skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem, I totally understand. Best of luck with Bvackup.

PS I realised you are the guy behind Hamachi. I used that a lot a while back so thanks for that also!
How much do salaried programmers really work?
Considering our government created the internet in the first place, I'm not sure that's a long-term winning strategy.
I have no basis for saying this, but I feel like I wouldn't want to work on a app built by a developer who taught themselves frontend with this book.

The focus on "AJAX contact forms, AJAX file uploads, Avatar Cropping" in the blurb is odd. It sounds like you'll be getting a rundown on some handrolled jQuery stuff.
Related story: When I was in high school the library computers had a filtering firewall that blocked a lot of useful content. If you needed access you'd have to ask someone with the password to turn it off for your computer. That was annoying so we installed key loggers to get the password for ourselves. One of my friends ended up buying a hardware key logger that was even easier than trying to bypass the install protection software they used. Sometimes we'd leave the logger on all day just to see what we'd get. There were lots of email and AIM logins.
Is HN only for open source now?
Neat idea thanks for sharing. Much better than my current method of emailing myself links when I want to quickly swap between devices.
I think you simply use the term DRM incorrectly. You think DRM means information security. It doesn't. "Turning it around" makes it not DRM anymore.
Non-free software, without mobile apps, with uncertain approach to cross-device sync if there's any (I'm currently on a terribly slow connection and download had failed, so hadn't tried running it)

What's the pros, compared to multitude of wiki software already available out there?
Have they released the source code yet?
What happens when an American company pays its employee $0.87/hour
The Android Browser by HTML5test
Should my barber do a technology upgrade?
The addition to the legal Terms is new, but the English Wikipedia has long had a norm that you should disclose any conflicts of interest (paid or otherwise), and there have been community processes in place to warn people who appear to be failing to do so, at least when people with undeclared COIs made edits that raised enough eyebrows for someone to notice. You could maybe fly under the radar if you never made controversial changes, but warning templates like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-coi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COI go back to the early days of the encyclopedia. Some people who were found PR-scrubbing biographies for pay were also community-banned in the past, though those were case-by-case decisions.
That's five dollars a day, or less than $2 per meal (assuming three meals a day).

There's this product called Soylent[1] that's supposed to be pretty healthy and costs less than $4 per meal.

[1]: http://www.soylent.me/
stompy ?
I haven't run the numbers, but I would imagine that 4 boxes with 256 GB of RAM are significantly cheaper than 1 box with 1TB of RAM, especially if the rest of the box isn't top-end equipment.
OK, but I guess this cannot take into account edits that would be made via a VPN account?
Toward a Theory of Design as Computation
The result of a surveillance camera is not copyrightable. Only if a person controlled the camera. Even if the person carefully selected a site but then just left it there to record whatever would come, it's not clear that would be copyrightable.

If you fed in specific tuning parameters to the procedure and fine tuned them until you liked the output that might have a claim. But if you just let it work randomly and picked the ones you liked best that would not.

It's not enough to simply like the result, you have to actually do something to create that specific result.
Not just small sample size, it's also biased. FTA, "The year-long experiment will compare two factions of municipal workers." Obviously, the results would be very different for various professions. For people who just push papers, yes they can be 25% faster to get 2 hours more with their family. However, what happens with the service industry? If the bus drivers work 2 hours less, then there will surely be less busses on the road.
OT, but I've been looking for examples where a group opposed a policy that passed anyway and turned out to benefit them by their own admission, and your #1 is exactly what I was looking for: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-cases-where-a-group-admit...
It's Not Complicated Art Parody
java services on windows or ubuntu. web like php, python, html, js on ubuntu/debian. a centOS vm lying around here too
I saw Jon Callas talk about the Blackphone at ToorCamp over the weekend and it looked really nice. One interesting factoid he mentioned is that the Blackphone went from initial conversation with manufacturer to actual shipping product in about _6 months_ which is insanely impressive for a well polished smartphone like this.
What Happens When a Celebrity Dies at a Hotel?
I have no issue with a window. The institution cares more about liquidity being reasonably deep than executing in a nanosecond.

There's always going to be a situation where a market maker on a 'floor' has an edge in analyzing short-term flow and setting a market-clearing price second by second, and a big upstairs institution has an edge in size and longer-term analysis, and the upstairs guy is paying something for liquidity.

I don't think the market-maker is providing 0 value, but probably better if less energy gets spent on guessing what everyone else is doing and spy vs. spy gaming the system, and the more level and transparent the playing field is the better.
FreeSpeechMe is not practical for use because it requires running Namecoin locally.

DNSChain is just as secure as FreeSpeechMe when connected to a trusted DNSChain server.

> It advocates using someone else's trusted server

This is misleading. You and Jeremy keep repeating this line and it honestly feels like a vendetta at this point (I hope it's not). It advocates connecting to your DNSChain server (or a close friend's). This is security that is either on par with FreeSpeechMe (without the baggage), or orders of magnitude better than what's provided by HTTPS today.
A problem, but not the problem. This seems criminal.
I really think that the amount of actual work you do in a given day is going to be much higher for those with a high level of job satisfaction. Those who get to solve challenging problems and work on cool products will probably put more actual work in then those who aren't stimulated.
At that scale... you may be right. Jumping above 256 GB of RAM on a server is still pretty expensive.
Ugh. I live on Maui and wish there was a better tech eco system on the island for many reasons.

I often get the feeling that this sort of self-serving entrepreneurship seems somewhat standard on the island. Some of it is just the "small town" and insular nature of the business scene here, but sometimes I wonder if there's something more malicious to it.
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I disagree with that statement. People created internet. As well as built roads and educated children. Individuals do that. The only question is, how are they financed. If those activities are financed using tax money, it's called "government". Then, the question we should ask ourselves, would people still invent awesome things and build roads and educate their children without government funding? Would they, maybe, somehow use the money they don't have to pay as taxes now, to do all of those things?

After all, they use money to do other things all the time, and those other things are not nearly as important for them as roads or education.
Have you looked at Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, specifically for jobs tagged with php [0]? Quite a few of the listings are for part-time positions, if you want something steady but not full-time. Do you check out the monthly Freelancing post on HN [1]?

[0] http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/tag/php
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970372
To me one of the more interesting trends is the sharp downwards drop during PKs. I wonder if the 'phone burying' that happened during PKs is a result of people not wanting to miss it, not wanting to hear about the outcome from others, or a little of both?
Updated Debian 7: 7.6 released
Chinese man accused by FBI of hacking, in custody in B.C
>I'm not sure if you're joking, but when you have immutable variables they're pretty much like the mathematical variables that we've learned in school, and the benefits from that can be extremely huge

Yeah, I've read all the relevant stuff and seen my share of Hickeys presentations, Haskell folklore etc.

Still, I don't think it's some magic bullet. Maybe because IMHO, concurrency is just the latest fad IMHO. It's like: "OMG, we have so many cores and no more Moore's law, we HAVE to use them".

E.g on mobile apps. If concurrency (for speed) was important, people wouldn't use frameworks based on non-native scripting engines, adding 10 tons of overhead to their users resource constrained mobile phones.

While concurrency makes sense for server infrastructure and DSP stuff, for most of the problems programmers solve everyday (in web applications, in desktop applications, in enterprise applications, etc), it's really not that important. Not just because there are also processes, rpc, Node like async and similar strategies one can use (including APIs like Apple's GCD), but because it's not really about getting top speed, or most of the apps doesn't even come close to saturate 20% of a single core.

And there's always the graphic card for DSP and parallelism -- where it doesn't matter that much if your language has immutable variables or not, because you'll use CUDA etc for that.
GCHQ has tools to manipulate online information, leaked documents show
Popular media reporting on complex scientific/technical/legal/etc topics should always be viewed with suspicion. Googling for the researchers' and journals' names produced the following:

Dr. Mayer's study about women's responses to facial expressions.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23474283

Elaine Hsiao's study about certain autistic behaviors in mice.
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01473-6

Here on HN, we should favor articles that link to the original sources so that the domain experts among us have an easier time digging into the claims. For example, NPR's reporting at http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/18/244526773/gut-bac...
Interesting, but I'm more curious about the robot with the pen.
I've had some success through https://gun.io/.

You can also score some projects on elance, but most of the time I would get good projects from networking. If you can build out MVPs, try going to different tech meetups and see if people are in need of some dev work.
http://www.soylent.me/
How'd you manage to forget?
These guys strap an iPhone to a car wheel, drive at ~ 30MPH and record stabilized video. Pretty neat. http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-e...
Was posted on HN a few weeks back.
Certificate Transparency does not work.

It does not, as it claims, always provide a log of issued certificates and it does not stop MITM attacks:

- http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/trans/current/msg00233....

- http://okturtles.com/#oktvs

It also does nothing to fix the non-functioning certificate revocation problem (which is not a problem with the blockchain).
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The system is still available if your ring gets an acknowledgement of receipt. The latency for the request to be served is a design metric and has no impact on "availability"
An ES6 Static Site Generator
Problem with this is there are already apps that do this for you on your computer.

Grab the small bit of screen you want to screenshot, not the whole screen, draw, save local or auto upload to imgur
There is a giant modal in the way of everything when I load this site. Regardless, I've heard of this before and it seems interesting.

Has anyone tried soylent?
No expert on the topic, though it really interests me. Have been drinking EM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_microorganism) every day for the past 6 months which has improved my digestion a lot.

Thought this comment on the NPR article was really insightful:

There's so much more to developing a healthy microbiome than just eating yogurt and drinking kombucha, as many people like to claim. It starts at birth. As you travel through the birth canal, you come into contact with many different and important microorganisms through contact with your mother's vaginal fluids and even fecal matter. If you're born via C section, you're starting out at a disadvantage. Then breastfeeding is the next step. Mother's milk is where you get your next dose of a very broad spectrum of microorganisms. Then throughout life, as you come in contact with other people, you eat dirt, you hang around farm animals, etc, these are all mother nature's way of helping you develop that microbiome, which is essentially the core of your immune system. Eating is important too, and one of the biggest problems with our modern food system is that everything is pasteurized, cooked all the way through, sterilized, irradiated, etc. All of the healthy microorganisms that used to exist are being killed.

So the point here is that people need to rethink many of their lifestyle choices if they want to heal their guts. Every time you take an antibiotic, you likely suffer much collateral damage because you may be permanently killing beneficial species that you may never be exposed to again. They don't exist in yogurt or kombucha. Either that, or consider fecal bacteriotherapy (fecal transplants) since it seems to be one of the the most promising new approaches to healing microbiomes. ~Julie Latham
A while back I did a lot of business travel and in that situation a watch with world time actually has real value. Same story with ergonomics- rushing through a crowded airport with luggage in one hand and documents in another, it is much more convenient to have a device strapped to your wrist rather than having to reach into your pocket. I think a 'hands-free' smart device will prove to be useful in many other unexpected ways, regardless of the screen size.
Great article! I've had similar thoughts with many service businesses still 'living in the stone age' but I realize that as tech people, we undervalue the importance of the transition. Great action plan and applicable to other verticals
Australian Winemakers Respond to Climate Shift
Although I see a connection, I stopped taking this article seriously when I read this sentence:

"Their study, published last year, was funded in part by Danone Research, a division of multinational food company Danone."
You don't have to power it from the USB port. You can supply juice to the 5V and GND pins on the GPIO header. That's probably a better power inlet interface than either a ramshackle micro USB connection or a janky barrel plug.
This varies by the amount of RAM, if the total RAM being talked about is <= 256 GB (or in some cases 128) this statement will usually be false. But for RAM totals above 256 GB (and in some cases 512) it is almost always true. But these watermarks will change over time so this assumption must but re-evaluated from time to time.
My anecdotal evidence suggests the probiotics that fix your pooping problems fix your mood too. If they make your poop worse, your mood will suffer as well.
Duopolies are not just as bad as a monopoly. Duopolies might not create perfect competition, but it normally produces pretty good competition.

AMD/Intel, Visa/Mastercard, Airbus/Boeing, etc. all have stiff competition.

And your local telecom and cable company are engaged in pretty stiff competition. At least Verizon and Comcast are where I'm at.
I imagine it is easy to eat well on $35 a week if you consider a PB&J sandwich to be a "euphoric" experience. This does not match my idea of eating well, nor that of most people I know. This seems a bit like an article on how to become rich working at McDonalds defining "rich" to mean "earns at least $5000 a year."
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions
A Note from the CEO
So we can be pretty certain that just visiting the Blackphone website has tagged you for Xkeyscore...
There are a couple of other branches in this thread waiting for your followup for the last few hours, and you pick this one? I still want to know if you think that "proficiency in the subject matter" is defined as "ability to pass a standardized test."

You think neither I nor the entire education system over the last 150 years have ever considered the effect of the principal agent problem? I even said "we also have oversight programs in place, including the department head, principal, and local school board." I elsewhere also pointed out to you how test manufacturers stand to make a profit if they can convince people to buy their tests, curriculum, and text books. They most certainly have a bias.

Your comparison to unit tests is telling, in ways you didn't mean it to be. Every project I've worked on has a very different set of unit tests, with essentially nothing shared between the different test cases outside some common test infrastructure.

Even multiple people on the same project end up writing different sorts of unit tests for the same code base. I do more functional and coverage driven tests, a co-worker is a red-green-refactor TDD developer. This diversity of tests is probably better for the overall code base than if we all did the same thing.

You do realize that teachers almost certainly have studied assessment design as part of their coursework, while most developers have almost no formal training in test engineering or experience in, say, coverage analysis?

If the goal is to test the students, then the teacher can - like the developer with good test engineering skills - develop the appropriate tests for the given set of students and expected knowledge. Except the teacher's tests must also be engaging and authentic, while the computer doesn't care what it runs.

And yet you think that one single set of unit tests for, say, all 8th grade English teachers can be useful enough to judge a specific student's progress, or a specific teacher's skills? Where does that optimism of yours come from?
They solve slightly different (architecture) problems and they are on completely different ends of the message queue library spectrum of "usability vs. customizability".

RabbitMQ is a "batteries included" solution. ZeroMQ is a roll your own sort of library. If you just want a message queue use RabbitMQ. If you want to build your own message queue system (with complex or specific requirements) use ZeroMQ.
From what I've heard, Lyft is just testing this sort of heatmap with Android drivers, and that it isn't yet available for iOS drivers.
The subject is eating well, not avoiding eating entirely. You don't eat Soylent, you drink it. A lot of people still would like to eat.
I'm just asking, but is there any chance the connection is the reverse?

Stress and anxiety can cause digestive symptoms.
I Spent Half My Life Making a Videogame
> These attributes can be protected as "trade dress."

That's trademark, not copyright.

If you carefully tuned your program to create a single result you found best that might be copyrightable.

On the other hand if you wrote a generic program that randomly adjusts the variables to make lots of nice looking landscapes then the landscapes are not copyrightable, even if you did a great job on the program so all the results were beautiful.

> Clearly, the truth is that creativity can manifest in the result.

That doesn't make it copyrightable. I could plant trees in a beautiful pattern, but I can not claim copyright on photographs taken of the result.

> What if I simply used cheap data storage to slurp the output of a program so that I could use the output of someone's copyrighted code without permission?

Not following. Does "cheap data storage" make a difference? How are you "slurping" the output? What sort of program is it?

> I could imagine doing this to a procedurally generated MMO world. This would seem to make the practical effect of the law quite divergent from its intended effect.

And what's the problem? The procedurally generated MMO world is not copyrightable. That's the intended effect - to only copyright what a person actually does.

You might be able to claim a dress trademark on the MMO world if it was distinct, but not copyright.
You shouldn't serve your assets (/js, /css) off of heroku. They aren't loading because of the request volume.
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Thanks for the working link!
We're hiring - send us a message: http://www.NetizenCorp.com

We have several commercial clients that have systems based heavily on PHP that we are supporting and have been having trouble finding qualified PHP talent, so remote is definitely an option for us.

That same goes for everyone else here. We're looking for solid PHP talent and trying to avoid having to outsource overseas for it. I had a job posting up but it just came down recently out of frustration from the lack of quality applicants - I can re-post again.

UPDATE:
Position has been re-posted: http://www.netizencorp.com/careers
Look up Ars Technica's series on Soylent. They've done an extensive amount of testing and coverage on it. They seemed impressed.
Good insights *can* be gotten from user feedback
I honestly think that the up and coming VR 'revolution' with Oculus Rift, etc is kind of the wrong way to look at immersion. We already have a way to provide total immersion to a player - in the form of text. It speaks directly to the brain - with none of the motion tracking / headsets nonsense.

Words FTW :)
Tech Scene in Myanmar Hinges on Cellphone Grid
astonishingly low? I thought that was pretty high
The God Protocols (1997)
I hate vertical video and still end up taking quite a bit of it because the ergonomics of phones really encourage it for one-hand operation. Taking video horizontally with one hand on an iPhone is definitely not comfortable.
Bacteria feed on nutrients we ingest with our food, and like people, bacteria don't use everything they eat. Whatever doesn't fuel their growth and reproduction, the bacteria expel as waste.

That waste gets into the blood and probably into the brain, changing its chemistry.

If this theory is correct, does it mean that a drastic change in diet might change a person's behavior? I'm imagining a future where people match their diet to their intestinal bacteria to increase or reduce the "waste" that gets produced to achieve a desired mood or behavior.
It looks pretty pixelated on a Retina display. Consider using vector icons.

Additionally, how to change the style of text was not immediately obvious to me. I tried doing Markdown at first (this would be a killer feature).
Of course the same question could be asked of any SaaS provider, and I'm sure it is in the appropriate context. However, 23andwalnut did choose to go the self-hosted route so I think my question about why he chose to go the self-hosted route is completely valid and not at all a circle jerk over SaaS. You seem incredibly defensive over a simple question.
Any chance of accepting Bitcoin?
Making things public is how the government gets data closer to the truth with less work, and you don't have to trust them to do it. Groups with interest do the verification (lobbyists, journalists, you, etc). This is part of what makes democracy work.

The alternative is that we have to trust the government to do the verification with no check or balance.
Just the fact that I can't see a search bar in that screenshot scares me a bit. But I do like your website. Kind of strange, but your logo looks a bit cut off (the bottom 5% of the characters is gone).

Does this thing archive web pages for later? Does it compress or dedup the data? What's the appeal, is I guess what I'm driving at. I'm downloading, I'll soon see if it runs on FreeBSD.