skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again this is an issue of centralization. Imagine everything is decentralized - mesh networks, open source server software, social networks etc. How is a government going to enforce that no one runs a private encrypted network? And using one step of tunneling how would it make sure no one runs a VPN? Short of a total physical police state like the USSR under Stalin the only thing they could do is mandate backdoors in physical devices. Because manufacturing is going to be the last bastion of centralization. If you think I'm joking, see this and this:

http://www.popularresistance.org/new-intel-based-pcs-permane...

http://wccftech.com/intel-possibly-amd-chips-permanent-backd...

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519661/nsas-own-hardwar...

And lest you think only governments do this, a lot of hardware DRM has been almost entirely the result of the entertainment lobby and licensing:

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qtnxhuojytbjbr04...

As you can see the main targets are still INSTITUTIONS. Once they are decentralized it will be harder to control who makes the software. If you want to read my own thoughts on these things, see these two links:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
Seriously. Perhaps one would call this sort of exotic and nefarious contraption a "safe"?
This makes me wonder about their future. I don't see any revenue streams, but I can see nontrivial expenses.
The recent update of the default subreddits was nice, until it just decreased the level of discourse in those previously excellent subreddits.
Vulcand news: Metrics, anomaly detection and improved tools
So nothing have been said about the support lifecycle so far. I wish they could delay Win7's end of mainstream support until after Win10 releases at least. Yes, this includes bumping extended support until 2021.
How RAM Scrapers Work: The Tool Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks
"...incapable people should not get preferential treatment and held against a lower standard." That is a fallacy. Certain types of sex/race/genders get special treatment now, often called "privilege", because of a history of systematic repression of other people. People are just trying to make the field actually level, not give preferential treatment to "incapable people".
CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas, or anywhere near the most powerful. There are immense reserves of methane gas frozen under the arctic. If that gas were suddenly released all at once due to the ice caps melting, it could be truly catastrophic.

Bear in mind that hundreds of millions of years ago, Venus used to have an atmosphere much more like Earth's, and there may have even been liquid water on the surface. But a runaway greenhouse effect caused all that to change dramatically. It took a very long time, but obviously Venus didn't have people there to help speed things along.
> Windows 7 almost made the title bars non ugly and now we're back to Windows 95 style title bars.

That's like, your opinion, man.
> even getting top-voted comment on the r/conspiracy post

To be perfectly fair, any comment posted by a founder of Reddit would become a top-voted comment.
How is that any different from upvoting patterns? A lot of upvotes has a bigger impact than any downvotes, and given the mod mail for the default subreddit I mod... people are well aware of that but continue to complain like that's something we can change.

For what it is worth, I see plenty of stories drop off the HN front page by being overcommented on. HN seems to go for a 'controversial' rank rather than straight up scores. I'm not sure how that's any better. At least on reddit, you can pick the way you want to sort your stories and comments.
RedditCoin? (Think bitcoin)
I get the feeling there was a major overhaul of development and engineering since Windows 8, and this is the result. It reminds me of the reset that was done after the "failure" of Windows Vista.

And there is definitely an underlying tone of "we were wrong, but we're going to fix it" when it comes to the many UI paradigm shifts introduced in Windows 8.
Alibaba spun off Alipay because Jack Ma wanted to control Alipay instead of the Alibaba majority stakeholder such as Yahoo and Softbank. It was an uncontested power move by Ma.
Ask HN: What should I do? Help. Something
I've seen people post on HN a bunch and receive some good advice. I need some advice, and maybe some motivation.

I hope to god my story is interesting enough for people to help. I need it to be.

I'm at the point where I basically hate school. I have 2 semesters after this before I graduate. The school I go to is in my opinion a shit hole. I love the people, they are people trying their best after all and this is a real university that does research (bla bla bla), but I can't stand what I'm learning, how I'm learning it, and the rest of it.

I took some online classes in OS and Database Structures... I also didn't keep up with the lectures. No big deal, the classes aren't hard for me anyways, but the classes also take some questions from the class and ask for those specific answers on the test. I almost failed my midterm today that had the easiest questions... if you watched the lectures that is. I get so unmotivated in classes because I correct everything and everyone. It feels like I can't trust anything I learn here. At this point I'm getting the piece of paper and being done with it so I can actually have time to learn...

I'm working at an awesome place with some of the smartest at my school where we do client work together, but while I was learning iOS with some python/django too and going to be moving away from the shit PHP work I'm doing I have lost all my time for that with school and actual work to do. I need the money.

I avoid doing work to hang out with my girlfriend. She doesn't know it, and if she did she'd tell me to get my work done. She is also dealing with things too and I don't want to lean on her.

I'm so angry and unmotivated and generally uncomfortable with my own skin today. What in the hell is wrong! I know it will pass, but how long? How many things will I ignore or fail at until I snap out of it? How many times?
I use Reddit's Worldnews subreddit /r/worldnews for a nice crowdsourced news source. It will often contain breaking news at incredible paces.

The news agency Al Jazeera in English is an amazing news source. They stream 24/7 and it's free to watch. Very daring journalists whom approach the happenings moreso than most other agencies. Very rarely biased.

Google News, while old, is still quite good.
Reddit, like all community new sites, is awful and devolves to the mean of society as the user base grows.
It would certainly be difficult to build a self sufficient Mars colony, but I don't think it's impossible. I agree that there would be a long time between the first landing and a self sufficient colony.
Download odin 3.10.0 latest version
Me, for one. I've wanted to since I was a kid, and was quite vocal about it before StartX even existed. Friends of mine know that if I only had myself to consider, I'd take a one-way ticket in a heartbeat and live there the rest of my life. Factors such as a significant other mean that I don't just have myself to consider anymore, but I would still love to live there.
Wow really? Maybe I should submit one ;)
Affordable real-time Big Data with streaming analytics
Apple bans German website for posting iPhone 6 Plus 'bendgate' video
That might make sense if you believe their primary motive is to catch criminals.
Exactly. There's no real reason to believe they aren't forcing apple/google to say this while also forcing them to use a flawed encryption algorithm like the eliptic key method with a skeleton key vulnerability.
They will most probably use blockchain technology for the community ownership distribution: https://jobs.lever.co/reddit/6ce6a242-00d1-49c4-9bed-c34f264...
Julian Assange Fires Back at Eric Schmidt and Google's 'Digital Colonialism'
I wonder if the bad things you mention are a large part of what makes the site popular...
Unfortunately I don't think most people will care. The vast majority of users don't comment, and few ever figure out if they or their submissions are shadow banned.

If someone tries to make a replacement that fixes all the issues they will have to forgo whatever small amount of profitability there is in making a digg-like website. And it would probably have to be hosted in Iceland or some other obscure location.
Heavily moderated subreddits are another way to get great quality content. The only problem with this is that it relies on volunteer moderators who devote large amounts of their free time to making the site a better place.
Web components: Using standard HTML5 APIs and open source polyfills
Been using reddit for about 6 years, some of the smaller subs are amazing and I think it comes down to two major things, excellent moderation and community below a certain size (usually).

I've thought about this for a while on and off and I'm not sure how you could scale that up in terms of moderation, some of the defaults do well while others are just a wasteground (I've also wondered if that is partially intentional in the sense of give the idiots a subreddit as a decoy).

I like reddit but it has it's shares of trolls and typical online negativity (which I actually dislike far more than the trolls they at least are easily spotted, the constant negativity wears you down).
On the CRM/targeted marketing side, there are use cases for finding out address and other personal info from any tidbit of information you have. Many times you only get an email or phone, or on the flip side a name + address.

Few examples:
In a call center environment, looking up the name and address of the caller to know who you're talking to. Matching loosely on name and zip code can provide the operator with a good idea who they are talking to. The system can then match the caller to demographic and interest data to better support sales/marketing/routing decisions.

We use fullcontact to get social profile (twitter, fb, angellist, linkedin, etc) based on an email or phone number in order to better know the user and their social influence that they can have for our customers. Why? Many third party booking systems (flights, hotels, misc travel, etc) provide only the required fields to make the booking stick with the provider (hotel, for example), in order to prevent the provider from contacting the customer directly and taking away that third party booking service (Expedia, for example) revenue.
As such, if Expedia only sends name and zip code, or name and phone number, we can match that with existing public data and/or look it up in fullcontact (or something like this phone reverse lookup) in order to get a more complete profile of a guest.
2013 April Fools: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/m...
The interesting thing is that they're quotes from an NYU law professor who was the "top lawyer" for the FBI from 2011 to 2013. I do wish the reporter had asked him what responsibility he felt for so abusing the public trust that corporate America (of all possible parties!) felt they needed to respond in a way that could seriously raise the hackles of the federal government.

When people abuse the trust put in them, they deserve to lose that trust.
Personally, those toolbars looked like something 15 year-old me created the first time I opened Photoshop.
What cataclysm do you envision destroying life on Earth if we have the technology to survive on Mars? Surviving on Mars means that we can survive in freezing temperatures, with deadly levels of radiation, without a breathable atmosphere, without fertile soil, with little to no liquid water, and with no source of power but sunlight that's 60% weaker than on Earth.
Can you use Realm with Phonegap applications?
Gifshot: JS library to create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, images
You have to look at these things in the context of the war that had been going on for years at the time. Imperial Japan had attacked, invaded, and occupied any neighbors who had resources they might need or who otherwise might oppose them. That occupation often came with brutality and oppression at a scale that would make the Nazis blush.

When the US entered the war, one of their first moves was unrestricted submarine warfare, meaning any Japanese ship is sunk on sight, regardless of who or what is onboard or where it is heading. It continued with sinking many naval fleets, re-invading many islands, generally resulting in the death of basically everyone in the Japanese garrison, as it was part of their code to kill themselves or carry out suicide attacks rather than surrender.

Continuing on, we have the unrestricted aerial bombing of basically every city in Japan. The only reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively untouched so late in the war was that they were exempted from conventional bombing for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of the atomic bombs when they were ready. Many of the conventional bombing raids caused greater death and destruction than the atomic bombings.

In light of all of this, suggesting a demonstration of the bomb seems kinda pointless. The Imperial Japanese administration would probably interpret such an act as saying that America didn't have the courage to carry out major attacks, thus encouraging them to hold out longer and requiring more destruction in the end to force a surrender. The bombings were terrible, but the real suffering was the war itself, and the only way to stop it was to force the surrender of Imperial Japan as quickly as possible. Against such an enemy, the best way to end the war with as much of Japanese society as possible still intact was to demonstrate total ruthlessness in doing anything in our power to destroy Japanese infrastructure and kill Japanese citizens as quickly as possible.
What in the world is an Arduino Yun doing in this picture of Windows devices: http://files.tested.com/photos/2014/09/30/68049-windows_prod...

See item on farthest left, it's an Arduino Yun board without the sticker: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun?from=Products.Ardu...

The Yun has a 400mhz MIPS processor (and an 8-bit AVR for Arduino compatibility) that runs Linux and I would wager will never run a variant of Windows 10. Did somebody in marketing or whatever just search for Arduino and slap the first picture they saw on the slide?
Thanks for the heads-up! We’ll get that fixed shortly.

We do support JSON (and GSON) — you can see it at work in our gridViewExample (https://github.com/realm/realm-java/tree/master/examples/gri...)
How China's Mobile Ecosystem Is Different from the West
as now I am getting:

>The service is unavailable.

or

>Error establishing a database connection

I hope Microsoft servers run not on Windows 10 :-X
cmder is basically a customised conemu
Some of the best subreddits have rules that you're not to link to any post in the sub anywhere else on Reddit.

They don't want more attention, they feel it will decrease their quality, and they're probably right.
wouldn't the 5th amendment protect against that?
There is value in not being the pedo/terror phone. That's one of the traditional attacks on information privacy.
Naturally what matters to the planet are the totals, but not going per-capita or per-unit-area is asking a disproportionate share from different people. And you can frame the problem using different groups in different ways so it is no longer well defined. Observe:

1. Members of the OECD must cut down on CO2 emissions. They far exceed China's emissions. Totals are what matter, and the OECD certainly has a higher total than China. China can't do anything so long as the OECD keeps pumping CO2 freely into the atmosphere.

2. North America must cut down on CO2 emissions. They far exceed that of South Asia.

We can think of it this way. A certain standard of living requires some degree of pollution + cost. It is not productive to ask the other guy to endure a poorer standard of living while you live large just because he, as an individual, lives in a place with more individuals. You can ask for that, but it isn't going to happen.
Ask HN: How much does your startup cost?
Once I had a dream. In that dream Google purchased my startup for $9 mln. I remember my hard feelings - it was not enough. In my dream I assessed my startup for $19 mln.
I try not to think about this. I'm just curious to know what is the approximate price of my startup and who might be interested in purchasing it.
What are your assessments of your startups and why?
Thanks for this, saved me some time!
The Play Store does allow app launchers (alternative home screens and themes are even popular), but they do still ban other non-malicious apps, most notably: pornography, apps that block ads in other apps, and YouTube video downloaders. Though the latter is allowed in the Amazon Appstore, I think.
Dmitry Grishin: “Robotics Has Too Many Dreamers, Needs More Practical People”
I find it interesting how he praises and bashes apple in the same sentence:

"it is truly unbelievable how a company, formerly known for
its remarkable design, dares to put out such a crap ton of shit"

Then he / she goes on to describe how, in his opinion, apple has failed.
Can you give some examples of good quality subreddits?
PayPal and AliPay have been in competition since 2005, when PayPal launched a payments platform in China. So... definitely sooner rather than later.
Why is that important? Windows 7 extended support will provide security patches until january 2020.
> Basically your phone goes from being personal property that can be used against you as evidence to an extension of your mind that is now subject to 5th amendment protection.

Actually, it does not go that far. The 5th Amendment protects people from being forced to inciminate themselves. Otherwise, a person could be charged with contempt of court, obstruction of justice, or similar crimes. Someone who refuses to decrypt their data when subject to a warrant will face that penalty, just like someone who refuses to answer a subpeona or destroys documents relevant to a counrt case.
No, but this isn't that difficult of a project. I could probably throw together some boilerplate in a day.
Cool. I love reading such tech blog post.
Most drug dealers or johns I see just buy a prepaid phone from Walgreens, i.e. a booty phone. Tracfone doesn't verify whatever you activate with, you can just make up whatever name/address.
Can you see how one of these things is not like the others?
Workspaces! I've been using them in Linux since 10 years ago.
Windows 1.0 was 28 years ago. There will be exactly zero confusion if they recycled the (IMO superior) name.
I'd also buy a Toyota or a Honda car, since it's less likely to break down while fleeing the police. Clearly, reliable automobiles are part of a pro-crime agenda.
Hipcamp Raises $2M to Get People Camping
Not to mention the entirely expected but entirely horrible response to /r/twoxchromosomes initially though they seem to have got that under control (again with excellent moderation).
You're making a thoughtful point here (though one that I happen to strongly disagree with), so I'm not sure why the downvotes.

But anyway, it's worth noting that the publicly switched telephone network, email, SMS, etc. are all wholly compromised and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The reduction in law enforcement snooping ability being contemplated here is tiny by comparison, and they're making an incredible amount of noise about it.
"What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law."

This guy has it exactly wrong: it allows people to place themselves beyond the illegal snooping of NSA et al. The one to blame here is the NSA, together with those who failed in their duty as counter-power to administrative abuse.
Because Hacker News wants people to stand behind their comments. Lack of accountability is not a desirable feature if you're trying to encourage civilized discussion.
What's next?! Requiring warrants to search criminals' homes? Giving criminals jury trials? Banning cruel and unusual punishment of criminals?
You can Flag stories at a certain point, which has a downvote-like effect if enough flags are accumulated.
RT = 9?
Google encourages website owners to switch to HTTPS for better ranking position
> Spinning off PayPal really hurts the long-term growth potential of EBay. They haven't grown much at all over the past few years, once you take out the PayPal revenue.

But, as a current shareholder, you will still own PayPal and Ebay shares. The question is whether they are better together or better apart. There isn't any obvious synergy between the two anymore.

> Will be very interesting to see how they split the existing EBay shares for shareholder and at what price.

No, there is nothing interesting about that. Each shareholder get X shares of Ebay, Y shares of Paypal and Z dollars of cash. The price of the shares is set by the market. The values of X and Y are pretty much arbitrary.
> CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas, or anywhere near the most powerful. There are immense reserves of methane gas frozen under the arctic. If that gas were suddenly released all at once due to the ice caps melting, it could be truly catastrophic.

Yes, true, with one mitigating factor -- methane doesn't stay in the atmosphere very long. It breaks down fairly rapidly. It's a much more efficient greenhouse gas than CO2, but it's short-lived.
And I've already got used to "Alt+Space", then "E", then "P".
Hacking Patience
Good thing nobody is forcing you to browse it.
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history

Pull request on the way.
> First, it’s always bothered me that users create so much of the value of sites like reddit but don’t own any of it. So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time.

How do you prevent extrinsic motivation from undermining intrinsic motivation here?
He was clearly writing this for posterity.

Japan was beaten. They had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on keeping the emperor, which was rejected by the U.S. Their utter defeat and the hopeless state of their armed forces was well-known by the allies, since their communication encryption had been cracked months earlier.

The real issue was likely that the Soviet Union, positioned to become a formidable power in the post-war theater, had promised to enter the war against Japan on August 6. The Americans needed to make sure that Japan had been defeated by that point and that the U.S. would occupy Japan, not Soviet Russia. Hence the rush to drop the bombs before that.

Also, there was no uncertainty about the lack of military significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the contemporary reports state this clearly, they even warn about the presence of American POWs in the area (which was ignored and they were incinerated along with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians).
Sonic Hedgehog: The Problem with Naming Genes
The sections of government that care about searching people's property already have a plethora of ways to get around the supposed protections.