skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also this one by the talented Vijith Assar:

https://github.com/vijithassar/genius-defender

Unlike the others (which prevent hosting on genius.it) this one actually prevents annotations via plugin etc by injecting invisible characters at random. Its a WP plugin but the method could be adapted.

Unsure if there are SEO/other implications.

More info: http://www.vijithassar.com/2641/how-to-block-genius-annotati...
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How do people feel about Quip as a competitor to Slack?

https://quip.com

I was sceptical, but Quip's combination of chat and group-editable documents feels actually much better for dev teams than Slack, which ends up very unstructured.

(I have no association with Quip at all, but recently had the chance to use it in a Slack-like context.)
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I don't see this happening. Free plans like this will typically help build better products to sell to the actual paying customers, or even help with bug fixes. I don't see them removing their free model.
https://www.postbox-inc.com/ is quite good.
It is commercial software based on the source code of Thunderbird.
I was immediately kicked off when using real telnet, but it worked fine with netcat (nc). I think this service gets confused if you send it the telnet control stuff.
I think the downvotes are because ircd != Slack. Setting up your own ircd is a whole other thing vs going to Slack.com and creating a Team. UI features, administration, it's all different. So we could have a whole conversation about whether irc is worth the effort... but now we've drifted far from the comment above, which is about lack of security features in Slack.
they're two different use cases (for us anyway). we use quip instead of google docs, slack for everything else.
How do you stop people from scraping your site? Databrokers frequently will mine social sites to build profiles on people. There's legitimate reasons to block TOR for read-only content.
Arguments about the humanities versus the hard sciences aside, we'll need fewer and fewer PhDs as the teaching tools become better and distance and "free" courses become more commonplace and accepted.

It wasn't difficult to see coming. Supply and demand; when one great professor can teach thousands over the internet, who wants to learn from a half-ass instructor (of which there are many)?
It's clearly encouraging that and it creates subtle pressure to do it when all your peers are.
I have mixed feelings for this. At first I thought shills are always dishonest and evil. Then at the end of the article there is the comment about the targets being aware but still enjoying it. I guess it could be looked at as live theatre.
To be fair non-IT STEM is not much better. I have many friends in astronomy and marine research, it is very difficult to find a job.
RIAA Says DMCA Isn't Enough; Needs More Protection.
If the OP uses PGP only for signing and signature verification, it's not privacy he's after.

If the OP uses PGP for encryption, then his conversation partners use it too, and thus can't use gmail, outlook or yahoo (I am under the impression that desktop outlook has no support for PGP).
I read on an iPad.
We found the current slack pricing to be way too expensive for us, but if/when they add video conferencing that equation changes drastically.

Like you said, we are willing to pay, but for about $7 per user we aren't getting much more than the free plan...
How so?

(EDIT: Just to forestall the inevitable: Yes, there are some weird and dangerous extensions you can enable, but mostly it's pretty clear that they're dangerous. It doesn't seem to be a problem in practice.)
I think this integration looks very promising.

At least on Linux, I've tried many IDE solutions... Eclipse, Netbeans, CLion, Code Blocks, Anjuta, KDevelop... from all of them I've found more the most success with CLion.
But my use case doesn't really go beyond what this list of features are.

... except for the build system. No mention of CMake in the article. I think CMake support is a key feature.
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Am I the only one confused by the title? I honestly thought it would be an April Fool's joke :) The title makes me think it's about coloring colored images.
I don't think "obviate" is the right word here, nor do I know how you would measure those other things programmatically.
IANAL, but I absolutely believe there's the possibility to raise a copyright violation suit. There have been cases brought against Google in the past for caching webpages. This is why google/bing web crawlers abide by robots.txt.

NewsGenius needs to at least 1) identify their crawler, and 2) provide a way to opt-out. Otherwise, it doesn't look good for them. They're not being a very good citizen of the Web.
> You can't understand prop 13 without understanding the environment in which it was passed. The price of houses was shooting up 20-30% a year, and people who had owned their houses for decades were being forced to sell because they couldn't pay the taxes.

Is that very different from the present day, in which there is very little property tax?
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Much of this holds true in other fields as well, even technical fields if you intend to go into academia rather than industry. I realized about halfway through grad school in math that I was preparing to enter a field where I'd literally have to wait for someone to die before I got a job. Even if a suitable opening existed, since there are so many more candidates than jobs, it wasn't likely I'd end up with one. And, even if I did, I wouldn't get to choose where I lived, because I'd have to go where the job was. I'm glad I got off that track.
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There is a notion that seed funding is very easy to find. Is this really true for normal people ? Does 'facebook' tag somehow magically attrach money these days? How does one begin this process ? Most of my friends are engineers and I know nobody in my friend circle who has raised a seed round.
Interesting you mention awk. Do you use that professionally? For string manipulation I use almost exclusively pipe output to bash then format/grok with awk/sed, and wish that more (any?) languages implemented them fully!
This is the logical product of turning what should be the product of blissful idleness (pontificating about Kafka) into a fucking job, where you must work X hours a week Y weeks a month and churn out enough "value" that your university can charge people money to pay your salary. I.e., the world is a Kafka-esque nightmare where something perfectly straightforward and natural (reading good books, having deep, worthy thoughts about them) has been connected to a soul-sucking apparatus that reduces everything to monetary value.
Hmmm , sounds cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZVtgiTmz0
With this subtitle, there is actually no need for an article.
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This mostly depends on whether the planets where life originates are anything like each other.

We just assume that every life-harboring planet will have water and trees and blue skies, but even the "dead" planets that we've seen so far are nothing like each other.

However if Earth is the only place with leafy green trees, for example, and we go on to plant these on Mars and other planets, we will essentially be making copies of Earth (which would otherwise be the only example of itself) by replicating its attributes and variables on other worlds as much as we can, for our own comfort.

Over a large enough scale of time and space, Earth could be seen as a successful organism that managed to replicate itself. It doesn't need to have any direct agency over its reproductive components (us) any more than we have any agency over our own sperm and eggs.
>she's literally complaining about people discussing her work on other sites

Things like this don't become a problem until it is so easily organized. A bunch of tweets, FB posts, HN, reddit or other social comments are so scattered they don't have as much impact. The comments aren't visible on the the same page as the content.

I'm going to have to think more about this. I've had this thought a couple of times now but I don't have a full picture of it yet.
What ever happened to "plonk" anyway.
For non-NL residents you'll take home almost 65k after tax for 5 years. Rent in Amsterdam is ~900 EUR per month and you're close to a major station.

Source: looking at a colleague's paysheet and getting angry that my first employer refused to fill in the paperwork for me (costing me 40% of that for 5 years).
Going a bit meta here: Is there a standard library to use for monitoring 3rd-party interactions users bring to a website?

Typically this would mean browser add-ons and extensions, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover other things (like headers injected by cellular companies, or who knows what from malware infections).

Such a tool would be useful when troubleshooting various 'works on my machine' scenarios.
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Have you ever considered switching to Hipchat ?
If it's not indiscreet, how did you do your "reconversion" from a math PhD and in which field ?
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Some are addicted to them while others don't get the point?
This is about humanities PhDs, written by a lit PhD. The English PhDs have long been the most vocal of this line of criticism, where the problem has been most extreme.

English and humanities BAs are eminently hireable, as the author points out, but the academy has decided to so relentlessly overproduce professors as to make it untenable as a profession. 75%+ of humanities courses are taught by adjuncts and graduate students—and the graduate students are just adjuncts-in-training. The MLA recently had a big symposium about this, which concluded that there was basically nothing wrong, they should continue to train professors (and benefit from their underpaid teaching), and make more of a show to go on about jobs outside traditional academia (in museums? libraries? It's unclear). While the norms of the academy is that anyone who isn't a professor is a failure.

Source: I dodged this bullet.
And here I thought Instagram was an actual case of the acquirer letting the acquired product be fairly hands off.

Are there any examples of happy acquisitions? Oculus?
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So the point of the post is "Now the timeline order has changed. It's not a timeline anymore, but it's a filtered and reordered feed. I feel very sad about that and I want to explain you why." The why in that is "Now Instagram aims to be the brother of Facebook: a time sucking machine that has to steal the highest amount of my time to maximise the exposure of his ads. Now it’s too hard for me follow what’s happening to my friends, and I can’t do it real-time anymore.".

I don't really think it makes much sense to be so sad about this, since the whole reason Instagram did this (according to them) is that people were only seeing 30% of the images on average so it just made sense to try and present the best 30% up front (explained here http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/technology/instagram-feed....). And if like me this guy follows few enough people to keep up with all the photos, then there should be no issue because I can always easily keep up with only the people I am following and see all their output. Maybe it is not real time anymore and it is noticeable to this person, but it still seems to be overstating the case.

And how is this change relevant to try to capture most of your time? It seems moreso to be about trying to give the best experience possible, confronting a problem that most people probably friend and follow way too many people to keep up with. Seems reasonable to me... Not to mention it's very dubious to claim the call came from Facebook, and not internally from Instagram following the same direction Facebook and Twitter went over time.
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Only users with enough karma can see downvote buttons. I'm not there yet, either.
In what futuristic place does the average dwelling actually have such things?
The post from the Tor project does not state anywhere that Tor is not used by botnets or that it's used for malicious purposes. They specifically question your specific assertion that 94% of Tor traffic is malicious. I'm not surprised, it's quite a statement and it calls for some supporting evidence.

Surely you can see how, given the amount of outreach they do to educate regular people about the positive uses of Tor, putting forth unfounded statements like that might be perceived negatively.

I am glad that CloudFlare has put effort into this problem and as a Tor user I appreciate it (though obviously, this problem goes far beyond Tor, as mentioned in the article - your systems will have the exact same problems with large-scale IPv4 NAT, so really it's not optional for a CDN provider).

But please, stick to facts when presenting the case.
I think I saw an issue or something, can't find the link anymore. If I recall correctly they were saying that build tool support is on the roadmap.
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Multi-threading is a technique for managing concurrency. I'd recommend focusing on how concurrency is inherent in whatever particular problem domain is driving the project and then look at how different projects manage that...i.e. what problems are JavaScript Erlang, C++, Go, and Clojure each appropriate for?

Good luck.
This post belongs in the who is hiring post (if anywhere), not here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405239
No, but being the former can sometimes lead to being the latter.
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Hassling Tor users shouldn't become the Internet's default. If you're having trouble, consider informing Tor users checking out that you won't process the payment without their providing additional information. This raises the cost to carders a lot more than needing to rent a SOCKS proxy in a residential area.
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A new word for me! solipsism: the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
We use Slack at my dayjob, and it's functionally not substantially different from IRC-in-a-browser. This is why I suggested ircd.

I guess if OP believes slack IS substantially different from irc, then nevermind, but that should be their call to make.
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Hipchat's downtime is atrocious.
"Advanced economies must still make things, but there's no rule that says that those things have to be made by people."

There is indeed such a rule, although perhaps it is currently unnamed or not elucidated clearly/consistently.

The economy is made up of people and those people come from families and those people and their families are at different levels of maturity and capability.

You don't take a 5yo child to an R-rated movie.

You don't take a 10yo out drinking.

Similarly:

You do not take an unskilled J6P from a broken, or barely functional family background and just slot them into a STEM fast track and expect a robotics programmer to pop out the other side - even if it's all subsidized and paid for.

You do not take a family/clan/social group right out of (relative) poverty and unsophistication and plop them right into sunnyvale and instruct them all to go get technical jobs and start living like good upper middle class folks.

Running an economy that has people in it (the only kind I know of) without ladder rungs on the bottom is as silly as running a grade school with only 5th and 6th grade. No amount of subsidies or social welfare or coaching or lunch programs are going to let you slot a 6yo into 5th grade.

In the same way, we have people and families and groups in any society that just aren't ready to walk into the googleplex and start coding. They aren't ready socially, they aren't ready economically and they aren't ready intellectually - and I mean this on a multi-generational scale.

They need more than one lifetime to make this leap and the way they do that is within an economy that has decent, meaningful work for everyone.

If you take those bottom rungs away you should absolutely expect the same kind of chaos and dysfunction as you would find in an elementary school with only the 5th and 6th grade.
It's illegal for your employer to require you to work. That's not quite the same thing.
The Tor egress bandwidth is sufficiently small and sparsely located that this wouldn't be an issue for a CDN.
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I have an advanced degree in the Humanities and it has served me extraordinarily well career-wise. The thesis-centered thinking, concise communication, and artistic drive in my work has always set me apart, and I owe that to my training. Even more specifically, learning from high-integrity journalists taught me that a complete and honest rendition of the facts is very rare and valuable in the business world.

Both myself and my partner from the same program have coveted positions in no small part because of this training.

That being said I went to a #1 program at UC Berkeley, did not even consider becoming a professor, and worked hard at technical skills in the background. I too would have failed miserably on the tenure track.
Personally, I think a lot of the bad Perl code people have had to deal with relate back to three things.

a) Many of people writing the code were sysadmins that just needed to get a job done, and didn't have much real development experience.

b) Perl was also easy to get access to in cheap shared hosting environments, so it attracted other people without some development discipline.

c) Perl4 did not have objects, and scoping was limited to local(). Thus, lots of spaghetti code and global vars.

However, none of that would have gotten exposed to developers if their teams had decent interviewing techniques, or code review, etc.

All that to say that Perl 6 shouldn't have the same propensity for bad code to end up in a real project. Any more than any other language that is. I can certainly misuse regexps, lambas and other features and write some hard to maintain Python.