skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not agree with the point that if Nazis used X to kill Jews then we should not use X. For example, Nazis used trains to transport arrested Jews. No government should build railroads then?

"these systems are deadly in the wrong hands" - In the context of this thread, I hope you are not comparing Indian government with the Nazis. Such a comparison would be misusing the Nazi term and insulting the severity of crimes committed against Jews.

"if the info is not there, it can't be abused" - We can't move to the stone age now. Your car registration details at the DMV can be used against you. Your SSN details can be used against you. Information is stored about every citizen, in every country.

I hope that people realize that schemes such as UID present many benefits - reducing corruption, bring transparency, and ultimately, giving power to the people.
Have you noticed that "Unreliable -> Trustworthy"
is also "Male -> Female"?
Why Kleiner Perkins Invested in Magic Leap
Oh, GDP is useful, because it correlates well with most other indicators of progress that people have come up with.
Because if you're not into tools, having one tool that works okay for everything is better than having several, each of which works very well for some specific thing.
I had a serious dental incident about 20 years ago due to both massive soda/sugar intake and not taking care of my teeth. I bit into a candybar and almost passed out due to the pain. Trip to the dentist: 12 cavities which I got filled in three long and painful visits. Eating candy was actually pretty unusual for me already, but I never drank soda again... or those damn Lance crackers I ate all the time.
It's true that they're in separate orgs inside the company, but Google is a pretty open place and it's extremely common for different orgs to work together. So I'm not sure that this observation really answers anything.
> Users surely realize that every gmail they send and every Facebook message is both mined for information and also accessible to hundreds of people at these companies.

Well it's not like they ever offered users a choice or educated them....
> A statement of personal desire on the part of one individual is different from a statement of intention or interest on the part of Apple.

I agree, but you asked for the former.
As I discovered over various conversations with people, Excel support for Japanese blows away standard "plaintext" formats. There are a few standards for japanese encoding, which makes CSVs tricky (there's no standard way of specifying a codepage), but XLS and other formats explicitly state what encoding they use.
I am not arguing that programmers need to have "punchy" titles at all. However, others clearly that some sort of term beyond those you listed is necessary, and these names are evidence of that.
Does she like math puzzles? I came across this recently, about Mary Somerville. She's not exactly Ada Lovelace, but close.

At the age of fifteen she came across a mathematical puzzle in a ladies magazine (mathematical recreation columns were quite common in ladies magazines in the 18th and 19th-centuries!)

[1] http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/the-queen-of-science-...
The standard answer is that the magnetic field protects us from part of the radiation that comes from the space. I tried to find a good source with more information. I'm still not sure, perhaps it's only a myth.

This page says that if there were no magnetic field, the atmosphere would absorb the radiation anyway. (I vote for this, but I'd like to see more info.) http://www.sciencebits.com/NotReallyAProtection

These two pages say that the magnetic field provides protection: http://www.windows2universe.org/glossary/plasmaspheric_gain.... http://www.askamathematician.com/2014/07/q-how-does-earths-m...
Not sure about 70% to another 5 yrs, you gave Google+ (personal) an 85%, I believe it to be much lower.

My guess for Firebase is 25%. Why? Because I don't see this making enough profit and social value is low. Just a guess though, then again I'm wrong a lot, so it should be interesting looking back on your stats (Bookmarked).
I think it's also important to note that the timing. Some of the first real mainstream home computers started selling around the time people who were graduating college in '83 and '84 were in middle school or starting high school, ripe time to start monkeying around with a computer.

The Atari 8-bits were released in '79

The TRS-80 Model 1 - '77

VIC-20 - '80

TI-99/4 - '79
the book argues, quite successfully in my opinion, that these cases are entrapment. The government says that entrapment doesn't apply because terrorism.
It makes a certain kind of sense. It's sort of like working on flexible graph paper. It's the same kind of logic that lead to table-based layouts in HTML.
The only other place I've ever heard it used is in Gulliver's Travels, and I believe is the origin.
Graham Farmelo also wrote The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom [0] which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It's not very technical, which is sometimes a nice attribute in these sorts of biographies, but it covers the science as it develops, if a little too briefly.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Strangest-Man-Hidden-Mystic/dp/046...
A sibling post mentions a thing called vcsh (with no additional details) that appears to allow you to do just that with the same premise by overlapping multiple repositories onto your homedir.
But a shift in polarisation wouldn't include the field to disappear at any time, would it?
New digital identity platform backed by major Bitcoin companies
Say what you want about the tenets of evolutionary theory, at least it's an ethos.
Agreed, as usual. ISTM the EFF is begging the question (in the legal sense of assuming one's preferred conclusion as a premise) here by breezily asserting that Smith v. Maryland is outdated, without making any clear showing of why. Yes, you could look at the history of someone's telephone calls and infer that they planned to get an abortion, or had cancer, or had particular preferences in takeout food...but that was equally possible in 1979. Indeed, the EFF mentions government access to 'telephone books' - and while nowadays any telephone books I receive go straight into the recycling bin, back in 1979 they were the normal way of storing information, and my understanding is that telephone companies maintained reverse directories ordered by number.

This matters because while the government can obviously process data in a mere millisecond these days (like the private sector does), efficiency of execution has no bearing whatsoever on the question of whether people have an expectation of privacy in their phone records; the holding of Smith v. Maryland is that they do not, because by choosing to place a telephone call they have opted to share that information with the phone company, and the fact of the call becomes a mere business record. The Supreme Court's position was that there's a trade-off between anonymity and convenience, and where one opts for the convenience of a telephone call (facilitated by the telephone company) then one sacrifices any expectation of privacy. This matters since if phone calls are still considered business records 35 years on, then warrants are no more necessary now than they were in 1979.

There's a much stronger argument for the privacy of things like email, since one can send encrypted messages on a peer-to-peer basis by the simple expedient of running one's on mail server, even though most people choose to outsource that job to a commercial provider. But phone calls only go through exchanges, and there's no way to bootstrap your way into the phone network that's equivalent to firing up your own SMTP server - if you make a call through Verizon from your cell, how is that fundamentally different from making a call through AT&T from your landline?
Your analogy to IE and Netscape Navigator confuses me. Navigator cost money and was the dominant browser; IE came along later, was free, and became dominant. Eventually Netscape lowered the price to zero but by then was effectively out of business. From where I'm sitting, Android is more like the "IE" to Apple's "Navigator", only it doesn't look like Apple's going to go out of business any time soon.
There appears to be at least a couple of emulators:

http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/altogether/
Apple Launches “Maps Connect,” Self-Service Local Listings Portal
so what did you use ?
No, it does not run :BundleInstall for you. Maybe it would be a good idea if the user could specify some commands to run after downloading a profile. For example they could add a line in their .vimrc:

" vimswitch-after-download=:BundleInstall
I'm unsure how it's pronounced (mode-ee-ah vs mode-ay), and have absolutely no idea what you do. It sounds trendy though.
Not an emulator but: http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html

Honestly, the release of this might stir somebody to get one going. It would be a weird beast to emulate though.
Building a card game with React.js
Yeah, that's pretty crazy. They should have decoded it from chicken entrails.
An uncle gave me an early 90's version of this manual as a gift when I was in my teens. This manual, along with "The American Boy's Handy Book" resulted in days and days of outdoor activity and a plethora of failed boats/rafts/cabins/snares/spearfishing/etc... There are some awesome instructions in here and the print copy I have has an entire color photo plant identification guide in the back.

My only word of warning would be to make sure the kids you expose to this are responsible enough for the knowledge. There are some last resort things like "how to poison an entire stream of fish by grinding up wild plants".
[b][i][o][u]BBCode is just gimped HTML.[/u][/o][/i][/b]
As someone who doesn't play video games. I can relate.
because if you left that well paying job

If someone says that they worked at a well paying job, my suspicion would be that they were run out of it, doubly so if they were engaged with such a shoddy, rag tag start-up. It would take pretty strong evidence to the contrary to believe otherwise.
Urs Holzle announced in January publically that Google's TI and Google Cloud will merge... thoughts?
ISTM that a nice feature for HN would be to strip out the

?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Google...

crap that gets stuck in URLs occasionally when people use RSS readers. In this case it doesn't seem to include any PII but I think sometimes it does?
Thesis on the Evolution of Messaging – Podcast
Bay Area apartment rents at record high
I agree - also the idea (which you hint at) that life and the environment are not static. The idea that change is bad, is myopic and very human, although very understandable when change involves your environment disappearing.
All you need to produce a 'good' name is a simple script, a list of adjectives and a list of critters. A few sample runs from my proprietary name generator produces these CamelCased (KamlKzed?) marvels of ingenuity:

FragrantDuck
CourteousOwl
RecklessPig
OtherMoose
CaringFrog
MindlessFish
UpbeatLizard
WhisperedHippo
SlushyWhale
OilyAccountant
CompassionateHog
InstructiveMonkey
ForkedCow
...

Of course I did not work on this script for quite a while, and it shows. To be really trendy I'd have to remove some vowels here and there, change a 'c' for a 'k' now and add the odd '-ly'.
Since we're on a roll, here's a CIA manual on tradecraft

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Show HN: Build a full product with AngularJS and Firebase (7 hrs of HD video)
Isn't it more likely their realtime functionality will be integrated or merged with whatever WebSocket initiatives Google has running?

Look at their Google Play services: Android and iOS get realtime, and web is relegated to using a REST API: https://developers.google.com/games/services/

To me that's a huge hole in their services currently that needs to be remedied as the realtime web becomes more pervasive.
Not true. Saudi Arabia is the most obese country on earth, at 70%.

Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are also substantially obese. All of those are coming increasingly close to catching America in obesity, with their obesity levels exploding higher.
There is actually a project to do something similar using conventional breeding. E. woodsii hybridizes with E. natalensis. If you back-cross hybrid offspring with E. woodsii again and again, with each generation you will have plants that are genetically closer and closer to the E. woodsii parent while still having female plants.
It seems to be real. The company's response is at http://valleywag.gawker.com/handys-nightmare-tryout-process-... and reads basically "yeah but that was a while ago, we're different now".
HackerRank looking to hire a lead UX designer, growing super fast
Some kinds of data have to be recorded, eg for certain sorts of financial transactions in excess of a certain amount. But you could operate an anonymous email service or some other sort of service where you don't retain any records. Government entities have been aware of/monitored 4chan for years, for example, but I've never heard of any attempt to compel Moot to engage in harvesting or storage of data (by compel I mean via litigation or legislation, not some politician saying 'there oughta be a law' on the nightly news).

By all means correct me if I'm wrong.
Evolution?

One might be able to recover some old species' DNA - it is not enough to clone it back to life.
I send registration welcomes / email confirmations via Mailgun. Likewise, my company does the same thing with a different provider. It's not spam, just handy.
The US Government's vast, and continued, subsidization of corn is what led to the creation of HFCS. Makes sense, unfortunately, that the US would be drowning in it.
I strongly agree with the author that "face-ism" is a highly overlooked issue that needs to be dealt with. People treat other people differently on the basis of what their face looks like, and it gets tiring. (Although I'm not one to judge, as I've found I'm not immune to the phenomenon myself. For instance, my initial impulse is to regard people who have a "bro" or "frat" face with contempt before realizing how irrational that is.)

I almost feel like people begin to act how others expect them to act on the basis of their face; their personality is shaped as a response to the stimulus of other people's interactions with them. Someone who has a "friendly" face is going to be picked first in sports, is going to be talked to first out of a group of strangers, etc., and this creates a feedback loop where these people actually do become friendly, talkative, and outgoing.

Likewise, those with "antisocial, don't-talk-to-me" faces are going to be ignored or treated standoffishly, and this too creates a feedback loop where these people assume since no one wants to interact with them, they will just stay by themselves instead. It's frustrating.
base64 encoded JPEGs

MJPEG is supported in all browsers I know of, and would cut down on bandwidth by 33% over base64.

(If you really want to use WebSockets, a more dense encoding than base64 could also help - look into base85, for example.)
I'm not "old," but I'll give it a shot...

I agree - it seems like every day I read a story about how my peers can't find jobs, how the job market is terrible, etc. But then I see thousands of postings for those typical desk jobs. I don't fully understand it, but if I had to venture a guess, I'd say it has to do with the "coolness" of the job.

It seems much more superior these days to say you work for the latest startup over a traditional multi-national corporation. Also, people entering the job market today really seem to value the work environment. I read an article on HN recently about how the finance industry is losing applicants to the tech industry. Recent grads hate the stuffy 9 to 5 culture, not getting free lunches, wearing suits to a job where they sit at a desk all day, etc. etc.

Regardless, I would think they'd rather have a job somewhere like that than no job at all, but that's been my limited experience talking to 30 or so new grads.
If unequal access to home computers in the 1980s was the main cause of loss of interest in CS degrees, why is it that every improvement in access equality has been accompanied by more loss of interest in CS?

I suspect that the article might be right about the sharp turn in the 1980s being the result of personal (as opposed to corporate) computing, but we've now collected thirty years of data that suggest that access isn't the issue.

Instead, I think it's the inherent lack of appeal of the activity itself. Only a small percentage of boys can maintain any interest in programming after the novelty wears off, and it's only the fact that even fewer girls stay interested that accounts for the gender imbalance.
If you liked that, Trygve Reenskaug, who did the original MVC implementation, has a page about it that includes a few of the earliest papers on it here:

https://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html
Bedrock Linux: Introduction
More lawsuits over "no poach" deals get filed against Oracle, Microsoft
Those are usually determined by the farmer. Crop circles, on the other hand, are usually determined by some pranksters.
They should fire the co-founder. That is unacceptable behavior.
Hacker Toolbox
What are the tools to help you get set and start developing awesome web products?
Fake food in Japan
Soon there will be an app for that, probably called Unter (Uber for going under).
Augmented reality might help offset facial structure bias, or even use it as a sort of short cut. For example, AR could modify the faces around you based on actual/relevant characteristics, including your own history with that person. Your view would of course indicate where alterations were made.
Direct link: http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/index.html
Point Your Phone at Math Problems and This App Solves Them
Wonderful! Yes, we have safeguards and sometimes things get forced or cutoff and it's not perfect (yet). Sounds like you had a serious project underway. If it makes you feel better, we had several false starts and lots of aimless wandering before we found what worked for us. Always happy to answer questions, on the offchance you want to restart your project. I sincerely appreciate the feedback.
And how about sugar in honey?
I just wonder.
If you want to lean in a science-fiction-y direction, this has potential to lead to "personal robots" as virtual apps in augmented reality space acting as a front end to a variety of tech.
Interesting. Informally (anecdotally), I think the norm is quite the opposite: noblesse obliges to never drop the H-bomb in conversation --whence the irksome "went to school near Boston" trope [1,2].

It could well be a HBS-only thing, though. They have their own thing going on.

[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/15/harvard-students...

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/05/30/harvard_grads...
Don't even go down that rabbit hole. Don't read "Looks" by Gordon Patzer. It's devastating to see the data if you are an ugly person.
If you have somebody at your company who is well connected, good at making connections and is good at delivering presentations to investors, then you can get money even if your office is poorly run.
Show HN: Howard – Text him your thoughts
MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin – MIT News
Keep Talking “hip hop music”
The Secret Life of SIM Cards [video] – Defcon 21
Your Genetic Privacy Is Probably a Lost Cause
FYI in cased you missed it - This is a story about the world of telemarketing, not startups.
It seems like there are a lot of similar competing projects in the service config space now. I was interested in trying this out last year: https://github.com/coderanger/etcd-chef
Mostly for fun. I've got a .ninja and .beer.

Contemplated .xxx's for my company to protect the brand against cybersquatters.
In my anecdotal experience, I only find out people I meet went to Harvard when I see them in a school sweatshirt. Or if they write for The Simpsons, in which case I just assume it. Heh.

Wharton grads, on the other hand... Never more than 10 minutes before they drop it in.
Unbabel – Translation for Zendesk
There is always a very reasonable difference of opinion about what a given constitutional provision actually means.

The reason amending the constitution is hard is that it's meant to act as a check on "people who are elected." Take a look at the amendments since the bill of rights.

11: Sovereign immunity for states

12, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27: Changes to voting rights, elections and issues related to elected officials

13: Abolish slavery

14: Post civil war amendment, reduction in power of the states, new enforcement powers for federal government

16: Grants Congress the power to levy income tax

18: Prohibition (repealed by 21)

Congress hasn't voted to meaningfully reduce federal power in over 200 years.
Successful tractor beam breaks records
It's up to the designer. But as long as it's used consistently through the design and it's different enough from other elements, your users won't have any issues.

Either one of these would work: http://jsfiddle.net/5u2j549q/
Technology Retailer CeX Now Accepts Bitcoin at All UK Locations
Did they continue to pay your salary in Amazon Prime credits?
While undoubtedly there are some people who have undiagnosed lyme, I suspect there are a lot of people who actually have CFS instead. Reading these kind of news stories it seems there are a lot of lyme "patients" who never had the bulls-eye rash, who keep going to doctors until they are given a diagnosis (or they buy a dubious test, such as igenix), then they're cured by a dubious supplement/diet treatment (which is highly unlikely to cure a bacterial infection).

It also sounds like long-term bacterial therapy isn't any use for lyme if you start it years after infection.
I didn't plan to post here today but after the Firebase acquisition I figured why not.

This is the course I wish I had when I was learning Angular. It was a painful process that sucked. I was really annoyed that I wasn't getting anywhere fast after reading the docs and countless tutorials. And when I felt like I did grasp the concepts, it was hard to find examples of complete apps once I was ready to build something.

So I made the course to address these issues. After you go through this you'll finally get how all the pieces fit together. And when you look at the docs again, everything will make so much more sense. You'll also have a neat product that you could actually sell to businesses.

And of course you'll learn Firebase, the real time datastore that was acquired by Google today.

If you haven't worked with Firebase, it's worth going through the course just to see how it works. It makes development incredibly fast and fun. Like a lot of other people, I thought that Firebase would just be a toy for hackathons and side projects, but the more I used it, the harder it was to go back to the way I was handling data before.

Now Firebase is the first thing I turn to when I want to build apps. It's that good.
I don't like anecdotes like this because it is so reliant on genetics alongside maintenance.

I'm in my 30s now, and I've never had a cavity despite awful habits from childhood to my mid-20s. While I drink much less soda pop now, I still have too much. My wife on the other hand, seems to get cavities the moment her teeth touch a Skittle, even though she had better parents and better habits in adulthood.

Some of us are lucky, some of us aren't. But taking care of your teeth can't hurt, and can only extend the time you have with them.