skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said evidence didn't exist for ALL conspiracies. I said that there was no evidence in the particular article we're discussing.

I know about Iran-Contra, the gulf of tonkin, etc. How about the USS liberty?

Your link was very interesting.
Where else? The bar is the perfect place. Face recognition app shows me the name of every girl so I can hit on her.
ukdm and russellholly are this guy: https://plus.google.com/106631699076927387965

http://www.geek.com/users/rholly/

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly

mrsebastian is this guy:

http://www.extremetech.com/author/santhony

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

maxko87 is an unknown who ran an autosubmitter for two sites one of which happened to be extremetech, till he got hellbanned:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=maxko87

adeelarshad82 is their social media marketing guy:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelarshad82

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82

Then there's these guys who really love ziff davis properties:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure

And this guy who just likes them a lot of the time, he may just be a regular karma whore if that is a real thing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9

That accounts for almost all Ziff Davis submissions.
Big companies like Apple and Google are already avoiding tax and paying very little. This will change nothing as long as they can get away with that.
He's absolutely right. You don't need a degree of any kind to be a software developer. When i was in High School, I've been told that by devs at career fairs just about every time i attended. I always thought it was odd that a company rep at a career fair would tell me not to go to college. In all honesty, if you don't think education is necessary, then don't go to school. It's an absolutely legitimate claim. However, do the engineering world a favor and never call yourself an engineer or pretend to be one.
He came from a quite well off family. And used that to his advantage at the beginning of his business career.
And her glasses show you're a player so she can blow you off!
See my demo: http://jsfiddle.net/VtAAs/7/
Forking seems like a very expensive solution to the problem. Especially in php where exec() doesn't actually do what exec in unix does in general (contrary to plain exec which you'd use after a fork, PHP's exec still runs a shell).

If you use their API even just one time per request, be aware that they will fork, execute a shell, fork again and then execute curl. Imagine where this is going when you use multiple API calls per request.

As this is "just" about analytics, why not use a UDP packet or two? Sure - they might not get delivered, but is that really so bad for analytics? Sending out a UDP package is very fast and there will be no waiting going on at all.
https://speakerdeck.com/rdegges/opencnam-how-and-why-we-buil...
Given that lawmakers are people, we will never have a perfect legislative system. Were we to somehow get a perfect, loophole free tax code, it will suffer death from a thousand papercuts. Lawmakers will get provisions that benefit their states at the expense of the others, and we eventually end up around where we are now. For example, they decide how you should calculate profits from revenue & expenses.

Taxing revenue not only limits methods that businesses can use to reduce their tax burden, but also limits opportunities for corruption or favoritism as compared to taxing profits.
I, unfortunately, am not sure I fully understand you are trying to add. Regret doesn't magically appear later, it builds from doubts in the present.

College students noticing doubts about what they are doing, they are going to drop out to figure out what is wrong. People who successfully graduate are almost never going to have that problem just by making it to graduation. The whole idea that college graduates have that kind of regret infrequently is probably true, but it doesn't really tell us anything meaningful.

It is like noticing that college graduates are mostly hard working people. Well, sure. The people who aren't hard working dropped out already. That, however, doesn't also mean that all dropouts are not hard working. There are many reasons why people need to drop out and those reasons sometimes come with their own sets of doubt.
If you have immutable strings and a smart compiler, yes, you could indeed have strings and symbols that are functionally identical. In fact, in Old Lisp, there were no strings and symbols were used for everything we use strings for now; that lead to weak string handling and it's why Common Lisp and all modern Lisp variants have a string type.
>The way to deal with the problem imo is not to appeal to a group of uneducated people for support in the first place, but simply to increase the number of educated people to the point where such politicizing is no longer effective.

There is plenty of effort being put into preventing that [1]. More to the point, evidence suggests that education doesn't make much difference:

https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/climate-sci...

For Republicans, in contrast, increasing education makes virtually no difference in their acceptance of anthropogenic climate change. Roughly 70 percent of Republicans with a high school education (or less) reject climate science, and about the same percentage holds for Republicans with a post-graduate education.

[1] https://ssl1.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texa...
This is pretty amazing! If only I could apply this to something other than body for a certain site, I'd be set!
http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=194
I imagine most developers can tell the difference between 'pursuing' and 'stalking'.
Refresh Your JScript
> When people without scientific training attack scientists--without having gone through similar training and evaluation--then it's not surprising they would be met with suspicion.

Of course they would be. But their support counts for just as much. Nothing.

If you want to settle things this way you're looking for something we do not have, a meritocracy. And even in science sometimes the lone guy was right after all (in fact, you could argue that every radical departure from the norm in science was exactly such a situation).

Science needs to work really hard to be above politicization of the work they are doing. If scientists can't do that then how are we going to hold the ignorant masses (you know, those without even a single college degree, because they're all ignorant) to a different standard?
I am wearing a fake stash, of course!
>it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun.

Ha. Memories indeed. Ow. ;)

Thanks for tracking down info on tracer guns. You can still purchase them but they're collectibles: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Rayline-Tracer-Toy-Guns-lo...
Right? If the public knew about it and debated it, it's not a "secret".
Variables in Dart explained (short vid)
Not being able to compete with Amazon's product selection is a feature, not a bug. Amazon's answer to the question of "how do I know I'm getting something that is high quality at a good price?" is to give you a wide range of options and give you all the data to make an informed decision. Costco's answer is to give you only one or two choices after building up an underlying sense of trust that (a) their prices are fair (everything is priced at a flat percentage over cost, rather than varying profit margins based on the item), and that (b) the products they choose to sell are generally very high quality. There are a lot of groceries and household goods that I buy at Costco rather than anywhere else because Costco's house brand is better than luxury-brand competitors and costs half as much.

As someone who likes to fuss over every single purchasing decision and compare a dozen nearly-identical models of something before buying, I agree that Amazon's model is preferable. On the whole, I buy more things from Amazon than Costco. But that doesn't mean that Costco's model doesn't have merit for a lot of people.
To present (even a poster) at a conference like AGU, you have to submit an abstract and it must be accepted by a committee of other scientists. It's not a paper, but still counts as a form of review and publication.

Edit to acknowledge: obviously a lot of work gets done informally during conferences as well.

But it's in the service of publishable research, is it not? I don't think many scientists are going to say, "I'm changing my research program based on something I read on Hacker News yesterday." There's a bar for serious consideration.
I don't understand hostility at DRM when it's used to secure a stream of something you don't own. Netflix streams are rentals, not content that you have rights to retain or re-purpose as you see fit. DRM is perfectly appropriate in that situation, just like any other licensing solution for any other product/service that you only pay for temporarily.

I fully agree that DRM is hard to swallow on content that you've purchased outright though. I actively avoid purchasing things that I don't truly own after having purchased it.
Happy to see you got PHP running, I imagine the next step is a Wordpress Plugin to handle it automatically.

I suspect that you'll frequently need to fallback to the socket approach. I imagine a lot of shared hosts block the capability to run exec (Godaddy, Hostgator, other common php hosts), and I believe that's where a lot of PHP lives.
>>the unwillingness to let government play a role (through taxation, grants, etc)<<

This is not meant as a personal attack, but your claim that government doesn't play a role in American education is false. The U.S. government plays a massive role and is, arguably, the single biggest factor in the cost of American higher education. The federal government doles out many grants, but more importantly, it subsidizes student loans to cover tuition. This means just about anyone with a pulse can obtain a loan to cover tuition to whatever school they want to attend, regardless of what the student wants to study. Colleges large and small know this, and have dedicated staffs to help students obtain these loans.
IBM, DUK

Would like BRK.B but I'm still paying off student loans.
We had a game like that in our Halls of Residence at university. One night a name was slipped under your door, you had to get your target wet by any means but only outside. When you "killed" your target you took their target. The names were arranged so that eventually it came down to two people hunting each other. I lasted about a week the years I played but the game usually lasted around a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the...
I'm reminded of 18th-century views about animal species extinction (that human-caused extinction could not occur).

By the 19th century, that belief had changed. Today, we accept implicitly that human-caused extinction is a fact of life. The rate of extinction for North American freshwater fish species is 877 times the background extinction rate[1]. Of course, there are still people who oppose preservation efforts...

Humans are literally an extinction event. Why is it so hard to accept for some that humans are also responsible for climate change?

[1] http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/08/our...
I wonder if this eliminates the need for ZRTP on video calls, or are there situations where it can still be used to protect the user's privacy? Will we see WebRTC with ZRTP eventually?
At a technical features level? Absolutely nothing. This provides nothing to an end user that they couldn't already get. The only thing this changes, from an end user perspective, is the number of steps it takes to do things.

tl;dr: This is an evolution of browser standards, not a revolution in consumer software (from an average end-user POV)

From a developer POV, this is pretty cool because now it is (or at least, is well on its way to being) significantly easier to build an app that relies on real-time media shared between peers with only the only onus on the end-user being having an up-to-date browser. The simplest and most obviously useful application of this is a basic VoIP tool.
> I bet you 1% of every web site or server in existence does something so blatantly and unthinkably wrong that it would make any sysadmins eyes pop out of his head.

I wonder what the percentages are for cops, doctors, judges, and pilots are?
DNS resolution also blocks, and PHP doesn't appear to have a plugin for async DNS resolution.
Fake Images Please?
+1

There really is fine line between dropping out to go "towards" something and dropping out to "get away"
I'm all for being nice, but I think you are missing the point. It's not about flexing knowledge for ego's sake, that's entirely beside the point.

No, the source of Unix nerd's retort is the realization that a small set of simple, standardized and very sharp tools performs better over time than an ever-increasing set of intuitive tools to suit a narrow use case. This is not to disparage anyone for writing something like that replace project. You certainly don't deserve scorn for that, and if that tool finds a healthy place in your utility belt then all the better.

However if you do a lot of work with text files on unix then I think inevitably you will reach a tipping point where it is in fact easier to learn and remember a limited set of commands and flags than it is to remember the ideal mountain of simpler commands that do all the things you regularly do in a more beginner-friendly fashion. If you want to argue against "arcane" unix tools being better you have to confront this argument head-on without assuming the proponent is an insecure, anti-social neckbeard out to prove his own superiority.
The question was if a similar scenario could have played out for a man. I don't know what your answer has to do with anything. I am as sorry for women who have been raped as the next guy. Wish I could help prevent such things happening. I actually started researching that a bit. I grant that I am not yet convinced of the 1 in 4 statistics (see http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html for example), but in any case women do have too many bad experiences, and every rape is one too many.

To be honest I really despise this mobbing attitude that seems to surface here. Somebody has been wronged, so now people on the internet have to be hated that have no connection to the event whatsoever. Just because I didn't join the chorus of "it's all the fault of sexism"?

Edit: also, with respect to the 1 in 4 number, have studies about what men experience even been conducted? Since most of those rapes occur for young people, a lot of men could be affected, too (raped as kids). Also men appear to be much more likely to become victim of violence than women, from what I have found so far.
How did you manage to get this amount of loan in Brazil? Even without the public schools, you can get a fair amount of discount using FIES and other gorvenement programs.

Which school did you study?
Iowa State University, where I attend, has 16 week semesters counting finals week but not spring/fall breaks. Summer semesters are shorter.
A National Academy of Sciences inquiry found that the graph was generally correct. The graph has been validated by 12 reconstructions that produced similar results.
Might be because the climate does not operate like a greenhouse. A greenhouse works by physically preventing convection from carrying away warm air. Greenhouse gases work by absorbing and reemmitting radiation that would otherwise escape into space. Both result in warming but completely different mechanisms.

Unfortunately we are stuck with this misleading terminology in what is an already complex and politically charged area.
wonder how they store their credentials, seems like an old repository? Or shard 1?
Thanks, I'll add this as an advanced option since I agree the default "body" selector doesn't always work.
As a Seattle resident paying 9.5% sales tax on Amazon stuff, I agree with this. Just can't beat that convenience.
If languages were gardens...
"So I used to have the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kickstarter."
You say you "click" the archive button? Using the mouse for mail? I don't think this is for me. :)
Sorry if I am misunderstanding, but why not use Gearman (http://gearman.org/). We wrote a nice blog post on how we use Gearman for tracking API requests to Mixpanel http://blog.nodesocket.com/how-we-tracking-api-requests-with...).

Or, use React (http://reactphp.org/) a PHP async library.
If you have a local DNS cache or at least a powerful DNS server close to you, this should really not be that much of a problem as the DNS server would be able to respond quickly from its local cache.

I doubt you'd lose much more than 20ms. That's still way better than forking tons and tons of curl processes and shells.
$100 Million Grant U. Illinois for Bioengineering and Big Data
Yes, sounds like protesting gun control laws by shooting people.
Author here. You're right that if you end up dealing with many requests per second, it will end up being resource intensive. In that case, the file or even a dedicated queue are better options.

We actually queue calls to our API and send only a single request to our servers. Even if you make multiple API calls over the course of a request, there will still be one fork per request.

I'd actually wanted to include UDP, PHP Extensions, and persistent sockets as part of the article, they just ended being a little out of scope. We might try and support them in the future, UDP is definitely an interesting idea for analytics applications.

We may also end up writing a custom in-memory queue which uses a persistent socket. For a vanilla PHP install, these seemed like the best available options.
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Parltrack spreading datalove
True that, it's actually already built: https://segment.io/plugins/wordpress

We decided to inject Javascript calls and use analytics.js's client-side tracking, because it's a bit more friendly for WordPress people we think, and it keeps their personal blogs and smaller projects on the free plan.
Like a MTV VJ.
I don't really understand this article... anyone care to explain? Maybe I need some background information.
Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, the Wilson brothers, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, and Seth Rogan.

We could call it "The Magnificent Seven Play Tag."
Arguing from a purely logical perspective, something that cannot possibly happen to everyone could still, possibly, happen to anyone.
Hey HN - Ayo from Hipmob here. Recently several users have asked us about using HipChat to support customers (there's also a Quora question about it: http://www.quora.com/How-would-one-integrate-Hipchat-and-Ola...). We've made a solution and we're rolling it out would love any feedback to ayo@hipmob.com
I have several issues with posts/articles in this vain:

1. The author assumes they wouldn't have done any better than they currently are even if they did ace/complete college. They might in fact have been far better off than they currently are, even if they consider themselves successful.

2. The author possibly discounts indirect skills which they picked up during college. These are not necessarily taught but rather a by-product of the college environment (i.e. public speaking, word choice in conversation, social adaptation, ability to argue a point etc)

3. Someone currently making a decision about going to college may think that they too won't derive any value from college since famous/successful person X didn't find it useful. There is an unfortunately amount of young people who believe being successful is their undeniable destiny and don't have a plan B. Most will at some point or another have to take a job and most likely that job will ask for a college degree.
I've been using subtlepatterns for a while now and have to say that you guys rock. Thank you for creating something awesome for the internet.
The article advocates for a progressive tax; that is, one which increases with gross income. The luxury company has a gross income of $1 billion while the economy brand company has a gross income of $5 billion. This is why they'd have different tax rates.
Cool, now when will this work on my Nexus 7, with the beta version of Chrome?
This would require dissecting newborns, so I doubt it. Anyway my point was that it is better to approach strong AI by improving and connecting silicon-based ML methods than to put huge amount of power and effort into imperfect neural abstraction hoping that it will automatically become concious.
I don't know who told you that but they're wrong.

Semesters by definition are about 15 weeks long. Some schools (like RIT) operate on shorter quarter schedules of ~9 weeks, but this is definitely not the norm.
Concur about "Beards of Experience"; maybe if there were a tastefully done "Braids of Experience" that corresponds to it on a timed slider it may not be as lopsided as just having "Beards of Experience".

It's not offensive, but it is mildly sexist (implying that only those who have beards can be that experienced, and as women cannot generally grow beards…)
Weak. Just because the parallax scrolling effect is pretty new and popular these days doesn't mean that this guy 'invented' it.

Sure, one of those sites is a blatant rip-off of his, but I've seen it done a lot of times in many similar ways.
CGW 'changed its name' to Games for Windows. I seem to remember many of the writers/editors staying on for a bit, then it just sort of fizzled out.
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That sounds like an awfully big project for a job interview. If someone asked me to do this, I would probably install phpbb.
The world's top universities are predominantly American. [1]

Please please please, don't let the government with its stinky paws turn them into some mediocre Western-European institutions.

Let people (students AND employers) realize the value of education, or lack thereof, on their own. Remove obstacles from competition (aka less government), don't add more through regulation.

[1] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
Yes, you're absolutely right - it does need to be understood.
I guess that puts the lie to 'those without even a single college degree'. That one really hurt because:

1) I don't have a single college degree

2) What does it matter if you have a college degree in some soft science versus a someone without a degree that has tried very hard to keep current with a number of scientific fields?

3) What does support from uninformed / soft sciences people mean when it comes to stuff like this? To me it counts for next to nothing.

Plenty of scientists are religious and you could easily find a way to argue that apparently being excellent in one field does not at all qualify you as even moderately informed in another. (and some would go a lot further than that).

Scientists apparently have enough trouble dealing with the facts in their own fields, let alone those in other fields or in metaphysics or about something mystical. That doesn't mean that they are bad, but in that sense they may not be much more useful than your average, uninformed layperson when you're looking for support, depending on the area of interest.

The only people that should have a say in the debate at all are the climate scientists (the religious ones too), and those versed in analysing large volumes of data with questionable pedigree and discontinuities. We pay those guys to do their jobs, policy should be informed by that and commercial interests should have 0 say in it.

And those suckers that massaged their data to make it look more dramatic have done more damage than all the naysayers put together.
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Awesome work Kush! Looking forward to using it! :)
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