skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I subscribe to broken windows theory and think we should discourage any instance of sarcasm, adhom, and other inappropriate methods of arguing, no matter how small, so that larger transgressions look awfully out of place. It would help if you updated the rules with explicit ban on those things. It might also help to have a sort of discourse police - mods should not only ban for bad behavior but make it publicly visible.
Are you suggesting that if you point my browser to a malicious URL [Chrome on Win 7] I will get malware "just like that", without clicking anything? How's that possible, exactly? (I have no Java installed.) I understand there could be a _security_ flaw in the browser itself, but are you telling me there are security flaws that mean "malicious URL opened = arbitrary malware will now run on user's OS"???
if you take it that way, Turkey only thing it has to do is follow EU regulations to open its ports to all EU member countries and the barrier of entry will be lifted. essentially its Turkey locking itself out by not doing what every other member state has done in order to be able to join.
The site looks good, but on the "Docs" sub-site, the fly-out menu colors are horrible (no contrast at all).

For example, this is a fly-out on the main page: http://cl.ly/image/0w2t0N0S3714

And this one is one the docs sub-site: http://cl.ly/image/1Z2S0p3O1e15
Really? I've always found Python's documentation (especially the official tutorial) to be excellent. What do you think could be improved about it?
I really hate saying this because I know it must have taken a lot of work to get to this stage... but it looks very 2005. Fewer gradients and shadows and try to slim down the menus and columns. I know the current site isn't exactly a beauty, but I liked how it had a Wikipedia-like gravitas. This design looks too young for the audience.
No. eg in Cyprus http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=8158&la...

"On the activation of the DPS, an announcement is made in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus and in the local press stating that the member bank is unable to repay its deposits and specifying the manner in which claims could be submitted and the necessary documentary evidence that accompany each claim."

This is not related to the restructuring and payment of creditors (which usually takes years, while deposit insurance pays out quickly). The deposit fund it is true then becomes a creditor and might get some money back later. This happened with eg insured UK depositors in Iceland.

The ECB has not restructured the Cyprus Banks. Cyprus is going to inject equity into them as a going concern, the equity paid for from this tax (and then the equity will be distributed to the taxpayers). This not really restructuring and other models where banks are left as going concerns with arbitrary appropriation of various bonds (somewhat at random it is true) is becoming normal in Europe (eg see SNS Reaal).
I use customized font, so the number "1" looks exactly like the letter "l" here to see http://grab.by/kMFW
If you do that it goes to Paypal, without it goes to the redirected site.
The money grab happened in Obama's first term when they tried playing VC with clean energy concerns in the private sector. If this round goes toward academic research, then I think it will be more worthwhile. $2B pales in comparison to the amount of money our economy transfers to OPEC nations every year buying fossils fuels. There will be waste, no doubt, but funding R&D is one of the least objectionable things that my taxes go toward.
Maybe there's a side to it that I'm not aware, but as far as I know, it's become very difficult to run exploitable JS in an iframe.
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The proposal is not 3 cents / transaction, it's 3 cents/$100 worth of transaction, ie, a .03% transaction tax.
I downvoted you, and I don't work at Google.

Get off the high horse - tell me what you do for a living and I can find just as morally damning words to say about you. Unless you are curing cancer at an orphanage for paraplegics, the morality of your career is, like the rest of us, more gray than it is black or white.

So stop it with the meaningless emotional rhetoric and attack someone's arguments on its own merits. To pretend that all Google does is shove ads in your face, and that their only accomplishments to date have been so, is either brutally ignorant or blatantly and deliberately disingenuous.
If you're using lynx for browsing, you already know what Python is.
Does anyone have experience using Chronon?

http://chrononsystems.com/

It is billed as "DVR for Java."
Is it possible to tag/star/etc items?

Also I want to implement bayesian filtration so is there an interface for plugins?

The reader itself looks and feels great so may be you should start kickstarter project to fund development?
I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
I have been a dreamer all my life. It took me until last year to figure this out, and only thanks to this community. I hardly ever tried - and when I tried, I didn't persist. It has been my goal to start a business since ever I can remember. And yet I never really tried (until last year, which resulted in abysmal failure). Not even something small, like selling stuff online. I was always good at dreaming up new ideas. But never executed on any one of them.

Likewise, I have been programming on and off since the age of 17. Unfortunately, I started out with C++. As soon as I hit pointers, I made up my mind that programming was only for people smarter than me. Somehow, I did get back into it a few years later, but I never really became proficient at it. Again, I was good at learning the basics, reading code, messing around with code snippets on the command line. But I never built anything of value.

I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone. This is my chance to turn the boat around, and realize my goals. So, this is meant as much for the rest of the world as it is meant for myself. Usually, I would have just signed up with yet another anonymous name. Not this time. I want to keep myself honest. I need to break out of my own little word (unfortunately, besides being a loser, I'm also a loner).

HN, here I am. My name is Stefan Kueng, I'm 30 years old, based in Switzerland. For better or for worse. This is my last chance to get my life back on track. If anyone else reads this, wish me good luck.

[EDIT] Thanks for your all your responses! I really appreciate it. I admit that my post probably was a bit too much drama. Actually, I have been wanting to say what I said for a long time. But I restrained myself, because I didn't want to decrease the signal-to-noise ratio on HN. But this time I felt I just had to.
I'll probably not get to answer to everyone of you tonight. Just once again, a heartfelt thanks to you guys. HN really is a great community.
And yes, I will consider all your advise. But I'm definitely going ahead with my plan to start building stuff - and eventually to start a business. I have long ago made up my mind that I have only one life. I could go the safe route and work a regular 9-to-5 job, perhaps start a family, and lead a long and happy life. Or I could bet everything on something that's far less likely to succeed. Even if I fail and the resulting stress cuts a few years off my life span, it will have been worth it. I have been wanting to start my own business for too long. I just can't let go of it.
Why should the user care about Google's production costs, and sit around thinking about the 'sweat'? Why are they obligated to do as you wish? And how would you realistically motivate them to do that, when it's usually not interesting to them?
cjc1083's proposed attack vector is an interstitial page which drops a Java/Flash 0-day on you and forwards you to your original target site, leaving you compromised and none the wiser. My point is that if you can even do the redirect in the first place, it's much simpler to just iframe in the attack page and do the drop directly rather than waiting on user input to do it in a manner that they might notice.
"Get over it."

This is helping?

This is how you play into the politics of division. It's also how you make enemies and not get what you want as a result.

Don't play the combative divisiveness game. It's for suckers. It serves the politicians, it doesn't serve you.
Why every second website now uses this -webkit-font-smoothing: antialized? Fonts look unreadable for me on mac os. Why to make a decision for user on how to render fonts?

EDIT:
Made a screenshot to illustrate the problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/orzn4f2utoxh4st/Screen-Shot-2013-0...
I'd much rather see us spend 600 billion a year on energy, medicine, and other scientific research than on waging pointless wars to get more oil. Maybe then we wouldn't have to raise everyone's taxes to get something done, and could provide the results at a lower cost point since we don't have to rely on the private sector to invent just to let them have monopolies for 20 years. Just a thought.

(Note: that leaves ~100 billion in the defense budget, which is still more than any other nation on Earth spends except China).
It reminds me of something where I live (http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2011dea/awards.as...). The architects obviously recognized the beauty and impressiveness of the HVAC systems and wanted to showcase them.

As a software guy, I'm always a little in awe of HVAC, which I don't know very well. It's cool to stop and think about the complex flow chart of materials and skills involved in making something like this. Think of just one of those pipes, and all the engineering that goes into them. You have to make steel with the right properties for pressurized water or steam. You have to to cut and drill the steel to precise tolerances. You need a way to move them into place (they're very heavy). You may or may not have to weld them once they're in place. So on and so on.

Pictures like these are a nice reminder of the true depth and breadth of our technology stack. It doesn't bottom out at the CPU. And it's amazing that no one person understands the whole stack, but it all works in concert.
Does the past 100 years count?
I guess I just don't seem the point. Car manufacturers already see that this is the way to go, which is why we are seeing more electric cars / hybrids from car companies.

If the government really wanted to get cars off gasoline, why not raise the gas tax and stop the corn subsidies first? Higher (visible) prices for gasoline would push people toward smaller more energy efficient cars and public transit and it would make people pay for the externalities. Oh yeah.. that's politically unpalatable.
Any examples of what the sites could/would look like, without signing up?
I'm never surprised to see these sorts of comments even in discussion forums that I hold in high esteem, such as HN. As an engineer, I've seen pretty heated arguments about very silly things such as whose editor is better. These are generally very intelligent people, but are susceptible to cognitive dissonance. Rational discourse goes out the window at that point, because they're convinced they're right and it's impossible that other view points may be correct. It's part of the reason most of the world is still religious.

I bet you if there were down votes allowed on HN, this post would be about dead even, because tons of people probably disagree with him. But it's just the right sort of inflammatory comments that garners attention and get up votes too.
The previous one looked very 1998 so it's still a progress
The government didn't mismanage its finances, the banks did. The levy would be to cover the banks' debt.
Guillemets are not used in English. Use “” instead.
Right, I totally understand that. It is surprisingly difficult to find 2 hours a week, consistently every week, to sit down and work on one of these courses.

I am just saying that the game theory course is by far the most accommodating of all the Coursera courses thus far. Even the exam, it was 10 questions that honestly only covered the easier parts of the material (e.g., dominated strategies and mixed equilibrium, but nothing to do with the core or shapley values), and they gave you like 10 days to complete it.

I think the main takeaway here is that even though this class was really optimized for completion, you still found yourself too busy. This is probably because the course is on the same schedule as your university classes. If they shifted the calendar a few weeks, so that it was mostly during the summer and winter breaks, they would probably see a lot more completions.
In addition to countless other oversights, setTimeout would not work as you suggested in the post as the page would be unloaded before it ever executed. And, as others have already mentioned, there are numerous other ways to accomplish the exact same effect with 'more legitimate' methods (e.g. event.preventDefault(); window.location = ...).

Various browsers such as Chrome will warn/block you from visiting known malicious sites, but it comes down to being aware of where you are before entering personal information.

I think a better proposal might be getting browsers to warn users if the url they are visiting is sufficiently different from the original href attribute (i.e. different host). Something like this could easily be done with a browser extension (and could handle more cases such as preventDefault + window.location = ...).
Words are slippery, and when talking about ideology and political actions they are even more slippery.

For instance, I never understood the word "hacker" as anything but a slam - a poor programmer who would "hack away" at his keyboard blindly in hopes of getting something to work. As far as I know, it still has that connotation in many communities (or an even worse one)

Keep up the good work. Those 3am articles are many times the best ones! :)
lets not forget that Cyprus has recently discovered natural gas and possibly oil in its exclusive economic zone expected to be exploited in the next few years. call it conspiracy theories but a weakened Cyprus is easier to manage..
When I hover over one of the buttons (About being the first one I hovered on), when I move my mouse cursor down and to the right at the same time to go click "Learn more about the PSF", i accidentally hit the "Downloads" drop down, which then appears.

At that point I need to move my cursor back to "About", drag down, and then right.

Putting a time delay on there, or that Javascript that Amazon uses for theirs that detects mouse movement would be fantastic.
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@jacobian - hope you see this - it appears that you were hellbanned 41 minutes ago. I have no idea why - don't shoot the messenger!
That's cynical snark, not a citation.
But there is cookie handover technique that uses 1st party cookie

http://www.liesdamnedlies.com/2006/11/the_joys_of_cro.html
Better Late than Never. Try, Try, till you succeed. Best of Luck !! God Bless You !!
Opera has an RSS reader, and in the future it will be one based on webKit.
You're pressuming the only cost is the price of the iPad. What about the luggage space each one takes up? What about the extra weight you have to carry? What about the mental processing of trying to remember what book/film/app/etc. is on which iPad? Why take 10 iPads on holidays when you can just take one?
The conspiracy theories sprouting around Mailbox are an embarrassment. Not to SFBA startup culture, but to people who are skeptical of startup culture. The problems with Arrington and Techcrunch have nothing to do with how Dropbox valued Mailbox.
Possibly, yes - Flash and Java are both commonly-exploited attack vectors for this. Not having Java is a good start, but Chrome ships with Flash embedded in it (and to Google's credit, they keep it aggressively patched by pushing updates), but if someone were running an exploit against an unpatched zero-day, then you could go to a harmless site which is running federated ads, which the attacker has purchased ad views for, and which they use to serve their Flash-based payload which runs the exploit and provides some measure of your access to your computer (often to add an additional payload that can be used to back-door you). The damage is done.

To protect yourself against this, you should go into Chrome's about:settings/content and set Plugins to "click-to-play", so that you have to manually allow a plugin to execute, preventing this kind of drive-by attack.
But that is - MUST be - what you're actually doing: the equivalent of installing a new application. That is the only sane way to do it.

Think of how many errors Windows' aggressive updating causes. And that is from Microsoft. They have ONE JOB! (okay, the OS division has one job).

So if they do all this internal testing and still push things onto your OS that cause problems. What is a third party to do?

The sane thing to do is NOT to treat is as a back door that you can push stuff over, even if the customer asks.

The sane thing to do is to treat it like installing a new application. If the 'new' application has problems, then you stop making it available. You're in control. The customer is in control. It's their pc. It doesn't get broken.

Really, for anything that interacts with the hardware and OS on as low a level as a display driver, there is really no alternative to massive testing beforehand.

Once it's in the wild, you should not expect or have the functionality to simply push firmware or software updates. It should take work and commitment from the customer, the same as installing an application. In the case of firmware, perhaps a bit more.
It's not your last chance; it's your next chance. Good luck Stefan!!
You have to believe that Dropbox is idiotic for that to be true. The media is notorious for misreporting deals, you really have to read between the lines to even attempt to see the truth - journalists tend to lack financial training/knowledge. What's more likely?

1)Dropbox is run by idiots who get all excited by reading TechCrunch and Twitter, so they jump at the opportunity to overpay for an unproven app without thinking it through.

or...

2)Mailbox dovetails nicely with Dropbox's plans and culture, and is a solid app to kickstart something that Dropbox would have done themselves anyhow. They get talent to boot. And they pay, not up front, but over time as Mailbox meets the high expectations implied up by a potential value of $100M.

I have no idea what the terms and strategy of that deal were/are, but I'd bet they look a lot more like 2 than 1.
If the Cyprus government, EU, FMI and ECB were to do nothing it is almost certain that the depositors would see much less than 90 cents on the euro.

The depositors are being rescued here. They trusted their money to banks that went on to make loans to the Greek government. The Greek government defaulted. A significant portion of the depositors money is gone. Nobody is confiscating anything. International institutions are helping Cyprus, by covering part of the losses. Unfortunately there is nobody willing to pay the amount necessary to make the depositors full again.

One might argue that this is bad, and that the EU/IMF/ECB should make the depositors full, without an haircut, but that is another story.
Ask HN: Recommendations for legal counsel experienced with HIPAA?
I'm working on a cloud-based healthcare analytics startup, but that involves dotting a lot of legal i's and crossing a lot of legal t's.

Anyone know of any quality attorney's who can help out with that process?
Blackmail. Moving on.
There is a full resolution (ie non bankruptcy) proposal in place, due for 2015. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:20...

It should be less arbitrary that the current scheme, where senior bondholders and the ECB are not being touched.

If you look at the balance sheet of Cyprus Laiki half way down http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/16/1425732/a-stupid-idea-... then you see that debt is almost nothing. There is a lot of central bank (ECB indirectly) money which has not been haircut. The decision to haircut the "insured" depositors was a political one, allegedly made by Cyprus itself.
Fun fact: Settling pub arguments was why the Guinness Book of Records was written. The idea being that publicans can buy a copy of this book to keep in the bar. When patrons are getting into an argument, the publican can look it up in the book and settle it.
One thing to keep in mind, always in such situations[1], you don't have to be right, you just have to be probabilistically right -- that is the goals is to just increase the chances of being right in such a way as to have an edge.

[1] Where you are betting, or otherwise working on odds and long term averages.
I liked the video presentation and the music. Thought it was quite nice. Thought what was going on was very clear.
Even better if there was a little code like in the example already in there... (the best of both worlds)
Best? Or Worst? :P

A vague, unfailable prediction is terrible.
This blog post was so obviously pointless and toxic that I flagged it, but of course flagging doesn't work on stories like this, because they collect upvotes too fast.
I wonder how many people's ISPs are still inserting their mobile numbers into the HTTP request headers? (remember https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3508857 ?)
This is irrelevant. Google Analytics can be included on any website that wishes to do so.

You can try not using Google services (which is nearly impossible in the first place), but there's no getting away from Google Analytics and countless similar services without installing ad-blockers and browser extensions like Ghostery.
Looks great overall. I like the color scheme and the details.

Some constructive critisism and ideas:

(1) I'm pretty sure that the text in the secondary navbar is not correctly centered vertically. It's off by a couple of pixels.

(2) It would be nice if the code area in the frontpage had a chunky "Try Python now" button pointing to an online python editor, with a step-by-step teaser tutorial.

(3) The frontpage lacks a button to quickly download the latest version on my platform. I had to look twice to find the 'Download' column.

(4) The search box is a weak point. The magnifying glass is not aligned properly. The grey dropdowns feel a bit disconnected from the rest of the design. You're going for shadows and emboss, but that's completely flat.

(5) The position of the 'Socialize' dropdown is a bit random. It could be placed as another tab in the secondary navbar or in the footer.
I never met a foreigner deciding to live in Turkey before, it's interesting! I'm currently living in the States, so I am also an expat. The question of gas reserves is a serious one, but as the saying by Mao Tsetung goes, "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone", and Turkey has many (way too many, in my opinion) guns.

Souring of relationships of Turkey and Israel was only a matter of time, I believe. The populace is overwhelmingly against Israel and the government played that hand for votes. It is also important in the area which Turkey wants to assume leadership, Middle East, in that any action, words or whatever against Israel gets many applauses. I personally believe future of the country lies in the West, not the East, but I am of a dying breed of Turks that identify with the West rather than Middle East.
> I bet you if there were down votes allowed on HN, this post would be about dead even, because tons of people probably disagree with him.

Downvotes are allowed on HN, you have to have a certain amount of "points" to be able to downvote.
Site looks good. But cant play around with it.

Just tried creating a sample test site. The test site is up but I am not able to login to the account.

I am getting a page not found msg when I click on the activate link.
I don't know why you were downvoted, because it is an idea that should at least be considered (and I suppose that they did).