skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anonymous hosting?
Is it possible to entirely host a website so that it cannot be connected to me?

I find myself checking the top 100 lists on The Pirate Bay for movies and tv shows daily to see if anything new is there and cross-referencing against IMDB to see if they are worth watching, meaning is the IMDB score > 7. Pirate Bay top listing is not in chronological order, but rather bounces up and down. In other words, the current TPB top list is more like Reddit, while for checking out new torrents it would be better for it to be more like Digg where things get promoted to the top rather than move up and down. That way you know what you already got and what you decided not to watch.

I don't intend to filter torrents out outright, but rather just show the score. For other categories some other score might be more meaningful, for example for games it would be the Metascore. I thought I'd share this list on a website because it would probably be useful for more people, and I could crowdsource out the score checking part.

I wouldn't even be linking to torrents, but rather linking to a site that links to torrents, but I still believe this would get me into trouble.
Groupon acquires local marketing services startup Ludic Labs
Yes, I'm talking about superrationality and decision theories that accommodate it, like evidential decision theory (you should make decisions that serve as evidence for the outcome you desire; e.g. you should cooperate, because doing so is evidence that a corresponding EDT-using rational partner will also cooperate) and Eliezer's pet timeless decision theory (roughly, your decisions should be treated as if you were making the decision for all sufficiently similar minds in the same situation.)
Boston, MA

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or email me (email in profile)

We were an acquired studio, so we still operate like a startup and have all really talented, smart people. We're also working on new games!
BlackBerry Might be Harmful if Kept In Pocket | Technorox
Speaking of rhetoric, I loved the essay "How to Teach a Child to Argue" by Jay Heinrichs http://www.figarospeech.com/teach-a-kid-to-argue/

I also found his book "Thank you for arguing" really interesting and informative.

His essay is a delightful read. His book, unfortunately, somewhat more heavy handed... but still worth your consideration in my opinion.
You can host websites anonymously inside the Tor network using "hidden services". I believe there are also several gateway websites which allow people on the "normal" Internet to access hidden services.
Some questions are insightful. Others are important, and should be addresses as part of the discussion. I will often upvote questions that do not yet have an answer, but I would like to have an answer to. I upvote such questions both to attain such answers, and to encourage people to continue asking such questions.
Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed Idea
True, but if found a striking example of "you can't get there from here" would marginalize their efforts.
That's the image that they like to create, and I think for the most part they like to have the algorithm do as much of the work as it possibly can; however, this post by Aaron Wall that includes Google's General Guidelines for Remote Quality Graders might make you think differently: http://www.seobook.com/full-text-googles-general-guidelines-...

(Looks like the document has been taken offline since.)

In fact, I think that using manual raters to tweak the algorithm makes a lot of sense.
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This site style always struck me as "what's wrong" with a lot of design heavy or "trendy design" heavy websites.

This approach to copy/design is OK when your business is primarily achieved through networking and you just need to establish a rudimentary web presence. When it involves selling a product, the minimal copy and lack of context is highly ineffective.

Regarding the App, I've never used Reeder for any app, I like what I see. I think I'm too used to Google Reader's web interface though.
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In my experience, there's enough basic information in the HTTP transaction to identify a unique visitor for most forensic purposes. However, the level of detail available for fingerprinting goes far beyond this. I just performed a little experiment, disabling as much as I could in Firefox to affect my uniqueness at http://panopticlick.eff.org/. I was surprised when disabling plugins (font info comes from java & flash) and even cookies had virtually no effect. It wasn't until I disabled JavaScript before I dramatically lowered it from 7 figures to 5. I'm going to try surfing this way and adding exceptions to see if I can sustain the experience for a while.
I've seen businesses respond to comments on Yelp reviews - wonder why he didn't try to do that.
How on earth could you expect Yelp to automatically catch that?
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Well, this would certainly fit the pattern of NASA's previous "big announcements". Everybody speculates and guesses, says it's little green men, but in the end it's just an interesting discovery which technically relates to their teaser announcement.

They tell us they've discovered something regarding extraterrestrial life. Then it turns out they mean "We found bacteria that like arsenic, here on Earth". Sure, we see where you're going, but in the end everyone is going to hate you, NASA, for making a huge fuss and then hitting us with a biological whimper, not an extraterrestrial bang.
"If you’re wondering how Apple’s web browser is so high on the list, remember that it’s the browser used on every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch now. These devices boost Safari’s numbers by well over 10 percentage points. And if mobile traffic keeps growing the way it is, there’s a chance (just a chance) that Safari could even eclipse Chrome and Firefox as the top browser viewing TechCrunch. Since August, Safari has grown by two percentage points, while Chrome has gained just one."

It's sort of irritating they say that, but don't cite any figures to back it up. What % of users view techcrunch from an iPhone/iPad/mobile etc?
Hell maybe the science vessel docks in the warship most of the time. The second an enemy approaches, the science vessel is already in high warp with every bit of stealth engaged getting the hell away from there until the warship signals them that it's safe to return.

The Star Trek: TNG term for this was "saucer separation". Not that it wasn't woefully underused.
I don't think lingpipe is open source
Can anybody expand on what he talks about with regards to the German bankruptcy laws?
The review that started all this states that the hard drive is missing a circuit board that the owner of the company refuses to return.
One point that has been made (and which I agree with) is that this leak will reduce the influence of those in government who are in favour of more openness, and strengthen the position of those who argue for more control of information.

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101027_wikileaks_and_cultur...
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Googling for mentions of this on LessWrong it seems Elizier agrees that the standard formulation is confusing but remains strangely coy about what a rational actor should/would do in response:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/

Actually, in a follow-up he's clearer in a comment:

"As someone who rejects defection as the inevitable rational solution to both the one-shot PD and the iterated PD, I'm interested in the inconsistency of those who accept defection as the rational equilibrium in the one-shot PD, but find excuses to reject it in the finitely iterated known-horizon PD."

from http://lesswrong.com/lw/to/the_truly_iterated_prisoners_dile...

Haven't found an actual explanation of why he thinks co-operation is rational in a one-shot PD yet though. He's demonstrated that he understands the problem enough to describe why it's counter-intuitive, so I'm going to assume that whatever his reason is it's something a bit crazy, rather than just dumb.
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The following quote from the Weekly World News link is suspect. The most environmentally sound way for humans to live is in dense urban cities. Leave the countryside alone.

Quote:

“People’s reasons for living small vary a lot, but there seems to be a common thread of sustainability,” Shafer said. “A lot of people don’t want to use many more resources or put out more emissions than they have to.”
Some of us actually prefer that functionality. I "put up" with it because I find it useful.
Oh my.

My mom often insisted on the importance of criticising with care, to avoid making the other feel bad. Yet I needed this article, written in a foreign language by a complete stranger, before I realized on a gut level that she's right.

And it's not the first time. So, note to self: Mom is right until proven wrong.
Oh thank you! i should have known that.
Doesn't it depend on just how different these organisms are? If, for example, they have nothing resembling the cell of a prokaryotic or eukaryotic organisms (DNA, etc.), it can definitely mean something big. If they have the same "conceptual" cell but the details of its internals differ somewhat, then indeed it's far from scandalous, it just means the evolutionary tree branched earlier than with other organisms.

The second case would also be interesting in itself, of course.
Pittsburgh, PA (no remote)

http://www.showclix.com/careers

Looking for a few more PHP developers (or interns) to help with platform and end-to-end feature development. LAMP stack, but a bit of Python on backend, working on integrating Redis/MongoDB.

We're a full-service ticket sales company trying to make it easier and cheaper to sell tickets.
RIM sues Kik for patent infringement
I had a similar feeling about the recent Cook's Source episode. It's very likely that, in both cases, the charges against the business owner are accurate, and if so I feel fine about them losing their businesses, if that's the outcome. But how long will it be until some savvy internet user successfully riles people up against an innocent competitor or a personal enemy?
Too much to type in C++ as compared to language like Python
No, that's not what got us into the housing crisis. What got us into the housing crisis is wild west like lending practices and a really poor economy. People couldn't afford their houses because of balloons, variable APR's, and losing their job, not because they had an extra room.
Helsinki, Finland.

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If you look at the video, you'll see he's wearing a wedding ring and he claims to have lived in the house for ten years. Something's not quite right.
It would seem observationally that rich people often end up relishing doing life's simple tasks after they've spent a time having them all done for them. I think for many first-world people, the more removed they end up being from daily tasks the more unhappy they may find themselves in the end.
I might buy one for my kids so they can go camping in the yard while I watch from my pool deck.
Chicago, IL

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One neat thing: at Harvard, Neal takes Math 55, a course so famous it has its own Wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55

" ... covers four years of math in two semesters."

Otherwise, that "will he die a virgin ?" quip was really uncalled for.
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Funny, I didn't know the Weekly World News was a legitimate news source.
That would take a lot of organization. Also, what if their operations were leaked invalidating their previous lies?
Ironically, Clinton expressed similar concerns about Wikileaks exposing people who speak privately to diplomats.
How about people make an effort not to judge other people according to stereotypes?
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I've integrated Hacker News Mobile (Front Page Reader) with http://viewtext.org/ here is the link: http://www.allapis.com/Hacker-News-Mobile/index.html Or more about this reader: http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/11/hacker-news-mobile-front-page-reader.html
Following Wikileaks Revelations, Sees Bank of America Worth $21 In Bankruptcy
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>"Does anyone have other suggestions for finding maximum productivity and focus while working from home?"

Realize that working from home may not be for you.

For example if your peak productivity time is between 4pm and 8pm and staying late at the office was a strategy you used before telecommuting, that's not going to be effective if you are working from home and have a family.

Some people cannot work when there are dirty dishes in the sink or the dogs want a walk or the front door needs a coat of paint.
Being pedantic here...

(via evolution)

Evolution is not a process, it is an effect. Evolution does not cause things to happen. Genetic mutation is the reason life evolved.

Just had to say that.
Am I the only one who thinks they're not exactly helping their cause with pretentious marketspeak like "an integrated intellectual and experiential computing narrative for supporting collective and individual creativity"?
So, because you got scammed by party A, then any unproven accusation against party B must be true and all those who still respect "innocent until proven guilty" are just ignorant?

I think you really need to reexamine your perspective as it will seriously make working with other people on projects quite difficult.
You never really win an argument.

Is it that important to be correct? Just go with the flow, it's social lubrication. Try to just go with it, vibe! [1]

> GOOD VIBING:

GUY: You’ll never guess how much I got this coat for.

FRIEND: Wow.. Umm, 200$.

GUY: No man. 45$

FRIEND: Wow.. Nice man.

BAD VIBING:

GUY: You’ll never guess how much I got this coat for.

FRIEND: Oh you got a deal. I guess 30$ then.

GUY: Umm, actually 45$

FRIEND: Oh.. well that’s not bad.

I've gotten better as I've gotten older, and I remember times where I've literally butted horns with my dad - over such things as silly as how far into the intersection should you go when making a left turn. I didn't want to get caught in the intersection so I always waited until the last moment to spurt forward and make the turn quickly as the light turned yellow. My dad on the other hand - believed it should be halfway or whatever in the intersection - and even Google'd up a DOT/Driver's Manual to prove his point - and CC'd all our other family members who had no interest/idea we were so fired up about our respective viewpoints.

[1] "Social Vibing"

http://www.bristollair.com/2008/outer-game/pua-skills/social...
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Further evidence (though the Comcast situation is obviously more complex than innocent competition):

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/edq8x/breaking_the...

> J-Ro is a professional political activist; he's paid to influence online opinion (or has been, on some past issues; no idea whether he's specifically paid on this one), and he's primarily concerned with getting people outraged, not with accuracy in discussion; hence his entirely false claims here.
Amazon.com - Seattle WA - No remote, but willing to relocate.

We are looking for a strong Systems Support Engineer. We like to describe our team as a 'Startup' within Amazon, as our part of the business is still growing rapidly and our engineers can have a lot of influence on where the product goes.

Job description below. Contact me at ${hn_username}@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Amazon Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and solve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience
Mahout should clearly be on this list!
It's interesting to see Bruce now largely agreeing with the criticisms of the original "Software Monoculture" paper.

The article in Information Security also has Marcus' repsonse: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,29689...
This sounds like a good idea. The examples in TFA are bit too far to the managerspeak side for me.

Can you give some examples, though? I can't really see how you could turn, say, the "budget" issue from TFA into a self-deprecating thing.

But that is because I suck dicks.

(Am I doing it right?)
Social Vibing
Even worse, I would prefer my searches (and new address bar entries) go in a separate tab. I just don't understand why this feature (especially "open search results in a new tab") can't be an option in the default software. Sure, it doesn't take long to Ctrl+T, but I've become accustomed to TMP behavior in FF.

(edit: and option -> an option)
If it's making a few hundred $ a day, that's not bad going, that's a few thousand every 10 days. You should be able to take someone on and pay them to maintain and improve the software, surely?
Doesn't nmap have a whole bunch of such fingerprints stored in a database?
The things that lead to the most innovation are the things that don't seem sensible to do at first. For example, if you mean raytracing in the sense of computer graphics, improving its performance would lead to a possible greater presence of 3d applications on the web.
Whenever I go to a really old, really cool building, I think, "This building was built by men with chisels and hammers. How come the modern world, with all its power tools and advanced materials, can’t build such cool stuff?" The answer is "Banks won’t let you."

A bit of literary trivia: This is exactly the insight that lies behind one of Ezra Pound's most famous poems, "Canto XLV":

http://emsh.calarts.edu/alumni/bkeresey/

(Note that I don't intend to suggest any deeper comparison to Pound. For him, the idea was an insidious one, leading him on a dark path that would take him from Fascist Italy to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane in Washington, D.C.)
A friend of mine just signed on as one of their referrers. It seems like a cushy big VC. They fly the referrers out to expensive resorts a few times a year and in exchange the referrers give HF a heads up on all the cool people and projects they know about. The goal seems to be providing a framework for people who wouldn't otherwise do a startup. I can't leave my family, I need a salary, I'm just afraid, I'm not motivated enough.

Whereas YC and the US scene is all about entrepreneurship, Europe (in general--there are lots of great startups there but it's no SF Bay) has more trouble getting hackers to take the plunge. HF seems to take the approach that they'll take a huge equity stake in the idea rather than a specific company and then pay you for a year to develop it. It's not clear that you'd have to do a real startup, they might just get someone else to do that once you've built substantial IP. I think the goal is to basically bring all the people who MIGHT produce something of value into one place, pay them like employees, and be a European Google in the sense that they'll try lots of projects and the ones that succeed will pay for the others.

It's not a program I'd ever be interested in, but I'm not European or afraid of risks, and I applied to YC. It may work really well in that culture, should be interesting to check back in a year or so to see how they're doing
That would assume people are aware of their predispositions on a general basis.

Some of those are simple, "stop being X to Y people because you think they are Z" is much easier to notice a pattern of than the sub-conscious effects of "for some reason I don't like people who act in these ways."
This is precisely why I posted this to HN. While it's a nice list, I can't help but think that HN can fill in the missing pieces.
I picked a webhost in .my for a sensitive project a few years ago. There were many choices in a number of locales where the hosting company made it clear they were allowing you register a domain and pay for hosting anonymously. All they required was a single email contact point (free webmail was fine) and payment which ranged from the traditional to the pseudo-anonymous digital cash systems to mailing an international money order.

Note that these hosts still had TOS's that you could violate and have your service cancelled (though mostly they were extremely liberal and only reacted to complaints), and it preclude a government forced takedown. At the time, at least, malaysia didn't seem to care what you were hosting as long as a) you didn't use the .my tld, b) you weren't .my citizen and c) you didn't discuss .my politics.
The following sentence shall have the property of verbal irony.

You spelled awkward wrong, asshat.
What might work better is linking to a google search for those torrents. In this instance you're linking to google, not to sites that are associated with torrents.
Psychopathy seems to be caused by specific mental deficiencies
Not just for inspiration, but for implementation too! Self's non-intuitive map optimisation has found its way into V8 and the latest PyPy: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/11/efficiently-implementin...
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Anybody who isn't making meaningful contributions in favor of being self-serving is an asshole, regardless of gender. I expect collaboration from the people I work with, something that this article would consider "feminine." Fuck that.

And the most competent person I work with is a chick, but she's a freak of nature for her talent level.
It's a secret story! Not about showing leg at the office! I get it!
The app is really nice, the only thing that bothers me is the sidebar when you have many grouped feeds and most of them don't have an icon. I wish it had something more similar to the iPad version (that I really really love)
Unlimited vacations? Can you elaborate?