skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is disingenuous. Facebook is putting related sponsored content next to a 'like' in the feed and it is labeled as such. The complaint here boils down to that an unsophisticated viewer might think that sponsored content was what was originally liked when it was actually not. They say this is "impersonating a user". That seems way over the top.
In terms of traffic, lots of individuals have tried it, but in terms of trying to make it break, no. That is a great idea, thanks for the suggestion.
Apparently, Playbook has stirred a bit of controversy?
good way to keep track of all the broads with your bros
Please excuse the bluntness, but neither of the two things you mentioned (using smartphones and downloading illegal copies of movies) have anything to do with Kim Dotcom or his new startup, Mega.

Your comment is therefore neither particularly relevant, nor does it contribute to the discussion.
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Thanks. How do you get involved in an industry?

I was totally with you up until this question. This is such an absurd question. It's either your being lazy, your being stupid, or you being a troll. I don't know which but I'm convinced it's at least one of the three.
Aaron Swartz Memorial Recorded Videos
Is this a form of spoofing? If so isn't this a crime according to Carmen Ortiz.
"I simply imagine a tool that is powerful enough that people will see it used well by experienced teachers, and want to use it themselves."

Well, good luck, and if you have thought through the detail of this I would be interested to see the specification (in the Spolsky sense) for the system you envisage.

"I in no way imagine such a tool being mandated for anyone"

Of course everyone will have to use it!

Edit: parent poster is also a teacher, so he must know that anything that is suggested by management as a central tool will immediately become mandatory!
I hate when people say things like "without users consent" as if those users didn't accept the TOS which I'm sure gives Facebook the ability to repost your likes.
Why I worry about QS: the Reddit example
Thanks for your advice. I didn't realise that commercial software EULA's had clauses for things like that. I guess it means that there is a market for, or should be commercial support for the app.
Per the article, size is correlated with problems but not the cause of them. It happens that large banks are the ones who are more likely to get bailed out, thus they are incentivized to take more risk, so they do. It is the potential for government bailouts/protections that is the root of the issue, thus the proposal is basically to stop doing that.
I think Aaron's legacy will be following a path he seemed to predict in his blog "legacy...trying to do things that change the system instead of following it". This isn't anymore about the details of what Aaron did or didn't do in his lifetime, but instead what should be done to change the systems that his actions helped highlight needing an overhaul.

Like prosecutorial overreach (not just about Aaron's but also the many other lesser known souls caught in it). And changes to CFAA & access to academic writings to be shared with the world etc.

To be honest these weren't on my radar until Aaron died, but since then, the more I've read on the subject and on his life & blog (as he said let curiosity lead you), I am willing to take a stand & fight for reform.

Gotta say his writing is insightful, and as in this example, kind of prophetic (I think). I'm glad it will be around on the web for years to come. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/legacy
I definitely think a package manager is better than manual installation. That's why I said this:

> Simply install rlwrap via your operating system’s package manager (or manually)

But I'll add an update that mentions the bug on OSX. Thanks for the feedback.
To my mind it's the price of publically 'liking' something. With that in mind, I only 'like' things that I would be happy to market to my friends.
As for free Gmail storage, it is ~10.0926 GB as of 2:35 CST. At least according to the Gmail sign-in page.
Credit unions don't participate in FDIC insurance, they have arranged their own private insurance. So it is not a necessary evil.
The relevant question isn't whether Tufte would approve of someone pirating his books but whether he would make a huge legal case out of it. I'm pretty confident in saying that he wouldn't try to make everyone who downloaded it a federal felon and get thrown in prison for even a day, let alone years.
It's quite ironic that William Shockley's IQ wasn't high enough, considering the controversy he was involved in (eugenics on the basis of intelligence):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#Statements_abo...
About a year ago, the young people in Cuba already knew that the cable was laid, but were already very skeptical that it would ever be in operation. It's disheartening to read that they were right, for now. A number of positive changes have taken place in Cuba over the last couple years, but none that might be as consequential as offering low-cost internet. I believe that the government overestimates the "danger" in this -- the people just want to use facebook on their phones.
"the government steps in, briefly nationalizes them, sells off the parts (the shareholders get nothing, of course), and life continues"

That's the solution I would have preferred in 2008, but the political system has shown it can't commit to that solution. You lose any support for that resolution plan from conservatives at "briefly nationalizes", because they're afraid any nationalization won't turn out to be brief at all. So nationalization is off the table, and we have to stumble through with bailouts.
One of the best hacks I've seen at a hackathon... ever.
A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews
The problem is not the bailout, per se, the problem is that the bailout didn't wipe-out shareholder value (and executive compensation) in the process.
All 100 US senators are now on Twitter
I love C++11 but it still doesn't get me lazy evaluation
This might actually be a good idea
Aha, I just said that to be the odd one in all the "I'm a female" comments. There is nothing wrong with the question you asked, it's simply a survey. I guess knowing you're not the only female, in a (obvious) male dominated industry, is comforting.
I remember that cake and lein were merging about a year ago, and cake's major feature was fast startup time by reusing JVMs. Does anyone know if this was incorporated into lein2 - I can't see it in the release notes.
Not at all. We saw a clear demand for this type of thing. Guys already keep little black books and discuss girls with their friends -- we just made it digital and secure!
A History of Foom: what causes sudden increases in system growth rates?
Google Glass vs. Apple iWatch
If you tried flying a UAV in to North Korea I would expect the US and South Korean forces stationed on the border to be very upset. I wouldn't be surprised if they shot your drone down as a precaution.
I found this so touching and amazing. From http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001552, linked to from OP's article:

Dear Aaron,

I would have so enjoyed talking with you. Next time let me know.

Best,

ET
It is probably better than nothing (hard to get root if everything in the chroot is running as a user, no suid files, few devices). Probably need a kernel exploit then to get out. A container is better though.
What's wrong with the page? It wouldn't scroll.
Due Process When Everything is a Crime (Glenn Reynolds on Aaron Swartz)
I wonder if they considered throwing their lot in with Schooltool:

http://www.schooltool.org

It has been around a long while now, is in use around the world, and should at least make a good starting point for further customization.
Fast startup time can be achieved through Drip[1], which is rather easy to setup for Leiningen use.

[1]: https://github.com/flatland/drip/wiki/Clojure
Not sure I'd say that human speech is the highest level programming language. Human speech is just too vague.

I always wonder when someone will invent a programming language that is built for the mobile programmer. I don't mean mobile devices, I mean the programmer can program while walking around. Transparent hud, microgestures, something like that. That'd be pretty high level.
Insurance is a necessary evil, if it's backed by the government or by a pool of banks is a different issue
Storytlr 1.2 is released, with OStatus and IndieWeb support.
Agreed. And they clearly say in there that ToS are subject to change so only an idiot wouldn't re-review them weekly. I make it a habit as part of my routine.
Another interesting way to think about "too big to fail" is as a considerable government subsidy. Banks operate in a risky environment. When there's a meltdown, the government steps in to bail the largest banks out. These banks are getting a free insurance policy from the government, a subsidy that's not going to the smaller banks.
Sounds like Dropbox would help you with your problem.
It's not clear to me how "bigness" matters. The article makes clear that small banks were exposed to disciplining market forces, but for large banks such forces were obviated by government protection. Worrying about size seems to miss the point.
I think you misunderstood me. I did not mean to blame her for things she did not do in such a big sense, I meant her actions of neglect and letting people suffer who were her direct patients.
Oh yeah, I meant stepping through code.
I'm used to debugging in IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio), so command-line debugging using GDB is a major pain in the ass.
I've always heard the Helvetica snobbery (and haven't used Windows much since the 90s) so I was a little surprised to find that in most cases, I found the Arial logo more attractive. Helvetica has a little more "heavy-handed" feel to it which worked for short words in all-caps, but I thought the lighter look of Arial worked better for the rest.
The latter. Consider embezzlement, for instance. That's a case in which a person abuses their position for personal gain without expecting payment from another. Abuse that festers in the wake of successful attempts to frustrate legitimate competition or oversight is also properly regarded as corrupt, since the system intended to prevent it has been (that's right) corrupted.
The Inside Story Of How Facebook Got Its First 500M Users
Encouraging female reverse engineers
Canada prints the wrong maple leaf on its currency
Perhaps i'd read the article.. if it wasn't behind a paywall.
The press is free, and so is Hacker News: in this case free not to syndicate fringe political stuff the majority of its members detest. It's not necessarily even bias: the submission guidelines are pretty clear on the site being about startups and "anything that gratifes ones intellectual curiosity" and not about current affairs.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "every site will have their own POV on the case". If you want to read the POV of people who think Sandy Hook was a government conspiracy or the POV of antivaccine fraudsters on Obama's "Psychiatric Police State" and "Nazi healthcare system", you can probably go to Prison Planet and find it syndicated there.
I'm more interested in Ubuntu being more stable as a desktop environment than secure. If I was worried about security I'd use Debian stable or some other operating system more well known for its security like OpenBSD.
Completely ignore your current pay and look at market rates. Go to glassdoor.com, indeed.com, salary.com, government data, anecdotal data.

When employers look at compensation on their teams, they don't say, Ok we pay people 19% higher than their previous job so that's our target for candidates. No, they look at their average pay package and what the market is paying to budget payroll.

If the company asks about your current pay and why you're asking for such a big bump, you can say simply that you're looking to be compensated fairly at current market value. You can add fluff like you're much more skilled and ready to take on much greater responsibility. Coming from a startup I always said that I placed a high value on my options. Don't let anyone talk you down from market rate.
The music sequencer was awesome is there a live site I can see it?
Finding information on lein2 vs lein1 is a bit difficult. For example, one of the sibling comments points to a way to add them that worked in lein1 but not lein2. Too bad there is not a way to tell google some pages are outdated.

There is a general policy of trying to encourage repeatability with lein. Use of non-mavenized jars makes it much harder to have repeatability. I'd have to go track down the jar by hand to fork, or possibly even use the project.

However, for lein2 you can add the jar to your ```:resource-paths```. This will abuse the way resources are added to the classpath and also include the extra jar. Good for exploring, but try not to publish any projects with that.
From a number-of-interactions required point of view, having to type the app's name is the worst solution I've seen. But it is a solution.
Not sure why it is being up voted either, if it's sitting behind registration.
Yes, that configuration is madness, but it's no mystery. The mystery is why is that configuration in use? The answer probably has to do with reducing internet usage in Cuba to prevent a Cuban Spring.

And that really isn't about the cable either.
In this interpretation, those reading are both attuned to font and layout consisitencies between pages and oblivious to the content of what they're reading. I disagree.

So long as there's reasonable transparency, I'd give readers, especially, a bit more credit and latitude here. IMO, the "sponsor content" label is reasonable transparency.
They are obvious and breaking up the banks is a popular topic of speculation in the finance industry. What's a mystery is why it is taking so long for mainstream econ and op-ed writers to catch on.

Paul Krugman, for example, proposed that big banks like Citibank provide value by having a huge service network, and therefore he's skeptical of breaking up banks. Which is true--Citibank's size is the primary (and probably only) reason I'm a Citibank customer. But the unstated assumption that there must necessarily a 1:1 ratio of Too-Big-To-Fail bunches of assets to bank service networks is baffling to me.

There seems to be a TBTF blind spot in the sphere of wide-area economic and financial knowledge; that is just one example. The solution is always "more regulation", or occasionally, "better regulation" with the implication that everything is the government's fault.
Hoe goed ventileren tegen schimmel in woning? - Plazilla.com
Of course, sorry.

In Australia the government pays students a wage, called Youth Allowance[1], that is something between $268 to $400 every two weeks, depending on circumstances.
Combined with a roughly ~10 hour per week part time job, I had no trouble at all putting myself through 5 years of Engineering without any debt.
I'm confident my future kids can do the same thing, so I won't need to support them in the same way my parents didn't need to support me (once I went to University at 18)

[1] http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink...
How to cook caramelised onions?
Pushing an address is even easier than that (if you're on 4.1+). Search for a place in Maps, and a minute later Google Now will have that place listed.
A Social Experiment in Web Anonymity
Hack for this Weekend. Take a minute and send a Question to your Mayor.
Shameless plug: Just because I wanted to learn how to create Leiningen plugins, I wrote a plugin to download and bootstrap drip and install it as the default Leiningen JVM.

Might want to give that a try too: https://github.com/josteink/lein-drip
Downloaded app, installed, and added push URL to bookmarks bar. It's awesome as is, but as others have mentioned, any kind of browser extension that would facilitate capturing selected text to send as a note or in one of the given formats would make this superlative.
EA Can Ban SimCity Testers from All EA Products for Not Reporting Bugs
You guys should check out Mosaic: mosaic.launchrock.com

turn multiple phones into one panoramic view... for anything... including video.
The point the OP is trying to make is not the liking of VICE – the "Johnny Wonny" account legitimately liked VICE, but did not like the POST that VICE chose to "sponsor" and show to other users as if he had liked it. It becomes disingenuous when Facebook doesn't inform the user that they are posting a specific article/post on the users behalf, to all his friends.
I completely disagree. C++ is not perfect, but it's evolving. I started my oo programing with java. I have used c#, go, obj c and many others. But I think C++ is still the best.
"Cutting spending without losing quality of life is difficult."

But it's easier to cut habitual spending, and replace it with discretionary spending and maintain or increase quality of life.

You may choose to spend your limited money on a large house, a new car, and a boat; but with limited money for extras; or you can get a smaller house, a late-model used car, and have lots of extra money for social occasions and travel.

The former has a high level of habitual spending and you are locked in. If times are tight, even temporarily, you have to sell those things, often at a heavy loss. You are also very strongly attached to your current salary, which reduces your freedom to try a career shift of some kind.

The latter could also be a high quality of life, because you leave your smaller house to go on vacation twice a year, and you can enjoy spending on social events or conveniences. But you have much more freedom and flexibility in your life.

"In the vast majority of cases, you'll be cutting from social spending (going out less), convenience, or leisure."

What about getting a smaller house, or driving a late-model used car rather than a new one, or not buying that boat/plane?

"In every single case, getting an after-tax $10,000 raise is going to be overwhelmingly preferable to cutting your spending by $10,000."

That's true in the sense that more money is better. And cutting total spending (rather than replacing habitual spending with discretionary spending) can often reduce quality of life.

However, there are a lot of dangers in only focusing on getting raises. For one thing, a raise is not necessarily permanent, so it doesn't necessarily translate into more money. And it can lead you to increase your habitual spending, which is much harder to cut later than discretionary spending.

So, I think I would change my point slightly to be: keep habitual spending small, and grow it slowly in response to increases in income. To maintain a high quality of life, spend money in discretionary ways (e.g. "pay for it once") like vacations, conveniences, social outings. Oh, and renting does not necessarily count as discretionary, but it can.
The music sequencer was awesome. Go Blue!
A Concept, but good idea to realize.(Raspberry Pi with Projectors?)
For those tuning in now, the "usual" is probably best synthesized in Tim Bray's 'sharecroppers' piece of ten years ago: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...
Horses for courses, but you're in the minority. Helvetica is pretty widely considered a more aesthetically appealing font, especially amongst those who have a lot of points of reference.

It's like art: you develop more sophisticated tastes as you're exposed to better things. It's hard to say this without sounding snobbish, but if all you've seen is Arial, you'll find Arial familiar and comfortable. But the more time you spend looking at good typography, the more Arial will start to hurt your eyes.
Correct, but it is still a very valid concern.

The post from OP stemmed from such an "unsophisticated viewer," namely: his mother; she thought that he had liked an article about "Penis Waffles" that VICE posted some months ago, and she urged him to take the post down due to its vulgar nature.

Of course, he couldn't take the post down, and had no way of even KNOWING the post was being shown to his friends and family.
Have you manually retroactively disliked things you liked years ago, before policy changes?
Can MEGA really be free for e.g. tens of millions using a few GB of bandwidth/month to backup their video diary logging?

That is not an unrealistic scenario in a few years.

(I'd do backup to MEGA for my personal stuff, if I could at the same time use a couple of similar (free) services in parallel. Then lack of 100% dependability isn't a problem.)
There's something quite similar for iOS already, it's called beamapp [ http://getbeamapp.com/ ].
It is not about this.
There are a variety of techniques for implementing lazy evaluation when using C++. What's stopping you from using these approaches, or using an existing library like Boost Phoenix?
Looks very exciting, but what does it do that R does not do? For example a lot of the graphics in nytimes.com done using R. I assume that they use massive data sets. If a platform like Hadoop is used to get the speed, won't R get the same results? How is Ayasdi different?
You've unfortunately missed the point. The "Johnny Wonny" user never 'liked' the article/post about 2 Girls 1 Cup. He merely like the VICE page. Facebook is now deciding to show the post to all his friends with his name attached, without any mention to Johnny in any form.
Great showing from the University of Michigan! Go Blue!
yeah bro this is so bro
I get the feeling that hacker news is getting targeted a lot more these days by big publishing companies,

often an article will sit on top without any comments
That 'crap' is grounded in a deep dissatisfaction with the way this case has been handled, by people at varying levels of power, including some in government.

Off topic, but ftr the record "the way this case has been handled" is what has me angry. This "crap" has been happening for thirty years, but no one in the tech community (except perhaps Aaron Swartz) cared when it has happening to poor, mostly minority folks.

Have you been paying attention at all?

Yes. For a very long time.

edit: fixed error pointed out by jacquesm
You can google "The Return of Kim Dotcom", click on the first link and read it without any registration.

Most newspaper paywalls let you read the article if you are coming from Google.
The problem is not just that Facebook is reposting one of your likes, it's that they're associating your like with a related item. The OP liked one article on vice.com, and now Facebook is promoting that he liked something "related" to penis shaped waffles.
I added a Mobi version!
Thanks for pointing me to that! I used it to convert the ePub to Mobi and added it to the repo.
50 Beautiful Photos That Express Human Emotions
curious..so when does the age restrictions go up as its obvious yo cannot do this for minors as far as US law is concerned.
Python comes close.

Mac has Python by default [1], and so do general-purpose Linux distros. (If your user is using Linux without Python, they're probably enough of an expert to install Python manually if they want to use your application.)

As usual, the problem is Windows. I recommend looking into Python packaging for Windows like py2exe, or putting a Python installation under your application's directory (this is the approach taken by Civilization 4, a commercial game that uses Python as a scripting language).

Maybe HN should lobby Microsoft to include Python on Windows. It might go down easier if Microsoft's own .NET based Python implementation [2].

Then again, this is probably asking for trouble, too: I could easily see Windows Python lagging behind everyone else's Python (like IE), or start innovating like crazy on their own, so if developers use Microsoft's cool features that only exist on Windows, their apps will no longer be cross-platform compatible (like what happened with Java in the 1990's).

Ultimately it's not really in Microsoft's interest to make it easier for applications to be portable, since application incompatibility is one of the things that keeps people locked into Windows.

[1] http://www.diveintopython.net/installing_python/index.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironpython