skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Season world traveler, and the only place I have been scammed was Naples. The waiter pulled the "show you the receipt then take it away."

I think I was out an extra 40 euro before I realized what happened.

Edit to explain the scam:

The waiter brings you the bill, and the price looks "reasonable" at first (maybe because humans are bad at money estimation). The waiter takes the bill away before you can inspect each charge and inquire. You pay and leave before realizing you were overcharged, and only as an afterthought do you realize.
what are magnets and how do they work?
People have been arrested when burglars stole their computer and claimed to have found "child porn" on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/us/california-robbery-porn-bus...

4th amendment or not, you'd think that the "rules of evidence" and the word of a burglar would lend credence to the explanation that the burglar planted it to make himself seem more respectable in the eyes of the court.

It's outrageous in this case, as reported by CNN, that the burglars were not arrested. It means you can commit any crime as long as you plant some illegal porn!
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)
This is interesting. The article doesn't talk about she implemented the Traffic Jam program, but it does discuss how she came to 'know' sex ads, as way to keep tabs on pimps.

""I would literally just spend hours on these websites, looking at ads, getting a sense for what was the norm," she said. She began to pick up the nuances of every post, understand how a template was made, and get a feel for the different voices behind these ads."

I don't know how this information fits with her implementation, but I was reminded of an old article by Paul Graham "A Plan For Spam" (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html), where he talks about automating the process of detecting spam using Bayesian Filtering.

"I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is. If we can write software that recognizes their messages, there is no way they can get around that."

Substitute the spam message for the sex message, and we're talking about the same thing. It would be an interesting exercise to try Bayesian Filtering on sex ads, or any other kind of message, to see where it leads.
I agree with you there -- and the Naples Underground (old cisterns that became bomb shelters) are neat, and Pompeii is an hour away. Those, however, are the sole 3 reasons for going. I tell my friends who visit Italy that if they pass through Naples, you go to Da Michele and get 2 pizzas, check out the underground, take a daytrip to Pompeii, and then get the away from Naples asap.
still expensive
I thought about all the possibilities listed and simply cannot find any of the potentials. It just seems bizarre! I cannot think of any common way FB could've connected us, other than pics.
I'm still amazed they continue to thrive in the Internet age.

They do add some value to sellers (showing the house), but their commisions are WAY beyond the value they add.

And they're a huge annoyance to buyers, intentionally hiding information whenever possible.
Revenge is one of the most powerful motivators for murder and can turn otherwise good people into hot-blooded killers [0-5].

Few people would kill indiscriminately, but if you give them a powerful enough motivation? They'll have no qualms taking a life. This guy has had his life ruined, I doubt his marriage will survive this, and he'll be spending a good portion of his life in prison in a foreign country. Furthermore, he gets to be humiliated not once - not twice - but thrice by Krebs. That's a lot of motivation to get back at a guy and it would be foolish to not even entertain the thought that he may seek revenge.

I could link to hundreds if not thousands of stories about revenge killings. Hell - it's such an old motivator it's featured in many parts of Greek and Roman mythology.

E:

Ignoring that the reason the Witness Protection Program even exists is to protect peoples' lives after they ruin a criminal's life.

[0] Possibly NSFW ; no gore but someone dies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PUE8fYxjq8

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/12/ex-ira-gunman...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009762/Man-gets-lif...

[3] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-dad-accused-murd...

[4] http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-0711-van-sentencing...

[5] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/nearly-4...
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I also suspect that the identity politics and gender warfare is conditioning people to consider certain acts to be assault that absent the conditioning would not have been viewed as assault previously.

You can see this in societies that value "honor" where culturally people take offense and feel victimized or disrespected by statements or actions that would be inconsequential in another culture.

For example, while the actual prevalence is hard if not impossible to measure, it's not uncommon to hear about incidents of "sexual assault" where the the victim determined/concluded (for whatever reason) that what transpired was sexual assault after the terminus of the act. These cases of sexual assault are qualitatively different than acts where the victim is cognizant during the act that the act is assault and unwelcome, and makes that known to the assailant in non-ambiguous terms verbally or through resistance.

The trickiest cases are those where the "victim" is intoxicated (but most likely both parties are intoxicated and both may be making poor decisions) and the following day determines it was assault. These examples, when they happen, illustrate the impact of cultural conditioning to how people perceive such events. In our society today, when someone has intercourse with someone who when sober they consider sexually undesirable, we condition men and women to perceive such an event differently. Men are conditioned to view sleeping with someone that they wouldn't sleep with sober as an poor decision and to brush it off as a mistake ("keep on keeping on"). In prior decades, women generally viewed such encounters the same way as men do ("Ugg, I fucked up. I should have drunk as much and shouldn't have slept with him"). Today, however, the identity politics and gender warfare happening on college campuses are teaching women to instead have the reaction "He took advantage of me when I was drunk. I'm a victim and have been assaulted" (despite the fact that that other person was probably intoxicated as well).

What's most unfortunate about such conditioning of one gender to view themselves as a victim after the fact in ambiguous situations is that it delegitimizes real claims of assault and leads society to question and doubt that sexual assault occurred in situations that are unambiguous. Getting drunk and sleeping with someone and regretting it the next day and claiming rape is an insult and disservice to those people who actually are sexual assaulted against their will.

I would be nice if we didn't use an ambiguous catch all term like sexual assault and instead used a variety very specific terms for the different acts that people currently lump under sexual assault. People who get drunk and sleep with someone they regret sleeping with should not be using the same term to describe what happened as someone who is attacked and forcefully penetrated while walking late at night or someone who is sent to prison and victimized physically by another prisoner.
Works here, clicked it for a laugh not expecting it to work because streaming here is crap, only site that works is YouTube. Bought Vimeo won't even cast to TV. This though, just works, from Chrome on my phone too, nice job.
It might well be possible. I don't know if you have the patience for it, but this is a very interesting talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzvtM-Wo4c

Basically he argues that yes you can. There are a few reasons this makes sense.

1. All food comes from the sun to begin with (except for what diesel you add in via plowing, etc)

2. There aren't huge variations in different plant's ability to perform photosynthesis (might be 2x, might be 5x, but probably not 1000x)

3. This means it doesn't matter too much if you grow the grain, harvest it, transport it, feed it to cows or if you just grow grass and let them eat it

4. Grasses grow according to a S-curve meaning that there's an optimal height to grow a grass up to, and harvest it down to, for maximal production which is entirely different than annual crops

I'd really encourage you to watch the video, though, if you can stand it because it's very enlightening.
Overbloated - what set of requirements do you think are being unnecessarily exceeded?

NASA is a government agency overseen by elected representatives. Failure isn't merely a technical or even an economic setback - it can be a political risk as well. Every failed launch is ammunition for NASA's political adversaries.

Besides - this isn't a Falcon test capsule; it's a one-of-a-kind X-ray telescope. It's loss to the astronomy and astrophysics community couldn't be dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a quip on twitter.
'(“cc” is a reference to credit cards)' - CC (and MUXACC1) is not a reference to credit cards, it's a reference to the Tsetse Fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly which spreads Sleeping Sickness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis - for whatever reason it's part of the Russian folklore used as a metaphor for something particularly nasty.

Edit: (thanks rnovak!) apparently "cc" in thecc[dot]bz _is_ credit cards, though the CC in MUXACC1 is definitely a reference to Tsetse.
The correctness should be taken care of by the bettable event, ideally carefully considered by the market maker. If the event is not believed to be easily verifiable, you probably should avoid betting on it.
We're working 40+ hours a week. That's at a job. But when we come home, we're working less at home. That's still progress.
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It wouldn't be that shocking if the vulnerabilities were not 0-days...
Both are shocking, but, in this case, I wonder how many vulnerabilities do they catch before they become 0-days.
The practical use cases / academic value of such a thing would be far lower.
That presumes there are no consequences to "let it crash".

A programmer for a respiration system software would not necessarily "let it crash", as this could kill someone.

The same applies for institutions that back the global economy. Letting Freddie and Fannie crash meant that $5 trillion in mortgage-backed securities would evaporate. That would trigger a global depression on par with an asteroid crash or super volcano eruption.

"The reasons that they left are so high level, they are meaningless."

The article is pretty concrete as to its summary of the situation with the GSEs, and ended with a conclusion (with backing paper link) that they should be replaced by a private system. I'm not sure what more you'd want?

"How was this published with any degree of sincerity?"

I have the same question for your post. You come across as "I don't understand it, therefore it must be wrong/insincere". Could it be possible that they have an idea what they're doing, and you are not the target audience for this article?
I don't understand why these specifications:

* Does not log anything about visitors. (A+1)

* Follows the criteria in The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s best practices for online service providers. (A+2)

* Follows the Web “Content” Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) standard. (A+3)

* Follows the Web Accessibility Initiative — Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.0 (WAI-ARIA 1.0) standard. (A+4)

.

... are considered less essential than these:

* Says “free software,” not “open source.” (A6)

* Clearly endorses the Free Software Movement's ideas of freedom. (A7)

* Avoids saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux. (A8)

.

Is privacy and accessibility really less important than GNU's branding?
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> Why would the things Jack the ripper thinks and agrees with be irrelevant and yours be "universalized arguments" that everyone must accept?

Because I can prove through propositional logic that "my" arguments can be universalized without contradictions, which proves that they are correct.

It's not that I think there is a universal and absolute argument. It's that I have proven these things myself with pen and paper and rules such as Modus Ponens, De Morgan, etc. Not just me, many before me. Do mathematicians think pi is irrational? No, they've proven it is. Do philosophers think that if all humans are mortal and Socrates is a human, that therefore Socrates is mortal? So, they've proven it is.

Maybe you are not aware that there is a method to this. I learned this from Irving Copi, his logic books are famous for teaching these concepts solidly. I'd recommend you peruse his work so you can understand what bweitzman and I are doing here.

>> According to my argument, it would be fine to use lethal force against Jack the Ripper initiating violence

> Precisely. According to your argument. Not a universal truth.

I say "my" argument because I am making it now, not because I was the first to make it. Others before me have proven that "anyone should be able to initiate force" is self-contradictory (see sketch of proof in [1]). This much is trivial. What is less trivial is the work done to prove that "anyone should be able to use force against the initiation of force". If you want to read the proof for this, the book is called Universally Preferable Behavior by Stefan Molyneux.

[1] Proof by ad absurdum: If anyone is should be able to initiate force, then I should be able to initiate force towards someone so as to strip them of their ability to initiate force. This leads to a contradiction: if everyone is able to initiate force, then some will not be able to initiate force. This contradiction means that the idea that anyone should be able to initiate force cannot be universalized.
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100% agree with the post. AWS and Amazon in general prefers to release bare and unpolished code that just works. To integrate that in your env is awful.
Maybe, but I'm fairly sure abrasiveness was meant in the case of the suckless community.
Yes! I've heard this story. The supposed black-box of consumer buying-behaviour is weird indeed.
> whether public shaming, especially to such a large audience, is really a civilized response.

This concept is also often referred to by it's more common name: "journalism"
"Partially made out of wood"
cool

"It's all stored in the cloud"
:(

"You pay a fixed fee every single month..."
D:
It's also possible that someone who reads a book might learn something from it and go on to make a lot of money based on what they learned, without compensating the author. Should this be different for machine learning?
The day I asked Matt Mullenweg (WP founder) for 100.000 USD
Stop with those medications. Psychologists and doctors these days tend to fix everything by putting you under some generic label and give you some generic medication. Medication is a good fix if you have some inflammation in your elbow and you take antibiotics for a week or two, but taking medications for longer than that is just plain wrong. Usually it will only deal with the symptoms, while hiding the real problems.

I don't know you personally, but let me give you my general opinion about solving your problem:

- " I was diagnosed with depression a few years ago and since then have made peace with it" - Don't let other people tell you what you have, even if they have a PhD. What if this guy was wrong? Some doctor told me 10 years ago that I will never be able to walk properly, because knees don't heal. Guess what, it did heal. I run 10 Kilometers for fun every Friday.

- Start exercising. Go for some martial art if you can. Do it at least twice a week.

- Stop with the news. Any kind of news. Read a good long book instead.

- Meet some good friends, and do it often.

- Don't give up to yourself. Don't work at a boring non challenging job. It will rot your soul from the inside. Keep up with the challenging work. You don't have to go over your head, always aim just a bit higher than your comfort zone. If you feel things are too difficult for you at this point, ask your team to go easy for a while. No shame in doing that.

Life is beautiful. Do your best to enjoy your time here.
Excellent. It still baffles me why I have to drive to the movies to pay $10, when I can pay the same $10 bucks at home.
I would (I'm not a Daniel Craig fan and his saving grace is he got better scripts than Brosnan), and it really would be a shame if such a good actor were cast in a series that wasn't designed for him from the ground up.
A quick heuristic is that older books that are still relevant today are more likely to remain relevant in the future. I don't know much about design books, but I would bet on Tufte books to remain relevant for a long time. Any really old book that is still in print would be a good candidate, and the older the more likely to stay relevant.

Other books that will be around for decades (or more) (to pick some non design things): The Bible, SICP, Feynman's Lectures, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Shakespeare.
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The referenced class was the next in the calculus series.
> Is privacy and accessibility really less important than GNU's branding?

For the GNU project? Obviously.

Heck, note that at an even higher level of importance than any of those, to be merely acceptable, a site must be one that "[r]ecommends and encourages GPL 3-or-later licensing at least as much as any other kind of licensing."
I just got into book scanning ~6 weeks ago. I was partly inspired by the August HN discussion of Jason Scott's rescue mission of 25k manuals [0], and intrigued by Jason's kind warning to "the next person to mention the Linear Book Scanner (a prototype that destroys books)".

Emeritus community hero Daniel Reetz spent 6 years creating the "Archivist" scanner [1]. He and his collaborators have done a phenomenal job, and created some of the best documentation I've seen for any project (open-source or otherwise). The "Lessons Learned" front matter alone is inspiring [2].

So far I've found that book scanning is an ideal "DIY" project: enough hardware & software quirks that are gratifying to puzzle through, but nothing super difficult. In fact, it is exactly like building and calibrating a simple scientific instrument and learning to collect and process image data. To @planfaster or anyone who is considering book scanning for private use, definitely do it!

I highly recommend buying the "Archivist" scanner kit + electronics pack available at http://tenrec.builders/. There is ample hard-earned wisdom in the forums and tenrec supplemental docs about dozens of minor process details where you think "Why don't people just do X?" and it turns out X isn't ideal, and neither is Y, but Z works fine.

The main thing that I didn't consider before starting was that the scanner hardware only facilitates one very specific part of the workflow: taking pictures of flattened pages with (nearly) identical resolution and positioning. It's an important step, and reducing it to 5 seconds per page doesn't magically eliminate tedious downstream processing with other tools[3]. All that said, it's very rewarding, and really fun to start thinking about what you can do with scans, e.g. turn entire books into posters [4].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10070529

[1] http://www.wired.com/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/

[2] http://www.diybookscanner.org/archivist/?page_id=25

[3] http://scantailor.org/

[4] https://twitter.com/smd4/status/655092522071420929
"We don't know the NSA is not doing this."

Please look at what you wrote! Am I dreaming? This is the level of argument that is being used?
This how it's done in mod_spdy[1] and App Engine[2], with the X-Associated-Content header.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/wiki/OptimizingForSpdy#Us...
[2]: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/http2push-gae
A weak currency is good for corporations that focus on exporting and bad for the rest of us, especially in America considering Americans import a lot of their goods.

I never did understand the difference between currency manipulation and monetary easing.
I'd submit that the adoption of systemd by most of these entities is perfect example of what you are saying being true.
I've been a fan of Krebs for a while. He get's a lot of access and information from other hackers (that were pissed at another hacker) or security analysts. Gotta give him props though, he taught himself a lot, including learning Russian
Yeah, I thought it was someone that does the background painting for movies. The physics of taking that photograph just didn't seem possible.
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You want a sensible discussion? How about starting with not calling people "conspiracy theorists" for merely wanting to be as safe as possible?

And how about not asking things such as "Am I the only sane one here?" then? You're surrounded with very smart people on this website, most of which will tell you that it's not insane to assume the worst of the NSA, and yet you hop around calling people crazy. If you're not going to do this for the sake of reason, at least do it for the sake of humility.

You want a sensible discussion, you start.
You mean, it's not to take the lead in the fight against the Formics?
If you can identify you're writing insecure code or building insecure apps you are just being lazy to do it proper way. Web security IMO isn't about learning a new thing, these are concepts that are part of the development flow.

Good resources to start with:

OWASP Top Ten Project
https://goo.gl/yv6D4t

OWASP REST Security Cheat Sheet
https://goo.gl/93VPKD
I don't think the government wants to know about your private family life neither. I mean, it's edgy to imagine that the government has a secret file on all of us. But they don't do they? It's just very silly nonsense.
I'm kinda with you on the ego thing, but I will claim that there is a noticeable difference (in brewed coffee, I'm not an espresso fan) between beans ground with a good burr grinder vs a blade grinder.

I couldn't match the quality of my local Dunn Bros coffeeshop until I started asking them to grind my beans when I bought them. Switching from my cheap blade grinder to their in-shop one made the largest difference in taste.