skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though plenty has been said elsewhere about the content of Scientology's beliefs and books, the post you're replying to said nothing about it.

If you're going to have a knee-jerk reaction or post some other canned response, you could at least try to make it a little bit relevant.

EDIT: Wait a minute...it seems that was a top-level comment. Were you even replying at all?
I read a whole issue like that on Libya on a trans-Atlantic (no pun intended) flight for a Christmas party in London. Couldn't decide where to go for the break, so figured I'd hit Libya, but it was too opaque trying to sort out how to acquire a visa, so I went to Tunisia instead. Then the revolution and the whole Arab Spring kicked off, hah!
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These type of ads are known as "advertorials". They are not new (read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial). They are new in digital realm. In print magazines/newspapers, we are also used to the concept of "advertising supplement". We are in early days of "advertorials" in digital world and they should mature over the time. They are ought to become better.
The Church denies that though. Actually, the story surrounding that quote is a little murky but I'm sure it's true. I believe James Randi claims to have heard it. Anyway, followers of Scientology have a lot of other crazy stuff about Hubbard to make them weary of it, yet they persist.
This does appear to be a disturbing trend.

I recall reading articles in the NYT derived from Quora answers.

While it may in the short-term produce increased traffic, it may become harder to maintain quality, as minimally vetted 3rd party contributions grow in number. It makes one wonder, what that effect that will have longterm?

It's also interesting that users on syndicated sites containing user generated content, will now be able to claim they have "written for the New York Times".
The problem with Dell is that they were a great manufacturing company that decided to stop making stuff and turn into a mini IBM.

In reality, Apple in the computer space is just like Dell circa 1998. They have a small number of models, tiny supply chain and combination of BTO and well thought out base models.

Apple has its own challenges... They need to preserve margin while the price of mobile devices collapses to near zero -- a circumstance that is great for cloud services companies like Google, but not so much for folks selling hardware.
Instead let's apply another software development concept to the law: regression tests. The current legal process is like deploying untested code to production (We aren't even sure if it will compile, but heck, ship it anyway! Got a campaign to run!).
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How much does Wikipedia charge me to make a copy of an article? What is Wikipedia's annual burn rate?
The "all you need to do" bit is exactly the way this has wasted my time. I'm not saying that doing it is particularly complicated, nor that any individual occurrence is especially onerous, and in fact it usually isn't (though you do lose your state, and that's annoying) - but the time taken mounts up!

Ah well. I've said my piece. If your experience hasn't convinced you, like mine convinced me, then I imagine yours was a lot more fun ;)
As moocow01 said, the answer will be generic for a generic question.
But few things you should consider before investing.

1. Try to invest in something you know inside out. In that way you increase odd of return.

2. What about your risk profile and current financial situation? If you have any credit card debt with 16% interest then you better pay off that. Very few investment in US will have annual return 16% or more.

3. If you are a risk averse person then you can invest the money into a index fund.

4. Or you can invest that money in yourself by learning something (a new skill, language or tool) you think it will propel your career forward.
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Air pollution in Beijing: Off the charts and (now) on the agenda
startup that helps publishers to create these types of sponsored stories.

What does that mean, in practice? Are publishers not capable of running an article by themselves and adding a "Sponsored Content" banner/notice at the top?
Thanks bro for sharing.
What you are doing is basically deriving monetary benefit from the considered act of deliberately manipulating people's views on behalf of corporate interests.

That is not only morally wrong, but it is disgusting that you attempt to justify it as completely normal and right through allusion to 'monetization'.

(Telling example - monetization of hatred: http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/AP.pdf)
See also: https://code.google.com/p/aima-java/
Procurement people in enterprises don't care about build quality... They want to shave as many pennies as possible.

Where I work, the people in the field are refusing new laptops because they get some awful 1366x900 screen that makes it hard to work. They would rather have an ipad with VDI.
What a dim and false view of people!

People can learn new things. I'm not saying it's easy for them, or anyone else. But constant learning and engaging your mind fully is what a good human life requires. There's no divine right of stagnation.
#41: The bridge must have kicky furniture that is stuffed with fragile explosives and easily ruptured fog vents
I specifically mentioned CF when talking to the writer, though. (I love the CF product, and thought it would be a good way to explain network services overlaid on top of existing network links and traffic, just internal vs. external)
Please downvote edw519 and jonmc12, don't let these assholes win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism
Out of respect for this request, I have posted an article (confession: my own blog post) which has nothing to do with Aaron Swartz or suicide. Unfortunately, my writings are generally of little to no interest to people here and I have no talent for finding stuff that would be of interest. But my experience is that getting people to talk about something else is generally the best way to move on. So if you wish to support this request, please post something on another topic, which has more hope of drawing interest than anything I ever post.
> I think there are a couple of downsides

It's a trade-off. There is no free lunch. Erlang besides high fault tolerance also has soft real-time capabilities as a goal. Some people don't like that term, but it basically means trying to minimize the latency of the system (even under load).

It is one thing to analyze the system in a sequential manner, compile, optimize the hell out of it, down to assembler, bring up a client, measure and everything looks great. Now it comes time to deploy the system in the field. In the field hundreds of thousands of clients are supposed to connecting and we find that there are so many are dropping because of timeouts and the system is spewing socket errors.

So what happens. The system that was optimized for sequential throughput will not necessarily perform well under concurrent load. The two are often at odds with each other.

So Erlang authors who slowed down the sequential code by inserting those pesky interruptions in the middle of what could be tight C loops, just optimized for a different use case.
The timeline was published in 2003, not rewritten.
There should also be a push for better use of discretion and 'common sense' from the US judiciary.

As a general matter (IOW I haven't analyzed the CFAA in this light) the judicary only has as much discretion as the legislature grants it. Populist legislators do not like the idea of an independent judiciary and frequently attempt to exclude legislative clauses from judicial review - which attempts often fail, but at considerably increased political cost to the judiciary. I'm personally biased, but it's worth considering that there are a lot more constitutional constraints on the executive and legislative branches than upon the judicial. 'Judicial activism' is the buffer on which many a judicial career has been halted, no matter how well-founded the decision it is applied to.
"Collusion" seems like overstating the case a little to me. I'd be more shocked if the opposite were true -- if the site publisher wanted to remove a comment, and Disqus, for whatever reason, wouldn't let them. Disqus isn't supposed to be making editorial decisions on their customers' sites; if someone wants to be an idiot and moderate out non-cheerleading comments, it's not Disqus' place to override that decision.
You're right. everyone writes scrapers. Heck Google is just one huge scraper. It's what you do with the data (and in some cases, what you might intend to do with the data) that counts.
I wouldn't burn down my house to demonstrate how dangerous it is to store kerosene in the garage.
reddit did.
I'm curious. Why? I have at least 2 daughters (with another child on the way, not sure of the sex) and I want them to be as capable as my son at hacking, changing the oil in their cars, and protecting themselves.

This article is timely because the author is on the leading edge of a generation of men whose sexual education during their adolescent years was characterized by unprecedented access to pornography. The world has never seen the result of this being the case for millions of men. It's a father's job to prepare his children to engage in the world they will live in. You can be sure I'm keeping my eye on how having a Big Porn industry will play out for our generation, to give my kids the best chance they have to thrive in theirs.
There's some anger there, but it calls out shills as it sees it. It's not a "left wing conspiracy" if those being targeted are literally being paid to sell a narrative.
That sounds interesting, a sort of "personal sponsorship" visa. You vouch for somebody, they get to move to the US, and you bear partial responsibility for their actions (like a parent would for a child) until they obtain traditional residency?
> [If] you're single, it makes sense for your tax rate to be based on your own income. But if you're married, it makes sense for your tax rate to be based on your combined income -- so it doesn't matter if you make $180K and your spouse $20K, or you both make $100K. In a marriage, you want to be able to "trade around" resources like that, instead of one partner being classified as "living in poverty" and the other considered well-off.

Why?
I've asked PG to ban/delete links to theatlantic.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058360
In form maybe but not function, then again unless we knew how the communicator worked in the series it's hard to say. Although I can barley get two bars inside at work let alone call someone in orbit.
"they'll have to decide whether they want to be a trusted brand, or an interesting one."

With sponsored stories to improve the PR of totalitarian cults, they're going to end up neither.
With your skills it should not be too hard to get remote work. I'd say wait for the next freelancers thread here on HN, write a good post talknig about you and expect the avalanche of responses. I usually get at least 10 emails on the same day the thread goes live. Someone with your skills is very valuable. If you need help writing the ad, just drop me a line and I'll help you out (as a favor). Email on profile. Good luck!
Because you don't hire a receptionist to fix your plumbing. Men make more because the sorts of jobs they do make more money.

They make more inside the same profession, too, but not as much more. They also work longer hours, commute farther, and travel more on business.
Write to them and tell them what you think! Here's what I said:

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Sir,

The Church of Scientology has a well documented history of deceit, manipulation, and ruined lives. The best way to limit the harm they cause is by discrediting them. I was, therefore, extremely disappointed to see that you have lent them some of your credibility.

The "Sponsored" tag at the beginning of the article wasn't nearly prominent enough.

In future, I hope you will take more care in your dealings with cults and quasi-religious organizations.
I was trying to find a place that had 30 round magazines in stock before the looming ban, and ironically sears.com was the one retailer that had them in stock (by way of some small mom and pop affiliate).
You should probably look into the organization's history in censoring the internet.
For the most part, these don't seem like the sorts of CMSes that generally appeal to the HN crowd. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is about them, though...
Yeah, we fixed that, thanks. (it was many levels of redirects to support cloudflare SSL and to try to keep www totally static, despite using django to generate the templates. None of us are really web front-end people.)

Totally looking to grow the team -- will probably post HN job ads shortly. Essentially we need a good front-end person (not necessarily great at front-end, like would be needed for an end-user consumer product, more generalist preferred), ideally python, who is basically familiar with security and wants to learn more -- and more back end/networking/security developers always.

(We're in the SF Bay Area, but seriously looking at a non-bay-area secondary office -- WA/TX/NV or maybe BC, in a few months.)

We're pretty good for "hiring from our network" on back end people, but not as good for front end/web tech. Even if someone isn't a fit for us, I'd love to talk to people and could maybe think of other places which would be interesting. ryan@cryptoseal.com.
It's not that simple. There are lot of pieces. Feel free to send me an email (in my profile page). I don't want to sidetrack current topic.
Now your defending the Prosecutor that a Harvard Law Professor called out as a bully? The Prosecutor knew that it would destroy his life but she didn't care. After all stealing publicly funded academic papers is a big crime.

edw519 deserves to be witch hunted at least on HN. I find it appalling his insensitive comment is at the top still.

I find your logic extending to all crimes. You should write a essay defending James Holmes while you are at at.

Sorry but your a piece of sh*t
In the US the metadata is almost certainly not copyrightable, no matter how laborious its creation was. A work must be creative to be copyrightable, and mere facts are not as a matter of law.
I suppose I was more surprised to find it so easily, rather than surprised it exists.
Compared to their forced labor camps and harrassment campaigns of their critics, I'd say there are definite better things to focus on than apocryphal (but certainly possible) stories that persuade no one. It may be published in several unauthorized biographies and "vouched for" by a bunch of people who may or may not have even been at the convention, but it might as well be a story overhead in a bar for all it's going to persuade the credulous, who want to believe them with every fiber of their beings.

Logic and fact is needed, not conjecture.
A "language" in this context, is a set of strings. (a string is a sequence of symbols, e.g. a program). A grammar defines a language. For example, the regular grammar

(a|b)(x|y)

defines the language

{"ax", "ay", "bx", "by"}

Unfortunately, the term "language" has other meanings. There's human languages, like English. There's also programming languages, like lisp, python, java. And markup languages like HTML and XML. And other computer-related non-programming languages.

While it's true that these other languages have more to them than their syntax, they do define a "language" in the above initial sense: the set of all valid instances of it (i.e. without syntax errors), the set of sequences of symbols.

Programming languages generally include ways of extending their language (in the initial sense). Even java: a java program includes a syntax for extending its syntax (its "language"), in the sense that a program using a certain method invocation becomes valid, if that method is defined. Thus, it is itself both definitions of a grammar, and instances within that grammar - like XML and XSD combined in one (or XML and DTD).

BTW: this reply (and the two similar ones) will probably annoy you, because you know what a "formal language" is (at least, you use the term). I think your misinterpretation is that the article does not claim anything about "natural languages" - only the shape/structure of a language ("So, what shapes languages? Grammars do."/"Behind every language, there is a grammar that determines its structure.").

To be fair though, it then jumps straight into "A grammar defines a language.", without noting a shift in the meaning of the term "language". I think its meaning is clear from context, but it's certainly misleading to shift terminology as you go along!
I don't like this coding style at all. There are quite a few inconsistency with respect to the formatting, for example:

common->Frame(){
session->Frame()
{
...
}
}

etc.
But surely you jest! Of course, you allude to hashish and opium.
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Ah, I figured out why I didn't quite like revel. Mainly "interceptors" as shown here:
http://robfig.github.com/revel/samples/booking.html

It doesn't feel like idiomatic Go to me, which for me is a big deal. Perhaps if I start running into problems using only net/http I'll change my mind.

Will be sure to give revel another try in that case, but it looks like I'll like goooo's approach more.
Who was Aaron Swartz?
I don't know if you want this debate. I'm sure many people are very well versed in all the nonsense that resides in the content of Scientology. No one is spreading hate; people are upset about supposedly objective news organization lending it's brand to prop up a pariah of society, namely Scientology. As well, comparing views such as those probably held by many at HN that essentially state that million year contracts with the Sea Org, the story of Xenu, the notion of thetans, or proclamations from David Miscavige that "arbitraries are cancelled" are COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS to being like racism is just hard to take seriously. If you are stuck in some kind of rut of Scientology, please try to get out.
Agree. I was drowning in the flood that was the authors' self-entitlement.
Stephen Gordon has a good take on this: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/14/stephen-harper-state-vent...
Thanks, Maciej. Unfortunately, this information is false (one can wish).

Co-founder of Food by People here -- Let me know what you guys think!
There's a difference between volunteer-written Wikipedia articles and JSTOR documents curated by professional scholars; e.g., the latter are acceptable for citations.
Newspapers have done this for a long time, but at least they usually put a prominent headline "Advertizing" at the top of the ad.
Yes, I have.

They have a delightful public face, but their internal stuff is absolutely batshit crazy.

The CoS's reputation as a manipulative, abusive, destructive, and deceitful organisation is well-deserved.
I think there is probably something wrong with the mere fact that Scientology exists. :)
Strange they didn't celebrate their Toronto location.

https://plus.google.com/117604621668852819090/photos?hl=en

I hope this correlates with Canadians not giving them money :)
https://github.com/aaronlifton/Gooo/commit/8d5f50fe9e45eb2b3...

Still available ;)

Follow this guide to totally erase it and optionally get rid of those commits where you took it out:

https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data
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I fail to see what is wrong with that.

Sponsored "news" articles or paid-for comment moderation? It depends on what your definition of 'wrong' is I suppose.

The idea of a news publication for most readers is that it should be unbiased. Of course, that's probably impossible in an absolute sense, but presenting paid content with "news" brings disrepute upon the publication.

Of course they marked it as paid content, but some people noticed that disclaimer and some folks did not. So we could discuss the degree to which the notice was prominent enough, or whether The Atlantic is simply offering its masthead (along with any remaining credibility) up for sale.

Of course, the reason we're talking about this specific case of The Atlantic selling sponored content or Scientology buying ad placement is because it seems to be such an odd juxtaposition to most of us.

Edit: Wow, I like to say "Of course" a lot. I must think I'm pretty hot stuff!
Well, they just destroyed my trust in them. Granted, I'm just one person, but I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Some ideas:

1. go offline. find photography specialty stores as well as 2nd hand camera equipment stores. Get them to list some inventory, as an additional revenue source, and perhaps you can post some handbills there. There's a little bit of conflict here, but the additional revenue might justify the risk and allow them to keep more/broader inventory while they're at it.

2. Find their sites. If you can find photo equipment sites who'll list with you and link to you, even better

3. Craigslist: respond to every buy request, autopost inventory etc

4. Autoretweet everytime someone on twitter mentions a model of equipment that you carry (This last one might be spammy).

Good luck!
I do not believe government should be in the business to fund VCs. Canada has several pension funds and mutual funds and most of then seem to be doing well; if American VCs can raise their funds from their pension funds, why do the Canadian VCs need a hand out from the government even while Canadian funds are actively participating in American Venture funds. Most likely the Canadian VCs who do receive government money under this program will do so because of their political connections and they will end up funding their cousins's start-ups.
"I suppose I was more surprised to find it so easily, rather than surprised it exists."

Scientology is like a religious 419 scam, they target the sort of idiots who wouldn't check this and take the endorsement from random internet persons at their word, not guessing that the comments were coming from COS HQ.
Wikipedia scans and digitizes old paper articles?

In all seriousness, have you ever tried digitizing old journals? It is fairly time consuming.
I'd go further. They're a dangerous, internet-hating cult.
If Scientology did not exist, Scientologists would be forced to invent it.
> What you are doing is basically deriving monetary benefit from the considered act of deliberately manipulating people's views on behalf of corporate interests.

No way. Even we are users too. We have family members who are not as tech savvy as us. We are not doing anything deliberately. In fact, if we are deceiving users then it won't be advertising. We are equally concerned of maintaining sanctity of advertising. We (as a startup) don't work with news websites. But we strongly believe ads should be clearly marked as "advertising". Even people were concerned about Google's sponsored results (adwords). But it worked fine. Mark Suster wrote excellent blogpost on this topic - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/22/the-case-for-i...
With Scientology's history? Hardly.
Why you should never use two spaces after a period