skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a lot of the anti-drug[1] lobby is heavy supported by the legal drug lobby[2]. There's just so much to lose by so many people if safer alternatives emerge (ignoring the fact that new industries will emerge).

Dr. David Nutt is working on this: http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/feb/27/david-nu... but there are already a large pile of options, just a lack of political will.

[1] Anti-drug referring to anti-illegal-drug.
[2] of which consist of drugs that would never pass the medication approval process, but solely exist due to a history of use and grandfathering
The Impact Generation Has Arrived
I agree. Beyond being gay these people are human beings and have accomplished great things, and as such should be defined by their accomplishments rather than their sexual orientation. Until I read this article I didn't know Tim Cook was gay. and until I read your comment I didn't know Peter Thiel was gay. I know these men by their accomplishments, not their sexual orientation. Now that I know their sexual orientation, who cares? As someone pointed out it's as trivial as knowing the name of Tim Cook's dog, if he has one.
It's also on the keyservers: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xEBA34B1C&op=index
• iOS app using Multipeer Connectivity Framework for personal medical information communication
• A healthcare social network
• Curriculum for my child and I to learn programming together - without spending all the time staring at screens. Using drawings, machinery, logic problems and so on.
• An online clearinghouse for running in Boston., Then D.C.
• Web back-end for tracking my $$ balances from SMS/email expense itemization: I send an email for an expense, it sends back my new balance.
It is not useless if you have some other way to verify the key, such as the Web of Trust.
There's only a few markets that can cover the sales overhead of feet on the street.
Just something that has the high of alcohol without the disorientation, though it's short lived and doesn't work on a full stomach. Legal though.
No valuation, because of convertible debt

No board seats

Not a lot of money raised, so not as dilutive as typical Series A

No expectation to hit "Series B" type metrics next time they raise
It is a software renderer, so you won't get decent performance anyway.
Danielle explains this clearly in the article. Mattermark "couldn’t raise a traditional Series A on acceptable terms."

"I quickly discovered expectations for a B2B Series A were $1.5M in annual revenue run rate — we were growing fast, but still only 1/3 of the way there at the time."

They don't have enough revenue so they went for another seed round instead. It's not questionable; it's logical and helped her to keep the company moving forward.
Well, I used to think that. Back in 2004 when it started, you could and wanted to see all your friends updates, and even for years afterwards. Now, it's probably less than 10% of everything you'll ever see, others are purposefully hidden from you. Facebook was a social place, and was supposed to be "the place to keep in touch with friends", so yeah, wanted to see 100%...
"Toxic" is a misunderstood term. Toxicity is all about dose. The water piped into my residence can be toxic despite meeting drinking water-quality guidelines. If I drank its full output continuously for just minutes, I'd be dead of water intoxication.
Android's permissions system is useless anyway so it really doesn't matter what they do with it.

Most people don't read the permissions and wouldn't know what some of them mean even if they did (let alone that sometimes the same heading appears multiple times, requiring you to read the fine-print to look at exactly what the app wants to do).

Worse, their experiences train them to ignore the prompts just like EULAs or IE's infamous ActiveX prompts... "Wanna punch the monkey? Click here to install SpywareInstallerActiveX". Many if not most users clicked OK. Similarly, all the big name apps and games ask for a huge long list of permissions and users are trained to just click OK.

iOS is better (though still imperfect). You want to see who I'm calling? Nope, the privacy invasion isn't worth the risk of ever exposing that. Want access to contacts? Then the user will get prompted at that point in time, not at app install (though some crappy apps try to ask at startup). All apps are required to work even if the user says no, and be functional unless the permission is required for the app to work at all.

Users are much more likely to be aware of what is happening if the permission request happens at time of use. If I install a game then during the first level I get a popup asking for permission to access my contacts, I'm much more likely to treat that as a red flag because nothing about the context would indicate the app should be looking at my contacts, versus being buried in a huge list of permissions that I usually ignore anyway.
This is a software mode graphics API for embedded.

Since almost any embedded chip will have some graphics cores, or in their absence I have no idea what you are trying to render for, a software only API is insane in this day and age. The performance differentials are so many orders of magnitude between the best CPU and the worst GPU it isn't fair.

Software rendering died a decade ago, and should be left dead. We have great new tech like EGL and GLES growth to standardize on a base set of accelerated 3d functionality you can just assume. Which is great.
depends on the software installed on both and the adversary you have in mind

if we're talking defending from suits; your phone is probably turned on a lot larger percentage of the time than your laptop so it's more susceptible to a cold boot attack

if we're talking defending from some thug who jacked your phone; it probably doesnt matter
Wait, Mattermark and Matterport were started by the same guy?
Did their valuation really rise that much by pivoting that a16z decided to double down or was there a cap on the first round?
There are better ways to question the ethics of the experiment. Here's a simple approach:

Would anyone want their emotions manipulated to be unhappy or unhealthy?

The corollary in a medical experiment would be, would a healthy person want to undergo an experiment that could make them sick?

Some people mentioned advertising as a counterpoint, that what Facebook does is not at all different from advertising's psychological manipulation. Well maybe some forms of advertising ought to be regulated too. Would a child voluntarily want their emotions manipulated by a Doritos ad to make the sicker or fatter?

Even if it's not known what the outcome is, the two points are:

(1) Facebook's various policies specify you will randomly participate in their studies, but

(2) It matters if an experimental outcome can harm you.

So even though you agreed to participate in experiments, you weren't told the experiments could hurt you. That is a classic medical ethics violation, and it ought to be a universal scientific ethics violation.
Mars ‘flying saucer’ splashes down after NASA test
Thank you for your response. It's a bit of surprise to me, because I had always heard the opposite, that daily drinking lets one build up a tolerance while binge drinking repeatedly hits the liver with more than it can handle, but I suppose that was just folk wisdom. I've cooled off a bit over the years (originally I drank to deal with depression that I eventually "got over"), but maybe it's time I took another hard look at myself.
The 250% more instructions are the frame pointer, which is how your debugger figures out the stack trace when you happen to break execution at the "xor eax, eax". Use -fomit-frame-pointer to get rid of that. That has nothing to do with optimization.
It occurs to me that the fight over software patents is all about marketing, which is (mostly) about money. After all, if you produce a unique piece of software, you have "first mover" advantage; the only way someone can eat your lunch is if they a) copy you and b) market it better than you.

The two major ways you can be out-marketed are a) adding your product as a feature to a much larger, already successful product, and b) spending more money on marketing, adoption, and general product/market fit. (There is the possibility that you just get lucky on virality, like what happened with Flappy Birds, but that's extremely unlikely).

"The little guy" is helped tremendously by patents, because he now has tremendous leverage against against a company that does one of these two things with his idea. They are forced to license the invention.

This, in turn, falls apart when the invention is "obvious" or in some way "inevitable". This hurts both the big guy and the little guy - although arguably, it hurts the little guy even more than the possibility of theft, since the little guy is not spending his days reading patents.
Has anyone heard of Bravo? It's actually minecraft in python... https://github.com/bravoserver/bravo
I was also expecting to see an explanation of why the crash was occurring, given the build-up.

Here's my theory:

One or both of the parameters were passed in from unsafe references, and the objects had been deallocated. According to a simple reading of the code, you would not expect this to be a problem, because the method doesn't attempt to access either of them (it's equivalent to passing an invalid pointer to a C function, and then not accessing it).

However ARC subtly changes the semantics of the language. Strictly speaking, the parameters are supposed to be valid, as ARC adds retain/release calls for them (the fact that those are normally optimised away is purely that - an optimisation). So the bug here was that invalid pointers were being passed to a method which does actually use them (albeit non-obviously). As soon as retain was called on the invalid pointer, it ended up accessing or calling to some arbitrary location in memory, hence the crash.
Using your own PKI for TLS in Golang
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through Facebook
what else do you expect from what's most likely a PR puff piece?
This is the ninth time this article has been posted:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/The%20Pitchf...
I am creating what the next DIY hangout place should be: http://www.wisrr.com/

Basically you can say it's a child of Pinterest and DIY Message Board. If you ask question on how to fix your house, you know people want to see the pic of your mess.

Mobile app coming.
The community isn't really deifying Swartz.

What you're seeing is the community making him into a martyr.

Martyrdom is a concept that is somewhat foreign or unexpected in American culture. Similar to the delusion that the country is somehow immune to totalitarianism, there exists a common assumption that martyrs, like dictators, only happen "in those other, less free countries".

The very nature of what it means for someone to be a martyr basically guarantees that people will react strongly. This is why they can be a unifying force ("we must ${dangerous_but_important_task} for ${martyr}!"). This is also why the more talented oppressors take steps to prevent martyrs such as having them "disappeared".

I see this situation as similar to the question of what to do with the medical data acquired from the Nazi camps. A good argument can be made for both sides, but in the end we should make use of the resources we have.

So if it takes some "deification" or get the larger community to finally wake up and do something about these prosecutors (and other related people), then I would suggest that any "deification" at least served an important purpose. Given that Swartz spent a lot of time and energy trying to get people to do just that (wake up and actually fight the "big" problems in our society), then... I suspect he would have approved for the same reason.
Oh boy, coming back to C# after a couple of years was a total shock for me. Here are some things that come to mind:

Dependency Injection:
NInject

ORM:
Entity Framework, Linq

Logging:
log4net

Package Management:
NuGet

Interface between web applications and web servers:
OWIN

Ideas, Books:
POCO, Applied Domain Driven Design and Patterns

Libraries:
AutoMapper
The idea that this story is "controversy du jour" is wrong in my view. I think it's an incredibly important story and the underlying issue may be the biggest in technology. At the very least it is not spam, gossip, or other obvious junk.

The explicit HN policy used to be to allow controversies like this to wash over the site. We all remember seeing the home page covered in many submissions on the same topic. The fear that this would cause a topic to "dominate the site" has been proven false numerous times. I'm not sure why that would be a consideration.

I wasn't objecting to the puff piece on the home page. I don't think lightweight stuff like that can dominate the site either.
Oh man! An app to sell your spot in the line at Centrelink - the Australian government agency who manages the 'Unemployment Benefit' aka 'Social Security'.
Looking at Source Home Entertainment's bankruptcy filing http://bankruptcy.morrisjames.com/files/2014/06/0001-Volunta... (parent company of Source Interlink) here are their top 5 creditors,

Time Warner: $53 million
Curtis Circulation: $49 million
Comag Marketing Group: $32 million
BGI Inc: $16.8 million
Kable Distribution Services Inc: $11.7 million

2600 made out pretty good.
What don't you like about the native client for Spotify? I (on OS X) find it quite nice, actually. (Maybe you're speaking of the Linux client, which I haven't used in a while.)
Analysing purchase history to benefit consumers and stores
but coffeescript IS exactly javascript with a bad syntax translator. It' not a "considerably better language"
it's the same language.
"I would think that only body weight would be the heavy influence on this."

Why? Differences in organ sizes, hormones, muscle, etc would surely play a role. E.g. A 35% body fat 65kg woman wouldn't process alcohol the same way a 20% body fat 65kg woman would.
How do I know which key to use to decrypt it? If there is any identifier then that is an identifier for the sender - an irrevocable one that will slowly build up a metadata trail.

Anonymity is hard if not impossible - it's why I don't think evoting can work and why this seems laudable but hard
Congratulations, seems like a great way to thread the needle. Perhaps another good metric might be ratio of fund raising to non-fundraising time. In many ways startups are like rockets and that ratio is their mass fraction, money consumed relative to value delivered into stable 'orbit.' :-)
> I'm a coder, when I see a warning I ignore it

You shouldn't.
Also, $324M is not nearly enough money to deter companies the size of Google or Apple from engaging in behavior like this in the future. The only thing that might prevent them from colluding like this again would be the threat of criminal charges against their executives or many billions in penalties.
Turns out they are very supportive. It was mostly just 13 year old me expecting the worst. :p
Vertigo (1958) SFAIK was the only Hitchcock film set in San Francisco. Rear Window was set in Greenwich Village, though it was reportedly inspired by a stay by Hitchcock in a Jackson Heights garden apartment.
(Responding out of order)

> He was then mercilessly pursued, pushed to the point of financial ruin, and threatened with several decades of prison

He was not threatened with several decades in prison. Worst case, if he went to trial and lost, would have been something like 7 years. There was a plea bargain on the table that would have let him get off with a few months. His own lawyers say that if he rejected that and did go to trial, they thought the most likely outcome would be probation with no jail time.

It is possible that he thought he faced several decades between the time he found out about the indictment and the time he first talked to anyone who knows how the federal sentencing guidelines work and how the totals in indictments are so exaggerated that they make Hollywood accounting look realistic.

You can find a very detailed examination of the charges and the possible sentences in the two links given as references in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7004640

> (Who hasn't, at one time or another scraped a few gigabytes of Academic Journals, and who hasn't, at University, spent a ton of time trapsing through campus in areas a helluva lot more locked down than where Aaron went)

I traipsed a lot at Caltech. However, (1) I was a student there, and (2) if I was asked to stop because I was causing trouble, I would (to not do so would have violated the Honor System). In Swartz's case, (1) he had no connection to MIT, and (2) he did NOT stop even when it became clear that MIT did not want him to continue, and continued to the point of getting MIT temporarily cut off from JSTOR.

He should have done his downloading from Harvard, where he had JSTOR access due to his position as a research fellow there, instead of sneaking around at MIT and evading their attempts to get him to stop.
Capsule coffee machine: astronauts' espresso desire is answered
Netflix Could Be Classified As A 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules
XPrivacy provides fake information for a several permissions, including location when an app is denied that permission. You can manually set or auto-randomize the fake information. People often ask me why I'm sending them Facebook messages from Pyongyang.
Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster 
Come have a look if you are interested in understanding how it works.

Original post here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940212
That was the point that I stopped reading. I started out looking forward to the map regarding "thinking" but it seemed a foregone conclusion.
Software rendering can be good for making references to compare to--at least for driver implementors.

Plus, there's always the people who like the challenge of creating something with mesa in dosbox for the fun of it.
July 19, 2011

"If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million."

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....
That's exactly what it does. It feeds the application with fake or no data. There's no other way to do it due to Android's (in my opinion fundamentally flawed) security model.
xprivacy provides graceful denial of permission by providing false (potentially randomized) information. For example, rather than deny internet permission it will trick an app into thinking the internet is disconnected. Instead of denying GPS access it will tell the app that you're in a user-defined or random location (based on your settings).
A fashion finder for Google Glass! Public beta that you can sideload available here:
https://acemoda.com/

Still a long road to walk polishing it and getting it into the official My Glass console, though.
The difference between this experiment and advertising or A/B testing is _intent_. With A/B testing and advertising, the publisher is attempting to sway user behaviour toward purchasing or some other goal which is usually obvious to the user.

With this experiment, Facebook are modifying the news feeds of their users specifically to affect their emotions, and then measure impact of that emotional change. The intention is to modify the feelings of users on the system, some negatively, some positively.

Intentional messing with human moods like this purely for experimentation is the reason why ethics committees exist at research organisations, and why informed consent is required from participants in experiments.

Informed consent in this case could have involved popping up a dialog to all users who were to be involved in the experiment, informing them that the presentation of information in Facebook would be changed in a way that might affect their emotions or mood. That is what you would expect of doctors and researchers when dealing with substances or activities that could adversely affects people's moods. We should expect no less from pervasive social networks like Facebook.
Todo app is the new Hello world for front end technologies
Lending Club Has Started Process of Going Public
Some links to relevant legal proceedings / profiles:

USA v. Swartz: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/my5tdot8/massachusetts-dist...

Stephen P. Heymann: http://www.plainsite.org/attorneys/united-states-department-...

Think Computer Foundation et al v. Administrative Office of the United States Courts et al: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/29himg3wm/california-northe...
I am always scared that if I start signing my emails (the least I can do) they might start looking weird to my friends, family, and colleagues. They may even think that the block of gibberish may be spam. I do like my KDE KMail client which masks the signing information and presents signed and unsigned messages in a sane way.
"Source Home Entertainment LLC" was the parent company which filed for bankruptcy. Underneath that was Source Interlink International, Source Interlink Distribution. Not Source Interlink Media.

It is clear Source Interlink Media knew Source Home Entertainment would be filing for bankruptcy because they changed their name in May. Source Home Entertainment filed June 23rd. Legally these were separate businesses. As private companies it is difficult to tell much more.
> You are not the same person while drunk. If you think that the person you are while sober is a better person, you have a perfectly valid reason for not drinking.

What if I think the tipsy me is a better person? He's much more outgoing, interesting, and far less socially awkward.
I didn't say that he was likely to serve several decades of prison, I'm saying that he was threatened with several decades of prison.

I'm also not suggesting that everything Aaron did was squeaky clean.

I'm just saying, as is pretty much every other person who I've ever spoken to about this event, is that this was not a "13 felony count" type of activity - particularly after JSTOR said they no longer wished to pursue it. The whole "Felon" element really weighed down on Aaron, possibly more so than the financial ruin that he underwent when the government decided to keep pursuing this. I've often wondered whether he worried about bringing his family down as well - as the cost of defending just kept going on and on...
I'm working on the Matrix. http://matrix.ai/ Can't say much than this at the moment though.
I quickly discovered expectations for a B2B Series A were $1.5M in annual revenue run rate

That's a great news-you-can-use for many people on HN, so I thought I'd excerpt it.

It feels... I don't know. Markets are made where buyers and sellers feel that the offer is mutually acceptable, so I don't want to say "That is too high." I'd say, as somebody who spends a lot of time in B2B SaaS (though only with a toe dipped in the funded sides of that pond), that if you're waiting for $1.5 million in revenue you lose all standing to whinge about how darned pricey SaaS companies are these days. You're attempting to buy a very different thing than was historically bought in a transaction called Series A.
Going Beyond Amazon: A New Model for Authors, Retailers, and Publishers
What about people who want to program lisp instead of Haskell?