skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... from something that would be extremely traumatizing when done with bare hands.

The military acknowledges how traumatizing this could be.

From section 7.4 in this doc (http://library.enlisted.info/field-manuals/series-2/FM21_150...):

Killing a sentry is completely different than killing an enemy soldier while
engaged in a firefight. It is a cold and calculated attack on a specific target.
After observing a sentry for hours, watching him eat or look at his wife’s photo,
an attachment is made between the stalker and the sentry. Nonetheless, the
stalker must accomplish his task efficiently and brutally. At such close
quarters, the soldier literally feels the sentry fight for his life. The sights,
sounds, and smells of this act are imprinted in the soldier’s mind; it is an
intensely personal experience. A soldier who has removed a sentry should be
observed for signs of unusual behavior for four to seven days after the act.
Scoured the front page.

Still have no idea what this is.
I'll accept any location if the bidder wants to pay for the additional transportation. Antartica? No problem!
> You want to engage with that author on their terms, which means their site.

Actually, that's one of the prime reason why I'm an ardent RSS reader user: It's a pretty neat way to just get the content of an article. And as we're talking about news and blog posts here, that's what it all should be about, not your great typekit-served webfont, not your twitter and facebook sidebars, not your blogroll.

My current approach basically has three tiers: First, I scroll through everything in Google Reader. Using keyboard shortcuts I skip the uninteresting parts, read the short blogs, and if there's a longer article that's interesting (or a crippled feed's abstract looks that way), I'll press "v" and get the article in a new tab (using a Firefox preference or a Chrome extension, this tab opens in the background).

After I'm "Inbox Zero" with my feed, I'll read those tabs. Quite often I have to use the print view or Readability on it to actually get to the basic content for those.
And if those are too long or, while basically interesting, not very enticing or needed at the moment, I'll send them to Instapaper and read it at leisure later.

I think there's a Mac app that has something similar to your Original view, but personally, that would be a big step backwards regarding usability for me. Never mind that quite often it's not really the writer's "artistic intention" you're ignoring, but that of the news site's designers or the WordPress theme author (quite often not chosen for the readability of the body text). There aren't that many Jason Santa Marias out there who create unique styles for every blog post (and where style and substance actually exist in harmony).
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You could buy up all his days and tell him his job is to not fly anywhere.
Because ugh isn't trying to convince you of anything, but you seem to be trying to convince him, over and over again, at increasing length, that people are different and that what some people call "handicaps" are really just part of a range of characteristics, and each of us as people are a large set of those which are often accommodated for.

He's just saying that there's no economic incentive to accommodate for variations in people that there's no market incentive to accommodate for, and that may or may not be a problem. He seems honestly confused at why that's setting you off.
If I can find a legitimate way of doing it that's backed by science and not some feel-good greenwashing I'd consider it. Recommendations?
Can you explain how libel differs between the US and the UK?
> It amazes me that so few software developers take advantage of this fact.

Actually software developers would take advantage of this fact, if there were more jobs for remote workers. Look into HN "who is hiring" monthly threads: most companies want on-site workers, most workers want remote jobs.
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Sometimes, clear and intuitive explanations can go a lot farther than technology.
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Ask HN: Review my startup, BillBaba.com
I recently launched: http://www.billbaba.com

You can set reminders (sms, email and facebook) for your bill payments, maintain your payment history and analyze your spendings. You can also create financial goals, and we help you save for your dreams. Manage debts and money you have lent out, with automatic reminders.

The future vision is to be a one stop shop for bill payments in India. Share your feedback and feel free to ask questions, if any.

PS: If you are not in India, you will not be able to get SMS reminders, and timezone difference may alter the date when you actually receive reminders.
The "tweet" button is completely out of place, I guess some people can fill all the inputs and click on it by mistake.
The way I catch up with HN posts after a few days away is hckr news (http://hckrnews.com/). It's stress free, and I can shorten the list to 10 or 20 top items per day. Then if I have time I'll expand to the top 50% list and scan for anything interesting.
Twitter just released the data of a few millions tweets... That should give a nice sandbox to see if a sample list would be too easy / hard.
This is also my number one complaint. I asked about it at their official support forum on getsatisfaction, but never got a response. That's silly, because Spotify sometimes saturated my upstream, in which case I turned it off. It has now become a habit to turn it off. Before that, most of the time, it was one when I wasn't even listening to music, so the bandwidth was completely free to them. If they would allow me to throttle it somewhat, they could use it all the time. Since they don't allow me to throttle it, I've turned to shutting the client down whenever I'm not using it.
Nazi-Like Experiments and Rendition, Just What Are Our Values
(They're amoral, if anything.)

which is nice because it improves matters

But you haven't actually demonstrated that it improves anything, you simply asserted it without proof.

And this is not something that can just be assumed to be true, because the pre-existing solution really is very good.
> I'm toying with the idea of doing naive Bayes filtering on my feeds to filter out the mass of stuff I'm not interested in.

Some readers already have some machine learning stuff built in, like Google Reader's 'sort by magic' feature. (It works OK, not great.)
That implication is based on the fact that he has reviewed seven dog trainers, given two of them one star reviews, one of them a five star review, and the other four reviews weren't worth mentioning in the article for some reason.

Is it at all unlikely that this guy took a dog to two trainers, didn't like them, then went to a third that he thought was great? Or does it have to be a conspiracy?

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edit:

and from the article, the business owner's opinion: "The whole thing is odd," Frank Brader said. "It certainly seems to me that he's been to so many other dog trainers that nothing you can do is going to satisfy this person."

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another edit:

Here's the profile in question:

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=z25c9TyWY1TdVEGxkj34...

Does anything even look vaguely suspicious about it? His average rating is four stars, and contrary to the article, he went to four dog trainers in 2010, and gave two of them five star ratings, and two of them one star ratings.

http://www.yelp.com/user_details_reviews_self?userid=z25c9Ty...

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and another:

Now the review is being pushed out by wonderful, helpful reviews like this:

"Just read the Chicago tribune article and it's just terrible! Yelp should pull this review!"

http://www.yelp.com/biz/haus-von-brader-dog-obedience-traini...

"The Chicago Tribune article could go evan a lot further to expose Yelp for the extortionist business model they employ. I and thousands of hard working small business folks around the country who deliver exceptional quality and service every day to our customers are being victimized by this extortionist buiness model."

http://www.yelp.com/biz/haus-von-brader-dog-obedience-traini...

and

"Score one for the small business owner not happy with Yelp's horrible filter algorithm. Yelp is a horrible business and if they don't fix things fast they will simply disappear (we can only hope) its amazing how there filter has managed to alienate all of their users (businesses and reviewers). Great article in the tribune, shine more light on Yelp's craptastic system. By the way we are animal lovers too!"

http://www.yelp.com/biz/haus-von-brader-dog-obedience-traini...

All five stars.
The fact that Honest Achmed's Used Cars & Ceritficates would, if issued a root cert, be as able as any other certificate authority to issue a cert for any entity including:

*.*.com
*.*.org

... is like saying that you'll accept a US Passport issued by any country in the world, including, say, North Korea or Iran. While the crypto behind SSL/TLS is strong, the trust model is very clearly very broken.

With governments able to issue certs, as onedognight notes, there's no option of a commercial death sentence. As experiences with RIM/India and Microsoft / Google and China show, at least some governments would be able to apply sufficient pressure on software producers to be able to at least make governmental root revocation not automatic in all circumstances.

http://www.livehacking.com/2011/04/25/honest-achmeds-used-ca...
I had a windows xp machine that had very long file names on some pictures, and when the drive ran into some troubles the data specialists I took it to wanted to charge $2k because of the troubles those files were going to give them. Ahh my youth.
Hey,

Thanks for pointing out my grammer mistakes. English isn't my native language so I was hoping that vim's build in spelling check would fix most of the issues.

I have corrected the spelling mistakes and they should appear online soon when the cache expires. (luckily I decided to build in a small mongodb driven cms during the contest so I could fix these silly mistakes)
There is a belief that willpower is finite and exhaustible and nothing will change how much willpower one has, that one cannot increase one's willpower.
For example, you only have 25 cents worth of willpower at a certain time and if you spent all of it on not eating a cookie you will not have any left for something else.
I suppose if a "trick" increases willpower that proves that willpower is not finite and exhaustible.
Clearly there are limits but one's mindset counts for performance.
No, that's not it at all. Nothing has "set me off". I know that the cost may be too high to make everything work perfectly for people who are (for example) blind. However, eyesight issues are not just limited to people who are blind. So I don't see any reason to say "it's just a handful of blind people" because it's really not. Perfect vision is the exception, not the norm.

I've done my best to back out of the conversation as gracefully as possible without saying "yes, you're right, it's just a handful of blind people" because I don't think that is true. Give me a way to disengage that doesn't involve saying "yes, you're right, I'm just some twit who didn't know that and I'm simply overreacting" and I will happily take it. I am both baffled and, at this point, highly frustrated at how this whole thing has gone. The increasing attempts to characterize me negatively aren't making me feel any better about it. That's never a good thing.

Peace.
"According to Microsoft, no government in the world has successfully used Linux for large operations (Brazil and Cuba reportedly attempted this, but then abandoned the effort)."

:)
Thank you for saving me 10 minutes. I'm glad I headed to the comments page before reading the article.
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100's of Israel Websites Hacked By Cyber-Warrior / AKINCILAR Group
Bid for me to fly out to you and do anything for you (coding to dog walking)
This is the polar opposite of what the Khan Academy is all about: reducing barriers, open transfer of knowledge, transparency, no middle men.
There is no reason that should have to be possible; it is straightforward for a browser to reject any "wildcard" certificate, and even easier to reject a cert that wants to claim all of ".com".

Now, when you think about that, remember: the DNSSEC trust model starts with an entity that can sign anything under .COM. You can't not have that entity in DNSSEC. Now you understand one reason I think DNSSEC sucks.
I made a quick Chrome extension (userscript wasn't going to have enough permissions) for this which is up at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idcnolgflhcckjdfpf...
It's just as easy for a proxy server to cut per-site certificates on the fly.
This is just a repost of the current front page site.
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> to boot

Change that to "aboot" (Canadian), and you have an instant solution. (Those infallibly polite Canadians... ;-)

In that "long ago and far away" that I obliquely mentioned, I rescued a drowning owner/moderator. Then promptly, politely twisted the arms of 3 or 4 other long term members with whom I'd established personal relationships, to become co-moderators. Set up an out-of-band channel for conversation (with a default record, for reference) amongst the same. And broke the single forum into about five sub-forums that addressed the predominant, general trends of interest of existing conversations.

We also had to start clamping down on the "everyone is welcome" attitude that we had tried very hard to foster, promulgate, and shepherd. Some people simply are not present in the community for the sake of the community, and/or are so disruptive or toxic that the only solution -- especially given the limited resources of volunteer moderators and the limited patience and attention of the majority of the audience -- is to toss them.

If you think you are a softie, you should see the kind nature of many -- the majority -- of people who inhabited this community. Nonetheless, past a point, hugs just couldn't cut it. And when that was recognized and... respected (as opposed to "enforced", as a motivating attitude), the mood of the place actually improved and people could once again feel a bit more trustful and express a bit more care.

The environment was also, even more so, self-selecting. And it benefited from an enduring lack of mainstream publicity. (Its few "breakouts" actually became crisis points to manage.)

With any community, eventually you have to draw boundaries. And break the whole into manageable pieces.

As you mention, whatever the technology, ultimately you are up against the limits of human cognizance. A community needs enough structure to keep and present "human-scale" pieces, contexts, scopes.

Whether those structures are static or dynamic may be a question that's currently being addressed and experimented upon, on-line. As for HN, we'll have to see what pg and crew adopt in their ongoing approach to this.
All true, but note that the "other 18" in this case are not all posted in the same week, with all caps etc. Several are in the same week, but others are spread over multiple years and are not overly gushy, all-caps-y, or anything else (although it's possible they were one-time posters). Reading through the filtered posts, my thought was that if these were the work of someone gaming the system, that person is A LOT more subtle and meta than one would normally expect. More likely is that the majority of them are totally legit.
On a related note: I once heard that Jonathan Ive designed the iPhone's calculator as a tribute to Dieter Rams.

Doesn't seem unlikely after a quick Google image search: http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/dieterive.jpg
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TL;DR: You're wrong. And you sound like someone from Yelp trying to "game the system" and write positive reviews about yourself. Maybe PG's algorithms should censor you without any evidence?

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My parents had the exact same experience as in the article.

- A few years ago, they didn't really know what yelp was, but a customer was surprised that the reviews up there were pretty bad, mostly just from customers who were upset we had to send them letters after they didn't pay their bills.

- We encouraged people to review the business on Yelp. Despite numerous people (including a couple Yelp Elites) writing positive real reviews, interestingly, none of the reviews showed up on Yelp.

- Customers told us their reviews had not shown up, and when we called Yelp to find out why, a few reps either claimed there was no way to put the reviews back or they denied their existence. The one thing they did have in common was they promised things would be "fixed" if we advertised with them. I'm pretty sure that's closer to extortion than smart business.

- Last week, my dad finally caved and placed some ads on Yelp.

- Within an hour, there were suddenly dozens of additional reviews on there for the business, and the rating had shot up from 2 stars to 4.5 stars.

So let me ask you, if Yelp really thought those hidden reviews were trying to game the system, why were those reviews placed back when we agreed to spend some ad money? Yelp can't argue that their reviews are unbiased when stuff like this happens.
No, this is a community that has guidelines in addition to a voting system. It isn't Reddit.
I suspect he's kind of like Steve Jobs, if Steve Jobs had not been practising Zen-Buddhism. Instead he's learning how to follow through more directly by helping others do it. He's probably not alone about it either. A guy with a skill. It's just that now the circumstances force more of us to use it, which is to say, to start to develop it. Just a thought.
Anyone find it weird that Yelp makes you pass a reCaptcha when trying to look at filtered reviews? Clearly you can look at unfiltered reviews without this. It's almost like Yelp is yelling "Don't look at these reviews....please!"
I would guess that PRT systems will start to make inroads in favor of new subways or rail. They share a lot of the benefits of autodriving cars, but they're based on far more mature technologies, and the cost of rail and rolling stock is far below older rail systems because the scale is smaller.

But like you say, the issues are mainly political.
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Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages
Here, http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=libel+differences+us+uk

(the top link is a pretty good one)
Not a bad idea, though I think DB-specific (and app-independent) solutions are pretty awesome already.

For Postgres: http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/
Sample: http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/reports/sample_defau...
Check this restaurant out. Some of its highly-rated reviews are filtered.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/tsingtao-taste-sunnyvale

According to them, Yelp called them if they want to advertise and then they will unfilter those reviews.
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How long before he will rewrite and window and widgets library?
US reaches and passes debt limit (outstanding: 14,697,415; limit: 14,694,000)
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Funny how they completely glossed over his "The Exotic Birds" period =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYBx5NJULY
If the editors and writers of the New York Times had the faintest clue what they were talking about when it came to the topic of creating jobs, we'd long since have been out of the employment hole, what with the green jobs bonanza that we'd be in the middle of, combined with the wonderful fantastic stimulus which had saved us, and the fantastic crop of jobs that government regulation creates by raising costs of doing business under their bizarre economic system. (Under any sane theory of economics, raising transaction costs drops economic activity.) A brief comparison of how their theories say we ought to be doing compared to where we actually are right now ought to establish their credentials on that issue.
To be fair, a significant number of his complaints could have been solved by turning JPEGs into text or adding labels to a few buttons. In several cases, he gave them the exact fix required and they still refused or ignored him.

> What more could you ask for than honesty?

An attempt to fix the problem or raise the issue with someone that can.
I find the commit message overly verbose. Further, the commit contains several different changes at once ('File' and 'Quit' menu entries for different reasons, keyboard accelerator).

Granted, that's Linus' repo so he can phrase the commit messages the way he likes it. I just don't see what's "pretty awesome" about it.
2nd engineer, started right out of college. Was always being paid what I felt to be market value. Had ~2% in stock after a re-incentivizing due to a near bankruptcy after failing to close a Series B. Turned into 180K after 5 years at the company. This company had good founders, so perhaps that's why this seems to be the exception; former CTO/CEO of a large company that was acquired.
http://store.terrapass.com/store/c/18-Carbon-offsets.html

I know South Park-style anti-liberalism can be fun, but we don't have to let the word "green" be sucked up by big business.

Offset your carbon for this little adventure of yours, please. Sometimes, flight travel is unavoidable, and, sometimes, people can barely afford the flight yet alone offsets. However, this whole experiment is obviously not about affordability or unavoidable flights, right?

Thank you!
While I haven't watched these guys code, I went through the footage of Notch coding for Ludum Dare (most of it I skimmed) and I feel I learned quite a bit from it. I absolutely think that watching others code can be beneficial to your own ability.
That doesn't surprise me.
Depending on the business, Yelp is powerful and you may have to play by their rule.
See my previous post earlier, at least my wife small business is not too dependent on Yelp because customers are signing for classes spread over 10 to 12 weeks.

But it's terrible to see the effect of purchasing Yelp ads change Yelp system so much!
Haha downvoted, really? Anyone want to enlighten me as to why?
Sorry to pile on, but can you do the same for me? I'm considering a similar path to the one you're investigating here.
Is it all right with you if you share what country this is?

What happens if you become unemployed during this time?
In my previous post I explain how to filter any RSS feed so you get only the most popular posts from the feed, thus making it "infrequently updated":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2959643
Who wants to live in that antiseptic hotel? My 1920 "homes fit for heroes" house is beautiful, cluttered and very practical.