skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would someone else buy a stock.. if their only motivation would be that the price increases .. and they sell to someone who.. (GOTO start of post). Is this not the bigger fool theory?
I didn't argue that it was too early for debate. I argued something else.
I hadn't looked at that in forever! Glad somebody found it useful :)

The layout is awful, so I just now limited the page width and centered the body, which should make it a bit more readable.
With the idea that with 51%, you can control the company's choices, right?
Elon Musk on How to Tell If People Are Lying
Yes they very much should! But in my, admittedly anecdotal, experience only the best / most senior ever do. Almost every junior or mid developer I've worked with (and a small handful of senior folks) not only have no idea how changes like this would impact the larger environment but many won't even care to look into it.
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Please. Anything the advertisers can come up with is easily defeated on the ad-blocking side. The only way the ad companies can get in is to convince ad blockers to let them pay and not be filtered ... which isn't a very good plan when there are open source ad-blockers.

EDIT: If it was easy to bypass ad-blockers, the advertisers would already be doing it.
One suggestion to increase potential practical benefit and decrease chance of "banal" generalities might be to go into the trip with a specific question or problem that you are working on.

Some examples from the recent CNN Money story about Silicon Valley executives who take LSD:

> An employee of one of the biggest Silicon Valley companies said he recently made a pivotal career decision while under the influence of magic mushrooms -- changing course from a management track and moving into product security.

> Meanwhile, in the late '90s, a former high level employee of a major software company (who asked not to be named) said he was taking psychedelics with the "specific intent of working on software problems." On one highly successful trip, he came up with design ideas, features and architectural improvements to a piece of software today used by millions.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/25/technology/lsd-psychedelics-...

Sorry to hear about your friend. It is very important to get some sleep if you feel manic. Also its a good idea to give yourself a few days or more to think before implementing any ideas obtained on psychedelics.
I agree with their point.

Except of course, for the vast majority of "pleb Web", the best way to address those user needs is by blocking ads.
Listen, I get that you're outraged that I've had the audacity to question the worth of customisations but nitpicking an example doesn't encompass the entire argument doesn't detract from the point that this is a thinking mans game.

As it stands I'm not trying to take your toys from you. If you can take care of yourself, do what you like. If you are likely to need some assistance you'll likely annoy anyone who needs to touch your computer.
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I like your first sentence a lot, but please don't be mean ("plain stupid") when responding to new work on HN. If you know more than someone else, help them learn.

We'd like HN to be a place where 15-year-olds get helped by more experienced peers, not flamed.
Thank goodness there are rules against truly indistinguishable, native ads.

Because they mislead customers into thinking positive-leaning advertisements are actual reviews of products.

Further reading:

http://adexchanger.com/publishers/ftc-publishers-will-be-hel...

https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/38gocf/ethics...
That might be because some providers have free facebook-only plans and paid internet plans.
And that's something of the challenge with visualizations. Obviously some visualizations are just bad. But others are merely complex because they include a lot of information. This latter sort of visualization won't be appropriate everywhere--like accompanying a typical newspaper story--but it might be just the thing to really dive down into data.

A great example of this is actually the Napoleon army graphic that's famous for being in Tufte's first book. It's a great visualization of what happened as Napoleon's army went off to Russia and returned. But what it's showing isn't really immediately obvious (and probably wouldn't be even it if were redesigned in modern graphical style).
You seem pretty knowledgeable about this stuff. Assuming the businesses you mention plan to provide evidence for use in court, how are they going to reassure the public that they aren't selling crap "forensic science" like we've seen with "bite patterns" in Mississippi?
Everything you just said sounds like a great reason for the ad-based model to go away.
If you know what a chimera is, you already know DNA evidence can be potentially fallible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
I don't think the heading is misleading or editorialized, just abbreviated. DNA is just a chemical. The headline is referring (in an abbreviated way) to the process of DNA testing. Analyzing the results is part of the process. If the analysis is wrong, the results are wrong.
Doesn't make up for the OPM hack.

Conspiracy theory: The CIA helped crash the Chinese stock market in response
Why don't black holes grow faster than they do?
Yes, but your examples [1,2,3] are neither the desired, nor the likely outcome. In most cases, the correct (not nescessarily the best or morally right) target is eliminated. In fact, I suspect (and would be interested in data that could prove or disprove this) that the erroneous outcome types [1,2,3] you list are _less_ likely with drones and automated systems than with humans on the front line and the attendant stress and confusion implicit in that situation...
this ins't excusable under gosh software is complicated,

You're right - this happened precisely because they've made the software more complex than it needs to be. There's literally nothing in a certificate which requires HTML rendering capabilities. Using a plaintext field, the way it would've been done before the "web everything" trend, would not have resulted in this vulnerability.

I have a MITM proxy for filtering too, and testing it with the PoC cert just causes the CN to be displayed as plaintext in the warning message. It does not attempt to interpret it in any other way, as it should be.
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Those "real" newspapers only existed due to the "creepy" ads that you hate. IIRC we're talking like a third of the revenue coming from ads a decade ago. There are few newspapers in the world that would be economically viable with just subscription revenue, now or then.

If advertising dies as business model, it won't be just the Buzzfeeds of the world that go with it. Of course nobody can force you to watch ads. But the people you're hurting by doing that are in fact the same people making the content you're actually viewing. Your glee about killing just the low quality content providers by blocking ads isn't justified.
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Wrong. Clearly you've never lived in NYC, where people apparently use lines as a proxy for how good something is. Lots of other big cities too.

Also, box office revenue hasn't collapsed or anything, so I'm not sure what you mean with your example. In fact, come to think of it, I see people lining up for things multiple times every year at the theaters I frequent.
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For "friends", there is Facebook. You don't do " friends" on twitter, except if the friends are hackers or marketing types.

Twitter is more for information
In my view, it implies that DNA as evidence is entirely not useful, and as DNA doesn't change, DNA will never be useful as evidence.

However, since DNA analysis techniques are mutable, it is possible for DNA analysis to be useful, as long as it is used correctly.

I believe there is a difference.
>the unescapably stupid thing to do is to a) transfer money in cash and b) smoking weed while doing that.

So stupidity is now a crime? Because he wasn't charged with for a or b.

>losing the baggage/wallet/jacket with the money in it or being robbed

Police took his money because they believed they can get away with it(pothead like him would be to afraid to do anything about it), so just because it is legal, it doesn't suddenly make it not a robbery.
How Does Java Both Optimize Hot Loops and Allow Debugging
Most apps use 3rd-party libraries and servers to show those ads, so they can be blocked at the network connection level (e.g. the hosts file) if you have control over your phone's OS. Having Android helps with that.

The apps need to handle it gracefully because they can't tell whether the ad server is legitimately down or just blocked. I've never had an app work any worse with blocked ads.
I believe that democracy does not scale beyond roughly several hundred voters of roughly equal expertise and ability. I decide whether or not to vote accordingly, which means saying no to local and national elections.

That said, I vote on Hacker News stories. Could HN be an example of a moderated democracy (constitutional monarchy?) working well on a larger scale?
> Now that consumers have been subjected to piles of abusive ads, they're just blocking all of the ads regardless of how bad they are.

Not really; they're blocking all ads except the ones that are unblockable: ads masquerading as content (sponsored posts, etc). It's inevitable to a degree; most people are willing to whine loudly and pretend they have the moral high ground about things that are immediately visible, but unable to think more than one step ahead about the consequences of their actions.

Paid content is, by and large, a miserable failure[1] (just look at the history of paid apps relative to ad-supported and IAP), and ad-blocking is on the rise as well. This is just pushing publishers to break one of the oldest rules (and for good reason), and break down the wall between ads and content.

[1] With minor exceptions like publications that have established a very strong brand with people of relatively high net worth. It's not a coincidence that the only publications I read regularly that moved to paywalls happen to be over a hundred years old (NYT, WSJ, Economist)
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That's fine, but it's reasonable that not everyone who wants to put videos online necessarily also wants to pay for the space, bandwidth and maintenance of their own server. And I don't know whether or not the Internet Archive has the budget or infrastructure to really replace Youtube at scale without resorting to monetizing the videos themselves.

I agree with you in principle, because if people hosted their own content they would have more direct control over it, and decentralizing the web is usually a good thing. But in practical terms the result of that would probably be the removal of a great deal of video content from the web, or moving most of it to whatever next best option is after Youtube (probably Vimeo.)
Hasn't Professor Hawking been agitating for Intel and other companies to come up with one for his own use because he is losing control of the last of his muscles?

Looks like he's closer to having it...
Empires are not monolithic.

How many business sectors exist in the 12 TPP countries?

How many business sectors got their wishlists into the TPP?

Every business that was locked out of TPP consultations should oppose this deal. Why should a handful of business sectors get special regulatory privileges? Even if we accept that the citizen-public has no input, there are still large numbers of corporations and professional sectors who did not have a seat at the TPP negotiating table.

Journalists can shine a bright light on these excluded business interests, who surely have their own wishlists of new "crimes" whose enforcement could be outsourced to governments and other publicly-funded infrastructure. If corporate voices weigh more than individual voices, let's organize corporate opposition to TPP. Where are the corporations who opposed SOPA, PIPA and ACTA?

Every technology company should be asked to take a public position on TPP. When is Wikipedia going dark to raise awareness?

Equal Opportunity for Corporations.

TPP Increases Corporate Inequality.
Please don't. HN threads are for conversation, not ideological infodumps.

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I would recommend Redux for data management. I've been using that at work and it's been great. Their docs are also pretty good.

Maybe a good place to start is with one of those boilerplate repos that have React + build tools already set up: https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate... Then you just add the stack that you want, like redux and react-redux with npm install.
The IRS does not make tax laws.
I think the two takeaways here are:

1. Civil forfeiture laws need to go away. They are completely unfair, and a major conflict of interest for the police.

2. Don't carry $11k to the airport, just to avoid this issue.
Seen in light of http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc... this looks like a systemic problem and not an innocent mistake. If crime labs were doing science, they would have run enough control samples to quickly discover the mistake. But the error "may have affected thousands of cases going back to 1999". I don't think forensic science, as currently practiced in the United States, deserves the name "science". And the errors are all in the same direction: towards conviction.
"There is continuous nonsense repeating "secrecy" when the reality is you or I have no business nosing around in international treaty negotiation since we are in no way qualified"

Who says? Why shouldn't international policy be something we, as a nation, talk about while it is being constructed rather than being given an all or nothing ultimatum at the end of the process (and given effectively no time to inform ourselves enough about what it contains to make effective demands of our representatives)?

Why should economists outside of the government and outside of the corporations the government serves be disallowed from reading the damned thing and commenting on it while there is time to alter its course?

All this notion about it being secret because "reasons" or "that's how it's always been" is, once again, oligarchic bullshit. It is saying: You'll shut up and take what we give you.

"Fast track" legislation is often used to pass legislation that legislators know will be unpopular or be challenging to pass if given time for sufficient discussion at a national level. Just because it's been done many times before doesn't mean that it should continue to be done that way. We live in an age where every person can become as informed as they want to be about legislation like this, as long as they are permitted to see it.

Again, the arguments for maintaining secrecy and then rushing it into law are anti-democratic. There are, of course, reasons many people want it to be secret, but those reasons aren't in the interests of the nation or the world as a whole.
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Beating published analyst expectations isn't the same as beating the actual expectations of investors. One might reasonably expect the actual market expectations to be loosely correlated with analyst's published expectations, and they probably are, but its probably only loosely correlated.
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See also, Library of Babel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9480949
Non-surgical layoffs suggests there is no change in product strategy and that fewer people will be expected to do the same amount of work.
A record of unsolicited kindness and excessive generosity in academia
If I were any of the jailed people I would sue the hell out of these people. In fact if I was a class action law firm, I would bring a class action lawsuit against all these corrupt morons.
Paid content is not always awful. Take this tasteful, sponsored Ashens video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUGcjkdIfTk

There is a clear disclosure (no misleading marketing!) and he presents a new and interesting version of his usual show while incorporating the product.

It's not selling out, and it's fairly enjoyable (as evidenced by the rating counter on the video, as well as the comments).

If I must be advertised to, I prefer this method. Having watched the video, I would actually like to purchase the device mentioned. Not because it was shoved down my throat, but because it is relevant to me and I find it interesting.

The video merely brought it to my attention.
This may seem uninteresting but GitHub didn't previously have an intern program (officially at least).
Too new for the dictionary, but typically "transpiling" is compiling where the source and target are at similar abstraction levels.
Of course, that's pronunciation rather than spelling.
Disabling Javascript and making flash click-to-play take care of most (all?) of these. Though the latter has become more difficult to do (in Chrome) on either a whitelist or blacklist basis since Chrome recently made the controls to quickly change a sites content policy more buried.
From the article:

> "When they retested it, the likelihood that it could be someone else was, I think, one in 30-something, one in 40. So it was a significant probability that it could be someone else," Torres says.

No. That is the probability that the test would have claimed a match with a particular person, conditioning on it not being the right person. In order to calculate the probability that it was someone else, you need to know the probability of it having been the right person prior to the test being performed. If you take a sample and test it against everyone in a big enough database, with a 1-in-30 false positive rate, then you will definitely end up accusing someone falsely.
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I was too. It's a useful skill, but I'd still prefer its use wasn't encouraged.
Does anyone know a good algorithm for drawing a genealogy tree? I tried playing with this problem and it is quite hard to find something that looks OK. The problem is that it is a tree that has branches going both way (up and down).
> Writes are a huge piece of RESTful interfaces (PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE)

GraphQL handles mutations fine. This guy just hasn't implemented them yet.
I would argue that it has exactly the same impact. Your argument is a bit of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" nature.

Unless the advertisers want to publicly (!) admit that they wish they could block TV content from people muting/changing the channel/walking out to make tea during commercials.
I found this via Twitter [1] and thought that it would nicely counterbalance a bit the academia trashing we had here recently following the YCR announcement :).

[1] https://twitter.com/AcademicsSay/status/652955506248519680
The man made the "unreliable narrator" his main device, but I think "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" should put to rest any idea that such trendy chemical amusement aids have much therapeutic value in the general case.

It least puts such ideas in a position of having to work a lot harder to make their case.
This is a form of personal attack. Those are not allowed on HN.

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> ... but technically, weed is still a schedule 1 drug, so he is a criminal.

So instead of charging him with any crimes, they just took his money? All the fun, without the need for that pesky innocent until proven guilty stuff? Nice.
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A couple times a year, I'll scour a few .emacs.d repos on github and see if I can find something interesting in there.
Perhaps it was because I had the Mac version but I could swear that I used arrow keys on Wizardry 1
Subquestion, for those in the US who show up at the polling place on election day: Do you educate yourself about local positions and vote there as well (or only?)? Or do you limit yourself to voting for those on the national stage (who, of course, get more press)?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
So your suggestion is that, rather than pressing Caps Lock to escape, one should press Caps Lock and [? How is that better (assuming you’re using VIM)? Regular Ctrl isn’t hard to reach.
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…says “blazespin”, making an anonymous comment.
> For an example of the latter case, take the Java "privilege" system. SEI CERT dings Java because operating the Java privilege system is fiddly, and if you do it wrong you're exposed to privilege escalation. You're not exposed to privilege escalation in C --- because all C code is privileged!

On the other hand, I've heard a nonzero amount of people say it's cool to load untrusted code into your JVM or CLR because high level languages are magic pixie dust. So maybe it does need saying for somebody.
You mean, a few hundred people's votes really make a difference in this situation.

Voting has a bit of a free-rider problem. To a first approximation, one vote never makes a difference; but an attitude that voting doesn't make a difference (especially when unevenly distributed) definitely makes a difference.
That was a mistake, the second link should be this crappy heating element: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VK0DRY

The water pump has been fine so far after maybe 10 hours of being immersed over a few weeks, I figure if it gives up I'll get another one.

I put a pot on top of a hot plate. The hot plate is turned on but the Willhi unit turns the power on and off. At first it overheats the water by about 10 degrees, so give it time to heat up before immersing the food, but after cooling down it oscillates around 1 degree Fahrenheit.

Before the hot plate, I had that coffee element which I taped to the side of the pot. The problem with that previous heater was that despite saying "immersion", you can't submerse the cable without electrifying the water. The thing got banned in Canada. Don't buy one.
Yeah, and it's hard to get citizenship!
Pfft... it's all just bullshit, pressure to release games too early from managers and hit quarterly profit targets.

That and the obsessive desire for control of everything.
> With no internet, ambitious entrepreneurs see a market willing to pay for their services.

It appears Facebook is one of those entrepreneurs. There was no internet; now there is internet.org and whatever those other ambitious entrepreneurs have offered.
Well in this case we are asking China to stop hacking for commercial profits. The NSA doesn't hack for commercial profits. We aren't criticizing China for hacking the OPM in this case.
I think chimerism could only result in false negatives - which is the opposite problem of what's going on here.
Why would the estate give its property to the government instead of following the will?

It is not as rare as you might think, but even if it were very frequent, it would not justify taking people's property for no good reason.