skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment about people building houses half-way, moving in, and then finishing them rang a bell. The reason why people do this is not that they are poor, it is that you have a messed up property system.

I recently read http://www.amazon.com/The-Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Everywh... which explains this. The problem arises when the formal property system fails to capture the actual contracts that actual people live by, and makes it unbelievably hard for someone outside of the legal system to get into it. Then you get a situation where people live in houses, but cannot prove their title, and this causes all sorts of complications such as the necessity of bribing government officials (because they are squatters) and the impossibility of getting loans.

By contrast if the formal property system is fixed, you get a situation where professionals can build a house, then sell it to a person who mortgages it, and then pays it off slowly. The overall cost of building the house is less, the quality of the house is better, it simply makes sense to do things right. But this is impossible without formal property because nobody can make money building houses that nobody else can afford, and banks can't lend people that much money without having a way to reclaim property if people fail to pay. So people are stuck building their houses slowly and expensively.

And this is one of a myriad of ways in which it is bad for a country to have the formal property system out of sync with the actual contracts by which people live by.

The theory sounded great, but does it work in practice? Well the country where the author got to try his ideas out was Peru. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Peru it seems that the lot of the average Peruvian has indeed continued improving since the book was written, so that's reasonable evidence that his theory works.
I don't think this is the right way to go. Looking at your page, you don't really explain why you need the money in a way that makes sense to most users.

You want to make the app available on Windows7, on the web, and on mobile devices. Ok, that's good, but why should I have to support you in order for you to do that? You unfortunately, likely don't have Windows 8 users who want the app on another platform, and you aren't popular on mobile or web to the point where people are asking for your app to be on other platforms.

To me, crowdfunding is for people who need money to buy materials, and production. But as developers, we don't need anybody but ourselves. So we have to find our own business models.

I'm not saying it won't work, but I'm doubtful.
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Am not sure when mobile phone became a requirement- "Bitcoin promises to give a bank account to anyone with a mobile phone, no ID required."
This was actually an awesome design framework that I wanted to SHARE with HN. And the fact that these many sales and comments came off it is an indication that is something that HN readers wanted. There is nothing wrong with using an affiliate link :)

If all I am doing is posting affiliate links then yes that would be spam.
I'm not sure what the conditions of houses are in Sri Lanka, but in the US, if water poured into my room, the thing I would most be worried about is mold in between the ceilling, walls, etc.
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According to Wikipedia, DVDs of the largest capacity can hold 17.08 GB of data, but those are rare. If the article is correct about these details, the data could be ~460 GB at most, but is likely less than half of that if the DVDs in question were of normal capacity.
Too late. The cat is already out of the bag and everyone is already doing all of this anyway, except awkwardly holding their phone up to their face at the same time.
> "Garcia may assert a copyright interest only in the portion of “Innocence of Muslims” that represents her individual creativity"

I don't understand that argument. I thought copyright (outside of dance) was created when that creativity was affixed to media. Doesn't the person filming it own that copyright?
Crashes XCode for me when entering the package manager.

I work for TheMan® (with Firewall) and assuming it is due to some non-http ports being used?
Data must only leave HSCIC under carefully controlled circumstances. It's pseudo-anon within HSCIC and anon outside HSCIC, but still with careful controls on who has access and what they can do with it.

I can't tell from the article what data PA Consulting had; nor why they had it; nor why they felt the need to upload it to Google. Even though it's been anonymised it should still be treated as sensitive confidential data.

There's a possibility that someone at PA Consulting has committed a criminal offence even though they "got permission" to upload it to Google.

The otrage about Google is around keepin data within the EU And this protected by EU data protection laws.
yes that post is raw speculation and shouldn't be taken as truth. It's a bunch of "what-if's" and "we don't think anyone can be so incompetent" statements.
Don't worry. Your documents will be there forever.
I agree with those hypothetical possibilities. The other type of failure is also possible.

My dad recently had a detached retina. He spent 5 hours getting his own medical records. In the medical records, it said he was given a dose of Cipro. "Which is funny because I am deathly allergic to Cipro, and since I am alive I certainly wasn't given Cipro."

Had he not spent 5 hours getting medical records and writing letters, some future doctor could easily kill him based on that erroneous medical record. Other than retired people, who has the time to penetrate the HIPAA mess. It can be lifesaving.
It was the UK Government (GCHQ) that was breaking into Google's networks.
thanks for that feedback. I am doubtful that it would work as well but I have seen many successful software projects that were crowdfunded that I have a glimmer of hope.

I need the money because I don't want to do contract work to pay my bill and want to focus on this 100% of my time. Plus, I look at this campaign as a "pre-sales" page. Everyone will get a copy at a discount but more importantly if I get enough people to pay that is a good indication (validation) that there is a need for an awesome GTD app on windows.
Not the raptor fences of course.
Apple already had a unix-based Mac OS for five years by the time Jurassic Park came out, A/UX. My first computer job was at a nascent ISP around this time and most of the servers (mail, www, accounting) were Quadras running A/UX. One IIfx with several massive (for the time) hard drives for Usenet. It was basically the System 7 (Mac) UI bolted on top of System V unix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=A/UX
>Personally, I'm of the view that the planet is populated by humans, and you have to work with them, and C++'s arcane tome of a standard is perhaps a hostile environment for such creatures.

I don't know, everybody who's doing serious commercial programming seems to doing OK with C++, for stuff from Photoshop to Premiere, and from MS Office to AAA games and super stable and fast multimedia apps, like Cubase, Studio One, Reason et al.

In fact, OSes aside, more programs of this kind (full featured applications used by billions of people) are written in C++ than in any other language, including C.
+1 for this. Sometimes you just have to move on, no matter how much you want to get back at someone.

One criteria I use is how much is my motives driven by emotion. If it boils down to "I want to see this person suffer.", its better to move on.
Haha! This is great.

Along the same lines, I was getting a shave from a super hospitable barber last November in Gifu and the topic of conversation in very broken English (from him) and correspondingly broken Japanese (from me) was basically whether I had seen all of his favorite American movies. We were chatting and laughing quite a lot. When the time came for him to shave around the Adam's apple, he pointed right at my face and said: "You! Shut up!" It was so funny: He had obviously picked that up from a movie, but it took everything in me not to feel a little hurt, even though I knew he didn't mean to say what he said with that sort of edge. I can only imagine how many times I've done something similar in reverse. :-)
See the update to the post - apparently the data was made publicly accessible. It's not about Google per se. It's about what this says about the consultancy's laissez faire attitude to dealing with this data.
It's hard to know from the article just what happened and what data was uploaded.

But, even though they got approval, they may have committed a criminal offence.

This data initiative is really important. They've got to do something to win back trust. Someone has to lose a job and someone has to go to jail (if a crime was committed).
Uber's Economics vs. Its Users
Well, I find the Vauxhall Corsa with manual transmission is lovely to drive so I am comparing the experience between the two. So sure, I might not have been looking at the best-of-the-best when it came to automatic gears but I was comparing like-for-like.

Maybe in another 10 years the automatic experience at my price range will be better but at that point we're 25 years on from coldtea's period where European cargo-cult bullshit started.

Apparently.
That's a PowerMac/Mac Pro you're thinking of, lampshade is iMac.
Correct, they use mapbox, which uses Open Street Map under the hood.
Am I the only one that enjoyed math more earlier than now? I loved calculus and geometry in high school and undergrad, but now in graduate school I can't follow the physicists at all, and my eyes just glaze over.
Outrage is being misdirected.

No, there is plenty of justification for outrage all round. The NHS staff shouldn't have given the data to an untrustworthy organisation. That organisation shouldn't have given it to a data mining company under the jurisdiction of a foreign government. And that data mining company and foreign government will deserve similar outrage if they don't properly delete the illegally uploaded data as soon as possible after they are properly notified of the circumstances.

It wasn't necessary to share these records like this. You seem to be confusing access by clinicians, or at least legitimate medical researchers subject to similar medical ethics and confidentiality rules, with (as now alleged) just leaving it out there for literally anyone to find it.

Perhaps you aren't outraged by this, but I'll bet most people with a sensitive medical condition that might lead to unjustified discrimination would be. First they came for the HIV-positive, but I was not HIV-positive and I said nothing.
If the producer didn't want this to happen he should have had her sign an appropriate contract.

The death threats are another case, and should probably be investigated so that the perpetrators can be prosecuted.

However, I'm not eager to throw actors' rights out the window just because their motives for exercising them arise from their being wronged by a third party. Copyright is copyright and in America, we take intellectual property seriously.
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To a certain extent that's a product of a bad curriculum though. If you teach something, tick it off, teach something else, tick that off. And build a large number of things ticked off in that manner - that don't reuse the things taught earlier - then of course you're not going to get the reps in.

As compared to, say, the syntax in a programming language. Where you don't write out hello world sixty times to get the bracket rules, you just reuse the rules in other things you're doing often enough that they become ingrained.
Is your concern that the NSA itself is targeting British health records? If so, what makes you think anyone else is better prepared for this adversary?

Or, if you're talking about someone other than the NSA (which you allude to with your use of "etc"), then who is it? What are they going to do, and why do you feel it's demonstrably more likely to happen with the data on Google's servers? Where would you put the data instead, and how would this help reduce the likelihood of the scenario?

"On a powered-down hard drive in a vault" doesn't count; presumably, PA was given the contract because the potential benefits of the research were believed to outweigh the privacy risks.
Hopefully it works with mapping apps other than Apple's. Not only are the directions often questionable, the app has a terrible user experience. I don't need to be told five times that I should be turning left while I'm waiting at a long stoplight. It's also a pain to see what's coming up in the route.
TARP was just one of many bailouts
I challenge anyone to try and find a Minecraft mod without adware or spyware. Conduit and AdFly are everywhere.
How stable do people generally find Xcode plugins?

The few I've tried haven't been great (they've tended to crash a lot and break with Xcode updates)
It's not blinking. It just changes headlines.

You know, like what this AJAX gizmo is often used to do today.
I don't think Americans get how distrustful other nations are of American-based cloud providers. It is not a matter of Google's or any other providers' behaviour but of the US Government (warrant-less searches and the like). This lack of trust predates the current NSA-Snowden affair and goes back to the Patriot Act (IMHO).

Of course I can't speak for all nations or industries (or even companies) but in my part of the Canadian Health care sector it is simply unthinkable to use a US-based cloud provider for anything to do with patient data.
Also worth noting that most of the modern super-cars don't even have a true manual (that is, a stick-shift and a user-operated clutch). They're mostly electronically controlled dual-clutch setups since a computer can shift faster than any human can. The 2015 BMW M3 was even rumored to not have a manual option at all, and it's known for being a driver's car. I believe they're keeping it around for now, but there's some worry that the clutch/stick-shift arrangement is going away in the future because the electronically controlled transmissions are that much faster.
First sentence:

> Let’s say you have a brand-new Windows laptop and you’re just oh, so happy.

It's a hypothetical situation (but one which windows users will likely encounter if they want to use ssh)
All completely overpowered by the skeuomorphic image background buttons.
Understanding Google's Business Model
There's an open source implementation called fsv:

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
Agreed, but SAIL was, if not strictly the same culture as the AI Lab, at least significantly connected to it.
A lot of people earn their lives with PHP and Javascript.
Gödel might have something to say about that. Then again, he might not.
I'd better think of something to talk about now this has been announced :-)

Hey HN, what would you like me to talk about at this conference?
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The shame of all of this noise is that resources going into medical research today ends up getting spent on data security and building expensive, custom solutions that avoid using servers of a certain type or location in the name of privacy.

If the various disclosures, legal or not, actual or planned, actually had anything to do with legitimate clinical care or medical research, I think a lot of us would look more kindly upon them. There seems to be little evidence that this is the case, and plenty of evidence that the data was or was going to be disclosed, for profit, to organisations who are not involved in either direct clinical care or legitimate medical research, such as insurers and foreign governments.
I was not aware that there is also standard that is aiming to do the same thing, called MirrorLink. The concortium seems to have quite many members and this has existed for several years. Apparently it was demonstrated some years ago but I could not find any cars actually supporting it.

On mobile phone side it is supported by number of Nokia Symbian phones and quite many Sony Ericsson smartphones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink
What does online music have to do with hiding spoils of war?
Hmm, wondering why you got downvoted?!

Your experience seems fairly impressive, by the way.
I love the slideout on the right that covers the scrollbar.
In the US too. I think this is a bad naming choice for this project.
well worth it compared to this
The KSImage one is absolutely fantastic. I've been using it for what feels like the better part of a year and I've yet to have a problem with it.
Automatic transmissions have a clutch that's operated automatically. DSGs have two clutches for quicker gear changes. That's the only major difference.
Seeing the 'Education' section makes me disappointed.

Apple's recent departure from the educational market really changed how school districts (like the one where I'm currently employed) made their purchasing decisions.

They used to offer deep discounts for K-12 and higher ed, even featuring it on their main page. Now they don't offer anything of the sort.
Worst thing is when a movie did most things with real UI being thought as mocking things up. So latter movies increasingly use fake UIs instead.
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Ask HN: What are the best books/articles on web marketing?
I'm looking to learn more about web marketing and the best ways to do it today. Do you all have any suggestions on where I should start? Print books, ebooks, and articles are all welcome!

Thanks!
How Much Money Will The 3D Printing of Homes Save?
Wow! Thank you for this. In 5 minutes I found 5 plugins I had no idea existed but truly brightens my day. Keep up the good work!
I've been using this and it works great for the packages it has, I don't use too many but if you document your xcode methods I highly recommend VVDocumenter.

It allows you to generate a doc string for a method if you type '///'
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Having previously worked in avionics I'm a little annoyed that many of the things he complains about are a combination of overstrict FAA rules and the immense cost required for certification for some of the functionality he wants. For instance, you can't warn for terrain unless you're level A certified on almost all airframes - and there's a differences between TAWS A, which lets you warn with "Terrain - Pull Up" and TAWS B, where you can only warn with "Terrain". Approach plates require level B certification as well, although for some reason the FAA lets some people get away with releasing them for iPads with no certification whatsoever (they generally have a disclaimer about "not for navigation purposes" but the FAA used to frown upon that sort of thing).

There was a collision on a runway a while ago that we passed around the news article for, because it could have very easily been prevented by features we had, but were not certified for the airframes that had the collision. It's understandable that we want to ensure that the new glass works just as well as old instruments, but it's frustrating when customers very clearly want functionality that we're not allowed to provide.
If you teach them to long for the immensity of the sea, as it were, won't they get frustrated by building the boat and start to take dangerous short cuts so they can get out to sea, or maybe even ride whales and drown? It may also serve the purpose of marketing to keep things boring.

"plugging away" sounds scary by the way. It could imply they are thoughtless.
I see smartphones, solid state drives and TVs. Perhaps it's targeting based on cookies?
Wow, that's a really bold statement. Do you have a proof of that?
There are actually dozens of these apps for iOS (and have been around for years) including Manga Rock and Manga Storm.

There's actually a tweet from Zac Bertschy, Executive Editor of Anime News Network that complained about how many are available on iTunes:

https://twitter.com/ANNZac/status/202096701534765056
The fellow across the street from me saw the gutters going up on my house, and decided he just had to have gutters too. The contractor he called did a sales job on him, and he sprang for the so-called gutter helmets in addition to the gutters.

The "Gutter Helmet" is, essentially, a sheet of aluminium with a single slot along its length that allows rainwater into the gutters, while keeping (most of) the leaf debris out of the gutters. It's probably more of a necessity on houses surrounded by mature trees that will be dropping leaves onto the roof, but I'm not one to judge. Here's the thing, though: there is a significant difference in the velocity of the water rolling off the roof during a gentle rain and that of the streams pouring off during a torrential downpour.

Not a week after our gutters were installed, we experienced one of the aforementioned downpours. I stepped out onto my stoop to reassure myself that the gutters were equal to the task of handling that volume of water, which they were. Then I looked across the street at the neighbor's house. There was a veritable cataract of water cascading down the roof surface, skipping, for the most part, over the gutter helmets, and producing an impressive drip line in the poor guy's freshly groomed flower beds. He was standing on the stoop, phone in hand, gesticulating wildly at the waterfall and apparently having a loud, boisterous conversation with someone at the other end of the line! Couple days later, the gutter helmet guys were back in his yard, removing the helmets (and presumably refunding his money).

The hack described in the article is almost certainly less expensive than the helmet my neighbor bought, and I'm guessing it would be a lot more effective as well. Perhaps more debris can penetrate the mesh than the sheet aluminium helmet, but by the same token, the greater volume of rainwater captured should wash that debris away more effectively than the smaller volume with a helmet.

That said, it's still a Really Bad Idea to have the roof slope toward the house. Over time, that will cause bigger and bigger problems. Hope the OP can get that fixed soon.
What kind of service/product do you offer? It depends on your business category.
Poor line. Sounds like a prison sentence.
Think of Alcatraz as the Xcode equivalent of Will Bond's "Package Control" package for Sublime Text. Cocoapods is a dependency manager, more like PHP's composer.phar (or whatever your language of choice's current dependency-manager-of-choice happens to be).
You might also enjoy https://www.desmos.com
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I'm sure support via phone can work. I'm just saying that it usually doesn't. For exactly the opposite reasons you give. Most call center employees aren't especially technical, have little or no training, and are basically forced to stick to a script. I'm not saying it's their fault, quite the contrary. But because of these experiences, I'm automatically put off by the idea of speaking with a phone representative.
Downloading software safely is nearly impossible on windows. Probably because there's no demand for it - people who care about security don't use windows. PuTTY is one guy's hobbyist project.

(If you insist on using windows, what about downloading SUA from microsoft themselves? That way you get a working SSH client without trusting anyone you weren't already trusting)
Speaking of which, anyone know where you can get those two Ludwig V. B. posters in that image?
New social app: "Happ"
Downloading *Putty* Safely Is Nearly Impossible.