skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hints were littered everywhere that they did this.

Google does malware detection. Not on every crawl, but a certain percentage of crawls. At my old social network site, they detected malware that must have come from ad/tracking networks because those pages had no UGC. This suggests they were using Windows virtual machines (among others) and very likely using browsers other than a heavily modified curl / wget and a headless Chrome.

They started crawling the JavaScript-rendered version of the web and AJAX schemes that use URL shebangs. This was explicit acknowledgement that they were running JavaScript and did advanced DOM parsing.

They have always told people that cloaking (either to Google crawler IP blocks, user-agent, or by other means) content is a violation and they actively punished it. This suggests they do content detection and likely execute JavaScript to detect if extra scripts change the content of the page for clients that don't appear to be Googlebot.

They have long had measures in place to detect invisible text (eg. white text on white background) or hidden text (where HTML elements are styled over other HTML elements). This suggests both CSS rendering and JS rendering.
It sounds like this would be a target for some social activist data mining.

Scrape NextDoor, find the people who are posting weirdly racist screeds, and send a well dressed delegation to their doorstep to let them know that their name and identifying details will be posted on another site identifying them as racist bullies if they don't alter their behavior.

Or, scrap the doorstepping and just send an email blast to their employers, business partners, and facebook contacts.

If nothing else, they'll stop posting to NextDoor.

Yep, it's rude, crude and thoroughly within the reach of any group of activists that want to get some notoriety. It's also one of those things that will drive home just how panoptic our society has become.
By abandoning their AJAX crawling scheme as described in the OP, they are essentially saying that they will evaluate JS for all sites. Do you have some reason to doubt that?
> Maybe this is worth a patent, or maybe not.

Maybe start with another question. What do you think the odds are that there was any kind of causal chain from the invention of this technique by the patent holder to Apple's use of the technique?
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I view it differently. In the same way a lot of online forums shadowban people, I look at Nextdoor as a shadowban from real life. Here these crazies are, thinking they're having this change-making dialogue with their neighbors, but in reality, they're just posting to a void on the internet while the real life version of their neighborhood continues on. (Also, the forum moderator was deleting posts from anyone that was kindly pointing out "hey, this isn't real neighborly of you.")
Yes, I'm sure all of this is true.

For you.

You are an anecdote, not data.

I'm sure I could just as easily trot out examples of folks with bad backs or knees because of extended standing, or due to bad standing posture.

I could probably also find examples of people with circulation problems or other issues as a result of extended standing.

We were sold on the idea that standing, alone, versus sitting, will offset the life shortening effects of being sedentary. Given this study seems to contradict that, the picture is a lot more nuanced.
Yes, I want filtering, and no, I don't want to write my own javascript to do it.
I'm well aware of the reason it was created that way. I just don't think it makes sense in an era where 3/4 of the states are just arbitrarily chosen chunks of land rather than formerly sovereign entities.
What is the unsubsidized price of an NYC transit ride? For example, the unsubsidized price of a MUNI ride in SF is $10. So there is an edge case where a subsidized uber-like service would be cheaper than MUNI for the state.
Perhaps from far away; up close all I see is deep cuts to run asphalt and dirt shoulders that are going to churn up mud every time it rains.

It's not necessarily that turbines are ugly, to me it's the infrastructure necessary to support the turbines that is ugly.
I believe this was invented by a Washington State-based company, Inventist. They also came up with the Electric Unicycle (EUC).

http://www.inventist.com
This makes sense. Would it be sufficient to just see how the content (eg new <ul> elements or something along those lines) on the page changes when JS is executed, without actually rendering anything?
Jack Dorsey still owns close to 25% of Square, pretty incredible:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/0001193125153...
They're starting to consider page load speed as a factor in rankings, which would lead me to believe that they're letting all the social buttons / trackers / media load.
Might not be something they do on a first pass, might be something they do as part of preparing for interviews. But even then probably not.

I'm on your side of this bet. I'm sure if someone recognized a username it could make a difference one way or the other, but there's just too many applications for it to be something they dig into.
"[E]ven without those subsidies, alternative energies can often compete with traditional sources." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/energy-environmen...

"Wind is now the cheapest way to bring new electricity generation to the grid in the US" http://cleantechnica.com/2015/04/13/solar-wind-power-prices-...
If you like angles or big numbers? 0/100°C trumps 32/212°F in my book; and body temperatures – 37°C vs 98°F – are equally difficult to remember.
>>> Wish I could tell all of this to my 14-year-old self.

I often think this about any number of things, and then I realize there were probably a lot of people in my life who were telling them to me, and I just didn't want to listen to them. Being 14 is really hard.
I still see the health risks, like to heart disease, cancer, etc. Might be because I'm grandfathered in?
Generally the result is not immediate. The speed of your network and Siri's delay you should have a second or two to interrupt the attack.
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That is the only context in which that gesture makes sense.

You couldn't patent the steering wheel just because you stick it in something that's not a car. You'd have to use it for something that's not steering or wheeling. Slide-to-unlock is obvious because it's based on a bolt that you ... slide to unlock. There's no novelty in unlocking something, software or not, by solving such a simple 'puzzle' as moving your finger sideways. It's certainly not a stroke of genius.
This looks good. Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you would like us to send you a repost invite. This is an experiment we've been working on that gives good stories a second chance at attention on HN.
Per my driver last night, if you do get dropped from Uber because of poor ratings (minus 4.7 I believe), you just pay $60 to go to a Driver Enlightenment class to get reinstated in Uber.
You can always export your raw data from 23andMe and plug it into third party (and I guess foreign) services that will give you some health info. Of course you should probably approach the results with some skepticism. I know someone who found out she had a gene that causes an early and very aggressive cancer and now can take pre-emptive measures that quite likely will save her life.
A tip is additional compensation for great service solely at the discretion of the passenger.

If cab drivers expect a tip regardless of service quality, then the tip might as well be added to the cab rate.
The reality is always more mundane.

They showed supposed UI from Pathfinder displays image blocks of varying sizes in random locations then zooms them all to the right place. It makes a nice effect for the uninitiated, but I have trouble understanding why a computer would act like that.

You can see that the real NASA uses fvwm and xv to display images from Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Au-S-tjyiU&feature=youtu.be...
In my opinion, there is plenty of noise, but the truly excellent signal remains and pops up at a reasonable rate. But I've only been around 5 or 6 years, so I always wonder if I simply don't have a concept of the "good old days" that people are nostalgic about.
23andme user here (one of the first).

If the disease in question could be hard to handle mentally/emotionally, they specifically include a warning that is very direct and says "Are you sure you want to know this?".
wouldn't you rather make necessary arrangements and preparations for your family w that knowledge?

edit: i don't mean this as a criticism, genuine curiosity.
Great suggestion. We've used LDA for topic modeling in the past. I'm a big fan of running word2vec and clustering.
If you show the US data, people could compare the numbers and draw their own conclusion.
The FDA put a stop to crowd-DNA research via the 23AM law suit. Prior to the lawsuit 23AM had a large user base completing questionnaires effectively mapping health risks, traits and allergies to genes. Not sure what the Food and Drug administration has to do with my genes other than regulatory overreach.
> In certain Asian households it is expected that you take your shoes off

As well as all of Canada (when we have a house party, there can be a pile of 30+ shoes at the front door, and someone inevitably loses one or both shoes), and most other countries...

Shoes in the house is the strangest part of the US to me.
One minor nitpick: Powershell is always available. XP/2003 is well out of support and shouldn't be installed. Vista and 2008 came with it once SP1 was introduced.
How long were you on hold while your kid was clutching his arm?

On the one hand, on the other hand. Many people are not good at judging what is an emergency and what isn't when it comes to health care, especially since vast swathes of the public no longer have more than rudimentary home health-care skills. So breaking your arm -- emergency or not? Concussion -- emergency or not? Falling out of a tree or off a ladder and having lots of bleeding, but not sure what happened -- emergency or not? Chest pain -- emergency or not? And what if you're the one sick? Say you've got what you think is a gallstone and you're in a lot of pain. How do you shop around? How can you evaluate for yourself how long it is ok to wait, and how do you deal with it when you go to see the cheaper internist for an evaluation but want the surgery done at the cheaper surgery but the internist looks at you and says, "Holy )(&! you're going in now" and they take you to the expensive surgery? And then how do you make sure some specialist doesn't visit you while you are unconscious and then charge for that "consultation"?

A fun read with respect to the last question is on pregnancy in the US [1].

I agree with you in many ways -- it would be reasonable to give estimates, the ACA is insurance "reform" rather than health care reform, insurance is not health care. One big problem is that if your car doesn't work you can put off repairing it for a bit until you find a decent mechanic, but when you get acutely ill you can't put off care. (Well, you can try, but it just costs more later unless you die quickly.)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/health/american-way-of-bir...
Can you blame them? Most criminals are in fact black (which is not to say they are criminals because they are black, it's just a statistical fact). Moreover, it is all about looks. Dress like some gangster and you'll get bad looks from people. I bet no one gives the looks to a black man on a suit.
That must be why tuition fees are so high and record levels of student debt is required.

What an upside down system!
Except that the law doesn't say "Whatever the company claims is needed for their business". There are courts and judges who decide if a particular bit of information is actually necessary.
This was the missing piece for Polymer elements / custom web components. Now that Google has confirmed it's indexing JavaScript, web-component adoption should take off.
Finally. It was obvious we would have to get to that point eventually, it just wasn't clear when.
I bet if anything they would glance at the karma count, and even then it would be a small factor in the decision making process.
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"First, those "jocks" that get all the girls, have (generalizing here) other very serious problems, are often emotionally stunted, angry at their dads, or whatever."

I highly doubt that this is true.
Maybe give CentOS 7 a try? It's literally install the rpm, start the docker service, then run whatever container you want to run.
symbolic AI has complexity/computability issue, I'm wondering how this is solved with propagator.
Eight hours. Fifth Tech Support person. There seems to be magical thinking..."if I just try this link instead". I mean the pointers point to the same executable.

My guess is that there's a call to disk that doesn't run through the appropriate API [or my computer is p'owned] based on some assumption that is almost always correct but not in this edge case. Windows reports correct free space on the install partition.

Maybe it's because the Windows partion is on Disk 2 (the third disk).

Anyway, it's probably approaching more than a dozen downloads of the installer today and I was able to take a small perverse pleasure in watching the tech open Windows Task Manager and see that everything in the startup tab was already disabled. Took the fifth tech to look, unfortunately.
I've heard of planning to use alcohol - ethyl alcohol - as fuel for Kliper spacecraft in RKK Energiya. Reminding that Soyuz capsule still uses hydrogen peroxide as its RCS fuel.

So alcohol isn't that much of "non-real" fuel.
True. I doubt facebook will do anything that prevents a healthy discussion (unless its unlawful) for its USP is users.
It appears that YC funds fewer than 100 startups twice per year, if you take five minutes per company that's about one full person-day every round, and you can probably offload that to an intern or something.
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It solves the problem for you, but the rest of your neighbors have to put up with it - and it further isolates you from the problems they face.
Maybe true, but "stone-old" ideas don't mean "bad ideas". Neural networks were "stone old" until all this big data stuff went crazy and now suddenly they're on the frontpage of hacker news all the time again and people think they're the New Hotness (TM). Similar with many long-forgotten functional programming techniques which are being talked about as new stuff, much of it is refinements of old ideas, but finally hitting the mainstream.

The AI Winter is thawing... but whose lap will it fall into after the defrost? Big data mining organizations, or everyday hackers, or....?
No joke. When my brother uses Uber on the south end of Mercer Island, it regularly shows the "closest" car as being in Seward Park - about 1/2 mile away across a lake. The bridge of course is far north, and pretty much every Uber in Seattle's downtown or centrally-located neighborhoods is significantly closer than the one Uber picks.

Seems like they are simply using as-the-crow-flies distance, which is kinda crazy.
No. Sorry, but it's still you who choose to live that far away from your job. You could have chosen another job, or you could have chosen to spend more money on a house, or buy less house.

Nobody forced you to live where you do right now. That decision was all you.
In a fighter, the cockpit is too cramped and the weight/balance figures too tight to allow for backup nav systems, other than a compass. With it, they could drop down and follow a road or power-line home (at the expense of greater fuel consumption and exposure to hostile ground fire). But if they still have an operating radio, they'd probably call air traffic control or an E-3 Sentry for directions. Larger planes like the B-52 might still have their radio beacon equipment installed.
I thought my department was in charge of release timing? Engineering be damned!
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I've got a social problem - I'll fix it with technology! Now you've got two problems.
Google announced that it has no plans to integrate into Windows 10 Action Center.
It's entirely possible for folks living in the same neighborhood to not actually see each other all that often, especially not in any sense beyond waving at each other from across the street.
outside view: How much does other companies pay for similar positions?

inside view: How much am I willing to take without expecting to feel disatisfied less than 12 months from now?
Ruggedized table top displays
Does NextDoor even have a way for people living in the neighborhood to be moderators?
How many people have simultaneously been CEO of two separate public companies? The list has to be pretty small. No wonder Twitter waited so long to make Jack the official CEO.
The latter remains to be seen, the former is good - and the number of flights they had to achieve that is quite odd. Looks like Bezos is a follower of quite different development philosophy than e.g. John Carmack.

Blue Origin way of doing things isn't clear - may be by design.
> I bet no one gives the looks to a black man on a suit.

You mean like a work uniform, like the kind a mail carrier would typically wear, that is mentioned specifically in the article?
The blog post is dated October 2nd; Is HN just learning of this announcement late, or is their blog displaying the draft date rather than the publication date?
Heh. Still have an Armadillo Aerospace sweatshirt in my closet. Wonder if it'll be a "collectors item" someday like those SF magazines that are worth a whopping $5 more than I paid for them 30 years ago :-)
> ...which in many cases doesn't exist yet.

There is suddenly a good business case for them to exist, and hence probably more funding available now

> it will be addressed by adjusting the relevant European-level legislation

The judgment was based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and is basically the EU's Bill of Rights. Legislation isn't so flexible here.

> that disclosure to allied governments

Is the USA allied to many EU governments or the EU? It has tapped the phones right at the top of the German government.
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The typical chart looks something like this; http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/files/2014/01/P140103-...

But even that does not include a substantial number of assistance programs, like TANF (up to $10k per year in cash), Section 8, and forget about a proper analysis of progressive income-based-pricing for things like college tuition.

Most of all, these analysis always assume the cost of working is $0 when in fact it costs a lot to get to work and be at work all day, as well as the marginal value of not being employed and spending that time doing work you would otherwise pay someone else to do (childcare, housework, home schooling, etc.) is very significant.

It also depends heavily on how healthy the family is, and therefore the market value of $0 deductible Medicaid / ACA. GSA pegs the average value of Medicaid around $8,000 but consider the max family out-of-pocket for Bronze ACA without any subsidies is $13,200, and that's not even counting the premiums, so that $8,000 value is assuming a a relatively health family of 4.

If the family has chronic health needs, then getting eligible for Medicaid can save upwards of $25,000 per year between premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Also note, SSDI is ~$48,000/yr for a fully vested disabled individual with 2 children.

So I definitely agree if you just look at the tax return the average healthy family of 4 will see net income rising certainly before you hit $100k gross. How much their cost-of-living is increasing in lock-step with that rise, versus how much is eaten by increasing work-related and income-related expenses is a more contentious topic which I have yet to find, even from GSA, a truly comprehensive analysis which includes the effects of the ACA.
I like Square's product but the growing net losses concern me.
Just because they're out of support doesn't mean there aren't still existing installs around.
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Low tax rate and compliant DPC. That's Irish pitch to foreign companies.
Windows comes with powershell ISE which TBH shits on everything. No one seems to know it exists though.
You can't, but you can make a point to tell your children, which is what I've done. You have to stop the cycle early, or it does become pervasive and nobody wins in the end, nobody. Exhibit A is the Columbine massacre. The kids were bullied until they finally snapped and a lot of people lost their lives because everybody around them failed at stopping it.

When my son told me he was being bullied, I showed him a few BJJ moves to help out, then I told him, "If someone wants to throw down, then do it, and always swing first. It doesn't matter if you win or not, you're going to get into trouble regardless. Don't wait for someone to make the first move."

A week later, I got called into the principals office about him fighting. I went in and read the principal the riot act. My son repeatedly told his teachers and other staff about what was going on and they did nothing. He broke the kids nose and then put him in an armbar (ala Rhonda Rousey) until the teacher came and broke it up. I told the principal he defended himself and did nothing wrong and his bully was lucky he didn't hyper-extend his elbow or worse.

He said after that all the bullying stopped and thanked me for giving him the courage to stand up to his bullies. I just endured it when I was his age, but I wanted to make my kids wouldn't have to go through what I did and were able to end the cycle.
I think R is a great language for certain applications - namely statistics and some data analysis. Your work has certainly made it better.

However, from a computer language design point of view - it leaves a lot to be desired. It's type system is seems very complicated and while the language tries to do what it thinks you want, it's not always clear what is going on (are you working on a matrix or a dataframe that has been cast into a matrix?).

For me, R is one of those languages that is good in a certain domain, but once you get out of that domain, it makes things more complicated than they need to be. It just isn't a general purpose language. By far, the biggest problems I've seen have been people who only know R (mainly stats people or biologists) try to do something in R that would be a quick 10 line Python/Perl/Ruby/whatever script.

Normally for a language design, you aim to make easy things easy, and difficult things possible. For R, it seems like it makes difficult things easy and easy things difficult. Maybe that's the tradeoff that was needed. :)

That said - please keep doing what you're doing. You've made my R work vastly easier.
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That's not correct. The FDA made them stop doing something they were doing illegally. Their genetic test is a medical device and they didn't have federal approval.

Further, when the FDA informed them they needed approval, they didn't respond. The FDA finally had to invoke the law.

Also, I don't think 23&Me's test results have enough medical value to be used for evaluating health risks.

Further, 23&me's database has serious problems; for exmaple, they still report tongue rolling as a Mendelian trait. That alone shows that they aren't being careful with their analysis.
The party who broke the deal was the USA, with it's unrelentent mass spying of as many people as possible. If you want change, start there.
This is not correct. They put a stop to 23&Me. There is still plenty of crowd-DNA research going on; for example, my genome and some medical information is online via GCG.
Sorry, I meant the Electron version...
Thanks for the bespoke advice.
does this come actually faster than expected? will jack actually leave?