skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anonymity and pseudonymity, while similar, are not the same. The mods have been clear that one goal of HN is community, which is really only possible when people have some identity, even a pseudonymous one, to maintain continuity. So, while you’re right that having a single, pseudonymous account compromises anonymity, that anonymity isn’t a goal.

Also, without knowing the voting on comments, how can you confirm that comment ranking is based on a member’s accumulated karma? From my observations, comments are primarily ranked by their votes and when they were made. One might see that higher karma members have more comments that are higher ranked (though I’d like to have numbers to back that up), but a reasonable explanation (also unprovable without some crunching) is that (a) higher karma members contribute better comments on average, (b) are more visible and more popular, and/or (c) comment more on average. All three of these would contribute to seeing higher karma members’ comments higher ranked: there are more of them so you’re more likely to see them, and they’ll on average get more votes due to quality and/or popularity, so they’ll be higher ranked.

I’d like you to expand on what you mean by “[content-ranking algorithms] clearly optimized for engagement in some capacity.” Again, what do you see that isn’t explained by member votes, flags, and/or moderator action (as described in the FAQ)? “Algorithm” implies there’s some automated process going on. I don’t see behavior that necessitates such an algorithm.

That said, there is an algorithm that affects ranking: the overheated discussion detector. That pushes down ranking. One could argue that this is an example where they’re penalizing engagement, rather than optimizing for it.
This guy is blaming the Iota founders because he doesn't understand computer science? Their whitepaper is organized like any other publication in computer science. As for the Java vs C++ comment, he's simply uninformed. Not to mention there are many ports in various languages. I wish he'd done some research before posting bogus rhetoric.
A highway cuts through my city, largely because it used to be very poor and it was politically expedient to prioritize interstate traffic at the expense of city dwellers (there's measurably higher rates of asthma near highways).

Its not just "StrongTowns hates them", it's that a lot of cities have gotten the shit end of the stick, transportation-wise, and people who actually live in the city don't want to live next to a fucking highway for the convenience of suburbanites. It's not a conspiracy, there's political support for these policies in cities.

Just use park and ride, cut throughs can go fuck themselves, you sound entitled as hell. It's not your God given right to shit up other peoples' home with your car.
If ISPs cut off customers with compromised devices it would create serious motivation. Also serious collateral damage and backlash.
How is it vulnerable to differential analysis?
I agree. My point is that theaters do not embrace all of the industry on both ends. They only look to distribute a single viewing and they rely on gouging that gimmick when they could be doing so much more.
A RAM Edition of Dirty Coding Tricks
Of course they don't get it, they're kids. City dwelling adults pretty much mess up in the wild most of the time.
Haha, that's not my experience. That's just how I think it should be. That statement was poorly worded.
While I understand the technical merits of the switch to the Quantum/Rust/WebExtensions/Electrolysis thing, and while I also understand that this "ad" add-on is not enabled by default, I can't stop thinking that in one month or so, I went from having very useful add-ons to one that is completely useless and pushed to its users without consent.
This is not surprising: Japan is a high trust, low crime ethnostate.
A great example. You're claiming he made 2 jokes about Nelson Mandella, which you've sourced to an article which sources from the Daily Mail.

That's this daily mail: http://www.unhcr.org/uk/protection/operations/56bb369c9/pres...

> However, what really differentiated these two titles was their aggressive editorialising around threat themes, and in particular how they presented refugee and migrants as a burden on Britain’s welfare state. Both papers also featured humanitarian themes at a much lower level than any other newspapers in our study. Overall this meant that the Sun and the Daily Mail exhibited both a hostility, and a lack of empathy with refugees and migrants that was unique.

There's a reason the Daily Mail is no longer seen as a reliable source for Wikipedia: it often misrepresents cases like this.

Here's a useful blog that discusses the Mail's misleading coverage: https://obscurer.co.uk/category/law/

> Mr Phillips, 44, is one of two men interviewed by police following a bitter, ill-tempered feud over plans for a mining memorial in the town centre – a well-intentioned project that, claims one leading councillor and barrister, has been ambushed by some members of the Far Right and used as a propaganda platform.

[...]

> And he sent the Sunday Mercury screen grabs – one a shocking image of decapitation, another featuring a wheelchair-bound individual, posted by Mr Phillips.

> He said: “They are vile and deeply offensive, anti-Muslim, anti-disabled.”

That's not even close to "made 2 nelson mandela jokes", is it?
Serverless Monitoring heat remotely
I laughed so hard when I saw this article; a few months ago a got a package that contained another package that contained another package that contained a single scrap of Chinese newspaper. It was so bewildering I took pictures of it and sent them to my friends to see if anyone could make sense of it. This is the second mystery HN has solved for me this week. :)
Just flag it as paywalled. So I don't hit a paywall "unexpectedly". I'd rather not bother clicking at all.
Cardano is a cryptocurrency written in Haskell with the goal of conforming to "high assurance" standards. Looks pretty promising, but like all 3rd gen cryptocurrencies, it is still early days (seems more functional than IOTA though.. no pun intended)
Correct. The OP was very noble but quite misguided.

0) Let it burn was how CA operated until we started fighting fires and building in unsafe spaces and it worked pretty well. The Thomas Fire is a good example of this problem. You can reduce the damage but there still will be damage.

1) Legal issues if you are detected and someone wants to "make an example" to be malicious doing this, even if you are found "not guilty" the consequences are non-negligible.

2) In any capitalist culture, prevention only becomes "cost effective" when multiple headline making disasters convince people in suits they will look like idiots if they don't pay at least lip service to prevention.

3) If a criminal ever figures out who you are and that you are invalidating their large $$ investment in a criminal attack, they may be willing to engage in criminal acts to stop you specifically and you don't have the legal protection and training a LE organization would have.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/men-who-sent-swat-team-h...

> It’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges.

If you aren't equipped to handle events like this, tangling with blackhats means a single opsec mistake is going to result in shit like that.
Please append (2015) to headline.
> I honestly don't [know] why a distributed team can't just work.

So much of human communication is non-verbal. When you're building not just a product, but the team behind the product, getting people in the same room is often crucial for building empathy and trust.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't normalize remote work - most development tasks require uninterrupted concentration in front of a computer and there's no reason why somebody can't spend time at home or a co-working space or wherever else getting it done. But team members need to meet in-person on a regular basis in a non-formal setting to develop that team "jelling".
> American government seems very concerned with terrorism.

I'm not sure, from what I hear they have a lot of support from the people, especially the conservatives.

> Do you really have less worries in Australia? I’d argue since it’s your homeland, you are simply used to the things that non-Australians would find worrisome. I don’t worry about medical bills (I have health insurance,) not concerned about ever being homeless, don’t consider tipping to be something worthy of worrying, etc.

I absolutely do have less worries in Australia. I think you need to turn that point about it being my homeland around. Just as there are things I might be used to as an Australian that worry foreigners (perhaps like the venomous native wildlife), the things you're used to are worriesome to me.
IAS isn't technically a requirement of SGX. But if you want the ability to revoke hardware that is found to be compromised, someone needs to have that list and check against it.

I believe the plan is for IAS to be optional in future. It might already be, but then you have to implement the signature checking logic yourself. EPID is quite a complex signature scheme and you'd also need to find out from Intel which microcode/platform versions are revoked, etc. So IAS is more of a convenience than anything else.
Talking about movies, albeit a different kind, swedish movie kopps is a comedy about a city so devoid of crime, the agents starts to make up things to keep their job.
> Getting abducted on the way to school isn't.

I’m not so sure about that. I live in an affluent part of WA where there’s close to zero crime. A couple times a year we get emails from the school district with descriptions of cars and people that approached kids on their way to or the school, trying to get the kids into their cars. An actual abduction has never occurred in the 5 years that I’ve lived here, but clearly there are attempts.
How is a bullied child like 'Milkshake Duck'?
These days, that might also be a crime.
Reminds me of this app. Showing what lies directly across the ocean:
https://ranlot.shinyapps.io/coastlinetrip/
Hmm, Starship Titanic. I recall reading about it back in the day, but never got the chance to play it.
The cult like behavior of crypto adherents is really off putting. You guys are going to be in for a hard fall when the wheels come off.
I've seen this reported on several occasions but it's not clear whether it's actually true. See, e.g. https://www.thestar.com/life/parent/2014/08/28/when_can_kids...

Certainly, it would be pretty ridiculous in general if it were. That would have been a problem with my going off to college :-)
The system is clearly not decentralized, if one organization can hold your funds for "misbehavior".
Interesting. I had the impression ML was older :)
The act is criminal. It's just that the recipient isn't the victim, but merely incidental.
> But pushing it out broadly, even in an inert state, was not good.

I don't see how "push" is even useful here. It's ARG content; teasing players into actively seeking out content is the bread and butter of ARGs. While it's certainly part of the premise that they exist as a sort of overlay on top of reality, well-run ones usually have a clear concept of which media are "in-game" to discourage people getting off into the weeds of fan-made content and unintended red herrings. The game is typically not meant to leak into unrelated media (such as the add-ons tab of Firefox on my company-issued laptop). Good examples of wider distribution for the initial round of hints to advertise the existence of an ARG include the "corruption" in a Halo 2 trailer (I Love Bees) and the heat-sensitive ink on the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero CD.

> I can assure you that there's an active internal discussion to that effect. I'm hopeful that we'll learn from this.

Here's one thing that somebody at Mozilla ought to learn (though I worry that the people who most need to learn this are going to be above the fray of the internal discussion): This was absolutely not a mere PR misstep, as the current non-apologies from official channels suggest. The primary problem now isn't that users misunderstood what Looking Glass is, it's that Mozilla management misunderstands what Looking Glass represents. If the Mozilla brand stands for anything at all, it stands for the mission of building the future of the web on behalf of the full spectrum of end users and developers instead of parochial and shortsighted corporate interests. The fact that Looking Glass was deployed in this way, with any internal alarm over it clearly either absent or overruled until after the fact, sends the opposite message. That message was further reinforced by the "clarifications" issued in response to the backlash.

Right now, I feel like any apology is likely to ring hollow. All indications so far are that upper management badly wants this sort of thing and that there will just be another flavor of it next year, as though it's just a matter of tweaking the recipe until they find a version of the pill that people will swallow.

I really love the work you guys do, but I feel like it's being undermined by exactly the sort of thing Mozilla is supposed to be the antidote to. I imagine many Mozillans feel the same way. So what the heck is going on?
No argument, at least not one of disagreement.

I was pointing out that your translated quote might not resonate as you intend, today.

Sara(h) Huckabee Sanders used similar logic to defend the posting of known-false videos as evidence to support the policies and proclamations of her boss.

You can argue that some concepts require extrapolation to be persuasive. We're dealing with a lot of abuse of that right now, and I don't think it works here.

Re: the luxury of non-Americans to be unfamiliar with the absurdity represented by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, all I can say is "enjoy it!" ... but do take warning: these things have a way of propagating. :(
The author is being provocative in order to be noticed, and his strategy worked. He could have articulated the same point in another way.

Everyday every reader faces a choice between exploration and exploitation, between reading someone new and strange, or something more written by someone he knows. Both are necessary. If you don't explore, you'll never find the writers you truly love. If you don't exploit, you will never truly know them.

And there's a balance to be struck between the two strategies, a balance that varies over time. "Read widely" could be interpreted as anti-obsession, while "read narrowly" is clearly anti-discovery. But readers need to both discover and obsess, and discovery necessarily comes first.

Guriel doesn't talk about how he discovers the next object of his obsession, he glosses over the discovery phase in order to emphasize the obsession. In a perfect world, we would simply move from one great writer to the next without disappointments or slack time. It doesn't always happen that way.

Some people are born into families, institutions and social circles that will lead them straight to the great writers. The lucky ones have access to a cultural lineage that shows them the breadth and possibility of art. Curation aids their discovery.

Others, like me, will waste many years on pap and not know for years what they're missing. Garcia Marquez spent his adolescence reading stilted poetry before Kafka showed him, as a young man, what prose could do with the first sentence of The Metamorphosis [0], or before Mrs. Dalloway taught him how language could handle time.[1]

But I guess the point is that any given moment we face a tradeoff between exploration and exploitation. We have to choose which is more promising: another volume of our current obsession or taking a risk on an unknown.

In my experience, the obsession always wins, and it also always ends, not because the reader becomes tired of the writer, but because the writer produces a finite body of work, and after we read it all, we're back to blindly groping the shelves.

So long term, we have to find something new, and the real question that's not being addressed here is: What kind of new? Do I move on from one author of mystery novels [action thrillers, Harlequin romances, substitute genre here] to another? Or do I seek out categorically new kinds of pleasure?

Anyone who's read enough knows there is good writing and bad writing in every genre and every national literature, and so your meta-genres become just good or bad writing, no matter what the writing is about. That discovery comes slowly after a lonely slog in the wilderness of mass media, or it comes quickly, when one of your friends presses a book in your hands and says "Read this."

[0] http://petitchou.tumblr.com/post/225168928/various-translati...
[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=XJE_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11&lpg=P...
The cryptographer is an advisor and there's no mention of any financial experience / economics experience.

I assume this is another early adopter, mining platform....

Nobody's decided to solve that rather fatal flaw.
Backend Information for IBM's Quantum Computers
If a fellow wikipedia editor is reading: some recent languages like Pony, Purescript and Reason are still missing.
Wouldn't an intended side-effect of this action be the end-user getting educated about "why the device I bought doesn't work anymore?" and directly impacting the reputation of the company that manufactures that now-bricked device?

I can only see it as a win-win. Except the internet connected medical devices that are insecure which if affected by such purging bots would literally impact lives. I hope vigilante script kiddies don't get involved with good intent and cause havoc.
Open Source Project: RSS Query Engine for News and Video
>Never before did I see an entire audience be wowed by a women engineer.

What do you mean?
> most amateur prepping is probably more on the scale of 72 hours-1 week

Three days is the minimum for any part of the country that gets blizzards. At this point, I've gone to a week since last winter I was stuck at home for 3 days.

> there probably isn't anyone alive today in the US who is ready to be entirely self-sustaining for six months.

No, there are folks who would be fine for six months. Heck, there are still folks in rural areas that you don't see coming back to town to buy supplies in six months. The country is pretty vast and still has a lot of rough edges.
Ada. For C replacement (imperative and compiled to ELF) that (a) can link
reasonably well through C to other languages, (b) is not entangled scary mess
of half-random syntax and historical features (C++), and (c) has a type system
that I can lean on instead of constantly keeping an eye on (C) or fight against
(Rust's borrow checker).
Is there a risc for the receiver of the packages?
> it's about it expressing a real fault in the legal system and its attitude, despite doing it using a non-factual case.

If you want to point out an actual flaw instead of a non-factual/non-existent flaw, then use facts not fables.

> In other words, the US legal system might not have THAT law, but the story remains true in a deeper level, in the sense that it is indeed the kind of system were such a law could be conceived or be remotely possible

Except you would need a factual argument to demonstrate this possibility. Your arguments so far do not qualify. The fact that you can imagine this possibility entails facts about you and your understanding of law, and does not entail anything about the law itself.
Only if we're looking that way. Space is called space for a reason, and radiation diminishes with the square of distance. Light the big candle out by Uranus and Saturn and we'd probably not see it.
Check out Chris Martens' work, like her thesis "Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic":

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmartens/thesis/

(or some of the shorter papers on her website)
Wine glass size in England from 1700 to 2017: a measure of our time – The BMJ
But the defense of the lie is indistinguishable from the maxim of representational truth, when the truth is in question (or purposefully misrepresented).

The latter case is the problem, and currently a large one.
Huh, doesn't someone want to change that now? And who is paying for the subsidizing? This is pretty ridiculous in my opinion
>Depth and breadth, in this case, are not opposite directions on a straight line

humans have limited memory, we are not machines. How many books can you remember, and not just in a vague sense, but lines, tone, structure?

Nabokov made a similar statement as the author claimed that the only good reader is a re-reader. Nobody can genuinely remember more than a few books and be familiar with them, if you read hundreds of books at the end of the year you might as well have read nothing. But every time you reread a great work, you learn something new and free your mind up to discover even more things about it.

The very best musicians will often study their favourite pieces compulsively. They have an intimate relationship with them that others have not.

I am very sympathetic to the message of the author because we seem to be living in an age where people attempt to measure literacy on a scoreboard by counting how much books they've read. Obviously this is as doomed of an attempt as being in a hundred relationships at the same time.

A good friend of mine teaches Russian literature, and when he talks about a book like The Brothers Karamazov he can get so much more out of one book than I get out of reading 50. That is something to me that resembles genuine understanding.
Are abductions rare because they almost never happen in the first place, or because Americans take extreme measures to avoid them?
You can see the differences: text.npr.org, in addition to being on NPR's domain, has an NPR copyright notice, the NPR logo in the favicon and links back to the main NPR site. nprlite.org has no indication that it's affiliated with NPR.
Ask HN: Good and concise uml resources
Is there any place where one could get a clear explanation of what the specific elements in a uml drawing mean. Uml is not something very hard by its nature, but people make it hard by describing graphical elements with words and explaining trivial concepts with slang from the spec. Is there a cheat sheet or 20 or less pages book explaining uml to programers .

PS.
To the uml hater: yes uml is the embodiment of all the stuff you hate about programming, an immense spec mostly composed of slang and terms and everyone interprets the spec differently basically creating a new uml dialect , but if for some reason you need to draw a diagram why reinvent the wheel, and btw you can also automate it - see plantulm

The the Ulm evangelist: no, sorry but a 300 page book is not an adequate way if explaining how to draw a diagram.
Yes, there's only a very small set of things you can do. But you can do them very quickly.
Where I live, ISPs do distribute those devices.
Have you considered audio books? That's the main way I consume fiction these days. I love listening to audio books while doing other things (commuting, cleaning, going on walks, etc). It's a good alternative (or companion) to listening to music or podcasts. Looking at my Audible library I've listened to about 27 books in the past few years (most of them fiction).
Um, that's strange, can't reproduce that in any of my devices :/
You've presented a single vague summary of the defense argument (and given the non-guilty verdict and the article's presentation, is probably biased as well, but I reserve judgment).

So it seems you really know very little given the evidence I've seen so far, and your insistence that you know enough is frankly disturbing.
Technically, China was second world (when the terms actually meant something other than just 'rich' and 'poor'). A more accurate term might be 'developing'.