skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Copies Your Files Without Your Knowledge or Consent
Bitcoin Sidechains
Wi-Fi Network Named “Al-Qaeda” Prompts LAX Plane to Make a U-Turn
Googlers talk future-proofing, Nexus devices, and the always-on voice commands
Or maybe as an Indian I am concerned why my phone has to use Baidu at all, when I am not using any service it provides and the fact that my data is being sent to China without my knowledge?
Los mejores disfraces en Halloween 2014
How smartphone web usage has changed in 2014
>whether his appearance as a judge on America’s Got Talent would damage his legacy. “No,” said one woman to this last question. “It will make him even more popular.”

Will. As in, this person was not bluffing. They were not talking about a previously aired nonexistent show. They were speculating on a possible future. It doesn't matter if the questioner is trying to lie.

(The 'lie' isn't even something that's disprovable, as a plausible future event.)

Disclaimer: only talking about the quote in the article, if there was more context it shouldn't have been cut
Microsoft: Device That Behaves Based on Your Mood
Would you have got the details right and taken that particular photo at all if you were paying more attention to each shot? I don't think this has much to do with the camera - if the picture's blurry, you were likely taking it in a hurry, and you would've taken it in a hurry if you had a real camera.
I don't get it, why is this on HN? I would like to understand how some irrelevant posts get traction? Please explain?
Is it that the poster has 2K+ Karma?
Cool, looking forward to this. The last two times were great!
Do they have "Doomsday Preppers" on the other side of the pond?
is yahoo.com good enough to function as a trial baloon (does this publication have access to effective actors, does it have enough clout), or do you need the New York Times for that?
very interesting! I was looking for some solution to maintain a photo blog lately. could you give a clearer example how to work with images with your solution? do you maintain the pictures in a directory before/after a build?
iOS-like app continuity for Android from NextBit
This article doesn't make it clear, but caffeine isn't the thing in coffee that raises cholesterol. That's cafestol, and it's captured by paper filters. So coffee made with a standard auto-dripper, or by pourover, don't have that.
It's an interesting post that appeals to our inquisitive nature.
Tech in Boston Podcast: Nick Rellas – Co-Founder and CEO, Drizly
I like the fact that my most negative comment is:

> "Excellent! thankyou"

Talk about making me feel good about myself.
One point the article does not touch upon is how much the banks profited from this cartel, and by extension, whether or not the fines were large enough to deter this kind of behaviour in the future.
The Happy Ending Problem [video]
Google's Alan Eustace beats Baumgartner's skydiving record
Refreshing, isn't it? It give us a semi-sensible insight on how others may perceive our comments. One of the biggest things I learnt in Australia is never to use irony when you're a foreigner. People either wonder whether you said what you intended to say or it delays their understanding of the joke, if there was any. It's sad, because English coworkers love this kind of humour and they're excellent at not smiling when they do it.
Honestly, is the answer to this question ever not "no, not even close to big enough"?
Great idea! I'll make another option that does exactly this. I think it's potentially a better way to think about it. Since I have to make an individual call for each comment it gets pretty hairy past 50 but I'm sure I can do it differently in the future. I tried to not put a limit on it at first and realized that @pg has something like 13,000 comments... lol. I could also just pull back every user's comments and run them through the model off line and update it every night. I just need a list of every user :)
What’s Going on Inside the Brain of a Curious Child?
>makes money selling your data

To... other advertisers? Google is the advertiser. It not only goes against their Terms of Service to sell that data, but also makes zero business sense.

I swear people just make things up when it suits their world views.
I usually accredit the evolution attribution problem to the phrase "survival of the fittest". It's a catchy line, it implies that the better you are the more likely you are to survive, which is kinda true, but leads to the mistaken agency issue. It has the additional benefit of aligning with the ethic of hard work (ie. do better to survive) that we also try to teach kids, which I think is one of the reasons it persists as a meme.

The problem is that "death of the weakest" is a much better way of describing it - although possibly not so PC to teach in the classroom. The reason why people think Cheetahs evolved to be fast is because they equate it with the ethic of hard work, rather than the real reason - slow cheetahs don't eat and therefore die before breeding, fast cheetahs eat and get to breed.

Without meaning to start yet another internet debate/flamewar about evolution, I often wonder whether the strong protestant work ethic in the US is also the reason why evolution is so poorly understood there. Because "death to the weakest" involves no agency, no self-improvement or hard work.

EDIT: Just to avoid to confusion (as there seems to be some!), I'm not talking about the mechanism of evolution, purely the actual phrase "survival" and what it means to people when it's mentioned, the implication of agency that goes along with the word.
This kind of mindset ("Let's check I have the least negative impact on the community") has to come from the HN crowd. Would it be relevant to adapt it to Reddit?
It's also completely free for Google to advertise on their own website.
I went back to FF after using Chrome since its release, for about 2 weeks before I was fed up with it not playing every youtube video.
Ask HN: How often developers are using Garmin products?
I would like to build Garmin communication as a service where you could "literally" send any supported command via Restful API and set your Webhook or Resthook. Then I am going to send data to your server when sending command succeeds, we will handle all ACK, offline and etc,. Anyone can share interest or milestones for building such product?
I've been hearing a lot about Buffer lately. I'm about to release my project and wanted to earn some money with affiliated marketing.

Everywhere I turned, people mentioned Buffer so I grabbed an account a couple of days ago.

Its a great service that falls in that "why didn't I think of that?" category. Really cool.

I'm happy for them and I hope they can go very far with this venture. They have paying customers and as word spreads around more and more about the need to utilize social media to market your online business (There's a CNN article recently released about it http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/world/europe/bloggers-six-figu... ), the need to organize content release is essential.

So, congrats guys at Buffer!
My 'worst ever' comment is also the one that got the most upvotes ever. You all are a bad influence.
Pangu iOS 8.1 jailbreak untether 2 update
What's a good source for learning how weather models work? I'm interested in understanding how the accuracy changes with the number of calculations available.
If you're not a coffee person: http://www.caffeineinformer.com/death-by-caffeine
There is an iPad version.

http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/ipad/
The rise and fall of Anonabox and the pursuit of privacy tools
My most negative comment also had a simley face, and can totally see that it's quite negative without it. It's pretty terse and sharp sounding.

*"Fitting all that into 7 minutes will likely lead to injury for someone who is in the audience for any kind of short N minute workout, IMO. I concur with your general sentiment and good intentions though. :)"

I wrote this a couple days ago though, and am a bit miffed because I would have expected to have written a more acerbic comment sometime in the past.
I really like mutt + isync (for painless imap syncing) + mu (for indexing and address completion)
Bitcoin mining is NP-hard
>A single-file web application in Django: https://github.com/mstepniowski/microdjango/blob/master/poll....

That still looks very complicated compared to most microframeworks I've used, including web.py.

And all that django-specific logic that needs to be in there makes it harder to read unless you're familiar with the django ecosystem.
It's hard to interpret the results. I got 2.4%. Is that average, above below average or what? We need rankings!
There's no point whatsoever to fine banks, its stupid beyond belief. First, its like issuing a speeding ticket to a billionaire, second, the money does not come from the pocket of the offender, and third, if the unimaginable happens and some bank goes belly up because of this, then we, the taxpayers will bail it out. Again.
"BrindsleyQuives's Hater Score: 8.32% Of The Time Spent Hating."

Only 8,32%. I really need to try harder!
How Time Warner Cable Is Making Money Off of Unregistered Domains
iCloud unavailable because of 2 step verification in the Netherlands
Is at least good enough to see the reaction here in HN, hypothetically speaking.
Brutally Honest Take on Startups After 1 Year
Trill Puts All Live Shows in One Place
What platform? Most Linux distros compile Firefox with "--disable-updater --disable-installer", such that Mozillas auto-update doesn't even exist.
Interesting in which sense? Even if I liked it, it is only humor and does not have nothing to do with "hackers". I'm not a better developper or I do not know what will help to launch a startup after reading this.
Hacker News is not the Huffington Post.
Not if always looking for work was the norm. Got to start somewhere.
Running a startup is like riding a bicycle in a fog
Mocking in Go: Using interfaces for fun and profits
Knowing about the Dunning Kruger effect makes me more inclined to ask other people how good I am at something instead of relying on my own opinion. Which I think would make my evaluation more accurate.
It is not just a spin? "survival of the fittest" is exactly the same as "death to the weakest".

"survival of the fittest" = "not survival of the not-fit"

And also "fit" it is not the same as "strong"
I loved the 68K and built several boards with it, although my board skills were maxed out after the 68010. I had a PT68K2 (http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/peripheralTechnology/...) and several other commercial 68k machines including an Atari 1040ST and wanted a Falcon.

I still have all my original reference material, and this book, http://www.amazon.com/MC68000-Assembly-Language-Systems-Prog... was one of my favorite computer books ever--I devoured that thing.

I still actually reference that book, and a couple others of that era, regarding microcontroller interfacing, even though I've moved on to Arduinos, RPis, and the bazillion other incredible SoCs I embed into stuff all the time now.
Funny so many people call this "spyware" while using smartphones with Google apps/services that feed your data to the NSA. Priorities, people?
how's it compare to a CORDIC?
Baidu spyware on a Android phone with Google spyware, Yeah!
The $50 note looks awesome. Although, overall the designs are not the most practical looking. Have any of you seen the new Norwegian notes? -> http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/nor...
What do you think about this app?
There is a bit more transparency when it comes to US and EU servers.

Issue with Chinese servers is that whole infrastructure is owned by government so they can track all info going through it without limits.

In US this is much more complicated.

Also since some time spy agencies around world were warning about those user informations sent back to China. They have their reasons but they wont reveal exactly what this is about since this would cause political cooling with China relations. Seems like something serious is going on there with all this data.
Probably because Baidu doesn't make Xperia phones, unlike Google and Apple which power Android & iOS respectively?
Or maybe people dont want to be spied on by services from basically web un-regulated countries?
What about constant connections to Google servers aka NSA? That doesn't concern you too?
There's a similar, but not identical, saying in Spanish: "El que roba de un ladrón tiene cien años de perdón", or, "He who steals from a thief is forgiven for a hundred years."
My favorite part about your algorithm is that it even detects SELF-HATRED! That puts an interesting, and depressing!, spin on the project. My pseudo-unconscious self-loathing was uncovered through my meager number of HN posts. Eerie.

The worst comment detected by your project is an expression of relief in learning that onions will not, in fact, brown in fewer than 30 minutes.

"All your life you're just thinking, "I'M AN IDIOT, WHY WON'T THESE BROWN!?" and then, one September's day, you find out it was all lies... the entire time. Lies all the way down."
Yes it is spin, but not just spin. "Survive" often implies some sort of agency, that there is some sort of struggle that was overcome and the organism is still alive. We teach survival skills. Whereas if you drop some antibiotics on a bacteria culture, there is no struggle, the bacteria that aren't already resistant just die. That's why I think the inverted phrasing is clearer in meaning (although yes I meant "weakest fit / not fit").
This is happening now a days!!
http://supremeinv.com/
Why does the money not come from the pocket of the offender? If banks don't control what their employees do and are forced to pay a hefty fine as the result of that employee doing something wrong, dont you think they will try to control what their employees are doing in the future?
Yeah I really like the $50 dollar note and the designs overall, but I'd agree they are not the most practical. I've seen those Norwegian notes, they look great.
Yes! All v1 licenses bought on my website after September 1st will be valid for v2. See https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/faq.html
Great post on that when Steve made the switch.
http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
You don't get to set the terms by which someone else sells you something. And strictly speaking Adobe's license probably does prohibit a second user.
RIP del.icio.us remember when browsers had extensions to sync your delicious bookmarks ? Or when bookmark sharing on delicious was a form of microblogging ? If you followed the right feeds it was the hackernews of the day.
"survival of the fittest" is closer to "not survival of the not fittest" than "not survival of the not-fit", which is not the same as "death to the weakest".
Hacker news is not developer news or startup news. I'm a hacker, and I liked this, therefore it should be here. Read the site's mission statement.
I do not know what are you writing about, but in the first place, you need challenging subjects that worth to be debated. Then, check the profile of your user that's coming in. Is the user only look for information, and than leave? Is he landing there but the content he is looking for is not what he needs? Checked the analytics? Installed a heat map - recording user interaction script to see how they behave on the page?

And since you already have some early adopters, have you also asked them why they do not interact with what you write? :)
I recall seeing a heavy metro ad campaign in Paris. All the slots were used. The campaign cost listed[0] (Q-Massifs) doesn't even have a regular price. Extrapolating from the regular campaigns, it cost Google beyond a million euros a week, and the campaign lasted more than that, if I recall correctly. And that is just one city, one campaign.

As for Google Search ads, let's take the number of search requests[1], an example CPC they give[2], an example CTR they give[3], the StatCounter portion of non-Chrome users[4], we get 1216373500000 * (1-0.3) * $0.10 * 0.005.

That's $425,730,725 for a one-year campaign in 2012. Given the prominence of this ad (and its unintentional scare value), the CTR is probably off, so that's a very conservative figure.

If that is indeed 70% of the whole campaign cost, the total is $608,186,750 per year.

[0]: http://www.mediatransports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Qu...

[1]: http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/

[2]: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375420?hl=en

[3]: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2615875?hl=en

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...
> Stephen wanted to take command of a platoon of German soldiers and lead them across the French frontier to cause an incident.

I imagine the possible consequences if they went with that plan. That was the decade that eventually led to the first world war. Relations between France and Germany weren't at their best.
I think the parents point is that you generated the random-bitstream somehow, starting from a specific seed. If you know the seed, you could regenerates the random bitstream with a lot less bytes (=secretly compressible).

So now you have some extra room left on the ROM to embed your malicious firmware and still be able to dump the original full 256k.

If you start with a known image/photo (not yours, some public domain), that after encryption/compression is exactly the amount of padding you need (or cut-off), you have your padding-bitstream that is a lot harder to regenerate from a seed.

Edit: clarification
I'd say that the fact that it doesn't even work - arbitrarily doling out 'hater' marks due to a poor sentiment engine - makes it a good candidate for removal.

This insidious flaw results in two things:

1. accounts being deemed as 'haters' without warrant

2. the belief that the tool is 'correct' - perpetuating #1.
I don't find the distinctions between Chinese and U.S. national governments credible in this post-Snowden era.
Keep Going guys !!! this really rocks !!!
This is on my roadmap for next year. Drop me a line at jakob@eggerapps.at and I'll send you a note once it's ready.
Such as the U.S.? Are are you asserting that the U.S. is regulated? My guess is, every drug suspect prosecuted with parallel construction, every ISP, and everyone harassed at the border for their online activities would disagree.
- Population: XXXOOOOVVV
- First 3 are the weakest. (X)
- Last 3 are the fittest. (V)
- Middle ones are normal. (O)

When you say "survival of the fittest" you mean that only the 3 VVV survives and the other 7 OOOOVVV die.

When you say "death to the weakest" you mean that the 3 XXX die, therefore the other 7 OOOOVVV survive.

When you say "not survival of the not-fit" (I suppose you say the fittest) you mean:

- Let's take the non-fittest (XXXOOOO)
- Not survive of them.

Therefore you mean the death of 7 XXXOOOO and the survival of 3 VVV. So you are right that "survival of the fittest" = "not survival of the not-fit".

But "survival of the fittest" (VVV survives) is not equal to "death to the weakest" (OOOOVVV) because VVV != OOOOVVV.
"idiot" is well defined medical term, author probably meant "ignorant".
It actually is a hack in a sense. It's a social engineering attack, for fun.
27 Websites to Submit Your Startup After Launch
In holland, a DJ called Giel Beelen has/had a part of his show called "Gaat ie mee of zegt ie nee.": "Will he join or will he say no."
He asked a national politician about terrorist Jael Jablabla (http://nos.nl/op3/artikel/359078-pvdakamerlid-leerdam-stopt-...), about a non-existing band and about the coma of Sharon... The politician bluffed his way through, claiming he knew more about Jablabla than the DJ... and ended his career shortly afterwards.
I've tried LTTng once, but it was quite complicated to set up, and required patching the kernel. It seems they improved that, it only needs a kernel module so I might give it another try.

I also used 'perf timechart'[0] in the past, or rather I tried to, but the traces on any realistic workload generated SVG files so large that it was too slow to open in firefox/inkscape etc.
Your approach seems to be more scalable as it doesn't generate one huge image/SVG but rather generates that zoomable view via Javascript on-the-fly, right?

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20130729151516/http://blog.fenrus...
Sorry, forgot to mention. It's going to also force you to to acctedited investor verification on each investor. I'm the CEO of AgFunder (and also a Buffer user) and I can send you a guide to AI verification if you need it.
About Us – Survival Library
Firefox's hopeless video and audio implementation (especially on Mac OS X) remains a deal breaker for me. It means resorting to Flash in a lot of cases, which means I use another browser.

I'm glad to see strides being made in JavaScript performance, but basic browser functionality is far more important.
I like the way that you present your website. Do you think that it's scalable? How are you going increase the number of advisors?
In Firefox you can search among open tabs by typing % in the awesomebar, I use this everyday with hundreds of tabs open. And there is also tab groups feature (which is activated by ctrl/cmd+shift+e). I don't know why this feature is not advertised more.
Gets reinjected in a special fund that the EU can then use where they want. It's usually just injected in the central budget, to reduce the contribution each member country has to pay.
No need for spamming government with unproductive petitions: IE 11 is going to be evergreen. Problem solved!
Still took me a minute - OneRNG -> "One Ring" LOTR reference
It's an excellent example of hacking a social system, merely as a prank and with no damage to any individual, and follows a long history that goes back to MIT hacking (http://hacks.mit.edu/ and http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html).

In other words, it has a lot to do with "hackers" and is a very interesting and relevant piece of history. I agree it won't help you start your startup though; get back to building things and talking to people! :-)
My phone is my media server. It has a light webserver with streaming and when I'm home this is how I listen to music or watch shows.
I was just glad that DRM got the name-and-shame it deserved every time Sony revoked a feature via online software-downgrade. Now I hate my PS3 and only use it for Amazon and YouTube. The games I paid full price for all have their hand out for DLC. Bleah.
Media Source Extensions are a high priority right now, so problems with html5 video (esp. with youtube) should be solved soon.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083588
No, the correct way to phrase it is "survival of the fit". It's very common for limiting factors (water, calories, vitamins, etc) to have a plateau. In the range from starvation to 'enough', more ability to find food is an advantage. In the range from 'enough' to 'excess', there's no payoff. So what evolution creates is a population of surviving individuals who are each 'enough' on all their success parameters, but who embody a diverse range of ways to be 'fit'. This diversity then allows the species to handle change that leaves part of the population 'unfit'.

Very rarely, is there an absolute competition where the 'fittest' survive. That would actually drag down evolution - it would create genetic bottlenecks.
Non-mobile link: http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/10/27/wi-fi-network-na...

Wow, that's just wow. Is this an overreaction, or are they just too afraid, that if something happens, then everyone will ask: "why did you start a plane, when there was a wifi network named Al-Qaeda"?
Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie is a sprawling, fascinating read of the run up to the First World War from a naval/arms race perspective (it has a sequel too, covering the outbreak of war onwards). I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-Robert-K-Massie/dp/0345375...