skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out that people who are interested in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu languages in the US and Canada are probably English speakers interested in a second or third language. So their results are correct. Facebook Ads Manager is like any other computer program. It does exact what you tell it to do. Rather than selecting an audience of English speakers they might have had more success selecting the ~45,000 people in the United States and Canada[1] who like the largest Indian news website.[2]

Notice how the size of the audience is almost the same as the number of likes of the page? My guess the reason why the audience is larger is because people who have unliked the page after liking it are still included. Facebook ad manager is very, very accurate at targeting only people who have liked a page, for example, only people who liked the Candlebox band page or any information people have put in their personal profile like having attended Stanford University.

I've tested it. It is very accurate. I've made a post and targeted 300 people who I know or interact with in real life. The post got close to 20 likes and lots of comments but everyone interacting with it was in the audience I selected. I've done a few other tests too and I always only get interaction with people in the audience.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/IdPAumb.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/7jb1MAE.png
I think monospace fonts look pretty
the English article now returns a 404. any alternative places it is still visible at?
I sincerely doubt that anyone in Dilbert's type of corporation works even 15 hours per week. Majority of people are just being creative in destroying time.

Like the manager that loves to schedule meetings when the project is delayed. And after that is sincerely surprised when the delivery date is pushed even further.
That is a valid Frankfurt :-) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder)

Ran into a lot of examples like that when merging two existing georeferenced datasets of plague outbreaks in Europe. Had to do quite some manual checking, and made good use of the damerau-levenshtein distance between two strings to recognize alternative spellings.

end-result here: https://figshare.com/articles/plague_outbreaks_in_medieval_E...
I once had a pretty strong stance against photography. I come from a culture where everyone takes photos of everything to the point that events seem to circle around it. It was just boring, and I agreed with a philosopher (sorry can't remember which) that when you take a photo, you miss the authentic moment because you're busy manufacturing one.

Now I wish I wasn't that idealistic/arrogant because now I don't have much photos to look at! When I look at my childhood photos, it makes me realise the extent we can sometimes whitewash our own memories of the past.
http://pastebin.com/raw/0SNSvyjJ
The implementation of checking if a buffer is dirty seems a bit... odd. It compares the saved text with the buffer text. Seems like a bool should do fine based on other operations I saw in that file.

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/src/buffer.go#...
Yes I wrote Science as a catchall, including social sciences.

Though, I'm not sure if hive-mind intelligences or strictly hierarchical biologies (e.g. queens/workers/drones) would even need Law or guidance for social conduct, but they may still invent stopgap explanations (religions) on their way to understanding the weather and stars and such.
Peru reports first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus
Chaotic good vs lawful evil. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_%26_Drag...
All this talk about worst jobs reminded me of that old show "Dirty Jobs"[0] from a decade ago.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs
Try:

sudo xcodebuild -license
SUnny leone
As mentioned in another comment, smallpox has killed more than it's fair share of humans. An estimated 300 million in the 20th century alone[0].

Maybe lesser known is the Spanish Flu which killed more than 50 million people worldwide within 2 years (1918, 1919). The strangest thing is that it seems to have largely targeted young and healthy adults (it, like the Black Plague, seems to have originated in China[1]).

[0] -http://www.who.int/about/bugs_drugs_smoke_chapter_1_smallpox...
[1] - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140123-spani...
The LOLCat Bible
What's the difference between "infrastructure" and "tooling" in this context?
Related topic is the "Great Dying" which killed the majority of Native Americans:

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html

Of note is how smallpox was used as a weapon:

>> "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." — Jeffery Amherst

Sources:

Disease as a weapon against Native Americans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_...

Smallpox Blankets
http://cherokeeregistry.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
You are right. The masters of photography made memorable photos sometimes (and most often) at the risk of their lives. Now that everyone has access to the tech to reach more people, more people are getting into it.
It was not a big deal in Sweden.
The government was acting fast to quarantine the areas.
Mostly only children bellow 14 died. A few years later however most families had new children. All in all it was not a big deal for that point in time. Remember that back in those days most people had more children per person and death was a larger part of life than now.
"But as I stood there in Cambodia, swatted by selfie sticks, bruised by elbows, perfumed by the body odor of my fellow photogs, I realized the irony of being at a temple in which no one was really present. Was Instagram ruining travel?"
...
"But here’s to hoping that before clicking “share,” there’s a moment to enjoy the view and a sip of instant coffee. Without getting elbowed. Or poked with a selfie stick. Or tagging that photo #Instabruise."
Not knowing how old you are, or where you hail from, but I was able to travel a lot when I was a young teen during the 80s (in the UK), just by having a different priority on my money than my friends. My mother was living on disability, so I got all my money from part time work.

But I saved like a madman to travel. Looking back on photos from when I was 14-15, you can see that most of my clothing was old and out of fashion, I never had the latest music, or went to concerts or other things that my friends did, but all my cash went on travel (and computers :)

Granted, most of my early travel was just by bus, ferry and thumb, and being next to Europe helped too.
Just by global warming being solved by you being cold today, right? You know, the world is a bit larger than Games/Movies/Musics/Web. Like seriously, try some fluid dynamics, or neutron leakage. Just because it's expressible in software, doens't mean that a script kiddie next door with his fingers still sticky from the unclosed pornhub tab has to have all my life's work.
Did you? :P
"Brutalist" is using typographic quotes on website about programming
Blogging with Emacs, Jekyll and Nikola
Are you saying that "troll" now means "people who disagree with our established positions"? That's far less a new usage then an intentional relabeling to imply that censorship is justified against any group - like redefining "terrorist" to mean "critic of government policy."
This is ridiculous. All this guy says is that the Echo doesn't require you to say please, and he's concerned that kids might not be able to comprehend the difference between asking a machine something and asking a human something. He doesn't actually provide any examples of his kid's behavior changing for the worse as a result. Way to call your kid an asshole on LinkedIn for no good reason, guy.

I think people like this underestimate a kid's ability to understand the difference between talking to people and talking to non-people.

In my experience, the Echo handles a "please" at the end of a request just fine, and you can follow its response with "Alexa, thank you" and get a "You're welcome!" in reply. Parents should be able to set a good example through their own use of the device if they're that concerned about their kids' ability to distinguish between polite conversation with people and voice commands.
For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare
Lawful evil or bust! I also took driving lessons from Carmaggedon ...
So if I understand correctly:

1. OS X ships with a "git" command in /usr/bin that merely looks for the real "git" command inside Xcode or somewhere else and executes it.

2. The vulnerability is inside the real "git" (shipped with Xcode/the Command Line Tools) that Apple apparently cannot be bothered to update.

3. The author complains about not being able to make /usr/bin/git non-executable because of SIP.

Why not just make the real "git" command non-executable and be done with it?

And since /usr/bin/git apparently just delegates, the git vulnerability at least won't endanger most users, since they don't have the real (old, vulnerable, thanks Apple) git installed.
The same way you buy electricity from a provider, but the grid doesn't know who you are.
It's you who has used the word 'all'. Replace all with some in your counter example and both are undoubtedly true. Appalling? I agree.
4chan is quite "web2.0" for a board. BBS'es on 2ch.net could be better example, with their borer="1" tables, wall-of-text navigation, CGI scripts and adorable brick background
I've been a hobby photographer for over 40 years. I've also sold my work.

This past weekend I watched the latest James Bond movie. When I was a kid, I used to love those. Not only was Bond invincible and always cool, but he also traveled to the most exotic places.

Watching the movie yesterday? Meh. Not so much. It occurred to me that with all of the photo sharing going on social media, it takes a lot more than a movie star in a panoramic shot to impress me. In fact, lately when I watch movies, I'm guessing the locations they were shot -- simply because I've seen so many other images of the same place.

I feel that images as a way to say something about yourself, like "Hey, I was here!" probably don't work like they used to. I have some friends that will dump 80 pictures of their day at the beach. Wow. Nobody has a day at the beach that is that memorable.

Images as a way to show your feeling at the time? I don't think they're ever going out of style. I'll take 100-200 shots, then find 1 or 2. Then I'll spend some time in post production making the image match the feeling I had looking at the scene. This may or may not be realistic. I find that I rarely can achieve this effect by pushing pre-canned image processing buttons.

It reminds me of my first trip to the Grand Canyon. My wife and I got out of the car and looked. Wow! Big! Really big! So I took some pictures.

Just then a bus pulls up. Scores of other people get out, all with cameras. Big! It's really big! Many more pictures were taken.

I realized that this was total bullshit. If we go home now, we'll just have yet another picture like 7 million other pictures. It means nothing. So we went hiking down below the rim. (We hiked an hour or two down. It was twice that time coming back up.) It was during this hike that I actually had a personal experience of the Grand Canyon. We met the new superintendent, we chatted with other travelers, we noticed how that once you started interacting with the canyon, it left a completely different experience than just looking at a 2D image.

Technology is giving us a lot of little ways to pretend we're "starring in our own reality show", but most of that is just pretend.
I'm still trying to understand why Apple install XCode command line utilities into an area of the system that is protected by SIP.

There is nothing hugely special about their tools - every other app apparently has to install into a different location as best practice, so I don't understand why Apple don't follow their own guidelines!
PB? Can't seem to find reference to it. I use uBlock Origin. Is there something I am missing?
Two programmers try to deploy a Facebook messenger bot
REACT WORLD Koxx – I Love the Reggae [Official Video 2016]
Our escrow agreement is just a two-paragraph addendum to our main agreement that refers to our escrow provider's standard agreement. You sign a three-way agreement with each client and the escrow provider.

We use NCC Group as our escrow provider. There are cheaper options but NCC has good name recognition which helps customers feel more comfortable.

As for what to charge, we just marked up their price a bit and called that our "source code escrow add-on".
Not using DNSSEC and not having false sense of security. No sense of security is better than a false one.
That's probably not that fair to lead the page with - if you read the rest of the wikipedia article you'll see that he founded Dialog in 1984 when he was 21 and it went public 10 years later. It looks like he made some major mistakes later on and during the dot-com crash, but building and running a multi-billion dollar company for 16 years is better than 99.9% of HN users achievements.

I wouldn't chalk off Powa's failure to one person.
The reason I do the check that way is because if the user adds a character, and then deletes it, the buffer has not been modified, but if you just set a bool to true when an insert event happens, it will think the buffer has been modified.

If there is a better way to do this please let me know.
> I think this is the crux of the issue. You are right--photography has been part of vacations since cameras were generally available. But what's different is the real-time nature of sharing those images, and the real time acceptance (or rejection) of those images via likes and comments. If those are more important than the lived experience, then, I think we have a problem.

Why?
Move - yes, but does this stop the government from collecting the capital gains tax? I think not.

So if you make American companies less profitable through some regulations, capital will move elsewhere, but if you raise the capital gains tax, I'm not sure it will.
Half-Norwegian / Half-American here. Comparing the stories I was told from the grandparents and great-grandparents on each side, this checks out at least anecdotally. Norway in 1900--1940 sounded like absolute dirt poverty compared to the USA in 1900-1940.

Also my (Norwegian) mother born just after WWII grew up without electricity and farmed with hand tools
I await the retort: Crappy blog posts are turning my father into an asshole
VisionMachine – An LLVM-based visual programming language
I don't know that I like pure programming; I'm just saying that if that's what people like in PFP, you can get that same sense of purity without PFP. Personally, though, I believe that people who like PFP simply find the paradigm to fit well with how they like to think of programs.
Glanced at the abstract, and the amazon reviews. The medieval medical guilds were well aware of the clinical symptoms of the Black Death, so I wonder how Mike Baillie connects the characteristic buboes of the plague with meteor strikes?

I enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632865/

The paper highlights several aspects of plague that were different between the second and third plague pandemic, and which caused a scientific movement that searched for alternative explanations for the Black Death - that is, until the Yersinia pestis bacterium got sequenced from multiple Black Death mass graves.
> the Windows\System32 directory can't be written to by an ordinary user.

You need to be able take claim ownership from TrustedInstaller, so administrators only: yes (you'll need to acquire a UAC token, but the GUI prompts you automatically). You'll also need to turn off installation integrity to prevent Windows from replacing the file. All documented. It isn't obfuscated in any way whatsoever and I figured it out first time in 2 minutes with no Google.

Security through obfuscation is known to be a broken concept.
"So, whether at Angkor Wat, Times Square, or my breakfast table, I will continue to pay homage to the melt. But here’s to hoping that before clicking “share,” there’s a moment to enjoy the view and a sip of instant coffee. Without getting elbowed. Or poked with a selfie stick. Or tagging that photo #Instabruise."
But I'm not talking about Web, nor music, nor video, nor games. Why are all of the comments coming from such a small world? What if you'd spent half your life developing aicraft communication just for a skript kiddie to steal it via his 1337 python skillz in half an hour? Noone would care that you had filed for a patent, i.e. https://www.google.cz/patents/US8909158, because the said kiddie works for GlobaComm that is going to use it internally to develop multitude of their own patents, and products, and not need you anyway - they have everything they needed.
Now there's a good idea. I might add a HN gateway to my Gopher server.
Contracts are types.

If they are enforced at compile time, they are static.
This is amazing. Also love the syntax color scheme
I missed that. Interesting that they're taking it seriously.
"When I see pictures of libertarians or right-wingers, they often seem to be wearing conformist looking clothes"

Isn't simply a case of advertising that you are part of a particular social grouping (or at least aspire to it) by conforming to the styles used by that group?

NB My own favourite example being spotting genuinely posh people by the colour and state of their cords trousers... (is it an ex-army thing?).
Godel vs. The Human Brain
> and don't want script kiddies to mooch off my talent that easily.

We all "mooch" off of other's talents.
That's the beauty of our industry.
We get inspired, we share, and we base our works on the works of others.

That's why its so important to pair huge investments in R&D with awesome business people.
Don't obsess about protecting your inventions. Obsess about getting your inventions out there, selling, supporting, and custom tailoring it for what customers really need.
Yeah, it's looking increasingly that way.

I'd still love to know their thinking behind put git into a directory that SIP makes deliberately hard to update! I mean, git is additional software and not even part of their base operating system, my understanding about SIP was that it was meant to prevent people from tampering with the underlying system software and installing rootkits.

git (and ssh for that matter) aren't going cause rootkits by themselves - and all they are doing is forcing people to use homebrew to install versions that's aren't protected by SIP!
It was day 2 for you, with the specific engine you used.

You don't need to heapsort the entire dataset before you offset to a page, and there are engines capable of doing this.
I don't know that it has to be ugly. I think the good brutalist architecture is quite beautiful, as well as very pleasant to use (it's a misconception that brutalist design is meant to be _brutal_ towards it's users, although the bad stuff is -- and I think, maybe heretically, much of Le Corbusier is pretty bad).

When I think of brutalist, I think no frills, and putting the infrastructural elements forward, not covering them up with any surface-level aesthetics. Exposing the infrastructural bones, hiding nothing.

I don't think it's at all obvious what this means for a website. The very very abstract nature of all software makes it perhaps impossible to put the 'concrete' forward (double meaning intended, but primarily here as the opposite of 'abstract'), there's no there there. But I think it's interesting to think about, and the candidates listed there are contenders worth considering.

But there's a link to submit more, you should submit a JavaDoc page, I'm sure they'll list it too.
That's a somewhat more complicated issue: they're shipping the last version of bash using GPL v2. Upgrading would be a significant legal question and I'd be surprised if the long run outcome wasn't removing bash.
But the company does know who you are, they have a meter on the side of your home that measures how much electricity you use, they know your address and often your banking information...

The "grid" might not (i'm not even sure what that means?), but in this case the website doesn't know who you are, the ad itself doesn't know who you are (especially because it's not shown), only the ad-network-provider knows who you are.
Ooh, thanks!
Repetitive, meaningless work: The world's most honest IT job ad
Ask HN: Can genetic algorithm get “sick”?
ok, my question might be stupid but I was wondering if my genetic algorithm get "sick", how can I find a cure for it?
Hungarian Quick-sort
Similar as "I Forgot My Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
Yes, Java Has Flaws. But
While I agree with canonical being a pain the answer to that is simple just don't user Ubuntu.

I prefer Mint if I need a Ubuntu fork that's quite stable and has most things already configured generally used at work and as my personal desktop I use Arch mostly because compatibility with the hardware required the latest kernel at the time.

I like playing with the latest features and not having to install the OS every other year because some major update from canonical broke everything.

As far as fiddling with the kernel I never had to do anything like that to get the things you mentioned working the most I had to do is install some software and configure it correctly.

In the years I've been running Arch on the desktop it only breaks on average about 2 or 3 times a year which is quite decent considering it's a rolling release and I haven't had any major issues with mint since I started using it about 2-3 years ago.

I crashed the window manager a few times but that's about it in comparison Unity used to crash on me constantly and the entire experience of using plain Ubuntu as a desktop was awful so I understand why you would be against using it if that is all you knew of Linux as a desktop.
>If I invoke my patent, I'm deemed "evil" because I have a patent

I don't think people have a problem with enforcing patents in general, just patent 'trolling', i.e. buying someone else's patent or patenting broad ideas.

edit: newline detection fail
It's not just holidays that this is a problem, even just communal domestic activities like concerts are full of people watching the action from behind the glare of their phone screen
Actually it's 3 examples, which I think is enough to show a bias towards one of two sides (c'mon, nobody chooses one side out of two 3 times in a row accidentally, and if he chose a side with equal probability for each example - yeah right - the result we got is a 1 in 8 event, so not a great support for that hypothesis), and as to "familiar to his target audience" - again, come on, his target audience will be familiar with their fellow extremists' arguments just as much as it will be familiar with the other side's extremists.

As to what I think of my comment - I think it shouldn't be removed by a forum moderator, nor should your (IMO tremendously biased) comment be removed by a moderator, and neither comment constitutes "trolling" or "comment thread poison." A moderator removing either and doing similar things consistently is creating a forum I would not like to participate in either as a reader or a commenter.
Both pay the bills here.
I remember this demo when Chrome first came out. I thought that was the coolest thing.

edit: I found the original site that I linked to this. Courtesy of archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicd...
What is the most common plane flown by airlines?
Firefox's "reader mode" works really well on most websites. I kind of wish it were possible to have it on by default.
Everyone remembers that number, but you didn't use it for profit. I'm talking about purposefully reverse engineering a piece of software, to build an internal version of the solution, with direct impact to the inventor, not a global corporation. And it's not a web or a games or a movies or a piece of music.