skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why this needs to be an app. I listen to many things that aren't NPR, and I don't want to switch between BeyondPod and NPR One just to get some sort of curated list. This reminds me of a few years ago where a bunch of podcasts were offering personalized apps that just downloaded the archives and maybe some extra content. I might have paid for the extra content, but I didn't need an app on my phone for every podcast I listen to.

Assuming the killer feature here is that it's curated or somehow personalized, and not just something that plays all NPR shows (the page is a bit vague), it seems like you could replace this with a service that generates personalized RSS feeds on the fly, server-side. That way it can integrate directly into your own podcast-listening workflow, where you might have plugins or some specific setup that you prefer to use.
Microsoft China offices raided, company under government investigation
I have used https://pricenoia.com/ to compare prices between different Amazon sites and alert me of price drops
Don't rejoice about the law unlocking your phone. There's a big gotcha
Hmm. Suspect there is a bug with this - All my ratings are five, besides a handful of zeroes. At least a couple of the zeroes I remember being perfectly amicable rides (I mean, I'd assume something extreme is necessary to get a zero)...

My suspicion is that zero is equivalent to unrated, so shouldn't be in the sum?
Every time a story like this comes up, I see a lot of people rush to downplay it as exaggeration, either in terms of the specific anecdotes related or in terms of the frequency with which it happens. Part of that is an inherent defensiveness about the tech industry being painted as discriminatory in this way. I get that, I guess -- it's our corner of the world, full of people we like, we generally like to assume that the people we work with, in addition to doing good work, also treat people with equality.

It's also because the speaker, and a lot of people around the speaker, assert (possibly correctly) that a) he (or she) does not discriminate against women and b) none of his (or her) colleagues are likely to.

But that downplay, and that dismissiveness, is its own kind of discrimination. Gender bias is not something that I have ever experienced as a man, and not something I have ever seen in the small (usually gender-balanced) companies I have worked in. But, just because I don't see it (I'm not the one getting inappropriately hit on, or denied funding, etc.) doesn't mean it isn't very real. Sure, based on all the information I have of personal experience and the experience in the workplaces I have been in, this isn't a problem -- but of course, it's completely solipsistic to argue that my experience is any evidence of the wider state of things.

The shouting down of these stories is itself a worrying sign. If anyone feels like the culture they work in is treating them unfairly, maybe we should examine that closely, to figure out why they feel that way and what we (all of us) need to do that they don't, rather than dismiss it as delusion or malice, and in so doing free ourselves of addressing it.
Scroll down broken here. First I have to click on the page to get scrolling to work. Then as I use the space bar to scroll down, the dots change but often the text does not.
> I don't think any reasonable person would expect Zillow to know about improvements made (like work done inside a house or landscaping).

Well sure, but one of the reasons local realtors have dumped it as a source of information is that buyers and sellers were starting to latch onto the Zestimates like they were gospel.

If a Zestimate was too high (like my neighbor's house), the seller would insist it go on the market at a very high value, and then end up with a bad relationship with their realtor when it didn't sell. Realtors don't have time for this nonsense.

If a Zestimate was too low (like my house), buyers would want to negotiate down under a fair market value. Again, realtors don't have time for this kind of thing.

In either case, Zillow was skewing the market. And we're not talking by a couple thousand dollars either, but on 20-40% swings.

In a neighborhood like mine, where the Zestimate is off by up to $100k from one house to the comparable one next door, the Zestimate becomes a hindrance on the fair market and causes more problems than it's worth.

It's like people getting medical advice off the internet, it's better not to because it causes too many problems in the established industry and not in a good startup "disruption" sense but in a "fucking everything up" sense.

The reaction from local realtors has been pretty swift and strong against Zillow for these, among other reasons. In an area like mine, I'm not even sure what it's useful for: the tax assessment fmv is wildly different, actual buy/sell prices are wildly different, it provides almost no value for pricing your own home to sell, and no value when buying a home that your local MLS doesn't provide (and even worse it's frequently wildly out of date). I suppose if I was looking for a rental it might provide some value, but the few rentals in my area have long since been occupied and Zillow still shows them up and available.

It's basically the worst kind of disinformation, close enough to look reliable, but ultimately a waste of people's time.
As stated on webpage:
"Contactive provides enhanced information for 86% of incoming calls in the U.S., and for more than 50% globally, adding rich context with photos, names, companies, addresses, and more."
Many of the technical advantages that the "West" has over China with respect to weaponry are not based on things that are easily copied. The fundamental advanced technology behind most state-of-the-art weaponry is the ability to do bulk, ultra-precise fabrication of very exotic materials. There is an enormous gap between having the specifics of the design and implementing it effectively when it comes to advanced materials fabrication. There is quite a bit of arcane "magic" to it.

This was the basic technology advantage the US had over the Soviets during the Cold War. Russians had access to our designs (the captured a lot of our weapons) but did not have the ability to fabricate the required materials at the precision required to effect their own copies of the capability.
I've been a subscriber to the print magazine for a few years now, and honestly I think it's been going downhill, at least when it comes to political news.

Where they used to have pretty thoughtful commentary, I now get the feeling I'm mostly reading western propaganda with little regards to the facts.

I guess their business section is still okay, and their technology quarterlies are often interesting.
We would like to add this feature to our app. How often do you guys refresh your data?
That's actually the cert on your computer allowing you to trust it that has expired.
https://blog.digicert.com/expired-intermediate-certificate/
I had this happen to me with adwords, once you get your account suspended or even before that, it is hard to get anyone to talk to you or have a way to correct issue. If you are fresh at it and clueless you are almost certain you will be banned.

Mostly this is due Google not having customer support, so you are just interacting with machines.

It would be easier if we had more options, this way if you get kicked out by apple and google, nothing else is left.
Ask HN: What value does the Blockchain provide to external projects?
Pycoder's Weekly recently highlighted chain-python[0]. I was wondering what functionality the blockchain might provide to a project.

[0]: https://github.com/myusuf3/chain-python
Could the person who sold it to them publicize it? Assuming they would be outside of Russia or unbound from any sort of gag order (not likely)?
I could get behind some premium long form content from NPR, especially Planet Money.
Transit, JSON and ClojureScript
I'm pretty sure you can get trademark protection for short, common words, as long as they are not descriptive or common for the protected areas. You can name your car bar and your bar car, but not your bar bar and your car car.
I'm trying to buy a house right now in Fremont, CA. I can confirm that Zillow has errors and omissions whereas Redfin has entirely accurate data. Every Thursday my realtor sends me MLS listings; in every case, Redfin has the new listings.
If this catches on, it might disintermediate (EDIT: or accelerate the existing disintermediation of) the local public radio stations, which will then lose donations, which will then be less able to do local reporting. (Of course I'm not sure our Houston public radio station does all that much local reporting to start with.)
He's saying that this might reasonably be considered the most effective way to actually persuade Instagram to change (even if it's still a longshot), which kind of goes against your main point of "there's no intention of getting Instagram to actually do anything."
And that use his research. Lamport created TLA+.
Ok idea, but didn't really work for me. I follow quite a few artists on soundcloud. I have several hundred likes. Most of the time, I'm not into the music the artists I follow like. It's simply too all over the place. I clicked next 6 or so times but I didn't like any of the songs given to me.

I made a slightly different take on this: http://likesorter.herokuapp.com/#

It shows me in a table my likes and then allows me to see (in table form) the likes of artists I follow. Being able to sort my tags, plays, and song likes, I get more signals on whether I might actually like the song.

Music discovery is a really tricky problem. It takes roughly a minute each song to know whether I like a song or not. There's almost too many microgenres to keep track of (I like tech house but not trap house). My tastes are eclectic: you'll find cheesy songs right next to the hippest coolest disco funk track. The artists I follow probably have similarly eclectic tastes.
These python projects could help some love

https://github.com/atmb4u/marlin/ - Fast and easy ReST API server on redis

http://atmb4u.github.io/butler/ - Python Dictionaries and Lists on Steroids
> It's outrageous to me that free speech is being eroded every day and the same people that write articles like this about discrimination support it, because it coincides with their beliefs.

Free speech is a right given by the government. It does not have anything to do with your employer firing you for making a racist remark. How have any of your examples expressed an erosion of freedom of speech? I see no mention of the government arresting anyone for their comments.
So well said, and utterly refreshing to read on HN.

The framing of all normative experience as male is one invisible aspect to this that few are willing or able to see.

“Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.”

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoi...
I feel like there are other efficiencies not considered in the article. Namely spoilage and portion size. I mean, you're not usually gonna need a bunch of tuna at once, so you don't want to have a huge can full of enough tuna for twenty people - but you also need it to be in a can big enough to manipulate. Also one with a big enough visible label space to actually put something legible on it.
"Are there any lesser know open source projects that need contributors?"

All of them.
Hey, no offense but this comment reads like a press release. It's possibly to share your message/perspective in a forum without using terms like "enhanced its IP portfolio."
Nexus One.
OnePlus One.
LG Optimus One.
HTC One.
Even Apple's got One!
You realize of course that regenerative braking puts more* back into the batteries for heavier vehicles only because a lot more was necessary to speed them up in the first place?
I disagree. It is completely possible with just a little effort.

Here are very simple guidelines for using NoScript:

Automatically block everything, if you trust a site, add it to a whitelist.

Most sites work without js, if they don't, then selectively enable scripts you need and keep others, you don't trust disabled.

Enabling scripts( or all of them ) for the current site requires a single click.

You can keep a js disabled and only enable parts of the site with clicking on blocked elements.
Your agent will appreciate us then... As they'll get leads for listing your house instead of being sold to who paid for the best ad placement.

As well, we have some of the highest data integrity in the business and are continuously trying to make it better...

And less properties, we're working on that too! After all we're a bit over a year old! Give is time!
They are also charging an entry fee for this "contest" in addition to the prize being ridiculously small. The good news is that it's quite unlikely this will be successful regardless of the prize.
Haha. I've been writing scripts to grab paperless statements off of bank websites (and utilities, and so on). Want to help?

http://www.reddit.com/r/paperless

Some of the nasty ones are challenging, but a typical website takes only an hour or two to write the script for. So it's not as if you have to make a big investment in time.
Let's not forget Disney's Bolt while we are at it!
> The thing is, if it's lesser known, why would you want to contribute to it?

Sometimes it's fun to be a big fish in a small pond.
Oh I get it, it makes a playlist out of the music that artists you liked have liked.
Slightly off-topic, but I can't help but commenting on your statement:

> To most programming enthusiasts back then it was what Python is today: A great, easy-to-learn, fun language that let's you solve almost any problem with just a few lines of code

I've been a part of an awful lot of different programming communities over the years. And somehow each one has a different set of languages they know and favor and have learned in the past.

What's more, they seem to think this same experience more universal than not. I've heard whole groups of people who claim in three part harmony that they love [X], and don't know anyone who's ever used [Y].

Every time I see a comment or blog post or tweet that mentions "that [Z] language and/or tool that we all know and love", I can't help but wonder which gated community they're a part of. It's just automatic now. Kind of like how every time I hear Canon in D, I remember the Pachelbel rant on youtube.
On a related point - I just finished reading "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters" and the author specifically mentions how the "can of soup" shape is pretty dreadful for holding fissile materials:

http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-M...
It's your right to invest in whatever you want, also to not do so, doesn't make it less wrong to do so because of a founders gender/race/something else that shouldn't matter.

Part of free speech is also pointing out that people that are wrong are wrong. Shining light on a problem is not the same as demanding legislation.
*"bolts"
Whether it's a crossover based on a truck or car platform makes a difference. My girlfriend's crossover is on a truck platform, and handles like one. We recently test drove a newer crossover built on a sedan platform, and it drives more like a sedan.
Yeah. I think the fear of a verbose `main` is wrong. It's OK for complicated code to look complicated. If your app needs to initialize a lot of complex network dependencies at startup, then maybe your startup routine is going to have a lot of code. No big deal.

Software is complex. We all repeat, and try to follow, the mantra of writing simple code that does one thing. We succeed a lot of the time. But sometimes, we just need to do something f'n complicated. Better to express the complexity in type safe, debuggable code that everyone understands, than to hide it behind some framework.

I think developers should be more accepting of a code base that's 95% clean and 5% messy. "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
The 600+ million records are not just unique records since phone numbers are not necessarily primary keys. One of the challenges of Contactive is about indexing and building relationships between phone numbers, emails and social identities. Every time we collect new data, it is stored into the directory and indexed in realtime.

It is also important to know that we only index public data and also we provide an opt-out option if someone wants to be unlisted.
For sure, it might be, but what I'm saying is that's not the primary intention. It would be nice if it happened, but it's not necessarily going to unless this gets serious traction.
We Experiment On Human Beings
Show HN: World news from social media curation startup
How would I go about getting a link for the site you are going to publish article to?

This article title piqued my interest but in the end it lack some key pieces of info I would need to try.
Just out of curiosity, do you know how Craigslist sources it's real estate listings? Does it integrate with the MLS or do agents list there separately?
Around 50% of the numbers are from the US and most of them are residential. We estimate that around 1% of the numbers are from businesses.
One way of dealing with intrusions like this is to leak documents with subtle design flaws in them, rather than correct designs. If enough of the stolen material requires checks by skilled engineers before use, it dramatically reduces the value of the stolen material.

(Of course, this requires the intrusion to be detected before it is over.)

EDIT: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage , with the caveat that it's not clear how real the story is.
But it's NPR... It's government-owned, right? A public broadcaster? Can they legally charge for anything?
I have a strong feeling that when your local station's pledge drive begins, the app will use your location data to generate notifications about donating, which you'll be able to do through the app.

At least, that's how I would do it. NPR is missing out on a big donation opportunity by not taking advantage of an app store's built-in in-app purchase/donation infrastructure.
Flight Risk – Exploring fatal commercial passenger plane incidents since 1993
For a formative language, it would be wise for Apple to send a representative and for dotSwift to get Apple officially represented. I am sure the organizers understand this, but this would also mean a cultural departure for Apple.
"I was a die hard Apple fan since 1985 and was an Apple developer all through the darkest days of the Apple death spiral. I continued to be an Apple fan until they announced the “walled garden” and the app review process for iOS. I am totally against having to get permission from a corporation to write and sell apps, and I certainly don’t think I should be forced to sell my work through their store and their store only."

Regardless of the merits of this particular authors' case, I'm frankly astounded that more people don't seem to care about this aspect of mobile platforms. I remember the uproar the Microsoft caused in the 1990s with their "trusted computing" trial balloon, and the uproar that locked PC BIOSes continue to create today. Yet you change the form factor a little and nobody cares. Wow.
> 2. Know which ISP the user is on

How easy would it be to do this (even with JS on)?
This isn't really any different from the streaming player on npr.org. It's got a slightly fancier subscription mechanism. At the end of the day, it's not that useful because I can't rely on my phone's 4G to remain connected without buffering while listening to an hour long news program on a trip.

What would be worth charging money for is an app that could cache a configurable number of hours of new curated content when connected to wifi. Even so, that's not really any different from podcasts.

I feel like the world is still very much in a transitional state with regards to how we think about apps. NPR offers its stuff over the air for free, but you write some code to do the same thing with a computer, and suddenly people are saying it should cost money.
The Most Important Pitch
"Bolts Framework" is rather different from, and clearly not competing with, "Bolt."
Not started by the US Navy but started by US Naval Research Labs instead? Is there any practical difference except where it appears on a military budget sheet? :)

If you ignore some of the drama, Pando has a very long and fairly comprehensive look at its funding (at least, it seemed comprehensive to me, I am not a Tor expert) - http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
`up`, a small Bash function I once wrote. It allows you to walk up the directory tree by passing it a path or the number of levels you would like to walk up.

Has served me well in Java in projects with deep directory trees (due to deep package hierarchies).

https://github.com/helpermethod/up
I don't see Postol claiming that it doesn't work -- his report is full of theory but very low on numbers. Rather, it seems he is calling for the defenders of the system to provide verifiable numbers, such as "140 inbound targets were defended against, and here are the timestamps, and we intercepted 130 of them, given these timestamps," which could then be checked.

Watching from the outside, I have no particular reason to believe one side or the other.
I think that part of the issue is that in a competitive marketplace, the risk of a third party either a) objecting to your short common word upon its creation, or b) coming along at a later date and selecting the same or similar mark are much higher than if you create a compound name or a fanciful/unusual combination of words as your mark.

Simply put, if you create a fanciful term you will be able to operate with greater reassurance that you will not face trouble in the future in relation to your choice of name.

Part of the problem here is the imbalance between the parties' respective positions. The article in fact admits that it is not users being confused that Instagram's app is related to their existing app, but the other way round. You might say that due to Instagram's size, they have the ability to instantly develop goodwill around a new app and its name (I am playing devil's advocate here to an extent).

If I was Instagram I would probably offer a small sum to Bolt.co to change their name on the basis that I could offer a sum now or know I have a deep reserve of budget for legal fees to argue that Bolt.co has not developed sufficient goodwill/reputation to be entitled to prevent Instagram's usage of 'Bolt'.
> Specifically with investors, how are you going to legislate against how someone feels about investing their own money? If they don't want to invest in a woman company, it's their right.

I have the same intuition, but I'm not sure why. After all, you might have said the same thing about an employer who doesn't want to spend his own money on a woman's salary, etc. (And, of course, many have.) But that hasn't stopped us from passing and enforcing employment discrimination laws.

I think that focusing on the investor's right to spend his money as he pleases is not the most fruitful way of analyzing the problem. It is undisputed that he has that "right," but history has illustrated that this right can/should be made to yield to overriding social ills. Does the situation of female tech founders compare to the broader problem of employment discrimination?

My tentative answer is that it does in terms of pervasiveness, but may not have such a widespread and pernicious effect on the lives of all women that we should be comfortable interfering in private investment decisions in order to combat it.