skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When were you getting money out of Mt Gox up to?
http://match.ctglab.nl/ is quite useful.
> In 2001 he was linked to a website, passthison.com, which utilized multiple-window launching to snag Web viewers, an advertising practice rarely seen outside of the online pornography industry.

It's funny how 2001 bad spyware practices used only on porn sites have been utilized by mainstream media sites via iOS/Android browser redirects in 2015.
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I might just suck at PR

I don't think it's that. It looks like you did a good job of getting media coverage.

You just picked a really hard product to make successful.

The problem is J. Random Gamer has no reason to buy it, unless enough of his gaming buddies have it that he gets shut out of games if he doesn't have it. If he's the only person in the game who has it, or even if half the people in the game have it, the cheaters are still in the game and he's spent $125 without any benefit. And that's assuming the games support it - if no games support it properly, there's even less point.

There's a chapter about this sort of thing in Thomas Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehaviour, if you're interested. Not cheaters in pc gaming (the book was written in 1978) but the game theory around similar situations.

One option is to make the product known to people who run the competitions, then wait for a major cheating scandal and lobby them to make it compulsory - but obviously that would only give you pro sales, not the much higher volume consumer sales. It might be possible to arrange a bunch of great servers where the device is mandatory, so early adopters get some benefits.

In the longer term I'd also suggest some sort of IP licensing, where something compatible with your product is built right into gaming mice. That way users have one less thing to cart around, and companies who know how to make and distribute hardware can take care of that for you. And you'll have a much easier time getting it made mandatory if it's "$1 in every gaming mouse from a variety of competing manufacturers" rather than $125 with a single source :)
I thought they chose the name to fit their inclusive, inviting target with the console. "Wii Play Sports" -- yes we do!
This is really great news for my company, as we have several Angular 1 applications still in development that can benefit from this incremental upgrade pattern.
I don't see how enforcing patents is equivalent to murder.

It's not like if it weren't for the evil pharma companies, everyone would have access to advanced medicine. Quite the contrary, in fact.

We are not talking about software here. Developing medications requires huge investments in developed countries, and no one will develop in the other countries because there is no patent protection in those countries.
> Comparing it to HP doesn't really make sense

Indeed, I should have made it clear that I was looking for an appropriate comparison, not meaning to suggest that HP (which was just the first thing that came to mind) was an appropriate comparison. Thanks for the insight!
>> I commented on the ridiculousness of someone complaining about a couple of developers losing 2 minutes of productivity.

And what if that style of chatting and communication is the cultural norm, and such interruptions happen every few minutes, all day long?
Code What You Know
Spamford Wallace! A blast from the past. I remember the epic Slashdot articles following the story of the vigilantes that hunted him down. He was easily one of the most-hated villains of the late 1990s Internet.
I've seen this on the "xfinitywifi" SSID even when logged in with a valid comcast subscriber ID... :(

Wonder how it handles apps that expect json, or jquery/ajax calls that works with html fragments. Or even someone authoring a wordpress blog post?
We can use one definition of the word, that offered on the Wikipedia page for Dictatorship:

"is a form of government where political authority is monopolized by a person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity's power remains strong."

Both Chavez and Ortega regularly intimidated opposition media and relied heavily on propaganda to maintain popular support. Both abolished term limits in their respective countries to remain Presidents for Life. Chavez personally selected his successor, Nicolas Maduro, who narrowly beat Henrique Capriles, Chavez's main opposition, in the 2013 presidential elections, elections that Capriles protested as fraudulent. When Ortega couldn't get the Supreme Court to support his unlimited term limits, he replaced dissenting Justices with sympathetic ones.

If these aren't all the signs of a dictatorship, I don't know what is.
I guess I would say the bad meaning of 88 is not very relevant and certainly shouldn't stop a company operating in Asia from using it. Heck, a golf company using 88 would mean double snowmen rather than any dark meaning beyond a bad score.
Why not just target the businesses that the spam is promoting? It seems that with enough spam complaints on file, an investigator could subpoena records to see where a business is paying for robospammers.
> We carry cell phones which are fountains of data

But only because we choose to. We don't have to.
Hacker or Retard?
Thanks for letting me know. We are getting a lot of traffic, and working on fixing it.

UPDATE: the website should be faster now.
I made a nice bit of money spamming those early community pages. . . Ahh yes the good 'ole days.
Most definitely, it helps to know people in person rather than applying through a job posting though.
Thanks! Those are all good ideas.

One of them is already implemented: Keyboard shortcuts are available in the advanced options for most exercises.
The 1 rule all designers should live by
For one, it's written in TypeScript. There is one codebase for ES5/6, TypeScript, and Dart. A big benefit of Angular 2 is the better tooling you get with TypeScript and Dart.

It uses things like classes, decorators, and the <template> tag. It uses a virtual DOM, which is still a fairly new concept. It can run in Web Workers and you can even use it for native applications which do not have a regular DOM.

It really is quite different from anything one could have started back in 2009. Even those odd-looking attribute might have not worked because HTML5, which specified a lot of those things more precisely, was far from being done.

Angular 1.x made pretty good use of the things which were available at the time.
In a fierce fight for talent Canadian startups try to edge out Google and Facebook
Every political ideology claims to make things better (if only for some folks). The practical question is - which one is likely to devolve into a pathological state, given a historical and cultural milieu where it is implemented, plus the natural limitations on information transfer between humans and entropy that pushes against our organizational efforts?
Really like the discussion of different tools :)
Could be infiniband
alpha <> hardened
How many other HN accounts might we know you as?
Truecaller has that feature.
I was making a distinction between "hurts" and "doesn't help."
A Mapillary photo for every what3words
Angular is my 'plan b' while I continue working with ExtJS.

Last December I coded up just enough of an app in Angular to ensure that my Sencha-focused Flask app would work with another JS framework should the need ever arise. I'd hate to have to go that route of course (even if Sencha changes hands), but it's nice to have options.
The amazing thing about wix.com is that they went all-out with their marketing in Germany and embraced the phonetic similarity.

I'm not sure what audience they're aiming for by having the ads consist of people explaining that (and how) they wank -- with the obvious "twist ending" where they make it clear they're referring to using their product rather than masturbating. But I guess anyone turned off their product by the "racy" ads likely would have avoided it because of the name in the first place.
"You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the capital of Minnesota."
It's a complete POSIX filesystem, and we implement a log-structured filesystem on top of S3. So, you can use it with your regular programs expecting POSIX semantics.

Mounting S3 lets you view the objects in a bucket, but it doesn't behave like a regular file system.
It's not just Spain either... Chile uses 'vosotros' as a sort-of-weird version of 'tu' (with some dropped sounds) e.g. 'como estas?' becomes 'como estai?' and sounding like 'como etai?'

Also:
tire / tire shop: llanata / llanteria (mexico), neumatico / (tienda de) vulcanizacion (chile).
Corn: maiz (mexico), choclo (chile).
Car: coche (mexico), auto (chile).
etc etc etc

(I'm not latin, I just like traveling there, so dont take the above as gospel :)
Compatibility is mostly on the interface level. The underlying semantics are often different or extended, though kept reasonable. This emerges from the fact that you're not actually setting traps in the kernel, but sending RPC messages to servers.
Bikeshedding during code reviews
The blog link on the website fleshes out the thinking a little further:

http://blog.haskellformac.com/blog/from-the-read-eval-print-...

The author also had a blog post on it here:

http://justtesting.org/post/103422773731/why-are-playgrounds...
It's got nothing to do with Moore and everything to do with the collective fingers being pulled out of bums by the standards committees and finally adding new features to js after 10 odd years of stagnation.

And given javascript is still way behind the other languages at the moment, javascript libraries still have a lot of settling down to do.

For example, one of the big problem with javascript was specifically that there was no way to watch for property changes, so all sorts of crazy strategies were adopted, like getters and setters as methods, or scanning all registered objects for changes. But they all suck and force you to write crappy code. As new ES features are adopted, less of these dirty hacks are needed but they cause major changes in libraries.
Lisp for example has unwind-protect, which is guaranteed to run the unwind code when you leave its scope in which way whatever (be it an exception or a return). So this is a reliable way of running clean-up code at the end of a code block.
The problem is that most people's mobile data plans have caps, so if they do any kind of non-trivial web browsing, they need to connect via wifi.
Cool, I'll definitely read this when I get home! Would love to compare notes against what I know regarding embedded NAND techniques.

The semiconductor industry really isn't a bad jumping off point for data scientists. Most of the work I did in PE was statistical analysis of DRAM module tests and trying to hunt down trends in test data to weed out failures earlier. Having an environment where you can set up experiments with a million data points is pretty sweet in its own way.
what about the Chevy NOVA?
https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

"large subset of POSIX including reading/writing files, directories, symlinks, mode, uid/gid, and extended attributes"
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That last paragraph was really depressing to me for some reason.
Man, don't put "dumb" anywhere near "retarded". I don't want another literal user for a word (retarded=delayed, dumb=mute) to disappear in the name of political correctness.

To quote from TGOTG: "This dumb tree, he is my friend." Groot is dumb because his is effectively a mute. Drax was not commenting in any way on his intelligence.
This is totally offtopic, but one cannot reply to old comments on hacker news and you made me read HPMOR, so I have to went now:

> Ironically, most of the better bits, and indeed the overarching plot thread of HPMOR are largely down to the huge gaps in various characters' rational thought. If Harry had made the obvious "let's not trust the sinister guy that's obviously manipulative and definitely more experienced at it than me" leap right at the beginning it might have been a much shorter series.

Oh God, yes! After 2500 pages finishing, uff, I have to say it was not uninteresting, but is way overdone how singular awesome that Harry there is. I also disliked that he "solves" death. I get that transhumanists/futurists are pretty scared by it, but the story ending with everyone in the magical world getting virtually immortal and forever young? Apart from the wish fulfillment by the author, how would that even work with population growth?

I am also a bit wary now about fanfiction in general, because after so much time invested reading such a long story, it does change your imagination/interpretation of the original story.
Data, Complete Records of Pharmaceutical Adverse Events Reported to FDA
Are you in the US? How lenient are carriers these days when it comes to tethering? I have AT&T and while their bandwidth and coverage is good, I cannot get unlimited data with my plan so I'm SOL.
Yes, I make 100k+ a year as a Designer, fully remote. I'm Australian.
Hi Ben, thanks for your feedback. We will add more technical details and clarify the differences between objectivefs and s3fs-fuse.

ObjectiveFS is a log structured filesystem that we implemented completely from scratch. It is a POSIX filesystem and works with the existing Linux and OS X tools and software.
Fundamentally a good idea, but ...

They're asking companies to trust a 30 employee startup with vital company data. The engineering might be sound, but they'd better have some outstanding sales people as well, since using ClearSky requires a big leap of faith.
MINIX 3, Hurd, DragonFly BSD (hybrid) are existing counterexamples. Amoeba, Sprite and Spring were research Unixes with microkernels.
"Is this number generating call volumes two standard deviations outside the norm?"
There are plenty of long-standing options other than Stripe if you don't go the "run the store yourself" route.
How do you account for spelling?

In Fijian, "caita" means "fuck" or "fuck it", but the word is pronounced "thaita". From a fijian perspective, seeing both "caita" and "thaita" would bring the swear-word to mind.
The Evolution of Magazine Covers
https://weworkremotely.com/ aggregates remote-friendly and remote-only tech positions.
And some of the drivers are nice enough to let them sleep in the bus when it goes out of service at night.
Any scripts out there that go on the offensive, rather than just opting me out? Something that sends reams of plausible data to Microsoft so that any semblance of usefulness is lost in the chaff.
Unfortunately the first two options aren't really viable if you're an ad supported website. HTTPS will kill your ad revenue since most ad scripts don't work properly over HTTPS.
you could lease promotion for a competitor and wait for them to get fined.
The only way I can get features that are important to my daily work is to interpose system processes.

So no, I don't welcome "SIP". There are better ways to solve that problem.
Don't connect to open Wifi hotspots willy nilly then. Is AT&T taking advantage of the situation? Absolutely, but this is what happens when you connect to any WiFi network you find while on the road. Today it's AT&T, tomorrow it'll be someone else.
I'm a little confused about how the "pointerness" of pointers is getting lost in LLVM. The mill can't be the only architecture that encodes extra data in the high bits of pointers right? The 64 bit objective-C runtime and Xbox 360 come to mind as systems where this is done. Clearly LLVM can generate good code 64 bit Objective-C... Am I missing something?
If it's ubiquitous, how is it an error? Where do you think the grammar of a living language comes from?
It works fairly well -- it identifies +75% of spammers correctly and I believe it hasn't made a false positive yet:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webascende...
It's easy to get drawn into doing this kind of intrusive advertising when you have a captive audience on a WiFi network. It's an idea I've discussed or been involved in "testing" a number of times. (background: I've been building/operating wireless/WiFi/Hotspot networks since 2001)

The reality is AT&T probably has no idea how bad this is, and likely would not care. Somewhere, someone sees the potential dollars on the upside and that's the only factor that matters.

There are better ways to monetize free WiFi today. Advertising is a piece of that puzzle, but there are others too.
The prevalence of stuff that likes to auto-update without asking you makes this even more dicey. I ran through 50% of my monthly mobile-data quota once when OSX decided to download a big OS update over tethering (my monthly quota is 1GB). It'd be nice if there were an OS-level service letting me mark certain SSIDs as not suitable for unnecessary data use, the way Android knows not to download app updates over the data connection.

Nowadays I mostly avoid tethering unless I really have to use it, since it's always rolling the dice whether it's going to eat hundreds of megabytes of my data quota without asking. Fortunately, there are so many wifi hotspots around that I'm finding tethering at all increasingly unnecessary. And a VPN takes care of the security issues well enough.
{{username}} is a one-way-binding. Two-way-binding happens only with ng-model and = on isolate scopes.
Was it JTRIG? In any case, here are links to the stories from the Intercept.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/controversial-...
You would hope it would be checking Content-Type headers or similar... but yeah, I'm sure it must subtly break a lot of stuff.
Highly related -- the notion that we need to preserve linguistic diversity by making sure obsure-language communities stay where they are, instead of learning languages that allow them to participate in the world economy.

Oddly, this is an area of debate in linguistics, where you find people saying things like "well, these communities with their languages spoken by 300 people are great for us professionally, but it's hard to say the parents are wrong for wanting their children to be able to have jobs outside the village." But... public opinion (in the US) seems to be entirely on the side of stasis - if the world included an inaccessible 300-person village with its own language last year, moral correctness requires that that village and that language persist as they are forever, and what the villagers might want is irrelevant.

Communication media are not primarily of benefit for their aesthetic appeal. They are of benefit for letting people communicate.
How is this different from the report spam or phishing button that is built into Gmail?
It comes across as a brilliantly absurd joke at first, though I suspect that to be a case of poor translation and an even poorer choice of analogy.

I see this pertaining to quantum physics/computing. I think it's trying to posit: "fluctuations in physically-coupled systems (tug-of-war dynamics) can be used to reliably and efficiently infer state/logic when the initial, discrete distribution is known."

To break that down a bit...

- They describe tug-of-war dynamics as a sort of "rigid physical coupling," and briefly allude to practical applications, stating that they've implemented this dynamic in "... quantum dots, single photons and atomic switches."

- They are using a poor example as the conceptual nature of the 'slot machines' and iron bar seems irrelevant -- it's just an analogy for a "measurable state" represented in a physically-coupled construct.

As for why it's relevant, it seems to be the cornerstone of an alternate paradigm to computing that when scaled down (to nanotechnology and quantum particles) can allow physical systems to represent logic and state without electrical transistors. That would appear to have application in every field from medicine to defense (smart materials, targeted drug delivery, et. al).

The breakthrough has 0 to do with the lovely "iron bar," and instead seems to be in their method of physical coupling, allowing them to represent binary switches reliably in the physical realm at quantum scale.

Then again...

"Other than this fluctuation, we added another fluctuation to our model. The important point is ... fluctuations."

http://i.imgur.com/bHFwiof.jpg
Google's security chief: intelligence agencies do not have access
Im glad to see that Facebook is doing this. They have one of the largest user bases out there, and could do a lot to make encryption "viable" by enhancing awareness.

I will be interested to see if they put out any numbers on this. And I will be more interested to see if they start actively promoting this feature.
"Nobel laureate Gerard t'Hooft, who was present for the discussion, has been thinking about information loss in a similar way, and he cited several papers he has published on the subject. It will take more discussion — and much comparing of math equations — to establish what's new about Hawking's theories in relation to t'Hooft's, and whether Hawking has overcome some of the issues associated with earlier iterations of the idea."
Oh God. It's like I thought I knew how to read and suddenly the comic books were replaced with Shakespeare and I realise there is a huge mountain to climb.

Somehow my children cannot grow up as mathematically stunted as I am.
First, it's a misconception that anarchists are against governance. They're against the "state," a hierarchical form of government. They didn't have difficulty organizing for defense/violence--in fact, a common criticism of the Spanish anarchist movement was the appropriation of farm land by force. The failure was due to the coordinated efforts of both capitalist democracies and authoritarian communists to impede their efforts at maintaining their society. Most importantly, IIRC, steel shipments from the US were halted, which reduced their fighting ability.
Sure. One form of government often changes to another. Democratic Republics change into oligarchies, like what's going on in the US.
It is 2015. If you're not running your own VPN on aws or if you're not using solutions like Cloak, you get what you get.

https://www.getcloak.com/

I would prefer that carriers didn't do this kind of nonsense, but I'd also prefer that companies like Facebook & Google didn't have the core of their business built around the same function. We live in a world where people expect miraculous technology for "free."

It's trivial to get around this.
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Holy crap, it's Spamford. I totally lost track of him for years, but this is his one-trick pony. He knows nothing else besides how to send spam, and will do it no matter what he has to break into to do it. Very obsessed.
Show HN: DOTNET monitoring solution aaS
Paid Parental Leave Is Fueling Sweden's Startup Boom
It's a very power populist message. But it's hard to channel that into reform. Holding banks responsible for the crash just wasn't possible. Creating regulation for the future was possible, but it's wonkish and doesn't lend itself to crowd pleasing measures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
For those who don't know, this fellow was famous as early as the 90s [1].

If he returns to spamming again and again, doesn't it mean that the punishment is lesser than the gains to be had? And too bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Wallace
Him getting access was the fraud part of the charges. The spamming was covered under the contempt part, because he was under court orders to not use facebook due to prior spamming.
Ask HN: Is it painful for you to manage a crowdsourcing campaign?
- Forum posts (with multiple usernames and/or different email accounts)

- Managing email polls

- Polling friends.

- Using freelance researchers

Are there people who find it difficult to manage these research-oriented processes?

Would it be useful if there were a central repository for these channels that you could manage from one place (instead of across multiple tabs and accounts)?
I think that the Haskell Platform has binaries for the Mac: https://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html .