skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there's no permission involved on the Google or Facebook side, or at least, there wasn't for me.

My understanding from Google's description above is that they are scraping the logged out facebook.com profiles; your logged out profile has a random selection of friends on it. There are enough of them there for Google to infer that facebook.com/kma (me, who is friends with Nick Schrock, e.g.) is the same Keith Adams as kmadams_at_gmail_dot_com (also me, who also has written emails to someone named Nick Schrock). Without clicking through anything on either site, I started getting little faces in my search results last month saying "So-And-So, your friend on Facebook, shared this on Twitter."

Here's a screenshot of the results I was seeing:

http://imgur.com/0ctAO

Disclosure: I write code for Facebook. I had nothing to do with this whole thing, and cannot officially speak for FB. It could also be the case that I am in a A/B test Google is performing, etc. This was just my experience. It fits with Google's stated mechanisms for how Social Circles work.
That said, the real blow to the PR firm is not that it looks sleazy but that it looks incompetent.

Being known as a sleazy but effective PR firm will get you plenty of customers. Being known as sleazy and incompetent will not.
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I think I'd take a 10% chance of being in prison over a 100% chance of being a NK citizen.
I think you won't find many Indonesian kids in India coding PHP. Indonisia is quite a different country from India, and not particularly known for it's booming IT outsourcing opportunities :P
The remaining populous of North Korea that are outside of these camps aren't living a life of luxury - the day to day life there is still not comparable to the prison system.
The most powerful military the world has ever known already exists; and it would not be capable of "fixing" North Korea or Libya without sustaining (and more importantly, inflicting) significant casualties. The best course of action, militarily speaking, would probably be to significantly nuke Pyongyang quickly and have S. Korea take over administration of the country. This is not politically or morally acceptable.

That's part of the problem: The moment you declare a regime as morally bankrupt, you are stating your own goals are somehow more enlightened and worthy. In some cases this works, like against the Nazis, but in most, like the Yugoslav war you cite, it's only a matter of opinion - For every Srebrenica there is a Krajina, unfortunately. The people involved in such generational hatred do not escape their own guilt, regardless of which particular side they may be on in any particular indecent. Getting involved in these quagmires often only intensifies the conflicting hatred for a later date. Even worse, who then protects us from the protectors?

Your desire is a noble one but unfortunately completely at odds with human nature.
In fact, the article says: "Even interns like myself are tasked with big projects to help improve account security. Instead of working on mundane tasks and simple problems, interns are given high-impact assignments that reach out to hundreds of millions users every time they use Facebook. "
I'm constantly amazed at how much stuff Zed cranks out.
Jump on the "funethical" bandwagon when faced with something shady but potentially profitable. All the cool kid are doing it.
Politicians running negative attack ads generally have to indicate that they're the ones paying for the ads.
FBI Surveillance: If We Told You, You Might Sue
It's interesting to see reddit's America-hatred spread here. We can't condemn atrocities anywhere in the world without first holding America up as a paragon of all that is evil. The failure to recognize the good in America, indeed the many ways in which it still leads the world, and see the difference between a free country with perhaps too-strict sentencing guidelines and one which enslaves and kills its people for purely political transgressions, is indicative of the erosion of one axis of our moral compass and the early sign of a culture and a nation turning in on itself and destroying itself.
New faulthandler module in Python 3.3 helps debugging
How to write your own native Node.js extension
Oona raises over $41k on KickStarter in 8 Days, It's obviously a Cool Product
How much does it cost do build a simple iPhone app?
>Or the authority can be made totally decentralized, i.e. "all people on the world with cellphones vote: should we attack North Korea"

That's great until you replace "North Korea" with your unpopular region. Asking that same question right now about the US would probably come close to passing.

The western world is founded on the rights of the individual above that of the collective. Your suggestions are counter to this philosophy.
Great new feature. Thanks!
World's largest model airport
"When it comes to war (and, yes, this is war"

Spoken like somebody that has never been anywhere near a war. How many casualities have there been in this Google/Facebook war? How many innocent civilians killed as collateral damage? How much forced migration resulting in starvation, out-of-control refugee situations, etc?
The One Week Heroin Addict
Thanks for the writeup. I discovered Themeforest recently, but are any there other good options for buying non-WP themes?
All North Koreans that are not in the elite inner circle are slaves. China, though annoyed, cannot act, since NK is a fellow Communist nation, though they are the goofy pseudo-Stalinist type.

Eventually the regime will collapse, and NK will become a humanitarian project that will dwarf anything that has come before it.
Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
Unfortunately, because HN is markedly bigger now than it was in 2008, this story is already over 80 votes and the flags aren't going to do anything. The flag weights need tuning.
Ask HN: What's up with Silicon Valley Bank?
I've noticed a bunch of startups using SVB, I love the obvious connotations and prestige implied by the name, and was curious about what kinds of accounts they offer. Unfortunately their website is utterly cluttered, has huge ugly Flash banners, no obvious way to open an account or see account types, and the whole thing looks like a WordPress blog full of cliche stock imagery. What's up with these guys? Do they open business accounts for small startups with angel funding and small teams? Is it worth the time to drop into a branch and discuss switching over from Wells Fargo, Chase or other run of the mill bank? Any benefits (beyond the cool name on your checks)?
If I've learned anything, it's that we can't judge. Nope.

Regime that interns its people in death camps? A system that engenders such poverty that people are forced into cannibalism? (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1875007335054132657#)

Couldn't possibly judge. Nope, not with all the similar problems here in the evil ol' US of A.
There isn't a post in these, though. So they're not the secure(TS) version, just a 5-point.
That's a great way of putting it.

Claims about how the "real world" supposedly works aside, I know that if I were a Facebook engineer I wouldn't be feeling good today, and a large part of that would be the feeling that my hard work was devalued and, in terms of that list of ideals, kind of betrayed by a decision I would never have made.
Taliban join the Twitter Revolution
Truth. My comment was quite negatively off-base, considering lots of downloads is what everybody strives for. I almost deleted it. Funny it got so many upvotes, should have been downvoted to oblivion.
I tried to turn this on and never got the SMS confirmation they send, so I couldn't turn it on. That is kind of my worry with this kind of thing... if it doesn't work when you need to login, you are screwed. Why not just have the Facebook app generate the code?
How to make Angry Birds (pt1)
Ranger Robot Sets New Distance Record, Walking 40 Miles on a Single Charge 
Cornell’s Ranger Robot, world record holder for the longest walk by a robot on a single charge, has smashed its own personal best by logging 40.5 miles without stopping, recharging, or even being touched.
I was not sure about the purpose of the website. On the one hand, it apparently wants to help people with projects find great coders. Great. On the other hand, it appears that it is also aiming to help you find (technical) cofounders. I don't think these are very related so I was a bit confused as to what the actual goal is.

Any thoughts?
I totally agree with your points (i.e. "who watches the Watchmen" and accumulative hatred) but I'm not happy to be so. Goethe said that "to be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state". Even if we're not pleased with the notion that no better solution exists (or can be found), still it makes one sad about humanity.
I don't care about them drifting away. I might even understand some point they made about GNOME. What I don't appreciate it's some people in Ubuntu world (that would be community and canonical) blaming GNOME Upstream for the drift. They want to lead their own platform somewhere else, fine, just do it. Don't pretend that you've been pushed to.

The Gnome Zeitgeist project originated from the Ubuntu community and at first they weren't accepted for inclusion in the project and started to whine in a very ubuntuesque way. They weren't listening at all to the maintainer's rationale for rejection. Happily at some point they started to listen and will probably be a key piece of GNOME 3.2

Now, I can't say the same for some others projects from canonical. challenging upstream is one thing, not being open to dialogue another, pushing its agenda by FUDing another beast altogether.

As for removing features ... what are talking about ? GNOME 3.0 ? It's not like it is a finished and dead product that won't evolve anymore ! Bulkier controls ?! Come man, just change your theme. Increased screen resolution ? Like Unity wasn't made for netbooks and tablet. I'll stop feeding the troll right here ;-)
In this first part of a new series of articles, I talk about the process of making a game from start to finish!
Well America, are you going to spread "Freedom and Democracy" there? It sure needs it.
> Do Apple, Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft do the same thing?

Yes, they're all doing this.
Both the conditions of incarceration and conditions of not-incarceration are dramatically better in the United States.

That so many people in this thread are trying to suggest that the United States is somehow worse than North Korea or that people from the United States can't criticize North Korea saddens me. The United States' prison system has obvious problems. All of North Korea is a totalitarian hellhole.
Unity application lens "contender for worst piece of desktop shell design"
The twitter account mentioned in the article: http://twitter.com/alemarahweb
If we had invaded North Korea, it is highly likely that the death toll would be in the tens of millions and that several cities in Asia would no longer exist.

Add to that the fact that life expectancy around the world would probably dip sharply due to the widespread effects of radiation.

It is a known fact that North Korea has at least 6-8 nuclear weapons. It's also a know fact that China will defend North Korea if it feels the situation is not in its best interests, as they did the last time we invaded.

There are worse things than a prolonged limited regional conflict. Just because you have not experienced these within your lifetime does not mean they won't happen.
Sending a Wap Push message using an HTTP URL and an SMS API
Reasons to believe that P != NP
Marco Arment once again swings this as a positive thing, and that those who would want to replace a failed hard drive are just "uber-geeks":

http://www.marco.org/2011/05/12/owc-imac-hard-drive-complain...

I'm fairly certain that if iMacs had a bug where it randomly murdered kittens, Marco would try to swing it into an argument against animal overpopulation or something.
The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other
What? Gnome 2.3 has been shedding features for sometime. Ability to change GDM theme? Gone. Ability to configure gnome screensavers? Gone. That's not even mentioning 3.0, but I understand that it's like KDE, in that 3.1 will be much better suited for full time use.

You miss the point on the controls. Unity WAS made for netbooks and tablets. It conserves UI space in a more concise manner (not to mention that I enjoy the search/icon paradigm. It's what Windows 7 did with dock/search-start-menu. OS X has the Dock and spotlight. The jury is in, it's popular)

Most of the themes I've seen for GNOME3 still look bulky. Maybe I haven't seen enough themes yet.
Facebook Case Study on Page Likes
This seems like a sustainable business plan :)
I've recently noticed that > 90% of my gmail ads are job-offer-related (mainly Jane Street, Google, and Intel). That seems to be a new trend, at least for me.
Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of?

It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
They were fools to let this out in public. Not because of Facebook users but because of developers.

Trying to win not through technical superiority but through FUD spread by cutouts is emblematic of the worst moves of Microsoft. Yes, short-sighted leadership at the top is responsible for many of their current woes.

But also, when tech companies make moves that lack integrity, the best workers head for the exits. They have the least to lose because they can work anywhere. The threshold is lower to act on the courage of their convictions. And high integrity and great work go together.

Top college hires (perhaps the most idealistic and with the least to lose) hear about this stuff and just don't apply.
Does anyone know if this is device specific or model specific?

It would be nice if ifixit, or anyone, added the part number for WD Caviar Blue drive as they vary in price from $33-80 on Newegg.
157 votes so we can have an amateur North Korea/US comparative studies class. Respite from 3-year-old LKML security flame war, also on the front page? Maybe. Still sad. See you in a week or so.

My "minaway" is 10,000 again. Old timer? Have you tried this yet? It's a revelation. You will thank for me this advice. Noprocrast=yes, minaway 10000+. You might code instead, or drink whiskey and read a good book, or find some less exasperating place to rant at like-minded people online. Anything else you do will be better than HN on May 12, 2011.
Shopkick 2.0 Puts Your Favorite Stores On Display To Their 1.5 Million Users
This is the worst title / description of a company I have ever heard. It's confounding to try and imagine the fusion of Twitter, LinkedIn, and IMDB - far simpler to just describe the product.
Do they have primary resources for us to mine?
Open Source Bridge Conference Talks for 2011
Using Jasmine to test CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 App
North Korea: Homeless and those with homes starve to death.
USA: Morbidly obese homeless chatting on cell phones
Serious SCADA Security Flaw Affects Critical Infrastructure Firms
change the hz value... the higher you go, the more dangerous it is.
Welll, to be honest, life sort of pushed Mongrel2 to the side temporarily. The book, teaching classes, and the new job took over until they stabilized. But, it's back and people were using it in production already so this means more progress to come.
Ask HN: What are my options for building cross-platform desktop apps with V8?
Is this even possible? Could you use Google's V8 engine to build Win and OSX desktop apps? Could we utilize node.js in this aspect? Are there any libs or frameworks that make this possible?
a few more solid directories in the comments as well
Yeah, I'd love to see someone make an open-source ARM9 board that runs Linux, but works with Arduino stuff, and has good libraries for controlling the hardware. The first version of the Chumby Hacker Board was a good candidate, but they removed the Arduino headers on more recent versions.
I don't think choice of git over CVS really has anything to do with the goal or history of why it is a goal.
That is a totally valid feeling.

Of course these are just extensions of our own personal hatreds and prejudices. The best way to change them is to change these feelings within yourself.
Good for them, as long as they don't FUD on GNOME.

Better usability ? I don't think so, I remember being orce fed the first version of message indactor with Gwibber, Pidgin and Evolution were 3 entries of the same menu behaving totally differently and unconsistently.

Unity feels quite raw and bulky. I don't think my dad will search it's application by their exact names. INMHO, the Gnome-Shell menu is much better in that it let you see you apps a people familiar with any recent smartphone won't by lost. I can't say the same for Unity main menu.
They don't have a pretty website because they don't need one. Most Silicon Valley startups work with them by default.

In addition to regular banking services, they provide networking events for clients and are more startup-savvy than your typical bank. My experience with them is minimal, so perhaps somebody that's worked with them more extensively can provide more depth.
That's where I'm getting that feature idea from. I think the control port, config anywhere, fast dynamic restarts, and filters will make it the bee's-knees for hosting.
I estimate roughly around 500 small housing units from what I've seen. The smallest units are about 60*30feet in size.

For a slave labor camp, it would be easy to fit 100 people in each unit with two story bunk beds. That's already 50,000 people. The units may be more crammed than I imagine, and I may have missed miscounted these housing units. 200K sounds like an upper limit but it's not impossible.
If there exists a sensical answer (i.e. not a variation on "because that's the way it is"), it's related to not receiving the advertising with the torrent. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the show is the product. Unfortunately, just like in any other advertising-driven area, you are the product, and the show is a means to get your eyeballs on the advertising.

(Just to be clear and attempt to curb as many silly replies as possible: Just because it's true doesn't mean that I think it should be. Furthermore, your contrived circumstances wherein you turn the TV on and off at just the right moment to avoid seeing the ads is of no interest to me; besides being basically impossible to do properly, even most people doing other things during the commercials will be exposed to the advertising in some fashion.)
The US with a functioning bureaucracy has access to options that NK doesn't have, such as probation and house arrest (even suspended sentences need paperwork) -- 3.1% of the US is "on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole" (Wikipedia - that's more than I expected, how does it afford that?)
http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/akka-talk-at-geneva-jug-sca...

slide 34: immutable msgs , typed actors
If this were Dante's hell, ex-Commissioner Baker would either be boiling in pitch, burned alive or frozen in Cocytus.
If only user acquisition costs were that low...
That was even more pronounced in East Germany. (And actually Easterners thought the West to be a much better place, based on all the ads they saw. Everybody watched West German TV.)
I'm mostly interested in looking at the problems with the U.S.'s prison system before North Korea's because it is: 1) exceedingly bad; and 2) nearby enough that there is some chance we (=Americans) can do something about it. "North Korea is really bad" by contrast, I already believe, and we have a ton of evidence for it. Is evidence that North Korean prisons are also big and inhumane surprising? Yes, we should do something about it if possible, but we've been at a loss for decades about what to do about it; it's not like we haven't already been trying to pressure the regime there, and get rid of it if possible.

The U.S. system is not just "too-strict sentencing guidelines" either; the prevalence of rape makes it imo basically an inhumane system. The government will not usually actually rape you (though rape by prison guards is also a problem), but it will put you in conditions that it has known for decades are likely to cause you to be raped. It continues to maintain those conditions and knowingly forces people into them, in effect (probabilistically) sentencing them to be raped. And regular Americans on the street will joke about "pound-you-in-the-ass prisons" or "hope you like the butt sex!", apparently considering this an appropriate, perhaps even good, way to punish criminals, since it adds to the deterrence factor by making the prospect of going to a prison with such conditions a frightening one.

I guess we can make some hierarchy, where maintaining a prison system filled with starving inmates is worse than a rape-filled prison, which is in turn worse than a merely filthy/diseased prison, but it seems sort of pointless to justify things that way. I'd just go after the closest inhumane prison system, which I don't have to travel far to find. (It's also not purely a left-right thing; the left probably talks about it more, and the "tough-on-crime" right downplays the U.S.'s prison conditions, but it's also become a popular cause among Christian groups lately.)
Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
Given that he claims that custom drives somehow lowers Apple's costs, I have to agree with you.
They have a strategic location, how's that? Great to keep an eye on China and Russia. Well, I know we already have S. Korea in our pocket, but why not go for the whole peninsula?

(just a line of reasoning, not my endorsement or something)
This is a project to watch. Language agnostic web server with a 0MQ back-end to automagically take advantage of multi-threading/multi-core on modern hardware. Nice.

Plus he is running unit tests against code samples in the manual. Brilliant!
It seems to me that organizations tend to take on the personality of the strongest person in the chain. EVERY large company has one or two rogue units inside of it that behave very differently (usually for the better) than the overall culture. In each case I've dealt with, there has been a leader who had a tremendously strong personality that drowned out everything above him.

Most of the time, however, middle management tends to reflect and pass-on the tone and traits that the CEO presents just as you say.

It's really an interesting dynamic.
This is from close to 30 years ago, but I think it illustrative of what could still easily happen in the US (and perhaps does, I'm not too knowledgeable about refugee issues):

In the 80s around a million fled violence (from repressive governments, civil wars and paramilitary groups) in central America seeking asylum in the US. They were largely turned away due to political considerations (i.e. the administration wanted to maintain ties with the governments of those countries). You can read about it in this wiki entry about the sanctuary movement that developed to help some of those people in spite of the US government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement
Doesn't Microsoft pay hardware manufacturers to ship computers with Windows? I thought I heard of this happening with Dell. That seems like a major impediment to Ubuntu's shipping pre-installed/by default and its more widespread adoption.
Yea, it should be possible - the Arduino code is an abstraction above C anyway.
The juvenile prisons are even worse. Act up in school, smoke pot - wait, we need to straighten you out! How about instead of going to school and living at home, you go to a privately run prison where several guards sexually assault you ever day for two or three years. The rest of the time your peers will beat you up and demonstrate dangerous ways to use drugs. Customer acquired, now you're likely to be generating business for our Prison Corporation for the rest of your life.