skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The administrative overhead on many EU funded projects is so complex and burdensome that there is a small industry of private companies that will help you navigate it. The EU sometimes even allows specific additional budgets for this, all in the spirit of "proper management and oversight" and "accountability". The upshot is that some professors in the UK will not apply for these funds, since the work/research output ratio is too low.

Contrast that to some other funding agencies that simply ask for a 4 or so page annual report of progress and a final report, which hopefully shows your publication output (if none, you probably won't get any further funds from them).
You are free not to use any of the services offered by society to you, which obviously requires leaving the country.
And antirez's comment doesn't contradict mine :)
Can children have credit cards?
Such as ? :-)
It is also possible that Apple might maximize profit and shareholder value by pursuing philanthropy, if customers see the charity as adding value to the products (, possibly in improved brand image).
Weren't the codes 00000000 for 20 years? :)

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-d...
How I stay calm, by people with very stressful jobs
I read it but missed that part, sorry.

The irony was commenting about his recent criticism regarding the proliferation of native apps for websites post right after stackoverflow released a native application for their website. If you read his posting on the topic he criticizes things like having different interfaces on every application while the SO app announcement posting prompted the idea of different native interface on each platform. That seems to me that he is saying one thing while his company is doing the opposite, hence the irony. Sorry if you disagree.
Assuming that the platform is supported when the manufacturers have sold it. From experience with owning a few cars that are software driven (Fiat I'm looking at you), the manufacturer will disown electrical problems the moment it is sold. Support past a year or two (the warranty) isn't going to happen.

The current touch screen UIs are built as typical embedded systems with long lifecycles. The new ones are consumer devices. The two don't belong in the same space.
Having contributed a small amount to Rust, I wouldn't have naturally posted this one to HN because I though it would be of little interest to folks outside the community, but I'm glad it has interested some people! If you are interested in reading more posts like this, they pop up sometimes on our subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/
This is genuinely great news & a vast improvement over the previous graphics driver!

Hopefully this means we'll see proper DRM / Gallium support for the IV & I'm looking forward to seeing what people can come up with now that they have full access to the GPU.

Congrats to Eben & the team - you've done good.
This is going to influence purchasing decisions in a way that the car companies may not like.

I'm in the market for a new car at the end of this year, and have been eyeing a Volvo in the first case, but would consider a Merc if the financing isn't quite there.

My experience of living outside of the Apple ecosystem is that Apple stuff is all or nothing. One can't choose to have some Apple gear without fully embracing it. The advertised benefits require one to buy into everything. Things like iPods and Ubuntu aren't seamless, and an iPad when your phone is an Android just means that you buy everything twice, have different versions of things running sometimes with different data profiles.

It's a really bad experience.

The lesson I've learned is that if one is not willing to fully adopt Apple's world, then one should avoid it altogether.

Which means, bluntly... if a Volvo did not offer the same level of interoperability with my Android, the Volvo is no longer on my list of cars to buy.

If the smartphone market is currently 50/50 iPhone/Android... then have the car companies just halved their market?
Effectively? Pretty much yes, the same way they can have anything...
...with all sorts of drones / driverless cars around nowadays, you can imagine some of them could be remotely hacked and made to land or park themselves more or less inconspicuously atop a silo at the right time. You don't need to "hack a silo" (which, I hope, is really not possible!) anymore to incapacitate the adversary from delivering a nuclear strike, just hack any random device that can be moved around at the right time. Hopefully you can't use the same tricks to trigger a missile launch, so overall the new situation might have increased humanity's chances of long term survival :)

Now it would be obvious, but in a future with god knows how many small little e-critters swarming around everywhere doing god knows what... yeah, bad I idea to share, but someone in a foreign military paid to have such an idea would've already had it anyway :)
That is a Sprint plan, they've been trying to wean people off the discounted rates, but many companies give fairly significant discounts. I think I'm on a 25% discount currently through my girlfriend's place of business.
Assuming your design is correct and secure - and that is already really hard to do - you still have to ensure that you implementation matches your design, i.e. contains no defects, and this is harder in a dynamically typed language, because there are classes of defects that the compiler of a statically typed language will catch while they go unnoticed using a dynamically typed language. So dynamically typed languages are not less correct or secure on their own, they just do not prevent you from writing incorrect or insecure code in the same way statically typed languages do.

One example I once read about are control systems for rockets and missiles - they use different data types for x, y and z coordinates. They are all just numbers but you really want to make sure that you do not accidentally swap two variables and the missile turns left while it should ascend. And you just can not enforce such constraints in dynamically typed languages.
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I think our world views may differ. For example I believe that corruption / illegal activities don't stop because you're using a traceable monetary system.

And we probably also will disagree that non-traceable monetary systems are difficult or impossible to monitor illegal activities from. Simply the fact that the transactions happen over the web likely makes it easier for law enforcement to get a hold on what types of transactions are happening within something like Silk Road.

Media makes us think Silk Road was not monitored or that it was somehow immune to law enforcement. I disagree whole heartedly.
Do you have to show the code to someone before your allowed to run it? Can't see how you wouldn't have spotted this yourself
It's pretty indisputable that jade, haml, etc takes about 10% of characters to write vs plain html. There is nothing in html that can't be expressed in jade, and if you would prefer to use html you can put it in as plain text behind a | (I often do this for links in text). The lack of closing tags eliminates the most common cause of html mistakes completely.

If you don't like jade, I can respect that, and most of the time I use html for work because of factors that I can't control and it's no problem.

But you need to come to terms with the fact that your dislike of the language is caused entirely by your (I'm guessing) long experience with html, which has made you unwilling to gain proficiency in something new. Jade is objectively simpler than straight html.
Apple added all this only after losing a massive class action on IAP.

So, you're right that we probably don't need legislation now to avoid being ripped off, but it would have been preferable to have it when people were being ripped off. That does require consumer legislation to keep up with technology, though.
The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
This is the 99% lead charge that annoys me the most. (especially since many of the people leading it aren't 99%'ers they just think they are)

The assumption is that the only places to work are the big companies. Anti-Poaching agreements are rarely about the Money and more about the "I won't steal your trade secrets if you don't steal mine" types of "we can't patent this stuff" stand offs.

It is also protection against having a company put another company out of business by "poaching".

You look at some of the teams at companies and you can see where a group of 10 guys went from company to company. When they all left most the time that company failed. You can't withstand a blow of having 40% of your team walk, and take everything they were working on to a larger competing company.

"Salary Fixing" doesn't work. Someone always offers 15% more to get better talent and when that eats in to the talent pool everyone else has to ante up as well.

Silicon Valley just feels entitled. Yeah it costs more to live there, but the expendable income of SV engineers is vast compared to engineers anywhere else in the US, and the world.
We fight at the only ground it ever mattered: Politics!!!

We put privacy on the forefront of the agendas of our MPs. We become more active in the democratic process than before.

Fighting organizations with larger amount of money that we will ever have, was always a dead end. You can't fight fire with fire. If you create a new powerful encryption tool, you're starting an decryption race from Americans, Chinese, Russians and who-ever-has the power to pursuit it. If they can't break it, they will try to bend it, etc.

So the only thing that was ever going to work, is to held them accountable. Make Keith Alexander and the others who made unwarranted mass surveillance possible, accountable. Press towards that direction.

Snowden gave a huge leap towards that direction to the masses. He managed to stir discussion to topics that were never discussed before.

All we need to do is let our MPs know that privacy matters, for our own good.

And by "we" I mean the entire technology community. Fighting for privacy on the front of politics is the only meaningful way.

And once again, only through education people can reach enlightenment.
How I learned to hack my TV (and started worrying about the future)
Tried their web app a couple of years ago and was rather impressed (mainly due to their Skype support). However, it drifted away from my focus.

Whoa they have their own network. But then again, their original strength was the combination of OTHER im networks, where i could communicate with them all in one place.

Right now, i wonder why ever try this again?
India's First Electric Bus launched in its IT capital Bengaluru
Miranda IM, http://www.miranda-im.org/
Its windows only but runs in Wine on OSX and Linux
I wholeheartedly agree with this. The point for me isn't so much "protection" against unforseen expenses it's just that I want to know up front what costs money and what doesn't.

When I browse for a free app I don't want to see the crippled in-app-unlockable app next to the truly free app.

Strict rules for prices in marketing is a prerequisite for a functioning market, my other pet peeve is the contract phone. Not only do I think telcos should be required to market the total cost (which they are already at least here) , I want to take it one step further and completely ban the marketing of the small upfront cost as the price.
No. I'm just saying that we're collecting data faster than we can make sense of it. New discoveries don't necessarily require new data.
No, but the geolocation in the phone will be used to send you after-the-fact speeding tickets.
People in this thread are ignoring where the true responsibility lies here, Apple (or Google).

As a dev I have no control whether to call my app "Free" or "Free to download but contains IAP that are required to use the whole game."

Apple has two categories, "Free" and "Paid" and places your app in the category automatically depending on whether the download price is nonzero.

So really, if you want to blame anyone, blame the app store creators, not the app creators.

(Of course there's still the ability to blame companies who market their apps as "FREE" in advertisements in other apps).

EDIT: And of course Apple has already added the label "Includes In App Purchases" to free games with IAP. I think that's good enough.
I feel obligated to throw in that it's also my surname.
Just as long as I don't have to get an ITunes account to operate my car, I guess it's OK.
Inside Facebook, the top 1000 daily photos is known as the "Buddha List", because viewing them is a transcendent experience, after which your waking life is little more than crude construct of colorless shapes.

And then you get fired for looking at private user photos.
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“When or if the N.S.A. blurs the lines between its defensive and intelligence-gathering roles, and exploits its position of trust within the security community, then that’s a problem.”

That's Arthur W. Coviello Jr, RSA's Executive Chairman, who is not doing himself or his company any favors. Seriously, "IF"?! Who does he think he's trying to fool?
Sorry - but I can't understand how you would work for an organisation you yourself find ethically objectionable?
That's apparently what reddit thinks, but they are wrong.
How a Facebook post by blabbermouth daughter cost her parents $80,000
New Google Maps Sucks
Indeed. There is always a point where everyone of us starts being not sophisticated.

Each time somebody tells me that we shouldn't protect stupid people, I remember not feeling very smart in front of pages of legalese in insurance and banking contracts. I keep thinking, yes they are probably going to screw me, but somebody is working to prevent them from screwing me too overtly.
"One, in particular, involved a brass, mechanical cockroach which would crawl around on a timer, leaping out of a player’s hands if it was in their inventory, moving between rooms if not. In the multithreaded version, the cockroach would leap out of your hands but then also still stay in your hands. As the cockroach moved between rooms it would create shadow copies of itself, slowly but inexorably creating a cockroach apocalypse as tens of thousands of pointers to the cockroach, each somehow acquiring their own timer, scuttled their way into every player’s inventory dozens of times."

OK... if the state was this bad, I'm willing to go out on a limb and lay the blame on the people writing the code. "Threads are hard" has become somewhat of a truism in the industry but seriously, they're not this hard.

Programming is hard, algebra is hard, heck, plumbing or wiring a building is hard. And yet, competent people who've studied the skills, practiced their craft and are willing to spend time and effort in carefully working through each project, manage to build working, lasting systems in all sorts of complex fields. Concurrency is hard and there's no silver bullet. Let's not pretend the Next Cool Thing will suddenly make all the difficulties disappear.
sed can edit in place though.
Seems likely now that Elon gave a no thanks as an answer. I'm glad.
I have to second this. EU-funded research projects seem to be quite inefficient in at least the few cases I know of. You need several universities and companies - distributed over as many EU countries as possible - to cooperate and communicate. This apparently works some of the time. Each university gets funding for one or two PhD students. In the cases I observed, these PhD students had to produce an enormous amount of written "deliverables" all the time. Their research project was so different from what the rest of the group was doing, that they had more or less nobody to discuss their work with. Other, nationally funded research projects have always seemed more effective and efficient to me.
If culturally we can get to a point where the world denounces privacy breeches and technologically we advance tools to easily expose these breeches, can't we establish some privacy standards and keep them in check? We don't need perfection, we just need to make the cost of privacy breeches high enough and risky enough to create a meaningfull disincentive.
Politics is the answer I expected and the answer I fully, completely, and entirely reject.

The EFF, IDL, and other technology advocacy groups are terrible at getting legislation passed in the US. Just plain awful. The only thing they can do effectively is say no.

This is exactly the kind of response I'm talking about when I say, "unring the bell". Our lives are out there, already. You, me, anyone with a Facebook account, an email address, a cell phone - we're exposed, and the options before us are to either eschew all technology entirely, or to figure out how to live without privacy.

The ability to track the movements and activities of everyone in the world is the kind of tool that sits on the same level as nuclear weapons, as jet engines, as automatic weapons. We're never going to experience a world where systemic and universal surveillance is not happening again.

The question I think we should start asking ourselves is, how do we live in this world?
It has < 50k downloads since its launch (almost half a year ago now), I wouldn't call it fantastic if the main function is to spread the word. (not that it is not a great product, the app is awesome!)
Thomas Schelling theorized [1] that you cannot credibly claim you will intentionally trigger nuclear armageddon, but what you can do is tolerate an uncomfortably high risk of accidentally triggering nuclear armageddon.

Seen in this light, you'd publicize every nuclear mishap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#The_Strategy_...
Because privacy has been defeated.

The question isn't "what can we do to get our privacy back?", the question is, "what do we do now that we've lost our privacy?"
https://slack.com/
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That world isn't any better in this one, because the data is still there. It's not a breach of privacy if Facebook or Google just knows everything you've done, and you've agreed to it.

I think, if given the choice between convenience and privacy, people will pick convenience, and this will never change. That's where we're at, and it's about time we start accepting that fact.
Mouse, keyboard, network device, etc etc. You forfeit as soon as you plug in an untrusted USB device.
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TL;DR:

Football manager: Be careful about your information diet. Stop bringing everything home. And... alcohol? =\

Headteacher: Policy of being calm and non-confrontational. (But how?) Runs, which is therapeutic. Spends 5 minutes reflecting every day.

Concilator (?): Represent the best side of both sides of the conflict. Seek common ground. If there's anger in the room, it's not me: "people are angry because they're not in control. I'm in control." Also, gardening.

Diver: 1 month work, 2 months off. Watches Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. Swims and surfs on his time off.

TV Guest Booker: Be organized, treat it like a game. Always another show tomorrow, don't get too precious about it.

A&E consultant: Yikes, his life is the toughest. Have people around you who can share the burden. Focus on what you love, rather than the burden. Changed hospital to something that's a 12 minute walk away, allowing him to play with his son more. Cites it as hugely beneficial.
I think the author's core issue is that in most cases GC aren't optional.

An optional opt-out would invite a wider range of developers.
I'm a middle class male.

If 4chan gets pissed off at me, my available recourse involves scouring all data traces I've made across the Internet and then hoping I did it fast enough before the pain train begins. At best, I could post some kind of apology or concession and pray they lose interest.

If the government wanted to put me in jail, my available recourse starts with a reasonably well documented legal system interested in fairly representing and judging me and extends all the way to, well... asking 4chan for help.

Maybe if I were black or female or gay, I'd prefer 4chan's treatment, but only maybe.
The Humane Interface, Jeff Raskin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
King has publicly stated this is not the case. If it were, that'd take a billion off their valuation.
Facebook and modern shareholder value hopes
http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/linux/how-to-install-l...
ummm.. if you didn't do it then, i suppose it's already too late, but ctrl-z (i guess that's option-z on a mac?)
What is the difference between a server and a DHT node? You criticize other protocols "forcing the user to trust a server or to set up their own", where Tox requires the user to trust a node or to set up his own.
But the upfront cost is the entire cost of the phone to the customer, as in the customer has title to the phone immediately they pay that cost. You're implying that you only want contract phones to be sold on a hire-purchase basis, which has its own problems.
Redirecting .apple.com to your own httpd will show you just how bad this company has gotten.

Care to expand on that?
>> You can't call your food pesticide-free or GM-free or gluten-free unless it really is.

> Yeah, not even the same thing.

Not the exact same thing, but not that different either. If I spray my fruits with pesticides that then get washed off in the rain, or stay in the crust which I remove before selling, I could reasonably argue that they are "pesticide-free". It's the government that forbids me to market them that way.
Have any of the donations been returned?
I felt the same about the mobile version when they merged maps with navigation. I reverted to the version of maps that shipped with my phone (Galaxy Nexus). Maybe I'm resisting change but the maps updates seem to suck lately.
Saturation diver: risk of death

A&E doctor: risk of someone else's death

TV booker: risk of a guest not showing up

Doesn't really compare, does it?
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I'm really starting to like Docker now.

Is it possible to have multiple independent web apps talking to one postgres and one redis installation?

I have a VPS with ~10 tiny websites, and it would be total overkill to bundle each app with its own db and caching. How would you reference that same "external" db in a fig configuration?
We could create empowerment for the people.

I deleted my Facebook account 3 years ago and up until a few months ago I was able to spin up anonymous google accounts when I needed them. Fortunately I have the skills to create Facebook and Google equivalents for both myself and my family.

We just need to get more options out there and fragment the industry to the point where data collection becomes difficult again. Plus we need to lower the hurdles to get alternatives up and running.

So let's remove the barriers, remove the sign offs and make it really easy for people to find alternatives.
"Future philanthropic principles" are probably not for the CEO to decide. It sounds like something for the board.
However I agree that a company should be able to define its mission and include things apart from maximum profit.
Academic funding is just like venture funding in that you need to convince someone. And because they don't know what will work, they mostly follow trends and fads.
You can see this if you look back over the publication history of the average academic (i.e. not a leading, ground-breaking academic who founded their own field), with paper titles twisted to fit the then flavour of the month.

Here's a popular thought for HN: why not a YC-style academic funding, where you fund people, not ideas?

The metric for success would be parallel to YC: funding rounds from academics. This potentially falls prey to the same biases as current - but avoids it, by giving all ideas a initial start.
The other question is whether academic work really does require more mentoring and guidance than start-ups.

Though I guess the first year of a PhD often plays this role...