skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose you're implying that Microsoft sold your new account name to spammers? It could also be that you used a name that you, or someone else, have used at a different place and the spammers simply try sending mail to all the big email providers with that name in the hope of reaching someone. That would seem like a more probable explanation to me.
One City Tried Something Radical to Stop Gun Violence. It's Working
Regarding the anti pattern: seems more like a dumb pattern. I often sign up for new sites when they have good content. But I need to read the content first.

So many people give the pop up and interrupt me in the first paragraph so it is an automatic dismissal. The smart sites do it at the end. If I like the writing, I may sign up. Smarter sites just give a link at the end.

But the best sites just write great, compelling articles that make me want to hunt down a subscribe button.
I'm confused. You replied to someone that stated quite clearly that a lot of German users already do what you consider a mistake.

I don't have a FB account for quite some time now, but yes: Every contact (right - let's be honest: 80% of my contacts or more) obscured their name. Some just changed a little thing, like using a handle instead of the first name. Others did the ~useless~ reverse-the-last-name thing. Some people mashed up their names by - for example - translating parts of it to English (name contains 'rot', translate to 'red'). And quite a number of people just used insane (if you're German, and not the clever/good insane) puns/references/crap as name.

The real name policy is already a failure. Not trying to enforce it, or - more correctly - not being allowed to enforce it, is a step forward.
Wow. Thanks for that. I didn't even know about the Bitcoin/Gmail breach that came up for my email, and I didn't remember even having an Adobe account.

That might explain a breach I had a while back.
> And in Europe, we don't have valid software patents.

That is categorically untrue, and you should stop telling people that. In Europe, software is not patent-eligible "as such", but it is if it solves a technical problem.

The only thing that eliminates is "business method" patents, which are just a subset of what people generally refer to as "software patents".
Great resource, though I've noticed 2 issues:

* New entries start with a vote of 0, the poster has to actually up-vote their own submission to get it to 1 (as opposed to automatically making it 1 like on reddit).

* The ranking appears to be a sum of up votes, only. Links that are added later (like now), show up at the very bottom and it's unlikely will reach the top. In a situation like this, to get attention, you're creating a race to post first. Consider some type of rank deterioration similar to reddit/HN.
> Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of.

No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-out, and last year they finally fixed it [1].

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...
NYC Subway System Controlled by These Vintage Steampunk “Interlocking” Machines
Randomizing in Swift
Why wouldn't a government have jurisdiction here? A government exists to protect, enforce, and guarantee the rights of the individual. If, in one country, the people have decided that those rights include the right to privacy, then of course the government can require that any businesses operating there will respect those rights.

It's their country, not Facebook's.
Why are you keeping the lids partially open and drawing excessive power for the displays + backlight, instead of just using InsomniaX [1] ?

[1] - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22211/insomniax
You should have read to the end. Clearly a joke.
That seems highly unlikely. I guess it's possible but it doesn't strike me as a good way of getting high-quality data, and in fact it would be easily gamed, and would have larege numbers of false positives.

In general, I think most of the 'Facebook/Google have secretly stolen my personal data with intrusive sureveillance' anecdotes really are the result of someone clicking 'yes', 'yes', 'of course' without thinking when they first signed up, and giving access to their email addresss book or similar, then forgetting about it. They then get more privacy concious later, and suddenly wonder how all the information got there. And since they're privacy concious now they couldn't possibly have uploaded it, so it must be Facebook hacking them.

I've yet to see an actual documented and acknowledged example of a company like Facebook or Google doing the sort of intrusive data mining and surveillance that people accuse them of without the user's permission being given. It always turns out to have been provided at some point previously in the relationship.
I've always loved that ship, and sailing ships in general. Son of a Coast Guard officer here.
I know that declaring a definition to be wrong is quite a stretch, but I think a more agreeable definition of what is a law depends of the corresponding jurisdiction. In Germany, certain rules made in a process by the Bundestag are, by definition of the constitution, a Gesetz, and ’Gesetz’ is the german word for ’law’. So, these laws wouldn’t necessarily be laws following your definition, which makes your definition unacceptable, I’d say.

What you are calling ’law’ I would maybe call ’enforced law’ or ’enforcable law’(by whom?). Well, whether the rules in question are of this kind is what will be found out in court.
The Fastest Growing Mobile Markets Barely Use Apps
> You replied to someone that stated quite clearly that a lot of German users already do what you consider a mistake.

And it's very annoying for everybody else. It defeats the entire purpose of Facebook when I can't find my friends.
Well, at least you paid for those product which should give you better consumer protection than when you didn't (for Google/Facebook products for instance). But IANAL.
You'd be targeting a niche market, not only because of the 3% market mentioned in the article, but because I imagine that all "serious" classical fans (i.e. serious enough to switch to consider using a dedicated streaming service) is also likely to have a big album collection. In other words, you'd likely be targeting a very fast-saturated market.

And that's besides the legal/licensing horrors.

That being said, I think there might be some promise in an add-on for spotify (web-api / browser extension) or iTunes. Just extend the interface with some more metadata. Surely there are some good databases that can be relied on.
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Russia do this too.

I imagine they're smart enough to use VPNs or something.
The disingenuous ways Uber hides behind its algorithm
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Heh, nice. Thanks!
How often does a google car go past a location? I always assumed it was less than once a year based on how often they update street view where I live.

Plus, you have no idea what time of day the car will be passing through a location.

So you can't compare the data points over time - they're not taken the same time of day. And I'm not sure if you can even compare different regions - your data may tell you that one part of the city has cleaner air than another, but it's only because one part of the city was measured in the morning and another part of the city in the afternoon.
As will Cisco, or Dell, or HP.
>I understand having the laptops open to stop them going to sleep without an external display, but I'd've thought you could turn the backlight all the way to "off".

You can even disable sleep with closed lid[1], but addmiteddly that might intefere with ventilation, since there are vents in front of the hinge.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
The smart watch can -- if designed like Pebble -- provide ambient awareness of "notifications" without interruption. The smartphone cannot.

Unfortunately, Apple Watch and Android Wear don't do this nearly as well; they are closer to the smartphone interrupt interaction model.

Pebble prevents response from the interruption which is a feature. Apple Watch minimizes response effort, but is still disruptive. Smartphone risks maintaining the interruption longer as the UI affords off task rabbit holes.
Personally I like open offices and working with people. I think the problem is not with the idea but with the implementation. Great open offices have some place where you can go and where nobody will bother you. So you can have the alone time you need!

Unfortunately most open office have no such space. Not even the toilets (multiple cramped stalls? hell no!).

Everywhere you go and at all times there are going to be people. I think that is the problem.
I came to realize that a lot of things in life are easy when you practice beforehand. It's a good idea to identify things you don't expect how to handle and then go and learn to handle them. It's especially important to learn how to use the tools you may need in emergency so that they won't surprise you when you need to use them quickly. Otherwise having those tools only gives you false sense of confidence, which may be dangerous.

So for instance, I bought a fire extinguisher and used it up in some deserted bushes. It was a small expense, but now I'm fully aware how this particular type of extinguishers behave. Or when a friend wanted to buy mace (she was coming home late at night), we bought two and used up one for doing target practice, so that she's aware how the fluid stream behaves and how to aim it.

The biggest problem with this approach that I find is that there are so many things you could prepare yourself. Even if it usually would just take a few minutes and little to no expense, you can't train for things you don't realize exist as concepts or situations. For instance, thanks to this subthread it is the first time it occured to me that a situation like obstructed surface when diving in a pool can occur. I'm adding it to my mental list of things to prepare for when I get the opportunity.
1. This patent is on a variation that, as I mentioned in my comment, is very unlikely to ever be infringed when "people solve their own problems". Really, if you can think of a problem that that linked-list problem solves, I'd be very interested in knowing.

2. There is no tax on abstract thought. There is only a dispute if you make, use or sell infringing products. You are free to think whatever abstract thoughts you want. Given the vast majority of patents are a) highly specific and b) unlikely to be infringed anyway, it's unlikely any of your "abstract" thoughts turn into infringing products. Do you know of anything you've developed that has ever been the precise thing that infringed a specific patent?
Europe will pass it, blame America and the cycle will continue.
Only just realised from this that MacBook Pro's no longer have an Ethernet port! When did that happen?

You need to buy an expensive thunderbolt adapter. I can understand removing it from the ultra portable super-thin models but not from the top end professional model.
Because 3d printing is cool and trendy.
Running WildFly on Kubernetes. On Windows. Fabric8
Sorry for off topic...

Is there a way to allow myself to select text on this website? I find it hard to read on screens without and it's bugging the hell out of me.
I don't think Facebook are as clever as you imagine, and they certainly would never do something as crazy as trying to deduce your age based on median friends ages. But, if you do give Facebook information about yourself, then it's no longer private to only youurself - it's known to both of you. You will have agreed to some T&Cs about sharing it based on certain account settings when you signed up, so as I mentioned above, if you can prove information leakage when you've set certain privacy settings explicitly then this is absolutely a bug in Facebook's system, and you should definitely report it...
I do work on my own projects that are fun and interesting. But nothing beats a regular, permanent high-earning job, no matter how boring it is. I personally know a couple of developers who are stressed financially after working for "fun" companies.
Wearable technology: will legal issues spoil the party?
Tictail, Europe's answer to Etsy and Shopify, secures $22M
A few corrections:

-refresh period is more like 32-64ms

-refreshing is way (way) cheaper than streaming data out since you refresh an entire word line, and you do not pay io cost, which is a significant fraction of the cost of accessing dram.
> Smuggling goods is highly punishable, and letting people pass through the North Korean border, rather than shooting them, could get the border guards killed instantly.

This made me think the border guards have Running Man-esque bomb collars around their necks. I'm sure there's consequences, but compared to shooting smugglers I don't think their punishment would be that instant.
Let's start with the question, how links starting from http://127.0.0.1/ are displayed in Google search results at all?
What will Google robot get if it tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 ? Mot probably, it will get a "connection refused" error. Even if it somehow happens to connect (but why should Google run a web server on a machine where the robot is running?), it surely won't find any movie there.
So how does it happen that Google "finds" something at address 127.0.0.1 ?
I think Learning Disabilities

Not sure how that relates to an image of Hilter
TOSDR isn't just a good service, it has some momentum and an excellent dataset already. If the right people were to start contributing it could gather quite a lot of steam.
My first guess is heat.
Ask HN: Fiber connection and spare mbp with ssd
Hello fellow hackers,

@home I have fiber connection internet (in/out ~90 Mbps) and spare mac book pro laptop with 8 Gb RAM & SDD.

Give me ideas of what cool I can do with that ?
It can go too far the other way :)

"What's your revision control?"
"Git." fine "And Mercurial." Okay "And SVN. And CVS. Some are hosted locally, some are accounts on Bitbucket and GitHub".

"Build system?"
"Cmake. And Scons. Depending on which version of the software you're building. And Make. And some bash scripts."
Adding some technical levity to the AI panic
There's a bunch of reasons but for the most part I'd say it's currently too expensive to do (time and money).

People think they want unhackable software, but then they realise it will cost 1000 times more and take 100 times longer (and even then not guaranteed) so they forget about it.
This is pretty neat, but I wonder how much more dense this configuration could be made if one took away the display, keyboard, battery, and chassis of the laptops and just had the motherboard, which (presumably) is fully integrated with a DIMM connector.
Stop exposing your .git to the world
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I'm confused by this statement in the article you linked, and I've heard it before:

> the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is the most important free-trade agreement in years

How does "29 chapters of dense rules and hundreds of tariff lines " == "free trade"? Free trade is meant to be open, without restriction, and free. Some of the conditions being reported are anything but.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959238
They did shut down a project /and all of its fork/ just for that word.

https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa...
Any one of 100s (1000s?) of people can give them your real name by storing it in their address book alongside your Facebook profile.
A $30 adapter for a $2000+ machine isn't what I would call expensive. It does make the machines a lot thinner though and normally, you don't need wired Ethernet any more.

I easily reach 60+ MB/s now over WiFi, so for the times where I really need the additional power I don't care about having the additional dongle with me.
There was similar post with ARM Chromebooks. A few years ago it was impossible to find stable ARMs which could sustain decent load without crashing. Company had to buy bunch of Chromebooks, strip batteries and put them into rack.
It's W/GBps, or if you prefer simplifying J/GB. I like the former better, power and bandwidth are handier in real life computer science.
If you can then travel by public transport then you can draw and write. Otherwise yes, voice recorder.
Yeah, I was disappointed by that, too. It's not about the cost, I don't care about the extra $40 or so, but now there is one more "dongle/cable" I need to worry about.
You don't find it offensive. I and millions of other people do. You deal with it.
The web browser itself is a native app. so why do you think it's ok not to trust native apps (not to discredit your reasonable concern) but it's alright to go ahead with web browsers?
"They are actually being held open 7mm by a custom 3D printed wedge. This opening allows for the screen to be used for testing as well as ample air circulation. You can’t see the temperature sensors tucked into each notebook’s keyboard area."

Air circulation makes sense. There is a vent in between the screen pivot and the base, and also the gaps in the keys allow for some heat to escape.

Agreed that the screens should be turned off, though. Could just turn the brightness down to 0.
> normal to the rip tide

as an engineer, I assumed this ('normal') meant across/perpendicular/90 degrees to the rip tide, not against it ...

I believe 90 degrees to a rip tide is the correct thing to do ...
Yes, but this still does not mean the web form is to blame, nor will a screenshot tell you the root cause of the problem, 99.9% of the time the numbers are fed directly to the payment processor, so it's not like there's anything to mess up.

This is why I suggested calling the card company, because they have the ability to see what went wrong and they will be able to tell you.
Here's the thing: That's your loss.

If _your_ friends don't pick their real name, take it up with your friends? What kind of attitude is that, really?

"I cannot find my friends if everyone can pick their name on this platform, hence this is very annoying". What?

We're talking friends here. Ask them: "Hey, are you on Facebook?" (reasonable question in my social circles, implying a yes is baaad) and follow up with "What's your name/can you add me as a friend?". Solved. They're your friends, after all.
The purpose of the policy is to protect end-users - they should not download/install something thinking it is "Ubuntu", and it turns out that it isn't Ubuntu.

Ubuntu encourages derivation, but there has to be balance in protecting users and the reputation of the Ubuntu project. One of the objectives for Ubuntu has always been to enable people to build on it - that's why it's always encouraged and supported derivatives. But, but there are effects are what causes this part of the policy:

* Someone providing a version of "Ubuntu" for specific hardware, but which broke various bits of user-experience
* Someone customising Ubuntu for a specific server load but replacing PHP with their own version that wasn't in the package system - consequently no more security updates to this component.

This area of the policy solely covers publicly distributing:

* If you're distributing Ubuntu without any alterations then there aren't any issues: for example people create CD's in countries with low-bandwidth.
* If you're using Ubuntu for internal use then you can do whatever you want: including changing configuration, altering components etc etc etc.

If you make alterations to the OS and present to the external world (distribute it publicly) as 'Ubuntu' then you need a bit of care. It's hard to write all the permutations, but in practise it's pretty easy. Just watch for things that fundamentally alter the OS as provided: changes to kernels, system packages, default installs or system configurations. In my experience adding things is unlikely to be problematic. If you're doing things like installing applications from the archives, or generally configuring things then there's unlikely to be an issue.

Dustin wrote a good post: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/07/appellation-of-origin...

You should read the policy directly and ask Canonical if you're still unsure.
Is the fact that the talks are in a "Luxury Hotel" pertinent?
The article doesn't explain how.

Would the EFF be happier if the the "Secret TPP Talks Continue at a Reasonably Priced Motel as the Deal Grows More Controversial"

Clearly the EFF doesn't like the process; but this phrasing is a cheap shot that distracts from the very important message.

It's also one they've used a few times.
https://www.eff.org/search/site/luxury%20hotel%20
Network effects mean that there are few pragmatic options left. The GP may well be free to use alternatives but at what cost? Should they be selecting future employers based on the employer's choice of software?

I may well be free to go live in a (digital) cave but presenting it as a viable choice merely exacerbates the existing problem.
Not completely true. Don't forget you need an account, for instance, to buy, install and use MS Office 360. I bet if it wasn't for the Office, many people would move away from Windows easily.

And don't forget windows comes with Defender installed, which collects user metrics out-of-the-box.
IE/Sparta also collects your usage data. Even windows "search" does.
I also just wrote a blog post about understanding Flux because I felt that the docs were insufficient:

http://www.drewdevault.com/2015/07/20/A-practical-understand...
My first thought was: why are you helping people build the one of the worst UI components out there?

Not sure where it should fit in the current UI? Oh just throw it in a modal, restricting the user's ability to interact with anything else on the page, requiring an extra click to close the modal.

I'm sure there are good times to use them, but typically I find they are restrictive.
i think alot of the suggesting issues is with the collaborative filtering model often used in suggesting songs in a streaming music service.
The collaborative filtering model is not well suited for communities with extremely high variance within a specific genre. In other words, in the context of the model, classical, and classical sub genres are not differentiated enough, in terms of individual interest, to form a new independent cluster. The example being, I like romantic era classical, but i don't thumbs down at the first note of a classical/period classical piece. It's that openness that retrospectively is killing the model.
A human curated classical playlists like on 8track, I suspect produces a better experience (of course depending on who put the list together). Crowd sourcing beats collaborative filtering here it seems.
> because those words contribute to a culture that cause actual harm.

No it doesn't. Where's your proof?

Plenty of people have said plenty of nasty things throughout the years, and no one died.

Yet our empire uses remote control drones to bomb small children, and that's totally OK. (Now there's a real "culture that causes actual harm")

What is really harmful, and what isn't? Take a good, hard look around.

Sticks and stones (and bombs) will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Try it. Go on. Call me whatever you want. And watch me not give two fucks what you think.
Your description sounds very similar to the situation I lived when the (very small) company I worked for was sold to a group of investors who knew nothing about the industry.

Suffice to say that the experience over the next few years was so surreal that most people I told it to have difficulty believing anyone could so accurately and repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot without learning anything from the pain.

So what main mechanism was involved? At the time I was young and cocky so I would have said "basic stupidity." With greater experience, I can see it was more nuanced than that, so let's call it management hubris.