skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanford University requires remote access to students' iPhones
All Stanford students were recently required to install this app on their phones and their Stanford accounts were blocked until they complied.
Google to own $750 million Lenovo stake after Motorola deal closes: HK exchange
[EDIT : Techcrunch removed article, here's another link (thank you w1ntermute) :
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-google-lenovo-idUSBREA1606B20140207
I concluded that someone who can't distinguish counsel and council has probably not read a lot about legal issues, and probably has an uninformed opinion on them. So it's probably not meaningful when they decide that government and law enforcement are like an angry, unpredictable gorilla.

What would you conclude?
> there's plenty of evidence to show that being female, being black, being Muslim, and being a communist in the US is more likely to have a negative effect, compared to someone male, white, Lutheran, and Democrat.

I don't think my point was entirely made if you're saying this.

While I wholeheartedly agree with you, the premise was that it's a whole lot better to be female/black/communist/non-Protestant in 1980 than it was to be in 1940. The point that I was making was that it was a whole lot better to be Muslim in 1980 than it is to be in 2014 and that if anything, rather than this being some period we'll reflect on sadly like Germany, we're simply returning to the mean.

Tangentially, things are going to get worse for everyone disenfranchised, not just Muslims and those who look like them.
Google want keep users in their ecosystem.
Use the information of one website (wikipedia) show it in the result search, but you don't need go on this website, just stay on Google.

With youtube results, they could play the video in the search results. But they want user go in Youtube for them watch others videos => more traffic, more engagement.

Google will kill us.
Ask HN: Tool that learns table structure and produces summary?
Hi Folks,

What tools do you know of out there that can "learn" what's in a CSV / TSV file, make some smart guesses about the columns, and provide some sensible metrics / summary / plots of the data?

I know Google Refine, but it doesn't quite fit the purpose. What other stuff is out there?
You never know there, could've actually happened. it's he said she said ..
Analyzing Asusgate
I love Flappy Bird. I play a ton of games on my phone but FB is now my go-to casual game. My high score is 104 if that's any indicator of how much I like it.

Before Flappy Bird I was pretty into Clash of Clans and another similar build-and-wait-and-repeat game. I realized that there is no true progress in those games, and all you have to do to "win" is play more than the other guy.

Flappy Bird is exactly the opposite of Clash of Clans. Clash is all about incremental progress - do One More Thing and you'll get 1% more resources to do That Other One More Thing. Over and over. You inch towards a goal that's not there.

In Flappy Bird, you can't make progress. Every time you click start it might as well be the first time you opened the app. No power ups, no In App Purchases, no levels, just you and those pipes. I get 50 and 5 equally often. Something in my brain rebelled when I played Flappy Bird and made me delete Clash and my other slow-build games. I just want to play something that's over quickly, highly interactive, and uses actual skill.

I'm sure after a few weeks of Flapping i'll be as sick of it as I was of Clash, but I think it's worth nothing that FB is the exact opposite of all of the most popular games out there right now and I think that hits a subconscious note with some people like me.
The current debate is exactly about the question if the basic human rights are violated or not. As soon as this would be resolved - I mean legally, having an opinion on that is not enough, for enforcement you need laws - if it would be resolved that some laws violate the basic human rights of LGBT people it would provide the basis for making them void.

So far the court only decided that the federal laws banning same-sex marriage are violating the rights of the citizens. They did not decide that recognizing same-sex marriage is a basic human right though, and since the text of the Constitution is also mum on this question, it would require a separate court decision to have federal enforcement of such rights, if recognized.

However not having such decision is in no way comparable with limitations of freedom of expression instituted in Russia. It's one thing to complain that the federal government does not force states to recognize same-sex marriage, especially if it doesn't even have a legal basis to do so right now, and another thing is to prosecute people for opening support centers for gay youth or for debating the topic of sexual relationships and freedoms in public.
Google Cloud Platform Subject to the Deprecation Policy
I really wish you had put in the word "temporarily" in your HN title.

Thankfully, fiat withdrawals aren't affected, although there still remains the issue that fiat takes a while (more than 4 weeks) to get out of MtGox.

EDIT: Thanks for updating the title appropriately.
How does fiat currency remove the right to have things?
"The relationship between the United States and Russia is deeply strained,..."

What a wasted opportunity for a "strained yogurt" pun.
Google buys 6% stake in Lenovo as part of Motorola deal
While it doesn't compare to Russian deaths, 388,000 UK deaths is a staggering number in its own right.
SSIS can do it (suggest columns feature). Also from MS SQL MS you can do the same through the "Import Data" which basically creates one time SSIS package.
>Please tell me you see the problem there.

No, you are being dramatic. Big banks don't fail when they have no assets. They just fail when they become insolvent. They will still likely have all of their deposits to meet the capital reserve requirements. It's when they get caught with illiquid assets that they fail. Look at the 2008 financial crisis and the banks that failed. There was nobody that got short changed that had a regular bank account.
Page 22 will make your blood boil:

Dr. Ibrahim was given a letter by the consular officer informing her that the Department of State was unable to
issue her a visa...The consular officer wrote the word
(Terrorist) on the form to explain why she was deemed
inadmissible.

The judge helpfully includes a photocopy of the letter with the handwritten note.
Because LGBT is not a federally protected class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Bank runs, huh.
It's annoying that people make these sensationalist titles when really all that's happened is another bug.

Comes at a bad time though, with the latest $200 crash due to the war on Bitcoin apps.
Best advice I ever received when I transitioned into sales 15 years ago was a fast no is 100x better than a slow maybe.
I was immediately suspicious when I heard that, and when I watched the clip which actually showed Moscow and not Sochi I just realized it's some baloney of which news is full now and stopped watching. Good to confirm my decision was correct.
TL;DR: author sought legal advice before doing something he thought was illegal. Turned out to be illegal. Didn't get in trouble because he didn't do it.
The end of Mt Gox began a long time ago with delayed payouts of hard currency but this is surely the first nail in the coffin.
Better social buttons, 19 fewer http requests
Well done. Great features. I just love simple and practical software. Also thanks for the video. I am installing it for my 5th grader.
Scala.Rx 0.2.0, a Scala FRP library that compiles to JavaScript using ScalaJS
A mod has edited the title of the submission to include the word "temporary"
Euhm no. The distance between the commissars and elected officials is much bigger.

They're appointed by vote by foreign ministers of the member states (as a group, they can't include or exclude individuals), who are elected as a group (again, no apointing individuals) by the local parliaments. By that standard, the new CEO of Microsoft is an elected official. Also note that most European commissars are not appointed by the current governments of the member states.

As if that's not bad enough, why don't you look at the results of European referenda, how the people voted on the creation of Europe in the one instance they were asked.

Let me help you out with the links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_re...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_European_Constitution_ref...

Several other referenda that were planned were canceled, for reasons that I'm sure had nothing to do with how people were voting.
Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space
I don't think it's a problem. In fact, when I found myself hung up something as inconsequential as indexing, I question my own rationality. That's why I called it brainwashing because c, c++, javascript, php, java, python,... most of the top 10 languages use 0-based indexing and most likely we would all be comfortable if they had all taken the path of being 1-based.

It's sort of like driving on the left or on the right. You just get used to one and you think it's the right side :).
manufacturing systems are one area where you really care about historical data for many years. for operational reasons as well as for related data retention adherence.
This article casts McNutt (the retired Air Force officer with the PhD from MIT) in an exemplary light with his actions of engaging with the ACLU. However, despite the serious nature of the article, this particular quote stood out in a humourous manner:

“And by the way, after people commit crimes, they drive like idiots.”
Privacy will be the hot topic of this decade, if not century. Now, when violent crime is at a historical low, is not the time to give law enforcement new and invasive capabilities.
Sorry... I should have used the original title.

I'm still sort of in shock. I allowed myself to believe it was a good idea to store all of my bitcoin in mtgox, due to their One Time Password protection features.

Once I realized something was up, and realized that only small withdraws of <0.05 BTC were being processed, I spent the last 24 hours salvaging as much as I could. I was able to withdraw 3.4 BTC of my 9.2 total. There are still 0.65 in my MtGox account. The remaining 5.15 are stuck in "withdraw limbo" due to the technical problems. MtGox has set up a system to automatically refund all stuck withdraws exactly 7 days after they get stuck. So, hopefully 7 days from now I'll be able to withdraw the rest, if MtGox allows it.

I hope their Monday update will bring good news...

Once again, sorry about the original title.
So "young, single, Arab men" not only aren't "us", but also aren't people who deserve protection from terrorism?

I'm glad that you can decide on their behalf that their rights are worth less than your imagined security.
Democracy is not about passing idiotic laws, enforced or not, if somebody told you so he lied. But Russian lawmaking process right now has as much common with democracy as North Korean courts have with justice. There is a king - his name is Vladimir Putin - whose word is law, and nobody is allowed to muddle anywhere without his knowledge or initiative. The flurry of insane laws from the Duma - the possessed printer, as it is called in Russia - is not some random mistake, it is a reflection of insanity setting in in Russian politics, unfortunately. To be sure, American politics has its own share of insanity, but of a completely different kind.

>>> Investigative journalism is dead. Journalists are now bought and paid for by rich patrons.

It must be very bleak in the world you live in. Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, indeed.
I'm basically agreeing with you, but one of the most amazing things from the court's decision (that didn't make it into the Wired article--bad reporting) is that the FBI agent didn't know that he had filled out the form incorrectly until he was deposed in September 2013.

So I would say that there is more than one bureaucratic mistake that happened here. Nobody went back to Agent Kelley for years and asked, "Hey, man. Why did you fill out this form this way?"

He would have looked at the form, blinked twice, and said "Oh, shit!"--which is what I'm sure happened at the closed court proceedings when he was deposed.
I'm not super familiar with daily fantasy (variance is obviously going to be huge) - but for NHL data check out extraskater.com - think he uses nhl event feeds. Features have been rolling out this year and it's easy to see tons of team strategy and playing time matchup data from all the situational datasets available - not updated exactly in real time but certain pieces of the site are I think.
>Are the D/A converters of tablets really that good? Honest question since I have no idea.

They are good enough for casual use. But you can even get stuff like Apogee interfaces for your iPad with top pre-amps D/A.

>But full-blown library management?

Not full blown, mostly marking photos from a shoot, flagging, minimal edits etc, before they end up in your main desktop library.
No worries, and thanks for updating the post title.

I know plenty of people who have BTC and fiat stuck in MtGox. Congrats on getting at least a third of your holdings out. A bunch of people are looking forward to the MtGox update on Monday.
Ask HN: What is a good, statistically correct primer for A/B testing?
I'm wanting to learn about A/B testing, but I'd prefer to learn it from a resource that explains the statistical aspect rigorously. Statistics can be a very hard area to get right - if I learn it from a blog post then I can't be certain that what I am learning is correct. Can anyone suggest such a resource?
> all that's happened is another bug

It makes you wonder if it's really a bug if they are just using this an excuse to hide a more significant issue.
Yes we would have "lost money", if that is the contraction you are seeing. But it is money we shouldn't have rightly had in the first place.
You mean when you come to the hotel you booked months in advance and they say there's no room for you and then when you finally get one you have the bathroom leaking and the curtains falling down - and then you complain about it, it must be the hidden agenda to discredit?

The guys there at Sochi obviously screwed up the hospitality part. If they didn't screw up the games part, as soon as the games open, the tone would change. If they screwed up that too, the tone would stay.
On top of that over 200,000 children were kidnapped from Poland during WWII, most of which never returned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_children_by_Nazi_...
It's left unsaid, but my guess is that he left all the boxes blank thinking that would keep her from being added to any of the databases.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your next question: if that's true, why was he filling out the form in the first place?
This is agenda setting for the next generation: "As Americans have grown increasingly comfortable with traditional surveillance cameras, far more powerful generation is being quietly deployed...".

Why quietly? What's the problem being upfront if the people are "comfortable"? People are not comfortable. They will probably confuse the drones with target practice flying tin cans.
We use Django heavily at Pathwright. It does a very good job for us. We're all looking forward to 1.7, as it will be another solid step forward for us.

I'm probably going to offend some people with my phrasing, but the Django community is a little less culty/fanboyish than Node's. It's old enough where most of the shiny chasers have moved on (to Node), leaving the guys who are more worried about productivity than figuring out what is new/hot.

Every community has zealots and fanboys, but we (the Django community) are, as a whole, pretty chill and just trying to get things done. We don't need to chestbeat very much, because Django's track record speaks for itself (it powers some very large, very successful sites).

As far as excitement and activity, check this out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...
Yeah, fuck those stupid gay people, there's no overlap between hacker and LGBT circles! Who cares about something that affects a part of our community, majority rules!
What do you mean by "requires?" That disclaimer is the boilerplate iOS disclaimer for enrolling the device for mdm, which is generally useful for pushing profiles for wireless access, vpn, e-mail, etc... I'm not sure what their policy is, but I doubt it is as nefarious as your submission implies.
I'm getting 404 on this link. Did they just pulled the article away?
It's broken in Chrome. Use Firefox to view.
Before you get too worried, it's likely more a technical problem with their wallet software than them not having the funds to spend. It seems to be that they are losing track of which inputs they have spent and which ones haven't, and everything is getting backed up behind a mound of transactions with unmet dependancies. No doubt they'll sort it out and be back to processing withdrawals again in no time.
Forget the title, thanks for posting, it is the first I've heard of this. I moved off Gox in December and transferred my BTC to cold storage (paper wallets). I really recommend looking into doing something like that, it makes it easier to sleep at night. Hope you get the rest of your money out :)
Not sure why it's 404'ing, but Reuters is reporting it as well: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-google-lenovo-i...
Here's another article, since the linked one seems to be down: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-google-lenovo-i...
Facebook Working to Fix Bug That Exposes Mobile Users to Privacy Hacks
Have you thought about what such an architecture would mean bandwidth-wise on a WAN network ? I mean, dear God. This would actually require MORE links than full mesh.

In other words, core network capacity (meaning total bandwidth in all links) if you have a clos scales even worse than n^2, with n the bandwidth you deliver to users. Even worse : you need as many long-haul links as you have subscribers (because your subscribers are connected to different locations).

Is there question in your mind as to why ISPs don't do that ?
> financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professional.

The CFO of the little company I worked for in the mid&late 90's said her colleagues were calling FAS 123 (draft in 1993, revised in 2004) stock option accounting guidelines from FASB the "aircraft carrier" document because of its size. The PDF http://www.fasb.org/pdf/fas123.pdf is only a little over 100 pages, but it's some dense dense stuff and I'd guess 10x that length has been written in interpretations.
Jinja2, ERB, Haml, Jade, etc. Any system where the thing you're editing could not be immediately served as an HTML file.
In Defense of Scala, part 2
Is this real?

If it is, then these are early signs of that dying model, you know. I don't mean to say that the case of these overreaching universities is as bad as that of Hollywood/MPAA but traits are similar. It's a good thing for education space in tech, not so good for those who will be a part of the brick and mortar model during transition.

My 2 cents.
fundamentally incompatible with old hardware.

It is fundamentally incompatible with some very old hardware, for example ACPI is now required.
Yes they did. Don't really know why, but it was fine a couple of minutes ago.
South has worked well for us, but 1.7's built-in migration squashing/rebasing has me excited by itself. I have to run some really hackish custom stuff to do this on South right now.
Ask HN: What are your non-computer related hobbies and how did you find them?
So I just started my first software engineering job after graduating and it's going great. The problem is I have no idea what to do for fun anymore. I used to spend free time working on side projects and learning more CS skills but now that I get paid to code, my motivation to do it at home has declined quite a bit (I assumed this would happen).<p>The problem is that's all I used to do, along with play video games but they don't really hold my interest and attention like they used to. Lately when I get home from work I just make dinner, browse reddit/HN, talk to friends online (just moved to a new city and don't know anyone here yet), then go to bed.<p>Traditionally I have never had much interest in outdoor activities like sports and hiking and whatnot but even if I were interested in them it's not something I can do that often given the weather (especially this time of year). So my questions to you guys is did you have a period of time where you felt you didn't have any non-computer related hobbies? What else do you do for fun? Did you always find it fun or did you have to force yourself to do it for awhile before you got in to it? How did you go about finding other things to do?<p>Just a side note: the town I live in isn't particularly big so there's not a lot of options when it comes to a bunch of groups/clubs and those that do exist are generally focused on outdoor activities which I don't have much interest in.<p>Thanks!
There are many things I am sure they would agree on. Murder is bad. Theft is bad. I haven't read any positive thing in the press about murder or theft. Is it because they are all bought by anti-theft cabal or is it because they actually agree on it being bad? Maybe they just think Putin is bad and the preparation for Olympics was completely messed up.

As for positive reports - news usually aren't positive. It always has been so. Nobody reports positive things unless they are exceptionally positive. Fireman saves the lives of ten - news. Drunk driver plows into a tree - news. Drunk man decides not to drive but walk and safely arrives home - not news. A man comes from work, meets his wife and kisses her - not news.
"Google paid $750 million for a 5.94% stake in Lenovo Group on Jan. 30, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The purchase was made on the same day after Google announced that it had agreed to sell the Motorola brand to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, but will keep most of the handset maker’s patents.

The purchase of shares might be part of the deal, in which Lenovo agreed to pay a total of $2.91 billion, with $750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares, $660 million comprised of U.S. cash, and the remaining $1.5 billion in a three-year promissory note.

According to one of our sources, Google had wanted to sell Motorola for some time before striking the agreement with Lenovo because the handset brand has yet to live up to its purchase price, but had to hold off on selling the division for tax reasons. On the other hand, buying Motorola helps Lenovo build out its cell phone business. There were rumors in October that it had submitted a bid for BlackBerry, but was turned down."
Lean Startup Machine coming to Australia