skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, both as a consumer and as founder, I feel like intros like these come across as a bit aggressive, like I can almost read into the email that you want to sell me something. I prefer an intro of the lines of "Hey, glad to see you on board, I'm the founder of $company, let me know if you have any questions or if you just wanna chat, I'm around". Not that I have the data to know which works better, but to me it makes more sense that the intro is about just talking about the product rather than how can we get you to buy from us best.
He's citing university studies there. I disagree with the premise and the conclusions, but it's not fair to call it misogyny. More just like paleo-conservatism/traditionalism/neo-reaction.

It's a (I think, false) belief that traditional gender roles led to a more cohesive society or something. It's quite a stretch to jump from there to misogyny. Perhaps sexism, but not misogyny.
They have some incredibly frustrating brick wall limitations that you find once you start really working with the platform, but it's still the best I've used by an order of magnitude. And the "there's an app for that" mantra totally holds true, which is often convenient for rapidly growing or testing features.
I really don't see the similarity (though I'm not familiar with the NYT, I assume it's a bit like The Guardian in the UK for this discussion).

Can you give examples of fake news, or what I'd consider to be biased propaganda? (this last category I'd suggest something like climate change denial) in the NYT?
Whenever someone posts that link, I post this rebuttal. http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/

Sometimes the people who speak the loudest are actually the wrong ones. And if we only let the loudest speak, we won't find out when they're wrong.

Is there an example of a platform like the one you describe with a large audience?
I think being vulnerable to overbearing stimulus is probably less evil than requiring ongoing level of stimulus to function. Your kids might struggle with pulling them away from stimulus they are not used to, but they will figure it out as they grow up and hopefully keep the ability to go without constant stimulus.

Personally, my plan is to minimize background stimulus so as not to stunt the ability to focus, and to ensure there are balanced periods of both stimulus and no stimulus.

You might say that stimulus will be harder and harder to escape in the future, but I like to think if you choose, you will still be able to keep much of your life free of it.
Cool, I'll definitely do!
Hey, I just used this a few weeks ago as I was doing this course on web app security by Troy Hunt[0]

I didn't get far with it because it turns out that some browsers prevent the exploit, like Firefox and Safari.

[0]https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/hack-yourself-first?gcli...
There have been several posts about this (e.g. [1] and [2]), downweighted by user flags and by standard penalties (e.g. for politics stories). But some thoughtful users have argued that it's more on-topic for HN than most politics, so we'll make an exception, even though HN probably ought to be in detox right now.

Edit: actually there was already at least one major discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019333, so technically we ought to be marking all these as dupes. But we'll leave this one open for now.

The moderation test in cases where there's an ongoing story and many follow-up posts is: have one major thread and bury the rest as dupes unless there's significant new information.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13018675

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13023998
So, you think you’re a Hacker, kid
Shopify is the best, but it's not a high bar. I've been on the platform for almost 7 years. I have two major issues:

1. They're still lacking some major features imho (ability to sell in multiple currencies, can't put tracking JS on checkout pages, access to payout reports for bookkeeper, got lots more)

2. They do terrible product marketing - no email about newly launched features. In an extreme case, they launched a feature that sent emails to customers when their order was out for delivery, delivered, etc. Problem is that I was already using an app for that, so when they launched the feature and enabled it by default without letting me know, customers got two emails telling them their order was out for delivery, delivered, etc. It was a terrible customer experience (for us and for our customers) and I can't imagine how that decision was made. ("Hey, want to enable this feature that sends more emails to our customers' customers without announcing it? Yeah? Great!")
India's crisis over bank notes hits women especially hard
When does electricity become executable logic and how?
The scandal is because certain states have repeatedly tried to pass laws that are totally for preventing voter fraud but just happen to disproportionately target minority voters.

Meanwhile the evidence says that voter fraud isn't really a problem.

and having to present ID to get cold medicine is fucked up.
Not sure what you're referring to. Link?
I do the same thing but with SSH. I like using SSH as the proxy because it supports other protocols besides HTTP and people generally already have SSH keys, and I don't have to manage another daemon just to provide authentication with yet another set of public/private keys.

Just have your service listing on 127.0.0.1 and have SSH listening on 0.0.0.0 and proxy in!
Elixir, Ruby, Don’t Fight. Talk (with Export / Erlport)
>http://brew.sh/
the home site shows a simple wget example for homebrew formulae

the chain of trust is solid up until make and configure happen, at that point any number of things could happen so it's a question of whether or not you trust whatever scripts its running.

unless homebrew has some sort of enforcement on what that script can do it could do anything. This is why its a really good thing that homebrew does not require root.
Beyond Touch: Tomorrow’s Devices Will Use MEMS Ultrasound to Hear Your Gestures
This is really really neat. However, it would be nice if the tags could be decoupled from Kanban column names. For instance, to track what I am learning, I want to tag stuff "Learning" but keep it in "Inbox" in the Kanban view. Currently there seem to be two alternatives - 1) Create a new collection (which makes me lose a combined inbox) 2) Add a custom field called "mytags" - which works, but is hard to add because I need to go to expand the task each time. Could any person from Zenkit help me understand what your workflow is for this?

Also, it would be cool if there was a way of marking a task "done" and removing it right in the list view. A keyboard shortcut to archive might be nice, I suppose.

Edit: Table view + New field with "tags" type solved the first problem to a great extent.
Where does the momentum go when the virtual particles re-annihilate?

Even if it is pushing against QM background I suspect that could only be part of the story. There has to be an "and then" unless we want to toss a conservation law.

Many physicists think there is likely dark matter and that it is actual matter with mass, so I've repeatedly seen that thrown out as a potential answer for where momentum might be going eventually. Maybe messing with the QM background is how that happens... somehow. Maybe weakly interacting dark matter particles interact with the microwave background or something.
Ted Cruz, a Canadian, was almost nominated as the Replubican candidate. Clearly, a large number of people feel that the definition of natural American citizen is a bit more flexible then that.
This account has been posting primarily political and ideological comments. This site is for civil discussion about topics that gratify our intellectual curiosity. We're here to learn, not to engage in ideological battle and political warfare, so we ban accounts that abuse the site like this.
It's the first I've heard of that. Interesting.

I am going to consider moving the animated demo down.
A Priest and an Imam Walk into an Ad
"A reform of the Electoral College system would require a Constitutional amendment, and to get a Constitutional amendment passed, it’s necessary to have support from two-thirds of the House and the Senate, or two-thirds of state legislators. That’s an incredibly difficult task, and the Republican party currently holds a majority in both the House and the Senate and state legislators, making it quite unlikely to happen. After all, the party in power has little incentive to change the system that got them there in the first place."

Republicans will pretty much never go for it. They are required to get it passed
Yes and good luck writing those passwords like "between sepia book sweat lemma saint" without typos :)

I just watched a friend using some kind of long password and it took about a minute to get the password correctly entered. Easy to look at the keyboard also when he was typing and guess the words used.
Related:-

There's a great set of Unity3D tutorials by Sebastian Lague [0] that use cellular automata (and a few other tricks) to create a procedural cave system.

The initial cave creation technique is nigh identical to this article (purely because both use cellular automata).

Lague then joins orphaned spaces to the main space via shortest paths, using a rough Bresenham line-draw through the in-between cells (plotted with a 'brush' that is wider than one cell, so the path is traversable).

He then creates a smoother polygonised 2d/3d mesh from this grid of cells using marching cubes/squares.

The end result is quite pleasing, and fairly tweak-able :)

Both Lague's approach and his code are quite clean, so I expect the process could easily be ported to other languages / frameworks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eZgMK_DT5_...
Your mistaken, looking at the forensic side of things burner phones are not your regular iphone or android.

E.g random article from bestbuy.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/at-t-gophone-lg-b470-prepaid-cel...
I wonder, if Ben-Peretz and his checks 250 researcher team can crack checks 150 phones a month what is stopping the <scary US government agency>/<Chinese equivalent>/<Russian equivalent> from forming a 2,500 researcher team and doing the same?

It's not like there's a shortage of relevant skills in the US (supposedly responsible for stuxnet) or Russia.

Or is it just that <scary government agency> doesn't want to share its toys with <local police>?
I'm not sure if pollsters putting their finger on the scale == fake news, but there's a pretty well-documented record of polls "magically [0]" converging at the end of campaigns.

Assuming pollsters are systemically altering their own polls at the very end of campaigns, I could argue that the news articles written about those altered polls are sorta fake news articles.

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clinton-...
Ok, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13024781.
The argument would be that he was hedging his bets so either way he could say "oh I predicted the clinton win" vs "Oh well, I gave trump a good chance".

Anyway, the problem was the actual companies conducting polls.
I use Linode. Better network performance than DO, and cheaper.

This is what I got from a test I ran.

Download: 1880.39 Mbit/s

Upload: 443.29 Mbit/s
I am front-end dev currently back to college for a masters. I really admire your drive.

I dream of having a similar income setup, I am in college and have more free time than ever; I must make most of this. I am reading through your articles on expatsoftware for some inspiration.
The was the best explainer I've seen for what a lot of skeptics have pointed out: the science here is extremely dubious and by far the most likely explanation is experimental error.

The concepts in the article are pretty much consensus science.
Your post exemplifies our problems: instead of addressing what you see as wrong with said institutions (many of which actually work rather well) you literally launch an ad hominem attack from your very first word, characterizing your opponents without bothering to build an argument. Incoherent and inchoate nonsense like that which you've posted here just adds to the existing political noise and is itself an obstacle to any progress (which I define as a sustained increase in the median household's real income for short).
If you shell out for Plus, you can add the tracking and your account manager sends out #2 on a weekly basis.

The example you give was extremely frustrating though (wasn't on Plus at the time).
Guessing that's an affiliate promotion code?
>tracking down the people who voted against you.

Tracking down every single vote against you, or just a large batch of them for retaliation? If it's the former, I can't really see the purpose. If it's the latter, you can do that today, people don't usually make a secret about who they vehemently hate in the presidential elections on facebook.
> http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/gay-right.... (the writer himself is gay, if it matters)

As a gay man, no it doesn't matter. You can have completely off base opinions no matter who you are. He panders to an audience, and damages the rest of the community in the process.

Calling those articles "exaggerated" is extremely forgiving. The article I quoted uses a combination of outdated pseudo-science and philosophically iffy reasoning behind its pretext. As someone who struggled to come out, I can't tell you how absolutely disheartening and difficult it is to get past your family when they read pieces like that, and clearly don't have the skills necessary to understand why the rationale is bad in the first place. It makes me want to just yank Milo by the neck and show him what irreparable damage he is doing to people (if I could); if he even has the morality to care.

>http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/08/birth-control-makes.... cites multiple real university studies.

And then you have things like this. Is this supposed to make up for everything else they do? You gave me a list of articles, but these aren't contradictory to their other practices. To my original point: why bother with the source when you can consume that information elsewhere, from a source that is far more likely to be reliable?

To your point about other publications such as the Washington Post being on the other axis of bias, I have trouble understanding how you can simply say they're just on the other side. From everything I've seen from the Washington Post, they're nowhere near as advertently dishonest as Breitbart is, accidentally or otherwise.
Any thoughts on doing work in virtual machines?
What about that time they lied about Iraq? http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/01/how-the-iraq-war-sti...

Even just now the NYT decided they would "rededicate [themselves] to the fundamental mission of Times journalism" because of how greatly they messed up the election coverage. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-reader...

It doesn't matter what source you read from. The vast majority of news is bullshit, especially in today's day and age. It's not enough to say "oh, Fox News/MSNBC, it's obviously trash". Individually inspect articles for their truth. Look for the other side of every argument. Because brand loyalty is bullshit.
It depends on whether you consider it to be sitting in a stationary position and dragging the environment around or sitting in a fixed environment and dragging yourself around. Largely personal preference, but if you're expecting one and get the other it's pretty disorienting.

Having to click and drag in the opposite direction is pretty weird though. First person shooter style "move mouse left to look left / move environment right" is just mouse movements. You're not grabbing something to drag it, so there's no clicks.

Tough to translate that into a windowed thing where you can't do fullscreen mouse ownership like shooters do.
Very probably, if web development is seen as a closed game with a limited set of rules and numerable outcomes.
I wish more geographies had 150 megabit (or even better) symmetric residential service. I will never understand how residential service became asymmetric by default. At my address, the best upload speed I can get is ~5 Mbps, which is utterly embarrassing considering my first DSL connection, in 1999 or thereabouts, was ~1.5 Mbps symmetric. In 17 years, I have only approximately tripled my upload speed. (Frankly, even the download speed doesn't seem commensurate with 17 years of technological advance; such is the tragedy of popular "good enough" syndrome.)

In my opinion, asymmetric residential service is in large part responsible for the centralization of the Internet. I would have much liked the alternate history where residential service continued from 1999 onward supporting and embracing the notions of self-hosting and peer-to-peer communication. The resulting decentralized, federated Internet while no utopia in its own right, would be so much more appealing to my sensibilities.

Putting that wishful thinking aside, your setup sounds nice. Since I can't get that kind of bandwidth to my house, I had to lease a dedicated server at a data center.
Yes. I know many of my facebook friends in real life and see them on a daily basis. While it is possible to filter some of the things they say, in no way could they censor all of them, or completely make them up.
While sabotage may be a functional term regarding the utility of the outcome, I suspect that the intended purpose was one of profit for the criminals, thus I'd rather it be labeled a "heist" or "theft" for accuracy. Sabotage, to me, makes it sound like a different kind of motivation.
Now you made me find an article about how Leonard Read researched pencil manufacturing for the essay: https://fee.org/articles/leonard-read-the-spiritual-economis...

If such a high profile and somewhat controversial essay was wrong on the details, I think we'd have heard about those errors.
> I do concede, ugliness is not the best guide, but it is something to consider when searching for a good description of nature

Ugliness is a proxy for complexity, and we should assign a lower prior probability to more complex theories. We should be (somewhat) more skeptical of theories that don't tickle our mathematical aesthetics.
ADEM (Breathe) – An Arduino based device to measure air pollution
feedback or ideas appreciated -- I can also show you our beta backend.
As long as I, the consumer, can do the weighting. I'd rather continue reading both Milo and The Guardian rather than be stuck in left or right echo chamber.
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That Emdrive paper has all the smells of bad science around it.

Like the original cold fusion papers, the experiment is way too complex for what it is.
Thanks to the interactive nature of it I noticed that for my taste I can get satisfactory, fairly open cave output in fewer iterations (4 to 6 rather than 9 to 12) if I start with .3 fill chance, 4 birth threshold, and 3 birth threshold rather than .45, 5, and 4. In fact, it seems almost as if at those values more iterations have the cave seeming to fill in with muddy sediment around the edges.

A non-interactive page about the same topic I'd have either had to set up my own environment for this or I'd have moved on without really toying with the values. Instead I've already found a way to get results that would satisfy me with fewer cycles spent.
They try to avoid saying it, but it's mostly a patched Linux.
You can use this link to log in without signing up an email address

https://gurivr.com/stories/?token=PUraxsVQKdPcmD3wKd9uNC&uid...
You're sure about that? 95% of federal convictions in 2004 were via guilty pleas. https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=qa&iid=405
I see a lot of concerns about censorship here.

One of the things that isn't really being talked about is the fact that Facebook, Google etc. are directly responsible for these organizations being promoted in the first place. Absent these content aggregators, Breitbart might never have had a significant following in the first place. In that context, them taking actions to lower its priority in various ways bothers me a lot less.
What else would you expect it to be?
Dropbox no longer supports HTML rendering/hosting for their free users.

Dropbox Pro and Business users have a grace period till September 1, 2017.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/16
Software evolves by natural selection
Why not declare a new patent pledge [1] against hiring anyone who applied for a software patent after, say, July 1 2017?

Plenty of time for notice, there are enough software developers who are both smart and care enough about this issue that it shouldn't cause your hiring pool to suddenly shrink, those who keep finding justifications to apply for software patents are going to start using such a pledge to justify not applying for them, and most of all, the resulting changes for Big Tech is an excellent win-win situation for everyone concerned. Because I am guessing whatever revenue they do end up losing will be more than made up with the goodwill (and thus developer mindshare) they will accrue once they get all their employees on board.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html
buying a house is the worst investing besides renting.
That suggests to me that you've read very little economics outside of magazines. Adam Smith talks at lengths about the goals and responsibilities of national governments in the seminal economic text The Wealth of Nations - which is notable for not being called The Wealth of Private Individuals. As with the Bible, many people like to quote bits from it that seem to support their instant argument; very few have bothered to actually read the whole thing.
I am not seeing a smoking gun here, really the evidence presented is completely circumstantial and does not seriously support your assertion that Google is working directly with the Democratic Party. Yes, Eric Schmidt is a political operative now, and generally a lobbyist on behalf of Google. However the scare quote, about building a unified profile of a voter, absolutely does not indicate any data sharing between Google and the Clinton campaign!

It's really sketchy of zero hedge to suggest that. Reading another article of theirs shows the same pattern. Leave the reader to make their own incorrect conclusions without providing any context. The article I'm seeing shows them quoting Putin who says that the west should allow for open discussion on all issues, instead of cracking down on his propaganda networks operating in the west. What hypocrisy! Russian media is one of the least free in the world! Zero hedge just lets him have the final word on their article, the reader left nodding his head in agreement with that Putin who tells the west how it really is. Disgusting.