skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, usually when a title changes post submission it's to rename it from obvious link bait to something more reasonable. If people are discussing the link bait title instead of the actual content then that's all the more proof that editing the title makes sense.
Twitter uses bcrypt, so in theory this hack should also be nothing to worry about.
I like this a lot. It's super simplistic and ultimately out-of-the-way. The design is nice.

A couple things I would add would probably be some way to do syntax highlighting and a quick button to create a new paste from any page. Clicking the bottom left logo will do that, but it's not terribly obvious at first.

So, yeah, I like this a lot. Kudos.

EDIT: I see the syntax highlighting now, I just hadn't triggered it yet.
It would pay to bear in mind what SORT of education occurre in roman schools:
For the most part it was rote memorisation of the letters and the sounds they made to give literacy and very little else. A roman education was not a 'Greek education', rhetoric and logic were not taught.

Mike Duncan's 'a history of Rome' podcast was very informative on this and though Marcus Aurelius would have had private tutors for these things that is really what he was likely talking about when he says to have in the home
"Don't know whether it's because of economic differences though."

Correlation may not imply causation, but it's a pretty good hint at the directions in which you might want to look before you eliminate them as causes. Disparity does seem to associate closely with a lot of social issues, including property crime—closely enough that it's probably unwise to ignore it.
Author here. Are there any other important payment solutions we should be looking out for (available in Europe, Belgium) that I forgot to mention in the blog?
To be fair, what webserver guarantees that a url it generates will be valid later on? Perhaps the inode example isn't the best, but in principle, in the framework of a stateless protocol I think this risk is not problematic. And at the end of the day, it's an impossible problem to solve perfectly - you can't keep something alive serverside just because a client wants it too. The lifespan of an inode is something you'll need to manage externally to the protocol.
Einstein: from icon to con-man [2003]
I don't think it's etiquette, but rather disinterest. As soon as a comment is specialized, it has a smaller audience and hence draws from a smaller pool of potential upvotes.

The problem with Slashdot you cite is interesting. It is related to more general problems with crowdsourcing. Wikipedia is successful but sometimes you really notice that an article is written by different people with different viewpoints. Similarly, a "democratic" model for science, where instead of peer review papers are upvoted, does not seem very attractive.

Perhaps this all boils down to the notion that neither truth nor quality are democratic; i.e., the average opinion is not a good estimate of them.
On the other hand, for serialization/deserialization of a data type from format X to Haskell, you would not need a "dangerous_load" function, since the code would be pure.
I wrote this random walk generator a while ago:

http://hotplate.co.nz/files/walk/

I should publish the code properly at some point, but it's all client side and not very complex, so if anyone wants to run their own local copy that is fine by me.

Accuracy or usefulness not guaranteed but it works well for the suburb where I live :)

I'd like to add a loop generator (find the endpoint, plot another random path back) but for the time being it assumes you walk to a place then walk directly back.

You can also specify the starting address in the URL, for making bookmarks or shortcuts for different starting addresses, e.g:

http://hotplate.co.nz/files/walk/#location=foo

To automatically plot a route from "foo".
It seems to me it is a very valid principle in many areas.

For instance, the STEP file standard very clearly states that all input files must be 7-bit ASCII. Many of the programs that generate these files (including earlier versions of my own) paid no attention to this and wrote out 8-bit values in strings if the user requested it. Clearly this behavior is wrong. (The principle agrees: "Be conservative in what you do.")

However, rejecting an entire CAD file merely because the text strings in it used an illegal encoding is downright silly. It in no way can change the meaning of the geometry of the file. There is no hidden vector in there for malicious attacks. It makes perfect sense to accept illegal files like this and do your best to make them work, even if it might not get quite the same text strings the user intended.

I think jbert's point about being conservative in what you do in all respects is a strong one. Taking that into account suggests that maybe carefully marking the illegal character as such in the string might well be worthwhile, and is definitely more appropriate than trying to guess what 8-bit character standard was intended.
I agree, Postel's principle makes a lot of sense in context, if you view it as a bunch of mostly good-faith people attempting to bootstrap communication in a new medium. Then it's clear that to get things working, you want to forgive errors on the receiving side (to the extent you can do so), but send as clean and unproblematic output as you can. Basically what a sensible, not-anally-bureaucratic human who's trying to establish communication would do. It was also, iirc, influenced by some of the difficulties ARPANET had experienced in getting different implementations to interoperate. But it may make less sense today.
It does have syntax highlighting, but the detection is not very good yet. At any rate, you can always change the extension on the URL and it will try to highlight that language.

Thanks for the kudos!
The OP makes it clear that the manuscripts were not destroyed only because of the good work that was done to hide them before and during the Ansar Dine occupation and because most had not yet been moved to the new building. Some manuscripts did not survive and were destroyed, the good news is that more were not.

Nor is Ansar Dine too noble for such destruction, as they have destroyed UNESCO World Heritage sites on religious grounds before[0] and have plainly stated that they'll destroy anything they believe to be idolatrous in their narrow religious definitions.

The Western media has many, many faults but be very careful of falling into the trap of believing that it is always correct to take the 'other' side or believe that those being portrayed as bad are being unfairly treated.

Whether you read Western news sources, alternative sources like Al-Jazeera and Russian news or (better yet) local Malian and regional African news, the clear image that emerges of Ansar Dine is that of a ruthless and cruel extremist religious group. That villages, towns and cities were welcoming French troops in with cheers should tell you all you need to know about how much Ansar Dine were hated.

The situation with the MLNA is a little more complex however, so it's more than I can get into in this post.

[0]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/01/us-mali-crisis-idU...
Pretty nifty. Very similar to the agile development lanes in Atlassian's JIRA (and I'm sure plenty other project management tools)
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It's difficult to find conclusive information on this by just a little googling.

On one hand: 'Spanish missionaries deliberately destroyed the few written court and legal records that existed because they were considered to be heretical. Other legal manuscripts were burned by Spanish troops for fuel' [1]

On the other hand, the 4th Aztec emperor seems to have burned Aztec history books as a political move: 'According to the Florentine Codex, Itzcoatl ordered the burning of all historical codices because it was "not wise that all the people should know the paintings". Among other purposes, this allowed the Aztec state to develop a state-sanctioned history and mythos that venerated Huitzilopochtli.' [2]

[1] http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_legal.htm...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzcoatl
It's fiction, but I recommend "The Virtues of War" by Steven Pressfield. It's a novel (based on history, but certainly dramatized) about Alexander's march to the East.
It depends on the topic, lots of popular legal based threads have had a very in depth reply from grellas with a ton of upvotes. I think in that situation although not everyone would fully grasp the content they are upvoting in appreciation that someone who is an expert in the field has taken the time to explain and simplify the complexities of a legal case or argument.
Pssh - James Martin called the net, blogging, the lot in the seventies in The Wired Society.
There are times when you want to build for robustness and times you want to be more concise. If you have control over the set of inputs (e.g. by formalizing it and using the right tools) that's great but there's usually some overhead involved in doing that. My argument would be that security is orthogonal to robustness - just because you accept input that is outside the originl specification doesn't mean that you should do that insecurely. The robust (liberal) implementation and the limited (conservative) implementation simply support different protocols, they can do either with security holes or without. Does this increase the attack "surface"? It may or may not.

A bigger problem is when the liberal implementations become the de-facto standard.
The parent wrote: "Unlike what Hollywood would lead us to believe organisms cut off from the rest of the world don't become dangerous. In fact the opposite is more likely, organisms cut off from the rest of the ecosystem are more likely to be specialised and be at risk themselves from outside organisms."

So, the question the Smudge was genuinely asking (and I think it's a clever one) is are the "organisms cut off from the rest of the ecosystem" the microbes in the glacial lake, or are the humans the "organisms cut off from the rest of the ecosystem" for 100,000 years?
So they're preventing replays by maintaining state? How's that stateless, then?

Regardless, in truly stateless protocol, a replay attack shouldn't be a threat - who cares that someone can regenerate the same response from the same request? If it's really stateless, that replay can't _do_ anything. It turns into a threat when you put something stateful on top of this stateless machinery, which simply means that applications using this would need their own replay prevention. Isn't the right place to put the responsibility for preventing potentially dangerous erroneous state-transitions where you administer state in the first place - and not here?
We still have fundamentally the same economy she built, and it's served us well.

Has it? The manufacturing sector in the UK has been pretty thoroughly gutted.
I never thought I'd see "Rails" and "transparent" in the same sentence...
It creates drinkable water, which is valuable in the absense of drinkable water. But its a stretch to think everybody should use one, to 'save water' somehow. It takes energy to run; that energy comes at an ecological price. In fact, energy and water have been called analogous in ecological calculations (reference?). So it may be a net loss, greenwise, to use this machine to recycle wastewater from your house for instance.
It would be interesting to see a matrix of popular religions and their compatibilities with/against belief in other religions.
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That's a shame, because I address that idea in, literally, the next line.
Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They Can Just Take Somebody Else’s Work?
Why does everyone want to count other people's money?
The fact that you can currently buy MMS and inject it to your hearts desire says otherwise. You can legally, right now, buy all sorts of medical bullshit that the FDA has not vetted. The court decision you bring up seems clearly aimed at preventing an industry of victimization that could occur if legitimacy were lent without review.

> The absolute worst case scenario is that they lose some money and die a little sooner. The best case scenario is that they live!

No, the worse case scenario is that charlatans, given a license to operate with perceived legitimacy by an "opt-out" system, convince sick people to neglect real treatment for woo. In the vast majority of cases, your best case scenario never happens.

We have a system designed to separate the woo from the real. Despite what one might think from the narrative you paint, human trials are involved in this system and sick people receive experimental treatments every day in a controlled fashion. Perhaps this process could be streamlined, but it must stay in place.
Ask HN: Seeking a student to help with machine learning projects
I'm involved with a startup that is working on some hard machine learning and image analysis problems. We're looking for a student or freelancer to help us with one in particular. We want to estimate a person's height based on rectified facial photos. Existing research shows this to be possible, but there are no good available implementations. We'll gladly pay for your time and, if you're a student, work with you to help you publish your work.

Is anyone interested? What's the best way to seek someone for an academic/startup partnership like this?
Perhaps, but the point here was to encourage us to discuss things with the non-'tech-savvies'.
I recently bought a pair of pajama pants from Walmart.com and they shipped the same day. How many online retailers do that? Other than Amazon, of course.

Certainly Walmart believes they are competing with Amazon. (I would have bought my patio furniture there, too, if they hadn't sold out. Instead I bought it on Target.com.)
I second this. A great story and it focuses, as the title implies, on the virtues of the warrior. Lots of those virtues can be applied to entrepreneurship, in my opinion.
Here's a potential change. Track the original title and the editorialized title, and show both when the original submitter has rewritten it.

Or: allow voting on whether the title is good or not. Only rename posts whose titles are voted down on otherwise upvoted content.
Credible alternatives? Well, IIRC there was a Liberal party.. It's debatable that they would be considered credible, but an alternative they might have been, but then the voting system in place.. I leave it to the reader to decide if there is (or was) any actual chance of change..

Of course, you are right that the easily manipulated helped vote Magie (sic) in again, and I'm sure rousing support for a war never really helped the chances of the Conservatives in winning a second election (the Falklands "war" for those who do not remember the past). Nationalistic pride being what it is, of course.

The economy she built up and which is still in place.. I'm not sure who the "us" to whom you refer actually is, and I'm not convinced about the degree of "wellness" that it has provided, but perhaps I'm just being overly cynical?
I'd be more interested in reading a paper called How JSON escaped Postel's Principle which included discussion on the ambiguity being pushed to other areas, such as date parsing.
Some people don't like having everything they do tracked, just on principle.

Also, drugs aren't the only black market trade.
On mobile games
Another interesting discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091069 (not limited to recurring payments)
What's the paypal functionality for? Donations?
Pressfield's books are great. I'd additionally recommend following up the Virtues of War with The Afghan Campaign -- which is also about Alexander, but focused entirely on the time he spent in Afghanistan. There are some astounding parallels to today.

Then, when you're done, Gates of Fire is a classic (Pressfield's novel on the Battle of Thermopylae). Tides of War is on the Peloponnesian War that followed.
Problem is that this favours people who sell copyrighted stuff to businesses vs those who sell to individuals. For example movie companies will overwhelmingly make their revenues from individuals.

You also have the issue that companies who profit from piracy can simply move their operation abroad to where this does not apply.
This issue is much more complicated than you imply and has been written about for thousands of years.
Someone should explain to these companies how their webservers can modify the response to internal URLs (IE force to different landing pages).
I always here people saying that Amazon has a very high p/e ratio because is spending almost all profits investing in infrastructure. Does anyone have any data on this? What is their profit before they spend it all building new distribution centers?
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Forward PE is a guess. Amazon has shown it can sell a lot of stuff at a loss. Guess what, so can I. Apple has shown it can sell stuff with huge profits. That was the past. In the future- who knows...
These stories make me hope that some code-savvy historians will one day create a visualization of famous battles using d3.js or something similar to what went into Snow Fall.

It'd be a fascinating way to teach history, and it'll work perfectly on tablets.
@josteink you have any stats that back up your assertion that iOS is headed "soon into sub 10% marketshare"?

I didn't think so.

Anyway, I think the market is convinced Apple can't grow earnings much any more. And the market is probably right. Law of large numbers has taken effect.

But this notion that iOS is getting crushed and is headed into oblivion is a product of the simplistic "winner take all" mentality. Just because it happened with Windows doesn't mean it happens with mobile - or anything else for that matter.
try browsing half the web without JS enabled and it'll look just as bad
Looks like pastebin has been abused in such a manner, just Google "pastebin botnet".
I commented in the Mojang thread -- my top-voted comment was bumped down to the bottom of the page after about 20 minutes. Actively discouraging meta-discussion of HN is a terrible precedent to set, in my mind.
Actually, C#'s generics don't require a pointer indirection. It works almost like a hybrid between C++'s templates and Java's Generics.
Well, I am here -- I think -- an Adamah man waving his hands. I guess I am just a simple guy assuming that the beautiful sun, sky and sea that I saw today has the fingerprint of someone far bigger than me :-)
Is this really only an infographic?

If so, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-02/the-narco-tu... is a way beter read.
I disagree, I think most religions you could name or find in an encyclopedia (obviously the set of "religions" is infinite) are mutually exclusive. And statistically ... given that the set of possible religions is infinite, I'm not sure that you get much better odds; I'd have to think about that. Also, restricting yourself to what is in the current encyclopedia is pretty limiting ... Those poor citizens of the 1700s would have had no idea Mormonism was true. :)
Even the EDG guys who wrote that support for the export keyword feel like it was a really, really bad thing: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n142...
It doesn't seem terribly strange to me. I've seen the occasional reference to Stoicism and/or The Meditations on here before, and on other sites that were geek/hacker centric, going back quite some years now.
Not just via SMS, but you can also purchase a token card called a SafePass.
We intended to add account functionality; a pay what you want thing. More like a donation, yeah.

But the frontend guy is kind of busy so we reckoned it's better to release without that rather than not releasing at all :)
hastebin has shown me what a good paste service should support. The most important thing is a shell client (`do_something | haste`). What is the analogue for this service?
Blame your countries customs. I can only assume they make imports inconvenient on purpose. We have avoided marketing to brazil as shipping times are extremely variable if they arrive at all.
Oh god, rupa's most popular repos are named z, j, sprunge, j2, and v. His blog domain is un.ix.io and his email is @lrrr.us. He sounds like a great developer, but I wouldn't want him naming my variables for me :)
all this just to run internet explorer on a macbook
> Falsifiable does not mean not true.

With respect to an idea, it means testable and potentially false. Truths are not "potentially false".

> It's called "Why Evolution is True"

This is the kind of popular writing designed to appeal to morons who doubt the evidence for evolution. It's a different topic entirely, and a different meaning for "true".

> It is you who apparently have no solid education, nor much exposure to actual scientists.

Guess again, rocket scientist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus

A quote: "... named Scientist of the Year by the Oregon Academy of Science in 1986."

And I am not the topic. If you had any kind of intellectual training, you would avoid wandering off into the woods so regularly. Case in point:

> ... this does not imply that scientists do not seek truth.

This is not a conversation about scientists, it is a conversation about science. It is science that won't deliver truths, and this is by design. Scientists can do whatever they please -- which is why we need science to control their behavior.

> ... They most certainly seek theories that make true predictions ...

If a theory makes a true prediction, then it is not a theory. This is Science 101.

> ... written by a scientist and endorsed by Dawkins, another scientist.

If you learn anything during your visit to this planet, it should be that science is not about titles and authority, it is about evidence.
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Pretty Nice. Couple of small issues I noticed: If you try to save an empty Paste you get a server error. Also, The Save Icon itself feels very 1990s to me, you might want to consider trying out a few others.
PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks
You're missing one very important detail: if a user already has jQuery loaded from Google's CDN (which is pretty likely, way more likely than having loaded your local copy) the browser won't make any requests.
Sweet, now I can tell who the popular kids are.
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>what if the spirit of man is shaped by his technology

What if it isn't? Man no longer wars with trebuchets. Does that mean that the nature of man has changed? Similarly, man will someday set aside personal computers for something else. Does that mean that the nature of man will again change? A man's tools are not his nature, rather, nature is known through man's acts. Such acts are exampled in works such as Plutarch's lives or in the Meditations of Aurelius and speak just as true today as when they were written. Epictetus and the above cited wrote for the layman and require no arbitrator to make them pertinent or safe for the present day.

Recognize that there materialistic and idealistic worldviews, and further, that the the former is ubiquitous today. Try to see beyond the coloring of the present. Man's stuff is not the stuff he's made of. Capiche?

>what if the spirit of man is shaped by his culture?

Then one would benefit by looking outside of the prejudices of the present when reading for edification. Avoid marketing forces.

>There are no compelling reasons to believe in a god or gods. Atheism is the rational response to this state of affairs. Agnosticism is for the weak.

Atheists are really just closed minded agnostics. They are believers every bit as much as theists. Both are dogmatic.

Kant rationally discusses this in his Critique of Pure Reason. We have only five senses and a handful of a priori concepts with which to understand the world. All our knowledge is heaped up upon these principles of reasoning. In other words, what we know is fundamentally limited by what is used to know things. Objective certitude is far rarer than it is generally made out to be.

Beware of dogma, whether atheistic or theistic.