skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else here not on facebook?
I think the post was by "eru"

I base this on eru's phrasing and use of "dissimilar" in the post in question, which can also be noted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159200

My strategy was to look for unusual words and phrases and do a google site search for those phrases.

Additionally, eru's post in this thread indicate an interest in privacy and eru's activity pattern is both frequent, and recent which I would expect to be true for the poster.

edit:
Here, eru even taunts us a bit:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200060
Remember less than 1/2 the cells in your body actually contain your DNA. Yet signatures still work. Biological viruses are light years ahead of computer viruses. Picture a world where there where more computer virus strains than computers, they mutated millions of times a second, ignored firewalls and could attack computers though the electrical system. Further 1/4th of every nations GDP went to anti virus systems and had been for the last billion years.

PS: Virus writers have become far more tame but old school virus's would rewrite your BIOS.
That article read like a "Special Advertising Insert": sensational headline, junk data, fluff, and then a "oh by the way, we've got the solution" pitch tossed in.

Death of the pageview? Really? Facebook has an ARMY using analytics & tools as he suggests to do ONE THING and that is boost pageviews.
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My first thought was to parse the AST, then print it back out. No string manipulation needed. (at least not fancy)
Suggestion: make URLs in negative-voted posts light gray like the text (they are still black and can make a -4 post stand out visually).
Behaviors are caused by physical things, namely brain states, so it's perfectly reasonable to attribute a category of behavior to a physical characteristic of the brain. If people who behave fundamentally differently than others aren't physically different then what accounts for their behavior?
Where on earth are you getting this from? The guy has done excellent hard research, psychopathy is fairly well established at this point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Further, there should be nothing outrageous in the claim that some people have radically different emotions from "normal people," especially considering the fact that you can take a pill and instantly change the sort of consciousness and emotions that you experience.
This is not new. Generally speaking, Google only censors Chinese words, and this is how it has been since as long as I can remember (since 2006 at least). See here:

Chinese TianAnMen Search
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=...

English TianAnMen Search
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=chrome&q=tianan...

Still looks censored to me...
I tried gender guesser. Words on the post was not enough so I used all the text he wrote.

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html

The Output

Total words: 365

Genre: Informal
Female = 326
Male = 616
Difference = 290; 65.39%
Verdict: MALE

Genre: Formal
Female = 348
Male = 450
Difference = 102; 56.39%
Verdict: Weak MALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Direct link to the actual IRS training course:

http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/training_co...

Not as nefarious and darth-vader like as I'd hoped.
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Eh, sucks that it happened to you but looking at browser vendor's (lack of) reaction and even the bugzilla discussion ... I think you and yahoo might be the only ones to have ever had any significant repercussions come from this outside of some minor mobile network performance issue that sparked the bugzilla submission.
No need to taunt us, onetimetoken.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200422
False

http://203.208.37.99/images?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=tia...

Google's global CDN is too complicated for average reporters to write about. There are enormous parameters to tweak if you want to mimic the real google.cn search behavior in China.

Also WHY EVERY WESTERNER USE TIANANMEN AS A TESTING KEYWORD?

tiananmen maybe famous in the west, but in Chinese it has other definitive meanings. Who the f__k would link a square with a massacre?

My theory is Google does not censor Tiananmen. e.g. the Chinese blog http://liblog.blog.163.com/blog/static/53679382200981773143/
It's not because Google censors it, but because there are just very few Chinese blogs or pics named TianAnMen.

Tiananmen is just insignificant. During culture revolution people shooting each other with guns even mortar on streets, machine guns were pretty common to guard important facilities. My college even had a f__king cannon installed on the main building.

If you really want to test censorship in China, use a real keyword, like this one

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%C4%C9%C3%D7%B1%C8%D1%C7+%BA%FA%BD...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%E7%BA%B3%E7%B1%B...
First, "this psychology professor" is trying to get people not to misuse his work, as reading the article would have told you. He is, in fact, "the scientific research". The reason he's not doing research now, as you seem to be asserting, is that he is retired. From doing research, you see.

Secondly, if you don't believe in psychopathy, you clearly haven't met my mother-in-law. (And I only wish I were joking.)
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I've always hated CAPTCHA, so I use a simple javascript human-detection script on the blog host that I run.

I keep records of all the spam that gets filtered on the site and why. Surprisingly, the human detection filter hardly ever gets triggered anymore. It used to in the past, but it seems that we've passed the point where spammers use scripts anymore. Nowadays it's all done by cheap laborers.

Granted, the site requires users to register before posting, but the registration form is seeing significantly less "robot accounts" than it used to.

I actually blogged about this last week:
http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2010/03/care-and-feedi...
I'm saying it's not OK for a sexist man to be excused for being charming.
I think there's a fair point to make that calling one person a psychopath and another person not a psychopath is a purely arbitrary line drawn in the sand. Hare's test measures various responses and draws an arbitrary line (30 of 40 points) between which someone is or is not a psychopath.

It's a classical false dichotomy that the article promotes in sensationalist terms.
Wow, reading through all these comments, it seems like pretty much a no-brainer what the Google Voice team is up to. :) I didn't realize this space was such a disaster.
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Beige Bites Back: Is Toyota Paying The Price For Building Dull Cars?
> It still costed me over $2k to get incorporated though.

Getting a lawyer to double-check things, or something else?
You should be directing this towards Microsoft and Apple; all of my videos work fine in Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, and Opera but currently do not in IE (54.5% market share) or Safari (5.3% share). If IE9 supports Theora, then that's one less browser which will require Java- or Silverlight-based fallbacks.

H.264 is great, and I look forward to being able to use it in 15 years or so[1]. But the only reasonable codecs I can use today are Theora and Dirac.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the...
Riiight. Because browser vendors always fix important issues quickly. ;)

What's more likely is that very few large sites are experiencing this problem, and of the smaller sites that may have experienced it, many probably never even knew it, and those that knew it probably said "huh, weird", fixed it, and didn't bother mentioning it to anyone.

Nicholas Zakas and Yahoo! are trying to get browsers to actually fix the problem in order to prevent this from happening to other people, while also spreading the word so that people realize this is a potential problem.

One place other than simple server load where this problem could be extremely harmful is in measuring ad impressions. Even if the extra pageviews aren't enough to create a blip on your capacity radar, if you're telling advertisers that you served x-million impressions when only half of those were actually seen by users, it's going to seriously screw up your clickthru metrics, and your advertisers are going to be pretty pissed.
It's really perceptual fallacy

1. We don't even call TianAnMen event or massacre in China, more common expression is Student Movement or the 1989 Student Riot, or June 4th event

2. TianAnMen is a symbol to westerners, but to Chinese it has other more important meanings.

Using TianAnMen as a testing keyword is simply wrong
Getting robots to play together
Great post.

It's clear that CAPTCHA is not a cure-all, and needs to be combined with content filtering and IP banning and other techniques. But (as we say in the show) the idea is to make spam uneconomical with a minimum disturbance to the user. Some users (e.g. handicapped, impatient) are obviously more disturbed by it than others.
WePay (YC W09) Promotes illegal gambling in mailing
You implied blame at the provider level. We might as well run a headline saying "Security flaw to blame for rash of area burglaries" when said security flaw was the failure to lock the front door.
Mozilla is waiting for google to open source On2's codec.
It may be arbitrary in the same sense the question, "Is that a fast car?" is arbitrary, but in exactly the same sense you can compare and make statements regarding the degree to which someone exhibits psychopathic traits, and as his research shows, this isn't something that's simply caused by a bad upbringing.

The fact that it's not a black & white issue doesn't mean that there aren't concrete physical differences between the brains of the general population and the 1% of the population labeled as psychopaths. It's the same situation for any mental "disorder", i.e. Asperger Syndrome, etc.
If you enjoyed the post, here are my lessons from improv class from a long time ago:

"People who are charming aren't afraid of failure" - Keith Johnstone

It's ok to fail, even if there is an audience paying to see you.

If you are doing an action like hula-hooping, don't talk about what you are doing.

If you are doing an action, do it with some energy. e.g. lame digging vs spirited digging a hole and throwing dirt over your shoulder.

Have a strong opinion! Don't be wishy washy.

Have a (secret) strong opinion. Don't tell the audience what it is - don't say what it is - let them try to guess it.

Lesson #1 - Stick with your offer.

On the suggestion 'purple', I went onstage as Barney and then dropped the suggestion. It would have been more effective if I was fully committed to my offer. How does this apply to pickup? Keep a strong frame.

Lesson #2 - Don't teach.

In the weird love scene with the chainsaw sculpturing, I was telling her to go over to here - the tree was here, etc. Instead, I should have been telling the audience and her how I felt about what she was doing. Lesson here - don't talk about what you're doing, talk about how it feels to be interacting/doing. This is basically what the statement of intent is based on.

Lesson #3 - Have a secret.

Maybe not as elaborate as Steve Job's marking-his-territory one but have a mystery - you don't have to tell the audience - they won't ever guess but they'll wonder.

Lesson #4 - Use freebies.

Simple humor. Beep! Beep! Funny and gets a laugh. Simple.

Lesson #5

If you don't know what the other person is doing, decide what they're doing.

Once you make it verbal/out there, the other person should agree.

Lesson #6 - Be in the moment.

The audience doesn't know when you play a game if you know what you're doing but if you look like you know what you're doing - they'll be engrossed.
This is the problem with freely giving out all of your personal information on sites like Facebook.
Ask HN: When will PS3 be available again?
Last week I asked y'all if I should get an Xbox or a PS3 -- with 135 responses, I got a 50/50 split between the two! All results here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tQ_S9H40SLxVJ0wwCcSRG3w&single=true&gid=0&output=html

I decided to go with PS3. But, as I discovered over the last 3 days, it's sold out EVERYWHERE. EVERYWHERE! And no one has a clue when it will be in stock again.

Has anyone heard any rumors or have any knowledge here? Googling for info on the shortage is a bottomless pit of crap news. I need a real answer.
Looks like it could catch on because the gimmick seems genuinely fun, but "Christine" has some serious man-hands.
Twilio comes to my mind - http://www.twilio.com
Don't worry, Mozilla is taking a principled stand that will become the impetus for their final jump into irrelevance. If IE9 does what their recent noises regarding HTML5 have been suggesting then Mozilla will join Opera in the "cute but useless" category and Chrome & IE9 will divvy up the Firefox marketshare within three years.
I like how Mozilla gets all the blame for refusing to support a non-free solution, instead of Google, Apple, and Microsoft for choosing a proprietary solution.
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What benefit if there for Google to do this anytime soon? They can wait for Mozilla to implode, scoop up most of their marketshare and continue to use the On2 codec as a veiled threat to keep MPEG-LA in line. The On2 codec is more useful to Google if it stays locked in a drawer.
It's not so much that they're slow to respond, it's that they also own many of the ones that would be as susceptible as Yahoo. That combination suggests it's not or has not yet been a problem for most.
I'd personally contend that MS, Apple, and Google didn't "choose proprietary," they chose
1) the current market leading format
2) ...that has the most video content available online already
3) ...that can be hardware accelarated
4) ...that offers the best quality to size ratio.
There's also an embrace of YAGNI and "Do the simplest thing possible ..."

I'd rather start with a hash and then see if it later demands more, than start inventing objects that, based on existing use cases, need only be hashes or structs.

I'd also rather go through a number of pre-1.0 iterations to get real-world usage to shake out the painful API parts. Up until then I'm happy to break compatibility if experience says there's some bad code in there.

Monkeybars, for example, had some methods that began life using positional args, but they were changed to use hash values. I hated it.

Aside from the extra typing required for every call, with positional args I got used to reading code and seeing things in a fixed order, so when I had to use the method myself I knew exactly what needed to go where. (These methods had 2 arguments, with maybe an optional third or so.)

With the hash args the order could vary so I had to keep looking up what the possible argument key values could be.

(Thing about using hashes for args: with positional arguments you need only know what role an argument is playing in order to know what sort of value to pass in, but with a hash you have to know the exact key name. That ends up being more stuff to look up in the docs, especially if the API designer has a quirky way of naming things.)

You might think that at least for a code reader the use of hash keys would better document the call, but the method name and the names of items being passed in were almost always sufficient.

I suspect this particular change was a result of over-thinking these methods and expected usage instead of actually paying attention to what the code was doing right now, and how people were using it right now.

There are times when my gut tells me, "You know what's going to happen with this code later", and I try to take that into consideration, but (usually) simple wins for me.
Most car alarms, engine immobilizers, etc. can be defeated in about a minute by an expert, as shown many times by pretty much every car magazine out there. But they are still installed because the average thief does not have this knowledge. I think the same principle is at work here.
You guys got married?
none of those change the fact that they "chose proprietary"
Psychopathy is a label that's not even widely used anymore. It's not a diagnostic in the DSM. This guy is a super old-timer who mainly works with police. 'Psychopathy' was a catch-all category that he is making increasingly more catch-all. We make categories because they are useful, but this categorization wasn't specific enough to be useful which is why it isn't used anymore.

"According to Hare, the consensus among researchers in this area is that psychopathy stems from a specific neurological disorder which is biological in origin and present from birth[10] although this was not what was reported by a 2008 review which instead indicated multiple causes and variation between individuals"

I am obviously not arguing that antisocial behavior doesn't exist, murder obviously is an action that has happened at least once before. What I am arguing strongly against is the idea that people are born intrinsically evil. Also the point he hammers in is all about "empathy", but empathy is also absent in autism... his category is too broad to be usable at helping people.

Treating an individual as an individual rather than a category allows you to take off the blinders and address there specific situation better to promote more positive change. The methodology of categorizing someone as having an intrinsic psychological disorder is extremely pessimistic and hinders resocialization. It has also been out the door with the advent of positive psychology, here is a speech by a president of the american psychological association: http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psy...

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10773.html

The above is a completely different approach to looking at antisocial behavior. It is also one that leads to positive outcomes. It is also quantifiable.
I am here on HN to contribute a different view about this allegedly exotic country, again.

> Computer gaming really doesn't exist in Japan. It's all on consoles, handhelds and phones. Few Japanese have even heard of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Quake, Counterstrike or Civilization.

Computer gaming does exist. They aren't aware of the titles you mentioned just because they aren't localized. Many Japanese have difficulty with English despite of the amount of education throw in, but that's another story.

> This means you really don't find many "hackers" in Japan.

Hackers do exist. Again just because... well they don't speak English and often not visible to the hacker community at large. However I admit English is lingua franca of programming, and often I have to bridge them.

Re CV, it's not the same CV as in the western, in fact it's almost wrong call it CV. On the contrary, many Japanese job applicants assume the CV same as their counterparts and fail miserably.
Sure--but they chose pragmatically. Proprietary vs. open was not as major a factor as say; not forcing 9 of 10 businesses to re-encode all of their video if they want it to work with Firefox.
There is an excellent book by psychologist Martha Stout called "The Sociopath Next Door" which examines this subject. The author claims as many as 1 in 25 Americans is a sociopath.

http://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/07...

Indeed, this book changed my perception of human nature -- some people are un-reformable. Most of them aren't serial killers, they're just dicks who get their rocks off by controlling other people. Think your asshole boss, or a jerk you knew who was always using people.
To quote Fight Club: "very modern art."

how depressing.
I saw this post a few days ago, and then today noticed the trailer for Repo Men is almost EXCLUSIVELY teal and orange.
Your making what's known in social psychology as the Fundamental Attribution Error:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
You're right of course. Free vs Non-Free had nothing to do with it. I just really hate how everyone is hating on Mozilla for making a choice that is consistent with their principles.
After they'd heard Hare speak they realized they were dealing with a psychopath, someone who could feel neither guilt nor sorrow. They changed their interrogation tactic to, "So you murdered a couple of prostitutes. That's minor-league compared to Bundy or Gacy." The appeal to the psychopath's grandiosity worked. He didn't just confess to his other crimes, he bragged about them.

Nice, reverse psychopathy.
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I think the easy interface of GitHub is because it was made to just work. No bullshit git functionality, which led to a fine product which everyone wants to use.
> The above is a completely different approach to looking at antisocial behavior. It is also one that leads to positive outcomes. It is also quantifiable.

That's ridiculous, it's an article about how early malnutrition can cause antisocial behavior, that in no way disproves any of Hare's research.

> What I am arguing strongly against is the idea that people are born intrinsically evil. Also the point he hammers in is all about "empathy", but empathy is also absent in autism... his category is too broad to be usable at helping people.

You're splitting hairs at this point. The term 'evil' is totally subjective. Hare himself doesn't use it, and if you read the article, you'd know that he too is fully aware of the potential for misuse of labels and his own research by people who lack any training in this field. No surprise, he doesn't approve of that.

Some people are _born_ with mental disorders. Some people get mental disorders from environmental factors such as childhood malnutrition. Hare is fully aware of this, and none of that detracts from his research, or the existence of psychopaths and its worth as a label in describing a mental condition.
this really isn't fair

mozilla is in no position to be directly supporting h264, to suggest otherwise is just naive. its not a free codec and they simply can't afford to bet their future on the liability of massive royalties when the licensing regime changes (and it will).

their reasons for not indirectly supporting h264 via the OS is in my view valid but weak, would assume that this will be overcome with an extension of some sort in the future.

in any case encoding video twice really isn't a big deal.
Sure, but if you look at the startup environment today, most people (VCs, founders, bloggers, etc.) mean "cheap" when they say "lean". You read about it everywhere - how startups are getting cheaper, how you could build one on a shoestring budget, how the traditional VC model is dying, etc.

Of course when someone says startups are getting cheaper, one has to ask "cheaper than what?" Cheaper than during the dot com boom, sure, because people don't get fresh ice sculptures delivered to their office every morning anymore. But that's nothing new, we knew that for a while, so comparing today's startups to those of the dot com boom isn't very useful. A much more useful statement would be that startups today are cheaper than they were two years ago, but in my experience this just isn't true. The biggest expense of modern startups is paying the employees, and the salaries of great people (engineers and otherwise) are rising, so I'd argue that startups are getting more expensive relative to their cost a few years ago.

Most (but not all, of course) things that have huge value take a few years to build and a lot of careful work to market, which means that underfunding most startups is a terrible idea. This article does an excellent job pointing it out.