skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe slightly off topic to the post, semi related to their idea of an "active" customer:

I really like the way simple presents themselves.
I don't think I'll join them any time soon though.

The incentive to use a 3rd party credit card is way too strong. I get things like cash back (depending on the card, up to 6% for e.g. groceries, 3% on gas, ...) and it helps building my credit score which the debit transactions on simple won't help with at all.

I do like Fee-Free ATMs, but on both of my current checking accounts (e.g. Charles Schwab) I don't have to try to find a special one that, judging from the map, usually means a 10 minute walk. I can just go to any ATM since there are quite a few banks that will reimburse costs for ANY of them.

Photo Check Deposit is pretty standard these days as well, both my local bank as well as Charles Schwab had apps that allow me to do that.

Most of the integration that simple provides (the "budgeting" part) , I probably also get with Mint. Only that Mint actually takes ALL of my accounts (Brokerage, Credit cards, ...) into account.

Besides that, the last time I checked they only accepted “Type 1 Social Security Numbers”.
Sadly, as a resident alien, I only have a type 2 number (“for work”). This seemed a bit strange since pretty much every other financial institution didn't care about the specific type of SSN so far. I didn't even know there were different ones. They mention on twitter that they've "processed a few exceptions", it would probably still be very inconvenient.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-re...
Google needs to hire a few older people who know about the
Mcarthy Era, and how Nazis used personal information against
family members? And yes, Duckduckgo is getting better each
month. My love affair with Google is long over. She taped
everything I said, and will not stop stalking me.
I did not intend my comment to be stigmatizing. But I do feel that one of the most degrading aspects of our society is the expectation that people have to earn a living by working at some kind of job. Especially in an economy where we're continually striving to save labor, employment is becoming an unrealistic expectation for lots of people, not just those with learning disabilities.

Personally, I do not have a job and I'm looking forward to a future in which more people have the freedom not to work without being shamed by their loved ones or by society.
That's what I used too. Hosting scripts is far too much like hard work...
The definition for lock free written there is the same as the one I wrote above.

The crucial sentence is found in the second paragraph. Where non-blocking is the umbrella term covering both lock, wait and obstruction free algorithms.

"In modern usage, therefore, an algorithm is non-blocking if the suspension of one or more threads will not stop the potential progress of the remaining threads"

Neither spin locks nor OS locks satisfy this part of the definition. A thread holding a lock who is suspended will prevent any progress being made by any other thread.

I would avoid using wait-free in general because it is a very specialised kind of non-blocking algorithm.
well there is weather, cities rarely are designed to protect you from adverse weather. Usually it what ends a lot of people's new found idea of, lets bike to work. One day its too hot, its too cold, its wet, its windy, oh I need to take x, and on and on and on, now we have a nice garage ornament.

Biking to work is fine, I just wish people quit implying its an alternative to cars or mass transportation when its very weather dependent. Got a change of clothes at work? Not where I work you don't, top it off where I am going to put the bike though I did have a nice folding BMW one awhile back.
It's a book from 1975, so there's no digital version, and it's probably not worth the time to make an ebook for the sales it gets.
The article mentions that his spread out, one-acre-per-person city "would be connected by a complex design of streets and highways."

Is anyone familiar with his highway plan? My impression of city planning is that roads are the hard, boring part, so I'm curious if Wright's roads were just a thing he drew between his beautifully arranged buildings and parks, or if he had an actual plan for how to move people efficiently around his cities.

Saying "everyone should live close to their workplace" only works if you have a single, mega-office/industrial park, with all of the housing arranged tightly around it. Once you have two places people can work, changing jobs requires people to change houses, and only people who work together can live together. So in practice you need to have a transportation system that allows everyone in the city to commute between work and home in a short amount of time during a small window of time in the morning and afternoon.

Sitting in traffic in a beautifully designed city does not sound particularly more fun than sitting in traffic in a poorly designed city.
Parallel is awesome. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't support data localization. If you have 500 GB of data you don't want to copy it to a machine to run a command on it. Better to have the data stored on your cluster directly, which is what FileMap does.
If you're using a Mac, Filevault 2 is sector-level AES-XTS with a solid user interface and good performance.
Yes, FileMap was also extremelly easy to set up.
Forget about 'spaceplane economics'. Just get the SABRE engine out of the door already, then people can start talking about economics. Apparently the engine design has been complete for years and they just need additional funding.

Should a production SABRE engine prove to be low maintenance enough, it won't just be a matter of "stacking up", this will be huge. However, if the maintenance is costly, then it's the Space Shuttle all over again. In contrast to the shuttle, tho, there's no costly thermal protection system, the skin and some water cooling should be enough. Also, no astronauts, Skylon is supposed to be fully automated.

A fully reusable spaceplane for small payloads and a big dumb booster (SpaceX) should complement each other very well.
Mass starvation is nearly always the result of conflict or political issues that prevent food being routed to the area of starvation (see Amartya Sen on the subject).

The famous Ethiopian famine was the direct result of a war.
Uh, no, we're not. That is an entirely baseless assertion.
I should add... "if it matches your outfit."
This is "satire" by a group that thinks feminism is bad.

For future reference, the term "political correctness" is used exclusively in a derogatory way. The main idea is that some people are somehow controlling political discourse by objecting to certain terms and thereby requiring politicians (or whoever) to speak in a certain way even if they don't actually agree with the reasons to use the term.

This is, however, mostly wrong.

What is actually occurring is that some people (politicians and others) use language which degrades or marginalizes certain groups (think ethnic slurs, the word "faggot" etc). These groups then speak up and say "hey, that sucks, we're people too". People who are actually racist/homophobic/whatever then object because they're "not allowed" to say what they think. This isn't true; they are still (obviously) allowed to say what they think, people are just going to be pointing out that they are assholes. Which is as it should be.

Summary: nobody actually advocates for anything called political correctness. Some people are being assholes, others are telling them not to be assholes.

Why did I put "satire" in quotes? The thing which is being satirized is a tendency in the 1960s (50 years ago!) of feminist groups to remove the letters "man" from certain words as a symbolic gesture against an oppressive and patriarchal society. This is pretty much dead in modern feminism, even as symbolism. That is; it is a non-issue; nobody seriously wants to alter existing words, most people never actually wanted to alter existing words. The only people for whom it is still an issue are anti-feminists (read: misogynists) who want to create a straw-man of feminist ideas in order to further marginalize the concerns of women. Which is to say, this is pretty terrible satire.

So, what does feminism actually want? Equality for all people, even men.

Why is it called "feminism" then? Modern feminism grew out of the suffrage (voting-rights) movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s, when women were not allowed to vote because they were seen as being too uneducated, too emotional, inferior, etc. That's 51% of the human population that wasn't allowed to participate in politics.

A famous suffragist, Rebecca West, famously said: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Most people today would take this for granted, but still be suspicious of feminism. This suspicion is often fed by the strawman arguments of anti-feminists.

Why should men be feminists? Maybe you have a mother or a sister or a wife or a daughter; are they people? Should they have an equal chance in society? Should they be able to choose their own path in society or should they be confined by tradition or the whims of their male relatives? Maybe you don't feel like you can fulfill the social roles for men; that is also a feminist issue. Basically: if you want a society where people are allowed to be who they want to be, you should be a feminist.
Show HN: Project Gliese
interesting, i've actually been oblivious to the mechanics when i'm using it (too much business logic to do).

I'm also using it and burning a whole core doing a busy wait. I was going to try and fix this but i'm not sure how much i care. if we aren't paying for cpu time then it doesn't matter
Given that we know nothing about the security of TrueCrypt at this point, can we really say that tcplay is safe? I am especially reluctant to use TrueCrypt to access tcplay containers using the TC gui. Thoughts?
It's well established that Apple is one of the pioneers in the digital distribution of music; however, iTunes hasn't been keeping pace. The portion of Apple's online services revenue from iTunes has been steadily declining since Q1 of 2011 [1]. The Beats' headphones product is definitely profitable and responsible for a big chunk of that $3 billion valuation; however, I doubt that was Apple's main motivator.

It seems as if Apple is doing this to both acquire the talent involved as well as the Beats' streaming service. As mentioned in the article Apple usually prefers the smaller segmented purchases, so I'm guessing Beats approached negotiations with an all-in-one mindset. As to the why Beats instead of another streaming service, it has to be some combination of the talent being just that good or the Beats' streaming service has something that distinguishes itself from others. What that is I don't know. I've heard about their mood based playlist feature and find that pretty interesting. I would like to see what happens when the physiological effects of certain music genres are researched, and then applied to develop this mood playlist concept even further. Thoughts?

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/28/beats-key-declining-itun...
Ah, I'm supposed to toggle the "Target code" box :) Ugh, I used DevTools to look at the <iframe> code for the first 3 steps.
> The Bitlocker thing seems strange until you realize that it probably really IS the best alternative for most users. The users who are paranoid enough to not trust Bitlocker can probably look out for their own security, so it makes sense to give instructions for the rest.

It seems odd to me that security specialists would recommend a flawed tool to 'the masses'. It just doesn't fit with what I usually read from people in this line of work.
Truly inspiring. An unsung hero.
mrjob looks nice. If you have a Hadoop cluster. But for "medium sized big data problems" FileMap is a very viable alternative if you have people who know their way around a terminal. Especially if you'd like to have something set up pretty fast. For 500 GB of data setting up Hadoop (steep learning curve; name nodes, jobtrackers, thrift API:s, datanodes, zookeeper and whatnots) is a lot of heavy lifting. Not to mention administering it.

Sure you have Cloudera et al., but I'm still trying to figure out if they really make things easier or worse when it two weeks later comes to figuring out why something is broken, or how to start/install additional Hadoop components.
What a narrow world view.

A fully reusable single stage to orbit "plane" completely changes the dynamics of putting stuff in orbit both on cost and turn around time.

The Falcon 9 is privately funded as is the Merlin engine it uses however pretty much all the materials science, initial engineering etc required to design and build a merlin was publicly funded.

There are times when a public/private partnership makes sense and this is one of them.
The 'subsidy' is less than a non-SpaceX launch would cost and peanuts for a R&D project, specially one with this potential. And it's about the same amount the US military is currently spending to certify SpaceX for military launches. What about the NASA contracts? These are done with taxpayer money too.
This immediately brought to mind:

"The Man Who Planted Trees" the book which was adapted into an animated film that won the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Short Film Palme d'Or in 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_7yEPNUXsU
Intel expects to launch $1,600 3D printed robot Jimmy later this year
That's an optional feature -- it asks you if you want to backup your key to your online account.
There is no standard definition of "Information economics". If you are interested in the economics of the IT industry then apart from Varian's "Information Rules" mentioned in another comment, there is

* Oz Shy, The Economics of Network Industries.

If you are interested in research at the interface of economics and theoretical computer science you have:

* Shoham, Leyton-Brown. Multiagent Systems.

* Nisan, Roughgarden, Tardos, Vazirani. Algorithmic Game Theory.

* Cramton, Shoham, Steinberg, Smith. Combinatorial Auctions.

For the traditional economic theory of asymmetric information among economic agents:

* Bikchandani, Riley and Hirshleifer. The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information.
You've got to be kidding me...
They aren't entitled to "interpret" the law in ways that contravene the text; a phone running the Uber app may well be a taximeter, but it's not fitted to the vehicle.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1907/55/pdfs/ukpga_19070...

(Also, the law says that the Secretary of State gets to define what constitutes a taximeter).
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts, written in Haskell
So you know that if you click 'no', it definitely isn't sent anyway (perhaps with some "MS/NSA use only" bit set to distinguish it from user-accessible ones)?

Thought not.
Rap Genius co-founder resigns
I always recommend people use zsh for scripting instead of bash--it gets word splitting right. Most of my sysadminny scripts start with #!/bin/zsh these days. It would be really nice if Linux distros came with zsh installed automatically!

For some reason the shell quoting behavior never seems to get brought up when comparing zsh and bash. It is, IMO, the most important distinction between the two shells.
I have had a similar issue, but in my case I am the one that has complete control over someone's account.

I've tried everything to contact instagram, but no luck. Even a post on Hacker News didn't get any attention.

It's a bug that can be reproduced.
hey, i will definitely shoot you an email. i would be curious to find out more about the vancouver startup scene!
What is lvl2's answer? I'm trying:

<img src='invalid_link.png' onerror="this.src='alert(1);'">
Very well written and interesting article. I'm still laughing at this:
"his London lab was rattled by yet another minor explosion which deprived yet another lab assistant (James Heath) of yet another eye."
A Tale of Two #NetNeutrality Freakouts
I think the problems run much deeper.

Music is now competing for attention with apps, push notifications, emails, SMS, etc. Listening to recorded music was at one time something to do in and of itself. Today it's something that's done almost exclusively in the background.
As someone who studied architecture for years, this made me literally groan out loud. Frank Lloyd Wright is usually the one architect whom people at least have heard of. One of the issues which has discouraged me from pursuing computer programming in the past is my impression that a lot of people involved in technology-related careers (ie my would-be future peers) have narrow perspectives on the world due to their reduced levels of interest in a wider liberal arts education, and it is annoying when I see something which confirms that. I really hope that I don't sound like a troll, but I also value giving and receiving honest feedback, and my guess is that some of you could probably benefit from looking away from the computer screen once and a while and exploring something new.
just onerror="alert(1)" :)
Nice find. These would be useful to make things look retro. The PC VGA is a classic, and I've always wondered what Chicago would look like on Windows.
bugs that were fixed by the web-community ended up back in your code automatically

.. and bugs that were introduced by the web community were automatically introduced into your program?

Besides, I suspect that copy-paste-modify makes this impossible to automate.
Having planted some trees myself as a teenager (under the supervision of my grandfather, a forest warden), I can tell you it is very rewarding to do so[1]. It is also a lot of work. The young pines we planted (bought from a tree nursery) needed protection from deer, who like to munch on them while they're small, from boars who destroy the bark by rubbing their itching hide against it, and from bark beetles who decimate entire forests if left unchecked. From humans they were protected legally.

[1] Here's a series of shots of an apple tree growing up: https://plus.google.com/photos/114301087219148980063/albums/...
Transport for london bug
You will be vulnerable to reflected XSS but not persistent XSS attacks.

Persistent attacks are generally considered to be more dangerous, but reflected attacks are still quite bad.
That's beside the point. It's all web services, just with a native front-end. You might not be able to access it from a web browser (though you can see app info in one), but it's still http all right.

Besides, OP also mentions Apple Maps as an example at "Apple sucking hard on anything web related" and you can't access that from the "web" either.

The web != just the ole HTML "world wide web". We know also have native clients. We still call services with native consumers "web services" after all.

And in fact iTunes is just a glorified browser view (albeit with a custom format now IIRC, used to use plain HTML at some point).
Somehow I get flashbacks to Back to the Future II, where Marty buys a Coke and can't figure out how to open it. Coke is just a year early on the concept is all.
Yeah, they're actually too good. Americans (in general) don't want real news, they want to be entertained. Al Jazeera America is a fantastic product, but unfortunately not a product in sufficient demand.

When you combine that fact with the racism because of the name, its future doesn't look too bright. :(
If you're talking about other "Map-Reduce" as in Hadoop MapReduce being "less accessible", it's because Hadoop has a ton of housekeeping infrastructure. Hadoop is aware of the health of other machines and therefore slave jobs can be self-healing, any job errors are properly routed and centralized, etc. Leaving out the housekeeping stuff, the core "map & reduce" part of Hadoop is very simple. This FileMap doesn't seem to have all that infrastructure intelligence, hence it's "simpler".

It's like talking about bwr nuclear reactors. On the one hand, it's just a big glorified pot of boiling water. What's so hard about that?! The complexity isn't boiling the water, it's temperature regulation and redundant failsafes that prevent an explosion of radioactive materials[1] that makes it harder to implement than a kettle of hot water for brewing tea.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
The Four Rules of Setting Expectations
Ring probabilities with Elixir
Just add a foo.js file to any of your GitHub repos, grab its raw URL and pass it through rawgit.com.
The technical risk has to be factored in. Nobody has ever done such heat exchangers and how to keep them free of ice is a secret sauce they are not sharing. Without peer review or open discussion the engine might as well not exist.
You previously said it "definitely sends your recovery key to MS." Sounds like you don't actually mean that.

It's fine and perfectly reasonable not to trust closed-source code, but no reason to spread half-truths about it.
[citation needed]

This differs from all the existing and previous Communist states. You can't just "no true Scotsman" your way round the problems of government under communism.
A Data Analysis Curriculum
How about AxCrypt for file encryption?

http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/

(I phrase this as a question because it'd be great if we could have some HN skepticism on this thing. Personally, I think everything basically checks out: open source, free, there's a name, phone number, address, picture etc.)
Hopper – OS X and Linux disassembler
The Latest Advances in Mixed-Integer Programming Solvers (2010) [pdf]
Play a HTML5 version of Pokémon on your Phone
I loved playing Pokémon on my old Gameboy Advance so I decided to make a HTML5 version which I could play on my iPhone. It is not yet finished but you can test it yourself.
Is there an app that would help me find 100 friends for a birthday party
My birthday is coming, I want to find as many friends as possible, old or new, for my big birthday party. However, I've only been in the bay area for a few months. Can anyone help me out?
I agree that there is a lot of potential lost due to unequal opportunities (for example children with poor parents, versus children with rich parents) and peer pressure / gender stereotypes. I've studied physics and the 5% of female students consistently were well above average for example, which suggests that only a portion of the extremely talented females even considered studying physics.

I am not sure if an individual company can really do anything about the factors contributing to those inequal oportunities. I feel for many skills they come to late, the education system is really the place that should work to reduce the amount of wasted potential.
I mostly like it, with one glaring exception: The auditorium photo. The instant I got to that, it stopped looking like a language homepage and started to feel like a site that was trying to sell me something.

Not one of the other language pages features a photo. I think might be a reason for that. I'm sure it's wonderful from a design perspective, but it's so far from what I expect from a technical page, I'd give up on the site on the spot if I were looking at it "for real".

Sorry, but it really is that bad.
I did
<a onclick="alert('hakz');">click</a>
Top 15 Slides on Mobile from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2014
The very ability to send it to MS is worrying; doing it automatically is more so. If they were honest about the key, it'd say "put this on a flash drive/hardcopy in a safe deposit box".
You conflate "total inabillity to obtain the data" with privacy. Privacy can just be "partial inabillity to obtain the data" or "making it a little harder to obtain them".

For example, your private life is private now, but there's nothing impossible about breaking it. Somebody could hire a private detective for like $1000, and have all your personal info, even phone calls, posted on the internet.

It's the existance of this small barrier (having to go through this inconvenience) that makes you say, not some mathematical impossibility.