skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's more to it than what the other two comments described. No doubt there is human moderation on HN (beyond users flagging submissions I mean), and maybe a list of domains and keywords to keep some stories from ever hitting front page, even when the submission gets a lot of votes in a short amount of time.

Who knows what the reasons why they'd keep a story off the front page. The moderation is emo at times, even resorting to hellbanning, slowbanning etc.

Slashdot moderation is way better. It's a better overall system over there.
> Facebook, in addition to knowing what you do, what you've liked and who you're connected to on Facebook, also has a history of pretty much every Website you've visited since they introduced the "Like" button.

And unfortunately they refuse to produce this history when asked (as is required by EU privacy law).

In any case it should be interesting to see how they will implement this: Their tracking like button seems to have survived largely based on the fact that people don't know about the tracking. When it comes under scrunity from privacy commissioners (for example in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany), it unsurprisingly seems to be considered to violate privacy laws. Without a similar mechanism it will be hard to serve personalized ads, but general awareness of Facebook's (and other's) privacy practices seems to be growing...
They already do it, but it's the extend of it the worrying thing. There's plenty of known "Narc owned" businesses in mexico. I'm from there and it's quiet a thing to see strange things like 3 car washes in the same block, with no clients, open 24/7 and some escalades parked. Now imagine if they had a steady flow of clean fully open income to invest and the doors open to become public persons.
This might be a stupid thing to ask but: if the sole purpose of RetroShare is p2p file sharing, why even have "exit nodes" at all? It's not like Tor when in the end you need an "exit" to the server you're trying to reach.
how long do you have? :)

So, them being 'black' isn't really the point. The point is the potential to get steam from water at lower temperatures, in less time.

If you are dealing with A LOT of water (if you were to scale this to power-plant scale), you are dealing with large 'thermal mass'. This means you need a lot of heat over time to raise all the water to a high enough temperature to create electricity.

If you run a power plant, you want flexibility. You want to switch on your power plant fast, and then shut it down when you want, without cost. This lets you speculate on the electricity market, and be more available if there is a sudden spike in electricity demand. If you're dealing with large thermal mass, you don't have this flexibility.

Also lots of advantages of lower cost - not needing heat exchangers etc but I'll leave it there.
Hello van wilder, agree with you that failure sucks. just dropped out of college for the 3rd time. Now I'm 27 and feel like I'm staring at a bleak future while other younger people make their mark on the world. Feel useless, impotent.
Excellent post except perhaps for the last phrase. Canonical is a for profit company, it has around 600 employees, and Unity is developed and tested by these employees. At this scale you ought to be able to do proper design, proper testing, and proper refinements.
I understood this as improving the efficiency of creating steam, though unfortunately they didn't say how much more efficient it is.
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This. The root of all the cartel's power is the army of kids who would rather trade their lives for a couple years of fast money. Lack of education,poverty, and all the other unresolved problems are biting back hard. Let's hope there's a realization that things need to change from the root, with no people willing to hold a gun there's no war. Giving chance to people to have good education, good lives, make it not worthy for them to trade their life for a couple of years of fast riches.
What gamers have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
Try RequestPolicy:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...

Of course Ghostery and NoScript are also quite useful.
Where is this clean open income coming from?
That's actually what I'm working on (phone gap app) and why I plan on using this.
"--- Facebook - the bad --- Not everyone is meant to be put outside their comfort zone. It is a scary place at times and I've seen some good people just not hack it and leave. This is an incredible place to build amazing stuff but it is also a demanding one. We don't measure by effort, it's about what you can get done and the impact you can have."

This is like an interview candidate answering "What is your weakness?" with " I work so hard for my employer that I often forget to go home" ;)
What does war sound like now?
Parents
Is it a good idea to consider separating from one's parents if there is no more love in the relationship ?
OK, check back in 50 years.
Yep, South is pretty much mandatory nowadays. I also use django-mediagenerator. Does anyone have a better library for media management to recommend?
Please do promote this, dudes! The more local governments will use Linux, the better users you shall have for your software or services!
The most important resource is the one that we spend the most time managing and that is clearly memory.
Ask HN: Which health plan should I sign my start-up with?
We recently got some funding, enough that I want to start paying salaries and benefits (for all 3 of us). What health care and benefits companies do people like? (We're all in California.)
I called Trinet, they are advertising all over the Bay Area, but they basically told me to call back when I had 20 employees. That point is far enough away that I would like something else now.
Any suggestions?
Keep in mind that LG probably prefers to make their more profitable Optimus G, and that there has been a number of problems in the supply chain effecting the entire market place. Then consider that nobody expected a Google phone that wasn't backed by a carrier to sell that well, and that with the release of iPhone 5, a LOT of capacity in the system was locked up in guarantees (other phone makers had to lock up guarantees because Apple was locking up so much capacity). It wouldn't be hard for Nexus 4 to be in short supply.
No. People change. Find some way to give yourself some distance. But don't do anything that would lead to a permanent, unrepairable break.
No promises that things will get better, but at least leave yourself some options over the very long-term.
I don't know your particulars, and it sounds like things are bad, but people change. In particular, I found my relationship with my father changed dramatically when I had kids of my own.
I'm sure your situation is very different, but you never know how things will play out ten or twenty years from now.
> In this case, the defendant added the anti-piracy monitoring company as a friend, which allowed him to be “caught.”
Agreed. The real trick is to not keep the charge up at full.
DuckDuckGo Vs. Google – The War Gets Dirty
I've seen many people bring up the fact that MegaUpload had the same file for multiple links and that they only took down links reported as infringing. Many people seem to come to the conclusion that this is automatically somehow representative of bad behavior, but I strongly disagree. Just because something is covered by copyright and is on MegaUpload, does not automatically make it infringing, even if some of the links to it might be.

Consider that someone legally backs up his own files to MU and never shares links to them with anyone. Then someone else uploads the same content in an infringing manner. Should the first guy with his completely legal backups have his stuff deleted just because someone else did something infringing with the same files? He most certainly should not. Assuming that all links of the same file that was uploaded are automatically infringing is basically "guilty until proven innocent", and is very much not the way they should be treated. Hell, I have music and other copyrighted content perfectly legally backed up in the cloud myself, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to see it deleted just because someone else might have used the same service for infringing sharing of the same files. (and what cloud provider wouldn't want to optimize their service to only have one copy of each file in their back-end instead of wasting space with duplicates?)

And, of course, this is very different to something like child porn, which is always illegal under US laws (where the stuff was hosted in case of MU). There can be no "non-infringing" use there, so it makes sense to delete all and every link to it. Not so much with just copyrighted content. And as we also know, deducing whether something is infringing or not isn't very clear cut either, like with Viacom issuing takedowns for Youtube videos its own employees had legitimately uploaded for marketing purposes.[1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/18/youtube-viacom-secretly-upl...

Viacom’s efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
I don't work at either, but know a lot of people at both.
Anecdotally, both sets of people really like their jobs a lot.
I think the people at Facebook feel they have more structure. This is desireable for some people, less so for others. But we're not talking about too much structure, just a sense that things are a bit better organized at Facebook.
That being said, everyone I know at Google seems much happier. The company seems to place a high priority on building the self-esteem of its employees, and reducing the many minor humiliations that are part of working for anyone especially a big company.
The people at Facebook are treated well too, but they all seem much more stressed out.
someone actually said it back in 2010

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
"Google is really an ad company..."

I hear this a lot. It's meant as a put down.

Doesn't Facebook make most of it's money from ads? Why don't you consider Facebook "really an ad company"?
Isn't the usual solution to institute a one-sentence-per-line policy? The big win is, indeed, that this allows easy patching/merging/...
>That's an extremely narrow (and imo incorrect) definition of "innovation". Ignoring things (for the purposes of measuring innovation) from the last 5 years like Google Chrome, self-driving cars, street view, knowledge graph, instant search, public transit directions (for which a whole standard for encoding transit directions was created and implemented) etc, simply because they're not new product categories (with the exception of the cars) just seems silly

Well, true I have to count Maps (Earth/Street View) to Google's innovations. It's an important thing that millions use everyday, and that rules it's field.

Chrome, OTOH, is just Apple's webkit work with a sandbox. Not substantially better than either Firefox or Safari. If we count that as innovation, then sure, Apple put out 2 versions of it's OS and several iOS versions with hundreds of new features, the new iMac, etc etc.

As for the glasses and the self-driving cars, when we actually see them in the market I'll count them as innovations. Heck, I'll count them as innovations for Google even if someone else brings them to the market. As it is, they don't amount to much better than vapor(hard)ware. Plus, we know that behind the secrecy veil Apple also has dozens of prototypes and testing products most of which will never see the light of day. If they did a Google or Microsoft, they would have saturated the media with vaporware too.
I'm a Facebook engineer and I definitely feel that Facebook is willing to take those 5% chances. Heck, one of Facebook's mottos is "Be Bold".

As an intern, I started a project on my second day at a Hackathon that had absolutely nothing to do with my assigned team. I ended up devoting the second half of my internship to that project and by the end of the year I took an offer as a full-time engineer at Facebook, still working on that same project that I had kicked off on my second day.

I'm not here to say Facebook is way better than Google; I think they're both amazing companies. But the idea that Facebook isn't willing to take crazy chances definitely contradicts my experience at the company.
But this would require git, right? i use mercurial and don't have git installed.
And once again religion runs what science has built, and what people rely on.

Maybe instead of hurting those who are not violent, Pakistan should do something about the extremists?
But using Linux was not a decision of the IT department - it was a political decision by the city council and the mayor. If they decide to give a subsidy to Linux to promote local software development, that is perfectly within their mandate.

By the way, you need to realize that Munich's finances are very sound. In 2012 the city had a budget surplus of around 700 million € - so spending 20-30 million € on a 10 year IT project is not something that hurts them very much...
Reminder: To be like Steve Jobs, you need to actually be the boss
Mozilla Tempts Mobile Developers With Firefox OS Simulator
Microsoft gives away Windows 8 Pro to pirates by accident
Have you asked them why?
Maybe you're giving them too much choice.
The Need For Mobile Money Spawns A Startup Ecosystem Across Africa
I have a feeling you mean drug lords or cartel or drug dealers when you say narc. However, narc is actually a good guy, ie a cop or federal agent enforcing the drug laws.
But let's cut to the chase, this is not about drugs and health issues. This is about money and jobs for DEA. Essentially, we're pissing away our tax money to pay for DEA agents and their expensive toys, who, in turn, don't provide any real service.

This drug war is expensive, it costs dollars and lives. It's trivial to end it, but it's not happening. Too many dollars at stake.

I was with you until this, not because I disagree but because I think it's an irrelevant issue. There are many examples of enforcement/regulation wings of the government being rolled back when the political tide turned against them. The issue is that law enforcement expenditures, like military expenditures, are pitched as a response to public fears.

If you talk to older generation, suburban family folks who support criminalization instinctively, their number one stated concern is, in my experience, that they are afraid of drug-related crimes -- robbery, burglary, theft i.e., crimes being committed to support a habit (so the hypothesis goes). Now the obvious response to that is to point out that those things happen now, but then you are engaging an issue of the heart by attacking a point made in their head. This will probably segue into an argument about stiffer criminal penalties -- the exact opposite of what we want -- because the person is still afraid.

DEA toys don't figure into this argument, even if that is the end result, so if you want this to happen before that generation is old and gone you have to have an argument that addresses the core concerns people actually have. If you have to talk about the DEA, even if you are technically correct, I doubt anybody can be swayed by such an argument -- it's all cerebral and doesn't address the central issue, which is fear.

That's MHO anyway.
What I was saying is that, given how much money comes in from drugs, they are already able to own plenty. Even when drug money can't be spent freely or things done openly. If drugs are legal then 100% of the money is available freely to a handful of people from cartels, who may even own a significant % of Mexico's Gdp. I'm imagining a situation similar to Italy, there are articles on the Naples trash monopoly owned by the mafia for example. With so much money, cartels can easily own larger industries in Mexico and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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You're right, My bad. I was thinking of narc as "Narco", the drug lords.
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Indian rationalist faces jail for exposing 'miracles'
Any suggestions as to what companies to try?

I did talk to some companies who could use it to speed up SEC/EDGAR submissions, but they were trying to get it almost for nothing and still wanted customizations.
I think Facebook ads on external sites have potential to be the most well targeted ads on the internet.

Currently, Google ads know about current intent (your search or the topic of the site you're browsing) but not much about you. Facebook knows a lot about you, but nothing about intent except that you're currently wasting some time on Facebook.

Soon Facebook will have both signals.
Google.com.pk hacked
Google Pakistan website hacked
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Can you expand more on this ?
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I take it you've heard the Einstein quote on the definition of insanity?
Google Pakistan's home page: http://www.google.com.pk/
Seven fresh reasons to try Linux Mint 14 'Nadia'
describing one's work place as stressful and demanding is a softball? Ok.
You would probably feel uncomfortable just about anywhere with that attitude.
As secure as the current system, which involves someone reading the number out loud over the phone. As each code is only valid for a one minute window, and our profile is not that high, I'd say sms will do.
Steam puts GameMaker: Studio HTML5 on sale
Ad blocking is an arms race. The more ad revenue that's lost to ad blockers, the harder the ad networks will work to make their ads unblockable. (Startup idea: a combination ad network / cdn, so that ad blockers can't block the ads from your site without also blocking your graphics/css/js.) Eventually ad blocking becomes AI-complete.
Updating Flash Player on Android now requires a hack
Doesn't that review affirm the core of danudey's statement?

> "As always we test across multiple air interfaces (3G, 4G LTE, WiFi), but due to the increased network load we actually find that on a given process technology we see an increase in battery life on faster network connections. The why is quite simple to understand: the faster a page is able to fully render, the quicker all components can drive down to their idle power states."

AnandTech's 3G benchmark scores for the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 are 4.55 and 4.15, respectively. It's only when the iPhone 5 runs on 4G LTE that it scores 8.19.

And while I appreciate AnandTech's quantitative reports, I'm not sure you can call this "typical usage", unless you typically spend all day refreshing web pages.
Progress on OMTC, unprefixed Visibility API and CSS improvements – Firefox ..
I understand why some might be motivated to solve it as a problem, but it doesn't seem a particular impressive technical achievement to me. It's just like how everyone and his dog was writing soduku solvers a few years back.

Except in this case it's basically contributing to ruining a game, or at least the 'play with strangers' component. I would have thought a blog post outlining the approach taken to solve the problem would have sufficed.
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Looking-Glass Wars: Ubuntu in the bathroom
Which parties win more in the war on drugs even if most battles are lost? Hmm... let's see...

Firstly, government agencies that are in the frontline they get as they get hefty budgets to spend on whatever they find necessary to carry out their mission. Since they fight a war that means weapons, vehicles, communications and surveillance tech, etc. here profits go to industries that provide the goods, lobbyists, and corrupt government agents.

Secondly, by having no illegal cheap alternatives, people who like to get stoned will have to resort to legal drugs. Alcohol, and nicotine come to mind as being equally cheap, but not as effective. Also, prescription drugs, harder to get and a little more expensive, tough widely accept by society. No need to layout the parties who profit the most here.

In the end everyone else in society has something to loose by dealing with the aftermath of yet another hopeless war. Something much worse then educatating peers about the drug use and spending tax money in improving society as a whole.

We have to end this nonsense. But, here's the the trillion dollar question. How can we do it when so many people profit on this?
It also conflicts with tap/click markers, when initiating animations on click event.
Proprietary Software for Ubuntu--What Will It Mean?
Google complains Apple is withholding iOS 6 source code
Good call, I'll send it your way when I do!
Magid: Microsoft's future looks grim
Facebook places much more value on its social graph than it really has. What your friends like and what you liked a year ago are mostly irrelevant at the moment you are browsing.

After all, it's been found that, as a generic ad platform, facebook ads are not nearly as effective as google's ad platforms. I bet that, over time, FB will have to make changes to their ad product to be more like AdSense. Or even worse, it could be like the facebook credits farce.
Google Shopping Becomes More Amazon-Like
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I work at Facebook and I did internship at google this year. Thing which make Facebook far better for me is the fact that you choose team for yourself after seeing the codebase and finding how your job is going to look like - bootcamp. This year I went to google internship and after arriving I found out that I am in department, which doesn't get respect around google, no one cares about it and where fun parts of this job mentioned during interview are maybe 5% of what I am going to do and the rest is something I wanted to avoid doing. I asked hr to move, but it was already too late, since I was already there.
I am sure there are some good places there, but you risk that hr will choose you something you don't want to do and it will be hard to change for at least a few months. Maybe as soon as you're in it's easier to move, but it will be never as easy as it is in Facebook, where there is no hr buerocracy around changing teams and you can just change your desk any day you want.
I don't think you understand what's being discussed when people talk about legalization in the US. If the US legalizes, the cartels are not going to be the ones supplying drugs to anyone in the US. Legalization in the US will not legitimize the cartel's business, it will destroy it.

Usage rates of marijuana in Mexico are one tenth the US, and Mexico has one third the population. Without the US black market, the cartels' revenue will be reduced to just a couple percent of their current intake.

I've read quite a bit about the situation in Italy as well. It's not easy to compare what happened to Italy with what's going on in Mexico now. The Cosa Nostra were never dependent on drug or smuggling revenue in the same way as the Mexican cartels are currently. The US military directly supported them as part of the invasion of Italy in WW2. After the war during reconstruction, Cosa Nostra was able to monopolize nearly all construction revenue in southern Italy and integrate itself into every corner of Italian government and public life. The Mexican cartels are terrifyingly powerful, but they are nowhere near close to that yet.
I have several low-traffic sites already on a cheap FreeBSD VPS with 128Mb RAM and looked for alternatives that are more mainstream.

Paying for Windows-like licenses puts EC2 out of the question, though.