skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the paragraphs of this article begin with the letter "I"
or the ones that do something like:

[ ] Accept terms and conditions and send me marketing emails*
*required
Few Google loon ballons over the U.S, in near real-time
What is a gauge?
> I fear you're also conflating two things: money made and actual value produced.

The problem is that the definition of "actual value" turns out to be devilishly difficult to pin down. There's no objective measure for it. Value is subjective.

This is one of the central riddles of economics. But it's also why exchanges happen at all.
Adding a downvote seems potentially dangerous to me. Sure a lot of "groupthink" articles rise to the top now, but a downvote means that the same vocal minority could suppress stories that don't fit into their ideology. Definitely a double edged sword
This is a fair point: Apple has carefully selected the hardware that OS X runs on. Most people interested in Linux expect it to support, without issue, whatever laptop happens to be lying around.
And yet, they do deceive their users, just in subtle ways with plausible deniability (e.g. Facebook profile options related to privacy that are poorly named. Is it just a mistake, or a purposeful decision?)
Wow thanks for taking the time to share all of this.

I'm a fan of 16px + for body copy. I think the browsers have it right most of the time with the default font size of 1em == 16px. You've got me thinking of experimenting with 18px now though.

Where does the 65 chars per line come from? I've heard 2 to 3 English alphabets length but I don't know the original source of that guideline.
You know what happened to most of the people throughout the history of Northern Europe who weren't good at planning ahead by building great shelters and collecting food for long, cold winters?

They didn't contribute very much to the genetic and cultural pool that exists in those areas today.
And yet people complain about the pointlessness of meetings despite not doing anything to make them more efficient (cf start and end on time, avoid chit-chat, stick to the agenda, send actions quickly afterwards etc). It only takes a small about of self-discipline to get there but everyone has to exercise it.

I'm lucky to have learned from some excellent meeting-chairs but have only been able to reproduce the efficiency when I formed and ran my own team. Never pulled it off when joining someone else's.
> but have substantially negative net value by any reasonable measure.

if we were to go by entropy measures there is nothing we can do about it .

So what is of value?
The same app is about to become available in Apple's app stores in Europe and parts of Asia (no US, though)

So it now seems even more likely that there this is a real shift in policy and Apple is considerably more positive toward bitcoin payment apps now: http://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/276w8l/just_sent_some_b...
Darpa's 2 Million Dollar Cyber Grand Challenge
Google Glass Goes Chic With New Designer Frames
Exactly what I was thinking: "People are still on about this? It's like late-90s Slashdot!"
It is implicit that when we are talking about regulation of the work day, we are concerned with averages.
I believe that compelling end-user features could be developed on top of the work Microsoft has done on their kernel. A good part of what's missing is somehow selling developers on these platform features. And, of course, Microsoft should lead the way and leverage this tech themselves.
It does by no means follow that the current level of household debt must lead to any dramatic changes.

A high household debt implies that there's relatively less money left over for domestic consumption, compared to similar countries with less debt. Low domestic consumption is a drag on employment. That means that new jobs must come from the export sector, but with the current worldwide stagnation, that does not look hopeful.

I fear another decade of very slow growth, not a sudden collapse: unemployment is stable, mortgage requirements have been fairly strict, so people who can pay their mortgage this month, can pay it the next.
Every bad apology your tech company needs
Hacker News used to be brimming with content. I would regularly read 50-60% of the articles.

Now I read it much more like I would read Time or a newspaper - lots of fluff, lots of "marketing," and maybe 1-2 stories a day that I actually want to read.
To siblings: I don't think nbevans is burying his head in the sand. I think he means that the assets are more effective if they're secret, and he would prefer them to be effective.

As for the second paragraph, the more cooperation between intelligence systems, the more benefit for each system as well as the more risk to each when one is compromised. I imagine this is a demonstration of the violation of some rule of compartmentalization in intelligence theory. If you don't want to get any American damage on you, don't run with Americans.
Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
That's only valuable if you prefer walking on the moon rather than looking at the moon in rapture.
> Note that Hacker News traffic is included in “(direct) / (none)”, they hide it somehow.

Why does HN hide the referer url? (How?)
Does Ubuntu Touch consume less power than Android?
Generate a static HTML portfolio from your GitHub repos
Do you see value in having longitudinal / long-term trend of the pulse, BP, etc? Intra-day variance may be very high, but wouldn't there be value of having an average of 100 measurements over a month, as compared to the 2 measurements that you do in the clinic?

Doesn't mean that the doctor needs to see the data as it goes in - you can review the average BP over 1 month when the patient comes for consultation, for example.
Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819245

Other sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839234

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833979

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832945

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819329
Your creations will not outlast you
I only come here scanning for links to interesting stories. Rarely do I read the comments or even post (though I've done a few lately).
> UK and for which does not have a constitution that's being violated

I'm a Brit too. The idea that we don't have a constitution to be violated is ignorant nonsense.

It's true, we don't have a nice convenient piece of paper with 'The UK Constitution' at the top. The UK constitution is mostly common law (recorded in caselaw -- decisions by judges) with common law principles such as the rule of law and access to justice (e.g. ex p Withham), together with a bunch of 'constitutional statutes' (in the Metric Martyrs sense - e.g. the Bill of Rights, Acts of Union, and more recently the ECA, Human Rights Act, etc), constitutional conventions (written and unwritten), and international treaties (the EU treaty, the ECHR, etc.).

The UK has been ruling actions of the executive illegal under our constitution since longer than the US has existed. E.g. Entick v Carrington [1765], which was cited as the inspiration behind the fourth amendment.

If you want to learn more, try Peter Leyland's "The constitution of the United Kingdom".
I'm inclined to agree with you personally.

That said, I came to see relationships and the intimacy that comes with it as very valuable once I 'tried' it, despite the fact that said relationships were, to a large degree, painful. I learned a tremendous amount from them, and there were a lot of benefits I didn't really understand before.

My approach is that something I haven't tried before is worth trying, especially if it's a 'common' thing. But at the same time I feel doing so because it's a 'common' thing is not the best of motivations.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is more of a case of the plaintiff not reading before he clicks and agrees to things. We all do it, but we don't then sue a company for it. I really wish a ruling like this was made on a case in which there was no opt-in, but this guy (even by his IN-action of NOT un-ticking the box) opted in.
I think the problem is with the boilerplate of objective-c. I tried to make something last night and I'll be honest, I felt like I was in Go or Scala (functional) more than I was in a C-ish style language. I'm not gonna lie, I was looking at some of the docs with a "WTF" look, but I'm a big proponent of functional programming. In the few instances that I've used it, my code has been very concise, but not always easily readable.
Well, isn't honesty preferable? If he had switched them all to 'we' he'd be falsely claiming to speak for others.
Bootstrap. Solely because it has a thriving community of theme, add-on and plugin developers.
I work for CodeWeavers, a small US-based company that provides porting services for Windows-based software to Linux and Mac using the Wine project. Our employees contribute a large chunk of the changes to Wine.

Obviously this port was botched, and the article is right to be annoyed at such a low effort port. I'm here to say that it is a really hard problem, even for experienced porters like ourselves. Proprietary software, especially games, on an open source operating system is hard. You've got libraries changing underneath you in incompatible ways, so you've got to support both versions of the library, or even ship your own build of the library. You've got any number of different desktop environments, which makes integration with the native environment hard. You've got about the same number of different window managers, each of which handles window messaging, stacking, etc in different ways. Each operating system, and often even each operating system version, has different package names, making dependency resolution a special hell.

Shipping proprietary software on Linux is a Hard Problem. You can target specific distros, but you'll still have unhappy users who (rightly) want their distro supported. It's a very long tail.

This port was botched, but I bet they're trying to get in on the SteamOS wave. It's hard to blame them for wanting some nominal support for Linux, and thus SteamOS, but they clearly chose the wrong contractor to provide the service.

All that said, I do have one issue with this article:

> They did not communicate the fact that it was not a proper native version, but simply a wrapped Windows version. It was fully advertised as “now available for SteamOS”, giving the false impression it was recompiled for it. Not a very good idea to hide stuff like that.

We get this complaint a lot. When your application is built using DirectX and other Windows APIs, doing a native port to another platform's API can be very expensive. It's not as easy as switching the Linux switch and running make.

Properly done ports are nearly indistinguishable from a game built natively on Unix APIs. In a kind of perverse way, you can actually get better forwards compatibility with a non-native port like this. As the old binaries rot and fall out of compatibility with modern desktops, you can just pull out the Windows executables and run them in a modern version of Wine.

Think of Wine (or this Eon thing, if it were done properly) not as a wrapper, but as a library that the authors decided to target their application for. You can then upgrade your library and still run the application that targeted it.
Right you are. There is so much cultural cross-over that I forget that sometimes.
Productivity is not the only concern, individual preference should also be accounted for. Someone might want to sacrifice 10 hours a week for 20 % less pay for instance (productivity vs hours worked is more than likely not linear). People should be more free to negotiate such arrangements. Basic income could give them the leverage needed to have a stronger negotiating position - right now employers usually have a way stronger hand.
Swipey Circle – Addictive mobile game
Swipey Circle is a color-matching game that tests your reflexes against time and rapidly changing colors.

Game rules are very simple:
- Swipe circles of the right color and gain points!
- Swipe a circle of the wrong color and you lose!

As you play, things start happening.. random color changes, board inversions, black&white mode and more! Can you reach 100 points?Get it on App Store and Play Store.Try it now.See a gameplay video here: http://youtu.be/lHOvtVYfZQ4
Pixar open sources SubDiv
Yeah, but Nest is hosting a 3 hour WWDC event tonight :).
how about locking my entire system when it wakes externally connected USB drives, namely my time machine. Oddly it seems to occur while I surf.

That and permissions seem to get screwy at times. I had a long running issue where I could not launch JAR files, found others with similar issues and finally figured out, I no longer had permission to my own user folder and the JAR I was launching needed to create a working directory. Ended up solving the problem for more than myself.

I still try to figure out the desire for case sensitivity in about anything
Manage Customer Success to Reduce Churn – David Skok, Matrix Partners
You use Ask HN to post a link, smart.
Yes, IIRC, 51% of Dutch women make less than 70% of the minimum wage.
Funny how things come around, although the Aero glass effect is noticeably a rather poor box blur effect while the OS X has more the appearance of an extreme gaussian blur.

This does make the iOS/OS X version more tasteful.
I assume these kinds of chips are ideal for naturally parallel workloads like web servers. I wonder what the mWh/request looks like between one of these and a normal x86 server.
It is exactly the same. In fact:

- Opt-out: user has to take action to NOT receive emails

- Opt-in: user has to take action to receive emails

- Double opt-in: user has to take action AND confirm his/her email address.

The double opt-in process ensures that the person who submitted the form on your website is indeed the recipient of the email address. It's not mandatory by law but good practice.

These laws exist in the EU to protect the customer. The OPTA has the power to make you pay a hefty fine (up to €450,000) for sending spam. Unfortunately, these laws do not apply for business to business relationships. In B2B, your company can still send my company unsollicited emails without breaking the law.
based on the first paragraph, I wonder how many outages because of damaged undersea cables are caused by intelligence agencies botching their cable taps?
Pretty sure you can compile Objective-C on Windows, since gcc supports it, and OpenStep worked on Windows.

It's Apple's libraries you don't get on Windows.
Sure, I agree with you, the courts would most certainly not rule in favor of a judgement of £200 per e-mail, but I'm sure that's not the point.

They "consented to be billed for proofreading services" every bit as much as this person "consented to receive their spam marketing e-mails". In other words, not at any time or in any reasonable form that could have been construed as consenting or agreement.

I have no doubt the point of the joke was lost on the spammers/marketers, even if they even ever actually saw those terms and associated invoices.
I think he means the letter I, not the word I.

Funny observation, but it's true...plus...if it's not an I it's a T, except for the last one.
No trickery intended here, just seemed to be the best way to go about it.
Can the last car's brakes hold the weight of all the cars in front of it? Can the conductor apply each car's brakes independently?

Interesting stuff!
http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal020....
What Type of Nigga is Drake?
You are free to use one of the many tableview helper libraries if you aren't happy with the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience that the built-in API makes.

You could argue that the frameworks should ship with such a wrapper, but I'd personally rather that they spent their time making difficult things easier than making easy things easier.
Don't market to "everyone". Market to a very narrow, carefully defined market. And it doesn't matter if they "love" it. What matters is that they need it, and need it enough to pay.

Who are you seeking for beta customers? How are you reaching and inviting them? What kind of feedback are you getting from them?
Usually the employee has a much weaker negotiating position due to the threat of finding himself without a job. Basic income could lead to a "freer" and thus more efficient job market (free markets are efficient, right?).
As a C# developer, I can read and understand the code without any issues. That's a good thing for Apple. I'm sure Objective-C is great but it's too foreign for me and didn't want to toy with it for fun, not worth the effort. But I can write an app or two with this one.
I thought so too, but I think it's just that the "newness" wears off and we start to realize that what we once thought was novel and interesting is seen as less so when the theme stays the same week after week.

That and, well, there's clearly some runoff from Reddit: "Change.org Petition: Tell media not to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'" Really?
What are Hackers, really?
Scrolled through it, no idea what it does.
These capabilities present an existential threat to our democratic freedoms. The potential damage that terrorist could do to us pales into insignificance.

In essence, GCHQ & NSA have constructed a giant totalitarian state, with almost unlimited power. The only reassurance that it's not to be used against us is "trust us". However much we might trust them for now, that's simply not a good enough guarantee. Like Checkov's gun, the very existence of this weapon means that it almost certainly will be fired, eventually.

The only way for us to ensure our safety is to make sure that the weapon is put beyond use, ASAP.
How is this not a problem in node.js? Keep in mind, I don't know node.

However, in general, there's going to be several common problems in any language:

Values from v1 and v1.1 won't interoperate perfectly. If you get a v1 object and pass it to B which uses v1.1 to operate on it, stuff may blow up / not work correctly, which may only be obvious in rare runtime situations.

Any external resources used by both v1 and v1.1 will now be in contention. If both of them try to open port 12345, or write to the same config file, for example.

And that assumes that there's no ambiguity based on just importing almost the same code twice, like if you say C.Foo... which C? Can be gotten around by always namespacing the code via the version number, I suppose.

There's no magic fix for these problems. Some human has to go through all the dependencies and make sure that there won't be conflicts. Maybe v1 and v1.1 can coincide just fine, maybe they'll instantly explode. Computers can't figure that stuff out.
UK law, in my case. You need consent and recipient must be able to unsubscribe.

Some parts of this are also covered under the Data Protection Act, which is generally taken very seriously (by government, at least) in the UK. You can only use data for the purpose for which it was collected. So just because you have my email address for sending me updates about my order, doesn't mean you can email me with offers unless I agreed to that.
It seems like you've thought about the experience for end users, but I can't see a way to actually try it out (from an end user perspective) from your homepage.
I know CodeWeavers and if I am not mistaken this is your technnology that was used for the Linux port of Limbo by the Humble Bundle a couple of years ago. Thanks for coming here to give your opinion.

> We get this complaint a lot. When your application is built using DirectX and other Windows APIs, doing a native port to another platform's API can be very expensive. It's not as easy as switching the Linux switch and running make.

Yup, but the point I mentioned in the article is that Witcher 2 now runs almost perfectly under Wine and it would have been a much better port if they just used Wine instead of Eon, and the cost would have virtually be free (of course, testing would cost money).
Show HN: Find It Fast
What is this? What pain does it stop?

I can't tell from the domain name, or from the website 'above the fold'. Even scrolling down, I'm still not sure what it does.

Also, you have no signup at the moment?
OK, I've gone to your page and had a look ...

Nota features an innovative toolbar
to help you get the job done

What job?

Area Selection Tool: Lets you highlight any part of
a web page. And best of all it takes a screen
capture of the selection!

For what?

Text Highlighter Tool: Shows copy changes and catches
typos in text heavy pages. (Yeah, we're looking at
you "Terms of Use" pages.)

What?

Take the guesswork out of web development, with Nota.
Nota records every click, scroll, and keystroke, giving
you the clues you need to efﬁciently understand and
repair user issues.

WHY?

the thing you're missing in all of this is the question of what problem you're solving. I assume you're solving a problem, but:

* How do I know I have your problem?

* How do I even know it's a problem to start with?

* What is the problem?

* What is the context?

* Who is your audience?

In short, based on my visit to your landing page, I have no idea what problem this product is solving.

So I left.

Does that help?
Agreed - doing a quick video showing what it does would be helpful.
I agree with you, but living in the U.S., I'd take four 10 hour days over five 8 hour days for the same reasons. Working for someone else pretty much takes up the whole day.
It looks virtually identical to the iPad one.

http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/io...
Monument Valley and Yahoo News Digest are both really nicely done. Definitely deserving of the award (not that the others aren't, I just haven't used most of them).
First it was hard for me as well to figure out "what it does" or to be more precise "how it does it" but there is this little animation on the landing page which illustrates it pretty well.

@nota.io: you could make that animation bigger or make a video out of it.
Always had a problem with Objective C, could never read it (Android Dev) but this right here is pretty impressive. I like the mixture of language features. But my only question, are you still locked to using an mac to develop for iOS. I guess since the language is closed source it depends on some osx libs at compile time.
I find the attitude of "letting go" to be specifically helpful for news. Unless you're directly affected at the time of occurrence by something like the Malaysian airliner disappearing, or by a mass shooting...you gain virtually nothing from being atop the news. You skip all the knee-jerk reactions and theories, the hours of meaningless jabber used to fill the 24-7 newscycle, the errors in judgment made by first impressions.

I would say you gain less than nothing by following breaking news...you lose time and attention obviously...but for the most part, you also fill your mind with what is the very definition of information junk...stuff that, at best, is "the first draft of history", and at worst, is just the kind of nervous blather people make when they're anxious and waiting for resolution.

If there was a way to put a "Show me nothing newer than a week ago" filter on the Internet, I'd probably turn it on by default.
It's not hours that can be the case as in other countries, but I would not describe it as 2 minutes either. 25 minutes sounds reasonable.

Of course it's depends how lucky you are. When I lived in Stockholm for a short while, I had an 50 minutes commute from the outer parts of Stockholm (still within city limits) to the city, first by buss then subway.

In Göteborg, if you need to pass Göta älv (Göta river) in rush hour, good luck with that. It is the main bottleneck in Göteborg with only two bridges and one tunnel, all of the jammed.

Sure buses have their own lane so that runs faster, but the nightmarish slow tram is just painful, half the speed of a subway.