skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That escalated quickly!

And so it seems that Facebook could be proven to be the new groupon.

I would absolutely not be suprised if the hits were FB bots - however I'd expect they wouldn't be that directly stupid so as to have an Ad-bot net in house. Surely this is some service they outsource for plausible deniability.

Something they would have learned from their relationship handing all user data over to the NSA/CIA.

EDIT:

I'd like to make a prediction on how this could potentially play out:

1. FB ignores them. They have nothing to do with this issue and they know the bots are tainting traffic - but they can't/wont do anything about it because it boosts their revenues.

2. FB may or may not be involved in the ad-bots, but, they will drop their $ contingency on ad-rev for the name and payout these guys to shut them up. Their stock was improperly priced and taken a beating. They don't want this coming to light in a large way as it will have a negative affect on the perception of their business model. They hav to be kind of careful of the Barbara Streisand effect here too...

3. Many more people will reveal the same results with empirical testing and it will be revealed that FB earnings are 80% over inflated. Their stock will drop to the predicted real value of <$10... maybe hit that actual projected number of $7.00 - Zynga will BEG FB to purchase them as they are now a penny stock and they can't sustain.
They were taking orthogonal measurements to see if the pattern would appear over and over. Also it sounds like each successive measurement technique was at a lower level than the previous technique. Sounds pretty thorough. I'd love to see some actual data though.
I actually think they were trying to say something strange is going on, which I think is pretty obvious given their stats, and that they have no idea who's doing it or why, partially because Facebook can't be bothered to look into it or at least get back to them about it.

That to me sounds like FB is aware of the issue and isn't interested in discussing it. That's the subtext imo.

My own suspicion would be because someone is gaming their ads and they haven't been able to prevent it as of yet, and not because they themselves are gaming the numbers. No doubt they believe that discussing it is tacit admission that they haven't been able to prevent it, which is bad for business.
The biggest hurdle in U.S. and western education that I see, especially with maths and engineering is this strange culture of nerd stereotype and 'too pretty for math/homework' etc... I just can't figure it out. I'lived in other eastern countries where these stereotypes are non-existent and not so surprisingly, over there, you see many pretty girls who are exceptional mathematicians and programmers and they aren't considered strange or special.
No, it's really me, I suppose it's fairly difficult to prove.
1) No reason

2) I recently redesigned my site to be more minimal / wanted to build it from scratch using vim.

3) I would like to develop my own software / I want to continue learning the craft by working alongside energetic and excited people.

4) Developing software might become less interesting, I might want to focus on computer science more.
That looks really nice--I'll have to try it soon. I like your commit messages there, coincidentally :P.
One could analyze peaceful political movements based on their stated original goals, ignore all results that only partially meet those goals, and conclude that the vast majority are hardly more effective than terrorism.

Not to mention the fact that "terrorism" itself is a propaganda term. No organisation calls itself "terrorist", and it is used to label a broad range of tactics. There are plenty of terrorist organisations that have never killed anyone or never targeted innocent civilians.

This focuses completely on the most extreme forms of terrorism, the islamic extremists with their suicide attacks. A form of terrorism that has been quite rare in the West, despite all of the publicity. And one could argue that those have been quite successful so far: with only a few successful attempts, they've gotten our full, almost daily, attention for over a decade now.
We just need to get the NRO to let us borrow one of their satellites :)
"We'll find out the reason and see that such kind of things are avoided in the future" is not exactly a reassuring quote from the head of India's Power Grid Corporation.
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Ex-Neuroscientist here. Your explanation is quite accurate, though I believe they use a more modern variant called Diffusion Tensor Imaging. The idea of MRI is that you put the brain into a huge magnetic field, switch the magnet of and count how long it takes for the nuclear spin to jump back to random states in different areas of the brain - this time is specific to each different atom and allows for an estimate of the concentration of different atoms (like water). In DTI, the hypothesis is that water molecules line up with the neurons axons (the long cables that connect neurons to distant other neurons). If change the direction of the magnetic field gradient a couple of times, you don't just get one value per voxel (how much water is in there), but slightly different values for each direction. The highest value is _probably_ the direction of alignment of the majority of axons in that voxel.

The problem is not the tool, but the statistical analysis of the data, which depends on a lot of parameters, and the number of different gradient directions, which are usually orthogonal, hence favouring orthogonal neuronal connections and discounting those that are diagonal to the gradient directions. You have to correct for this in the analysis, but it's very hard to do, and mostly guesswork. Which coincides my personal evaluation of the entire study: guesswork.
How would you use the access log to determine if client-side javascript was being executed?
Hackers stole Van Rompuy's emails
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Developer Tools would've scared the crap out've me when I was 11 years old trying to figure out how web pages worked.

The classic view source showing just text is a very powerful message: websites are just text[1]. As a young wannabe, it was very empowering for me to realize that all I had to do to accomplish my dreams was to open up Notepad and type some special text.

[1]: And images and videos and so on. That's not the point.
GRPN, FB, or ZNGA

Yuri Millner.
it will fit in the front pocket of my jeans, a pair of adidas shorts and another set of khaki shorts.

the fit is tight, however, meaning that while i'm fine walking to a coffee shop with them in there, i'm not walking around all day or going for a hike with them pocketed.
That's a pretty useless metric, though: every industrialized nation 'burns stuff', and if it happens that you can't produce at home, you need to import.

While not a poster child, Germany is far from the worst offender as far as CO2 emission per capita goes.
SHOULD is not MUST
Perhaps. Though in my experience it seems to correlate better with whether someone enjoys a good brain-bender or not. Frankly, I'd prefer not to hire the kind of person who spends time doing cram sessions on compendiums of interview questions. If I get the impression that they're mostly operating on that particular kind of book smarts rather than working knowledge, then they're probably going to lose out to someone who didn't give me that impression.

And yeah, I am starting to think that problem-solving ability is at least somewhat intrinsic, to the extent that it has more to do with a person's temperament than anything else. It's certainly not the kind of thing I've ever seen much success in training someone to do. It seems to be the difference between initially reacting with, "Hmm, that's funny, I wonder why that happened," and "Ughh no no how do I make it stop!?"

If it were workable, I think a stellar interview question might be, "Do you find jigsaw puzzles more enjoyable with or without a picture?"
The Android Google+ app has a really neat instant upload feature that privately, conveniently uploads videos and photos to Google+ as soon as you've taken a photo/video. In fact, it's the only thing I use Google+ for, aside from Google+ youtube movie nights with friends.

If Facebook had this feature, there'd almost be no reason for me to use the Google+ app. With the new photos revamp, Facebook should try an automatic (default: disabled) uploading feature.
> I wasn't able to follow your instructions

Sorry if they're off, apparently it's different on phone then tablet and I extrapolated from what I've heard. On phones, usually 'location history' is a drop-down menu in maps (the upper left button that says 'maps' is actually a drop-down).
You don't go to school for art if you don't know how to draw. You don't go to school for history if you don't know who King Tut was, and you sure as hell don't go school for math if you don't know what a protractor is.

Why do people feel that they belong in a comp sci program if they've never written a line of code in their life?

If I have an option of hiring someone at 22 and mentoring them for 2-3 years in the hopes that they'll become useful or hiring someone at 22 who has been programming for the last 6-8 years and knows what the hell they're doing, I'm going to pick the self-taught programmer almost every time.
It would be a very, very short term financial incentive.

Advertisers monitor to see performance on the other end, and when the campaigns don't yield actual success they move on.

The only real exception to this are mega-brands that advertise just to build namespace. Everyone else expects direct action from some hefty percentage of their ads.
Also, check out something similar we're doing this August in Ubud, Bali:
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The direct result of this morning's LSD trip: http://soundcloud.com/nerdfiles/walked-my-dog

This "voice" is the product of my using guitar for "creativity experiment" to deal with recent losses.

I honestly do not care if it is a shameless plug. This acid test is still going on, and the structures of intentional space which it allows for one to analyze _as presentation_ is breathtaking, illuminating. With the six items, surely, I believe major therapeutic gains can be had, along with contentful output.
For me, it's not as good as OneBusAway (although obviously the UI is much better); the bus times are a bit off for the bus I get to work.
Facebook allows advertisers to target friends of users who liked your page. They probably restrict name changes so users associated with a page don't get blind-sided if the company radically changes its product or service.
Dealing with people who do not like those that do something else than (what the listener expects) the "default" thing happens in so many contexts. Not going to college is just one of many. Some simply have a difficult time with those who "live intentionally" - they seem dangerous, subversive, maybe even untrustworthy to said listener. Try explaining to certain people that you're over 30 and not married (and never will be), don't have children (and don't want them), live alone, don't own a house or a car (and take public transport) and watch as their faces change to shock, confusion, or abject terror. It's a particularly odd reaction as these things (like not getting married, living alone, etc.) become more common in places, but some groups/cultures/subcultures simply have not caught up with that reality.

It's perhaps a ubiquitous reaction to those perceived as "purposeful" outsiders.
I see what you're saying, it just isn't very hard for me to take them at their word: They're not claiming that it's Facebook, not out of some sense of propriety, but because they don't have any evidence that it is. It could be anyone.

And it doesn't matter who it is, because they're leaving for a different reason: Facebook never returns their calls unless it's with an offer of extortion.
The question "Why is this bad?" can be interpreted two ways: both as "Can someone please tell me why this is bad?" and "Why is this bad, you might be wondering? Let me tell you..." Ambiguities like this are sometimes amusing, such as when a reply saying "Love it!" can be read as both "[I] love it!" and the imperative command "[You must] love it!"
As a Vancouverite, I've seen enough layoffs to believe this entirely (you're fungible and replaceable). Still, I don't think that Ubisoft intentionally created a security issue, just that they didn't care about one that happened and deadlines were coming.
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Time out, I am the post author here and I never inferred anything about free market anything. In fact, I have written extensively on this topic and have stated on many occasions that education needs to remain public in order to provide fair opportunities for all.

However, that does not mean that US public schools are without problems. Teachers actually should receive higher salaries, but they also need to be better qualified. Unions are not an evil that diminishes educational outcomes for students, but they do need to recognize that teacher standards have steadily eroded over the past few decades instead of protecting the status quo. I could go on with statistics and such, but you can read the full post here: http://birch.co/post/10127535253/the-us-education-conundrum
using awk.
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that was actually one of the things i didn't like about the tablet, now that you mention it: Google Talk got turned on by default. probably just a personal preference, but i really don't want to receive IMs on a tablet.

but if you do, then you're right: the Ifttt recipe is your solution.
It'd be cool if we could see all of the prototypes that Samsung and co. went through. Maybe the courts will make them provide those as well.
I had the hardest time finding a Domino's coupon to use a few nights ago, ended up just grabbing a sub-par Little Caesar's Hot-N-Ready. Look forward to watch this service progress (:
Pirating the software does not do anything here. The security hole is not related to the DRM and pirated versions come with the same UPlay installs as legitimate copies.
I think the point was being made on "why this is bad" and not that a question was being asked. ( almost definitely the severe comment in the group was made by the same person - http://digg.com/eranation)
:) You're projecting.
This is a social integration feature and not part of their DRM.
That is true, but Facebook's reputation would suffer seriously if they were ever caught.

What they (Facebook) are doing now seems to be some version of DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell).
Because like it or not, we needed them. We were willing to take the pain of dropping them if it was the only way to get them to stop causing us extra pain.

Since they stopped when forced to, the pain was gone and we continued.

We used a couple other recruiting companies, too, and none of them produced enough viable candidates to keep the desks filled. (That sounds worse than it was. It was a growing company.)
I've found rbenv to be a much easier option with homebrew.
It is a question about binary arithmetic. If you understand how computers work, you can get the solution. If you understand the divide and conquer approach, you can make a fast and efficient solution.

Why would it be a maintenance nightmare?! It is arithmetic with one input and one output! If an organization cannot validate that, they have no chance of making good software.
FYI: In Firefox 17 on Snow Leopard there's a "skip to navigation" link way to the right (like 10000px or so) that I can scroll sideways to on your homepage. I only noticed because I'm using a trackpad. :D
Very unlikely to have been bots from FB, they're not yet quite that desperate. They would be 90% sure of getting busted, and it would be a huge deal breaker for a lot of their clients. A suicide move.

The more plausible reality is that there are just a lot of bots crawling FB fan pages, poorly programmed bots that will just follow every single link they come across. That's very much in line with my personal experience of FB fan pages.

But FB is certainly to blame for not detecting these as bots, and putting ads on the pages they serve them. Hopefully they'll take care of this issue soon.
Kill One, terrorize a thousand - Sun Tzu.

Wistful meanderings in to pop-sociology aside, terrorism is a component of general guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare itself is a valid and often very successful strategy to winning a conflict where there are vast resource and power projection differences between combatants. Two episodes in US history are pretty accurate portrayals of this - the American Revolution and the Vietnam War.

Terrorism's number one use is still simply a tactic of a regional conflict where one side is employing guerrilla strategies, exactly inline with Sun Tzu's teachings.

The more modern "common" use of the word is simply an extension of the conflict to the global scale; Jihadists and others are involved in an epic guerrilla war against the entire planet - they are looking to remake the world in their vision. It's rather simple and straightforward to see where terrorism fits in this respect.

The article is academic to the point of meaninglessness.
"emacs users probably shouldn't bother applying" ...WTF?!
In other news German electricity is heavy taxed and Germans consume half the electricity than an American.
Facebook couldn't be that pathetic...
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"I don't understand how anyone on earth can like this because it doesn't work well for my personal use cases!!!"

Personally, I'm in line with the parent and find Chrome to be a pleasure to surf with. I've found the theverge.com to be a horrible mobile experience regardless of the browser.
Why do you only mention Communists? Why not also probe into the motivations of Mussolini, Hitler, Quisling, Pinochet, Franco? That is assuming that you haven't defined away the problem: the right-wing aren't terrorists, they're freedom fighters.
Reduced. In absolute terms you still lead. Negatively.
Been wanting to do something like this for quite a while now. Either some sort of startup idea think tank, or consulting firm, or something. Maybe one day I'll be able to make it a reality!
Would be nice to see some actual numbers. If "80% of clicks" is only eight clicks then the OP's post doesn't carry much weight.
I assumed this just meant they built something on top of access logs that told them what percentage of page loads also loaded JavaScript. I don't know about your webserver, but mine doesn't tell me this kind of thing out of the box.

Anyway, it's pretty irrelevant whether they added logging in their app (one line of code?) or enabled their webserver's built in logging.
The flag is fabric and was packed very tightly into a small container. The extender bar stretches it out, but does not eliminate the creases and wrinkles from being packed so tightly. On Earth, fabric tends to relax over time as it is pulled downward by gravity and absorbs water vapor from the air. Not much of either on the moon.
Not really. You aren't able to make a return (exit or dividend) on future profits from such a course when sold to others after development is complete.

sponsorship !== investing
I wasn't seeing craters but mounds which, of course, is improbable for lunar geology. (Strangely, even after this revelation, my mind still processes the lighting as falling on objects the rise above the surface...)
I totally forgot about groove salad. I'll check out di.fm .. for now I'm liking getworkdonemusic.com a lot.
Thanks!

Working for Microsoft doesn't change my opinion on reality, though. I try to stay outside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field.

That said, I'm consistently surprised/impressed that every blog post I write that gets on HN includes a notification that I'm a Microsoft employee.

We are not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as folks think we are.

Again, thanks.
http://pagekite.net/wiki/Floss/FreedomAndPrivacy/ is what motivates me - PageKite is an attempt to bootstrap a peer-to-peer web where IP addresses don't matter anymore and servers can run literally anywhere, so people can actually self-host content at home without learning all about IP addresses, routers, firewalls, DNS, SSL, ...

I don't know how much bigger that is than your vision, since I can only guess what your vision is. :-) I can guess based on your design, that until now you haven't cared much about people using localtunnel for anything except dev testing.
What are some example use cases? Judging from comments so far, several people need this and plan to use it but I'm having a difficult time thinking of use cases, other than puzzle games.
Alternative energy is not 25% of German production because it is competitive. They are forcing it through, in spite of the fact that it is not competitive.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312788
I didn't have "the Haskell Platform". So I got it from the same place I get all my other open source software, my distro. A quick "yum search cabal" told me where it was, I grabbed it.

And apparently it was "wrong". Becuase while it's "The Haskell Platform", it's not the correct Haskell Platform.

My point was much simpler than people here are trying to interpret: the Haskell world is a mess, and it's very complicated to get it running. So interesting tools like gitit (which I swear, I really wanted to try) don't get any attention. Expecting your audience to have the same bleeding edge copy of The Haskell Platform as you do is never going to work. Someone needs to actually do the work to package and distribute the software.

This is not true of Perl, or Python, or Ruby, or Node, all of which have recent packaged versions in the distro that run recent software.
Also please make it extremely secure and encrypted. Microsoft and Skype are doing the world a huge disservice right now by making Skype fully wiretappable by any and all law enforcement agencies and even the police in US. The world deserves better.
FB does not need do that shady stuff. Here some facts.

[1] Bot registration on FB is really easy. If you try register 100 fake users in direct way you need to deal with javascript and web forms with strange ids, cookies and so on in your script. But if you enter fb.com without enabled javascript, they ask you change browser or use mobile version, which is not require* js at all.

[2] You can register number of accounts from one ip without CAPTCHA

[3] Only one "difficulty" is to find batch of emails, it is not that big issue since we have services like mailinator.com.

So 15 -25 loc script on python do all your job. It is not required use any tools like selenium or special skills , only basic understanding how http get/post works.

Why fb doing all this super easy bot registration stuff? I think we all know why.

Edit: spelling. Sorry non native English speaker here
There are a whole heap of 'un-released' samsung prototypes as part of this legal case too (here just a few versions of one phone from 2006: http://www.groklaw.net/images/Samsung-1.jpg ) - many more variations of other phones where produced the in the same style.

Don't be tricked by the Apple produced image showing the phones that Samsung released before the iPhone - that is not all they (and many other manufacturers) were working on. Motorola A1000 (http://www.heise.de/altcms_bilder/62452/3_hires.jpg ) came out long before the iPhone - and followed many of the same conventions.
Germany is a net exporter. We exported 8 TWh in the first quarter of 2012, IIRC.
I read it as an "asked and answered" type comment.