skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick: You'd have to test the difference between before and after at a certain level of significance, not just establish estimates for before and after. Different things.
Every time I start the application, it creates a "TriblerDonwloads" folder on my desktop (I'm on a mac). I've even changed the default downloads folder to ~/Downloads/TriblerDownloads... it's still creates the desktop folder at launch.

Also, is there a way to force outgoing encryption (you can do this in uTorrent)?
This seems really interesting, and right down my alley. Would you like to have a talk offline about it?
Did you not read the article? They didn't pump any kerosene into the lake. They switched to Freon well before reaching the lake and it sounds like all (or most) of the Freon used was forced up and out of the bore hole by the pressurized water from the lake rushing up and out.
This is really cool. Just cannot stop playing with it. Wondering if he could share his code.?
That has nothing to do CoffeeScript, most regex parser implementation support this via a flag. I've seen it done in PHP, Ruby, Perl, Objective-C. For languages whose regular expression engine don't support this, it's easy enough to achieve it via string concatenation.
Russian Minister of Natural Resources Yury Trutnev and head of Russia’s Meteorological service Rosgidromet, Alexander Frolov, arrived at Russia’s Vostok station.

What is Minister of Natural resources doing there? Could it have something to do with the scramble for natural resources under Artic?
You never see a Star Trek episode that follows the daily lives of ordinary people, though. Nearly all the humans are Starfleet personnel, and according to various series' bibles, Starfleet is very selective.
You can leave the community with the property you entered with: your own body. Why should you be allowed to leave the community with the property you acquired in and under the protection of the community, without following the community's rules?

Zuckerberg can leave the U.S. every bit of property that is truly "his", that he didn't earn but-for the highly-organized society that created the wealth that is his "property."
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You do have the right to anonymous speech in the USA as upheld by the Supreme Court in McIntosh vs. Ohio in 1995:

http://www.acluohio.org/about/historicacluohiolitigation.asp...

and again in Watchtower Bible vs. Stratton in 2002

http://epic.org/free_speech/watchtower.html
tl; dr: Send hashes of email addresses in the contact list instead of sending the addresses and compare.
> or inflation has increased 580% since 1970....

It also has increased for workers, and most comparisons (including Michael's) look at the ratio between top executive comp and average worker comp.
My god, that website has the most amazingly civil and constructive comments I've ever seen on a blog post. I wonder if they're moderated, or just getting traffic from a very narrow section of people who write well.
The job aspect is pretty important.

Don't know if any people looking for employees do that, but I would hire a developer who writes patches, that are nice and I can browse them, to an open source project, instead of asking him to code a binary tree and insert on it on a technical interview or to read his CV.

Hopefully someday all those CVs will be obsolete, and people will only be employed by their open source contributions, I never liked writing CVs anyway :P
This version is substantially better than mine - in addition to the correct hook mentioned in the parent comment, ryanpetrich's code uses a private CoreFoundation API rather than UIAlert which is both safe to access from non-main threads and blocking, making the tweak both simpler (no dispatch or blocks) and allowing it to pop up a "yes/no" dialog.

I've updated the README in my GitHub repo to point here and I'm considering ContactPrivacy a better replacement for AddressBookPrivacy at this time.

Here's to hoping Apple does something like this in a future release of iOS.
One common method to convert business money to personal money is to personally buy the building your company is in and have your company rent it from you. You're given significant latitude to set the rent
Everyone who's for anonymity or pseudo-anonymity wants an all-or-nothing solution where they are totally hidden. The people who propose making everyone known want everyone to totally put all their information online with no protections.

What annoys me is there's a very simple middle solution: You are anonymous to other users, but not the company running the site. If you do something like this, then the company has the right to out you, similar to a DMCA takedown.

With that you could have those people who want to stay hidden from others, but you'd prevent idiots like this because it'd be easy for someone to report them and have them outed. It would only take a couple of bad trolls getting their "troll bit flipped" for the behavior to be reduced.
Computing TextRank for documents using Python
Kickstarter On Portlandia -- A Quick Laugh
http://nkwiatek.com/fluid.solver.js

http://nkwiatek.com/fluid.display.ascii.js

Looks readable.
This will not, in fact, produce reliable results. Your conversion rate will tend to change over time anyhow regardless of the "treatment" option in the second "statistically significant amount of time", because your conversion rate is sensitive to things like e.g. traffic mix, PR, and whatnot which are not uncorrelated with when you take the measurements.

This is why we don't do medical trials by giving people aspirin, measuring symptoms, then giving the same people a sugar pill, then measuring symptoms again. Instead, we give different people the two treatments at the same time, such that one population functions as a control group for the other. This is the essence of A/B testing, too.

The right way to measure this if you want reliable results is to put a load balancer or something in front of the page at issue and split half the people into the old architecture and half the people into the new architecture, then measure their conversion rates simultaneously. 37Signals knows this, and they allude to it in their blog post. That's OK though. You don't need to apologize for not gathering good data on whether making your site faster is better. Testing costs money, and testing known-to-be-virtually-universally-superior things is rarely a good allocation of resources.

You just probably shouldn't attribute your increase in conversion rates to the change you made without testing.
It's important to note that, at least in the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU that blanket censorship of online content simply because they can be illegal is unconstitutional.

It is further reaffirmed in MGM v. Grokster that a filesharing service is only accountable for its actions if it advertises or supports the service's use of violating the law.
Why I'm Wagering $100,000 on Quantum Computing
Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures
The thing is, if Amazon would have made $1 mil without the affiliate link, they probably will make something along the lines of $990,000 with it.

Also, I am not sure anyone "deserves" the commission. It isn't a right.
Just glanced around but what I saw looked great. The website is attractive but I would look into getting a cleaner logo. I'd like to get an account later to poke around then I'll post more.
Apple isn't just removing clones: It's removing clones that use the trademark of the original app to confuse.

An important distinction.
Ageism And Startups: If You're Over 30, Aren't You Too Old?
Definitely have a vesting period, otherwise the person could leave after a couple of months with n% equity having done little to help.

Vesting and conditions will set the stage for expectations in the business relationship as well as ensure responsibility and accountability.

Regarding the actual % split, iron out what needs to be done by both of you and estimate how much effort will be required. Attempt to apply a percentage on this information.

Also, note that you can always add more shares to your organization later (dilution applies), so if the situation changes, you create another million shares and revamp the vesting agreements. I think.

In other words, get legal advice!
RIAA: The online protests raised questions about the democratic process
Does anyone else confuse Robert Kiyosaki with Guy Kawasaki?
I think these are great. Totally different, a really nice change on otherwise boring avatars!
> maintaining them

What?! How is that consistent with "invest in assets that make money for you without you having to be there"?

Obviously I'm snarking. The idea that you can generate money and do no work is fertile ground for self-help hucksters.

BTW: I've never met any landlord who ever believed that they weren't earning every penny, and who didn' have scars to show for it.
We discovered this too, when we switched from Drupal to using Jekyll hosted on github [1]

It is pretty crazy how much simpler you can go with some things.

[1] http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/09/jekyll-github-pag...
Using the product your working on, as long as your use case matches a sufficiently large number of other people.

You can think of starting a company as being an investment decision where the stock you're investing in doesn't exist yet. As with any investment, the way to beat the market is to have an information advantage.

Being a genius gives you a decent global information advantage in that you can process more information about whatever topic you happen to run across. However, it's nothing compared to the specific, targeted information advantage of being a user of that product. An average person who uses a product, day-in-and-day-out, will know far more about that product than a genius who heard about it once on the news.

Of course, this all assumes that that specific, targeted knowledge targets a niche that's big enough to support a business. Knowing a whole lot about AD&D probably is not going to make a billion dollar business.
From Facebook's standpoint I would imagine that these are viewed as completely independent policies. On one hand Facebook does not want to censor discussion, on the other Facebook does not want to host explicit images. The distinction that you draw above simply has to do with their definition of what is an explicit image.

Would you make the same argument if we were talking about Holocaust deniers and personal pornography? Because I am pretty sure that is the distinction that Facebook is making. You just disagree on what constitutes pornography. (I am not agreeing or disagreeing with either of you around that definition either way, just saying that I think you are arguing a different argument).
How Braintree maintains lean infrastructure scaling to $4B in payments a year
A E O U H T N S <- A better home
This comment needs more upvotes. The political pressure on NASA is extreme. The only people doted over more than the astronauts were the politicians. Look into the origins of the Triana satellite and its subsequent fate for a particularly ridiculous example.
Well Earth has been at peace for centuries, it's just those damn aliens that start it, who are either warrior races or fascist imperialists or Borg.
Increasing the number of platters improves read/write throughput independent of the low-level technology used. As far as increasing density, that only scales relative to the square root of areal density. If you increase density by a factor of 100 you only increase the number of bits per track by a factor of 10.

The same rules don't apply to mram, of course, but from the article I'm not entirely sure if these techniques are useful for such designs.
Also sent you an email :)
Love this. I approve of anything that uses the old fashioned IBM "extended ASCII" characters from code page 437.
Interesting. Has there been any success in disguising encrypted BitTorrent traffic as another protocol? I guess it'd have to be a protocol whose packets contain a large amount of random data and a large number of connections with different foreign addresses. Hmmm.
I was thinking about doing some ASCII animation with QR codes to actively see/test when the QR code becomes unscanable. I picked ASCII/ANSI cause I'm not good with graphics: http://adamgent.com/post/16714341387/making-qr-codes-even-do...

I might have to do it now that this guy has inspired me.
We had the same struggles with IRC and built Ginger to deal with them. It's a threaded discussion tool with realtime capabilities. https://gingerhq.com
Your Phone Loses Value Pretty Fast (Unless It's an iPhone)
"Real estate -- I know a couple of part-time landlords, and this is not passive work. They have to deal with tenants, maintenance, etc. Sure, you can hire a property manager, but that cuts into your returns."

I posted somewhere down the thread that this has been my observation from watching my grandparents and father manage their investment properties (which were their retirement fund as retirement money in Uruguay is only good for basic survival).

"f something is profitable (easy money), then other people will enter the market and the profitability will decline"

Yep, but as you said, there are psychological barriers of entry which make the "short-term" profitability good enough for an individual, yet bad for foreign investors.

For example, you can make a 12% profit off real estate rentals here in Uruguay now, it's shifting downwards due to the market pressure, but for us locals it looks like a low-risk, high-reward investment opportunity, but for people in the developed world, the perceived risk of investing in a South American country is too great (and I'd agree, they need a local partner to avoid getting fleeced by the government, or investing in the wrong places, etc... local knowledge basically).

As it usually happens, I'm currently in debt and cannot take advantage of the investment opportunities (fortunately my parents and grandparents can :) ).
Researchers Lift Obelisk With Kite to Test Theory on Ancient Pyramids
Small companies don't generally change the world until they become big companies.
Wrong again. First case she didn't have to put her full address on, but everyone knew who she was because she was actually walking around giving them out and she didn't mislead them.

Second case is about religious freedom and the government not having the right to out members of a religion.

Neither of the cases are about a person being totally anonymous, or someone spewing hate speech anonymously, or someone bullying someone anonymously.

But hey, people will spin this into "I now have the right to troll a guy's dead grandma."

Additionally, these are just court cases. Sure they have a slight force of law if applied narrowly to similar cases. When I say a right I mean in the constitution or an amendment. People say like to say the constitution allows anonymous speech but it doesn't by any stretch.

So, if I were to be exact: I stand corrected, there are two obscure cases that relate to two small situations not related to the internet which allows for a small amount of anonymous speech, which does not give people a total right to be anonymous all the time.
Python has it, too.
I will be sad to see no flash support. I mostly use it for gaming on my tablet and galaxy s II and have had absolutely no issues. My mom got a transformer for Christmas and has been able to play all of her Facebook games (90% of her internet usage). It is really a bad move that directly affects ppl like my mom and other casual gamers.
Making CSS Drop Down Menus Work on the iPhone
Part of the conclusions of the Challenger post-accident report was that engineers were discouraged from filing such "official bug reports." Informal reports made in a briefing did not require investigation, so they were not discouraged in the same way.

When I visit a NASA center, there are posters up all over saying "If it's not safe, say so." Part of the reason for the 2-year grounding of the Shuttle fleet, post-Challenger, was to put in place a stronger culture of safety at NASA.

A commenter mentioned the false dichotomy of "engineers vs. managers". It's a hard call, as an engineer, to disappoint a manager (or a whole line of managers, all the way up) with a call to solve a possible problem. Civil engineers may be more used to this sort of accountability.
Here we go again, last time the complaint was that MS didn't force OEMs to have the ability for users to disable secure boot on x86 machines, and there were claims that one OEM wouldn't do that (curiously, the Linux folks wouldn't name the OEM though).

But the news that Microsoft has made it mandatory for the OEMs to have a disable option(even though it compromises security a bit) on x86 machines has basically been ignored, so much that posters on various sites(including this one) still erroneously claim it's not needed.

So now the witchhunt has shifted to ARM devices, with nary a mention of the Kindle Fire or the Nook tablet or various other Apple and Android devices that ship with locked bootloaders.

Looks like there is an expectation that if a device is able to run Windows, it must be able to run Linux. I don't see any practical reason for this expectation. MS might be counting on sales through its Win 8 app store to subsidize the lower licensing costs on ARM devices, and hence locks down the hardware. If anything, they're following the tablet industry trend on this. Why isn't MS entitled to the same business model that Amazon and B&N are using?

The article quotes MS on saying the user is in control of their PC. They apparently mean x86 devices. ARM devices have been broadly referred to by everyone as Post-PC devices.

Are bootloaders a bad thing? Of course there are, but this continual MS bashing while giving Apple, Amazon, B&N and the rest a free pass is getting old and monotonous.
Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least
Extreme financial risk might or might not kill people.

Space shuttles exploding will definitely kill people.

We're human. Fellow humans died in this pursuit of space exploration. Is it inevitable? Maybe. Probably.

Does it still hurt? Hell yes.
This particular guy was located in Wales. Speech is protected under European and UK law, but I'd say that it's not quite the same extent as in the US. For example, there are particular laws against defamation, harassment or racism in speech. One particular law his actions may violate is this:

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he: (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_harassment,_alarm_o...
Look at animal society for an idea of what "rights" are natural. Now, that does not mean that different sets of rules aren't more or less useful than others. But that doesn't make them any less arbitrary. You can pick parameters that optimize the lift of a wing, but that doesn't make those parameters "natural" or "god-given." Whatever "truth" exists in those parameters is defined entirely by the desired outcome.

"Right to life" and "right to property" are socially useful fictions, encoding rules that optimize in some way desired social outcomes. They are useful only to the extent that they further those outcomes. The metes and bounds of those rights are defined socially. We might argue, internally, that some configuration of those rights would lead to outcomes that we as a society think are desirable, or that some configuration is incompatible with other configurations, but whether they are morally "right" or "wrong" is a socially constructed fact.
TL;DR: Serving static assets is faster than using ruby to serve those assets.

(how did this article get 43 points?)
The most notable sci-fi stories seem to come down to one central point "be careful what you wish for, you might just get it". Sci-fi by nature is a warning of mankinds potential.
Autonomous cars don't drink, or text, or sleep, or get distracted, etc.

Any politician against autonomous cars should be attacked for being for more death on the roads thanks to alcohol, texting, sleep deprivation, old age, etc. Call them pro-murder in an attack ad during an election and we'll have legal autonomous cars everywhere in no time.

Speaking of autonomous cars don't drink and drive, why isn't MAD lobbying for autonomous cars as hard as they can?
And where are the insurance companies on this? Don't the see dollar signs when the think of just how much mass autonomous car use could reduce accidents and injuries?
Supreme court and most lower courts have consistently ruled for anonymous speech rights. It's kind of ingrained into the national character with the Federalist Papers and all that.

AFAIK, there's never been a supreme court ruling against anonymous speech rights. There have been lower court rulings against them, usually in cases that look like stalking.
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"Personal self-discipline is the #1 delineating factor between the rich, the poor and the middle class"

The main takeaway point for me, and the most influential.
Fresh out of college, I make several times the amount of money my entire family was raised on.

I have not played my hand at entrepreneurship yet (I have a regular job), but discipline is exactly what my poor family lacks. They are very gifted in terms of talent, passion, strong work ethic, but without financial discipline times were always tough growing up.
I read the wikipedia link, it seemed inconclusive. Fossil fuel subsides are less than that of renewables (unless I am reading the article wrong) and that's a 1-1 comparison, fossil fuel must utterly dwarf renewable in terms of revenue.

I'm not saying that big (or small) oil is innocent by any means, personally I believe the problem lies with the political side of it, but certainly I don't think the basics of oil extraction and delivery deserve the rep they currently have.

And on farming, how much carbon do you think farmers released into the atmosphere burning the trees and scrubs that stood in the way of the farmland? Not to mention the damage done to the hydrosphere?

You might like this by the way, if you haven't already read it: http://harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915
Many companies have what basically amounts to a board exchange where a high-ranking official from company A serves on the board of company B which has an official on company C's board and company C has an official on company A's board. In the end, it has the potential to be an "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" arrangement.
The best route for you is to spearhead it yourself and make another go of it - but it's assumed from the tone and wording in your posting that you're not in this frame of mind...

Suggestion: don't let go of something with promise! Look to partner with someone who's expertise matches well, but keep a significant stake in the company. Look to create a vesting agreement with a potential partner that has a 1 year cliff with bonuses for performance. (Talk to a legal expert!)

My point is that rather than selling it off, you could 'pay' someone in shares for performance-based work. They would end up with n% of the company after m years plus p% bonus. They would have you as an advisor/co-founder resource.

There should also be buyout provisions should either of you want to take on the company full time again, perhaps.