skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my behavior is anything typical, advertisers are going to be a world of hurt. When I read a newspaper, I tend to be open for advertising. I usually am looking for movie reviews, concert information and the like. Ads for concert series, festivals, ... are welcome in this environment. To me, these ads can often make me willing to deal with the advertiser.

However, when I am using a mobile I tend to be doing something with that mobile. Looking at mail, getting map information, watching a video or browsing my cycle of blogs and RSS feeds. While I am doing this I tend to find advertisements rather annoying. They suck down bandwidth I'm sometimes paying for. They get strangled when there's not enough bandwidth to go around. Contrary to print ads, these tend to make me unwilling to deal with the advertiser. Particularly if they're intrusive, animated or noisy.

As many others have said, if you show me pertinent(!) ads when I'm interested in ads I'm happy. If you ram stuff in my face, spend my time and money and keep me from doing what I want to do I'm unhappy. Here's a clue: unhappy people don't make good customers.
> Cost, however, shouldn't be what limits surveillance, regulation should.

How do you regulate the regulators? If our government follows it's current course, the "Tzar of Surveillance" will also be a (past/future) executive & major shareholder of a drone manufacturer.
I agree that teaching people how to carry on conversations would be a useful course. But the slight problem with a finishing school is that nerds will probably disagree on the topics of such a school and find some of these suggestions offensive.

E.g.

>How do you pay attention to world news and politics?

Hopefully little as most news isn't news in any usable way. And unless you're actually doing a lot of research, you're unlikely to be discussing anything at a usable level. It's not like I'm going to be comment intelligently on e.g. Crimea without spending what, hours or more(?), reading background on it. News reporting is unlikely to get much insight other than noting which countries are in NATO and saying things like if the US started a war with Russia it would be a big deal. The rest just makes people suffer more bias as they start overestimating the incidence of uncommon events.

Talking about the news is as small talk as talking about the weather. At least with the weather you're likely to get some things right.

Politics, at least in the US, seems to be dominated by moronic discourse. Even the writers/shows that I "agree" with are intellectually dishonest and obviously just "rooting for the team". I'd be surprised if all modern politics is not about the same thing.

>Can you debate philosophy gracefully and purposefully?

What do you mean by philosophy? Because what "most people" consider philosophy is unlikely to lead to any useful discussions. And worse, if you're trying to have a polite conversation with someone but somehow find out they take p-zombies seriously... well it puts a downer on the mood. Just like when someone says they've been feeling sick, probably because of all the WiFi or chemtrails. Or maybe that's what you mean by graceful? How to say "oh really?" in a nice tone and change the subject?
I've been seeing a lot of news on this, and most people are crying out against Amazon for hurting authors. However it's their publisher who had the federal government on their back for price fixing.

It was their publisher who instigated this. Amazon is a retailer and when 5/6ths of the big publishers conspire to price fix, you can bet every one of them is going to have their necks on the cutting block.

Amazon does not need these publishers, they are no longer an online book company they're one of the worlds biggest retailers. These publishers need Amazon, they're a massive retailer known for books.

Don't shit where you eat folks.
I think Sacramento might be sub-optimal. I'll throw out a couple other tech cities that have a much, much, much lower cost of living, but still exciting developments. I think you can get to these places faster, and then develop skills or make some money or even attend college. (I'd actually recommend college first. I know it is fashionable to hate on college right now, but the overwhelming evidence is that it is still a good thing)

==Kansas City
Probably the heart of Silicon Prairie right now, it has amazing areas like the Kansas City Startup Village where hackers live together in houses next door to each other powered with Google Fiber. (Need help with something in iOS? Walk a house down and ask the guys in the other place. That type of thing) Not only is it a great city with great BBQ, beer and history, but it the biggest emerging tech scene in the Midwest. This includes, but isn't limited to http://eyeverify.com/ http://www.gethandprint.com/ etc etc etc

==Lincoln, Nebraska
Home of the University of Nebraska, it is an emerging tech center with new accelerators and venture capital firms in its sister city like http://dundeeventurecapital.com/ (Omaha is an hour away by car) and other avenues for funding like http://www.investnebraska.com/ and the http://www.nebraskaangels.org/. The fastest growing private company in Nebraska is http://www.hudl.com/, which started as a 3-person startup, but now has 3 offices in two cities. Similarly, the university is in the process of launching Innovation Campus which almost doubles the land area of its campus and includes maker spaces, business accelerators, and more.
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For me the MS Surface would be more appealing if they had built something like the Thinkpad Helix convertible, but i can't see the benefit in the typecover thing and the kickstand.
This post got a lot of flags. Is that because the site was down? It's back up now, so I turned off the flags.
The fact that they say they'll be used sparingly is what makes me uneasy.
Hello. Thanks for the feedback on the post! I definitely wasn't assuming that when I wrote it. In fact, what I was trying to show was a simple framework for looking at processes in the world and improving them. And if some folks can come up with innovative ideas for things already as simple and "old" as measuring cups and S'mores recipes, imagine what you can come up with when you look at more complicated processes in this world. This framework could very well inspire someone to trace out the steps of the job someone has of retrieving water or building wells in Africa and try to figure out which of those steps can be removed. That being said, I really try not to judge if people want to make a better dessert. Dessert makes people incredible happy.
Can this be used as a BF supercompiler?
It isn't necessarily scary. The charts show "time spent" vs money spent. But what you really want to know is "money spent" vs "results taken". IE: Which channels drive revenue.

on the flip side, you can measure these things on web/mobile platforms, it gets much more difficult with print ads.

FWIW I'm more likely to respond to an ad I see on the Economist or Monocle than one I see on my mobile phone.
At the moment just the fact that it's on my mobile phone tells me it has less value.
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The good thing about authors speaking up is that it cuts through the common techie meme that authors and publishers don't have aligned interests. The same is true for other "dinosaur industries" like record labels and artists.
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Sort of like why sometimes experts in a field make the worst teachers. They've forgotten the important transitional steps.
20+ years of insecure code resulting in remote code execution vulnerabilities, lack of authentication and integrity, authorization bypasses and more. Yet a simple out-of-bounds read becomes the straw that breaks the camels back. Don't mistake my comment for criticism, I'm happy to see projects like this and non-security focused developers pay attention to such issues. But if you've spent more than 2 minutes in the security industry you'd be pulling your hair out at this point too.
I have a tablet and a laptop. I want a convertible badly. I'm tempted to leave OSX for one (a Surface 3 most likely).

Catch up, Apple. You used to innovate. If 10.10 is another nightmare for my dev environment like Mavericks and the recent xcode updates the decision will be even easier.
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Conservatively, I'd say abuse will start in 18-24 months.
sparingly during the course of the day (because the batteries don't last anyways)
Also, if you're of a certain age you remember things like computer shopper magazine. Which, while it had articles, I don't think I ever found one. It was basically a one and half inch thick catalogue.

People paid money to buy a thick catalogue, to see what was shiny and new.
By definition, only some people can be "extraordinary", yet most people in this generation were raised to believe they are. Thus, widespread unhappiness.

And to think, our parents tried so hard.
> The NSA’s new discovery of written contact between me and its lawyers - after more than a year of denying any such contact existed - raises serious concerns.

^ Something Snowden says, at the beginning of the article.
Only semi-relatedly, that Facebook sharing overlay is horrible. It comes up three seconds after the page loads -- I haven't even had time to read the piece yet, how could I possibly know whether I want to share it! And reading the piece? Can't with that monstrosity in the way. And there's no obvious affordance to make it disappear, you have to guess that clicking somewhere makes it go away.

Poorly conceived on every level.
You might have confused "genuine" with "compliant" and "truthful."

I am under no obligation to answer your stupid, predicable, and irrelevant to our social future questions.

In fact, it would disingenuous of me to give you the impression that your social style was anything but annoying and bland, and likely to lead to me never wanting to see you again.
If you are in an EU state why not move somewhere with a better job market like Germany, UK, the Netherlands or the nordic countries (you don't need to be able to speak anything but English to get work as a programmer in any of these)?
Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either
>>But the margins will be much smaller.

Thats hard to predict, for example what are the margins for $200 laptops at Walmart?
Honestly, the code is a mess. (Really.) I'm trying to determine/recall how far I was able to get by looking at it (at least the initial goal was to have functionality akin to jmc's original paper, with syntax from pg's reinterpretation of it[1].) I'm putting "clean up [, possibly finish] and push to a repo" on my "generic todo list." :) will try to remember to ping you if/when that happens. Until then, honestly not much use of it.

[1]: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps
> The NSA does not appear to have the capability of analyzing all the data it taps in a way that would actually be considered intrusive.

The intrusive nature of this context is not so much the analysis of your personal data, but storage of it. When someone falls under the microscope, sensitive data collected in the past can be pulled from storage, effectively enabling retroactive surveillance.

For example, the NSA essentially collects and stores everything they can on everyone, including American citizens. What makes American citizens unique is that they are afforded extra legal protections. However, these protections don't usually extend to the storage of data on US persons, but simply the "collection" and "interception" of said data, which, in NSA's odd legal nomenclature, can simply be translated to mean accessing data that is already stored.

In my opinion, the best hope for real privacy is not storing data that enables retroactive surveillance in the first place.
This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a "postmortem" that isn't just posturing.

I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again:
"We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We loved the idea of it. That hurt."

When you're on the brink, remember why you're doing this at all; to build something that you think is really cool.
You can deeplink YouTube videos thusly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU#t=130
Two possibilities:

1. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Replace "understand" with "acknowledge" as necessary.

2. They know they only need to worry about the opinions of certain key players, not the public in general.
I always found the symbolic manipulation to be somehow enjoyable; combining different elements, working up equations that were forgotten and tying it all together to answer a problem (abstract or otherwise). But then in day-to-day life I tend to find calm in mental arithmetic too.

It's perhaps a little like practising piano - the syncopation and variance of a piece that is an accomplishment offers rewards in itself. But, nonetheless playing simple scales or arpeggios can be an almost meditative exercise.
Incredibly sad. How much is America willing to give up for the War on Drugs? I suppose it is a similar situation to the boiling frog, they ratchet up the intensity bit by bit.
So his method comes with additional health benefits for free.
I'm 30. I don't remember everything, but I do know the basics, and most importantly I remember what it is and what problems it can solve.
A few ideas;

Post the ratings. Post the ratings ratios (4-5 vs 1). Post the top 5 per budget. Grab user photos/videos and let the user click through them on the product image. Interface with the amazon API for pricing trends (like camelcamelcamel).
Your propensity for violence is likely the least impressive thing about you.
This is crazy; perhaps that's what makes it intriguing.

In any case, I'm scratching my head. For example:

> We can thus, for any Brainfuck program, create an integer optimization problem with 3n decision variables where the optimal solution is that program.

Got it.

Integer optimization is designed to solve numerical problems. Is there any reason or inspiration to suggest that use this technique is a productive way to write programs that satisfy certain constraints?
This “DSL” acronym is used everywhere nowadays; mistakenly so I think. A DSL (domain specific language) is like cold-fusion, R or VHDL; it is a complete language designed with the target domain in mind.
How could any student not be fall-right-over excited about learning standard 7.SP.C.5 ?
It is this experimentation, however, that creates large improvements in the world. Creating a hobby operating system, for example, may seem like a waste of time. Why would CS students spend time creating something only for themselves, when they could be creating software to change the world? Aren't they wasting their talents by building something that they don't intend for anyone to use?

Of course, one of those hobby operating system grows into Linux, and suddenly that experimentation doesn't seem pointless anymore.

A contractor at CERN wants a faster way to share research papers. Isn't this outside the scope of his work, though? Isn't he wasting CERN's money with this project? People can just share papers via Usenet anyway. Who even needs the World Wide Web?

Most people don't set out to "bring benefit to your fellow man." Most people fool around with side projects or new ideas. These projects, which seemingly offer "trivial benefit to humanity," are the ones which make a difference in the world.

Experimentation or invention for any reason (including profit) is valuable, precisely because we don't know where this experimentation will go.
Lifehack: using your microwave oven against NSA snooping
Everything seems ok for me. What is going wrong?
For comparison, Ustream announced a few months ago that they'd only retain archived video for a month for free accounts.
MIT's Newest Invention Fits All the Furniture You Need in One Closet-Sized Box
German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime
Then you have the problem of selling it. Some people I know made a piece of software that literally destroys half (or more) the jobs among broadcast TV operators. They regularly got shown the door harshly because they presented the solution to the wrong person: either someone who'd lose his job in the process, or someone who'd lose half the team under her orders and therefore her power in the company.
Relevant: If you haven't seen it, TPB: AFK is a fantastic documentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPB_AFK

http://watch.tpbafk.tv/
What cost effective alternatives are there to public schooling in the U.S.?

Is it possible or feasible to home school your kid with success?
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From Google translate ...

Peter Sunde arrested in Skåne

One of the brains behind the file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been arrested.

Peter Sunde, 35, was arrested today in a raid in southern Sweden.

- He has been on the run since 2012 , says Carolina Ekéus , press contact at NCIS .

Rikskriminalen state that Peter Sunde has been wanted by Interpol and that he is now arrested.

- He was arrested for him to serve a prison sentence of eight months. It's about the Pirate Bay case , says Caroline Ekéus .

Expressen says that the raid took place at a farm in Skåne Tonganoxie . According to the newspaper shall Polish police and skånsk picket police have participated in the arrest .
Sentenced to prison

Peter Sunde were sentenced for aiding copyright infringement along with two other men in the Svea Court of Appeal in November 2010. Together sentenced Pirate Bay founders in addition to prison to pay damages of around 46 million.

In its judgement, the Court of Appeals held that the men through file-sharing site The Pirate Bay " has facilitated illegal file sharing in a way that lead to penalties for those who run the service ."

Peter Sunde has repeatedly applied for revision of the Supreme Court , most recently in February this year. He also refers to new cases from the European Court which deals with how to assess aiding and abetting .
"Deeply unhappy '

Peter sundes defender Peter Althin says to Aftonbladet that he still finds it difficult to accept the verdict .

- Has a final judgment , you have to enter and serve this . I kväljer them but I still think that the judgement is deeply unfortunate and inaccurate when it comes to him. There was nothing that showed that he had an active part in this as he was sentenced for, says Peter Althin.

He says that an open prison now awaits Peter Sunde.

- It does not get Kumla Security or something like that. It will be a little more open prison and that will happen pretty soon, says Peter Althin.
> Who or What Broke My Kids?

Rigid Institutions, Rigid Hierarchies, Social Stratification, Judgement, Power & Control, Special Interests, Lack of Freedom, Lack of Autonomy
> I really hope your child's teacher doesn't just mark it right or wrong, but provides a counterargument for a flawed answer.

His son's teacher isn't going to do this. First, she didn't design the question... even if some public school teachers have the capacity to do this, they don't have the time or resources to design curriculums. Second, if she didn't design it, she likely does not have the wit to be able to argue about it without doing research. Third, public schools aren't places where they make time for each student trying to inspire genius, she really is just checking boxes down a list all semester. Fourth, doing so won't improve his scores on a standardized test. Finally, there was only two inches of blank space for the child to write an answer, she definitely isn't going to write him a thesis on the margins of the paper.

Public education is blind idiot god, handing down edicts from on high, some dumb and some smart, some sane and others insane, some incomprensible and some not. And often enough, all of these at the same time. The bell will ring, it will be time for a new lesson, and in that one he will be taught to never leave any multiple choice question unanswered because "they unanswered questions are scored just the same as wrong ones, you might as well guess".
Well, it's not really a continuum. 'There should be only one mode, secure' and all that - asking users to make ad-hoc security assessments is generally a bad idea. In an ideal world, plaintext HTTP wouldn't exist and everyone would have a key delegated by their domain registrar.

No lock would suffice for unauthenticated https; those that find the distinction meaningful can investigate the URL. But then you still risk someone bookmarking https://example.com and suffering a downgrade attack from not paying attention to color changes.

The best way forward is probably the creation of a new protocol designator (httpz or something) that is SSL using the SSH key model. But there's no impetus to do this as it's easy enough to pay the CA tax and be on your way with unquestioned "full security".
Just remember to mirror it locally.
Have someone Spanish read you a story every night before bed.
> I didn't say anything about not trusting doctors.

Yes you did:

> The day doctors sold out and started accepting bribes from pharma reps is the day that I stopped trusting them
"Finally the Apple Magic Trackpad works everywhere."

Is this solution something mint-specific? e.g. can I install whatever makes this possible on an Ubuntu or Debian distro?
I have watched some accounts on HN gain over 1000 karma in less than 80 days. They appear to be using machine learning techniques to pump links into the site. They made no comments for days until their karma was high enough.
"Together sentenced Pirate Bay founders in addition to prison to pay damages of around 46 million."

Yeah, that's never going to happen. The prosecutor in their case came up with some fantastical amount of money TPB is supposed to have made, but it's complete nonsense (see the documentary TPB: AFK for details).
Wow! This surprised me since https://www.startssl.com/?app=1 makes no mention of this, but indeed section 3.1.2.1 of the StartCom CA policy at https://www.startssl.com/policy.pdf does state:

"Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class
2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc."

Looking further, it appears that while these classifications are not formally encoded (that I can find after a cursory investigation; please let me know if I am wrong), it does appear to be the case that the concept/nomenclature exists amongst multiple CAs. Wikipedia context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate#Classifi..., Indian Government CA policy: http://cca.gov.in/cca/?q=node/45

Thanks for pointing this out, as I have been erroneously indicating that the StartCom free certificates might be viable options in all cases, where it seems like the reality is somewhat different. (Although I still believe the barrier to usage of valid/non-self-signed certificates to be quite low and for it to be strongly advisable for server operators to use them.)

(edit note: inserted the missing word "been" shortly after submitting.)
Yes, as in they've been capitalizing on the same gameplay formulas that have been hits since the mid 90s
>> The Surface Pro 2 can run full Windows 8 apps and services too, but it is with the Surface Pro 3 that the Surface has finally matured.

I've been running a Surface Pro 2 since February and I can say that this is a very mature product. It has replaced my quad core laptop with 24GB RAM because it handles exactly what I need.

I'm running PHP Storm, Photoshop, 2 x 1080p displays + the surface display, Virtual Box with 2-3 Ubuntu VMs running, all while using Skype, Spotify, Backblaze, Google Drive, etc, etc.