skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah and that's a Trump specific forum and they have RULES on the side for what is banned. Contrast that with r/news where it's purported to be 'news' not some partisan subreddit. You will get banned for having an opinion mods don't like. Not only that but those same mods will simply ban you from other subreddits they are mods for. r/news and r/worldnews was hit with that the other day.

You're example is false equivalency. And what you call a preemptive ban, you'll actually discover that they are quite used to being brigaded on that subreddit and they know who participates. And bans aren't necessarily permanent there.
HN is not as mainstream as Twitter or Reddit, so I don't think we can really compare it that way
As far as I'm concerned, the only useful service Facebook provides is event scheduling. I don't have a Twitter account. Most of the "needs" they fulfill are either entirely imaginary, or aren't fulfilled in any sensible way. (I.e. the whole notion of "staying in touch" with people via Facebook is a sham. It's more of a simulation of staying in touch.)

If you use popularity as the main measure of usefulness then yellow press is useful too.
Speech can be abusive; I see no one trivializing that. It is not violence.
"or, if you prefer to remain anonymous, to your chosen 501(c)3 charity."
There are adapters for Teslas to use basically every standardized(or otherwise) EV charging connector. No other brand has access to the long-range and fast-charging supercharger network however, which is a rather large part of the value proposition of owning a Tesla for many people, as it mostly removes the need to rent or own a vehicle for longer trips.
I tried to sign up and went through the horrible sms gateway check only to find that the username I wanted wasn't available. I stopped the sign up process at that point without an account but I wanted to be sure my phone number was no longer in their database. I've filed a handful of requests to clarify the situation but ive been ignored every time. Really terrible experience, will never make an account now.
Not proven in any way? I guess if you want to completely disregard US intelligence agencies. Are you asking to see their proof? This would imply the agencies are part of some conspiracy.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/spy-agency-...?
I don't get why everyone wants Twitter to be not-Twitter.

The fact that anyone in the world can read and reply to your tweets (and vice versa) is fundamental to Twitter.

It seems like what people want is an entirely different service, something like Slack or group chat with invite-only groups.
As an Android user for 4 years, I've noticed the increasing quality of cheaper phones, and with the developer interest that phones like the OnePlus 3 draw, it becomes very hard to justify spending more.
Do you disagree with my hypothetical scenarios? That is, do you think if Google/Facebook introduced subscription fees nobody would subscribe?

Would you pay to read Twitter? Do you think that anyone would?
I like how you used repetition.
Oh I don't know, depending on the person they might want some fringe criptocurrency that they swear is the best (for non-economic reasons)
Ask HN: Food chain collapse in 20 years from climate change?  How to prepare?
I've been sort of on the fence about climate change, but this article cites so much evidence it can't be ignored. If I read this correctly, it looks like a 3.5C change is coming in 20 years, at which point the food chain is supposed to collapse.

http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/how-climate-change-is-rapidly-taking-the-planet-apart/

Given that, and that things will be getting worse before that (coastal cities gone? massive political unrest, etc), what would you do to be ready? How would you prepare your kids? Twenty years isn't much time.

Even if the predictions are not completely accurate, it seems things are going to be worse in general in not too many years.
I see where you're going with your rule: services that provide True Value™ would likely survive if they suddenly started charging a nominal fee right now.

However, as a game developer with Free-To-Play development PTSD, I think this rule rests on an implied-but-important condition: People are already using and loving the service. Imagine that some shiny new app called Spark launches tomorrow and vaguely promises to be Twitter 2.0, well no one would be willing to jump on unless it was free. Even $1 a month is too much for us short-attention-spanned smartphone users, as the total shift to F2P games on mobile has shown us. Nothing outside of Minecraft is in the top 100 grossing apps on Android nor iOS.

Perhaps the answer lies in starting free, getting people hooked, and then easing in a subscription fee? This would also come across as a bait-and-switch, as you said, and some users would inevitably flock to the next free clone.

Ultimately, and unfortunately, I don't think there's an easy answer to monetization anywhere...
Let's not pretend that the arguments around torture actually have anything to do with interrogation - the value of torture in providing accurate information has been roundly and thoroughly debunked by now.

Some people want to torture terror suspects because they want suspected terrorists to suffer, and they want the government to be willing to make them suffer. Let's just admit that - it's about nothing more than the desire for simple retribution and sadism.
At the moment my only two issues with Optimus are that they crash X on wakeup if loaded, and that DPMS doesn't seem to disable properly after the screensaver ends. For the earlier you can add an a suspend hook to unload the nvidia modules, and for the latter you just need to switch to a tty and back to get the screen working again.

Both are somewhat annoying, but far less than only being able to use it in a VM. That said, I'm curious about how you manage the VM output, considering that PCIe passthrough requires a dedicated screen.
For that, there is another button: "stop receiving notifications". And another one: "don't allow anybody but the people I follow to spam me with shit". Both are easily activated on Twitter.

What other button we need to invent? "Activate our hordes of ML algorithms to make sure that all replies you receive are about kittens or pink ponies"? Can be done, but we already have Facebook for that.

For me, all this drama looks like an orchestrated attack on Twitter.
I thought Skully was already on the market? Just with supply chain issues. Unless you mean in a mainstream form.
The Megaprocessor might be the thing...though it's hardware rather than a visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71h9XZbAWY
I think "in various different ways" could be substituted for "wrong" in your first sentence. Language is fluid and fuzzy.
Agreed, but businesses that would be doing that aren't thinking about turnover anyway.
Live-updating AMPs
conversely, it could be argued that freedom is only about the law.
With more laws comes more accounts and more loopholes.

We need to overhaul the tax system, not pile more crap on top of it.

Besides, the vast majority of people taking advantage of this deduction is the normal American. Not a business owner or speculator. You'd be ending the largest tax relief the middle class has.
I'd say these are low for NYC. I have no experience, came from a bootcamp and live in NYC. I'm starting at $85K. With a year of experience I'm looking for $110K. In 5 years I'd be looking for $150K on the low end based on talking with others.
Ask HN: What is the use of creating Raspberry Pi cluster
I've seen a lot of blog posts and tutorials on how to assemble a lot of RPI and running them in a cluster or swarm. What can be some interesting use cases of setting up such hardware.
This article is a good resource http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/15/ev-battery-prices-lookin...
> But why are we relying on poorly trained volunteers for our elections?

Poorly-trained is a problem. But when I go to vote (I'm in the US), I see the polling place guarded by little old ladies. It always amazes me a little bit. It's such a nice contrast to what I see in the news, where some countries have to guard their polling places with soldiers.
This "shoot and sue" attitude is one of the reasons why the US is regarded as hyperlitigious across the rest of the world.

SirCmpwn is right. If this guy is innocent, his life is ruined now. And we've seen this pattern elsewhere, outside of tech; teenagers/adults falsely accused of rape or worse. People pissing behind a bar with a permanent contextless "sex offender" mark on their record. Etc. Lives ruined - innocent people escaping justice.

I honestly think this can be taught: Respect for the presumption of innocence. Why people should be presumed innocent should be taught from a young age. A similar respect as the one america gives to freedom of speech (although I'd hope it would come with a better understanding of what it means).

PS: I don't want to sound partisan or anything - I have no idea what this TOR investigation and affair is all about. In fact that's what's scary; I have no idea about the facts of the case, yet I've now been told that Jacob Appelbaum is a sexual predator.

Edit: It looks like nobody in the replies understood what I was talking about. It's naive to assume that the public at large respects the presumption of innocence that the govenment grants this man and other people in his situation. The system is broken if the citizens don't understand why this is important. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of people even in the comments here don't understand why it's important, so it looks like this is falling on deaf ears.
The marketing was all wrong. The rate at which Google admitted new users to the platform left many potential users feeling alienated. It took several days for me to get an invite and I'm pretty saavy.

When they launched all the talk was focused on the social network. The focus should have been on the primary product which is that they introduced an account system. The social network just simply came with it for free. You could use it or not use it.

Google accounts meant you no longer needed to use your Gmail accounts to sign up for Google services.

Could bind everything, Gmail, any other Google services all to the same Google account. When Google then pushed to get people onto the new accounts system people thought Google was trying to shove the social network down their throats.

The social network again, though was secondary to the account system. Google+ likely would have been better received had people been properly informed on the benefits of creating a Google account.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173743 and marked it off-topic. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.
It's not the user's fault if the business model isn't sustainable.
"Less than 3 minutes" wasn't that fast for an amputation, back when surgeons had lots of practice doing it. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Jean_Larrey claims "he operated on Marshall Jean Lannes and amputated one of his legs in two minutes."

http://www.napoleonguide.com/medical_instruments.htm has pictures of instruments used and even an instruction poster from the period. Don't try this at home, though; according to http://www.napoleonguide.com/medical.htm, only about a third of people who had a limb amputated survived.
Google "word sense induction" or "word sense disambiguation". Intuitively, distributional information of the same sort that is used to derive representations for different word types in W2V or LexVec is useful for distinguishing word senses. Two (noun) senses of lead, two senses of bat, etc. are pretty easy to distinguish on the basis of a bag of words (or syntactic features) around them. Other words are polysemous: they have multiple related senses (across the language, names for materials can be used as containers; animal name for the corresponding food--but with exceptions). For some high frequency words it's a crazy gradient combination of polysemy and homonymy: 'home' for can refer to 1) a place someone lives 2) the corresponding physical structure 3) where something resides (a more 'metaphorical' sense), among other things. Obviously an individual use of a word has a gradient relationship to these senses, and speakers differ regarding what they think the substructure is (polysemous or homonymous, hierarchical or not, etc.). I've been working in my PhD on a technique to figure this out, but people clearly use a lot of information that isn't available in language corpora alone (e.g. intuitive physics).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149094
I love, love, love repetition.
I did this a few times in the late '90s when I was a script kiddie eager to learn. I was naive enough to believe that I couldn't get in trouble that way. (I actually once got a job offer as a result.) From a security point of view the internet is a slightly more scary place these days though, with criminal gangs and governments being major threats.

If it's just a nice kid you got lucky, and I would hire someone with a clue on security to thoroughly check your infrastructure at least once. But if it turns out to be a hook for something more nasty, you better get some serious help. Don't trust anything on that server anymore, and if you have other, similar servers running, suspect them to be compromised too.

Also consider if you have any private (i.e. customer) data on that server that might get you in trouble if a third party has/had access to it. You can (re)install servers in seconds, but data is out there forever once leaked.

PS: Did they obtain any SSH keys, or did you have password authentication enabled in the SSH configuration? (Don't do that!)
:) Nah, (confirmed by downvotes hehe) it is not really that effective comment imho either. It is a common (quick) thought i think many will have that read paragraph about the 140 char limit. And my statement is not very specific, nor a 'fix' for the problem and could be argued to be untrue for.. other reasons (e.g. the more you write the more chance a certain point will not be agreed upon by reader and discards the whole message because of that, and sorts)

And I could have dedicated pages on how much you write isn't that important, often it is the reader, that can't be arsed to read it anyway.

If twitter would do a bit more on rewarding 'good' (and yes.. who am i to say what is good) behaviour; though some might describe that again as censorship. Creating another discussion.
Imzy private beta update, looking to the future
I had a quick look at the 1Password chrome extension source and it seems to me like they are using window.URL[0].

See this pastebin[1] for the function I believe is determining the url of the active tab and if it has a valid hostname.

There's also this one[2] that seems to be extracting the hostname of a given url also using the URL API.

Both these pastebins contain minimized code that I've cleaned up.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL

1: http://pastebin.com/tWns7XmG

2: http://pastebin.com/PXS1iqsq
The attribution of the DNC hack to a Russian APT group has some backing from security professionals. Crowd Strike, based on analysis of the malware used, came to this conclusion (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...). This conclusion has been corroborated by Fidelis (http://www.threatgeek.com/2016/06/dnc_update.html) and Threat Connect (https://www.threatconnect.com/tapping-into-democratic-nation...). It's early days, but the evidence is there.

FYI, the Sony hack was very likely not committed by an insider (https://www.operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016...). DISCLAIMER: I worked with the team who did operation blockbuster.
what is "freedom of speech" outside the context of law?
The beef you buy in stores is not fed leafy green vegetables or fruit.
Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Law_in_Nazi_Germany
Happy to discuss anything here, also happy to give any and all HN users early access if you request it at https://www.imzy.com/imzy!
Maybe poor people don't work because there's a welfare cliff wherein people can work a lot more and still experience no gain in quality of life or economic situation.
No, that's exactly my point. They have no desire to make a concession to free speech. They don't value free speech. Their ideology does not value free speech. My point is that modern neocons (who are really just neoprogressives progressing down a different line of reasoning) don't value free speech or reasonable discourse.

Having rules that say "we don't value free speech or discourse" doesn't excuse them.
> Many people inside and outside the Tor Project have reported incidents of being humiliated, intimidated, bullied and frightened by Jacob, and several experienced unwanted sexually aggressive behavior from him. Some of those incidents have been shared publicly, and some have not. The investigation also identified two additional people as having engaged in inappropriate conduct, and they are no longer involved with the Tor Project.
Lack of Fitness Second Only to Smoking as Predictor of Early Death: Study
I'm very confused and as the author I hope you can clarify this. The conclusion of the paper states:

》 This paper describes the steps needed to turn the basic idea into a scal- able, reusable technique: automation, dealing with a range of diferent micro- architectural design techniques, and initial bringup issues. We have applied this method to 8 diferent ARM processors spanning all stages of development up to release. In all processors, this has found bugs that would have been hard for conventional simulation-based methods to ﬁnd and ISA-Formal is now a key part of ARM’s formal veriﬁcation strategy. (emphasis mine)

Are you verifying that the Verilog code provided by ARM for the former type of partner matches what's on the processor after the whole synthesis and fabrication process or are you verifying that the Verilog matces a higher level spec?
Moment().endOf('term')
Rio Will Be First Sporting Event Watched by 'Eye in the Sky' Drone Cameras
>This means if you follow someone for what they have to say about professional improv comedy, you also get to hear them trash your religion, berate the intelligence of people who vote the way you do, and otherwise rant about and retweet topics you don’t want to hear about.

I actually like this aspect of non-filtering. It forces exposure to differing opinions and makes people think.
Not the poster you replied to, but there were 2 types of bias I saw:

1: Defensiveness. It seemed more like an honest question than a pot shot. You seemed to read into it something like "Aha! How about your software fool!?!"

That said, if it were a reporter asking the question, then I would see it as a gotcha, because the use of the word confirm is used as a setup sometimes.

2: Tech bias. Not everyone on here is a Dev, and even though I know a fair bit about programming it would not be a trivial task to do what is simple for you regarding checking out code injections and what they do re a security standpoint. That would probably be a long afternoon of googling for me :)

Just my view...
React Workshop – practical workshop for learning React at-your-own pace
I agree with this. Mac application ecosystem is fantastic.

But I hate seeing the whole thing heading South because Apple doesn't understand its power users. Ultimately, I think Linux is superior and makes me happier if I stick to minimal text-mode applications like emacs or mutt [1]. Not being at the mercy of a big corporation is a huge plus.

[1] http://suckless.org/rocks
There is some missing information here - the most important thing is the intentions (and possibly identity) of this person. Did he leave any clues as to what those might be?
I remember reading that article a year ago. Thank you for it, it's served as a reference for me since :)
>You seem to want the accusers to somehow be held accountable, legally, but that's not how the judicial system works.

"The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right...to be confronted with the witnesses against him.

...

The Confrontation Clause has its roots in both English common law, protecting the right of cross-examination, and Roman law, which guaranteed persons accused of a crime the right to look their accusers in the eye. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confrontation_Clause
I believe you are wrong:

https://cl.ly/0a2C3d432i1W

https://support.twitter.com/articles/14606

It does say If you are sending Direct Messages to accounts that do not follow you, you may need to verify your phone number. and I did verify my phone number - still nothing.
Unless the target is a public figure including a, somewhat oxymoronically named, limited purpose public figure. It's a far broader category than it might seem at first glance.

For them (US) defamation law doesn't dissuade people from being reckless, only malicious.
He was lucky, that could have been a lot more expensive his way.
Sorry about not being more specific in there, you're absolutely right. I wouldn't mention it in an actual CV or cover letter, I just wanted to put it on here so you can see my long-term interest in CS, that it's not just to pay the bills.

As a general issue my hardware is mostly old and crappy, while most of it does have foss linux drivers the specific configuration for some is quite impossible to manage. I've been trying to figure it out with a lot of AL experts on the forums for some years now. So my interest in that would be learning how drivers work so I can actually configure them properly, helping rewrite the documentation, and maybe helping rewrite the drivers themselves if necessary. Probably the first step would be learning how to get a working Gentoo system up, as I spend a lot of time reading their documentation anyway. For example, the 2011 MacBook Pro has two video cards: an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, and a discrete AMD Radeon HD 6750M. It works like * even on OSX (it literally froze up on me for 15 minutes while I was writing this post), but on Arch I can't even get it to run so I just use single-user mode and do everything from bash. Unfortunately as fun as Mutt and Elinks are, I can't apply to jobs using that so I'm forced to run OSX.

As a specific interest there's a lot of areas that intrigue me in the realm of FOSS development for ARM (and HURD!).
There are a lot of problems with your post. How do you know that these ubermensch "Gujarati" were uniformly born info "far worse circumstances"? Were their ancestors forced into slavery in the USA, then Jim Crow, then systematic segregation and on-going police brutality? I think you have lived in India for a while. Can the strata of society that is actually able to afford/obtain a visa to move to the US be compared one on one with a person from a bad neighborhood in this country? And why "Gujaratis" for goodness sake? Are Tamils SOL? How many of these folks do you know that have had good vs. bad outcomes? What historical experiment are you referring to here? I am spluttering but the rules of this site prevent me from venting what I actually feel after reading the above.
Of course I can and I do but the wider group will still always have a Gaussian distribution of skills more or less always. (as pointed out by parent comment)
If investing in Treasuries and Savings accounts are considered hoarding or "dead money" that's +/-$13T to $19T depending upon how you look at it for Treasuries [1] and $8.6T for savings [2].

[1] http://treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSAVNS
Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
Chill. There's no need to bash other people's expertise. We get it, you're an expert in the domain, but this is adding nothing to the conversation.
Migrating a LAMP Stack Application to the Phoenix Framework
You can't rev an electric car when impatient. You don't have to shift gears. When using engine braking it's quietly absorbing energy, not letting out an angry BRAAPPPPP.

If you're deaf, sure, combustion engines are quiet. Otherwise they're often quite loud.