Ask HN: List of open/public databases - <AUTHOR> A year or two ago somebody posted a list of open/free/accessible datasources for hackers to download and play around with. I thought this was a great resource, so I saved it, but heck if I can find it now.
Does anybody have such a list? Things like zip-codes for the US, locations of Starbucks stores, current weather forecasts, list of major newspapers, list of publicly-traded stocks, etc. I know there are tons of open/free databases waiting for us to mashup, just can't seem to find a list of them.
EDIT: The goal is a downloadable chunk of data to mashup, reformat, and use. That means CSV/XML/etc format and a public/anonymous FTP or something. <comment><USER2> You might find the datasets/opendata sub-reddits interesting.

<http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets> <http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata>

<comment><USER3> Delicious is a good place for the same. Eg.

<http://delicious.com/sidmitra/datasets>

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Freebase is a big one: <http://www.freebase.com/> .

Also, if you're in the UK the government datasets might interest you: <http://data.gov.uk/>

</comment><comment><USER5> <http://themoviedb.org>, <http://thetvdb.com/> and my own API on top of these: <http://igorpartola.com/projects/disciddb>

</comment><comment> brown9-2 [http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/01/30-resources-to-find- the-d...](http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/01/30-resources-to-find-the-data-you- need/)

US Govt data on the stimulus: <http://www.recovery.gov/FAQ/Pages/DownloadCenter.aspx>

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> As I continue to research this today, I grow more and more amazed at the lack of public data sets. There are what? A million different websites that keep some kind of list of something? And I'm finding only a dozen or two databases publicly accessible? It's crazy. Everybody either wants to charge or actively wants to prevent you from getting their data -- even when the data is common knowledge, was gathered at public expense, etc.

Anybody from Google on? There has to be some shortcuts here somewhere.

<comment><USER6> Amazon Public Data Sets: <http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/>

It is fast and easy to use if you are already using EC2.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> How about weather - I have been looking around for an API to access historical weather data with no luck so far. Anyone familiar with the landscape of weather data options?

<comment><USER8> <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/mpp/freedata.html>

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> You may try taking a look at Microsoft Codename "Dallas" <https://www.sqlazureservices.com/Catalog.aspx>

</comment><comment><USER10> [http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on- the-...](http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web)

<http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html>

<http://data.worldbank.org/developers>

</comment><comment><USER8> I have links to a few open (gov) data sets at the top of <http://elev.at>

</comment><comment><USER11> We are running SRTM and NED elevation datasets, and have a web service (sinatra FTW!) exposing the data. I setup a variety of interpolation algorithms, which are fun to play with. If someone needs access to it and has a cool project, we are happy to provide it. Get ahold of me via email for info.

The SRTM data is < 20 gigs compressed, and I downloaded it from some source, can't find the link now. It was a SLOWWWWWW download, so took many days. Reminded me of my old 2400 baud modem.

the NED dataset is just shy of 500 gigs. We shipped a drive off to the USGS and they populated it and shipped it back. The 2 month wait sucked, but it was the only way to get it without paying a thousand bucks from a private company.

I am happy to share either the SRTM or the NED dataset we have, but sharing it is pretty much limited to shipping hard drives around :(

</comment><comment><USER12> <http://infochimps.org/> <http://www.data.gov/> <http://data.gov.uk/>

</comment><comment><USER13> The openstreetmap project lets you download its whole dataset: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet>

They also got a API ... see the wiki.

</comment><comment><USER14> www.factual.com has a lot of data, much of which is freely downloadable. There's also an API for data access.

Examples:

zip codes in the US: <http://www.factual.com/t/MwwkkU/US_Zip_Codes>

stock symbols: <http://www.factual.com/t/jyqdWC/market_symbols>

I work at Factual, so if you have feature requests/comments/complaints please let me know! I'm leo at factual dot com

</comment><comment><USER15> You can get all of Wikipedia here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database>

</comment><comment><USER16> <http://dataincubator.org/>

Datasets about some Canadian cities:

<http://www.toronto.ca/open/datasets/web-map-services/>

<http://data.edmonton.ca/>

<http://data.vancouver.ca/>

</comment><comment><USER17> Lottery in Brazil (MegaSena) allow download of all results ever: [http://www1.caixa.gov.br/loterias/loterias/megasena/download...](http://www1.caixa.gov.br/loterias/loterias/megasena/download.asp)

</comment><comment><USER18> Stackoverflow(includes sister sites) dump: [http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/creative-commons- data-...](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/creative-commons-data-dump- jul-10/)

</comment><comment><USER19> MusicBrainz has postgresql dumps available (partly public domain, partly cc- by-nc-sa):

<http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database>

</comment><comment><USER20> <http://data.sunlightlabs.com> <http://services.sunlightlabs.com>

</comment><comment><USER6> Open Directory RDF Dump (e.g. Google Directory using it) <http://rdf.dmoz.org/>

</comment><comment><USER21> Try <http://www.programmableweb.com/>

</comment><comment><USER22> <http://data.worldbank.org/>

</comment><comment><USER23> A list of several data sources and tools to work with the data: <http://www.kinlane.com/data/></comment>


Show HN: Koggle--a Boggle-like game with Japanese characters - <AUTHOR> http://koggle.net/

<comment><USER2> No undo button. Your app should register each selected kanji locally, instead of doing a round trip for each input. Other than that it's nice! Edit: perhaps also you should have the timer counting on the page, instead of just syncing with the server at each round trip.</comment>


New U.S. rules may impact Second Life, other "games of skill" web sites - <AUTHOR> http://www.netfreedomforever.com/vote.php

<comment><USER3> Wow. Doesn't this effectively cover the stock market?

<comment><USER4> They have an exemption written in, as do insurance companies and fantasy sports. Pity the other industries that didn't have the vigilance to detect this bill in progress and the foresight to hire a lobbyist.

<comment><USER5> So just recast participation in the game of skill as the purchase of an insurance policy. (Granted, this is probably easier for, say, Intrade than for something like SL.)

But they probably thought of that and were somewhat specific about the allowable types of insurance.

edit: I went and read the relevant text of the act. Especially in light of recent events, I find it amusing that Congress couldn't come up with a definition of "gambling" that inherently excluded derivatives trading - <USER2> had to do that explicitly as well.

<comment><USER6> I thought one major difference is that in "gambling" your bet is final, whereas derivatives may be unloaded at will (assuming you can find a buyer or don't need one).

<comment><USER7> I can introduce this feature in gaming - and it will still be gaming essentially.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: FreelyWheely (A better Freecycle). - <AUTHOR> http://www.freelywheely.com So here is is: http://www.freelywheely.com
In short: FreelyWheely is a place where you can offer your unwanted belongings, for free, to someone who can make use of them.
The longer version: Although there are similar things, Freecycle particularly in the UK, you only have to visit a tip to see that for the vast majority of people it doesn't work.  Masses of useful (even sellable) items being thrown away, lots of unsorted items being sent to landfill.  It needs to be easier to find a new home for something you don't have a use for any more.  Freecycle has many issues - worst of all the fragmentation and need to find your "local group", but also you can't tell if something is still available, no photos, terrible password policy, no categories... I could go on.
What next: Tech wise, a mobile app, searching.  But more significantly a marketing effort to get more things listed. <comment><AUTHOR> So here is is: <http://www.freelywheely.com>

In short: FreelyWheely is a place where you can offer your unwanted belongings, for free, to someone who can make use of them.

The longer version: Although there are similar things, Freecycle particularly in the UK, you only have to visit a tip to see that for the vast majority of people it doesn't work. Masses of useful (even sellable) items being thrown away, lots of unsorted items being sent to landfill. It needs to be easier to find a new home for something you don't have a use for any more. Freecycle has many issues - worst of all the fragmentation and need to find your "local group", but also you can't tell if something is still available, no photos, terrible password policy, no categories... I could go on.

What next: Tech wise, a mobile app, searching. But more significantly a marketing effort to get a critical mass of users

</comment><comment><USER2> Your terms are putting me off a bit:

"3. Privacy and Information Disclosure

FreelyWheely has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used. You further acknowledge and agree that FreelyWheely may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information."

The bit about enabling you to sell my information like email addresses, IP, timestamp, etc. for your own profit doesn't look friendly. When I give you my details you need a big "we won't give people your personal information" notice. Also, as you're keeping a DB of personal data [for purposes not directly related to the business it appears] are you registered with the relevant gov departments.

Looks good, are you integrating with Facebook? That's the only way I think you'll get the traction you need to make this good.

Also I think being registered as, or committed to register as, a charity would help to win people over.

One idea, have some posters for supporters to print and display (eg at their school, tip, workplace, etc.) - if you wanted it could even have a list of recently available items (with dates and locations).

Tiny bug: "Request item (only 3d 4h days left)"

Great to see someone tackling encouragement of reuse.

</comment><comment><USER3> I've registered, but at the moment have nothing to offer, and there's nothing within 100 miles of where I am.

Traction will be difficult. FreeCycle in the UK has traction and so does work to some extent - I've frequently both given and received.

To gain traction you might need to piggy-back some other location-based idea or service, some reason to have people remember and come back.

Just a thought.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yeah absolutely. I'm hoping that getting stories in the local paper, combined with flyers and that sort of thing will get it working in a small area, and then it will spread. Is all about the critical mass of users though.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I would:

* Show the item location and item owner on the item page.

* Let me filter by location

and if I owned Freeycle, I would:

* Get it off Yahoo! groups and provide a decent web interface

<comment><AUTHOR> Show location > will do

Filter > when you sign up it uses your location to filter items, but maybe that isn't what you meant. Perhaps pre-sign up you can enter a location to filter items?

<comment><USER4> I don't think it makes sense to require an account to filter location.

Also, look on this page: <http://www.freelywheely.com/listing/item/bath-toy- bucket> Where is the item from?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I haven't gone through the application very thoroughly, but it's good to see something spreading outside of the Yahoo Groups set up.

Thanks for the effort.</comment>


Peter Thiel Can Avoid Gawker Probe, Promises Not to Buy Assets - <AUTHOR> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/peter-thiel-can-avoid-gawker-probe-promises-not-to-buy-assets <comment><USER2> Peter Thiel sucks. He bullies the free press, subsidizes disinformation campaigns, and presided over Facebook giving a boost to the very campaign he was a part of. Fuck that shit

<comment><USER3> Have people already forgotten what a hopeless shit-hole Gawker was? The courts seem to have agreed.</comment></comment>


The Best Way To Improve Your Creativity - <AUTHOR> http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/08/the_best_way_to_improve_your_c.html

<comment><USER2> The categories of animals reminds me of the small world/seven degrees of separation thesis, that you'll know a lot of people who are in a tightly connected group, but you'll also know a handful of people who are distantly connected. These distant connections allow you to (theoretically) reach anyone in the world in seven steps. The people are the animals, the tightly connected groups are the categories of animals, and the distantly connected people are associations to another category.

He missed the entire class of categories that are based on the name of the animal (e.g. starting with the same letter). I think his multiple-personality technique is a neat treat for bringing different kinds of associations to the fore. That's assuming that you have the (now-meta) connection to the appropriate person in the first place. For example, he didn't think of imagining he's a lexicographer.

BTW: I wish he'd leave some white-space to separate hints that he doesn't want you to read.

</comment><comment><USER3> > _Students were asked a series of brain teaser questions. One group of > students was told that the questions were invented at their university; the > other group was told they were invented in a far away university. Thinking > that the test came from far away somehow raised the creativity of the > subjects. They answered more questions correctly._

Sheer tripe. Out of two groups, one is going to do better. If the first group had just happened to do better, we'd be reading an article about how thinking something is "close" makes it more "concrete" and raises your creativity, because it's easier to think of things that are tangible -- or whatever other Just-So story they'd invent. The second group didn't have its creativity "raised"; it just happened to be the group that won the coin flip.

<comment><USER4> Are you saying the difference between the performance of the two groups wasn't statistically significant, or that their methodology is flawed, or that their results were not reproduced in other studies?

It's possible that their theory is bullshit, but it seems like you're discounting the data it is based on without cause.

<comment><USER5> He is saying that in one single test of two groups, one of the teams has to win. Deciding that they won because of 'x' after the fact is not science.

<comment><USER6> They decided to see if X would help one team win before they collected results.

<comment><USER5> Oh okay I missed that. I still question the statistical significance of a single experiment. Still interesting though.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> The best way to improve your creativity? Read books by Edward De Bono. He's the daddy of this area. He invented the term lateral thinking.

</comment><comment><USER8> Even after reading the whole thing I still couldn't figure out how Jack used the rope to escape from the tower.

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<comment><USER2> In your interview at a rope pyrochronography factory, they ask you how to time 45 minutes given two ropes that each take an hour to burn.

(The ropes burn uneveningly and unequally. That is, half a rope won't necessarily burn in half an hour, and it won't necessarily be same amount of time as half of the other would take to burn - all you know is that the total time for one rope to burn is one hour.)

<comment><USER10> Okay - I'm stumped. Care to share the answer? (maybe in a day or so -- to allow others to attempt to puzzle it out?)

<comment><USER11> (Encoded with rot13.)

Yvtug ebcr 1 ng bar raq, naq ebcr 2 ng obgu raqf. Nsgre guvegl zvahgrf, ebcr 1 jvyy ohea bhg. Gura, yvtug gur bgure raq bs ebcr 2. Ebcr 2 oheaf bhg svsgrra zvahgrf yngre.

<comment><USER5> Well I think you mean: (rot13) Yvtug ebcr 1 ng bar raq, naq ebcr 2 ng obgu raqf. Nsgre guvegl zvahgrf, ebcr 2 jvyy ohea bhg. Gura, yvtug gur bgure raq bs ebcr 1. Ebcr 1 oheaf bhg svsgrra zvahgrf yngre.

But even then: (rot13) Guvf nffhzrf gung Ebcr 1 ohearq svsgl creprag va gur gvzr vg gbbx ebcr 2 gb ohea. Vs ebcr 1 bayl ohearq bar dhnegre, gura vg jvyy gnxr gjragl-gjb naq n unys zvahgrf, abg svsgrra, nsgre yvtugvat gur bgure fvqr.

<comment><USER12> (Rot 13)

Anu, vg qbrfa'g nffhzr gung. Vs ebcr 1 gnxrf 1 ubhe gb ohea, naq lbh ohea vg sbe unys na ubhe, gura vg unf unys na ubhe yrsg bs ohea gvzr. Vg qbrfa'g znggre vs gur svefg unys ubhe gbbx hc 10%, 50% be 90% bs gur ebcr yratgu, vg jvyy fgvyy svavfu oheavat va nabgure unys ubhe.

<comment><USER5> Oh yeah :-)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> This is really good stuff. Interesting topic. Good writing. I like it.

</comment><comment><USER14> take notes, on everything, review often.

<comment><USER12> Some people would argue that this reduces creativity... by drilling things into your mind you might lose the ability to think of new things.

I'm not sure which answer is correct, but just a thought.</comment></comment>


Delta Financial Offers Interest-Bearing Bitcoin Accounts - <AUTHOR> http://www.coindesk.com/delta-financial-offers-interest-bearing-bitcoin-accounts/

<comment><USER2> I was actually wondering the other day if this sort of thing was bound to show up sometime soon, although I'm not qualified to think through the logistical implications. I had been reflecting on my savings account claiming to be "compounded daily!" despite only showing me the result of that compounding on a monthly basis, and wondering whether it was a technical, legal, or some other reason that they couldn't show me a daily update. That got me thinking about the almost "instant" nature of Bitcoin and wondering if someone would come up with interest on Bitcoin and give you daily, or for that matter, instantaneous, updates on your interest amount. I can see no mathematical reason why it should not be possible in either currency, although I suppose it might simply be more "fun" than useful or necessary in either case.

</comment><comment><USER3> _" The firm will cover deposited funds with its own reserves"_

It will be interesting to see if the Bitcoin community embraces fractionally reserved savings schemes. With the eventual hard limit on the underlying asset, it is difficult to imagine this going on anywhere near as long as our own fiat experiments, but monetary systems never cease surprising me.

</comment><comment><USER4> The site offers a 5% minimum interest rate. With such a (relatively) high return, the risks are also high, as your money is used to leverage trading on Bitcoin itself.

Taking such a risk with a currency that can move 5% in hours seems foolish or exactly the right strategy, I'm not sure which.</comment>


Apple sues Corellium, which lets users run iOS firmware in a web browser - <AUTHOR> https://www.cultofmac.com/645746/apple-sues-company-which-lets-users-run-ios-in-a-browser/ <comment><USER2> Anyone here use Corellium? From marketing descriptions it just sounds like they made a hypervisor that can run iOS, which doesn't sound illegitimate to my. I'm assuming that Apple would have to go at it in a distribution-of-iOS- firmware direction to have this case hold any water.

This is just my opinion/conjecture, but I would assume that Apple just doesn't like the idea of the core product. I personally don't understand why a company that bases itself on morals would find issue with a tool like this. With introduction of things like the T2 chips in their computer product line, I would assume they have a real problem with people running their software on anything that's not an Apple branded device.

</comment><comment><USER3> Are they actually running iOS firmware in a web browser, or is this more like an advanced version of BrowserStack, where the firmware is running on a server or a physical device?

<comment><USER4> There was a previous discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565)

But to answer your question, It is actually running stock Apple iOS firmware on a ARM hypervisor which Corellium has created and they are relaying the screen output onto the web from the hypervisor.

You can think of Corellium as like a enterprise-grade Docker, but for iOS and Android apps.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Discussed yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565)</comment>


PyCon 2011 - Startup Row Finalists Announced - <AUTHOR> http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2011/03/07/pycon-2011-live-startup-row/

<comment><USER2> Stormpulse here - from HN to PyCon in 1,356 days! (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516>)

</comment><comment><USER3> Want to meet me? I'll be the guy at the Glancely booth all day Saturday. (<http://www.glancley.com>)</comment>


Show HN: Program that reads for you: free online Summarizer - <AUTHOR> http://esapi.intellexer.com/Summarizer <comment><USER2> I ran a named entity extractor on the following URL

[http://computationalimagination.com/article_empirical_questi...](http://computationalimagination.com/article_empirical_question.php)

The opening of this article has several entities that are easy for a human to parse out and the Summarizer did OK but still well behind a human.

"That's an empirical question! I was walking down Church Street toward Coffman Union on the U of Minnesota campus, shooting the breeze and arguing with a fellow grad student when I first heard those words from Bill. Bill [William D. Wells] had recently been lured out of semi-retirement from the advertising agency DDB Needham and back into academia."

Intellexer missed the common U as a sign for University particularly when followed by "of" and either another capital letter such as "U of M" or as in the case above "U of Minnesota" the name of a place.

It did capture Coffman Union, Minnesota and Church Street as locations. Which is technically correct but because it didn't recognized U of Minnesota campus as a broader location it cannot place Coffman Union and Church Street as sub locations within a larger entity.

The "Clusterizer" identified some reasonable clusters, really more like a list of important key words.

The "Summarizer" which seems to just try to find the best summary sentences from within the text and present them was a very mixed bag. Of the 10 sentences it picked 6 were good and 4 were clear misses in terms of picking out good summary sentences.

Overall not bad. But also not surprisingly good. For comparison - I used this same article as a test of the IBM Watson NLP API for entity extraction a few months ago and Intellexer did a little bit better.</comment>


Being a Female Developer - <AUTHOR> http://www.andela.com/blog/being-a-female-developer/ <comment><USER2> Honestly having been a "female developer" for 10+ years my main thought on the subject of being that is it's just a job. And it's a job that's really not for everyone. I've tried to sell a lot of people I've worked with in other fields on it, both men and women, and there are a lot of things that keep people away from it. And most of them are not related to gender.

I also have learned to have a healthy suspicion of companies that seem too obsessed with the "women in tech" thing. I usually find they seem to just be doing it because out of causes you could pick in tech, it has little downside for the company and even serves as a recruiting tool.

<comment> atom-morgan I've started to think this as well. I believe people, when confronted with dicks at work, are going to attribute it to something that differentiates them from the majority. Someone made a comment that insults your intelligence? Well they must have said it because you're a woman, black, gay, etc. In reality, I think a lot of us go through similar experiences and attribute its occurrence to different characteristics.

<comment><USER3> Your point - that some people are dicks and they are dicks to everybody is obviously true.

But you seem to miss the point that some people are dicks, but are mostly dicks to women, or black people, or disabled people. They may not realise they're being dicks, but other people will recognise elements of dickishness or outright dickery.

And also that fighting the dicks makes life better for everyone.

I find it weird that when women say (for example) "We are sexually assaulted so often a separate women only London Underground carriage would be welcome, until law enforcement and society can pressure offenders to stop offending" they are met with hostility and denial, rather than a willingness to try to understand the severity of the problem.

<comment> atom-morgan I'm not missing that point at all. But I would ask why is someone being a dick to someone because they don't like their personality or hobbies so significantly different than someone doing the same because of a handicap or skin color? People are going to hate other people for a variety of reasons yet we single out a few and get a little more outraged about it than the others.

Concerning your last point - I'd guess they're met with hostility and denial because they legitimately don't believe the issue is as widespread as many are led to believe.

<comment><USER3> Women asking for the carriages are met with hostility and denial. The people providing that hostility and denial might "legitimately believe" anything, but if they haven't bothered reading the crime survey or the crime stats their "legitimate belief" is less legitimate. It's more opinion.

As for why we single out people who hate others because of skin colour, but not because of say hobbies: A large number of people have been murdered (or beaten, or denied employment, or denied housing, or etc etc) because they are black. I don't think I can find more than a handful of philatelists who were murdered because they collect stamps.

I think the touchiness around discrimination based on skin colour is understandable and based on plenty of evidence.

<comment> atom-morgan There's plenty of people on both sides of the wage gap. Those crime surveys may be flawed in the same way campus sexual assaults had a very generous definition of sexual assault. I'm not sure in this case. I was just throwing out a possible reason for resisting crime statistics. Plenty of people disagree about how those are collected.

Yes of course, a lot of people aren't killed for collecting stamps. But I don't think many people today are killed specifically for being black or gay either. It does happen, yes. But I believe the overwhelming majority of people just carry on with life. We should all remember that whites vs. colored fountains were deemed lawful by the government.

I truly believe most people today just want to go to work, do their job, and get paid regardless of the gender or color of the people around them. And honestly, what more would you expect? We live in the country with the greatest amount of diversity you can't escape. Americans think Americans are the least tolerant and my travels to other countries and interactions with different people shows me the exact opposite.

Edit: I say this as someone who grew up in the South. I lived around racists but most of that stays in their head.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Unlike most of the other commenters, I'm not a huge fan of this article. From the article, it seems the author hasn't really experienced much, if any, gender discrimination at work. That's great; it really is refreshing to hear stories of women in tech who are judged purely on their merits, as they should be.

However, her two takeaways from her experience are, "your skills will speak louder than your gender," and, "to become a female developer, you only have to do what any other smart dev would do...[i.e. work hard]." I think the problem is precisely that many women have found these statements to be false. Many women that are smart devs have gone into the tech sector with good skills, but found that they are still judged unfairly by their gender. The fact that this women hasn't experienced that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist for others.

Also, the claim that if you work hard and have good skills, then your gender won't matter has the (probably unintended) implication that if you do find others discriminating against your based on your gender, then you must not have the skills or the work ethic.

I really don't know to what extent gender discrimination exists in the tech sector, but I think we should be careful to avoid over generalizing from individual experiences and we should be especially careful not to suggest that discrimination only happens to the developers whose skills aren't good enough to overcome other people's stereotypes.

<comment><USER2> Being female, and a developer, and having worked in several other fields, I think people overestimate the sexism in tech and underestimate it elsewhere. I'm ashamed to say I was one of the "who needs feminism?" women in my late teens and early twenties because I have had a good experience in tech. Then I took a journalism job...and actually experienced it for myself and saw so many other women experience it.

Sexism is everywhere, at least in tech there is a fair amount of awareness that it's at least an issue. In writing I found it was just taken for granted.

And in writing/journalism I found it way more depressing to see SO many women as a total percentage of the profession and then the gender breakdown of the people in charge. In tech there aren't that many of us, but almost all the ones I know are in good positions.

<comment><USER5> According to my girlfriend (who's in corporate real estate), the sexism is pretty rampant in her field also, and some of the stories I've heard from her surprise the hell out of me, because I've never heard of anything that bad in tech.

Especially since most of it is perpetuated by people in management in her field, not young guys that don't really know how to communicate with anyone properly, let alone women, as it tends to be in tech fields.

<comment><USER2> I think one of the reasons sexism in tech gets so much press is paradoxically because developers/project managers/etc. are in such high demand. You can quit and write a Medium post about how awful your job was and still be able to get work. You have a ton of power in this way.

In real estate, journalism, PR, etc. it's so tight knit and competitive that speaking out can destroy your career. I merely quit a journalism job because of an awful EIC and didn't say anything publicly against him, but he was eventually fired and blamed me (though a lot of people had complained to HR about him and it wasn't just about sexism). I really doubt I could even freelance for many local publications because of it because they are all run by his friends and it's not that hard to find another writer.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I love this piece! So refreshing to read after all the one's that are underhanded, SJW-style feminism. She says focus on mastering programming while working with likeminded people in good environments. Finds that this can get her places. Encourages events to bring other women in tech or help them navigate obstacles but wisely warns against detrimental effects of overdoing gender part.

Need more articles like this. Not just realistic but also motivational.

</comment><comment><USER7> Clicked through to her site, and the tagline is "True && False of two Female Developers"... True && False evaluates to False... so, lies by two female developers?

Not a criticism - I get what she meant, but it's amusing.

</comment><comment><USER8> > Spend weekends and late nights in front of your computer, laying down lines > of code, debugging and developing your personal projects.

This is the only thing I disagree with. Although this would be good for your career, it does not work for all types of people.

<comment><USER9> If you're just starting out, and not doing this, you won't get very far, at least not very fast... if just starting out is in school, or out... It takes at least 5 years to master any skill/craft... and even then given the churn in tech, specifically with development, you have to put more in to get to a good point.

I don't do as much on my own time as I used to... but I absolutely did for the first decade of my career.

<comment><USER10> If you are not doing personal projects or work on the side you will never be top 5-10% of devs. But the majority of devs are building reports and doing maintenance for some fortune 500 insurance co, they are doing fine.

<comment><USER11> If you're trying to impress with your skills, you should aim to be in the 1st group, rather than the 2nd.

<comment><USER12> While that's true, not everyone is looking for that in their career was the point of the post you replied to. Every person has different career goals.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> This is decent view, which is extremely rare when it comes to the topic at hand.

From my perspective I am a person that throughout the majority of my life has been considered turkish in germany because of my looks, until people get to know my actual heritage. Yet in the US I'm just considered a random white guy. In Germany turkish are not really considered a minority and the degratory terms are overlayed by more and more political correctness (Ausländer, Migrationshintergrund - someone who's parents immigrated sometime in the past, Musel - nowadays it's ok to hate muslims and beard means muslim anyway right).

For a long time in my naivity I did not know why I got that special treatment. Why I was the first to blame when something went wrong, and why people would think it's funny when I'd vote for the more complicated Goethe book in German class. Oh you speak very well German may I ask where you learned that?

There's plenty research on all the shit you have take when you're a foreigner in Europe. Fun fact, being Romanian or Italian can be just as bad depending on where you are in Germany.

When we talk diversity it's a whole different story. Being a white spanish dude in northern Europe can be diverse. Americans in their ignorance will see "just two white caucasian dudes at a conference".

I liked being in the US precisely because I'm considered just another white guy. Yet what absolutely utterly pisses me off about american culture is how disengenious it is.

Despite having had to spend days at the police station for forgetting my ID or getting assaulted by security guards and then getting sued in the most absurd kangoroo court i've ever been to.

Now to get back to the argument, for some reason in the US I have white middle class women, who's parents can just lash out 60k a year for an Ivy league school (an amount most Südländer as they call them will never make in their lifetime) and who haven't had a hint of discrimination in their lifetime tell me that I should keep my mouth shut and just take whatever they say and:

"what do you know, you're way too white anyway" \- that's the level at which the discussion is happening.

I wouldn't even care that much if these people weren't so hell bent in destroying the only safe haven people like me had. I'm not even sure why they're doing it.

The only reason I'm at the place in my life I am right now, is because whenever I got back home from all the shit I had to take in school and elsewhere I just went online hung out in IRC and did random stuff. Very few people actually knew me in person. When I'd talk too much shit and not do anything they'd shut me up. Oh you read the dragon book and wrote an LR parser? Now we're talking.

There were some lunatics in there, but you know what, it didn't matter. Because whenever I wanted to learn something from them. I was demanding that someone I don't know, devotes his time to me for free. I don't get to make demands in that position, if you think differently something is wrong with you. It's called entitlement.

Most discussions are not about women in tech, they're about culture or work etiquette. I'm not saying you can't be actively pissed about it, but they're two different things.

I once wore a Jacket at an Erlang conference in DC(I thought that's what they wear in the capitol). It was the most awkward moment in my life in a tech environment.

<comment><USER14> It's a bit similar here in Australia - you can have a team that is made from anglos, greeks, and russians, and it's "not diverse" because all the faces are white.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I am noticing a clear trend. Why are articles like this less likely to stay in the front page?

<comment><USER16> Because they usually don't have very good/strong arguments for the points they're making, so people find it easy to disagree with them. In addition, most are written as propaganda (not this one though).

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Being a Female in general...

</comment><comment><USER18> Can we have the link changed to be the Medium post[0] that this is copied from please? The site currently linked hijacks the scroll and has annoying popups trying to get you to subscribe.

[0] [https://medium.com/art-marketing/being-a-female- developer-6f...](https://medium.com/art-marketing/being-a-female- developer-6f0dd6692598)

<comment><USER19> What do you mean by hijacks the scroll?

<comment><USER20> The page seems to have the code described here: [http://blog.bassta.bg/2013/05/smooth-page-scrolling-with- twe...](http://blog.bassta.bg/2013/05/smooth-page-scrolling-with-tweenmax/) Basically it disables the browser's default scrolling behavior and handles the mouse scrollwheel events by itself via javascript. Which is usually annoying since the new behavior can be different to what the user is accustomed to, and for other reasons as well. You might find some more arguments in discussions like this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/47n9ph/psa_dont_use...](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/47n9ph/psa_dont_use_smooth_scroll_scriptsplugins_on_your/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Sorry for being off-topic / ranting, but why do sites feel the need to hijack scrolling behaviour? Is it me or does this make following the text much more difficult? Instantly threw me off reading the rest of the text...

<comment><USER22> Yeah, same here :/ I expect scrolling to work one way and scroll by the amount I'm used to, not the amount the author considers good for them. I closed the article after skimming a few sentences, because it was too hard to follow the flow when I couldn't scroll properly.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> This is the most reasonable thing I've read in a while. I couldn't agree more with the author; very nuanced opinion. Outstanding work.

The hijacked scroll was annoying though!

</comment><comment><USER24> Oh boy another "I worked so hard because im a woman in tech" post. Everyone in tech works hard regardless of gender but some people choose to brag less than others.

</comment><comment><USER25> Good article. Disconcerting that all of the comments are from men though...

<comment><USER9> I never really look at the gender of the comments, or even look at the pictures, if there are any... I would suspect a lot of people are that way.

Once upon a time, I was in IRC having a discussion with someone about the electronic art scene... it was a few months later I discovered the person in question was even a she.

This is in particular one of the things that's great about open source, online communications, and github culture... it really doesn't matter your gender, race, or anything else, so long as you make an effort, you'll generally fit in just fine.</comment></comment>


Over 7M new users signed up for Telegram in the last 24 hours - <AUTHOR> https://twitter.com/telegram/status/727551443553685506 <comment><USER2> Telegram has been a great example of how marketing yourself as "the most secure chat app" even though you're far from it, can lead to great success.

Hopefully it can one day wash all of its sins by adopting the Signal protocol, the way Whatsapp did.</comment>


A former friend blocked me: what I learned about myself First - <AUTHOR> https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/Tni3a8RMiHh <comment><USER2> Hubris. This is what happens when you put your internet fame in front of everything else. If a friend blocks me and I realize I have some fault, I'd totally try to make amends. Email or good old phone calls are all on the table.</comment>


Apple introduces new $399 iPhone SE with Touch ID and 4.7″ screen - <AUTHOR> https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/15/apple-introduces-new-399-iphone-se-with-touch-id-and-4-7-screen/ <comment><USER2> Glad it retains the fingerprint reader, sad that Apple is so deadset against including the microphone jack that the iPhone 6 had.

</comment><comment><USER3> I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.

It drives me up the wall that I simply _cannot_ find a reasonably competent phone (i.e. mid/upper range from the past 4 years) which is not absolutely fucking huge. It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, but the _only_ standard.

</comment><comment><USER4> I abandoned the flagship phones due to pricing. I love shiny new tech but the pricing for flagships have become absurd. I'm not throwing down $700 to $1000 every couple years.

So I stuck with my old Nexus 5x for way too long until the Pixel 3a came out. The 3a was all I really wanted, reasonable size (although I could go for it being smaller) and good camera... and a reasonable price (I got it for $200).

Personally with privacy concerns and such... if Apple had a good offering in the $300 or maybe 400 range. I might go a round with them.

<comment><USER3> >Personally with privacy concerns and such...

Fortunately google phones usually have a pretty thriving aftermarket community. You will usually find LineageOS supported for many years.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> I think this is excellent timing.

Those due for upgrading their phones while being wary of the current state of the economy and their own cash flow situation, can just going for this phone, and not bother about upgrading for an another 3-4 years.

Also a great way for Apple to widen their funnel for first time iPhone / Apple customers!

</comment><comment><USER6> Does it supprot 3D Touch? I love that feature. It's the reason I never moved on from the iPhone 7.

<comment><USER5> what's the point of wanting this feature when it is not going to be a focus for many apps since this feature is not available in newer phones?

<comment><USER6> You can switch between Apps by hard swiping from the left edge. You can move the cursor and make text selections by hard pressing the keyboard. You can preview links in safary without having to long press. You can open additional options in control center (flashligh brightness, timer duration etc). You can hard press a song, and without lifting ur finger select what you want to do with it in less time than the newer models take to even show u the dialogue.

3D Touch was a great feature.

<comment><USER7> I am not certain but I think 3D touch referred only to touching app icons and opening a menu which you can still do but it is no longer as feature rich if the app supported it. All the other features you've listed are still present in newer phones.

<comment><USER6> No these features are not available in the Xs and 11(pro) as they lack the necessary hardware to recognize the force you apply to the screen. They simulate some of the features by opening the same menu after a long press, but that's not the same thing.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Is this the original SE screen size, or has it been bumped up to an iphone 6/7/8 screen?

<comment><USER9> the original iPhone SE was a 4" screen. this new SE is the same as the 6/7/8

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> If you look at the time stamp, it is not really a dupe.</comment>


Clones Wars: Video Game Litigation Illustrated - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/clones-wars-video-game-litigation-illustrated-36682abb4d68

<comment><USER2> It's interesting to see the reasoning for each case, but it still strikes me as fundamentally arbitrary. The problem, of course, is that the rulings themselves are trying to capture a fundamentally arbitrary underlying idea: "does this rip that off?". If you asked 100 people, you'd get 100 lines drawn in different places.

Given that, the logic seems to do a good job most of the time. But, at its heart, its a silly question to ask. This quote really throws it into sharp relief (although I'm sure the full decision had more supporting detail):

> _In Triple Town, the antagonist is a bear. In Yeti Town, the antagonist is a > yeti… bears and yetis are both wild creatures._

Well.

To me, it just goes to show how very important ideas, perhaps core to our society, can be very poorly defined once you take a close look. That's at least a bit disturbing!

</comment><comment><USER3> I have to say I'm actually pretty impressed at how much understanding of computer games these rulings show.

<comment><USER4> Yes - it almost gives one faith that the legal system gets these things right. :-)

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> > _"Puck Man", an identical clone of Pac-Man, was copyright infringement in > Midway v. Artic (1983). Was "Puck Man" seriously the most original name they > could come up with?_

It's well known that the original Japanese name for the game was Puck-Man, and that Bally/Midway changed it for American audiences (the "P" in Puck was just begging for vandalism). So, it's even worse than inventing a bad name—they just plagiarized the original name…

<comment><AUTHOR> oh! That could be an error on my part. I'll double check the case.

edit: I didn't realize Pac Man was originally "Puck Man" in Japan. I added a note to the article.

Artic just copied the original Japanese name. Pretty lazy:

"The only differences between Artic's Puckman game and Midway's Pac-Man game are (1) the names of the ghost characters in Artic's game are different from the names of Midway's characters, (2) the Midway copyright notice does not appear on Artic's game, and (3) the name of the game is different. Other than those trivial differences, the Artic game is absolutely identical to Midway's Pac-Man video game described above. In fact... Artic's Puckman printed circuit board contains an error common to Midway's Pac-Man game." [http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3162513435280413...](http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3162513435280413681)

<comment><USER6> _" In fact... Artic's Puckman printed circuit board contains an error common to Midway's Pac-Man game."_

Oh man this brings back memories. The story as I always heard it goes like this: the PCB layout guy at Midway deliberately routed the R/G/B video signal lines in a certain way so that they spelled out his initials on the board: RBG.

Midway used the PCB layout guy as a witness in the Artic trial and asked him "why did you lay the lines out in this order?" and the guy responded that those were his initials. Just a little signature of his design.

Artic was asked the same question and couldn't come up with a valid answer. The judge ruled for Midway shortly after that.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Frogger Clones: Road Frog, Froggy, Anirog Frogrun, Hoppit, Leapfrod, Road Frog, Road Toad…

Donkey Kong Clones: Killer Kong, Krazy Kong, Crazy Kong, Kong, Wally Kong...

I love this stuff.

</comment><comment><USER7> One more: 2000, Hasbro Interactive vs. anyone who ever made anything remotely similar to the Atari titles they had just purchased (AFAIK it didn't go anywhere):

[http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/08/hasbro-interactive- su...](http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/08/hasbro-interactive-sues-for- atari-clones)

<comment><AUTHOR> Yeah! There were a handful more like this that I wanted to add... but they never really reached a decision in court, so there wasn't much to discuss.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> > _Video game copyright cases turn on whether the clone copied "functional" > elements (tolerated) or "creative" elements (verboten)._

Yeah, this quote from the conclusion is _not at all_ what I took from it.

I strongly suspect that, for the most part, the judges here decide based on 'gut feeling' whether a title infringes or not, and then look for justification after the fact.

It also probably matters how litigious the plaintiff is: The Tetris Company is legendary in that regard. I mean, a 10x20 game board is infringing? And how else are you going to arrange four blocks, other than what is already done in Tetris?

I guess if copyright didn't extend effectively forever I would have less of a problem with it, but the idea that a single legal entity is going to own all these ideas when my grandchildren are having children, strikes me as - to put it lightly - _very bad_ for the notion of cultural progress.

<comment><USER9> > And how else are you going to arrange four blocks, other than what is > already done in Tetris?

Heh. Reading that actually gave me idea. Like this:

      X X

      X X

Okay, someone else come up with a falling-block game where the blocks have spaces in between them. :P

<comment><USER10> Wait, did you just infringe a creative element of Tetris?

<comment><USER8> As long as the game board is not 10x20 I think he'll be fine :-)</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Using Kickstarter data to predict Ubuntu Edge's success - <AUTHOR> http://www.openanalytics.eu/blog/using-kickstarter-data-predict-ubuntu-edges-success

<comment><USER2> I think this research is interesting and based on real data. 5 days after that, we are seeing the funding falling further comparing with the predicted line.</comment>


Ship that brought ammonium nitrate to Beirut - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion-ship.html <comment><USER2> I didn't realize Moldova had any suitable ports with which to register a sea- going vessel (I assume even flags of convenience require the ability to actually dock the ship?), but apparently due to a border exchange with Ukraine, Moldova now has access to a tiny stretch of the Danube: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Giurgiule%C8%99ti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Giurgiule%C8%99ti)

<comment><USER3> Ports are not required.

[https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/mongolias-dubious- merchant-n...](https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/mongolias-dubious-merchant- navy/)</comment></comment>


Are there undercover software architects? - <AUTHOR> Is there a business that sends their software architects as undercover employees in client companies: work as cashier, so that they later fix cash machines software,  work as insurance broker, so that they write better software for insurance companies,work as accountants so that they fix financial software? <comment><USER2> I don't know about "undercover", but both my work office and my home office are underground, thus, to some, I am known as "codevark".</comment>


Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and others organize their days - <AUTHOR> http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/?

<comment><USER2> This site has been submitted before.

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481910>

</comment><comment><USER3> What are other hackers' experiences with having a very strict, rigid schedule vs more open-ended days?

<comment><USER4> I used to have a really open schedule. I started working in the morning and then kept on going untill I was fed up ( usually somewhere late in the evening). But after a while I suffered more writer's block related problems and finally said to myself "you're not allowed to work beyond 7pm" this put more pressure on me since I had to have stuff finished before that time, resolving most of the blocks and increasing my total output per day. Nowadays it's not as strict anymore, but I do try to keep to regular workdays as much as possible.</comment></comment>


GNU Assembler Patches For Optimizing The Intel Jump Conditional Code Erratum - <AUTHOR> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Assembler-Patches-JCC <comment><USER2> The headline feels a bit too click-baity, but this really is serious stuff.

One of the most fundamental instructions of x86, the Jcc conditional jump, can apparently be executed incorrectly by most Intel CPUs out there.

What's worse, part of Intel's strategy for mitigation is to push compiler toolchain changes that, if deployed as they desire, will punish the performance of _everybody_ on x86, including those who are using unaffected processors ( _cough_ AMD _cough_ ).

<comment><USER3> OP from twitter here. I'll take the blame for the click-baity-ness, but I was really shocked and this was in real-time in my defense.

I'm assuming it will get resolved, as the errata suggests by shoving lots of 0x2c segment overrides to re-align those jumps.

The price won't be 0, but will definitely less than the very extreme 20% edge case I stumbled upon.

I'm more "worried" or annoyed by older binaries that will never get updated. But hey... (;⌣̀_⌣́)

<comment><AUTHOR> For those not understanding the context of the parent's comment, this HN post originally linked to @damageboy's [https://twitter.com/damageboy/status/1194751035136450560](https://twitter.com/damageboy/status/1194751035136450560) tweet showing a 20% performance hit, but was later changed by mods to link to the phoronix.com article.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> This was pretty terrible. I wouldn't be surprised if this was responsible for a good number of heisenbugs on a few platforms.

Not only can you _not_ use a jump instruction ending or crossing a 32-byte boundary, but you can't use a "macro-fused" pair of instructions like cmp+jump! [1]

The fix is _relatively_ simple [2] on affected platforms as they will likely be able to pad an appropriate level of NOPs to avoid that boundary before emitting a problematic set of instructions, but you will be taking a perf hit equivalent to losing a bunch of cache memory to useless NOPs and a (likely small) amount of power/time to skip those NOPs in the instruction stream.

Where this gets ugly: people shipping binaries will have the choice of mitigating this for everyone (padding out code+small perf impact on non- affected platforms) or hitting a very slow code path on affected systems.

[1] [https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...](https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/mitigations- jump-conditional-code-erratum.pdf)

[2] Edit: the recommended fix from the whitepaper appears to be padding out earlier instructions via a "benign" prefix rather than adding NOPs.

</comment><comment><USER5> Intel is becoming a meme with those 30-50 page erratas in their documents. When they can't improve IPC or nm tech why don't they at least focus on fixing bugs?

<comment><USER6> Well, if they fix this bug the hardware will become slower in any case. Honestly I don't understand the issue and wonder why it didn't manifest constantly.

> unpredictable behavior could happen when jump instructions cross cache lines

Under which kind of circumstances? What does it mean anyway? The jump- instruction itself with arguments crossing cache lines? Wouldn't that happen quite often?

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I am not really following the details, but it seems that Intel is taking a blunder after the other. Will we ever able to trust their CPUs again?

<comment> orbital-decay We have been able to, and pretty quickly, after the F00F and FDIV bugs.

<comment><USER7> Yeah, but those two were two isolated issues in a decade. Now we're having a continuous stream of microarchitectural bugs that require more and more complicated fixes in toolchain, kernel and microcode. I am an outsider, but the impression is that the thing is exploding.

<comment><USER8> > I am an outsider, but the impression is that the thing is exploding.

To be honest it's the entire architecture that's exploding. There's a reason why ARM has all but taken over the smartphone market (and it's not just power efficiency), the only thing keeping x86 alive is the _massive_ demand for backwards compatibility. Good riddance to x86/x64 once someone makes an ARM core capable of current Ryzen performance and attaches a runtime binary translator to it.

<comment><USER9> > Good riddance to x86/x64 once someone makes an ARM core capable of current > Ryzen performance and attaches a runtime binary translator to it.

What you expect to happen: developers will target fastARM for new code and users will use the x86/x64 translator for existing/old code.

What will really happen: outside of open source circles (where they do not need the translator anyway) developers will keep targeting x86/x64 for new code since their existing users will keep using their existing x86/x64 machines and anyone using the new fastARM machines will still be compatible thanks to the translator.

This of course assumes that fastARM will be fast enough and the x86/x64 translator to provide _better_ performance than a real x86/x64 machine. Otherwise users wont have much of an incentive to upgrade as all of their existing software will become slower. At least unless they are forced to (see Apple).

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> What is the purpose of "censoring" the word shitstorm, if it is undoubtedly obvious which word you meant to the point that it makes no difference either way?

Or to phrase my question differently:

      Wh*t is t*e pur**se of "cens*ring" th* w*rd sh**storm, *f *t is u*doub*edly ob*ious wh*ch wo*d y*u me*nt to t*e poin*t th*t i* mak*s n* di**erence ei*her w*y?

<comment><USER11> seems to me like you are questioning the whole concept of censoring expletives

<comment><USER12> I think the GP's point is this: if you're against the use of an expletive, then don't use it. Putting it behind a fig leaf is embarrassing and silly.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Instead of another fucking Twitter thread, just read the article from Phoronix from yesterday:

[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU- Asse...](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Assembler- Patches-JCC)

<comment><USER14> Here's a cryptic Intel whitepaper: [https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...](https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/mitigations- jump-conditional-code-erratum.pdf)

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I don't appreciate the aggressiveness and clear attempt to induce outrage with the title. This is the outrage algorithm working.

* Edit - the previous title referenced a Twitter thread, not phoronix. The new title is fine.

<comment><USER16> I do appreciate it. Its quite serious.</comment></comment>


Apple's iPhone is Not storing your accurate location, and Not storing history - <AUTHOR> http://geothought.blogspot.com/2011/04/scoop-apples-iphone-is-not-storing-your.html

<comment><USER2> I'm not sure how it's not storing history. I ran the app and it showed in timelapse how I'd traveled around, including a recent trip to Oklahoma. How on earth is that _not_ storing history?

As to the accuracy, I don't know where the author lives, but my town must have pretty dense cell towers as it pretty accurately pinpointed my house and the streets I drive regularly.

I think the actual important question here is whether it's an invasion of privacy or not. At this point from the articles I've read it looks like the data is cache data that isn't transmitted back to the phone company and not available to random apps.

That said, I'm still happy this is receiving attention because if the phone can store this kind of info, you _know_ the phone companies are logging this info as well. _That_ is the real thing people need to worry about.

</comment><comment><USER3> Apple publicly responds to iPhone tracking allegations. <http://nkdv.co/1k>

<comment><USER4> real url:

[http://news.nucleusdevelopment.com/2011/04/22/apple- publicly...](http://news.nucleusdevelopment.com/2011/04/22/apple-publicly- responds-to-iphone-tracking-allegations/)

... and the article is not what it claims to be. this is a recounting of a statement made by apple quite some time ago.

<comment><USER3> Statements which directly answers all of the hypothesis in this and all the other BS posts:

"Apple does collect anonymous location data from iPhones in an effort to improve its own database of cell tower and WiFi hotspot locations. Devices running iOS versions older than 3.2 still rely on the databases from Google and Skyhook for these locations; these two companies are the "partners" with whom Apple shares data to determine the location of iPhones, iPod touches, iPads, Macs running Snow Leopard (which has a systemwide CoreLocation API), and Windows machines running Safari 5 (which uses the HTML5 location APIs)."

<comment><USER4> you don't seem to have understood my objections.

First, HN frowns on link shorteners. We want to see where we are going before we click. I notice you submitted that same link, a few days earlier. If you try that very many times, that link shortening service will make it onto PG's radar, and it will be banned.

Second, we also don't like deceptive, linkbait titles. You are implying that Apple _recently_ answered this most recent round of allegations. They in fact did not. Their earlier response was indeed relevant to this case, for sure. So just _say_ that! Implying that you've got a scoop that nobody else has, in an effort to get clicks, is not cool.

<comment><USER3> Fair enough. I honestly didn't know about the shortener issue. It does make sense.

As far as the other issue... I am not interested in speculation about whether someone thinks company(a) is or isn't 'evil'. I want to know what they are doing. Then I will decide what their morality is. Everyone here is just glossing over the 'facts'. With sensational headlines like "Apple IS tracking you", "Apple ISN'T tracking you", etc... All complete speculation and BS, because they honestly don't know. Which is fine if the company hasn't already been forthcoming about the 'facts'. Well, this article answers all the speculation. I understand you think it's misleading because Apple spoke on this topic 9 months ago. YOU'RE LATE, and that is the point of the article. Apple did respond to these allegations, the first time they came up, and you and everyone else seems to have forgotten. However, I will heed your advice in the future and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention. I hope you will acknowledge that this latest round of alzheimer's outrage fostered by the likes of CNN and FOX as well as HN, Reddit, and Digg. We are smarter than that. Hackers aren't supposed to buy into propaganda and false outrage.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


The United States is now, in some very general sense, bankrupt - <AUTHOR> http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/10/12/16931/kemp-the-united-states-is-now-in-some-very-general-sense-bankrupt/

<comment><USER2> I am surprised at the fast and loose use of numbers and assumptions[1] put in this article. I expect more from the Financial Times. Even if we accept the numbers to establish that the United States and its citizens have a negative net-worth, that is not equivalent to bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability to pay creditors. If the US Government ever makes that declaration... wow. We as a country have not defaulted on our debts, and based on the strength of the treasury market, few are betting on that scenario.

Martin Feldstein's proposal is so much less radical, as presented here (I am otherwise unfamiliar with it).

[1] For example: "The debt secured on half or more US homes will be worth more than the home itself, with little or no prospect of a quick rebound in housing values to rebuild positive equity. In the circumstances, many households may conclude that it is rational to walk away rather than pay over-the-odds for an asset the price of which has no realistic chance of regaining its former value in the short to medium term. The resulting wave of repossessions would only depress prices further." That might be true if housing were some simple investment vehicle... but it is not. My assumption: at worst, most people view a mortgage like credit card debt or an auto loan -- you don't consider the asset being backed, you focus on the payment. With the exception of speculative housing investors, most foreclosures seem (as reported) to be about an inability to make payments. Recall the existence of mortgage structures that accumulated negative equity: this is not an indication of savvy investors focused on ROI.

<comment><USER3> > We as a country have not defaulted on our debts and based on the strength of > the treasury market few are betting on that scenario.

I haven't read the article yet, but I just want to make one comment about this quote. Although technically speaking we have not defaulted, we are inflating our currency through the roof, which is virtually a default -- In other words, our creditors will not be able to buy the same amount of stuff with the dollars we are going to repay them. And we are only able to do that because the dollar is a reserve currency.

For example, Argentina defaulted because they didn't have enough dollars to repay their debt. The difference in our case is that we own the dollar's printing press.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Just do the math.

$10 trillion (national debt)/300 M (US Population) = $33,703.56

<http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/>

As long as the US has the power to raise more taxes it can take on more debt with the insurance that in case of emergency it can hit the switch and raise taxes to take $33,334 from each of us to wipe off the debt (over like 10 years, $3,000 each year). That would totally "suck", but we're not "bankrupt" if these options exist.

Now, I obviously am not supporting the government's irresponsible deficit spending, I'm just merely pointing out that the media is blowing all this out of proportion.

<comment><USER5> The author was referring to total household debt (including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans), not just the Federal debt. That total is significantly more than $10T.

Granted, he's still wrong, because he doesn't take into account who the debt is owed to. If you have a $200k mortgage, that $200k is your debt but some bank's asset - most of which are U.S. corporations. It all cancels out, and what you're left with is the U.S. debt held by foreign citizens, governments, and corporations. Which is worrisome, but historically, when major military powers have owed large sums to foreign creditors, they just declare war on the foreign powers and then declare that all debts owned by enemy combatants are null and void.

<comment><USER6> Perhaps, but who would the US borrow money from later if they did that?

<comment><USER5> If war breaks out, who you're going to borrow money from is the least of your problems. ;-)

<comment><USER7> actually no. If the US outright repudiates debt in war, the value of the dollar would take a plunge and solders, even the patriotic ones, like to get paid for risking their lives. Furthermore, weapons and supplies are extremely expensive.

When war breaks out, money is one of the biggest problems. The praetorian guard in the roman empire once killed a praetor, put his head on a pike, and paraded him/it around Rome because he refused to bribe them.

<comment><USER8> Not if we go to war to plunder :)

<comment><USER9> That's an interesting question, what would looting in modern society look like? Can you "confiscate" securities? Companies?

<comment><USER10> Heck, the government is buying huge stakes in banks at historically low prices right now. Whether they're being "confiscated" or "rescued" is just a matter of your viewpoint.

You can also look at Russia for examples - the Russian government basically confiscated Yukos.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> s/general/inaccurate

<comment><USER12> There's nothing inaccurate about this:

The United States is bankrupt, in the sense that its assets (housing stock, corporations and cash flow, plant and machinery) are now worth much less than its liabilities (in the form of mortgage-backed securities, other debt and loan instruments). In particular, large parts of the housing stock are now worth much less than the owners paid for them, and less than the outstanding value of the mortgages, or the collateralised bonds that have been issued against them.

<comment><USER10> But the assets of the United States include the right to print dollars! That right is worth more than anything denominated in dollars, as pretty much all of our debt is.

The _housing industry_ might be bankrupt. But that is a far cry from the entire United States being bankrupt.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> bankrupt? no

in debt up to our ears? you betcha

</comment><comment><USER14> the points in this article are clearly worth discussing. no doubt america spends too much and it needs to be curbed.

at the risk of sounding jingoistic clearly america has the most stable and transparent economy in the world. and in times of chaos and uncertainty people seek out stability and security. that is what people all over the world can be assured of when they invest in america and us government backed financial instruments. the us treasury doesnt default.

<comment><USER15> > at the risk of sounding jingoistic clearly america has the most stable and > transparent economy in the world

There are many other first world countries in the world other thna America. America is the largest and that does make it the most important. But that does not automatically make it the 'most stable and transparent economy'? The fact that you just automatically believe it to be so actually does demontrate your ignorance and jingoism.

<comment><USER16> Perhaps instead of labeling the poster, you could just ask for support for his statement? That usually works better than name-calling.

<comment><USER15> The whole purpose of my post was about the attitude demonstrated by the poster. I was pointing out and arguing against the blind 'America is the Greatest' thinking that it demonstrated. The fact that the poster felt so sure about it without the need to provide any evidence was proof enough I believe.

In this context I feel that using the very word (jingoist) that the poster said he was trying to avoid was certainly justified. Perhaps I could have avoided directly using the word 'ignorant'.

Anyway it doesn't surprise me that some people might disagree with my post. But I believe the prevalence of this attitude is a truth and actually an important truth. Possibly a substantial cause of the financial problems the original article was about.

<comment><USER16> The poster's attitude to me seemed to be "I'm not pro-my-country-no-matter- what-the-facts, but I believe it to be superior in this one respect."

For which you went for the jugular and called him jingoistic. A better response would have been to engage in a discussion over whether or not his assumption was true. He was open to the discussion, and by not taking it you shut him down for no reason at all.

As you noted, ignorant was a little over the top.

My point is that both of you guys are wasting your time unless you're willing to talk to each other and not past each other. When somebody says "I'm not trying to be X" and then acts like X, I see that as an opportunity to 1) define X, and 2) talk about the facts. It's not the place to trash the commenter. They're reaching out, for cripes sake.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> I don't know if I trust someone who doesn't know the difference between its and it's...

</comment><comment><USER7> The guy does realize that houses are not the only kind of assets that the US has. After they are accounted for, the US is anything but bankrupt.</comment>


10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations - <AUTHOR> http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-tools-for-creating-infographics-visualizations

<comment><AUTHOR> Infographics have been used and abused, but I believe that showing information graphically is an important method of communication.</comment>


Spawning processes in Elixir, a gentle introduction to concurrency - <AUTHOR> https://www.poeticoding.com/spawning-processes-in-elixir-a-gentle-introduction-to-concurrency/ <comment><AUTHOR> One of the coolest things in Erlang and Elixir is their concurrency implementation based on Actor model. In this article I introduce concurrency and show how we can start making our code concurrent in Elixir, using processes.</comment>


Ask HN: End-to-end encrypted online spreadsheet tool - <AUTHOR> I'm trying to identify end-to-end encrypted alternatives to the tools used by an NGO I work with that deals with sensitive data.
Tools for cloud storage, email, instant-messaging, collaborative text editing, hard drive encryption abound, they're free, easy to use, secure, and overall amazing (more in first comment). The one obstacle I haven't been able to tackle in several days of searching is an alternative to Google Sheets (spreadsheets and databases are pretty similar for my use case).
My criteria:
- security (E2E encryption, 2-factor authentication, not US-based)
- collaborative real-time editing
- ease-of-use, low maintenance
- small volume (10 sheets, 20 columns and 10k rows each) is sufficient
- simple data analysis (searching, filtering, count)
Optional features: differently-typed cells (dropdown, checkbox), forms to add new data-points.
Spreadsheets are so commonly used that all flavours should exist, but I wasn't able to find a tool that fulfills all criteria (more in first comment). I can think of 3 reasons:
- there is an insurmountable technical difficulty in creating a tool that is both collaborative and encrypted: can't be that though, since encrypted Google Docs/Trello clones are easy to find ([CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/), [Keybase](https://keybase.io/))
- the need is covered by encryption tools for databases: these require a lot of technical knowledge (renting servers, hosting databases, deploying encryption, etc.), surely a no-code tool would already exist?
- I haven't found the tool: wouldn't it  be included in Keybase or the like though?
The second option seems the most likely, in which case I'd be happy if someone could tell me the easiest way to build an encrypted database, as I have never done something like that (I'm familiar with Python, know that SQL exists, and can probably follow instructions to deploy something on a server), but I would really need this tool to be low/no-maintenance
Cheers <comment><AUTHOR> Tools for cloud storage ([Tresorit]([https://tresorit.com/)](https://tresorit.com/\))), email ([Protonmail]([https://protonmail.com/)](https://protonmail.com/\))), instant- messaging ([Signal]([https://signal.org/)](https://signal.org/\))), collaborative text documents ([CryptPad]([https://cryptpad.fr/)](https://cryptpad.fr/\))), hard drive encryption ([VeraCrypt]([https://veracrypt.fr/)](https://veracrypt.fr/\)))

What I was able to find to replace Google Sheets:

\- Google Sheets clones with a few additional collaborative features ([Zoho]([https://www.zoho.eu/sheet/)](https://www.zoho.eu/sheet/\)))

\- ways to encrypt spreadsheets

\- online databases ([Airtable]([https://airtable.com/)](https://airtable.com/\)))

\- ways to encrypt databases on servers ([Acra]([https://github.com/cossacklabs/acra)](https://github.com/cossacklabs/acra\)))

\- kinda secure databases ([KoBo]([http://kobotoolbox.org/](http://kobotoolbox.org/)) not actually encrypted but at least managed by UNHCR)</comment>


Show HN: DialASmile - tell people why you love them, even when you're not around - <AUTHOR>

Hey guys, I've been working on this cool little side project and was wondering everyone's thoughts on it. Check it out at www.dialasmile.me
I came up with the idea while trying to create a romantic gift for my girlfriend. Her last boyfriend had made a webpage with all the reasons he loved her on it, and so of course I wanted to one up him! So I decided I'd set up a phone number that she could call whenever I'm not around and she's lonely, that would speak all the reasons I love her out loud. I ended up making one for my mom too for Mother's Day, and she loved it, so I thought, "Hey maybe I'll turn this into a web app so everyone can do it!"
One month later and its out! It's called DialASmile, and it allows you to create cute "dialers" for friends, family, and significant others. When they call the DialASmile phone number, they can hear all the reasons you love them, think they're awesome, etc, spoken out loud to them. Makes a cool little anniversary, holiday (or maybe even father's day!) gift. It's free to use to start, and if you use the promo code 'makedadsmile' between now and father's day you can get upgraded to an even better dialer for free.
Please check it out. I'd love to hear any improvements or pain points anyone has :) <comment><USER2> Integration:

Nice idea, but you should link that lonely island to twitter/facebook as (Mobile-/Web-)App for higher availability.

Design:

The Twitter bootstrap looks ugly. Why not use warmer colors and stock photos that spread a warmer feel. Customizable SmilePages that contain all the love at a secure/private link would also help spreading.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the feedback. I'll try warmer colors and see how that looks, I'm definitely not a design guru :)

Can you explain your integration idea a little more? Not sure what you mean by higher availability. Like make it into a facebook app or something?

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Nice idea. Put more information on some pages i.e. About. Also are you using Twillo?

<comment><AUTHOR> Yup using Twilio, it's been really easy to work with so far. Definitely going to fill out the about page soon, just wanted to push this thing out before father's day! Thanks for the feedback.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Review my side project - DealBabyDeal - <AUTHOR>

This is a mix between the Twitter API and the (closed beta) API for cash back site BigCrumbs.com.
Tweet @dealbabydeal on Twitter and the "Deal Baby" will send back matching deals on what you're looking for. Follow dealbabydeal and you can get a feed of the latest deals (updated hourly). What I think is most interesting is that one can see what other people are looking for. It's kind of like Blippy, only before people buy.
This took very little time to develop, but I'd love it if some of the smart folks here took a look. I'm debating if the constant update of deals is needed or appropriate and the search is very simple at this point.  Usually one word searches work best.
http://twitter.com/dealbabydeal
I posted this before, but it was later at night, so I thought I'd try it again here. <comment><USER2> <http://twitter.com/dealbabydeal>

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> So. There's NO interest in this? Ouch.

<comment><USER3> Some thoughts:

1\. There's no clickable link in your post (HN doesn't auto-link URLs in posts). Generally, people will post a "clickable: <http://address.com> link in a follow-up comment when they post a "check out my site" request.

2\. You only gave 20 minutes between your initial post and this follow-up. It _is_ only 7:43 in the morning on the West Coast. People might not have seen it.

3\. HackerNews readers might not be the best group for market testing your app. Personally, I'm not interested in either A) noise in my Twitter stream or B) notices of deals I can get. That doesn't mean that there isn't someone out there who would find it useful.

4\. "Check out my app" requests are hit-or-miss on HN. Sometimes they get a lot of comments, feedback, and traffic. Sometimes they don't. I haven't pattern-matched the successful requests, so I'm not sure what advice to give on that front. Maybe someone else has some input on that.

5\. If there really _isn't_ anyone who's interested in this, it's much better to find out now so you can pivot the app or move on to a different app where you can find a solid userbase.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for your feedback. The silence was honestly worse than harsh feedback.

I'll add a "clickable" next time and time my posts better.

"Noise in my Twitter stream" - I'm very interested in avoiding that and worried this app won't help if one follows with it doing unsolicited deal updates right now.

I really liked the concept of capturing a user's intent and using that to help them keep an eye on deals as they become available. People don't always buy things the moment they are looking for them. When something is looking for something big like an HDTV or computer, they can afford to wait days to see a big discount come across. That's the idea anyway.</comment></comment></comment>


Simple and Terrifying Encryption Story - <AUTHOR> https://blog.elpassion.com/simple-and-terrifying-encryption-story-c1f1d6707c07#.o021b04xm <comment><USER2> Interesting and succinct post.

Did the documentation specify anywhere that it expects hex values?

Even if it did it should still probably throw an error if handed a normal string. You should defs make a pull request and fix it.

<comment><USER3> Here's the documentation: [http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/aes/0.5.0](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/aes/0.5.0)

Reading through, it's NOT clear that `key` must be hexidecimal, but you can see why the gem's author didn't think to call it out:

The gem also provides a helper method for generating keys: AES.key (which outputs a random hexidecimal string). The developer probably never expected users to submit their own keys, despite the design of the gem making it easy to do.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Who needs type systems, anyway? Or any datatypes but strings, for that matter!

</comment><comment><USER5> subtitle: "Or why you can't skip writing unit tests."</comment>


The 'Washington Post' 'Blacklist' Story Is Shameful and Disgusting - <AUTHOR> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-disgusting-w452543?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=112816_16 <comment><USER2> >A lot of reporters over the summer were so scared by the prospect of a Trump presidency that they talked – in some cases publicly – about abandoning traditional ideas about journalistic "distance" from politicians, in favor of open advocacy for the Clinton campaign.

You'd think people who work in an industry in which credibility is your only enduring asset would realize what a terrible mistake this is. If you're a journalist who believes the facts support your position, why would you need to cross over into advocacy? Why not give your readers the evenhanded facts, i.e. why not _do your damned job_?

<comment><USER3> Fear of Trump, and the threat he represents to a free press, probably has a lot of do with this. But you are right: they need to strive to be objective.

<comment><USER4> They need to strive to be _accurate_ and _true_. Objective implies neutrality, but the facts aren't neutral.

If a politician says that black is white, the headline "Politician: Black is White" is objective, but not accurate or true.

The reporter knows that black is not white, the editor knows that black is not white, heck the typesetter knows that black is not white. The politician obviously knows too--or at least they should. So the headline should read "Politician Lies About Black Being White." That's really what happened.

Once a upon a time, journalism viewed itself as a check against government--an institution dedicated to holding leaders responsible and accountable. Somewhere along the way the concept of "objectivity" turned them into mere stenographers for the powerful.

Journalists must adapt to the reality that information is not scarce anymore. If people want to know what Trump said on Twitter, they can follow him on Twitter! It's free and just as easy as loading up a news website. So news outlets don't need to just repost what Trump said.

They need to do reporting (and write headlines) that provide accurate context and tell their readers the truth about what Trump said.

<comment><USER5> And then we get every news outlet nitpicking the statements of the outgroup while tolerating the ingroup [0]. We need to add _fair_.

[0] [http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated- demands...](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands-for- rigor/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> They managed to one-up CNN, which has still not apologized or even issued a retraction for telling their viewers that it was ILLEGAL for them to read Wikileaks and that they had to rely on the professional journalists at CNN to tell them what was in it. It's made even worse by the fact that CNN barely covered the most damning contents of the leaked emails. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A)

There is Supreme Court precedent establishing that viewing and distributing already leaked information, even illegally recorded personal phone calls, is protected by the First Amendment (Bartnicki v. Vopper is the most recent).

<comment><USER7> And Chris Cuomo, the one making that claim, has a law degree and multiple politicians in the family. So he was almost definitely lying, rather than just unintentionally spreading misinformation.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> For those of us who were unsurprised by a trump win, The Post has nothing left to lose. The MSM has been acting this way for decades, and it is finally obvious to everyone.

The Post is fake news.

</comment><comment><USER9> Ah, the sheer irony of RollingStone lecturing other media outlets about journalism ethics.

<comment><USER10> Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone has been one of the best journalists in a mainstream publication for some time now. He was writing informative and critical pieces on Wall Street after 2008 when nobody else was.

Papers like NYT and WaPo are dependent on financial firms and oil companies for revenue, so they're not going to bite the hand that feeds them. Rolling Stone's advertisers are record labels and lifestyle brands (clothing, liquor, games) so they're free to be critical of Wall Street. You wouldn't read them for copyleft and anti-DRM news though.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> They must really think the public is stupid enough to buy into their fake news meme. They're only destroying what little credibility they had left.

</comment><comment><USER12> The WP,theguardian, huffingtonpost are the 3 self appointed guardians of humanity, savings us thru propaganda and fabrication The ends justify the means

</comment><comment><USER13> Let's assume the Russian conspiracy is bogus. The question I want answered is: were all the news stories they claim to be fake really fake?

<comment> norea-armozel Several major stories at least from what I've seen were fake. Like the "PizzaGate" story which was entirely a fabrication that got legs. So, I think there's a legitimate problem but I think WaPo is spinning it to mean Trump won because of fake news which I seriously doubt since exit polls showed most people either decided their vote months in advance of the "October Surprise" crap or within the two weeks before the election (with the majority being months before). The fact of the matter is that modern news is trash whether it comes from the big newspapers or cable networks. No one does their job at least in terms of filtering leads, minimizing editorialization in articles, and keeping the headlines tuned to the subject. Just those three things have really made it hard for me to know whether I was reading someone's opinion or an explanation of the facts.

But the list as mentioned in the WaPo article is really not all that revealing. Some of the sites listed I know some of the people and they're far from Russian paid trolls like AntiWar.com. And Lewrockwell.com? That's Lew's blog for all intents and purposes. I don't like him but wow that list is utter crap. It doesn't target the real problem children like Daily Kos, Federalist, or Free Republic which I've seen them pass crap journalism or unfounded accusations as "news" just to name three news sites I've read in the past.

<comment><USER7> Out of curiosity, how much time have you spent looking into pizzagate? Why are you sure that it's fake?

Also source on antiwar.com being funded by Russia?

No doubting you on any of this, just looking for more information.

<comment> norea-armozel I never said AntiWar.com were paid by Russia or Russian Trolls. I said they were FAR FROM it (as in not those things).

And yes, I have read about Pizzagate extensively. It's as fraudulent of a story as you can get.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Red5 support for Chatroulette Script is coming - <AUTHOR> http://www.chatroulette-clone.net/2010/03/chatroulette-script-red5/

<comment><USER2> The funny thing, to me, is that if you follow the links around, each of these groups working on various Chatroulette clones claims that other groups are stealing their IP (one person even goes as far as to use the term "in the Chatroulette Clone ecosystem").

I guess they're all stealing from chatroulette?

</comment><comment><USER3> I purchased this and it does what it says and it's not a rip-off of some other client. I'm always happy to see someone make money in software. And no, I'm not affiliated with the company or being payed, just a happy customer that is happy with the pace that the script gets updated.

</comment><comment><USER4> At first i read this as the 4K super HD Red cameras being supported by CR. Thankfully this is not the case and it is about an open source flash clone. The last thing I want to see is random penis at a 4K resolution.

<comment><USER5> Red5 is actually a Flash Media Server 'clone'</comment></comment>


Visual Studio 2012 RTM Available to MSDN Subscribers - <AUTHOR> http://msdn.microsoft.com/

<comment><AUTHOR> The site is really slammed right now.</comment>


Jay Leno is 3D printing replacement car parts over 100 years old - <AUTHOR> http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/technology/4320759

<comment><AUTHOR> _If you had a one-off Ferrari engine, you could scan each part and then re- create the entire motor. Right now, we 're scanning a Duesenberg body_

Wow - is he going to 3D print a Duesenberg someday ?!</comment>


Lean Domain Search Adds 450 New Search Results; Now Checks 2,500 Domains/Search - <AUTHOR> http://www.leandomainsearch.com/blog/8-lean-domain-search-adds-450-new-search-results--now-checks-2-500-domain-names-per-search

<comment><USER2> I've seen a lot of projects like this come and go or, most often, sit around getting few updates. For some reason I started to follow Matt on Twitter when he first launched LDS and I've been impressed at how he's kept chipping away at it making it better. (His technique for catching people who don't use his links to register the domains found is genius and, I've inferred, works well.)

He just put a graph of his traffic on Twitter as well and it clearly shows the value of continuing to hammer away at a project over time rather than releasing and forgetting about it: <http://cl.ly/3C181Q3A1n2k142C0c0L>

So big thumbs up to Matt.</comment>