skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing too specific, I'm afraid; the treatment of workers, the Kindle remote deletion, the one-click patent, cutting off Wikileaks. This combined with my general dislike of very large companies (notwithstanding my pro-Google bias).
One of the problems is that you can set your search provider as DDG, and the query still goes to Apple too. GP posits that this is an essential part of doing a web search.
Have seen mystifly.com work around this from a travel agent perspective. Growing pretty fast..
Option-click the "Create" button in the setup wizard in Mail.app for the same thing
> Compiler enforced static typing rejects many correct programs, which is a disadvantage.

Only if you care about these programs. It is entirely possible many of these 'correct programs' are not useful at all, or arguably useful, or are outside the domain criteria, and rejecting them is fine. This is often a leading motivator behind the design of things like domain specific languages, or designs like MISRA C - many things by design cannot be done, but often those aren't the things we care about, use, or wish to discuss anyway.

On the flip side, there are things type systems enable that I do not think can be actually accomplished in an untyped language - but really, this isn't very interesting aside from being a minor technical factoid, IMO. It's very far removed from the more interesting question of whether or not it's useful to consider these things at all. And it's completely legitimate to say "No, these things aren't worth considering".
If you're in Europe, ryanair are steadily getting better and better. They still don't quite fit the bill, buit they're cheap and reliable and their dirty practices are getting less invasive
Shipping costs affect the total price of the books. People certainly care about price, or Amazon wouldn't have become so popular.
The context example is the only one of these that is really a valid example - and that is not something you would normally run into. I've never seen that idiom in code outside of google, so I wouldn't even call it idiomatic, regardless of the fact that it's posted on the Go blog. I'm actually sort of surprised they even posted it there.

The JSON package is handling automatic marshalling of objects to and from a textual format - of course it has to be outside the scope of normal code.

When I said "you can code for a very long time without hitting your first interface{}", I meant in code you write. It's very rare to need interface{} in your own code. Some very specialized packages (like JSON) need it, and yes, sometimes helper functions for testing need it. But for regular production code? No. If you find yourself reaching for interface{} more than extremely rarely in your code, you're probably doing something wrong.
Forbes has a good response piece to Krugman: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/10/20/paul-krug...
Show HN: Reqres – A hosted REST-API for testing your front-end against
The main point isn't one action or another but, and Krugman says it clearly, that Amazon has too much power.

Modern democracies usually strive to prevent concentration of power in few hands, especially if those hands aren't elected. The market, however, does often favor concentration of power, and when that happens, democracies should protect themselves.

The US in particular has had a history of businesses gaining too much power and seriously hurting the public. This is Krugman's main point:

[Y]es, I have Amazon Prime and use it a lot. But again, so what? The desirability of new technology, or even Amazon’s effective use of that technology, is not the issue. After all, John D. Rockefeller and his associates were pretty good at the oil business, too — but Standard Oil nonetheless had too much power, and public action to curb that power was essential... The robber baron era ended when we as a nation decided that some business tactics were out of line. And the question is whether we want to go back on that decision.

Personally I think that exploitative practices by big business are making a huge comeback, in Silicon Valley in particular (see Google with privacy, Uber with workers, the SV non-poaching cartel and more). It is interesting to compare and contrast this with the Gilded Age robber barons. It's certainly not the same, but the robber barons are coming back, albeit in a new form.
So, I just completed the "curiosity killed the mouse" level, took 3 people a while to realise what was going on, but after a few minutes we got to the non-obvious solution, and I got sent back to the first level. I feel a bit screwed over now... =|
So if I make a promise, and then "change my viewpoint" on it, then I'm allowed to break said promise? Am I understanding your argument there, or is there more to it?

Or, we could go back to the author's point about the public being deluded. Which is supported by them voting the guy in a second time, even after they say him with his "changed viewpoint", and lack of promise-keeping.
Most of us in the U.S. don't really get to vote either. There is no anti-drone party, no anti-NSA party, and no anti-Drug-War party: the two dominant parties agree more than they differ, especially when looking at actions rather than rhetoric. Moreover, huge numbers of people are completely disenfranchised if they support the minority party in the wrong district or state.

Our democracy isn't completely ineffectual; some good people sneak through now and then, and there is some counter-balance to blatant abuses of power. But it's a far cry from government by/of/for the people.

(Incidentally: it's worth nothing that the Constitution repeatedly refers to "person" and not "citizen". I think it is deeply shameful that we do not afford basic human rights protections to persons of all nationalities, as a matter of first principles.)
The Stream Finally Cracks the Dam of Cable TV
I can't tell for sure one way or the other, since the site's English translation is a little iffy, and both the English and Japanese sites seem a bit vague on the matter, but there's a possibility the limitation is actually having four programs open in the editor at the same time, which would be far more convenient.
What about freelance editors?
Hmm, you have a very good point. Amazon are sitting pretty at the moment, but if something like crowdfunding authors became popular, Amazon could lose market pretty quickly.

That said, if you look at the big 4, they largely consist of mergers of very old companies, and Amazon is really the only successful ebook seller in english at the moment, even Google seems to have problems getting far in that market. So the barriers to entry may be higher than you think.
Could this be related to a difference in local taxes, e.g. VAT?
Ask HN: Looking for specific types of news articles
If people have any examples of hackers finding a security hole in a network and reporting it to the company.
Then one of the following happens:
1 - The company does nothing and the hacker publicly shames them for their competence.
2 - The hacker sales the information on to someone who uses it for money gaines.
3 - The hacker uses the information to damage the company and gain information.

Other scenarios I am looking for is when a company has been breached but no data has been damaged and when data has been damaged.

and Spear phishing and phishing.

Any help will be appreciated.
Career planning: Where do old devs go to?
The text when you open spotlight explains that it's looking on the internet. The first icon is safari. Every search you do, including siri, kortana, and ok google sends information to the respective company. Apparently bendgate didn't satisfy the fans, so they had to come up with a tortured reason to be all upset. I really tire of this horse shit, and would expect better.
This years Nobel price in Economics was given to Jean Tirole whose field
this is. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...

Industrial organization is very interesting and important field to follow even if you are a layman interested in game theory, mechanism design and implementation theory. Market structure is big important part of efficiently working free markets.
Walter Isaacson on the Intel Trinity: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove
The standard monopsony effect is on quality. Monopsonies push the price below the cost of production, so producers cut production costs to an unreasonable level.

In the case of books, you'd see that by cuts in editing, by authors shortening the amount of time that they spend writing a book, and through authors dropping out and leaving the field to less talented writers with fewer alternative income sources.

The textbook monopsony is government health care. Most visibly, the long wait times for some health care services.
> an editor is really helpful. Revision, pagesetting, etc, as well.

At what point could this function be largely automated? At what point fully?

Algorithmic editing brings up novel possibilities. You could have footnotes added as information is corroborated or countered. Editions could be instantly localised for almost every language and cultures. One may even get to on-the-go re-editing for individual readers (for example, I may prefer a punchier writing style with non-referential footnotes inserted in-line). This changes what a "book" is, but so did paperback publishing and the Kindle.
Swedes also buy from Denmark and Danes buy from Germany. The entire thing is really fascinating.
“Domestic corporal punishment” has been completely illegal in Sweden since 1979. It is upheld and anyone caught doing it risks having their children removed, and if you are seen doing it in public, expect several people to react and/or report you immediately. (I.e. it’s not one of those laws which is frequently ignored – it is an established social norm.)

I would say that the population of Sweden has not suffered demonstrably from this. Make of this fact what you will.
N.F.L. Stands by Its Push to Connect to Fans Digitally
Ghostmemo is another alternative (I use it): http://ghostmemo.com
The minimum viable audience challenge
I've got a lot of practice breaking things.
CSRF can be identified really fast by checking for unique tokens. Some unguessable token should be submitted with each state changing request. If not, attackers can steal authenticated accounts by making a request to the "change PW" or "change email" URLs. It's a little confusing at first.

XSS I just set JavaScript as something that shows up in a field on a different page.
The RCE I mentioned is just uploading a PHP file for the "file upload" feature associated with messages. If he puts the uploaded file within the webroot (and the file is php since his whole site is php) then the file will be executed when you go to its URL

Web app security is something that infosec professors don't talk about at all (in my experience). I had to teach myself but OWASP is very good to get started. It also helps to write a lot of software as well since you'll tend to find pitfalls of doing things wrong

edit: If you would like to see more of the technical how-tos behind CSRF check this link out. It is a blog I wrote about CSRF and how one would actually attack someone with it.
http://ejj.io/csrf-password-bruteforce/
Adjustable walker for climbing stairs, designed by a 12 year old
Perhaps the situation is different in Holland and the USA, but I know for a fact that favoritism towards party members, relatives and their friends is very common after elections among higher ranks of civil servants, both in Austria and Greece (where it was common in the 80's to "recolor" large parts of the public sector when the ruling party changed). This weakens the "static bureaucracy" hypothesis in my book.

As others have pointed out, the POTUS directly appoints many key people and therefore cannot be completely powerless to actually "change" policy (assuming there isn't a closed pool of like-minded people to choose from).
I would assume it only covers EU citizens buying tickets in an EU country from an EU country. A common scenario, but it doesn't help the rest of the world.
Perhaps if a president like Eisenhower, who came up through the military, warned about a "military industrial complex", that would be some evidence that the power of elected politicians is limited in some real way.

And perhaps "limited in ways that the public doesn't understand" is a better synthesis of the author's point rather than "wields no real power"
Get to the green square. You're the cursor with the yellow halo around it. Figuring out the rest of the problems is part of the fun :)
iOS 8.1 Jailbreak ProgressiPhone jailbreak
I wish all employers could be like you...
Nuclear mutual assured destruction put an end to total war.

To see what's next, we should look at what's happening in the present: deniable war, secret war and proxy war. What's going on in Ukraine, for example? There's all these Russian speaking guys in Russian military gear going around, but they're not officially Russian military.

The conflict and associated sanctions are made more complicated by the gas pipeline. Europe can't afford to stop buying gas or half of eastern Europe freezes to death. But Russia can't afford to stop selling gas or they run out of money.

In some ways having half your industrial supply chain in "enemy" territory is a great incentive to avoid war.

Similarly anyone following the conflict in the middle east who can determine who's on "our" side or even accurately enumerate all the parties involved deserves some sort of prize. Is this kind of ultra-local ultra-fragmented conflict likely to spread? Is it likely to acquire cheap hi-tech microdrones or similar?
I would love to use Haskell as a practical tool (I honestly tried that) but the very fact that the Haskell community was not yet able to implement a simple practical thing like a convenient working package manager reveals that Haskell is not so practical after all. We need sandboxes, nix oder even a new OS (NixOS) just for the purpose of developing Haskell software? Come on!
But it already has been the case with many businesses that knowing who your customers are is a legal requirement of carrying out transactions with them. For instance, financial, weapons, pharmaceuticals. Restrictions on trade in these industries have been deemed constitutional by SCOTUS, and there isn't any state that doesn't have some restrictions on anonymous commerce between parties in some cases.

The simpler thing that has happened in pretty much every free country already, is that a government gets to determine what currency tax debts are to be paid in. Furthermore, the state has the capacity to determine that a specific currency must be accepted "for all debts public and private". Having a standard unit of account benefits the society just as other standardizations do, by strengthening network effects.

In a non-failed state with a relatively stable currency there is just no clear path for a different unit of account to overcome these advantages and gain any significant market share (if you have an example I'd love to hear it). Even without legal frameworks enforcing the old order, backwards-compatible marginal improvements to protocols like IPv6 have had weak adoption, because the simplicity and spread of the established protocol makes it good enough. Government supported currencies are even more entrenched.
Mobile Design That Scales: Building for Existing and Future Devices
My brothers and I were also spanked a fair amount as kids (my parents were sorta fundies back then, but they got better). It worked alright to help enforce some discipline. I certainly don't bear them any ill will for it.

But with my kids, I never did that. First it seemed the literature was against it. But I wasn't very confident in that by itself. Punishment data could be too dependent on other factors. Like reports of having a lot of books in the house being a good thing -- it's more an indicator of what kind of family you are in the first place.

The reason I cannot spank my kids is that I cannot find a rationally justifiable reason to, ethically. How can i answer if my kids say "Michael, why are you allowed to hit us?" I'm assaulting because I've physical superiority and legal protection! That does not sound defensible, even if the ends is that it'll make them a better person (which isn't clear).

In general, I've treated them as the autonomous beings they are. I enforce some things against their will (e.g. try to limit shit food and shit TV). But there, the reason is because they lack the understanding to make good decisions. But violating them physically - using direct pain as a response to a non-physical threat - seems to have no logical path allowing it.
Y U NO commit??
Played yesterday and there were a lot of people with the same mindset as I had: help a couple of others, then be helped and get out. Awesome experience.

Played again today and it was messier and there seemed to be more selfish ones (sometimes can be very obvious in levels with only a couple of cursors). People just entering a level and waiting at the gates. Really had to push them to come switch places. Sometimes got stuck more than 5 minutes in a level (which led to funny chatting with others though)

tldr; just like in real life.

sidenote: I don't know much about web programming, but when are the bots coming to this one? E.g. for entering text easily?
I took that more as "Don't get stuck in lobbying and writing blog posts and generally complaining about the state of things...take some real-life initiative and fight for what you believe you deserve".
There has been considerable subsequent research. The war like behaviour appears common in Chimps but happens much less in Bonobos which are genetically very similar to Chimps. There's a NYT article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/science/lethal-violence-in...
Ebola crisis: Nigeria declared free of virus
> At some point we get The Culture

Having recently read the entire series, I'm of two minds when it comes to that scenario. Part of me thinks that it can't come fast enough, but the other part knows that without faster than light travel it's nearly impossible; without a way of gaining more space to live in, pressures on living space will become the source of our conflict even if the capitalist economy as we know it today has broken down...
You're allowed to break your promise if it turns out it would do more harm than good. If you're unwilling to change your views based on new information, you would be a zealot and unfit for government. I don't know what information Obama does base his policy on, but you bet there's a million factors we (and he in his campaign) don't consider that he now must.

He has enacted positive policy changes too. He did pull troops out of Iraq, he did bring gay marriage equality forward by decades. Whatever you think of the man, saying he broke all his promises and essentially acted like a tyrant is unfair. The same can be said of Bush and others before them. On a related note, getting reelected isn't a measure of delusion. It depends on a lot of things, such as quality of the opponent, general approval, party approval, desire for stability, etc. People also reelected Bush, who had some of the same policies as Obama, and whose approval rating was even worse.
Some families where the children were removed suffered quite demonstrably.
What Does the Slash in Crontab(5) Actually Do?
I honestly don't know many 'communities' but Vintage Synth [1] is great. It's hard to avoid Gearslutz, you'll see it googling. Hydrogen Audio [2] is one of the better music communities I know, apart from Jemsite, but it's mostly digital/software/algorithm stuff. Maybe Future Producers [3] is more your thing. Or check synth-specific forums (I don't know what you've got). [4,5]

[1] http://www.vintagesynth.com

[2] http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/

[3] http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/

[4] http://forum.moogmusic.com/viewforum.php?f=12

[5] http://www.dsiforum.com
> Uninstalling bloatware also "hardly" consumes a lot of time.

Hell yes it does. Just sum it up over all consumers doing the un-install. Man years wasted, easily.
Eurostat[1] would suggest that booze is, on average, cheaper in Sweden than in Finland.

[1]: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
Kickstarter: Ghosts ’n DJs: EDM retro arcade lampoon
The argument goes that they suffer less than they would have done if they had continued to live with such unsuitable caretakers.
Think you’re eating healthy? You’re probably not
Not sure about its exact origins, but in the C++ context the usage is pretty well established. AFAIK it was first used to denote the way std::function (then boost::function) is able to hide the actual type of a callable object while retaining type safety.
> It is upheld and anyone caught doing it risks having their children removed, and if you are seen doing it in public, expect several people to react and/or report you immediately.

Did the law prevent the children to be spanked, or just made it a taboo topic and pushed all corporal punishment in the realm of the private home? I wonder if there have been any studies made about the actual amount of corporal punishment today (an article [1] from 2009 says that 10% of children are spanked).

[1]: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1005/p06s10-woeu....
> the professional should notify the appropriate regulatory authorities

Sounds like a great way to lose your job. Don't get me wrong, but it could very well be a very costly thing to do, and not all people in management likes that.
I have the impression the Kindle is heading in that direction. For example, sections other people have highlighted show up, practically as suggestions to do it yourself.

For some reason this creeps me out, as reading is quite a personal thing, but it seems the attempt to turn it social and crowdsource data from it is happening.
A bot that tweets every time a new book makes it into the NYT best sellers lists
I made this simple Twitter bot for myself but I thought other people might like it.

Follow https://twitter.com/bestnytbooks on Twitter to know whenever a new book gets into the NYT best sellers list.

Only weekly book tweets, no spam or other superfluous content.
> There is no anti-drone party, no anti-NSA party, and no anti-Drug-War party: the two dominant parties agree more than they differ, especially when looking at actions rather than rhetoric.

There is! It isn't one of the big two, but there is a party that is anti-drone, anti-NSA, anti-drug war, etc.: The Libertarian Party[0].

[0] http://www.lp.org
"Oh, [it's like] the guys are collecting baseball cards or Pokemon cards."

I don't know if I should find this alarming or whether people like me are now "outdated"
That is a very good point, but I don't think corporate influences like the MIC are necessarily limiting the president's power. It's an influence, and a very strong one at that, but they can go against it. It's just one of the many datapoints that a president has to manage.

"Limited in ways that the public doesn't understand" is undoubtedly correct, but I disagree more on the extent. The author seems to think the president has no real control over the policies he sets, at least in some areas. I believe he does have real control, but he is limited by reality being far more complex than in an ideal world.
It's one of the large pains in our European system (or at least in Germany), that indeed we have no good process to give children from abusive families a better life. Still, corporal punishment is frowned upon in Germany (and illegal) and I see no negative effects. In my parents' generation, it was normal behavior for boys to beat each other up from time to time. That is no longer the case, we live in a society that is mostly free of violence. I like that.
Guess I've having issues then, I made it to the square when I tried before and now I'm getting a blank screen and a message about losing connection. Oh well.