skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is Digg today
I think most or us who surf internet daily would have come across the word digg in their life. It is a social bookmarking website in one need to open an account by entering the name and address. After sign up process they can submit their favorite content and its hyperlink in Digg. The main purpose of this website is to highlight some of the valuable articles in the internet to many users. Usually there is a saying that this website is a close friend to Google. Whatever contents are placed about the company or individual it will immediately get indexed by Google. This has created a false impression about the website and people started using it commercially. Submitting more and more articles in the digg, one can increase the page rank of the concern website are the gossips which shattered all over web. I can accept the fact that submitting articles along with website address will surely give some credits to the website but doing so regularly will pave overnight results is absolutely a wrong fact. So what one can do is just post article which they really think them as valuable ones and those are genuine too. I am sure at one point of time your website will be surfed by the internet users all the world which in turn will optimize your website. if you have any misbelieves regarding Digg it is wise to throw it away and start concentrating some valuable works like content writing, posting in other forums and so on.For more articles visit this website www.prodigiz.com
This is a disingenuous, deliberate misinterpretation of what Bray said.
Privacy is the new sharing.
Can't we blame them for creating such an evil system?
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Yes statistics, like logic itself, can be misused and fool the untrained/unthinking.
One thing I like to observe is that even with the evaporation of the Empire, Britain remains a very wealthy country with a high standard of living. In fact, their standard of living is considerably higher now than it was at the height of the Empire in the 1950s.
if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me

Heh. I see what you did there.

(Updated: "&" usage, "ain't", starting a sentence with a conjunction.)
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this one also "works" with CSS background images by the way. I had one case during development here with ~10 elements that had a background image set to url() (in a style attribute. don't ask. please). And of course, that page was really taxing the server doing a complex calculation.

Of course, finding this was actually a good thing, because we could not only fix the empty background image but als fix the whole page so that a) the processing is done in the background and b) the result is cached.

So if you are careful about your architecture, an empty image url or two really is a non-issue. If on the other hand, you are not careful, 10 empty image urls on the wrong page can really take down your machine.

There IS a difference between 50 and 500 concurrent users.
It was pointed out to me that my git repository hosting this code was down. I've now moved it to github if anyone was looking for it:

http://github.com/doublec/jsparse
That's interesting to hear. What kinds of issues were you having? We primarily use it to receive voicemails (then call back using Google voice or Skype) and for sending/receiving faxes.
Who cares? Why is HN an advertisement portal? This is stupid.
chime fits a few of the patterns: use of etc. mid-sentence, occasional use of hyphens - in this very pattern - and moderate use of slashes when "or" would do. Also American spelling.

Still, it's easy to get into a sort of confirmation bias looking at this stuff manually, and seeing things that fit while missing things that don't.
I just searched for "google-facebook" and "identity management" and saw a blog by the title "Google-Facebook: Identity Management in a Brave New Internet"

Link: http://blogs.oracle.com/clayton/2008/05/googlefacebook_ident...

But, don't know if Clayton Donley is on HN or not..

His Bio, at Oracle:

Clayton Donley, Sr. Director, Development

Currently run the dev organization for some of Oracle's security and identity management products. Landed here after selling OctetString in 2005. Before that held various roles at IBM, Motorola, and as an independent consultant. Also wrote LDAP Programming in 2001.
This is another way of explaining why you can't divide by zero (which is essentially what he's doing in step 2), since it opens the door for all kinds of "proofs" that are actually fallacies.
Do you see a trend of logos becoming less important to a company's success in the past decade, as focus turns online and brand becomes more of a conversation? Consider the logos of Google, Facebook, eBay. Look at that completely generic Y up in the left corner. Is the TechCrunch logo lighting your world on fire? Ustream's? YouTube? I dare you to tell me that YouTube logo is a shining example of design success. They can hardly even make a favicon of it.

I'm not saying that a logo has no importance, but as the lipstick and makeup of brands becomes more transparent and users are intent on knowing companies on a deeper level, I do see the traditional sense of brand styleguides diminishing, and while sites like CraigsList and reddit and TripAdvisor and OpenTable are finding phenomenal success despite amateur logos, I begin to question their importance more and more.
Codeorgan.com and Twitter.com sound pretty good.

Reddit.com is okay.

Facebook.com and Google.com are just downright bad. Although Gmail.com isn't too bad.
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Well, that's the difference between a black box and a white box.
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I'd rather live in a country where the government is fiscally prudent, because then you still have choice to be personally prudent and put most chances on your side.

If you live somewhere where there's a massive public debt, whatever you do personally won't avoid you a world of hurt in the long-term.

(or at least, that's my understanding of the situation)
Is there a valid proof that x * 0 = 0? The definition of multiplication under the Peano axioms makes it axiomatic.
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I had an interesting HN corpus a while back but is there something newer/cooler you're using? Or did you just put it together yourself?

BTW, I strongly suspect stylistic analysis would work a lot better given the small corpus available for each user, though that idea goes out the window when someone deliberately tries to mask themselves.
How about "martythemaniak"?

Quote:

> 1 point by onetimetoken 23 hours ago | link

> I was just trying to empasize my point. Just out of curiosity, how would you go about identifying me?

http://searchyc.com/empasize
Thanks, that's what I thought. I was hoping I was wrong. :P
I'm curious about your lifestyle and can imagine others wanting to know more as well.
Consider a very popular website which runs on the last generation of software; that is, it is susceptible to the C10K problem (tl;dr: thread/process-based concurrency starts to choke at ~10,000 simultaneous connections, largely regardless of vertical scaling). The server, or each server in the pool, might run at 75% load normally.

And then traffic doubles.

It's easy to imagine the hurt.
Ideagraph "Solution to World Peace" by distributing work of consensus-building
The Ideagraph says it's the "Solution to World Peace" by dividing the work of consensus-building among millions of users
I'm thinking something that has to do with set theory. I don't remember the steps.
That's actually some interesting stuff, thanks. I had no idea the 1930s were such a regression from the 1920s in the US for civil rights.

However, I still think 2010 is better than either of those for most people.
I don't know why the study paints this as being a strange outcome. This outcome makes sense to me intuitively. Perhaps because we confuse momentary happiness (having fun!) with prolonged mental wellbeing. They are somewhat related to each other, but are not a causal or necessarily even a correlative relationship.

I've never really understood the point of smalltalk (beyond social things where you don't really know anyone). If I'm going to be having a conversation, I like it to be about something. I think having a meaningful conversation signifies that you are actually interested in the other person and interested in knowing what they think. If you think about it from that perspective, that you are actually making deep interpersonal relationships with the people around you, of course you will be happier. The person making smalltalk with a hundred people is someone who is still lonely in some aspect of the term.

It also makes sense in that discussing and thinking about 'deep' issues, you are becoming more knowledgeable about yourself. People who know more about themselves are going to be better able to please themselves (fill their lives with things that make them happy), because they actually know what they like (and what they are like).

Substantive conversations make for a substantive lives. And substantive lives are more enjoyable than empty ones.

This study is sort of just be rediscovering the Platonic theory of pleasure. (Sensual, Esthetic, and Ideal pleasures).

Moral of the story, read Plato (talk about it), be happy.
Sample size way, way too small
I think the argument for JavaScript is something along the lines of "It could have been much worse".

Also, of the whole 'HTML5' stack, JavaScript, the language, is probably one of the least bad parts.

The DOM, SVG, all the XML and XML-like bits, the whole GUI paradigm (or lack of thereof) of web apps and so on are much worse.
There are a couple of subtle pieces lurking just under the surface of this post, but diving into them requires a lot of time and words, so I don't mind them not being included. For example, proofs by contradiction require the Law of the Excluded Middle[1], which some reject. You could go into this for pages and pages, and it's very interesting, but it's also a complete tangent.

However, there's one important part that I think deserves some more depth. One of the main points driving the logic on display here is that the mathematical concept of "implies" is different than the normal one, because in logic "A -> B" does not suggest any sort of relationship between A and B. The sentence "My name is Fred, and that implies water is wet" is a true statement in logic, but most non-logicians would consider the statement false because there's no causative relationship. A logic definition of implication is more like "there is no possible universe in which A is true and B is false," which can be satisfied by A being false (or B being true) in all universes, regardless of what B (or A) happens to be and what A and B have to do with each other.

It's possible to see this as the crux of most arithmetic paradoxes. If you can slip in a false hypotheses, you can imply any conclusion, no matter how false it may be. All that's required is some sleight-of-hand so that you don't notice when the false axiom is being invoked. A common trick is dividing by an expression that evaluates to zero, without evaluating the expression.

For related shenanigans, check out the Principle of Explosion: a single logical inconsistency suffices to prove all statements, including their negations.

On an unrelated note, talking about the logical implication operator is difficult because you have to be careful not to use the word "implies." Good fun!

[1] "A or ~A", or equivalently, "~~A -> A" for all logical propositions A.
The sample is actually pretty huge considering the number of words.
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Depends on the version of IE. For IE versions that a far out of date it would be reasonable to ask a user to upgrade. For current versions of IE it might only be reasonable in certain circumstances (security considerations maybe).

Installing software is often impossible or very difficult in corporate environments though.
Well, since I grew up in "Indian Country" and Native American weren't granted citizenship until 1924, didn't really get full citizenship or suffrage until 1948, had schools that beat the language out of people, got forced moved off the reservations resulting in a huge percentage of suicides, and finally got some laws to protect the remaining culture in the last 30 years; I'm thinking we are better off then 1920.

Oh, not to mention the longer lifespans and generally better conditions then 1920 (indoor plumbing being standard is kinda nice).
There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there:

* collective pause to think

* pure-ad parked

These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions.

* "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns"

* "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenation

This search gives a name - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi....
Or it a misspelled "takenadult" :)
He has a good point in focusing the real goals rather than the means.
Only two posts - http://searchyc.com/%2522identity+management%2522+roi

Edit: ignore, just realised SearchYC doesn't respect "" and looks for near match words.
Right, the keys/values need to have supporting logic. And yeah if you're sticking procs in a hash, just use an object; but if your object is just a bunch of fields, use a hash. And often that's all you need. I just want to override the marginWidth on this fooBar.

Remember you don't need to destructure the hash. You've got a local one initialized to sensible defaults, and you .merge! it with the param one, and then just use the hash values as your local vars.
What could possibly go wrong..
Obviously, everyone loves a good challenge, but is there any evidence that the find-ee wants to be found?

They seemed interested in the thread as to how they might be found, but don't seem to have given any permission for a site-wide (wo-)manhunt. (This might have happened out of band, though.) I guess they do say that they were just using a one time account for rhetorical emphasis.

Further, if this were to really be a contest, it seems like there should be some sort of rules, such that the result isn't determined just by exhaustion of currently in use usernames by guessers.
It is very interesting to look at the economic conditions and political articles from the 1970's and compare them to what is going on now. The amount of parallels are astonishing.
Analogies between computer viruses and biological viruses are strained, overused, and abused. I'll just point out that our innate immune system doesn't use signature based detection, it uses a whitelist and behavioral/heuristic based detection. Where do you think transplant rejection comes from? It's not because the immune system has a virus signature that matches the foreign organ.

I'm pretty sure the future of anti-viruses will involve signature matching one way or another, because there's no way around that.

There are numerous ways around it. A whitelist is the simplest way. We have the technology to systematically verify the integrity of each piece of software on a computer (barring physical access) [1]. The current implementations of TPM have the potential for massive privacy violations and abuse, but I'm hopeful that projects like OpenCore will eventually lead to open source TPM designs. In any case, in such a system anti-virus is not even necessary.

More complex but less restrictive methods include:

(1) Building machine learning algorithms around a set of data that measures the normal operation of the machine. Because 99.9999999999% of the time Grandma's computer shouldn't be acting as a server.

(2) A feedback system built into your antivirsus where users report applications that don't work or have malicious behavior. Then Grandma can look up the greeting card creator she wants to install and see that 100 users have given the application 5/5 stars over a period of 6 months. Bonus points for open source applications where people will take the time to audit them for free.

There's tons of research in this area and I don't have time to reproduce a complete summery here. The point is that signature based detection is a method that is not sustainable in the long term because the number of unique malware variants is something that is growing exponentially. Most people don't even have anti-virus installed, and those that do have to deal with the fact that the AV slows the machine to a crawl.

Signature based AV is just a stopgap measure until we can properly implement our operating systems and detection methods. In the future we will have operating systems with trusted computing bases and detection methods based on behavior and crowd sourcing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
Agreed (and actually saw this on 40M pv/day site on the inside myself), most of the stuff is cached by definition. Still a bad thing tho.
I did FI Bay Area Winter 2009 (but dropped out midway through because I had to go to the middle east for dayjob, and couldn't quit dayjob without seriously screwing over a coworker). I may do FI again (they let you go on to the next session if you drop out), and I would definitely suggest FI to anyone looking for that kind of program. Adeo is great, and many of the mentors are awesome.

As a direct comparison for launching a product, YC is better than FI because it's full-time vs. part time, but FI is great. However, getting into FI and going along for 2 months might make it more attractive to stay, having invested those 2 months. FI is also a little more about the business, YC is more about the product -- FI would actually be even better as a follow-on to a YC semester.

I would probably go ahead and do FI as a learning experience, then evaluate when YC responds to you whether you should drop out or not. (answer would probably be yes, but this is the first semester for FI Paris and it might be amazing)

If you wanted to actually relocate to the bay area, YC or FI Bay Area would probably be more valuable than FI Paris, since the mentors/angels in the Paris program are probably going to be European. That would be my biggest factor in deciding.
Is there a website that keeps track of a company's "social" rating, somehow keeping track of all of the positive things they've done for the environment, healthcare, natural disasters and such, while also giving demerits for negative acts?

If not, then I think this would be a fantastic product to create, and given enough popularity, something that could potentially keep companies in check in the public view.

Currently, the model seems to be what-have-you-done-for-me-lately. For example, Firefox, regardless of all the goodwill they built up the past decade, seemed to be ripped to shreds by some people for one single act of utilizing a company's design without permission.

This would go beyond that to show people the bigger picture of how a company is doing on an overall social level.
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You need an infinity of samples to be sure.

But moreover, in most situations, the other variables cannot be absolutely controlled but rather are only roughly controlled. How roughly depends on the field and is often the rub.
Could a scanner really be that good?
Wow... I'm more concerned that car dealers are actually installing boxes like this in cars.

Just another reason why I prefer the older cars from the 90's where they don't have hundreds of miles of wiring and eight layers of plastic above the engine to prevent maintenance.
Awesome site, I absolutely love it. The only problem is that there isn't enough quotes, I think you should add a lot more.

I collect quotes and have quite a collection of good ones. Here are my favorite quotes, a lot of them would fit great on minimotivation.com:

http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html
Persistent bears will eventually be right, given long enough time, to call out the bubbles. A broken clock is right on time twice a day. Many bears shorting the bubble leading upto the 2005/2006 crash had lost their shirts.
For online messages with such short length,
when the full set of features are used, a sample size of about 30 messages per author is
necessary to predict authorship with an accuracy of 80~90%

http://ai.eller.arizona.edu/COPLINK/publications/CACM_From%2...
you heard of this technique?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404025.stm

Relies on a person's vocabulary and writing style more than the actual words.

[edit: disregard - I hadn't read deep enough to see that this was essentially the approach you had taken]
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but someone compiled this for their research paper: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...
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Could a moderator please disable this account, it's spam.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=therealist
Training isn't useful unless institutions doing the train make awareness of the limits of statistics part of their curriculum.
Didn't someone come up with a "Which HN User Are You Most Like" app a couple months back? I'm trying to find it now but no luck so far.
It depends on what your axiom system is, what 0 is, and what your universe is. In Peano arithmetic it's axiomatic. Meanwhile, for fields (and possibly less-structred rings) in abstract algebra, it's a theorem. An important note is that the proof for fields requires negative numbers, while Peano arithmetic only describes the natural numbers.

Here's the field proof I'm pulling out of memeory:

x*0 = x*(y + -y) = x*y + x*(-y) = x*y - x*y = 0

This relies on the existence of additive inverses for the first step, distribution in the second step, and the fact that x(-y) = -(xy) in the third step. That third property can be derived from sufficiently-specific ring axioms, but I forget how specific they have to be. It might be true in any ring by virtue of distribution but I forget the proof.

So to answer your question, yes there are... but it depends on the context. In some situations it may need to be axiomatic. A recursively-defined system like Peano may need to take it axiomatically as a base case.
I think everything matches here except that Mr. Donley capitalizes "F"acebeook. The comment in question has these as lowercase, which has already been mentioned.
We put some Safari in your Safari (or whatever)
any idea where I could learn more about curent implementations of (1) ?