skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still surprised Google was in on this considering they are developer friendly and are a "do-no-evil" company to a considerable extent. It was probably pressure from Jobs. Developers hurt by this should squeeze them for every penny possible.
Really? If I buy a car magazine I buy it for the content not for the ads. I assume that there is at least some useful information in the articles and if I want to buy a car, I also go rather for the content in the articles (tests, introductions of new cars with pros and cons) then for the ads which are all pro, hyping and probably also misleading.

How are the ads useful to you?
Where did you get that impression from?
EFF and IDL are terrible because they don't have money to lobby, neither do you (I assume) and the industry that does, want's possibly even less privacy (Faceboo, Google, Twitter, FourSquare, etc).

The thing is that I don't want to erase or use a fake name in my StackOverflow or Twitter account. I know perfectly well that at any time my data could be exploited by a third party.

That's why I'm saying that the only way to get over this, is to make large part of the population aware of the issue.

And the more people use the internet the easier will become.

You can reject it, but in a democratic country that's the way things work: Politicians want (and sell themselves easily) for more votes. Exchange your vote for privacy, the administration might want to control our lives using espionage, but if MPs don't get votes they can't support the administration and I believe they will turn their back to the administration way more easily if they know that they will gain more votes (more raw power).

So all you have to do, is put the issue high on the agenda, nothing more. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's not impossible either.

Once an NSA executive goes in jail for mis-conduction will have set a precedent. Same thing will happen in Germany, etc. Then you can say that you are relatively safer because everyone who is going to exploit our data, could face prison. And that's not an entertaining thought, especially for politicians and executives.
Thanks for going to the source for this one.
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How can algorithm detect if someone is my friend?
"But outside of games just not being playable, people are talking about not having fun without the IAP. This is fairly subjective."

Given that almost all of us arguing from either side would probably agree with this, there are two obvious options:

1. Allow the current situation, in which you can market anything as free, literally an app that does nothing without spending on IAP, so long as it is free to download

2. Prevent the use of the term 'free' if IAP is present at all.

In the interests of the consumer, to offer protection from unscrupulous companies which, particularly in this marketplace, have demonstrated some pretty unethical practises, I favour the latter.
It properly still wouldn't be unmetered ( Or it could be in less dense population ). But the Cap could be much higher then what we are getting now. The reason why we are all capped at this moment is exactly what pCell is trying to solve. Sharing of Spectrum.
The current LTE could already do 300Mbps, and with the accuracy of pCell there is no reason not to believe you cant get faster then 100Mbps in real world. Which is like i said, you dont really need your Wired Internet Line anymore.
Don't think HN is interested in Aamir Khan or his shows at all...
Fact closes more usenet and torrent sites
THAILAND – Did anyone expect to see this?
Around San Francisco this week, some were seen sporting Electronic Frontier Foundation T-shirts featuring a retooled N.S.A. logo with an eagle using its talons to plug into the American telecom network, symbolized by AT&T. Asked about the T-shirts, one AT&T executive, who asked not to be named, said they had a chilling effect.

“There are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we’ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,” this person said. “But when you see that,” he said, pointing to the T-shirts, “a conversation becomes impossible.”

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The conversation became impossible when your company decided to willingly give up everything and anything about its customers for a fee. Were it not for customer apathy, I'd like to think your entire shitty company would have been fucked out of existence by now for what they continue to do. But not really, because your company probably would have just been given a bailout for failing at everything but sucking government dick.

Fuck you nameless executive. I wish I could request anonymity as easily as you can. Your shitty company brought this upon itself and there is nothing to discuss until it stops being the NSA's bitch.
Not from an outside view I would say. But when we are talking about the subjective perception of stress, it might as well be that the stress as perceived by the diver or the A&E consultant is not proportionally higher.
Nobody who sold anything for bitcoin since before the rollback point would consent to this.
Back then we called this the halo effect. Strategy started with the iPod, that was the trojan horse. Once that's in your life the scope increases.
SaaS & PaaS tend to be sold B2B - we have much stronger protections for consumer sales than for commercial.
Mt. Gox CEO Confesses: All the Bitcoins are gone
Perhaps it's under the frequently asked questions because no one can find the bloody thing. Thanks for pointing it out though.
PayPal washes its hands of Bitcoin scam
SaaS Club
Direct link instead of the lifehacker "aggregation": http://superuser.com/questions/709275/what-is-the-danger-of-...
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The Rise and Future of the New York Startup Ecosystem
However, this is not necessarily "philantropic". It's marketing, and directly connected with ROI.

If Apple had the social and environmental sense of responsibility of GoDaddy, I lot less of us would feel comfortable buying Apple products.
I haven't seen any Papuan, ever. Doesn't mean they don't exist.

As a side project, I'm creating a framework to build Gjs applications using TypeScript. The neat thing is that the compiler can easily create a combined JavaScript file, which when appended to a stub JS file results in a single executable for installation. The bad part is that the supplied lib.d.ts contains definitions for objects that don't exist.

See https://wiki.gnome.org/JavaScript
> IS MAXIMISING SHAREHOLDER VALUE

Did the stock go up after the event? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=5d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
The fiduciary duty of the directors of a company entails that they make no decisions that prejudice the general shareholders of a company. The classic case is making an issue of equity that benefits only a limited group who can buy it at the expense of diluting the value of the equity of other shareholders.

The idea that (i) the entire value of a company is the NPV of future profits to the shareholders, and that (ii) this fiduciary duty is very broad and bears on all decisions made by the directors, so that any decision that might reduce return is prejudicial to the interest of shareholders, does pretty much entail what the NCPPR claim. And there have been efforts in places to expand fiduciary duty in some jurisdictions to this strong requirement. But I have the impression that lawyers generally think the idea is daft and undermines good corporate governance.

IIRC, Steve Milloy of Junk Science operates a crank activist hedge fund that attempts to undermine environmental innitiatives in the kind of way described in the article. I believe they have produced dismal returns for their investors, which suggests that they do not eat their own dog food.
Its scala refactoring is quite limited (even organize imports doesn't work, can't move a type out of a file without moving it to a different package which will sometimes fail anyway, no "generate interface implementations" or "move method to parent class"), autocomplete is painfully slow, and every so often the UI freezes for several seconds.
> ... sensible ...

You probably meant to write "sensitive" or "susceptible" or something like that. (Just a well-meaning remark especially if you, like me, are not a native speaker).
There are several levels to what is wrong.

I have dedicated the last 5 years to discovering what is going on so I will try my best to condense it down.

In terms of a 'shorter' business cycle view (less than 10 year perspective) to what is wrong is that we are not in a recession but in a deleverage. We haven't had one of those since WW2 so most people don't know what it is and think it is a recession. A deleverage is a once in a 100 year massive transfer of wealth event. I have put resources on what a deleverage is at the end of this reply.

The long term problem is that the Fed is a private bank. This means that the US Government and American citizens do not control the Fed. Forget the façade that makes them look like a branch of Government, especially the whole Presidential appointment of the Fed Chairman. It is a private bank that gets to print money and sell it to the US Government that American citizens are forced to use. That means that the US Government and American citizens are slaves with no control over their future. Each dollar printed is a debt burden on the American people and a debasement of the current currency value. Essentially think of printing money as a way that the Fed transfers wealth from your pocket into theirs. Furthermore, I believe that the Fed manipulates the economic cycle to create wealth transfer events that they reap the benefits of.

For further information look to the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

http://www.tullettprebon.com/documents/strategyinsights/tpsi...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM‎

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/047...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/
I think it would be awesome if Apple could somehow go "unpublic." Is there a word for that? Buy back all of their stock and dissolve it. A powerhouse of design and engineering like Apple would be a real force if it didn't have to blow their asshole investors each quarter or risk some kind of coup.
True enough, but look at the amount of code in parsing USB descriptors versus parsing filesystems:

$ wc -l usb/core/*.c
21465 total
$ wc -l `find fs -name '*.c'`
1016460 total

Two orders of magnitude more. Now I'm not saying that USB descriptor parsing is free from problems, but there are an awful lot of obscure filesystem drivers in there ... Econet ADFS anyone?

Another place where libguestfs can help is in parsing files from the filesystem. We provide trusted parsing libraries that run inside the VM, so parsing (say) Unix /etc configuration or Windows Registry files is much safer.
> Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview that he would spend much of the week meeting with venture capitalists and young entrepreneurs to try to rebuild Silicon Valley’s trust in the intelligence community.

How? By lying to them some more? I haven't seen one truth spoken by Mike Rogers about NSA so far. And they thought he's the perfect guy to rebuild trust with Silicon Valley? Do they imagine that if he's the guy that lies the most about NSA, that also means Silicon Valley will buy it?

> Thursday but Metreon’s management began to grow concerned after they received calls from RSA’s conference organizers.

I don't get it. Why would they care what RSA thinks? Unless they got some calls from some Congressmen/NSA, too?

> As one put it, “If you’re not here, you’re shutting yourself out of the conversation, which helps nobody.”

To backdoor or not to backdoor. Yeah, that's some conversation. So from all the people who said that, and went to RSA, did they actually "have that conversation"? Or did they just sit quietly in their chairs and waited to be spoonfed some more lies? Something tells me most of those didn't even care if they put a backdoor. They're just there to get more business.

From what I hear, RSA didn't even bother to alleviate concerns about their backdoor. Probably because trying to do that would mean admitting to it, and that's rather keep people confused. This way they may get to keep some fans.

> “There are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we’ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,” this person said. “But when you see that,” he said, pointing to the T-shirts, “a conversation becomes impossible.”

Poor AT&T. People are so unfair to them. I mean so what they let NSA tap into their cables and gave them whatever data they wanted? That doesn't mean people should be mean to them by wearing T-shirts describing exactly what they did. It reminds me of GEMA complaining about Youtube telling its viewers that the videos were taken down by GEMA.
I agree. Regardless of what one think about the questioner, I would really like to know the answer to the first question.
SO has changed the web. It's a wikipedia-calibre resource - at least, for programmers - and its various spreading incantations in every direction seem destined to displace every other forum vehicle. It is truly a victory for humanity.
That's an excellent explanation and I appreciate it. I'm sure you've simplified some, but it makes sense to me.
I guess I didn't realize the average person was that stupid. I play games with in-app purchases. It's pretty easy just not to pay for them.

If the public is this bad with something as simple as in-app purchases, why should we ever legalize drugs? This is a serious question.
I don't think that's what he was trying to say. He meant your message is "just give up". I didn't see anything in your post about "what do we do now that privacy was defeated". You just said "give up everyone. Stop trying to make privacy happen". There's a difference there.
Show HN: I'm giving away my startup ideas
I am always coming up with ideas and generally I keep them holed up in a notebook away from prying eyes. I've decided to let go of my ideas in hopes they inspire someone else and put them up on Github. Would love for people to fork and submit their own ideas, improve existing ones or use them.
Yes, thank you.

It boggles my mind that Americans haven't put Keith Alexander behind bars. Lying to Congress is supposed to be a felony. I feel like the rule of law is dead along with privacy.
if it is illegal to modify the phone until the contract is over you don't have title to it.
That's something I've always wondered about. When the DEA or seizes, say, a million dollars in cash from a drug dealer...where does it go? I assume the bulk of it goes into the pocket of someone. But where does the officially seized money go? Do they destroy it? Similarly, what would they do with 25,000 BTC? And could they even document it properly?
the upfront cost is the entire cost of the phone to the customer

No, it's not. The up-front cost, plus the agreement to sign an x (x~=2) year contract is the cost to the consumer. The consumer would not have been induced to sign this contract without the advertised price of the phone so, clearly, the obligations in that contract are not ones that the consumer would be willing to undertake for free (i.e. without a subsidised phone).

the customer has title to the phone immediately they pay that cost

That may be the case, but let me share two examples:

1) If I get an iPhone from AT&T, at a subsidised price because I committed to a 2-year contract, that phone will be locked to AT&T until I request that it is unlocked. They will only unlock the phone if I have satisfied the conditions of the contract (i.e. paid my 24 months' bill). So, although I have title to the phone from day 1 (in the sense that I can throw it down the toilet if I want) I don't really own it in the sense of being able to do whatever I want with it (like use it on a different network) until 2 years' later. It doesn't seem that different from hire purchase.

2) If I buy an iPhone from China Unicom (the 2nd largest mobile provider in China), I pay a deposit up-front (roughly the unsubsidised price of the phone, less the advertised up-front price) and 1/24th of that deposit is credited to my bill each month for the next 2 years. The only practical differences vs. the AT&T example are (i) they don't lock the phone and (ii) they are more protected than AT&T are if I don't hold up my end of the bargain.
There are lots of very cool things about this. "Everything is a symbol" is a really interesting idea. And that so much functionality is available out of the box makes it amazingly powerful. It certainly could make an useful tool for data exploration. It will be interesting to see if it can really be used as a practical language, i.e. used to develop deployable applications.

I do find the use of position-based arguments a little disconcerting. When functions get that complex remembering argument positions becomes a nightmare. Also, all of that capitalization is blinding. Can we please get past CamelCase?
I did that in 2006. A big win was maintenance, since downloading/uploading a copy of the database was so simple. Eventually I had performance problems when doing read-write-read-write stuff, since writing locks the entire db file.

You could argue I shouldn't be doing that, and you may be right. But I just switched back to MySQL, and the problem went away.
Is there a word for that?

"Private"
No, because they are still free (as in beer) at the point of delivery, like the NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/nhscoreprinc...
Yeah, it's morbid-funny to take the TV booker's advice and apply it to the diver and doctor. "Don't get too precious about it."
It's worse than being long. It's kafkian hell. In our case, our Paymill onboarding support contact disappeared for three weeks, then misplaced the physical copies of the documents. Three months later, with the banking approval process still on square one, I gave up and went with PayPal + Reference Transactions.
We can change that through technology. I believe Lessig was right when he said "code is law" [1]. That goes for NSA, too -meaning they can do whatever they want as long as they can do it through code. If you read that slowly, you realize that:

1) NSA can do a whole lot right now, regardless of the law, because Internet security is so broken

2) If we do fix Internet security, then they will be very limited - again, regardless of the law.

Like take end to end security for example. A judge can request a company to give up the key even to all of their users data - like they did with Lavabit. But if it was true end to end security, with the key on the client's side, there's nothing they could've requested from the company, making FBI and NSA much more limited in the data they can gather. They would basically have to try and tap only the important targets - you know, like they used to.

We will fix Internet security, and I'm starting to see a trend already of high quality secure apps that the public could use (compared to before when most were just unusable by normal people), and we're going to see more of it.

[1] - http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html
5 Steps To Take Now That Will Change Your Life
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/06/13/minor-stressful-even...

"mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones"

The article is a bit foggy, but I think it gets the point across.
Conclusion: buy Panasonic stock to reduce your risk (works with Tesla + Toyota). It's cheap as hell atm.
Ask HN: How can I convince clients to pay me in Bitcoin and is it a good idea?
Just what the title says :-)
Hosted my own blog on DSL for years, I know the issues. He just shouldn't try to serve up half a megabyte of javascript over that connection. The Javascript is required though, so I'm not sure you can't blame Pulsar.
Well they aren't bad, actually the Dual D700 perform very well in games under Windows as they are used in CrossfireX mode. However, the D700s are the top of the line cards and cost a hefty extra. In general you can get the same or even better gaming performance for a lot less.
Ask HN: Cucumber or Jasmine (or other) for JavaScript BDD?
For those who use Behaviour Driven Development, do you use Jasmine, Cucumberjs, or something else?
It does compare. People have a MIN and a MAX level of stress, and unfortunately they usually calibrate these to the most stressful situation they usually encounter: the TV booker will feel the same level of stress when a guest is not showing up that the diver feels when he knows something went wrong and he's probably going to die.

The key is realizing that unfortunately this is your natural tendency, to set you MAX to the most stressful situation you usually encounter and to work against this natural tendency: just image how much worse things could actually be, think that you or your loved one or your children could die or be severely mutilated and incapacitated for life today in a mundane car accident that will not even reach the news. Go even further next: meditate a bit on how big the world is and how many horrible things are in that could really hurt you and the ones you love, and then go even further, think about how big and dangerous the universe is and how small and powerless you are and how many cosmical catastrophes could negate our civilization's entire existence. This will make you feel worse, but it will help you calibrate your MAX to a more appropriate level and help you a enjoy a stress-free life.

Next time you feel stressed to death, try googling some accidents stats, some deaths from cancers stats and maybe some violent crime stats (if you're in the USA). Then meditate a bit on the scale of things: ( this might help: http://htwins.net/scale2/ ), and trust me, it will really do you good!

...unfortunately the article misses this advice entirely.
"I have been free riding on this piece of technology that is completely open and that I, if I were able, could help make better. Instead I'll just be condescending to the people who have spent countless hours of their personal time because something didn't work as I want/understood it to. Go me."
Here in the UK, when buying vehicle insurance I have the option to pay for the year upfront, or to pay monthly. Paying monthly costs more as you effectively get a loan for the upfront fee and pay off the loan over the course of a year. So the documents often present it like so:

Pay Upfront: £57.16

Pay Monthly:
Deposit: £5.45
Installments: (11 x £5.45)
Total: £65.40
APR: 35.3%
Yeah I'll never have children. I was an awful brat of a kid and I never cost my family an ADDITIONAL $80K on top of dealing with me. I'd have a breakdown.
Agreed, the recent Dungeon Keeper release was effectively unplayable without buying the IAP items.
Stock going up just after an event doesn't mean that event was good for the company. A dead cat bounce is stock going up.
Except Apple did it because they were forced to by a class-action lawsuit. I think that's a pretty good example of "regulation".
Hmm. I have a PC, while I've generally used it less since I got an mbp, I still use it and feel no inclination to move completely over to apple products.

What I'm excited about having an OS designed for touch and mobile in my car is the potential for apps to change the way I interact with my vehicle. I don't believe you are locked in to one OS or another at all, because apps are being designed for android, iOS, and others. Instagram, Facebook, and a vast majority of the apps I use are available on both platforms.

What WILL decide it for me will be the design and hardware involved. For example: I chose to move to apple products because I personally prefer is external design and UX. The touch interface is just more responsive for me, and my preference for that will influence my decisions. I hope automakers like Volvo translates this over properly, and with Apple working with them on it, I feel more confident that they will.