skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it like Google News for films? I can see some similarity.

Edit:

Some observations:

1. It is a collection of rss feeds sorted under rss source. Currently, it looks like link farming. If you can add some more information like source, date/time(x hours/mins ago), a short summary/part of actual article, any relevant picture from page, etc. it will become more appealing and informational.

2. Grouping feeds by source isn't that appealing. Group it by either categories or tags.

3. Design needs work. Reduce the size of branding and move it a top left corner. Get some decent logo. Move search box at top. Provide a category based filter in left panel. Change feed items as suggested in point 1.

4. Introduce vote up/down and social sharing feature for each news item.

5. Introduce some sections like top news, editor's choice, personalized feeds etc.
For the lazy, the "From around the web" section looks like relevant articles on other sites and is styled exactly like the links that CNN recommends, but it's actually paid content.

A popup under "What's this" gives the following info:

"Paid Distribution

An Outbrain customer paid to distribute this content. We do our best to ensure that all of the links recommended to you lead to interesting content. To find out more information about driving traffic to your content or to place this widget on your site, visit outbrain.com. We welcome your feedback at feedback@outbrain.com.View our privacy policy here."
3 years and for a fairly substancial sum of 100k? None of that sounds right. If it really took as long as you say, then a lawyer should have been called.
The most interesting part of the Microsoft blogpost that is the basis for this story, IMO, is that

> The Office Web Applications, which consist of hundreds of thousands of lines of JavaScript, are written primarily in a variant of Script# that is then compiled into JavaScript that can be executed on today’s browsers. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/22/evolving-ecmas...

Apparently Script# is quite mature now, and is being used to compile very large apps to JavaScript. This is a big vote of confidence from Microsoft regarding JavaScript as a compilation target.
Tsachy's an excellent researcher and an excellent teacher. A long time ago in a universe far away, we used to sit together taking classes (perhaps even Information Theory was one of them - I don't really remember)

I haven't seen him teach in 13 or 14 years now, but I'm sure he only got better at it, and highly recommend taking this course if you are interested in Information Theory.

(come back and downvote me in 4 months if you disagree)
You can always write a configuration extension that takes $your_favorite_text_format into the data structure that configures xmonad.

In fact, there is a text-based configuration system (implemented on top of the full-language configuration system) that does as you describe in the contrib repo somewhere. You could also easily do e.g. JSON, or YAML or whatever.

And that's possible because we use a full language as the base layer. So "dumber" config systems can be layered on top without changing anything.
Really? It's "reprehensible" for a website to know how many people visit, what countries they come from, what pages they spend most time on, what buttons are most effective, etc?

Tracking between unaffiliated websites is a different story, but the mall is only tracking our movements around the mall, just like any website that gives a damn about user experience is going to track you around its pages.
With some technical knowledge and violating federal law - you can get access to stuff you already own?

That's like saying your banks' ATM network going down isn't news because you can always get through the vault door with some C4 and take your money that way.
A stochastic input (ie: people) to a linear system is going to look pretty much the same as a stochastic input to a stochastic system.
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This reminds me of those newspaper ads that are crafted to look exactly like a newspaper article (columns of copy, headline, etc) but only set out with an "Advertisement" in very small print at the top of their enclosing box. I usually can pick them out because the font isn't a perfect match, but once in a while I don't notice until like a third of the way through the "article" when I'm going, "wtf? What was the editor thinking?"

And that's the real problem here, and the reason I complain to the editor about those newspaper ads: when they are made to look like a regular article (or in this case, organic results), then they implicitly carry the imprimatur of editorial approval. Someone at this newspaper (/website) has vetted this factually, edited it, and I can put the same trust in this item that I put in any other thing I read here (which might not be 100% but is often reasonably high for edited content on a paper/site I'm familiar with).

Ads that are faking their way in violate this assumption and this trust. As a user of that site I'd be annoyed; as an editor of that site I would be furious.
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Just comparing how much you earn is a bad indicator,

You can probably buy more stuff with 1000 euro in Portugal than with 2000 euro in Switzerland or Norway.
They may have blocked your ip address.
Correct, they aren't. The level of discourse I was thinking of was the "it's socialism!" type. And it's always great to be rich, no doubt about that.
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YAML configuration is possible, if you want. Just load the YAML file in your xmonad.hs config, and translate it (using the regular config language) into the Config data type xmonad actually uses.

You could implement all sorts of funky config formats, by translating them down to the underlying (richer) format. Go nuts!
Scammy. This could fool me if I were in a rush and adblock didn't filter it.

Since it works, I'd consider using it (in venues where users aren't as likely to be outraged+vindicitive about being tricked, or even notice being tricked).

Thanks for sharing.
A very interesting point. Can you provide an example with numbers? Company X originally invested Y and since the IPO has sold Z%?

As a totally naive assessment it seems that if Z == 100 then you're shooting yourself in the foot by precipitating a crash, so the line of 'no confidence' would be closer to 50%.
That's just the inverse of going long on a stock: Other people observe you buying up many shares of a stock, causing the price to go up, which in turn causes your long bet to come through. The degree that this changes the market depends on how well-respected a trader you are.

For example, if Warren Buffett invests in a company, that company's stock generally rises. That's why Warren Buffett was able to get sweetheart deals when he made short-term loans to Goldman, Sachs and Bank of America recently. They were willing to pay him billions of dollars just for his imprimatur. Buffett received options to buy shares of their stock at the much lower, pre-bump price.

It's not really stock manipulation, though. If you're big enough, or respected enough, you have to expect your trades to move the market.
Yes, exactly. I didn't intend to infer that we need to make users want advertising, we just need to find a way to fund things online and do it in a way that doesn't piss off users.
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I'm going to come out in defense of patio11 here. Not because the ad isn't deceptive - it undoubtedly is. But because he fell into the dark side of a grey area and it's worth discussing HOW good people end up there.

From a rationalist perspecive, the ad is justified. He is effectively capturing the majority of the market possible through adwords. So what's next? It makes sense to take your know-how in one market and apply it to another. The problem is that the other markets are filled with sharks. Sharks that will stop at nothing to generate leads for scammy, high-value businesses (for-profit ed, weight loss, etc)

As a moralist, one would turn their nose up at these shark-filled waters at the start. If scammy people advertise through it, why should I?

Personally, I think it's really important to dive in deep to the grey area. Not because you can make more money, but to better understand the inner-workings of the "dark" side of the business. Most of the successful players there use a slathering of evil techniques combined with a wealth of direct marketing experience that whitehat marketers use every day.

It's important to test -everything-, learn as much as you can from empirical data, and then move forward with both your knowledge and moral compass in mind.

I often say I have the full Zynga playbook at my disposal and the judgement to know when not to use it.
> That previous attempts failed does not mean they quit trying. IE9/10 does show some goodwill, but also shows the are still in the EEE game. Take for example the hardware accelerated canvas: Several (non-MS) websites had "optimized for IE" marketing campaigns. Such optimization is nonsense when using standards. Also, MS publicly stated WebGL has security problems because of direct access to the shaders. However, they forget to mention Silverlight has the exact same problem.

Cool story, bro. Most people these days either use the browser that comes with the OS, or install the one they want.

> Eh, no. It's true more patent trolls exist, but not many companies in the industry try to enforce software patents.

Really? Did you forget that Oracle started a lawsuit against Google for the usage of Java within Android? Or how about Apple's lawsuit against Samsung for the look and feel of the Galaxy Tablet? How about i4i's lawsuit against Microsoft?

> Eh, no. It's true more patent trolls exist, but not many companies in the industry try to enforce software patents.

[Citation needed]

From Wikipedia: The C# language definition and the CLI are standardized under ISO and Ecma standards that provide reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing protection from patent claims.

You seem to have a hard time differentiating the language, C# from the library, .NET. It's similar to C++ and the STL.
I'm not an audiophile, I don't often go to concerts, and neither are anybody I know in real life either. I don't even spend that much on music, probably only 10-15 albums a month.

A lot of people use Youtube as their radio, and basically I see Grooveshark as doing the same thing. Why be forced to stream a video when you just want to hear the audio?
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limejs does that, but it uses google closure
Relevant "law":

§ 255.5 Disclosure of material connections.

When there exists a connection between the endorser and
the seller of the advertised product that might materially
affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement ( i.e.,
the connection is not reasonably expected by the audience),
such connection must be fully disclosed.

Relevant example:

Example 7: A college student who has earned a reputation as
a video game expert maintains a personal weblog or “blog”
where he posts entries about his gaming experiences. Readers
of his blog frequently seek his opinions about video game
hardware and software. As it has done in the past, the
manufacturer of a newly released video game system sends the
student a free copy of the system and asks him to write about
it on his blog. He tests the new gaming system and writes a
favorable review. Because his review is disseminated via a
form of consumer-generated media in which his relationship to
the advertiser is not inherently obvious, readers are
unlikely to know that he has received the video game system
free of charge in exchange for his review of the product, and
given the value of the video game system, this fact likely
would materially affect the credibility they attach to his
endorsement. Accordingly, the blogger should clearly and
conspicuously disclose that he received the gaming system
free of charge. The manufacturer should advise him at the
time it provides the gaming system that this connection
should be disclosed, and it should have procedures in place
to try to monitor his postings for compliance.
Not ourselves, but we know people you do. This whole idea was proposed by a commodity trader friend of ours and we decided to give it a shot. This is what came of it. So far, our trader friend likes it.
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Unless it was a gay dating site, that would also worsen the endemic problem with dating sites: namely that there are far, far more men than women on them.
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I'd like to see an analysis between these two sets of data:

A) Dudes that have an opinion about the OKC algorithm

vs.

B) The amount of times they get laid each week

Jokes aside, I'm fascinated with this topic. For most of history, the likelihood of finding a mate was left to chance. Then OKC comes along and says it can leap past obstacles such as chance and geography to help you find your soul mate. That's an incredibly powerful idea.
Yehuda Katz has a nice article on the prototype system that I generally point people to.

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/08/12/understanding-prototypes-in...

And the JavaScript Patterns book is a good read to get an overview of what can be done with just JavaScript. If your application is even remotely complex you'll probably end up using something like backbone or sproutcore which provide constructs for organizing your code anyway.
At least in Germany, as an artist, the only way to transfer your "Urheberrecht" to somebody else is to die. See §29 of the "Urheberrechtsgesetz" (copyright law) [1]:

"Das Urheberrecht ist nicht übertragbar, es sei denn, es wird in Erfüllung einer Verfügung von Todes wegen oder an Miterben im Wege der Erbauseinandersetzung übertragen."

(Translation: "Copyright is not transferable, unless it is transferred in execution of a testamentary disposition or to coheirs in the way of partition of an estate.")

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJ...
You're right, I had the exact same thought about Analytics too. My browser does have a privacy mode, there are plugins that help, and a variety of ways to opt out. And yeah, I know even after all that I can still be tracked online.

So while you might be right there are 2 insidious things about this. First, opting out has a serious downside to it whereas not being tracked online can only cause minor inconveniences here or there. Secondly, where does it end? I think that's the real disturbing thing. Today it's location tracking through cell signals tomorrow we have implanted microchips that can be read by satellites at all times. That's a pretty far out example but if you told someone from 50 years ago about that story they'd probably have a similar reaction to what my implanted microchip quip probably got out of those here who read it.
xmonad and its cohort basically make the proposition that user-defined layouts are inefficient

Well, having worked with both I strongly disagree with that assumption.

Of course it's all a matter of preference but I believe there's a lot of "you don't know what you're missing when you never had it" going on. I've yet to observe an awesome|wmii|xmonad user who doesn't constantly get into fights with the WM because they can't just quickly resize or re-order a few frames in a truly predictable way.
I really want to know more about how they're accomplishing this technically, and what kind of carrier cooperation is required.

If all they're doing is putting up Rx antennas and using them to intercept subscriber IDs from the non-encrypted part of the handshakes with the towers, without any cooperation from the carriers themselves, I guess I'm not too concerned, as a subscriber ID alone is meaningless without carrier records.

If they're doing something that requires carrier cooperation, however, that's something different entirely. Suddenly we go from "anonymous by nature" to "trust us, we're anonymizing it."

Any wireless engineers want to weigh in on this?
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As such, shouldn't the faculties in charge of running it be global institutions as well?

My opinion is no, but it's just that. On the one hand I can see why you would think that, but the second half of your comment sort of belies the first: The internet is a global community.

Outside of that though, the ramifications for SOPA are, in my view less tied to simply what the American government will (potentially) be able to control on the Internet, and more likely to create a slippery slope of legislation regarding free-speech at the behest of private industries.
The other problem is that many of the questions are redundant, ambiguous, or otherwise poorly constructed. I end up skipping a lot of them just because of this.
Apparently, an URL like

http://images2.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/ad-blending/...

is blocked by the rule

-images/ad-

This is a false positive and a surprisingly broad rule.
Having spent the last 3 years in SLC, it's amazing to see the growth that is going on in both locations. Vegas specifically though, the momentum that #vegastech has is like nothing else I've ever seen.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I really don't see a fundamental difference here - photocopiers have existed for a long time.

You can own a book. You just don't have the right to make copies of that book. Why can't you own an ebook?
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Anyone trying to meaningfully compete with Google will need to both buy and build their way into contention. MS has the money to do both but so far the build side of the equation has been a bit lacking.

Don't get me wrong-MS has some very (technically) cool products and projects out there (WP7, win8, Xbox to name a few) , but none of them are giving them the halo that Google (or Apple) has. It will take years of marketing and [m/b]illions of dollars to move them out of the funk that they've built up for themselves over the years. American car makers faced similar marketing challenges in the late 90's-00's and are only recently turning heads again.
What happened to the books on his device? $1000 worth of books should easily fit on one Kindle, even if he can't login to his account - how did he get locked out of his content? Did Amazon remotely wipe out his purchases? Did he buy books on site and never synced them? Does he have access to them from some other app or device, but can't sync a new one? Is he using a device at all? Is he using Kindle for the Web? Or, can he still read all/some of his books?

Consumerist could really give us more details...
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I don't think using 'sudo' is necessarily a good idea: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/611
The ethics aren't as notable here as the incredible mental gymnastics undertaken by the author to pretend that this isn't questionable behavior.

Arguably we shouldn't expect advertisers to play nice, but there is still value in highlighting their transgressions lest they think nobody notices or cares.
You have to hit "enter" at the end.
Eh, you should learn Haskell even if you're not going to be using the window manager ;)
Most of foods (fruits, chocolate, chips, milk, just anything) don't require cooking, and are not primarily ingredients.
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How do they know if someone opted out if their phone is off? Do they divide the number of cell phones by the total number of people in the mall? What if I forget my cell phone in the car or at home? Am I considered an "opt-out"?

When I see this kind of stuff, I always think what is the best way to disrupt this kind of technology. The ideas that come to mind is to organize a bunch of people to randomly walk in the mall, or to leave a bunch of cell phones lying around to skew the data (although the first would be a LOT more effective).
>"So why are people having a negative reaction to this?"

Because the opt-out isn't viable and you're being opted-in without consent.

It's the equivalent of saying "What, they're just tracking your car by intercepting your OnStar comms that your car sends out anyway. They could do that with satellites (and WalMart, among others, does, for parking-lot analysis to see how many are in the store)."

This is a MiTM attack on privacy. If you keep accepting stuff like this without protest, you WILL continue to be tracked and profiled and sold to more and more aggressively with each year.

They need to make AdBlock + for IRL.
What about giving the pros the ability to upload their own documents (and remain private) for BullBear to analyze and report? Also, what about the ability to customize which source of information the system process and which weight each source receive in the bullbear index calculation?

These are all ideas we have on the table for the near future.
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Thank you, this made it link.

I probably would have figured it out by myself, I solve this kinds of things for living. But I was trying to quickly build this before going to work and ran out of time.
"Me of all people"? People sure are zealous about their version control systems. For the record, I use git. But I don't really give a shit about it. For most of my career, I used CVS.

Git is neat, and I like it, but I'm not planning on studying its internals any time soon.
I don't see it as the least bit reprehensible. See, I'm not one to care much about tracking and privacy like others are. Some people just hate any tracking at all and want total privacy. I'm not them. At the same time though this does concern me.

This mall thing really is innocent. They're trying to maximize profits and provide a better experience for the customers. Fine. Same with website Analytics.

It gets scary when you think of the future implications of this. In an ideal world we would be okay with this kind of tracking and we'd be confident that they won't pry too far. But we don't live in that world. We're dealing with people who will see that they can get this innocent and totally legit data and then begin to push the limits to the point where people's privacy truly is being invaded.

So this stuff is cool with me but I'm also prepared for something more sinister to come down the pipeline in the future.
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I used that as merely an example, but was afraid of it taking over the conversation. Sure nothing's perfect, but I'll share one of my experiences. Had the misfortune of cutting up one knee in Greece, one in California a few years earlier. Got the same great care in both places, a few hours in the hospital, some bandages, and antibiotics. Bill in Greece $50, bill in California $1600. Bill collectors showed up in CA to get paid a second time.

You also seem to be taking the position that, since living in a place for a short time does not give perfect insight, that it is not valuable. I would disagree.
because it's an automated, low-cost, literally man-in-the-middle attack on privacy.
> "customizable tiling window manager" somehow requires the user to learn an unusual programming language and a dozen of inscrutable keyboard shortcuts

You might be interested in the tiling window manager I wrote with Node.js (mixu/nwm on github). It's very much inspired by xmonad and dwm, but the engine is Javascript running in Node.js with a native extension for X11 operations/events.

All layouting decisions are made in JS - in fact, the C++ binding doesn't even know the position of the windows or the dimension of the monitors; it's all tracked in JS. It should be easier to customize, though definitely not as battle-tested as xmonad.