skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome a comment. Thanks so much for the feedback holyjaw. I have a lot to learn both about Hacker News and about how to tell people about my app in the best way.

Great point. My intention for this title was to explain the key features and uses for my app in as little space as possible, so that people who might be interested in trying it would get a chance to see it. Hacker News titles are very limited in space and I struggle with what to use for a title. I wondered if using just the key features in the title got more to the point of what the main uses and features of my app are.

But thanks very much. Point taken. It sounds like you'd rather people use a sentence title instead of comma separated values like I did here. If I'm wrong about this let me know. I'll definitely consider this if I make another post to Hacker News. Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
In the context she seems to be talking about people's willingness to share every little detail with the world. I know a woman who works for a contractor doing security clearance interviews for the federal government. She says that many of those she interviews have very little notion of privacy settings, and have publicly viewable photos and posts that contradict the image of the responsible type of person they try to put forward on their forms and in their interviews.
One thing that I think people miss is that they talk about "the law" as if there was one consistent law.

The constitution is the law. But people talk about laws violating the constitution as if they are legitimate.

If they are, then the constitution is a contradiction. National Security Letters, the TSA, even the existence of the FBI is in violation of the constitution.

But once something's been around for a couple decades, people assume it's legal. It becomes the background, and anything they do then becomes "the law".

Yeah, a law was passed creating the TSA, but that law did not repeal the fourth amendment, thus the TSA is still illegal, under both the fourth amendment and USC 18-242 which makes it a federal crime to violate a citizens constitutional rights.
You're blaming the wrong people - assuming those are good and valid features (and they are for some users), what do you expect Paypal to do? They can't send you a stripped down app with only some permissions but give me one where I can take a pic of my credit card.

Android needs to support granular permissions at runtime, then you can deny Paypal access to your microphone if it ever tries to run.
Granted, the title and tone is a little sensationalist.

In fact, you're right. The main point is invalid, the author only saves face toward the final paragraphs, when mentioning iOS.
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Forget about Samsung's software engineers - they've proven how "talented" they are one time too many already - but what about NSA? They've just approved Samsung's Knox devices for classified information. Unless of course they want these devices to be vulnerable to bugs only "they" know about (at least until today).

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2836612/samsung-knox-devices-...
Misleading title...should be:
Google Wave: A Complete Guide (2009)

But yes, I miss it too.
Seems the post is less about "why u need camera?", as the author gives reasonable explanations for the "why", but more about why aren't Android permissions more granular? I think the answer to that question is how often should the user be bothered to think about permissions? Android gets it all done up front, at the cost of it being "all or nothing". Apple let's you deny permissions at runtime, at the expense of bothering you each time the app wants to use (say) the camera.

None of which makes the post particularly front page worthy. "Why does $RANDOM_APP need to use my microphone?" Because Android permissions model, which has been rehashed to death; next question.
I watch Fox News more often than CNN. Which is 'never'.

But good try with the stereotyping and the assuming.
I'm guessing you've never actually gone through the process of getting a mortgage?
god, the things Ashe Dryden writes are toxic, regardless of her popularity (or , perhaps, vocal-ity).

> "So that we're all on the same page, let's take a look at what the landscape of open source contribution looks like. Someone's made a handy gist of the most active GitHub users (from Nov 10, 2012 through Nov 10, 2013) (thanks to @jclermont for the link). A quick glance through the list shows that the overwhelming majority of these users are white men."

Just to clarify, these are pictures of users she's looking at.

meanwhile at the bottom of the page..

> "I hesitate to break down actual percentages because attempting to discern someone's race or gender identity from their photo and name is dodgy business."

Ugghh, I wish she'd write honestly: "I know that I can't reliably estimate things by eyeballing them, but I will anyway. As long as I cite my indiscretion later on, I can write whatever the fuck I want to."
It's Samsung, they have been adding crap on top of Android for years...
> Phil Fish forced himself off the internet by being a contemptible jackass

So he totally deserved what was coming to him when GamerGate leaked his bank details and social security number to the public!</derp>

Even if someone is an asshole that doesn't legitimize harming them. This is exactly what is wrong with Gamergate.
This is a problem with android/ios or the app development process entirely. If permissions could be requested on demand within an app after installation, the the initial permissions sought won't be as intrusive. For PayPal, thier userbase is quite large, and because you don't use a feature, doesn't mean a million users elsewhere don't.

So, imo, the apps permission handling is to blame here
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It's only possible to have a "mystery bidder" because real estate is exempt from money laundering regulations.

I'd bet 2:1 it's shadily acquired money from overseas looking to be stashed out of the reach of local anti-corruption agencies.
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Let's take a brief moment to talk about systems software, and infrastructure.

It powers your OS, your VM instance running your flashy new CRUD app, your network protocols, your game engines, your browser, the interpreter or compiler you use to run your high level languages, and much, much more.

Programs such as these need high performance, low level access to hardware, or the ability to manage resources in a custom way. Languages like C, and C++ are very well suited for this. Sure, I wouldn't write a web-app in C++, but then again, I wouldn't write a javascript jit-compiler in javascript (okay maybe in asm.js for kicks).

Personally, when I see the growth of higher-level languages like these, I don't attribute it to the fall of low-level languages, but instead to the availability of new languages good for certain tasks.

In 2014, we have the luxury of being able to write applications at higher levels of abstraction, and this is a good thing. But tools like C, and C++ are still, and will be widely used by anybody who needs to develop something with requirements such as those I have mentioned. Layers of abstraction need to be built on top of something, and that something needs to work efficiently and quickly.
> Trust them for a chance.

Trust the NSA not to hack Facebook? No thanks, I won't do that. Facebook has amassed a single-source treasure trove of intelligence data, it's not up to them who gets to look at it. It's up the the biggest players in the hacking space, which seems to be the NSA.

> Trust them for a chance.

Oh, you mean trust the guy who said "Dumb fucks, they trust me!". No thanks.
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Um, that bit alone should be uncontroversial. Two sets are only equal if they contain precisely the same members. "There is no programming except for web programming" reeks of more elitism (in that it is more restrictive) than "there is programming that is not web programming". "Web programming is not programming" is another matter, but that's not actually what was said.
No, the 0x55 comes first.
The FTDI chips and drivers also have the ability to toggle a few extra pins. If you are making a device this can be important enough to lure you away from just being a generic USB Communications Device Class profile. (Think a 'reset' function or a 'enter firmware update mode' function.)

Given that as a consumer/purchaser I have no way of knowing if I have a counterfeit chip or if the next batch produced by a manufacturer will have them… I now have an incentive to avoid FTDI entirely when given a choice.
Camera is used for their mobile check deposit feature: https://personal.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...

Microphone could be used for some kind of dictation feature?
Isn't Thiel a billionaire? I don't understand why he would do so much to promote a £9.99 book.
I don't think the solution is to ignore it though. Maybe it needs more calls to change the implementation and fix the core issue.
A problem is - who would vote to fund a police-oversight agency, and how would you prevent regulatory capture? You risk ending up with another rubber-stamp FISA style oversight court that does little but pay some salaries out of the general fund.
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Getting exposure for your ideas is worth much more than however much money he would make on the book sales.
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Are you kidding? Who has time for that? 30 minutes to sit around staring at trees?

This rendered like crap in my browser, but I'd probably take a 2.5-5 minute break once a day to look at leaves. That'd probably be about all I could stand. What's the difference between 30 seconds and 30 minutes staring at leaves? They're leaves. They all look the same and they all act the same. They're mostly the same color. They don't do anything interesting.

There's a disturbing undercurrent in industrial societies of fetishizing the "natural", and I think that's the only reason anyone would enjoy sitting in the cold looking at a goddamn tree for a half hour -- to make a tribal statement about how ~enlightened~ they are because they can ~appreciate~ the ~beauty~ of ~nature~.

I mean, you're probably a developer, aren't you? Your time is valuable. Why waste it looking at a tree? Just keep this open in a small tile on your desktop and glance at it once every few hours if you really like leaf videos.
The one thing they're not making any more of in this world is land. $3.2M isn't much money for a very large number of people in this world.
I was under the impression that most US houses in that price range will be cheapish wood and drywall? Not sure you'd get much reclaimed lumber worth anything out of there.

Still - innovative idea.
Rizzoma, Kune, Novell Vibe, Google Wave is still alive.
The value of one single house is basically negative because of the bad neighborhood, bad surrounding homes, high crime, etc. By buying a larger number of contiguous homes, you can greatly reduce those problems. Sounds like a fantastic idea.
The statement is somewhat fair considering that In-Q-Tel, early on, saw Facebook as a goldmine for human intelligence and decided to make an investment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Software

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5...
Two things surprised me about this:

1 - I can't believe its's been over 4 year since Wave launched (and flopped)

2 - In those 4 years, UI trends have changed a lot. The UI in that screenshot looks horribly dated.
It is strange to read what you've written.

Mostly because I personally think the long-term effects of corporations, particularly Facebook, ganging on our society is going to be immensely more deleterious than anything our government could do or wants to do. When Facebook thwarts free and organic growth of something in favor of content pushed by those who have money (shoddy companies selling fat-loss pills which are going to moreso fuck you up than make you lose weight), I consider that something seriously screwed up. When it reduces exposure of content that's non-compatible with your views on your feed to keep you warm and cozy, perhaps in an attempt to prime you for certain political ads, that's some serious shit.

Facebook really IS something extremely horrible, people don't realize it. It's very sad that even on HN you see strong defense of Facebook. Facebook and its founder have been involved in one sleazy act to another (from privacy zuckering (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa...) to offering his friends private information -- "yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard; just ask; i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns" - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fac...).

Right now, it isn't Poitras who has done one thing after another to make me doubt the words coming out of her mouth, it's someone else.
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Why does X need access to Y?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dcentral1....
And now the demonization of him shall commence.
> More than ever Facebook is trying to protect its data from three letter agencies

Is it? Facebook has even built in "crime scanning" technology into their Facebook messenger, to report people to police.

http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-...

When Kobeissi tried to build OTR over Facebook messenger, they announced Facebook messenger's API will shut down (a little suspicious, I think).

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16857

> Intelligence agencies still have to comply with the law.

Do they really? At best the intelligence agencies have shown they will comply with their interpretation of the law, which in most cases defies even common sense, such as 3-hop mass surveillance being "relevant" to an investigation, or defining mass collection as "not surveillance".

> Trust them for a chance.

Ha ha. No comment. Just laughter.
Then why there is no open source driver for windows which works with non-genuine chips?
>Has Facebook ever been caught in the of letting intelligence agencies snoop? No.

Reacting to the Snowden leaks about PRISM, the United States Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, on June 7, 2013 confirmed in a statement that for nearly six years the government of the United States had been using Facebook to collect information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2...

Who are all these astroturf accounts commenting in here right now?
The s3 buckets in this new region require v4 signing of API requests, FYI. I found that out when adding Frankfurt support to Arq.
> Perhaps developers should be able to explain permissions in the application's manifest file (where permissions are defined).

That doesn't really solve the problem, though. The author of the post explains why, a description isn't needed. Of the Android apps I've installed that ask for more than I care to give, I can come up with reasonable explanations as to why they might need those permissions. But I just don't want to give them regardless of need, so I don't install the app.
I wonder why they called it the largest peaceful gathering of people [1]. Are there even bigger wartime gatherings?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_peaceful_gather...
It was so cool, except that the scroll bars were terrible and it didn't work with existing email, so it wasn't really usable.
Relevant Onion link (which precedes Snowden revelations by several years):

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
I would translate "actual chore" as "actual pleasure". A decent part of my vacation time tends to be just being outside . Not even having to do anything, just feeling the fresh air, listening, being. Sharing. Just might go outside right now for a few minutes. See ya !
It's likely billionaire Dan Gilbert...
These are older houses, most of them likely made from much better materials.

Still, with the kind of weathering an empty house would get in Michigan, a lot of it could be totally ruined.
It's interesting as they are contributing knox to core android (I think, see http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/knox-contri...)
When I was stationed in D.C. in 2003/2004 we had a swarm of cicadas that year that was remarkable. People on the subway literally had them crawling on their backs. The roads and sidewalks were paved in their corpses. I lived on the 9th floor of an apartment and the sound even at that level was very loud.
Does anyone here work there?
I think much of the fault lie with the DA's and Police Unions. They're elected to do some job, which is to prosecute criminals, yet fail to do so when it is a police officer. The Unions are out of control in some instances making it so the police force cannot fire a crooked cop until he has been found guilty, in a criminal case. If the DA will not prosecute an officer he remains on the force, a liability to the citizens and their money, when ultimately he or she is sued in civil court.

On the issue of suing police, I find it interesting that most of thee civil cases are settled before a verdict. The police admit no wrong-doing yet fork over 2 million dollars.

I'm not entirely sure what should be done about the situation.
I think startups usually want young employees because they usually don't have families. It's not really about age, it's about time commitment. All those startups with "epic snack rooms", beer coolers, ping pong tables, pool tables, etc. have all that crap because they expect you to live at the office. They want you to work 12 hours a day. Not all of them, but a lot of them. It can't really give that many hours if you have a spouse and kids to take care of. Most people can't, anyway.

It's not age discrimination, but it's still crappy.
I completely agree. This needs to be fixed in Android...

But I still find it annoying that I can't install the Paypal app without giving them a free wiretap in return. In my eyes, bloating an application out to a state where it needs all this stuff is almost as harmful because it puts users in situations where they're handing this access out without thinking.

Edit: I've pushed a pretty major edit to the post to give a bit more focus to Android but also to point out that Paypal could be a lot more responsible too. They could (for example) farm out all the privileged code to plugins and package them as separate apps. It's more of a pain for some users, less invasive for others.
The microphone is bundled with the camera within the permissions. That means they have to ask for permission to use both in order to have the camera for the feature you mentioned.
Smells like an investment banking scheme to me. "Buy When There's Blood In The Streets"
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Enterprise was as happy to be using it as ever.
You also need to sink another ~$24 million into the property to demolish the houses, and if you don't make sufficient progress it will be repossessed. That's gonna be a bunch of jobs, so I'm not sure Detroit would care.

I also would think that you would probably want to have more liquid property, or at least something that might possibly generate some marginal income.
iOS has always supported at-runtime permission requests (microphone, camera, camera roll, location, contacts, etc).
there isn't really any media coverage, other than the forum posts and HN. Also, using your automobile example, an average-joe consumer can take their car into a mechanic and have it tested for a recall/defect. The average-joe with an arduino is far more likely to toss the defective unit out, rather than try to spend a while troubleshooting a $40 board.

I just don't see a class-action really able to take off. Especially since we're talking about otherwise illegal counterfeit chips in the first place.
I found your way of listing features pretty hard to parse. It's almost like reading someone's shorthand notes.
Windows 8 didn't suck for everyone
> reasonable doubt

Even if such existed (it does not), this standard is not applicable to a civil case, only to the criminal trials for destruction of property/malicious mischief that every single person involved should have to go through.
Is Ello disruptive because its founder is an artist?
> Try putting yourself on a strictly regimented, hypo-caloric, laboratory controlled diet for more than a few days. It will consume all the willpower you have and then some.

I don't disagree at all. I just think the conversation shouldn't be about "is it calories in vs. calories out?!" and more about "What can we do to make it easier for people to eat the right amount or run a calorie deficit?" Could we massively tax bad food and subsidize good food? Attempt to change culture? Figure out the underlying neurological issues involved in overeating and attempt to create a targeted treatment to ease these issues?

I guess I feel like a lot of people try to obfuscate the issue by saying "It's more complicated than just calories-in vs. calories-out" almost as a way of absolving themselves from responsibility. Because, yes, running a calorie deficit for a long time is HARD. Like, I have a friend who's convinced "it's just a thyroid issue I have, calories-in vs. calories-out doesn't matter". However if there were a magic pill that caused them to only ever want to eat at most 1500 calories per day and start loving the taste of vegetables more than anything with no side effects I guarantee you that suddenly they'd be losing weight.
When I think of animals that went extinct in human history, I imagine animals that were already marginal, weren't well-suited to the environment, and died off slowly over a very long period.

The passenger pigeon example really caught me off guard: "The species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Because windows drivers need non-trivial amounts of support in the form of driver development kit and driver signing. Then you run into issues with which driver to pull for the chip, cause now you are conflicting with FTDI's driver. Other chips that aren't clones do have their own drivers.
Ask HN: Where to find a good mathematician to work as a consultant?
I am currently working on a project/algorithm which is quite challenging, and I am considering to hire a good mathematician as a consultant, to double check the progress I am making and possibly to help to refine the algorithm.

Do you guys have any suggestions regarding where I can find one? You can reach me here: daniel AT kubic.com.br
I'm getting timeout errors too. Rather than just "more dynos," on Heroku - you may want to try:

- Adding caching static assets/images/etc (Not sure how this is done on Heroku but fairly straight forward with Nginx or Apache). Currently, your assets are taking a full 6 seconds to serve.

- Possibly serving your static homepage etc from one server/Heroku instance and your functional app from another so you don't put the stress of traffic on a homepage on the app server as well.

Edit: Adding this link to be a bit more helpful. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-caching-ruby-rail...
I'm not sure that politicians are viewed as less corrupt than police. Here in the UK anyway, during the whole stupid plebgate thing, there was a real puzzle as it was very hard to judge who was more likely to be telling porkies.
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