skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US needs to adopt a residency based tax system like the rest of the world.

This would solve so many problems.

The main issue why this remains a problem is that Congress doesn't care about American citizens who live abroad. Congress knows they can abuse Americans who will never comprise a large enough portion of any district for their votes to really matter. This is why people are actually renouncing. They have no other practical solution or representation.
The nine companies that know more about you than Google or Facebook
And here I was about to whip up an app that just nods knowingly at you and wait for the money train.
This claim is not proven :)
Speaking of practice, I've found recently this: "Five thin client machines with same MAC Address?" ( http://superuser.com/q/760238/2357 )
"drugs" ....hmmm... I assume you haven't done your homework about Ayahuasca. Shamans in south-america call it "the medicine", and the Ayahuasca ceremony is a very serious one. You can search for studies and stories (all over the internet), the reported results are usually far more helpful than any other traditional treatment. We use "drugs" every day, it is just a matter of using the right one for the right reason.
Hunt for comets using Python and open data
Apart from one Tor developer who, without presenting any details, claims there was a "warrant canary" from Truecrypt almost 10 years ago, can you cite a single crypto expert who believes that this is the case? Or are you just saying about Truecrypt what you could say about virtually any other privacy-relevant software on the Internet at any time?
Scientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour
I've been working on a startup called SMPLE.co (www.smple.co) that also tries to address some of this problem. Email us if you want to learn more - happy to share.
Let's assume my office employs 100 people, at around $100,000 per year each. If a $15k office would make us 10% more efficient, then it would pay for itself in 18 months.

Open plan offices are penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Rarely are the prices different if paying in cash vs credit (due to agreements I believe) which means you still pay the extra 3 to 5 percent, but receive no reward points, cash back, or anything extra. So in affect, by paying cash, you are receiving less for your money.
That would be unlikely, since OpenBSD doesn't use Truecrypt.
Contrary to popular belief I don't have a huge problem with Javascript. I'm just as likely to make fun of you for implementing DNSSEC in Haskell.
isaacbrocksociety.ca

This link needs to be here. If you're an American abroad suffering similar treatment, you can find support with these people who are in the same situation. They are trying to help end the US's unfair CBT citizenship based taxation and switch to RBT residency based taxation like the rest of the world already uses.
NerdyData – The Search Engine for Source Code
Of course you can! Its called cost-per-install ads.

How else do you think Facebook has been growing their revenue so fast quarter over quarter?
Amazing! How do they keep it from autocorrecting to "To"?
Why isn't it appropriate? I don't see anything qualitatively different about either of those things from other forms of wealth redistribution.
But if you think someone actually cares and tries to find some meaning in a teenage kid saying 'yo'...

Yeah, they do. And they can. In fact, in Snowden's most recent interview, he explained how even something as benign as searching for football game scores on their smartphone can lead to lots of information being revealed about that person, simply from all the metadata web applications, protocols and phones emit.

It may sound ridiculous to you, but it isn't. Data is precious.
Looks great. I just wish there was a hotkey to start and stop recording. It's kind of a nuisance to have my mouse going up to the top right corner at the end of every gif.
I agree, but there's another factor besides inexperience: time constraint. Many people have day jobs. Any projects that they do for fun or interest have to fit into their spare time. There's a limit to how ambitious such projects can be, and we definitely don't want to exclude them.

I think it's critical for HN to welcome a wide spectrum of original work. We want to see major technical achievements, of course. But we also want to see the minor one-offs. The bar for sharing your work on HN should be low.

The relationship between major work and minor one-offs is mysterious. Things that start off playful and trivial can develop in unexpected ways. Or maybe a success at something trivial inspires someone to a more ambitious next effort. If we want to have a culture of people sharing things they've made—which we do—we need to accept that most won't seem very impressive.

A good example is 2048. That game and its many variations weren't necessarily technically impressive. But the way in which a whole bunch of people riffed on each other's work for a few weeks—that was one of the most creative things ever to happen spontaneously on HN. If the game itself had been less trivial, I doubt that would have happened. The barrier to entry would have felt too high, so people without much time or experience wouldn't have gone for it. But because it was so simple, making one's own variation felt doable, and lots of people did.
Business X may easily gain more than business Y loses, if the site cleanup
yields a site that's easier to find, has more descriptive content, and is
more accessible. Y's previously higher ranking may have caused some potential
buyers in a product space to abandon looking--even if temporarily--due to lack
of time or loss of interest. X might have a good product that missed some sales
due to a "meh" reaction to Y's previously higher-ranked site.

Marketing effect can be difficult to quantify, but it's about more than ad
dollars and the bottom line is definitely not a zero-sum game. While SEO
doesn't lack for bad actors, white-hat SEO can help grow markets.
Amazon’s smartphone unveil
Well, We're living in a time where money is cheap and there's a new SnapChat every couple of weeks.

Nobody who has money to invest wants to miss the train.
I thought you did for Javascript for crypto purposes, though, (ie, a pure node.js implementation), not Javascript in general, right?
Postgis, PostgreSQL's spatial partner – Part 1
very nice! just wish there was an option to increase FPS so it would work better for gameplay gifs
GameMaker Standard Edition (for desktop) goes free again
Opportunity to be Rails Engineer #6 with a well regarded startup in Denver, CO
The Culture:

Our client is growing their small team of developers. There are 4 developers right now and they will be adding 2 more. They provide a service based in geo location, big data, and mobile applications. The team works 40-50 hours a week and believes in the importance of work/life balance. They don't believe in siloed developers, so you will work on projects throughout the company.

The Job:

You will be doing 50% Ruby on Rails and 50% Clojure in a Big Data and large scale environment. You must be familiar with scale, queueing, Mongo, PostGres, and have at least a familiarity and interest in machine learning. You will be able to work 1-2 days a week from home after you've proven yourself.

The Required Skills:

- Ruby on Rails
- Clojure or a strong Java background
- Mongo
- PostGres
- Experience with Continuous deployment
- Write your own tests in Rspec and Cucumber
- Willingness to help train and teach junior developers
- You need to be able to work without instruction, helping the team move forward
- Confidence (without cockiness) and the ability to work with a close knit team

The Nice to Have Skills:

- Git experience, if you have a github account that helps
- Agile experience helps, but not required
So, how long before Facebook comes out with their 'Just Sup?' app?
"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation"
-- says the world's biggest data aggregator.

The irony is amazing.
Zendesk's first investor on how to spot a winner
Case Study – Promoting
I think this sorta proves that we've reached the bubble peak.

After this startup bubble pops, we are going to see investors who are very wary of companies that thinks we are in a new economy now and that non-paying users is the way to billions.
Nice. Any chance that this can all be done locally instead of going up to a server? (I know it's intended to be posting the output to twitter, but, I'd like the utility without that :)
An intro to GIS, geography vs. geometry as applied to Postgres
While I'm as suspicious of the NSA and their intentions as anyone (I am very actively involved in my local Restore the 4th and Cryptoparty chapters), the fact is that the code is Open Source, and has been vetted by some of the best, and most trustworthy, developers in the world (it has been in the mainline Linux kernel for over a decade).

I trust SELinux. I don't necessarily trust my understanding of SELinux...it is a complicated beast. But, I believe that when configured correctly, it is a very powerful tool.

As I understand it, SELinux covers more ground than AppArmor. I have low familiarity with AppArmor, however, so don't know enough to argue why one might choose one over the other. But, I don't have any suspicion of SELinux containing exploitable code inserted by the NSA.
Microsoft Kills Vendor Program That Offered To Pay People To Write About IE
That's great. I'm all for political advocacy, but we still need better technical safeguards and culture that eagerly uses them.
> You forgot to account for speakers - more cables there.

I'd love it if my current monitor came with the iMac's speakers. I don't know if it was the speakers or the enclosure necessarily, but the iMac at my last office job sounded great.
Post on the CloudFlare blog

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal
When do we decide what is right? The Sioux conquered Crow and took their lands, so who holds the right to South Dakota?
The current build, secretly has Cmd+Shift+5
Oh boy, $1,099 for an iMac? Here in my country this piece of tech costs nothing less than R$ 5.799 ($2576.99!!!!!)
You can book an appointment at the Genius Bar and they'll run you through how to set it up. I'm sure even the proverbial grandmother would feel confident enough to set up an iMac after that. Maybe not a Mini, though.
Thanks, this fixes some of the problems, but I'm still seeing some weird unicode square shapes (that appear when I'm not running in watch as well)
Nasty Mosquito-Borne Virus, Now in Puerto Rico, Expanding its Reach
> Title II is a Depression-era regulatory regime, designed back when people thought that things like government-regulated rates and prices were a good idea. That's not the way forward, it's the way backward.

Really? There was undoubtedly a lot of enthusiasm for planned economies in the '30s, but wasn't Title II based on older railroad anti-trust legislation? I presume you're not suggesting that the earlier era of the railroad trusts and Standard Oil should be the preferred model for the future...
If that's the case (and it doesn't seem that unlikely to me), I think a thank you is in order.

Thanks buddy!
> We can’t begin to express how grateful we are for your support throughout this journey.

Looks like http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ may need an update
That modest i5 chip is more than enough for your basic needs.
Neat tool, I prefer http://www.gifgrabber.com because you can also save to your computer.
and who are to knock them out ?
There will be, soon! We're tweaking it to get all the parts moving just right. Also... ...
The full sentence is even better. "We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient" (at aggregating user data).
Re-order columns in mobile devices using bootstrap 3 (without Flexbox)
I agree, but don't understand why one would consider credit cards risky. I'd be willing to paint my credit card number on the side of a building for $2000 (and I'm overestimating here, since who knows what chaotic billionaire will read this). There's simply nothing secret about them - they are mere identifiers not authenticators. Public key crypto has been around for nearly 40 years and ubiquitous online transactions for nearly 20 - Visa and Mastercard simply don't care to change as they just push the costs onto merchants, and the costs are still low enough that merchants don't push back.

Paying cash in general is a good idea for privacy's sake (do you really want your auto insurance company becoming aware of how much alcohol you purchase?), and avoiding the 4% tithe is nice. But more importantly, paying tips with cash helps waiters avoid the much more burdensome and directly destructive >30% tithe.
That's less true for scrypt based pow chains, although that is rapidly changing with scrypt ASICs now hitting the market.
rq is like a luger pistol, light, simple, gets the job done.

celery is like a .50 caliber machine gun, industrial strength, lots of options, used for a variety of completely different use cases.

For simple stuff, use rq, but celery + rabbitmq work better if you have dozens and dozens plus worker nodes (ie: different servers), whereas with rq, you use redis, which could potentially be a SPOF, even with redis sentinel.
> "For a heterosexual man, a woman can't be your identity."
> "Most heterosexual women need a partner with their own identity,
one that she can merge with."

Read those back and forth until you see the double standard.

We can argue all day about whether it's healthy to depend on a partner to complete your identity. But you don't get to speak for what "most heterosexual women need," especially if you're a guy. None of us are on the set of Mad Men; we're in the real world, and what we say matters.

I might not have my 500 karma yet, but I know when to downvote.
For all its sins, SELinux code is actually pretty clear/simple.
Its also nicer than AppArmor if you ask me, and it records inodes, not path, for labelling.
They go on to define their terms: "breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components" -- very little to do with what we think of as "data aggregation."

So, I wouldn't exactly call it ironic. More... homophonic? Homophonically ironic?
All user mode code has been in OS-enforced, security-bounded, per-process VMs that access each other and hardware through virtualized interfaces since forever (well, since the 90s for mainstream microcomputer OSes).

"Containers" are just user-accessible support tooling to get creative with how those interfaces work. It really should be much easier to make container software than the entire virtualization infrastructure from scratch, in the same way that it's easier to write tar than a filesystem driver.
Now try breaking out of a FreeBSD jail ;-)
Google Announces Udacity Course on Website Performance
I don't trust that passing new laws will do anything when existing law is being broken. Show me people being thrown in jail and I will believe they are serious.
>I'd like to get something like this for a desktop but I'm afraid my Ubuntu might have some issues on the hardware. I'll wait until I find it slightly used for half the cost.

You might want to look at something like https://system76.com/desktops/model/sabc2

It's similar in the idea, it will support Ubuntu (or Linux in general) 100%, no drivers problems. Obviously it's not branded Apple so some people might not like it.
> Ah, I understand what you are saying.

No, I don't think you do.

> The problem is that, I truly don't believe in gods or spirits anymore.

Neither do I. I don't see how that's relevant to learning the subject matter that you're claiming to learn. You don't read a book about Java and say that you now understand Haskell. You don't read a book about real-time embedded systems and come away with an understanding of CSS. You don't read a book by Dawkins and claim to have increased your understanding of Sikhism.

> What do I stand to gain from studying other religions closely?

I don't know. What do you want to gain? Why are you studying religion at all, if you have no intention of studying religion?

If you want to study atheism, that's fine. Study atheism. But unless you think that atheism is a kind of religion (which, last I checked, it is not), then you are not studying religion.
Its not that crazy. Google and Facebook depend on common carrier type protections to insulate them from, say, liability for the people who send child porn through their service.
I'm confused...

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201310/jeff-haden/why-there-are-...
My problem is content-controlled Javascript (or "browser Javascript", although that term is less useful what with browser extension Javascript, which isn't content-controlled).
Yeah, we did that, and just had all of our PagerDuty alerts go off when Pingdom sent out their nice marketing email (which PagerDuty validly took as an "incident").

Thankfully it was basically morning, depending on the time zone.
That's a very good question. I don't know what the worst case is here, only a few cases which are very good... Will try to find out.
Meet the Amazon Phone: this is the Fire Phone
May I suggest you have a look at the deregulation of the old state monopolies in Europe? Net neutrality seems to have an impact outside the States, that feels it is being overlooked while you guys are debating of your own national ISP market.
Big swings in L.A. radio ratings raise questions
Timeline: A Century of Racist Sports Team Names
the principles are really not that complicated really.
I like this diagram of a similar implementation:

http://www.rsbac.org/_media/documentation/rsbac_handbook/arc...
Imagine how much worse you'd feel if you found out that someone who doesn't like you did this to you deliberately.

Google makes this too easy. Through ill-considered changes to their algorithms they've provided a new weapon for the unscrupulous.

I've noticed a similar thing with my own personal site. For years it was on Google's front page for a bunch of things (niche topics that wouldn't translate into money). So was my name, which really surprised me. Lately, as it's gotten more links to it from higher profile sources, including some national magazine sites, it's rapidly fallen back in Google's listings.
No 2
I'm happy to leave the dev alone. I don't really care about the dev one way or the other.

What I don't like is to have some piece of infrastructure I've come to depend on yanked out suddenly, being mislead about the reasons, and being left with only onerous alternatives (rewrite the whole thing or stick with 7.1a indefinitely). That these two options are onerous is not speculation or simply some kind of bad attitude. It is a fact.

Whether this action was deliberate or just incredibly clueless and negligent, treating TrueCrypt users this way is crappy, and I think it's OK to say so publicly. I'm grateful for the development of TrueCrypt. But that gratitude doesn't translate to a free pass for all subsequent terrible behavior afterward.

If the dev's identity was known, he/she might take a lot more heat than a few harsh words. Considering the needless trouble he's putting people through, a strongly-worded letter of protest is a pretty mild reaction.
https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/474736429365338113
Looks interesting. Will check it out. Only 10 seconds though, right?
I think he might have been sarcastic
https://pack.resetthenet.org does a good job at listing tools for citizens to use
Amazon’s first smartphone is finally here: Meet the Fire Phone
Amazon announces the Fire Phone
>I am currently poor
>I do not really buy cheap food
Well, my comment is dead, but thanks for the Uptime Robot mention.

We'd seen them too last week when Googling for competitors but were, right, scared off by their "seems fly-by-night" free-ness.
In winter it would work better, not worse. The reason is (most)
thermoelectric stuff is harnessing the difference in temperatures to
generate electricity, since electricity is a difference in potential.
Well, electricity can be thought of as a difference in potential, but
I'm a bit too tired for a philosophical or scientific debate. ;)

If you're familiar with how a Stirling Engine converts a difference in
temperature (i.e. heat) into mechanical energy, the vague and general
principle will make a lot more sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

As for the recent KAIST work (linked above) on thermoelectric (TE)
generators, according to the following it does work on temperature
difference:

http://www.kaist.ac.kr/_prog/_board/?code=ed_news&mode=V&no=...

> "When using KAIST's TE generator (with a size of 10 cm x 10 cm) for a
wearable wristband device, it will produce around 40 mW electric power
based on the temperature difference of 31 °F between human skin and
the surrounding air."

I'm yet to watch these, but there are some videos on the KAIST TE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlN9lvEzCuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4wOlc4Do0

My mom won't let me near her hearing aids due to her knowing all too
well that I want to take them apart to figure out how they work. My past
started with door knobs at the age of three, and some things just never
change. ;)

Anyhow, I'll have to very roughly guess the power requirements of a
"typical" (if there is such a thing) hearing aid. From the following:

http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/battery-consumption-...
http://www.audiologyonline.com/ask-the-experts/voltage-of-zi...
http://www.rayovac.com/Products/Hearing-Aid-Batteries/Retail...

Also I just found and still need to read this study "Siemens Battery
Performance In Hearing Instruments" but it looks interesting:

http://hearing.siemens.com/Resources/Literature/_Global/trai...

Our imaginary "typical" hearing aid power requirements are probably
somewhere close to this:

Capacity: 145 mAh
Voltage: 1.4 V
Drain: 1.1 mA

1.1 milliamperes = 0.0011 amperes
Watts = Amps * Volts
Watts = 0.0011 * 1.4 = 0.00154 W = 1.54 mW

The KAIST TE can generate 40 mW with a 10cm by 10cm patch, and our
mythically "typical" hearing aid only requires 1.54 mW. Some of the
pictured TE generators are much smaller, but no specs are given in the
abstract or the articles on it. Unfortunately, the paper is paywalled.
None the less, creating a battery-less hearing aid with existing tech
actually seems doable from a (very rough) power standpoint.
This doesn't make it worthless. Making things more illegal increases the costs and the risks it makes the tools more fragile and decreases cooperation of the private sector.

It doesn't replace other approaches— changing the design of the services we use to make this kind of surveillance closer to a mathematical impossibility— but its still worthwhile.
Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion
Too bad they get converted, we could have posted GIF+ZIP combos... ;)