jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For full details, please read the paper published at USENIX 2013 [0]. Some points which I found interesting

+ 6% of the fraudulent accounts purchased are resold (Table 2)

+ India is the most popular location to register fraudulent accounts (Table 3)

+ Hotmail is the most popular e-mail service used to confirm fraudulent Twitter accounts (Table 5)

+ The algorithm to "retroactively predict" fraudulent account is not based on any popular machine learning technique. Most of it looks like regex matching patterns.

+ The evaluation of the algorithm was done on 4,800 random sample Twitter accounts (200 each merchant) out of the available 121,027 accounts on which the longitudinal study was performed

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I would never claim it was a good program, but this is actually much more common at your big companies then people would like to think. I know the Government does this in both the military and civilian workforce. Most government contracts I have worked with do this ( Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Boeing )

I think until you have been in a big corporate environment you don't really appreciate how little they care about their workforce.
Hi there! You seem to know your stuff, or at least like it (in a computer scientific sense), so I have only a couple of things to say: first, if you've already written socket and networking software, you could be better off starting with "raw" web development frameworks (or no framework at all, writing a tiny web server could be a really cool challenge: http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/ ), to get the knack of how a web-app works, without all those layers of specialization interfering: try to write something in flask or sinatra, or even in ruby's "rack" or it's python equivalent, to be familiar with the http request-response cycle and how the different moving parts (building html with css and javascript, interacting with file systems and databases and network operations) really work and why is it that frameworks exist (which boilerplate code they do for you). Since you know javascript, you could also check out node.js, which is raw enough. And then, when you've got how is it that web development works in its guts, you can move on to more easy going stuff, like rails, pylons, django or whatever.

The second thing is, although someone else might say that scheme sucks for not having lots of libraries, I've found it very eye opening, specially by watching -and reading- the lectures in MIT's "structure and science of computer programs" (here it is in ocw: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... , videos and book are free), if you go through them and thrive to get it, you'll be doing yourself a great service, learning funtional programming, no matter what language it is, will make you a good programmer, because it will force you to think not in terms or how to make stuff easy for the computer, but in how to make stuff "elegant" and easy for yourself, the programmer (kinda like when you do math and it "feels just right"). I personally have found myself to be a better -more productive- python programmer by learning scheme with the SICP course and how to write javascript in the functional style.

Godspeed in your studies, CS is a great thing to study :)
Near Big Sur (http://goo.gl/maps/gN91), eat/drink at Nepenthe while enjoying the view: http://www.nepenthebigsur.com
Carmel for sure. I agree on skipping the same cities.
I do not consider professional athletes to bring anywhere near the "value" currently ascribed to them (lots of sports fans prefer college/amateur sports anyway) but that is sort of beside the point: I never said to ignore people's relative strengths and weaknesses.

Derek Jeter probably can't do [whatever it is you do] as well as you can — nor should he try if he's found his niche. You both are probably both examples of highly skilled workers, and there are also jobs which require less skill that nevertheless must be done. We could further argue that absolutely everybody has something in which they would be considered high-skilled if they realised it and developed their skills but even that is not really necessary for the thrust of my pre-counterargument which is that from the perspective of the entire society, all necessary work is roughly equally valuable regardless of whether it can be done by 1 or 999 people out of 1000 (or million).

The second part of that pre-counterargument is the motivation for excellence. Personally I do not think that wealth[1] is really a factor for geniuses, most of whom seem to do stuff out of sheer joy of doing it. I'm willing to entertain a pre-counter-counterargument, but some historical analysis would be welcome.

[1] Beyond a reasonable level of comfort and in a society which does not require you to hoard loot to ensure survival of progeny, and certainly not at the levels where you could not even conceivably spend it all.
Which Indian accent? Peter Sellers'?
> "Most jobs that truly are "trivially automatable" have already been automatized."

Food service. Retail. Automobile repair. Lower-end healthcare jobs. Any job that doesn't require creativity can be automated.

Do you doubt that a McDonalds with zero human employees will exist in our lifetimes? When farming and transportation are automated as well and Big Macs are produced with zero human involvement, will you agree that "owning the means of production" is quite possible?

> "...which leaves work requiring intelligence and skill (MOST work) out of the picture..."

You are very, very wrong. Here are the 15 most common jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/06/the-most-popular-jo...

3.2% of Americans work in retail sales alone. Those jobs are going away. I count two jobs in that list, elementary teachers and general managers, that will be difficult to automate. What careers do you see this huge group of people switching to?

Please stop bringing Marx into this. It's basically an ad hominem argument. You're arguing against him instead of me.

> "Everyone is equipped to participate, barring exceptionally low IQ."

This is extremely wishful thinking with no evidence to back it up. The incentives for training oneself for a job in the information economy is huge today, yet only half of Americans have completed any college coursework.[1] If all of the people doing menial tasks today are capable of doing more intellectual work, why are they ignoring the incentives that exist today to get them to do so?

> "Big projects typically require capital investment, but so what? That can be gotten if you have a good idea."

Your arguments are skewed by your familiarity with the software industry. The businesses normal people start don't get venture capital. They get small business loans on their personal credit. If you have no credit or bad credit because you're poor, you'll never start a business. Concentration of wealth creates more people who are relatively poor.

> "Most people in America are doing just fine, especially those with an education, and most people in America did not inherit a trust fund or something."

I agree. I've been talking about the future, not now.

> "If it has no implications, then by definition, it doesn't matter. So if you claim that it matters, you should give an implication."

Implications:

1) An almost-permanent upper class.

2) An almost-permanent lower class.

3) (1) and (2) lead to civil unrest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...
an entire unique asset class that is worth one Tesla. seems low, no?
Hard to recognize them from the reverse when they're hidden behind a bush!
If by "you" meaning the owner, than it appears not. That would be a remote vulnerability.
I recently added half floats to my 3D MMO engine, and I was very dissappointed when I discovered that very few GPUs support it in hardware!

Desktop Nvidia simply converts them to 32-bit floats up front so the performance is kept but memory is wasted, but raspberry does the 16 -> 32 bit calculations every time resulting in horrible performance.

I still have to test the engine on Jetson Nano with half floats, but I'm pretty sure I will be dissapointed again, and since raspberry doesn't support it I need to backtrack the code anyway!

After some further research I heard snapdragon has 16-bit support in the hardware and hopefully this is where we are heading! 32-bit is completely overkill for model data, it wastes memory and cycles! 16-bit for model data: vertex, normal, texture and index and 8-bit for bone-index and weights! Back to the 80-90s!

This is the last memory & performance increase we can grab now at "5"nm without adding too much complexity!

You can try the engine without half float here: http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449
No, it’s actually Tk.
Is it though? I was having this discussion with a friend last night. If I were IT for the Capitol, I would already be operating under the assumption that all the clients are hostile.

There are constantly visitors to the Capitol, including foreign visitors who could easily be spies. Also, the Members themselves are often old, anti-tech, and not the kind of people who will remember to lock their screen when they get up. I would already assume Member computers are a huge attack vector, and act accordingly.
Azlo has been such a blessing for a young business entrepreneur like myself, I can't believe they are doing away with it what do we do now?
I guess I'll hold off selling then.
> Because screw anybody who wants to buy software instead of renting it.

Actually, this seems to be the official position of Autodesk going forward:

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/10/autodesk-to-go-subscription...
No, the second statement isn’t a call to violence.

> "If that means white redneck militia dudes mowing down dipshit protesters that think they can torch buildings at 10 PM, at this point they have my fucking blessing."

This is clearly not a call to violence: it’s an approval of people intervening in serial arson, even if that means using force against the arsonists and lamenting that the state has failed to stop the serial arson, so it may fall to a militia. You can tell that by “if [...], at this point they have my fucking blessing” rather than any call to action.

Approving of militias using force to stop serial arsonists when the state has failed to keep the peace is an ethical statement — and one much tamer than “America deserved 9/11”. Most people believe that people have the right to protect themselves when the state fails to maintain peace.

I suspect you’re being uncharitable because you personally support the arsonists’ crime spree.

What specific violent act do you believe that quote calls for?
I would expect the people that would be good at doing that would not actually be interested in it since they would not really be able to monetize the viewers. The original owners would get the ad sales. Now, if they added ads to view while viewing the channel, maybe they could earn from those ads, or some smaller portion of the ad sales go to the list curator while the main still goes to content creator?
Nice article. In a way you could think of the following as "concurrency fuzzing":
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718273
I'll try to be mature about my response to this too.

Blaming BLM for the acts of individuals is tantamount to blaming the right for the acts of people who organized in private groups on a public platform. Both sides will claim that the other has stoked fear, hate, and division to various degrees in a myriad of ways. I tend to agree with both, but I also realize that the people really responsible are likely at the top of a chain that laypeople can't even perceive.

If we're to undo the damage that Russia has done to this country I think it starts in that understanding. Then and only then do we have armor to fight a nation hell bent on destroying things like ethos.
IIRC box fan + filter works as well as expensive systems.
> People who can’t be arsed to rotate their subscriptions will steal.

So most people? About the last thing I want to spend my time doing is figuring out how to rotate my streaming subscriptions so I can watch what I want to watch without paying $100 in subscriptions per month.
I was going to say that you could set this as an Accessibility shortcut to toggle Color Filters by triple clicking the home button, but realized while typing that most iOS devices no longer have home buttons.
This is the most eloquent way I've read someone praise someone else's work so far.
http://archive.is/4LxDm
I don't have an "overall message"; they asked why they were being downvoted for sharing a genuine opinion, and I explained how much the comment looks like an advert. I am already convinced that gut microbiome affects people and diet affects people.
You've had a bad day, don't worry. Your customers <3 you.
Can vouch for the them slowing down your bowels - not sure about the rest (but definitely the height of processed food) - but recall being told by our instructors that that they were purposely designed that way as the last thing you wanted was bouts of diarrhea in the field
Yep. Ask any open-minded, liberal person from the coasts to do an impression of a stupid person, and 9 times out of 10 they're going to put on a bad southern accent. It's a bias, unconscious or otherwise.
Your questions address or imply things I didn’t say, and you’re making a lot of assumptions.

I don’t really feel like debating in this manner, so all I will say is that I have a problem with any animal being mentally, physically, or emotionally abused, neglected, etc. by humans, regardless of intelligence.
They did mention it. Did you read the article? From the article:

> When reached on their new Twitter account, the top moderators said they wanted to strike a movie deal, but were planning to give any proceeds to charity.

“Them trying to make it look like we are cash grabbing is so dishonest,” the moderators wrote.
Correct, what's left in erlang from prolog is the pattern matching syntax for function definition, where you have multiple clauses to test, sequentially, whether runtime args match the number and types of parameters in each clause (and values, if guards are used). No unification/backtrackig involved.
I'm thrilled by the news but not optimistic that Burma will free itself from kleptocracy anytime soon.
Distinguish between base knowledge and tangential knowledge. Within computer science:

a) base knowledge is knowledge that is required to get an understanding of how things work: e.g. O-notation, (notion of) difference between mean running time and worst case. Mythical Man-Month. If is very important spending time learning this kind of knowledge.

b) tangential knowledge is knowledge you always can read up on at a later time (on a job) when required to: APIs, sort algorithms, including knowing how quicksort works. It is very often a waste of time learning tangential knowledge.

The more you get into academica, the more work you are presented with, and it will be more than you will ever be able to do. You need to be intelligent about where you apply (most of) your effort so you get the most bang for the buck. If you spend too much time learning tangential knowledge, you won't learn the base knowledge and will end up worse than if you slacked but focused on base knowledge.

Whenever you are presented with work, ask yourself: will doing this provide me with more understanding, or is it just more of the same I've already done. You are not given work just to do the work, you are given the work as an opportunity to learn.

tl;dr: If a part of your homework doesn't make you learn anything, there is no reason performing it.
In the beginning of the game you start grinding basically. I know I started hunting animals and sold what I got until I could get a decent gun. I then saved till I could get mining equipment. I got lucky in the middle of nowhere and hit a huge vein of gems (or something) that I sold for like 5x what I paid for the mining equipment.

I then bought armor and a better weapon and went roaming the wilderness to find one of the better cities with better markets. I could have gone with one of the 'coyotes' to help me do the crossing (some seriously big monsters along the way that I had to run like shit from) but they charged ridiculous amounts and if you had an iffy connection you could lose them and the cash you spent.

I eventually got a bit bored with the game as it's specifically designed so progression is really slow without dropping money. At least they kept skill progression to grind only or ludicrously expensive 'implants' (like in EVE).
It's a bit more serious than "invasion of privacy", e.g. he changed the password on her site.

The big crime, thought, the felony that will put him away for "a year and one day" was obstruction of justice. I don't know the details, but I suspect the old "it's not the crime but the coverup" came into play there.

As far as "the crime", I suspect not so much the attack on the Palins as an attack on someone running in a presidential race. If he'd done this to Biden, what you expect the outcome to be?

We have to draw lines as to what is and isn't acceptable behavior in politics, and breakins like this or Watergate are considered to be beyond the pale, as mentioned in the article.
I found the ctocorner stuff pretty straight and to the point. Thanks for the links :)
The wired article is interesting, and offers some perspective. But personally, the mineral news was news to me, and helps me understand a little more about what is at stake.
Thanks!

Still too soon for Mixergy.

I like to do interviews after there's a big success or failure. I'm not so much trying to uncover the next big hit and talk to people who had previous hits about how they did it.
This cartoon sums it up best.

http://www.neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5...

Seriously though, the problem is that any real solution needs to accommodate housing data internally that's accessible concurrently with backups. Once you do that you still need IT involvement, which still makes it 3 months slower than excel.

+ Most companies have share-point, and the newer versions allow users to define spreadsheets with rules that can be edited directly in excel yet still upload centrally for all users to access with backups.

I think you're trying to find a sweet spot where technology will overcome organizational bureaucracy. It's a tight spot.

Best of Luck!
Interviews about failed companies are very important to me.

After you listen to a few of of my interviews about failed companies, you'll start to find commonalities. (Doing what everybody says is a common mistake, for example.) And, it'll stop you from repeating mistakes others have made.
Since everyone seems to agree with you I find it odd that more people aren't flagging this article. I've said it many times, please stop up-voting all the Apple articles. They don't belong here and nearly every one of them is discovered to be crap or inaccurate. Even after someone points it out and gets up-voted for it the article still remains on the front page. Exercise your ability to clean up HN -- flag!
We did not talk about the Magna Carta at all in school (as far as I remember), but then, I have a biased German education.

The founding of the US paralleled the earlier founding of the Netherlands. Both fought for independence from a foreign monarchy and were founded at republics. The Dutch also embraced capitalism and a pursuit of happiness. They might not have been as individualistic as the Americans are usually seen as, but the Americans had a very community-minded side to them, too.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic#History:

"From an economic perspective, the Republic of the United Provinces completely outperformed all expectations; it was a surprise to many that a nation not based on the church or on a single royal leader could be so successful. This period is known in the Netherlands as the Golden Age. The Dutch dominated world trade in the 17th century, conquering a vast colonial empire and operating the largest fleet of merchantmen of all western nations. The County of Holland was the wealthiest and most urbanized region of Europe."
IIRC, the underpinnings of resolution independence were there since the time it was sold with black cubic computers. At that time, NeXT used DisplayPostscript. When Apple decided to base its new OS on NeXT technology, they replaced it with something more royalty-friendly (DPS licensing was quite expensive).

Solaris also used DPS and had a couple demos with it (last time I played with them was on Solaris 2.5). NeWS was also based on PostScript, something that, legend says, made writing apps for it very... uncomfortable.
The best coffee in NYC is at Roasting Plant in the West Village. They also have free WiFi and don't care how long you stay. Also, each seat/table has its own dedicated power outlet.
No kidding. When I read Rockefeller's comment I couldn't help but think of a spoiled child who didn't get his way. I don't think it's hard to figure out why they didn't show up: they didn't see any value in what was happening.
forgive my amateur and completely unscientific postulation here, but is it possible that this conversation is moot seeing as normal train tracks do not have to extend at normal train stations, despite the rails being steel and continuous?
Agreed. This is an exceptional piece of work. Very engaging too.

I’ll be referring back to this.
Just because Saudi Arabia acts barbarically within its own borders ( and they're not alone in that) doesn't mean that chopping up a dissidents in an embassy in a foreign country is somehow OK or acceptable.
My biggest complaint is that Windows doesn't allow ":" in file names. I just substitute "-", which is good enough, but not standard.
Not even Saudi Arabia is arguing that this was a normal or reasonable punishment within their justice system. They prosecuted everyone involved in Khashoggi's murder (or, well, everyone who they say was involved) and convicted eight of them.
The one error in that post is he worries about wearing out the fan. If air flow is restricted the fan is doing less work, and will last longer while consuming less electricity. An easy and fun experiment.
>He had connections with the Saudi government and other organizations.

I'd be surprised if a journalist DID'T have connections to government officials. For many (depending on what you cover) that's a big part of the job.
> b) It's literally an NSA leaked exploit????? Like are you kidding me using an NSA developed exploit as "pretty basic stuff" lol

It must have been very expensive and innovative, does that make it hard to copy into your scriptz folder?
It is legal, according to my attorney and accountant. It's a pretty simple question, not sure why its worthy of ridicule or your assumption that I am somehow unaware of my financial situation lol
Is microservice architecture a way of embracing rather than ignoring Conways law?
Am I the only one who thinks most novels are 90% fluff? Like, they can certainly be entertaining, but the idea of the author making an argument that you need to decode and become enlightened by sits with me the wrong way. Why not just come out and say your points in a condensed form without the story around it?

Does it improve learning to have to decode information from a novel? Does it stick with you better, or make a more relatable case?

The same is true for most non fiction books. Endless stories and examples for something you could have said in 10 pages.

This is why I prefer articles, blog posts, etc. I want to learn, but don’t want to spend hours reading fluff. I enjoy TV shows for entertainment, and don’t feel the need to decode them, because I don’t believe there would be anything in there that isn’t the 50th variation of something I’ve heard before.

Am I missing out on incredible revelations? Upon reading a great book, I’ve never felt enlightened, even when prodded to analyze it in school. Maybe I haven’t tried hard enough, or maybe the point is lost on me, but it just doesn’t seem as worthwhile as so many people claim.