skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got downvoted for making an extreme claim (crime riddled; extremely dangerous place to live) that just isn't supported by stats, and then claiming that the stats are wrong.

Assuming for the moment that the police stats are wrong we'd still see increased insurance costs for people living in Coventry, and we don't.

Support your claims with more than anecdote.
What's funny in certain countries (right now for me the GCC) is that people believe if you flash with your brights at the right speed and frequency it will automatically set them to green, or shorten the interval on the opposing traffic direction so it goes green for you sooner.

Do other people believe this? I have watched people try for over 60 seconds or more until giving up, and I find this hilarious even today.
Yes, Facebook is realizing this and that's why they're doing these rounds of purchases rather than trying to build something own and extend Facebook.com. Ironically enough, I don't think they always prefer to strengthen their own brand because they understand the psychology behind end user decisions.

Thinking of it, it's interesting how long ago Facebook last changed functionality-wise.

I don't like them that much, but I do think Facebook does a decent job of predicting trends. That's also why I think we'll have Facebook around for a long time. In a few years, people may not even think of that they're using Facebook services since they've further specialized and added various apps, all under the Facebook umbrella but only on the back end.

I think Facebook is even on their way of breaking out the friend contacts part from their main site, with Messenger.com now an own website, and other Messenger platform changes like games.

I think that where Facebook wants to go is to no longer require any user to actually use Facebook to stay in touch (we now have Messenger, Groups, Snapchat, Instagram), so that Facebook only becomes a place that pulls them all together (except for sensitive users like youth who don't want Snapchat to get involved with parents). For those who fancy that.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue #79
Googling for Darvai Girls app sent me to this: http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=155811
To clarify this is the doc from clicking suggest edit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgGy4AdvHNwQeppRhg8i...

Then go to file > download as.
You could submit a pull request to hub to fix it!

Perhaps not using hub to do so, though.
Metror and Rendr are most helpful application that will help you to develop such kind of applications.

https://www.meteor.com/
http://rendrjs.github.io/rendr/
Syft: Photo Sharing App Keeps You Closer to the People Who Really Matter
http://indiewebcamp.com
Programmers have to program under stress on occasion for fixing or shipping stuff rather quickly before, say, a meeting with VCs. But this is where the sysadmin / execution-focused folks will perform better on what would seem to be menial tasks because most programmers are so used to controlling their work environment while sysadmins and network admins are oftentimes running under tight "get it done right now" situations.

I've hired a couple guys for my ops team that are primarily developers because I want a more forward-thinking and feature development pace for the work we do, and just plain better forethought would cut these stressful scenarios down to maybe half an hour of troubleshooting instead of hours and days.
I created an app for just my group of friends to pick where to go to eat.

It had tags for different places and would narrow the selection down and ultimately pick one. You could say where people in the group had been recently and they would be removed, say which area of the city you wanted, delivery, take-out, dine-in, fast food, and other properties. People also had profiles where they could choose restaurants they didn't like and when you went through the picking wizard, you would indicate who was going and it would discard any restaurants that those people disliked from the potential pool. A random number generator would then make the final decision from the possible options.
How the second tech bubble will burst
I'm sorry, low?
At risk of teaching people to suck eggs, and at risk of speaking to people whose regional public library system has been defunded to the point of non-functionality; inter library loans are a beautiful thing.

My local library (in the UK) will fetch me a book from any participating library in the UK or Ireland and loan it to me for a month, for two pounds and fifty pence (a bit under four dollars at current exchange rates). They'll extend the loan if I ask and the owning library doesn't mind.

Over the past year, I've had books from university libraries up and down the country, big chunky tomes from the British Library, and books from regional library systems that happened by chance to hold a copy of whatever I was looking for. Basically, any time I come across a book I want to read, I pitch over to www.worldcat.org and see if any library in the UK holds a copy. If someone does (and sometimes it's just one library), I make an inter library loan request and a week later it's in my hands. I've been shot down twice; once when the book was subsequently found to no longer exist in the single library listed on worldcat, and once when the university library said it was in too high demand and would I mind asking again in July when the demand would have dropped.

I've had technical manuals, obscure novels, expensive books that I wanted to get my hands on for a few weeks to see if I'd use it or enjoy it enough to buy my own copy, some really niche books on the shipping industry, stupidly expensive books of compiled data, all sorts. Two pounds fifty for a month's loan is an absolute bargain.
Is Your Art Good Enough to Eat? – Art of the Mallow Competition
I did not mean changing the price in the middle of a project. I meant finding clients with needs and expectations that fit well with yours. For example, one of my long-time clients has very flexible production schedules and I am willing to give him a reduced rate for that because I can fill his project in when I have time.
Yeah, I have a giant collection of free philosophy books that could use a good place like this to call home :(
Thanks to hub the friction to contributing is much lower for me. That's how I contribute back to projects on github:

hub clone user/repo
cd repo
git checkout -b my-contrib
# ... fix fix fix ...
hub fork
git push -u zimbatm my-contrib
hub browse # Opens browser on my fork
# Create PR with comment in browser
In the UK a lot of taxi drivers seem to believe this, the superstition is reinforced whenever they happen to flash when the lights were about to change anyway. It's also a comfort thing, similar to a placebo button[0] - people want to believe that they have some control over the mundane parts of their lives.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
Ask HN: Byod (multiplatform I.os-Android- ) remote monitoring for teacher?
Hi everyone, in the school I work we are developing a BYOD project, students are use to come to school with their own devices...Do you know any teacher remote control/monitoring software or app or ... that works with the different devices (Ios, Android, ...)? I mean it's not just about "control" we would like to find something that can allow the teacher to see what the students are doing and maybe share it with the whole class...any idea? Thanks!!
This is the relevant bit:

> Fed has created abnormal market conditions by printing money and keeping interest rates low. Investors are looking for growth anywhere they can find it and tech companies are good targets - at these values, however, all tech stocks are expensive - even looking at 5+ years of revenue growth down the road. This means that most value-driven investors have left the market and the remaining 5-10%+ increase in market value will be driven by momentum investors. At some point there won't be any momentum investors left buying at higher prices, and the market begins to tumble. May be 10-20% correction or something more significant, especially in tech stocks. Facebook has continued to perform in the market despite declining user engagement and pullback of brand advertising dollars -- largely due to mobile advertising performance - especially App Install advertisements. This is a huge red flag because it indicates that sustainable brand dollars have not yet moved to Facebook mobile platform and mobile revenue growth has been driven by technology companies (many of which are VC funded). VC dollars are being spent on user acquisition despite unknown LTV of users - a recipe for disaster. This props up Facebook share price and continues to justify VC investment in technology products based on abnormally large mkt cap companies (i.e. "If this company attracts just 5% of users that FB has, it will be HUGE" - fuels spend on user acquisition as user growth is tied to values). When the market for tech stocks cools, Facebook market cap will plummet, access to capital for unproven businesses will become inaccessible, and ad spend on user acquisition will rapidly decrease - compounding problems for Facebook and driving stock even lower. Instagram may be only saving grace if they are able to ramp advertising product fast enough. Total internet advertising spend cannot justify outsized valuations of social media products that derive revenue from advertising. Feed-based advertising units will plummet in value (in the case of Twitter, advertising spend may not move beyond experimental dollars) similar to earlier devaluing of Internet display advertising.
Apple Confirms a Fix Is in the Works for the Crash Bug by Way of Text Message
> Some of those ex-employees broke the confidence and policies of Jawbone while employed there. That's the issue; Jawbone needs to address that with the individuals.

Whats the potential outcome of this? I am not an expert about this kind of things in the US, but in Europe this would mean an invalidation (if any violation is proved) of the job contract. So the guy basically loses the job pretty much immediately and gets probably fined.
In the mid nineties many early web users had their own web space with a "fancy" (back then) static website in Frontpage/Dreamweaver, it was more or less hassle free. Back then the ISPs usually provided free webspace and free email accounts. If everyone has access to a hassle free webspace with social/cloud software (blog, image sharing, file directory), then there would be less need for a central service. Obviously, things have changed. Maybe the OP is talking about that.
The vast, unplayable history of video games
In principle yes. But unless enough of the people that he wants to connect with (past/present) are in it, then most of the points are unfeasible.
For me the dichotomy becomes which groups really see what... you have:

- family & close friends
- acquaintances & loose friends
- school alum
- social groups / clubs
- those who you might work with/for
- linked in, you failed this audience
- interests beyond clubs, outside acquantances

No social network does a good job at allowing a person to share with those groups as desired. What I share on twitter is far more techie than what my friends/family on FB care about (mental note, disconnect twitter from fb). What I follow on twitter doesn't line up with what I post (I also see way to much to actually track twitter or fb, I pop in every few days, and only see the top of the feed). most of the people on FB are more acquaintances or past friends from social groups, and some family.

The reality is that what will probably "win" will be a few discrete social networks... one for your career (probably not linkedin), a new one for your family and close friends, facebook for your loose friends and acquantences... and something closer to bulletin boards and/or webchat for social interest groups (probably not meetup).

I don't think the one site to rule them all will survive in the long run. And those groups trying to do so with facebook, twitter and pinterest are failing... those trying to build business models that aren't bought are failing.
I'm a bit anti-social in some ways, so I don't actually think that social networks have much of a future.

My observations are that people don't care about being social, they want a place where they can post their frustrations, Facebook is a good platform for that.

Twitter, Instgram, Snapchat and others all have their user base, but it's way smaller and less relevant than the people using the services believe. If you and your circle of friends are only on e.g. Snapchat, that's platform will seem much more valuable and relevant that it really is. Same with Twitter, the tech world sees Twitter as way more relevant and valuable than it really is, because that the platform that many of us use (I don't, Twitter is in my just a way of following celebrities in the TV/Movie/politic or tech- world).

Some for of group chat might be handy, but there's room for a ton of these services. Although users will tend to cluster. Videos and voice is unimportant, text and pictures are not.
Two things.

Firstly, Android checks app signatures and as far as I know the market app doesn't have any ability to override that. It can do a few privileged things like skip showing the permissions screen, but I think the OS still wants to see correct signatures. So even if the app store was hacked the phone itself might reject a bogus upgrade.

Secondly, that slide is more like some junior GCHQ guy noodling around, I think. It is old and dates from a time before Google used SSL for everything. I doubt it's possible to do via purely technical attacks now.

Thirdly, it'd almost certainly be easier to attack the developer laptop/workstation to steal the signing keys directly than attack Android head on. I plan to do some research this summer into splitting the RSA signing keys used by Android apps to allow for threshold signed online updates for Android and maybe iOS.
Hey Khuram, I'm very interested in what you're doing, it's something I'd want to do as well! I love strategy but havent figured out how to leverage my knowledge/skill to get started there. Are you available for chat via email or Skype?
Yes, we pay ~30% of first year comp for traditional agency hires. Granted, they're doing more than simply flagging candidates of interest, but if this product is successful, I'm just as willing to pay 10% or 15% as I am 5%.
What you needed was to use the options -h (head, ie. the feature branch) and -b (base, ie the upstream master) eg.

git pull-request \
-m "I added an awesome feature"\
-b baserepo:master\
-h myfork:feature-branch
I dunno if it's just me (or perhaps I'm the wrong audience) but I've always found Meeker's presentations to be long on data (lots of graphs and numbers about trends that anyone who's at all interested in the Internet is already well aware of), and short on insight ("So what?").

This one's no different. There are exactly 15 slides (out of 190+) that I found interesting (16, 20, 50/51, 68, 99, 110, 141, 145, 146, 151, 153, 169, 172, and 184), and I find it very strange that there's precisely zero mention of FinTech or Bitcoin/Blockchain.
Great project, a usable search engine for programmers would be a fantastic tool to have.

Realising that Google still delivers the most relevant results for the things I want to look up quickly I created http://www.stacksnippet.com/ last year. It takes the first Google results from your query and displays stack overflow answers inline.

Recall seems exciting, I'll be sure to follow it.
I believe PGP does support multiple recipients. The symmetric key is encrypted and included for every recipient.
hub works just fine to create a PR, some lack of RTFM is at play.
Loses which job? The one they already left? That seems reasonable, but irrelevant/pyrrhic for Jawbone's purposes.
Not at all.

During WWII, that was already the flag of the Republic of China, which happened to be the only "China" in existence at the time.

No other flag was used then, so it would be anachronistic to use communist China's flag here, and Taiwan was not part of China at the time so it would be even worse to talk about Taiwan fighting the war.
Awesome application :) Must try for those who're still finding it difficult to type Indian languages in their phone.
Yeah, but nothing really happened in CA. The colluding companies saved $3 billion and paid a settlement of $415 million.
Show HN: Ocutri, an R&D startup
they could definitely benefit from a cooperation with a hairdresser.
And why is it always like in low-gravity-slow-motion?
Also hair that "flows" like that as long and heavy. Coming closest in really is thin hair, with electrostatic charge, but I doubt that's the aim.
In my opinion all that hand-wringing about people no longer reading long text misses a crucial point: long writing was necessary only where quick contextualisation was impossible, i.e. before the invention of the web, search engines etc. Books had to be long to give the reader the context so the key idea of the text can easily be communicated. Hence long text is a consequence of technological flaws of the previously dominant platform for text distribution, printing.

The availability of the net, linking, search technology from google to grep has changed all that. Not surprisingly, digital natives move away from long text.

We should be happy that information transmission has become a tiny bit less painful. That's not to say that there isn't a place for long, continuous text, but it should be more an exception than the norm.
A few recommendations from the peanut gallery:

1. The files have .cpp extensions, but they seem like plain C other than static_cast/reinterpret_cast? For integrating with other software just using C would be better. Use 'export "C"' in the header file, though

2. It's reasonable to optimize for intel CPUs, but the current implementations of read_u64() and friends would crash if used on CPUs that don't allow unaligned reads. It would be nice if that was #ifdef'ed so that it was portable.

3. Similarly, it seems that the result of the hash functions are endian-dependent. Optimizing for little-endian makes sense, but it would be nice if they produced consistent answers on big-endian CPUs. This is often a requirement for uses like on-disk bloomfilters. Probably all that is required is doing endian swaps in read_u64()/etc on big-endian.
Porn actors must wear protective goggles: California safety standard [pdf]
I agree with you that probably FB will stay longer than everyone thinks. At least the messaging part.
What I think it's the biggest factor that will give it inertia, it's the userbase.

It has slowly become the centralized place for connecting with people, especially when not considering the minority of very tech-savy people.

I am at a party and I met somebody I want to hang out with? He/she's probably on facebook then we'll communicate on that.
Wanna look up for my old class-mates? Let's search for them on facebook.

The timeline will be empty/boring/spam, but the messaging app will be full.
>> I think there's a service idea here - something to hook people up to others who want to read a book and are prepared to read it out aloud and record it. Build a library of books.

You mean something like Librivox? [1]

[1] https://librivox.org/
"based this prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term".

If that's their only set of data, then I'm guessing this is equally likely to indicate that Google is losing users, or at least losing users trying to access common sites, at a pretty steep rate.
I think where it makes sense a couple different social networks will come to rule the roost, so to speak. Facebook may well evolve into most of them. You have close friends/family, loose friends, alumni, acquaintances, clubs, and other interest groups.

I think that those other interest groups will probably come to break off into custom sub-sites with their own message boards and chat.

I think clubs are well suited to discovery by FB, meetup and the like, but a bit too restricted in practice.

The corporate attempts to gather "likes" is B.S. mostly.

What you want potential coworkers to see isn't the same as friends/family...

In the end it's all muddled currently, and I think things may break apart a bit in the near future.
Basic income can also mean other things. Some people just are so unique that don't need to compete.

Some examples of unemployed people that did not have an income other that the support of his family, friends or government in a part of (or all) his life:

Vincent Van Gogh, too clumsy to farm

John Steinbeck, housed by his father that provides also paper and material

Harper Lee, sabbatical payed by friends

J.K. Rowling, writing whereas on welfare.

... and many others

Take in mind that you don't have just competition, there is also collaboration, and teaming, and life-changers. Some people just born in poverty. This would not be his choice if they could. Some born in a poor rural environment somewhere in Misissipi, other in a manger in the middle of nowhere. Some of those people are between the most influent people in the history of the humanity.

People seem to worry about that basic income could lead to a lot of people scratching his bellies all day (and this is true) but don't always notice that this will also reveal a hidden minory of fine gem crafters in art, music, literature or poetry that are just roting now and could be free to create huge economic values instead.
Eh? Trams and buses in Czech Republic have been using this for years.
This is as good a place as any to mention that this double-entry bookkeeping process, a centuries-old methodology, is long overdue for replacement (but changing a global standard like this may never come to pass). In the early 1980s, an academic known as William McCarthy presented one such alternative known as REA, which organizes accounting into a resources-events-agents model. A little while ago, I asked Mr. McCarthy whether REA was dead and he claimed that it in fact wasn't dead and that work was still ongoing.

The thing is, since as early as the 1960s, there has been discussion and publications about event-driven accounting architecture. Pretty crazy, right?

Alas, considering IFRS and GAAP span the world's modern economies, it may be safe to assume that hell will freeze over before any viable accounting alternative to double-entry bookkeeping supplants it.
I really should flesh out my "why you can't have a good distributed social network" post some time.

What does FB provide that you don't get with a combination of email/USENET/blogs/chat? Branding, janitors, and indexing.

Branding is useful because these things are so scale-driven that you want to be on the one that everyone else is using. It's easier for the uninvolved to figure this out if it's the one with huge advertising billboards.

Janitors are a necessity. Some are human, some automatic. People want spam to be fought, and they want abuse to be removed.

Between those two is the "nudging" of people into how to use Facebook. Why should you post life updates? Because it's the "done thing".

Indexing is useful because it enables you to find people you want to get in contact with using their human-recognisable name. (Facebook occasionally undermines this by refusing to accept names that people are known by)

Both of these are ongoing effort that has to be paid for if it is to scale and be done properly. Hence all the underhand cash-extraction processes.
> No social network does a good job at allowing a person to share with those groups as desired.

Doesn't g+ solve this with the whole "circles" idea? You control which groups you share with.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617105
It's a series of tubes that let you communicate information, but that's not important right now.
Using GitHub After Enabling Two-Factor Authentication
> except for sensitive users like youth who don't want Snapchat to get involved with parents

That's a common tipping point that lead to unfavorable side effects.