skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now whether they were watching your ex-roommates for a good reason is neither here nor there, but the fact remains that the FBI wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't keep tabs on you, someone whom they were living with.

This is patently untrue surveillance state propaganda. The job of law enforcement is not to prevent any crime from ever happening by following around potential criminals or associates of possible criminals. The fact that we're even OK with there being a watchlist at all is a bit disturbing to me.
Well, yes. That is kind of the point.
Victor.js – 2D Vectors for JavaScript
Real world exploitation of a misconfigured crossdomain.xml – Bing.com
Its not an agent's job to provide advice about tenant laws. A buyers agent is there to help a buyer find the right property, negotiate a deal and handle the paperwork.

This is a property management issue. If the owner hired a local property manager instead of trying to make money as an absentee landlord she would have known the risks of 30+ day rentals and wouldn't have rented the condo so casually through a place like AirBNB.

I don't think AirBNB should allow apartment rentals because statistically they know that basically all of the hosts are breaking their lease but this is a condo owned by a host, not an apartment. A lot of CCRs have use restrictions that make AirBNB rentals problematic but not all do.
TIL: Cookies are retained across ports, I never even thought about it before.

Oh yeah, awesome concept (the 1milejobs thing).
It's called an allusion, and it has nothing to do with "avoiding appearing racist".
Ummm, it looks like they already are, sort of:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/17/nsa-respo...

The NSA's response is basically a non-response.
Wow, I guess unlike 'insuring the contents for flood damage' the contents of the castle were the insurance for flood damage.
This is actually kind of funny. I think this may be tapping into some sort of deep seated in-group/out-group psychology. If you look/act exotic enough that you don't fit within the definition of the out-group, then you clearly must be part of the in-group.
I'm going to be forthcoming and state that I've always had trouble fathoming a religious programmer.

It's not there mere belief in a god that baffles me. It's when one goes beyond the simple belief that the universe has a creator and enters the realm of Christianity that truly boggles my mind.

Programmers, in my experience, are logical people -- if not by their very nature, then through practice. While I do not believe that our universe has a god, I also don't find it at all unreasonable for one to believe that it does. But a religion layers a multitude of points on top of this notion and eliminates a lot of vagueness thereof. The creator's name is this. "His" plan for us is this.

I carry my own superstitions. I think it's something that the mind turns to in order to stay relatively sane. My answers to existential questions like "what happens when we die?" come from my numerous experiences with psychedelic chemicals, which have led me into transcendental contact with alien worlds beyond prior imagination. I imagine that that anyone might see or feel something that they are sure of, and need no more evidence. For some, that feeling is an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent god.

However, I (believe that I) am far less sure of myself. I might believe that the death of my physical body won't truly be the death of "me", but a transition to "something else" cosmically. (There's nothing particularly novel about that concept, and it's incredibly ubiquitous in both alternative and mainstream spirituality.) But even then, my beliefs remain fairly vague and nebulous, and I also (try to) acknowledge that I could very easily be wrong, and that when I kick the bucket that there will merely be nothing, forever.

But I have to ask, who in their right mind would want to give me money if I decided I wanted to devote my life to becoming an agent of my own beliefs?
It doesn't seem unlikely to me that race and location are primary causal factors here. When I take my kid to the park in my suburban neighborhood, there are almost always kids this age hanging around without adult supervision. To my knowledge, the police have never been called about it.

So perhaps the title should be 'It's now a crime for black people to let their kids play alone in parks located in economically disadvantaged areas'. Admittedly it's less grabbing to non-black suburbanites, but it more accurately reflects what's likely going on here.To me, the current title seems like it would encourage the relatively affluent readership of Slate to make sure that their municipalities don't overstep like this. But the real issue is that we as a society presume criminality in our dealings with disadvantaged minorities.
I think Spark is from the Berkeley AMPLabs which is primarily focused of machine intelligence, data mining and artificial intelligence in general.

Most, if not all, of there projects (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/) are geared at solving similar problems.

I just don't see how this particular application is so important. At most, it seems to be demonstration of sparks capacities but again it was geared for high performance cluster computing anyways.
Alcohol damages skin in the long term, there are a lot of safer antiseptic options.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006678
Login wall stopped me on my phone.
It's hard to generate that kind of willpower in most people when you have groups like JTRIG spreading the "anybody that mentions the NSA doing something bad must be a tinfoil-hat-wearing crazy" meme and other methods[1] of breaking up "unrest".

This is why we have freedom of assembly. It is hard to get people to stand up alone in defense of an idea, but when they can see firsthand that there are other people that also want to stand up in defense a lot more people will join in.

I suspect that the primary threat we face is not about arresting unpopular groups or even information based blackmail; the threat we face is one where organization any opposition is next to impossible. You can try and conduct things offline and remind everybody that "loose lips sink ships!", but the predictive power we have discovered in data mining could make any organized opposition fall at the first tiny mistake

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Would such a thing allow the creation of a complete terminal fronted for webkit or so? I would love to be able to do all my browsing from the terminal.
What does the hole in the top image represent? Is that just a random hole in the material?

Would it be possible to make the "opposite" of this material? Something that reflects at near perfect efficiency? Would that just be a normal mirror?
There are millions of Muslims living in the US. If CBP detains citizens merely for living with Muslims, why aren't we flooded with stories like this?

I'm a million percent sure you shouldn't have been detained. I have zero confidence in CBP and even less in our "transportation security" regime. I'm just questioning the specific causality you've invoked.
Does anyone else think this is the perfect example of why Texting apps just need like 3 macros when you have a blank message so you can just tap them?

Hi / Yes / No

That is really all the functionality this provides.
You can use orange/yellow tinted glasses instead of f.lux, also works vs other sources of blue light.
I recently found myself with most of my data - accumulated over a 10-year period - in a single drive, and decided it was time to do something about it. My takeaways:

- Avoid Backblaze unless you have your external drives connected at all times, files are erased after 30 days if not seen by the app.

- GDrive is the cheapest, but can't backup external HDDs at all.

- Arq/Glacier or Tarsnap is probably the safest archival you can get, but can be quite expensive depending on your usage pattern.

- Crashplan, as Backblaze, focus on 'devices'. They are best suited to people who don't have lots of files outside of their computer. Crashplan has a terrible reputation for losing customer's data.

In the end I went with Bitcasa[1] and am quite happy so far. It works the way I want it to: not necessary to mirror all data locally, can throw files adhoc at it, is accessible anywhere, decent web UI, mobile apps. Price is fair (€8/month for 1TB) and speeds are decent. It's the best I could find, still keeping my HDD backup in a closet just in case...

[1] http://l.bitcasa.com/XFLTXjG7 (with my referral code)
>Employers need to be able to demonstrate that they're not paying H1Bs less, or there is hell to pay

Any source for this? I have never heard of such requirements (as well, as often cited need to prove that no citizens available for each H1B position). All you need is to pay above the prevailing wage. Which is ridiculously low anyways.

>The dumb thing is that the solution is absurdly simple: just allow H1Bs to transfer sponsorship with zero penalty.

What is preventing you from transferring H1B now? I had no penalties transferring my H1B twice. The mobility problem with H1B is not the transfer per se. It's the fact that to do this the company need to have immigration lawyers and have the paperwork in order (e.g. one company that wanted to hire me did not have their tax returns). So the number of the companies you cold transfer is limited. Another issue is that H1B has maximum term of 6 years, which can only be extended if there is an active AOS process (green card). Somebody with 4 years on H1B is not a very attractive hire for a company that wants more commitment from their workers.
I don't think I understand your comment. What are "those parameters" you are referring to?
"If the owner hired a local property manager instead of trying to make money as an absentee landlord she would have known the risks of 30+ day rentals and wouldn't have rented the condo so casually through a place like AirBNB."

In "small business" you sometimes end up having to cut corners. The reason is there simply isn't enough profit unless you wing it yourself and learn as you go along. Taking chances.

On a larger scale of course it pays to have a property manager. Otoh if you depend on a property manager to take care of repairs (and unless they have their own dedicated crew) you will end up paying money for things that really you don't need a professional for. (Say a stopped up toilet in a commercial condo). Of course you could also save if the people they use are fair and vetted. All depends, right?

Now of course at scale all of this changes.

Anyway the people on Airbnb are mostly (with some exceptions) looking to make a buck off their homes, condos, whatever.

That said it's simply not something that I would ever get involved in personally but I can see why people do use it (both as landlords and renters).

Here's a funny story you might appreciate. I rented a vacation property that I owned (through a realtor btw - was yearly rental) and the tenant was told to deposit the rental check directly into a bank account that had been setup for this purpose. (Instead of mailing) He sent a text with this question "is it ok to deposit cash or does it have to be a check"? Now of course maybe there might be a reason why he would want to use a check but to me I didn't care as long as the money was deposited. I got a laugh out of that. Sure cash is always good.
Copy the linked to URL, paste it into Google search, click the top result.

Shortcut: https://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s...
I have a related, and broader question. Is there any difference, practically speaking, between one CA and another, besides browser compatibility? Assuming that it's accepted by browsers, is there any reason to go with a more expensive provider that does a stronger verification of you rather than a cheaper provider that just sends a confirm to an email in your domain whois?
I store credit card details in a password manager that allows free-form entries (for example "pass").
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030459.

(Before edit:

Url changed from http://singularityhub.com/2014/07/19/new-super-black-light-a..., which points to this.)
Some people care about people in general, even if they are far away.
> I really like using Yo; the interface is really clean
> and it's really fast to get to my yoscreen on Android.

And this is its value. You like using it so you do. And for everyone who doesn't get this, it is the difference between existing as a product and not existing. You can make a product that turns poo into gold and if nobody uses it, it has no value, it converts no poo.

But if you have something that people like, and it has the added benefit of shining a light on interrelationships between people (only useful if people like using it) then it can be really valuable "Gee Bob sends alice a Yo every day at lunch time, perhaps he is the guy that decides where they eat lunch, and if we get Bob to choose our client's restaurant we'll get Alice for 'free'." Why are companies that all they do is host a 1x1 transparent GIF image and collect sequences of web pages visited by an IP address valuable?

To collect data about people you have to tie into something they do, if they don't do what ever the 'carrier' activity is, you collect no data. Yo's value is that people like to use it.
It gets to be a billion dollar business after it's burnt through enough cash on user acquisition and PR to convince the acquisitions teams at Facebook, Google or Yahoo that it's an unmissable opportunity worth wasting a billion dollars of shareholders' money on.

People experiencing difficulty raising funds whilst trying to solve actual problems and make a profit in doing so have my sympathy.
I worked for big American public companies, definitely not the body shops. Though, I was already senior when I've got my H1B. I imagine the only leverage the fresh grads have is choosing another company that pays more. So all the grads that joined together with you are getting the same entry-level pay by the way they have been selected (people getting more went elsewhere).
Yemen wasn't always so dangerous. My dad used do development work in Yemen in the early 90s. At the time it wasn't an eventful place. He was there when the civil war broke in 1994. He was stuck in Sana'a while it was being shelled. Finally managed to catch a C130 out of town when the US military evacuated a bunch of Americans.
You submitted http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/15/documents.... That's just a digest [1] of the firstlook.org article [2], so a moderator correctly changed it.

Every major article spawns countless knockoffs as media outlets compete for views. The HN guidelines ask you to post the original source. When you don't, moderators change it. When we don't, users ask us to.

This is routine moderation that we do every day. Tracking down better sources is one way that the community and moderators keep up quality here. We'd prefer it, of course, if submitters would do this before posting.

When I change a url, I often post a comment saying so. The other moderators can't, because they're not public. It isn't clear to me yet what to do about that.

Story submissions on HN are not the property of the submitter. They are pointers, not values—the content belongs to the source, and the HN slot belongs to the site and to the community. If changing the address in that slot makes the site better, we do.

(Comments are different. Story titles are not supposed to be your own words; comments are. We never change those, except on rare occasions when users ask us to.)

I know it sounds subjective and arbitrary to say "make the site better", as if by fiat, but it's less arbitrary than it sounds. The community nearly always agrees about one source being better than another. (I'd be surprised if there were much disagreement in the present case.) And on the relatively few occasions when users think we've made the wrong call, we usually change it.

1. High-end blogspam might be a more accurate way of putting it.

2. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...
London based. I started off below median London income and I must say it was not pleasant. Now three years later after changing my life around I earn well above median and together with my partner our combined household income is in the top 20% of London.
Having been on the other side of the spectrum I feel these inequality discussion strongly. I worked just as hard and had barely enough to get through. We need to tax wealth and not labour. Even the OECD has recommended that in it's recent reports.
Every site has a duty to respect its users, especially when their content is the driving force of the site, this shouldn't be an optional thing at the whims of some "quality optimisation expert". Moderation should be about filtering the toxic users, not about getting in the way of the legitimate ones.
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How is this Hacker News worthy content? It's a great article, granted, but it has nothing to do with hacking (unless I'm missing something).

If you downvote this comment, I think explaining in a reply why this article belongs in Hacker News would be great.
The university I work for uses Self-signed certs for everything but ssl. Apparently setting up properly signed certs is too expensive. And it's more effective to have the IT staff spend an inordinate amount of time convincing end-users that the warnings about invalid certs from various applications are nothing to worry about (I'm looking at you Andoid and OSX).
I think he primarily referred to other readers, this topic was posted by a submitter.
US GINI has steadily risen since 1968. If we're deciding that correlation equals causation, then that means US free trade equals US inequality.
Once YO gets to a critical mass, there are a lot of valid and relevant business models.
Let's imagine a non-zero subset of users who care, today.

What would they buy, today, in order to "show a clear market preference"?

It's a bit difficult to show statistical evidence of people making choices which are unavailable to them.
Heh, I love the use of "bull pucky".

Anyways, its quite a long shot to claim the "big government theory doesn't hold water" because of the specific examples you pointed out. Moreover, I'd argue that most of your examples aren't devoid of the influences of big government as all these states are under the increasing central authority of D.C.

To clarify, it seems it might be pertinent to explicitly point out that there are many factors involved with corruption: some chance, education, culture, geopolitics, etc. Size of government is what I'm arguing as an important factor. Your examples are NOT without influence of the factors mentioned.

Actually, I find the capacity and likelihood of smaller governments being less susceptible to corruption as being quite intuitive as well. Though I'm not arguing by merit of intuition alone. Government theory is exclusively based on human understanding. My understanding of humans is that societies can feel abstracted away from large beuracratic governments. And indeed this is an observation as well.

There are logistical issues with large governments as well. Its far more difficult to voice an opinion to large governments because they inevitably fall into the trap of bureaucracies. So when a handful of thousands of people petition online for something it often gets ignored and rejected by some clerk of a secretary working for some office for some congressmen/women. Lots of smaller issues go unchecked by the people.

So, though its not an explicit part of the 3 branch government check system, I don't think we need to argue about the fact that the general public is an important, if not the most important check on the government.

And if we recognize the fact that the general public has the most crucial responsibility the in the role of the government, then it shortly thereafter follows that it easier for smaller populations to agree, argue, deliberate, process, charge, incriminate, build most suitably.
They are overstated the naivety of the "naive" approach.

The article states:

'directly fetch all the photos that the user followed from a single, monolithic data store, sort them by creation time and then only display the latest 10'

That isn't how the query would work. It is implying that the query would return all the results, clearly it would only return 10. I haven't read all the details, I'm sure Instagram does something better then this basic SQL now but it is silly in a technical article to overstate the problem in such an obviously incorrect way.
It's not a private email if you're posting it on Medium...
Troubleshooting distributed systems with minimal causal sequences [pdf]
AutoHotkey exists on Windows for moving and clicking the mouse.
Hacker News is about more than hacking and startups. That has been in the site prospectus for some 7 years and is kind of the whole idea.

I posted it because it's damn interesting, and secondarily because the site could use a little more diversity.
I've been told it's so that Jack Bauer from CTU Los Angeles can protect us. But you'll have to routinely let him brake all protocols so he can do his job - it's all for own good.
The problem is that for the small percentage of texts that you only need to write "yo", there is a incomparably larger percentage that may need more than that. The Yo app removes functionality that native texting (or any number of WhatsApps and Facebook Messengers) already provide. Realistically it's like any other contact application: if you know people who use it you might use it, but I don't know anyone who uses it and I don't use it.
Inflation is measured by the cost a a standard basket of goods that includes food items. Well informed people disagree over whether or not that basket is representative or not, but inflation is a least supposed to be a measure of exactly what you are talking about.
We don't know other details about the commenter's file with CBP that could cause them to think he's suspicious.
RApache Web Application Development with R and Apache
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I tried that trick and it didn't work for me (I still get the paywall). Too bad.
I can understand your skepticism but Jeremy has done some really phenomenal work beyond visualization.

And in this case, he doesn't have to look for funding since he works at Janelia Farm. Depending on the position, they're not even allowed to apply for outside funding.
Why can't she so 3 day pay or quit (plus eviction) and/or give 30 day notice for chronically late payments?
It doesn't happen in physics and mathematics. On the other hand you will probably be fired if you don't publish...
how can a paywall URL get to front page?
That's why I called them marginally-competent instead of drunk wannabes.

I'm not 100% solid on this, but I have read that they were using just the missile truck without the supporting air-search radar. The missile trucks apparently have fire-control radar and can attack and aircraft by themselves. It seems plausible that they were given or stole just part of the system - the missile truck - and maybe got some manuals or some hasty training from Russian military or something. So they know enough to fire the missiles at a target, but don't have the hardware or training to operate a proper air-search radar and identify their targets carefully first.

Which is why I think it's mostly likely that it was them. Say what you will about the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, I doubt they'd accidentally shoot down a civilian airliner.
New Musical Instruments Hackathon at Spotify