skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person on benefits could try out different things until they found something that works for them. This would allow them to explore a set of disciplines and problems far larger than what people are able to explore today. If they embrace failure and move on to something that fascinates them next, I think they'd be very likely to eventually succeed. Bottom line is that even if not everyone does, we'll all be a lot better off.
Technology is a lever that can be used to amplify power. Surveillance is the example du jour, but there are plenty of others.

We are social beings, (vertices in the social graph) and we have relationships with (edges that connect us to) other individuals and groups of individuals. Some of these relationships are characterized by asymmetric power (influence & coercion) attributes.

The aggregate effect of these relationships on us as individuals is sometimes beneficial, sometimes deleterious; an effect characterized in terms of personal liberty; economic utility, and perhaps other factors too.

We naturally have an interest in understanding the benefits and risks inherent in this network of relationships; and in understanding the factors that maximize the aggregate benefit whilst reducing the aggregate risk.

I am idly pondering what it would take to build a statistical model of the network of power relationships between individuals and groups, and explore how various types of technological power amplification change the distribution of reward and risk across individuals.

I.e. does the amplification of existing power relationships through technological change increase the risk that personal liberty will be restricted? What about the economic impact? Is there a risk that the distribution of "personal liberty" will become more concentrated? How big is that risk, and what is the spread? What about economic wealth?

Of course, this is just a silly thought experiment ... but I am sure that some of the readers here have access to both the computational resources and the raw data (graphs of interlocutors with power/influence attributes decorating the edges) to do this experiment ... if you haven't already done it.

I'd be interested to know if any unclassified & publicly available results exist?
As someone who has been attacked and/or robbed several times in cities like Brussels, two things I'm sad to have learned:

1) Your reality changes. At any point, in every street, someone/some gang can step up and change your situation to something vastly different than the reality the other people around you are in at that moment.

2) Nobody cares. People don't want to get involved. They are not aware of the situation, or even when they are, they are not in it themselves. As a woman you might have the luck of a knight in shiny armour nearby who feels obliged to step up and help, but as a fit male, all bets are off. Few want to get between "men fighting" – to them you are a perpetrator, not a victim.

The loneliness and absurdity of such situations are hard to get over. Years later I'm still more aware of my environment whenever I'm out, and I always check for exits and whom not to turn my back to. It has also made me more likely to reach out and help others in such situations, partly because I can relate, and partly because I'm more aware that something doesn't feel quite right.

You must learn to accept that if you have belongings, you might lose them. Or alternatively, be willing to pointlessly fight like hell with a random stranger for little or no benefit. The second option might cost a hell of a lot more overall, even when you "win".
Living in the canton of Zurich and having my office in Dübendorf this makes me happy! :)
We are currently paying about 250$ for 10Mbit/s symmectrical fiber.
This is cool but video should scale to screensize. Yes, I do understand that this is more of a proof of concept.
I sort of disliked the last point >Document Everything.

It's tough in an Agile project to keep up with all the stuff. Documenting everything wastes a lot of time.
This sounds like convincing to me, well somewhere around 75% convincing. :)

This will signal the true start of the WebGL era, because the lack of WebGL on iOS has been a real buzz kill for commercial adoption of WebGL outside of pure enthusiastic circles -- I know this first hand unfortunately in trying to do B2B deals with http://Clara.io's interactive embed technology -- it is nearly impossible to sell to major clients once they realize that it doesn't work on iOS:

http://exocortex.github.io/audi/ - Car

http://exocortex.github.io/klaas/ - House
API enhancements in Razuna 1.6.5 – Open Source Digital Asset Management
Everybody runs away
I believe he means "free" in a sense of "next to zero cost energy", like geothermal, solar or nuclear fusion energy (and in a stretch, nuclear fission energy).
From 1999 to 2003 I ran a startup where we had a digital signage solution with displays placed around Copenhagen that had a built-in OEM GPRS phone module. They ran a full TCP/IP stack, and were able to update the displays on demand.

If I remember correctly we had it up and running around Q1 2000 which seems to be before this (Not quite sure though, the article doesn't mention specific dates)
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Flipkart acquires Myntra
I was excited about this at first. I don't know of any simple way to record my screen without having to download decade-old software. A web-based solution like this would be amazing... Until I realized I'd have to follow a list of work-arounds just to get it working.

Hoping this is just the first trial run and the next iteration will get this resolved.
Same price (~$18) for gigabit internet in Romania, but it's not symmetrical.
Facebook without the News Feed
AMC Previews PC Industry Drama ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ on Yahoo’s Tumblr
It amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?
> ...convert the sequence to a GIF and upload it to imgur.

I would even pay for a tool like this.
This hinges on the assumption that the upper classes have a dependency on the lower classes, e.g. for labor. Once technology and automation invalidate this assumption, Elysium flies off to another star system and the rich live happily ever after while the poor are stuck where they were.

(Note: I'm not advocating this horrible failure of human compassion, I just make a sad observation.)
I present to you the norwegian entry caused by inaccurate calculations.

http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/sleipnera.htm
Obviously the correct answer is for Twitter to incorporate this approach.
Suspect, sure. Convict, hopefully not.
Beside the privacy concerns, it's sad that most people feel the need to share every little detail of their life with everyone, 24/7. What's the point?
I think his point was don't turn it on and look at it? Notifications don't turn the screen on, only an active application would have the screen on. Most of the time it's off, such as when you're talking to someone
Is RIPA fit for purpose?
Genuine question; what could a sensecam possibly be useful for?
>> "The woman you helped was still probably quite shocked and dealing with police to thank you and it's highly likely that in such a situation information like where you worked completely went over her head."

Having never truly experienced trauma (closest I came was a low-speed car collision on college campus) I find it fascinating how the victim suspends empathy during trauma. For me, empathy is nearly constant, so it is difficult for me to grasp a state where it wouldn't be so, as ironic as that is for someone with empathy!

As for why people don't help strangers more often than not... I believe this behavior is supported by our modern society. We've institutionalized helping people. Through taxes, we provide emergency response teams like Fire and Police departments. We provide medical, food, and housing assistance to many in need - at least the ones willing to ask for it. And yes - some assistance is volunteer, such as soup kitchens and volunteer fire departments, but I do believe the trend to be real... Taxpayers pay others to help people for them. Helpers in this society get monetary compensation.
Mind explaining how living inside a rack is comparable to living in Tokyo? My apartment in Bunkyo, Tokyo is as quite as the one in Zurich, Switzerland was. And if that's too noisy there's lovely neighbourhoods like Kichijoji that are even more quite. Where the "cold" and "dark" comes from I do not know, I'd recommend you visit here in summer and experience for yourself that it's anything but cold.
Thanks so much for your work and for your awesome suggestions!

My family (everyone except me, lol) sort-of runs an amateur football club, so I have some second-hand knowledge of that world (at least in Italy). They tell me that systematic, professional and data-driven approaches are incredibly scarce but very effective. It's a system that still runs on personal networks and a lot of outdated knowledge and "magic", not unlike the baseball world described in Moneyball [1]. As you said it's early days, but still, most coaches under 40 now bring a tablet with them on the bench, and not to take funny pictures.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0393324818/ref=as_li_ss_t...
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https://www.fiber7.ch/fiber7-verfugbarkeit/

Django with DEBUG = True in production.
No one wins in the misery olympics
Bytemark for 99% of things (now all on bigv.io, their cloud platform) and single machine for backup MX/DNS etc. at DigitalOcean
I found out about why deaf people used the Danger Hiptop once when I was already working on Android software development. I saw a young woman on the T commuter rail intently typing at almost unbelievable speed on a Hiptop, faster than I had ever seen anyone use any Blackberry or other device.

I knew about many of the Android team having worked for Danger, but I had never seen one "in the field." When she stopped for a moment, I asked her about the device. It was apparent she was deaf, so we used my pocket notebook to communicate. She told me all her deaf friends had Danger Hiptops.
My favourite is missing - http://clearscript.codeplex.com/

It is basically a very friendly wrapper around several javascript engines (including V8) with powerful marshalling capabilities out of the box, and the developing team is very responsive and attentive.
We own all SaaS analytics tools, but it wasn’t clear what was going on
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It's nice to see that expecting any kind of privacy in the US is silly, especially considering the channel has been on for over a year.
But twitter will only count it as two characters. (I guess.)
Nice app! I'm a Runkeeper user and I'm missing two things there: track your friends in the same map when meeting for a run (useful if starting point is not the same), and some sort of soundcloud integration (the track could be included in the facebook post after the run).
The graphics look very good and the color scheme is well balanced. Is this native or html5? Any particular UI framework used?
Was setting up CUPS to work with these printers difficult? And also how painful was it to get the printers on the network reliably?

Potentially, I would have to install these printers in hundreds of coffee shops that all have different internet configuration. I need to make myself an expert in this, but I'm not sure where to start.

Thanks M0nty
Question on those 6 weeks. I've heard before that some countries include national holidays in there 5-6 week count. Is that the case here? Generally when Americans are listing their vacation days they are not including what they view as mandatory holidays (Memorial day, july 4th, thanksgiving, christmas, new years, etc).

FWIW, I'm in the US and we have ~5-6 weeks vacation.
Where are all the female developers and why RailsGirls matters?
It's giving me an "UncompressableFileError at /"
It's exactly as e12e describes: if you've had the page open for a while, and click an upvote, then the arrow disappears and it looks like you have voted.

But if you refresh the page, you'll see that the arrow is still there. If you upvote now, on this fresh page, the upvote is counted - you can tell, because if you refresh the page now, the arrow will be gone. (This proves to me that I haven't been disenfranchised or banned in some way - I can vote, it just has to be on a fresh page.)

I get the same behaviour on both firefox desktop, and the stock android browser.

Why not try it, and see if you get the same behaviour?

Of course, I don't know the details of how HN implements voting - it just behaves as if the link expires in some way...

For a regular link on HN, if you leave it too long, it will explicitly say "link expired". But for upvotes, you don't see that message (presumably it is what gets returned to the up arrow though).
As a profoundly gifted child the having the Internet would have transformed my life. If I had had access to the knowledge I have access to now I would have been where I am now at 32 by the time I went to University at 20. I would probably not have fallen into the dark depression in my teens, induced primarily by boredom. It is going to be exciting to see what the exceptional people of the next generation will look like, very exciting :)
I would personally always try to get another AVM FRITZBox product [0]
I've used it for years and their continuous firmware development coupled with the DECT+VOIP abilities and solid hardware makes them a joy to use. Sadly, this is almost exclusively marketed towards the German market, hence my previous exposure.
Now that I live in the US, I'd assume that I'll probably have to take a look at ebay sellers or buy one on my next visit.

I used to run OpenWRT beforehand, but even after lots of configuring, I basically just ended up at a place that this system gives me out of the box. If I really wanted to, I could enable telnet and install the cyanogenmod-like "Freetz" OS on the machine [1]

[0] http://www.avm.de/en/Produkte/FRITZBox/index.html

[1] http://freetz.org/
So what happens when the MPAA buys access to the data and cross references everybody that is watching Game of Thrones with the HBO subscriber list?
Get customers.
Documentation is (in my mind, although rarely in reality) really just a more presentable version of the spec, and that sufficiently well written specs provide 95% or more of the information required.

This also relies on the spec being updated with any changes agreed in the work process.
For your average, middle-class parents this isn't practical. They have jobs & school is pretty much free daycare they wouldn't want to give up.

There are so many advantages to entering college at 14. For a start, it looks great on your resume. Which means you have a whole host of cool work opportunities when you graduate, meaning you can start a fun and interesting career at 18- rather than slog on through the system, waiting to be recognised at 22-25. Source: know a lot of Thiel fellows.
So now even BBC takes their content from Reddit threads.
"I really don't get why it's so hard for people to imagine consciousness..."

You name the crazy idea, it's been proposed and taken seriously by someone. I cut off your quote there quite deliberately.

However, as Scott observes, most of them (and I'd daresay including yours) are so vague that it's difficult to even imagine what would falsify them. What does "consciousness is an inherent property of the universe" really mean? Can I bottle some of this inherent consciousness? Can I pour it out of one person and put it in another? Could a universe have exactly equivalent physical laws but lack this "inherent consciousness"? (If not, where in our physical laws does this "inherent consciousness" reside?) Can I talk to disembodied consciousness somehow? Can I build a device (with any theoretical level of complexity you like) that can concretely measure the amount of consciousness embedded in some system? Can you answer these questions in some way that can actually be manifested in some device or practice which can be demonstrated to produce real information of some sort, and not just more handwaving that plays shell games with the fact that it never ever quite gets down to the level of a theory that could even be slightly proved or falsified?

That's the problem. In practice, all vague murmurings about consciousness that have absolutely no ability whatsoever to be used for anything are, ultimately, equivalent. "Pretty words strung in a row with no reference to reality" is one of the most venerable of philosophical traps.
There was also a scammer that would come up distressed and would call a premium number that they made money off.
Webmaster tools, not analytics, and it's buried in a sub menu and has the most confusing text and only gives one example link.
such a pitty that twitter does not recognize them as URLs
Wow, thats a lot of debug info.
Signs from the near future
That's pretty bad - we get 40/10 (actual speeds) here in Edinburgh for £25 a month.
Here is a blog post by a psychiatrist on work/life balance. Basically: One of our time's great sociological questions is why we filled downtime back up with work, and the reason is it's better than alcoholism.

Try to look past the writing style you probably won't like at first: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html
Your arguments aren't supported by the facts:

1. It's not tied to V8.

It uses V8 currently, but:

- The vast majority of the code has nothing to do with JS.

- Almost all of the JS-related PDF code is independent of V8.

- The use of V8 is abstracted out sufficiently via IFXJS_Runtime etc that with a bit more work, a different JS runtime could be easily integrated.

2. You note that C/C++ can be sandboxed, but then claim that it "still increases the surface area of the browser".

This is nonsense: Firefox's 11 million lines of code are also written in C/C++, and should be sandboxed. You don't increase the surface area by also sandboxing the PDF plugin -- either the sandboxing mechanism works or it doesn't.

3. If anything, pdf.js's continued poor performance and operation demonstrates why forcing everyone to operate inside of a JS runtime is incredibly harmful to the web platform's progress.
No. It might be becoming more common but an IP address does not identify a person. You need to search a suspect's possessions before you can have any evidence. It might be reasonable for the police to use this lead to obtain a physical address then search for CP but an IP address along should not be sufficient.

Thankfully courts are beginning to realise this fact in regards to copyright infringement. [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140122/07375025953/court...
Hacker news has a sane color scheme. Ask Metafilter has barf yellow on swamp green.
I had it explained to me like this by someone who I previously assumed was backwards when it comes to technology:

Do you remember junior high or high school, and how desperate you were to avoid doing a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. that could potentially embarrass you? Products like google glass, and smartphones for that matter, bring those feelings back for a lot of people; they know that all it takes is just one quick screw-up, and they're getting picked on, but on a scale that is mind blowing. Essentially, it's not that we're embarrassed by our actions, or that our actions are illegal, it's that we just don't want to be laughed at.

That made perfect sense to me.
There is a nice "gigabit community" being built in Sout Carolina near Charleston: http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/
I'm about ready to ditch my phone and swap it for a Morse key.
Twitter doesn't pay attention to URL length any more. They will force all URLs through t.co even if that makes them longer.
Would you go to a "good boat design" talk by the designer of the Titanic?
Seconded - although I'm a little biased ;)
Here's a recent LWN article on BPF developments:

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/599755/1ca601d92ed23e7f/

(via: https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/469388089354633216 )
I've just developed a way to communicate with a Toshiba printer. http://www.toshibatec-eu.co.uk/Europe/en/products/printers/o...

I ended up using http://www.bartenderbarcodesoftware.com/ to create the stickers, intercepting the request to the printer with WireShark, then finally re-creating the request using PHP sockets.

It's not easy!
I am currently in Germany, 6 weeks is basically a standard excluding holidays (which is up to 13 extra days depending on the state and weekend overlay as there are no bank holidays). So in the end you can end up with ~8 weeks. Minimum vacation days as specified by the law is 4 weeks.

Most of my friends in the US start with 2 weeks, after a few years they get 3 weeks, then these are reset if they change the job, and if they take a vacation, they are either frowned upon or they have to be available to work on a moments notice. I find this utterly crazy.
> If you think there is any truth in this article, then real democracy becomes ever more important

There is a lot of evidence it doesn't work, and may not be fixable. What then?
Lol this is like 3 years old i just did a necro post on it because of this link.
I will disagree with your first point. As a European who has lived in the US now for over a decade, I can say the OP is correct. Yes, there are people in Europe who do put in long hours, but the overall atmosphere/attitude (for lack of better terms) of work is remarkably different. In the US, you can work without abandon, all day, every day, take no vacation or personal time, neglect your time at home and be hailed as an exemplary for your work ethic. In Europe, the pervasive attitude towards a lifestyle like this is quite contrary to being exemplary. Failing to take vacation time is frowned upon to say the least and often is forbidden depending on your location. Even something a small as working on Sundays will bring disdain from your neighbours. Again, this is not to say that you cannot find the US "work lifestyle" in Europe, it's just that it is not as glorified as it is in the US.
I once researched for it but we don't have such a gym in my city. There are a couple of them in Istanbul (1 hr), I'll take a look. I didn't know that bouldering is a mentally demanding sport but now understand the routes and colored handles' purpose when I think of them, my son would love such challenges. Thanks.
> The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views

What really?

Were they seriously even pretending to use that excuse?

Everyone I've ever talked to was 100% certain it was simply because they didn't want anyone by-passing the app store for games and other immersive content they would then have no control over.

I'm not denying that webgl is an attack surface; it totally is; but surely it's a bit rich to say that the webgl implementation in webkit has been switched off for the last 3 years because of security concerns.

If that was the only reason to not having feature parity with other OS's, they'd have some something about it.. oh, you know. 2-3 years ago.
The wealthy influence policy in America, while ordinary citizens do not
Matt Cutts got absolutely slammed here on Sunday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7763923

It felt like they'd been some sort of tipping point reached and people were just furious with Google for being so opaque.

I've never seen people be so antagonistic with him.

Then again the w/e HN crowd seems to be pretty vicious compared to the week one. (and I honestly feel less intelligent).
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