skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you're going to undertake large-scale chaffing of the internet, it'd be way more fun to target the future rather than the present.

Don't just create a hundred million fake profiles with their own social networks: try to create alternate timelines. Profiles on social networks, emails, instant messages, dating profiles, recontextualized and faked photographs, websites and DNS entries and forums, all supporting an alternate timeline, smushed as thoroughly as possible into the internet.

Don't just try to confuse current surveillance states, try to confuse future historians!
No. This company's main product (the one I would be working on) had been around for a long time so I was concerned about what kind of shape the code was in.
I have not found it difficult to get a corporate bank account and merchant account in the past in Hong Kong with HSBC. Yes you have to go there in person but I don't see this as a big deal. We had CC processing and your agents should have contacts to get you set up. Things might have changed in recent years.

And no I am not wrong. If you don't have a work permit which you get by working for a Thai company, you are breaking the law as you are not allowed to work without a permit. Full stop. I have not said that working out of a coffeeshop is illegal.

Long term visa again only by working for a local company. And if you go for the fake 4 Thais emploees route, sure that can work but you can get into trouble anyways because you are effectively working around the law.

Setting up a Bord of Investors company is not a trivial thing. It can take up to half a year, you'll have to pass the interview at the HQ in BKK and show some real company prospects. This is not something for someone who does web design or coding for some foreign company out of his condo in Chiang Mai. It's for people who want to build a real physical business in Thailand.
Much easier to incorporate somewhere else.
Good point. I have heard this too and I don't have a deep answer to this question. Maybe someday I'll get to the bottom of it and write a follow-up article. (Article author here).
We also thought about the problem of explaining our product/service, but instead of a static FAQ page, we decided to use our own "Automated Chat" product. check it out: https://hellotars.com/convBot/demos/tars/
Very nice visualisation!

It would be good to gracefully handle large graphs. I typed in "torvalds/linux" and my tab froze!
For most people, the limited history isn't really an issue. For most enterprise tools you're looking at paying thousands to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. In comparison, the cost to get the enterprise features out of Slack is a drop in the ocean.

The joy of adhoc plugins is that you don't need any specific one to get the benefits. It's like a directory of alternatives to Skype that all do an appropriate job. It's more discoverable than say trying to find an alternative to Skype via a Google search. New apps/integrations are added daily, giving you visibility to alternatives every day.
I think I know a better way because I run a 7 figure a year project and the codebase isn't a mess. :/
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Small correction, they predicted Romney would win in 2012, not McCain in 2008; they actually predicted Obama would do better than he did in 2008 (tied for the highest overestimated prediction). Their results have been poor indeed.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-po...

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/gallup-v...
"Deception" means "purposefully misleading" - you can market products without being deceptive, though I'll accept it seems to happen very rarely.
> still don't understand why it ships as a plugin

I always assumed it was because it would be cross-platform by default. Making native apps for Hangouts on Windows, OS X and Linux would be pretty time consuming.

Also not sure what you mean by "social network", it looks a lot like a chat app to me.
0.01% would be plenty in this context.

Remember this is not a popularity contest and there are a lot of species out there. Why does behavior X happen is not asking what happens the other 99.99% of the time.
What would ya say ya do here?
...so your argument is you take off points for problem Google has [duplicate results] because DDG has the problem also?

That doesn't make any sense to me but okay, its your worldview.
> The Greek debacle was created by the EU's banking and finance industries.

No, it was created by the EU who bailed out the banks, paying them money and forcing the loss on the taxpayers.

> Most of the scandals were in the banking and finance industries, not - say - the EU parliament.

The EU parliament is a scandal in and of itself - "let's waste some money and have two parliament buildings in two cities!"
@con from SlimFAQ here: With a free account you have access to all features but are limited to a maximum of 20 questions.

Seems like we are not doing the best we can to communicate our features and the difference between a free and a paid subscription. We will look into this and update the landing page. Thank you!

Let me know if you have any more questions.
So you think an entire field of research is irrelevant because "they're just animals"?

That's what people thought about animal suffering back in the 17th century. Descartes argued that animals didn't have consciousness, even, just base instinct.
Your objection to the term is equally as cultured as the application you think we should avoid.
Why not? Police can search your house or seize your mail with a court order. Why can't they search your phone or computer?
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This is a huge change. Relationships have been broken over "likes" in the past. We invented unwritten rules about what is OK to like and what is not.

I'm really curious how the new additions will change those unwritten rules and our behavior.
How does the Leaf connect to the servers to receive commands? How secure is this link? It would be easy to speculate that after breaking into the link between Nissan servers and the car you'd be able to do rather more mischief and likely exploit vulnerabilities in the software itself to do things not exposed in the API. Its easy to imagine that there isn't even a firewall between the remotely-accessible system and the engine control system. Its also easy to imagine that the data being uploaded to Nissan is rather more privacy-invading than the travel log exposed by the public API. We want someone to hack into the Leaf and expose it wide open.
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It sounds like you live next door :). The problem is indeed deep and complex. Educating the young is not nearly enough. IMO, there's a whole issue about educating the educators. I had a teacher in school who would give us the answers to a national standardized test as we were taking it! And I went to a 'good' private 'catholic' highschool!
I'm kind of hopefull about initiatives like Kahn academy et al. However, we need to produce much more content in local languages, give access and teach how to self-educate responsibly.
I don't know about anyone else, but 90% of my use of Skype is for voice or video calls. There's a lot of competition out there for chat apps, but sadly very little for voice/video (network effect rules all, of course)
Surely it's simply a rebuttal to people who argue against homosexuality, and gay people, by claiming same-sex behaviour is "unnatural" and that animals don't exhibit it. (A recent example being Manny Pacquiao, which may have influenced the timing of this article.)
Even the jobs with poorly-written codebases teach you a lot. Only they're teaching you through experience what is or isn't maintainable.
In Egypt 75% of the population is under the age of 25. These people want opportunities, jobs, apartments, cars, consumer goods, and escape from the daily struggle of poverty. Per capita GDP in Egypt is about $1575. For comparison in the US it's about $54 000. Blame inequality all you want but even with perfect equality the pie in Egypt is not big enough to provide all of its people with the western standard of life that the people want.

> For centuries the growth depended on plundering the third world,

Really? You think colonialism is the main driver of economics growth?
Gluster provides files storage but not block storage.
Hate to tell you this but you chose the worst time of year to come. Google “Burning Season Chiang Mai” - I’d recommend sticking to the south of Thailand, particularly the islands, and then come up around April 10 for Songkran. Punspace is the big coworking space, I’d recommend booking a place in Nimman and trying the various cafes there. Kaweh is a good spot if its not too busy.
> 0.01% would be plenty in this context.

Why? What is being proved, unless we talk about majority? So we are able to find some animals that are monogamous and not violent? What then?

Like in the article, tossing "plenty" and "many" actually doesn't help for anything more than creating illusion that the behavior we like is somehow "supported" by nature.

It's not problem analyzing some behavior, the problem is unsupported "plenty" and "many."
Thanks for the link. Based on their promotional video, there are two things I didn't realize.

1. Even though there are multiple reactions, they're counted in aggregate. So instead of see 6 smilies, 2 sadfaces, and 1 like, you'll see 9 interactions were given.

2. The most recent 3 reactions are shown. There's no way of telling who reacted in which way, and the reaction break down.

3. I was completely wrong with points 1 and 2. After testing out the feature, it's trivial to see the reaction breakdown by either hovering over the reaction counts, or by clicking it.

Realizing the hardest part of this change for me is that I have no idea how to refer to the "reaction counts". Should I say, "Hey, your video had so many reactions!"? I guess I'll have to feel it out. Sort of starting to feel that this was a strategic move by FB to capture any new "like" type interaction that a competitor tries to release. Github has stars, Twitter now has hearts, FB has always been likes, but soon can/will be everything.

EDIT: Realized that reactions don't work in comments.
If you use safari or firefox, reader view is available for the articles.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
Bad stuff happens - I think it's a pretty safe assumption. What is worse is that there was some PM out there who didn't want to immediately disable the whole service until the issue was fixed. So I think this disclosure is a fair thing to do - when they choose between PR image or security, they must understand that both can get dragged through the mud.
Can someone explain to me how the fuck my government can spend 15.8bn[1] on a software project? We could build 5 Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers for that. Five! For the cost of a bloated Java app!

Seriously, someone fill me in please. How can a software project possibly ever cost more than a billion pounds? You could employ 20,000 software engineers full time for £50K ($70k) a year for that much, and I expect the number of engineers working on Universal Credit is much lower than that and paid less.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit#Costs
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Honestly, it is because they don't want to help. They want the appearance of helping without the effort involved.

All I want is to work remotely permanently but they insist it isn't what i want and offer me more money.
the only effective remedy is going to be congressional action

We are well, well beyond that point. This will never happen, given the authoritarian and fearful bent of the electorate and the elected.

The 3% solution is the only truly effective remedy.
very unlikely. they were probably used for localization. for instance, locating door for egress, or computing a grasp for the box. grasp planning is particularly difficult at the moment.
Some product feedback:

It's not clear from the marketing where my faq will go. Your demo points to slimfaq.com/faq which suggests my url should be mydomain.com/faq but I doubt you have DNS mapping or self-hosted installs yet.

I searched your faq for the answer to above question and was not able to find it. Any good faq page should have an "ask your question" button to submit new questions not already answered.
Sure, that is correct in theory. In practice most European banks won't touch you with a ten-foot pole if they even just suspect you might need to fulfill US reporting obligations. Therefore they use a much broader definition This is not only about tax but all the cost associated in dealing with all the forms which makes you an expensive customer.
Maybe that is intentional in this case.
Which NHS body in the UK are you talking about? There are four separate healthcare services in the UK which operate and are funded separately:

NHS Scotland

NHS England

NHS Wales

HSC Northern Ireland
I've just started to take a look at LedgerSMB (perl), ERPNext (python), and Odoo (python). These are backed by Postgresql or MariaDb. Anyone have any experience with these for a small business?

For personal finance or very small businesses there is GnuCash.
> I'm aware of all that

Was your original question rhetorical? In case it wasn't clear by my summary, no, we should not be satisfied with a longer passphrase. We should be concerned about the precedent-setting nature of this case.

> your summary wasn't needed

This is an open discussion. Nobody's forcing you to read my summary.

> "I think" is not a bad thing to say once in a while.

I think that is implied by the fact that I wrote all that. Anything that I haven't cited is my personal take on the issues.

> I think Apple should help unlock these phones, with the condition that such help may be impossible in future versions of the OS

Nobody believes the FBI will adhere to this condition. They can always change their minds down the road.

> It's a bit like chess

It is like chess, you're right. The move has been made and the hand removed from the piece. Time to act, carpe diem. The best thing to do now is educate people about encryption and potentially make this an election issue at some point in the future. Right now the public has nothing to do with this case. It's going to be decided in a court among experts, lawyers and judges.

> Apple should comply now, and make a better chess move later

That's fine, it's your opinion. I disagree, and would add that now is the right time to take a stand while this is in the public spotlight. It will take time to educate the public about encryption and we might as well start now. Compelling Apple to circumvent its own security will make us less safe. There is a black market where exploits are bought by intelligence communities, and if Apple creates this exploit, there's a chance it will fall into the wrong hands.
Yeah, if Skynet ever takes over, I think that guy with the hockey stick is going to be Victim Zero.
> First, we seem to call different things an experiment. The guy didn't made any experiment, he just charted some data. He didn't change CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, keeping everything else equal, to check if it would affect the resulting temperature.

Right, and the LIGO didn't create two colliding black holes to measure gravity waves, but measure gravity waves it did.

"To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry is commonly based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning." [1]

> And personally, I think it's really arrogant to assume that humanity is powerful enough to change the climate of the whole planet at this point.

So your disagreement is based on superstitious beliefs, not the scientific method. Exactly as predicted in my previous post.

[1] "Rules for the study of natural philosophy", Newton transl 1999, pp. 794–6, after Book 3, The System of the World.
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Would they need to, they could perhaps [mostly] purchase capital items by transfer of funds directly from the USA bank to the seller?
I tend to just use my existing LLC for hobby projects. If any of them actually take off I'll set up a DBA or maybe another LLC subsidiary. Multiple S corps seems like overkill.
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It is ironic considering the whole windows phone community is lamenting all the time against microsoft because all their apps are of far better quality on ios and android than on wp.
Yeah, I should've probably put up a warning not to try huge repos.

Here's what torvalds/linux looks like on the visualizer (pretty cool!): https://imgur.com/a/AHNcn
The problem with IRC is that the plugins aren't as discoverable and more of a pain in the neck to integrate.

When you're not in channel on IRC, you don't have access to anything that was said prior to joining the channel which means you don't even have any immediate history, or context to a conversation that is ongoing when you join. At least with Slack you have 10,000 messages of history, which is at least enough to give you the context of the discussion.

Also while probably irrelevant on a technical level, it's just not as pretty and user friendly as Slack.
love the idea for your startup. hope to use it this summer!
Its easy to cherrypick examples, but at least in the mammal world being in heat for a limited time makes a lot of evolutionary sense. Humans are notorious for being horny all the time and really are an exception. Animals, in general, aren't at all like us. The GP is correct, sex in the animal world is typically conservative.

There's this historic recontexualizing of animals as being "just like us." I think that's just wrong and it leads to bad outcomes. Its only recently that we've been able to acknowledge the intelligence of octopus or crows because we were so focused on animals 'like us' which were primarily mammals. Ten years ago it would have been unthinkable to say an octopus is smarter than a dog in polite company. You would have sounded like a crazy person.

I suspect these views aren't academic but actually political. The "animals are just like us" seems to be 60's counterculture vegitariansism and the "animals fuck all the time and are gay" seems to stem from the gay rights movement to validate their position as "natural," whatever that means. In fact, I read a book about this in the 90s and the thesis was just that. It was a fairly popular book.

Your penis design doesn't really help your argument. A hard to remove penis means a higher chance of pregnancy. Humans don't have this probably because we have sex so often, but for animals with a short heat period its very important to fertilize those eggs on the first try. Also, animals are not as lingual or culturally complex like humans so the barb is how the male controls the female. In human society we do this too via cultural baggage, male domination, marriage norms, dating norms, one-sided social pressure, and sometimes the outright threat of violence or rape. So the idea that penis barbs are these awful things is questionable compared to the alternatives.

Lastly, one of the big issues with repairing the damage of human encroachment into wildlife areas is that we can't just get animal populations back up easily. They're not used to smaller mating populations, less territory, less younger and more viable mates, etc and their sexual habits reflect that. Pandas are an extreme example, but this issue happens with most animals. They can't just magically become as promiscuous as humans. It would be nice if they could, but its just not in the cards and that's going to lead to issues like extinction down the line for many of today's endangered species and already has happened for so many more.
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His point is the volume of the unit sphere is tiny. The "volume" of the unit 20-cube is 1. The volume of a 20-sphere is just 0.0258. 100-cube, volume is 1. 100-sphere, 2.36e-40

If your algorithm works well for "nearby" meaning 1, i can just keep adding dimensions till you find nothing. If "nearby" on the other hand is related to the number of dimensions, you're going to have to grow the "nearby" value exponentially.
There is only 1 thing that dog people and cat people can agree on. That is: bird people are really weird.
Note that the founder can't reply to any comments at the moment because of new account limits:

https://twitter.com/etriggNews

Sounds like he will reply when he can.
Now have two events booked for tonight :). Thanks, hope you keep it up.
This list is almost poetic, it folds onto itself several times, and includes

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> Well, the article is about the occurrence of homosexual behavior in some populations of greylag geese. I don't know how this turned into "so many animals". According to Wikipedia, homosexuality has been observed in anywhere from 500 to 1500 species -- out of an estimated 8.7 million currently living (estimate from 2011).

Comparing the 500–1500 number (of presumably well-observed species) with an estimated total number of species is not really a good comparison. Setting aside the accuracy of the estimate of the number of species and how many of those have actually been seen/classified, what fraction of those have been observed well enough to make a reasonable determination of the occurance of homosexual activity? Certainly the fraction of well-characerized species who exhibit homosexual behavior is much higher than the 1-in-1000 rate your numbers imply.
There is a biological basis for X behavior in several species. This is plenty to start looking for similarity’s and root causes.

Think of it in these terms, if one species of poisonous animal is brightly colored that says little. If several are brightly colored that's more significant.

Edit: In math you only need one counter example to disprove a theory. In science a few is generally enough.
Amazing service. Hope to see Atlas expand to Nevada LLCs or (one can dream) Hong Kong Ltd's soon.
I wonder how this relates to how we learn our primary language in the first place. My parents put objects in front of me and gave me the word to associate with them, or talked around the meaning of abstract words. I learned English (my primary language) entirely verbally. Then, when I began to learn to read, I learned what sounds letters made, and verbalized these sounds when reading, and tried to parse those sounds into a word I recognized. Since I learned my language verbally, the process to comprehension included conversion to sound. This has continued to my adult life; I wonder if I can re-train my brain to associate text with meaning. I also wonder if I do this already, but every time I try to notice whether I'm internally verbalizing, I internally verbalize (because it's in the back of my mind), so I think I do regularly even though that may not be the case.

Experimenting with this idea would likely require teaching children with text, which may or may not be ethical. Sign language is different enough from English that it doesn't directly relate.