skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Snapchat is where we can really be ourselves while being attached to our social identity. Without the constant social pressure of a follower count or Facebook friends, I am not constantly having these random people shoved in front of me. Instead, Snapchat is a somewhat intimate network of friends who I don't care if they see me at a party having fun.

> I use snapchat to send funny images of myself to my girlfriend

This exchange reminds me of a page from Phil Kaplan's excellent book of failures from the first dot-com boom (http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flame...)

The first paragraph was a long, flowery quote from the "about us" page of a failed wine delivery service that went on and on about how they delivered only the finest wines hand-wrapped in crisp white napkins by elite French sommeliers, etc.

The second paragraph, his commentary, was: "I chug wine."
There was a thread posted here about the new Nokia215. SeverL people mentioned the importance of WhatsApp.

Facebook really should create a whatsapp for System 30+ -- they would dominate that market.

Whatsapp is really important in some markets. Just because you don't know anyone using it doesn't make that less true.

(Also, I use it, so now you do know someone using it!)
It's really very simple:

Instead of all the servers dumping cookies on you, you send a session-id to them, for instance 127 random bits.

In front of those you send a zero bit, if you are fine with the server tracking you, and you save the random number so you send the same one every time you talk to that server. This works just like a cookie.

If you feel like you want a new session, you can pick a new number and send that instead, and the server will treat that as a new (or just different!) session.

If instead you send a one bit in front of the 127 random bits, you tell the server that once you consider this "session" over, and that you do not want them to track you.

Of course this can be abused, but not nearly as much as cookies are abused today.

But it has the very important property, that all requests get a single fixed size field to replace all the cookies we drag across the net these days.
At least here in Holland, many muslims form communities, often centered around cultural and religious centers. These communities tend to have leaders and/or spokespeople. These people can speak on behalf of the community. They are not (necessarily) self-appointed.

In my experience, here, the moderate muslims are often rather quiet, perhaps out of fear. In general, they do not support extremism and fear non-muslim extremist retaliation. They are in a really bad spot, and I sympathize with their situation.
I've had a similar experience trying to install OpenCV.

I use windows, and I couldn't figure out why something like OpenCV could possibly have malware with it. When I downloaded it, chrome said "Stop! This is malware!" I thought that there was no way there could be a problem with the file unless Sorceforge was having issues.

What fixed the issue for me was downloading from a different mirror. So perhaps some of the mirrors are compromised?
> "I have yet to ever hear of a hot post on Secret that everyone’s talking about"

I get the feeling Secret's redesign strategy is just being Yik-Yak for the post-college crowd. I'd imagine the location data is more valuable/marketable for working people in big metro areas than incomeless students.
Are We Happier When We Have More Options?
I love your iPhone app landing page. I mistook it for a page on apple.com

http://hourstrackerapp.com/iphone/

Simple, yet very beautifully designed.
FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea servers
Perhaps this is new in v3 since I was working under v2 at the time. It certainly makes sense that the card number must be stored encrypted.
Except Snapchat which refused acquisition so far
Chilling effects
He mentions exactly that in the article. A lot of 10-16 year olds he knows don't even have FB accounts.
You were talking about the NSA breaking SSL, not lawmakers forbidding it.

If the problem is with the analogy, without analogies this time:

> I'm arguing against making SSL mandatory, because that will force NSA to break it so they can do their work, and then we will have nothing to protect our privacy.

Without SSL, our privacy is unprotected, since eavesdroppers can read our traffic. Now add SSL, and eavesdroppers cannot read the traffic. Then NSA breaks it, and eavesdroppers can read our traffic again - we've just circled back to the beginning. We will have nothing to protect our privacy, but we already had nothing to protect our privacy before we added SSL; and in the meantime before the NSA breaks it, we had privacy.

And it assumes that the NSA will be able to break it, and that the NSA is the only attacker which matters.
I don't understand why you are asking this, multiple times to boot. It seems unlikely to me. Do you have any reason to suspect that?
They author's state "it should be used, if it gets successfully developed, as broadly as possible" - because they believe it is robust against bacteria developing resistance.

Knowing nothing about this area... isn't this a bad idea because board use would increase the risk of resistance appearing and would mean those bacteria resistant to this would be extremely resistant to most other treatments aw well (given this drug has multiple modes of attack)?
There's no policy against child porn sites at the directory level or at any Tor level. There was a talk at CCC some days ago that claimed 80%+ of hidden service traffic is to child abuse sites. So I'm not sure it's so different to Freenet, actually.
Honestly, I expect it's exactly as you say. It's just got me in a bit of a mood this morning.
In Germany I got the feeling that most younger people rather use WhatsApp for its group functionality, than Facebook.
This article is slanted in favor of Snapchat.

You can be the real you, only on Snapchat!

"Snapchat isn't like that at all and really focuses on creating the Story of a day in your life, not some filtered/altered/handpicked highlight. It’s the real you."
If you are offering a trial, let it be the best experience for your potential customers. A simple way of ensuring they do not abuse the free trial is to take credit card upfront (or setup a paypal subscription to start charging them 14 days later)

You could also have the trial based on how many files they can process instead of how long they have access. If it takes only one file for a potential customer to have the aha moment, enforce a "one file" trial. If it takes three, let it be three.

From what you've said, your service lets people extract data from files. Unless your customers have an ongoing need to process files, it might make sense to test a different pricing strategy instead of a SaaS one. This may also help you differentiate from your competitors who I presume have SaaS plans as well.

Also, if you can post a link to your service, maybe HN can give you better advice.
Though I agree with your main point; in my experience the smoker-at-the-office analogy actually doesn't work. Most businesses won't let you smoke near entrances for obvious cosmetic reasons. There's either a smoker's corner or folks duck out some back entrance.

I quit whilst working by avoiding places that were part of that "ritual": the cafeteria, fire escape/stairwell & pedestrian entry to the garage.

Disclosure: I've long since started again, I work from home now :-P
I think you misunderstand me; I was only trying to answer your question, "why sad face?"

I didn't give a reason because I wasn't trying to say Python 3 is better than Python 2. I was only stating that one could make the argument that a beginner would be better off learning Python 3 instead of Python 2, being that it's generally accepted that neither are necessarily bad. And from that it seems reasonable to assume some people have learned Python 3 but not Python 2. And finally, being that there are people who have learned Python 3 but not 2, someone might post a "sad face" because they want to use what they are comfortable with instead of being forced to learn something new.

I don't disagree with any of your points. But I don't think it should be hard to imagine there might be some people out there with different backgrounds or goals who would be better suited to learning Python 3 or at least for who the choice would not lean too heavily one way or the other.

Obviously not everyone is planning to work in your industry or even learning Python for the sake of using it for a (future) job.

Hope that makes sense and answers your question.
Charlie Hebdo Shooting
Idea: Gift subscription should have an option to send the first package to you, so that you can wrap it up and physically give it. Then they can add their mailing address.
Multiple antibiotics often carry fairly serious medical risks. "Cured of your infection" is somewhat less heartening when we boxed your kidneys doing it.
That was the statement by the guy trying to develop and sell it.
Imagine for a second an attack in which a group of people with guns attack a news room and kill a bunch of people. I know that would be hard to believe, but something like that happened literally 12 hours ago in a city on the same level as NYC. In that case, I'd like the police to have armored cars, bullet proof vests, and assault rifles.

Or maybe you want to look at the Boston Marathon bombing that ended in a shoot out with a SWAT team.

Yes, terrorism is statistically insignificant compared to car crashes or heart disease in terms of deaths. Yes, police over use their equipment. To say that NYC or other cities like it don't have an actual need for this kind of equipment sometimes is just silly.
He's probably hoping Snapchat is his future employer, based on this article and past tweets....
How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song
This kid doesn't even know that when he uses WhatsApp or Instagram, he's using Facebook.
i imagine he was asking about inflation. using this inflation calculator (http://www.in2013dollars.com/1795-dollars-in-2000?amount=2), which doesn't support entering cents, to find that two 1795 dollars equate to $26.47. dividing by 100 gives us about 26 cents. a bit less than i expected.
Thanks, this to me read like a pep-talk. Might be just what I needed to get me off my butt and start working on something. Better to fail than to not try at all. Now if only I could quit playing Destiny after work.
Hrm. Maybe more hidden then. Honestly this doesn't bode well for darknets. The problem is that even if darknets have a legitimate reason to exist, non-creeps will avoid them if they see much of this kind of thing.

I've also heard stories of very realistic looking rape porn -- maybe a bit too realistic -- in places like this. It's gross.
We should adopt a very simple policy: the satire will continue until the killings stop.

This puts the onus on the Islamist murderers to stop killing people. When they stop killing people for making fun of them for being religion-addled killers, the number of people making fun of them for being religion-addled murderers will start a long slow decline, until eventually it will, as it were, die away.

Until then, we should all make fun of them for being murderous anti-Bayesians, because they are.

We should also depict the Prophet Muhammad ~0:-{= frequently and with great glee, because offending murderers and defending free speech is way more important than delicately tiptoeing around the sensibilities of the vast majority of Muslims, who are in any case the primary victims of Islamist hatred.
Cloud Harmony has done some more testing since then which covers some more configurations and you will see Google does quite well - especially if you normalize by price (not in the charts, but prices are public)

https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks/compute/storage#4k_Rand_...

https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks/compute/terasort
HTTPS most useful to criminals? Maybe .... but I'm not sure how. HTTPS clients are still connecting to a box whose ownership can normally be traced. If someone presents evidence of badness being hosted there, it's not so hard to prove who is behind it.

WRT Tor, the issue that gets the project the bad press is hidden services, not anonymous browsing in general. Tor's regular / most popular mode of use mixes your traffic in with a lot of abuse which gets exit nodes blocked, but it doesn't seem to be in the same league of controversy as hidden services are. So Firefox doing Tor in incognito windows wouldn't help much (I think they looked at it already, actually).
Something I noticed growing up, even when I was a teen, was stuff like "what teens think today" seemed bullshity and something certain adults wanted to hear, which often never reflected my experiences. In this case, the HN-friendly Facebook bashing. Now as a middle-aged adult, its obvious its questionable writing. Its either PR of some kind or a half-assed article by someone with a teenage daughter and a deadline.

A proper survey or data about app store habits say a lot more than a questionable testimonial. Yet somehow, this little sub-genre of reporting still exists. Its like there's this constant adult neurosis about what teenagers and college students think, especially if your paycheck stems from the spending habits of that demographic. This neurosis lets us overlook a lot of things, the same way people looking for spiritual answers will sometimes flock to a known conman, cult, or abusive religion.

Funny how a lot of us were bright young kids, like you, but have become milquetoast adults falling for the same old tricks. Sounds like you're on the right path though. Don't become us.
Please forgive me, I'm not saying no one used WhatsApp but that people in my age group, with similar socioeconomic status, that I regularly hang out with and talk to don't use it. WhatsApp is great for overseas talk and its ability to run on literally any phone but the vast majority of my friends have iPhones and the ones that don't have higher-end android phones so WhatsApp was never the "only" option for us and we gravitated to other networks.

Also understand that I am FULLY aware that I do not represent my age group nor do I represent even the "average" "young" person. I represent a small demographic but I wanted to give my views from that position.
Posting, liking, and commenting are pretty much the only means of interaction on Facebook. (Besides messages, but that's a different thing.) And since there's no "dislike" button, if you get no likes, then you don't know if people really hated it, or thought you were weird for posting it. Removing it is the easiest way to make sure you're not alienating your friends.
Truth is important because it has utility. It enables consistency and reproducibility in a way that nothing else does.
Probably because Facebook hasn't offered them enough billions yet. This article and author certainly seems to be promoting Snapchat well though.
> we wouldn't dream of not being on FB

And 10 years ago I wouldn't dream of not having my ICQ friends. Your dreams are not the /most/ relevant.
> WhatsApp- You download it when you go abroad, you use it there for a bit before going back to iMessage and Facebook Messenger, you delete it. I know tons of people who use it to communicate with friends they made abroad, but I feel like Messenger is beginning to overshadow it. For international students, however, WhatsApp is a pivotal tool that I’ve heard is truly useful.

Perhaps the title should have been 'A North American Teenager's view of Social Media'

Edit: Minor re-wording
I've been involved with some projects involving muslim cultural centers here, and I've spent a large part of my life in a country that was largely muslim. While I have many issues with Islam, and while I see how predominantly secular Western (European?) culture clashes with many of it's values, I found the experience of 'muslim culture' (which I do realize is not homogenous) almost uniformly enriching. I have a number of friends who have spent a lot of time in the Middle-East, and they feel the same way.

It frustrates me to see the non-specific, general anger against muslims in my country, and how shrewd right-wing politicians use this for support. I hope that I won't have to show support to both sides against extremism, but I fear the worst.

This situation really scares me, as it was not too long ago that one of our prominent right-wing politicians (Geert Wilders) exclaimed 'do we want more or less moroccans', followed by a chanting of 'less' by his supporters.
"The Pizza Effect is a term used especially in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon of elements of a nation or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to their culture of origin"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect
>As well as white middle-class 19 year olds thinking they're social media experts because they posted a blog post.

From the article:
>That being said, I'm not an expert at this by a long shot and I'm sure there will be data that disproves some of the points I make, but this is just what I've noticed.

He clearly states otherwise.
Bar hoppers are alcoholics in training, most countries don't have bars open 24/7 - and $100 buys a lot more alcohol from the off license or whatever.

I'm no doctor, but if a person is able to "exist" for half the day or more without their buzz, I'd suspect they've not yet built very any/much physical dependence.
I recall a group of English professors had gathered ever Thursday for the last 3 years to get through Finnegan's Wake. Sometimes I wonder if such a work is something other than a book.
Stripe is a great company to work with. I am part of the team that runs https://cottonbureau.com, a crowd funded apparel site.

We launched with Amazon in 2013 and quickly transitioned to Stripe after only two weeks with Amazon. It has been smooth sailing ever since. The APIs, customer support, and overall ease of use make this the right move for Kickstarter too.
Ask HN: Offline / Paper Notetaking at Online Companies
I just can't focus on taking notes on my work computer - I get distracted and switch to email, browsing, and other work.

Does anyone have a good system for offline notetaking that is easily searched and archived after the fact?
It's pathetic that this is downvoted.

Child sex abuse is certainly underreported, but I would have a hard time believing that incidence is over half, whereas about half of parents spank their children. Corporal punishment is known to be counterproductive and harmful to basically the same extent child sexual abuse is known to be harmful to children. If you want to deny the hard science about the negative effects of corporal punishment, you might as well deny the hard science about the negative effects of child sexual abuse as well.

In 23 out of 50 states it's legal to spank children in schools. Cursory Google results show surveys and polls where 67% of parents approve of corporal punishment and half of parents spank their children regularly.

Calling corporal punishment abuse isn't a misstatement. It isn't hyperbole. If you think you were spanked and "turned out fine," I'm sorry, but the science says otherwise. You don't know how you would have turned out if your parents hadn't hit you, and that's the simple fact of the matter, but the science says you'd be ~10 IQ points smarter and probably a hell of a lot more adjusted.

But witch hunts are always easier and more popular than fixing systemic problems.
And I'm still not seeing it. All he's done is equated privacy with things like social security numbers. He's also indicated that he's taking privacy statements from these companies at face value. Privacy is way more than that. Him and his friends just haven't been burned yet by mismanaging their online personas.
On this topic, you may want to check out How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James Kugel. It provides a historical overview of how the implicit and explicit interpretations of the old testament narratives have changed with respect to scholarship. Great read.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Bible-Guide-Scripture/dp/0743...
Yeah, that was my first reaction too...

Surely only using it in cases where other antibiotics hadn't proven successful would be a better approach so that you don't give bacteria much opportunity to become resistant.

Broad use of antibiotics in cases where it wasn't needed is exactly how we got into this problem in the first place.

Perhaps learning from history would be the most prudent approach.
Most plans have lots of texts but we needed international, which is an additional fee per month. Cut some off the phone bill and still can text because of it.

Unless you meant they start using it with people other than you...
>particularly when it comes to mirroring a tab with a video playing.

That has nothing to do with the processing power of the Chromecast and everything to do with the casting system. It's all just a video stream to the Chromecast.
The Nature publication seems to be open access:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

The Scientist has quite a nice write up:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41850/...

Details on the cell culture device (open access):

http://aem.asm.org/content/76/8/2445.full.pdf+html
Considering that PuTTY has GPG signatures, there is no need for downloading it over HTTPS. Of course, this does leave the issue of how to obtain and confirm the right GPG key for verifying the download.
Apparently they have a very plausible reason to think it will be robust: It attacks cell walls, which are structural, rather than receptors (I think I'm using the term correctly) that are proteins and prone to mutations.

It's basically the same reason we don't fear bacteria to develop resistance to boiling or alcohol disinfectant.
At CES: Color-changing E Ink film for display experience
A similar project is I2PBote[1]. It uses a similar DHT method for mail, but over I2P[2]. As with Freemail, this is inside of the Bote network only.

If the DHT doesn't suit you, I2P also runs a mail server in their network that can relay out to normal email. Ships with I2P by default.

[1]: http://i2pbote.i2p.us/

[2]: https://geti2p.net/
I'm about the same age as the poster and he's captured my age groups' experience of social media, including Snapchat, perfectly. Snapchat really is that big a deal.
Call me sentimental, but the addition of a 150 year old piece of currency from the country you just won your independence from, along with newly minted currency of your less than 20 year old democracy, sounds exactly like the items that should be remembered. The very fact that these items are mundane and quaint to us would possibly give the people who placed these items great satisfaction knowing their newly formed country lasted even a hundred years.

Indeed, if these would have been coins newly minted from the federal mint, then the act[0] that allowed for their creation had only been passed 3 years prior.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792
> Also, AWS has dozens of services.

As does Google Cloud

> Does Google have the same building blocks?

Not identical -- GCE has less separate products than AWSthe ones that are under the Google Cloud Services are listed on the Google Cloud homepage: https://cloud.google.com
What's the benefit of defining polygons as opposed to using shapefiles? San Francisco, for example, has a good shapefile of all the neighborhoods in SF: https://data.sfgov.org/widgets/qc6m-r4ih
Sorry I deleted my comment. I felt it might have been perceived as a little harsh or quick to judgement. Funny, I guess the author did get one thing right, most of our generation is quick to delete anything that may be controversial for fear it'll be enshrined on the Internet forever....
10 IQ points is hardly significant. Not as significant as other problems that can be cured - inoculation, diet, safe water etc. A first-world problem to be sure.
Arch linux
Parenting in the Age of Online Porn