skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crazy indeed, but it happens to be the case.

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-cfaa.html
This problem was fixed half a year ago, surely Ubuntu 16.04 should have a backport of the relevant commits?

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
For a long time, you've been using HN primarily for political purposes. That's not a legitimate use of this site, and we've already asked you to stop doing it.

In addition, many of your comments (like this one) straddle if not cross the line into personal disrespect. That's also an abuse of this site, so please stop doing that too.
Currently we show a popup for newsletter signup and to download the Redbeard framework you need to provide your name/email. Which we collect.

The download link is emailed out. Myself and co-founder debated the merits of this . He is of the mind, getting emails is important. I think getting people using the framework and lowering barriers to in order to do that is far more pressing. What would you suggest?
> It is interesting that it would be trivial for them to localize the units, it seems like they specifically didn't.

I don't know if I'd call it "trivial". It's not a difficult and challenging problem, but it's boring and tends to be a pain in the butt because somebody has to hunt down everywhere numbers with units are displayed, and it's easy to miss some because it's not easy to notice at a glance whether a number is in metric or imperial, etc.. Even NASA has had problems with unit conversion.

And the conversion in software is easy, but it raises questions of how the converted units would affect gameplay. Would "Walk for 2 km" directly become "Walk for 1.24 miles". Or should everything change a bit so it becomes "Walk for 1 mile," so the numbers work out better.

At the end of the day, Americans aren't completely stupid. Kilometers aren't completely unheard of. They'll convert and get over it. Nobody's going to stop playing the game over it, so there's no point spending money to do the conversion and work out the issues around it.
I think you should look at the background papers before making such a bold and unwarranted dismissal. Any researcher worth their salt will make sure to at least try to exclude other factors, and any good peer reviewer and journal editor will point out if this is missing. So if papers consistently find this link chances are very good it's there.
The 2L soft drinks are probably available, but I just never buy any of them. Milk, juice and yoghurt come in one liter packages.
hehe... keep shipping !!!
why not keras for your 'one true neural network framework'?
Even worse, sometimes different timezones share the same acronym.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/
> SC4 is Strong Cryptography (or Secure Communications) for non-technical people.

Even technical people can't be technical about everything. We need useable and ubiquitous.
It sounded like an app targeting end users, possibly a mobile app that sucks up all the data on the device. AWS is unlikely because I don't think anyone could get away with fooling a large segment of the developer population for an extended length of time. Even if they could, why would they? AWS is their golden goose, engaging in shady/unethical practices would mean no more golden eggs.
A lot of their "improvements" could be done just by using C99 designated initializers.
the mac keyboard shortcut listed should be Cmd+Option+i.
Micron had ram integrated state machine for some time now, nothing came out of that :(

http://www.micronautomata.com/

They might be missing the boat by not releasing cheap entry level hardware platform, ~$20 ddr3/4 stick.
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The crypto in Magento is extremely boring. In fact: it's too boring. It predates misuse-resistant interfaces like Nacl. It's not enough to be boring: you have to be the right amount of boring.

I was joking 10 years ago when I wrote "if you're typing A-E-S into your code you're doing it wrong", but more and more I feel like I was on to something.
Science and economic journalism are both pretty bad. My favorite thing (ok, one of my favorite things) about blogging/internet is that I can read real-time thoughts/opinions from actual scientists and economists now instead of having to rely on professional writers and media.
The networks commission projects from studios. The networks are a delivery and financing mechanism; the studios are the actual content creators. Broadcast-focused networks are rightly being disrupted by internet-focused distributors, but the real substance is the studios.

House of Cards was created by Media Rights Capital, which has a portfolio of "legacy" TV and film projects [0].

Orange is the New Black was created by Lionsgate, which also did Mad Men [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Rights_Capital#Televisio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionsgate#Television

Netflix-originated content is absolutely produced by the legacy TV industry, it's just purchased for distribution by a company specializing in a different method of distribution.
> Using a locally compiled version of PHP we scanned for good candidates for stack pivoting gadgets

Surprised that worked. Guess they got lucky and either got the comiler+optization flags the same as the PHP binary used, or the release process can create higly similar builds.
I don't think it's a binary thing where you are either playing totally fairly or completely unethically.

Most of the businesses have to make tough decisions to survive, not all of them are fair (to users, employees, etc). However, the difference is in attitude about such decisions and frequency of them.

>> The sort of person who feels guilty for making a good profit is at a disadvantage to the person who feels delight at taking as much money as possible.

Making as much money as possible is just a goal that some people set and do everything possible to achieve that. It's no different than any other goal. You don't need to absolutely maximize the monetary output of your life in order to be happy.
What do you mean by "fair?" Business isn't about being fair in the sense of fair play ("chivalry"). Do you mean your employer is engaging in illegal monopolistic practices? Is advertising fraudulent?
I am willing to accept that other variables might be involved here. I still think the general message of improving OSS is an important one.
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You're not logic'ing right. You're assuming video : audio :: internet : pre-programmed stream, which isn't correct. Radio and TV both have the same problem of non-interactivity, so his logic says that internet will obsolete both of them in his timeline.
> 1. This is a complete straw man, no one wants to accept the intolerant into our society. They merely want to help those who are in dire need. The majority of Muslims don't care what others do, they just want to follow their own religion in peace, and those are the kind of people they want to help.

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

Only in 3 out of 36 Muslim countries surveyed 1 in 10 Muslims believes that homosexuality is morally acceptable. This means that even in those 3 most tolerant Muslim countries 90% view homosexuality as unacceptable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_terr...

In the Muslim areas of Northern Africa and the Middle East you'll find that homosexuality is almost universally criminalised.

People living in Muslim countries overwhelmingly disapprove and many even hate homosexuals and that's why this orientation is criminalised in their countries. Yet when they come to Europe or the US they magically turn into gay tolerant citizens?

> 2. This isn't a democrat thing, every political ideology has some extremists that are intolerant of everyone that doesn't support their view. The only reason for saying this is to create an us vs them dichotomy. Saying this will never ever lead to positive political discussions.

You don't actually believe that anyone has to fear for his job, family and life if he supports Liberals in the West like Hillary.

I've never seen even one example of someone getting fired for supporting Liberals in the West, yet I've seen many reports of people who were fired because someone made a screenshot of an anti Hillary or pro Trump comment and sent it to their bosses.

> 3. Is he really? I see it like this: The reason manufacturing and unskilled labor jobs are disappearing is because the free market favors things being produced in China....

What I said is that regulations and increased taxes inhibit private sector growth at the cost of government growth, I didn't say anything about China or low skilled labor. We in the West could increase our competitiveness with lower taxes, less regulations and more freedoms, because this also directly effects the cost of production. No trade wars needed.

Instead all we do is increase taxes, create more debt and over regulate everything. And why do we need this? Because we have a social system in place since the 60ties that is supposedly fighting poverty and is constantly growing, yet poverty gets worse and worse.

And then there's public schools that are run by Liberals for decades now, which have gotten so bad that I honestly consider the possibility that they are actually trying hard to produce as many poor, illiterate and government dependant people/voters as possible.
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"The effects of characteristics of the studies, of selected covariates (tobacco) and of the gender of individuals included in the studies, were also investigated as putative sources of heterogeneity of the estimates."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363992/

Take a look at the papers before saying things like this.
Because it gets messy very soon. To start with, you would have to pick a set of distributions that is closed under the set of operations you want to perform.

If you pick 'all normal distributions' as your set, that means that you can only allow addition, subtraction, and multiplication by a constant (= a normal distribution with zero variance); you won't be able to compute x^2, take a square root, compute |x|, etc. That rules out, for example, computing the variance of a set of inexactly known numbers.

To make matters worse, to do this really well, you have to track where values come from. You really want:

x = 6±3.5m
z = x - x

to have z equal to 0±0m, but

x = 6±3.5m
y = 6±3.5m
z = x - y

to have z equal to 0±4.9m. Similarly, x+x should be 12±7m, and x+y should be 12±4.9m

The best you probably can do is to forget about the second issue, and do interval arithmetic. That is useful, but gives you extremely pessimistic results.

Edit: a good solution also would resolve the question of how to handle conditionals. if x > 0 could pick each of its branches according to the probability that x is larger than zero, or even execute both branches partially (whatever that would mean), according to the distribution of x.
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"Organized in top-down fashion by a corporation in order to further its commercial interests" is a lot closer to the definition of astroturf movement than it is to grassroots movement, that's for sure.
It's essentially what https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview is. It relies heavily on moderation to maintain quality, so I'm not sure how well it scales.
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You can't steer that boat from the galley. I don't think there's any long-term harm in jumping ship after a brief engagement as long as that doesn't become a pattern on your CV. Depending on the length of time there, especially if it's a job right out of college, you could even just not put it on.
> Nielsen is the best-known (possibly only?) company that does this in the US, and they're very good at what they do. Their use of a sample is perfectly fine, and there might even be grounds to argue that it's more accurate than trying to get a complete count of viewership.

Sorry, but this isn't true. We've known for a long time that their ratings are BS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Criticism_of_r...

Your other point is true though: They can only attempt to track who is watching ads, not actually track.
> HN is a liberal safe space.

That is easily shown to be false by the number of people who make the opposite accusation. It's also common rhetoric to cast oneself as the noble freethinker standing up against a Goliath community; people on both sides of any divide do that as well.

In fact ideological enemies resemble each other more than they do anyone else, and are probably the biggest factor making threads on this site tedious for the rest of us.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148604 and marked it off-topic.
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You can register with just an email, using a desktop web browser at http://app.wire.com, then use that account to login on mobile. Unclear why it's not possible to register a new email-only account from the mobile app.
I wish I could get the object data which caused the exception. None of these logging libraries provide that feature

edit-
for more info on what I mean:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157911/in-a-net-exception...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/278949/why-do...

edit 2-
I just read little bit more on this. Creating a memory dump of your process is one way to go - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5zhxt22.aspx#BKMK_...
Indeed. Though still, NodeList has the length property with which you can check for "emptiness" the same as with an array, that's what I meant to say.

Speaking of which, there are few features in ES2015 that make NodeList more palatable:

1. Iterables. NodeList is iterable and you can use, among others, the for..of construction to iterate over its content.

2. There is the Array.from method for turning array-like objects into true arrays. Not much different from our usual method of calling [].slice.call in this particular case, yet it's a bit shorter, standardized, and has a few additional perks, like accepting map function as the second argument.
Why use Picard for tagging? Does it offer anything beets doesn't?
As an STL maintainer, I can say that using "STL" to refer to "the C++ Standard Library" is a perfectly valid use of metonymy.
It's hard to appreciate because to make the abstract nature valuable you need a body of concrete examples. You could probably do this halfway through an undergrad course, but it's not traditional. You can also do it with a body of programming knowledge.
MusicBrainz Picard is brilliant, and really helped me sort out an unwieldy collection.
NO MATTER WHAT you must not say anything and maintain a smiling facade, while letting the hatred smolder inside your dark heart. Make trivial yet self-reinforcing observations around the office that feed your echo-chamber of a mind. After work down a quart of whiskey to soothe broken dreams, while watching HBO shows depicting glamorous life that you will never have. Extra bonus if you lash out at people who love and care for you.

In 5 years all this will feel natural to you like the rest of us, and your stock options would have fully vested by then.
News revenue says otherwise as well. It's not going so well for online advertising, which is fine by me. They had their chance to play nice, and chose not to. Now they are in a tailspin, and I couldn't be happier.
Be the change you want to see. Do your job in the most ethical manner possible and articulate your thoughts on your job, not necessarily the company, and perhaps it will spread. Counter-culture can be as effective as revolution. If the company doesn't change, you did what you were asked by your company (your job) and what was asked by your ethos.
How sketchy? Every single company I worked at did things that can be considered questionable just to grow. There's no fair fight in industry - good guys lose and get forgotten.

But there's of course a limit to that, and once illegal things start to happen - quit. But if that's a "regular shady" stuff everyone does, you may have problems finding company that won't do it (well, you can find companies that are much subtle internally about it, and you won't know what they do).
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Is there an app or website set up to help people find friends in new cities? Connects through Facebook to find mutual friends and people with similar interests?
It's the stereotyping that really sticks out to me. It would be flagged or downvoted (justifiably!) if someone called women irrational or told homosexuals that their lifestyles should be kept private.

I think the difference here is that in one case one would be inferring a belief system from membership in a non-belief-related group, while the other would be inferring a belief system from membership in a belief system.

I don't think it's a double standard to treat those things differently (though there are corners of HN that get wildly out of control in either of the aforementioned cases).
People with bipolar tend to have higher antibodies to gliadin (gluten) than controls. People with schizophrenia have higher casein (dairy) antibodies than controls. In neither case does it cause the illness, but in both in can impact severity of symptoms. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320252 And http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22801085. It does not mean it applies to everyone, but scandinavian/Northern European people with milder cases of both illness often actually have autoimmune disease. One study found 7percent of schizophrenia inpatients actually had Celiac, to say nothing of other autoimmune disorders. More: http://www.celiac.com/categories/Celiac--Disease--Research.....
For that to happen, you would need a bad checksum and the corresponding data block to be corrupted in such a way that the corrupted data block checksums to the corrupted checksum. Given that the checksum is 256-bit, the scariest I'd call that is "possible in theory".
Isn't that more or less standard American ideology too? Manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, disruptive innovation... a whole cocktail of unstoppable onward marching. They disagree with the Marxists mostly in what is gloriously marching ever onwards, not that there is something doing so. There's even a popular patriotic song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, about the onward marching.
How would this UI library work on an iOS OpenGL project? I would expect it to display fine, but maybe lining up the touches with the buttons could require some extra thought.
Urgh, more discussions involving some contrived correspondence between 1 inch and 0.01m, 1 foot and 1m, and 1 mile and 1000m. There is only the metre; divide it up however you like, compare it to whatever imperial units you like, but "centi", "kilo", etc. are just a different way of writing ÷100 and x1000.

The "real" reason to use metric is that all of the constants of proportionality are defined as 1. "1m = 100cm" is trivially true, by the definition of "centi", but 1m is also equal to all of the following, which I wouldn't even want to attempt to figure out in imperial units:

1 metre

1 Joule / 1 Newton -- Applying 1N of force over a 1m distance requires 1J of energy

1 Volt * 1 Coulomb / 1 Newton -- 1 Volt is a potential difference of 1 Joule per Coulomb of charge

1 Volt * (1 Amp / 1 second) / 1 Newton -- 1 Amp of current is 1 Coulomb per second

1 Volt * 1 Amp / 1 Newton * 1 second -- (by rearranging)

1 Watt / 1 second * 1 Newton -- 1 Volt * 1 Amp gives 1 Watt of power

1 Watt / 1 second * 1 kilogram * (1 metre / (1 second * 1 second)) -- From Newton, force is mass * acceleration

1 Watt / (1 kilogram * 1 metre / 1 second) -- (by rearranging)

1 Watt * 1 second / 1 kilogram * 1 metre -- (by rearranging)

(1 Joule / 1 second) * 1 second / 1 kilogram * 1 metre -- 1 Watt is 1 Joule per second

And so on. We just need to get rid of anachronisms like litres (1l = 0.001m^3), defining "kilogram" as the name of a unit, and of course prevent the use of weird language-juggling like reporting the distance to Saturn as "1000 million kilometres", or measuring energy in "kilowatt hours".

Genuine question: does the imperial system even have distinct units for mass and force? I tend to see ounces, pounds, stones, etc. converted to kilograms, which implies they measure mass; but pressure seems to be measured in pounds per square inch, which would be a 2D density (e.g. used as a measure of paper quality).
At least in new versions of Chrome, NodeList is iterable, so you can use forEach and map on it.

https://medium.com/@devlucky/nodelist-object-is-finally-an-i...
That frustration and shame are going to affect your productivity sooner or later which in turn affects your future job prospects. Compartmentalization can work for some people, but it sounds like you have a real ethical boundary here. Our industry generally has a great deal of mobility, there are definitely great companies out there which require your skill set and have a great company culture, you don't have to settle for less.

Also don't trivialize the psychological impact that this can have on you, especially if you find yourself thinking about this off work hours.
I've been asking for three things from Signal for the past almost two years:

1) desktop app

2) video call support

3) self-deleting messages

Signal finally (sort of) delivered a desktop app, but it still doesn't have the other two. Wire has the first two, but it's still lacking the last one. I hope one of them will have all three of these features soon.
If there is something that is actually unethical going on, then you should consider leaving, but you need to be more specific on what those things actually are. "beyond what is fair" and "really sketchy" are pretty subjective. It's fair to say a company's culture is too competitive, but it's not clear this is the case since you feel the company is well run.

If you and other coworkers are treated fairly, then you are probably being a bit too sensitive / idealistic. Relax and view it as a challenge: learning how to deal with people that you view as too aggressive/competitive. It will serve you well in life.

Again, given the lack of detail that's my best advice... Note that I've worked at a company that stole code and got sued, so I have some experience in unethical companies and leadership.
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Too bad, so sad.

How can you estimate something that isn't done? You can throw some words out there, but they are likely meaningless.

If you are operating solely on predictive ROI, then maybe investing in ambitious software projects is not for your business.

>Now I don't know if stores will be more efficient 2 weeks or 20 years from now.

That is your problem, not the software's or of the people creating the software.
I wonder if those are mostly sites using Cloudflare and similar, which supports HTTP/2 regardless of the upstream server's support.
It's usually that users flag these stories, presumably because of HN's (really the public internet's) inability to discuss them civilly and substantively.

It's a tough problem. Those stories often relate to important issues which hold intellectual interest, if not necessarily gratifying intellectual curiosity (the mandate of this site). In that sense they're not all off-topic. But it damages this site and community for it to host ideological flamewars, much as it damages a neighborhood to host rubbish fires.

My reading of the user flags is that they're partly trying to protect the neighborhood, and there's value in that.