skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, sorry about that. Do you happen to remember the title of the image you saw?

I've been playing wack-a-mole with the NSFW GIFs and I appreciate people reporting images that I've missed. (https://github.com/jpf/wikigifs/commits/master/animated-gifs)
The problem is not that the Wikipedia community was curating their content, but that that batch of content was not being actively curated by someone. This is how history works. Someone has to determine something notable and worth preserving. If no one stands up for a piece of content, then it eventually dissipates into the ether.

If that's the case, I don't see why anyone should value a resource where the content is decided by whoever wastes the most time judging which content is "worthwhile". It seems like it's a lot easier for a small group of people to go around flagging articles for deletion than it is for people to go around finding articles to defend against deletion.

So if group A decides they are just going to start deleting all articles older than X years old, whose job is it to stand up to them and why would that situation be a good thing?

Edit: And how is this similar to how other records of history are kept? Do you expect authors to have to physically defend a library from roving bands of book burners? "If they really thought the content was important, why would have stopped people from burning the books."
Here's what I learned from this article. In order to outperform the US in education, be a city-state with a higher per capita GDP than the US and only a few million citizens.

Or be Finland.
Yes, I would agree with that statement as well. There is certainly nothing stopping us (nothing proprietary, etc.) other than a lot of work. But, to your point, it should be less the 2nd time around!
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As someone who recently imported Wikipedia information for a project, it's trivially easy to determine notability, either by monthly pageviews (publicly available), or by incoming links within Wikipedia.

As long as articles always take popularity into account when ranking (in searches, etc.) there isn't any problem.
Interesting as well, because most people I know assume users won't read copy if their life depended on it
Hacktivism is more like hacking for a cause. This is social hacking, where the hack is perpetrated entirely in the social space - adding a PI as a friend on Facebook, having a rival company able to see your LinkedIn profile page or hanging around in your company Skype channels - that sort of thing.
My country sometimes embarrasses me.

Brazil is having the biggest trials against corrupt politicians in our history lasting almost 6 months now with several big figures being arrested and condemnt, and this is not even in the TOP 10, and the nº1 is Facebook followed by BBB12.
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No,but if I was handed a take-home-exam, I would be first to protest,because I would know that even if I am 100% honest and don't look on the internet there is no guarantee that everyone else does the same.
You should build this if you want to build it. It's something you can point to and say "Look, I built something awesome!".

But, chances are this will not be able to make money as it (1) requires user setup (2) will be fairly difficult to build - api integration is not that easy (3) most users simply don't care about what happens to their data until it is gone.

(3, my experience) goes directly against your Thesis #2. (1) goes against your Thesis #3 - users generally are not forward thinking enough to do something now that will only benefit them later. I'd say start on actually trying to test your Thesis #1-#3 before assuming them correct.
I am quite fond of Heroku. It solves a lot of things for you and makes it more obvious that you should decouple things and use other services from the get go.

The time you spend doing sysadmin things could be spent writing code or otherwise growing the business.

Also, as you grow you aren't going to need to hire a bunch of sysadmins just to build, manage, and deploy more infrastructure. Saving even one $60,000 a year employee buys you what, $5,000 a month in infrastructure? That's quite a bit on Heroku + various addons.
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I would use it and I know a ton of other people who would too. Is it the next industry dominating creation? No, but I believe any service built on the backs of other services hardly ever are. The product path isn't unique enough and in the end you always rely on another business for yours to do well. Blah... It would be a ton of fun to build though and you’d make a lot of people very happy to have it, which is really why we all do what we do. Official label suggestion from me: Hobby Side Project. Build the cortex and open it up to the community for tweaks.
I had never seen the video of the soldier and his son. After a quick search I found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPlBy2-abA

The whole Google video is great. But this clip / video really got to me. Very touching.
I bet there are companies willing to pay you to work on an interpreter or compiler (though not necessarily any of the new-fangled ones that you consider awesome, I guess).
Sweet use of Git!
$31 in expenses is a lot for a book that I am selling for $29. I'm not into losing money on every sale. Even if I bumped up the price to $50 for the printed book that is still a crummy margin when you factor in carrying inventory, shipping, and everything else.
I can't understand how did someone capable of understanding and doing a git pull request can produce this kind of "code".

Or how did he think that he can pull this thing off? is there a "10 ways to hack a website" where a git pull is one of them?

The fact that there is a code snipped a tutorial on "How to Create a Website With Notepad" and the whole thing seems like it came out from an old WYSIWYG editor, the thing obviously was made by a script kiddie.
script kiddies uses git now? wow
If anyone from Twitter thinks this is a good idea, it's not. Unless you're very, very clear about how the filtering is getting done, and provide people ways out of it, you're going to upset a lot of people who actually like the data stream firehose.

It being a binary I want/I don't want is a good thing, it forces you to consider whether you do genuinely want something, or whether you think you want it.
Is it wrong to love a company?

I think Google is a good group of people. I'm glad that the world brought them together. I think there are a lot of companies out there like them, and I want to be a part of that. It gives me hope.
Yeah, very odd. It seems like the characters in the search index are offset from the real characters. d=a, e=b, etc. At least in Chrome's PDF viewer.
I'd be very interested to hear how you feel after you get out of implementation. Maybe we can share war stories (see my email in my profile if you're interested in catching up).
I don't think that's taking into account the harmonic frequencies. The 50Hz buzz is not a sine wave.
Make.Progress.Every.Day.

I've found that the first 80% I can generally get done pretty quickly; most of the design and architecture is in my head and always running as a background task. I use Evernote to organize TODO's (always at the top of the list), and have little discussions with myself about stuff like features, UI's etc.

Life.Gets.In.The.Way.Restart.
Arrrrgh. Inevitably. Back to Evernote and pick up where I left off. It gets much harder during that last 20% (which usually takes me more than that first 80%), because the jump from Proof of Concept to Product is brutal.

Do.The.Worst.First.
A friend of mine, Sid the Sailor, used to talk about "painting the windowsills when the whole house needed cleaning"... especially combined with that last 20%, I have a tendency to go down rabbitholes (hey maybe I'll use RabbitMQ for this)... so, back to Evernote, and add the TODAY list - what's most important to get done. Then, suck it up, and do it. These often require very long late night sessions since it can often take hours for me to get started and get the momentum up to deal with the pile of poo. (Cause if it was fun it woulda been done).

Invite.Others.to.the.Party
During the process, unless it's Top Secret(tm), invite others to take a look at what you're doing. Early on it's nice to get some approval, later on, it's nice to get some feedback about usability. Be careful to avoid party poopers since you don't need to be discouraged - this shit is hard enough already.

Launch.the.fucker.
I have trouble with this one, because it's scary. It also generally means I'm going to end up with a pile of feedback (or bug reports) from a bunch of pissed off strangers. I really don't like it because it means work, and lots of it. It's the chasm between a brain fart and reality. And I get faced with the ultimate reality of "Hey maybe this sucks and I've just wasted a huge amount of time".

Now, in "practice what I preach mode", you might want to check out xlogs - http://xlo.gs - it provides logfiles for Amazon AWS and more. and i'm just launching it now :)
Misleading title, from the article NIF is a weapons research project.
Watching that, I couldn't stop thinking.. "Google is ruling the world..Google is ruling the world.."
Just a minor thing, but you should use smaller mockup images, because the automatic down-scaling is incredibly poor and results in a really jaggy image.

`width: x%` is always going to lead to poor image-scaling, but it can be mitigated somewhat.
Context: CoderDojo is a kid's club for learning to code. Hence the quality.
I'm not sure why the page states Apple was notified 12/11/12 but this attack has been known (by me and sec folks) a little while now, and I found out about it from an Apple engineer that works in this area. So they've been aware of it a while. It also affects iOS.

Maybe Sam Bowne (the author) didn't formally notify Apple until he had more solid details, but he certainly made the issue publicly-known before this. It wasn't a surprise attack on anyone.
the javsacript version thing really cracks me up.. hhaha
This looks like exactly what I want, thank you!
The message that you should carefully read all pull requests?
You're right, my apologies. (For others, iPad Mini: 308 or 312 grams; Nexus 7: 340 or 347 grams.)

Thanks for the correction.
It's probably true of most African countries, with the possible exception of Kenya and the surrounding countries.
I think if there is value here, it is not so much in the backups and crossposting, both of which are available already. It would be in helping people manage their various personas or public image. And that would take something more than just tech tools.
As I stated in an earlier comment, I would likely have a different experience with Django now. Django was the first framework I attempted to learn, so I'll wholeheartedly admit that some of that was inexperience with web applications (started programming with non-web VB and Java).

I could write much of the same post and have it apply to Django as well. Django is designed to abstract away work, which means that it's difficult to really see what your application should be doing if you don't already know. If you've learned how to manage user authentication manually, you can appreciate and tweak what Django/Rails are doing. If your first experience with a web framework is having Django manage all of that for you, then you have no idea how to tweak it or debug it.

Ultimately, this is not a Django versus Rails debate - I just used my current Rails experience and prior Django experience as anecdote. I can't claim enough knowledge of Django or Rails to even advise someone on which to learn; all I can do is talk about my own experience and raise questions.
"the teaching industry's business model needs to change. Grading students on homework that can easily be googled is no longer an acceptable means of assessing work and aptitude"

Do you think assignments are designed this way because of an "industry business model"?

This would barely even make sense if you were discussing private/charter schools.
You're portraying an alternate reality in which Android tablets were a smashing success, and everyone is using a stylus. This is clearly not the case, and the iPad mini is going to be a huge seller.

You have a comment history of being a so-called "Android apologist". Please don't be a platform warrior. It's an insular way of viewing the world.
I saw this programming language some years ago and always wondered if anyone ever used it for more than just fun. Of course programming should be fun, but has anyone used it for a project they intended for actual use?

Would love to hear from anyone that has just for the anecdotal story.
I was buying tickets on StubHub the other day and was pleasantly surprised that they have an option to "split the cost" with someone. Awesome because buying tickets always ends up being such a risky business -- if your friend doesn't show up or cancels last minute

What's awesome about this is that one day hopefully it wont just be crowdtilt but everything. Airlines, tickets, hotels.
I'm all for fusion research. Love the idea of clean, inexhaustible power. However, the NIF has consistently over promised and under delivered, and they have no idea _what_ their problems are [1]. They could use a little restraint when making schedule predictions.

[1] http://fire.pppl.gov/NIF_NIC_report_rev5_koonin_2012.pdf
I'm actually very surprised Homeland made it to that list. I thought it was critically acclaimed but not that popular.
Any idea or theory why that is? E.g., after reading sites like http://www.useit.com/ you'd think the only thing that people do is scan (not read).
HAVING clause is being ignored. i.e. try adding

HAVING SUM(abc) > 1

to the example.
Any company that is competing in the marketplace.
Here's the paper the graph refers to. The original graph is on page 12:

http://fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_1976.pdf
there actually was a write up yesterday. http://www.targetedvictory.com/2012/12/success-of-the-romney...

funny thing is they were using optimizely as well.

disclaimer: I work at optimizely
For me, that intuitively fits with other stats I have seen. IIRC, the U.S. was being reported as number six in the world for average income. But when broken down by ethnicity, white Americans placed number one. African Americans placed something like 49th. Hispanic Americans were a few notches lower than African Americans.

(I hesitate to post this out of concern it sounds "racist". I am sure the reasons for this pattern are complex.)
Thanks @gry, and here is the direct link to the PDF: http://rickosborne.org/download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf
* Tipping baseline is very high. Although I'm a capitalist, I consider this practice to have nothing to do with capitalism.*

Tipping IS about capitalism. It provides the incentive for the server to do their job well, providing the best service possible to the customer. Especially in situations where the server can materially affect the quality: you might get a beer glass full of foam, or a mixed drink very thin on the alcohol, or a cabbie who takes the wrong route and gets lost, or a bellhop who drops your bag. Tipping provides direct connection between these and the compensation earned by the server, incenting the servers to deliver well.

There are flaws with the above argument. If there's sufficient supervision by the employer as to quality of service (think flight attendants, or fast food where the manager is always nearby), tipping isn't necessary. And the system doesn't work if people tip anyway on bad service, out of habit or perceived social compulsion. But by and large the tipping culture induces good quality of service.
Well deserving of so many downloads. My feedback is that it sometimes takes two moves to get a piece far enough away from the others to disappear. It causes me to rewind one step which can get irritating because it happens fairly often.

I spent the last 20 minutes playing and thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for sharing.
The CIA's top tech challenge: secure mobility
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there is famous russian saying which literally translates to something like "saving of drowning people is responsibility of drowning people"

not many people realize that once information leaves your device there's not much they can do to secure it

transport level security is only as good as your faith in the whole idea of certificate authority

storage level security is only as good as security of entity you decided will be storing that data for you(the bigger, the more popular they are - and more sophisticated attacks are directed at them)

the only level that depends on drowning people is data security itself. encrypt all the things good enough and you can print it in newspapers without ever worrying it will be cracked in foreseeable future.

regarding services are down or closed - it's a risk you have to live with just as a risk of having your device stolen from you or just fucked up

the only solution to all these problems imo is global decentralized data exchange and storage protocol with proper public/private security implementation that other applications build their services on top of
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"unaffiliated third parties, except as necessary to administer the communications we offer and as permitted by law"

Doesn't that wrap things up? They'd just argue they've shared it with an affiliated third party.
I think you're supposed to use a Userspace draft for such purpose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Userspace_draft

That said, I only know about them by chance.
What are the benefits of this over pusher/parse/firebase stuff?
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"Why is there an incentive to cheat like this?"

Because there will always be some amount of "incentive" to cheat to reach any reward with the minimum amount of effort.
Well, in Poland we do use D.[M]M.[YY]YY too, which is unfortunately quite popular, as a short version of the format with verbal month "D MMMMM YYYY r." (r. stands for "rok[u]", i.e. year). This long version is predominantly used in lots of official forms and letters here.
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> You're saying it's better to invest months of time, thousands of dollars only to find nobody wants it?

Why would you invest that much? If your minimum viable product takes months and thousands of dollars you're doing it wrong.
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Looks like a Droid X from the front.
wow, that’s pretty sad. the 'moderate' path would have required an average expenditure of ~$2.5 billion a year, and projected the completion of a reactor by 2005. a pretty small investment when you consider the size of the federal budget [1] and where most of the funding goes.

even more sad, when considering the likelihood that many graphs relating to other potentially transformative technologies probably look much the same..

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Stat...
Thanks :) We think it provides a great experience for our devs.
Editor settings are not much of a record if you just follow the projects code guidelines. ip-records with github are more of a problem, but I guess you can fake those by using tor or any proxy. And to embed your malicious code over a series of innocent looking commits, have a look at the underhanded c contest: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ There are some true marvels, code that looks innocent as a baby but does malicious things.

So yes, owning a server might be easier in some respects, but owning a project might own you a server you'd never get access to - a machine that runs behind a firewall e.g.
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How is a web form going to give you any useful data about demand? There's no investment or interaction with actual users. If you want to assess demand, make a minimum viable product.
Bingo.

I just experienced this myself merely days ago.

No details. Just a well formed, minor contribution to an article that was insta-deleted because of "notability".

Which was news to me because, while I am aware articles themselves need to be notable, now some folks are enforcing notability on subsets of articles. In this case, a single row in a table listing like items.
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This might be the final blow to Java on the desktop.
good to know. Thanks.
People are trying to make normative statements regarding art. Being sick of the semantic dispute, I favor your positivist description. Let's drop the A-word completely.
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> (Then again, Allen and Gates bought DOS from Seattle Computing Products and sold it as their own.)

Not really sure where you're going with this.

Google bought most of its docs suite and sells it as their own. The bought their analytics and claim it as their own.

Doesn't pretty much any company that buys another company sell the acquired products under own banner at some point?
yes, we're right next to the station ;-)
I've got a con for the Rackspace list, that in some was conflicts with one of it's pros. Pricing is simple because of the small choices for instance performance. I would love to have more choice in instance performance beyond memory based tiers. I'd kill for a c1.medium analogy on Rackspace.

With that being said, I'm a loyal Rackspace customer and love their cloud offering.
This is very cool, and I'm a little depressed it's not getting more upvotes! This is not just another social network, this is a social network designed to help shape community (and political) will. I would personally like to see this site (or a site like it) expand in two directions: first, make ideas more actionable. If there is support for an idea, help users discover ways to make it happen. What are the obstacles? What is the paperwork? Where does the money come from? Who does the work? Second, I'd like to see the site expand into personal needs - a kind of Exec-style lightweight community spirit. If a grandma wants help going shopping, then maybe I'd be happy to give her a ride and help her with her groceries.
Has Quora just jumped the shark?
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