skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Case in point: Hate speech is illegal in Germany, which is understandable given German history, but a violation of free speech rights in the U.S.

Germany gave up that part of their free speech because of the horrors they inflicted upon the world, they wanted to prevent happening ever again no matter what. I've yet to see the USA make any kind of adjustment for the atrocities, torture, murders, war crimes they pulled.

Point is, the USA doesn't have any more slack left over. So yeah targeted surveillance that might otherwise considered fine and just if it were done by the "good guys" or even just a responsible party, is going to be met with a large amount of suspicion. And for good reason. These are powerful capabilities the USA doesn't even seem to be able to keep in check internally, who knows what it'll be used for (at the very least it'll show up in economic/corporate espionage, that's a certainty).
I mean, just look at the body language during that final answer. And then Senator Wyden's breathless, almost resigned, "Alright" at the end.

Watching that never gets old. Apparently by Clapper's measure, the NSA is quite the bunch of dimwits.
Christ, so much hatred.

I like the desktop site, I like the mobile site, and I like and appreciate that you're giving us an insight in to your tech stack and how content is published.

Cheers beeb.
Node.js is just a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pattern

http://wtfjs.com
Who else here waiting for sharks?
until it's not longer tied to windows versions, ie will always be a problem
This won't fix the data in OSM; this will contribute to OpenAddresses UK which is a separate (though worthy!) project.
Great idea, but i'd adjust the plans.
The standard plan covers probably 99% of runners out there who would use this app.

I'd go for the following:

Free plan
-pre-generated routes in your local area
-5km max
-can't save

Standard plan
-current feature set
-price about £1.99 ish
Wolfram's Speech to Stanford Online High School Graduates
"There is no cloud, just other people's computers."

FSFE Sticker: https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/files/2014/11/there-is-no-cloud-pa...
Hey koomerang. Thanks for your comment. Eventually this is something that would work for cyclists too.
Apple cracks down on polluting supply chains with 15 factory closures
Not starting a business when I was single. Now I'm not and soon there will be kids.

I don't want to resent my unborn kids because they make starting a business impossible/more difficult.
This really is a magical resource. I've just spent ~45 minutes browsing then looked at the scrollbar to notice I'm not even 1/4 down the page yet.
Does for me :)
"don't break the web"

I know it's not your fault but this statement doesn't make any sense. Web is made of hyper-linked content not jQuery animations and AJAX.
Wasn't there a demonstration of a similar HDD exploit posted on HN earlier?

edit: found it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665865
Very observant and interesting points, thanks. I had not thought of the prettiness/beautification as a secondary item to the purpose of the products. Thanks.
Select and count your production.log
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Hi rspeer.

Built into the app is an algorithm that takes into account a randomly selected bearing and how far you want to run.

Eventually we'd like to be able to direct runners on more scenic routes, fewer busy roads, etc, depending on their preferences.

There won't be any e-mails going out to the mailing list until the app is released, unless you indicate that you're happy to provide feedback during its development.
jesus so confusiong
Taking a job for the money. It was my first job after university and I was poor, so it seemed like the extra £2k was worth it, but it wasn't.
The USA works very hard to radicalize anti american factions within a country. If the choices are US backed dictator, or religious nutjob, its not much of a hard choice.
Thanks for the ideas, benlaplanche.
Node.js is something that runs on server ONLY. It's 100% like PHP but with JS instead. Your browser never sees nor executes Node.js code. It only operates on text a Node.js server produces.
But what about drawing hearts to each other on it??? :-)

Only kidding. I found the Watch video to be dull and Ives' voiceover to be disappointing and desperately attempting to find highlights in a featureless item. A bit like trying to describe how wonderful a piece of blank A4 piece of paper was. I will wait to see how it fares! No doubt we'll all be shocked if it sells by the billion.
Not applying to YC
Pleasantly surprised how 'up-to-date'the beeb is.
Sorry.

Arrest (actually, BBC uses the word "apprehended") over tweets:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

Kids as sex offenders:

http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/youth-sex-offender-registry...
In theory you just need to add the 'addr:postcode' tag to the relevant house or street.

That said, OSM's geocoder has a few issues with postcodes at present: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2497 . The second para of lonvia's final comment is the crux - "[postcode updates are] a very expensive operation and so the centroids don't get updated and postcodes go stale with time".
I've been using the new design on mobile for a while here and the user experience is awful compared to the old design. Although the parent comment might seem a bit patronising, I think he's right - they've focussed too much on the technology and design fads.

Compared to the old site, there's a lot of "big text", too much of a focus on images (when you drill down into the site) and less on text, and low information density.

Worst of all (for me) - when loading on latest stable Chrome on Android, with a very fast internet connection, the page appears loaded but as soon as I scroll a number of the images disappear and the layout changes. I have to scroll back to where I wanted to be. Lots of scripts, client-side rendering, etc. It's overkill for a site whose focus should be content, not interaction.

While I'm sure the team built a technically impressive website, I don't think they've built the "right thing" and I certainly don't think it's better than the old one (from a user perspective).
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It this problem bad enough that you would consider it to be a deal breaker? Can't one shell out to JS for the pain points?
Try https://www.komoot.de.
They are creating routes based on popular tracks in various gps portals (like gpsies.com etc.).
From taxi booking to drones: A chat with Hailo founder Jay Bregman
While FAE is a common bias, I think this is misusing it. This is not the cliche example of "driving like an asshole", which everyone does at some point for a variety of reasons. FAE requires an alternate explanation where the behaviour is justified and the assumption it's the result of a character flaw is the error. You can drive like an asshole because you are racing to the hospital or late to a big job interview or something similar.

At the very least he was being sexually aggressive in a business context with a person over whom he had substantial power. There are no charitable explanations based on unknown circumstances we can reasonably assume here.

Your character is determined by the totality of your actions, not by some imaginary inner version of yourself - although that's a very common delusion we all use to avoid acknowledging our character flaws.
Selecting the best UX prototyping tool
The lack of hardware sprites was easily overcome by the raw speed of the spectrums CPU. Also at anything other than sprite focused games, ie vector graphics or the like the Spectrum smoked the C64. And even with sprites the C64 hardware was limited to 8 before you had to do strange multiplexing.

Sound wise the C64 was better but in terms of speed the Spectrum dominated.
I cracked up over the famous NaNNaNNaNNaN Batman presentation. But, IMO that table is very predictable for a 'dynamic' language, for the normal use-cases. It only gets strange on the outer edges with oddball arrays and objects.

But, if you have code which compares one-element arrays with strings, you have bigger problems than javascript. I can't recall seeing any serious comparison Batman-style bug. Hypothetically, that kind of stuff wouldn't even be a logic bug, but a design issue that was allowed by the dynamic type system. Solution: don't bitch about Javascript, use something else.
The short definition would be: "node.js is something that eats up my browsers latency", something along those lines, and as far as I am concerned, that is everything I have to know about it. Node.js is a no stop for me.
Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company

Microsoft's former chief privacy adviser said he did not have faith in the security of the software company's technology

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/microsoft-priva...
Wholeheartedly agree with this, I found Carlota’s book to be accessible despite not having an economics background. There is also an excellent documentary she’s in about the most recent financial crisis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180589/
Taking too long to perfect something when I could've iterated with imperfection
It's very true, you often learn most when things break or you have to work with old and bad code which makes you realize why certain design patterns exist
My initial foray into 3D used a crude approximation based on the artistic concept of a vanishing point, implemented in QuickBasic with 2D drawing commands. Later a friend figured out projection using the concept of similar triangles.
IMO, so cluttered and stuffed with... stuff ... that the useful functionality is buried under a baffling pile of UI elements and surprise actions.

It's a classic open source problem: pack in the functionality, but not be entirely sure how best to present it, so provide everything with lots and lots of switches for power users to toggle what they want.

Starting out with less stuff might help; starting out remembering to go to the map would, I suspect, be a great UX experience for a map app.
If you are interested in further details on algorithms for route planning, check out http://i11www.iti.uni-karlsruhe.de/teaching/sommer2014/route... for a whole lecture on them (slides are in English). Each chapter also contains a list of relevant publications.
If you believe that the technologies they selected are inappropriate then maybe you could explain why?
What's the point of regretting?

For example, I could regret I didn't leave my previous employer earlier because they just didn't pay me more money eventhough my skills and impact had gone way up since starting there. But not leaving that job taught me my own value.

And knowing my value has now materialized in the form of lots of appreciation shown by later employers as well as better money and more challenging jobs. In the previous job it did suck to realize I won't be rewarded for my hard work but, in comparison to what followed, that suckage was a bargain price and I'd never waste my time regretting it.
> You realize in practice this means you are against nearly all public discourse

I don't believe this to be the case. IMO due process is scalar not binary, and responsible journalism includes many due process protections... for example, the other side of the story has been considered and presented in most news stories, and if the central claim is proven false the story is usually killed.

> even more insane, are proposing a stance that linearly scales protection from being mentioned in public with wealth.

I didn't mention scale / I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion.

> This is simply a restatement of a very old school defense of the strictly hierarchical society. One should know their place and not question or impugn the integrity of their betters.

Not at all. I'm saying that before you punish people you should consider the idea that they are innocent and limenting that most of the other commenters don't seem to agree with this position.

I'm not sure to what extent you are arguing with me, and to what extent you are arguing with cached thoughts from other discussions. https://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html might help with that.
Ask HN: How to deal with the anxiety of going bald?
This seems to be a rather weird thing to ask here but I'm suffering from baldness in my early 20s. Aside from the trauma one might
feel at losing one's hair , I feel that people might discriminate against me since I look older.
I realise that the ideal way is to just embrace it and go with it but I'm finding it hard.

Is this something I shouldn't bother
with ?

How did you guys overcome your awkwardness ?
Thanks for the article! It does provide important guidelines for newcomers to the startup land.
Germany doesn't have nuclear weapons.
A Mustache.js extension for data formatters like {{ expression – formatter }}
What? The <|> is right there on the second line of the two-line snippet:

parens :: Parser ()
parens = (char ‘(’ >> parens >> char ‘)’ >> parens) <|> return ()
^
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hi!
Wolfram Mathematica. It's very high-level language for doing maths. In some ways it's more like a software package with a text interface than a general programming language.
Or (don't)build it youself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTejx32xVgc
Could be the most UNsafe use of 'safe' razor blades.
It's not a what-if actually, the US government - or at least the higher-ups, like the senate - are bought by those with money. And buying votes / power / votes is the core principle of corruption.
The problem with your original statement is that you have combined Mobile and Console together VS PC, which is a pretty bad basis in my opinion.

PC vs Console vs Mobile would be a more reasonable competition.

From some reports PC gaming market seems very healthy indeed from monetary perspective.

http://usfinancepost.com/pc-still-gaming-market-is-double-co...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-01-28-pc-gaming-m...

Mobile has been predicted to reach the size of PC gaming, but not to necessary dwarf it anytime soon.

http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/research/3892.html

So certainly if you combine mobile and console it's larger than PC. Says a lot that it takes to distinct markets to overtake PC.

In my opinion all the platforms have their pro's and con's, and none of them are going to disappear anytime soon.
Both the product and the ad are highly representative of '70s Nordic social ethics and aesthetics. A single product line called "Universal Building Sets" is an almost Platonic ideal of democratic creativity.

Today's Lego has 33 product lines:
http://www.lego.com/en-us/products

When your Legos are branded as "Chima", "Bionicle", "Ninjago", "Marvel(tm) Super Heroes" or "Disney(r) Star Wars(tm)", it's expected that you play within the existing marketeer-created universe. Less blank canvas, more coloring book with product placement.
> Spy on another country? Yes - keep it up and do more.

As someone from another country, I'd rather they didn't.
Back when we were kids there was only one type of Lego, the type that was meant for everybody. Now they have their own line for girls, Lego Friends. And Lego Friends is just stupid http://seasonaldepressioncomic.com/2014/12/06/lego-friends/
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Commodore 64 was still selling very well in '89 (1.5 million in '88 - I don't know specific numbers for '89), and continued selling well enough that Commodore kept manufacturing them right up until their bankruptcy in 1994.

You can say a lot - mostly bad - things about Commodore management, but they had actual hard sales numbers that demonstrated that there still was a market for a really cheap entry-level computer in 1989.

Their big problem was figuring out what to do in that space.
Getting a CompSci degree. Single biggest waste of time and money in my life.
Astro Teller on Making Profits at Google X
For one, it's anything but easy to write a fast and correct routing engine that produces good results. OSRM was (mainly) written by Dennis Luxen who literally has a PhD in route planning.

Secondly, if these projects already exist and are easy to integrate, I fail to see why it should be problematic for OSM to use them. OSRM is completely open source, anyone can spin up their own instance if they wanted to, so someone else can host it if the current server goes down. Open source routing engines like OSRM exist so that OSM doesn't need to roll their own. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how you construe this to be a bad thing.
Thoughts on Apache Mesos
The logic behind the author's central thesis seems to be:

1. Humans live about 100 years.
2. The highest human ambitions, like writing a great novel, can only be reasonably accomplished in a well-balanced life if that life lasts more than 1000 years.
3. By definition, our life is absurd because we don't have enough time to reasonably accomplish our highest ambitions.

She concludes that human life could be made less absurd by extending life to 1000 years -- this I disagree with.

The problem I have with this thesis is that I think the phrase "highest human ambitions" is really a shifting goal. It's a goal that is set by the accomplishment of a person of extraordinary talent who dedicates her entire life to that one pursuit.

We think today that a brilliant novel on the order of Tolstoy is a high human ambition, only because it's the limit of what a human can do. Instead, consider if humans lived much shorter lives, reaching their cognitive peak at age 15. In such a world, few people would have time to learn calculus, and so solving a differential equation might be within the highest order of a human's mathematical ambitions.

Conversely, let me suggest that if the average person were to live to 1000 years, the definition of human ambition would scale accordingly. Imagine the absolute masterpiece symphony that Beethoven could write if he were alive today. He would have hundreds of years of experience. He would have seen the evolution of music and integrate all these advances in his repertoire. He could afford to spend 50 years writing his mater symphony. This level of music will be now our new target of ambition.

The central problem reduces down to this fact. The high water mark for an ambitious goal is always defined by people in that field who are unreasonably talented and dedicates an unreasonable fraction of their lives to the field. If these experts lives the same number of years as I do, since I'm a generalist of average talent dabbling in their field, I will never be able to accomplish anywhere near their level.

The absurdity here then seems to stem from the intrinsic human desire to always compare ourselves to the best, even when we realize we don't want to commit to the field (with good reason) as the best do.
yeah, pretty sure the gini coefficient went down during that era.
I'm picturing the NSA engineers laughing at the "advanced hacking" Kaspersky just unearthed, meanwhile working on stuff that would blow our mind and that we'll only discover 20 years from now.
They had no choice, the "univeral building blocks" patent ended not long ago, facing competition now, they had to find sustainable cash flow.
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it is impossible to build a safe lab that with a high level of assurance will produce a biogenic weapon that will kill, say, more than about 10,000 people.
What is FinTech and where is it going?
The cool thing about legos is you get instant gratification for building stuff. My 2-year-old nephew was building with legos the other day and you know what he said after he finished building: "moma." He was so happy he wanted to go show his mom what he had built. Isn't that beautiful?
It is, in general, but for everything there's an exception if you're some kind of law enforcement. Killing people is a felony too , unless you're a police officer acting in self-defense, or if you're a judge that passed the death sentence.
Maybe if sales for these things werent so high they wouldnt have done it, whose fault is it really Lego or the consumer? I certainly dont want companies deciding for me.
Only if the behavior they call out actually happened. If they start fabricating evidence of bad behavior that never happened then that's not a good thing.
Reminds me of that article saw on HN https://medium.com/matter/the-man-who-destroyed-americas-ego...

That "discover how you're special" mindset seemed to be a socio-academic theory of the times.
Very cool variations on the same theme. Surprised how deep the author went on this subject.

If you want to play around with this kind of recursive shapes, I would suggest to try out http://GeoKone.NET, it's an application I've developed that let's you create this kind of formations interactively in your browser.

Well, at least the kind of formations on the first half of the page or so.
Turn it around and use your situation as a motivator. It's hard, but it's worth it. I'm sure you want the best for your family and unborn child, so what better way than to start your own business. The longer you put it off the more you'll regret it later in life.
http://www.amazon.in/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher-ebook/dp... Choose Yourself by James Altucher

http://www.amazon.in/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends-ebook/d... Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products?
Ah fascinating, I'll look that up! I couldn't find anything on the subject but then again I didn't know what term to search for, and I imagined that somebody must have come up with this since it's not rocket science. However, I didn't see this implemented in any API I know, so I thought I share it.
Original HuffPost article (from over a year ago): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/lego-ad-1981_n_4617...

Someone tracked down the little girl in the ad: http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/little-girl-1981-lego-ad-g...
> How about "full-stack developer"?

It means you can play both kinds of music: country and western
Looking at the two boxes on the poster, they don't look that "universal" - it's a truck and the other one a house. Today's boxes I guess are just better categorized, but not that different.
Take number theorethic conjecture. Look for counterexamples. Return first counterexample. You can't prove I didn't win!
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But aren't the big companies often very slow and boring to work in? Of course they have some interesting projects but if you really want to build something from the ground and work together where the whole company is in the same team it will hard to achive in a big one
The NPT works the other way around. It is a bargain between the nuclear weapons powers and the non-weapon powers. Non-weapon powers get access to civilian nuclear technology and know-how in exchange for a promise (and safeguards) to not develop weapon systems. Additionally weapon powers agree to negotiate towards an end to all nuclear weapons (but in a very woolly, no real commitment kind of way).

Non signers get no access to any technology or know-how from signers but are free to act as they please. Israel, Pakistan and India all fall into this category. They can act as they please.
Good one! I was only thinking of e^e^9 which is way smaller than 9!!
gendered products.
Universal Building Set is actually the name of a product line: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Building_Set it existed alongside LEGOLAND and Trains and constituted the "basic" lego sets, differentiated because each set usually came with instructions for multiple models, and better demonstrated the role of imagination and the purpose of legos.
Being shit at building lasting relationships with former colleagues and people I worked with. In the end that's what it all seems to come down to, a network of people.
imho its an app. You should start giving it for free, get some traction, learn why/how ppl are using it and what they love about it before introducing monetization.

Currently the pricing page is deterring potential users...