skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are ignoring a few decades of history in which successful court challenges have curtailed some NSA excesses

Can you list these "successful court challenges" that have taken place in open court in the last generation? Say, 30 years?

You're not talking about the Sixth Circuit decision in 2007 tossing out the attempt to challenge NSA warrantless surveillance, I take it? :)

Edit: Or the 9th Circuit affirming the dismissal of another case in June 2013. Or the Supreme Court in February 2013 holding plaintiffs did not have standing to sue the NSA. Or EFF's Jewel case, which is ongoing six years later without resolution. Or the Supreme Court in November 2013 rejecting EPIC's mandamus petition in NSA lawsuit. Etc.
This app is extremely easy to dismiss. As someone else mentioned, if you send a yo to "WORLDCUP" you get a yo everytime someone scores. I could see this getting wired into IFTT and actually becoming useful "automatically send a yo to my friend every time I visit his city", "Have my plants send me a yo when they need some water", "Send a yo to me when kid gets home from school". These things maybe extremely annoying to some, but useful to others. It seems so dumb, as did snapchat, but when you start to use it you see it is actually kind of novel.
With all the articles, I believe they might even have several thousand legitimate users which, like myself, just installed it to see wtf it is.
Key difference - Chrome updates itself (on Windows and Chrome OS, Linux package managers update it, not sure about OSX).

You'd have to do something very, very wrong to wind up with a version of Chrome as outdated as IE6 had become...
The digital nomad's notebook (the quest)
Use of anti-biotics for livestock has not been banned in Europe, where exactly do you get this info from?

The article talks about the Dutch stopping the use of anti-biotics as preventive measures, a practice where you feed animals antibiotics so that they cannot get sick in the first place. Once the animal is sick, they can still be treated with AB.

And to clear something up:
Organic-labeled beef in the US is AB free, you can only label beef organic if no antibiotics were used full stop.
Germany? Organic beef is allowed to have been treated with AB.

The world of food and animal safety is not as black and white as you might think. The FDA has instilled some pretty harsh rules that have not been adopted in the EU.

Same goes with cars btw, the rules on Diesel emissions are ways stricter in the US, etc. Different safety standards as well.
It's not a question of a false positive rate in this case, because the current false positive rate relies on the current baseline level of malicious actors. If they admit that there are false positives, then that will cause more malicious actions, which will increase the false positive rate. It's actually not clear right now whether google even tries to tell the difference between someone using spammy link building for themselves vs. someone using spammy link-building on a competitor. I don't even know where you'd begin on trying to figure out the difference, since you would never have any data to calibrate to.
Fire phone focuses on Prime customers
Perhaps - it's hard to say. (The project was Google's Authorship program.) The product would've been a very different one without it. We had designed a federated system that worked at the level of the Web and let any website serve as an identity provider. In theory, this was going to change how the web worked, and that change would also be accessible to other search engines and spiders. We didn't accomplish that. The request to make it only work with G+ basically involved restricting that system so that one of the URLs must be "plus.google.com".

OTOH, this did subsequently simplify the system a lot, and enabled follow-on features that wouldn't have been feasible under the original design. Our original design defined an author as a clique of webpages that all linked to each other using rel=author|contributor backlinks; defining a primary key is challenging in this situation, because you have to carry along the identity of the clique throughout the system. Requiring G+ let us key everything to an author's Google login, which then opens up the possibility of other systems using that data easily. It let us display the author's profile picture (which was the primary "boon" to get authors to participate), and connect their works to their G+ profile so they could easily advertise everything they'd done. It helped in marketing and using the product, because basically nobody outside Google (and only like 4 people inside Google) actually understood the author-closure stuff.

Understand, also the historical context behind this. 2011 was the year of "Open systems lose." Android (the open-source operating system) was playing catch-up to iOS (the closed one), and arguably only caught up because they were willing to close off much of it. Facebook had used GMail's "download contacts" feature to populate their own social graph, and then systematically cut off every attempt to crawl their own, also disallowing users from exporting their friends list to Google. OpenSocial had been trying to gain adoption for 3-4 years and failed so badly that Google+ was necessary. OpenID was dead-on-arrival, and Facebook Connect was taking over the web. Google had just sunk two years into providing real-time search of Tweets, only to have Twitter pull the plug on the deal and sink the project.

So in hindsight, it's difficult for me to say that the execs made the wrong call. I was kinda ambivalent at the time - I wasn't pleased, but I could see the reasons behind it and agreed to help out with the implementation. A number of my teammates were furious and quit the project, moving to other departments.
How the 'Internet of Thing' will become the Internet of Things
You can disable Celery's automatic logging configuration by connecting a listener to the setup_logging signal.

https://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/signals.h...

Of course, logging_tree is a great tool as well!
Amazon's Fire Phone recognizes everything around you with 'Firefly'
Amicus (YC S12) is hiring impact-driven senior engineers in NYC
Qualcomm’s Liat Ben Zur spoke of the “Internet of Thing,” in the singular case rather than the plural, at the recent MIT Technology Review Digital Summit. She made the point using Google’s Nest thermostat that is connected to the cloud, and the cloud to an app to control it. Add another IoT device, add another cloud, and another app and so on. She brought into question IoT device interoperability and the rationale for sending all IoT data through the cloud when the purpose of much of the data is communicating between local devices on a proximal network. Proximal means local, like a LAN. If IoT devices from different brands are to work together in the proximal network independent of the cloud, the industry will need to agree to standards.
The problem is that this fight is only about a small, very small part of the equation. It's the entire Black Budget we need to see shut down.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-...
MayDay puts an Apple Genius Bar inside every Fire Phone. Anywhere on earth. Apple doesn't have the human infrastructure to replicate that.

It's a good example of Amazon leveraging their strengths
3 Ways to Build Powerful Relationships + Network
Ask HN: The "Day-Before-Launch" stress cyclone: Love it or Hate it?
I'm working on my first professional game dev project and we're launching the first episode tomorrow. We've seen more commits today than in the past week. We've had more lines of code modified this morning than the past two days combined.

And I love it.

I thrive on stress. I need it to survive.

The day before a launch, I get stupid excited. I'm at my sharpest. Code flies from my finger tips like lightning from Zeus' cock.

I FEEL SO ALIVE RIGHT NOW.

full disclosure: It might also have something to do with the new dosage of Adderall my doctor prescribed yesterday.
> But more importantly, paying tips with cash helps waiters avoid the much more burdensome and directly destructive >30% tithe.

Oh, honestly. Marginal tax rate of your average full-time waiter is going to be at best in the 25% bracket, and much of their wages will be in the 10% and 15% brackets. Functionally it'll be even lower, given deductions and credits.
> if it would be more effective if the pro-privacy and civil rights demographic would organize on a more permanent basis to call representatives rather than on an issue-by-issue basis.

EFF, and to a lesser extent the ACLU, has been doing this for over 20 years.

>more of ordinary people who understand that these kinds of reforms need to happen, but aren't interested in being a member of such an organization.

You don't need to be a member of EFF to sign up for their alerts.
Dear makandra: I bought the book on account of this comment. Read about half of it and love it already.

But why is this the first time I heard about the book?
It's the pet rock of the app world
"Unlimited Free Photo Storage" is huge.

I would estimate that 80% of my current DropBox capacity is photos alone.

I hope Amazon nails this and forces Apple & DropBox to respond.
Traffic shaping is unnecessary if ISPs provide reserved capacity per QoS tier, per customer. Every customer gets X mbits/s of high priority/low latency traffic, with the rest treated as best effort.

That way the customer can decide what they want their own priorities to be without interfering with other customers.

These concepts can be applied to both outbound and, to a limited extent, inbound traffic. Throttle the customer+QoS pair, not the technology.
AT&T has been making claims like this since long before the Internet. "Rise of the Stupid Network" is a classic essay on AT&T's perspective of controlling the network http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
VC's are just mining for user signups using User Psychology based UX patterns to sell to established social-media buyers.

There is a commodity and a buyer and the VC's and social app developers are trying to arbitrage it.
Are ASICs gaining popularity or are they already broadly used?
Why bother sending these messages via yo? All that does is make it harder to understand them. You could have your plants text you when they need water, and the message would contain information itself (the zero bits of information you get from "yo" mean whenever you get the message you have to remember what you originally defined it to mean) and be your choice of more accommodating to the user's choice of platform or more robust in the face of yo service failure. You don't get anything out of the yo layer of the stack.
Amazon announces its first smartphone, the Fire Phone
So far there's nothing all that new or earth shattering. (although those no tangle earbuds look nice) I felt like this phone was going to be super tied in to payments but so far no. I wonder if it's a smartphone aimed at the 'rest of us' who are intimidated by iPhone and Android?
What if you are 10 minutes behind a recorded game, then you get a yo, wouldn't you know to should start watching without the surprise of who scored being ruined? Seems legit to me. If you want to know who scored then you will probably be able to add WORLDCUP_USA_GOALS in a matter of hours.
How an FBI informant helped orchestrate the hack of an FBI contractor
I think it should be termed Precursor Americans. At least that defines that they were present before it was title America.
My understanding is that for the common cold, that's how "real" medicine works too. :-)
Linkbaity title (this is specifically about non-celiac gluten intolerance), but the referenced study appears to contain some pretty serious science.
> 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.

I would agree with you if this discussion were taking place in 1994, when moving away from the legacy of the Bell System was kicking off.

Today, we seem to be going to a model where waves of consolidation are essentially rebuilding something that looks like the old days. If that's the future, you're going to need a strong regulatory leash to keep them under control.
What Seed Financing Is For
Quite right. When was the last time a government official was imprisoned and lost his or her pension for engaging in unconstitutional surveillance?

Sure, a rank-and-file cop stalking an ex-girlfriend by looking up her whereabouts in a law enforcement database may occasionally get disciplined. I'm talking about people with "director" or "section chief" or "attorney general" somewhere in their title.
Clayton Christensen and disruptive innovation: Is the concept a myth?
they're in for a reality check, and probably a pretty fat paycheck :)
Sure, but that still doesn't explain it. Under the hierarchy, Junior would still be peers with Senior, and they would be under a manager. It's not like each person can only have one person under them.
How ibuprofen changes the cell's membrane
Carlypso (YC S14) could change everything about how we buy and sell used cars
I've gone down this path. If you are a decent engineer, go speak with academics at your local university. I spent a lot of time with the bio/comp-bio folks, and they can always use collaborators.
So far to me it just seems like another smart phone with nice specs. The big Firefly feature doesn't seem to be a ground breaking change on how smart phones are used.

Maybe I'm not the target market?

EDIT:
Tangle free earbuds included? This is the future, I'm sold!
No one's denying anyone anything. If it's so cheap to do so, plenty of companies should be happy to do so at an affordable cost without needing a subsidy.

There are many things that are cheaper in rural areas and more expensive in cities, I don't see any rural dwellers lining up to pay extra for goods and services that are cheaper in those areas in order to equalize prices in cities.
In my case I was devastated by natural disaster, leaving me with challenging anti-social obligations.

When I am not worse off than the homeless or domestically compromised, I still help the ones whom I am personally
acquainted with, providing cash sometimes or rides in my vehicle.

There are numerous needy individuals I encounter regularly and they are not always worse off than me.

With needy strangers, until I am out of debt or at least have positive cash flow, I can usually be honest, and get an honest reaction when I ask if they have lost everything.
If so, it's easy to relate how I'm looking forward to working 12hours a day, 7days a week for a couple years
so that I will recover well enough to then have nothing myself.

For someone who is truly homeless, it's usually easy for them to understand that I am non-domestic myself, plus it takes a lot to keep a vehicle on the road so I really don't have anything to spare sensibly.

Since I'm older than most, the sensible beggar recognizes he may be worse off in my position.

This year I often have food with me when I am driving, so I sometimes can share some of my rations or occasionally even have surplus to give.

I am a surplus-seeking individual. My entire (ruined) operation was built with recycled or surplus materials.

One man gathers what another man spills.

I don't plan to beg on the street, I'll learn how to accept financial help from a capitalist instead, and I'm not looking for a donation unless a venture turns out to be a non-profit org.
Otherwise I'll make them as much return as they prefer.

But it has to be a generous capitalist with surplus funds to combine with my surplus technology, then we fly.
The same backing from a greedy partner could only offer further deficit for me, may still get off the ground
but not true flight with that baggage.

I look forward to the time when I can once again exersize my generosity to a greater degree.
__________

- now you're considering street performers while I was typing, so I'll post this here.
Don't think I'll do that either unless I finally lose critical mass of industrial surplus which could happen any time, but looks like I've got a better chance singing for my supper at my favorite restaurant than I would in the street,
which is illegal here except in the (uncrowded) museum district with a very restrictive permit.

sorry this message turned out to be so personal, hope it helps anyway, this one hit "home"
Amazon's Fire Phone
Video predictive caching? I would assume this isn't on the phone, unless they got a sweetheart bandwidth deal with AT&T.
No word on the battery. Will this be yet another phone I have to strategically place chargers in my car, office, and home for because it's down to 15% by 2PM?
The FBI maintains an 83 page glossary of internet slang
Mavericks works fine on my 2011 11" MBA with 4GB Ram. I don't use this machine for work, but it's still fine for everything else.
There is another discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7911165, so I guess we'll bury this one as a dupe.

The best url for this story isn't obvious. Suggestions are welcome.
Unlimited photo storage is kinda nice. I think it's mostly about the services, not the phone itself necessarily.
We just call our largest openspace the Chinese Sweatshop. Even managers use this name.
What a stupid article. If a project is going to take 1 person 40 hours to complete, that doesn't mean it would take 40 people 1 hour to complete. And... I often listen to music via YouTube while I work. I'm sure several of those views were from me while I was working.
One can choose to live without green space. It is far more difficult to choose to live without communications. Everything from banking to education needs fast Internet access, and what better way to ensure that rural residents can make a better life for themselves than to offer them the opportunity to become educated by Internet without having to come up with the funds to attend an expensive university?
"Great phone for reading?" If you really cared about the reading experience, you would have put an AMOLED screen on it. AMOLED screens are far superior for night-time reading, which is when most people do their reading.
I work in a somewhat related team (Traffic/CDN) at Facebook, and I'm very excited about what this is going to allow us to do in future.

Current switches just don't support the deployment, monitoring, and configuration power we have for servers. While we've done a lot (probably close to the most than can be) to bring them somewhat close to par, Wedge should not only leapfrog to equality, but also use the same infrastructure - and gain whenever the server processes improve.

The opportunities opened by being able to quickly canary some new features (without doing a firmware upgrade before turning on and again after turning it off), have detailed logging and monitoring and reusing our existing tools for correlation and comparison, and to do some things we currently are forced to do on separate machines now are fairly large.
Great write-up. For those interested and not already aware, Damodaran's own site has lots of great posts on finance and valuation. This article seems to build on his original analysis done here: http://www.aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-disruptive...
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I'm just commenting to say that this is a very deeply inspiring story, thanks for sharing your experience. I too had assumed that religious fundamentalists are mostly immune to facts and essentially get a mental root kit installed which is unbreakable. Hearing that you managed to break out of this (all by yourself no less) makes me a bit more hopeful for our species' future. Again, thank you for that.
lol then don't add that person.

Maybe you want a Yo from your favorite artist every time they are in town?
Maybe you want a Yo from your favorite TV shows before they come on TV to remind you?
Maybe you want a Yo from your friend when they are near you?
I noticed this in the blurb:

"Remember, keep it concise, yet personal. Ask yourself: if someone stopped reading here would they be ready to make a contribution?"
You're not just using Google for backups? (I admit I don't take huge amounts of photos but that's where mine are)
Reaching out was the best thing you could have done. I know, in my case, I did have to quit my job, drive around the country for a month, and work through a lot of emotions for a while before I could be where I am now. And I know the anvil will come back. Depression is a reminder that your life a fragile, beautiful thing, and that you are in control of how you want to live it.

I'm not saying depression is "all in your head". It is by far one of the hardest things to go through. But there are so many people around you who want to share stories, help you through it, and be there with you. I recognized myself in your post, and I'm here now, writing to encourage you to keep talking, make changes in your life, and that it's ok to be afraid, to cry, to want to go home.

But you CAN get through this.

Love.
We took "GPS" out of the title to mitigate an impending bikeshed avalanche.
I agree with (2), but not (1)
I'm arguing that the depth of consideration should be inversely proportional to the ease with which one can run a test. Certainly the people at Facebook had some intuition about if this new dynamic would be appealing to people. But the reality is the success of these types of apps are hard to predict based upon your own personal preferences, when you look at the way various apps split along demographic lines. This type of app is trivial for Facebook to build at this point, it's really just a matter of opportunity cost for them, so it seems likely they will continue to try various small tweaks to interaction models in order to find successes in this domain.

And like I said, you can criticize the idea that they should be building these types of things in the first place. But people saying that this particular incarnation will never work because they don't "get" it haven't been paying attention the last 5 years in the mobile space, and those who lament the fact that all this talent was put into this app are probably overestimating the effort for a company like Facebook to produce something like this at this point.
The author fails to mention Uber is creating a new market, and shouldn't be valued at the size of the existing market it is disrupting.

Aaron Levie had a good tweet about this: "Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent's market is like sizing the car industry off how many horses there were in 1910."
It is my understanding that goals aren't all that common in soccer; that particular example actually made a certain amount of sense to me. Then again, I don't watch sports. But the fear of getting "random yos all the time" from the world cup seems a little overblown?

Wikipedia lists the following scores for the past few world cups:

2010: 1-0
2006: 1-1
2002: 2-0
1998: 3-0 (!)
1994: 0-0
1990: 1-0

They actually pick up noticeably before 1990, but the most goals ever scored was seven in 1958. Are you sure you were thinking about the world cup?
Chinese smartphone (clone of Galaxy S4) contains built-in malware