skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To start with a quote:

> "Why are you guys so fork paranoid? Do you want everyone to vote for the same political party, too?" -- Theo de Raadt

A witty saying proves nothing, but it might be a good starting point for a discussion. To me, it isn't strange that an author wants to avoid dilution and confusion of their work, we all feel this way at one point or another when producing software.

But, when I pick a community and a language to express myself, I consider several potential future issues. Such as, will this language be around in five years? Will I be able to port it to a platform that few people find to be important/interesting enough? Will I be allowed to experiment with the fundamentals? Will I be allowed to disagree with the original author on how things are done? With a license like this, worries starts to pop up into my head. Since to me software isn't handed down from above, it is an ecosystem of which I am an active a part of.

If the authors don't trust someone else to do what they do better, or different for another purpose. Why should I trust them?
There is no multiple inheritance in ruby 2.0, there are mixins (like traits) tough, but they have being in ruby since I can remember.

Also, there won't be MVM (Sandboxed VMs) on this release.
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Ask HN: Average time per day you spend on HN(with schedule).
I got to know of HN about 6 months back and past that there's not a day that goes without opening HN several times. While it is helping me to remain upto date with current(geeky) afairs, it's also eating my productivity. I've it tagged everywhere IE, Firefox, phone browser. Would like to understand the schedule fellow HNers follow to effectively and efficiently consume the content here.
That's really odd, I am able to replicate the situation described above.
Here's one theory and analysis of what might have happened. Some people's emails got out into the public internet, and were indexed. Some of these emails were from Facebook, and included links to resources that require login. These links pre-populated the username field for convenience, or in some cases auto-login the user. Facebook's engineers probably did not anticipate email notifications to users being crawled by Google. Live and learn, eh?

But could Facebook have done something to prevent or minimize the damage caused by these leaked emails?

1. Lets start with the auto-login links, as those are the scariest. Do those links use one-time-use tokens, and do the tokens expire? If either or both of those steps was skipped it makes this leak much more serious, and speaks to negligence or disrespect for user security. If Facebook has both of those security measures in place, though, they did all they realistically could. If somebody lets their private email get indexed by Google (seriously, though, how does that even happen??), that's their own problem.

2. The other class of leaked urls link email addresses to Facebook profiles. This isn't as immediately scary, and for a lot of people it wouldn't even matter. But it is easy to imagine scenarios where this kind of privacy would be important to someone, and this kind of leak would be just as scary as someone being able to log in as them. Frankly, I never would have thought of securing this, and I doubt Facebook did anything to secure it. Going forward, though, it would probably be worth it for them to link auto-username-populating through one-time-use, expiring tokens as well.

So, it looks like Facebook probably got hit with a bizarre edge case privacy / security issue. There are likely things they could do to make their system more resistant to this kind of thing, but at the same time they probably didn't do as badly as this might make them look at first glance.

Again, this is speculation, any confirmation or disconfirmation would be great.
Okay, but ... did anyone ever say that it would save you money? I don't see that in the thread anywhere.

I certainly wouldn't make that argument for cars of today. But I see how rapidly the price is coming down, and I see what price targets Tesla is aiming for, and that is pretty interesting.

(And if you really want to compare price, it's probably a good idea to try to account for externalities. It's hard to estimate those for gas cars because so much is kept secret, but they are substantial.)
It's not an accident. You can even get fake urls indexed

http://www.seomofo.com/experiments/spam-search-results.html
to be fair,

cache invalidation is hard.
To train drivers to army bridge builders.
Detecting the eye's focus would be faster and more accurate.
The first they need to do is get rid of the 'cyber' prefix on everything. It doesn't add anything and it makes them look even more out of touch with the day-to-day realities of computer and network security than they already are.

The second thing they need to do is pay well. A solid programmer can get high five-figure or low six-figure salary at Google. This is for two reasons. First, the cost of living in the Bay Area is extraordinarily high. Second, and more importantly, solid programmers (not even rockstars, but solid, competent programmers) are valuable. Can the government make offers that are competitive with Google? After all, DC isn't a cheap place to live either.

Somehow, I don't think either of these things will happen, and this will be another bureaucratic turf war where millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent filling out forms and progress reports whilst nothing of substance will actually be achieved.
In whose opinion? It may shock you to learn that parents of children with down-syndrome frequently do not view it as the life-ruining event you make it out to be.
My personal favorite example:

http://sachachua.com/blog/

She wrote org-mode for Emacs. Now she is at IBM Research.
Nice! But what's up with all the typos?
Professionals are at work. Goofs are at "events".
You should read Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. He summarises Chomsky and the field's main insights into language brilliantly. One of the points is that while we see languages as extremely diverse, most of the differences are actually quite superficial and can be efficiently modelled by a small set of rules with a few key configurable settings, and that this basic structure for language is universal among all humans. We are just tuned to focus on the differences and not notice the overwhelming similarities. Great book anyway you cut it.
I spent a ton of time playing this game as a kid. I remember the game being flawless as far as gameplay, and those were good times.

Point: Maybe more mainstream games should be created by inexperienced teams to compete with the 6-month Call of Duty plot change cycle (i.e. same shit different day).
Not sure how much you can judge if a logo looks good or not in that picture. I think it only looks good because he placed it in front of huge orange block. Scale it down, remove the huge orange background and it will look very different. Logos are not independent items, they have to be seen in context to be judged.
I think you have this backwards. I can't be sued unless I implement the patented idea in hardware.

In that state of the world, if they patent the hardware solution, I don't care. I can still implement in software and I have a legal workaround to avoid infringing. I'm driving the truck through the hole.
Feels like it was translated from something..
This article calls Eric Schmidt the 'Chief Executive'

I thought he stepped down last year and Page took over that role?
Our bad. Being non-native speakers, guess the grammar is bad. Please excuse.
One of the links redirected me to:

https://www.facebook.com/autologin.php?bcode=csVZIlpL_1.1351...

Which just says "Please try again later." but is probably part of the auto login path you discovered.
Going through my own inbox for Facebook emails, it attaches my email address in the n_m parameter, the bcode parameter, and a mid parameter to all the links it gives me. This includes links to my friends' profiles, events, group posts, etc.

As far as an expiration on the auto-login, I rarely click on the links Facebook provides in my email. (I like to get the notification to remind me to go on Facebook later.) The last one I got was about 25 hours ago. I didn't use the link before and it did not log me in when I clicked it just now.
Half of these are not in ruby 2
You think this is bad. Try doing the following google search:

"password" filetype:csv
Will do! I love what you guys are trying to do. Thanks!!
I'm sympathetic to both Chomsky and Open Cog's aims.

I know Chomsky is a serious scientist with considerable accomplishment.

I have seen totally loony stuff in videos of AGI conferences (Tachyons and stuff). Open Cog may be better than that. But it hasn't proved that it is better than that.

The 1970-80's AI involved the Chomskyan paradigm of "draw up a naive design of the mind and/or brain and implement it". That failed so badly that you need a really good argument why you can do things differently - at least to move into mainstream science. That is, Ben Goertzel seems nice, smart and enthusiastic but I can't see him bringing anything new to the "table". Jeff Hawkins had interesting ideas with his temporal paradigm but it seemed like the model he chose to instantiate wasn't all that different from that used by the statistical-brute-force crowd. And Numenta has had really few announcements for a six year old enterprise.

And the companies paying for AI to be added to their systems. That happened from the start but it wasn't ever enough. What's different here from the stuff from twenty years ago?
>By restricting design you are stopping innovation... or where did I go wrong in reasoning this way?

No, your reasoning sounds good to me.
There are secret weapons other than Node.js or Go, which don't necessarily make you more productive like moving from Java to Ruby.
I'm not convinced that Chomsky is an 'anti-empiricist.' He's a theorist but his theories have been put to experiment, very successfully so I believe. Can you provide examples of Chomsky attacking the validity of experimental evidence?
Dear BusinessInsider, I'm tired of your whining.
IMHO RIM is really innovative company now.
"One Shot Kills" and "No Oddjob" were my house-rules.
I find it interesting (not in a snarky bad way mind you) that HN is the source of many great startups pushing the envelope with what can be done with websites and yet here we are on a site that uses tables for layout, perfectly functional and in use.
Amount of times I've gotten a robocall from a politician so far: 0

Amount of times I've gotten a robocall from Rachel at Cardholder Services -- approximately twice a week for the past four months.

Why would I be annoyed at politician robocalls I don't get?
That's a little unfair I feel (comparing the Tesla S to the original brick mobile phones). However the point remains though that we are seeing the future, and only the wealthy can afford it for now.
I think you mean talker. Walker would be things that actually did stuff - you know like search, translation, locomotion or prediction. That's a lot of words and a lot of books in a bunch of the soft sciences (linguistics and politics) which are highly susceptible to class A bullshit. All of that doesn't mean anything - no different from Richard Dawkins who irritates me in a similar fashion - I ask once again - where's the beef?

> Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek

I still don't see Chomsky robots walking around, Chomsky translation translating my text to French or Chomsky AI driving cars. Nope - all Google/IBM/Microsoft/DARPA/Boston Dynamics/etc. AKA Hard science-engineers utilising statistics, not soft science blowhards.

Only thing I see Chomsky doing is talk - a lot.
I really admire anyone who is willing to write up good documentation.

What is your native language?
Exactly, this is how I understood his proposal. Simple to understand exactly what is and isn't allowed.

Many people here seem to be focusing on how patent lawyers would find new ways to write software patents, or focusing on whether hardware would still be patentable. That misses the point.

If I can implement a patented idea in software on commodity hardware, I'm safe. Simple!
The clearest reason for this, AFAICT, is because she's speaking primarily to women and trying to convince them to come on board. It's not at all about sexism; it merely acknowledges it in passing and hurries on quickly because it's a touchy subject.
"Guys are fascinated and scared by girls who roll up their sleeves and take on a job that society labels as “men’s work”"

I always opined that, "women have a lot of emotional strength". You can just imagine how difficult it is to take care of, and raise a toddler. It is so hard. But, somehow women are naturally good at this, and I am just as fascinated by this fact.
It wasn't the lobby, but I sold a motorcycle for cash in a police station parking lot.
But it is not about facebook users.
Agree so hard.
Start a band(startup) in your garage(garage) with four of your talented musician(programmer) buddies, work long hard hours eating ramen for the love of rock music(hipster programming), get a facebook following(twitter/blog following), get an indie record deal(angel funding) then sign a major label deal (VC funding) and then have the record company(VC firm) dictate your musical direction(business decisions) and take most of your royalties(equity) away in exchange for risking the initial advance, which was only a leveraged loan against future earnings anyway.

The VC and record label model are similar too. Invest in 100 promising bands(startups) and hopefully 5 of them are successes and 2 hit it out of the park(IPO).
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Thanks. Do give the Codelearn Playground a spin. The tasks are not prominently visible & you would need to wade through the lessons to see them. Would appreciate some feedback here or you may drop them to us personally - founders@codelearn.org

Caution: Things should be reasonably stable but you may expect some beta hiccups. Some hiccups might also come due to high HN traffic. We have reasonably low traffic otherwise. The server is a small EC2 instance.
And naming things.
Ahh the government "cyber" job. This is a job where you see the problem, have the means and the desire to solve it, and are by no means permitted to actually do it.
Thanks for the great suggestion! :)
this is an entire category of attack, and it is really useful. there have been a number of worms that use google queries to find targets to propagate.

there are also a number of info query tools that do similar.

over 3000+ Google queries categorized in exploit-db:

http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
I suppose they made it work the same as email. Once you sent something you can't take it back, but you can delete your copy if you want.
The upside of having a good career is you can use the extra money to pay for therapy. I've done it off and on for the last 15 years and have really gotten a lot out of it.
It is funny that it is ok to exploit nerd stereotypes as demonstrated in the article (nobody cares about yet another nerd in a basement picture).

Do you think that the author of the article sees all programmers through the lenses of the stereotype?

The picture that you've linked is in bad taste but it won't change the popularity of the stereotype behind it in any way.

Do you think that the author of the presentation sees all models through the lenses of the stereotype?
Are you in a monkey trap?
Its Hindi (national language of India) for me & Kannada (a local language here in India) for my co-founder. We are reasonably good with spoken English but guess the written part is reasonably bad. We are on a lookout for a good tech guy who likes what we are doing, loves to write & can help us with the content creation & proof-reading.
I don't think you fairly represent Chomsky's theories about language, nor do I think you really understand them. There's no magic, and there's nothing even remotely ridiculous about language between a genetically-encoded instinct. Human beings have evolved complex brain modules which allow us to rapidly acquire complex combinatorial language systems. Language is to humans as hunting is to lions: a highly-evolved, highly-adaptive instinct.
The way I understand his idea is that a phone is a general purpose computer. If Apple wants to patent slide-to-unlock, they can only patent a hardware implementation (i.e. a chip that only does slide-to-unlock, which is clearly a ridiculous idea).

Then I can come along and write software for Android that implements slide-to-unlock, and I am not infringing because my implementation is software only.

The end result of this means that Apple's slide-to-unlock patent would become worthless.
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What do you mean by as important as patent trolls?
Amazon patented this process and is using it for the benefit of their customers, what's wrong with that? Another company could offer 1-click checkout if they

- pay royalties.
- or own another patent amazon is infringing as a mean to disuade amazon from suing.

Maybe the problem here is that these patents you are referring to seem overly simple and shouldn't be somebody's IP but what seems trivial and intuitive today could have been very innovative at the time they were patented.
What exactly was exposed here. It looks like it's been blocked now...

Just stealing from other bit in this thread: somehow these urls got on the Internet even though they shouldn't have. They are pre-authed urls that auto-login and then expire.
Its strange that people keep complaining about how things where better in the past than they are now. But the reality seems to be different(Which is that things always seem to be getting better)
Large number of login emails seem to be from asdasd.ru domain. Googling one of these emails I find a site that resembles a public inbox with emails from Facebook in it, like this one - http://asdasd.ru/read/414831.
Nice looking problem. Castle rock is one of my favorite spots in the states. Small, but by Fontainebleau-esque in style.

And hey, if you do ever make it out to Font itself, look me up. It's paradise for the 7a (V6) boulderer, and we've got a house here. It'd be cool to meet a fellow HN'r on the rocks.
I agree with this, mainly on a simple premise:

If you start an arguement at two extremes, and give ground where your opponents do not, you weaken your position and put the compromise between them more in their favor. And when you keep giving ground, you keep showing a willingness to concede defeat, and your opponents will just ignore you. If you stand your ground, you are a stalwart wall of opposition that needs to be confronted, rather than ignored, eventually.

In many cases (gay rights, civil liberties, patent law, equality / freedom) that stalwart position may require multiple generations. You don't get instant results when dealing with the entrenched status quo that is horribly wrong. But when you give ground you render your entire argument and stance illegitimate because your opponents can dismiss you as you keep conceding ground and giving up on your positions.

Patents, as a whole, are archaic and bad. The turnaround time for any new discovery is now a matter of days, or months, rather than the years it would take in centuries past to distribute and market goods and services. In the digital world, everything is already information, it is all number patterns in electrical terms, and we had a track record of not letting people monopolize knowledge and information in the realm of mathematics before, and the digital era should never have been any different in my opinion. Of course, it is my opinion and all. But I remain dilligent in my stance for it.

I have lost a lot of respect for Stallman because it seems in recent years his dialogue has propagated a lot of "buts" in his arguments. He concedes ground on what he believes in and that illegitimizes him more than anyone calling him cookey would in my book.
It's been years people say that mice are going to disappear. Nothing recent really, even through the 80s a number of innovative solutions were designed and everytime someone was claiming it was the "future" of the interface.

Well, now we have computers which can be controlled reliably with fingers: tablets and phones. But don't expect to do text selection in a proper way with fingers. Of course, solutions exist in software but there are all inferior to using a good old mouse with 2 buttons.

And even if "touch" was as good as a mouse, it's just not physically speaking very effective. There's a lot of energy wasted to move your whole arm in several directions while a mouse only keep your wrist in movement. It is way more relaxing to use a mouse for long operations than touching your screen even if it seems more intuitive.

Tablets, phones, they work well because we use them casually, for short intervals. If you were to use them for a whole day to do work on them, you would switch back to a laptop/desktop with a mouse in no time.

There's no replacement coming for the mouse for those who work long hours with their computers, despite what the hipsters say.
Together with off by one errors, they're the two hardest things in computer science...
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Thanks for the suggestion, and I'll checkout your theme!
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not fixed here, i can access (private?) infos from people i dont even know, scary.
Yep. Sharing a name with one of the most played characters in the most popular multiplayer game in the world might not be very good for SEO, I assume.

A quick google for 'Shen' proves as much.
I find most software involves highlighting text. I use the ability to click the space between individual characters quite often. Finger touch plus adjustments with arrow keys gets the job done, but nothing beats the mouse at this for me.

When Windows 95 came out we all had fun trying all the crazy pointer themes it supported (hands, etc.), but I suspect we've all now settled on the fine-tip pointer arrow and I-beam.
Congrats :)! Now that you mention it, I believe I recalled incorrectly. I think PG mentioned that you guys used the proceeds to bootstrap your next business, Justin.tv, not that you guys didn't make anything out of the eBay auction (strictly speaking).
saw couple of email accounts, though clicking on the links logged me out

it seems more of what google crawled and stored, another possibility could be illegally via cookies for ads or analytics
I clicked on some profiles, and I noticed that many of the e-mail addresses populated were @asdasd.ru — the domain of a Russian mailinator-type service. Something like that might be indexed.
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