skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've contacted Twitter via their "Suspended account" form: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=suspended

Hi Twitter. I agree with you that tweeting another person's
private, confidential > information warrants some sort of
action on your part (not the least of which would be
removing said tweet). You have chosen to suspend accounts
for this. That's fine too.

However, I believe your policy should apply to everyone
equally. Most notably, Spike Lee's twitter account is still
active. If you recall: he retweeted a tweet that he believed
contained George Zimmerman's address:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/spike-lee-apologizes-george-zimmerman-address-tweet-015514123.html .
Regardless of one's opinions on the Zimmerman/Martin case,
this is in direct violation of Twitter's ToS and warrants
immediate account suspension for the original tweeter and
Spike Lee (and anyone else who touched that tweet).

I know you will do the right thing.

EDIT: I received this automated message from Twitter:

Hello,

If you're writing in about <me> being suspended, this
account is not currently suspended; please review any
previous communications from Twitter for clarification
about what the reason for the suspension may have been.

If you are writing in about an account other than <me>
being suspended, please refile the ticket from the
suspended account.

If you are writing in about an issue other than your
account being suspended -- including if you believe your
account to have been deactivated or compromised -- please
refile a ticket via the appropriate form; you'll find the
forms at https://support.twitter.com/forms.

Thanks,
Twitter Trust & Safety

I have refiled using the "Tweets/messages" form: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=web_tweet...

EDIT 2: I received another automated message, this time with a bunch of ideas on how I can troubleshoot my problem, heh. This message, however, included reference to a support ticket number and this:

If the above links help resolve your issue, no need to
reply. Otherwise, let us know where you are still stuck.

Well, it didn't resolve my issue. So I responded:

Hi, I believe this automated response does not address my
concern. My concern is about an inconsistent application
of penalties for violating the Twitter ToS. It would be
great if I could get a real person to look at this. My
original message is as follows:

(With my original message included)
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Depends on the use case, but OAuth in general is more trouble than its worth imho.
We used Pipedrive at iDoneThis to manage our fundraising process. When we were actively fundraising, I kept my Pipedrive window open at all times.

If you love Trello, you'll love Pipedrive -- it merges the functionality of CRM with the ease of use of Trello.
Why has only 5% of this been uncovered?
Google seems to handle click fraud pretty well: http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/ads/adtrafficquality/index...

I couldn't find any resources on how Facebook handles this.
You're talking about keyboards, not digital pianos.

I currently use a Yamaha P155. The keys are weighted and touch-sensitive just like a real piano. Each key has its own recording, with its own timbre, at different volume levels. I can even use a damper pedal which responds to have far down I've pushed it.

It's not exactly the same as a real piano, but as someone who played a real piano for 10 years, it's damned close. It's not like moving from a gas stove to a microwave, it's like moving from a gas stove to an electric stove. Not quite the same, but for nearly all practical purposes, it's good enough -- and wearing headphones in your apartment so your neighbors don't hate you, it just wins.
Whether it's "personal" is not relevant -- Twitter's policy prohibits publishing information that is "private and confidential."

Since his corporate email address is neither, it would appear Twitter's grounds for suspension are quite weak.
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Not to be flippant but where exactly is the e-mail publicly posted? I wasn't able to find it on NBC's site.

I also don't consider my HN username private because it is shown on a public forum (and I understand that it would have been).
So are you saying that even if Twitter knows about Spike Lee's violation (which they likely do), Twitter does not have to act unless somebody files a complaint?
I find it amusing how Christian says they moved away from "their" ESD to a standard PulseAudio. ESD was the Enlightenment Sound Daemon (though it may have been maintained by GNOME hackers at the end), and PulseAudio is only "standard" insofar as it was included by default with most distros (i.e. ESD or aRts would have been "standard" under that definition).

KDE at least supports PulseAudio better than ESD but it could as easily have supported ESD if it were necessary, especially if there was as much support from ESD devs as was provided by PulseAudio devs (ESD was already in its nadir before KDE 4.0 thanks to broad usage of gstreamer making ESD redundant for most audio needs).
Of course there'd be less criticism if Gnome 3 were a new project. If it were a new project, everyone content with using Gnome 2 would've been able to safely ignore it. Gnome 2 was boring and mediocre, but it worked. Gnome 3 is still worse in many ways than Gnome 2, and--as you said yourself--has not done anything particularly innovative.

It's one thing to go through the pain of a major version transition to make something substantially better, but Gnome 3 hasn't done that. I just read through the release notes for the 3.0, 3.2, and 3.4 releases of Gnome to confirm that I wasn't missing anything, and can find literally nothing that actually makes my life significantly better. When you're making major, breaking changes, you need to be able to justify them. As a user, Gnome 3 has done nothing at all to justify the many hours I spent trying (and failing) to get Gnome 3 to a point where it wasn't actively painful to use. (And reading posts like this gives me no confidence that it's going to get any better.)
Nice article btw. The approach to integration recommended at the end seems exactly like something that might make the management of such a large code base easier.
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Fantastic! As a piano player myself I find that all too often we get tied up in theory or practice routines or grades. Sometimes you've just got to PLAY THE DAMNED THING.

Sort of applies to programming as well if you see what I mean.
What inadequacy? To say that a tool designed to facilitate anonymous communication is inadequate because people are doing things on it that you don't like seems like a pretty strange position. The inadequacy of a darknet is its uncensorability?
Wow. Very interesting. At first glance, the interface looks very mobile friendly and also very simple.

I'm incredibly impressed. The only feedback I would give is that the buttons in the top bar could stand out a bit - maybe a different shade of blue or a slight border. It wasn't immediately clear to me where 'send' was.

The ads are a bit more obtrusive than Google Mail ads, though I think that would just take a bit of getting used to.

I'm impressed as fuck, though. I can't explain how impressed I am.
Thanks a lot for the comments. Adding tests was in my todo list. Maybe I could use redis for storing the AB tests?
That scenario is neither anonymous (someone specific pays for the deposit box), nor publishing (since the contents are not made available to the public).
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A neglected engine does not spell the end for a vehicle - but it seems to be that that is in fact the case for a neglected piano.

Well, you could always disassemble the piano, replace the strings, tuning pegs, and possibly the soundboard, and put it back together, but what you really have is a new piano in an old case, much like if you completely rebuilt the mechanical parts of a car but kept the original body.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "right" way, but it doesn't do focus-follows-mouse by default, I don't think. You can use Gnome Tweak Tool (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeTweakTool/) to enable it, though.
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> The desktop really doesn't need reinventing.

There's certainly plenty of room for improvement though. I can remember trying Window managers 10 years back, and workspaces - and thinking how great they were. And how they were a refreshing change. Gnome shell sounded really promising in the early days. Challenge existing paradigms by all means.

My powerbook with OSX 10.4 died just before Xmas. And despite it's age it still beats a lot of the current offerings. Raise the bar.
The nice integration between OSX, iOS and Apple TV is not enough reason to jump to Apple TV just yet but I'd switch in a heart beat if/when they add App Store to it.

What's crazy to me is that Google develops the Nexus Q, and then makes the terrible decision not to allow you to run apps on it. It obviously is technically capable, as seen by the various mods people are doing to it. But for the price they are asking, I want access to more than just Google's inferior media offerings.
Indeed it's a nice problem to have :-) we are not yet there, we double every 3 months so far, so we still have 9 months to go :-)

however, getting out of cloud does not help. The problem is the high-availability. To maintain 99.9% we cannot rely on a single data-center, no matter what the claims on availability zones say. We have even seen network partition which are the worst of the worst. Once you go on the "Internet" there is no guarantees (unless dedicated lines).
Another triumph of mathematics over physics. /s
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Don't worry everyone, I have just filed a complaint (above). I'm sure Twitter will suspend Spike Lee's account as soon as they receive it.

/s

In all seriousness, you all might want to fill their inboxes with similar complaints.
It depends on the distribution. AFAIK you have to sign each version of the bootloader and for GPL related reasons you cannot do this with GRUB2 so Ubuntu are having to resort back to GRUB1.

This means that whilst you may be able to run big "brand name" distributions like Ubuntu or RedHat on a secure boot PC more obscure distros might simply not work at all (unless you turn secure boot off).
Out of context (just saying 170M), sure. But 170M represents 34% of the reported population.

Alternative title,

>Twitter May Have A Lot Of Users But Only 34% Are Active [Techcrunch]

I'm assuming you'd approve of the use of "only" in that case?
You've made quite a few large assumptions about the future--that there will be Ouya exclusives, that the console will last "a few years", that there will be a "next gen Ouya". This sort of pie-in-the-sky hype is exactly what people don't like about this project. It's that classic "??? Profit" joke realized as a Kickstarter project.
Don't you think the "cognitive fact" that you give greater weight to negative stimuli would be causing you to overestimate the relative sizes of the kidporn sector of the .onion network?
Hi everyone,

We believe we have figured out the problem and have already gone ahead with a solution. The issue, at this time, appears to be that the traffic we normally get to our API has increased substantially. Whether it's legitimate or not is unknown but we're unfortunately at the mercy of waiting for DNS to update. It's also possible we may see bottlenecks further down our infrastructure path but we're actively thinking through what's next - fortunately, we have more control there.

We'll have a full transparent write up once things are back to normal.

If you're using our JavaScript libraries, your website should not be greatly affected by our downtime other than the data that will be lost. We're deeply sorry and disappointed ourselves.

Our support team is happy to talk to you at status.mixpanel.com to give you updates as they get them.

Suhail
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To those who say that violins improve with age: That just might be a myth, according to this study[1].

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/02/1114999109

More entertaining version: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
Wow, that is not only worrying, but I'm fairly sure it's breaking PCI compliance. I don't have an account so I can't check, but is it possible the payment form is in an HTTPS iframe? If not what happens if you manually put https in the url?
Ditto. At a good internship you're not just keeping a seat warm while working on busy work. Working on production code is a fantastic/superior learning experience.
The audacity! How dare you suggest my truck is just a shell of its former self! Next you'll probably claim it doesn't have feelings too.
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Must be the lowest barrier to entry for a 'hacker' yet.
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I think the reference to lines of code here is not to show how great it is, but to show how complex it is.
Couldn't you require N random contributors to approve of each upload before it is published? With that in place, either the system is just a group of bad actors or the good actors weed out the bad content.
I hope the rover will dig a hole in the ground and uncover a shiny piece of metal, continue digging and find the corner of a massive spaceship.

Then we power it up and it still works.
Your network is trivially vulnerable to a social DOS attack that will instantly drive off 90% of its user-base.
Interestingly, if you sign up using a US Apple ID, there doesn't seem to be any additional Geo-IP filtering in place currently. I was able to watch an episode from Germany without a VPN/DNS solution.
What about PGP? and cryptography in general? you can't do an algorithm that don't encrypt CP..
There is no way to stop a particular kind of content, and yes: technology could be used for bad things! you should already know this.
Even if every package were monitored&filtered and encrypted messages were illegal steganography could be used to circumvent the censure. So, it's impossible to stop the distribution of CP, we must accept this.

The real problem here is child abuse, and people should focus on this. Sometimes I think that actually our society don't really care about the children: it's more like they just don't wanna know and that's why the common answer from the govt is "filter the Internet".
IMO the best we can do is think how we can find the child being molested on certain pic, not trying to figure out some magical way to stop distribution, because if we keep trying this we're just wasting the(ir) time...
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His e-mail is public information - it's widely available on Google. Gary Zenkel's is not.

http://searchengineland.com/nbc-olympic-executives-email-was...

Beyond that, how would you like it if your e-mail, home address was tweet'ed out and you were heckled?
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Further to this, ML server is now $20.
It's the landing sequence on this that has me spooked. Not that I doubt the engineering behind it but wow, to put something this heavy on the planet they had to come up with a fairly complex sequence as the 7 Minutes of Terror video explains. I'm sure it's been checked and rechecked but I don't think I'd want to have to go through the stress of waiting for final confirmation.

If they pull this off then my extreme kudos to the team, and I very eagerly await a new set of eyes on MARS. I couldn't get enough of what came out of every previous rover. Maybe I missed my calling. :)
> I'm surprised your comment is the top one here.

At least at the time of writing this, his comment is the only top-level comment. So it's not so much that it's the top-rated comment, but rather it's the only one that can be displayed in that position.

EDIT: Nevermind. I didn't notice that there are multiple pages of comments. Disregard.
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Of course, I meant "market" in the Linux sense. People won't pay for any of this GNOME stuff.
This entire conversation is incredibly disappointing. It feels like a giant echo chamber, a handful of people who don't like Unity/Gnome3 who hear each other complaining and assume that means the entire Linux universe feels the same way. Everyone I listen to hates Gnome 3, that must mean everyone hates Gnome 3!

The truth is, there are people who like Unity and there are people who like Gnome 3. You're just not hearing them because the negative types are yelling over top of them. The people who like the new WMs don't have anything to add to this discussion because the entire discussion is about how those people don't exist. I feel like if I mention that I'm using Unity right now and I like it, I feel like I'll be told "no you're not and no you don't, case closed."

You don't like it. We get it. But claiming that these people don't exist seems a little disingenuous when obviously they do or Ubuntu wouldn't be quite such a popular distro. Unless you're suggesting everyone downloads Ubuntu and then immediately installs a different WM?
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Nice suggestion if we disallow ++ and still simpler than most of the other proposed solutions.
In freenet at least there is one significant inadequacy that you must commit your resources to supply others with material you strongly disagree with. The difference between having a network which others can use for trading CP and having a network that want's your bandwidth and disk space to serve CP crosses the line for many people.
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As somebody who consumes a few of these things, and got a pager about it prior to it being on HN, this is something that a) will inevitably happen and b) should not block the application. Think very, very carefully before you ever block the request/response cycle on an external API. (I'd say "Never do it" but I think I could come up with conceivable apps and APIs where that makes sense if I was fully awake.) Since analytics callbacks don't generate immediate customer value and can fail totally without discomfitting anyone, you should never block a request for them.

Instead, you deal with them asynchronously. There's a few ways to do it mechanically. I offload them to my job queue and set the priority to "lowest possible." When the job queue is otherwise empty, a worker process (that no actual human is waiting on) slurps up a few of the events and fires them off.

Only downside, which I never bothered fixing: I have an "OMG the queue is stuffed to overflowing... the queue worker must be non-responsive!" monitoring test which, since that symptom has featured in most of my customer-visible downtime, generates a red alert. (i.e. Immediate SMS followed by phone call escalation, as opposed to an "FYI check this" email.) Any downtime at Mixpanel or KissMetrics lasting longer than a few minutes reliably triggers this alert.

On the plus side, this means that when I tell you "Mixpanel really doesn't fail at 2 AM Japan time all that often" you should trust that I'd have noticed.
What did the records cost you in the first place? Speaking of ROI, that's part of your investment as well ;-)
made me think of this - http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-knows-all-the-shor...
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How about a reddit-like ranking system as a portal do the darknet? It would easily categorize content in niches that would be curated socially. It could even help further ostracize the CP crowd to a marginalized role even in the darknet. It would enable anyone to flag out the abhorring niches and focus on the actual benefit of enjoying free exchange of information.

It doesn't get rid of them, but that's something that we wouldn't really be able to do (they all existed prior to the internet), but it would make the darknet usable.
It would be interesting to see non-european predictions.
This is awesome. The Atlantic just made up for its reddit spamming (sort of).
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It takes a lot of chutzpah for Larry Wall to say anything critical about Lisp syntax. Larry Wall. Come on.

I'm not the author of the comment above, but I think Erlang's syntax is effective in that it strongly emphasizes computation by pattern matching. If you write very imperative code in it (as people tend to, coming from Ruby or what have you), yes, it will look gnarly. Good Erlang code looks qualitatively different. There are pretty good examples of hairy, imperative Erlang code being untangled in this blog post: http://gar1t.com/blog/2012/06/10/solving-embarrassingly-obvi...

The . , ; thing is a bit of a hack, admittedly -- I suspect that comes from using Prolog's read function to do parsing for the original versions of Erlang (which was a Prolog DSL), and reading every clause of a function definition at the same time. Prolog ends every top-level clause with a period, not "; ; ; ; .". (Not sure, but a strong hunch, supported by Erlang's history.) I got used to it pretty quickly, though.