of those GitHub repositories are actually 10-20 line "Ruby gems" and "JavaScript libraries"?
You don't even need facial recognition to track customers in brick-and-mortar stores without their consent. The company Nomi does exactly this by tracking MAC addresses of mobile devices[0].

This is an opt-out product, and the only way to opt out is to register your MAC address with them: http://nomi.com/privacy/

[0] http://nomi.com/
Very good suggestions and thank you for the encouragement.

About your point 'set up a service for these people to sell their goods to Americans.' - Never thought about this. So you are saying that there be dedicated businesses selling to americans, and 'shipped by' people who are travelling? Have I understood your view correctly?
Perhaps you've had the good fortune, possibly by dint of having been raised in some sort of isolation chamber, of never encountering bullies in childhood. Had you done, you'd probably have noticed that most bullies are basically cowards, which means that fighting back is much less likely to escalate the matter than to end it. Conversely, to supinely suffer whatever a bully dishes out will certainly embolden him, with the probable result that he will "grow up thinking that fighting is OK", just like you don't want.

It's common for members of certain groups, particularly those of a quixotic utopian bent, to see a bunched fist as something that's awful and terrifying in its own right. This is not true; like any weapon, its moral valence is ineluctably situational and determined by the use to which it's put. A bully uses it to inflict terror on those who can't or won't fight back. We agree that this use carries a negative moral valence, but you fail to think it through properly; the assumption that more violence is always worse than less violence blinds you to the fact that not all violence is morally equivalent -- that the violence which stops a bully is not the same as the violence which satisfies a bully -- because you find it so unpleasant to contemplate any violence.

This is a regrettably common form of moral cowardice, but it is no less base or shameful for all that. Perhaps you think I judge too harshly; in entire fairness, I'd think the same, had not the schools of my youth been administered by people who had precisely the same attitude toward violence in general; their idea was that the problem of bullying could be entirely solved by sufficient attention from authorized adults, which might possibly be workable if, say, there were a roughly 1:1 staff-to-student ratio, and constant supervision in places like bathrooms. Since there isn't and never will be, the whole idea is plainly and fundamentally flawed, but that doesn't seem enough to stop some people from trying to put it into practice nonetheless.

I've seen the policies which result from such foolishness, and experienced their consequences firsthand; indeed, they made my youth a great deal more unpleasant than it really had to be, and it's because of that experience that I have such short shrift to give these opinions when I encounter them in adulthood.
University has a crappy insecure system for paying staff, they get hacked, so the staff stuffer? Just pay the man!
(2003). I have a simple theory. Math is not a young man's game, but math at these levels is extremely demanding and all consuming of one's mind. As you get older life gets more complicated, you get a wife, kids, dog, etc. Your mind is no longer focused on one thing and one thing only. So it's exceptionally rare to see someone with a normal life do extraordinary discovery in mathematics past a certain age. Paul Erdős is often mentioned as a counterexample to the young mathematician. Yet, Erdős pretty much lived for mathematics and didn't really have a set place let alone a normal life with wife and kids. I'm not saying that this is the only contributing factor, but I'm willing to bet it's a big one.
I grew up in Yugoslavia. I was surprised by the wars (it started in Slovenia) because up to that point things were peaceful, and being a kid, didn't really have insight into ethnic tensions. But even to me it was clear that once war broke out in Slovenia and Croatia, it would most certainly happen in Bosnia as well, and that there it would be much, much worse.

The first two conflicts were mostly Serb vs. Croat. However, members of those ethnic groups in Bosnia tended to be more extremist, and there was the additional complication of there being a large Muslim minority involved in plenty of grudges dating back to Turkish occupation. It was pretty clearly a barrel of gunpowder just waiting to explode.

Having said that the Yugoslav conflicts really had very little to do with a surveillance state and an evil government. It was more a sectarian war with somewhat even sides. Yugoslavia was a lot better on the 'Orwellian government' scale than the rest of the Eastern bloc.
The importance of being right
Maths is a game for anyone with the inclination to play. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/16/1206569109.abst...
Imagine if they could get a hold of that kind of data in an investigation. They'd know where you were, what you did, who you were with, etc.
This also depends on the flavor of FORTH you're using. The one I wrote in high school (oh so many years ago) compiled directly to executable code, with constants compiled to direct pushes, so "redefining" a constant this way would run more slowly.

While I absolutely hate FORTH as a production language (I've seen millions of dollars flushed down the tubes by FORTH afficianados who were unwilling to admit that their code was unmaintainable, slow, and didn't work), it's fun to play around with. Everybody should write at least one FORTH in their career.
I hack node, on a Mac, using Sublime.

I use both AWS and Azure, and they're both fantastic and terrible:

- Azure has better, more polished web management, AWS is more flexible

- Azure gives 500s, 404s and 403s occasionally, AWS has outage IDs that don't appear in their status page and has useless support even when you pay for it.

Either way, I don't feel locked into Windows or Visual Studio when using Azure, which is good, as I don't use any of those products.

The most 'Windows' I get is nodes process module returning some more Windowsy values when I use Azure Web Sites. Otherwise I don't care.

Oh yeah and Azure Web Sites doesn't support gulp (or even grunt) yet so I commit generated assets.

PS: is this really the #1 comment on Hacker News?

- If you've used Azure, you know it doesn't require MS languages or tools

- If you haven't used Azure, why are you upvoting this guy's conspiracy theory?
Well maybe he should apologise one more time and do a better job removing his post.
Well, sure, fighting back doesn't always work. But even if you failed, at least you tried. Perhaps that's not the best thing in the world for your self-respect, but take it from me, it's a hell of a lot better than not even trying.
>1) User decided to build from source - That's outside the package management and FYI "make && make install" on Linux is exactly the same on Mac.

So Linux as an OS does not do dependency management - you have to stay within a third party tool/package manager. Thanks for proving my point.

2) User decided to include Testing repositories on Debian which, since you don't know, it's like having a different Debian distro.

Adding more repos leads to breakage - Exactly what I said. You are adding nothing new.

3) User decided to install broken proprietary software(in that case Oracle) that for arbitrary reasons forced the user to install x86 packages while the user's system is 64-bit.

It would have made no difference if it wasn't proprietary. Also I have seen such breaks multiple times with F/OSS software.

>If you work in the CS industry and you say that no one wants something like Linux package management, well you simply... don't work in the industry.

Stop putting words in other peoples mouths. Thats dishonest.

>AppStore, Steam and whatnot have absolutely nothing to do with package management and dep resolution.

Good job replying to something I never said. My mention of Steam and the App store was specifically for digital distribution. Heck .. I even said so myself...

Let me quote myself.. (rather sad that I have to do this)

"The Apple App Store distributes _self contained_ binaries+dependencies (excluding OS libs) which is one sane way of doing things."

"Across platforms I'd say Steam is a much more better platform than apt-get/yum etc for digital distribution of software."

This is my last reply. Goodbye.
Ruby Development in the Bar
This is an awesome idea. I live in the UK and often find products available in America that have exorbitant shipping fees or are impossible to buy over here. (e.g this TV http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/d...)
The current option is package forwarding companies. They usually charge a pretty high fee so they're not worth it. But this is definitely something I'd pay for, so long as it's priced well.
It says on their site that they "Never collect any personally identifiable information without a consumer’s explicit opt in", so what kind of info could they collect with Wifi/Beacon?
Perhaps Linksys doesn't want their overseas CM to pirate the firmware into a no-name model for the grey market?

I worked on a similar type of project. We designed and prototyped a module in the US but the end customer wanted to assemble their finished product in China. Management was worried that the 'proprietary secrets' (cough cough) from the firmware could be stolen by the CM and used in their other customers' projects or sold to someone else. Fears escalated when our staff came back from a first visit and they showed us photographs of counterfeit Samsung Galaxies being built on the line right next to our legitimate product.

So what we did was design the bootloader to use a form of obsfucation (really, a rotating matrix of XOR patterns) and have the trusted processor manufacturer flash that onto the chips at the fab before reeling them up and shipping them to China. Then management could rest easier knowing that the production firmware being transmitted to the CM's testing line wasn't easily disassembled or copied into a similar part.

Of course, any clever engineer (like the OP) could have blown it apart in a day or so. We were a bit luckier that our entire firmware could fit on the protectable on-board eNVM and not use external NOR flash like this router. I guess the hope was to just discourage the practice and cross your fingers that this method would be enough.
I have no problem with people expressing their opinions without backing them up with facts. I do it all the time.

I was objecting to the use of the word 'apparently' as it is, in fact, not apparent to many people.
CLAP ON CLAP OFF with WebRTC and Web Audio API
And like Xmas, I feel bad for the poor schmucks who have to be there and can't be with friends and family for the event, so I often feel guilty.
Your reply (dripping with condescension which makes it an unpleasant read) ignores the many people who have met bullies who are not cowards and who are either physically strong or in some position of power or who are emotional bullies.

You also make the mistake of saying that bullying is a problem of childhood. Plenty of adults bully and are bullied.
"has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH" - LOL, where? Do people even have time to check your repos?
Sorry for the bother, hopefully you can help me clear something up. Is Cloud66 a tool that I can use to set up a blank VPS?

I _can_ configure my own VPS (DigitalOcean) but it's a pain in the ass and it's always different for every box.

I've looked into Chef and it seems half-assed where recipes work on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 but not on Ubuntu 12.10 x86, you see? Fixes some problems, but just gives me other problems.

I want something where I can check some boxes and say give me a PostgreSQL database with this master username-password.

Configuring nginx for me with this folder as the root website container and install ruby 2.0.0 and rails. My needs are basic, but it's odd that nothing out there exists like this. PHP has XAMPP which install everything you need.
Except Microsoft's "lock in" is lighter; if you build using AWS or Google tech; you are using proprietary tech that can only be hosted by them, which is a deep lock in.

If you build on Azure tech; you aren't locked into MS being the host of the services; you can run an Azure cloud entirely in your own datacenter; you can use Azure as overflow in a Hybrid model http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/solutions/hybrid... or if you have legal or compliance needs to not host with a US company you can use one of their many partners: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/dec13/12-12co... as the "Cloud OS" provider.

They even providing server and datacenter blueprints as part of the Open Compute Project http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/01/27... with datacenter rack management software, if you want to build your own datacenter.

All their client libraries are even on GitHub https://github.com/WindowsAzure
I don't get it. What's so special about the link?
While the concept of this app is noble, why would anyone give up there phone number, full name and location to a site that says absolutely nothing about what they will do with that data.

There is a privacy policy and terms of use on the site, but those only cover use of the website itself and mostly just protect the site creator.

There is a significant revenue opportunity to gather this information and sell it and if that is the intent it should be clearly stated. If that isn't the intent, then they are potentially losing users by not yelling that from the rooftops.
What are they going to do? It's Microsoft, it's not like the rank and file employee can just tell the executives "I don't like your apps strategy in Windows phone" and expect them to immediately change it.
Show HN: manpages-tldr – short manpages with examples
My small project similar to bropages and tldr, but (finally!) using manpages only. Manpages generated from Markdown files by Pandoc.
http://xkcd.com/447/
Yes! Yes, we do. Because there is no way to prevent bad things happening. All the foam padding and cotton wool in the world won't prevent the occasional kid dying or being badly injured; if nothing else, there will always be at least a few abusive parents. You can't save everyone, but you can do a hell of a lot of damage trying -- and, callous as you might think it, the mishaps you cite carry useful lessons of their own for those who survive.
Similarly, I believe, due to the vast amount of information accumulated in all different fields in the last century or so, polymaths have simply ceased to exist. The last true polymath I know of was John von Neumann. I guess it just can't be done anymore.
Agreed. Caring about people very much distracts your mind from mathematics and such. So, best not to care if you have those kinds of ambitions.
As a freelance developer, GitHub is useless for me as a git hosting service, because with the number of repositories I need to keep up as remotes I would be paying a ridiculous monthly fee.

I like BitBucket's model of unlimited private repos and charging by the number of people accessing them instead.
Not open source but Colibri is pretty nice. http://colibri.io.

Also check out http://iwantgrowth.net for potential websites where you can find more resources.
Millions fall for scam on Facebook within minutes
So who can analyze the following script: https://www.facebook.com / chespier.moranseverino.7/posts/1435336293368456?notif_t=comment_mention

I'm pretty confident that it's save to visit but for some extra paranoia I added spaces after ".com".

A friend "mentioned" me and as it appears, within minutes, millions were "mentioned". Actually 1.6Million comments were submitted to that post by time of writing this. Any clues what the script does?
Freedom(tm)
I remember how the conflict started in Slovenia. It was initiated by the Yugoslav federal army, which was Serb-dominated. To think of an analogous sequence of events in the U.S., you'd need the U.S. army dominated by one faction, e.g. Texas. Then say California decides to secede because they are tired of giving money to support red states. Federal army comes in (or actually is already in) and starts shooting at state-level national guard and police. That's roughly what Slovenia was like.

It's a huge stretch because the U.S. doesn't really have ethnic factions like YU used to. And its army is not really Texas-controlled, or even if it were nobody would care. :-)
The problem is that it's hard to judge a company/startup solely based on what they're selling or their "big idea". Execution is a much bigger factor and can be harder to see.
I also think that in the adult life you search positive feedback in other critical things like life standard. When you are young it is enough to receive positive and easy feedback in your family or school. I recommend to read the Kasparov's book: how life imitates chess (not the best title) where he mention different chess player personalities and ages.

But we can't forget that there are huge brain changes when you are young.
If it's all about getting a slew of technical quizzes right, chances are people will be intimidated or pissed-off by an open-ended question at the end.

^ That would be a really annoying shift of gears in an interview, particularly if the sudden open ended question seemed to have no relevance to the gig being interviewed for.

At least I would probably be pretty annoyed and give really ridiculous answers/possibilities. But having interviewed people myself, I tend to grade my interest in a job by how the interview is given, and will cut the line if I think the person in charge of interviewing doesn't know what they are interviewing for/why they are asking the questions they are asking.
Everything in this article is about youth, not being male, so I don't get why they chose to put "Man" in the title. Are there not any young women born as genius?
He means people complaining that a post is too long and so they won't read it.
The authors are 65 and 90 years old.
A Batteryless 19uW MICS/ISM-Band Energy Harvesting Body Area Sensor
why not use a "JS-native"implemtation then? Are there some issues with the spec that need to be respected?
My understanding was that Dogecoin doesn't want to become a "serious" currency and the sentiment in the community against the BTC-community is that they take themselves far too serious.

This decision makes sense if Doge intends to stay the "great comment, I give you 10000 doge for that" fun-currency and drive out everybody whose primary intention is financial gain.
Thanks for the encouraging words. ok, maybe I should post a Ask HN to get feedback on this, so that I don't interrupt this discussion. However I do want to ask you if you believe that someone could be incentivized to bring a TV from America to UK? This is exactly what the idea is - but I always thought 'small easy to carry items' (not TVs). But interesting comment. Thank you.
First, my original comment was simply meant to point out the feasibility of the practice. The fact that Nomi says they choose not to collect "personally identifiable information" doesn't mean that someone else couldn't (using the same technique) if they wanted to.

But frankly, I don't really trust the term "personally identifiable information" unless it is qualified, because it can mean very different things to different people in different contexts[0]. For example, for one service (I believe the DNS servers) Google claims to "anonymize" IP addresses, but it turns out that they only obscure the last two or three digits, which isn't enough to conceal the identity of the individual.

For another example, you wouldn't believe some of the things that are considered protected health information when dealing with patients (ie, for HIPAA/HITECH compliance)[1].

Even if I trust a company's intentions (which I don't unless given a strong reason otherwise), trusting (a) their ability to understand what information is and isn't sensitive; and (b) guard that information both require a bit more than a vaguely worded assertion on their website.

If you collect information about where a person (or "device") has been over time, that in itself can be an incredibly identifying piece of information - all you need is one other datapoint to "lift the veil", and suddenly you know a lot of sensitive information about a particular individual.

[0] IANAL. "PII" is a legal term, and whether or not certain pieces of information qualify as PII can (and has) been litigated, so the line is ambiguous enough that a simple promise not to collect PII does little to assuage my privacy concerns.

[1] Likewise, you wouldn't believe some of the things that aren't (necessarily) considered PHI.
Show HN: Website that only lists the best recipes
First of all you'll be fine as everyone leaves PHP because it "sucks" and all of that legacy code needs to be maintained.
This effectively killed my interest in the currency completely. I've stopped mining it.

I suspect this may be what they want: to keep it basically worthless so people keep using it to tip people large amounts and have fun with it, and to drive away investors and people looking to profit.
First accelerator in Nordics and Baltics with focus on physical devices
Google did not have to follow Apple's lead, yet they did.
Well, as I was writing a comment in a Hacker News thread, I figured it'd be excusable to restrict myself to that which is relevant in the context of the discussion at hand, rather than trying to encompass the whole world. Perhaps I was wrong in that. But, nitpicks aside, the point I'm making is that standing up for yourself is strictly preferable to not doing so, both in terms of self-respect and in that, save only the most extreme of outliers, standing up for yourself will produce a preferable result. Do you contend otherwise?
I don't really know how feasible this is without pretty significant performance impact (esp. memory usage), but as a research project, it sounds fascinating. Go for it.
Ask HN: What's your favourite Block in the Bitcoin-Blockchain?
In principle I would agree, but I suppose this would only work for successful publishers.
First thing in my Todo list.
He is referencing a quote by G.H. Harding "No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." Try reading the article before getting insulted.
I Bet Phonecalls Piss You Off. Admit it. They totally do.
ACCESS..

Journalists depend upon access to government officials to report news on government actions..

No Access to those officials virtually decimates both the Media firm income and the journalists income