skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for wave, all those things are still around aren't they? Send to phone got rolled into browser sync, but the functionality is still there.
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"We're not him, we'll never know how he felt anyway."

Therefore, don't pass judgment on him or anyone else, even the 24 year old. It is a tragedy for the living but that's all we know.

There is nothing dignified, rational, or courageous about being able or being unable to decide the manner of your death. You die. That's the fact. The manner of it doesn't change that. Thinking one death is better than another is an illusion that the living imparts on the event. There are certainly painful ways to die but we should withhold other adjectives like courageous, dignified, etc. A soldier getting blown to bits by a shell didn't die a better or worse death than his comrade who live to die of a sudden heart attack. Nor is a cancer patient who endures painful rounds of chemotherapy only to die in some horrifying way any less courageous than one who chooses to end it by suicide.

What we do have some small measure of control over is how we live and that's what really matters.
This is a good example of a certain kind of really bad website design that seems to be becoming more popular.
How to install WordPress on AWS
I live in NYC (and have for 8 years now), and most people I know use Uber here. It's cheaper, easier to split, and more reliable.

Sure, you can hail a cab pretty easily most of the time in NYC, but I've definitely had enough times where I've had no luck (they were all full) after waiting 10 or 15 minutes that I now prefer Uber.
Ehh no. It's more like you've sold me a car that says it'll go 100 mph (ISPs selling me 85mbit internet), but when I drive in certain parts of town, the car won't go faster than 10 mph. (netflix streams, which require < 5 mbit sometimes degrade, even though speed tests show full speed).
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I don't see a problem with this burn-in process. EMC sells harddrives which they ran for two weeks in both a freezer and hot room (based on a company tour I took ages ago). They just want to make sure the hardware components they ship won't fail under heavy long-endurance load. I see that as a service to the customer.
In the infancy of the following brands, would you be able to derive the function of the company from its name?:

Barnes and Noble

Ben and Jerry's

Black and Decker

Briggs and Stratton

Look, branding has trends. This is nothing new and has not negatively affected any of these brands.
>(with exception for storms, bad times, and bad locations)

I think using the app is justified b/c there are way more bad times/locations than good times/locations. If I'm outside in midtown I'd probably grab a yellow cab, but otherwise it's either subway or uber.
Wrote a PHP script and made few easy sales http://motyar.info/geodata/
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_people()
RETURNS person[] LANGUAGE sql AS

person is a composite type, defined further up. The square brackets indicate an array of that type.
That's always going to be true at some level—even if you're hosting DNS yourself. I self-host the DNS for many of my domains on a Linode VPS. If Linode decides that they don't like me (or they just make a mistake) and re-allocates my IP addresses to someone else, they could set up their own DNS server to direct my domains however they please. However, I trust Linode to not do this, based on their track record and reputation.

You're always at the mercy of at least one vendor, unless you own your own block of IP addresses and advertise it via BGP (and even then, someone could make their own malicious advertisement of your IP block).

You can't eliminate the risk. At some point, you have to set the threshold for what risk you consider acceptable. For many organizations, using Cloudflare provides enough benefit to outweigh the slightly higher risk of something going wrong.
The linked article appears to describe the behavior of a classic textbook malignant narcissist -- I mean either the author of the piece, or his subject, falls into that category. Maybe both.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus
Call me when that's something my mom can do. She needs secure communications too.
So whose responsibility it is to make sure that those pages are not requested via HTTPS from older browsers? Cloudflare or website owner? And how would website owner do that? Based on User-Agent?
So people with suicide thoughts should not be helped because it's all a genetic issue?
Congrats, you came up with a better tagline on a whim than anyone in their entire company.
That's false. His announcement was April 2013, with paper accepted in May 2013. This site, impactlab.net, has simply plagiarized an old article from Slate and put a new date on it.
You’re definitely ahead of the game if you’re thinking about using a solution to prevent vendor lock in. The problem though is that running a mobile app is much more than choosing your analytics provider and streaming your data to it. That same stream needs to be used to power marketing activity such as new user acquisition and retargeting to lower acquisition costs and improve engagement.

With mParticle, data portability is a feature within an end to end data platform. So is segmentation with the ability to create any audience you can think of and send it to partners like Facebook, Twitter, Google DFP, AppNexus, ActionX, and many more. Think about seamlessly running an App Install campaign on Facebook to all users that crashed and did not return and then measure it with Kochava or MAT, all with just one client side integration.

Nearly every comment here reflects concerns around cost but cost also includes labor costs, switching and opportunity costs, as well as wasted user acquisition costs. The reality is that you don’t have to send all your data to every third party. You should be able to send a configurable sample of your data to a third party, but also very specifically include or exclude data to reduce costs and protect users privacy.

Disclosure: Co-Founder of mParticle
The Turing Test is a fixed target though.

As far as I know there are no limits on how intelligent something will get. Exploring the limits of AI is like trying to find the biggest possible number.
Apple is not addressing the Bash bug
Conceptually I love the idea. I have thought about this business idea for a long time, but never got over the issues with it to pursue it.

The main insight I got when doing customer interviews was that many people don't like the idea of others accessing their data when its raised to the foreground, but are perfectly ok with it when it's "hidden". The other issue is that the amount of cash required to make this interesting for the avg. person is relatively high.

On the business side, when interviewing VPs Marketing/Sales, the #1 question asked was "What additional value does this bring beyond what we already have?". This is a valuable question to answer b/c massive amounts of data are already collected on each one of us. To be valuable, a business like Datacoup needs to convert this data into insight that can be used to help companies to sell more.

With all of that said, I hope Datacoup is successful. It's a great idea and one that I personally like.
> I also don't think that ISPs would ever do some of the things that people are spreading fud about.

The whole net neutrality debate grew out of things that ISPs started doing that violated expectations people had of the way the internet worked, that were the subject of case-by-case actions by the FCC. So, while some of the specific things people are worrying about may be somewhat speculative, the general pattern that the regulations are designed to address has been evident in reality, it is not a speculative threat.
For Java (btw), there isn't a central repository, but Maven lets you download the Internet ( http://blog.sonatype.com/2011/04/how-not-to-download-the-int... ) which solves the same problem.
iOS 8’s predictive QuickType keyboard found to suggest parts of your passwords
"So what if life is meaningless, why does that actually matter?"

I salute you sir! This will be my new philosophy of life.

And indeed, life being meaningless, then that fact is also meaningless (along with every other fact). Any meaning we humans "find" in our life is an illusion at best. One may select and change one's meanings as one wishes, which in all honesty, appears to be exactly what humans do, with abandon. Unfortunately this leaves us precisely where we started: nothing has changed other than that we now permit ourselves to change meanings at whim.

I prefer an evo-devo view. E.g., concerning "courageous or cowardly": these are culture-specific indicators that may assist your reproductive efforts; they likely do matter in that respect.

"He who dies with the most toys wins."
"how do I know the information served originated from the intended website and not from another one CloudFlare is hosting?"

You don't, really. The target website has indicated that they trust CloudFlare, and if CloudFlare turns out to be unworthy of that trust you're pretty much out of luck. From SSL's point of view it is exactly the same as if the originating party is unworthy of your trust.

I think there's a bit of a mental model update that people may need to process... the originating party does not have any mystical geas invoked upon it by SSL to be trustworthy itself. There's nothing stopping the other end from being untrustworthy for any reason. Nothing in HTTPS prevents the other party from posting your transaction on an electronic billboard on the nearest highway. Yes, it sounds obvious when I say it, but it's very important and clear many people aren't operating under this model. CloudFlare isn't doing anything weird or new here... you've always had to trust the judgment of the other end of the HTTPS connection, and it has always involved the trustworthiness of other parties as well. There's no change here. Among the many ways in which a remote party could be untrustworthy is for them to delegate that trust to an untrustworthy party. Nothing strange about that.
We're using it on our IRC logging service, https://botbot.me/ and agree with the author's sentiments. It's not perfect, but it keeps our infrastructure simple and is very fast over 20M+ rows.
>Why is that the only case where right holders have a "legitimate interest" like this? There are lots of other cases where somebody should have a similar case by a similar standard: obscenity, sex, violence, religion or anything else counter to a group's core beliefs. The law should be consistent one way or another, but it isn't.

I think that's because the only consistent and fair position is to allow all parodies without any restriction other than confusion with the original work. Since they still want to censor, they can't allow that, and instead use a vague term ('discriminatory message') that is unlimited in effect. The racial/religious example in the text isn't a restriction; a 'discriminatory message' could be applied to anything from painting gardeners in a bad light to slandering Texas beef[1].

It's good that it loosens up the law in spirit, at least.

[1] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-01-20/business/98012...

"Turner's law is a tribute to the increasing power of the media, and a major reason why at least 12 other states have passed laws making it a crime to denigrate products, mostly fruits and vegetables."
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Huh, is there a difference?
I sort of wish we in the US had committees named like "Thai Delicious Committee".
We call them Jitneys or Hacks here in the US. Very common means of transportation in poor areas, but an app makes the same concept hip I guess.
LIVESTRONG announces finalists for their cancer competition
Understandable. I've waited months since you first teased about this. I can wait a few more hours ;-)
The most successful use of this in the US has been https://twitter.com/dumbstarbucks. Pretty great.
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The subject, sure, but the author? Why?
What if the derived work is funny and discriminatory.
That sounds like a pretty standard and necessary clause; it's not assigning "moral" right to Google, it's asserting that you have the right to be controlling the content's licensing in the first place.
Gold trading outlook: Futures edge up in advance of Fed meeting
I did this two weeks ago and it was glorious. I only read one book and started another (REAMDE and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, respectively) but at the end I felt refreshed and ready to get back to work. Highly recommended.
Worse, it just doesn't work. It is painful to hear stories from folk that are convinced that "back in the day" things "were better" and then they immediately go off on discipline.

Seriously, we aren't guessing nowdays. We know it is detrimental. At this point, it isn't just worrying about the well being of some individuals, but knowing that society as a whole could be much better off.

Edit: I should say that I am not trying to contradict the story at all.... Just adding my voice to it.
The website says that it is both free ("We don't charge fees when you convert funds to or from bitcoin with a linked bank account, when you store your bitcoin, or for bitcoin transactions.") AND insured ("All of the money in your Circle account is insured at no cost to you."). I am not sure how that will work out for them; given the short and eventful history of BC, I would assume that insurance charges would be quite steep.

But then: I seem to recall many money changers at airports also advertising "zero conversion charges", and they seem to be doing just fine even while paying (what must be) high rents for their spots. So perhaps there is a revenue model there which I can't suss out.
I've been following Stefan Molyneux's take on this for some time, and it really seems to make sense. Entering a bargaining stance rather than teaching children that violence (however 'tame', it's about the lesson it teaches) isn't an acceptable form of solving a problem or dealing with emotions.

I think the net affect on societal damage would decrease rapidly, if every new parent took this into consideration overnight.
Depends what you are talking about when you say "their data". At a base level Facebook can read it, delete it, copy it, move it, etc. and you cannot, so it only makes sense to say they own it and you do not.

It's only when you add a shared construct like some system of ethics or law that your definition of data ownership make sense.

It's the difference between ownership defined by abilities and ownership defined by rights. It's a failure of the English language.

Computer security, especially, encourages you to think in base, practical (there must be a better word for this) terms. Since you can't guarantee other actors will respect your rights, you fall back to "If I don't want X done then I must make it physically impossible to do X rather than just wrong to do X".
Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop
Again and gain, Bitcoin doesn't seem to attract the purest minds...
It seems that there also needs to be legislation that if a student goes to a school official (or employee of any kind) and claims to have been sexually assaulted, the employee needs to be obligated to contact law enforcement.
Uber literally is an "organized crime outfit" though, right? People just don't say that because they commit the "ok" kind of crimes.
"Nuanced" is a good word for this. It feels like there has been a gradual shift over the last few years - and the Twitter rulings (of which another just today) exemplify this - towards less freedom, supported by vague ideas like "incitement" to "terrorism" and "racial hatred".

For anyone old enough to remember the wild west of Usenet a decade or two ago, the sort of stuff we see people being imprisoned for posting on Twitter now seems extremely tame. But hey, celebrities didn't really get into Usenet too much...
It wasn't to Google, it was to another company: Canvas. Also, what the hell is a moral right anyway? How is it different than any other? It just seems really scammy to me.
I assume you mean the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Japanese food in San Francisco proper is resoundingly mediocre - I can't think of one good ramen place.

If you want good ramen, go to San Mateo or San Jose. Same thing with sushi.
Google Classroom runs on a huge Java stack.
if they follow you example, they will just convert "without fees" but using their much more expensive coversion rate
But the best we can ever do is make it "wrong" with some non-perfect level of enforcement.

They will always have the ability to do what they like with the data they have control over.
McDonalds. KFC.
Already somewhat exists: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse (small scale, robots have to discover the path, too, but those are minor variations. The major differences are that this is single-car at a time and the absence of weather; you won't find partly wet tracks here)
Frequentism rears its ugly head again...
> The hstore type is probably the closest you'd get to an associate array in PostgreSQL

No, a table (possibly a temp table with the results of a particular query) with an appropriately defined primary key (or other unique index) would be the closest you can get to an associative array -- since a relation with n candidate keys is exactly identical to n different associative arrays with the same data but different key/value splits.

But an array of a composite type drawn in such a way that some set of columns is guaranteed unique is pretty much the same thing from a data perspective, even though you may need to do work on the client side to load it into a structure that supports associative array operations (e.g., efficient key/value lookups).
>gmail

How does this stifle competition? If people use Gmail, it's because they think it's better than the alternatives. There aren't even network effects in play, since it's just email.

>gtalk

...is now called Hangouts, and is a flagship product.

>G+ (how many in the tech community have moved from one company (facebook) to another (google Plus)

Um... not me, for one, and certainly not for non-professional contacts. G+ is a ghost town.
Django Hacker Needed at WalkSource (YC S14)
We are a YC-backed startup and we've just raised our seed round. Yay! We're amongst 12 startups to watch after the Demo Day (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/08/20/11-startups-to-watch-from-y-combinators-demo-day.html?page=all) and we have quite a bit of interest from the press and from customers all around the world.

We need somebody to take care of our backend: Django/Redis/Postgres. It's a senior position and you'll have a lot of responsibilities, including working on new features, taking care of our servers (DigitalOcean), then teaching new engineers everything you know about our systems, then managing them, then you'll become a chief architect or an engineering manager, or whatever you are going to want to be. Impossible is nothing!

Experience with front-end frameworks, like Angular.js or Ember.js is a plus.

Again, it's a senior position and you'll be amongst the first hires.

You'll be able to change the world and work with wildly smart folks on the team. Startup mindset required.

Please send a link to your github account to max@walksource.com and please ask lots of questions.

We're based in Sunnyvale, CA and this is not a remote position, nor a contracting one, but given that you're a great fit we'll help you move here.
First I want to say I like that the website looks clean and neat. I can't stand going to news sites and everything is jumbled and cluttered. So thank you for that.

I agree that images with the articles would be helpful. If you are using Rails then the masonry gem may be handy.

Maybe use general OAuth rather than Twitter specific. I don't see a reason not to include Facebook.

Like the Opinion section. Maybe have some friends start seeding it with content to encourage people to use it (seed it with good content of course). Will you be allowing comments on the Opinion pieces?

Good choice to make links open in a new window! That's a pet peeve of mine. It makes the user experience better when they don't have to keep clicking or swiping back to use your site.
This seems like a good change in general.

> Lawmakers say, however, that consent can be non-verbal, if it is unambiguous.

It seems that the new contention point will become what 'non-verbal, yet unambiguous consent' is, since it seems difficult to define fully and concisely.
Look it up and post back. It's not a weird scam, it is standard copyright law regarding who can claim authorship of content.

The section you quoted just means that the user is promising not to post pirated content to Canvas
Hey whoever's building this -- please give me a shout. christianpbrink at gmail. If you haven't built it yet, maybe you don't need to, as I already have and may be interested in a partnership.
'Any boy who tells you that he hasn't seen porn is lying.'
Aw, yiss. I've been looking for an untrusted website to give my email username and password to. Thanks!
Great! Yep we're not based in the Valley either. Our first focus is on AWS and Redshift, but yes Azure is interesting too :-)
As soon as I read that statement I felt like the whole thing is going to be ridiculous. Time to appeal for a better sense of humor.
marketing 101 correction. they want to sell bitcoins to people that feel good identifying as rich hip young white people.
If it were altruism I'd applaud any effort. But their alailable lectures seem to be a bid to bring more students in to full enrollment. Poor video quality, as long as the awesomeness of the course itself can be seen, doesn't work against this goal.
FSF statement on the Bash “shellshock” vulnerability
Shellshocker – Repository of “Shellshock” Proof of Concept Code
The reality of Google's brand image is different.

Schools don't buy software based on privacy and the privacy policies of much of the software being used by schools is often worse.

Maybe it won't sell in EU, but you don't need the EU to run a successful profitable business.
That 'nuance' to 'free speech' where certain speech is punished by the government is actually 'not free speech'.
We must protect the UK from the likes of Key and Peele!
In New York City "gipsy cab" is a common term for it.
You could investigate the people in charge of the company and their backers. If you think they have more to gain by draining a small number of peoples bank accounts than they have to lose by committing a federal fraud crime then don't use them. Obviously any evaluation would also depend on the credibility of the information presented on the website about those individuals.

I don't make any purchases with my debit card, so I would only link my credit card, which has pretty solid fraud protection. I'd probably be more way about cash accounts.
Quote: "Lawmakers say, however, that consent can be non-verbal, if it is unambiguous."

Which means nothing has changed -- non-verbal consent has always been a possibility, and later, a reason to argue in court about whether non-verbal consent had been given. Non-verbal consent in the relations between the sexes has always had the standing of a verbal contract in business -- as San Goldwyn supposedly said, a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (In keeping with our topic, Goldwyn didn't actually say that.)

I have some advice for young people who may be navigating their way around this issue for the first time -- here are the rules:

1. No means no, absolutely, full stop. Never ignore this signal, ever.

2. Yes means maybe.

3. There is no "yes means yes" -- it doesn't exist.

No matter how many laws are passed, no matter how clear the signals, a person can always claim that something happened that differs from your recollection, and that can sometimes lead to a huge raft of trouble.

The concise way of describing such situations is, "He said, she said." This new law doesn't (and can't) change the fact that some sexual encounters will end up being a case of "He said, she said."

The tl;dr: no means no, and yes means maybe.