skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A fake Chanel bag is made with the most inferior materials and craftmanship.

But apparently the bags are durable enough to last for years, so the materials and craftsmanship can't be that bad.

>And, those who are knowledgeable deal with stress and loss of money once they get the item in their hands.

The stress is caused by attachment to status symbols, and could be better solved by letting go of such bullshit. And they would have lost the same money by buying a genuine Chanel bag, which is only considered to be worth that much money because of the brand.
Why can't there be an option in the cast of 1. for it to automatically open the first unread story when I click "All stories"? Basically what I am doing by pressing the first unread button.

I can understand not doing that by default since people may want to see their unread feeds, but I always just go to the first unread one anyway.
Suppose that instead Microsoft had ended up buying NeXT...
>"Sean's crypto stuff has about 2.5x as much material as the 36Chambers crypto-for-pentesters site had..."

This site never existed, at least according to Matasano's offical website or Twitter account.

>"If the pricing model we use for the challenges ("mail Sean and ask for them and he'll give them to you for free") is too much for you, I don't know what to tell you"

You are deviating from the fact that you promised to give sth away at a national conference, then completely ignored it until s.b obviously pointed it out. What happened between BH-11 to last November - when you started telling everyone to send email to Sean?
> I tried to install NewsBlur, but instructions were not very helpful.

NewsBlur should distribute in an .egg form, or via PIP directly, with VirtualEnv and everything.
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tl;dr

The author has a hard time coming up with ideas to max out Google fiber, therefore it is unnecessary.

Do yourself a favor and skip this one.
My assertion is that there are different levels of corruption. If EG ended up being just as corrupt as Nigeria after the eliminating of the current regime, it would still be a victory for the people. They might even do better than that.

And maybe structurally changing how oil revenues are handled; not allowing any new leader to directly control them for personal benefit.
This design is shinier, though it feels uninspired and shows a disappointing lack of attention to fundamental design principles.
Wouldn't a downvote-only mechanism make it easier to hide dissenting opinions without giving chance to show support for a position/comment? Besides that, I wonder how would the top-rated comment system work, given that posts start with 0 downvotes.

Basically, I don't think that a non-exploitable method exists, however pessimistic that sounds.
Oh man, now I'll have to update OS X just to try it out!
inciting what? =)
Wouldn't the opposite be just as bewildering then? There really is no difference between buying a Hermes dress and buying Dickies overalls, right? Each item makes a statement and each person is well aware of the statement it makes. Both can be bought for practical reasons. Both make comments on social placement. Both help people identify themselves. Both help find/identify suitable mates.

I too find it so hard to believe people spend so much on apparel, but that thought is no different than people finding it odd that I spend so little. Of course, some items are easy to liquidate and others are not.
Yeah, a key feature of Greek and Roman education was focusing on winning the argument on both a logical and emotional front--they taught that if you didn't use both effectively you weren't really doing a good job.
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We definitely want to support Lion really soon. But, yeah, upgrading to OSX 10.8 might be faster :)
This was massive fun to hack on!
Yes, this is very true. It is pretty close to impossible to have an argument at bar or internet forum level without committing something that resembles a logical fallacy.

Refer to something written by an expert rather than demonstrating it directly yourself? Appeal to authority.

Suggest that a particular source of information may be unreliaible? Ad hominem

Voice a concern over the direction some policy appears to be taking? Slippery Slope.

Many arguments are also based on statistics rather than directly on logic.

Logical fallacies can be used to expose highly axiomatic thinking though.
"I wanted to explore what it feels like to write a parser, a lexer, and an interpreter without using a framework or some other ready-made solution"

This is an excellent exercise for any programmer who wants to really understand what's going on behind the scenes. I've always believed it's useful to understand at least one layer below what you normally work with.

Some people will criticise you for "why create another programming language when we already have X?" but ignore them. As long as you explain that it's an experiment (as you have) you should be fine. And it's possible that by starting something completely from the ground up you'll discover a different take on things that might be better than what exists already.

Just be prepared to do a complete rewrite or three once you've got your initial prototype working ;)

"and I didn't really consult any literature either"

I really recommend that you do.

The single best resource on this topic is the "Dragon Book" (officially "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman) - the latest edition is from 2006, though the older one should be fine for what you want too. I wrote my first compiler before learning the "proper" way of doing things and it was a complete mess. It was only after studying compiler construction at university that I learnt about things like formal grammars, syntax trees, etc. The dragon book will take you all the way through to expert level, and is written in such a way that you can implement different parts of your compiler as you go through the book.

One caveat though is it's huge (close to 1,000 pages). I spent a couple of months full time working through it (coding as I went along) during a long break from work a couple of years ago, and only got about half-way through in that time. But you only really need the first few chapters to get the basics; the later parts go on to a lot of advanced code optimisation techniques that you only really need if you're trying to write a high-performance production compiler or get into compiler research.

SICP, as someone else mentioned, is also very good, though it's really more about the overarching theoretical concepts and doesn't go into the same amount of depth as the dragon book. I think reading both is a good idea.

Just be warned, this stuff is highly addictive, and you can spend years studying it and still end up with lots of gaps in your knowledge ;)
How many users are still using 10.6? Couldn't the description be updated with a note specifying the temporary issue with 10.6? Seems like that would be a lot simpler than taking it down...
I still wish Flattr would take off...
I look forward to replying to misguided online arguments with a simple link. If everyone started doing that, no one would be committing logical fallacies anymore!

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope
>There really is no difference between buying a Hermes dress and buying Dickies overalls, right?

There would be an aesthetic difference. But status symbols are about more than just aesthetics. It's not like you need to buy overpriced brands just to get things that look good. In fact, the existence of the fake goods this site is trying to weed out proves that.
This is totally what you need to read.

http://tynan.com/lovework
As good as it is to identify these, it's worth pointing out that another fallacy is the assumption that the point a fallacious argument is trying to prove is wrong because it has a fallacy. It's possible to be right but still commit a fallacy in your argument.
i think its incredibly sad that the author and maybe many others fail to see the bigger implications of Google attempting to bypass the current isp monopoly and introduce real competition. As there are many accounts of current subscribers in the KC area getting amazing offers from the current batch of providers due to the threat of Google. If they can't compete by features then they have to compete by price.
Just to add to this, the size of the data grows far more quickly then you would expect. I crawl 30 or so feeds for a personal project and database after 2 months of operation is over 200 meg in size.

For the cost of hosting/development/work you are MUCH better paying for newsblur and forgoing 6 outside coffee's a year.
WOW - Square Wallet appears to be an exact implementation of FaceCash!

How is Aaron going to respond to this? I am sure he is going to be pretty upset.
The author should have answered questions like what are their policies on privacy (monitoring your internet use), availability (uptime), and sharing (free wifi for anyone nearby)?

I would hazard a guess, being that this is both a residential and an obviously subsidised service, less than stellar answers to all of the above.
"The game we didn't envision, design and build, the game that doesn't exist, could have run offline"
It doesn't, because in order to min/max your city (and when it gets down to it, this is essentially the point of the game), you need to trade with neighboring cities, otherwise you're limited by what your (arbitrarily small) city can provide.

It's a broken game design in single player because it is based around a multiplayer requirement. In terms of being able to play offline, you would need something to simulate cities from other players.

Not that it isn't easily fixable if EA wanted to, but it's not exactly playable as designed when offline.
"That's treating people with respect gone mad!"
I definitely agree it's part art and part science.

"The higher the growth needed, the lower the fees need to be."

I don't think that's strictly true. If you had two companies and one had three times the margin of the other, this gives them three times the revenue of the other to acquire and service new customers.

Without the margin you need to go the massive VC route, which is what eBay pursued. Depends on how you want to build the business I guess.

I run a marketplace too, good luck! :)
I feel like webgl is an advertisement for nacl
>Now go, and to great things worthy of honor.

Ok, even I felt motivated after reading this. Thanks!
>Sometimes I wonder what would happen if reddit got rid of the upvote button and only allowed posts to be down votted.

That might actually make things worse. Astroturfers would systematically downvote everyone else, while legitimate users would usually only downvote a small handful of things.
I was merely speaking from the "we perform special calculations on the server" excuse. As you note, that's a design limitation, and also something that could be (and I thought was in progress of being) modded.
This analogy only helps for developers that would be comfortable installing and operating their own instance. I don't see many folks being excited about the opportunity for personal use.

For other folks hoping to build their own service, commercially or otherwise, having access to your code provides a huge savings in time to market.
Paternalism: behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group's liberty or autonomy for their own good.

I do not see any evidence of this in the grandparent post.

Edit: Also, I'd like to point out this, on the same front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5390420
Give Apache Wave a chance. I like the slightly simpler and cleaner UI and it is easy to install and run.
Is that like the multiple media companies spamming the shit out of HN, with at least these accounts shilling for BetaBeat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=met3

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ssalevan

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=benjaminkabin

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nitashatiku

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovekandinsky

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gnarls_manson

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bookish08

Other big media houses spamming HN include Future (techradar.com and maximumpc.com), and of course Ziff Davis (extremetech.com, pcmag.com, geek.com).
Great point. As per the author's thesis, we are in phase 2, and phase 3 is going to be initiated by a startup, and not before another 20 years.

But IBM is currently doing (and making good progress at) exactly what the author describes as phase 3.
Yep, that was my first reaction as well. However, the idea of preview can be extended, codeacademy style. Make a small python interpreter in js, that people can try in, that gives them an interactive tutorial for python.
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I'm surprised that a person in your position would even bother to use the search page instead of your browser's search box.
Another great visualization of logical fallacies: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetolo...
One of my prof's during B-school but it slightly less elegantly but it always stuck with me:

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is the only thing that matters.
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I suspect the penny gap is more due to the process of paying for something

That is not the point Ariely makes. Charging anything at all changes the nature of the transaction from a social one to a market one and completely changes the context in which people view it. It's worth reading.
One of my favorite books is Thank You For Arguing, and it's a bit more accessible than an Aristotle translation, for those who want a faster introduction to why fallacies are okay.

http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Arguing-Aristotle-Persuasion...

There are two main reasons that fallacies are bad. The first is that they're not rigorous, which is why parent mentions pure mathematics. Perfect logic matters, sometimes. Strong philosophical positions are like this, too: the kind that takes you years to develop and stabilize. But it's actually pretty rare for anyone to spend much time here.

The second is that fallacies are meant to contort the mind. Which isn't a bad thing, but if you're not equally equipped in logic and an understanding of fallacies yourself, deft usage of fallacy will run circles around you. While virtually all thought experiments are fallacious by nature, if you can't figure out where the boundary between allegory and reality are, you're going to have a problem.
The weird thing about end-user Internet is that at least at MIT, I had 10/100 Ethernet in my residence in the mid/late 1990s, as did thousands of other people. I assume other college students at the time did, too. (true, it wasn't like MIT had enough transit to really do WAN stuff at those speeds for everyone all the time, but there were ftp servers, p2p file sharing, etc. all on-LAN) And I assume a lot of colleges have continued to upgrade since then. So, there should be lots of people with high speed Internet experience.
3 out of 4 of the macs in my offices were on 10.6.8 until last week (now it's only 2).

Edit: I figured this is a pretty useless stat. Here's some better ones from the Unity Web Player installations, Q1, 2013

http://stats.unity3d.com/web/os-mac.html

10.6 is just under 30% of the install base for these guys
Thank you for the source!!
Glad yours is the current top comment.

There are for real reasons already - I work in manufacturing and collaboration is really annoying with gigabyte-sized files going back and forth - not to mention the browser CAD / simulation tools that could be made if the pipes were far bigger.

Friends with a 3D scanning company are FedExing crates of 2TB drives across the US to get around this - it's actually cheaper...
Because it's assuming being for profit is fundamentally unethical (at least according to 'Hacker Ethic').

OP here... I don't at all assume that being for-profit is fundamentally unethical. As I said in the article, my own company, Fogbeam Labs, is a startup attempting to build a business around F/OSS software. I have no question that a company can, under at least some specific circumstances, manage profitability and at least some adherence to the Hacker Ethic, which is why I mentioned Red Hat.

What I question is this: is adhering to the Hacker Ethic (for some reasonable definition of "hacker ethic") generally compatible with building a for profit company? And if a company succeeds in doing both, can they keep both over a long period of time? Or is there something about the nature of companies that must pursue profitability, which intrinsically works to counter the Hacker Ethic?
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Who needs to play five high def videos at once? Uh, a household of five people? Anyone who has shared a home with a gamer knows what it is like to have them come bounding into your room shouting "are you downloading something?!?!"
I have a sense that what you've said (If everyone started doing that) is another form of fallacy, but I myself might be putting some fallacy here... oh well...
I don't know how much of it is directly corporate-driven, but Reddit loves viral marketing. Can't get enough. Mildly funny Facebook post from a beer brand? Screenshot it, thousands of upvotes. Repeat over and over and over again.

I suspect it's mainly down to a total lack of concern or thought for the effects of what you choose to consume and share.
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Internal BI is the way to go. It gives better vision to those who make decisions.
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If it's satire, the professor is a very elaborate character creation which mostly lacks a sense of humor. The opposite case is more interesting. That he is for real, actually thinks and writes that way, and because he is from a different culture -- he says European, and I'm thinking the eastern part -- he comes across this way.
Anybody with a single core intel machine (there's two of them in my house right now, an old Mac mini, and an old PowerBook that still works fine)
So this is what you guys were doing today.
Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days on the space station "Mir" - an environment at least an order of magnitude more limited than Mars, I'd say. Wikipedia has this information about his mission:

"Polyakov underwent medical assessments before, during, and after the flight. He also underwent two follow-up examinations six months after returning to Earth. When researchers compared the results of these medical exams, it was revealed that although there were no impairments of cognitive functions, Polyakov experienced a clear decline in mood as well as a feeling of increased workload during the first few weeks of spaceflight and return to Earth.[6][7] However, Polyakov's mood stabilized to pre-flight levels between the second and fourteenth month of his mission. It was also revealed that Polyakov did not suffer from any prolonged performance impairments after returning to Earth. In light of these findings, researchers concluded that a stable mood and overall function could be maintained during extended duration spaceflights, such as manned missions to Mars."
Your examples are too broad and/or poorly defined.

An appeal to authority fallacy has to be without reason backing up the appeal other than the fact that they are an authority.

You can suggest that a source of information might be unreliable because of a poor track record in the the domain, or a conflict of interest - that's not ad hominem.

One can speak against the direction of a policy without committing a slippery slope fallacy by not making unsubstantiated claims about what will happen. If you can cite examples of similar policies that have led to effect Y happening with rational explanations for the causes along the way, then that would avoid the fallacy.
Reminds me of when Wile E Coyote caught the Road Runner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KJJW7EF5aVk#t=63s

What I want to know is what the backbone is. My guess is that the 1Gbps to the leaf nodes is good now because they don't have that many users and most of the users don't have a need that uses more than a small fraction of the 1Gbps (on average). What happens when they get 10s, 100s, or 1000s of homes / businesses signed up? When will they saturate their backbone? Once that happens, then what?

Hmmm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_ra... says 40Gbps is top end and, based on the dates mentioned, there are probably quite a bit of connectivity at 2.5/10/40Gbps... but that is only 2/10/40 leaf nodes. This doesn't seem like it will scale very well :-/

Outdated info:

There are a fair number of maps of the internet backbones on Google, but they tend to be undated and, I'm pretty sure, are grossly out of date (10+ years out of date).
http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm

This looks more up-to-date: http://1stnt.com/uunet_backbone.htm and http://1stnt.com/connectivity2.htm Top speed backbone links on those maps are OC-48 (2.5Gbps).
It's underwhelming for what we have now, but Google isn't running Google Fiber to allow a bunch of teenagers to download 1080p movies in seconds, it's running a network that will serve as a testbed of things that currently require too much bandwidth and couldn't be done with your usual DSL connection. Youtube couldn't exist in 1993 not only because average computers couldn't cope with video, but because internet connections, where they existed, were too slow. Even Facebook, with pictures, video and quick jumping from pages to pages, couldn't exist. The big thing of 2023 hasn't been invented yet, but it will require more than 10 Mbps.

For instance, lately I've noticed that when I'm reading a Wikipedia entry, I search Youtube for things that are mentioned in the article. This has improved my experience greatly. Say I'm reading the article about a man called Billionaire McPennybags. In the past, I'd read this bit of trivia: "In 1993, Billionaire McPennybags made an appearance in a late night TV show, where he accused Veryrich O'Inheritance of stealing his idea for a egg toaster". Now, I can search YouTube for 'mcpennybags egg toaster veryrich' and I can watch video of the interview and of the ensuing controversy.

It's a (very) dumb example, but in the next decade we'll find ways to use our spare megabits and something better will appear.
Howabout if users were only given one upvote and downvote every twenty four hours per comment and submission.
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Guess that turned to to be not nearly as clever or funny as the creator thought it would be.
Thanks for the encouragement! Doing this was pretty exciting.

> and I didn't really consult any literature either

In hindsight I shouldn't have written that, because it practically forces people to ignore the project itself and begin suggesting emergency reading material to the illiterate goof who wrote this thing (a.k.a. me). I want to clarify: it's not that I have no clue how anything works, I just didn't study up especially for this project.

There is a continuum ranging from absolutely no prior knowledge, to some intellectual contamination, up to just aping established methods because you couldn't imagine doing things any other way. I was probably somewhere around the middle when I started this and it's not a bad place to be. In fact, I'd go so far as to recommend this as a good perspective for anyone who wants to try something similar. Learning "how it's done" beforehand not only defeats the point of the exercise, it also results in a lot of projects that are strikingly monocultural.

Now that I have a better understanding of the problem space, I imagine I will read more on these topics. I'm excited to find out how others have approached some of the problems I struggled with. So thanks for suggesting the Dragon Book, which I haven't read yet (as opposed to SICP on which I already commented)!