skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say it has changed over the past 24 years, but in what way? Was there a time that this not the case?

Haven't scientists always been rewarded for being exceptional? Also for linking to industries and achieving pop-culture status?

What drives this change that did not drive it >24 years ago?
"Every little detail"? Good grief! How about "any information at all"? Would you like to consider the lush, verdant pastures of the middle ground?
err, well the Idea here i think is that the reason ammonium nitrate makes a good oxidizer for explosives is because of its weak bonds. The exchange of atoms lowers the chemical energy, and lowers the fertilizer's efficacy as an oxidizer.

I would of thought it would of lowered the fertilizer's efficacy as a fertilizer as well... I'm not a chemist though.
DigitalOcean vs SoftLayer performance benchmark
Typically papers are reviewed by anonymous peers (other researchers in the field) and the journal's editors. This is why the fraud review board chastised the field of Psychology as a whole.

Note that it would have been nearly impossible to detect fraud in a single, isolated paper His data were fabricated in such a way as to seem believable, and it's not like researchers are expected to record video evidence of their experiments actually taking place or anything like that; they just report the results. He was ultimately revealed by those who were familiar with his work noticing patterns that appeared over many papers. I don't think there is any formal mechanism in place to review entire bodies of work as a whole.
Even still it just would have made it more work to fake more convincing raw data. Based on the article I don't get the sense this would have dissuaded him.
Physics in a song?
Hey thanks! I haven't got any experience with reddit but I have heard that you can upset them easily. I will look at some of the other posts to get an idea of what is suitable.

StumbleUpon is a great idea! I used to use that all the time. Didn't cross my mind to use it. Thanks
> it seems like a broken system if fraud like this occurs remotely often

That's the problem. It indeed is broken and not just in terms of fraud; in more ways than one but people who "game the system" call the shots and wouldn't like to fix it.
There's plenty of feedback within the app. You click on something, it says copied. The dropdown is obviously a set of color formats. It was not terribly hard to figure out.
Ah! Now there's a reason to look through the source code. I've being wanting to make update scripts for online projects that are not in my distribution's repositories. (I'd love it if GO updated when I told my computer to update).
Public key auth works pretty okay for ssh with a single keypair. I don't see why it wouldn't work for websites too. (As count also mentions) the entire point is that you can prove your identity without giving the entity you're proving to the ability to do the same.
When someone asks what your competitive advantage is... and your answer is "all our marketing has been aviation themed"... you're in trouble.

You need to find a real competitive advantage if this is going to succeed.
Sounds good to me. The current way is we allow anything our biased and profit-seeing corporation deem OK. That's not better.

And Diacetyl really is quite dangerous.
Yeah this is not entirely new ... but what I have seen over the past 8 years or so in particular, is a particular amplification of this pattern. I think it has to do with the relative scarcity of resources (i.e. money and positions) now compared to when I started as a graduate student.
The examples they gave are EEG readers which have terrible resolution. There will need to be muchhigher resolution devices that can read more neural activity before we have anything close to mainstream BMI devices.
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As someone who works in science, I've never ever ever met someone who confessed to making up data (nor have I made up data myself).

Generating data and passing that of as measured data = fraud = loss of contract.
Integrity is a handy thing in business. Just hide the "X amount shown" until it's greater than 10. Don't put a false number there.
The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time
I'm surprised Liberation Mono[1][2] (similar to the Deja Vu font) is not on the list or the bitmap font, Dina[3]. I end up using Liberation Mono much more nowadays (which is similar to Dina), since bitmap fonts don't have support in a lot of development tools and Dina has no real UTF-8 support. However, Dina was my first real "programming font" I used and still love it where I can use it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

[2] https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

[3] http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
My $0.02 is that daily deal sites like this are tough to market, as you're only real ongoing customer base are those who want discounts. The tricky part is that they're a very diverse customer base so you can't base your pitch on what the products are and who should get the message.

Like other people here have mentioned - if you had a niche it could make things easier. Ie: if you're providing deals on baking products only, then you can build some customer profiles (stay at home mums, japanese girls (don't ask, but it's a thing)), find where they gather and get your message in front of them consistently and build up a following.
I'm just leery of attempts to redefine "security researcher" into deviance, since that's been a problem for my field for about 20 years now.
I resonate with another comment that the homepage looks crowded. This idea reminds me of woot.com. I would do something like that. When someone opens the homepage, I would show one product to grab their attention and have them browse other products by scrolling or through Menu bar. Also, what does the button "Roger that" suppose to do? It wasn't intuitive for me that it's a menu button. Finally, I think you should use the top left space above the logo for something important rather than leave it empty. It will be displayed on all screen sizes and can be used for Menu options or something else.
Quite a lot of images appear to be missing, eg on http://www.rogerthat.com.au/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0....

The site only ships to Aus., that might be obvious to you but doesn't seem to be to me - to avoid traffic that's wasting your bandwidth perhaps you could sniff for ex-territory (using a geoip service) and refer them to a similar Amazon product on the local Amazon or to a site you have a link with in their territory?
CICLing : Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (Natural Language Processing) conference [0] uses an open data/software method to eliminate such frauds. They have a Verifiability, reproducibility, and working description policy which reads as follows

Starting from 2011, CICLing implements a policy of giving preference to papers with verifiable and reproducible results:

If the authors claim to have obtained some results, we encourage them to make all the input data necessary to verify and reproduce the results available to the community.

If the authors claim to advance human knowledge by introducing an algorithm, we encourage them to make the algorithm itself -- and not only its (usually vague and incomplete) description -- available to the public.
We do not require any demo or tool based on your paper, but instead a form of proof and working description of the algorithm in addition to the verbal description given in your paper. An approximation of the idea is the code submitted with Church & Umemura's paper to be permanently hosted at CICLing servers, and cited in the paper (see last line): you see, we don't mean anything complicated. Obviously, you are also encouraged to show demo programs or tools based on your method, either as part of your talk or (better) at the demo session, and we will also be happy to host on our servers such software that complements your paper. However, this is not required. In contrast, we do believe that a publicly published scientific paper must be accompanied by a minimal working description of the algorithm, open-source and available to the community.

Also, we do not ask for impossible: if you present a large system, especially commercially distributed or a property of your company, then we do not expect you to provide the system. Our point is that when the software and data can be provided, it should be provided.

We do not yet have specific rules: we hope to elaborate the rules basing on this year's experience, so please use common sense. See the problems this policy is to address, as well as the list of software reviewing committee and instructions for the reviewers.

[0] http://www.cicling.org/2013/
Yes, our summarization technology is now available as an API at the Mashape link in drakaal's post.

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Does facebook still use PHP?
The way I write the numeral '1', I'm in more danger of confusing it with lowercase 'l' than numeral '7'. I believe this is one of those little things that helps mark people out as European or American. (To prevent my numeral '1' from colliding with my lowercase 'l', I'll add tiny serifs to the numeral top and bottom.)

Confusing capital 'Z' with numeral '2' is possible for me; luckily, capital 'Z' is really uncommon in what I create. If I feel it might be a problem, I'm likely to increase the curviness of the top of my numeral '2'.

Anyway, this is all handwriting. Typefaces, which aren't scrawled in haste, have a lot of other tricks they can use to distinguish glyphs.
> Similar constructions have been available, even to C programmers, for well over a decade (and probably much longer).

Of course they aren't called threads there, either (probably for the same reason as they aren't called threads in Go)
Not sure I trust this. A thread on a forum, where the first 20 posts are just two (sockpuppet?) users talking to each other in full support of each other.

And then he keeps saying "scammers have stolen hundreds of dollars from friends of mine through Skype." And "I've lost the trust of my customers". And the guy runs a DDOS service as his business.

If you hire someone to do DDOS for you, do you trust him?
I was one of the founders of itsadeal.com.au, we've since stopped about 6 months ago to pursue other ventures. I would strongly advise against a newspaper ad, we went down this path and for $500, this got us about 5 subscribers. Google ads work, but remember to tie them into something you can make money off. It's not smart to compete using keywords such as "daily deals" unless you have a sizeable budget. A better approach is to customize ads which sell your products and if you have something with a large margin you should be able to come out on top (more effort, but much better ROI).
In a way RCS is a better architectural fit for this than git, because you can check /etc/shadow in and only one file is used to version it, unlike with git where the whole /etc/.git/ directory has to be locked down to avoid exposing its contents.

Oddly, RCS is about the only VCS not supported by etckeeper yet. (Well, and CVS and svn). It'd be pretty easy to write the 8 or so scripts needed to add support for it to etckeeper.
Sure they are. For instance, Gnu Pth.

Programming language support for threading predates direct operating system support (at least in mainstream operating systems) by a lot of years, from what I can tell.
Yes, as nithinpb has said too, just focus on a single deal on the homepage. Users/customers will find it easier than having to scan through multiple options/deals.
I have an email alias that’s similar to well-known rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s[1] personal email address (‘schmuley’ instead of ‘shmuley’). Occasionally, I get an email that’s meant for him, so I forward it. Not a problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuley_Boteach
I'm still skeptical of BCIs being useful, to healthy people, for, at least, another twenty years. I can't think of a single thing I could control with my brain, that I couldn't do more accurately, and consistently, with my hands, voice, etc. But, I cannot tell if my perception is stunted by my current life experience, the quality of existing sensing technologies, or an actual lack of application.
You're missing the point again. The time spent IS work. The question is whether you want to effectively take an informal side job that pays you poorly, called the "saving money job."
your a camp :)
Google did a good job of educating their employees. It's amazing to me how many people are being ripped off by high fees, active management that sucks compared to passive index funds, etc.
I didn't realize Facebook did tech talks, I'm glad to see they do and they're linked from this site:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=vb.9445547199&ty...

My only complaint is I wish they were on Youtube, I'd like to make playlists and watch them on my TV.
Why? Work 70 hours a week finding new ways to put more ads in people's lives.
F* the dream! Founders: Don't Forget to Sell The Product!
Hey man, feel free to add it! (the entire site is collaboratively written)
I wish. My crappy 401k plan has exactly one (1) passively managed index fund (S&P 500), but the fee is still 0.5%. Every other option is 1%+ (except some treasury bond funds, but who wants that at the moment). I'm seriously considering quitting my current job just so that I can roll over the money that's trapped there.
The problem I have with Akkurat Mono is there seems to be no bold/italic variations, which I often like to incorporate into themes.
One thing I have seen repeatedly in interviews for engineering positions of all levels is people who have not gone back and reviewed the basic algorithms they learned in second year. I know coding questions as posed in interviews are not the best measure of job performance, but they are also one of the few we have that is guaranteed to be sourced from the candidate in question. To perform well at these sorts of questions, you should be familiar with basic algorithms and techniques. It's a common language that you and the interviewer can speak. Not knowing that language is gimping yourself unnecessarily. Don't know what a graph or a queue is? You're gonna have a bad time.

Take a few hours to study up before interviewing at the big engineering-focused companies.
Vanguard does an excellent job of reminding their investors to stay the course, invest for the long haul, and not try to time the market.
If most problems are "human" problems, how does applying "human" means solve them, when those "human" means are themselves subject to "human" problems? Wouldn't it be more effective to use something that isn't "human" or subject to "human" problems?

Also, how does it follow that incorruptible and inflexible are mutually inclusive?
Yeah, I like this, but it becomes less effective as the scale increases. At "Here is the Earth", the line for Today should be invisible (certainly not the same width as in "Here is this century"). It demonstrates the limits of this kind of explicitly visual approach.

By contrast, language, which leverages the imagination, can be even more effective at revealing how insignificant we are:

"...stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire [4.5 Billion year] history of the Earth. On this scale...the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, 'and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.' " (from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything)

Another example of language illustrating an abstract concept better than visual/graphic design: If you filmed or animated the following thought-experiment, would it render it any more effective?

"Imagine people's height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. Now imagine that the entire adult population of America is walking past you in a single hour, in ascending order of income.

The first passers-by, the owners of loss-making businesses, are invisible: their heads are below ground. Then come the jobless and the working poor, who are midgets. After half an hour the strollers are still only waist-high, since America's median income is only half the mean. It takes nearly 45 minutes before normal-sized people appear. But then, in the final minutes, giants thunder by. With six minutes to go they are 12 feet tall. When the 400 highest earners walk by, right at the end, each is more than two miles tall."
Will do :)

I just found it surprising no one else had added them already.
The Facebook and Twitter links don't work for me.
Making a site that can handle #1 on Hacker News
I would say that bootstrapped single-technical-founder software companies are more likely to succeed, because it only needs to generate enough revenue to support one person, and software is relatively low cost to build and deliver (compared to a food/restaurant) compared to a startup backed by venture funding that needs to reach hundreds of millions in revenue to be a "success".

And the reward is generally lower too - a steady income stream that can go upwards of high six, maybe lower seven figures. Obviously if you want to keep building, hiring more people, etc, then it starts to look more like a "regular" company. But, outside of rare exceptions which are known but uncommon, a bootstrapped company is not going to become a billion dollar company without any outside funding.

That's what I mean by risk/reward. Certainly time is a big "cost" but again, the "risk of failure" in a bootstrapped software company is lower than a venture backed startup.
If there aren't enough interested readers to encourage a maintainer to keep the content available, is it really worth the effort to auto-archive all of it?
Ascii art in comments won't work: not acceptable.
The comparison was based on freedom of the press according to reporters without borders. My point is that the reporters without borders ranking is nuts, so the starting point of the article is bankrupt.
In my experience the majority of well-written concurrent programs become I/O-bound on a single processor. It's pointless to add more processors to that, and can only slow you down, and Go programs are far better behaved in the non-parallel case.

At other times you should think about the number of processors you want to occupy. If the objective is to behave like an appliance, then 1:1 schedulers:cpus is not a bad ballpark.
Good work. You should probably apply some basic SEO work to it also. e.g. your missing text in your <title></title>
I like the article and agree with it, but here's why I won't upvote it: there is a big difference between being alone and being lonely. It's as different as introverts and extroverts.

The title suggests something different than what the article is about.
Fair points all around (though I disagree with all of them except "+" being exaggerated). DejaVu's characters are a bit too tall for my taste, a clear example of this is the oval 'o' character. I also like to have a pronounced difference in the height of lower case and upper case letters.

Since we are doing character by character comparison I find "="s of DejaVu too wide (which causes "===" to look bad). It's "<" and ">" are too tight which makes it look bad when used as angle brackets. Backticks are slimmer, lower case "L" looks out of place and (apparently) it doesn't have an italic "*" (I don't know if Akkurat Mono is supposed to have it but it looks nice).

I don't get the point you are trying to make about slashed zeros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero

It all boils down to personal preference, thanks for stating yours :). You might also like Liberation Mono, which is my second favorite.
If you agree that these types of questions are not a good measure of job performance, why encourage this line of questioning? Wouldn't it be better for the industry as a whole to discover better ways to determine future job performance?
So true. Also, I frown whenever I read someone ‘bought’ a domain name (when they mean they’ve registered it).
Go all the way: either "N" or an empty text field.
on the one hand. Ouch.

but on the other, I have to salute that clever little anarchist bastard you have over there.
They do (according to a post I saw on here a couple of months ago). But for people who don't know, they have an open source VM called HipHop (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php) that consumes the PHP.
Another powerful quote (this one from the article), especially taken in the secular atmosphere of Europe:

'“People think of scientists as monks in a monastery looking out for the truth,” [Staple] said. “People have lost faith in the church, but they haven’t lost faith in science. My behavior shows that science is not holy.”'
Yeah. What an asshole. Almost makes me want to hijack his Skype account.
Look at their work history, read what they are actually writing. If they are specific about the role, the company and why you fit, they are probably good. If there is a list of qualifications and no real reasoning as to why they are contacting you specifically, they probably aren't very good.

I said this in another post, but even as a recruiter, I get contacted constantly and I usually just look at the persons work history, the specifics of the offer, if they actually seem credible, (does person offering you job at Google actually work at Google?) and if they're offering something that actually makes sense for you. If those are the case, they're probably not dreadful.
| Jamaica doesn't deserve its Press Freedom Index
| ranking to be better than Canada's because of gay
| rights. This is wrong.

This makes no sense in this context. I neither wrote that the index should be based off of gay right, nor do I believe any such thing, as it's a freedom of the press index.
Yes, if the .php extensions on most of the URLs is any indication.
I left after "elemental awesomium," someone TL;DR?
What I find most interesting is that the dawn of anatomically modern humans is actually visible on the 4.54 billion year timeline of the Earth. 200,000 years out of 4.54 billion might only be about 1/23000 of our planet's history, but that's also a whole 1/23000!
Getting interviewed by Facebook was the a waste of time in my experience. They asked me to code something dummy at home saying "it'll only take 2 hours".

It takes 1 hour to write a new NPM module and publish for me. In the next remaining hour, I get feedback from somebody and learn something useful.

2 hours are really important for me. I would never spend that much of time for any company without getting paid.
knowing these are not going to guarantee good performance. But not knowing them is a clear indication of incompetence. A programmer who doesn't know basic algorithms and data structure is a bad programmer.
I usually disable bold fonts in my editor and terminal emulator (I like when they provide an option like "draw bold text in bright colors") but I see your point. It would definitely be nice if they were available especially considering the price tag.
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Doesn't go just implement Hoare's communicating sequential processes, as does Erlang? They share the same inspiration.

Nope: The original Communicating Sequential Processes model[24] published by Tony Hoare differed from the Actor model because it was based on the parallel composition of a fixed number of sequential processes connected in a fixed topology, and communicating using synchronous message-passing based on process names (see Actor model and process calculi history). Later versions of CSP abandoned communication based on process names in favor of anonymous communication via channels, an approach also used in Milner's work on the Calculus of Communicating Systems and the π-calculus.¹

¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Contrast_with_othe...