skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did an interview with Forbes and clearly stated that he was not being sued. If he was, we know about it since I'm sure the thousands of other clones would be sued and the company suing them would want some publicity.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lananhnguyen/2014/02/11/exclusiv...
FYI, as the $20k guy, the money wasn't spent all at once. We fiddled, we tried, we failed, several times, miserably. We've made mistakes on Google as well, but success was more easily achieved.

So, despite being certain that our target audience is on FB, we have concluded that we're better off advertising in a place where the intent to purchase a hotel room/travel is clearly present (ie google search).

It's a specific situation, certainly not true for all advertisers. I'm sure that FB advertising for other products might work quite well. It's just not for us.
Twitter got hacked? It looks like a very big one.
All my followers got direct messages.
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen: 'Game was an addiction that had to be stopped
This is an excellent starting point, if it's something you would consider.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7216942

http://freedombone.uk.to/
Your comments were being watched.
What are these buildings? Are they discount grocers, with cheap but OK food, or are they gas stations, with lunchables and frozen pizzas? It's hard to tell from a screenshot of a map.

I'm not denying that the term "food desert" is suspect, I just can't tell what you're trying to prove.
A (unofficial and probably wrong) precis of those 13 Principles:

1. Legality - privacy restrictions must be prescribed by law.

2. Legitimate Aim - What you want to break privacy for must be to support laws.

3. Necessity: We cannot (reasonably) achieve the aim without breaching privacy.

4. Adequacy: Listening to your phone calls must reasonably allow us to achieve the aim.

5. Proportionality: Don't listen to everyone when only some will do.

6. Competent Judicial Authority: Any breach of privacy must be authorised by Independant, capable judges.

7. Due process: Who follow a clear process

8. User notification: and tell you you are being watched (unless that might hurt the Aim)

9. Transparency: We get to see the metadata on their phone tapping

10. Public oversight: and a few of us get to see everything not just the metadata

11. Integrity of communications and systems: backdoors are not allowed, if you are bugging us legally, you dont need a back door

12: Safeguards for international cooperation: No playing arbitrage with different jurisdictions

13: Safeguards against illegitimate access: and secure your stuff.

I hope those help
I would still trade the XP or Aero themes for WINXP2K look any day.

I remember those days at the library, where one could browse the internet, download stuff, but could not run any of the downloaded files. I then figured out that if you renamed an executable into SETUP.exe, it would run without questions. Then the library computers got cluttered with warez, music and games.
Not to invalidate your achievement, but with the current gameplay all it takes to weight down the spacebar, and wait.

A score of 200 would be much more impressive.
Verizon PCI report: Pen testing, passwords cause PCI assessment gaffes
How do I know you aren't someone from the NSA posting this to throw us off the scent?
Redis 3.0.0 beta-1, with Cluster support, is out
I think this is really great.

Since you are asking for feedback, I heard this on IRC when I mentioned adding thedaywefightback.js to a site I manage.

<Erkan_Yilmaz> lukeshu did you tell 'em already:
#findTheError "The Day We Fight Back" against mass
surveillance has on its website #twitter and
#facebook offered (only) thedaywefightback.org

That said, I'm not personally sure what's popular these days in terms of decentralized social networking.
> I wouldn't place much money on a true artificial mind still not existing in 40 years.

We said that in the 50s, and every decade since then. While we understand a lot more about the brain there are still gaps in knowledge and ability to scan a working brain.

It may turn out to be a system with sensitive dependance on initial conditions.

There are about 85 billion neurons in a human brain. (In transistors that's only about 45 or so Intel's 10-core Xeon Westmere-EX.) that number is a relatively new refinement of the old 100bn number. Not finding out how many neurons we have until the 21st centuary makes me think that there is enty of work left.

We don't even know why Golgi Stains miss neurons.
Sprint's the only US carrier to lose money this qtr, despite record subscribers
Kind of a tautology isn't it? The crew must flip the switch because on manned missions the crew must flip the switch. Why not send up unmanned missions
Do radio shack still edit it ? It does not look like it still does

Sparkfun should propose something similar then :)
I honestly think this is naive at best, and at worst useful idiocy on behalf of the companies dependent on the illusion the aim is even achievable.

Mass surveillance, if technically possible, is going to happen. Therefore make services where it isn't possible. If that screws with your business model you're part of the problem.
Redis cluster tutorial:
http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

Redis cluster Specification (work in progress):
http://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec
I'm betting this is the reason why he pulled the plug. I live in Bolivia and would hate this attention. People kidnap your family, criminals target you, etc.
Virgin Atlantic passengers get Google Glass customer service
It wasn't an apology, that's why I didn't have the word "apology" or "sorry" in it. It was an explanation, as the title may have given it away...
You couldn't be more correct sir!
It's just a new spambot. So far, none of the "high profile" accounts have been having trouble.
Correct. Sorry if it caused confusion. I used it because I find 'ad' a confusingly short word, and advertisement too long. Showing my European roots I guess (but I live in NYC).
This is a good initiative, but I still find it depressing that we have to fight entities operating outside the law or in violation of it, using methods strictly within the boundaries of the law. It's not a fair fight and it's not likely to be successful.
I keep confusing this project with the old cryptcat (netcat+twofish encryption).

http://cryptcat.sourceforge.net/info.php
Well, for the ones that know why this is here let them be. For the ones that don't know, carry on.
"It happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem," he explained as he chain smoked cigarettes.
>>As for "dark rotten times", in the 20's Stalin was talking to English ambassador who asked Stalin if there would be a world war and Stalin replied that there would be a war and it would be much worse as with Germany, Japan would also attack from the east.

Your arguing the 'purge' was prescient foresight on the part of stalin who ignored warnings that Hitler was going to attack and kept troops that could have been used against the Germans stationed in Siberia against the Japanese? Stalin didn't know war was coming and said so. The purges led to massive early losses by the Red Army at the hands of incompetent generals.
It doesn't help with that, but it does help with continuity of operations. If his domain is taken and his operations are otherwise interfered with, he can then move operations elsewhere, under a different domain. I'm sure 90+% of anyone reading his site would learn of the new domain within days.

And then he'd have another story to write.
Former director of the NSA and CIA is speaking at Oxford University.
Former director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael hayden, is speaking at Oxford University union in an hour (3 pm GMT). If anyone wants to suggest some good questions I'll do my best to ask them.
This is inspired UX work, but I doubt it would actually sell washing machines.

My wife and I recently tried to buy a rice cooker. I said "We should buy a $60 rice cooker." She said "We should buy $JAPANESE_BRAND, because it has more features. It will cost us $600." I said "I have, in observing your use of rice cookers, never seen you press any button other than Cook The Rice."

This was not an optimal thing to say.

We will purchase a $600 rice cooker.

[Edit to add: Relatedly, the vast majority of men professing "I do not know how to use a washing machine!" are signaling their values, to whit that they believe washing clothes is beneath their notice, not signaling that they are intellectually incapable of memorizing a four-step process which you could train a chimpanzee to do.]
Interesting, I didn't even think of that angle. Is there any reference to support this hypothesis? I would love to read more about how US foreign policy or aid potentially effects the laws of other countries. I could see the US getting involved with big drug export countries (e.g. Columbia) but I wonder how involved they are with others that don't play a large part in the global drug trade.
The Day We Click Back
I do not put much faith in it simply because I bet the majority of people who are behind this voted for the guy in charge and will vote for the next person that same party put up all because they cannot think rationally.

As in, you vote for a candidate who is protected by identity politics you will never have a voice. You vote for a politician who adheres to the D or R and your just doing nothing.
I keep track on which cards have been drawn this round. Every time I need a new card drawn I use, say, one of 52 predefined generators picking 1 out of n <= 52 depending on a millisecond number.

(I could even publish these: an attacker would still need to know which millisecond every single card in this round had been drawn to exploit it.)

I don't reselect random numbers; every time it is used, DrawCard function excludes cards currently in-game from the deck and then applies one of those 52 predefined generators to the result of that ComplementarySet call (OK, only 51 of them are nontrivial, doesn't matter). The buffer of drawn cards in current round is about 15 cards or so. It becomes useless once the round is over and is collected by GC, or cleared in some other way. Nothing gets accumulated.
I laughed out loud at the horrific GUI icons. We've got "wash a peacock" which probably violates some animal cruelty laws "the headless horseman is drowning" which is probably emergency shutdown because a pet got into the machine (see above) "turn counter clockwise to loosen screws" aka enter maintenance mode or "tip recliner chair over backwards" which is probably some nod to the auto-balancer for the spin cycle, probably. I just love GUIs, they make interfaces so intuitive and simple compared to plain text menus.

The weird part of the article is for decades I've been stuck doing the laundry because its a "programming job" which is more my lifestyle than my wife, so I'm way more comfortable doing it than her. The washing machine is already a "mans washing machine". The "womans washing machine" would have one button labeled "nag husband" to notify me, and a separate set of controls for me to actually use when I arrive. I have a gut feeling that HN readers are going to get stuck programming the washing machine regardless of their sex unless their S.O. is the superior programmer in the family. Its the same way with cooking, its a simple procedural program with a couple subroutines and some library routines, whats so complicated about cooking other than the real time OS aspects of trying to get a whole meal to completion more or less simultaneously?

Personally I think a data flow diagram UI would be a heck of a lot simpler and easier to use. Its the kids stuff so its filthy so soak and scrub the hell out of it in high temp water. Its my biz casual work clothes so press "permanent press" button and walk away. Its blankets and sheets so slow spin because its going to be out of balance no matter the supposed auto-balancer. This is intuitive with a data flow diagram or procedural programming but pretty mystifying with an object oriented GUI where everything is marketing trademark or incomprehensible icons.

The other comedy is its a commentary on lifestyle where its important to spend hours a month studying fashion and hours standing in stores to make a selection but once you do the only reason for existence, that being consuming, once its bought then spending 30 seconds and no money learning how to keep it clean is just waaaaay tooooo muuuch, so just walk around like pigpen or wearing pastel colored former-whites or whatever other epic fails.
....ohhhh (I feel dumb now). Thanks!
Lesser evil for us? Not funny by any means.
Honestly it's not that simple. I'm pretty introverted and just talking to people can be hard sometimes (especially if I'm trying to provide proper social listen-and-talk).

I go out to the community events and I know a handful of people, but I don't really know them. I recognize their face and I might remember their name, but I would not be comfortable asking them for advice or prying into their professional lives.

This is one of the reasons I believe I would not be successful at startups.
Explain why someone should spend time debating with you?
Flappy Bird is a fun game, but to me it also demonstrates how broken mobile advertising seems to be. He's generating revenue from ads that pop up at the top of the screen that quickly vanish on the next tap of your finger. How could any advertiser possibly hope to get any value out of what they paid to have that happen?
Hi Entropic, I did not mean to mark your app as the prime example, it's just one I use a lot (thanks!) and one where I've noticed hitting the advert unintentionally. There are many many many apps with this issue.

My point was that many mobile ad clicks are mistakes and thus useless. Didn't mean to cause you any trouble (and I wasn't aware of the turn off ads option, so double-thanks)
But your apps still worked.

Huge difference.
Penguin to recall Doniger’s book on Hindus
I would love to see more serious news sites use tipping with cryptocurrencies. I think it would benefit their bottom lines and help them become sustainable.
(52 predefined generators is probably an overkill but when you run an online casino then maybe it's not. :-)
They're Food-and-Liquors. You can buy milk and eggs there.
i'd like to sum up this whole experience in two words.

"we're jealous"
1. Hitler has said a lot of things regarding military matters and they weren't always very smart. The opposite argument has also been made by many historians: That removing a lot of the military leadership pre-war weakened the initial Soviet response significantly.

As for the rest of your argument: With the same logic you can justify Nazi Germany's war preparations and concentration camps in the 30s.
Stalin was right that the post-WWI architecture of the world and Europe in particular was unsustainable and might well lead to war. That doesn't justify arbitrary executions and mass murder. It also smells like justifications from hindsight.
For folks wondering why this is on HN, there's some interesting info in the middle of the article about the tech the new police force are using in Camden:

"There are 35 microphones planted around the city that can instantly detect the exact location of a gunshot down to a few meters (and just as instantly train cameras on escape routes)."
lol my username had been taken and I am a couple of accounts and I forgot login details for them so I used James Francos name.
speaking of simplicity in difficulty: Super Hexagon :)
I don't know if it happened in this case, but it's not uncommon for the Internet Hate Machine to go after their targets offline, including phone calls, mail, and SWATting[1], or involving friends and family of the target.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/security-reporter-te...
According to Taibbi, the only person in the state of New Jersey with any moral responsibility for his or her actions is the governor. The city of Camden is populated entirely by victims, and the cause of their misery is Chris Christie.
> starving ukrainian farmers

Stalin starved as many Russians as Ukrainians (if not more) in the process of forced collectivization and bread expropriation. This crime/tragedy happened throughout Soviet Union in 1932-33. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%931...

There is a propaganda soundbite going around that Soviet famine of 1932-33 was created artificially to target Ukrainians (Holodomor). Let's not repeat it here. All people of USSR were victims.
Apples to oranges. Those markets have different dynamics, gatekeepers, legacy costs, etc.
Meet Mask, posssibly the most sophisticated malware campaign ever seen
The original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market. If he had no interest in continuing to make money off of this game, why would he be interested in pursuing legal action against someone? He'd probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.
I subscribe to http://nextdraft.com/ and love the daily email
Seriously? That seems incredibly wasteful, not to mention boring. No way I'd be doing that if I had a fraction of his wealth.
Based on street view (and my limited knowledge of Camden based on living across the Delaware River in Philadelphia) these are all corner stores and bodegas that in some cases may have some limited fresh food, but most of the sales volume is likely packaged goods.

The idea of a "food desert" as I understand it is that it's an area with limited access to nutritious foods. Most of Camden definitely qualifies, especially for residents without cars.
And the winners are....check out the victors from the Crunchies 2013
Anonymity From The Front Line: Life, Death, Privacy and The Internet
NSA let Snowden crawl all over its intranet unchecked
Introducing the API Testing Dojo
I think it's natural inclination. There's a basic Scheme implementation in Pypy, and I'm also working on a Lisp using RPython: https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle
Okay, I'll let you get back to being a special snowflake, then. Have a good one.
Another Dutchman here. Indeed it's true that it's illegal to grow pot. Growing pot is completely illegal apart from some medicinal use, where they try to grow a variety that will not get you super high but still has medicinal value.

Let me make it clear: THERE IS NO WAY A COFFEESHOP CAN GET THEIR WEED IN A LEGAL WAY

Since the turn of the century we have seen a string of conservative governments, elected because other problems in our society, that like to clamp down on drugs and other liberal things because it makes them look tough without having to deal with the true problems in this country.

Indeed it is very strange that a country that has a vast majority of people in favor of legalization, as we have been the witnesses of the fact that regulated drugs have a positive effect on society.

Just to sum up how clueless our governments were in the last 12 year or so, an image of a former president that just says it all:

http://tegekvoorwoorden.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/balkenen...

FUCK DRUGS. LET'S HAVE A BEER!
Rubbish. It's about as much of a risk as letting a user do anything. Google even have a service that scans installed apks for known bad ones if you want to share everything you do with them. Apple could do something similar if they decided user choice wasn't evil and bad after all.
I think this is the real reason. And as well he announced it was going to be deleted in 24hrs... giving people final chance to buy it... if he really did want to stop it he would have pulled it straight away (I am assume the app stores let you do this - I don't know). He's milking it for what he can be being cautious. I don't blame him.
I think some people are missing the point, this is clearly intended to raise awareness, nothing more.
I use my washing machine regularly and it’s easy. Always use the “11” program (35°C=95°F). You can also use the “1” program (90°C=195°F) if you don’t want to see your cloths again. It has all the numbers between 1 and 16, but I guest they are not real, only for cosmetic purpose :).
How Skeleton Strings Can Help Your Testing
An embeddable Lua 2.5 interpreter implemented in OCaml
For anyone who this article interested, I highly recommend watching Indie Game: The Movie. To say the least, it was eye-opening for me, as someone who hasn't put much creative work in the public space in any very visible way.

It's incredibly humanizing to see these people who built indie games that I enjoy greatly go through the amount of stress that they do, all over pieces of software that most people rarely blink an eye at.

It's also completely understanding when people like Phil Fish or Don Nguyen quit the industry. It takes a certain mindset, and I don't think people who start making games for the fun of expressing themselves fully realize it at first.
>You say that now, but I guarantee you the moment you get diagnosed you change your mind. Especially considering so many terminal illnesses can in fact be cured with (very expensive) treatments.

By definition, they aren't terminal illness then. In any case, in the US (or many other countries), those treatments are unavailable or will literally make someone homeless (and preclude them ever getting insurance again). There's also the question of if it's worth it - will the end result provide proper quality of life or not.

Breaking a leg is a specious analogy as it is neither terminal nor permanent; but if something worse did happen and it would permanently affect my quality of life, yes, I'd still feel the same.
I partially agree. I really like the way Windows 7 Aero feels, but that classic look and feel of Windows is a wonderful blend of functional minimalism and nostalgia...

It also really reminds me of the 90s and my first computer, an IBM with a Pentium clocked @ 200Mhz with 64MB of RAM and running Windows 95. I got good use out of that thing.
I knew what it meant and don't have any advanced degree. I suspect that's because the very first comment to the linked question is, literally, "PIE = Proto-Indo-European"

If you don't read the page people are talking about, don't be surprised if you can't follow the conversation.
There's also plenty of places to buy food in Philly. You can walk there across the bridge, but it's something like a 30 minute walk each way (so not ideal for a proper grocery trip). There's also buses to/from Philly, unless that's changed since mid-2011.

I assume the notorious Dunkin' Donuts store is still operating in Camden.
This is actually pretty clever and one of the better remakes that I've seen around. Nice job on this.
Check out these maps of shots fired in Minneapolis: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/police/statistics/crime-statist...
>The problem I see is that Facebook is banking naiveté and unsophisticated users to bolster their short term revenue.

This, exactly. It's perfectly okay that marketing is hard and return on investment is also difficult. The problem is Facebook actively pursues unsophisticated advertisers while running a platform that's actively harmful to them.

I see it analogous to SEO. Good SEO being hard is fine. There are noob mistakes you can make that will hurt your SERP placing. That's okay, too.

But if AdWords worked such that paying for AdWords actively hurt your SERP positioning, I think people would have the same kind of problem with it that they do with this.
I find it ironic that a guy with the surname vogel (the German and Dutch word for bird) writes about Flappy BIRD.
It Took A Eugenicist To Come Up With 'Moron'
That's true. They have limited amounts of memberships as well so a buddy that still smokes regularly visited them all in the first day he could register just to be sure.

I am now firmly convinced that the dopeheads of France will shave off their dreadlocks and start looking for a job now the cesspool of evil influence that was the Dutch liberal stance on drugs has been eradicated.