skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The answer is that we believe people simply have the
> right to privacy in trade

That's nice and all, but then all your examples are anonymity in PURCHASE, where OpenBazaar primarily appeals to people who need anonymity in SALE.

People who ignore the massive body of work that is Common Law, and the safeguards it provides are doomed to repeat them. Common Law wasn't dreamed up by some idiot politicians, it's the result of hundreds of years worth of "how do we protect the public?".

Which is why you'll find that it's 100% legal to purchase items with cash, under an assumed name, with a mask on, through an intermediary, or whatever the hell else you want, but it's generally illegal to sell anonymously because "caveat emptor" just doesn't cut it.

So come on, let's get some examples of legal goods for sale where there is any significant benefit in the seller having anonymity...?
I may somewhat agree with the author's case against productivity, but I think it's important not to confuse it with a case against production. At the end of the day (or life) I think you do want to look back and think of what you've produced (rather than consumed), and how you did it. Was it fun? Satisfying?

I think it's fair to want to rebel against production/time. It's not bad to think instead of something along the lines of satisfaction/production.
How long do Android phones last?
That is the perfect example how silly this is.
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First Go at Using IB_DESIGNABLE and IBInspectable
Currently attempting to convince our team to switch to you guys (not just because of this event) your service is sooo much faster!
I believe google drive also has partially unlimited photo storage, if the photos are below a certain resolution they don't count towards your storage quota.
Republicans Taking Over Congress Isn’t the Privacy Nightmare You’d Think
> I see several comments questioning the legitimate value
> of a peer-to-peer marketplace.

No, you see comments questioning the legitimate value of an anonymous or pseudonymous peer-to-peer marketplace.

Also, you misunderstand what eBay provides: eBay provides marketing and payment handling. That's what their margin is for. You are entirely welcome - today - to set up a webpage, list your wares, and accept Bitcoin for them. The problem is that there's little centralized reputation management there, and also, no-one is ever going to find your stuff. Unless a p2p marketplace is solving those needs, what benefit does it provide over nginx + a bitcoin wallet?
Thank you very much for the time spent on your answer and for the useful links.

I'm giving you my feedback

1) Regarding Brombone is actually a service that indexes your pages with probably a headless browser ( similar to PhantomJS ) and then proxy the urls to their servers. What I'm actually doing is even better. I'm having a single page app built with backbone and nodejs that gracefully extends to single-page application with backbonejs and other goodies. In other words this service is not for me, I've already built this from scratch.

2) About Reddit - I will try to ask also there.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/09/darpa-pliny-coding/
Yeah, but he was talking about the real numbers.
That's part of the reason the cops don't mess with rich people. There are consequences to doing so. They know the line on who they can or can't screw-over without stirring up trouble.

You'd need some very rich and or powerful people to be interested in this problem. Soros has taken a specific interest in the prison system in the US, when it comes to drug laws and punishment extent; maybe someone like that will pick this cause up.
I'm surprised to see this sort of article from Scientific American, maybe I shouldn't be. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought it came from RollingStone. It's an interesting read, but binding successful creativity to mental illness and drug use ignores the majority of people who suffer from mental illness or partake (and sometimes become severely addicted as the article gives examples) to drugs without any sort of creative outlet or benefit to society.

Would we really not have had Poe's the Raven had he been treated for bi-polar? Did the disease so affect the writer that he would not have been a writer without it? Maybe he would have written something else even more profound.
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It's not available as a paper copy. Only Kindle e-book. Does anyone know where we can get hold of Hays' fine translation of this truly timeless gem on paper ?
It's assigning the result of a constructor to a variable. It's JavaScript. So this isn't your thing I guess.
Munchery Illegally Storing Refrigerated Food on the Streets of the Mission
It was about time Android catched up with how iOS and Windows Phone work (e.g. everything is AOT compiled to native code).

Now it just needs to provide a similar developer experience to the other mobile platforms for the C and C++ developers.
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The people who ultimately get to decide that are the Supreme Court justices. They aren't incentivized to act in any particular way, except in accordance with their own philosophical values.

That's why they are appointed for life.
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You can't just add a credit card to an iPhone - it has to be validated against the owners account. The data Being sent to the Nfc terminal can't be used for anything other than that transaction, and it's generated by the secure element on the iPhone.
Hi, thanks for sharing these thoughts.
You're right about JSON, I'll fix that :)
EY has made a point of saying that he has nothing to do with Moldbug, but ideologically there isn't much room between Moldbug-style techno-monarchism and the 'friendly AI' utopia.

I'm referring more generally to the "Dark Enlightenment" than just neoreactionaries. In that group I include pretty much any group focused on alternatives to liberal democracy, with carve-outs for Marxists and fascists. EY fits comfortably into that category (see his "Politics Is The Mind-Killer" tract).
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I think there was a talk by David Heinemeier Hansson where he talks about this. I believe it's mainly put in to annoy someone.
> There are still dry counties in this country and there is nothing wrong with that

Yes there is: it is not in anyone's rational self-interest to bar others from consuming alcohol.

The voters who ultimately determine these policies are simply acting irrationally.
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Regardless of what you think about it, plenty of people agree.

Stop with you condescending bs
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It's the same tactic, and according to the story people posed as law officers to carry it out so its fairly similar.
Admire the confidence how you say that. If this is the case, what is use of having the laws that prevent privacy issues?
That's true -- photos under 2000px are free, and Google will automatically resize full-size photos as they're uploaded. Personally, I just upload my entire photo library to GDrive and G+ automatically processes them into G+ Photos. Hopefully Google rolls out unlimited full-size photo storage soon, since even I'm not sure why I pay for GDrive when I already have Amazon Prime.

In an ideal world, G+ Photos will roll out with unlimited full-size storage that deletes both smaller-resolution duplicates already in G+ Photos and also deletes full-size duplicates taken from my GDrive. I don't even mind the vendor lock-in of G+, where it's fantastically difficult to download or delete your entire library. I just want a single, organized-by-date, comprehensive location for my entire library that allows me to hoard, peruse, improve, and share my photos. G+ is so damn close to that dream already...
"The task of hiding the location of low-latency web services is a very hard problem and we still don't know how to do it correctly"

Maybe it would be better to re-think the applications? Instead of traditional web apps that require low-latency connection to be usable, maybe build fat client web apps where the information is synched from the server to local datastore and accessed from there.

These apps could live in the tor-browser just like we have Chrome apps. Maybe the tor-browser could expose a special Javascript API that would prove high-latency, anonymity protecting message passing mechanism between client and servers.
If the claims that they ignored warnings are correct, I would indeed lay most of the blame on Apple:

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/25/researcher-...

It may be the case that celebrities chose poor passwords, but how can you blame them? Did Apple enforce strong passwords? Did it allow an excessive password retry rate? Did it fail to follow up on warnings from security researchers?

Unless the answer to each of those questions is "no", it is entirely fair to blame them.
> It's a really short career, too; at 25, you're over the
> hill.

Meh, maybe. My Mom makes some pretty good pocket money ($600 a day-ish) as a photogenic grandmother and general old lady doing catalogue and advert work for cruises, insurance, retirement homes, that kind of thing.
I think the price cutting / value proposition is beginning to finally outrun the needs that the extreme majority of sites might have. For most of the US Web, infrastructure demand is not growing, and neither is traffic (the principle that there are only so many hours to consume content, against a mostly maxed out user base). Your typical business web site, will never keep up with what Amazon is doing. So at some point in the next few years, Amazon will be both cheap enough and convenient, versus co-lo or dedicated.

In the last year I've noticed AWS is finally catching my eye on price, and I'm a big co-lo self-managed fan due to the cost savings. In a few more years I could see myself switching everything over and not feeling bad about the cost.

In that time Amazon's value proposition will chase down toward where Linode and Digital Ocean are at today. Let's say their system power (the sum of the hardware) will go up by 50% every year, while their prices fall 25% every year per 2014 defined unit of power. Even though I consider Amazon expensive today, it won't be long at this point before they start to outstrip my scale of service demand (I'll never be operating Twitter or Foursquare on AWS).
I live in Asia, and I need to get in to this business clearly
Haha. Genuine question - why are nth methods available in ActiveRecord? Basically anything past .first doesn't seem necessary (functionally speaking).
I remember when Hound first launched and every time somebody commented on the same line of code, Hound would persistently comment back with the same warning. It was amusing!

I'm currently working on a PHP version of Hound, called Anorak[1]. At the moment I'm part of a small team building a PHP replacement of Rubocop called Hippo[2]. We originally wrote a basic tokenizer with regex, but although it works well, we realise it's slow, so we're rebuilding it with "token_get_all" and hacking around that.

[1] http://anorakci.com

[2] https://github.com/hippophp/hippo
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Is this the same Innocence Project that usually uses DNA evidence or is the name a coincidence?

http://www.innocenceproject.org/about/
Why am I productive? No other reason than I dislike boredom. I had the unusual situation growing up of having completely free summers (including college). To do absolutely and whatever I wanted. Well, long story short, I basically wasted them and didn't get anything accomplished. And I definitely wasn't happy with that much useless free time.

So now I do things because I find them interesting. I "measure myself" and try to improve at things because it's a fun game for me. The results don't really matter in the end, but it keeps me entertained.
Browserstack hack
https://twitter.com/browserstack

Dear BrowserStack User,

We are unfortunately displeased to announce that BrowserStack will be shutting down. After much consideration on our part, we have realized we were negligent in the services we claimed to offer. In our terms of service, we state the following:

[...] after the restoration process is complete, the virtual machines are guaranteed to be tamper-proof.

[...] The machines themselves are in a secure network, and behind strong firewalls to present the safest environment possible.

[...] At any given time, you have sole access to a virtual machine. Your testing session cannot be seen or accessed by other users, including BrowserStack administrators. Once you release a virtual machine, it is taken off the grid, and restored to its initial settings. All your data is destroyed in this process.

Unfortunately, we have blatantly lied. Not only do all of our administrators have access, but so does the general public. We have no firewalls in place, and our password policies are atrocious. All virtual machines launched are open to the public, accessible to anyone with the alpha password "nakula" on port 5901, a password which is stored in plaintext on every VM. As well, our infrastructure uses the same root passwords on all machines, which is also stored in plaintext on every VM launched ("c0stac0ff33").

Given the propensity for cyber criminals to target infrastructure services such as ours, it is almost certain all of your data has been compromised. These passwords take no less than 15 minutes to find for anyone who is looking.

We hope we have not caused you too much trouble, and to our enterprise customers who signed deals contracts based on a fabrication, we are equally sorry.

Sincerely,
The BrowserStack Team
I was merely responding to this singular point:

"Most people don't care [about privacy] because they're not culpable enough to feel paranoid."

Let be honest, I don't have a sex life.
If you have a 5 or 10 person start-up, it's drastically cheaper to find a high quality dedicated host that can make sure all of that is operating for you. Unless you have very specialized needs of course.

The amount of dedicated hardware you can rent for $1,000 per month is several times beyond what you can get from Amazon for the same price. And if you have a demand for lots of bandwidth, Amazon will cost more just on bandwidth than for the entire dedicated setup somewhere else.

Amazon will drill you for $1,000+ for just 10tb of bandwidth alone. Today 10tb of bandwidth on a 1gbps line is almost the assumed base you get with a $100-$150 dedicated box.
Maybe we need to become an army.
Did we actually have some decent research confirming this? Computer people talking about RSI often sounds like crossfitters talking about diet...

(Also: sticky modifiers)
Raspberry Pi Model A+ is just $20 and consumes 45% less power
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Ask HN: Why is HN uninterested in Bitcoin?
Hardly any posts about bitcoin get upvoted. Is bitcoin not interesting anymore?
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> It would be like complaining that my PS4 game doesn't run on the XBox One.

Actually Apple tries to convert regular computer users to these kind of Console or Home Microwave users. They want us to have less and less control over our own devices and software. So yes, we break their licenses, but as I mentioned when we have to choose between a common sense vs counter-common-sense law - we choose the former one.
The URL points to the second page of the article, can someone fix it?
I always learn better if I write things down. I also remember better if I wrote down what my code does as detailed as possible. Also improves the search-possibilities when I need to find something three years later :-)
This article is a great reminder that garbage collection should not be the default strategy as it is hard to get right, Dalvik is almost a decade old, and that it introduces performance issues which are not transparent to the programmer. Indeed these second long delays have rendered Android hardware second rate.
Maybe it is more about paying and less about being open source?
The US market may not be growing, but the rest of the world will come online soon enough. And speaking from experience, most of the world lacks the infrastructure, climate, political stability, or protection from criminal activity to host individual server farms.

If you're trying to start a business in India or Egypt, you're VASTLY better off outsourcing your IT to a dependable third party like AWS -- particularly as those costs drop over the next decade through economies of scale and technological progress. I'm sure the eventual goal is to sell AWS and its competitors as replacements for virtually all business IT and even personal computers -- even in stable Western countries. Current prices may have finally started to be competitive with local hosting, but we haven't even touched the potential of cloud computing yet.
be sure to tweet it when that happens, i'll check it out!

I've had the biggest temptation during this summer checking out the odds on FIFA games. Although betting on Brazil would've been really bad!
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It's not about the cost, it's about the service they give.

Ads is an income, with or without hosting costs
One of the most interesting aspects of Plan 9 is the lack of a root user. Did you ever have any thoughts on the possibility of implementing that in Linux?
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According to this: http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-Wallet-considered-a-card-pres...

Google Wallet is card-present for the merchant, but card-not-present between Google and the consumer. I guess that means Google is eating the difference between the two rates (and/or has other tricks up their sleeve).
Meat and cheese may be as bad as smoking during middle age
I don't know, I'm not a Ruby/Rails guy. I just remember seeing something where DHH talked about this.
I'm under way on something like this for JavaScript with a buddy of mine. https://github.com/jacobmenick/sampling/
Except that even if I have to type 10 characters for code, I want it to complete in 2 seconds, not 20 seconds, to continue my train of thoughts.
As I understand it, the major speed improvements with ART come less from the native compilation than from the improved GC and the ability to do whole-program optimizations during the AOT compilation step.

EDIT: Also, ART takes a different approach to AOT compilation than either iOS and Windows Phone. iOS apps are shipped as compiled binaries from the start, and apparently Windows Phone apps are compiled in the cloud by MS. ART does the native translation step on the device itself, which has only really recently become feasible with the speed and storage capacity of recent Android devices.
That's because the original submitter wanted to highlight the garbage-collection discussion, not the whole article. Of course, now that the title has been changed...
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It was pretty ridiculous, even on some of the most powerful hardware out there I still found animations to lag from time to time due to the GC_FOR_ALLOC calls! Ended up with a bunch of hacks to try to work around the issue, but none fully resolved it.
And that's what the link is about, isn't it?
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We deeply apologise for the concerns that our users have been experiencing due to the attack on BrowserStack. We have determined that the hacker's access has been restricted solely to a list of email addresses. As a precaution, we recommend changing your BrowserStack password.

We are still in the process of sanitisation, and making doubly sure this situation never reoccurs. We are on top of it, and will post updates as they happen. Thank you for your patience. BrowserStack will be back up in a few hours.

-Snehal@BrowserStack
Not really tradition, the previous few generations of emperors simply didn't have any sons so they didn't have a choice.
The role of the media in democracy is crucial to the way of life of citizens that make up its political constituency. Because of this, war correspondents must stick to ideas of “responsibility”, “objectivity”, and “truth” in order to ensure that the public and democratic institutions remain aware of the wider issues involved.
Algolia Launches Distributed Search Network Plan
No doubt he has. Box is currently suffering through the implications of it all - they're bleeding cash at a business-threatening rate. If this era of historically cheap money started to fade tomorrow, Box would go bankrupt very quickly.
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betweeen having GC pauses and having memory leak continuously (and buffer overflow issues which become security issues) I'll take GC pauses.

Time has proven again and again that humans are really bad at memory management and having raw access to memory is something that needs to be justified on a case by case basis.
Not an Android Developer here. Is there no "pauseForGC" function in Java/Android? I know AS3 has it, and you can use it to suggest GC at a point where there aren't any animation going on.
The same effect could be achieved by taking a low resolution image and each turn, making each pixel the color of a random neighbor. The only thing this has to do with the Game of Life is both can be simulated by copying one array to another and applying some simple rules.
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Same here, in Nov 2011. I contacted support, told them about it, and cancelled my account/sub right away back then -- I was using Browserstack for developing client sites and applications, and didn't feel like getting sued over a service I am using potentially leaking sensitive information.
In terms of scaling to more architectures, this solution looks superior to iOS's and on-par with Windows Phone's CIL-MDIL system. Since the original Android phones, they've added ARM processors with VFP, Thumb, Thumb-2, NEON, and now ARMv8-A; MIPS processors; and various Intel instruction sets. Developers targeting Dalvik bytecode can ignore all that complexity going on underneath. The same APK they built years ago will work everywhere.

I agree that they should have made the transition to AOT a long time ago. Their technical excuse is that devices didn't have enough space. That's only because they allowed devices to not have enough space. Even the original iPhone had 4 GB flash minimum.
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I think this is referring to two keys that require an, albeit small, stretch to reach. If the two keys are right next to each other, that's not going to bother you much more than a single key. What I'm getting at, is that since I've started using key-chord.el [0] in my .emacs my emacs-pinky has basically disappeared. E.g., I press 'h' and 'u' at the same time to save the current buffer. I press 'ji' to move cursor up one line, 'nj' down one line, 'jk' to go left, 'kl' to move right. 'sd' backspace, 'df' delete. I'm keeping my fingers on the home row for most of these. It's been a boon, and I'm still unlocking its potential.

[0] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/key-chord.el
> Time has proven again and again that humans are really bad at memory management

Well until AI write garbage collectors I'm not sure I see how your comment doesn't also apply to them. And lots of great software manages memory quite fine, like that browser you used to write your comment and the operating system it runs on, so not sure the use of "proven" is appropriate in your comment.
I don't think in India, where Browserstack is based, Whistleblower laws are that strong, the false claims could often be masked as a "flaw" and a bug rather than by design, and hence not sure how it plays out, but I think from the looks of it, if it is an ex-employee, that person is at a riskier position.