skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wait, how does Myspace know I would like these?

> Is everyone seeing the same ones? Did Justin pick them out for me? Are my friends listening to these guys? I have no context here. I don’t understand why they’re recommended. I decide to move on.

Does it still surprise people when they are getting personalized-recommendations when they use Facebook Connect sites?
To use the new myspace--

> THIS APP WILL RECEIVE:

> Your basic info

> Your email address (____@____.com)

> Your profile info: description, birthday, likes and location

> Your music activity

> Your video activity
Same for climate chande deniers.
So this is potentially a little misleading. Is the screen shot of the installer actually a screenshot of InstallMonetizer in action, or is it just an existing / previous installer created by one of their clients (but not using InstallMonetizer).

I'm not a fan regardless, but I just wanted to make sure we're getting the right picture here. I came away from your comment believing this was a screen from their (InstallMonetizer's) actual installer, and I think everyone else did too. However, after reading pg's comment below, I'm no longer so sure that is the case.

Can you please clarify?
In 2007 I would have agreed with pg regarding books being different. In 2013, I've gotten rid of all but maybe two dozen books with sentimental value.
The only condition is that you have to open a brokerage account along with it (also free). You didn't even have to fund either account.

You need to be a permanent resident of the US.

http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/banking_lending/checking... has all the details.

I've personally been very happy with Schwab.
Startup Arkansas launching March 1st
All the people who support this keep saying how everyone else is going to use the tool to do x, y, or z, but they haven't said what they themselves would do with it.

So I ask, when you have access to Graph Search, what is the first thing you'll do with it?
Something that I think will be often repeated throughout this challenge is the many advantages sharing will give you. By building up a small audience I had developers who were eager to help, which made it so I didn't have to use Elance or a similar site.

So, whether you are looking to hire a developer or not, I want you to remember this:

Start teaching and sharing as soon as possible. It will only make your life easier later on.
Why not look at the numbers and come up with a specific "Offer HN?"
Hacking, in general, is breaking abstractions and assumptions that most people take for granted. PG uses it in terms of startup methodology. Coders use it in terms of chopping through existing software. Crackers use it in terms of computer security models. Aaron did it in terms of "Intellectual Property", proclaiming that PACER and copyright-expired articles are really public domain.

I actually do fully understand why what happened to Aaron did, on both fundamental and systemic levels. All hacking unnerves the people who were unquestioningly taking those abstractions for granted. It shakes their faith in their own reasoning process, making them wonder what else they could possibly be missing. The hacker appears to have special powers, and sets off a deep-rooted fear of the unknown.

Which is why we presently have life changing criminal sentences for any kind of computer hacking. The kind of people that desire to punish others for pointing out their non-clothedness inherently don't understand the varying ways their abstractions can be broken. So we get a vague open-ended law applicable to basically every situation (legitimate or not), but it's only enforced when someone who feels they've been wronged manages to get the ear of someone powerful.

But all of this certainly does not imply that this state of affairs is morally right. And it certainly doesn't help to repeat the nonsense scare tactics and justifications of the machinery that punished him as if they're fact, because the whole goddamn point is that these completely open-ended laws are not true laws at all, but avenues for exercising arbitrary punishment justified by appeals to not-illegal but bad-feeling "context". No doubt had this prosecutor's son done the exact same thing, the "context" would be different and they'd have ended up with a continuance or probation in the worst case.
Knowing several people who disbelieve evolution or climate change, I think this is not really true and the wrong attitude to take. People that want to teach creation along with evolution in the classroom truly think that evolution is a weakly supported hypothesis that does not fit the scientific evidence. Not just because they believe it contradicts their religion, but because they believe it's physically, literally wrong and is scientifically falsifiable. There is a minority of disbelievers that want biblical literalism taught in the classroom, but I think most truly believe that evolution is probably untrue, and at best, unproven, and simply want what they feel is the evidence taught in the classroom, instead of one unsupported or weak theory taught with cherry-picked evidence. Yes, that's really what they think.

Obviously they are wrong, but I think if most of the evolution-deniers truly understood the modern theory of evolution, and understood that it is separate from abiogenesis, I think they wouldn't have a problem with it.
Petition to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
>It seems they're explicitly avoiding the "dating" route

Actually one of the examples shown today was a dating example, one of the Facebook managers who oversaw the product trying to set his wife's cousin up with someone: "friends of people I'm friends with who live in San Francisco and are from India"

http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+%22graph+search%22+%...
> When you see "replies selectively", go for it. We're not the trolls. We're the eyerollers waiting for an actual conversation starter.

s/actual conversation starter/attractive man/

What you say is not replicable in the data. Send the messages famously made fun of in every "guide" to OKC: "sup" "hey girll" "omg ur cute"...from a profile with an extremely attractive man's picture (stock photos will do.) Watch replies roll in.
Thank you. I worked for the tech magazine for a couple of years and can recall pretty much the same experiences. Which is strange, since language was not English. However that problems and solutions listed seems to be language-agnostic.
Hacker News tends to down-vote the r/atheism love that tries to leak over from that other site.
Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head
You don't think most papers who cover Technology might possibly have correspondents in the bay area already?
The analysis of Islamic terrorism in the Amazon review is not wrong. Nor is it wrong to say that Bin Laden explicitly blamed his 9/11 attack on US foreign policy in the Middle East. They are both true and compatible.

Chomsky presumes that the US and US foreign policy are evil, when in fact the US is good and US foreign policy is often seriously mistaken (but not evil), with occasional evil individuals in leadership and non-leadership positions.

So, Chomsky is wrong, and he does demonize the US and US foreign policy.

And "we may soon lose our nation" is not at all wrong. The US government conducts constant surveillance on practically all citizens, as I imagine you're aware of, and Obama is trying to violate the Second Amendment of the Constitution (which he clearly has no respect for) using executive orders. At what point is freedom "lost"? In principle, a long time ago. From here on out, it's just a slippery slope.

I say this as an atheist, so I agree with you that Chomsky being an atheist has nothing to do with anything.
Dlvr.it now supports posting to Google+ Pages
It's telling that you are supporting a person who thinks governments routinely lie, then you auto-assume that anything Bin Laden says is a representative of the entire motivating ideology of all terrorism.

The spirit of modern political analysis is to judge organizations as they do, not as they say through a mouthpiece. Terrorists don't get a free pass on this. The activity of Al-Qaeda and similar organizations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan seems, to my eye, not oriented around fighting global capitalist oppressors or that sort of first-world ivory tower nonsense, but oriented around killing a lot of people who don't believe what they believe.
Did not know such a thing existed?
That's too funny. Why would anybody stay on the site after gaining that piece of information?
Just reached out to Duane on the Chumby boards. Hopefully he gets in touch.
The article says Zack was 16 in 2008 and is 19 in 2013. Has Zack been impressing the importance of scientific literacy by promoting it from a relativistic spaceship? Or should he also start promoting numeracy to journalists?
The MD is relevant regarding my knowledge about depression.

I know you can't prove the threshold thing, short of trying to break each and every person on earth. That being said, there are various ways to weaken people (including, for the die hards, prolonged isolation, sleep and sensory deprivation, manipulation, mental and physical torture, destroying their social status, friendships and families... I never practiced this, BTW), and I believe that you can drive anyone to suicide using them.

For example, put someone in a situation where he has the choice between killing himself or killing someone he loves. 5 seconds to decide, after which, if he didn't act, the other person is killed.

This is becoming really gloomy. I balk out.

Edit, actually the bargain I set up above is not a good example of what I meant exactly, but a good example of the level of cruelty you can use.

Edit2: I didn't downvote you, BTW (AFAIK, you can't downvote the answers to your comments).
Would that I had more than one upvote to give you.

That petition is a flawed and bloody flag that many seem willing to follow for the moment. The question is, is it possible to take the momentary outrage at this one prosecutor and turn it into a forceful pressure for reform of a system that is deeply and badly broken.
I don't mind creationism being taught side by side with evolution. But replacing the latter with the former is plain idiotic/dumb/stupid.

Obviously, if you teach them side by side, anyone with half a brain will sooner or later realize that creationism is simply bullsheet, which is probably why these people want to silence the inconvenient (for them) truth...
I think what you need for that is Bumblebee: http://bumblebee-project.org/
Here's what Facebook doesn't get. I have 580 friends on Facebook. These are all people I've met in real life at least once. I care, honestly, about maybe 50 of them. And of those I care about, I want to know what's going on in maybe 10 of those 50 friends' lives. Ask my how much I care about people who aren't friends with me on Facebook. About as much as I care about anybody on the internet on any site.
Under Massachusetts law, only a blood relative, spouse, or guardian can apply for a civil commitment order. A prosecutor can only get a suicide watch in a jail or prison.

If the parents knew he was suicidal, why in god's name didn't they seek medical attention?
Why is this on HN with 41 upvotes (as of this writing)? Is he creating a company? Is he building a startup? Is he writing javascript, putting together something really interesting, or what? I see nothing here HN-worthy.

This is the kind of thing I expect to find elsewhere (and do, in fact, look for this sort of content there). HN is a niche site for hackers, entrepreneurs, and money folks. No need to bring excessive religious topics/debates here - keep that on reddit/etc.
This thing is just a Payolla machine, I'm actually a bit insulted.
"Reading the book, I felt as if my mind was rocked by explosions."

If you've only had this experience from _one_ book, you aren't reading enough.

"Questions that had puzzled me for years suddenly began making sense in this new world."

If, on reading a book, you don't know of at least one other set of alternative answers, you aren't reading enough.

No doubt Chomsky is a powerful and persuasive writer. But there are many thought-systems of similar extraordinary explanatory power. At some point you have to realize that the ones that hit you, hit because you share their basic premises and took the time to understand the explication of the thought-system. Without the ability to identify and examine those premises, your thinking is more an accident of which powerful system clicked with you first.

You have to read enough to intelligently criticize those opinions you hold most dear and believe most certainly. It's very hard. The "terrifying side effect" of being "left all alone" is not quite so terrifying as the gut-wrenching feeling you don't actually know _anything_.

It is an amazing and wonderful and terrifying experience to see the world in a new way. But you cannot stop at _that_ new way of thinking.
This article sounds very biased to me. Most things he describes as weird, such as going to the homepage by clicking the logo, seem totally normal to me. Personal preference perhaps, but the tone is subjectively negative.
Creationism has no relation to science so it should not be on science class.
Really? I browse with NoScript and JS turned off, and it worked just fine for me. (Which is more than can be said for most blogspot posts, e.g., by Google, which I always find frustrating.)
Of course one big problem with going digital for books today is Amazon can erase your entire library quicker than a dandelion seed in a forest fire.
Facebook unveils new search engine
Both Simple and Google Wallet use The Bancorp Bank for their integration; perhaps its time for a bigger stake in the organization for Google.

I'm serious. Google's data mining ability is unparalleled. Buy a bank, become Google Bank, and start lending. I believe Google's investment/risk analysis would be far superior to any existing bank out there.
He'd be remembered as having given a gift to mankind, which he might like very much.
We do still see static if we accidentally switch to the analog terrestial receiver built into our TV. And given the general quality of Samsung's software and UI engineering, that accident happens quite often.
> I never want to identify myself in a retail establishment. Let their cameras snap a picture of my face then match it to a common database of faces and cross-check it to the unique signal from my phone that is in my pocket. That should be enough to know it's me.

If this ever became a reality I would never walk into a store again. There's a point at which we need to stop sacrificing privacy for petty convenience.
I'm no expert on the matter, as I just learned about this about 90 seconds ago… but here's my guess:

My understanding of it is that if an element has < 1 opacity, something different needs to occur to properly render that element. For an opacity of .99, not much visually, but if the opacity is .5 how will it know what elements to display under the partially opaque item?

I'd be curious to see some source code to know for sure, but that's my best guess.
Ivan & Martin Free on bail
nit: firewalld does not replace iptables, it replaces system-config-firewall, a GUI, TUI, and startup script generator around iptables.

iptables is still the underlying tech, we now just have a much better way to manage it.
Yet another reason to abandon Facebook.
It is getting creepy and creepier.
The intriguing Facebook/Microsoft alliance.
Believing something does not make it true... And hey, if the world was created 6000 years ago by some omnipotent being and made to look like it's several billion years old for some reason, I'm cool with that, but showing me a book written by humans as proof is just goddamn stupid.
SymPy (sympy.org) is a well-developed Python package that works with symbolic/analytical mathematics on a level comparable to Mathematica's.

Octave is more of an open source Matlab equivalent. That is, mostly linear algebra.
For a guy that seems to know how HN's promotion system works - you sure don't seem to understand how HN's promotion system works.
Gondor supports Python 3 and PyPy 1.9
Instagram User Numbers Down
Under the federal sentencing guideline system there are a series of factors the Judge must take into account when setting the sentence. Given that some of these are wholly objective (i.e. first time offender), it can be said that it would have been impossible for him to have gotten the maximum penalty theoretically allowed.
Do people that want to teach creation think creation is better supported hypothesis than evolution?

Nice try.
The crying need to punish cybercrime fairly
That has to be a new low. Incredible, I never knew it had gotten this bad. I saw the whole download.com debacle as a bunch of jerks taking over a formerly reputable domain, but it looks as if this is now considered legitimate income across the board.
I think this is a naive view. If they're taught side-by-side by a teacher who strongly supports creationism, the instruction will be influenced by that bias and the students may not receive the information they need to make an informed decision.
What portion of these creationists are Young Earth creationists? Young Earth creationists would have a problem with the modern theory of evolution because it actually is impossible for modern biodiversity to have evolved in 6,000 to 10,000 years.
True, but try to tell that to the millions of people who believe creationism IS science... To make it simple, just let the kids choose and decide for themselves...
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Becoming the face of a major political issue at such an early age is an impressive accomplishment, regardless of the subject matter. What this young man is demonstrating can easily carry over to other forms of leadership, in business and in politics, and there are many things we can learn from his example.
You are merely pointing to the fact that some people shouldn't opine until they bother to look into the facts. Having a half-understanding about what's going on and making a proclamation always seemed foolhardy to me ...
I did not post this article to incite another evolution over creationism debate. But rather, because it highlighted the journey of a young man who is trying to change the world for the better.

A young man who is not trying to enact change through destruction, hyperbole or negativism. Nor is he simply trying to build "awareness". He is trying to actually change things in his state by using rational discourse, reasonable publicity and rallying both popular and distinguished support.
Most of the internet is unambiguously better with js off.
"Autistic Social Software"
http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html

Doesn't talk about FB, as it wasn't yet a dominant force yet.
YC funds enough founders now, with few enough partners, that it's entirely possible for someone to be doing something sneaky and YC wouldn't catch on right away.

Initially, YC just has the business model / product description statement from the founders, a video (do they still do that?), an MVP if one exists, and maybe a meeting with the founders.

The only way this could really negatively reflect on YC's integrity -- if that's up to us to judge anyway -- is if the accusations turn out to be true and YC either chooses not to investigate or chooses not to counsel the founders against doing something like this. (Remember, YC does not have a controlling interest in the teams.)

Since pg has said they're checking in to it, I don't think "YC is turning evil" is a reasonable narrative here.
Is Quora team aware of this serious bug in the credit system?
Is there a possible way to use the internet without?

At least it is my experience, that without NoScript any given site will either take half an hour to load, or have some annoying ads, as an overlay over the content. ( Not to mention videos which start to play automatically, flash banners and sound effects.) Seriously I have no problem with an advertisement which just displays a picture or text. But any possible use of JS in a ad is a use I do not want.
Yep.

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/yahoo-mail-cross-site-scri...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Users-Accounts-Still-No...
People who force creationism on us are trying to create a future where you won't have any start-ups because you will die young, ill and poor. Therefore the topic is important in the long run.
This i can agree with. Not that it's particularly clever, but I've been referring to most of these issues as Cowards Taxes. Because the politicians who need to cover budget potholes are too cowardly to ask the people to increase taxes to cover expenses, and instead use this absurd backdoor tactic under the guise of "safety". Things like red light cameras adhere to the letter but not the spirit of the law, it's unjust and we all know it. Man up. Raise taxes, or cut expenses. You can't have it both ways.
I really have to congratulate you, I've personally found breaking free from the defaults set at birth to be nigh on impossible. It's incredible how deep some of those hooks have been sunk and it gets me every time I discover a new one. It looks like there is no end to them.
You touch on a related point... ranking a business by number of likes is pretty useless. Facebook is going to have to introduce some kind of point rating system like Yelp or Netflix for this to be useful at all.
If only I could buy a developer account so I did not have to be a Facebook user to integrate with them.
Mission Creep at the TSA?
They also have problems with geology, astronomy, chemistry and physics. It's just nobody told them yet and they're too clueless to figure it out.
Ahh, thanks. I should have done my research!
Yes, but its the anomalies that are most likely worth meeting up with ;)
Don't assume that he knows this number.

In the original article, he didn't even mention the amount of tax breaks given by the code thus far.

I doubt the purpose of the article is to inform, as much as it is to tell you that you should be outraged about something anti-entrepreneurial done by California.
Actually, that's what's great about Facebook: they probably already know who those 10-50 friends are based on your activity on the site, your location, your photos.

They know your best friends based on your actions versus who you might list if they asked you who your best friends are -- which might be a more accurate way of figuring it out anyway.
You don't have to use Google+ news stream if you want to get personalized search results, if that's what you're trying to imply (by friends working at Google). Search personalization is achievable by other means if necessary: past searches, searching while logging in with Google account, YouTube searches. Facebook is essentially trying to do the same, with much less product spectrum and more desperation as it gets more boring and uncool.
As News Feed Unable To Handle All Content, Search Will Lift Facebook Engagement
>At the company I’m with, our very first interview is a culture interview. We decide if you’ll be able to fit into our environment and be productive with the team we currenly have before we even consider your technical ability.

Anyone know any specific advice or discussion on how to do a culture interview? This is a big topic lately, but it seems many times the details are assumed to be understood. In terms of culture, what are the bullet points you're looking for, and what are the disqualifiers, and how do you surface them in an interview?
Maybe you already had blogger whitelisted?
If the students have failed to vehemently distance themselves and protest to the administration, or even quit MIT for somewhere else, then they are just as guilty. Their attendance abets the status quo. Especially since it's a private university.

Quit whining.
Yep. Here it is. As a guy who's by most empirical measures not in the top 50% of attractiveness in the first place, this makes me depressed about human nature.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...
yes, but how can the kids choose when the information will inevitably be provided in a completely biased manner?
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