skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is way too dramatic and unprofessional for my tastes (Facebook chat logs? followed up by a generalization about the 8.3 million strong population of NY based on experiences with one guy? a little growing up is in order.)

I'm sure this can be debated and I could be wrong, but I don't feel that ideas are worth fighting over. If code is stolen, that's not cool. You can build two codebases based on the same idea and they will be valuable in different ways. If someone takes the time to follow through on implementing "your idea", they still most likely worked hard to get it done and deserve credit for that.

The best way to deal with this is to compete. Write a better app. Ideas are cheap.
4chan has better availability and higher traffic than healthcare.gov. Think about that.
I am a fan of http://growthhackers.com/

Also, you might check out some subreddits like r/marketing.
You certainly can in the UK.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/celebrity$20nudes
I'm not sure it's always just about utility vs. signalling. I have no care for social signalling at all, but if I had money to throw away I would probably buy some things which you classify as signalling devices. For sure, though, I certainly wouldn't buy a blinged out gold Rolex (hideous) but rather something like a Speedmaster (on which I'd probably put a NATO or a velcro strap), and certainly not a sports car you can drive on public roads. Sure, both of these machines don't have that much practical utility, but they are engineering works of art. Just as some people collect art to show off their money, or store capital, some collect it because they appreciate good taste and amazing craftsmanship. It's still irrational but I wouldn't put it in the same bag as signalling.
> i have an iphone, ipad, apple tv, macbook air and a compatible printer. and everything just works, like magic.

I have a Nexus 5, HP Omni 10 Win 8.1 tablet, macbook air and compatible printer. And everything just work. Magic? I don't think so, but they work.
I read the article and drew the obvious conclusion -- a mental illness that can be effectively treated with a Website is virtual, not real.
If I were to run this scam, I would only add addresses that were checked and matched a known leak. This would both give me a known good address and also an idea of what kind of person you are. If you're the type to check your email address against known leaks then I would know exactly how to attack you.
What app do you use for note taking?
And then how do you use this file server to take advantage of the RAID 0'ed SSD-like performance? Do you export it as NFS? iSCSI?
> it also threatens a lot of diverse plant life, especially rare species and living fossils.

Yeah, but can you eat those?
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I'm not the same guy, theses were not my words.

I don't think you understood my point. The issue is that you can't compare yourself and you can't take decision for other. There's always a better way, whatever you decide, there's always an healthier way. I'm pretty sure there's a dozen stuff you had in your meal during the last week that was bad for your health in a way of another. That was your choice and only yours.
I have a Nest, and the Nest app on both Android and IOS. I'm not sure what you're getting at with that. Seems the experience is pretty much identical?
I'm ranting against free market capitalism because the whole point of free market capitalism is to ensure the price of a product is as close to its "free market value" as possible. For health care products, the calculation of value is inherently inaccurate because an individual places a much higher value on his/her own life than the market would.

I do agree that this is an example of misguided government regulation. The problem is that the government tried to use a capitalist solution to a societal value problem (i.e. the orphan drug laws). This created additional arbitrage opportunities. What I'm saying is that we need a serious discussion at a national level about the goals of our health care system, and the optimal means for achieving those goals.

We don't need new government regulation of health care; we need an entirely new systemic approach to health care. We've recently had a national awakening that the approach we've taken to drug abuse doesn't work, and that we were maybe trying to solve the wrong problem in the first place. We need a similar awakening on health care, though I'm doubtful it will happen until health care is out of reach to all but the wealthiest in society.
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> You only have to pay for iTunes Match when you have new music to import. Once imported it is available "forever."

No, if you stop paying iTunes Match there is no cloud storage and no syncing
Bad guys already have these email addresses. That is the point. And likely the bad guys already know which email addresses you care about. Or it doesn't matter.
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I like No Agenda too. I just have a hard time finishing their 2.5/3 hour podcasts.
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I work for a large institution. The thought process doesn't work that way -- the suggestion of introducing chaos would be a no-go not because of business risk, but the risk of disrupting the layers of bullshit that people build between them and whatever the actual business is.

Netflix's cost of failure is very high -- customers get real-time discovery of your failures, and the service costs less than $10/mo, so they aren't deeply invested in it and will drop you like a hot potato.
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Thanks, the update wasn't there when I read it.
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That may be partially true. But this topic gets very murky, very quick.

Spanish are just as white was the rest of the Europeans. It was back about 450 years, when the Spaniards came over to the Americas and made what is called the Hacienda. Just like when the USA had their racial times regarding Africans, the Spanish did so to the natives here. What happened was a mixing between white Spanish and Incans, Aztecs, and Mayan descents. After much institutionalized slavery and racism, mixed with rape and destruction of the culture, we end up with people called "Mestizo", or mixed.

What we think of as Latinos, or Mexicans, or other derogatory words are the result of 450 years of slavery, rape and destruction of their culture.
Ideas are cheap - good ideas aren't.
Thanks for the redaction observations - I edited the article.
What have or are you doing to grow that revenue?

If you've done your best and you can't get past that $500 barrier then move on. But getting from $500 to $5000 should be a shorter path than starting a new product from nothing.
ALL NUTRITION SCIENCE IS A BUNCH OF GODDAM LIES.

EAT FOOD THAT TASTES GOOD. STAY AWAY FROM PROCESSED FOOD. GET OFF YOUR ASS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THAT IS ALL!

/rant
Note: On latest Chrome, I'm getting some clipping on the left text column. see http://imgur.com/jEAuB4A,YtVYC4T

Nice diagram!
As an American living in Europe I'm surprised you could think that black-white separation in the US is so stark in comparison to Europe. Racism always felt like a European invention to me that the US just executes very well because it's a country founded by a bunch of European rejects. By in large though latent racism seems to be much stronger in the EU. They just aren't as expressive about it because... 1. most EU cities are not diverse enough to warrant much thought on the topic or even present an opportunity for division. 2. Europeans "respect" authority or their place more so the racists keep their mouth shut. But when they do open their mouth, oh my

> From watching TV my impressions are that there's especially a taboo for white guys to date black women, and the prejudice that "vanilla" just isn't cool. Can anyone enlighten me?

For a European, or Northern European, black falls under exotic because it is something so rare. Look at how your countrymen react to turkish, roma or other migrant races of the EU and then you'll hopefully shed a bit of the elitism.
You'd have to pay me to eat a Red Delicious if Honeycrisp is in season.
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Moiré patterns probably.
I know it's dangerous to armchair speculate about Apple's moves, but it really seems like they should have held out for a true 3x screen instead of compromising on a 1080p. I certainly would never buy the 6+ after reading about their cheesy resolution hack. It feels rushed and short term.
> No way to tell which site that was

Hey, that's a great idea! Try and use some indicator in the password you choose so that when your password is revealed you know who it is :) Probably hard to do in practice, but I'm going to keep that in mind next time I visit a site and use a throw-away password
This was first submitted 480 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849057 and is done by well-respected security researcher Troy Hunt a sometimes HN contributor https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=troyhunt.

The point is that the bad guys already have the stuff that he has put out there. Now you can see as well.
I currently follow The Java Posse and Android Developers Backstage. Both have great hosts and are newish.

http://www.javaposse.com/
http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/
I came here to say this. We're not the only industry that suffers from it. In fact many of the traits that make someone a good leader or unusually innovative are the same traits that can trigger depression. We only have anecdotal evidence at this point but I'm confident it will be proven someday.
There are plenty of resistant banana varieties out there. They gained their resistance by reproducing normally and adapting to the new fungi. However, that very fact makes it less palatable for the western market, because fertile bananas have hard seeds in them that make them harder to eat.

What the big banana growers are looking for is another sterile banana variety that they can plant from cuttings that will never evolve, but will somehow be resistant to all the new fungi that nature is likely to throw at it in the future. Not that likely to happen.
It was not a direct response to the "rational" bit.
>Would you put your credit card info on a business card and give it to people you meet?

Of course not, I just hand it to the minimum wage cashier, say it over the phone whenever I am ordering delivery, and type it into online stores.
This difference changes the culture greatly

Hence the importance of liberty as an axiom of federal governance: one group with particular cultural interests (say, deep urban) should not impose their situation-specific views on others far away with radically different cultural interests (say, rank wilderness). What some may find need to prohibit in one situation, others may find necessary to survival in another. The lack of respect of axiomatic liberty causes dangerous sociopolitical tensions.
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> the problem in the article is the result of government interference in the free market.

Exactly that. This has nothing to do with free markets, it is just simple rent-seeking through abuse of regulations, which can easily be fixed by fixing (or even better abolishing) the regulations causing the problem in the first place.

In fact it is not plausible why a generics manufacturer should have to approve a substance again which has already been approved. This does not add any safety for anyone, after all Tiopronin is Tiopronin, regardless of who manufactures it.
> The efficacy of bibliotherapy should not be readily dismissed.

What happened to what is popularly known as common sense? A disease that can be treated by a website is virtual, not real. To see the point, try treating any real disease by visiting a website.

> Words, written or spoken, images, still or moving, or sounds can create or alleviate illness in the mind.

Yes, but only when an "illness in the mind" is imaginary.
My top 5 (in no order):

ted radio hour http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/

radiolab http://www.radiolab.org/

linux outlaws http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws

techzing http://techzinglive.com/

accidental tech podcast http://atp.fm/
Apple doesn't have any recent OSM data. All of their input dates from 2010 or earlier, before they adopted a newer copyleft license. Apple is now relying on a scattered bunch of different providers for map data.[0]

[0]http://screenwerk.com/2014/05/23/apple-maps-expanding-data-s...
But the point is that your email is possibly already out there, circulating around. Would you rather not know?
This might be the single thing I find most absurd and frustrating about our current society. We've somehow arranged the incentives so that it's a very bad thing to reduce the amount of work we need to do to maintain our standard of living.

As robotics and other technologies continue to improve, we're going to keep hitting this problem in a large number of fields.
I fail to see how things would be different without government intervention. The only difference is that competitors would be prevented through trade secrets instead of patents.
Works for me :) Or at least move a lot more people into the "two or more races" category.
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Might be, but none of the training watches on the market with optical pulse sense offer something like that, AFAIK.
If it also would work under training conditions is to be seen.
Not mentioned in the article: those young people in the tech industry with a stable, boring job working for a conglomerate company and depressed by constantly observing our adventurous peers trying to change the world in hip start-ups, wondering if we made the wrong decision.

Grass is always greener, I suppose. Or depression is just infectious.
> i have an iphone, ipad, apple tv, macbook air and a compatible printer. and everything just works, like magic.

Um, YMMV. I (and people I know) had lots of problems with in-place upgrades to iOS7 on the iPhone 4. My proximity sensor stopped working and I'd end up face dialing while talking to people on the phone. Another friend of mine - the audio would cut out. The recommended fixes to the problem were inconvenient to say the least.

I've had my share of issues with Apple products - Time Capsule, Airport Express, iTunes and a variety of Macs. So while they can have fewer issues than Windows, "magic" is not a word I would use myself.

After Apple dropped the unibody form factor for the Macbook Pro in 2013 (my favorite form factor for a laptop - ever), I recently switched to Windows 8 for most of my hardware after being mostly Mac since 2005 -- and the transition was surprisingly easy (this software list helped a lot: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDev...).

I'm not very happy with Window's font rendering on LCDs and some of stupid settings, but overall, I don't find that I miss the Apple ecosystem that much, if at all. I used to be what some people would call an Apple Fanboy, and while I still respect the products they come out with, they don't really have much that appeals to me any more.
can this be real? There's mandatory downsampling in every case, even if you want to try to ship to be pixel perfect?
Hey all, this is me. :-) Really nice to have a "new" product on the front page of HN again. Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Good to see an honest journey of a SaaS product.

Building a SaaS company that pays the bills normally takes much longer than you think[1]. Well done Andrew and keep going!

[1] Watch the slow ramp of death: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...
This fuss about the iPhone screens is, to me at least, hilarious.

A good part of my career has been being the "Android guy" in organisations where for better or worse the products would de facto lead on iOS. The number one headache was designers pushing "pixel perfect design" which is doable on Android, but is a pointless headache when your tiny screen is 720p or higher.

The fact Apple have a phone coming out for which it is actually impossible is going to send a lot of these people into a confused fit. If this was how Android worked it would be criticised to the hills, but because it's Apple they can't.
This is why when you buy Bt or herbicide-resistant GMO seeds, you have to either get conventional seeds mixed in, or you must plant conventional seeds yourself in the same field. This is called "refuge" and is a regulatory requirement that both GMO seed manufacturers and the government take very seriously. And your claim that "we don't know how to properly create GMO" is incredibly dismissive.
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This is looking really nice. The "No Image" images on http://www.paintcodeapp.com/content/news/2014-09-11_iphone-6... look unintentional, though.

Edit: The 1x version looks fine: http://www.paintcodeapp.com/content/news/2014-09-11_iphone-6... So this post only looks broken on retina screens, which is a bit ironic :-)
Uber API launch validates the “Gurley scenario”
I'll withhold judgment until I see it live, but they did make it work with the MBP Retina (E.g. the 13" will fake 1680x1050 by rendering to a 3360x2100 frambebuffer and downscaling to the 2560x1600 display)
Of course there are always exceptions to the rule :)

(That being said, a very significant chunk of open source contributors are, in fact, doing so on paid time)
Would be great to add 4" size of iPhone 5/5s/5c to the illustration.
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Quick Thoughts on Apple Watch Post-Announcement
Panning around randomly I stumbled on this curious little area: http://i.imgur.com/42VLDN4.png

I thought whoa that's cool, a dense little community of minorities.

Turns out: https://www.google.ca/maps/@39.6908437,-86.4131159,15z

Damn it.
The results section of the paper has some possibly contradictory information:

1. "Salt intake was positively associated with SBP in men but not in women."

2. "Salt intake was not associated with SBP in either sex after multiple adjustments."

Also isn't this kind of journalism and article titles unethical? There should be some kind of regulatory board for articles in any media.

Anyone can write anything and can cause serious harm.
I wonder if it will be possible to opt-in to 1:1 pixel rendering on the iPhone6+ after all, particularly for opengl/metal/video playback. It seems the downscale hack is mostly required for UIKit backwards compatibility and to maintain approximately equal physical sizes for UI elements only.

Very nice visualization in the OP, by the way!
I always liken Lua to "JavaScript, with all the bad parts removed".
And mine is listed with a password that I used in combination with the Gmail address as a username, but never as the password to log into Gmail with. So it doesn't seem like this is a dump from Google, but rather from sites requiring email addresses to sign up with.
Haskell is getting row polymorphism[1] for records (going under the name OverloadedRecordFields) in the next release. The new language extension will also play well with lenses, making records even more versatile.

However, we're still not getting special syntax for field access, so it'll be function application (g f) instead of a dot (f.g). This isn't a major drawback, but it means that a field g has to be in scope for this to work at all.

Fundamentally, it seems exactly the same approach could be used to give Haskell polymorphic variants. They're not part of this extension, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the near future.

Haskell is also getting a much better (ie not crippled) module system soon, in the form of Backpack[2]. However, I'm not sure when this is actually going to be released—I don't think it's in the upcoming version.

[1]: http://www.well-typed.com/blog/84/

[2]: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/
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Keep in mind that it's resampling a 3x image. Display scaling already looks acceptable on retina MacBook Pros [1], and the 6+'s screen is much more high-resolution than that. I agree that this sounds like a terrible idea on paper, but it might not be so bad in practice.

1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-ma...
> I have no idea what you think the definition of a word is, besides what people think it means.

Really? There are any number of words whose proper meanings and contradicted by what people think they mean. Examples abound, here's just one:

Literally:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane>

2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>

This is what people think "literally" means. But it is not what "literally" actually means. The common perception is false.

> Is there some official "This Is What Words Mean" tome somewhere that all true definitions flow from?

1. Only for certain terms. There are plenty of examples.

2. On the topic of words, you need to learn the meaning of deconstructive postmodernism, the fascinating idea that there are no shared ideas, that everything is a matter of opinion.

> Was there some secret international treaty wherein all word definitions were all agreed upon?

Classic straw man.
I tried bob@mailinator.com - totally pwned.
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Lets not simplify things to exactly the level of our own personal prejudices either.

>Marx believed in class struggle and had a favored side in that struggle. That's quite enough.

Enough for what?

>If a government believes in class struggle and has a favored side, it's obvious that atrocities will follow.

Because you said so?
They don't have to.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005...

The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.
> When computers first started to become faster than mathematicians this was really a breakthrough.

Mathematicians do not compute numbers.
Funny how the mutable nature of the web can transform a reasonable question into what looks like a stupid one, through no fault of your own. Have an upvote to compensate.
It isn't solely a file server. I made it to take over Linux workstation duties from my workstation (which now runs Windows 8.1, which, tbh, really isn't nearly as bad as everyone says it is), and it runs VMs for clustered software testing and development.

I export /home and /tank via Samba[1] to the now-Windows workstation (and sshfs for my OSX running MBP, which I may transition to Samba now) and get about 85% of Gigabit in performance, which is good enough for purely file storage tasks, although I'm considering dropping in 10gbit into both machines via http://www.provantage.com/~7MLNX1KC.htm (the cheapest 10gbit cards I've seen that aren't used pulls on ebay) if I start making bigger test clusters that run on both my workstation and my server.

Workstation has 2x Crucial M500 960GB RAID 1 (was BTRFS RAID 1, now is Intel Matrix FakeRAID RAID 1 in Windows), for the record.

[1]: For each share: aio read size = 1, aio write size = 1, use sendfile = yes, min recievefile size = 1, socket options = SO_KEEPALKIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_THROUGHPUT

Do not mess with SO_SNDBUF and SO_RECVBUF for socket options, the default seems to already be the maximum size allowable on Linux.
OTOH, iOS 7 did a fine job of almost entirely removing bitmaps from iOS in advance of these new screens. So developers are in a lot better shape now than if they had to redraw all their skeumorphic assets at 3x.
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