skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to see a bit of humor too.
It is technically possible, doesn't mean it has been done (or maybe it has, Apple issued a patch a few weeks ago to remove malware on OSX?). OS updates could install anything onto your machine, including a tool that removes/blocks whatever it wants.
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It's wrong because employees are getting paid to submit as many links as possible to increase page views.

Here's another bostinno spammer:
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dmcgregor
The OP means "assistive" as in "tools used by people who are disabled". It's not a choice to be blind.
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I think Kogan has already stopped supporting IE7 because IE7 hangs if you do visit!

To be clear: I wanted to see this amusing "tax notice" first hand, but when I visit kogan.com using Internet Explorer 7.0 with all default settings using a Windows XP/SP3 system, it shows the front page but it then hangs.
Sometimes. Sometimes people try to build databases of pages about people, you know search for "Kennedy, Alice" and then get all the pages we have, then "Kennedy, Bob" ... "Kennedy, Charles" etc. People then try to offer "Find out about <name>!" types of services on their web sites. Or some wordpress theme will have a sql injection vulnerability and we'll get robots trying to find every site we know about that run that particular theme. There is lots of stuff you can do when you have a copy of the Internet, not all of it 'good.'

Now we do sell API access to our index, but not for stuff like this.
Olark lets me use my normal chat client via Jabber or GTalk. It provides a !command interface. Most (all?) of the other systems require a special application.
Quoting linked paper's abstract (please include a summary next time):

> This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that
we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particular domain. We provide evidence of the existence of domain bias in click activity as well as in human judgments via a comprehensive collection of experiments. We begin by studying the difference between domains that a search engine surfaces and that users click. Surprisingly, we find that despite changes in the overall distribution of surfaced domains, there has not been a comparable shift in the distribution of clicked domains. Users seem to have learned the landscape of the internet and their click behavior has thus become more predictable over time. Next, we run a blind domain test, akin to a Pepsi/Coke taste test, to determine whether domains can shift a user’s opinion of which page is more relevant. We find that domains can actually flip a user’s preference about 25% of the time.

I skimmed the paper, and it looks interesting but not really relevant to this story. They find that swapping the domains webmd.com and genetichealth.com causes people to prefer the result labeled "webmd.com" (with genetichealth.com's content). All this seems to suggest is that WebMD has a reputation for relevant health content, i.e. it's the reputation attached to the domain that matters, not the domain itself. (If it IS the domain itself, that's not established here.) So if WebMD moved to "webmd.health" or just "webmd.", once people got used to the change, it doesn't seem that this would affect the results.
This is the part that made me cringe:

The [DRM key] arrives as an email zip attachment that then needs to be unzipped, saved onto a memory stick and uploaded onto the server.

Seriously? That's how we're delivering time-sensitive digital information? In 2012? Ugh, it makes my head spin.

Is there some reason that the projector can't be connected to the network directly, so the vendor can push the key straight to it without all the sneakernet nonsense?
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Yep. They open sourced the equivalent of their marketing site, not an actual data platform. Very disappointing. As another poster mentioned, CKAN is open source, and does include the data hosting platform (based on elasticsearch). Max Ogden has also published two projects that seem relevant: datacouch and (I think) the pdx API for Portland, which are both couchdb based. All three are worth checking out.
yep - this sort of PR is nothing new for Kogan either
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Im being paid to relocate and my salary is sufficient to afford an apartment. Money isnt the concern here. I have 2 dogs and a girlfriend so rooms or hostels are not an option. Perhaps I should have been more clear... I'm simply interested in finding privately owned rentals in the area more or less.
Thanks for feedback. Indeed, complex emergent behaviors are not demonstrated in the provided example. But they are possible when changes in environment affect other control loops. Which might result in conflicts, at which point control loop for conflict resolution can be added, this is why MAPE-K tower is a useful abstraction.
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I think it's fair enough. Consumers who can't be bothered upgrading are costing Kogan money by frustrating their developers (assuming good dev/designers are now giving preference to jobs that don't require supporting ie7)

It may actually be costing Kogan money overall by driving away some consumers, but no doubt they've done the sums and think the goodwill from the tech crowd and marketing will outweigh that
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Sigh. There is a proposal to do just this in the works. http://isdcf.com/papers/ISDCF-Doc8-TheaterKeyRetrieval-TKR-v...
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Ageism is just as inappropriate as sexism or racism. The tech industry seems to be going through growing pains with respect to sexism, but ageism is apparently still widely acceptable.
This was my initial idea. However, consider this scenario. I need to boot a web stack (db master, pool of db slaves, webservers and a load balancer). I boot a master, job succeeds, then I boot slaves, job succeeds. I boot webservers, but by this time master is shut down or becomes unavailable. Because of a job-based approach, this will never be detected and fixed by the controller. The chosen approach would detect the state of the environment and determine that a master is missing and proceed to correct the situation or abort the process altogether. Hope this makes sense!
Yes, the LED is cooling down, but it will not cool down any lower than the ambient air. i.e. you can not use this as an A/C - you must already have a cold source in order to use it.

Where are you getting that?

A Peltier-effect refrigerator can certainly cool things lower than the ambient temperature. It does that by moving the heat from one place to another.

I'm not aware of anything fundamental that says that the heat energy has to be radiated as heat - it could just as easily be radiated as light. So why couldn't this cool things?

(Your argument that it could somehow work if you shone it on something that was cooler than the device implies time travel - the photons would need to now the destination is cooler before they are emitted.
Some people have made careers out of setting up incentive structures like this. Check out Aubrey Daniels.[1] He has a consulting company based around it.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Daniels#Discussion_of_Pe...

[2] http://aubreydaniels.com/services-overview
It is explicitly stated that it can be used as a heat pump:

When used as a heat pump, the device might be useful for solid-state cooling applications or even power generation.

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-efficiency.html

A heated semiconductor light-emitting diode at low forward bias voltage V<kBT/q is shown to use electrical work to pump heat from the lattice to the photon field.

http://www.science20.com/cool-links/optical_heat_pump_100_pe...

When an electrical power input as low as 30 pico-watts is applied, the researchers consistently measured a 69 pico-watt optical power output, seemingly defying the law of conservation of energy. However, upon further investigation, the researchers showed that the system was able to derive extra energy from the thermal energy present in the environment. More specifically, the LED was able to convert the heat generated by the vibrations in the LED’s silicon lattice structure into additional emitted photons, increasing the LED efficiency to over twice unity.

Achieves greater than unity efficiency by simultaneously converting thermal and electrical energy into photons....Cools the surrounding environment as it draws thermal energy from it.

https://innovate.nasa.gov/node/152
It is technically possible for me to write and distribute a virus that erases anything but GPL-licensed software from the disk of any computer it infects, sends all your money to the FSF, and turns your computer off at 8pm every night to ensure you get a good night's sleep.

However, both of these scenarios aren't happening in the real world.
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Intelligence and competence are two very different things. You have to go back probably 100 years to find a relatively competent government.

The current government is at least as incompetent from an economic point of view as the policies of both Peron and the generals that came after him. Cristina is only in power because her husband died. It is very rarely I have seen anyone even in Latin America as incompetent as her.

While I'm not Argentinian, I truly love the country and it's people. It saddens me no end to see it and to see very intelligent people talk conspiracy theories and spew idiotic economic theories that the rest of the world got rid of decades ago.
And good for her. Exclusionary elitists in my preferred hobby grate on me like few other things. You can never tell why they distrust her, so you're left wondering: Celebrity? Sex? Race? A combination of any of those? Something else completely?

I get enjoying something that you feel is "your community", but to feel that way about a multi-billion dollar industry or even million dollar IPs? Yeah. That's just buying into marketing a bit too much, which is indeed a childish thing.

As a gamer, I like the idea of the rest of the world getting into gaming. I WISH more people would. That this person is an attractive woman that does a good job on one of the best shows on TV (Archer, seriously, it's great) is just a plus.
I'm looking into similar logistical challenges with the possibility of moving to NYC. I will probably try starting out with a place from Airbnb so that I can bypass all the typical issues with landing a pad. For you, another possibility might be to locate a roommate with better credit.

ETA: Whoops, just saw in a reply that you have two dogs. Might be a problem for the options I mentioned.
Before this, I had never thought of Gist as a legitimate blogging platform.
> Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming.

Yeah, I was in middle school at the time.

I think between hacking that game, HTML on angelfire, and the TI-83 calculator, my trajectory for life was set.
Wouldn't do it. I'm just not willing to be a part of the squatter economy.

That goes for domain names I hold as well. I've sold several and have never charged more than what I have in them.

This is an extreme position, I realize this.
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Wait, why do some of these "cheat" mode exist in production games? Isn't that the problem to begin with? Why does omething like "invincibility" exist in the game? Am I missing something here, or is this a noob question from a non-gamer?
You need to also count the cost of your time spent talking to prospects
@1. When the project is only a couple of pages.
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The guy is talking about quitting at the end and starting his own thing. My advice is:

1) first find another job that pays more and is generally less ridiculous, with the realization that its hard to find jobs that don't involve a lot of maintenance

2) give your notice

3) while working at your new job, bootstrap your own startup
On reddit the vote counts are fuzzed so nobody ever really knows if their individual vote counted. Even on stories with as little as 5 votes, the actual count displayed will fluctuate between 3 and 7. The only way you can really tell if you've been shadow banned is if your whole network of puppet accounts no longer has an effect.
Agreed, it will be hybrid for a long time, but I expect the trend toward view logic being more on the client and less on the server to continue, simply because the web is less and less about "pages" and more and more about "apps" and "resources".
I think looking too closely at "drones" in particular just makes the problem more obscured. What we are really dealing with is that technology in general is making surveillance so easy that police have started using it to go out looking for crimes to prosecute. When you add that together with a convoluted law system that criminalizes a great deal of the ordinary behavior of citizens and relies heavily on selective enforcement, you have a recipe for some serious abuses.
how do you detect these "Voter rings?"
This is fighting piracy on the wrong level.
Some people must be so afraid that someone could copy their "work" that they put a chain on the most trusted place.

The KDM unlocks the content of the file and allows the cinema to play the film. It is time sensitive and often is only valid from around 10 minutes prior to the screening time and expiring as close to 5 minutes after the scheduled time.

This made me shiver... no delays allowed at all. I dont want to know how many employees got bitten by that.
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This response just proves the OP's point. Give him credit for opening up, instead of this response (which is not constructive), and comes off as an attack back at him.

For VCs to make money, they need to have as many founders like them, so they lie .. exactly because of responses like this. It does the VCs more harm to be honest with what they think[1], because it pisses off the founders.

[1] Sure they could be wrong about you (by passing on you), but nobody claims to be perfect. If you're just unable to accept rejection, then well, there's your first problem.
There is a sense of sustained confidence, of inevitability, of capability, that investors must look for in their founders. A person like this is bound to have a history of success, large and small. They can't help it. And none of these qualities are correlated to personality type or financial status. Such people are simply incessant creators. They cannot stop creating. You might try to stop them creating, and they would still find a way to thwart you and create anyway.

My sense is that most wannabe entrepreneurs do not have these qualities. And without these qualities, it will be difficult to succeed even with a world-class idea, or with all the money in the world, or even with great intelligence and capability.

The helpful words from you, then, would be the ones that change the would-be entrepreneur into an incessant creator.

Let us assume that such words exist, and that the supplicant (and I use that word advisedly) implements them. I reckon it would take a year (or possibly less) to demonstrate that a sustained change has occurred, thanks to those words.

The question arises, of course: do such words exist, and if so, what are they?

Note that if you discover these words, then they will be worth, literally, many billions of dollars.
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If you sell a B2B product, there is a higher willingness for the customer to pay this tax since they are probably working at a large enterprise.
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It's not so much about attachment to current tools. It's just that you look at something like this, with all its cumbersome syntax, and wonder why they had to make it so ridiculous. And it's not like nobody had any decent ideas of how to do a nice, simple, clean syntax for variables. In the end I suppose we'll be able to continue using preprocessors, and maybe they can generate the clumsy native CSS variables, so it won't really matter and we'll get the best of both worlds. But it sure would be nice if they wouldn't create new features that instantly feel cumbersome to use compared to what people have already been using.
Blame the customer? Yeah, that works.

This is badly worded - no question.
I'm no lawyer, but I imagine there may be some law about actually calling it a "tax" - tax tends to imply something imposed by the government. They are of course free to charge whatever surcharges or discounts they want.....

A smarter move would simply to have notified the customers upon hitting the site that their browser is incompatible with the site and that they could switch to some others that are more compatable. Telling them you are going to charge them more is absurd - either you're going to support Ie7, or you aren't.

Really weird marketing move either way...
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I don't have bad credit so I can't relate but typically to solve this problem:

1. Talk to the agents/landlords/whoever and show proof of stable income. Some are willing to talk.

2. Alternatively, seek out roommates who have spare rooms to rent just to get your foot in the door. Craigslist comes to mind.
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I'm really not sure why this is being downvoted. It's not trollish. I believe what I'm saying to be true: mobile is increasing, and this is leading to thicker clients and more JavaScript and therefore less server-side view logic. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but downvoting me is confusing.
Well, to be fair, if someone found a way to pirate straight from the projector that would be a pretty high quality copy floating around.

It also strikes me that this allows distributors to control for unreported screenings, which allowed for unreported income. Probably not as common as it was way back when, but certainly possible.
They aren't deliberate "cheat modes", they're hacks. Certain types of hacks are extremely difficult to prevent or even detect.

There was an article on HN a few months ago (can't find it right now) that discussed hooking into the GPU to avoid detection.
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If you're on DGS, challenge me (I'm also a beginner) to a game. Same user name as here.
Are you referring to skiing? Tribes is an interesting example of a "hack" that completely re-invents the game (in most people's opinions, for the better).

For those not familiar, a bit of gaming history:
Tribes is a FPS where the players have jetpacks and can fly around in the air. The jetpacks have limited energy, so players ended up having to spend a lot of time on the ground too. One particularly innovative aspects of Tribes was it's expansive maps. It was like a Battlefield game, but 5 years earlier. By only running and jetting, it could take minutes to get across a map, which is important considering the primary objective of the game was to move the opposing team's flag from side of the map to your team's side.

The hack was: players discovered that jumping at the instant the player lands on downhill surface caused them to accelerate in the downhill direction. Mashing repeatedly on the jump key going down a large hill would cause the player to accelerate all the way down the hill, as if there was no friction with the ground (hence "skiing"). Someone wrote a script that automated this act so all a player had to do was hold down the jump button instead of pressing it repeatedly.

This bug completely re-invented the game into something no one imagined it would be. Many players embraced it, I am sure some did not. It added a layer of complexity and made the game addictively fast paced (with skill you could now get across a map in seconds). The competitive community embraced the new style of play and the developers had no choice but to not patch the bug. This bug arguably became the defining gameplay aspect of Tribes.

The lesson? As mentioned here many times, the users are what make your product special. Sometimes they will invent uses for it you never imagined :)
> floating point math is deterministic.

This is news? Isn't this the entire point of the IEEE754 standard, to save us from the days when programs that were well-conditioned on a VAX would become numerically unstable on a Cray?

'Cray instability' sounds like a Star Trek episode but it is apparently something that could happen.

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/c/crayinstability.html
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Today’s Facebook Exchange is interesting, huge, and might make the company’s initial $100B valuation sound rational.

Tomorrow’s Facebook Exchange, the inverse Facebook Exchange if you will, would run the internet.
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Actually, this is the place to fight a lot of the large scale piracy. Unreported screenings and borrowed film prints are fairly big concerns.
Fundamentally, each of the tasks is a separate job. Why not just order the jobs in an array and start them in order? So if a job at some index needed to be restarted/started for some reason, you would first go through and start everything before it.

More generally, looks like you just form a DAG to map out the dependencies and use it to figure out what to do. The daemon could then periodically traverse the DAG starting from the root to each leaf starting jobs as required. Could you explain why this kind of approach was unfeasible in your scenario?
I've recommended this tutorial to a lot of beginners, it really helps with the basic concepts:

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