skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PUBLIC: a record of you being at a Starbucks at 12:00 this Monday

> PRIVATE: your track record of where you've been hanging out every day at 12:00 in the last month

This seems problematic. What is it about the aggregate information that makes it private? That is, at what point does a collection of individually public data become private? (I agree that it should, but would have trouble defining the precise point at which it does.)

> PUBLIC: your sexual orientation

> PRIVATE: your sexual orientation

I guess that this was intentional, but I think that I don't understand. Do you mean that sexual activities that are undertaken in public (I can't come up with a good way to phrase that—I mean innocently, things like dating and such) are public, and sexual activities that are undertaken, say, in the bedroom are private?
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The person who wrote this wrote it to be booted directly from BIOS. That means it must handle everything an OS would otherwise do for it: bootloader, resource management, hardware access, random number generation, etc. So a project like this has great value as an introduction to low level systems and OS development.
Am about to buy/build PC right now. It will be a six-core socket 2011 CPU with a couple of 780s. All the CPUs are little 1150s. Guess I'm not your target audience?
I'd (figuratively) kill for that feature as well. If you aren't following Hackintosh guides regularly, you fall behind far too quickly.
With Google's move to InteliJ for Android development, I kind of hoped that they might sponsor Kotlin, but alas Google IO 2014 comes by, and they reaffirm at the Android Team Fireside that only Java and C++ have an welcoming place in Android development. With no official plans for Java 7+ support.
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Interesting, I've been using iTerm for so long that I didn't realize that Terminal.app added themes and tabs. That was the primary reason I used iTerm in the first place.
The "unlikely"s and "by accident"s in your comment are correct if and only if you assume too much about the scenario in which LibreSSL is to be deployed. It goes far beyond web servers, you know.

For example, what of routers that have no means of entropy input but interrupt timing? What of Android libraries that just use libcrypto? These systems are usually free to exploit by determined attackers!

LibreSSL/OpenSSL doesn't think "unlikely" and tries to cover as much as possible. The TLS library needs to work as good as possible regardless of the context.
Question was originally on Quara, and there are a lot of other compelling answers there.

http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/What-is-the-most-valua...
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There's a great psychological reward schedule for handling text messages and whatnot--so, that kind of makes sense. Spending the entire time on the phone though really just seems silly and sad to me. :(

EDIT: One of the strange parts to me was the increase in number of people wanting to be reseated...maybe trying to find better signal?
interesting development. just think about the impact of automation on the hotel industry. Samsung has created a smart room control solution for BLOC boutique hotels in the UK. i wonder if this protocol embedded into the fabric of their automation solution
Hey, shared experience here - I also jumped on that bandwagon, and had the same experience when trying to cancel. By the time they acknowledge my numerous and increasingly furious demands, they'd flogged their customer base to Virgin, who insisted I had a deemed contract with them and couldn't cancel.

I went down a completely different route to you, ultimately - I took them to small claims court on the basis that they'd charged me illegally and therefore owed me £600 or so, they failed to show to either mediation or court, I got a default judgment in my favour, they didn't pay it, but they did stop contacting and invoicing me, and my credit score wasn't dented.

Now, British Gas and the electricity meter that ticked over from 99999 to 00000 and resulted in a £15k power bill is another story entirely...
Works well. People tend to love playing with the 3d model.
My edit cited the paper in question, where the author shows how to use markets to solve NP-complete problems.

Either markets are weak-form efficient and P=NP, or markets are not weak-form efficient and P≠NP.
Fast breeder Thorium reactors and electric cars to the people!
Cheap energy and clean cars.
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I'd allow people to unselect a second hard drive, especially since 256GB SSDs are an option.
go (golang, google language) is pretty cool too. They are pulling a lot of good things together from other languages (c++, java) but leave out the useless/once fashionable/error prone stuff. It even has pointers (which I like because they are fast).

Best of all it has super duper easy concurrency baked in (compared to java threads), which really allows a lot more programmers to really use all those cores, even on their notebooks (I love seeing top at 400% on my notebook (4 cores):-)

Also it has garbage collection and is compiled to native machine instructions so it is really fast. And you'd be surprised how much the 1.3 release has matured already even with still lacking libs.

Apart from an as-yet sparse eco-system, what is not to like.
It seems that they don't advertise Android support on the website. Is it dropped?

More info here:
http://blog.andresteingress.com/2013/12/13/programming-andro...

And there:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/working-with-kotlin...
Curious if this takes the same pains with anonymity as Secret itself, where identities and post associations are, supposedly, opaque even to individual founders - it takes at least two to reveal the identity behind a post, and only reveals it for a single post.
I'm cool with somebody re-posting for a site update. I wouldn't have known they'd updated otherwise.
That's the purpose. These folks aren't Google, but are actively trying to undermine the EU ruling forcing Google to remove these links.
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The worst case of tech press hypocrisy I have ever witnessed
You may want to look at an article I wrote in May 2013, which was the first to disclose that Google was challenging two secret National Security Letters in court. This was before anyone except Glenn and Laura had heard of some guy named Edward Snowden:
http://www.cnet.com/news/justice-department-tries-to-force-g...

There are other examples as well, like the Feds' subpoena for search logs that Google fought in court and mostly won. You may recall that Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft received the same subpoena but did not fight the Feds in court; they instead quietly complied.

My article on that:
http://news.cnet.com/FAQ-What-does-the-Google-subpoena-mean/...
We had a personal issue with recruiting developers
The main problem is the high cost you need to pay for these developers to make your startup a real option for them.
Novartis and Google to Develop Contact Lens to Monitor Blood Sugar
It would professional to strongly argue if their opinion is not for the best of the company. By strongly, I would see an argument like "You're the boss, but what you're saying doesn't make any sense because X and Y and Z."
I think the point that the parent was also trying to make is that even if this would effect only Google it's still very important because let's face it, almost nobody uses DDG. At least in Europe and compared to Google.
You have virtually NO consumer protection with a debit card. Once the money is gone, it is gone.

This is why merchant acquirers charge a flat rate of a few pence for debit card transactions, and an extortionate percentage for credit card transactions - chargeback risk. Cannae do with a debit card without bumping into Dante and his buddy in their digs first.
That's just a long vowel, not a diphthong (literally "two sounds"; incidentally, "sounds" has a diphthong in it).
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Does anyone else remember Geek.com's value/mid/high end gaming PC build articles? Each month they'd revise each setup and I always used it as a guide when building or costing machines.

I tried to find them this morning, but didn't have luck. Did they ditch this feature?

Edit: What I liked about the feature is that despite being a "tech" and having built several PC's in the past, I can no longer keep current with hardware developments. The Geek.com guides allowed me to jump right in, without a weekend of research to get up to speed on the latest CPU's, GPU's and various hardware components.
I thoroughly dislike Comcast and would go to great effort to avoid their service.

That said, as funny as this is, this to me is more of a failing on a personal level than by Comcast as a whole. He seems more angry at the caller because he's losing the argument and not getting any concessions and just wants some sort of response or willingness to hear what he's saying. I sincerely believe that by the midpoint of that recording he was no longer interested in keeping the customer, he just wanted to win a point in the argument to protect his ego.

Interestingly, these are the last people you want handling sales/customer retention calls because they don't empathize with the customer or see the situation from their point of view at all. They're more worried about their appearance than the ultimate business goal, which is increasing sales.

I'm pretty certain that he would be reprimanded for this behavior.
There's a world of difference between a rusted barely fly worthy Mig and the "Bison" upgrade the Indians and Israelis created.

Case in point the old Mig-21 had a so-so radar from the start, the Bison version has a state-of-the-art radar able to target and fire at multiple objectives at the same time.

And that's just once component of many that were upgraded.
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Show HN: HuBoard:Enterprise – Project management for GitHub Enterprise
I highly recommend that any "hacker" have a moderate familiarity with at least 2 assembly languages or similar instruction sets. Not necessarily enough to be an assembly programmer, but enough to understand what kind of operations happen at that level and how various implementations differ. I've found such knowledge to be very helpful at times when working in C/C++, JVM and ActionScript projects.
But allowing it encourages people to game the system by reposting things that have been upvoted before.
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Like text/enriched[0]? Though I guess it might not count as "nice"

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text
Thanks! What's your opinion on which ARM Cortex uC uses the least amount of power?
I'm pretty sure they refer to the inability to type ß. Which is a real concern for type writers, less so for most keyboards. I'm writing this using an American keyboard and I don't see why I shouldn't use "ß" just because it's a different key(-combination). I also wouldn't start writing "spaet" just because "ä" takes a bit more work (Alt+U, A).
I can't help but focus on the failings of the reasoning of the answer given here. I keep getting flashbacks to the late 1990s when you got that answer, but swap "Javascript" for "Java".

I am failing to find sound reasoning behind the answer, which is essentially "Just learn Javascript, ok?".
No worse than Gmail having in compose ctrl+Enter, sending the mail... When the intent is to start a new line, without starting a new paragraph..
Hey, there's no law that says any reply must be an argument against the comment it's replying to. At least, not until out-of-control government regulators mandate it.
Unfortunately, in a market where the number of choices available are limited by physical space (Do you know what it looks like when 15 different ISPs all run their own last-mile hardware? Would you like to live in a city where 8 different sewage disposal companies all run their own waste pipelines?), a sufficiently free market is practically impossible.

In some cases, even a nebulously defined "sufficiently" free market is impossible.
cc stands for "carbon copy", which was a mechanism for hard copy letters.
>If I look at mobile social apps these days, animated GIFs eat up enormous amounts of data.

In mobile apps? Are they really animated GIFs?
Although Comcast is notorious for having terrible customer service, this is NOT the only fee-for-service business that deals with disconnects like this that I have dealt with.

It seems to be a trend now to harangue customers when they want to terminate service contracts.

I wouldn't be surprised if certain companies pay retention bonuses if they can keep a 'disconnect call' from actually disconnecting.
Show HN: Timer app simple as a YO
unfortunately I have to agree.
You may want to check out HoverHound, a chrome/firefox plugin.

It'll let you compare the price of a part on newegg with the current price on amazon and tigerdirect.

When I rebuilt my htpc about 6 months ago, I was surprised to find that many of the parts were actually cheaper on amazon.
I found myself looking for a 'upgrade your shiny old PC' section...

Site is appealing, but would be more useful if you could put in everything you already have, then look at which piece/pieces could be upgraded, with $/wattage/performance changes...
Well, in the embedded system field Assembly is still pretty much used everywhere, I think you are talking about doing asm for the regular PC.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programm...
I'm not a habitual PHP user, and I have perturbed many electrons on why I wouldn't use it for nontrivial projects, but I could slam out something for which I don't care about security or performance in a very short period of time.

Rails, Play, etc. have some friction; Sinatra makes you reinvent a lot of wheels. You really can just fart something out in PHP very rapidly.
Super sweet!

Does it have a switch that lets the computer cheat?

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Almost Forth like. That should be read in schools.
great one more question, on my rough inspection it looks like the encrypted text and the key is stored in the same database entry. pardon my lack of knowledge, but this seems insecure.

Can you explain your decision?
Device security must be at the heart of Internet of Things development
A lot of these people are not American and thus not eligible to be NSA employees, assuming they'd even want to be (obviously not).
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I believe the sentiment is to at least expose girls to these fields more than we have. Whether they enter them as a career is of course their choice.
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I think it's less about ability and more about interest.
This is perfectly timed (for me) as I plan to build a gaming computer soon. I've lived off a laptop and an older desktop for a bunch of years but have money sitting saved for a new desktop.

Overall, I really like the site rating and the rational pros/cons between the different options.

The description of the AMD gamer computer made me realize there were more options than three, I didn't intuitively realize I could scroll down for more computer builds at first. That is probably more a me problem than a mass problem, however.
OpenWRT Barrier Breaker 14.07-rc1 released
My guess is that the $60,000 is for initial exploratory work, and if they find a way to improve it substantially that requires more development effort a bigger donation will come.

And the saying about gift horses' mouths applies to FB's horses too ;)
"Is it a violation of civil liberties for a cop to ask questions?"

If it's questions about your life and the cop doesn't make it clear that you can refuse to answer without any consequences, then yes, it very much is. Part of civil liberties is that you don't have to explain to anyone how you live your life unless there is some good reason to believe you did something illegal.
Show HN: SpikeTime – time tracking alternative for project teams and freelancers
Hi guys,

we are following HN on a regular basis and we are quite impressed with the quality feedback. Today we want to show our own product.

Yes, it's another time tracking software. BUT we are freelancing for about 5 years and we found it pretty hard to find a decent time tracking software which is not terribly complicated but still has all the features needed for freelancers or small companies. That's why we decided to build SpikeTime.

We appreciate any feedback.

Thanks in advance!
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Looks nice
Is this a personal side-project or is this going to be a business? Any other features expected?
thanks
If you're looking for something similar that's always kept up to date, check out the PcPer hardware leader board. They have a low/mid/high/dream system suggestion.

http://www.pcper.com/hwlb
Receiving a text message lights up the same area of the brain stimulated by addictive drugs such as cocaine.

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/09/08/the-new-drug-on-the...
Same here. Feels like a mix of OSC (Open Sound Control) and HTTP. As with OSC it runs over UDP, which is handy for low-pwoer devices and/or constrained bandwidth.

However, also as with OSC, you can use TCP for CoAP if need be.
A HTPC option would be nice.
Which happens when you run Instruments.

I had a project with this exact setup about a year ago... The amount of time lost resolving conflicts wasn't worth it.
The assumption pre-Snowden was that only "hostile states" did that kind of thing, e.g fibres in and out of China were probably tapped, but most of the internet wasn't. Because, you know, search warrants do exist.

It's rather arrogant to say "everyone should have known". Snowden's leaks have been making waves for a year solid now exactly because he showed that reality was the worst case scenario only the most extreme of the extreme postulated previously.
Read again:
"The Thread technology will be licensed to members under RAND-RF terms.
"

RAND-RF = royalty free
Bring “MagSafe” to iPhone
Hi guys,

we are following HN on a regular basis and we are quite impressed with the quality feedback. Today we want to show our own product.

Yes, it's another time tracking software. BUT we are freelancing for about 5 years and we found it pretty hard to find a decent time tracking software which is not terribly complicated but still has all the features needed for freelancers or small companies. That's why we decided to build SpikeTime.

We appreciate any feedback.

Thanks in advance!
Find a project on github that is related to your interests and written in a language you're at least moderately good... or create something from the scratch. Find a problem and try to fix it. Even if someone already did that, doesn't mean you can't make it better.

Don't pick large projects for contributions - you'll spend too much time just making sure that your contribution at least will be reviewed.

You say you like movies, I'm sure there must be something related to that entertainment medium that you can contribute to.
SATA cables are included with the motherboard, and DVI adapters are included with the video card. Neither of those should be an expected purchase when building a new machine.
> It sounds like ordinary specialization in an economy, to me.

It also runs counter to the purpose of patents: patents are originally a time-limited and governmentally defended monopoly on an invention to encourage its full publication[0] and ultimately the progress and improvement of society as a whole[1].

When entities can exist to do nothing but defend such monopoly against independent reinventions the incentives are completely out of phase with the original purpose: patents assumed the invention (and its trade) is the important object, not the monopoly itself.

[0] rather than trade secrets, espionage and other such focus on anything but progressing

[1] not only because the invention is available at all but because once the monopoly runs out it becomes a new baseline[2] for further invention

[2] in that it's free, it is possible to license the invention to build upon it during the monopoly phase, but I think it reasonable to assume increased activity once the invention becomes literally free for all
haha check out my post history, I am far from afraid of being downvoted, I actually feel like I usually know when I will be downvoted and I still post. I would guess most others would not and that affects the overall quality in a negative way.
It would be better if the iPhone would play <video> tags without user interaction. I get the reason why they disabled that back when the iPhone first came out, but GIFs use up more bandwidth than videos, so they're actually punishing users.
Perhaps I generalized a bit too much (I suppose I should not have commented when I was dead tired...) However, the USDA does in fact allow non-prohibited chemicals to be used on USDA certified organic produce.

USDA National Organic Program: http://goo.gl/OUCAXM
USDA National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances: http://goo.gl/YXLUJ5
I guess it just points out that technology != valuation. However, it also highlights that what Secret is doing isn't terribly special (nor Twitter, etc) and that they have a pretty reasonable chance of someone swooping in and taking over their market (happened with MySpace for example) at some point if the community becomes bored.
> isn't it still positive for the economy?

NPEs don't grow the economy, and by their activity they hinder or kill companies which do.

So no.
Does anyone know why GIMP is listed as a build dependency?

I don't see it being called anywhere in the Makefile.
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Seems like PCPP makes it much easier to filter on specific criteria (say, you only want to see 7200RPM HDDs) but the linked site seems much more user friendly, particularly for beginners.

Edit: Also, the first several builds I made to test the site out all appear to be shipping from Amazon. Not sure if this supports multiple vendors or not.
Good PO/PM's care about the integrity of the product enough to argue with a CEO, but developers intrinsically have extra motivation beyond just "product integrity is valued!": every additional iota of product crappiness is painful, every time they touch it.
> isn't it still positive for the economy?

Why? Where's the benefit for the economy? If somehow the patent trolls reinject the benefits they make (ie what they obtain from the law suit minus the lawyers/legal fees) in the economy, perhaps we could say it's maybe a positive outcome, but there are no garantee that the infringing company would not have done so. So where is the benefit for the economy?
I don't really care what Microsoft is doing. I don't use any of their products. I don't intend to in future either. It took me years to fully extricate myself from the disaster zone which was Microsoft Windows, and having done that I have no desire to return.
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First of all, this is really cool and I think the closest thing I have seen to 'readable' assembly.

Tiny nitpick: doesn't running asm still require an operating system? I haven't read all of the code but I assume that there are instructions for I/O or other traps that require the OS. Isn't the OS just the layer between the hardware resources and programs that want to access those resources?
What converted me to iTerm was using Vim with a decent color scheme (e.g. Solarized or Base16). Even though supposedly it's possible in Terminal.App, I could not get it working (Mavericks). After hours upon hours of trying, and retrying, I gave up (in?) to iTerm because it just worked.

I do prefer Terminal.App. To me it feels more polished and stable and I'm used to it and it comes with the OS. I appreciate iTerm and the work put into though and it's what I currently use, but if I could get my Vim setup working in Terminal.App I would switch back.