skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or indeed Jamendo or Bandcamp, where you can basically put your stuff up and get paid instead of hammered by bandwidth charges should you accidentally gain popularity.

People like making stuff and putting it up. Witness DeviantArt, which is >90% unspeakable shit the perpetrators of which should have their hands cut off to stop them abusing pencils ever again, with a small percentage of actually goddamn brilliant artists whose presence justifies the whole enterprise.

(COI: I'm shacked up with one of said decent artists.)
Isn't it the case that they have been decoupled such that a prospective employee could negotiate for a higher salary than that which was calculated on the risk/reward see-saw, merely by saying they have to protect themselves from a Zynga option-clawback scenario? It's not a hypothetical.
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Define flagging. I've been a member of HN for almost 5 years with low to medium activity and all I get is upvote/downvote capabilities. As far as I can see, there were minimal downvotes from me watching (or at least equivalent to upvotes), so the flagging seemed to be a group effort near instantaneously.

Things immediately went from good to bad in the matter of seconds, so there's alot of power in whatever ranking is required to "flag".
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(Sorry about the late reply!)

Not generally, but we'd definitely be willing to take a look if you want to send something in! (:
Here in the US a vocal group of decidedly non-scientific celebrities decided that vaccines were the cause of autism ... we're now seeing a recurrence of diseases we'd previously eradicated.

If we had scientists with as big an audience as these celebrities, I think we'd stand a chance of having a logical discussion but instead these ideas spread like wild-fire without any critical thought involved. Very sad :(
Well plenty of books are the same. Meant to be consumed, used up and then just take space.

But a quality reference book doesn't really have an analogue in music. That book can be a key tool to someone performing their profession. This applies even in a digital medium.
I'll have to take your advice on this one in the future. This crowd is getting as rough as /r/.
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Nice project :) The Nastaliq is displaying fine but with Nazanin font, characters are not connected and are displayed incorrectly. Chrome 35.0.1916.153 under OS X Mavericks.

Also, any plans on publishing the source?
What value is "based in Europe" supposed to have? The continent where the site is located hardly matters, especially with these ridiculous load times (Testing from NL)

Regarding the promise of "no tracking by cookies", what is the "BX" cookie planted by yahooapis.com used for?

A quick guess based on the URL tells a story that's the opposite of "no tracking by cookies"

http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/ads?appid=7RmBar52&ads.To...
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Amazing feedback semerda!

# Disqus vs wp spam prone comments integration?

Absolutely. This is an important feature we NEED to deliver.

# Writing posts while walking

Yeah, we are finishing a "secret integration" for this exactly situation in the next few weeks.... :)
LOL - "The principle of the matter"
Flagging is when you click the link that says "flag".
Like I just did for this thread.
I totally support this.

I'm doing a summer internship in San Francisco and one of my favorite parts of living here is being able to see fantastic local music in small venues. I've been going to a cafe in the Mission where I can just hang out after work and listen to a jazz group play from around 8:30 until midnight.

I noticed that as a result of seeing live music in my spare time, my consumption of recorded music has dropped dramatically. I pretty much only put on my headphones when I go for a run (I will occasionally listen to an album while I'm programming, but I prefer not to).
I respect you for creating something very useful and well designed. I hope you'll set aside some of the immature remarks and focus on all the upvotes!
> Do you feel there might be information that they can't publicize? I skeptical and sympathetic to that at the same time.

XKeyscore is a (at a minimum) 6 years old.

You are telling me in 6 years they can't provide the broad strokes of a reasonable number of success stories?

The fact they can't stand up and say "Terrorist plot X was stopped by XKeyscore" from 4-5 years ago pretty much proves its a failure as far as I am concerned.

> I really would say that it's a question of risk aversion & utitility. Even targetting a whole class of people the odds are probably astronomical of finding someone planning harm (1M:1? more than that?). To me it comes down to the negative utility of privacy invasion * the number of people targeted ??? the probability of detecting & thwarting the one malactor, where ??? is an inequality.

Given that with sufficient information a person is able to force another person to do quite a few things via blackmail, its simply too dangerous to trust human beings with this tool. Especially an organization like the NSA where their only knowledge of Snowden's actions came after he released all of the information publicly.
This is a great tool! It'd be awesome to add lease information into it as well, to help with the lease-vs-buy decision.
I have to disagree with "orthogonal". That means that there is no relation whatsoever between dev skills and interviewing skills. This just can't be true. To set the bar really low - someone who has never programmed before will never pass a code screen, while someone who has clearly has a greater than 0 chance of passing. This doesn't show much correlation, but there's clearly _some_.
CodeRunner[0]. It might seem like it does not actually do all that much but it's a pretty big time saver for me.

[0] http://krillapps.com/coderunner/
Thanks for letting me know, I tested it on chrome and firefox under Linux mint and Nazanin shows up correctly, I have to lay my hands on a Mac then.
This section is particularly helpful for the entrepreneurial side of HN that's looking for new solutions, but also keeps the more technical side of HN intact.

Looking forward to visiting Show HN on a regular basis.
The UK did have something similar, in Belfast, though.

The black taxi cabs during the 'Troubles' there were sort of similar, I believe. It was a shared ride system, required due to the difficulty of getting around the different parts of the city, with Catholic and Protestant areas divided by the 'peace' walls and a lack of public transport.
While he's not perfect, and mild tweaks of Google's algorithms can be crushing for sites (Metafilter would be a particularly sympathetic case), as a seeker of relevant, quality content, and even as one who's largely abandoned Google search for DDG (largely backed by Microsoft Bing), I do appreciate efforts to make results relevant, to suppress the current fad for weaponized clickbait and viral media, which I see as unambiguously bad.

So hats-off and I wish Cutts a very relaxing and refreshing sabbatical.
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Leanpub, 1206 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329397

(We didn't get any comments or many points, but it's nice to see that afterward we've had a number of Leanpub books do better...)
You know, I am female and I used to really be given hell at times on HN. It took me a long time to understand why that was (most of which is not relevant to this discussion) but I don't think it helps you at all to talk about "this crowd is getting as rough as..." etc type stuff. If I had just been looking to blame people here, I imagine I would have ended up banned. Instead, I took some time off, figured some things out, and was eventually able to return to a much more successful experience. As far as I can tell, that means I am currently the highest ranking (in terms of karma) actively participating female member. And this is a forum that is fairly notoriously unwelcoming of women. So I think I speak from both a place of success and the school of hard knocks on this one.

From what I can tell, there is some sort of algorithm that drops you off the front page if you comment too much in your own submissions. Most likely, the mods have good reasons for that. If you want to do well here, it helps to understand the technical environment as well as the social environment. If you don't want to understand it as a path to improving your performance, if, instead, you just want to blame someone and complain, well, it's been nice knowing you. You won't get far here. That kind of thing does not play well anywhere and it seems to play especially poorly here.
Maybe, I shouldn't reply to myself, but I feel like I have oversimplified. First, not all observatories use guiding cameras, but most do. An obvious exception are radio telescopes which do passive tracking, but will check their pointing on a bright source periodically.

Second, the sky is very bright and variable in the infrared, so the dominant source of noise is from the sky. For this reason, you take an image on source followed shortly by an image off source to use to subtract the background sky from the on-source image. As the infrared sky can vary quite quickly, you want to sample the background quite often. If there is a "blank" patch of sky near enough to your target, this is accomplished by "chopping" the secondary mirror back and forth between the source and the off position. This occurs at frequencies on the order of 1Hz, so exposures are less than a second. If you have to move further to find "blank" sky, it is accomplished by "nodding" the telescope, i.e. moving the primary to the off position. This takes a bit longer and may only be done every ~30s.

Because there is active guiding, there is no issue co-adding an arbitrarily large number of these images, and observations can actually be several hours long. And, because the background sky varies fairly rapidly, stacking short exposures (with the background subtracted) will actually give better noise performance than taking long exposures.
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Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study
There are a number of receipt scanning services which can provide what you're looking for (they are mostly B2B, but do what you basically suggest)
https://www.shoeboxed.com/
http://www.neat.com/
etc...
My understanding is that there are three levels of credit card processing (1, 2, and 3 - corresponding to different amounts of information transmitted about the transaction). I've heard from individuals supposedly familiar with payments systems in stores and payment processing that many big chains have a level 3 credit card processing system in place for consumer purchases.

One part of level 3 processing is a line item list of what was purchased. So if it is true that there are stores using a payment system that routinely transmits level 3 information for consumer purchases then it would follow that the credit card processor does currently have the information on exactly what you are buying from those particular stores (not just the merchant and the total amount).

I just did a quick minute or two of web searching and didn't see a trustworthy looking link describing the practice of level 3 card processing for consumer purchases. Maybe someone with experience in the card processing industry could comment on this?
Me as well! Amazing.
That's actually not true, at least not always. I did some analysis on KBB for a car I was looking to buy. I found that for my particular model, depreciation between years 1, 2 and 3 were far less than between 3, 4 and 5. There's a graph on http://www.undiscoveredfeatures.com/2011/09/kelly-blue-book.... that shows the relationship.
Most men would rather shock themselves than be alone with their thoughts.
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I disagree and I would change your statement:
Don't work for anyone whose success is not tied to the success of their software.

Plenty of non-software companies can live or die on the quality of their algorithms. It could be a small development team but it can be challenging and rewarding. Plus it will give you a bigger perspective.

The key is to work somewhere that you are valued.
You're funny. Upvote for you.
I loved those, but the payment mechanism was confusing as hell the first time - you have to pass your money to the person in front, who passed it on until it got to the driver, and then your change got passed back the same way. People would just tap you on the shoulder and hand you a bunch of shekels...
I think the mods are influencing the frontpage a bit more than before, with good mods this is working really well.
Looks great, but would love a working example to look at.
I love how just the introduction of the new section has already triggered a chain reaction of Show posts. I guess people are taking the chance to show what they have done (and maybe never shown to anyone). Good job!
Mods responded via email and said it was from users flagging the post. I won't elaborate further, but thanks for the words of advice!
Thanks!

Feature suggestion: Metric units (for every other country that is not the USA)
Hey Dang, does that mean that there has to be something other than a free App in the iTunes Store? Thank you.
A grocery store I visit has recently ended their loyalty card program. My assumption is that they're doing what you describe, and don't care much about the few people who pay cash. Tracking itemized purchases is probably critical business information at this point for any large chain.
just download and try it out...setup takes less then 20sec. If you don't like it, just delete the folder and forget it ;-)
Replies to an Ask HN post almost four years ago were instrumental in gathering feedback and cementing the direction for my then fledgling site. A bit later it went from side project to full-time work, so I always keep an eye out for Tell HN and Ask HN posts.
Happily, Obamacare limits the extent to which they can do that.
FVEY is the accepted shorthand for AUSCANNZUKUS classification, and has been used since the 50's when UKUSA was expanded.
Something worth considering is the conditions necessary for having both subjective and objective expectation of privacy. If nobody expects to be able to avoid the NSA, nobody can expect to have subjective expectation of privacy.

NSA will certainly know everybody's reaction to the Snowden leaks.

I figure the absolute worst case scenario imaginable is that USGOV is producing a list of sysadmins and privacy conscious individuals for extermination. Most "coding" seems to be happening now several layers up from linux systems. If the Government wanted, they could kill everyone who knew how to actually use a computer. Then they could "Teach low income Americans to program" and then just conveniently forget to teach them the full stack. Note, I don't think this is happening, but it isn't unimaginable.

In addition, the narrative has been very pro CIA since the very beginning. There have been a lot of people making the clear distinction between machine intelligence and human intelligence, which is definately a CIA line.
>what would you say is the word for a man who uses Tinder often //

I don't see what that has to do with anything, but _I_ would call a promiscuous person "promiscuous". AFAIK not all users of Tinder are using it to be promiscuous.

In slang terms I'd imagine "tinderslut" being applied to men and women. Certainly as many women (more?) use it as a hashtag on twitter, https://twitter.com/hashtag/tinderslut, but I think they're using it for women - didn't analyse the results beyond noting as many women appeared to be using it in the results returned to me. The usage seems to be more liberal than referring to promiscuity, rather there's a general sense of unacceptable flirting being indicated in the term, I'd say. Others will have far more knowledge of it I'm sure.

The blogspot user who titles herself "tinderwhore" refers to male users as "tinderbros".
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I doubt there is ANY employer demand for high-paid programmers.

The demand from an employer perspective is for highly-skilled programmers. If a proven highly-skilled programmer was willing to happily work for minimum wage employers would be lining up for miles to hire that person.

The highly-skilled workers are the ones demanding to be highly-paid.

If flipping burgers was more difficult then there would be a smaller supply of qualified workers, those workers could demand to be paid more, and the employers would have to pay up or risk getting crushed by their competition.
As many as I have chicken farmers, long haulage truckers and other "capital at the lowest rung" industries. Which is one.

But that's not the point - Uber has no obligation to their drivers to provide work, or a fixed amount of pay not does it want to operate in an environment where it Ilis forced to do that. And history shows that if you have all the capital requirements at the bottom of the ladder (you own the car / the chicken shed / the 17wheeler) then the bottom of the ladder will keep cutting its own throat.

Uber would not be in business if it owned the capital.

What surprises me is the taxi firms do not seem to be fighting back with a (open) app of their own
Sure, but you spent so much effort and time making the beautiful landing page and documentation, you might as well have a demo. I can't be the only person too "lazy" to download, and run it.
I guess it may be out of the scope for that book, but i was expecting a mention of saltstack on the deployment part. Since there wasn't any mention of any provisionning tools ( or i didn't see where), i suppose it's on purpose.
Technically you can run it in the browser:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/pybrowser/python-bro...

But, not good for mass audience. It'd be nice if someone (google) took it upon themselves to implement another lang in the browser.
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Teepee is getting back on track now; I just had a few weeks where I was unable to do much with it, but I started designing and developing things again yesterday.
Thank you! The more I can avoid the mouse, the better. Once installed it works great. Not sure if all features were supposed to work on the demo page before installing, HJKL navigation didn't work on Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 under Ubuntu 12.04
"what should i give?" answered with:

GRANT SELECT,UPDATE ON my_schema.* TO 'my_user'@'my_host' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password';
they may very well be more knowledgeable and experienced than you in the field you're asking questions about.

But if they are, then the method will break down at either steps 2 or 3, because either the person will see that the assumptions you're trying to get them to accept would contradict their thesis, or they will be able to use their superior knowledge to convince you that the assumptions don't actually contradict their thesis after all.

You can question someone's assumptions without being 'smarter' than them.

Yes, but the method I described is more specific than just "questioning assumptions". It's a specific tactic with a specific objective: to force the person you're talking to to admit that a thesis they had believed up to that point is false, by making them prove it false for themselves. But to use this method successfully, you have to pick your targets: you don't use it unless you already know, in advance, that step 3 can be reached, which means you already know, in advance, that the person will not be able to head you off during the process. That knowledge is what makes you smarter than the other person.

It's worth noting, btw, that most of what we know about Socrates, and practically all of what we know about how he used this method, comes from Plato's dialogues, which portray Socrates as having a very high success rate with his method. We don't know how accurately Plato represented that aspect of things; the real Socrates might not have been as consistently successful at using the method as the character Socrates in the dialogues. My comments are really about the character Socrates; they are only about the real Socrates to the extent that the character accurately represents what he did and how well he did it.
People don't really want to own music. People want to listen to what they want, when they want.

If a company can provide that service, for a fee, that company will succeed.

The older and slower to move companies, will not understand. Those old and slow to act companies will fail.

People don't want to own music. People want to listen to music.
You just prompted me to have a quick read through the Pyramid docs. It looks really nice.

I use Flask as a general rule (though I try to have as little web app specific code as possible with whatever I do). I've worked with django in the past and it's just not for me. Pyramid immediately feels like it strikes a nice balance between the two extremes.
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Haha, well damn, isn't this just the problem with law. You try to speak figuratively to communicate the gist of an idea abstractly (given the forum), and then someone comes along to explain how your figurative speech isn't literally correct.

Ah well, like I said we disagree on the risk. In which I mean the cost of doing business, not the danger of losing a lawsuit. I think you've missed my point, and are conflating 'legal certainty' and 'winning argument'. Also you avoided addressed why a service would act against their own users in such a way, even if the perceived risk is small. (By the way I would argue many if not most, DMCA related litigation in which ISPs have lost shows that failure to comply strictly with all aspects of the DMCA was the ISPs downfall, please forgive me for not including citations ;)

Nevertheless, you have excellent points as to why we need to replace the DMCA, and why there may be a perception that there is less risk in ignoring a restoration demand then complying with it.
http://www.web2py.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lE-R16H4c
Show HN: Free and Open Source book to teach Firefox OS app development
Hey Friends,

I always considered doing a show HN about this but never took the jump but since we're in the Show HN carnival I decided to share it.

I wrote a free and open source quick guide to teach Firefox OS application development. With this ebook you go from zero to a little application in the Firefox Marketplace.

https://leanpub.com/quickguidefirefoxosdevelopment/

I created this to give away at hackathons and hack days because the Mozilla docs were spread all over the developer hub, mdn and the wiki so it was hard for new developers to find what they needed.

The guide has been quite successful and has about 8.000 readers right now counting the Portuguese and English versions. I am currently finishing a new book that is focused on teaching game development for Firefox OS, this will also be free and open source. There is a hotsite at leanpub about it: https://leanpub.com/buildinggamesforfirefoxos/ you can register to receive the updates about the release.

For those that would like what other books related to this new platform are available on the web I created a site devoted to Firefox OS books at http://firefoxosbooks.org

We at the Mozilla Community believe that the Web is an important public resource that should be protected and evolved. Firefox OS is a step in bringing the powers and freedoms of the Web to the mobile ecosystem. It has a huge potential and I could go for hours about why it matters. I hope this book will help people curious about developing for the platform.

Cheers